Songes fools you with its opening into thinking it's a simple, bright floral, nothing more. It starts with a lovely, creamy frangipane that is pure and light, reminiscent of Chanticaille's lovely fra...

Bois d'Armenie has the most unusual opening -- it opens up with a cool iris that blooms into a bunch of powdery sweet smoke and incense notes. Within twenty minutes, the smoke gets warmer and denser ...

I get virtually no gourmand notes from Elixir des Merveilles at all, which is quite strange considering the given notes and what almost everyone else has described. I admit it definitely has a velvet...

Until I finally got around to reading the reviews on Productville, I was slightly convinced that L'Artisan had accidentally mixed up their bottles and thrown Tea for Two and a little bit of Annick Gou...

Osmanthe Yunnan has a luscious beginning -- it is a gigantic lush bouquet of white watery, polleny osmanthus blossoms, layered with a beautiful apricot note that gives the delightful sillage of peach ...

<i>Sparkling yet profound, mysterious as a dream...A paradox translated through living and eternal scents of sorbet and crystallized fruits.</i> <br><br><b>Notes:</b> candied tangerine peel, cashmere ...

Borneo 1834 is a dark, rich, somber, luxurious and stately fragrance. It starts off with an amazingly accurate dark chocolate note, which slowly unfurls to include hints of orange and deep patchouli....

Dzongkha is certainly an interesting fragrance for L'Artisan, though I don't know if I would classify it as neccesarily appealing. To my nose, it is a strange yet intriguing blend of sandalwood (the ...

This is, apparently, Tom Ford's big effort in bringing luxury and decadence back into perfumery. Black Orchid certainly is a decadent scent, but on my skin, I also found it to smell remarkably like S...

My lovely friend rubykris once shared her philosophy on how she chose what fragrances to try based on Productville ratings: she looked not for the purely five lipstick rated scents (nor the one lipsti...