This scent is divine. I hate to describe it in terms of other scents that readers might not have tried, but I'm not sure how else to do it so here goes (sorry): Ambre Soie strikes me as a blend of P...

Thanks to the sweet and generous SuburbanSue I was able to finally try a sample of Orchidee Blanche. My verdict: Laura Tonatto Dama on helium. I prefer Dama because she uses the bass clef in her mu...

Extrait de Songe is a surprisingly lovely musk with a pronounced soft dry hay note. As musks go there seem to be two camps: the soapy clean camp and the sexy warm camp. Songe falls into the soapy c...

A butterfly's wing.* Powdered opals. A sweep of iridescent lavender dust shimmering in the air before it settles, coolly, onto the forest floor. The cloud of purple smoke that remains onstage at th...

Cool, dry, soft, unique, and gorgeous, just like my favorite wimmins. When a fragrance has a hawthorn note, all bets are off: I've got to have it. Something about Après l'Ondée reminds me of my mot...

I get zero powder, zero star anise, zero ambrette, and zero vanilla in Iris Nobile--and just a tiny bit more than zero iris. Instead I'm met with a thin, high, clear, citric-sharp floral blend in the...

La Prairie Silver Rain is the second of two scents (the other being Dali Le Roy Soleil) I've tried in my 20+ years of perfume testing and collecting that I would describe as a "fresh oriental." Top n...

Who says you can't mix lemon with chocolate? Not the noses at Aramis! Havana Pour Elle has got to be one of the funkiest and most iconoclastic fragrances I've smelled in a long time. It's right the...

Another winner from The Different Company. This line has its detractors; they contend that the featured notes (especially the floral ones) smell nothing like they do in real life. I have no quarrel wi...

My hair responded beautifully to this product. I have short-to-medium-length curly hair with plenty of blonde highlights. Like most curly girls, I use products to separate the curls and poof them o...