Winter update: Temps below 50 F, this perfume calms considerably. Its sort of a green powdery water scent. Like a mist from melted snow that had come off of a garden. Retry it! On fabric, it smell...

Oh, Opium. What has happened to you? I remember you as my first perfume awakening. As a 12 year old in Marshall Field's, a lady dressed to the 9's walked past and left you in her path. Men fell to...

I have been looking for a scent to take me from summer and early fall to this grey dread that is late fall in the Carolinas. The sky is grey, but the days are fairly warm. Lancome O de L'orangerie...

I know there are purists who will refuse this concoction based on principal. I too cringed at the pink juice and potential to deface my dear Shalimar. You have to approach it like you are visiting t...

For $50 US, I am not sure I ever would have got this on my own. I decided to take the plunge and picked it out as a birthday present. The smell is intoxicating. Uplifting lavender, fresh cardamom, ...

This is for the edt version -- "the Batman bottle" :P The parfum is 100% purely sublime, nearly perfect in every way. Its euphoric and spellbinding in a way only Samsara has ever been, to my nose. ...

It breaks my heart that this lovey scent is just under $200 at Saks. And that its by Tom Ford, whose little booklet on his scents was pretty pretentious at best. I digress... At first spritz, you g...

I tried this again at NM while pining away for my Samsara parfum (impossible to get in stores it seems). They had Mitsouko, so I decided to road test it. WOW. She is the fully dressed Geisha who wal...

parfum: I'd get a sample first. On some people, its a skins scent. I am so envious of them, because on me, its still a little loud for a solid 15 min. As soon as I opened the package, it was there ...

Reformulated skeleton of an 80s powerhouse, so be it. All of our great olfactory heroes are being ignored, overshadowed by juvenile scents. On me, its a quiet skin scent. 2 hours later and I barel...