Anyone who has made the fatal error of planting mint directly in the ground in their garden knows that it will rapidly take over the entire garden. Wonderful, but intense and very invasive. Essentia...
Acier Aluminium. Steel aluminum...grey, dark, sober, hard edged, not sensual, very masculine. There is humor in the unexpected. My only guess is that the perfumer thought it would be wildly hilario...
Always awkward to be militantly opposed to something and then sheepishly have to do an about face...especially when it's a radical about face and you have to proclaim passionate love for that which yo...
This makes me think of relaxing and having a chilled citrus and mint cocktail on a summer evening on a rooftop in NY. It's a very crisp, refreshing, quite beautiful scent and yet another example of...
Just read the reviews for Santal de Mysore. I'm left feeling moderately concerned that I've got some sort of bad karma I'm having to pay off here. Santal de Mysore on me is a luscious, sweet sandalw...
My friends rave about the burnt sugar and grilled hazelnut notes they get in this. The wonderful, rich sweetness and complexity of the dry down with the notes of cereal, dried fruits and tonka bean. ...
If I were a resident of Timbuktu I'd be filing a complaint about defamation of image by this ghastly, hideous, repulsive scent. No, not scent. Odor. Stench. I can't imagine how they took such appeal...
Perfumaholic that I am, I've never been able to wear Chanel #5. I've been determinedly trying since I was 8 years old, to no avail. I had minimal interest in sampling La Myrrhe since I'd heard it wa...
When I tried L'eau d'hiver for the first time my initial thought was to wonder where exactly Jean-Claude Ellena is spending his winters. It opens with a decidedly green, herbal accord. Very spring ...
I love this scent, but as far as carnation fragrances go this one is far out in the hinterlands on the distant border of carnation territory. Some reviewers appear to think it's over the border into ...