There are days when this is tolerable on me which are interspersed with days when it’s weirdly awful. My chemistry, I assume, but when I try it on paper it’s every bit as bad there as it is on me. Whe...
Of course, this is perfect. Lush, balanced, polished, feminine, redolent of money. Speaking of money, do I think it’s worth however many hundreds of dollars the going price is for a bottle these days?...
The first couple of times I tried this I forgot all about it in a matter of minutes, and if indifference is the opposite of love, well, that wasn’t a good sign. I’ve again tried it and although it’s t...
What is wrong with me? It’s Guerlain. I love Guerlain. It’s difficult to obtain. I can’t resist a good chase. It smells fine and not at all bad. It’s going to drive many people into fits of ecstasy. I...
This is a Holy Grail scent for me. (Yes, there is more than one Holy Grail in my world.) Almost every perfume that calls itself an ocean, or ’beach’ scent offers the aroma of tourists laying by the mo...
I’ve had some kind of soap that smelled like this - it’s invigorating and gives idyllic flashes of pine forests with the late-afternoon sun setting and turning the long shadows dusky purple in the sno...
Usually a perfume that says ‘bad girl’ this shamelessly is found in drugstores, relegated to the dusty lower shelves below the more profitable ointments and creams after having fallen on hard times an...
I never care for these type of ‘beach’ scents because they’re more municipal pool and locker room than beach. There’s too many bodies wearing rancid drugstore suntan lotion crowded around a chlorinate...
This is a spicy, peppery scent that conveys more a slow burn than a burst of anger. It almost works but there’s a note of something that catches in the back of my throat and makes me feel like I‘d lik...
Nearly irresistible - almost perfect. Once the very top citrus notes burn off it becomes the dry earth smell of hot summer afternoons where you hang out with nothing to do because it’s so hot that’s a...
