Encens Flamboyant is hard and inaccessible to me. I love most incense and woods fragrances, but something about this fragrance is too harsh, never settling down and blending with my skin. It's not for...
Angeliques sous la Pluie is so fresh and so young. The first whiff is the scent trail of a young girl in the garden. In the opening, there is a fresh mix of juniper berries, green flowers, and somethi...
Traversee du Bosphore is a very unusual fragrance. It is sweet and dusty, like an oddly stale gourmand scent (I don't mean this in a bad way). A very distinct memory popped up in my head when I first ...
Dans tes Bras is a very strange fragrance. I can barely describe it, so please bear with me. The opening is a burst of earthy, pungent violets. It is not a crowd-pleaser, so I usually let it settle be...
Coeur de Vetiver Sacre is a lovely tea-vetiver fragrance that tries to balance sweetness and a bit of woody masculinity. To me, the fragrance develops in three distinct phases. The opening is brief dr...
When I was in high school, I attended a summer program at an idyllic college campus far from home. There I met a slew of cool kids, and I was a little out of my league. One was an impossibly chic Pari...
Five O'Clock Au Gingembre is a delectable treat of a fragrance, a nice, brief indulgence and not too much more. It opens with spicy candied ginger, and quickly settles down to a sweet honey and lemon ...
This is the perfume I turn to when I want to feel pampered, elegant, and glamorous. I imagine an Old Hollywood movie star in a pale purple gown would smell like this. Creamy aldehydes, iris, violet, a...
Sycomore was my 'gateway' perfume. I still remember the day I casually spritzed my wrist at the Chanel counter in a department store. I hadn't even left the store when I lifted my wrist to my nose and...
Ambre Fetiche isn’t groundbreaking, but it is an assertive, unexpected offering from Annick Goutal. More lasting power, sillage, and manliness than most of Annick Goutal’s pretty little girl scents. I...
