Category: A – F
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Pour Un Homme by Caron
“Like tea or coffee, lavender is best served sole and black; treated with a light touch and in consideration of conformity.” Blogging never becomes an easy task. Instead, it seems to get harder. I am forced to make posts constantly engaging to attract an audience, with a clear and readily observable…
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Misia by Chanel
Misia is an evocation of the stage underneath ballet dancer’s careful and feather-like feet. Misia too moves gracefully like a ballet dancer, with its oscillations between each movement perfectly and carefully fine tuned. When smelled, I am taken back to picturesque fantasies replaying in my head like pretty little vignettes.…
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Musc Ravageur for Frederic Malle
For me, Musc Ravageur is a fragrance that presents a lot of bark and unfortunately very little bite. Perhaps more relevantly, Musc Rav. failed to deliver the high standard I expected due to the ravings in the perfume community. Firstly, the implications of the term ‘Ravageur’ places the perfume, its…
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Etat Libre d’Orange – First Impressions
This post originally planned on being a Facebook post. Realising how fun this was, I shifted to a blog post. Enjoy! Today is Etat Libre d’Orange testing day. No official #SOTD really, just a bit of this and a bit of that. I will start by stating that these names…
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Dior Homme Intense by Dior
Consider this: Take a perfume closely associated with femininity – Say, Shalimar. Then, modernise it with an updated rendition, aimed to appeal to a younger market from a totally different generation. Tweaking tradition, we get Shalimar Parfum Initial from Thierry Wasser for Guerlain in 2011. The iris, prominent; with the…
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Gold Woman by Amouage
Gold Woman is the ultimate testament to fine perfumery. Facing unreasonable melancholia, perhaps due to my disappointment over recent fragrant releases, I scrambled over to what I describe as a perfect fragrance; smelling it as a means to gauge the nose. Angelically, upon first sniff of Gold Woman joyous memories…
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Sunshine by Amouage
I’m not entirely convinced that the concept of sunshine suits Amouage. “This is a new chapter for Amouage” said Creative Director Christopher Chong during his time in Australia late 2014. Bookended with Fate Man and Woman, Amouage has taken a new approach – an entirely new direction for their perfumes. From an…
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Acaciosa Extrait by Caron
The perfume I have reviewed for this post is a vintage Caron extrait of Acaciosa from an unknown, most definitely better era. The jasmine here is prominent, buttery in the presence of its peers. A galaxy better than the stuff available today (says Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez). The house Caron calls to…
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L’Eau D’Hiver for Frederic Malle
In perfume, the theme of water and ‘watery’ perfumes has always interested me. Firstly, one must grasp the concept of water and its thematic odour profile. Water fragrances are fresh on the skin, and equally refreshing on the nose. These fragrances, typified by the likes of Polo Blue by Ralph Lauren…
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Memoir Man by Amouage
As one gets a feel for fragrances, they inevitably begin to pick out notes that appeal to them; these may even be broad classifications, as wide as colour schemes or using a musical and/or visual-art based lexicon to grasp fragrance. I was lucky with this one, Memoir Man, as it…
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