Tag: Perfume
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Cuir by Mona di Orio
Mona di Orio’s Cuir for me is a throwback to violent leathers. Here in this fragrance, the leather and its accompaniments are intelligently violent, sticking true to the brand’s collection: Les Nombres d’Or, or the golden number. Cuir lives a foreign life of near spite and carnage. It provokes sternly as…
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Rose Flash by Tauerville
Andy Tauer makes perfume magical. He makes it a wonderful exercise. On smelling and wearing Rose Flash, I am instantly transported to an image of Mr. Tauer in a purple frock and an eccentric bowtie. Andy Tauer, of course, is an indie perfumer, but he stands alone as an individual adding…
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Vol de Nuit (EdT) by Guerlain
There is no way I can accurately grasp Guerlain’s Vol de Nuit, probably ever. I had been stuck in the drafting stage for this elegant 1933 creation for about two weeks before I felt confidant enough to start something. Considering my troubles, I expressed incredulity to the ravings of this…
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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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Eau D’Hermès by Hermès
“You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” (Cecil Baxter) The concept of cleanliness rings very true to the concept of perfumery. Smell is arresting and surrendering, openly intimate without a strong sense of control. One smells often simply because they breathe, and because of this, perfume has become such…
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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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L’Air du Desert Marocain by Tauer
Close your eyes and breathe in. Can you catch the desert air? Can you feel the piercing sunlight hitting the round of your head and attacking the vulnerability of your shoulders? After that, look up into the cloudless sky, and the dazzling sunlight will blind you momentarily as your eyes…
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Vetiver by Guerlain
I will start this review with a question and an anecdote: Do we love classics because we have to? Some fragrances present themselves as a rite of passage in the perfume world. It’s a bit like an individual’s first legal beer or oyster served au naturel. I recall my twee sentiment…
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