Tag: Spice
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Poivre Piquant by L’Artisan Parfumeur
Les Epices de la Passion. The passion of spices. Take the substantial bite of spice, ranging from its vegetal rawness and spicy rush and taper it into a slim profile. A vertical rendering of spice within very tight borders. Within this substantial olfactory breadth of pepper is pleasing laconic harmony. Spice held…
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Sables by Annick Goutal
Sables is a scent of exotic promise; an accurate study of the amplitude of the immortelle flower. It is the scent of dry put through muslin cloth, with the immortelle flower captured, tweaked, and given an inflection in a sterner direction. However, given the distinctive and unaligned nature of the immortelle flower…
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Opus VI by Amouage
I thoroughly enjoy the idea behind the Opus series, as following the footsteps of an adventure is always fun. The Opus series, or ‘The Library Collection’ represents a tome of memories; and all importantly a headstrong intellectual exercise. I particularly love houses that do this. Frederic Malle’s ‘Editions de Parfums’…
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Épice Marine by Hermès
More than meets the nose. © 2014 Liam Sardea A solid offering from the Hermessence line by Jean-Claude Ellena. Once again, I cannot speak from experience – I seem just a bit too young to recall any serious fads in fragrance and I can merely read up on previous events.…
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