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I'm not getting boozy, but it is a great rich warm resinous ambery vanilla with a hint of slightly synthetic blackberry in the back. The woody elements are smooth and blended well enough that they only back up the amber and don't add edges or huge offensive projection. Really liking this! For the name, I think a touch more blackberry would be good and the boozy note the other reviewer got would be nice, but I don't get that at all. .Still, nice!
Coastal Salty Forest by Zara, launched in 2022 and performed by Coralie Spicher and Fabrice Pellegrin, enters the Zara Collection Forest alongside Sacred Green Forest, Mountain Woody Forest and Frozen Pure Forest. This fragrance is an amazing woodsy aquatic little gem and another winner from Zara. A deep resinous aromatic woodsiness encounters a profound cool oceanic saltiness. As well as told somewhere, this fragrance is an escape to Galician countryside, a place where the balsamic green vibe from the forest (eucalyptus, pine tree and cypress) meets the ocean's salty breezy air. Coastal Salty Forest is definitely an aromatic/balsamic fragrance and a juice...
Jean-Claude Ellena cooked up HattaĂŻ for Le Couvent, and he kept things very simple here. It's pretty much a dark vanilla with some character from spice and cacao and an unabashedly naked amberwood, which used to create the kind of structural diffuseness that is an Ellena trademark. It opens rich and boozy, then the sour wood takes over for a stretch before settling into cozier, fruitier cacao-dominant territory. If you were hoping for a lost Ellena masterpiece on the level of his HermĂšs creations, it isn't that, though his impishness and talent is detectable in the use of the amberwood here: it's dosed just up to the point where it could become...
A sales associate at Barneyâs (RIP) introduced me to Bois DâOrage in 2008. I was still exploring dark, gothic scents but never forgot about it as an elegant, daytime scent with no sweetness. Finally picked it up last week. This is a Feb 2023 batch. A few different wearings have revealed a few different facets. Poking around online I see the now renamed as French Lover has a cult following that matches my memories of it. If anything itâs a little more vivid than I remember but itâs all there. Rooty, vegetal, green, at times the cedar giving pencil shavings, at others the vetiver and incenseâŠfor such austere notes the scent is a real carousel...
Oud Absolu was marketed as the encapsulation of the Cartier oud line up until that point, a distillation of the multiple oud extracts that Laurent had been using throughout the line. To emphasize this use of ostensibly precious materials, it comes in a smaller bottle size than the rest of the line. While I do actually quite enjoy Oud Absolu, it's not one of the line's highlights. Oud Absolu is essentially what you'd get if you took Tom Ford Oud Wood and put real oud in it: which is to say it's the default "modern" synthoud profile elevated with the musty-sour-animalic touches of real oud. So Oud Absolu is a prestige-priced frag for someone who likes Tom...
This is my first wearing of Mancera Amore Caffe, a 2023 gourmand that has gotten a lot of buzz in recent months, this yearâs Tonka Cola, in that respect. Right off the initial spray, itâs sweet and even a little syrupy, but not overly heavy, a quite pleasant coffee scent that, while not having a ton of coffee in it, nonetheless does not fall into the category of smelling like a bakery or other desserts. Itâs lightly spiced and boozy, with notes of amaretto, speculoos, and brown sugar, without too much evidence of non-gourmand notes. It genuinely smells like something that could be part of a dessert. I find it much more wearable than Aoud Cafe...
Canyon Companion Clean Slate with something extra Fresh Menâs Getaway Your woody ambers Of unnatural freshness Are still intriguing From just the shampoo Does this mean my nose is back From COVID-19? Ah, your âmountain airâ Built on mineral citrus Is quite addictive In a Canyon way Where cheap dryness smells too good A Menâs Store delight âNot badâ said the wife After a week of hand waves At Cartierâs best âOh, the painâ said Smith On desert Menâs Store planet Eyeing Carbon Tet At robotâs boutique Settling for memories And fewer Carats.
As I apply Sire des Indes and Esquivel! immediately plays in my head. Tropicalia in olfactory form, its foremost champaca-infused, as Jean-Michel Duriez includes this accord as if to pay homage to Patou's Joy. In the magnolia family, champaca is more a narcotic perfume than its cousins, with a beguiling and sultry floralcy with undertones of tea and ripened fruits. Here, it is enhanced with creamy lactones, spiced pear and most notably, banana, to render it all fleshy. It may at first seem all "Daiquiris in a tiki bar" surrounded by tropical florals, but there is some depth that belies its seeming languor. The balminess is underlined with a woodiness...
hello everybody. after reading so many reviews about Dior Homme Parfum i was finally able to get a decant from our local Dior counter. to my nose its not the sillage-beast everbody else is talking about but really love the scent; it sticks on my skin for arround 12 hours easily. the tester bottle i got a decant from is a 3M01 batch. i really wanted to buy a bottle but at our counter are only two bottles with 3L01 batche remaining to sell (on fragrantica are a few reviews complaining that bottles 3L01 are pretty weak, the scent would disappear in no time. so iâm not sure if i should get a bottle. are there really differences between the different batches...
Palisander Rosewood is just wonderful on my skin. Are there any affordable unisex/mens fragrances with a prominent Rosewood, together with Neroli/Orange Blossom, and Orange? I'm looking for a fragrance I can use all year round, daytime and nighttime. If this is mission impossible, then perhaps a spring/summer day fragrance. Not too old man, and not too feminine with lots of flowers. Other than these notes I like amber, patchouli, basil, ginger, a bit of fruitness, natural smelling balsam fir, cypress. I dont like smokyness, too much musk, fragrances high in aldehydes, Iso E Super, and cheap aromachems. So perhaps a more green/herbal and fresh...
Is it true that the concentration of the perfume directly influences its longevity on the skin, or is this just another myth?
I read about this topic in and obtained some materials that I did not find available or very little available Like 2-methoxy-4-methyl-4-butanethiol It is the basic substance of black currant 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine It is the main material for green pepper or sweet pepper sec-butyl 3-methylbut- 2-enthioate It is the main ingredient in galbanum oil I was thinking of ordering it and trying it Is it not available or am I wrong in my search?
Just received a bottle of Polo Green, which I have been wearing for nearly 30 years, but got away from it for the past year or 2. The current scent is so far off from what I remember I don't even recognize it. Nothing like it was. So now I'm asking for suggestion for a replacement in the same price range (4 ounces for around $80). Looking for something similar without any sweet, flowery or vanilla tones. Green, peppery leather would be nice. Dave
This has to be a coincidence, right? Been working on a honey accord the last few days and I this morning my entire office is covered in a honeybee swarm. Is this a known thing with specific ACs or just hilarious timing? 479402
I've been doing some testing on Ethyl Safranate for a Rose frag I've been working on for a couple months. I absolutely love this stuff on it's own and think a simple IES, Hedione, Ambrox, Musk shell around Eth Saf would be perfect. When I've worked with it in the past at 1-2% of a formula, it always felt sort of out place. The damascone almost mint effects seemed to crush anything else. I did a simple test with Rose Givco and Robertet's Apple Essence and the result was very odd. It came out super boozy at first, then developed into this chewy, back of the throat feel, spicy damp woody rose. In another test with Veloutone, I think there was a similar...
What have you worn most? For me, it has been: Creed Green Irish Tweed NicolaĂŻ New York Intense Guerlain HĂ©ritage Lorenzo Villoresi Uomo Jacques Bogart Furyo
A recent blind buy due to the positive reviews.. it sounded right up my ally, but it turned out to be far better than I expected.. I get the association with Beau de Jour, but I also get hits that make me think of not only Bois du Portugal and New York Intense but Bois Rouge.. this is a totally beguiling fragrance, let down only by a mediocre performance. If only Coty would open their eyes and update this with a stronger EDP version with better ingredients they'd be onto a winner if you ask me. Would any other fans like to chime in?
I am looking for something new. I like Terre D'Hermes and my current regular wear is Eau Noire(The older green colored version. Not tried the latest version yet). I like Vetivers also. Guerlain Vetiver is lovely so are a lot of other Vetivers. I tried most of the popular ones so I am trying to find something new I tried a lot of the Ouds, but they all seem to over loaded on super ambers, which I find is not to my taste. Plus other new fragrances are loaded on Ambroxan and the like which overwhelms my nose, I cannot seem to smell anything if thing if the scent has a lot of ambroxan. So I barely smell Creed Aventus, Sauvage, BR540. So I am looking for...
