Perfume Review & Musings Archives

Lanvin Modern Princess & Some Thoughts on Professional Perfumery ≈ Perfume Review & Musings Lanvin released a new fragrance this year, Modern Princess, meant to court young women with a new, stylish olfactory signature. When a fashion house thinks...

Black Pepper Eau de Parfum by Comme des Garçons // Perfume Review & Musings Black Pepper (BLACKPEPPER) by Comme des Garçons is a complex composition bearing a simple name. Past its peppery facet, the perfume reveals itself to be...

Balmain Extatic Gold Musk Eau de Toilette ≈ Fragrance Review & Musings Extatic Gold Musk is the new flanker-with-a-theme of Extatic. It is an attempt to capture the palette of colors of seasonal Balmain fashion. According to perfumer Sonia...

The new Orchid Soleil eau de parfum by Tom Ford is part of the fragrance and beauty « Orchid Collection » by the brand, including the designer's debut scent (under his own label), Black Orchid. Per the house, this...

L'Artisan Parfumeur Bucoliques de Provence Eau de Parfum {Perfume Review & Musings} While L'Artisan Parfumeur are inaugurating their new terroir-inspired collection of limited-edition perfumes with a fragrance note, lavender, epitomizing the agrestic charms of the countryside - can you...

Motion Studies by Eadweard Muybridge Galop d'Hermès Parfum ≈ Perfume Review & Musings Galop d'Hermès Pure Perfume's official launch date is today, the day of the Assumption of Mary and a national holiday in France. Is it mere coincidence...

Barbe à papa I © CHANT WAGNER 2016 Mugler Angel Eau Sucrée Eau de Toilette - A Review Thierry Mugler launched the flanker to Angel, Angel Eau Sucrée in 2014, and again in 2016, with the confessed aim of...

Cuir Vétiver by Yves Rocher - A Review The Scented Salamander Summer of 2016 Selection Cuir Vétiver by Yves Rocher was a pleasant and unexpected discovery at the end of a hot summer day when serendipity had dit that...

Pink Innocencia Eau de Toilette by Sonia Kashuk - Perfume Review & Musings Pink Innocencia launched in 2013 as part of a quatuor of debut scents by American makeup artist Sonia Kashuk, retailing through mass-market chain Target. Since then,...

Want to Waft of a Wahine ? Recapturing the « Noa Noa of Tahiti » - Homage to Paul Gauguin I once held a heavy silver signet ring with rounded lines in my hand. It depicted what looked like...

Perfume Review of Eau de Cartier Eau de Parfum The Scented Salamander Summer of 2016 Selection This year, Cartier launched a new unisex eau de parfum version of the original Eau de Cartier eau de toilette from 2001. Originally...

Perfume Review of Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche Eau de Toilette The unmistakable signature of Terre d'Hermès, one of the most powerfully sensual and discreet ones available on the market, comes wafting by while engaging with the new addition...

Baptême du Feu Eau de Parfum by Serge Lutens It starts off softly resinous and inky, i.e. thickish. Where you were bound to expect more of that tonality unfolding slowly, instead shrill accents of citruses intervene. They persist. These...

Hermès Eau de Néroli Doré Cologne Eau de Néroli Doré by Hermès is one of the two new colognes launched by the French luxury house in 2016. Composed by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, this is a solar but also animalistic...