Perfume Review & Musings Archives

The color of this perfume is mauve, with brown overtones. It is dark, yet airy. It is like a clear, airy room, maybe decorated with some white marble in which antique polished wooden furniture is to be found, faintly...

  Coeur d'Eté (heart of summer) by Miller Harris starts off as if a garden full of gentle blossoms had suddenly and magically materialized before your eyes and quivering nostrils. You cannot quite make out the colors and the shapes...

   Couture! was released in 2004. Its top notes are bergamot, a hint of pepper, mandarin orange. Middle notes are yellow poppy, jasmine, pomegranate blossom, poppy seeds. Base notes are benzoin, vanilla, and cedar wood.Couture! opens up with a...

 Melograno Selvatico means "wild pomegranate" in Italian and refers more particularly here to the pomegranate tree blossom. According to I Profumi di Firenze, the fragrance is based on a 16th century recipe. This is another one in a series...

 The Duke of Saint Simon recounts in his Memoirs that Louis XIV after having loved perfumes to excess in the first part of his life, and precisely for that reason, was not able to wear them any more in...

Perfume Reviews & Musings: Impérial Opoponax, Patchouli Antique, & Oriental Lumpur by Les Néréides - Plus Some Notes on Patchouli Sometimes, when you smell certain fragrances you are reminded that wearing a perfume can be a simple act that...

 Pamplelune is part of the Aqua Allegoria line. It was composed by nose Mathilde Laurent who is also the creator of Shalimar Light - the 2003 version - and Attrape-Coeur. It was launched in 1998.Pamplelune offers a variation on...

Violetta di Parma by Borsari 1870 is a singularly understated modest masterpiece - a true gem really. Its fragrance evokes a sentiment of perfection. It is and cannot be anything more beyond itself and the mood it sets. It...

The other day, while trying to conjure up the memory of some of my best-loved hot-weather fragrances of the past, I suddenly remembered Eau de Patou by Patou. How could I have forgotten it, neglected it? It is one...

Ladies, be forewarned here: if you ever decide to visit beautiful Scotland, and opt to wear Trouble by Boucheron, you may provoke not only some "trouble" (the French word) amongst the menfolk there -- that is, a gentle, almost...

  On a recent trip to Paris I came accross a line of niche colognes that I think have good chances of pleasing amateurs of refined and understated fragrances as well as potentially proving to be a welcome addition to...

Un Bois Vanille, created in 2003, is one of the more interesting variations on vanilla that I know of and one of the few fragrances in the Serge Lutens line that seems to be willing to compromise with the...

 Musc Ravageur by Frédéric Malle Editions de Parfums, the edp and the oil, were created by perfumer Maurice Roucel in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Roucel is known for his creations of both luxury and niche scents such as Hermès 24...

Garçon Manqué by Des Filles à la Vanille will no doubt make the lighter and tender you come out. It will perfectly espouse the mood of spring, renewal, and children's laughters in public gardens with a little detour to...

One last perfume review before we take off for France and land in the capital of perfumes. We adore Paris and its Eden-like public gardens in the spring. There is also a less glamorous side to Paris as well...