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Down the Rabbit Hole of Arabian Perfumes I go.Three new ones, Narjis (Al Haramain - purple urn), Yaluli (Swiss Arabian - purple flower), Twin Flower (Al Haramain - pink).  Apparently Twin Flower is the same perfume as Wardia although elsewhere I have seen them listed as different perfumes with different...

Wearing VIP Club Addictive Oriental, Alberto Morallis. What drew me to this scent was paradisone. I like hedione as a note because it has been scientifically proven to do what cologne wearers wear a scent for. I like pardisone because it is basically hedione on steroids. As I clean the kitty litter I note...

I come across lots of folks in the fragrance community who confuse fragrance ingredients (aromachemicals), notes in the note pyramid, and accords. I wanted to write about my take on these three after learning a bit about perfumery and looking at formulas; hopefully...

I am not so keen on certain notes. Partucularly if the following notes are key notes in a perfume composition: Tonka bean I am afraid the way it is used, lush tonka has something old fashioned . It is the 2020 s amber in a peculiar way for example it rules in the composition of ...

I am writing this article for personal reasons.I lost my mother three years ago at the age of 84 and still remember her young and well dressed and her perfume. She loved heavy florals like madame Rochas or vanilla musky like Jovan. I had done a trip to Morocco in 2017 October...

This article is not trying to prove anything. For me it's all a matter of taste and matter of personality. The market of course wants us to consume,  so when the temperatures rise the market will say "come on you need a perfume that smells like the breeze that blows over the sea surface...

'Uninspiring', 'easily forgettable', 'lacklustre' and 'superficial'... these words describe what I feel when I sample fragrances colloquially grouped under the umbrella of 'clean' scents....

Since many spring scents are "floral-forward", they can be polarizing in the fragrance community - as people often have strong feelings about different floral notes. Despite the bulk of my fragrance wardrobe being...