Anessa

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Anessa 100.000 perfumes in the databank - congratulations to Parfumo and thank you to the research people! 3 years ago

854,206 ParfumoPoints > 500000 ParfumoPoints

Registered since 20.08.2015

300 Awards for Statements

21 Awards for Photos

18 Awards for Blog

7463 perfumes added

12958 perfumes revised

4131 Perfume Tags

Latest Reviews

Anessa 167 days ago

5th Avenue (Eau de Parfum) - Elizabeth Arden

Drowned in Sweetened Soap
The version of 5th Avenue I was introduced to for the first time was prior to the changes that many classic perfumes had apparently undergone without any announcements. I appreciated it as a more 'modern', casual approach to the conservative...

Anessa 16 months ago

L'Eau Jolie - Lolita Lempicka

Not Lolita, for better or for worse
My admiration for the fragrances of this brand had always been rather limited to the visual aspects. Although I had the privilege of smelling the original EDP every week during my school days, it wasn't until a few years later,...

Latest Statements

Fraîcheur Végétale de… Verveine - Yves Rocher - 44 days ago

6
Scent 5
Longevity 6
Sillage 6
Bottle

Too one-dimensional as my personal fragrance & lemon drops sweetener didn't make it for a summer refreshment. L'Occitane's syrupy version.

Wonderwood - Comme des Garçons - 61 days ago

8
Scent 8
Longevity

Appeared as spicy aftershave, let it rest few months - now, a wonderful combo of wood&incense, reminds of sandalwood box with incense sticks

Cassandra - Jeanne Arthes - 175 days ago

After a brief nod to No5, jumps right to the bare essentials of "aldehydes". Thin and more wearable in warmer weather with light projection.

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5th Avenue (Eau de Parfum) - Elizabeth Arden - 9 months ago

6
Scent 8
Longevity 9
Sillage

My hot skin burns the florals in a sec, the rest is covered clean by a loud&fatty bar soap monster (if you dare taking more than 1 spray).

Green Tea Exotic - Elizabeth Arden - 12 months ago

8
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage

This one only blooms in heat, just made for vacances far away - sipping iced lemon tea on the terrace, surrounded by exotic bright florals.

Arlésienne (2016) (Eau de Toilette) - L'Occitane en Provence - 17 months ago

Intense spiciness contrary to the lucid bottle, nothing lovely. Would personally prefer this as a potpourri or soap scent, not as a perfume.

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Jardin à New York - Gloria Vanderbilt - 19 months ago

6.5
Scent 7
Sillage

Lemony jasmine tea soap on my hot skin vs. jasmine-lemon candy w/almost melon-like green sweetness on the colder part. Where's the gardenia?

Tiffany & Co. - Tiffany & Co. - 21 months ago

6.5
Scent

After the breakfast, you can wash the croissant flakes off your fingers with the floral liquid soap making your hands smell cool and clean.

Ninfea - Blumarine - 21 months ago

7.5
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage

We meet again, "L'Eau par Kenzo pour Homme"--a bit more floral&feminine in a different bottle. Great projection. Creamy herbaceous aquatic.

Terre de Lumière (Eau de Parfum) - L'Occitane en Provence - 23 months ago

Despite my fears of honey, no Scandal. Golden&warm, 'terra ambrata'. Could be unisex. Personally, couldn't smell any similarities to Mon G.

New Blog Articles

Anessa 3 years ago

"wow-factor"
I often see people judging a fragrance solely on the criterion whether it possesses "a certain wow-factor" or not. While the definition of such is still somewhat elusive to me, I had accepted it without much thought when I began on my review-reading journey.Some will nonetheless grant a neutral rating after admitting the fragrance is nothing 'unique', whereas...

Anessa 3 years ago

The cats ran away...
A non-rating comment from 2001 on "Coco Mademoiselle (Eau de Toilette)" featured on a review site made me chuckle. The nuances of the original got lost in my clumsy translation."Received the blotter and when I came homeboth our cats ran away :-DThe scent is sweet but also spicyappears to be generic and yet, it's not.Sorry, I'm not good with words, so my explanation...

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Capri Lysis (Eau de Toilette Concentrée) by S. M. Parfums Ana Capri

Flower Fairies - Jasmine by Woods of Windsor

Eau de Cobson - Orange, Bergamote by Corinne Cobson

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Dan81 43 days ago

Hi Anessa, thank you so much for your recommendation to check out the smokers' thread. I greatly appreciate it! I am enjoying the use of Parfumo very much in my journey.
Thanks again for your warm welcome!
Dan

Elysium 52 days ago

Hi Anessa, how have you been doing?
I just got a package of perfumes including three 5th avenues. I found the 75ml of 5th Avenue classic (yeah, soapy-floral), NYC Only (sweet-floral), and NYC Uptown (boozy-creamy) at a bargain price ... You can't imagine my surprise when I smelled them. Thank you so much for introducing me to these little gems, now I will try to get the others, for instance After Five.
Stay healthy, and keep in touch.
Gianluca

Elysium 6 months ago

I wish you all the best for the incoming 2020! Have fun and stay always scented!

Exciter76 6 months ago

I'm late with my holiday greetings but HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I hope your 2020 is filled with joy, laughter and great scents!

ROBERTOB 8 months ago

Thanks very much Anessa. I have been very happy here :) :)

Lucieliz 15 months ago

Thank you for your welcome! I'm so happy here, I love the site! Cheers!

QuercusAlbus 2 years ago

And when I say 'thorough' music, this does not necessarily amount to being stuck up. Learning to enjoy Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, etc, has actually resulted in my enjoying ~Obsession~ by Animoto or ~Funky Town~ by Lips Inc all the more also; & likewise, learning to actually enjoy ~Diagilev~ by Roja Dove has actually helped me to enjoy ~Dot~ by Marc Jacobs, etc.

QuercusAlbus 2 years ago

Glad you took it with goodwill, my implying that you might have a mental block. Thought as I wrote "this might be a tad bold"! But what you said about attributing personalities to perfumes is fascinating. I think I attribute personalities to them also, but probably not in so intense or concrete a way, I suspect. I think my best analogy is music, actually, and certainly, at least with °thorough° music - really seriously carefully constructed stuff, particularly classical, but not necessarily that only - ones perception is usually in the direction of increasing appreciation: learning to °get° the more technical & deeper pieces, and then that feeding back into perceiving anew some piece one already knows but has overlooked somewhat, etc. So ones °compass° of music is usually expanding - a contraction is a rare thing, I should think.