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... coffee. What was I disappointed by fragrances like "Follow | Kerosene", "Uomo Signature | Salvatore Ferragamo" or even "Intense Cafe | Montale", I had hoped to sniff that incomparable aroma of freshly squeezed cappuccino from the Cimbali. Nope, that was somehow all nothing. Then an inconspicuous sample arrived at my place, a random addition to a fragrance ersouted here (thanks again to good Auriel). I had never heard of Theodoros Kalotinis and thought to myself: oh well, another wannabe cafe... yawn! But what then blew my nose and immediately forced me to order directly from the perfumer, which I will now try to describe here, with my modest means admittedly:

The fragrance:

One word - dreamlike. Sweet latte with a caramel aroma increasing in the course, the ollen Rolo of Nestlé (yes, I know, bad company!) Not dissimilar. If you'd like to imagine what Coffee Addict smells like, make yourself a sugared cappuccino, dissolve a toffee or similar in it, drink the cup empty and then sniff it. Exactly so smells this masterpiece.

Note: Smooth 10

Its features:

The fragrance has a solid performance to show. He holds with me 6-8 hours on the skin and projects thereby the first two, three hours clearly. After that, increasingly close to the skin, but stable. No beast, but still very decent.

Score: 8/10

Other:

Bottle and presentation are below average, but okay. The spray head is good, the lid fits. Okay, maybe the label is not perfectly straight glued on, but such a thing should also occur with completely different brands (gelle, Mr. Ford? *Cough*).

Important detail: the perfumer is based in Greece, and I have found no source of supply other than the homepage of Kalotinis itself. The fragrance is surprisingly cheap at €45 for 50ml, even if orders under one hundred euros from other European countries have 20€ shipping costs. So a collective order would be worthwhile here, and I'm fully aware that I've just volunteered to be the organizer. By the way, a freely compilable, five-piece get-to-know set costs a moderate 25€. Could be worthwhile.

Conclusion:

I have finally found the fragrance that quenches my olfactory coffee thirst, it is sweet, gourmandig, convincing and cheap. What more could you want? Exactly! Thank you.

... does not grow on trees. It does not develop as an underground tuber, nor does it sprout from the earth in mountain meadows. What do I want to say with that? Of course (!) "The Muse | Zarkoperfume" by Zarkoperfume is a completely synthetic fragrance. To complain about it I find silly and pointless, if someone knows a process to distill white laundry just fished out of the washing machine, he may please contact me. So! Now to the fragrance itself...

The fragrance:

This muse kisses the washerwomen and modern househusbands, because all this fragrance has to offer is actually freshly washed laundry. No more and no less. But that accomplishes The Muse perfectly, I know nothing comparable. Is the fragrance one-dimensional, linear and concocted from aroma chemicals? Absolutely. But it delivers what it promises, and in an absolutely impressive and highly satisfying way.

Score: 9/10.

Its features:

Here shines the often scolded hero of the lack. Durability and performance are well above average (yes, even above that of many other synthetics!) To settle. Two sprays on the skin, and you smell fresh and well-groomed half the day. Same amount on clothes...lasts until the next "real" wash. For grumpy students, a real alternative to going to mom's. Oh... Before it is raged here now because of it, I was once just such a Welcher, okay? Fine!

Note: 9/10

Other:

The bottle does not reinvent the tetrahedron, but is beautiful and functional. The presentation is appealing. The price is more than justified for what is offered. Unisex? Absolutely. As if laundry freshness cares about genders...

Grade: 9/10

Conclusion:

I can keep myself short, who is looking for a fragrance that perfectly mimics washing powder resp. the freshly washed garment and knows how to perform very strongly, which can safely end the search here. The muse delivers. All others, especially those who call a real (or imagined) allergy to artificial flavors their own, should better look elsewhere.

From me's 9/10 points for the Muse, which looks in my head like Mrs. Clementine before the endless clothesline.

Absolute buy recommendation!

LG Raffa

Salve!

Values fragrance enthusiasts, actually everything has already been written about this highly famous fragrance from the Private Blend collection by Tom Ford. The ratings speak for themselves, the name has long been a legend... so why now another review? Well, there are now numerous "inspired components", some of which are also quite impressive, but I would like to make a lance for getting involved with the original. Why please read as follows:

The scent:

Warm, sweet and seductive, an aura interwoven with spicy clove and a hint of freshness settles around the wearer as soon as you have pressed the sprayer (well-dosed). Dry, not fresh-green tobacco, not too much and not too little, blends perfectly with a vanilla that, while not fully natural, is very present and long-lasting. Rounded off by fine spice, this absolutely intoxicating fragrance composition spreads out and stimulates both the senses and the imagination. Some say even the libido. Please do yourself a favor and obtain a sample, a bottling, or optionally a friend who owns the scent, and try Tobacco Vanilla on your skin (!). You have to like sweet, demanding scents, that would be the only basic requirement, mMn. Please. Test.

The properties:

Tobacco vanilla is present. Very present. The shelf life is at least 12 hours for me, the first three to four of which the fragrance radiates fabulously. Not quite room filling perhaps, but still very noticeable around the wearer. A word of warning, this beguiling creation is addictive, what with the hefty price tag that comes with Tom Ford. Indes, more than two to three sprays I have never needed, which puts this circumstance again somewhat in perspective.

Other:

The flacons are... I'm sorry but I can not sing the elogenies on this point. Yes, the glass and design are solid, as is the sprayer, but that's about it. The plastic lid and label are unsatisfactory for this price range. Beautiful flacon with clearly air to the top.

The price is steep, no question. Since the temptation is of course great to get instead a copycat such as Haramains Amber Oud, and I understand everyone who does exactly that. The scent is close enough to the original, after all. Still, the blending of the individual components is in a league of its own with the Ford, not to mention that there are simply fragrances that are so distinctive, such milestones in perfume history, that you just have to have them, at least in my opinion. This fragrance is in any case one of them.

Conclusion:

Tobacco Vanilla is sweet but sensual. Heavy, but intoxicating. Strong, but flattering. Possessive but generous. The fragrance accomplishes the feat of working its magic on any wearer, young or old, man, woman or otherwise oriented. The tobacco and spice make this fragrance an excellent masculine note, but the sweetness and mysterious depth make it equally at home with the ladies. For me, a work of art. a monument of a perfume and certainly one of the particularly brightly shining stars in the firmament. Chapeau, Mr. Ford.

Oh yes, those who can't stand sweet will admittedly hate it with a passion, that's okay. There are other special fragrances out there, and for the search for those you are here sm right place. Enjoy!

LG
Raffa

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Part 1 - The cloud

Scent:

Ariane Grande - Cloud is a sweet, somehow also slightly fresh and moderately heavy fragrance that is not too complex, but exceedingly pleasing. Sweet, but not sultry. I barely smell coconut, and what I do smell of it, I tend to sniff out in the second half of the scent. The little cloud is often described as cotton candy in a bottle, which is not wrong, but does not do the fragrance justice in its entirety. A girl scent, for real men too sweet one reads from many... nonsense. Please sit down in the next DeLorean and make your way into the 21st century. Cloud is absolutely unisex, man must of course be sure of his sexuality and self-esteem to wear such fragrances.

Score: 8/10

Features:

Durability and sillage are okay, not only in view of the low price. The scent progression is manageable, actually, the fragrance is only increasingly sweet, until it then comes to rest slightly woody-warm on the skin. Nothing exciting, but God knows not bad.

Score: 7/10

Other:

The presentation is a horror. The brightly colored packaging stages the namesake, which is frankly completely unknown to me, and seems loud and cheap. The bottle itself is a monstrum horrendum, and hard to surpass in tastelessness.

Score: 2/10

Conclusion:

Very pleasing fragrance water, which one would not expect in the repulsive packaging so. The fragrance is designed primarily certainly for young and young-at-heart ladies, but in essence quite unisex. Sweet, not exuberantly heavy and exceedingly nice and pleasant to wear as well as to smell on others.

Buy!


Part 2 - Blessing or rain?

Of course, you have to comment on the elephant in the room when writing about Cloud: Is this fragrance a Baccarat Rouge clone? Yes. I don't know who on God's green earth would seriously deny its proximity to Kurkdjian's masterpiece. Especially on platforms like this one, please, don't tell me you have to look at the fragrance for its own sake. Who would talk about this thing if there wasn't this other fragrance, many times more expensive? No one. So please leave this bigoted fuss.

A whole other question is whether Cloud is a "good" clone... and that question is not quite so easy to answer. Let me put it this way, if one loves mostly the sweet, lovely and candy-like elements of BR 540, then absolutely, yes. If you prefer more the slightly medicinal, subtly spicy element and molecular lightness, then rather not. Hey, how many of you keep typing in comments about Baccarat Rouge that you don't like that very "dentist smell" about Monsieur Kurkdjian's concoction? Good news, buy this one. Cloud is Baccarat Rouge EdP without said notes, plus some coconut syrup. Voilà.

Oh, and of course, as always, there are those who want to tell us that their favorite in particular is a 99.99999999% similar copy of BR 540... no, it's not. If someone wants Baccarat Rouge, in all details, notes and concerns, then he / she / div but please buy the original right away, instead of wasting so much money with the search for the holy grail of shameless plagiarism, that it would have been enough for a real bottle Kurkdjian loose.

Conclusion 2:

Is Ariana Grande - Cloud a near-baccarat rouge? It is. As such, does it come close to the original? Never in a lifetime. And that's just as well. For both fragrances and their lovers. For all those who can not afford or do not want the original (me the handle in the wallet also hurts every time I buy Kurkdjians), a less medicinal, sweeter and less complex version looking for and / or can live with a (well made) imitation, the cloud but an absolute bank and worth the price all the time. Clear buy recommendation!

Thank you.

Who said that Chanel had nothing more to offer this year except the blue giant and more or less irrelevant airs on the side track? Probably no one, and yet I hear them literally grumble, see their contemptuous waving off...

...Unjustly, I say. Unjustly! This fragrance should teach the doubters mores, not by chance he is here on Parfumo high in the course. So imagine my surprise when the other day the unobtrusively nice, albeit slightly clueless Douglaselfe me on my question about the Edition Blanche shoulder shrugging replied that no one would ask for this fragrance, and they therefore currently had no tester there.

Shocking. After this masterpiece of citrus-elegant freshness no cock crows, while said store dripping with sweetish trivia only so. Did I say shattering? Well, that's what Parfumo and the Souk are for. Here I got indeed promptly a fragrance sample, and now also already an almost full bottle of this fragrance adventure, thanks again at this point to Danori. And I must say: Wow!

The fragrance:

You know when scents of melodious breath hobbyists promise you a citrus freshness that is neither weak-breasted nor short-lived, and also certainly does not smell like WC duck? Does anyone remember the disappointment when, while sniffing the fragrance, one realizes that one has been misled once again? Well, not so with Chanel Allure Homme Edition Blanche. This lemon is grandiose, fresh and at the same time embedded in a bed of almost complex elegance that starts out peppery sharp and then becomes softer and more elegant the longer it stays on the skin. Not a trace of toilet spray or scent tree romanticism. In fact, from my own highly modest experience, I can only attest to Creed's "Sublime Vanilla" a similarly overwhelming experience of the lemon theme in a perfume. Phenomenal.

Score: 10/10, without ifs and buts.

Its features:

The fragrance makes a clear development of almost sharp freshness to a creamy smooth sorbet pleasure through, the wonderfully beautiful lemon note always remains the star of the composition. Durability and sillage I find quite remarkable for a fresh fragrance without much sweet heaviness, although one can certainly not speak of "Beastmode". The density and quality so typical of Chanel are also unmistakably present in this flanker.

Score: 8/10

Other:

The bottle is nice and in line with the Allure line. Nothing out of the ordinary. The price is okay, no bargain, but that are Chanel fragrances yes now rarely. Unisex? Sure, why not. Personally, I feel the water already as clearly masculine, but what does that mean this year. Definitely a fragrance that can play out its full strength on warm days, but I will also wear it in the fall with delight.

In sum: 9/10

Conclusion:

Yeah, I know. Niche fragrances are already better on principle, Allure is rather what for the common sniffing rabble, the enlightenment of true expertise has not yet been granted and X, Y and of course especially Z put the lemon tart much more skillfully in scene. Leave it, please!

Addendum:

I have mischievously endeavored to avoid terms such as "synthetic," "olfactory," and "mass appeal" in this review; the less inclined reader is welcome to insert these cornerstones of rhetorical self-indulgence at will, in spirit and in appropriate places, themselves. I...have to go.

Oh yes, BUY! Thank you.