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If you've ever smelled Immortelle you'll know what a beautiful smell it is: sweet, rich and roasted like fenugreek.
Eau Noire is basically Helichrysum opposed with lavenders - possibly oil and absolute - and there are herbs, licorice and violets,...

When I was a child I happened across a book called Russians as People. It was illustrated with photos of smiling peasants on tractors and heroes of industry toiling away in steel mills, and the like. Blatant Cold War propaganda in other words, designed...
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Kouros the castrato.







It blazes like a beacon,
and then, the morning after,
the petals are dry and fading.
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Three times a Lady
Sometimes it can be difficult to say what a perfume smells like. It can change from the smelling strip to when it’s worn, from one time to the next, how much you spray on, the seasons; many things may influence the way a perfume smells.
But there is another factor, one that is more objective, the concentration of the juice - which can vary in composition...
Is Frédéric Malle going off the boil?
There has been grumbling for a while now, niche houses sell out to corporations and the quality of the perfume goes down; both in the back catalogue and, most likely – but harder to gauge, in new releases.
By comparing old and new samples you can often find out if a perfume has been tweaked, but the quality of new releases...
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C'est avec de plus en plus de plaisir que je vous lis et vous êtes devenu quelqu'un dont l'avis compte pour moi.
Je me retrouve souvent dans vos enthousiasmes (Fille en Aiguilles !) comme dans vos éreintements (Sauvage !), et l'humour folâtre dont vous parsemez vos phrases contribue à leur attrait.
Chapeau pour votre anglais, j'aimerais avoir le même !


