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Tzapan 6 days ago
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Are there really summer perfumes?
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...
Omnipotato 19 hours ago
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The Difference Between Ingredients, Notes, and Accords
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...
Tzapan 2 days ago
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Perfume is memories but replicas do not have any!
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...
Tzapan 20 hours ago
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Notes you hate or dislike.-Discussion
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 ...
Thom572 10 hours ago
Kitty Litter
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...
DorothyGrace 8 hours ago
Down the Rabbit Hole
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...