forget the words, focus on the work. Until this moment, I’ve discussed the marketing, the hype. As for the the perfume, it is exceptionally beautiful. It is a woody-floral chypre, a genre that includes the icons of contemporary and classic perfumery such as Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Dior’s Miss Dior, VeroProfumo Onda and Estée Lauder Azurée. It stands toe-to-toe...

with celebu-scents and the commercial marketing wizards and armed with a fruity floral. Take that Britney and Sephora! Sadanne presents a brilliant trap for the perfume cognoscenti. If you try to dismiss the opening strawberry compote in order to appreciate the seriousness of the perfume, you’ll miss the fun and the beauty of Sadanne. In established Slumberhouse form, the strawberry that smacks...

of us and we're left trying to reconcile a perfume’s meaning for us with what others might find. The same can be said of any work of art, but since there is so little shared language of scent, the situation is exaggerated. Notes might give the appearance of common ground for discussion but they miss the larger point. We rely on sight and sound to hold language. Perfumes convey complex and subtle information but they...

with 80 of them made for Dior, is something that must have helped perfumery's diversity a lot. An awful lot. It seems that his exhausting rate of spitting out "new" fragrances granted him the privilege to be Eau Sauvage's saviour. Or slayer...Let's also see how Dior itself describes him."Since Miss Dior in 1947, Dior has collaborated with some of the greatest perfumers in the world. Today Dior has its own Perfumer-Creator,...

we have for long. As soon as you think “I’ve found my signature scent,” another beauty comes along and sweeps you off your feet. Dior’s Privee Collection, much like Armani Prive and Chanel Les Exclusifs, is a high end set of beautiful perfumes that are more refined than the typical Miss Cherie and J’Adore you find at the mall. Like most such collections, the scents themselves are much...

in their own boxes. The price is US$300 for 100ml and US$600 for 200ml. If you are interested send me an e-mail at..." The message was accompanied by a picture showing the goods. I loved Macassar something fierce back in the day, and it's one of the discontinued fragrances that I miss the most. But how this dude found that I was in desperate need of some and eager to pay a fortune for it, completely...

It's not in the 30's anymore. Doesn't mean it still won't dip to the 30's, tho. I finally had to start thinking about switching perfumes. And that's difficult for me. I love my heavy orientals. And my chypres. My smoky scents. My thick powerful perfumes. And now Spring has sprung. I wore Miss Dior Cherie today and it almost gave me a headache. No, this isn't happening....

I always make sure that I have a bottle in my collection. However, I found this as well which is a miniature bottle of pure parfum. The golden colour is so reminiscent of the honey note in White Linen even though the bottle is quite plain. I have various vintage bottles of Miss Dior as it is one of the classics that I adore. This is my Esprit de Parfum miniature bottle. ... Dior as it is one of the classics that...

and might fall in love with an unlikely scent for the sake of its back story, Guerlain's Liu being a good example. Scorpios like to conquer and wear notoriously difficult, disagreeable and unpleasant accords and are often fond of the raspy "cigarette ash florals" with plenty of character, such as Miss Balmain, Gres Cabaret or ELdO Rossy de Palma, the latter two also nurturing the Scorpions'...

feeling in this fragrance. This will never be groundbreaking, but is really nice as a 'grab and go'. Arabian Oud sometimes gets it really right and when they do the entire package is amazing, but when they get it wrong it becomes obvious that this is a relatively unorganised company with hit and miss quality control. If I had spent pre-sale prices on these three frags I would have been quite ticked off ... they...

Fleur de Musc Poudree. Don't hide body odor enhance it. Serenely comfortable with yourself. Psychotrope. If you're going to wear a fruity floral wear something like this. Forget syrupy and loose. This is like a frenzied lollipop. Aromatics Elixir Perfumer's Reserve. Like vintage Miss Dior But with less backbone. Ambiguous and undecided, sort of like the weather. Equipage. Perfect for the town...

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