1970s and 1980s did not end in my teen years. I may have left my shellacked bangs behind in 1988-1989 but the previous two decades were strong with me when it came to my perfumes. My tastes have changed over the years as I've mentioned ad nauseum in my distaste for most oakmoss. But I still hold a soft spot for those listed above. Some of them have never left my collection,...

that he knows about Zoologist, and he has said some encouraging words to me in person at both Esxence 2016 and Art & Olfaction Award 2017. I’m talking about the perfume critic Luca Turin. He first learned about Zoologist when he was a judge for 2016’s Art and Olfaction Award. He wrote a very good review of "Bat (2015) | Zoologist". At Esxence 2016 he said to me that in music...

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 doesn't make sense.CK Eternity, Escapeand Origins Ginger Essence Sensuous Skin...

obvious, it doesn't really appeal. Then I thought: going into one's own head for 11 days is bound to conjure both memory and emotion. Why not up the volume?To whit:"Métal" by Pace Rabanne - My scent companion of years in the business world, breaking ground, seeing the world, living life."Gold Woman (Eau de Parfum)" by Amouage - Hubby's first gift to me as a perfumista"Shalimar (Extrait)" - It took a long...

almost like letting a computer randomly pick up your SOTD based on a few informations you had provided.More than weeks after I had last read anything on Mon Guerlain, I literally dreamt about it. The first time a perfume ever entered my dream - what a memorable event for a perfumista greenhorn! Good thing is, despite my life-long chronic nightmare disorder, neither the dream about Mon Guerlain...

subtle types of fragrances.This question of the fragrances' occasion-based appropriateness had occured to me already once last winter, when I encountered an otherwise attractive woman in the supermarket whose intense perfume left a literally strong impression in a split second. It was a biting cold winter's night with the shop lit almost blindingly bright, and the young woman was wearing something...

There was a definite waft of cumin. I asked my son. Cumin. But that was the last I smelt of a powerful cumin note so I guess it must have seaped through the bottle lid and accumulated. The bottle is cute. The base and top (coloured gold) are metal with a soft semi-matte pale gold finish - like 9 ct English gold in colour rather than the rich Indian gold. The liquid...

tray with ten perfumes and wear only those perfumes. Pictures of said trays were encouraged. I love looking a perfume trays. I signed up for Pinterest just to look at perfume trays. (Okay, that and DIY furniture/interior design ideas. You get the idea, though.) I love a good perfume tray set up! And really, creating a good subset of perfumes to focus on during one month is a brilliant...

a mini and a small body lotion?! Craziness. It never sold. About two weeks ago, they marked it down to $12. I looked at this set EVERY TIME I went in to check out new perfume deals! $12 still felt a bit high for me for what it was, so I went home and researched it a little.This perfume gets very good reviews from users, and it's also really expensive! I thought I might like the perfume, given the notes,...

down, and I figured, Why wear fragrance when I look disgusting and never leave the house?! Then I went into this natural and organic kick, and perfumes became toxic poisons lurking around trying to kill my family! I only bought natural scents, like Pacifica, but I'll be honest...they weren't that good. Very linear and mostly screechy and wild. Then one year my kids gave me Avon/Christian LaCroix Absynthe for Mother's...

hasn't been tweaked.Up for test I had five from Grossmith and to cut a long story short I feel none of them are for me.Diamond Jubilee - reminds me of Echoes version of Beautiful by Estee Lauder. My son said it was too soft and doing a side by side with Echoes I agree. Diamond Jubilee does smell good quality and I rather like it. I would wear this if given a bottle...

doesn’t get talked about too much. I could go on and on… YSL Rive Gauche was a fav for a long time when I was younger. Are there any plans for a wider distribution of Imaginary Authors internationally or is it still difficult? I love working with retail and I am always on the lookout for good boutiques around the world. We are slowly adding new international retailers....