New fragrance in Boss range features notes of violet leaves, vetiver, patchouli
What a lovely grapefruit scent. It is not a red grapefruit, it is huge sweet yellow variety, that tastes almost like pomelo with slight bitterness. Cut it right through the peel, put on a plate and take that plate to the morning garden, where sun rises and a dew still sparkles; itâs still summer and all is green⊠This is your âIn Love Againâ - such life loving and optimistic scent!
The inaugural masculine release from Ungaro, under the direction of Jacques Polge and François Demachy, sees a theme that delineates from Van Cleef & Arpels Pour Homme, Salvador Dali Pour Homme, and the like, with the slipstream of dihydromyrcenol propelling this fabled fougere, since this, after all, this was released in 1991. However, this does reveal a complexity that may come as a surprise, with some intriguing interplay, particularly that of a ratio between a prominent clary sage and lavender. These two have such synergy that it can be difficult for a "trained" nose to sense any seam in the tapestry they form together, albeit with bracing wormwood...
I love the peach and the bergamot notes at the beginning too and I think they are needed in this fragrance, but the very sweet and watery passionfruit in this fragrance kind of ruins things slightly for me and makes things slightly top fruity for my tastes. I would have preffered no passionfruit in this. I also feel like the mandarin orange could have been dialed down a bit more to get a bigger dose of that honeyed character and less of that citric quality. I loved the warmth of the drydown with the powderiness of the musk, the sweetness and warmth of the vanilla and the resinous and deep character from the amber. I also think that this had the right...
A little pearl from a beautiful little southern italian perfume house recently slided under my curious radar. Taormina, with its rich and variegate history which has crossed various phases along centuries (hellenistic, bizantine, arab, normanne, spanish etc), is an extraordinary mediterranean gracious city located in Sicily on the eastern jonic coast, a place rich of natural and historic beauties as for instance the famous Hellenistic theatre. It is defined the Pearl of the Ionian Sea, making it the most famous and important holiday resort, not only in Sicily. Acqua di Taormina is the perfume brand which better represents the spirit of this worldwide...
Douleur from Bogue Profumo. A collaborative work between Antonio Gardoni and tattoo artist Freddie Albrighton. A quirky and avant-garde perfume that doesn't smell challenging or experimental to me, as some have claimed. When I focus on it (gently because it is nuclear) I can detect some of the peculiar accords like the raw meat, plastic toys, and the salty seaweed accord. But if I spray it and go about my day, it smells surprisingly pleasant. It reminds me of the scent of Plum Preserves, the way they are traditionally made here in Eastern Europe. Exactly like that. If I close my eyes and enjoy its aroma in the air. Furthermore, to reinforce that scent...
R de Revillion is translucent violet through the lens of an aquatic, with the shore's perimeter all clean, lucid cedar wood and ozonic breezes. It's aromatics of rosemary, pine, and lavender set the tone as well. It's really a signature of the 90s zeitgeist, full of winsome optimism and unbridled cheer, which is amusing when it contrasts with the often brooding and angst-laden music popular at the time. My brain associates this with "alternative radio," which was all the rage in 1985; I hear Ben Folds Five's "Underground" and Tracy Bonham's "The One," while sipping on a bottle of Orbitz, mesmerized with its colorful lava-lamp globules floating in the...
From Amouage: "A protruding depth of Patchouli (molecular distillation) and smoky Cypriol (essence) confuses the senses. Instead of a top note, a wide variety of woods appear, foreboding a deep evolution. An exquisitely rich Oud Assam (essence) dances in unison with a leathery Madagascar Vanilla (absolute), while Ambrarome, birch, castoreum and Guiac Wood leave dark sillage imprints on the skin, blending in an endless finale." To me its a nice smelling thing that's somewhat addicting. The opening is a bit harsh but only for a minute. Otherwise its a scratchy patchouli with smoky Cypriol. Soon an almost rubbery oud note appears which is sweetened ever...
There's a sense in which an amber soliflore is just an amber soliflore, and which amber soliflore you gravitate towards is really about minor calibrations in the overall profile. Of all the ambers I've tried, Ambre 114 is, to me, the "Platonic" amber - maybe not the most exciting, but as good an all-arounder as you're likely to find. Having been around the block with a lot of wilder ambers, the relative calmness and versatility of Ambre 114 has its appeal. (For those seeking modern slickness, there's Grand Soir, and those craving niche-y excitement can seek out full-throated ambers like Ambre Loup or Amber Kiso.) Others might point to Ambre Sultan,...
It seems hard to find fragrances with Vanilla notes that don't take over the scent after the opening note....at least to me it seems that way. Vanilla seems like a hard scent to blend subtly. Does anyone have any recommendations for Vanilla fragrances that are only obvious upon inspection and also preferably not paired with tonka?
What a horrid smell! It quite literally smells like bad breath, truly a nasty stench....but it's the missing ingredient I've been searching for to recreate the atomic sweetness I've been after in my fragrances. Finally, after years of searching for it, I've found it! So I just have a quick accord of the usual bases, mixed in the tiniest amount of ambergris essence and boom - atomic sweet projection, just like a commercial scent! To round things off I added some coumarin, lavender, neroli, and obscene amounts of hedione. So yeah, if you want the OTT sweetness of a commercial scent, the secret is ambergris + amber xtreme + ambroxan + unholy amounts of...
I looking for some Profumum fragrances low in top notes (so mostly mids and basenotes) I can use to layer with other fragrances. So something with few quality ingredients. I like things like basil, bay leaves, balsam fir, red fruits, red apple, angelica, vetiver, patchouli, creamy cedar. Any suggestions? If Profumum havent made anything with these kind of notes, it could be other houses that use few quality ingredients.
This topic came up as a tangent in another thread, but I think it's interesting enough to start a separate thread for, so here it goes: If you look at your wardrobe and categorise your scents into seasons (arbitrarily and subjectively, according to your own associations), what does that look like? Doe your fragrance season preference align with your season preference? Does it matter if you live somewhere with strong seasons or not? How does humidity factor into it? Do you have particularly strong feelings about which perfumes are associated with which season, or is it difficult to classify some scents? In short, many questions! I'll kick off, I live in a...
https://basenotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fredericmalle.jpg It has been reported that Frédéric Malle is leaving his Editions de Parfums brand which he founded in 2000. The brand was revolutionary at the time for putting the names of the perfumers front and centre on the bottle, where before then, many people had no idea who make the fragrances they loved. More : https://basenotes.com/perfume-news/frederic-malle-is-leaving-editions-de-parfums/
Sharing for anyone looking for an unusual green note. Where I grew up, we had a lot of walnut trees growing in the woods, and on rainy days in summer after the nuts had ripened and fallen to the ground, the most amazing smell would come up through the mist. If you've never smelled a walnut fresh off the tree with the husk intact, it has a very distinct spicy and terpenic smell. For some time I considered trying to steam distill the husks (word for the wise: walnut husks stain everything, including skin, worse than just about anything else), but after some digging, I found that the smell is actually pretty straightforward. The below accord is true to my...
Nympheal arrived this week from Perfumiarz. Tested it with a selection of other materials. Nympheal @1% in DPG, other materials @10% in DPG unless otherwise stated. Key findings (measured 4 and 24 hrs in dry down): [*]Very strong, even at 1%. Bit aldehydic impression, but much less than e.g. Mimosal [*]It is indeed no Lyral. It can be seen as a very strong floral enhancer, but without the great harmonizing effect of Lyral [*]In general it adds a very nice creamy / powdery aspect and a LOTV-floral aspect to a great many things [*]Becomes a bit stronger in dry down (but not as much like Vanillin does, say 120%) [*]Does not perform well with rose materials...
In my previous thread I asked for, and received some advice on inexpensive men's fragrances in the classical style, which I refer to as fougeres, which may or may not be accurate. I ended up with quite a few that I liked, notably Azzaro PH and Cerruti 1881. However, there were some additional suggestions which although not in the 'cheap' price bracket, are in the 'perfectly reasonable if I can try a sample' bracket. Well, I got some samples, and they have surprised me - some I thought I would like but did not, some I thought would be meh but were excellent, and most intruigingly, several which smell very similar to me. I did not expect this, and wonder if...
... just read in the news that this scent is considered a quiet status symbol ... "The scent of Baccarat Rouge 540 will define 2024. Yes, this perfume costs $325 a bottle. But it's also said to be one of the world's best and most universally appealing. According to Harper's Bazaar, it's not a new fragrance; the brand first launched it in 2016 as a limited-edition collector's item. But thanks to celebrity fans such as Rihanna, TikTokers became interested in the scent, which they say makes you "smell rich," and launched the product's popularity into another dimension. It features notes of jasmine, saffron, and ambergris â a substance that the sperm whale's...
As some of you might know, i react badly to most fragrances, but never to Boss The Scent. Could someone help me break down the aromachems in this fragrances? I dont expect it to have a lot of naturals.. Perhaps even give some suggestions for fragrances (mens, unisex) that have similarities to this one. The same kind of backbone. Im almost certain that its low in Iso E Super and aldehydes, cause i always get a migrane from these. Probably low in Hedione as well and I dont smell any of that cheap fake cedar in most mens designer fragrances these days. I smell that crap daily when im in public transport (Iso E perhaps). My uneducated guess is that The...
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