With Valentine's day right around the corner, roses, especially red ones, seem to exert a magnetic pull on one's psyche. It is like the three drops of ruby red blood which suddenly fell onto the white snow in a medieval...
Perfume Review & Musings Archives
Diptyque Eau Rose (2012) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Diptyque are inaugurating a new collection of floral fragrances, Les Eaux Florales. Eau Rose is their homage to the queen of flowers and the first entry in what looks like a revivalist soliflore library. Soliflores are supposed to be old-fashioned...
ID Parfums / Isabel Derroisné Eclat Eternel (2011) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Eclat Eternel (Eternal Spark) is a sparkling, radiant white floral which was composed by perfumer Véronique Nyberg. The nose took the genre of the white-floral bouquet, retaining the opulence of this style of fragrance but made everything feel more transparent,...
Sisley Eau d'Ikar (2011) {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}
Sisley launched a new man's fragrance last year dedicated to the sky as the symbol of men's unreasonable artistic aspirations. The tag line for Eau d'Ikar, named after Icarus, is "A fragrance poised between sea and sky." The brand also...
Mary Greenwell Plum (2010) {Perfume Review & Musings}
British makeup artist Mary Greenwell released her debut signature fragrance in October 2010, titled "Plum." With a simple name, a pleasant packaging, her aesthetic credentials in tow, and the mystique of niche perfumery on her side, her scent soon garnered...
Parfum d'Empire Azemour les Orangers (2011) {New Fragrance} {Perfume Review}
Orange and spices are one of the great traditional combinations of scents smelled during the Holidays in tea, pomander or cooking forms. If oranges are summery, they are also wintry (see L'Occitane Ruban d'Orange and Creed Orange Spice.) By mixing...
L'Artisan Parfumeur Batucada (2011): An Aquatic-Plummy Scent Drawing an Orb from Day to Night {Perfume Review & Musings}
L'Artisan Parfumeur Batucada Eau de Toilette - A Review Batucada is the new opus by L'Artisan Parfumeur and is reportedly inspired by the passionate, effervescent rhythms of Brazil hence its name which means "beat", the name as well of...
Les Parfums de Rosine Glam Rose (2011): Ideal Violet {Perfume Review & Musings} {Violet Notebook}
The new Glam Rose makes it possible for Les Parfums de Rosine to depart from their stated mission of dedicating themselves to solely creating rose perfumes while still remaining faithful to it. The composition is a rose-violet perfume which...
Clinique Aromatics Elixir Perfumer's Reserve (2011): Extract This Contradiction {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance}
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the classic, urban, nervy, active, sporty and elegant chypre which is Aromatics Elixir, the brand decided to offer a limited luxury edition of the composition initially created by perfumer Bernard Chant, the author...
Cartier Les Heures du Parfum L'Heure Convoitée (2011): Killer Carnation {Perfume Review & Musings} {New Fragrance}
L'Heure Convoitée II (The Coveted Hour) is the newest and 9th addition to the collection Les Heures du Parfum by Cartier which assembles the freer compositions of the house by in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent. It is what Les Exclusifs are...
Cartier Les Heures du Parfum L'Heure Convoitée (2011): Oeillet Oeillade {New Fragrance} {Perfume Review & Musings}
L'Heure Convoitée II est la dernière oeuvre en date et la neuvième à paraître dans la collection très exclusive de chez Cartier, Les Heures du Parfum. Cette bibliothèque d'oeuvres choisies est destinée à regrouper les compositions dites plus libres...
Karl Lagerfeld Karleidoscope (2011): Diet Perfume for Light Living {Fragrance Review} {Celebrity Perfume}
Karleidoscope is the brain-child of Karl Lagerfeld whose composition was entrusted to perfumer Christophe Raynaud of Givaudan who has already created fragrances in the, let's face it, celebrity genre with Céline Dion, Antonio Banderas and Halle Berry. Karl Lagerfeld has...
Estée Lauder Wood Mystique: Ostentatious & Hidden Luxury (2011) {Perfume Review & Musings}
As announced earlier, American household name Estée Lauder has decided to turn their exclusive attention to the Middle East markets by proposing an oud composition tailored to the tastes of the inhabitants of the region. While it has been...
Angel The Taste of Fragrance, with Bitter Cocoa Powder (2011) {New Fragrance} {Perfume Review & Musings}
Angel, with Bitter Cocoa Powder, is part of the new limited-edition The Taste of Fragrance - Le Goût du Parfum collection by Thierry Mugler, which is motivated by the desire to bring closer together the experiences of tasting and smelling....
Diane Von Furstenberg Diane EDT & EDP: Be Versatile (2011) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Diane is the latest fragrance release by fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg who is making a renewed attempt at fragrance development after "D" which launched in 2003. At the time, "D" was seen as a comeback perfume as well,...