Perfume Review: Bird of Paradise Thorn & Bloom (Jennifer Botto) + Sunrise to Sunset in Paradise Draw
Jennifer Botto of Thorn & Bloom’s magnificent no holds barred opulent white floral composition is sure to delight devotees of jasmine.
Perfume Review: Phoenix Botanicals Peach Garden (Irina Adam) + Do I Dare to Eat A Peach Draw
Peach Garden is built up with delicious layers like oils on a canvas- yuzu and osmanthus and a deliciously mysterious peach accord that is hyper-realistic
New Perfume Review: A Wing & A Prayer Perfumes (Jane Cate) VAMP + Film Noir Femme Fatale Draw
I met Janet Cate, at the 5th annual San Francisco Artisan Fragrance Salon and was seduced by her new botanical smoky 40s inspired fragrance Vamp
New Perfume Review: DSH Perfumes La Belle Saison (Dawn Spencer Hurwitz) + My Lilac Wine Draw
“La Belle Saison is “less a photographic ‘portrait’ of lilacs but rather like a painting that expresses the feeling as well as the scent of lilac
Best Leather Perfumes Winners
British sexologist Havelock Ellis called Peau d’Espagne highly complex being a scent that most nearly “approaches the odor of a woman’s skin
Perfume Review: LaLun Naturals Noema (Maggie Mahboubian) + Olfactive Illusions Draw
Noema is a beautifully complex and layered composition that is not easily divided into the sum of its parts