The Winner of a Very Micallef Christmas Draw
Joey and Snake don’t want to have all the fun and so courtesy of M. Micallef Parfums we have three 10ml minis of Spicy for Him, Jewel for Him and Aoud to give away to one lucky reader
CaFleureBon Best (& Worst) of 2011 Fragrances: Justin Bieber,Tom Ford, Prada + Best of Indie Perfume Draw
Time magazine named the 2011 Person of the Year “the protestor”, and in a way that fits with many of our awardees. Tama and Michelyn sniffed, tested and worn over 500 fragrances on themselves selves, on scent strips and doused on fearless testers. Our draw is for their picks for three 2012 FiFi Indie Nominees
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW Isabey L’Ambre de Carthage “The Third Reconstruction”
Both Isabey and Carthage survived being lost only to arise again. The Isabey perfumes are being slowly re-created and released and in 2011 we get the third reconstruction L’Ambre de Carthage.
My Father The Perfumista
I often say that my earliest perfume memory is seeing my mother’s little black bottle of Joy, and it instilled a love of that fragrance, in me, that my mother nurtured by gifting me with the parfum. I was mentioning that to her not long ago, and she said “You know, it wasn’t me that got you into this perfume thing, it was your FATHER!”
The Winner of Dimanche by Strange Invisible Perfumes Draw
Dimanche means Sunday in French and Ms. Balahoutis went for a bright floral gourmand natural fragrance which evokes a sunny day in the garden
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Czech & Speake Vetiver Vert “For A Green Man”
As we entered the fall I heard a rumor that Czech and Speake was going to be adding their first new fragrance since 2003 and it was going to be a vetiver based fragrance. As we moved further into the fall some of the UK based members of the internet forums got a chance to try Vetiver Vert and the verdict was it was good and in some of those early tester’s words it was spectacular.