NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW-DSH Perfume Vanille Botanique, The Hand of Buddah, and Ruba’iyat: Botanical Bliss + 10mL Reader’s Choice Draw

July 24, 2011July 26, 2011

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of those perfumers who always have something interesting to tell me when I get a new set of fragrances to try. Her latest set of releases due to be released in the next couple of months have her returning to a botanical framework and with two of the three looking eastward for inspiration. All three will be excellent fragrances for the fall and even though I’ve been testing them in the summer heat they still manage to show off their quality.

The Winner of “Haute Claire” Mini 5ml Spray by Aftelier Perfumes

July 23, 2011

The French word haute has several meanings: high, tall, loud-pitched, early [usage in antiquity, the Middle Ages], far back in time, noble, high-ranking, Claire has many plausible definitions as well: light, fair, bright, neat, pure, clear, pale, plain, evident
I have worn Haute Claire for several days now, and for me it is pure nobility, pure and simple

The Winner of the Ajne Yuzu Pendant

July 23, 2011

Yuzu fruit is a hybrid variety of mandarin and papeda, which has been used in both Japanese and Chinese medicine for hundreds of years to relax the mind Bergamot oil from Calabria is used in the composition along with the pink grapefruit, and lime; instantaneous mood lifting

Slumberhouse Kote, Mur and Verg: Olfactory Outsider Art + IndieScents Draw

July 23, 2011July 23, 2011

When I recently received three samples from the Portland, Oregon based Slumberhouse the concept of creating perfume outside the mainstream took hold a little more firmly because when I tried Kote, Mur, and Verg I thought that this might actually be the first real example of olfactory outsider art.

The Winner of the Serge Lutens Vitriol D’ouillet 5ml sample

July 22, 2011July 22, 2011

The duality- the carnation in the button hole of an English gentlemen, and carnation between the teeth of a femme fatale. Serge Lutens revives floral grandeur (as he did with beautiful “Tuberouse Criminelle”) but Vitriol d’Oeillet has a touch of the animalic lurking behind its sophisticated appearance

NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: CREED White Flowers “The Great Florever After”

July 21, 2011February 15, 2012

. Why, pray tell, do I love scent so much?It is the idea that beauty itself has some kind of hold on us, and that the closer we get to this almost nonexistent abstraction of beauty, the more intensely we are bound thoughts such as these, are inspired in me by Olivier Creed’s latest gift to the fragrant world –White Flowers