L’Artisan Parfumeur Obscuratio Winner
L’Artisan Parfumeur Obscuratio instantly captivates the wearer with an immensely pleasing blast of patchouli goodness: chocolatey, sweetly spiced, and hard to resist.
Ex Nihilo Explicite Review (Jordi Fernandez) 2020 + Flowers with Fangs Draw
Ex Nihilo Explicite is a fascinating play of contrasts; a calibrated structure of gourmand creaminess balanced with the narcotic flowers. Don’t be deceived by the soft opening of this fragrance. It promises to be sweet and comforting, but there are teeth hidden underneath that pretty pink smile, and she will sink those sharp fangs into your flesh without the slightest remorse.
1986 Éclectique by Les Bains Guerbois Winner
1986 Éclectique by Les Bains Guerbois is par excellence a festive fragrance with a composition of great richness: luminous, joyful and bewitching, it is worn boldly on the skin, without shyness. Ultra-sensual, it is a formidable weapon of seduction with an incredible hold that leaves no one indifferent, and especially not those who wear it. It is delightful to trace Bertrand Duchafour’s creative hand, whose scents can be true love potions and a beautiful tribute from Les Bains Guerbois to the mythical Marilyn, now sanctified in the bottle.
Montale Dark Vanilla Review + A Wild Ride Draw
Montale Dark Vanilla has proven to be unlike any other in the line. This one is a dark horse galloping through the clouds of Cambodian oud. A deep sensual aroma is so seductive, you feel intoxicated by its intensity and depth.
Diptyque Le Grand Tour 2021 Venise and Kyoto Winner
Diptyque Le Grand Tour Venise 2021 Venise and Kyoto are limited edition perfumes composed by b Alexandra Carlin and Cecile Matton for the house’s 60th anniversary. They are both wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Rogue Perfumery Bon Monsieur Review (Manuel Cross) + A Fragrance for James Bond’s Day off Draw
Rogue Perfumery Bon Monsieur is sophisticated, yet spirited. It’s adventurous and elegant, yet surprisingly relaxed—like James Bond on his day off. I’ll be the first to say that perfume is genderless, but Rogue Perfumery Bon Monsieur is unabashedly a gentleman’s fragrance. Moreover, it’s a fragrance that a gentleman would want others, perhaps his children, to associate with him.