NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin – Duchaufour Strikes Again, Straight to the Heart + Luckyscent Draw

Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin opens with a symphony, an overused term that completely suits this occasion. There is forest, there is soap, there is comforting darkness and fizzy light all at once. I am taken to my grandmother’s powdery dressing table, to my mother’s fine wool sweater I nuzzled as a child, to my father’s cigar box. Chypre Palatin smells like none of these things exactly, but conjures all of these things in my mind.

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NEW FRAGRANCES REVIEW Mark Buxton Perfumes Collection

Now we’re in 2012 and Mr. Buxton is giving the idea of a collection another attempt as he releases a five fragrance collection. He retains both Black Angel and Wood and Absinth and then adds three new ones: Devil in Disguise, Sexual Healing, and Sleeping With Ghosts. This time I was not disappointed as the artist I admired seems to have returned.

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