April Aromatics Wild Summer Crush Review (Tanja Bochnig) 2021 + Eternal Summer Draw

April Aromatics Wild summer Crush review

The notes of grapefruit, mandarin, yuzu and fruit peels in April Aromatics Wild Summer Crush by Tanja Bochnig are as realistic as taking a bite out of the freshly plucked fruit itself.  This is not a passing light citrus that leaves you longing for more, this is a dense, lush mix of citrus fruits including the juice, flesh and skins.  If, like me, you love citrus in perfume but not how fleeting the notes typically are, this is a scent you must try.  This masterful blend defies the common misconception that natural perfumes are fleeting and unnuanced. 

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Fiele Fragrances A Flower For You X Ron Finley “The Gangsta Gardener” Review (Linda Sivrican) 2021+ Transforming the Urban Landscape Draw

Fiele Fragrances A Flower For You X Ron Finley The Gangsta Gardener review

Perfumer Linda Sivrican provides beauty with a mission: proceeds from Fiele Fragrances A Flower For You will benefit The Ron Finley Project, an ongoing campaign which empowers inner city Los Angeles inhabitants to cultivate their own food as a means of encouraging an accessible, better-quality diet and overall health and well-being. Ron Finley is known as The Gangsta Gardener and is both local hero and muse

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Sous le Manteau Odisiaque no. 6 Review (Nathalie Feisthauer) 2021 + Bygone Loves and Loves to Come Draw

Sous le manteau odisiaque no 6 review

Sous le Manteau Odisiaque no. 6 smells exactly of what it speaks: of waking up after a long lethargy, the body still warm and stiff from an endless night. It is not bursting, nor too effusive, rather it is tender and hazy like that quiet and intangible state when, lodged between the dream and the real, the world seems but a sea of infinite possibilities waiting to collapse into one.

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