In the initial release and subsequent video Freak by Illamasqua I missed some important clues; it is a fragrance for your alter ego and ‘real’ notes of oud, black davana and datura are powerful aphrodisiacs and opium flower is addictive.
Samhein is when the gossamer veil between two worlds becomes thinner still and souls from the other world walk the earth. It’s said that on this night the burial mound of heroes are shared by the faeries and open.
The Different Company has been, until now, identified with only one perfumer Celine Ellena. Mme Ellena has created a sort of brand identity for The Different Company fragrance in her creations. A large part of my interest in this first fragrance by Bertrand Duchaufour, for The Different Company, Oud Shamash is to see whether it would fit into what has come previously.
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As promised, we resume our Sephora Sensorium expedition from Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011.
Ever since Celine Verleure of Olfactive Studio released her three Olfactive collaborations there has been great anticpation by perfumistas oll over the world. The “darling” of many perfume bloggers’ reviews has been Chambre Noire
Royal Service is the new fragrance created by Olivier Creed who as a sixth-generation master perfumer is the living embodiment of Creed. M Creed chose to have his service look back to the royalty and First Ladies who have worn their own signature Creed fragrances. If that was all M Creed did Royal Service would have felt like a Creed Greatest Hits. At each phase of development while there are notes which remind you of previous Creed fragrances M Creed uses a new note to twist them in a slightly different way.
