I think we all love the smell of the oils in the peels of citrus fruits when we get it on our fingers. Etrog Oy de Cologne captures the lift and brightness of that delicious aroma with a heady opening that is lemony, yet a bit softer.
When the near simultaneous news of Dior Eau Sauvage Parfum and La Collection Privee Oud Ispahan was received I was again expecting Dior and M. Demachy to go 1-for-2. On that score I was right but which one I thought would be the hit and which one the miss, well there I was not quite right.
Unlike the vast majority of commercial flankers, Brent’s Re-Mix Project perfumes often seriously rival their originals, if not improve upon them. Brent recently sent me a sample pack of the latest three, St Tropez Dispenser Apres Solieil, Little Miss Panda Gets Lei’d, and Incensed Short Fuse.
I met Kelly Jones Podorsek at Sniffapalooza a few years ago and we began talking about perfume and about the collection of wine inspired fragrances she was creating . I am a wine snob and like Paul Giamatti, in the movie Sideways, “I am not drinking any f’ing Merlot”. But I will wear it as a perfume.
I think that there is no fragrance I’ve tried that is not connected to some image in my mind. it is summer in all its glory and The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats poetry evokes many fragrances…but one special perfume by Diptyique
The American industry is not regulated in the same way that it is in Europe for example. So there is more freedom for people to experiment. It is, like the culture we celebrate, quite diverse and quite democratic.-DelRae Roth. A reader’s choice draw of the Parfums DelRae you covet…
