7/27/25

Jōvan Musk for Men Signature Edition (Coty)

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I've always felt that Jōvan Musk for Men smelled like narcissus, but I was never able to find anyone who confirmed it, so I kept the th...
7/24/25

Lovely (Sarah Jessica Parker)

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Having just read the backstory to this fragrance, I can safely say that what I smell makes sense. Burr described the day he spent with Sara...
7/23/25

Book Review: Chandler Burr's Year in the Fragrance Industry (Cough!) 17 Years Later

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Summer reading: It was either this or The Emperor of Scent , and since I’m a little weary of Luca Turin and Burr’s sycophantic worship of h...
7/20/25

Zip Codes and Milliliters: Another Old Bottle of English Leather, But Still Not Old Enough . . .

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In a recent post on Badger & Blade, I asked if anyone had come across English Leather bottles that predate the 1960s. After some friendl...
7/18/25

H24 (Hermès)

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The H24 line makes perfect sense to me. Hermès hadn’t released an original masculine-leaning fragrance in years, and Jean-Claude Ellena had...
7/10/25

My English Leather Investigation Continues . . .

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The Lotion's Bottle Reads "Bottle Made in West Germany" I received two of the three English Leather bottles that I purchased o...
7/4/25

Where Are All The 'Deep Vintage' Bottles of MEM English Leather?

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A 1963 print ad, the oldest I could find. One of the many things that plague the fragrance house of Creed is the argument that "deep vi...
6/23/25

Club de Nuit Untold (Armaf)

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Francis Kurkdjian will be remembered as the perfumer who carved his name into the scent world with unmistakable boldness, sometimes too bold...
6/20/25

A Rose is Not a Rose

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This one smells quite sweet and fresh! I'm in Maine this weekend, staying with my partner's parents, who have a stunning garden: ro...
6/7/25

What Makes a Perfumer a Perfumer?

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I watched a brief documentary on Pierre Bourdon in which he described his mindset as a perfumer, describing his love of travel and the arts,...
6/2/25

Black (Kenneth Cole)

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Some fragrance note pyramids I take seriously, while others strike me as marketing ploys, packed with alleged notes that don’t exist in the...