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3/29/14
Black Antlers (Garner James)
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I want to thank perfumer Jim Gehr of Garner James for personally sending me five extremely generous samples of creations from his arti...
3/28/14
Encre Noire (Lalique)
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Iso E Super is just another synthetic aroma chemical, no more or less evil than the lot of them. Like most chemicals, it gets misused, bu...
3/21/14
B*Men (Thierry Mugler)
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B*Men smells like something Annick Ménardo would have thrown together in the nineties, its synthetics playing off each other quite nicely...
3/15/14
Royal Water (Creed)
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My original review of this fragrance was based on smelling a counterfeit, and was the only time I've ever been conned with a fake Cre...
3/9/14
Aqua Velva Ice Blue (Vintage) & Frost Lime
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As with Old Spice, my belief that vintage isn't always "better" than current stuff was further bolstered today when I happe...
3/8/14
Orris (Tauer)
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When I first smelled Orris, I immediately thought of Malle's Une Rose, a fungal vinyl-rose perfume known for stretching the tradition...
3/3/14
Noël au Balcon (Etat Libre d'Orange)
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Somebody at Bond could learn something from Antoine Maisondieu's Noel au Balcon. My main problem with the Bonds I've tried is tha...
3/2/14
Iris 39 (Le Labo)
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Before I die, I will own a bottle of this. I remember my first wearing of Dior Homme vividly—applying it and thinking, This is not how I w...
3/1/14
Yohji Homme (Yohji Yamamoto)
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I suspect the ad above is for the re-release of Yohji Homme, but my review is for the original formula, which unfortunately is all I cou...
2/23/14
Preferred Stock (Coty)
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Ten years ago I smelled this cologne at a CVS and thought it was the worst thing on the market. I was like that about drugstore fragranc...
Cool Water Into The Ocean (Davidoff) - "Men Always Smell Like Deodorant"
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The other day at work a young woman of twenty-two casually mentioned that "Men always smell like deodorant, their cologne all smells...
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