7/26/14

Drakkar Essence (Guy Laroche)

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I can see it now, the entire arc of Drakkar Essence's lifespan, encapsulated in the blink of an eye. This relatively mundane, shampoo-...
7/23/14

Revisiting "Silver" By Al-Rehab

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In 1995, the house of Creed broke new ground by creating a perfume that defied classification. It was neither fern, nor oriental, nor chy...
7/19/14

Cuir de Russie (Creed Private Collection)

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Leave it to Creed to create a dry Russian leather perfume that smells just as fresh and sparkly-clean as Acqua di Gio. When I think of l...
7/13/14

Ca' Luna (Acqua di Biella)

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When Jim Gehr sent me his perfumes, he also sent me a slew of samples from his extensive catalog of raw materials and synthetics. This ...
7/11/14

Vettiveru (Comme des Garçons, Series 4)

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I get a niggling, nagging, persistent issue with high-end vetiver fragrances. Most that I've encountered take the "traditional...
7/1/14

Manoumalia (LesNez)

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In the film Manon 70, Sami Frey, innocently shaving at the bathroom mirror, stumbles into a classic bedpost notch argument with his pas...
6/18/14

New Home Ownership, & Shifting Priorities

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My mid century mauve & purple tiled bathroom, Unchanged since 1953, save for the vanity. I'm one lucky bugger. Today at 5 pm I c...
6/16/14

A Useful Bit Of Advice

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I just wanted to pass along this article, which quotes Guy Robert. There's no news here, nothing to get in a tizzy over, but these a...
6/14/14

Cologne du Maghreb (Tauer)

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Cologne du Maghreb is an all-natural product, which means Andy Tauer wasn't kidding when he called it a cologne. Seventeenth century ...
6/12/14

Nature Boy (Garner James)

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If the world were to end, we should look to the perfumers to rebuild our cultures from the ground up, because the good perfumers, at th...
6/11/14

Dior Homme Cologne (2007, Dior)

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Summer is so close that I can smell its farts already. The hot asphalt/ozone smell, which gets skunky when drifts of old sand from the ...