1/28/15

Fake Vintage Showcase: Climat Parfum by Lancôme (1967)

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Looks Real. Is Fake. Currently $334.31, Plus Shipping. I've taken some heat in the past for claiming that vintages are faked on aucti...
1/27/15

The "Tasters" And The "Feelers"

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"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same thing...
1/22/15

Furyo (Jacques Bogart)

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More Perfume Economics 101: when in doubt about the value of a discontinued scent found online, visit your local hole-in-the-wall brick a...
1/9/15

Poppy (Coach)

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The effectiveness of a fragrance depends entirely on who is wearing it. By this I mean its ability to attract positive attention to whoeve...
1/3/15

Michael Kors for Men (Michael Kors)

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Oud does not smell all that good. There, I said it. Jim Gehr gave me the opportunity to smell a few oud isolates and one oud blend, and...
1/1/15

The Elusive Fougère, Part Two

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One might exclaim, "Everything's a fougère to some people," and still be right about it. That is, if discussing masculine ...
12/31/14

The Elusive Fougère, Part One

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Few fragrance families have befuddled, confused, eluded, even angered men as frequently as the fougère has, which is worth mentioning be...
12/22/14

The Long And Short Of It

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Frick and Frack. You're Tweedely-Dee. The end of another year is finally upon us, and I find myself reflecting on the last twelve mo...
12/20/14

Cathedral In Flames (Garner James)

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In a perfect world all the cathedrals would burn, would go down, and stay down. I'm agnostic, formerly Catholic, not a believer in Je...
12/17/14

Knot (Bottega Veneta)

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Some scents manage somehow to get corners of our souls to themselves, their characteristics immediately recognizable and capable of inst...
12/9/14

Alpha Ionone At Around 1% Concentration Responsible For Natural Sandalwood Effect In Grey Flannel

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One of the many things I love about vintage Grey Flannel is its beautiful, smooth, natural-smelling sandalwood note, an effect one might ...