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1/7/17
Pacino For Men (Cindy Chahed)
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Good luck finding a 100 ml bottle. Linear fragrances are perhaps the most difficult kind for perfumers to pull off. Done wrong, and they ...
1/1/17
Why You Can't Trust Internet Reviews When Judging The Quality Of A Reformulation
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Only the bottle has remained the same. My main message in this post is short and sweet: Don't trust what I say. It seems counterint...
12/29/16
Socal for Men (Hollister)
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After a year of reviewing cheap wetshaver ferns, it seems fitting that I close out 2016 with one more opinion on the same sort of thing,...
12/26/16
"You Smell Like Powder"
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"And so do you." I work with a young woman who greets me, on many mornings, with a backhanded compliment, saying with a laugh, ...
12/10/16
What NES Classic & Hatchimals Teaches Us About Buying Vintage Perfume On EBay
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A little while ago, a friend and coworker came to the office excited about something. Just the day before, Nintendo did the unthinkable an...
11/25/16
Pi (Givenchy)
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"A Little Further Than Infiniti." Far Out, Man! To understand Pi, it helps to be more than a mathematician; you have to rememb...
11/23/16
Virgin Island Bay Rum (Pinaud) & Why Old Spice Is Not A Bay Rum
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A good bay rum is an olfactory sketch of two main notes, with a third note "bridging" them; bay is meant to be immediately notice...
11/19/16
The Incanto Charms Problem: Why Cheap Gourmands Usually Don't Work
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Coca-Cola Can Do It. Why Can't You? In 2006 the house of Salvatore Ferragamo released a little inexpensive gourmand feminine called ...
11/15/16
Bamboo Eau De Toilette (Gucci)
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Perhaps the "Alt-Right" has a point after all; it's frightening to think that political correctness has neutered Italian b...
10/23/16
Dior Homme Eau (Dior)
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I never understood the appeal of the original Dior Homme. Its powdery and bittersweet iris pastiche never felt convincingly dimensional, l...
10/16/16
The Musky Orientals Of The Nineties
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I have been wearing Witness by Jacques Bogart lately, and just wanted to comment on a few things that have come to mind. This fragrance ...
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