12/26/21

Eau de Minthé (Diptyque)

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This fragrance was released shortly before this awful pandemic began, and I almost wonder if the world would know what to do if something t...
12/23/21

Lemon, Cedar, Amber (Pecksniff's)

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My memories of England are  fond ones: sitting in a hotel lobby at two and a half years old, playing with a toy double-decker bus and a Lond...
12/19/21

Alcolado Glacial (Curacao Laboratories Ltd.)

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Curaçao is a tiny island country of about 150,000 people off the coast of Venezuela, and yet it has given us Alcolado Glacial, a world-famou...
12/17/21

Florida Water (Lanman & Kemp Barclay)

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With a birth year of 1808, Lanman & Kemp Barclay's 214 year-old original Florida Water is the ultimate American institution of colog...
12/12/21

Polo Ultra Blue (Ralph Lauren)

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"I'll take a pack of Ultra Blues, please." If you're gonna go fresh, you need to know your options. There aren't many...
12/6/21

Ombré Leather (Tom Ford)

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The round sticker on the bottom of my bottle of Ombré Leather says it's made in Switzerland, which is interesting because the Swiss ar...
12/4/21

Vanilla (Alyssa Ashley)

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It took me several hours to write this post, not because of writer's block or editorial peccadillos, but for the simple and stupid reaso...
12/1/21

Denim Black EDT (Bellevue Parfums)

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Givenchy released its famous eighties fresh amber thirty-five years ago, and called it Xeryus. Then, some twenty-odd years later, it re-rel...
11/25/21

Master Witch Hazel (Master Well Comb)

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The search for a superior witch hazel continues, and I may have found it. It's funny to consider how public opinion changes. When I sta...
11/20/21

Candie's Men (Iconix Brand Group)

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A Candie's Shoe Ad from the 1990s This stuff was everywhere when I was a teenager, yet it seemed to vanish with my teenage years, and h...
11/6/21

Joy (Jean Patou)

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The celerity with which a forty year-old vintage of Jean Patou's Joy develops on skin makes a hangry adult Cheetah seem laggard by compa...