6/25/23

Creed Silver Mountain Water is . . . The Lost Creed?

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Oh 4 oz. bottles, how I miss you! I have two things coming in the mail this week: a full bottle of Armaf's Club de Nuit Sillage, and a 2...
6/23/23

Smoked Jasmine Black Tea (Marissa Zappas)

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According to perfumer Marissa Zappas, Smoked Jasmine Black Tea was inspired "by the scent of black tea spilled over an old book." ...
6/22/23

The Soft Lawn, Edition 2.0 (Imaginary Authors)

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It's fascinating to  me when a brand is fairly open and obvious about a reformulation to one of their well-known perfumes. The Soft Lawn...
6/21/23

Ink (Akro)

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"Akro, in French, means 'addict,' you know?" Olivier Cresp explains on Akro's website. The focus on addiction is his b...
6/1/23

Gabe Oppenheim's The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century: Did Pierre Bourdon Really Admit To Being Used? Something Smells.

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Olivier Creed: Master Perfumer, or Master Manipulator? I want to preface my remarks by saying that my thoughts on the Creed brand are not en...
5/21/23

My Thoughts On Post-Covid Cool Water

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New Script to the Left. Eight years ago I purchased a 4.2 fluid oz bottle of Cool Water by Davidoff, and I wrote that Cool Water's formu...
5/16/23

Tres Nuit (Armaf)

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If you'd asked me twenty years ago if Tres Nuit by Armaf (which was actually released in 2015, but let's pretend for a minute) smel...
5/14/23

Treng Waves (Ibrahim Fuhaid)

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Treng Waves won Fragrantica's Editor's Choice Award for 2022, which caught my attention. Judging from Ibrahim Fuhaid's Instagram...
5/11/23

MEM (Bogue)

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Photo by inkknife_2000 It would be futile   to attempt a long and detailed description of MEM, as others have done elsewhere. Instead, I wil...
5/4/23

Rosa Greta (Eau d'Italie)

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Sebastian Alvarez Murena and Marina Sersale, the owners of Eau d'Italie, were inspired by Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, also known as Greta ...
5/3/23

Orgasmo (Hilde Soliani)

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Orgasmo was inspired by a cup of iced almond coffee that Hilde Soliani had one day at the beach. That must've been one heck of a brew. ...