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7/29/26
Old Spice Obscure Ocean (Procter & Gamble)
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With virtually no fanfare, Procter & Gamble quietly released three new eau de colognes in what it has loosely referred to as its "S...
7/28/26
Lalique pour Homme "Lion" EDP (Lalique)
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When I ponder a brand like Lalique, I consider the bottles before their contents. How could I not? As a student of art history, I am well aw...
7/26/26
Revisiting Lalique's Original Encre Noire
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Summer Fields of Vetiver Encre Noire is often referred to as a "modern" vetiver, and few can get through a sentence about it witho...
7/22/26
Grape Raspberry Eau de Parfum Spray (Al-Rehab)
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Smelling Al-Rehab's Grape Raspberry fragrance is like experiencing my own version of Stephen King's The Langoliers. I've acciden...
7/18/26
Bogart (Jacques Bogart)
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The house of Jacques Bogart was established by Jacques Konckier in 1975, many years before its acquisition of Balenciaga in 1986, and Ted La...
7/16/26
Silver Scent (Jacques Bogart)
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Grapes, Gum, Orange Blossom, Bacchus I've done my best to ascertain why they named it "Silver" Scent, but I've come up emp...
7/7/26
78 Vintage Green (Banana Republic)
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Whenever I stop at Burlington, I try to find a 75 mL bottle of 78 Vintage Green (I once saw a 5 oz bottle and passed on it, years ago), and ...
7/5/26
Pino Silvestre Black Forest (Parfums Mavive)
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No release date. No promo copy. No promo, period. A perfume that was nonexistent one day, and everywhere online the next. No reviews. No con...
7/2/26
Jungle Vibe (Rayhaan): Nineties Vibe
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Using Forbidden Words If you were to ask the folks at Estée Lauder, I think they'd say "jungle" is not politically correct eno...
7/1/26
Ithaque (Memo Paris)
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Ithaque is a Greek mythological isle said to be the home of Odysseus. Well, Ithaca is the reference name for it, and Ithaque is the French ...
6/22/26
Violette Eau de Toilette (Molinard)
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Molinard is a house whose name echoes my own; I find the "Miller" of Italy to be quite the interesting fragrance house. Fragonard,...
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