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Two months ago, I reviewed the maximalist floral wonder of Carnal Flower. Perfumer Dominique Ropion used bombastic, wet green notes to transform a tuberose...
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Every medium has its own experimental barriers. Sensations we are either naturally inclined, or trained, to dislike provide a sort of dangerous frontier for...
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The fact that there’s an entire genre of perfume dedicated to food-like smells – gourmands – signals just how close perfumery is to the...
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Flankers are usually criticized for being too similar to their counterparts. A slight change in concentration or the inclusion of a few hip notes...
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Saturday, October 2, 2021, the SENTI collaboration with MOI Fragrances, of Maison Ethan Turner launches their fragrance, Anuri A La Plage for the Fall/Winter 2021 season. The collaboration...
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I’ve mentioned before that Penhaligon’s of London is one of my absolute favorite fragrance houses. After all, you don’t accumulate nine bottles of one...
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One of my strongest perfume memories was my visit to Jovoy Paris, where I encountered just about every famous niche perfume house in the...
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It’s a brand new year and yet I’m still riding high on my barbershop fragrance flag! Due to some rather generous holiday gift cards...
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We treasure the moments when we are blown away by a fragrance. This holiday season, I was fortunate enough to experience two of those...
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In the final sartorial episode of 2020, John and Kori talk about this year’s hits and misses, how fragrance handled the COVID pandemic, and...
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When I imagine my ideal perfume house, four attributes come to mind: Affordable prices. Quality materials. Creative ideas. Polished compositions. It is incredibly rare...
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Sometimes in the fragrance world, houses will choose to reformulate a fragrance. Zoologist is one of those houses and has already reformulated scents such...
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Our earliest days are spent in the arms of our guardians, and we learn very early on the scents of those who love us....
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Well, maybe. Homme for the Holidays is a fragrance released in 2019 from a US indie fragrance house based in Ohio. The house, Happyland...