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So I’m writing about the house of Âge de Querelle Perfumes again. I know, I know, y’all are shocked Pikachu face. It’s no secret...
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We expect a lot from prestige names and high price tags. There are so many excellent perfumes that duck under the $100 mark; a...
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It’s a commonly held opinion that truly bad art bores its audience. If this is the metric, then Tropic of Capricorn cannot be a...
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So you’ve done it – amassed a collection of truly wonderful fragrances. You preside over your glittering bottles like some sort of French dragon...
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I once heard that you have the most objective view on a city two weeks after you’ve lived there. Once you become overly familiar...
Podcasts
In the first episode of 2021, Kori has a special guest, fragrance reviewer Trusted Nose! Tune in to hear what they’d both like to...
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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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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...
Podcasts
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...