My first one-to-one encounter with jasmine happened by night, with A La Nuit by Serge Lutens. It opens almost gourmand, but not because it’s sweet or fruity, it’s still floral, but a floral you could eat. This sense of edibility will move back quickly when jasmine takes the stage, but will remain throughout, in the form of vague sweet and creamy notes. The main theme is jasmine, coupled with a certain sourness that comes and goes, but [...] Read more »
Don’t be fooled by the gentle look of mimosa, the main note of this Une Fleur de Cassie by Frederic Malle: this perfume can be very gentle if you decide to oversee some of its qualities, but hard to appreciate if you stop to smell it for real. Of course it will still be floral and it will be – or at least try to be – delicate. If it’s slow enough to evolve on your skin, you may [...] Read more »
Bellodgia was created in 1927, and it’s one of the old Caron perfumes still in production. Indeed, in the French perfume house’s website, they like to specify that it’s very popular among their customers in America. That it was inspired by the Italian town of Bellagio is a well known fact, although I wonder why the original name was changed that way. Of course, what we smell now is not exactly the same thing of 90 years ago, but [...] Read more »
Antonia is a niche perfume maker from New York, and this Antonia’s Flowers Perfume was the first one that she launched in 1985. It has a signature note of freesia, extracted with the headspace technology (very recent at that time), which recreates the smell of the ingredient by analyzing the air around it. The description in the perfume’s site says the perfume is “interspersed with jasmine, magnolia and lily.” And, about jasmine, let me break a terrible news [...] Read more »
The difference between the way paper strip and (my) skin render the same perfume is a wheel that I wish I had reinvented sooner, and I’m glad that I applied this Creed Parfum Fleur De The Rose Bulgare on both, as I had practically two different fragrances under my nose. On the perfume blotter it starts with light citrus, with the floral showing itself immediately. It’s a quite green rose we have here, it’s almost possible to feel the [...] Read more »
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