Beauty by CK is a complex fragrance, and you’ve gotta love complexity in a perfume. It starts with very quick fruity notes, and then you’ll get a bouquet of intense and dense white florals, which are given a paintbrush of spicy, woody and citrus notes. It feels like a diluted version of Opium, but not in a derogatory way, quite the opposite: intense and extreme don’t have to be always the same thing, and there goes your proof. [...] Read more »
It’s only the third Chanel perfume for men that I’ve reviewed so far (or should I say the second, as one was Allure Homme Sport and the other one was its close fresher cousin Allure Homme Edition Blanche), but I think I’m starting to see a pattern: they’re all similar to stuff that you may have smelt before, but with a sort of Chanel-ness in them, which makes them classier and with better quality. Rather than fresh, Chanel Bleu [...] Read more »
First and foremost: of all the perfumes that I had and have, Emporio Armani City Glam For Him is the most appreciated by the ladies. And that is the second main reason why I keep on buying it, the first being that I really really like it. OK… no point in lying here: both reasons are true, but it’s actually the other way round. In any case, the best candidate for yournextperfume’s 100th perfume review. The fragrance opens [...] Read more »
Who would have thought that Dolce Gabbana The One Gentleman, with such a name and such a clear target in sophisticated semi-mature males would bring back so many childhood memories. And yet it did, and that’s why I won’t try to describe notes in the usual way this time, I prefer to surrender and go with the flow. The opening brought me back to one of those lemon popsicles with a liquorice stick (this one) that I used [...] Read more »
(I never paraphrased myself so far, so I think it was about time) That’s a fair question, given that the ad campaign for this brand new Diesel parfum is all based on seduction. The opening has liquorice, which soon mixes with jasmine. The two produce a peculiar smell, which is warm, aromatic, and slightly animalic. To me this particular rather than sexy, interesting rather than feminine. Or, still feminine if you prefer, but not in the classic [...] Read more »
This Paloma Picasso Parfum won’t give you a break from the start: it’s dense, thick, sensual, with incense and thick florals (rose, ylang-ylang, hyacinth) that will make you go East, fully oriental. One spray will go a long way, and probably also half of it. The strong camphor reminds of Opium by YSL, but it’s more hardcore, which means that if you like that one you won’t necessarily like this one. What gives this Picasso Perfume an even [...] Read more »
This is the review of the new Opium perfume, the one launched in 2009 with the bottle below. The original was created in 1977 by Jean Amic and Jean-Louis Sieuzac (Fahrenheit Dior for men). Two SAs I asked to, swore that the formula is exactly the same, but among the real perfumistas out there, there is a general agreement that this new one is different (if for anything because some of the original ingredients were banned in the meantime), [...] Read more »
I like it when the masculine and feminine versions of a perfume don’t seem to come from different planets. I had the same feeling recently with Must de Cartier pour homme and Must for women and I can say the same for this Black XS Woman (here’s the review of Black XS for men): both versions are sweet and both were created to be attractive. The perfume opens fruity and slightly peppery, but then it quickly changes towards a [...] Read more »