18 La Lune D&G starts fruity and floral and it will keep the same nature in the heart notes, when the floral side will get richer and more complex. There must be rose somewhere, together with a light tuberose that gives a light but rough earthy touch in the background. It’s all pleasant and the sweet-ish notes coming out of the fruity floral mix are potentially sexy from a close distance. Yet, I’m finding hard to get [...] Read more »
Quick review for Un Air D’escapade by Givenchy, very recently launched as an airport exclusive. The opening is muffled and gives out indefinite florals plus citrus notes, with hints of red fruits. There is also a light bitter earthiness in the background, that smudges the innocence of the main notes. After a couple of minutes, the earthy side disappears, and the fragrance settles down to a tropical-sweet, and fresh attitude, with also aquatic notes that come out on [...] Read more »
Versus Versace perfume opens bright, sweet and fruity with lemon and fleshy peach. The sparkling citrus and the sweet side are equally divided, until the rose comes out. It’s not your typical fishnet stockinged rose though: the layer of vinyl is substituted by the sweet peachy and the citrus fruity notes of the start. It’s a strange couple what you have there, but it blends quite well: it’s delicate and sweet, but still with a sexy card to [...] Read more »
Very Hollywood by Michael Kors starts, hmm, hard to describe, let’s say there’s a herbal green, plus a spice, plus red fruits. And then it produced a note of tea, so blatant, that I was very surprised not to find it in any review. Although there is half teaspoon of sugar in it, tea is tea, and its bitterness is something you have to love or leave. Both skin and paper will eventually produce a dense, quite animalic [...] Read more »
Un Jardin Sur Le Toit is the third Hermes perfume I review, and the second one that bears the signature of Jean-Claude Ellena, after Un Jardin Sur Le Nil. Before I try and describe it, let me share a nagging feeling I’m having. If perfume is a form of art, then Ellena is one of the top artists. And what I’m starting to feel is the same discomfort that a non-expert in art feels in front of a work [...] Read more »
I sampled parfum Amor Amor once and I didn’t like it. I sampled it twice and liked it even less, then I made it smell to someone, who said something, so I sampled it a third time and I can say I now half like it. Maybe I’m being ungenerous, but to my defence, I’m also consistent: to me, Amor Amor parfum stays between Nina by Nina Ricci and Narciso Rodriguez For Her. It has the muffled red fruits [...] Read more »
This was the first Christina Aguilera fragrance, launched in 2007 and nevermind that for the first part it is pure peach and floral air freshener, I liked this anyway. I remember JLo Glow gave me same feeling but this time this is even more real. To be completely fair though, that was the result I got on my skin. On the blotter, the balance was much better and the effect on my wrist turned out to be a bad [...] Read more »
Some feel the fruits in this, many don’t, but I did, big time, a cloud of sweet fruit notes if you ask me, and right out of the box. I’d say litchi or strawberry, plus pepper. In other words, quite similar to Nina and Delices by Cartier. That’s why I found the first part Very Resistible indeed, as these are not my favorite types of perfumes. To sum up the start, Perfume Irresistible Givenchy has hazy fruity and [...] Read more »