Ever smelt a peach glazed with glue? That’s what the first 30 seconds of this perfume Jimmy Choo feel like. This fragrance was a lot of fun to sample, I was expecting buckets of insulin-triggering syrup but it was smarter than that. Peach, or something quite similar to it, will be the signature note until the dry down. It’s fresh, with some of the crispness of pear, and although it tends to be tyrannical almost to the point [...] Read more »
When you smell this for the first time you may have the same reaction that Phoebe has to saltwater taffies: what’s the deal? Is it fruity is it floral? The two facets are so skilfully mixed together, that this question will not get a definite answer. Emporio Diamonds Armani was launched in 2007 and represents one of the last great fragrances created by Thierry Wasser, before he was appointed in-house perfumer at Guerlain. The top offers brief citrus [...] Read more »
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 »
Tommy Hilfiger perfume for women starts with pear, which is light and bright but distinct, mixed with mandarin and orange. It soon adds florals and becomes one of those perfumes for women that play on the line between fruity and floral (like Lalique by Lalique, I Love Love by Moschino, or Especially Escada for example) and with no caramel sweetness thrown in. And this is where the issue with this perfume Tommy Girl begins. The fruits and the [...] Read more »
Especially Escada starts velvety and floral with a good dose of juicy pear as a counterpart. The fruity notes are ripe, but with a controlled sweetness and rose is the main flower (also, the ad with Israeli model Bar Refaeli is all about roses), but it’s deprived of its headiness and softened by the fruits, so chances are, you may feel the bouquet quite generic, with only a spicy hint here and there. For a good while Perfume [...] 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 »
Imagine they make a movie and then they write a book out of it (quite the opposite of what normally happens), and you read the book before watching the movie: your opinion is likely to be influenced. Not that I ever did something like that myself, but I’m afraid this is what happened with Perfume Lovely Sarah Jessica Parker. After reading the interesting story of its creation in Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent, I knew so much about it [...] Read more »
The very first whiff gave back a brief moment of intense rose, but it was clear that it was just a note that got through and was not supposed be there. See, I know Chloe parfum. The real opening is indeed with fruits (apples, litchi and other fresh, sweety stuff) and – as it sometimes happens with floral fragrances – after a couple of minutes there is a delay between the moment in which the top notes fade and [...] Read more »
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