I’m starting to love what my skin can do to a perfume. Take 1881 Nino Cerruti Women for example. On the blotter it’s a fresh feminine, with delicate mimose and citrus notes. On my skin it had an exquisite, classy and discreet smell of rubber, just like the one those gloves to wash dishes are made of. As it moves on, a change in the blotter gives a hint of where the rubber probably comes from: it’s [...] 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 »
If I thought that Miss Dior Cherie was a good girl, that’s because I never met perfume Miracle by Lancome Paris. The opening extends for a good one or two hours, and it’s sweet and delicate: half fruity, with a bubbly gummy strawberry (well, it’s litchi actually), half with florals that feel quite generic, and it’s fresh and clean. I know it’s not elegant to make fun of a good girl, but one could say that it feels like [...] Read more »
This Givenchy perfume is a basket full of half-ripe fruits strewn across a meadow, where the grass has just been cut but not picked up yet. And here I could stop, but I won’t. In the opening there is juicy pear, which is the name I personally give to a green fruity accord that I found at least three times so far, in Especially Escada, Beyond Paradise, and Ralph Lauren Romance). There you have a fruity fragrant note [...] Read more »
This is a special edition of perfume Parisienne, launched in 2010. The opening is full of peppery indefinite florals, confusing but promising, it seems like good things are about to happen. And after a minute or two, there it goes with dense, heady, boozy and velvety notes. Is it rose? Hmm, wait a minute… yes, and mixed with berries, which are very present and with their natural sourness. It’s a rich and complex character, fruity and floral, [...] Read more »
Love Chloe parfum starts with a pleasant but indefinite mix of florals, in a yes-I’m-floral-but-that’s-all-you-need-to-know-by-now kind of way. And that’s pretty much all there is to know… Sure, the florals take a plastic and animalic twist at the beginning, interesting because moderate. But all in all it’s an elusive fragrance, slightly powdery, slightly fruity, slightly warm towards the end, pretty much everything slightly. There must be a little personality somewhere, but it’s well hidden, why disturb the world [...] Read more »
My most sincere apologies to all those women who have fond memories of childhood and youth attached to this Cacharel Perfume Anais Anais, and let me say upfront that I really liked it. But to all those who still don’t know this: don’t let the delicate colors of the bottle fool you, this perfume can be really nasty. It starts floral (this is what it is) and delicate, slightly heady, but with a thin layer of polished powder [...] Read more »
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 »
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