In its first part, Perfume Lolita Lempicka won’t make any effort to try to please your nose, but chances are you’ll love its quirkiness. Spray it, and get ready for a bitter, neon-lit electric liquorice, varnished with a floral-scented layer of vinyl. Lolita Lempicka Parfum will change very slowly, letting the magic begin. The electricity and the vinyl will leave, and so will part of the bitterness; in turn, patchouli will come out of the dark corner where it [...] Read more »
Would you expect a quite and moderate perfume from Givenchy? Of course not. There’s a respectable blast of white florals at the start of Perfume Organza, and then on the skin it gets quite indolic, with the power trio of jasmine, gardenia and tuberose. The blotter gives out more interesting tones (and that’s what I hope you will get on your skin): it will still be animalic, but minty as well, and somehow fresher, probably thanks to gardenia’s [...] Read more »
Bottega Veneta EdP opens citrusy, floral and warm, with a pleasant acidity that smells quite clean. The warmth is given by a note of pepper, which leaves a small stain on what would otherwise be a nice, but a bit boring couple. It’s a gentler version of Narciso Rodriguez For Her if you will. And after 1-2 hours, the same ol’ magic of perfumes occurs, when angles are rounded off, and lines of separation are less clear: pepper grows [...] Read more »
Strenuous task, talking about something so popular like J’Adore Dior perfume. J’Adore is certainly not one of a kind, nor the first floral I ever sampled. Yet, for some reason, it was the first one that made me realise the potential of flowers. If you think floral notes are always nice, innocuous things, you’re wrong. Sure, they can be gentle to the core, or sexy, or simply smell great; but they can also be chemical, they can smell [...] 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 »
The option above might be the deal maker or breaker with Forbidden Affair by Anna Sui. From the very start it’s a fruity thing, but not excessively sweet, and will be more powdery as it evolves, still keeping its sweetness under control. You’ll get mainly blackcurrants, although for a moment I got Womanity’s fig there, but it was short-lived. In the heart notes, when it’s fully developed, Forbidden Affair by Anna Sui is sweet, floral, powdery, fruity and [...] Read more »
Have you ever met anyone you could have gotten along with, but just because you were off to a bad start, everything was kind of ruined and you’ll never get to like them? The same happened with Bulgari Blv II. The bad start came in the form of hairspray, the same one my grandma Rosina used, and then it continued as body odor wrapped in a vinyl layer. Not exactly what turns me on…. I read that liquorice [...] Read more »
New, super brand new, this flanker of Gucci Flora perfume, part of a series of five with mandarin, tuberose, gardenia and violet. It starts with fireworks of lemon and green notes, and that’s when it had me, because if a citrus can not only survive my skin, but also feel so fragrant and natural like in Glamorous Magnolia by Gucci, that must mean something. And after that, sit down and enjoy the really slow change towards a delicate, [...] Read more »