Paul Smith Optimistic For Him won’t be the most original nor the deepest, nor the most sophisticated fragrance, but it’s quite pleasant overall. It’s quite recent, launched in spring 2011 with the version for Her, both created by Francoise Caron (Hermes Eau D`Orange Verte, Rock’n Rose by Valentino among the others). The opening is very fresh, almost cold. It’s just a generic freshness at first, but then all the layers will start to gradually come out: at first [...] 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 »
Fourth Diesel fragrance for men and fifth overall reviewed here, with Diesel Only The Brave perfume they decided to go less cold and citrusy than in Fuel For Life, and take the sweet road instead. The opening is indeed quite fresh, with orange and mandarin but the fragrance soon becomes sweet, although in a non-powdery way, also adding clean florals. It goes on blending in green and aromatic notes, and amber as well, but they are all sort [...] 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 »
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 »
The Laura Biagiotti VENEZIA fragrance can finally be purchased on line on the www.veneziabylaurabiagiotti.com site. Laura Biagiotti’s VENEZIA, the designer’s cult fragrance, after years of absence and countless requests from admirers worldwide returns this year in a new version, pure expression of contemporary femininity. Laura Biagiotti’s VENEZIA is a fragrance capable of evoking a world of poetry and imagination, it is devoted to the most magical of cities, a place to be admired and to fall in love [...] Read more »
Find your Sense of Scent This is a guest post by Saisha Potts from Cafe La Moda, the social space for fashion tips and makeup & beauty advice. She hopes this artilce will inspire you to find your perfect fragrance. Scent is one of the most influential and important of our senses. Able to attract and seduce just as easy as to deter and repel, a certain smell can act as a very powerful and personal trigger for [...] 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 »
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