The finalists were announced in a ceremony in Los Angeles ahead of the awards in Portugal in June.
At the end of June 2024, Frédéric Malle is leaving the brand he founded in 2000.
How I wish the younger generation would explore something else than the celeb-vanilla based fruit-candy cheap things marketed now-a-days based on their assumption that the young women of today are not individual enough to withstand "we're all the same" rhetoric from what their elders gave them. I am so sympathetic to the younger generation of today because I am now a mature man and after exploring a lot in classic perfumes, I know they were really something. I hopefully the fragrance industry will learn to appreciate something which is a "PERFUME" CLASSIC & not try to cram down something in your olfactory senses & lie to you as you to grab the bait, hook,...
First try of Profumum Roma Gioiosa, one of the house’s most recent releases (from 2023), a vibrant blend of citruses and vanilla, first and foremost, colored by coconut and jasmine as to make it less a citrus gourmand than, say, Dulcis in Fundo or even Acqua e Zucchero. It’s robust and invigorating, but elegant and smoothly blended, too. It’s rich in the style of other fragrances from the house but not over the top, and while the coconut gives it a slightly beachy/tropical vibe, it’s not a dominant aspect, just part of the overall ensemble. It’s really nice to smell something akin to others like Meringa and Dulcis in Fundo while not being...
As splendid as Anne Flipo's composition for Frederic Malle may be, and it's quite lovely, the true "Synthetic Jungle" for me is that of Cacharel Eden, Jean Guichard's surreal and polarizing creation that pushes the boundaries of where a perfume can go, blurring the lines between natural and artificial. It begs the question of what makes something synthetic seem natural, and vice versa, with the concept of ethereal water lily as its starting point, radiating outwards into the realm of hyper-verdant, unfathomably lush leaves and oblique aquatic accents. What does stand out to me is a black locust note: the pendulous, clustered flowers of the tree Robinia...
Wow what an accomplishment. Whatever Creed intended to do here I'm not aware but something has been done and it is clear, whatever it may be
It’s inoffensive, pleasant, and soft enough not to overwhelm people, but at the same time strong enough to leave an impression. Opening is citrusy, marine, and fresh. The main notes are lemon, bergamot, and tangerine. The strongest of the notes are the lemon and bergamot giving it a fresh citrus scent with a little bit of spice, followed by the sea notes that adds to the marine edge. The dry down is clean, musky, and woody. I don't get any of the tonka or vanilla until much further into the dry down, and even then, it's not super noticeable; more just a hint of sweetness. The performance is in line with what you may expect from this type of scent.
Thematically, Beaufort London is all about aromatic symbols of bygone masculinity: leather, tobacco, gunpowder, smoke. Iron Duke is arguably one of the more coherent compositions in the line, though it still has the rugged directness of many in the lineup. While I like the leather-tobacco facets, I can't get along with whatever is contributing the "gunpowder"/metallic facets here. It's a piercing, distracting element.
Who said that the taste of the girls can rule the world? First, they have to learn from their mothers and the most beloved women in their lives before building a vision of what a true fragrance is, and a good way to learn is to appreciate the classics and respect them. Galanos is one of them. It is tailor made for the independent woman who thinks for herself, the mature career woman, but she is not in your face about it; nor is she aggressively feminist. She is quiet, conservative and elegant, not mysterious but certainly a woman who enjoys her privacy. She is studious & spends a lot of her free time going to the bookshops rather than the shops that...
Musc Tonkin from Parfum D'Empire. I remember reading about this fragrance back in the day before experiencing real deer musk and searching for a perfume that was considered a good approximation by the community. Now, many years later, I don't see Musc Tonkin as a perfume that is supposed to be a rendition of that, but rather a floral-chypre perfume with a resinous touch, infused with a BIG animalic cocktail that does indeed instill the whole "Natural Deer Musk" feel to the composition. The accord does capture the scent of natural musk, at least to some extent, and certain facets of it. What you smell first, is the floral-chypre component and the resins,...
First I want to say that some people on the internet must be very biased for a certain reason or probably they are tripping about some 'niche' fragrances. Amouage Journey - I don't like it. bleah , culinary spices and some church incense. I could see a priest wearing this. lol Herod PdM - vanilla-cinnamon-woody sweet gourmand unisex frag. Tobacco Oud T.F - yuck, indeed it has some tobacco-ambery notes but also it has a funky sweet dry 'feces' smell. wet dog frag imo :) Smoke by Akro - charcoal, burnt wood, ashy notes and some sweet benzoin/tonka notes. I could say this could be a real niche-manly version of TF TV. Yeah its smoky. Tobacco Honey by...
Inspired by [USER=26382280]@Flakonkrystal[/USER] , I've gone ahead and created this thread to get a celebration of Cartier fragrances on the books for May. Most of us probably don't own enough from Cartier to do a full month-long celebration in the fashion of Guerlain/GuerlApril, but a week should be manageable.
I love that shaving cream type of smell and I wonder what cheapies that are resembling that shaving cream/soapy smell are out there? I know that the 'holy grail' of them is Rive Gauche PH but that is discontinued and it ain't no cheapy. :) Thanks!
Hey you beautiful people and good morning from the UK :) So I couldn't sleep last night and decided, sod it get to my aromas and make something random. Not been doing it long but getting the hang of it. Here is my formula but the top is not great, and what I mean is I cant even tell what it is (maybe linalool) but after 30mins to an hour a pleasant aroma kicks in and stays for over 6 hours and still going strong. Any ideas on how to improve this, not just the first burst... happily take any advice. Thanks in advance :) End row is the amounts used for my trial and topped with PA making a concentration ratio of 24.79...
Hello friends, can you suggest me please black afgano alternatives ? Thanks in advance .
I've read that these two are somewhat similar and it's been to long since I've sampled them all. Which do you prefer and why? Thank you!
Perhaps I am over thinking but looking for suggestions. NJ swanky black tie wedding in late June, so I imagine low 80s.
Was CK One drying down into a citrusy-greener-woody, more of a masculine scent ? Was Cool Water more richer, more natural-aromatic in smell? I know that there were other good frags back in the 90's like Polo Sport, Nautica classic, Tommy, L'Eau d'Issey, CK Escape, Curve, Happy for men, Hugo, Elements Aqua, etc. but I think CK One , Cool Water and Eternity were the main affordable designer players back then.
There are many great discussion threads dedicated to a single house, but I noticed we don't have one dedicated to Heeley. Heeley is one of my all time favorite brands and, though I think it has many fans on Basenotes, the brand does not get the attention I think it deserves from the wider fragrance community. So, I'm dedicating this thread to the discussion (positive and negative!) of Heeley Parfums and its founder and perfumer, James Heeley. https://www.jamesheeley.com/c/5-large/eau-de-parfum.jpg As a designer influenced by nature it was quite logical that James Heeley should be fascinated by the world of scent. It was in France, through his design...
Thought I would start up a thread, can't find any discussion on this line besides one person asking if anyone had tried them. Here to say I've been testing and there's some real gems in here. They come in pretty bottles that include name the perfumer and there are top noses on all of them. First of all and unsurprisingly there was a Herault-helmed fragrance which drew me to sampling and I picked up several of the others in the process. Here are my impressions of the more notable ones: Sevilla (JC Herault) - if you thought MFK did laundry clean this dials that concept up a few notches. this is a literal laundry-fabric softener smell created primarily from...
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