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    L'Antimatière by LesNez

    seems like an unusual white musk whom soapyness has been taken out to leave only with skin, hair and sebum, the whole thing without trace of any «dirtiness» or even warmth for instance. Like someone stepped out of the shower and did'nt use any soap or shampoo. Probably little more complicated than that actualy. A perfume designed not only to not smell of perfume but to smell of nothing at all but the person who is wearing it. So what's the point of doing something like this? Perhaps to see how far can you push the concept (or anti-concept ;) of abstraction or minimalism in contemporary perfume art? Perhaps to fool customers and perfume enthusiasts? Perhaps to make a big joke? I don't know but I had never smelled any thing like this before.

    Ps: Am I crazy or do I smell l'Antimatière in Encens Flamboyant by Goutal?

    23rd January, 2009.

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    Polo by Ralph Lauren

    One could say that the fragrance is a bit dated, old man type of fragrance and so on...
    In my opinion, the problem with these type of fragrance is the whoe fragrance market of today. Exept for those hard-to-get-your-hands-on so called niche fragrances, there are no more good classics for men (and for women for that matter). Come on... ask the average young consummer what they think of let's say Polo, Paco rabanne ph, Eau sauvage, Guerlain's Veriver or even Shalimar, Opium and No.5. We want something that smell like soap, candy, cuccumber/melon or all of the above. There is no more room in this money driven buisness for a masterpiece like the Polo the Great.
    As for what I can recall of Polo on my father (who has wore it for a heck of a long time) is a confident and sophisticated bitter green mossy woody accord topped with a fersh (old school kind of fresh) and strident greens.
    wonderfull everytime, anytime

    17th November, 2008.

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    Fleurs d'Oranger by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

    Facinating really
    the first time I smelled Fd'o, I did not realy like it.. I thought it smelled like a old unwashed woman who tries to hide her b.o. with a heavy floral perfume.
    It was hard to overcome the cumin and the indolic florals but their was something that made me want to smell it again and again... so much that to this day I'm thinkin of getting my self a bottle. All the elements I used to dislike about this fragrance are now the elements I find so intresting, sensual, almost intoxicating: the sweet citrusy/medicinal top notes some people are talking about (perhaps the tuberose and mandarine), the sweaty cumin, the thick fruity-fecal jasmine, the indolic/phenolic orange blossom, the musky (so-called) ambrette seed, etc... though the dry down is quite clean and does not live up to it's heart and top notes but give and nice rounded and smooth but generic finish(Galaxolide?). Very nice overall

    17th November, 2008. (Last Edited: 1st January, 2009.)

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    Serge Noire by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

    HA!
    I knew I was not the only one who though about the resemblence; gucci ph and lutens' chene, thanks trebor.. kinna gucci ph or visit by azzaro meets chene, no doubt. Dry, very dry dark funky inky top notes that fades to a mixture of chene dry cedary oakwood concept sweetened with a rich chord of amber and sweet, dark balsams and incense. Ok its maybe much more than just that, but after 30 minutes of application it feels like gucci ph. Perhaps richer and less sweet but still very gucci ph. Anyways..Good, maybe. Great? no so sure. I mean the top notes are truly original in luten's twisted way, but the rest is...well you already know what I think.

    2nd October, 2008.

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    31 rue Cambon by Chanel

    I would realy like to write something beautifull about this perfume, but my writing is kinna dull (especially in english). I will just say that this perfume is.....perfect. It is hard to say that something reach a degree when one can say it is perfect, but this thing is just out of this world. Like this absolutely gorgous women who has the most beautiful smile, who has a keen intelligence and sense of humor. This woman don't need to put a lot of makeup to be beautiful, her beauty is just radiating naturally. She also have a lot of class and charisma. This woman is...well she just perfect damn it!. I whish I had Floating Point's guts to able to put aside my masculine stereotypes and let this woman inhabit my body (metaphorically of course).
    three thumbs up!

    22nd September, 2008.

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    Vetyver / Vétiver by Givenchy

    Like vetiver de Guerlain without the dry pepper/nutmeg welded to the vetiver core and perhaps a little less earthy. Surprisingly to me, the quality of the vetiver is very comparable guerlain's but feels more rounded overall, less sharp. Perhaps a higher dose of coumarine?...so the main accord is vetiver/tonka bean huh? it must logically smell of vetiver tonka by hermes? NO! it does not get to the point of smelling like waffles... after all it smells like a nice quality vertiver rounded with tonka beans (no reference to tobaco, no reference to sweet dough either). Overall classy, fresh n clean (in a vetiver kinna way) and comfortable. If you love vetiver de guerlain but never found one as good, you should try this one out. Three thumbs up

    13rd September, 2008.

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    Hermèssence Ambre Narguilé by Hermès

    thick, doughy, sweet spicy. Ambery ? I don't know.. to «pleasent» to be a real amber fragrance. I mean no comparaison with ambre sultan which is THE amber reference on the market imo. Although very aprochable and positively gourmand indeed. Ambre narguilé is more of a fresh-outta-the-oven raisin bread loaf (I don't know if it is raisin bread in english; pain au raisin) with sweet dough, cinnamon and raisins than some sort of «real» amber.
    thumbs up for the fragrance , thums up for the name

    6th September, 2008.

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    Bois d'Arménie by Guerlain

    one word: PERFECT
    If your a die-hard fan of woods and balsams and you can't find the perfect combination of these two in a fragrance, than start saving your money right now!!! The harmony between the deep dry wood accords and the sweet and warm balsams is just perfect (at least to me). The whole thing is not very complex but nothing is missing here, everything seems to be just at the right place. Never too sweet, Never to dry. Always so warm and envelopping and again perfectly balanced. The comparaison between Bd'A and the papier d'arménie is inevitable indeed but I find that unburnt papier d'armenie smell like cheap incense and heavy duty vanilin next to the marvelous beauty of bois d'arménie...wish it was cheaper though ;)
    PS; Marry me Annick Menardo

    4th September, 2008.

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    Azzaro Now Men by Azzaro

    Quite good indeed
    It delivers what it is supposed to do. I usualy don't like ozonic, aquatic and mettalic fragrances but this one is pretty fine, like kenzo ph, chrome, or dry clean by cdg are going beyond this ozone/calone/metal stereotype imo. NOW is nothing very spectacular, but it can be positively surprising. I find the wood accord pretty well done , dry and feels almost natural...if I think of pencil shavings. Funny thing, I sampled Hinoki by Comme Des Garcons today and (lord forgive me) thought the dry cedar-crypress thing going on in the heart notes was similar to the wood accord in Now, atleast, before the vetiver start to showing its face in Hinoki. I also like the clean white musk drydown...leather?..amber...?...I mean come on...

    29th August, 2008.

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    Philtre d'Amour by Guerlain

    Nerver heard of this stuff until I tried it on paper at the guerlain «institute»...how snobish. I wasn't overwhelmed with the first few whifs I gave it, but on the way home, I smelled a few (of the many) paper strips I kept in my handbook. Philtre d'amour realy shows it't true sensuality only after the fresh citrus top fades away. You see i'm quite new to the world of fragrances and I kinna get mixed up trying to figure out the notes in perfumes. By example, I tend to see patchouli where their is apparently none... But gees, the only thing I figured out of Pd'A was the citrus top, something something, and a VERY seductive patchouli. Trying not to get influenced by the name of the perfume, I think that the patcouli note (and the whole fragrance for that matter) is extremely sensual and perhaps romantic like some people said.
    two thumps up, well made... and smells appealing to me ;)

    8th August, 2008.

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    Kisu by Tann Rokka

    I'm very confuzzled here

    If I recall, luckyscent have three tann rokkas; aki, kisu and signature.
    I ordered a sample of aki, but when the sample arrived, nothing was written on the vial but Tann rokka....
    The smell was... nothig like what basenoters reviewed for Aki, but sounded much more like Kisu, so I'm not 100% sure what I am reviewing here.
    As for my experiance, the whole fragrance is....I mean....INTOXICATING!!!! If I might say without considering any sort of objectivity. I get something like a crimson coulored rose with a echo of unsweetned raspberry, always deep even from the right beggining. Then comes into place something my un-experienced nose associates with a chypre accord dominated with a huge beautiful musty patchouli ( I'm not so sure for the chypre thing since oakmoss is apparantly not listed among the notes, and I have never smelled isolated oakmoss extract... well well, I would need some more experience maybe ). This so-called chypre accord would be completed with cedar, gooood good cedar and musk. The only two things I'm sure about this fragrance is that is has patchouli and cedar. Humid, deep musty and oh-so-sexy patchouli. This one is very very adictive. And cedar. Rich and dry cedar. The dry down goes on FOREVER (was still very there on my shirt after washing it!). Their is something very strangely familiar when the drydown occurs; Cold salty ocean breeze meets the smell of your skin after you wash with some irish spring??..am I crazy or something? I guess ambregris would be logical but it does not explain the familiarity. It's like «oh, I've smelled this before » but on people who just don't wear perfume.....hmm strange thing!
    As for the whole juice, It's just great! Deep, Mysterious, Rich, Complex, Sensual and has this kind of Dirty/Clean duality that makes it just iresestible and very interesting. Three thumbs up! hehe
    Now the thing is I want to get myself a bottle but simply don't know which one to order... some more research maybe?

    6th August, 2008.

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    Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue by Dolce & Gabbana

    Indeed
    a true «feel good thing...neutraly bright and cooly warm»
    -feotidus
    smells remarkably fresh n clean but in a way that avoids nowdays crap, yet the only recent fresh n clean designer feminine marketed for younger public that I truly respect. You see... where I live, girls of my age (18-22) tend to wear things that are just.....how could I say in a proper language...that are just total crap (I'm talking to you cool water woman, ralph and swiss army). yet, light blue is a big exeption to all this nonsense
    No ozone/calone/cheap smelling childish too-sweet'n'-too-sour fruity florals.
    Instead we have a good accord of crisp greed and jucy green apple / fresh dry decamphorized cedar in the oppening , and what I suspect to be a healthy dose of Iso E super and Hedione that gives the haert notes a pure, clean and liquid feel (NOT AQUATIC PLEASE). For the rest, I could not say really.. perhaps the iso E super goes on and on, with a pretty little white musk and some more cedar. the whole thing is very very well crafted and balanced imo. this «perfume» was the weired characterirstic of being feminine and almost girly whithout being childish girly. Yet almost unisex for those of us who don't fuss about wearing feminine fragrances...
    by the way, I agree with the one who said that DnG shoud discontinue the newer light blue for man which is nothing compared to it's so called feminine alterego.

    20th July, 2008.

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    Escentric 01 by Escentric Molecules

    very cleaver
    I don't like the pepper opening but I don't care to much for it.
    Pepper or perhaps(I guess) the cheap aromachemical they use to recreate the smell of it always turns very harsh on my skin... almost like amoniac feeling, but that part does not last long.... fortunately
    the rest is just very pleasent, not quite thrilling, but delivers what it is suposed to. It also reminds me of a lot of nice memories and has kind of a weird calming effect on me.
    An hour or so after application, I think I can figure out what a solo iso e super smells like: silky smooth and almost virginal and innocent clean soapy, slightly astringent wood with a low pitched buzzing bergamoty feel... hmm
    indeed, the way iso e super plays with the skin is very weird and intriguing. A minute, its is just imperceptible and the other you get a fresh/clean mini burst of the stuff and youre in heaven.
    If fahrenheit would not be loaded with iso e, it would be simply raw, brutal and completly unwearable IMO, but if theses brutal and sweaty notes werent there it, would'nt be as lovely either.... it would just be plain escentric 01... still nice...but I just happen to love fahrenheit so bad...dunno why, makes me weak in the knees every time I smell it. I don't thik it is just iso e super but it surely plays an important role in the play.
    although Escentric 01 does not projects like hell, my first application lasted all day long, even survived a shower and was still very there
    Escentric 01 turns out to be a very beautiful skin scent after the first few minutes, but when you do the maths, you could get about 5 kilos of pure uncut iso e super for the price of a single 100ml edt dillution
    how do you spell rip off?

    10th July, 2008.

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    Fleur d'Oranger by L'Artisan Parfumeur

    amaizing
    couldnt stop smelling the paper strip at the store
    and i'm going to keep the sample vial presciously
    since i'm new to the world of fragrance and aware of smells for that matter, I noticed that orange blossom can be found in many different qualites and personalities:
    green transparent and slightly earthy: distillat or eau de fleur d'oranger used in pastry,
    or heady, heavy, capiteuse and indolic like the absolute I guess... like luten's fleur d'oranger: sensual and feminine
    or in this case flying, transparent, airy, delicate: delicate and feminine
    like the trees in bloom in spring evening after the rain in a ethereal landscape...am I right?
    how beautiful is this!!!
    simple construction and linear I agree, but it shows what you can crart with gifted perfumers and the best grade ingredients
    simply the best orange flower of its kind i've come across so far
    I would say suitable for quite younger women and men who dig orange blossom (the kind of men who would be comfortable wearing gaultier's fleur du male) and who is ready to pay 300$ for a bottle of fragrance

    29th June, 2008.

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    Bois de Cédrat by Creed

    OMG!!!
    what a pretty little lemon
    I guess we don't craft hesperidés like this anymore
    even for a minimalistisc lemon frag, the lemon (or cedrat) is multifacet, fresh, sparkeling, crisp but rounded, delicate (very delicate), transparent and soooo soft
    this is the spirng lemon
    as for the bois
    smooth, rich and muted at the same time
    little vetiver? little sandalwood? and little cedar?
    i don't know
    but i'm pretty sure their is a little hint of warm natural sandalwood in the formula
    the cedar would be crisp and give a woody balance and alterego to the citron top?
    and vetiver, minus vetiver gives a subtle green and soapy edge?
    I also a hint of herbal aromatic in the top right next to this wonderful lemon note muted basil to make the lemon greener or grassy or verbena for a lemon herbal lemon?
    maybe both maybe none
    when i tried eau de rochas ph the other day, the first whiff reminded me of this high quality natural lemon in Bois de Cedrat but still EDR ph will never be half as good as BDC even if it lasts twice as long and costs three times less
    still, It would be cheap of my part to compare these two frags on the same basis

    their is a lot more to say about this wonderful minimalistic but so captivating fragrance but I will just say that Bois the cedrat is THE reference lemon scent (in my humble opinion of course)

    11th June, 2008.

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    Opium by Yves Saint Laurent

    I don't have much to say about this fragrance since I am speaking from early childhood memory
    We all remeber the smell of our mother when we were children right?
    well I remember this smell and have asked to my mother lately what she was wearing when I was around 5 years old
    -opium by ysl she said, offered my by father (who are a conouiseur in the domain ;)
    The only thing I could put my finger on from these faded memories are the suble soooooo soft`n'subtle musky-powdery-sandalwood smell lingering around my momy's neck
    AAAhh good old childhood olfactive memories
    there are these smell that just hit you in the heart, so disarming, no resistance possible, that just bring out something engraved in the deepest inconscient part of your brain
    there are many notes and fragrance that has these on me:
    natural bergamote, lavender :) benjoin (papier d'arménie), fahrenheit by dior (big time, don't know why, weird so pleasent mesmerizing effect), basil, paco rabanne ph and of course Opium by YSL
    ok this is getting a little bit to personal
    but I'm sure all of you smell addicts understand what I mean

    5th June, 2008.

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    Clair de Musc by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido

    ok it is pleasent enough
    pretty little sassy musk
    with some pretty little sassy flowers on top
    I mean, livid tugereuse-iris or somethig like that, like white stained glass...transparent WEAK flower bouquet
    ...then the musk?
    weak weak slightly sweet clean skinny musk
    ...a clean dead body
    Yes! the hair spray! I got this one fore sure
    although the frag is weak/insipid/shortlasting/no projection/blablablah, the overall efect is still quite pleasent but never worth the SL price tag

    1st June, 2008.

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    parfums*PARFUMS Series 2 Red: Sequoia by Comme des Garçons

    that is one big holy cedar you got there
    deep rich
    sweet dry liquorous
    warm n spicy
    sweaty/manly
    H-U-G-E patchouli C-E-D-A-R
    perfect balance with big round dry red cedar-like wood-patchouli and the boosy amber (oppoponax/red rum)
    meanwhile, I don't realy get the aoud or agar wood at all
    perhaps somewear in the support notes of the red wood...or something something
    kaka karoundé, where are you, what do you look like
    I dont know, I got lost in the woods
    in a forest of giant trees and got drunk with my bottle of capt'n morgan spicy rum

    I tried the 1ml sample I got and emptied the half of it on my chest, arms and neck the other day just to see the developement and how it reacts to me.
    BIG, I mean Huge surprise.
    I did'nt know what to expect from the fragrance from liquorous boosy oppening that drag you in something deep and mesmerizing not much later. the following simply blew me away
    as soon as you reach the heart notes (as far as i'm concerned) you are envelopped in a vibrant aura of deep amber and big round red cedar and patchouli
    the balance is just perfect (from what i've experienced)
    as a rule, i'm not a fan of amber, but this one is just pure delight
    lasted a whole day on me even with a good dose of street hockey
    good silliage too
    this is so suprising since pretty much nothing lasts on my dry and pale skin
    by the way, if you like ultra weird/funky/unique smelling comme des garcon's, you may be deceived
    but, if you like big deep round earthy woods, boosy amber and bittersweetness you have to try this one
    althought this is not quite relevant, I just could not see a feminine woman wear this, it sceams masculinity a little too loud imo
    stiil perfect for a cold winter of cool autumn day or evenings all year long.
    even if the notes listed calls for something very deep and capiteux if I might say, it is very wearable and somehow very pleasent and satisfying, although it took me a little while to be able to enjoy it on me if I can speak as a personal experience.
    still, you don't have to be a perfume addict to be able to enjoy it.
    well well, that is pretty much all I had to say
    enjoy

    31st May, 2008.

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    FCUK Him by French Connection

    Ok ok
    well well
    this is what it is
    well worth 20$ I would say
    A freind of mine wears it sometimes. When I first smelled it on him, I asked him what soap did he use («strangly» reminds me of a soap i used to wash myself with) he then told me it fas FCUK...
    I've been trying a lot of things lately. Good, great, twisted, artistic masterpieces, etc.. but I think that i'm in love with the cheap smell indeed of FCUK him's sparkling clean fresh soapy detergent fabric softner smell.
    Yes the juice is extremly weak
    Yes it is generic... fresh n clean, nothing new
    but it just seem to work all pretty well
    if you love this stuff, you will have to reapply very often
    Meanwhile, it last for a good 5 hours if you use a liberal amount on the inside of your shirt
    enjoy

    ....or not

    20th May, 2008.

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    Passage d'Enfer by L'Artisan Parfumeur

    WOW!
    what a delight
    although i'm kinna new to the world of fragrance, I must admit that Olivia Giacobetti is a master at what she does from what I have experienced so far (dzing, thé pour un été, l'été en douce!!!!, premier figuier, etc.)
    This is what a preist's clothes must smell like when they get out of the dryer still impregnated with incense and good quality fabric softner.
    I just had to get myself a big bottle even if the juice itself is disapointingly weak!
    I'll just have to use some extra sprays...
    the first time I tried Pd'E i was feeling like the scent was terifyingly beautifuly soft, clean (could have beed dirty, would have loved it any way), delicat, super dry, ENVELOPING, defenitly unisex, so damn simple and easy to wear
    but every time i waer it I discover new facets
    like these delicate rose petals that sort of complete this white lily note
    and this dry muted cedar-santal that just blends so well with the soft incence-amber-musk thing going on
    also you have this obvious and pleasent (in my opinion) fabric softner note... white lilly? that may feel a little synthetic but that gives the wearer this soft-clean-enveloping aura
    make the fragrance wear well on clothes too
    well well... I wish I could put more than only one thub up for this religeous/laundry spring sunday in a bottle!

    19th May, 2008.

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    Thé Pour un Été by L'Artisan Parfumeur


    If you are reading this right now, you never smelled thé pour un été and you wonder what it smell like is what you do.
    turn of your computer,
    go to some vietnamese restaurent near where you live
    order a teapot hot jasmine tea to the lovely vietnamese girl that speks 4 words of english and there it is
    as simple as that

    I have to admit this jasmine tea fragrance may be quite simple, lacking depth, sillage and so on BUT
    it just make you feel so damn good...

    the kind construction, the overall effect and the way they develope me think of Passade d'Enfer although they oblviously don't smell alike
    simple. rencomforting. calming. ­meditative. pretty

    I would not buy it for myself though
    my studet buget says 135 $ is to much for a pretty little jasimine smell
    Although it would have made a perfect and safe mother's day present

    11th May, 2008.

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    Fleur du Male by Jean Paul Gaultier

    Hmm
    august of last year, I was seeking to try le mâle (the original) store a frag store in France, i decided to also try the new fleur du mâle on the other wrist...walked away and i couldn,t stop to smelling my wrist on the way back. I thought that FDM was powdery-neroli-soft-delicate-sexy that and the original; sweetnspicy-cool-soapy-cheap-plastic-o-vanilic-sensual-musky. So it meant in my language that I liked FDM better than le mâle original.
    In the mean time...
    I decided to do the same operation at the airport fragrance shak to make sure what i was going to buy, but there were no more original la mâle testers..too bad!
    Again, I walked away and couldn't stop smelling my wrist in the airplain (but for other reasons). This time,Fleur du mâle felt too sweet, too powdery, to opulently feminine and nauseatingly plastified, in on word: too much!
    still: I give it a thumb up for being so strikingly diffrent and daring for a new release and JPG and kurkidjian for being so innovative... by the way: ladies, don't be scared of the name le Mâle (the male) to try this one out :)

    11th April, 2008.

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    Green Irish Tweed by Creed

    I've been warned!
    Just bought a sample of the juice and tried it twice already
    maybe I should try it once again because I see very, VERY little difference with (may be less vulgar and vinegary-metalic-straight-forward, more delicate clean linen) the later Pierre Bourdon's Cool Water.
    Gees, I thought this guy hated immitations...
    Though it's kinna fresh, clean and average joe friendly...I'm still not a fan.
    as for the oppening, the verbena note could have got much nicer in my opinion. The so called-lemon note just make it fell like hyper fresh (very sythetic) vinegary citrus... very bitter n mettalic.
    I must admit that it leaves that first feeling for a shorter period of time than cool water which is more linear in my opinion and the difference between tese two fragrances start to show when you reach GIT's middle and ending notes which are more delicate, soft n smooth, balanced... clean linen, green and slightly powdery effects
    well made but I don't think that we will remember this frag as something great in 20 years from now. However, this fragrance has influenced a whole generation of perfumes and I can understand why a lot of people like it

    5th April, 2008.

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