Fragrance Reviews by Aredore

I tried this yesterday on my wrist.

I miraculously found it in a discount store - perhaps it had *gone* but it was one the most awful things I had ever put on my body. I'm American of mostly french, English and Irish descent, and perhaps it matters, because my mom is "dark Irish" and seems to be able to wear perfume better than myself. I have very pale skin.

*Sweet* scents tend to strengthen on my skin and the Fuity, "raspberry fizz" top note was disgusting. It smelled "dirty" but not in a good way - rotten and powdered and sweetened with splenda. Chemical and sweet/sour. I let it sit for two hours, fighting my instinct to scrub, hoping the Guerlainade would rescue it. No. The rose started to come through near the end of my patience, but the raspberries lingered.

This is not something I could stand to wear again.

This is a really beautiful fragrance and so similar in scent to the other fragrances (arpege and tresor) it was stored with, I had to check the official notes to the perfumes. Sure enough, they all share openings of bergamot and peach mixed with other florals (and now that I think about it, it's obviously missing Arpege's neroli and aldehydes and tresor's dark and syrupy rose.)

Tentation's opening is made unique by the vodka note which is a bit sharp not not overpowering. The opening fades quickly into the middle notes: lots of florals, (tea roses, carnations, jasmine - a big bouquet of summer flowers) combined with pleasing and unexpected spice notes of clove and cinnamon.

The base is dark, warm and resinous - a little sticky. There's a bit of a honey/vanilla scent - which is strange because it's not listed as a note. This is a mature evening scent. Beautiful, although I don't think it would be amoung my usual choices.

To me, the quintessential "perfume" scent. The little dab on my wrist smells EXACTLY like Chanel no 5. And why shouldn't it when they share many of the same top notes? (Neroli, aldehydes and Ylang ylang) The bergamot scent is light... I only catch wiffs of it hanging onto the edge of the Neroli.

From there the scent deepens and softens the rose opens up a dark deep rose. My overall impression is a blend of chanel no 5 and the "rose" in the new tresor. This is a very beautiful perfume.

Another day, another bathroom cabinet raid.

Today I have ransacked my fathers forgotten cologne drawer filled with sample sizes of various mens' fragrances. Amoung them was an adorable little bottle of Romance for Men.

Wearing it on my wrists I can understand why many men do not like this. Its very feminine! (Why exactly is the lavender in a mens' frag "iced?") I was confused by the dark, slightly rank scent when I opened up the bottle, but after ten minutes the alcoholic overtones (which also contained a blast of that awful "aquatic" note that's in perfume these days. I think it's pretending to be mandarin.) faded away and I was left with a woody, lavender basil scent that wears very close to my skin and reminds me of the womens frag. (I was light with the application, but even so, many women's scents are stronger than this.) After 20 minutes, it's like it's not even there, except for the odd sharp "pine" note.

This scent would be much better if they had left out the "mandarin" note and took the "icing" off the lavender. (What is this, a cake?)

I am hopeful that this can be layered under the women's scent which is in desperate need of the "deeper" notes that were put into this "men's" concoction. (If those awful topnotes don't ruin it...)

This was my fathers cologne. Although as a little girl I didn't know the name of the scent, it was easy to find this distinctive forest green bottle with the gold cap and man-on-a-horse on the internet.

The juice was so potent it permeated all of his workshirts. I liked to stand in his closet and bury my nose in the fabric, breathing in the lingering basenotes.

Throw out your boyfriends "Axe" and give him this.

Sprayed this on one day at my local Kohls and wandered around with it on my wrist.

It starts out very sweet and fresh smelling - all citrus and aqua notes, but the drydown about two hours later disappointed me. The clean, fruity opening that made me smile died into something plasticity and artificial that I had to scrub off.

I can definitely see how it could "work" on someone who isn't me, but I'll have to give it a neutral.

Found a sample vial of "Forever" in my Jewelry box. Amazing what you find when you look.

The opening smells crisp. tart and very green - so the color of the juice is appropriate - with an earthy spicyness in it. I can a lot of florals, a faint bit of plum and don't know what "tayberry" is, but I'm going to assume it's the tarty thing I'm smelling - unless that the mixture of sandalwood and muget. I'm going to also assume that "damask" rose means "rose-scented linens" or something like that, because it's not a pure rose - the scent is a lot "fresher" and reminds of a clean house. The Freesia scent is very very strong, and I've never been much of a freesia fan - so unless it fades into the other scents, that could kill it for me.

About 20 minutes in I can smell the perfume mellowing - the freesia isn't as strong but I've decided that the bitterness must be coming in part from the muget - and I don't like it much.

I'm giving this a "neutral" because the scent is pretty but it's too bitter/tart/sour for me but I'm going to attribute that to chemistry and taste. Fans of Freesia and Narcissus should definitely give it a whirl.

I got a whole pack of mini "love" perfumes from my aunt, who had been a teenage girl during the height of it's popularity, when I was about 12. From the way she fawned over it, I could tell she had been a fan. I wasn't quite so enthused. I think my upbringing ruined me for these - my mother patronized Chanel and Geurlain and I grew up in a fog of No. 5 and Champs-Elysses. "Baby soft" is certainly pleasant enough but even in the seventh grade thought It smelled basically of the baby powder my Dad put in his socks.

I still have some of these samples, but I don't often wear them. I use them mostly to freshen up my bathroom - which smells great. :)

It's too bad that I'm giving this perfume such a bad rating, because I would like to like it!

This was a gift from my aunt when I was sixteen and putting it on again I remember why I never wore this stuff.

The scent of "revealed" is best described in 3 layers. The first is an intense sweetness, the second is a strong floral bouquet and the third, most basic scent is a bit like warm plastic that I think is trying to be a musk of some sort. The end result is a scent that is sweet and powdery with an unpleasant plastic twang that becomes more noticeable as you pull away.

The plasticyness dies down a little as the perfume settles (perhaps it is the result of the plastic spray cap?) but for whatever reason I'm still not impressed with the sweet floral mixture. I don't even think I would want to use it as an air freshener.

I'll be nice and give it a "neutral."

I Just tried Tresor on my right wrist and I'm trying to pick out the individual notes in it, but they're so well blended that what I'm smelling is honestly a bit of a mess.

I'll have to agree with whomever it was who said that this perfume smelled confused. What I smell is a miasma of a green floral with the the fruit notes biting in with more of a sticky sweetness than a fruity scent. The overall impression is of a soft floral scent with a bitter twang. It smells, on me, neither pretty nor appetizing.

So no. Just No.

This is a very fruity fragrance. I smell a lot of vanilla and chocolate. It's very sweet too and makes me think of velvet. It smells good alone, sort of dark and luscious but in a foodie sort of way.

The longer I leave it on the more bitter it gets. I don't believe this is a good fragrance on me.

I've used it in the past as an air freshener. It makes the bathroom smell good.

My mother had a habit of handing off old perfumes to me whenever she got sick of them. I would play with some of them as a kid but when you're eight, you really only like perfume that smells like jellybeans. As a result, I have a 20 year old 3/4 full bottle of this discontinued fragrance in my bathroom drawer.

I sprayed this on my right wrist and the opening was VERY sweet - sort of caramelly and I turned my nose up at it.

The drydown is better. There is only a hint of that sweetness left in the mostly powdery floral scent, which is still very strong even after 20 years. (My mother believes that it has mellowed since then. It was too much jasmine for her.) I believe it has some amber in it because it has a warmth to it that's not in pure floral scents and perhaps a light musk and some patchouli for an earthy spicyness.

I believe I could get away with wearing it as long as I apply lightly. It's still a little too sugary, but it's interesting. Even more so by the fact that few other women will be wearing this. ;-)

I found a tiny bottle of this in my bathroom and was convinced that it was a sample size of "white diamonds" for some reason.

It turned out to be this classic scent.

My first impression of this is that it is soap. Not "soapy" but SOAP. Like someone crushed a bar of dial soap and distilled into an alcoholic juice in a spray bottle. The rank alcoholic smell turned me off at first, but I decided to rub it in and let it settle for a bit.

The sent is subtle and powdery, and the longer I let it settle, the less I dislike it. It's clean and unoffensive smelling. The powderyness of it is gentle without being sweet and the longer it stays on the warmer and spicier it gets on my skin. There is none of that sticky sweetness that often comes out in more modern perfumes.

I understand the nostalgia of this scent. I like trying old scents because they rouse the history buff in me by letting me "smell" the time period, and this one definitely evokes the powdery cleanliness of the ideal 1950's woman - young, powdery and fresh. What's nice about this scent is that it smells more soft and comforting than cloying and claustrophobic - the other side of the gentle fifties newelywed woman coin.

I'm not sure if I would wear this. Perhaps if I want to seem *particularly* innocent or I could see mysefl wearing it to church on Easter or to another spring occasion.

I'm glad the fifties are long gone and hope they stay that way, but I'm also glad I got to try this scent.

The fragrance goes on very powedery on me and stays that way. It's a very light and beautiful scent but it doesn't seem to evolve on me.

I tried having D&G The One on one arm and Prada on the other. At first the Prada was much preferable but after an hour or two the One had mellowed into a soft and delicious scent while the Prada had gone just a tiny bit sour. It's not bad at all, I'm afraid that it just doesn't work so well on me.

It smells FANTASTIC on my mother. Something in her body chemistry gives the perfume a "kick" in all the right ways. It's her Christmas present this year. She's usually devoted to her Chanel No5.

I rather like this one.

It's light enough for everyday wear and not too complicated, while still being interesting.

Got this as a gift when it came out, but never really wore it.

It's just too sweet for me. The scent has this light, sticky, lingering, sweetness that I find unappealing because of how it reminds me of the gummi bear bodysplash I wore when I was twelve.

It's a good teenager fragrance, but I think that smelling faintly of candy as an adult woman is giving off the wrong message. For me anyway.

This a fragrance I would wear sometimes, even if it is too generally too light and floral for me.

I got it as a hand me down from my mother (evidently, she didn't like it) and my uneducated opinion of it was that it was "okay." Light and nice smelling, but a little alcoholic.

I given it a few goes since then and my big problems with Romance are first the super floral start - there's WAY too much going on with the topnotes at the start and the fact that it never really seems to settle into anything more interesting than an enormous bouquet of flowers. I would like it to settle into something a little more sultry and earthy after a few hours with some floral and a hint of sweetness. Instead, it's just powdery.

Final vote is a "meh." A good "meh," but a "meh" nonetheless.

This was the perfume that got me into perfume.

At 20, the word "perfume" was sort of a turn-off and I usually associated the word with traumatic memories of my hideous old religion teacher prowling down the unventilated halls of my high school wearing far, far too much of some bowl-you-over musky floral so potent that I learned to hold my breath whenever she passed or literally gag.

Or alternately, my mothers collection of alchoholy things, the Chanel No5 that was *hers*, the dusty smell of old ladies (thus, perfume = death) or the Jolly-Rancher-in-a-bottle that I got sick of before I was 15.

Bored at work, I was flipping though the edition of vogue that had the three-page Gisele ad and sniffed the scent strip.

Is it too dramatic to say that the scent made part of my life change? Or that my entire sense of of smell suddenly sprang to life? It is too dramatic, but its sort of true in that I realized that perfume didn't have to be bad, or smell like old ladies, or death, or candy, or dead flowers in alcohol. it could smell warm and alive. It could *not suck.*

(Amazing!)

I got a bottle soon after and while I don't have the same opinion of it that I had when I got it I still like it a lot and I give credit where credit is due.

It's not the most complicated or nuanced fragrance in the world, this is its weakness, but its warmth is what attracted me to it and that where "The One" succeeds. It really smells as warm and inviting as the gold juice in the bottle. It goes on floral and little spicy and sweet. It almost gets too sweet in the middle, about an hour or two into it, but stops just short of candy-bar territory and mellows out into something like a smooth woody vanilla that lingers for a while.

I think it's a bit too strong/noticeable for everyday wear, and the sweetness is sometimes too much. It's a "night" fragrance for me, or for whenever I want to be slightly intimidating in a fun way.

I've also gotten compliments from men while wearing this perfume. When I tell them what it is they lean in in for a better sniff. Sort of funny.