Fragrance Reviews

Fragrance Reviews by MVH

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Café Vert by Il Profumo

On my skin, this turned into sweet, inoffensive pink grapefruit-jasmine.
21 April 2007

Cefiro by Floris

So sad - on the card it smelled subtle, cool and lightly feminine without being cute.

On me, it wasn't strong at all, as it was on mikeperez23. It was sprayed on around 13:30, and by evening nary a whiff remained.
21 April 2007

Quercus by Penhaligon's

On my quirky skin, Quercus started off bland. Within an hour, it turned heavy and nauseating - and wouldn't scrub off.

I =heart= the detail and subtlety of foetidus' reviews, but for me to experience his descripton of Quercus, I'm going to have to smell it on someone else.
21 April 2007

No. 19 by Chanel

Received my sample of EdT today ... sadly it's pure powder on me, from start to finish, only vaguely distinguishable from No. 5. I'm not getting =any= of the greens. Haven't given up hope - will look for and try EdP and Parfum, if I can find them.
31 July 2006

Bois d'Iris by Different Company

The florals fade quickly on me, leaving lots of cardamom on a solid cedar base. Pumpkin pie baking in a wood stove on an autumn weekend in a cabin in New England. Testing-buddy's comments: multi-layered, clean-green, a pleasant bit of powder.
17 June 2006

Eau d'Eden by Cacharel

The green faded quickly, leaving flat lily-of-the-valley and peach. It would be a nice smell for laundry or cleaning products used in a chain hotel.

I received this as a gift from my then-fiance, chosen by his mother and sister. Too bad I didn't recognise that it fully conveyed what they were looking for in a wife for him: nondescript, no stamina, unobtrusive, submissive.
10 June 2006
 
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