 | Volupté by Oscar de la RentaSome weeks ago I smelled this on an very elegant old lady (maybe she had 70 years) and it smelled wonderfull. Flowery-powdery, full and rich, but not overpowering. I couldn't identify any single ingredient exactly, because ist was blended so harmoniously. (I think, there can be rose, civet, orris and tagete in it.) Maybe takemyhusbandplz and marritza had bad bottles or it didn't fit their chemistry. But it isn't stinky at all. 3rd February, 2007. |
 | Nina (new) by Nina RicciMisspring is right, the new Nina smells completely different from the old one. I've had a bottle of the old Nina in the nineties and bought one of the new. (It's a must for me because I'm called Nina myself.) The old one was very oldfashioned and reminded me of my grandmother and grandmothers in general. It was cool and fresh and distinguished. The bottle was white and cylindric and very similar to L'Air du Temps. 20th January, 2007. |
| | Royal Delight by CreedA wonderful, opulent and heavy bouquet of sweets and flowers with a significant note of honey and vanilla. You shouldn't wear this at the office, but it's perfect for the opera. I can't understand how this could be meant as unisex. 25th June, 2006. |
| | Une Zeste de Rose by Les Parfums de RosineUn Zest de Rose is a surprisingly long lasting fresh rose scent. One of the main notes is Tea - green tea, mate tea, black tea - a very fresh, green and soft tea note, that's driving through to the dry down. Very, very unique!! A pearl, like all of the parfums de rosine! 17th June, 2006. |
| | Endymion by Penhaligon'sI really think, this is uni-sex. In fact I would like it more on a woman than on a man. Maybe a very young man, a 16 year old James Dean type could wear it - as well as Kate Moss in the early Obsession promotion pictures should have smelled. Maybe it's a perfume for young people up to 35 years. You can hardly imagine a 50 year old man or woman wearing this scent. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Kenzoair by KenzoThe name is perfect! KenzoAir creates a bewitchingly natural smelling aura of sweet, fresh air, of musk and cedar and cypress and anisseed. It's a young scent for men and women for any occasion. It doesn't smell like a perfume, it smells as if you smell of your own like this and good. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Dzing! by L'Artisan ParfumeurI adore Dzing!! 17th June, 2006. |
| | Himalaya by CreedHimalaya smells exactly like Platinum Egoiste, while Platinum Egoiste is older. I wonder why a house like Creed does copy other houses' fragrances. It's the same with Neroli Sauvage. It smells like Eau de Campagne by Sisley. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Néroli Sauvage by CreedNeroli Sauvage smells exactly like Eau de Campagne by Sisley, while Eau de Campagne is 20 years older. Both are great herbal-citrussy fragrances, but I wonder why a house like Creed does copy other houses' fragrances. It's the same with Himalaya. It smells like Platinum Egoiste. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Lily of the Valley by Penhaligon'sThis smells really similar to the natural flower. A cool, clean and noble lily of the valley scent. I in fact can't smell any other note, only lily of the valley. But for such a light and cool perfume it lasts very very long. Great quality! 17th June, 2006. |
| | Eau de Givenchy by GivenchyThis was the best lily of the valley fragrance I ever smelled - with a really natural lily of the valley impression. I loved and used it when I was about 20 years old. It's very fresh and cool with a soft, sweet and somehow stale drydown - and at the same time a bit dark and melancholic. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Miss Dior by Christian DiorIn her novel "The story of O", that came out in 1954, Pauline Reage wrote (my translation from the german version): "He gave her a perfume that's name she didn't know. It smelled like dry wood and marsh plants - harsh and a bit wild." No one knows which perfume she meant, but I always think of Miss Dior, when I read it. It's harsh, wild and austere. I can't identify any single note, but find it bitter, green, shy, fresh and unworldly. By the way it's oldfashioned. But that doesn't matter. I really love it - forever, for it's timeless. It's the perfect scent for diving in another world within this world. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Tabac Blond by CaronTabac Blond is, what Cabochard and Bandit tried to be but didn't reach. I myself don't smell leather, but aldehydes and darkness and dark aldehydes. This really is a parfume of a dominatrix - hard and cool and dark for a pretty long time - and at the very end, you find a kissy, lovely vanilla. 17th June, 2006. |
 | Le Muguet by Annick GoutalThis is a terribly cloying and sweet lily of the valley fragrance. I would recommend it when you want a railway-compartment for your own. Just don't try - you don't miss anything. 17th June, 2006. |
| | Zen (version #2 / pearl) by ShiseidoIt's astonishing, how such a soft and light scent can have such long lasting power! Maybe the name is program - Lao tse wrote: the soft and tender is more powerfull than the hard and strong. 8th January, 2006. |
| | Tendre Poison by Christian DiorTendre Poison has been my signature scent, when I was about 20 years old, and I have loved it very much. Sometimes, I still use it today. TP is very fresh, green, fruity and soft and delicious. I don't know exactly, what's in there - surely rose, apple and the smell of green leaves and grass. The sweet note in it remembers in fact of the original Poison, but there's a strong fresh-green note dominating. It always makes me feel being in the jungle breathing all the smells of exotic plants and fruits and the moist and warm air. 8th January, 2006. |
| | Noa Noa by Otto KernNoa Noa has been sooooo great! It's such a pity, it's discontinued! It was a very in the face fruity, sweet floral, very, very fruity and delicious. I remember ananas, grapefruit, rose, tuberose and a hint of patchouli. They really should produce it again. 4th January, 2006. |
| | Mat; Chocolat by Masakï MatsushïmaReally shocking sweet (in a delicious way) - like inhaling a cherry brandy filled chocolate cream. Unwearable for me, but a real enrichmeht for the universe of scents and surely one of the most direct and plain gourmand scents ever. 3rd January, 2006. |
| | Comme des Garçons 2 Man by Comme des GarçonsI love the hardness and coolness of the fragrance. It evokes the feelings of independence and loneliness, of sitting in a train on ones way to nowhere at a frosty winter's day. It's a somehow monodimensional incense fragrance (o.k., it's a light coffee scent in it) with a sweaty but nonetheless clean drydown. Very unique. 27th December, 2005. (Last Edited: 17th June, 2006.) |
| | MCM Obelisk by MCMObelisk is a warm, spicy and dry scent, smelling somehow christmasy - of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. It's compareable with Opium - especially in not being sweet- but much softer. 26th December, 2005. |
| | Black for Her by Kenneth ColeBlack for her smells very, very similar to the discontinued "C'est la Vie" by Christian Lacroix, a sweet and heavy floriental, typical for the early '90es. It makes think of dark roses and red and black berries, very delicious. Best worn at a hot summer night' party. 21st December, 2005. |
| | Amor Amor by CacharelI'm really sorry to say it so hard, but Amor Amor smells simply cheap. If I'd find a cleanser in the supermarket smelling like this, I would buy it. But I would never use such a perfume. 13rd December, 2005. |
| | Prada (new) by PradaThis Prada is really changeable! My boy-friend got it as a gift and uses it, for noone really knows, if it's for men or women. And on his skin it smells like a very sophisticated, warm and masculine leather-sandalwood scent with a bit of orris root and a bit tabacco in it. It makes me think of Sean Connery as James Bond or of gentlemen's evenings in old leather-chairs with big cigars and things like that. 12nd December, 2005. |
| | Lady Knize by KnizeLady Knize is in production again; at least in Germany it's available. 8th December, 2005. |
| | Balle de Match by Parfums de NicolaïOne of the best citrus fragrances, I know. Light, fruity, aquatic, distingué and very young at the same time. The grapefruit is dominant in Balle de Match. The drydown is - on my skin - woody and dry. 5th November, 2005. |
| | DKNY Be Delicious by Donna KaranVery modern and somewhat retro at the same time: modern the really genial design of the bottle and package and the freshness and clearness, retro because it reminds me on the apple shampoos, we used in the 80ies, when I was a child, the perfumed pencils and rubbers we loved and the strong colored sweets and candies, that colored teeths and tongue for hours. 21st September, 2005. |
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