Fragrance Reviews by tigrushka

It took me some time and several wears to get this one, but now that it finally happened, I'm quite smitten. The first word that comes to mind is cheerful. Bright citrusy notes are teamed with ginger and rhubarb which give the scent a lovely tart burn, the kind you get when you eat pickled ginger with sushi. Bergamote is an easy-to-wear feelgood scent suitable for work and play and brightening up any day!

Obviously here is a scent that behaves very differently on different people's skins. I belong too the group that gets fresh water, flowers floating in it, sweet milkiness, a touch of seaweed... now that doesn't sound _that_ horrible, does it? ;)

I find this scent very relaxing and dreamy, it makes me visualize floating flowers, white and pink, streaming and cascading water, mermaids with flowers in their hair...

Dirty, soft and sweet are the first words that come to my mind.

Wearing L'Air de Rien feels like wearing an old flannel shirt that has been worn by at least one generation of men in your family before you, a shirt that has been worn and washed, washed and worn, but still carries a hint of good honest male sweat. A shirt gone so soft it feels like a caress. on your skin

This is a very intimate scent, gentle and familiar, cosy and comfortable. I feel I'm home wearing it.

Along with Kyoto I find Ouarzazate the most easy-to-wear of the CdG Incense Series scents. I love the woody drydown and the spices remind me of Kabyl cuisine: they are hot, but with a gentle burn. Ouarzazate is warm and cosy (which is a rare quality for an incense scent) like a hot meal enjoyed by a campfire in a desert.

Fumerie Turque is Topkapi Palace in a bottle! Smoky & sultry leather-tobacco scent with a superb sillage.

Comme des Garçons EdP is still my favourite CdG scent after trying them all! It's a unique powerful spicy concoction, that makes a statement and has a HUGE presence, definitely not for the faint of heart...
Since I've managed to fight off an upcoming flu with it twice I can only repeat what Rei Kawabuko herself has said about it: "A perfume that behaves like a drug and works like a medicine."

JSuH doesn't differ much from a traditional men's cologne: citrus, spices and leather. It's masculine and Mediterranean, hairy-chested, but nothing new under the sun, plus it has been done better.

Oh yes, the powerful blast of pine and herbal & medicinal leather bring immediately Yatagan to mind, but EdT is cooler and cleaner. Not bad at all.

A rose is a rose is a rose. Rossy de Palma smells like Bulgarian rose oil, the kind sold in rustic painted wooden bottles, or Weleda Wild Rose products. All the other notes seem to be there merely to showcase the rose. Nice, but not mind-blowing.

DE starts with a bright, strong orange blossom note and then turns gourmand with a capital G. This "spoiled child" is throwing his tantrums in a café where the long-suffering parents try to enjoy their coffees while stuffing the little monster with cakes and pastries...

The top notes are a bit nauseating and blood-like but the drydown is postcoitally blissful. Spicy leather scent with just the right amount of tuberose well blended in.

Before I learned to love vetiver it used to be one of notes I most disliked, and in DCQ the vetiver rubs me the wrong way. Might be also the combo of vetiver, violet and raspberry. Whatever it is, it smells very bitter on my skin. Nix.

Ooh, nice one! JeC reminds me a bit of an old fave: Biche dans l'Absinthe, it has a same kind of oddball elegance and understated glamour. A confident, comfy scent that doesn't try too hard. Such a lovely idea to combine jasmine with tobacco and hay!

This one is hilarious! One sniff and I can immediately visualize a bored young girl (in school uniform, pigtails and lipgloss applied without a mirror behind the corner) chewing gum at the mass and trying to look as hard-boiled as only a teenager can. Maybe not something I would buy or wear but a delightful fragrance nevertheless.

This one is delicious! Soft, sweet, animalic, inviting, tempting like warm bare skin. Irresistible.

I've never been a big fan of aldehydes, and DGMWBIDS starts with a sharp blast of them, then it turns slightly softer and sweeter. A nose-tickling pretty little Floral with a shock-value name.

The most "daring" thing about this scent is its name. The scent itself is nice: rather "traditional" with powdery roses and violets and some animalic notes thrown in, but I think that this type of scent has been done many times in the past, and much better, too. PdP is nice all right, but I rather stick with my Carons.

Though my first impression was that this particular blonde is the the cheapest and nastiest ever, the drydown took me by surprise: it reminds of another blonde, SL Daim Blonde, that is. It's quite an achievement to turn from trashy to classy, but this scent does it.

Rien was a big surprise: the name led to expect something mild, but it turned out to be a mixture of Bandit & Comme des Garcons Synthetic Series (Garage, Skai, Tar). To my nose it has that same leather jacket saturated with decades' worth of thick cigarette smoke vibe as Bandit. VERY long-lasting scent.

Neither good, nor bad, rather middle-of-the-road, very mild-mannered patchouli scent.

This one really is the great-grandson of Caron's Pour un Homme! Lacks the powdery vanilla, but has that great trustworthy shoulder-to-lean-on lavender. I certainly wouldn't mind being held in the arms of this particular antihero. ;D

Lux was the MdO scent I was least interested in but decided to give it a try anyway. The opening is pure lemon soap, quite lovely, but that stage soon passes giving way to powdery vanilla notes, which give way to something woody and slightly bitter (vetiver, I guess). Lux is interesting, and a quality scent, like all MdO scents, but... neither yay nor nay.

Poussière de Rose was the first Rosine I fell for and also the one I got first. Sometimes I almost feel as if it had been created for me: it feels so much like home wearing it! It's soft, spicy and sophisticated, with mellow wood & fruit and slightly smoky tea & incense notes and a gentle, comfy drydown. A scent that rather whispers than talks loud, and my favourite Rosine scent for women.

Third thumbs-down Rosine for me (Été and La Rose were the first two). "Metallic" and headache-inducing, I guess its the marine note that is to blame. Not my bottle of rose scent.

Une Zest de Rose was one of the first Rosines I fell for, a very lovely and effervescent rose scent with zingy & zesty zitrus and aromatic green tea and mate notes. This one will brighten up any day, no matter how grey and gloomy!

Very bright, warm and sunny interpretation of Rosine's rose theme, this time with a more Mediterranean flavour thanks to jasmine, orange blossom, neroli and citrus notes. This one makes me want to drink sangria and wear flame-coloured roses in my hair!

Love galbanum and bergamot, but NOT apple, melon and mimosa (plus am allergic to linden aka lime blossoms), so was neither surprised nor disappointed that Rose d'Été wasn't for me. Top notes smell bitterish, heart watery-fruity. Nix.

Though I find some Rosines utterly charming, La Rose isn't one of them. Very strong and too sweet to my nose, smells "sticky", not powdery, as I expected it to.

When I first heard about the Angel Garden of Stars series I nearly screamed in agony: how do they DARE to mess up with Angel?! I was especially appalled because I'm not the greatest fan of floral notes and that was exactly what they were going to add to the blissfully floral-free Angel. The shock and the horror!

But sniff first, whine later, and to my big surprise I quite like Rose Angel. But definitely less than I like the original, a LOT less.

Not surprisingly it smells like a teeny weeny spritz of Angel layered with a considerably bigger spritz of some soliflore rose scent.

I prefer Angel as Angel and roses as roses, but this isn't half as bad as I feared it to be.

Pink Sugar is a very silly little fragrance, an instant trip to Candyland. But the sweet sugar candy top transforms into a surprisingly "traditional" Oriental base.

One of the rare fragrances that both has and also requires a sense of humour from the person who wears it (Dinner by Bobo is another example).

Great value for money is a bonus!

Notes:
top: bergamot, orange, raspberry, fig leaves
heart: liquorice flower, lily of the valley, cotton candy, red fruit, strawberry
base: vanilla, candy, musk, tonka bean, sandalwood

Chypre Rouge is a strange hybrid: on one hand it reminds me of SL Chêne and AG Sables with its warm thick woodness, on the other there are echoes of both SL La Myrrhe and Arabie with the spicy nutty honeyed notes.

But it doesn't end there, because that would make Chypre Rouge a sweet woody-spicy Oriental, which it isn't. The pine note gives it a cool melancholy quality of a snowy forest.

La Myrrhe has a same kind of heartbleeding mood as Chypre Rouge, both juices are red, too. Weird and wonderful scent.

Kisu is mellow like the sound of cello! One of the woodiest scents I know, it has a big dose of cedar and rosewood and a feel of an old wooden container or an instrument.

Because I love Bertrand Duchaufour's earlier L'Artisan creation - Timbuktu - I had high hopes for Dzongkha and I wasn't disappointed! Surprisingly, Dzongkha reminds me of Après l'Ondée. It has an "old-fashioned" vibe and is cool (as opposed to warm) and slightly sweet.

The first impression of Dzongkha is surprisingly fruity, almost "pink" and raspberry-like, followed by dry, powdery iris and wood notes.

A very lovely, introspective and meditative scent, I definitely want to have a bottle of this!

Fou d'Absinthe is definitely the most masculine L'Artisan scent I have tried! There's nothing feminine about it. The scent it reminds me most of is Caron's legendary Yatagan but Fd'A pales in comparison.

The name is all wrong, I don't smell _any_ absinthe or aniseed in Fd'A, only pine, some liquorice, somewhat "muddy" wood notes and some more pine. What's worse is that all that pineniness has none of the characteristic sharp greenness but it rather stale. A disappointment.

I don't usually go for lemon scents, they are supposed to be fresh but have a tendency to go stale.

But I do like Lemon Sorbet a lot, I guess it's the rosemary and vetiver notes that make it so special. Very uplifting and energizing scent, guaranteed Etro quality.

Wonderful, fresh and cooling mint scent, not at all like the horribly mouthwashy-toothpasty Herba Fresca (sorry, fans!)

Peppermint has the same kind of hot-cold thing going as the other two Sherbet Series scents (Rhubarb and Cinnamon), spicy cardamom and white pepper give the cool mintiness a nice twist and amber and musk make the scent long-lasting, at least on my skin it lasts well from morning till night.

What's best is that the mintiness never fades, it stays showcased all along... One of the best summer scents around!

Préparation Parfumée is simply wonderful: an easy-to-wear, never-out-of-place scent with character. It's very light and "watery" without being neither wimpy nor boring but a very unique scent inspired by driftwood and composed of woods and spices. Another masterpiece from Olivia Giacobetti, the Queen of light, ethereal scents that are really saying something!

Quite nice/ not bad chocolate scent with mandarin and vanilla notes but if (and when) you have Angel, why would you want or need a substitute? A complete waste of time and money, IMO.

Carnation (which is dedicated to Colette) is gorgeous! The first impression is very animalic, I suppose it's those ylang ylang and jasmin notes - PHWOARGH! It gets a bit more tame then but that dirty jasmin note stays and gets support from amber & musk. This is definitely the sexiest one of the three Mona di Orio scents. Could be tempted...

The first impression of Nuit Noire (which is dedicated to Serge Lutens) is a big surprise: the top notes are very soapy and citrusy! Then the spices and wood notes start to come out but the soapiness still remains. Nuit Noire reminds me of an exotic and impossibly expensive luxury soap wrapped in paper and packed in a wooden box. Lovely scent nevertheless, just not what I expected it to be...

If you're looking for the ultimate Sleeping Beauty/ La Vie en Rose rose scent, pure roses and nothing but roses, look no further: Rose Absolue is It! Rose Absolue is a rose soliflore made of six different kinds of roses: Bulgarian rose, Turkish rose, Damask rose, May rose, Egyptian rose and Moroccan rose. Wearing it feels like wearing a fairytale dress sewn up of velvety rose petals...

Biche dans l'Absinthe (aka Bitch in Absinthe...) is the most elegant and weird one of the Gobin Daudé line: its aromatic and medicinal artemisia, immortelle, leather & tobacco notes remind me of Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe, a bizarre antiques boutique, or a club for English Eccentrics. How some people smell curry in this is beyond my comphrehension...

Sève Exquise is like a night or evening version of Sous le Buis: same garden, different time of the day. It's slightly sweet and perhaps even more "chlorophyllic" than its morning counterpart.

Sous le Buis was my first Gobin Daudé scent, it's a most lovely fresh green scent reminiscent of a dewy garden on a bright summer morning. You can almost feel the grass under your bare feet...

Nuit au Désert is the most fascinating and unique one of the - well, fascinating and unique Gobin Daudé line. To me it smells like a campfire: it's dry, woody and smoky. I've never been in a desert but NaD reminds me of some Midsummers of my childhood which were spent in the countryside, sitting by a campfire on the rocks by the lake on the whitest night of the year. A rare, stern beauty.

Nostalgia is simply unbelievable: it really does smell like a vintage car, a finest possible specimen with smoothest leather seats.

Encens et Lavande is one of those scents that smell like history: like a church, an archive, an old library or a museum. I would describe it as ashes and lavender. A whiff of the past. I find it very calming, introspective and meditative. Lavender in its finest form.

Encens et Lavande is one of the five "Les Eaux Anciennes" by Serge Lutens described as "memories of the 7th sense".

Coco was the first fragrance I bought and it was also my signature scent for the next ten years so I have a very special relationship with it. I didn't wear it for a couple of years but have revisited it every now and then and have now found my old flame again!

If I let my mind roam free, my associations are: Mediterranean women, orange blossom wreaths worn by brides, black, leather, Tiffany lamps, candlelight, chandeliers, heavy gold bracelets, full-bodied oaky red wine, black coffee, dark bittersweet chocolate, Spanish brandy...

Like most of my favourite fragrances Coco is full of contradictions. In this case they could be summed up as: Spartan simplicity vs. Baroque. Coco is like the simplest possible Little Black Dress worn with the most barbaric gold jewellery. Coco is traditional, even conservative, but it has its wild side, too...

I thought Tabac Blond was _the_ Caron for me but Poivre has seriously captured my heart! First there's the burning sensation of pepper and cloves but after a couple of hours there's the soft and gentle, almost nostril-caressing drydown of opoponax, oakmoss and most mellow vetiver imaginable. Simply perfect!

Nomad Tea is an exception in the otherwise rather foody and gourmand Sweet Series line. It's very herbal and aromatic and reminds me a bit of Gobin Daudé Biche dans l'Absinthe with its artemisia note but is less serious and grand and more playful. I love the way the sweetness kicks in when it dries down, to quote Mary Poppins: "just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way..."

Never would I have thought that I could enjoy a scent with tuberose, bitter almond, osmanthus and coconut notes but probably thanks to the magic Lutens/Sheldrake touch I fell Datura Noir like 16 tons! It's a heady, narcotic evening scent, perfect pair for a little black dress. Smooth and sweet and intoxicating.

Wow, talk about unusual! Miel de Bois smells like fresh honey in a juniper container, the wood saturated with honey. Mellow gold with a lumbery edge. Wonderful!

Rose d'Homme is simply a beaut! After the initial burst of lemon and bergamot I get real roses with a hint of patchouli, crowned with one of loveliest vetiver notes I've ever smelled. Very elegant and subtle scent, suitable not only for work but for any occasion. A pure pleasure to wear.

Cèdre sounded pretty scary to me (tuberose!!!) but after the instant tuberose attack it was suddenly smooth sailing with lovely soft spices and cedarwood. After the tuberose top note has passed Cèdre is soft and gentle and reminds me a bit of Féminite du Bois. I was sceptic but Cèdre was a very nice surprise!

Sublime is one of those scents you can always count on, a scent that never lets you down, that is always a pleasure to wear. The bright yellow box and gold stopper speak of its sunny radiance and warm glow.

Sublime suits any mood or occasion, it's such a timeless beauty that it's hard to believe it was launched in the early Nineties, since it oozes tradition and old world charm. The top notes are bright, sunny mandarin and orange blossom, heart notes the traditional floral notes: rose and jasmine with the woody background of vetiver, sandalwood and oakmoss, and base notes rich, sensual amber and vanilla.

Don't get fooled by its elegant ladylike appearance: while Sublime lady certainly isn't a tramp, she's nevertheless one foxy lady! The lucky man who gets to slow dance with you will remember the way you smelled to his dying day.

Ormonde is very much a scent of its own, I know no smell-a-likes. This is probably due to the use of black hemlock, a note no other fragrance has.

Ormonde is a cool, wet, mysterious dark fragrance with grass oil, alluring jasmine and a velvety touch of violets. If it were a colour, it would be either almost black green or almost black violet.

Ormonde reminds me of a nightime forest or a swamp, the mood is one out of a Gothic fairytale. The drydown is an unforgettable mixture of murky green vetiver, cedar and sandalwood notes melting into smoothest amber.

Dinner has become one of my most worn scents, partly because it's such a rarity: a sexy scent with a sense of humour! The top notes remind me of Moscow Mule: (vodka,) ginger ale & lime, the heart notes are like spicy (dried or candied) fruit, the base is woody-earthy-animalic. IMO Dinner belongs to the same family as Rochas Femme and SL Arabie but is far less "serious". Great party scent, winter warmer and a compliment magnet!

Timbuktu has become one of my fave L'Artisan and work scents! It's simultaneously relaxing and invirogating. It's fruity without being too sweet, woody without being too heavy, spicy without the spice-rack effect. To my nose it's mostly fresh, tart green mango, beautiful, spiritual frankincense, soothing, calming vetiver. This is a scent of exotic, vibrant colours, it makes me see turquoise, coral, terracotta, ochre... After wearing it for over a year I've grown more and more fond of it.

Burnt Sugar is a perfect bedtime scent, soothing like a bowl of hot milk, sweetened with honey and enjoyed with spicy cookies. Warm, fuzzy, cuddly and comforting, like your favourite teddy bear.

I love Nu EdP but can't stand EdT which is IMO nasty & "nose-piercing" screaming floral! This has nothing to do with "my" Nu. >:(

Le Parfum de ThÈrËse is my favourite FrÈdÈric Malle scent: a unique combo of fruit, floral, spice, wood and leather notes. Elegant, yet very sensual scent, somehow full of love. The late, great Roudnitska created it for his wife who for decades was the only person allowed to wear it. The scent wasn't "published" until after Roudnitska's death.

I wonder if anyone falls for Palais Jamais on the first sniff, I sure didn't! But something about it still kept fascinating me and called me back to give it another chance and then another and then another until I got it. PJ is smoky, green and bitter, aromatic and medicinal but despite or perhaps because of this it works like a tonic! A true feelgood scent.

Parfum SacrÈ is a (relatively) new scent that smells much older than it actually is. It's a spicy rose scent, powdery and peppery, with lovely old-fashioned orange blossom notes. It has a feel of a bubble bath followed by dusting with rose-scented talcum powder. It's comforting and relaxing but seductive. Makes me think of embroidered silk shawls and dressing gowns inspired by the Orient.

I have a very special relationship with Mauboussin. But it's a long and silly story.
Mauboussin was "on the plate" for me for a long time: I received samples of it which I passed on thinking it was too sweet. I saw it on the sale shelf at Stockmann and ignored it.
Then I went to the cinema to watch one for the Nth time one of my all-time favourite films: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge. The second I saw the name of the jewellery shop Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte and Yves Montand were going to break in I got major goosepumps: it was Mauboussin!!!
The minute I got home I ordered a bottle online. But I just couldn't wait for my order to arrive so the next day I rushed to Stockmann to get it immediately...
Though I loved the rounded pyramid shaped bottle with a Rubik cube like spray mechanism instantly it took me a couple of wears to "get" Mauboussin. It is sweet, it is fruity, it is heavy with vanilla and has a gourmandish caramel touch. But yet it's so much more!
I don't know why I love it so much: could it really be just because of Le Cercle Rouge association? But I'm not alone with my love for Mauboussin: whenever I wear it, I get compliments, people want to know what I'm wearing so there must be something about it that clicks with me and my skin.
I guess I'll never know, it's just one of those things!

Well, what can you say? I'm always in awe of Classics like Narcisse Noir and get all tongue-tied but I try. First a word of warning: if you can't deal with civet and find Jicky off-putting, you can forget about NN. It has a MAJOR civet note! But more importantly NN is a gorgeous, rich orange blossom scent. It's very "old-fashioned" but in a best possible way and that's a big part of its appeal. Gustav Klimt's gilded temptresses would smell like this!

Time to announce a change of heart:
the most-tests-before-I-got-it record formerly held by Mitsouko (six test-drives) belongs now to MKK! On the 7th test-drive the cows and wet sheepskin finally gave way to something else enrirely! :D

B*Men is very potent, very woody, not at all sweet and burns your nostrils. The first scent that comes to mind is SL Un Bois Sepia but B*Men is less refined and more butch!

Un Bois Sépia is a cosy & comfortable scent with the loveliest wood notes. Makes me want to hug trees! :D

Égoïste is simply quite perfect: fresh mandarin-lavender top, vanilla-amber-sandalwood base. It's one of those rare scents that suit any mood and occasion, it's never out of date or out of place. A Classic.
I've worn Égoïste since 1990, my husband has worn it for years, we both wore Égoïste when we got married! :D Could never be without a bottle of it.

Garage smells exactly like a toolshed: woods, various electric appliances, chemicals, motors, gasoline... A mechanic would probably feel very comfortable wearing Garage! ;)

Un Bois Vanille is not your average "bowl of melted ice cream" kind of vanilla scent, but a dark, unsweetened woody "black" vanilla that smells like the real thing: vanilla pod. Especially good on cold days.

Chergui is one of the fullest, most gorgeous Orientals there is; sweet, smoky, superbly rich scent with honey, hay sugar, tobacco, musk, amber and leather notes.

Arabie smells like a souk: heat, dust, smoke, loads of spices, dried and candied fruit, nuts...
Don't be afraid to wear it on a hot weather, it gets even better!

Delightfully articial fizzy neon yellow citrus scent! :D

Jardins Ottomans reminds me of Voleur de Roses with its earthy "garden after rain" patchouli note, but whereas VdR is a garden with rose bushes and plum trees, JO is one with lemon and orange trees!

Zagorsk has that cold, damp feel Etro's Messe de Minuit has but is otherwise totally different. Zagorsk smells like an old, wooden Russian Orthodox church in the middle of snowy pine trees and birches. A pure, silent scent.

A very "Catholic" scent: white lilies & frankincense. Surprisingly at its best on a very warm weather which makes those lilies really bloom!

A forget-me-not of a fragrance. Shy & soft-spoken little blue scent.

White is a "white" interpretation of the original Comme des Garçons, simultaneously spicy and "icy", like a cool breeze with a burn. An Ice Queen scent.

Top: unwashed & unshaven armpits dusted with cumin
Heart: a whiff of rosewater
Base: Nada!
If that sounded alluring, go for it!

Way too tropical to my taste, it's in the Monoï oil league! But if you're into coconut & tuberose, it's got you're name written on it.

I was very, very sceptical about this one, but it's very nice indeed! If Shalimar is too much for you, give this one a go. I stick to the original, though...

I have a thing for woody coffee scents and Kyoto is one of the very best! Kyoto is the most "urban" scent of the Incense Series, both elegant and meditative, warms up wonderfully on skin, can be worn year round, suits any occasion.

Tea is an instant trip to past summers in the countryside where my grandmother used to live. Tea smells like old wooden buildings, smoke and tar, but it's also chlorophyllically green. The drydown is slightly softened by rose petals but Tea still stays smoky throughout, very long-lasting, too. Incredible scent.

I've tried EdT earlier and it left me totally cold. It was too detached, cold and metallic, in a word "robot-like". But the EdP is another story: a fresh energetic burst of mandarin on top, then the cool metallic inky notes but this time with spicy warmth! I don't like 2 as much as I like the original CdG EdP or White, but it's still something I'd like to get a small bottle of...

If you love spicy hot peppery carnations give this one a go! I'm not really into carnations but still find Carnation very refreshing and juicy in the same way as "fellow Reds" Harissa and Rose.

Heure Exquise is a bit like cross between Chanel no 19 (which I can't stand) and Hiris (which I love): it has a smell of flowers that "have gone to sleep", shut their petals for the night, or even dried, crumbled flowers. Heure Exquise is dry and green, powdery and comforting despite being on the melancholy side. It's a scent that does not make noise but has a powerful presence. A timeless beauty, a shawl of a scent you can wrap yourself up into.

Jolie Madame is a Hitchcock Blonde of a scent: cool, elegant leather Chypre with a vulnerable core. It smells like a snap-shut handbag made out of smooth, creamy leather and lined with violet silk.

Y is an understated, elegant, "outdoorsy" fruity Chypre smelling like a walk in the woods on a crisp, sunny autumn day. There are bright, tart fruit notes (peach & plum) and earthy moss and wood notes. Simply wonderful.

Eau de Charlotte is a funny little fragrance, it smells like schoolgirl's breakfast: blackberry jam sandwiches and cocoa! It has also floral notes: mimosa and lily of the valley, and vanilla.
Perfect for Spring and for those days I'm having one of my mischievous little girl moods, always puts a smile on my face...

I don't really know what to say about Yohji because it's the scent most close being my signature if I had one. The top notes are green, freshly mown grass, then it gradually turns into amber-vanilla, not heavy sweet ice cream kind of vanilla but something more like vanilla tea. Yohji is a very seductive scent, but in a sneaky way, he'll never know what hit him, LOL! No other scent I wear has received so many compliments as Yohji, both from males and females. It's also incredibly long-lasting, at least on my skin the EdT stays well over 24 hours!

Nu is a surprisingly old-fashioned scent, oozing Forties film noir femme fatale glamour. It's peppery and powdery, purring like a pussycat... Wearing it feels like wearing a silk négligé. Veronica Lake hairdo optional.

Folavril is a mischievous, slightly soapy scent with tomato leaves, mango and boronia notes. Something Pippi Longstocking might wear! Wear it anytime you feel a hunger for Spring...

A*Men is simply superb, I love it just as much as I love Angel, I sometimes even LAYER these two (you can never have too much of a wonderful thing, eh?)
What I love most about A*Men is the cool-warm contrast: mint & lavender vs. roasted coffee, dark bittersweet chocolate & liquorice. It doesn't hurt, either that I get loads of compliments when I'm wearing it...

I love the discontinued Patchouli and Voleur de Roses madly, but Patchouli Patch was a HUGE disappointment. I mean: where's the patchouli???!!! To my nose PP was more stale Cream Crackers than anything even remotely like patchouli. Maybe PP is a patchouli scent aimed at people who don't like patchouli? ;)

This one is just perfect! Amber scents can't get any better than this. Intoxicating and irresistible.

This one is probably the most unique fragrance I know! It's very Gothic and Medieval, it smells like a castle or a church, cold, damp stone rooms, candles, old, musty volumes. True treasure of the archives! I love it but it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea...

Gomma is very fresh and efficient, good office scent. Leather, citus and jasmine, smells actually very much like Cussons Imperial Leather soap!

Dzing! is inspired by circus and is one of those off-beat, evocative scents that trigger memories and are hauntingly beautiful. It starts off with a sawdust note, doesn't probably sound good, but actually is! It's warm, woody and spicy with saffron and ginger notes. Very strange and beautiful scent, one that creates cravings. Not for everyone, though.

Love at first sniff and it gets even better! Voleur de Roses (I just love the name) smells like roses, plums and wet earth, it takes me to a leisurely bare-foot walk in a charmingly unkempt garden with rose bushes and fruit trees, on a warm, rainy summer day. This is stuff that dreams are made of.

Perfect for chilly autumn days and a match made in heaven with a dark brown leather jacket! Makes me feel like sitting in a library room by a fireplace curled up in a comfy armchair with a worn brown leather upholstery, sipping dark rum and coffee, nibbling chocolate and liquorice, reading some dusty volume...

This is my favourite summer scent! Refreshing and cool, but with the sensual vanilla-sandalwood-amber base.

Wow! M7 has really got IT! It's deep, dark and dangerous and leaves an irresistible trail... Wonderful.