Fragrance Reviews

Fragrance Reviews by Bakerloo Line

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Adidas Originals pour Homme by Adidas

Smells wonderful, very fresh and clean. This lies very, very close to the skin - almost no sillage, but sometimes you want that.

Classy bottle, methinks.
26 August 2008

Jazz by Yves Saint Laurent

I like it - but I'm a sucker for geranium and carnation, which seem to last a while on me.
08 June 2008

Rive Gauche pour Homme by Yves Saint Laurent

It smells like the world's classiest, most urbane barber shop.
10 December 2006

XS pour Homme by Paco Rabanne

Wearing it today for the first time, after an impulse buy yesterday.

Gotta say that I'm LOVING the drydown - is it the cedar? sandalwood? That slightly sweet lingering note mixed with the musk. Or is that the coriander? Whatever it is, I like it.
13 November 2006

Hungary Water by Crabtree & Evelyn

Rosemary and more rosemary. I had this in a very cool bottle with a cork stopper.
27 September 2006

212 Men by Carolina Herrera

Been wearing this pretty much every day for the past two weeks - and I've got to say I like it a lot.
It suprises me that it's created by the same nose as M7 - which I couldn't wear at all. 212 is both light and complex - the green notes seem to last a long time on me.
Reminds me an awful lot of DKNY Be Delicious Mens, which was last year's fave.
14 August 2006

Acqua di Parma Colonia by Acqua di Parma

The best.

I wore AdP exclusively for years - it goes anywhere, it's good in the day and in the night, and it's very fresh and classy. I still really love the fragrance, but I can't wear it anymore.

I developed a very strange reaction that if I had Acqua di Parma on, I "smell-ucinated" smoke. Strange, I know, but when I stopped wearing it, the phantom smell went away.

I still keep a bottle around though...
06 August 2006

Bic Sport by Bic

If you had one, you had to have the other, right?
03 August 2006

Bic Homme by Bic

I was young, what can I say?
03 August 2006

Eau Sauvage by Christian Dior

Another one of my very first tries. I think my dad may have worn this when I was very young - it reminds me of the 60s. I'm not in any hurry to try it again, mind you...
03 August 2006

DKNY Be Delicious Men by Donna Karan

Fresh and clean - got the appley/lemony notes immediately. Really one of my favorites. Writing this reminds me that I'm out and need more.
03 August 2006

M7 by Yves Saint Laurent

I got M7 on a total whim. Big mistake. It was very, very heavy and cloying on me - I felt like I had this M7 aura visible around me. Very cool bottle, however, but I pitched it.
03 August 2006

Eau de Hongrie by Fragonard

My mom gave this to me as a souvenir from a trip to Provence. Very summery - clean smelling.
A note on the packaging - it's in a very cool aluminium spray. Supposedly the salespeople told my mom that the cologne would last longer this way; up to 10 years. Not that I'm going to have it that long...
03 August 2006

Adidas Classic / Classic Blue by Adidas

This was the first fragrance I ever purchased for myself, at the duty-free shop in Zurich airport.
I second Mr. Russell in his "cheap scent that smelled good" estimation. I may even need to get some again - it'll transport me right back to my youth.
03 August 2006

Vetiver by Guerlain

I tried Vetiver as a purchase from the duty-free shop just before a vacation. Honestly, I had to leave it in the hotel. To me, it reminded me most of the elephant house at the Baltimore Zoo. Not a good thing.
03 August 2006
 
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