got a boatload of perfumes today and want to share my first impressions:
Serge Noir - I was pretty sure I would not like this, actually and bought it to resell and thereby possibly partially finance my other purchase, L'Homme de Coeur, which I was sure I would love. Well, guess what. I actually find Serge quite intriguing. It smells exactly like a certain brand of incense stick I have lying around somewhere, with some notes of blown out candle and sweet cinnamon. Not quite sure in what context this would wear well (really cold & sunny winter days, perhaps), but I think I'm keeping it.
L'Homme de Coeur, on the other hand, was an immediate disappointment. The opening is quite nice, with the angelica, but the iris is ruined by a cheap-smelling violet note that dominates everything - I seem to be rather sensitive to alpha-methyl ionone.
I got a half bottle of Virgin Island Water quite cheap, and contrary to my review, this smells pretty vulgar to me right now, with an overwhelming tikki-tacky coconut note. I wish the lime and the coconut would trade places in terms of strength. It also seems to make my nose run. Maybe this one will make more sense in summer, applied very very lightly.
Just another example for the difficulty of pinning down perceptions of smells, not so speak of making evaluations
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Serge Noir - I was pretty sure I would not like this, actually and bought it to resell and thereby possibly partially finance my other purchase, L'Homme de Coeur, which I was sure I would love. Well, guess what. I actually find Serge quite intriguing. It smells exactly like a certain brand of incense stick I have lying around somewhere, with some notes of blown out candle and sweet cinnamon. Not quite sure in what context this would wear well (really cold & sunny winter days, perhaps), but I think I'm keeping it.
L'Homme de Coeur, on the other hand, was an immediate disappointment. The opening is quite nice, with the angelica, but the iris is ruined by a cheap-smelling violet note that dominates everything - I seem to be rather sensitive to alpha-methyl ionone.
I got a half bottle of Virgin Island Water quite cheap, and contrary to my review, this smells pretty vulgar to me right now, with an overwhelming tikki-tacky coconut note. I wish the lime and the coconut would trade places in terms of strength. It also seems to make my nose run. Maybe this one will make more sense in summer, applied very very lightly.
Just another example for the difficulty of pinning down perceptions of smells, not so speak of making evaluations
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