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post #121 of 131
3/16/09 at 8:48pm
Patch. 24.
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post #122 of 131
3/16/09 at 9:50pm
Burberry London
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post #123 of 131
3/16/09 at 10:13pm
SOTE: Testing another Jo Malone, Amber & Lavender.

This is not the kind of amber I'm used to.

It kicked off spicy and medicinal. Soon, black pepper emerged, on top of something I can only describe as the bitter citric pungency of grapefruit, but without the actual grapefruit smell. It's kind of like when you break into an orange and the oil from the peel sprays out and, for a split second, you smell the bitterness of the orange before you actually smell orange.

OK, so that's pretty abstract...

This settled into a peppery citrus (again, not a specific fruit, just a citric pungency) that eventually settled into something resembling pineapple.

Hours later, the pineapple with pepper combo faded into amber, but not the usual amber base. This one is more like sweet tree sap, very lightly mentholated, and with the slightest vegetal funk.

At no point did I ever smell anything here remotely like lavender, despite the name.

This one's nice, and I do enjoy a good fruit/pepper combo. Definitely worth further testing.

EDIT: I smelled this next to a nice lavender sachet and I was wrong - the confusing astringent medicinal blast in the beginning was lavender. I'm guessing the light mentholation in the end was the result of the lavender, too.
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post #124 of 131
3/16/09 at 10:30pm
Bond no.9 Brooklyn - again.
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post #125 of 131
3/16/09 at 10:38pm
Ed Hardy for men
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post #126 of 131
3/16/09 at 10:40pm
Lolita Lempicka au Masculin
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post #127 of 131
3/16/09 at 11:07pm
Vetiver by Le Labo
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post #128 of 131
3/17/09 at 12:52am
In the morning, it was 273 Indigo by Fred Hayman


Then into the evening, I wore Chinatown by Bond #9
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post #129 of 131
3/17/09 at 3:14am
Arpege L'homme by Lanvin
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post #130 of 131
3/17/09 at 3:32am
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post #131 of 131
3/17/09 at 3:39am
Pour Monsieur (1955)

Chanel
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