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post #1 of 130
3/11/10 at 6:54pm
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Creed Millesime Imperial

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post #2 of 130
3/11/10 at 7:47pm
Cologne Imperiale
post #3 of 130
3/11/10 at 7:51pm
Patou Pour Homme
post #4 of 130
3/11/10 at 7:58pm
Annick Goutal Eau de Charlotte
post #5 of 130
3/11/10 at 8:26pm
Davidoff Adventure
post #6 of 130
3/11/10 at 8:45pm
My newest possession ...

post #7 of 130
3/11/10 at 8:47pm
QUORUM by Antonio Puig
post #8 of 130
3/11/10 at 8:50pm
Pascal Morabito Or Black
post #9 of 130
3/11/10 at 10:49pm
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post #10 of 130
3/11/10 at 10:52pm
Creed Week continues with

Creed
Santal Impérial
(1850)
Woody Oriental
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Top Notes: Bergamot
Middle Notes: Sandalwood
Base Notes: Tonka Bean, Ambergris
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This is a very straightforward sandalwood, with a little bergamot in the top and some other woody and coumarin notes in the base, plus the ever-present Creed signature ambergris. Not great on longevity, this scent is nevertheless redolent of aristocracy and conservative notions of style. If you like solid and reliable scents that send a message of (perhaps slightly smug) self-possession and self-regard, this is for you. The other possibility is that you like something very obviously old-fashioned; simple, yet brilliant in its simplicity; and satisfyingly (if fleetingly) beautiful; then this is for you, too. Personally, I think I'll take it on the latter terms.
post #11 of 130
3/11/10 at 10:54pm


Cacharel Anaïs Anaïs (1978)
Perfumers: Raymond Chaillan, Robert Gonnon, Paul Léger, and Roger Pellegrino
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Top notes: Bergamot, Galbanum, Hyacinth, Honeysuckle
Heart notes: Lily, Lily of the Valley, Rose, Ylang Ylang
Base notes: Frankincense, Cedarwood, Sandalwood, Amber, Oakmoss

post #12 of 130
3/11/10 at 10:55pm
Paul Smith Story
post #13 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:00pm
Fleur de Male - Jean-Paul Gaultier
post #14 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:11pm
Azzaro pour homme
post #15 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:12pm
Chevignon (brand) for Men
post #16 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:14pm
Chanel - Allure homme
post #17 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:36pm
Guerlain Habit Rouge EDT
post #18 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:53pm
Maison de la Vanille - Vanille Noire du Méxique
post #19 of 130
3/11/10 at 11:58pm
Michael Kors.
post #20 of 130
3/12/10 at 12:05am
Shalimar, vintage parfum
post #21 of 130
3/12/10 at 12:06am
Mathilde Laurent's Roadster

Cartier


Notes of : Labdanum, Patchouli, Vanilla, Bergamot, Mint, Vetiver
post #22 of 130
3/12/10 at 12:10am
Creed Green Irish Tweed
post #23 of 130
3/12/10 at 12:34am
GIVENCHY
LES PARFUMS MYTHIQUES
MONSIEUR DE GIVENCHY

Top Notes: Bergamot, Lemon.
Middle Notes: Lavender, Lemon Verbena.
Base Notes: Hinoki wood, Oakmoss.


post #24 of 130
3/12/10 at 12:37am
Laura Tonatto
Sandalo per Teti
post #25 of 130
3/12/10 at 1:26am
YSL - Rive Gauche
post #26 of 130
3/12/10 at 1:29am
Guerlain Habit Rouge
post #27 of 130
3/12/10 at 1:53am
Io Capri - Carthusia
post #28 of 130
3/12/10 at 2:07am
Creed Green Irish Tweed
post #29 of 130
3/12/10 at 2:14am
Green Water
by Jacques Fath

Top notes: Basil, Bergamot, Carrot, Green Notes, Lemon, Lime, Mandarin, Petitgrain Oil
Middle notes: Ginger, Jasmin, Lily-of-the-Valley
Base notes: Amber, Moss, Musk
post #30 of 130
3/12/10 at 3:03am
Carthusia Uomo makes its debut.
post #31 of 130
3/12/10 at 3:41am
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment juxtaposes the beautiful and the sublime. The beautiful is ordered and pleasing because of its symmetry and our ability to comprehend that organization. The sublime shocks and frightens by virtue of being something that our understanding cannot order or contain... it does violence to our imagination and gives us a perverse pleasure in reminding us of our inadequate smallness.

Jean Patou's Sublime edp lives up to its name for me.



The citrus, jasmine, patchouli and sandalwood combine to bring a rich and creamy flowering oriental that never ceases to fascinate.
post #32 of 130
3/12/10 at 3:46am
Bois d'Iris

The Different Company

My favorite iris scent
post #33 of 130
3/12/10 at 3:48am
Knize Sec
post #34 of 130
3/12/10 at 3:52am
Guerlain Vetiver
post #35 of 130
3/12/10 at 4:20am
Pierre Cardin Pour Monsieur (cologne).
post #36 of 130
3/12/10 at 4:22am
Quote:
Originally Posted by TwoRoads View Post

Green Water
by Jacques Fath

Top notes: Basil, Bergamot, Carrot, Green Notes, Lemon, Lime, Mandarin, Petitgrain Oil
Middle notes: Ginger, Jasmin, Lily-of-the-Valley
Base notes: Amber, Moss, Musk

might wear one of my last sample vials of this.
post #37 of 130
3/12/10 at 4:23am
Rive Gauche
post #38 of 130
3/12/10 at 4:49am
A sample of Hugo XY for another beautiful spring like day! I really like this one!
post #39 of 130
3/12/10 at 4:59am
Awoke feeling lady-like (don't ask me where THAT came from) so have reached for...


....a gift from the incomparable Mouse
post #40 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:05am
Histoires de Parfums 1969, from a sample.
post #41 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:08am
Balsamo della Mecca by La Via del Profumo
post #42 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:09am
Good morning Basenoters!

Today: Number 1 for Men by Clive Christian



http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121199.html

Have a great day everyone!
post #43 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:20am
Tauer

L'air du desert marocain
post #44 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:39am
Hiris....Hermes
post #45 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:48am
AOS Sandalwood
post #46 of 130
3/12/10 at 5:49am
L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme. Chilly, dark, rainy day - warm comfort fragrance.
post #47 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:01am
L'Artisan Parfumeur's Un Zeste d'Ete for me today. Couldn't figure out what else to wear on a rainy Friday.
post #48 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:03am


Creed Royal Scottish Lavender

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121398.html
post #49 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:31am
Kenneth Cole Reaction

Wearing this for nostalgic purposes today (and also in an attempt to finish off the bottle). I wore this back when I first started dating my wife. She loves it. I really enjoy the melon note -- the reason I bought it. Too bad it's so fleeting.
post #50 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:37am
Bond No 9 Chez Bond
post #51 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:38am
Aftelier - Blond Tabac
post #52 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:40am
Nathalie Lorson Poivre 23 Le Labo 2008
Notes: Bourbon pepper, citrus, incense, cistus labdanum,
Australian sandalwood, patchouli, vanilla, gaiacwood,
styrax.
post #53 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:49am
New Haarlem
post #54 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:51am
Finishing my amber week with one of my newest amber finds.

Soivohle Amberene

One of the enjoyable aspects of having the group of artisanal perfumers that have arisen in perfume is they don’t have to choose to play it safe. They are allowed to follow their artistic vision and because they aren’t playing to a mass audience they can make choices in materials and composition that bigger Houses don’t have the freedom to do. Liz Zorn is one of these artisanal perfumers and her Soivohle brand has some of the most interesting compositions out there. What is especially interesting is when a perfumer, like Ms. Zorn, chooses to interpret a well traveled note like amber and add her own twist to it.

Her perfume Amberene is that take on amber and she somehow takes a note that I have variously described, many times, as warm or medicinal or edgy; and makes it bright and shiny. She does this by using notes that would normally add a heft to a fragrance and by adding them in with a light hand she keeps Amberene a sprightly nimble fragrance on my skin.

Amberene begins with a fanfare of cardamom which comes across almost lemony in its brightness. The amber is present right at the beginning too but in a far off way like it is on its way but not quite there. The heart takes incense and adds it to the amber, but this is a light incense, and while the amber intensifies in the heart the incense stays at a distance. This makes it almost a grace note in relation to the amber but this works better than you might imagine as the resinous character of the incense never overwhelms and instead drifts as if on a breeze over the amber base of Amberene. The base takes a turn for the sweet with the introduction of vanilla but as with the incense in the heart the vanilla is kept modulated and it never takes Amberene into the sweet territory that vanilla sometimes imparts to a fragrance.

Amberene has above average longevity and modest sillage.

Ms. Zorn has taken amber and really created almost a classic eau de cologne splash out of it as it feels refreshing when I wear it. She just might have created the ideal warm-weather amber fragrance in Amberene.


Have a Felicitous Friday everyone.
post #55 of 130
3/12/10 at 6:56am
Allure Homme Edition Blanche (2008), by Chanel

post #56 of 130
3/12/10 at 7:02am
Amouage Dia

post #57 of 130
3/12/10 at 7:11am
Melancholy, rainy day here ... Feels like a Narciso Rodriguez for Him day.
post #58 of 130
3/12/10 at 7:14am
Costume National - Scent Intense
post #59 of 130
3/12/10 at 7:20am
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Dunhill for Men (1934)

Lemon, Clary Sage, Petitgrain, Lavender
Rose, Jasmine, Orris, Carnation
Cedarwood, Vetiver, Tonka, Leather
post #60 of 130
3/12/10 at 7:26am
PdN Maharadjah
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