I got two blind buys on the same day. Annick Goutal Mon Parfum Cherie par Camille reinforces the blind buy. If I were to mistake my lucky randomness for logic I would never have to smell another...
Fourreau Noir makes me consider the possibilities of copying and repetition. Part of a series, variation on a theme? Uninventive, deliberate, derivative? ...
At first sniff I get cumin quite strong and maybe some nutmeg trying to cover up . . . no other way to say it, an awful stench of burning onions with some other odd camphor. Sounds strange and...
I had a long perfectly civil acquaintanceship with Duc de Vervins long before I elected to purchase a bottle. I tried it several times at Bergdorf's and passed on it thinking it is too strong;...
Cool, but sunny Tirrenco opens up with dry, bitter orange peel and a very stark ouzo (or, if you prefer, vodka infused with fennel bulb). There's an undercurrent of salty detritus, washed up on a...
SotE: Fourreau Noir (Serge Lutens) - fresh from the mail.
I'm having a deja-vu... one of the very first bottles I owned as a teenager was Jil Sander's Feeling Man. If memory serves me right, this leans so much towards this vintage. I did have good taste as a teenager
Halston Z-14, which I just decanted from the grotty splash bottle it's been in since I was in high school, several years now, into an atomizer. Beautiful rich-looking juice, wonderfully peaty, earthy frag.