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  by Carla Seipp
  Barbara Herman’s olfactory aesthetic is unapologetically glamourous. Basenotes last spoke to her in 2012, when she was blogging under Yesterday’s Perfume and several months shy of the release of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, an ode to fragrance in all its gender-bending, norm-defying glory. Today, she has put her love of all things… [Read More]
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Vanille Insens�e by Atelier Cologne
by Missionista
Lime-forward vanilla. What you are promised is what you get. Light, easily wearable for work, completely inoffensive, and therefore versatile. Not really interesting, and quite linear, this is a safe scent. It's nice to have a vanilla that isn't ...More
Pancaldi by Hanorah
by epapsiou
Stardate 20210917: Vintage version: Most fragrance houses are shameless. They follow (or more accurately copy) the trend. Guerlain with Coty, everyone else with No5. And more recently Cool Water. But in 80s it was Drakkar Noir. A lot of fragra...More
V�tiver / Vetiver by Provence Sant�
by speedracer
This is refined vetiver. Not sweet and more on the smokey/earthy side of vetiver, but this is clean, pleasant, professional, and very versatile for daytime wearings. Never loud, unless over-sprayed. However, it's not shy either and you can smell i...More