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  by Carla Seipp
  Designed by Rad Hourani and created by nose Christophe Raynaud, Ascent represents the life and death cycle via semen, baby powder, leather, and frankincense accords (olfactory equivalents to conception, infancy, middle-age, and death). It’s a slightly sweet musk that maintains a hint of darkness. “Ascent is the black sheep, some people like and enjoy it, but it&rsqu… [Read More]
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  by Elizabeth Harris
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Amaranthine by Penhaligon's
by rbaker
The opening is an intriguing mix of banana leaves, white freesias, coriander and cardamom, and unroasted green tea. Theses ingredients combine to a rather unique herbal spice impression, which makes for an unexpected start. A floral potpourri cha...More
Lenthéric 12 by Lenthéric
by PStoller
Lenthéric 12 is a fruity chypre, with a rich, dark, smoky base that features a tobacco-like vetiver and, of course, oakmoss. The fruit is not overly sweet, but rather provides body and balance. It was marketed as a feminine in the 1960s, but there’s ...More
Muguet D'Orsay by D'Orsay
by PStoller
A sweet, aldehydeic but not cloying floral, neither indolic like jasmine nor piercing like tuberose, but rather sitting somewhere between the two. It seems at once light in tone and heavy (or humid) in texture. It would be somewhat disingenuous to ca...More