Very light musky praliné rose
Lancôme's "Trésor" is a classic - one of these powerful florals created by the great Sophia Grojsman in 1990, a peachy rose on a woody and vanillic base with a strong sillage. The latest flanker called "Eau de parfum Lumineuse" has no sillage at all. It stays very close to the skin. All I get out of it is a musky prali...
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Warm, spicy, well-blended
This is a flanker I didn't buy in winter and managed to grab with a great reduction now it's summer ... and doesn't it bear one of the most complicated names in Givenchy's history? "Poetry of a Winter Perfume" hits the target with this perfumed missile - provided your aim is NOT to smell like a bunch of freshly picked...
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Warm, spicy, well-blended
This is a flanker I didn't buy in winter and managed to grab with a great reduction now it's summer ... and doesn't it bear one of the most complicated names in Givenchy's history? "Poetry of a Winter Perfume" hits the target with this perfumed missile - provided your aim is NOT to smell like a bunch of freshly picked...
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Why, or why so much fennel?
Tirrenico is surprising and original, it could even be wonderful - except for its strong fennel-note which one perceives after the top-notes have gone. It may also be some kind of "parsley water-dropwort"-smell - but if you are not into drinking ouzo or eating fennel, if you like your perfumes to smell more abstract an...
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Why, or why so much fennel?
Tirrenico is surprising and original, it could even be wonderful - except for its strong fennel-note which one perceives after the top-notes have gone. It may also be some kind of "parsley water-dropwort"-smell - but if you are not into drinking ouzo or eating fennel, if you like your perfumes to smell more abstract an...
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Why, or why so much fennel?
Tirrenico is surprising and original, it could even be wonderful - except for its strong fennel-note which one perceives after the top-notes have gone. It may also be some kind of "parsley water-dropwort"-smell - but if you are not into drinking ouzo or eating fennel, if you like your perfumes to smell more abstract an...
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Warm, spicy, well-blended
This is a flanker I didn't buy in winter and managed to grab with a great reduction now it's summer ... and doesn't it bear one of the most complicated names in Givenchy's history? "Poetry of a Winter Perfume" hits the target with this perfumed missile - provided your aim is NOT to smell like a bunch of freshly picked...
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My least favourite from HdP
To me, the "worst" in line of a normally great range. This does not smell like Colette and 1873, but like one of the recent Dolce&Gabanna fragrances (reminding me of their "La Luna" in particular). A rather screechy, floral something with no refinement, devoid of fun, let alone new ideas. Mainstream companies tend to d...
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Others do much worse
"Wonderstruck" comes in a cute bottle, but it doesn't smell as cutsey or unpleasantly sentimental as I expected. After a very fruity start, the fragrance takes a warm, slightly nutty, vanilla-ambery direction. Very artificial, you might say and I wouldn't object. But given the low price and the "genre" (we're looking a...
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Summery cocktail
No big league perfume, but a nice, cheap drugstore-scent which stays in the background, because when the pleasant top notes (very fruity!) of pineapple leaf and pear (which somehow end up smelling like watermelon - and I love watermelon) have evaporated, the fragrance weakens. It then turns into a soft, predictable fru...
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Why, or why so much fennel?
Tirrenico is surprising and original, it could even be wonderful - except for its strong fennel-note which one perceives after the top-notes have gone. It may also be some kind of "parsley water-dropwort"-smell - but if you are not into drinking ouzo or eating fennel, if you like your perfumes to smell more abstract an...
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Fruity flavours' fantasy
"Icy Fantasy" is a fragrance created by Sophie Labbé, a very talented and qualified perfumer who gave us fragrances like "Jasmin Noir" (Bvlgari), "Promesse" and "Liberté" (Cacharel) or "Bellissima" (Blumarine). Sophie Labbé often works for Fiorucci which belongs to the "Perfume Holding", a company created in 2010 when...
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