Vintage AF and not for me
In my mind, this fragrance house specializes in vintage, or maybe more traditional, scents like chypres. Snooze fits into that classical perfumery in that the accords speak to an olfactive taste wholly separate from current perfume preferences. It’s powdery, lip sticky & feminine. There’s a muskimess that reads like a...
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Leave It in the Colosseum
SKIN TEST: The paper test left me with a better impression than the skin test by a lot! On skin, this reads as a muddy and unclear set of “brown” notes that could be chocolate, rum or caramel — who knows? Unpleasant and unclear scent journey. Wanted to like this but I can’t. 2.5/5 starsPAPER TEST: Truly unisex and is b...
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Peach Skin Is a Sleeper Hit
Love this lil peach down! Greatly surprised by Peach Skin because it hadn't remotely been on my radar. Phlur as a house, despite my efforts to like their fairly large catalog, isn’t anything I’m drawn to. Even more so that if I wasn’t interested in Phlur’s perfumes, I sure wasn’t curious about their body mists. I stand...
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Not My Cuppa Joe
Phew - that’s animalic! According to the note breakdown, there’s no civet or styrax, so I suppose that must be true. There’s a beautifully complex Oud that’s earthy and dark that both sweetens and adds depth to CT. The patchouli is simultaneously reminiscent of a flourless chocolate cake and almost soil-like. I get the...
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Love, love, LOVE
Crystallized soap bubbles, a crisp bar of dove soap and femme fatale washing the crime off her skin. This is bright and clean and pretty. It’s so clean you’re not sure you can trust it. The story telling behind this is so fun! This is a beautiful soapy and lightly floral scent that would shine in the hottest days of su...
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A slightly fruity bubble bath
Clean & comforting. Vegetal yet fruity. This a lovely easy reach perfume that’s inoffensive, (slightly) soapy and quietly inviting. This could easily be a fresh bedtime scent or a work-friendly skin scent. As a skincare girly, I immediately get the centella asiatica note: it’s gentle, green and fresh. The peach note is...
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Skin Test
This is a unique mix of baby powder, fresh bay laurel leaves and figgy green accords. There’s a greenness in this reminiscent of one of Arcana Wildcraft’s scents. Once I can recall/remember it, I’ll put label it under the “associations” tag. There is an interesting temperature component in EM that I believe comes from...
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Ferrero Roche made Perfume
PAPER STRIP TEST ONLY: I know this is a new product, so the event hasn’t had time to macerate. However, I’m already a fan! Sure, there’s a plasticky chocolate note but it doesn’t trouble me much as it is. My suspicion is that it will smooth out during maceration. I get a lovely lactonic note coupled with a lovely vanil...
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Skin Test
This is a unique mix of baby powder, fresh bay laurel leaves and figgy green accords. There’s a greenness in this reminiscent of one of Arcana Wildcraft’s scents. Once I can recall/remember it, I’ll put label it under the “associations” tag. There is an interesting temperature component in EM that I believe comes from...
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Dairy Drenched in a Sour Way
PAPER STRIP ONLY: Slightly fluffy, lightly spiced and then (regrettably) followed by a heightened lactonic accord to the very clearly articulated rice pudding accords. At the back end of CH’s initial spray, I find discordant and poorly executed woody accords. I recognize that the note list doesn’t reflect it, but there...
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