Grade AAA 100% Dishwashing Liquid
Realities for Men goes on with a little bit of citrus, but within five seconds, you are keenly aware of a scent that can only be described as dishwashing liquid. You know those dishes that the dishwasher doesn't do a good job on and you have to put in a sink of hot water with Dawn or Palmolive? You know that smell? Tha...
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Think Berkeley Breathed, Not Mozart
Admittedly, Amogue has set the standard in gothic perfumery with Memoir Man, so I entered this experience expecting great things. Even allowing for that bias and unhinging that, Opus VII is a disappointment. It is, in two words, a confused journey. The scent opens deep, oily, almost medicinal with a streak of woods and...
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Along a Strange Strand
It all begins with a whiff of amber, then salt (nice), but then suntan lotion (eww). I am initially disappointed. You mean I'm sampling an Italian fragrance and all I'm getting are the same generic beach notes used in everyday fragrances? What a rip off! After an hour, though, it has become this oatmeal/beach/chlorine...
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Along a Strange Strand
It all begins with a whiff of amber, then salt (nice), but then suntan lotion (eww). I am initially disappointed. You mean I'm sampling an Italian fragrance and all I'm getting are the same generic beach notes used in everyday fragrances? What a rip off! After an hour, though, it has become this oatmeal/beach/chlorine...
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Along a Strange Strand
It all begins with a whiff of amber, then salt (nice), but then suntan lotion (eww). I am initially disappointed. You mean I'm sampling an Italian fragrance and all I'm getting are the same generic beach notes used in everyday fragrances? What a rip off! After an hour, though, it has become this oatmeal/beach/chlorine...
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Mitsouko For Kids
This smells nice when you sniff the sprayer, but do not -- I repeat DO NOT -- apply it. The instant you do, an amazingly foul concoction floods your senses. Now, what I do I mean by that? This is childhood wronged; in here is the smell of grape Freezy Pops from your youth, but that smell has been split open to reveal t...
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Along a Strange Strand
It all begins with a whiff of amber, then salt (nice), but then suntan lotion (eww). I am initially disappointed. You mean I'm sampling an Italian fragrance and all I'm getting are the same generic beach notes used in everyday fragrances? What a rip off! After an hour, though, it has become this oatmeal/beach/chlorine...
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Grade AAA 100% Dishwashing Liquid
Realities for Men goes on with a little bit of citrus, but within five seconds, you are keenly aware of a scent that can only be described as dishwashing liquid. You know those dishes that the dishwasher doesn't do a good job on and you have to put in a sink of hot water with Dawn or Palmolive? You know that smell? Tha...
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Mitsouko For Kids
This smells nice when you sniff the sprayer, but do not -- I repeat DO NOT -- apply it. The instant you do, an amazingly foul concoction floods your senses. Now, what I do I mean by that? This is childhood wronged; in here is the smell of grape Freezy Pops from your youth, but that smell has been split open to reveal t...
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A Breath of Sunshine
If you try hard, you can smell the separate components in Ambre Nue -- orange, ambergesis, and cinnamon. However, they combine in such a way that you really don't want to -- you just want to inhale and be bathed in the warm, slightly spicy, fresh scent that envelops you. It's interesting how these facets combine here;...
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A Honeysuckle Yatagan
I had no idea what to expect from Bois Blonds; the name did nothing for me. What I received was an aromatic honeysuckle -- both vine and flower -- plus spices. Silage is about a foot, and the spices do not dominate, at first. However, my skin amps spices, and within an hour, I can no longer wear the scent. It has becom...
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Classy Fail
Goes on like champagne, a fruit-infused wine, quite elegant. The first five minutes are wonderful. Then it becomes storax and pepper, which is depressing, but that phase fades as the champagne returns to create this elegant, laid-back, vaguely peppery, refined, distantly fruity, champagne smell, that screams class and...
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