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Quick Sniffs: Isabey Gardenia, Shiseido Murasaki, L’Artisan Jour de Fete and Dior Diorella

April 16, 2009

ISABEY GARDENIA: Originally a 1920s fragrance, now reissued by Paris-based fragrance house Panouge, Isabey Gardenia is a heavy-lidded, heavy-breathing, heavy limbed type of fragrance, so intent on coming across as glamorously indolent that it’s almost a parody of glamor itself. But hey, if long silk dresses, mink stoles and high-alcohol content drinks served up in [...]

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Quick Sniffs: Frapin Terre de Sarment, LesNez Turtle Vetiver (Ex. 1), Guerlain Mitsouko (edp), Lostmarch Aod (edt)

January 13, 2009

LESNEZ TURTLE VETIVER (EXERCISE 1): For serious, straight-up vetiver fanatics only. No one else need apply. If you have to ask yourself whether you’re a serious, straight-up vetiver fanatic, then the answer is clearly no and you should pass this fragrance by. Me? I like vetiver decently enough (see Mitsouko review below), but I don’t [...]

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Narciso Rodriguez for Him and Sinfonia di Note Coeur de Noisette

December 13, 2008

NARCISO RODRIGUEZ FOR HIM: I like Rodriguez’s designs. Louise has several of his dresses, and they fit exactly the way you’d expect a sleek, streamlined American high-fashion piece to fit — i.e. perfectly. Not a stitch out of place, not a body-hugging angle miscalculated. So it was with some trepidation that I approached Narciso Rodriguez [...]

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Bruno Acampora Iranzol and Seplasia

November 17, 2008

I picked up the Bruno Acampora sampler pack from Lucky Scent, and while it’s not nearly so nicely packaged as the Ineke sample box, the pack does include a small booklet listing the scents, accompanied by brief descriptions. The booklet is really more about pictures and poetic prose than helpful information, but what redeems the [...]

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Quick Sniffs: Odori Tabacco; Ginestet Le Boise; Isotta Fraschini Uomo; Voluspa Pagoda

September 23, 2008

ODORI TABACCO: the sweetness of pipe tobacco rather than the dry, bitter glory of the unadorned tobacco leaf. If you’ve ever visited a high-end tobacco store and spent time in one of their walk-in, temperature and humidity controlled display rooms, this is kind of what Odori Tabacco smells like, albeit on a much smaller scale. [...]

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Quick Sniffs: The Different Company Sublime Balkiss, Divine L’Homme de Coeur, Armani Prive Pierre de Lune, Guerlain Sous le Vent

September 8, 2008

THE DIFFERENT COMPANY SUBLIME BALKISS: this is my first run-in with The Different Company, a niche Parisian fragrance company founded in 2000 by Thierry de Baschmakoff and Jean Claude Ellena (before he was tapped to be in-house perfumer for Hermes — his daughter, Céline Ellena, now fills his shoes as head perfumer for the brand). [...]

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DSquared2 He Wood; Divine L’Homme Sage

July 31, 2008

Now, I love DSquared2 as far as their clothing and shoes are concerned — their oh-so-chic urban style is often underscored by a near self-deprecating sense of humor, and they’re a much needed shot in the arm to an industry that too often forgets that men are built differently from women (Prada and Dior Homme, [...]

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Quick Sniffs: Isabey Gardenia, Shiseido Murasaki, L’Artisan Jour de Fete and Dior Diorella

Quick Sniffs: Frapin Terre de Sarment, LesNez Turtle Vetiver (Ex. 1), Guerlain Mitsouko (edp), Lostmarch Aod (edt)

Narciso Rodriguez for Him and Sinfonia di Note Coeur de Noisette

Bruno Acampora Iranzol and Seplasia

Quick Sniffs: Odori Tabacco; Ginestet Le Boise; Isotta Fraschini Uomo; Voluspa Pagoda

Quick Sniffs: The Different Company Sublime Balkiss, Divine L’Homme de Coeur, Armani Prive Pierre de Lune, Guerlain Sous le Vent

DSquared2 He Wood; Divine L’Homme Sage

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