05-ene-2015 - Elisa on a timeless, elegant and somewhat underrated chypre. A green chypre can feel golden and warm, like the opulent Safari by Dominique Ropion, or chilly and aloof with iris, such as the archetypal Chanel No. 19 and Paco Rabanne Metal. I associate the warm, galbanum-dense chypres with autumn, while I always seem to reach […]
The word for this month's Scent Semantics posts is "misanthrope." If you haven't read one of these posts before, "Scent Semantics" brings together a group of us fragrance bloggers in a collaborative project called “Scent Semantics", the brainchild of Portia Turbo over at A Bottled Rose. On the first Monday of each month, we all…
Scent Semantics, September 5 Serenity Now Scents and Sensibilities
WHAT I SMELL: Chanel No. 19 opens with bright aldehydes and a sweetened bergamot that quickly turns to a buttery iris that is so radiantly smooth that it glides on the skin as if it's surfing just a milliliter off of your body. Right from first spritz the perfume has a big presence, but it's…
Chanel No. 19 Eau de Toilette
Bois des Iles Chanel perfume - a fragrance for women 1926
My Favorite Winter Perfumes
The newest addition to Chanel's Les Exclusifs range, Sycomore is advertised as inspired by the fragrance originally created in 1930
Chanel Sycomore Les Exclusifs 1930 and 2008 : Perfume Review - Bois de Jasmin
This blog can occasionally get breathless about perfume classics, and if you start me on Après l’Ondée, you’d think that you haven’t lived until smelling this Guerlain perfume from 1906. There is nothing wrong with admiring classics and sharing one’s enthusiasm about them, but I would like to provide some balance to the veneration of perfumes made before […]
If You Struggle with Perfume Classics - Bois de Jasmin
By Tara As I write this, it is one of those gently rainy, warm mornings. Everything seems calm, quiet and slowed down somehow. It's a perfect day for wearing Silences. When wearing it for the first time I was surprised by just how many times I raised my wrist to my nose. I found something…
Serene Green – Review: Jacomo Silences
Caron Secret Oud and Oud by Caron : Perfume Review - Bois de Jasmin
Fragrance Review: Chanel Cuir de Russie - Bois de Jasmin