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Note: for full effect have 30's jazz playing and spray Dunhill for Men on a cloth to smell while reading. Creative exercise #3 He sits at the bar in a jazz lounge in LA. His eyes point down at the glass just out of reach of his two hands. A martini. A small row of olives seem...

🌿 LAVENDER 🌿 GOOD:- alkemia: "Novella | Alkemia" (provencal), "Arcanum Experiments 2023 - 17 | Alkemia" (french), "Tu es Magique | Alkemia", "Baccante | Alkemia" (spanish)- bpal: "All Worlds are in Motion | Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab" (white), waiting 2016, violet ray (lavender...

Here is a new one for me that is a real oldie - Pour un Homme de Caron I'll say this again later but right off this scent doesn't seem masculine to me but rather more feminine. it's to lavender for that?!! quick breakdown.PHC - initial blast of lavender followed by vanilla powder. sits. after...

There are fragrances that arrive in your life quietly, long after their release, yet feel as if they’ve been waiting for you all along. Extrait Noir (2021) is exactly that kind of encounter-a dark, enigmatic leather fougère steeped in camphor and castoreum, shadows, and silence. Discovering it now feels...

My fragrance journey only really started this past year. I was never really interested in fragrance in my teens or early adulthood as I was living in a tiny industrial town in northern Sweden, where I had nobody to impress and it just felt like I was poking out if I did anything too bold. In spring 2025,...

Though i never smelled PC's PM until recently I have very clear memories of seeing it. It would have been at a pharmacy i worked at as a teenager (14yrs old working under the table! sshhh don't tell). It was one of the gift sets and i'm pretty sure it was the cologne aftershave 2 pack....

It's Christmas day of 2017, and there's one gift left to open. I carefully pull the top off the box and see a lovely little gift set of a scent that I didn't realize at the time would lead me on a wild goose chase years later. Victoria's Secret - Dark Flora. It was tart,...

"You are now entering the harmonic realm." The year is 2003. I am a slutty white boy.  It's my freshman year of high school and I'm not nearly nervous enough about my first homecoming dance. See, my grandmother...