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I was worried when I saw sandalwood listed in the notes- In my opinion almost nobody gets sandalwoods right, either using that awful acrid picklewood, or just poorly blending the sandalwood into the other notes such that it dominates the fragrance. PdE...

Parfum d'Empire is quickly becoming one of my favorite houses. Their amber accords are just so much smoother and richer than I've seen in other fragrances. I do love a nice dry, sharp amber,...

I work in agriculture, and I am intimately familiar with the scent of soil. I'm fairly confident that I could make a reasonable guess at the quality of a soil on scent alone. All this is to say that this perfume smells like a very low quality soil....

I wouldn't call this "photorealistic" as I've never considered chocolate strawberries to have a particularly strong aroma on account of needing to be chilled, but the scent is clearly designed to evoke the confection. The...

Conceptually very fun. The vegetal carrot accord and green notes and meadowy flowers and musk do clearly evoke rabbits. The "biscuit accord" pairs surprisingly well with the musk and greenery, but I feel that it is just a bit too sweet for my liking....

Far, far too much unbalanced sweetness, which is a shame, because I quite like the marzipan/amaretto and coffee notes. The coffee and almond are not intense or bitter enough to provide a much needed edge to the saccharine stickiness. Probably...

I love the opening for this one- the rose and oud are blended quite well and evoke cacao despite the lack of any raw cacao materials in the perfume. I can understand why cacao was erroneously included in the notes on the worse fragrance website. I am less...

Smells like a dry shampoo I used to use. A sort of musky, faintly fruity, sandalwood/amber scent. The sandalwood and amber are quite modest in this one and aren't at all overpowering as I tend to find them in other perfumes. Everything...

I don't see this as especially powdery- not that I mind much either way. What I do smell is a lot of bright florals with a darker, leathery/ambery side. Its kind of a traditional granny scent, which I suppose it meant to be the "palaces" part of the name,...

Sweet, slightly spiced grapefruit, with a floral jasmine and peppercorn base. Champagne notes are very short lived, and I hardly detect sandalwood at all (which is, in my opinion, a good thing, as I find sandalwood to be overpowering...

Having only started getting into perfumery little over two years ago, I know I'm late to the party glazing Xerjoff, but frankly, even posthumous praise is well deserved in this instance. Lira opens with a bright juicy orange...

If you were unaware, apple, strawberry, and rose are all very closely related (all in the rosaceae family) and this is especially evident in this perfume. Their similar genealogy combines in such a fascinating way in perfumery,...