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A few months ago, and equipped with an aroused forewarning of wild episodes of swooning awaiting us, my friend A. and I set about climbing the four floors of thickly carpeted Harrod’s stairs in order to reach Nirvana, aka Roja Dove’s...

Not foolproof by any means, especially with today’s modern molecules, but the colour depth of the jus tends to be a good indicator of the strength that lies within. “The bottle is opaque black you silly!” I hear you say. Yes,...

... So perhaps this is what the name is all about because this stuff is so potent, so linear, so there, in your face, your nose, everywhere that it takes a special kind of fragrance enthusiast to handle it. Not me sadly. It smells...

This is most probably THE perfume that set me off on my lifelong love of (almost) all things fragrant. If not, it at the very least claims a place in my heart as my very first love, which I happened upon by sheer accident. For the anecdote,...

This is one bizarre experience. Look at the notes… What do you see? A collection of powerful bases, redolent of lushness and warmth, of mesmerizing far away lands, and bewitching ointments that will stick to your flesh like a love spell. Apply,...

Here’s the dilemma … It doesn’t smell bad, as in BAD. It’s very sweet and fruity. A big gourmand with a hefty dose of citrus. BUT It belongs more in the Britney/Paris realm, and if the price tag was to match...

Shams is the Arabic word for “Sun”. I guess it makes perfect sense since this fragrance is all about hot and spicy ingredients, mingling together to form a rather attractive masculine. My friend K had been...

As I sprayed, the first whiff did animate me, albeit very briefly, because, after the correctly allocated time for the alcohol to evaporate (never understand people who spray and sniff practically...

On opening, Jannat walks very much along the same lines of a traditional Eau de Cologne both in terms of behaviour and characteristics. Very fresh and citrusy. Like an Eau de Cologne, you also have to spray a ton of it on to get any substantial...

Could there be some light, at long last, at the end of the Memo tunnel? Perhaps. To be fair, this is a pretty safe composition, but the result is rather charming, if not groundbreaking, but then again, not all perfumes...

Perfume is allegorical by nature. We may all, allegedly, smell the same thing but we do, undoubtedly, interpret it in our very own special way. Manoa was inspired by the Inca’s Island of Gold. They must have had the Mother of all spice...

Out of the entire Linari line, this is the only one I added to my want/to test list based on the notes pyramid. Vetiver is a big love of mine. I adore its deeply inky dampness, find it utterly sexy on a man and am really...