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DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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Five Animalics Sitting in my Drawer
I have finished testing my little set of five perfume samples, perfumes noted for their tilt towards the animal. Really I am looking for something great to replace a couple of my favourite perfumes (Aromatics by Clinique and Magie Noir by Lancome) both of which are still in production...
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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What goes around comes around
L'Anarchiste by CaronOld Fashioned Men's AftershaveOpens up as an old fashioned men's
aftershave with loads of orange/lemon/begamot and cedar wood. I
personally don't get mandarin and orange blossom as the top notes, the
citrus is much more vague than that. A few minutes in sees the
development...
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
Let''s feel the base
Afrika Olifant opened on my skin with a very sweet feminine balsamic rich incense, animalic shoe leather, oud, bitter myrrh, nothing much in the way of wood notes and floral. And musk.The perfume spread rapidly throughout the house as I blithely gave myself four or five tiny sprays from a 2ml tester....
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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Pour une Femme and Autumn is Coming
We all like what we like and I like Caron. Just as one cryptic crossword compiler seems to sing from the same hymn sheet so one perfume house can fit like a glove.I have Parfum Sacre, Nuit de Noel, Narcisse Noir, En Avion. I have sampled Can Can, Pour une Femme, Tabac Blond, L'Anarchiste....
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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Aromatics - yesterday and today - a savoury experience
Eaking out my older bottle of Aromatics and feeling that I really didn't want to use it all up I decided to give the new formulation another go; my first try hadn't gone so well as it brought my wrist out in an angry red rash.I took my son to the local shopping centre...
DorothyGrace 8 years ago
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First of Five Animalics Run the Gaunlett
Embers by Rouge bunny Rouge opened hopefully enough with a smokey, peppery, woody, resemblance to Parfum Sacre by Caron. At around the half hour mark some rather generic 'woodsy' notes started to climb (and climb they did) and hope that had sprung eternal in my breast faded and died.These...