IrinaSpalko

Sphinx perfumes have been taking me on a roller coaster ride since sampling Strawberry Sugar High, KoKonut Daiquiri, and Strawberry Kiss earlier this month. Those ones are loud, intense and extreme. But after spraying...

After just recently selling my full bottle online, I feel this one deserves a few words. It is a discontinued signature scent of Italian fashion house, Bottega Veneta, known for their woven leather bags and minimalist...

Sketch is an ambery sweet vintage cozy smoothly blended vanilla oriental. This is what I'd imagine the 1920's Shalimar "Shalimar (Eau de Parfum) | Guerlain" originally to be like. Or perhaps, if it had never been invented...

Reminds me of the smell of being in 1920's-era art deco and italianate styled mansions in South Florida, the kind I've visited that have many original decoration and linens still in use. It makes me strangely sad for times before my time,...

This one reminds me of a place in the indoor shopping mall that my mom used to take me and my sister to as a child. In this mall was a store similar to Pier 1 that sold rustic home decor such as artificial flowers...

Going forward, Vent Vert will remain firmly in my dedicated springtime/summertime rotation. Something to share with more open minded noses who seek anything fresh or green. The bottle I am drawing from is a newly...

By itself, this is pure leather along with the sweetness characteristic of it. However this is not a "vanilla" sweetness that leathers often rely on. Because there is no vanilla (or any other recognizable profile) synthesis...

Imagine if Versace's Dylan Blue pour femme arrived at the beauty counters of the 1950's? It would be the smartphone to their rotary phone, the Velcro to their metal hook and eye closures, the plastic to their...

Years ago, when I wasn't really into collecting and comparing perfumes, I smelled Narciso Rodriguez Narciso in the white bottle at Macy's and found it so very interesting and unique. Weird and artistic even. A sort of lactonic...

A friend introduced this gem to me via the hand sanitizer. Another time, I applied some body spray in the store and not even an hour later, could not bear it. This is because the brand-wide Bath and Body works liquid base formula of their body...

My first encounter with Slowdive was on paper, and it did not do very well on paper alone. The heavy sweetness of the opening and the dry down was sickening, it smelled like the concentration of some honey wheat cereal (Similar to Commodity Velvet+)....

Here is the isolated element that will make people in the same room with you feel a little bit nauseous. The last remaining vapor of a cheap fresh air bathroom spray. The heaviness of something that is trying to be nothing. This is everything I don't like...