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Only rarely has a new release from Penhaligon's in recent years received such a unanimous positive echo as Belgravia Chypre. One might even think that only eight years after the perfectly shaped Sartorial, the big, old brand...

The basic framework of the meeting was already there, was to be written up the following evening and - well, a comment on Alt-Innsbruck pops up in my mailbox. And not from...

It was one of those small changes in everyday life that, in retrospect, gave a considerable boost to the way we lead our lives, and whose reversal now seems all the more impossible, since these changes were followed by a whole series...

Attempts to find classic scent signatures in connection with oud have so far failed for me: Synthetic oud and traditional compositions either didn't go well together (Colonia Oud) or the character of classical houses was distorted and the result...

It's wonderful to infect a good friend from your school days with your perfume-related passion, who at the same time tends to approach your hobbies in a similarly analytical/complete/exploratory way as you do. During visits, boxes of perfumes...

After the misleadingly named - albeit very good! - Sandalwood Cologne by Geo F. Trumper I felt the need to test the namesake of another old house for shaving supplies and accompanying fragrances from England....

Yes, Sandalwood Cologne can indeed be considered at least as a close relative of Chanel's Égoïste, which is, in my opinion, the last great men's fragrance by Chanel. The darker-fruity, more elegant development of the powerhouse theme of the eighties,...

Fougères lend themselves to evoking comparatively straightforward notions of masculinity and draw from this, at least in the Western hemisphere, their unbroken popularity; the typical components are usually easy to classify - even without analysis,...

Similar to Penhaligon's, Floris is one of those houses where you hardly notice when perfumed silverware is brought to the market to be placed on the dining table from the proceeds of minimalist chique, where design is everything but substance...

Two hearts beat in my chest since this test, when I think of the Clive Cristian brand. Because in and of itself I can't help but find everything about this brand repulsive: The vulgar, almost infantile design of the flacons, the pseudo-aristocratic...

Several reviewers on these pages have contributed with their descriptions to the fact that Bel Ami presents himself to me in my mind as a slightly frivolous, but heart-felt, tobacco-tanned wrinkled face from the beat...

If I had to define a single scent or chord as "ore masculine", this could of course only be the one that was most obvious to me when many men came together in childhood days, such as birthdays, weddings, etc. The milieu was a petty...