Merteuil

well, here we go again with bad mood regarding THIS designer nonsense, maybe I should slowly change my username to Statler and Waldorf, since I apparently just want to grumble about almost all newer fragrance releases ... - even...

the ultimate hippie-chic perfume for fur-wearing ladies from the Taunus in 1978; clean and dirty at the same time, it truly reminds one of the scent of old furrier goods, when they were still so to speak 'politically correct' and unproblematic....

an olfactory reconstruction of a wooden baroque roof structure under shimmering summer heat; bodies indulging in clouds of raisins soaked in cognac and traces of rusty iron on heated skin under damp batiste; dry cracked leather beneath mutually warming...

I place this scent somewhere between Givenchy Gentleman (without the civet) and a flat-cut Eau du Fier (which has unfortunately long been taken off the market) without its jus de veau - or smoked ham - aspect and campfire realism, to which a wound...

this perfume, seemingly scorned by many here, cannot be judged, in my opinion, by its fragrance pyramid or directly from the scent strip, as the holistic impression only reveals itself on one's own skin. as the first scent,...

Etro has once again demonstrated a fine sense for true Italian nonchalance, as this perfume is, similar to Sandalo, a wonderful embodiment of Italian lifestyle and tradition. A beautiful symbiosis of patchouli and vetiver, which takes away the usual...

I have actually been thrilled with all (old) Etros so far, as they combine everything in one: naturalness and understatement without the usual thunderous noise in sillage and exaggerated longevity! A wonderfully executed fragrance on the theme, a bit bitter...

for me, one of the best patchoulis ever! it has nothing sweet or chocolatey like most of its cousins and does not evoke the usual 68er or gothic associations - I smell damp November leaves, plum liqueur or sherry with a slightly aniseed note,...

perhaps felix yusupov - a very aristocratic dandy, lover of a nephew of the tsar and historically significant poisoner - wore the original in his Parisian exile to cure himself of the revolutionary inconveniences (!) in his homeland, as well...

I am a bit confused about this fragrance: the house of Prada is a global giant when it comes to its scents and fashion, and alongside its extremely well-researched references in every nook and cranny of 20th-century fragrance and costume...

a banquet of long-forgotten culinary delights, a ghost dance and the ether of an era in technicolor and oil, the song...

this is a pseudo vetiver iso-e-super super-gau! in my ongoing search for a flattering skin-like leather perfume that should offer me an alternative to, for example, eau d'hermes or bal a versailles, this megalomaniac scent molecular...