Smartopal

Sitting on a quay wall, a small fishing village, the Atlantic coast of France. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing gently, the sea is crashing in gently bobbing waves against the stone wall below my dangling bare feet. Am a child...

Warm, sensual and incomparably beguiling, this fantastic fragrance drew me under its spell. As a high school graduate, I worked in a perfumery during the Christmas holidays. Samples and miniatures were freely available to us. There was a proper...

My first souk sweetie! Outright gourmands are not my specialty and have been largely avoided. Fruit overkill and sugar shock were to be feared. However, this delicious vanilla dream has now done it to me. Soft, gentle and delicately sweet,...

In the early 90s, I came across Kouros. In the student commune of my then boyfriend, the fragrance made the rounds. From then on, my nose was stapled to his neck, whenever that was wetted with this seductive attractant. If I may avail myself...

With the first breath with "Oxygène" in front of my nose, my facial features derail briefly. I feel unpleasantly reminded of salad, which was accidentally overlooked in the vegetable drawer for days, and is now going on its way. This first shock...

The coolest fragrance of the early 90s. Spicy, sparkling and different. Strange, like the girls who wore it. Pack your backpack, grab your boots and a sombrero and off you go west. "California here we come!