Zofi

What a beautiful scent! You might say it contradicts the title, right? No, bathroom cleaner smells nice too :-)

Eau de Minthé is, for me, a clean scent.
Freshly mopped, freshly washed, freshly cleaned.
If one were to describe Eau de Minthé in a figurative way, it would be my bank advisor. Absolutely friendly, a bit older, always in a freshly pressed suit and starched shirt.
This perfume embodies for me the essence of handsome men 40+ in even more beautiful suits and leather shoes - and chewing gum! Because somehow you have to incorporate the mint.

I, female, 30, wear it very happily, without a suit and with sneakers ;-).
It pleases, quite a lot actually, but I would also say it’s a people-pleaser.

Longevity is... well, okay, sillage is good.

That's roughly how Gentle Fluidity Silver smells to me.

Since I became "an adult" (HA, that’s been a few years now) or rather, since I started feeling like one, I've completely moved away from sweet perfumes.
Nowadays, I mainly wear men's/unisex fragrances, with the occasional foray into cotton candy paradise.

I ordered a sample of Gentle Fluidity Silver directly from MFK years ago.
Just like the Gold - which smells terrible to me.
But Silver... hats off - very masculine, very cool!


I feel like I'm swimming in a sea of gin and tonic (which by the way is almost the only alcoholic drink I enjoy...) in a shiny stainless steel pool. Or a huge chrome bathtub.
Or as if you were washing bathroom fixtures with gin... although that sounded much more appetizing in my head than it does written out here.
Anyway, back to the point:

The opener is DEFINITELY loud. A lot of juniper, with a bit of citrus coming in afterward.
And it pretty much stays that way for me.
The longevity is incredible, but I’m used to that from MFK.
In my nose, GFS is definitely on the masculine side, not quite so unisex. But that doesn’t matter at all.
For me, it’s also an absolute compliment magnet - mostly from women, though.
They seem to be drawn to it, just like I probably am, precisely because of its masculine direction.

For me, this year it’s definitely my summer all-rounder!

Writing a review about this scent in summer is... special, but we recently talked about it in the office and now I'm typing it up :-)

Yog Nog is supposed to smell wintry like butterscotch, clove, musk, and watch out, here it comes - cake.

The latter is completely true.
Yog Nog is my special winter fragrance. Special because: you can't wear it without comments.

Every time I get approached:

"Do you have cookies with you?"
"Why does it smell like cake here?"
"It smells like a candy shop in here!"

In January, I baked a bundt cake for my colleague's birthday. And I must say, without wanting to sound arrogant, that my bundt cake is the best in the area.
Anyone who tastes it has at least 2 or 3 pieces and wants the recipe.

I come into the office, bundt cake in hand, Yog Nog on my skin.
"Is the cake for me?!"
"Of course, it's your birthday!"
"You can smell it throughout the whole house!"

But it’s not the cake that you can smell throughout the whole house, it’s Yog Nog. And not subtly!

That's how I was greeted by my colleague.
I think you're talking about me - smell this!

My relationship with BR540 is quite special.
A few years ago, my mother said to me: "I think I smelled the most beautiful fragrance in the world on my colleague today!"

Now that's a statement.
She then treated herself to a bottle, and when I visited her, I was blown away.
How incredibly awesome (!) does this perfume smell? Melted plastic, cotton candy, dentist, latex.

As you might guess, my bottle arrived shortly thereafter.

And what can I say?
The plastic/latex note unfortunately comes out much less on me than on others, but the sweetness that the cotton candy association brings is not too cloying. Slightly burnt even.


Baccarat Rouge and I have been in an open relationship for almost 6 years now.
We love each other, passionately and deeply.
But not every day, not even every week.
I keep coming back to it, regardless of the time of day or season.
BR540 always works for me - it's all about the dosage.

I receive compliments galore for it, more than for any other fragrance.
For me, it's definitely a feel-good scent, maybe also because I associate it with my mother.

I believe every fragrance enthusiast should have at least tried it on their skin once. Hate it or love it, it doesn't matter, but you should have smelled it!

… if you didn’t smell on me as if a cat had peed on me.

It all started just over a year ago. My colleague floated into my office (well, she walked, like everyone else), enveloped in this wonderful, slightly synthetic note.

She had just recovered from Corona, but hadn’t regained her sense of smell yet. Sighing, she plopped down (less gracefully now) onto my visitor chair.

“What’s wrong?”

“I can’t smell anything! It’s driving me crazy!”

“Hmm, but I can honestly tell you: you smell so lovely!”

That made her happy.
On her, Libre smelled so… lovely. Feminine. Elegant.
Slightly sweet, slightly synthetic, not overpowering, so wonderful.
And I wanted that too.
I’m into jasmine and vanilla anyway, and both come through so well on her.
Slightly soapy, like one knows it a bit from Chanel No 5.

She was so kind and left me the bottle.
“Feel free to try it and just give it back to me tomorrow!”

Said and done.
The first spray:
Wow, how beautiful.
Lavender? No idea. Jasmine, vanilla, and amber in full blast.
Sighing in love, I lean back in my chair.
Wait, what is that?
Where is the cat?
Why is there a cat in the office? And why is it peeing on my shirt?

No cat - just urine. Yuck.
I feel dirty.
I smell like pee and somehow like sweat.
I bring the bottle back.

“Wow, something smells unpleasant here…”

And that from the woman with the broken nose.
Well, that must mean something.
Therefore: Libre? Yes please, but only on my fellow humans.