s'Whirly Girl" line - source: The Oz of Lip Smacker Land 1. Lip Smackers "s'Whirly Shimmer Gloss" = "Sérénade aux Fraises | Kyse Perfumes / Perfumes by Terri"  This lip gloss promised "sheer color, frosty flavor & shimmery shine wondrously s'whirled together" - and it smelled like creamy, synthetic strawberry. Sérénade aux Fraises is exactly that: a fun strawberry vanilla...

Montblanc Collection"Since its introduction in 1924, the "Meisterstück" has been the German label's most famous writing instrument and is still considered the epitome of the style, quality and craftsmanship of Montblanc's products. With the new fragrance collection, the company would now like to pay tribute to this...

recently got into fragrances when a friend of mine purchased a bottle of Pineapple Vintage Intense for me November 2022. After I received that bottle I was getting so many compliments and it took me back to when I was 13 and my friends and I were wearing things like Polo Sport, Nautica Competition, the original Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger, and my favorite Hugo Boss. I love how fragrances are... Polo Sport,...

Pink Lilac & Vanilla candle from Bath & Body Works. It's sweet, soft, creamy, and cozy - but most lilac-forward perfumes I've come across are fairly green/earthy, and not as gourmand as I've been hoping for. It's been a while since we've had a "face-off" between fragrances (like Battle of the Birthday Scents + Battle of the Autumn Apples) - but since I've been hunting...

and labdanum. "Sexiest Fougère" was created by Theodoros Kalotinis himself. The fragrance category "Fougère", derived from the French word "fern", was established in 1882 by the masculine perfume "Fougère Royale" by Houbigant. The typical fougère accord combines aromas of lavender, hay-like coumarin, oakmoss and bergamot. There are now numerous...

Narjis and Yaluli were instant pleasers, and my fondness grows each time I wear them.The Twin Flower was instantly strange, with a raw soap that overwhelmed.  This one has taken a few applications to smell past the raw soap to perceive (well to my nose at any rate) a camphor like geranium with some orange and spice, and a cold laundry like musk.  There is a strange sweetness about it which...

VIP Club Addictive Oriental, Alberto Morallis. What drew me to this scent was paradisone. I like hedione as a note because it has been scientifically proven to do what cologne wearers wear a scent for. I... hedione as a note because it has been scientifically proven to do what cologne wearers wear a scent for. I like pardisone because it is basically hedione on steroids. As I clean the kitty litter I note...

in the note pyramid. However, if a fragrance contains dihydro myrcenol, a synthesized aromachemical, most likely it is not going to show up as a separate note in the pyramid. Notes Notes are, in essence, simply marketing tools. They let you know as a consumer what the fragrance is going to smell like. This is why aromachemicals usually don't make it onto the notes listing....

am writing this article for personal reasons.I lost my mother three years ago at the age of 84 and still remember her young and well dressed and her perfume. She loved heavy florals like madame Rochas or vanilla musky like Jovan. I had done a trip to Morocco in 2017 October and had asked the shop assistant in a perfumery shop in Tangier to assist me in buying a 50ml...

Extract™, enveloped by the warm and spicy nuances of saffron. A base of amberwood and cashmere wood, enhanced by musk and patchouli, provides a spicy, woody, earthy finish. Joyphoria -  contentment and happiness You feel  transported to paradise thanks to ylang ylang and vanilla pod. Like a golden ray of sunshine, it is balsamic, warm and radiant...

article is not trying to prove anything. For me it's all a matter of taste and matter of personality. The market of course wants us to consume,  so when the temperatures rise the market will say "come on you need a perfume that smells like the breeze that blows over the sea surface towards your head. So buy all fragrances with calypsone, the synthetic note that smells... the breeze that...

K, I wanted to create a perfume around the black vanilla orchid, which was discovered in Monte Rosa in Italy. I combined it with the flowers that grow on Lake Como: magnolias, jasmine and oleander, wild roses... I added the typical gourmet notes of vanilla cannolis and marshmallows, which glisten like little clouds at the end of the skewer during our love dinners....