...from Apicius' collection:fav: "L'Instant de Guerlain Pour Homme Cristaux d'Agrumes" by Guerlainleast fav: "Joop! Homme" by Joop!

...Your words fit perfectly, PontNeuf: Room to breathe!"Translucent" doesn´t mean "weak", "wishy-washy" or "undefined". KM, as well as AG, has some quite strong, very distintively formulated perfumes ("Ambre Fétiche" is one.. but regrettably has this special sort of frankincense I cannot cope with).It´s about leaving some space and air around the scent. The using person becomes not just the medium of the perfume, an object, but stays the subject of the scent.Elegance, as mentioned by AromiErotici, is another key-word to the KM-style. All KM-perfumes I got to know til now, have some kind of confident elegance. An upright assertiveness.I enthuse, don´t I? :P

...PontNeuf, I think, I know this "watery" character... I just call it "translucent" here. *g*KM sometimes appears to me as the US-Amercian version of Annick Goutal-Perfumes.

...Actually I do not like marine scents. *g*But there are two that I tested, that I found wonderful, even if I wouldn´t wear them. It was sea and beach and coast wind, the rough climate of the European Atlantic:"AOD" by Lostmarc'h and (on a quite sunny day though) "Côte d'Amour" by L'Artisan Parfumeur.

...The same here, Flaconneur (with a question mark behind Woody and without Green).

...YES! That corresponds well with my Mecheri-experience!I needed some examples for getting an idea of that recognizable and unique "something" about/in KM-Perfumes. Now I LOVE and use very often "Loukhoum", "Mulholland" and (recently discovered) "Paname".Some of the sniffed KM-scents were no musthaves for me, but all of them are subtle and not too loud but in the same time expressive and distinct. KM has a style, a quite individual one. I could not recognize a KM-perfume "blind", like perhaps some JC Ellena- or Lutens/Sheldrake-perfumes, but I think that´s not because she has not a personal, recognizable style, only because I still lack practice and knowing.

...Me too, I love the dark-sweet-heavy-smokey-autumn/winter-perfumes and I really don´t have such a big problem, for instance, using a hardcore-ambergris-scent in mid-summer.But there are some perfumes in my collection that aswell others, without such favours, would call "suitable for all seasons":"1826 - Eugénie de Montijo" by Histoires de Parfum,"Clemency" by Humięcki & Graef,"Original Musk Blend No. 1" by Kiehl's,"Musc Nomade" by Annick Goutal and"Five O'Clock Au Gingembre" by Serge Lutens Les Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido.