#fragrance review

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I like Nautica Blue EDT. Its a safe scent, perfect for men like my boyfriend who doesn’t like strong smells. It reminds me of the first step out of the shower, out of the bubble of water spray and soap and you can clearly smell your cleanliness.

The blend of bergamot, jasmine, and cedar is very harmonious, and it has three very clear stages. The opening is sharp citrus notes, i wish the peach was stronger, more enveloping, but i feel that might turn this scent a bit too unisex, I think the jasmine and water lily REALLY shine here, it reaches its peak around an hour and a half. And the dry down after almost three hours is powdery and musky, and the cedar is very strong without being too soapy or old spice like, but the beginning definitely is like an irish bar. I feel like the sharpness comes from its synthetic smell. Its not high quality. But most of our boyfriends are not going to be purchasing or appreciating high quality fragrance. This was created with a clear male consumer in mind. Perhaps a man with already expensive hobbies who wouldnt justify buying something more than $50 just to wear on a date.

That said its very safe, commercial, generic even. Theres nothing original about it. Additionally, Nautica Blue is very intimate, theres no sillage and its projection is less than an arms length. I would say its good for the office, but it only lasts three hours. Which instead makes it perfect for dinner. It lasted six hours in my hair and my boyfriends hair however, (this is why i apply in my hair all my perfumes)

Definitely a green spring/summer scent, that leans more unisex to me. Still male.

The bottle itself is boring, this is my midas desire for opulent looking baubles, i dont think nautica needs fancy trappings. Its appropriate and looks just like the sail on a boat. Cute ^_^

Anyway its a cheap mens fragrance. It does what it says. After dinner i like to hug my boyfran and smell his powdery cedary nautica blue. Its made for the blue collar man and not fragheads.

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I’ve been meaning to review Bruno Fazzolari’s scents for some time. I think it’s been years as the house has since rebranded as Fzotic and redesigned its bottles, which look fantastic. I seem to recall the Fzotics reviewed very well but I was not so personally enamoured with them. However, in today’s climate of outrageously inflated pricing in the fragrance market, these scents have taken on a new light. Assuming they have not had any major reformulations, at US$130/30 ml, they represent good quality for the price and perform well.

Five is a pleasant and balanced citrus herbal scent that is the easiest to wear of the set. The hespiridic opening is assertive but never aggressive while rosemary lends it a bit of herbaceous, woody depth. The neroli and a spicy petitgrain soften the scent on the dry down. It’s a bit too reminiscent of Irish Spring soap bars for me to enjoy.

Monserrat is another easy-wearing fruity floral. Opens with a bright grapefruit that mellows out with musky florals and a subtly tart apricot. The dry down is a bit denser that I would like and I think that’s the “plaster” note. Having said that, I prefer this kind of density over a fluffy musk and it gives the scent an unexpected bit of heft.

Lampblack opens innocuously with zesty, carefree citrus notes and a light touch of vetiver which might give you the impression this is a nondescript freshie. However, as the scent develops, the smoke starts to enter, building until it’s transformed from bright and clean to standing on blistering hot tarmac. After a couple hours, the aggression tones down and the grapefruit appears, as if charred. A creative take on the cliched smoky genre.

Room 237 is not nearly as eerie as its ad copy suggests. Having said that, I don’t find it to be an easy wear. In addition to vinyl, I’m reminded of household cleaners, or the smell of barbacide, that blue-hued disinfectant you find in hair salons where stylists store their combs. As the scent dries down, the scent’s initial artificiality becomes more human with musky notes emerging from below. More of a niche experiment than something one would wear.

Ummagumma is a rich and spicy chocolate gourmand flavoured with woods and resins. While it’s not particularly creative, it’s perfectly balanced and unlike other chocolates, it’s never overbearing, harsh or overly sweet and does not veer into coffee/toffee territory. An easy, comforting wear that I would consider a staple in this genre. It’s probably my favourite of the set.

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Masque Milano Kintsugi: this thing is for thinking

People don’t like this.

Reviews complain that it’s too old and fusty, or too modern and artificial; that its tenure is too brief and also that it goes on forever. I can imagine this scent getting accidentally associated with a painful event and becoming intolerable, intolerable; it is a very sponge for memory. 

It’s not friendly, not easily construed. It doesn’t enable you to smell like pastry,  green tea, or an ocean wave. It is not wholesome, like a flower field or a string of laundry drying in the sun. At certain angles, however, you might detect… a room? A room, a chair, a window that looks out onto night: a darkness pierced in places by faint sodium lights, far from us, and wreathed in violet cloud; a darkness that threatens rain.

There is more than a touch of smoke in this old-school chypre. Sweet at turns, with a hint of fruitiness that comes not just from the bergamot but also from the rose: almost a nectarine, though there’s no sign of one on the notes list. This sweetness comes and goes, trading places with art supplies, modeling clay, and a faintly resinous quality supplied by benzoin and possibly, possibly, the raspberry leaf. The smell of paper: readers, you know what I mean. It combines with a cold, rainy magnolia in a way that's very hard to parse, hard to pin down. An intoxicating boozy vanilla appears from time to time but never takes this fragrance into modern gourmand territory. Not at all. Not ever. This acerbic vanilla is the closest that Kintsugi gets to the gold implied in its name: a gold for seaming, a potter's gold.

This fragrance does not soar, although my heart leapt when I first smelled it. It does not resolve its harmonies. It's not involved with heaven; its sky is a lowering one, the sky of a room whose window looks inward. 

This thing is for thinking. It’s not telling you anything you already know.

It’s my birthday, and I think I’m getting myself a bottle of this.

The notes: bergamot, magnolia, and amber on top (I sure don't smell the amber); golden suede, centifolia rose, and violet leaf at the heart; and benzoin siam, raspberry leaf, patchouli coeur, and vanilla at the base. 

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Trussardi Perfume Review

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Tangerine Boy by Phlur is such an uplifting fragrance like I was in a shitty ass mood and I put it on and I swear I felt my blood pressure go down and I was sitting down and smiled and my breathing changed. Have you ever been drunk on a topical beach sunbathing, just totally relaxed and unbothered? That’s this scent (with none of those coconut-y sunscreen like notes) this is also totally a unisex scent so men and masc people can wear it too, without having to worry about smelling feminine. ((All scents are unisex if you’re brave enough, I wear traditionally masculine fragrances sometimes too and I don’t have an issue with it but I know it makes some people nervous so you do whatever makes you feel the best regardless of if something is “masculine” or “feminine”))

If any of my fellow fragrance enthusiasts are looking for a new scent, please go buy their discovery set. Or if your partner or another lived is looking for something new, buy it for them.

Missing Person is their most popular fragrance and the ad for it is what made me wanna try it, and I’ll be honest, it wasn’t in my top favorites, but Apriot Privée??? It’s an absolute fucking masterpiece that is soft and flirty and fun. You could wear it to an office job and then wear it on a night out. When I get paid on Friday I’m ordering a travel spray because I’m burning through my trial size. I’ve worn it several days in a row and my husband ALWAYS comments on how good I smell. It’s gonna be my new every day scent.

Not Your Baby is one that I feel like a lot of people will love. Like, the name describes the vibe so well. It’s flirty and powerful and demands attention but it also demands respect. (Also I’ve found that I LOVE violet notes in fragrances and this has that and it’s great.)

I didn’t dislike ANY of them. These ones stood out the most to me

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My Review of Mugler Angel Perfume

My Review of Mugler Angel Perfume

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masque milano’s lost alice: holy mackerel

Speechless. Review on @noseandnous  to follow.

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Amber rouge is very mischievous, the first moments after spraying are not kind, but then as quickly as you squeezed the atomizer, it turns sweet. I smelled the veins on my wrist for several minutes observing how it became sweeter and sweeter. The top notes of saffron and jasmine and the full-bodied amber reminded me of the church i left in Nebraska. The scent is a welcome comfort in my new unfamiliar home in the Sonoran desert. Its warm, sugary sweet, almost minty, deep, creamy, and fluffy.

The saffron and the jasmine blend together in a fragile embrace, some people could find this scent cloying. The saffron in Amber Rouge is leathery, and the jasmine is lovely but not present for long.

The ambroxan brings a metallic, salty, sweetness and that staying power that every perfume wants to have and of course the amber shines here. The cedar and fir are almost medicinal, I can imagine people might be hesitant after hearing that, but its more spicy, minty and earthy than latex and floor cleaner i promise.

The notes are so well balanced, woody ambery, but also gourmand and so sweet, but its all kept in check by each other.

When i look for perfumes i want to find something original, unique, i dont want to smell like anyone else. You can imagine i’m sick of hearing about Baccarat Rouge 540 and all the hundreds of “dupes” including Cloud and Burberry Her. I purchased a sample of BR540 during the peak of its hype on tiktok and wasn’t impressed. I wanted to love it, I wanted to smell what everyone else smelled, and while i did think it smelled wonderful there was this ghost of antiseptic hospital i couldnt shake. Im happy to report that Amber Rouge has less of that smell.

Additionally, it is not as strong as BR540. If you like BR540 and want to smell like it everyday and cant afford to, this is what you want, not CLOUD, good grief. If you spray more than you typically would, the sillage and projection preforms a bit better, and its staying power on clothes and hair can last into the next day. This perfume is enveloping and warm without being offensive to the people around you. It is almost indistinguishable except for this deep sweetness that i cant quite explain in words. Unless you were smelling them back to back and comparing, most people wouldnt know. But most fragheads know that it is a different feeling owning an iconic Francis bottle. If you LOVE this balance of woods and amber i think you should buy Baccart Rouge 540 (the extrait of course :3 so much better)

No note is truly stronger or weaker than the other except maybe the ephemeral jasmine, a well balanced fragrance that smells like luxury for a very low cost. And it feels and looks expensive too. You could defend yourself with this bottle its so heavy and it is so so gorgeous. If you decide to blind buy this and dont like it, at least you have an opulent bauble for your perfume tray.

A few caveats, this perfume is for the coldest of days, i think it would become almost too sickeningly sweet in the sun, and when you live in Phoenix that doesnt give me a lot of opportunities to wear it. I think a man could get away with wearing this but it is unarguably a female scent. Amber Rouge is a pretty, oriental, mature scent for someone who wants to wear a popular fragrance without the high price tag.

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I don’t believe I’ve reviewed any Tom Fords even though it was Black Orchid and the Private Blends scents that lured me into the world of fragrance so many years ago. This is probably because the house is not even a shadow of its former self; it is unrecognizable.

Launched in 2007, a year following the release of Black Orchid, Tom Ford’s Private Blends was the vanguard in the fragrance industry. Beginning with Purple Patchouli, this early, exciting era of the house saw offerings like Tuscan Leather, Jasmin Rouge and others, many of which have been long discontinued. Among a sea of celebuscents, saccharine fruity florals and predictable gourmands that had so dominated the industry since the 90s, the Private Blends did not only seem singular, they were like revelations to someone like me who was not old enough to have been familiar with the greats of the 1980s and earlier. This era saw Ford at the forefront, with releases like Oud Wood (2007) that would be followed by what would become a tidal wave of Westernized ouds, starting with the likes of Kilian’s Pure Oud (2009) and Byredo’s Ouds (2010). I’d say this period ended in 2013 which saw the release of the Atelier d'Orient line - one of the last stand out lines of the house. 2013 was also the year the Oud line was expanded in an attempt to ride on the coat tails of Oud Wood’s success. Perhaps a suggestion the kind of commodification of the house that was to come.

The house changed with the rise of niche luxury fragrance houses in the 2014. It was around this time Estée Lauder began snapping up houses like Kilian and Frédéric Malle in a move that would transform the industry. As the niche market began to establish itself, Ford was no longer the only widely-distributed house pushing boundaries. Private Blends were still exciting in this period but were slowly shifting away from its innovate roots. Perhaps the last quality line from the house during this middle period was the Les Extraits Vert line, released in 2016, which wasn’t innovative so much as a retreat into 70s nostalgia. At this point, the fragrance market was also growing increasingly crowded. A new Tom Ford release (or release from other houses like Serge Lutens) just didn’t seem so special anymore.

For me, the nail in the Private Blends coffin and our current trash era began with the release of Fucking Fabulous in 2017. FF kicked off a cynical trend of crasser names paired with grossly inflated prices. Rather than an attempt to create a beautiful scent, FF seemed more like a product designed to see how far Lauder could push the price point for luxury fragrance.

Which brings us to the present day - Cherry Smoke, an opportunistic attempt to cash in on the success of Lost Cherry. What is there to say about it? The opening is pleasant enough. Syrupy macerated dark cherries and expensive leather drying down in a linear fashion to an abstract sweetness and synthetic oud smoke before finishing on banal white musks. It’s not horrific, it’s never scratchy or densely flat - but this is damning praise for a house that once released Noir de Noir. And I’m sorry to say that compared with Electric Cherry, a painfully generic fruity floral, Cherry Smoke is the better scent. Yours for an eye-watering CA$480/50 ml.

RIP Tom Ford Private Blends 2007-2017. After FF, I should have realized what I know now: you are dead to me. I’m sorry the house that initiated me into the world of fragrance has become so pathetic. Someone at Lauder, I beg of you, when the executives and accountants aren’t looking, please pull the plug.

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Jovoy’s Fire At Will: the little green edge

Yes, for sure, this is sweet. 

If you are unaccustomed to these potent vanillas à la Tihota, Fire At Will will almost certainly overwhelm you. You won’t be able to detect anything but the ambery, sugary vanilla, landing like a blow on the temple. 

That said, this somehow is not quite a gourmand; there is something else here, something floral, with a faint green edge that lends Fire At Will a slightly wrathful quality--a grimace rather than a smile. This greenish note is having a sword fight with the carmelizing vanilla and keeps it from going full bakery. The slight flavor of disappointment conveyed by that little green edge: mimosa, maybe—or a tiny trace of the vetiver that is supposed to be providing a bit of spine in the base? Neither nose nor nous can tell. What the vetiver does do is add a little sparkle, a little carbonation; it sours and darkens the burnt caramel, pushing it away from pastry kitchens and towards grass fires—a very slight hint of acridity, black smoke smudged on the horizon. 

The longer I wear this, the more confused I am by the general reception to this fragrance. I don’t get the same vibe at all from this that many reviewers do; no cupcakes. There is plenty of amber, and a detectable brown sugar note, for sure. The musk that warms Tihota is also present here, but the mimosa makes it less friendly, and the vetiver (this is why I like this one; can you tell?) collects the boozy facets of the vanilla and de-saturates them, sharpens them: Dorothy Parker lofting awful observations as the evening turns, increasingly unkind remarks spiraling up and out of the gin-and-tonic so that you find yourself obliged to lay your hand on her arm and gently suggest it’s time to pack it in. 

Overtones of sugar and suntan lotion aside, I find this melancholy, even ominous. 

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Gucci Perfume Collection Review

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I understand the Fragrantica lovers now because that site is the TRUTH.