Posts Tagged ‘French perfume’

• Annick Goutal Encens Flamboyant EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2012.01.26 | Category: fragrance | Response: 10

  

  Annick Goutal Encens Flamboyant is a perfume that is meant to conjure up Eastern Orthodox churches – icons lining the walls, colorful hues on your skin from sunlight and stained glass; churches filled with incense smoke and chants. This fragrance does conjure up this environment, but as a person that associates this environment with when someone dies, I find this scent too emotional for me to wear.

  Encens Flamboyant opens with a smoky, anesthetizing, spicy, dry black pepper. The fragrance starts to reminds me of freshly blown out candles. It’s waxy and… Continue reading | 10 Comments

• Caron Le 3ème Homme/The Third Man EDT Fragrance Video Review

  Date: 2012.01.07 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 4

   

  Caron 3ème Homme merges two of my interests – perfume and film noir. And not just any perfume, 80′s masculines, a “genre” that I adore. Caron 3ème Homme is inspired by The Third Man, a late 1940′s British film noir by Carol Reed. This film is one that some say “epitomizes” the genre and it has a strong cast with Orson Welles and Alida Valli. If you haven’t seen it, watch it.

  

  This fragrance opens with a blast of… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Annick Goutal Eau de Charlotte EDT Fragrance Review

  Date: 2011.11.16 | Category: fragrance | Response: 4

  

  Annick Goutal created Eau de Charlotte for her step-daughter, Charlotte. It’s meant to be jammy, “young” and casual. But, I don’t know what it is supposed to be on my skin.

  Eau De Charlotte smells so weird on me.  I hate to say it, in fact, I can’t believe I’m going to say it, but I’m reminded of bug spray. This is in the opening. I get something herbal and lavender like even though it isn’t listed. Luckily, the bitter “bug spray” fades and I’m left with this really sweet… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Divine by Divine EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.11.09 | Category: fragrance | Response: 17

  

  Divine Divine is a perfume that wears you. This is perfume. It smells like perfume. It wasn’t created to smell like a Mediterranean holiday or exotic trade spice routes. Divine was meant to smell  like perfume. Old-fashioned and glamorous French perfume for fabulous grown-up and glamorous ladies. Unfortunately, this style of perfumery is no longer in vogue and these types of “larger than life” women’s perfume are viewed as dated. Dated or not, I find Divine very beautiful and borderline obnoxious. Obnoxious-fantastic-elegant like excessive 1950′s French… Continue reading | 17 Comments

• Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Fleur des Comores EDT Fragrance Review

  Date: 2011.09.08 | Category: fragrance | Response: 6

  

  Maitre Parfumeu et Gantier Fleur des Comores is a tropical custard of banana-like white florals, overripe fruits and creamy vanilla. It’s more than another gourmand fruity-floral. This fragrance captures the realness of black currant and passionfruit, adding a musky-fruit atmosphere that makes this fragrance enjoyable.

  At the very top, I get heady white florals that smell like true-to-life orange blossoms skewed by ylang-ylang headiness. Magically, Fleur de Comores becomes a musky black currant ripening on the plant. I get the leaves and… Continue reading | 6 Comments