Posts Tagged ‘fresh fragrances’

• Guerlain Homme Intense EDP Perfume Video Review

  Date: 2011.12.05 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 2

   Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume

  After the success of Guerlain Homme, the world was given Guerlain Homme Intense. It’s the same idea but it’s supposed to have more depth and last longer, blah, blah. It’s not a bad fragrance but it isn’t a good Guerlain. Maybe I’m just being harsh like the top notes of this fragrance.

  

  Homme Intense opens with a minty freshness and garden greens. It’s very sharp and harsh in my opinion. It… Continue reading | 2 Comments

• Comptoir Sud Pacifique Aqua Motu EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.08.24 | Category: fragrance | Response: 4

  

  Comptoir Sud Pacifique Aqua Motu EDT is a clean, aquatic marine fragrance. It is described as a “light, clean, and breezy” fragrance. It is. I usually hate clean, aquatic fragrances. However, for this fume genre Aqua Motu is tolerable for an ocean-fresh-seabreeze genre, but I don’t go out of my way to wear it and I’d never buy it. It was launched in the early 90′s when all of the aquatic fragrances for men AND women were the… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Ineke Balmy Days & Sundays EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.07.13 | Category: fragrance | Response: 1

  

  The 2nd fragrance in the Alphabetical Series, INeKe Balmy Days & Sundays is a dewy, grassy, fresh floral. It is exactly what the name implies. It’s like a Sunday brunch of perfumes.

  I know I’m sampling Balmy Days & Sundays at the wrong time of the year. During my first time of wear, it was 30º and snowing. On a cold winter day, I really don’t want to smell like dewy grass and honeysuckle. I needed something warmer, not cooler. I’m… Continue reading | 1 Comment

• Emilio Pucci Vivara EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.06.06 | Category: fragrance | Response: 4

  

  Mainstream Monday – Sniffing A Popular Perfume

  I’ve never sniffed the original mid-60′s Pucci Vivara fragrance, I’m sure it was beautiful and I won’t/can’t compare the old and the new. Emilio Pucci has openly admitted and embraced the fact that they reformulated Vivara. Vivara does smell very “modern” and “abstract” to me. Pucci Vivara is a fresh floral fragrance in a beautiful bottle.

  The “ugly duckling” galbanum has had a makeover. I’ve never sniffed galbanum so mainstreamed and femininized in my life. This… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Botanicus Blue Bamboo Room Spray Review

  Date: 2011.04.14 | Category: home scents | Response: 1

  

  Blue Week – 4. 10 – 4. 17

  I have always thought that if you vacation, that you should assign a home fragrance to the place that you are staying because this scent will remind you of your trip later. For beach vacations, I bring with me Botanicus Blue Bamboo. This is my relaxed, no-worries-in-the-world home fragrance. This is what I have assigned Blue Bamboo to be. When I spray it, I’m reminded of happy times with my spouse spent on warm, sandy… Continue reading | 1 Comment