Posts Tagged ‘myrrh’

• DSH Perfumes Adoration Natural Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.11.10 | Category: fragrance | Response: 6

  Adoration is in The Italian Splendor Collection, a collection of perfumes created by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz for the Denver Art Museum’s Cities of Splendor Exhibit. Adoration represents Milani is inspired by Bonifacio Bembo’s “Adoration of the Magi”. This fragrance is based on traditional Catholic incense and the gifts of the Magi. DSH included rose in this fragrance to represent Mary. Before I read about the inspiration and I had sampled Adoration, I thought, “This smells like the gifts of the Biblical Magi”. I find this “ancient” fragrance meditative. And it’s a good one for Christmas.

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• Esscentual Alchemy Autumn Spice Natural Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.10.11 | Category: fragrance | Response: 6

  

  It’s fall, my favorite season, and I’m craving chai, pumpkin pie, cashmere sweaters in heathered shades and of course, autumn fragrances. Esscentual Alchemy Autumn Spice is what you’d expect with a name like Autumn Spice! It’s a spicy, warm fragrance. It smells like autumn in a bottle. You wear this and you hear the crisp leaves crunch under your boots, you feel the coolness on your nose and the hot latte in hand.

  Autumn Spice is a resinous, natural myrrh that is warm and… Continue reading | 6 Comments

• Annick Goutal Myrrhe Ardente EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2010.12.23 | Category: fragrance | Response: 20

  

  We Three Kings Blogging Project: Myrrh

  When asked to participate in We Three Kings, I automatically knew that I wanted to write about my myrrh of choice, Annick Goutal Myrrhe Ardente (Passionate Myrrh) from the Les Orientalistes Collection. I like Myrrhe Ardente because it is a comforting scent, verging on gourmand because of the sweet notes of tonka and steamy beeswax. Myrrhe Ardente is passionate. It’s voluptuous. The Goutal Sisters were inspired by 19th century Orientalist paintings of romanticized “exotic”, voluptuous bathing beauties (I’m thinking something… Continue reading | 20 Comments

• DSH Perfumes Three Kings Natural EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2010.12.22 | Category: fragrance | Response: 18

  

  We Three Kings Perfume Blogging Project: Frankincense

  Three Kings is a natural perfume by DSH Perfume’s Parfum des Beaux Arts. This is a limited edition holiday scent that I’ve really fallen for. Described as “nothing modern about this darkly textured and earthy perfume; it speaks to us Ancients“. Give me a moody, dark resinous woods fragrance and I’m bound to be pleased.

  DSH’s Three Kings isn’t “Christmas” smelling like the name would apply. It’s a warm, woodsy fragrance… Continue reading | 18 Comments

• Etat Libre d’Orange Fat Electrician EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2010.12.20 | Category: fragrance | Response: 5

  

  You can do your own reading of the ridiculous back story/inspiration of Etat Libre d’Orange Fat Electrician on Now Smell This and Blogdorf Goodman. It’s a “modern vetiver” loosely based on “Midnight Cowboy”, that’s all the back story I’m giving. Etat Libre d’Orange irritates me with their names and inspirations, well, most of the time. It takes me years to get over the trying-ever-so-hard to be clever antics, eventually I try their fragrances. I still do not own a full-size bottle of any of their juices, but… Continue reading | 5 Comments