Posts Tagged ‘orange blossom’

• Smell Bent Snobirds EDT Fragrance Review

  Date: 2012.01.29 | Category: fragrance | Response: 0

  

  Smell Bent Snobirds is a limited edition fragrance in The Snowman Cometh Collection. Snobirds has this tagline:
  Winter somewhere warm.
  Yes, I want to spend winter somewhere warm. I’m sick of cold weather. I’m sick of snow and rain. But, for me, Snobirds smells warm but it still smells like winter. It smells like a “winter neroli”.

  Snobirds opens as a sweet orange. It’s like if an incense manufacturer attempted to do an orange creamsicle fragrance using all of their natural resins. A pop of cool… Continue reading

• Ormonde Jayne Tolu EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.12.27 | Category: fragrance | Response: 10

  

  When the weather gets cold, I often find comfort in incense and amber fragrances. Most of the amber fragrances in my collection are heavy, linear “exotics”. I love for my fragrances to be olfactory versions of Orientalist, John Frederick Lewis paintings. I thought I was fine with my current collection of thick resinous, spicy amber scents and then I tried Ormonde Jayne Tolu.

  Tolu is refined. Tolu is a modern sweet resinous scent. It doesn’t attempt to recreate 19th century spice routes… Continue reading | 10 Comments

• Juicy Couture Couture Couture EDP Perfume Video Review

  Date: 2011.08.22 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 9

  Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume

  I was pleasantly surprised by the 3rd women’s perfume by Juicy Couture. I loved the original, hated the 2nd and really like this 3rd one. It surprised me. This is a big ‘ole 80′s floral oriental in modern day drag. Fun and sassy.

  The opening reminds me very much of Givenchy Amarige. And then it gets a little Mugler Alien. So, yeah, there’s Oriental-style citrus with big and bold white florals. This is when I see “Alien“, not the movie, that spooks me, but the fragrance It’s that… Continue reading | 9 Comments

• By Kilian Love & Tears EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.08.15 | Category: fragrance | Response: 10

  

  Love and Tears is the 9th fragrance in By Kilian’s Collection, L’Oeauvre Noire. It’s the “Surrender” scent and it’s a big jasmine soliflore. A big and beautiful jasmine soliflore. Now, the tears, this fragrance isn’t sad at all. I think, the tears come from your bank account when you buy this fragrance.

  Love & Tears opens up as a very heady white floral with indolic jasmine and orange blossom. Boy, this jasmine is strong. Give it a few minutes, wait. Now… Continue reading | 10 Comments

• Amouage Lyric Man EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.07.26 | Category: fragrance | Response: 12

  

  Amouage Lyric for Men is a masculine tropical scent. It reminds me of 1930′s-1940′s Cuba. I haven’t been to 1930′s Cuba (obviously) but this fragrance reminds me of the travel pictures from that time and place. Lyric Man is a spicy, tropical rose. It would go well with cigars.

  Lyric Man opens with bergamot, lime, lime blossom, orange blossom, and a gingery floral. It reminds me of old school tropical men’s colognes but thicker and with more body. The top to Lyric for Men is on the balcony wearing a… Continue reading | 12 Comments