Posts Tagged ‘patchouli’

• Tom Ford Black Orchid EDP Perfume Video Review

  Date: 2012.01.23 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 5

   

  Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume

  Tom Ford’s “first” fragrance, a floriental launched in 2006 was something that took some time to grow on me. It’s a weird one but of course, I didn’t think it was weird enough initially. Now I see it. Tom Ford Black Orchid is glamorous, a statement fragrance – the presentation, the packaging, the “loud” notes. Because it is described as a statement fragrance, it is a fragrance that I go in and out of wearing. Sometimes I feel like this fragrance is too bold; I’m feeling shy. Other… Continue reading | 5 Comments

• Opus Oils Les Bohemes Heavy Sugar EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2012.01.11 | Category: fragrance | Response: 5

  

  Opus Oils Heavy Sugar is a perfume in Les Bohemes Collection, a collection dedicated to flappers, speakeasies and good times. Heavy Sugar is the amber scent in the collection. And it helped me get my “amber mojo” back.

  For years I loved amber perfumes, owning many and wearing them frequently. I burnt myself out. Heavy Sugar brought back my “amber mojo” and I’ve been on an amber kick for the past few months. I feel like my old self, but better and stable… Continue reading | 5 Comments

• Clinique Aromatics Elixir Perfumer’s Reserve Perfume

  Date: 2011.12.28 | Category: fragrance | Response: 12

  

  A perfume’s life expectancy is even more brief than a caveman’s. Most perfumes don’t live long enough to blow out five candles on their pink frosted birthday cake. To see a perfume reach it’s 40th anniversary is very rare. And to see a perfume reach its 40th and still be loved is even more aberrant. I’ve always adored Clinique Aromatics Elixir. I have a thing for chypres. And Aromatics Elixir is my “casual” chypre. It’s often a scent that I wear in the fall… Continue reading | 12 Comments

• Guess Seductive I’m Yours EDT Fragrance Video Review

  Date: 2011.11.07 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 6

  Mainstream Monday: Sniffing a Popular Perfume

  You can watch my video review for comments on the “story” behind the fragrance. Really all you need to know is that Guess claims this is “sexy” stuff and that it is “youthful and sophisticated”. Keep that bit of info in your mind.

  

  Seductive I’m Yours opens as “Hello, fruitichouli!” It has some woodiness but what stands out is a juicy passion fruit and orange. It’s sweet and syrupy. The patchouli is… Continue reading | 6 Comments

• Smell Bent SheWolf Perfume Oil Review

  Date: 2011.10.31 | Category: fragrance | Response: 0

  

  Happy Halloween!

  SheWolf is a limited edition perfume in Smell Bent’s North by Northwest Collection. This is the fall 2011 collection inspired by the ruggedness and awesomeness of the Pacific Northwest. It seems appropriate to post a review based on a female werewolf on Halloween. But, there’s nothing to be scared of with SheWolf unless you are terrified of patchouli.

  SheWolf opens as with a sweet vanilla musk. It’s like a “heftier” and “thicker” Coty Vanilla Musk. SheWolf is so sweet that… Continue reading