Posts Tagged ‘patchouli’

• EauMG’s Dirty Rose Perfume Guide

  Date: 2012.02.10 | Category: fragrance | Response: 8

  I love rose in perfume because a rose has many different personalities. A rose can be a giddy school girl, a loving mother, a seductive siren or a strong sultan. I can’t think of any other note that can be so many “people”.

  

  I tend to like more complex roses. I like gourmand roses, spicy roses, woody roses and yes, dirty roses. What is a dirty rose? I consider a dirty rose to be a rose heavy perfume that is mixed with earthy notes like patchouli… Continue reading | 8 Comments

• Providence Perfume Co. Rose Bohème EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2012.02.08 | Category: fragrance | Response: 4

  

  Rose Week 2012

  My first experience with Providence Perfume Co. Rose Bohème was during the Summer of Peace, Love and Patchouli Event hosted by Monica of Perfume Pharmer in 2011. At that time, I had an unlabeled vial of this stuff and it didn’t work on my skin at all. You can read my initial impressions here. I knew that I had to go back and try this stuff. The perfumes that confuse me at first are the… Continue reading | 4 Comments

• Tom Ford Black Orchid EDP Perfume Video Review

  Date: 2012.01.23 | Category: fragrance, video reviews | Response: 7

   

  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 | 7 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