Posts Tagged ‘woodsy fragrance’

• Miller Harris La Fumée EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2012.01.18 | Category: fragrance | Response: 3

  Miller Harris La Fumée (the smoke) is a dry, woodsy incense fragrance. I don’t see La Fumée as smoky but more of a meditative “steamy” fragrance. This scent mellows me out in the way that Penhaligon’s Elixir does. This is a fragrance that I wear for myself.

  La Fumée opens with this “evergreen filth” that isn’t as “clean” or “fresh” as most evergreen scents. It’s a mix of living evergreens and cool spices like cardamom (which I adore). There is a cool, citrusy, gummy resins… Continue reading | 3 Comments

• Patch NYC Pipe Solid Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.12.22 | Category: fragrance | Response: 7

  

  As a non-smoker, I find it odd that I define tobacco scents as my “comfort” scents. I never grow tired of the following combo in perfume: booze, dry tobacco, and sweetness. I like complicated versions of this. And I even like simple, “slow-food” versions of this combo.

  Patch NYC Pipe opens as a boozy cognac and unsmoked cigar. The tobacco is dry, crisp. And then it dries to a softer vanilla flavored tobacco. The base is soft, creamy vanilla woods. Simple and good… Continue reading | 7 Comments

• Sonoma Scent Studio Sienna Musk EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.12.07 | Category: fragrance | Response: 11

  

  Sonoma Scent Studio Sienna Musk is a spicy, woodsy musk that doesn’t have any of the heaviness associated with spicy, woodsy, musky fragrances. Sienna Musk is soft, warm and furry, reminding me of darling little kitties basking in window sunlight.

  

  Sienna Musk opens as this soft “furry” musk with this amazing sandalwood. This sandalwood smells luxurious and high-quality. The top has a bit of fizzy ginger ale that… Continue reading | 11 Comments

• Smell Bent Totem Eclipse Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.11.17 | Category: fragrance | Response: 2

  

  Totem Eclipse (of the heart) is a fragrance in the limited edition North by Northwest Collection by Smell Bent. This collection is inspired by the wonderful and wild Pacific Northwest.

  I hope you like cedar! Because Totem Eclipse opens as straight up lumberyard cedar. It’s planks and planks of astringent red cedar. And it wears as Lowes Home Improvement for a long time. It’s a mix of cedar planks and slightly damp beauty bark. After, seriously, like 2 hours, I get this fresh forest evergreen… Continue reading | 2 Comments

• Sonoma Scent Studio Fig Tree EDP Perfume Review

  Date: 2011.11.01 | Category: fragrance | Response: 13

  

  I love fig fragrances. I own more than enough and I’m still searching for new ones. Last month, Sonoma Scent Studio launched Fig Tree and I was eager to try it. Fig is such a “happy memory” scent for me. It reminds me of my childhood, late summers and sunshine. Fig Tree is a fig fragrance inspired by the “entire” fig tree. It doesn’t accentuate the fruitiness or the “coconut” sweetness of figs. Fig Tree is an environment scent that uses some “headspace” to… Continue reading | 13 Comments