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Hermes Terre d’Hermes Perfume Review

Hermes Terre d'Hermes

Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume

“The trees have leaves!”

Well, of course they do. But, this is something that I have heard a few people recount that have had to have glasses from a young age. I relate. I was officially prescribed glasses in the early part of 2nd grade. I needed them much earlier, but when all you know is blurry green or orange blobs on trees, unable to see that trees aren’t composed of “leaves” but all individual leaf/s making up what you see on the tree, you don’t… Continue reading | 4 Comments

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EauMG’s Guide to Watermelon Perfumes

watermelon perfume guide

When it comes to perfumery, you’re usually going to see watermelon treated a couple of ways. The first one being that the melon will translate as “aquatic”. For lack of a better word, the watermelon adds wetness, an illusion of water. In this treatment, it can sometimes come across like a sliced cucumber, “ambiguous melon: otherwise not specified” or the sort of “ocean air” only found in perfumery and not in reality. The second way is a synthetic watermelon flavoring that for those of us in the U.S. will be… Continue reading | 4 Comments

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Luigi Borrelli Napoli Perfume Reviews

Luigi Borrelli fragrances

Bartenders in New York City area secretly fragrance connoisseurs.

Last summer I was at a swanky bar at a weird time. Somehow I had gotten the times incorrect for an early dinner and had time to kill. I was at the bar with another person and a very talkative bartender. Long story short, it’s New York City, so you never know how any awkward encounter will end up or who is at the bar with you. It ends up after a brief conversation that the bartender, The… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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Dolce & Gabbana The One for Men & Intenso Fragrance Reviews

Mainstream Monday – Sniffing  Popular Perfumes (Masculine Edition)

This summer I’ve tried to downsize and organize. Notice the key word: try. I tried. I’m still nowhere near being organized. In the process, I organized (some of) my designer samples and thought I’d knock out a few more mainstream masculine reviews:

Dolce & Gabbana The One

The One for Men

The One opens with sharp, cool spices and citrus. It’s sharp and reminds me of other designer masculine fragrance openings. There’s a sharp cedar and ginger… Continue reading

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EauMG’s 2014 Father’s Day Gift Guide

David Bowie

Hey, it’s that time of the year again where I try to make a gift guide for dads. Or as my husband calls it “Victoria Jent’s Guide to Sh*t Your Dad Doesn’t Want”. He’s wrong. *Some* dads do want this stuff.

Father's Day

1. Juniper Ridge Cabin Spray in Cascade Glacier – This brand makes the gift guide every single year because they are the best. This room spray smells like my back yard. I love this outdoors… Continue reading | 4 Comments