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St. Clair Scents Perfume Review Roundup
St. Clair Scents is a new indie perfume line located in Vermont. When I posted my samples of St. Clair Scents on Instagram Stories, someone responded with “It’s Chef Keller’s butter lady’s perfumes!”...
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Montale Sweet Peony Perfume Review
Montale Sweet Peony is one of those perfumes that wears nothing like the note list would imply (even though you smell most of what is in the note list). It also doesn’t wear like its name would imply...
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Thierry Mugler Hot Cologne Perfume Review
Les Exceptions is the more “luxurious” collection of Mugler fragrances. There’s woods, florals, leather, and of course, there’s a “cologne”. I don’t want to cloud this review with my love of Mugler...
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Diptyque Oyedo Perfume Review
After a hiatus due to moving and traveling, I have decided to bombard this perfume blog with “weird eau de colognes” this week. It’s hot, humid and gross. I want to smell fresh and clean but with...
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Yves Rocher Naturelle Osmanthus Perfume Review
Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume I try to review as many Yves Rocher fragrances that I can. Why? Well, overall, I like the brand. I think they’re good for the money. Then, in the U.S....
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Flankers – Miu Miu, Chloe and Dior Reviews
Mainstream Monday – Sniffing Popular Perfumes This Monday I’m reviewing three flankers. What is a flanker? It’s a perfume that shares some attributes with a perfume that already exists (notes or even...
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Parfums de Rosine Ballerina No. 4 Perfume Review
Parfums de Rosine has an entire collection of Ballerina perfumes and from this title you can probably guess that now the collection consists of four perfumes. And since this Parfums de Rosine, all of...
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Atkinsons Jasmine in Tangerine Perfume Review
Atkinsons is one of those newly revived perfume houses. It’s a British perfume house that now offers some classics as well as additional contemporary perfumes. Let me start out with this disclaimer –...
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Ilsa Infinite No. 1 Perfume Review
I first “met” Ilsa through Twitter. ¹ Mrs. Scents (Ilsa) impressed me because she was so knowledgeable on top of expressing her love of perfume. It ends up she has professional experience within the...
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Initio Parfums Rehab Perfume Review
French fragrance house Initio Parfums isn’t a new brand, but it’s new-to-me. They’ve been around for a few years and have recently been stocked at fancy places in the United States. I did a Quick...
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Geir Ness Laila Perfume Review
A few years ago, well into my 30’s, I decided to go to Waltlty World for the first time in my life. This was a rather impulsive trip with few adults who decided that their parents didn’t really love...
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Hermes Un Jardin Sur le Nil Perfume Review
Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume Years ago, Hermès Sur le Nil was a popular “plot line” in Chandler Burr’s “The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York“....
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Comme des Garcons Amazingreen Perfume Review
Comme des Garçons Amazingreen is one of those perfumes that I knew I would have to revisit one day. I had hyped it up in my head pre-launch. I wanted to smell like gunpowder and pepper. When I tried...
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Byredo Black Saffron Perfume Review
It’s been a really busy summer for me so I haven’t been posting that many perfume reviews here on the blog. I recently had an oral surgery that forced me to slow down. I thought this would be a good...
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Blackbird Ophir Perfume Review
OK, OK, so the inspiration of Blackbird Ophir is a fictional trade planet and some pulp paperback storylines. I’m fine with all of that. I’m not here to debate what I think a fictional trade planet...
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Zoologist Civet Perfume Review
Civet is my absolute favorite from the niche brand Zoologist. So, I feel horrible that I’m just now reviewing it! I said in 2016 in my yearly list, If I were to choose a perfume of the woman I wish to...
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Mojo Magique Seer Perfume Review
Mojo Magique is a Louisiana-based brand¹ with perfumes that really are under-the-radar and shouldn’t be! I’ve tried them all and highly recommend each of them (absinthe rose, yes, please!). And I’m...
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Chris Rusak Perfumes – Reviews of Io, 33 & Quasi Una Absurdia
Chris Rusak is a Los Angeles-based indie perfume brand (oh, and a person that is an artist and teaches at The Institute of Art and Olfaction too) that has launched a trio of new perfumes....
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Chanel Les Eaux de Cologne Paris – Venise Perfume Review
Mainstream Monday – Sniffing a Popular Perfume If you followed by Instagram Stories this past summer, you already know that I wore Chanel Venise a lot. There’s a few reasons for this. The first reason...
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Hermes Hermessence Cedre Sambac Perfume Review
One of my many character flaws is that I love the Hermès Hermèssence collection. I live for sheer, ephemeral things that are basically non-existent. According to online perfume platforms and other...
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