Perfumer, Olivier Polge says, "The comet is a strong symbol for Chanel, and I’m thinking in particular of the Comète necklace from the 1932 High Jewellery Collection"
I applaud the high quality ingredients used in Musc des Sables, but can't bring myself to like it all that much. To my nose, Musc des Sables is really just a slightly feminine talcum powder that is ever so lightly musky. I prefer Civet Cat Chypre for this type of fragrance. I also don't see much development. Not my style, but I'm sure some will enjoy this type of fragrance.
Opulent, rich, chocolatey tobacco, coffee, saffron and rum. Three different tobacco extracts are used. An Indian Oud adds heft. Real deer musk macerated in sandalwood and a brown ambergris round out the base. Top quality ingredients at a top shelf price of $250/15ml. This is a gourmand tobacco and as a tobacco it's quite unique. I tend to dislike gourmand fragrances and notes like chocolate, coffee, vanilla and alcoholic beverage notes like rum, cognac and whiskey (all of which are listed for Mythique), tend to put me off. Here though it's a killer combination and some masterful blending. That price though...
I'm quietly impressed with this offering from Bon Parfumeur, with a slight side helping of self-congratulation for evidently ordering the right samples from London's Bloom boutique. If I don't know my own tastes... well, there have been some blinders. This one is another musk-heavy offering in the manner of the Tom Ford Noir series, but I like 303 more than any of the Tom Fords. This is more unobtrusive, but has long-lasting quality and a strong development that has spicy chilli and cardamom present throughout. The vetivers and musks take over but you never lose an element of freshness that accompanies you to the end of the day. This is, I would admit,...
Chernobyl Elixir pour frag bros this is not. K is a relatively transparent and subtle combo of citrus, clary sage, lavender and woods. It actually reminds me of Polo Cologne Intense, which I personally prefer over this. If you can find K for 20 bucks at Ross and you wear fragrance to the gym then this would be a good choice. Also, the bottle cap is a crown so that alone should add a couple of reps to your bench! 2 / 5 stars
2023 Love Always Wins - "starfruit" and coconut water. 2023's version smelled like separate perfumes mashed together without anything connecting them into a cohesive whole. A year of aging has managed to make this scent more cohesive - the fruit is waxier now and works better with the coconut water. I don't like the strange powdery funkiness of its literal coconut water note. Dries down to a woody amber molecular with a hint of sweetness. 2024 Love Always Wins - citrus and sage. This is a more cohesive scent reminiscent of a department store masculine. Leans citusy and woody. Thankfully not as soapy as many scents of its type. Seems to share the same...
Mancera Kumkat Wood was launched in the 2013 and the nose behind it is Pierre Montale. This is a particular take on ambery vetiver being the latter the main protagonist under my profane nose alongside talky resinous amber, sandalwood and wet spices. Vetiver (initially wet due to fresh spices, citrus and grapefruit than more woodsy resinous, powdery and mildly spicy) is notable throughout while influencing this musky-cedary-ambery aroma and expressing a parade of different facets. There is definitely a certain ambery refreshing dustiness a la Chanel Allure Edition Blanche in it all around (being anyway Edition Blanche a different type of freshly ambery...
Black to Black by Mancera (2013) didn't quite survive to reach its tenth birthday on the market, as it got scrapped alongside several other slower-moving fragrances from the earlier years of the company's history, before Mancera really tried to separate itself from Montale by being ostensibly "French" in design. Mancera and sloughed off perfumes before, and most of it's pre-2010 lines have ceased to exist long before most people ever got to even review them, like Mancera Silver Intensitive Aoud (2008), the enigmatic Maltese Falcon of the early range only seen these days in pictures pulled from the Wayback Machine online. In the case of Black to Black,...
Well, oof. The one is hard for me to write simply because Cuir de Russie in extrait form has been the perfume love of my life. To me, there is simply nothing that compares to its gorgeous and somehow sophisticated amalgam of horse hide and jasmine. How-evah...since i can no longer get my greedy paws on the pure parfum (thanks, marketing-morons at Chanel!), this new EDP will definitely do. It's not as androgynous as the old EDT, it's true, and it's definitely not as civety and animalic as the ancient EDC, AND it's not as smoky and intense as the current extrait, but it's still my baby. Still the most beautiful rendition of floral leather ever made. So...
Hey all, I picked up this Givenchy Gentleman tester from a Facebook group about 5 years if I remember correctly. Could you help me date it, check fresh keeps coming back with a error, maybe because it's a tester. Thank you all in advance. 481767 481768 481770 481771
Initially I’d like to throw out that over the last 2 years I have been extensively studying perfumery ingredients, their properties and characteristics however i am what seems to be the most complicated stage. The calculations. I wish to make 2ml samples. I need final concentration at 15% Now say I have 10 total ingredients: 8 of these ingredients are 10% in DPG 2 of these ingredients are 1% in DPG Would I be correct to assume I need 0.30ml of total perfume ingredients including the DPG it’s in, so I would have to calculate it by the total measurement rather than concentration. For example: [*]Ingredients at 10% Concentration: [*]Ingredient A:...
Welcome to the Weekend Sync for 2024-25! Feel free to participate Saturday, Sunday, or both! The goal of this sync is to explore your collection through different lenses (aka themes). It is a great way to get to know your collection better and maintain interest in it. Another purpose of this sync is to get to know other Basenoters and see how a diverse range of fragrances relate to a common theme. It is great fun to read the connections that other BNoters share. Don’t worry about if I had a particular scent in mind for a theme - I can assure you that I did not! I have no idea what I will choose myself - that is what keeps it creative and fun for...
I love more and more weird, strange fragrances what are some of this type of scents you have tested recently ? mine is Akro Infuse. Very weird, but it's a masterpiece Jeff
What fragrances do you consider avant-garde? Dior Fahrenheit, Etat Libre d'Orange and a lot of Comme des Garçons come to mind. What else? 481252 Man Ray (left) Jean Paul Gaultier (right)
For the month of June, let's share our appreciation for the house of Dior. Let's wear some fragrances and have some discussions about Dior! What fragrances do you own? Are they bottles, decants, or samples? What do you like and don't like about Dior?
Hi guys. Would anyone be interested in exchanging formulas here? I'd love to get my hands on the TF tobacco vanille formula so I can experiment with an idea I have.
Hey all, I have just finished my modern jasmine speciality base demo formula. It's nice and simple and a little quirky (relying on an overdose of indolene) but the result is a very beautiful "jasmine blossoms floating on the air" type base which is very lovely. Only 12 ingredients and all pretty common.
Hi everyone, Please excuse this possibly naive question. I am wondering if there is a difference between what is referred to as a heart or middle note and what is referred to as a modifier. I frequently see materials such as veloutone, aprifloren, methyl tuberate etc. referred to as modifiers, whereas a lot of florals and more high impact materials are referred to as a middle notes or heart notes. I always thought that these were two different things, with both being necessary to create the heart of a fragrance. Reviewing the Jean Carles method, it seems that his approach is to modify the base notes with middle notes rather than create a “heart” as a...
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