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"
The TL;DR: this is a slightly sweaty cedar-leather with a bit of figgy creaminess in the mix to take the edge off. Declaration Parfum isn't as cumin-heavy as the original. The cardamom is more heavily dosed here than the cumin. The cumin actually kinda disappears into the aromatic cedar (the dominant note here), which can seem kinda sweaty on its own. The fig, leather, and resins are all present, but not loud enough to take star billing. In trying to preserve some of the Ellena-ness of the structure, Mathilde Laurent has perhaps compromised her own distinct style too much. I was hoping for something decidedly un-Ellena like, more like the Heures...
Taif Al Emarat is a Dubai house, marketed and distributed exclusively to the local market there, that eschews alcohol as a vessel for perfume oils and instead uses water with sugar cane. Mood is a stereotypically rich, sturdy oud perfume in the Dubai style. It's heavy and full, with big doses of sandalwood, incense, leather, and tobacco alongside that authentic oud. Its opulence lies not in its delicacy, but in its heavy doses of raw materials, presented with clarity and strength (the slug of sandalwood here, in particular, is lovely, nicely bridging the incense and oud).
Frangipane is another magnificently peculiar selection from Santa Maria Novella, reflecting the old-world apothecary feel of the house that was founded over 400 years ago. While others claim that the frangipani (plumeria) flower eludes them here, I on the contrary feel it amongst the pronounced herbal balm of thyme and nutmeg, soft candy-pastel beneath the surface, somewhat peachy and creamy. This seems to represent more that of the scented gloves made popular by Marquis de Frangipani: these frangipani gloves were more a melange of plumeria, red jasmine (Jasminum beesianum) and a melange of herbs and spices, fixed with balsams. The result is a swirl of...
Current (2014 version) notes per Morabito website Notes de tête : citron, cardamome, armoise, bois de rose Notes de cœur : lavande, violette Notes de fond : patchouli, bois de cèdre, muscs
I'm not getting boozy, but it is a great rich warm resinous ambery vanilla with a hint of slightly synthetic blackberry in the back. The woody elements are smooth and blended well enough that they only back up the amber and don't add edges or huge offensive projection. Really liking this! For the name, I think a touch more blackberry would be good and the boozy note the other reviewer got would be nice, but I don't get that at all. .Still, nice!
Coastal Salty Forest by Zara, launched in 2022 and performed by Coralie Spicher and Fabrice Pellegrin, enters the Zara Collection Forest alongside Sacred Green Forest, Mountain Woody Forest and Frozen Pure Forest. This fragrance is an amazing woodsy aquatic little gem and another winner from Zara. A deep resinous aromatic woodsiness encounters a profound cool oceanic saltiness. As well as told somewhere, this fragrance is an escape to Galician countryside, a place where the balsamic green vibe from the forest (eucalyptus, pine tree and cypress) meets the ocean's salty breezy air. Coastal Salty Forest is definitely an aromatic/balsamic fragrance and a juice...
Jean-Claude Ellena cooked up Hattaï for Le Couvent, and he kept things very simple here. It's pretty much a dark vanilla with some character from spice and cacao and an unabashedly naked amberwood, which used to create the kind of structural diffuseness that is an Ellena trademark. It opens rich and boozy, then the sour wood takes over for a stretch before settling into cozier, fruitier cacao-dominant territory. If you were hoping for a lost Ellena masterpiece on the level of his Hermès creations, it isn't that, though his impishness and talent is detectable in the use of the amberwood here: it's dosed just up to the point where it could become...
A sales associate at Barney’s (RIP) introduced me to Bois D’Orage in 2008. I was still exploring dark, gothic scents but never forgot about it as an elegant, daytime scent with no sweetness. Finally picked it up last week. This is a Feb 2023 batch. A few different wearings have revealed a few different facets. Poking around online I see the now renamed as French Lover has a cult following that matches my memories of it. If anything it’s a little more vivid than I remember but it’s all there. Rooty, vegetal, green, at times the cedar giving pencil shavings, at others the vetiver and incense…for such austere notes the scent is a real carousel...
I just visited the Met Fashion Institute's new Sleeping Beauties Exhibit and I was pleasantly surprised to find there was an olfactory feature to the exhibit! The exhibit features some dresses which due to their delicate nature cannot be displayed normally or haven't been taken out of the archives for years. The scent is meant to be another way to get closer to the dresses which must be kept carefully behind glass. The olfactory side of the show is by Sissel Tolaas who is an olfactory artist and researcher who has been involved in all kinds of cool projects. Anyway, just wanted to share and I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has seen it or come...
Most of us are European Mutts in some way or another. I am French and German, with mainly French ancestry. A French surgeon came to American and that's how my people came over here. Do you feel your DNA or lineage take part in your preferences? Do you feel DNA remembers or do you feel that the smells you tend to gravitate to is totally learned? I feel that preferences for one thing or another is a learned behavior but I'm not totally ruling out DNA programming. I mean, if you took a middle eastern man, move him here, never to return and never exposing offspring to Aoud, do you feel a future generation male would gravitate towards Oud based on genetics or...
Hi Guys, I'm just starting out to learn fragrance making (not professionally trained) but I'm passionate about it. Can anyone judge my Milk Accords I just made, it smells towards Milk but not exactly what I consider Milk. What should I increase/decrease or add/take out so I won't break my bank. Diacetyl 250 Maltol 50 Ethyl Maltol 25 Vanillin 30 Ethyl Vanillin 25 Isobutavan 10 Anisaldehyde 25 Aldehyde C-14 15 Aldehyde C-18 2 Coumarin 70 Hedione 2200 Tonalide 1500 Mimosa Absolute 15
really enjoying Vetiver Musc by Narciso Rodriguez and also Caron Pour un homme parfum [HEADING=2][/HEADING]
I’ve always been looking for the perfect gourmand and I decided to make it myself. I bought a vanillin-10% in DPG ro make a roll in perfume oil (very simple for now). But im unclear (after considerable research) about how to dilute and what kind of solvent to use, im thinking of vitamin e oil. What dilutions can give me a scent that is not too strong but not too weak
Lately I've been feeling kinda of burnt out choosing a scent to wear (even though I WFH) daily and/or being enthusiastic about anything new in the fragrance world. I have been more so into creating ones but even that is starting to feel the same. I feel like I'm going through some sort of ennui. Scent that excited me in the past just feel so meh lately. I've felt this way before so it doesn't feel like I'm at an end of the road situation thankfully. I've been pondering about weeding out my collection because I feel like I have too many scents that I've never finish them which I won't considering I do have too much. I think I have somewhere around 175 to...
Are L'Homme and Pour L'Homme the same fragrance? The squat bottles labeled "Pour L'Homme" seem to be have been distributed in Europe. https://pimages.parfumo.de/720/36143_img-4290-roger__gallet-pour_l_homme_eau_de_toilette_720.jpghttps://thecandyperfumeboy.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/lhomme-edt-100ml.jpg
Hi everyone! I am new here, playing around with the possibility of starting my own perfume brand. I'm watching lots of videos, getting inspiration for ingredients to buy, hoping to start formulating my own fragrence soon. I was wondering how many ingredients do perfumes typically contain? From a business sense it seems sensible to not have too many ingredients however I am wondering if a simple formula will just not be effective? Any advice on would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi, it's my first thread on this forum. A short note: I'm a painter and new media artist and a fragrance-lover. I have no experience with perfume making. I know that this project is not the best way to start with this journey. I want to create an animalic-industrial themed fragrance (might be very stinky) – latex, plastic, rubber, dirty animal notes, turpentine-solvents, nail-polish, smoke, metal etc. It's going to be a part of a conceptual art exhibition, with other artworks complementing it, so it doesn't have to be a well-refined, detailed scent. It's going to be experienced with a sprayer bottle and paper strips, so it doesn't have to perform...
I am looking for something new. I like Terre D'Hermes and my current regular wear is Eau Noire(The older green colored version. Not tried the latest version yet). I like Vetivers also. Guerlain Vetiver is lovely so are a lot of other Vetivers. I tried most of the popular ones so I am trying to find something new I tried a lot of the Ouds, but they all seem to over loaded on super ambers, which I find is not to my taste. Plus other new fragrances are loaded on Ambroxan and the like which overwhelms my nose, I cannot seem to smell anything if thing if the scent has a lot of ambroxan. So I barely smell Creed Aventus, Sauvage, BR540. So I am looking for...
