Vanilla, vanilla, vanilla! I was waxing lyrical about these beans in a previous post talking about Nishane’s Ani and so I decided to head over the other side of the price scale today and dig into a newer chapters collection from our favorite Spanish, fast fashion and fragrance house, Zara! My goodness, but Zara has…
Category: Perfume Reviews (Full)
Ani by Nishane ( & a Comparison with Dua’s Drowning in Vanilla)
Ani. Oooh, Ani. How I love you. And apparently, so do a lot of other perfume lovers. Nishane’s vanilla bomb has become a cult favourite and is hailed now as “the best” vanilla fragrance, an iconic amber vanilla gourmand scent – right up my alley, baby. And now that the weather is cooler, I have…
Orphéon by Diptyque
Diptyque is brand that I love for its candles and a few spellbinding perfumes, of which Orphéon, sadly, turns out not to be one, at least for me. Orphéon, a release from Givaudan perfumer Olivier Pescheux, came out in 2021, in celebration of Diptyque’s 60th year. He’s done a lot of great things for Diptyque…
Three from Zara: Memoire Intense, Sublime Epoque, and Amber Fusion
Today’s Zara fragrances are from different releases of the so-called Chapters series, but I honestly don’t know which is which anymore. Sometimes they are obvious. For example, there are four Oud fragrances in the Chapter 4 launch, and they all have the same color cap, and I’ve noticed that the Chapter 3 collection all have…
Armaf’s take on Delina: Club de Nuit White Impériale
Parfums de Marley’s Delina and Delina Exclusif are fragrances that became as hyped up as MFK’s BK540 and the 540 extrait version. 540 is still a deep love of mine, but Delina never oozed enough charm to get me to pull out the credit card. She’s not as pricy as BK540, but she is not…
Hinoki by Comme des Garçons
One of the most incredible things about perfumes is, beyond the way they smell, and the way they make you feel, is their ability to transport you to a place and/or a time, either a real one from your own memory or even a place or era wholly imagined. Hinoki is a scent that wells…