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…
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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…
Cherry Smoothie by Zara
Zara has come out with good fragrances, especially recently, and you really cannot beat the price for much of what they come out with. I’m a big lover of cherry fragrances so of course I didn’t hesitate to blind buy Cherry Smoothie. But, much as it has a few good points to it, overall it…
Serendipitous by Serendipity 3
I’d been hunting down today’s fragrance for many years, not in an obsessive kind of way, but enough to get me excited when I finally found it here in Japan on the second-hand market. It’s only got three notes – Tahitian vanilla, bitter orange and cacao – so you can probably predict what it’s going…