Suntan oil perfumes that bring you right to the beach

June 13, 2017June 25, 2020 Trine Mork

Summer is now approaching, and it’s soon time to head out to the coast and cool off in the ocean. Time to embrace the feeling of play and freedom by enveloping your senses in beachy, suntan-oil-like fragrances! This post introduces some perfumes that relish memories or dreams of basking in […]

Three perfume houses that underwhelmed me

January 11, 2017April 26, 2018 Trine Mork

There are very few occasions when I well and truly dislike a perfume, but I do have what I’d call a scent profile. In general, I gravitate toward the woody orientals and away from fresh florals, and of course this fact will bias all my opinions of fragrances that I […]

Samples from Rania J.

November 1, 2016April 29, 2018 Trine Mork

Rania J. (short for Rania Jouaneh) is the nose behind – as well as the name of – a beautiful line of natural perfumes from Paris that contained 5 fragrances at the time I sampled (now there are more).

Samples from Zoologist

September 1, 2016April 29, 2018 Trine Mork

The mix of cute and novel animal characters dressed like refined gentlemen with sophisticated, quality packaging make this fragrance house out of Toronto delightfully eclectic. One visit to the website after finding out the brand was Canadian (Go, Canada!) brought me quickly to the check out page to purchase a sample set that was waiting for me on a visit home to Canada from Japan.

“Samples” from Demeter

February 29, 2016April 29, 2018 Trine Mork

Demeter’s true-to-real life scents are ultra affordable to begin with, but when you look at their “value sets,” the desire to spend becomes compelling. “Buy more and save, save, save!” Indeed, their perfumes sell at prices similar to some sample sizes. In this post I’ll take a quick look at 5 of the hundreds from Demeter’s scent library.