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…
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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…

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…

Intense Café by Montale
Intense Café is one of my most loved, but not necessarily most worn fragrances over the last decade. It’s a fantastic gourmand oriental. This one was really hyped up in the media when house owner and perfumer Pierre Montale released it 2013, so I’d be surprised if you’re a perfume lover who’s not at least…

Battle between 10+ Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 Dupes – Which Wins?
A couple of months ago, I finally gave you my take on Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s Baccarat Rouge 540. My reviews for today’s 10+ fragrances are a comparative analysis based on that review, so do have a read. It’ll give you a reference point to get the gist of where I’m coming from. And this might…