This post dives into the designer sphere with an interesting gem from Balenciaga. When I think Balenciaga, it’s the slouchy, rocker-look City Bag that comes to mind. As it turns out, they may have done a good thing here with perfume, too, by employing perfumers Olivier Polge and Jean-Christophe Herault to create this floral green…
Category: Perfume Reviews (Full)
Orchid, Gardenia, Hibiscus – Three from the ZARA Bloom series 2022
Zara is one of the world’s top brands in fast fashion, and it also deals in fast fragrance. What that translates into is fragrances that are mass produced, have mass appeal, and are changed up from season to season. I believe it also means that their fragrances have built-in obsolescence, meaning they are designed not…
Incense Avignon by Comme des Garçons vs Casbah by Robert Piguet
Today I am talking about two incense fragrances that rock my world. I almost lost my chance to experience these with you on camera, because one of them is already empty and the other is almost gone. Very thankfully, I took the precaution of decanting them when I first got them some years ago, so…
Junoon Noir by Al Haramain
Al Haramain Perfumes, from the United Arab Emirates, is known for delivering very reasonably priced fragrances with a middle eastern flare as well as a few decent dupes of expensive niche and designer fragrances. I’ve delved a little bit here and there into the brand, and today’s review will unlikely be my last from them….
Fresh Couture & Pink Fresh Couture by Moschino REVIEW
Moschino. Fun, lighthearted, sassy, and now more than ever, a very kitschy fashion house. And thanks to new (ish) creative director, fashion designer Jeremy Scott, kitsch has been extended to fragrance. Scott has taken the dullest everyday object and put something surprisingly fragrant inside. A playful irony. Moschino Fresh Couture The first fragrance by Moschino…
Angel by Thierry Mugler REVIEW
It’s time finally to talk about THE perfume for me – the first, the one that started off my obsession when I was a young women, which is Angel by Thierry Mugler – an amber vanilla fragrance for women launched in 1992, created by noses Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin. To me Angel is…