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Amouage Opus VII & VIII ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Angela on 18 July 2016 8 Comments

Amouage Opus VII and VIII

Wow! How I’ve fallen behind on the Amouages! Let’s skip the formalities and go straight to reviews of Amouage Opus VII and VIII from the Amouage Library Collection:

Opus VII was developed by perfumers Alberto Morillas and Pierre Negrin. Its notes include galbanum, pink pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, fenugreek, agarwood smoke, patchouli, ambrox, leather, ambergris, costus root, muscone, sandalwood, olibanum and cypriol. In short, it’s a rich and smooth, slightly funky, leathery fragrance. It skews masculine, but I’d be perfectly comfortable wearing it…

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Bvlgari Man Black Orient ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 29 June 2016 13 Comments

Bvlgari Man Black Orient

Bvlgari has launched Man Black Orient, a new flanker to 2014’s Man in Black, which was a flanker to 2010’s Bvlgari Man. Man Black Orient follows the recently introduced Man Black Cologne…

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Salvatore Ferragamo Uomo ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 21 June 2016 7 Comments

Ferragamo Uomo

Salvatore Ferragamo will launch Uomo Salvatore Ferragamo in July. The new woody oriental fragrance for men will be fronted by actor Ben Barnes…

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What is niche today?

Posted by Robin on 3 June 2016 2 Comments

What is niche today? Niche can be very expensive, or cheap, or a certain thing. I don’t want to create niche; I want to create excellence. The very best materials and molecules, the best you can find anywhere.

— Perfumer Alberto Morillas on his personal fragrance line, Mizensir. Read more at Mizensir: From The Man Who Defined The Nineties at Candid. (found via Monsieur Guerlain at Facebook)

Friday scent of the day 5/27

Posted by Robin on 27 May 2016 277 Comments

Alberto Morillas

Friday, at last, and if you’re in the US, almost Memorial Day weekend. I’m sure some of you are starting early.

Our community project for today: wear a fragrance by Alberto Morillas, if you have one. What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’m wearing Le Labo Tubereuse 40. What little I have is almost gone. If I could afford it, I’d buy more…

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