Carven Pour Homme ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 3 June 2015 12 Comments

Carven Pour Homme

Carven Pour Homme¹ is instantly recognizable as a contemporary men’s fragrance, but it’s much nicer than your average masculine mainstream perfume. Imagine a friend who always dresses like a slob. One day, you see a figure approaching who looks familiar but…different. It’s your friend! But in beautifully tailored clothes, and he’s sporting a great new haircut to boot. Such is the Carven Pour Homme effect.

Carven Pour Homme is a violet leaf scent. We often smell violet leaf in perfumes in loutish guise: loud-mouthed, obnoxious, ordinaire. Carven Pour Homme presents violet leaf made chic…

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Holiday fragrance gifts 2014, part 2

Posted by Robin on 2 December 2014 17 Comments

Our 2014 series of holiday gift posts continues — today we’ve got travel sizes, rollerballs and coffrets. More coming up on Friday!

For more gift ideas, see Bois de Jasmin’s list of Perfume Discovery Sets or EauMG’s Holiday Gift Guide for Natural Beauties.

Bottega Veneta Knot coffret

From Bottega Veneta, a Knot gift set with a 75 ml Eau de Parfum, a 100 ml Body Lotion plus a deluxe miniature of the Eau de Parfum. $165 at Nordstrom…

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2014, part 19

Posted by Robin on 16 September 2014 13 Comments

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes special editions from Armani, Victoria’s Secret, Jean Paul Gaultier and Repetto; plus new packaging for Juniper Ridge and Carven Vétiver; and a new travel size from Tocca.

Armani Sì White Edition

From Armani, Sì in white: “This holiday season, experience Sì the White Edition. This limited-edition bottle embodies the same Eau de Parfum fragrance as the classic…”

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