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Pacifica Indian Coconut Nectar & Six Scents Series Three Beau Bow ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Kevin on 23 March 2011 39 Comments

coconut and orange

I usually prefer to wear “simple” and light fragrances in warm weather; I don’t want lots of notes percolating on my skin and inside my nostrils on a hot day — that’s annoying. I visited Los Angeles in February when the weather there was glorious: sunny, 78 degree days, cool evenings, and skies so clear you could see stars (the celestial type) at night. I packed several new fragrances for the trip, and it was fun to fast-forward to ‘summer’ for a week (it was still 25 degrees at home in Seattle with at least another month of awful weather to come). Two of the new “summery” perfumes I tested in L.A. stood out: Pacifica Indian Coconut Nectar and Six Scents Series Three Beau Bow.

Indian Coconut Nectar smells almost exactly how Pinkberry (another “hit” from my L.A. trip) coconut frozen yoghurt tastes, with flavors/scents of cool, yet musky, coconut (slightly “green” and tart-unripe ), combined with creamy vanilla and perhaps a squirt of lime juice. Indian Coconut Nectar perfume is simple, but it smells delicious. I can’t resist the scent of coconut during summer but if you dislike coconut, you’ll hate Indian Coconut Nectar — it’s all about the coconut…

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Ed Hardy Born Wild, Honore des Pres Love Coco, Crabtree & Evelyn Iris ~ quick perfume reviews

Posted by Robin on 9 December 2010 36 Comments

It’s beginning to dawn on me that I will not clear out my sample backlog by the end of the year, in fact, I’m thinking maybe I will never clear my sample backlog. All the same, it doesn’t hurt to try, right? Here are a few more unrelated quickie perfume reviews.

Ed Hardy Born Wild

Ed Hardy Born Wild perfume

Ed Hardy’s fourth fragrance for women, Born Wild, is just what you’d expect — a sweet-ish, middle-of-the-road fruity floral in their signature tattoo-inspired packaging. The fruit du jour: peach. Born Wild is light (think spring/summer rather than winter/fall), clean and inoffensive, and the lasting power is reasonable enough…

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Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 13 March 2008 59 Comments

Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess fragrance

Estee Lauder launched Azuree Soleil in 2006 as a limited edition body oil. It was part of the “Tom Ford Estee Lauder Collection” or somesuch, and the body oil returned in the summer of 2007, along with a new Azuree Soleil Eau Fraiche Skinscent formula. As I understand it, now that Tom Ford's own brand (under the Estee Lauder umbrella) is off and running, we won't be seeing any more joint Tom Ford-Estee Lauder products, so Azuree Soleil is kaput (as is Youth Dew Amber Nude).

Fans of Azuree Soleil needn't worry; Estee Lauder's new Bronze Goddess is very nearly the same thing, in fact, only the fragrance-obsessed will notice (or care about) the difference. They're both tropical beach-y scents, and the Azuree Soleil I thought of as not exactly suntan oil-ish, but as what suntan oil ought to smell like…

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Andre Gas Ensoleille Moi ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 22 March 2007 13 Comments

Andre Gas Ensoleille Moi perfume

As long as we’re on the subject of tropical beach-y scents, I thought I’d give Ensoleille Moi another try. Ensoleille Moi launched last year as the debut fragrance release from French jeweller André Gas, and like yesterday’s Azuree Soleil, it is composed around coconut and tiare (also known as Tahitian gardenia). It was created by perfumer Mathilde Laurent, and additional notes include ylang ylang, vanilla and white musk…

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Estee Lauder Azuree Soleil Eau Fraiche Skinscent ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 21 March 2007 26 Comments

Estee Lauder Azuree Soleil Eau Fraiche Skinscent

Azuree Soleil Eau Fraiche Skinscent is part of this year’s Tom Ford Estee Lauder Collection, and will launch as a limited edition this coming April. Other than the inspiration (“the Mediterranean near Mrs. Estée Lauder’s vacation home in Cap d’Antibes, off the coast of France”), it has nothing in common with the original 1969 Azuree fragrance from Estee Lauder. The notes include tiare (gardenia), orange blossom, jasmine, magnolia petals, myrrh, bergamot, mandarin, amber, sandalwood, vetiver, caramel and coconut cream.

I have said before that I’m not a big fan of tropical-beachy or suntan oil scents, and so when the Azuree Soleil Body Oil was released last year, I didn’t rush to try it. By the time I got around to giving it a sniff, all the stores were sold out. Even then, the little tiny sample I managed to snag didn’t make much of an impression on me. Still, everyone else raved about it so I was curious about the new Eau Fraiche Skinscent…

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