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Anna Sui Romantica Exotica ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 1 September 2016 10 Comments

Anna Sui Spring/Summer 2016 fashion

If you collect perfumes just for their bottles, and you loved the gold-and-pink floral design for Anna Sui Romantica, you’re in luck: this month brings a new fragrance from the brand, called Romantica Exotica, and its bottle is a turquoise version of the same design (see below). Romantica Exotica was inspired by Sui’s travels to Tahiti, and its composition (developed by Jérôme Epinette) includes notes of lemon, grapefruit, black currant, jasmine, lotus, neroli, sandalwood, gardenia and cottonwood.

Sui’s Spring/Summer 2016 fashion collection was also an homage to island holidays, with a palette of aquas and yellows, garments inspired by sarongs and hula skirts, and fabrics patterned in seashells, palm trees and hibiscus blossoms. Romantica Exotica has a similar aesthetic…

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Les Parfums de Rosine Muguet de Rosine ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 1 July 2016 9 Comments

Les Parfums de Rosine Muguet de Rosine

Last year Les Parfums de Rosine launched the limited edition fragrance Muguet de Rosine. Apparently it’s very different from the earlier (now discontinued) Muguet de Rosine; this version is a composition of bergamot, pear, lily of the valley, rose, jasmine and white musk, developed for Les Parfums de Rosine by perfumer Nicolas Bonneville (who also created La Cologne de Rosine, which I enjoyed trying last year).

Although Les Parfums de Rosine is one of my favorite niche perfume houses, I have mixed feelings about lily of the valley scents. I prefer seeing and smelling actual lily of the valley flowers to wearing lily of the valley perfumes…

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Lanvin Eclat de Fleurs ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 25 February 2016 12 Comments

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Lanvin recently launched Éclat de Fleurs, a new flanker to join the “family” of the classic Arpège and 2002’s Éclat d’Arpège. Éclat de Fleurs “conjures up the euphoria of a sunny stroll filled with flowers and joy,” and it’s a fruity floral with notes of pear, freesia, rose, jasmine sambac, white musk and sandalwood, developed by perfumers Anne Flipo and Nicolas Beaulieu.

The bottle for Éclat de Fleurs echoes Arpège’s signature ball-shaped flacon, and it’s engraved with a ribbed pattern that evokes the flower petals of the marguerite…

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Bvlgari Omnia Paraiba ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 10 December 2015 45 Comments

Bvlgari Omnia Paraiba

Omnia Paraiba is the sixth flanker to Bvlgari’s original Omnia. (I’m trying to think of other fragrances that keep right on generating flankers long after they’re discontinued, and nothing comes to mind. Do comment if you can think of one!) I thought about skipping Omnia Paraiba altogether, but since I’ve reviewed them all so far I feel like I ought to soldier on. A quick run down, so you can see where I stand on the Omnia series and decide just how big a grain of salt to take with this review…

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Parfums de Nicolai L’Eau Corail ~ fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 2 June 2015 33 Comments

Parfums de Nicolaï L’Eau Corail

Longtime fans of French niche line Parfums de Nicolaï know she generally does a new Eau Fraîche most summers, and some of you may remember her two mango entries: Eau Exotique (2005) and Eau Turquoise (2008). I think most people preferred Turquoise, but I preferred Exotique, and that is the one I own. In a reversal of the usual trajectory with older perfumes, the top notes have improved with age but the base has gone a bit off. If it was still for sale, I’d replace it in a heartbeat — it had all the sparkle that’s missing from most modern summer limited editions, which tend to smell fresh but flat.

L’Eau Corail, the latest in the series, returns to the subject of mango…

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