French niche line Etat Libre d’Orange has launched Exit the King, a new fragrance…
Aedes de Venustas Musc Encense ~ fragrance review
With Aedes de Venustas Musc Encensé, it’s all about texture. A musk-centered fragrance — especially one that puts incense on the billing — could easily be stifling and itchy, a fur stole of a perfume. Musc Encensé, however, is a vapor that hangs as sheer as the waft off of a cup of tea. It’s the sort of fragrance you spray on, forget about, then later catch a whiff of something nice and realize it’s you.
Ralf Schwieger composed Musc Encensé. Its notes include clary sage, cashmeran, tonka, musk, incense and leather. The musk-savvy perfume lover will want to know what kind of musk this fragrance embraces…
The Body Shop Black Musk Night Bloom ~ new fragrance
The Body Shop has launched Black Musk Night Bloom, a new oriental fragrance for women. Black Musk Night Bloom is a flanker to 2015’s Black Musk…
Aedes de Venustas Musc Encense ~ new fragrance
West Village niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas will launch Musc Encensé, a new unisex fragrance, in June…
Atelier Cologne Iris Rebelle ~ short fragrance review, with a long digression on my buying habits
Last month, I walked into my local Sephora, smelled Atelier Cologne’s latest, Iris Rebelle, and had a travel spray packaged and paid for within about 5 minutes. Must have been fantastic stuff, you say? Well, it’s decent, but I wouldn’t go so far as fantastic. If I’d had a sample at home and spent some time with it, it wouldn’t even have made my buy list — which, by the way, is a looooong list. There are an awful lot of perfumes I’d much rather own than Iris Rebelle. So why did I buy it…