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Cire Trudon Olim & Mortel ~ fragrance reviews

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St. Louis by the workshop of El Greco

I’m a Francophile when it comes to candles. Cire Trudon is part of my Candle Triumvirate; Astier de Villatte and Diptyque make up the others. (I’ve always been afraid to try Frédéric Malle candles…I have a feeling they’d expand my candle obsession and budget to an even crazier level.)

I was interested (that’s about the best I can muster these days in Perfumeland, no longer am I “thrilled” or “excited” about new launches) when I heard Cire Trudon had developed a personal fragrance line called Trudon (how many times did I wish one of Cire Trudon’s wonderfully scented room sprays or candles was a perfume?) I’m happy to report three of the first five perfumes pleased me, and today I’m reviewing two: Olim1 and Mortel2. Robin Here at NST beat me to my other favorite: Deux (II)…

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Jo Malone English Oak & Redcurrant and English Oak & Hazelnut ~ fragrance reviews

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Just in time for autumn, Jo Malone has launched its English Oak collection. Both fragrances in this collection, English Oak & Hazelnut and English Oak & Redcurrant, were developed by perfumer Yann Vasnier and will join the brand’s permanent line. English Oak & Redcurrant features notes of redcurrant, pink pepper, mandarin, rose and roasted oak; English Oak & Hazelnut is a composition of green hazelnut, cedar, vetiver, amber and roasted oak.

Even before I had a chance to smell this fragrance duo, I was captivated by the promotional imagery, with its sepia-tinted images of androgynous models perched in enormous oak trees…

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Jo Malone Tobacco & Mandarin ~ fragrance review

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Jo Malone Tobacco & Mandarin

Inspired by the free-spirited artists of the legendary Bloomsbury group—writers, philosophers and intellectuals, most notable among them Virginia Woolf—this collection of scents captures the intoxicating essence of an unconventional life in their legendary country house in the Bloomsbury area. Each bottle in the collection is hand painted. —Nordstrom

As we perfumistas know, inspirations for scents rarely translate into realistic representations: “This perfume is SO Virginia Woolf!” That’s fine…we can still enjoy the resulting perfume even if it’s not catty, depressed, inhibited, or a genius. But why can’t Nordstrom get the country house right in the PR above? The Bloomsbury area of metro London is NOT the country and the houses there associated with the Bloomsbury group are on Gordon Square. You have to travel 90 minutes outside London to see THE country house of the Bloomsbury set: Charleston farmhouse…

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