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Sunspel Sea Moss & Obvious Parfums Un Ete ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Jessica on 20 July 2023 6 Comments

It’s full-on summer in my part of the world, and this Friday’s community project is “wear something beachy, or anything you think of as ‘a vacation in a bottle,'” so here I am with two reviews of fragrances that fit this description. As I noted around this time last year, I’m not much of a summer person, but I’m very fond of the sub-genre of beachy perfumes. Here are two I’ve been enjoying in recent weeks.

I bought a bottle of Sunspel Sea Moss at the legendary Liberty department store in London back in March, because I hadn’t been there in twenty years and the exchange rate was very much in my favor and I learned that Lyn Harris (formerly of Miller Harris, currently of Perfumer H) had created this fragrance. The fact that I’d never heard of Sunspel, an upscale British sportswear brand, didn’t really enter into the decision… 

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A handful of roses ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Jessica on 1 June 2023 18 Comments

It might just be my imagination, and a feeling of tentative hope that my city has come through the worst of the pandemic, but the roses in my neighbors’ front yards and the local parks seem lusher than ever this year. I’ve also been wearing some new-ish and new-to-me rose fragrances to mark the May/June transition, so here are my thoughts on five of them.

Back in the early spring, I finally got myself over to the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship to sniff my way though Dries van Noten’s year-old fragrance collection. I admired a few of them, but my personal favorite of the group was Raving Rose…

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Miller Harris Myrica Muse, Scherzo & Peau Santal ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Jessica on 20 April 2023 16 Comments

Do you remember a time around 2005 when only a handful of “niche” perfume brands were available at most department stores? In my recollections of that era, Miller Harris was one such entity that had been granted generous counter space at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship. I was intrigued by Miller Harris’s British identity, its interpretations of various botanical themes, the little strips of gray grosgrain ribbon that were used instead of paper blotters, and the vintage-looking illustrations on the fragrances’ bottles and boxes. As much as I admired perfumer Lyn Harris’s style however, I never found a scent from that line that quite suited me.

Any number of things can happen over a decade or more: personal tastes shift, brands change ownership (and creative direction) and perfumers keep evolving in their work…

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MCMC Zodiac Mist in Cancer ~ fragrance & home fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 9 February 2023 14 Comments

I mentioned last year in a review of Eris Parfums’ Scorpio Rising that I’ve always been curious about the zodiac, so I’m ready to explore an astrology-fragrance connection now and then. Also last year, the Brooklyn-based indie perfume brand MCMC Fragrances (a longtime favorite of mine) released a collection of “all-natural home and body mists” designed to complement the characters of the zodiac. Okay, I thought, sign (ha!) me up.

As you may not be surprised to learn if we’ve been online buddies for a while, I’m a June baby (rose is “my” flower) and a Cancer (“the crab”), which translates into being emotionally sensitive and most comfortable in home-like spaces. Some Cancer-themed scents lean into Cancer’s “water” category by foregrounding aquatic notes and delicate white florals. MCMC takes a different approach… 

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Imaginary Authors In Love With Everything ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 25 November 2022 5 Comments

Written in 1982, this electrifying novel about sex, drugs, and decadence in pre-Miami Vice Florida follows a delinquent clique of teenage girls through nightclubs, roller discos, and seedy South Beach bars in search of anything to keep the party going.

That’s the “inspiration” behind In Love With Everything, the latest fragrance from indie brand Imaginary Authors. Like the other scents in the line, of course, it refers to an imaginary book by an imaginary author. This description of an “unflinchingly honest portrayal of strong, outspoken, resourceful young women whose sole motivation was to have a good time” evokes a female-centered version of Less Than Zero, ripe for a film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. Conversely, if there had been a literary source for the movie Foxes, it probably would have sounded a lot like this…

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