Comptoir Sud Pacifique will launch Jardin Néroli, a new addition to their Voyages en Orient collection (see Jasmin Poudré, Épices Sultanes, Bois Royal, Oudh Sensuel and Oudh Intense)…
Comptoir Sud Pacifique Voyages en Orient ~ new fragrances
Comptoir Sud Pacifique will launch the Voyages en Orient collection, a new set of five fragrances: Jasmin Poudré (shown), Épices Sultanes, Bois Royal, Oudh Sensuel and Oudh Intense…
Comptoir Sud Pacifique Souffle des Indes ~ fragrance review
Like me, do you hold onto the past a little too tightly? Even if a favorite author, or singer or perfume company has devolved into mediocrity and endless repetition, do you still give them a chance every time a new book or CD or fragrance is released? I’ve given Comptoir Sud Pacifique second, third, fourth…fifth chances over the last, what, ten years?
When I started discovering perfumes as a teenager, Comptoir Sud Pacifique provided many of my best fragrance experiences, but the glory days of Comptoir Sud Pacifique are gone. Like many other once-innovative companies (Diptyque, Comme des Garçons, Eau d’Italie, Serge Lutens) Comptoir Sud Pacifique now wants mainstream cred and has dumbed down its scents to achieve it but unlike those other companies, Comptoir Sud Pacifique has started to smell (might as well say it) cheap…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2012, part 2
Our series of holiday gift posts continues; today we’ve got travel sizes, coffrets and rollerballs; up next: home fragrance. If you missed part 1 (scented body products), you can find it here.
From L’Artisan Parfumeur, holiday coffrets for ladies (Mure et Musc, Premier Figuier and La Chasse aux Papillons Eaux de Toilette) and gentlemen (Timbuktu, Fou d’Absinthe and Mechant Loup Eaux de Toilette). Each is $98 for three 15 ml bottles at Luckyscent…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2012, part 6
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Jean Paul Gaultier, travel “flasks” for the Le Mâle (shown) and Le Mâle Terrible fragrances. In 125 ml Eau de Toilette…