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Jason Wu & Ralph Lauren Woman ~ perfume reviews

Posted by Robin on 11 October 2017 34 Comments

Reviews of two recent mainstream designer fragrances: Jason Wu Eau de Parfum and Ralph Lauren Woman. Do comment if you’ve tried either, or if you have tested any other recent mainstream designer fragrances that you’d like to tell us about.

Jason Wu Eau de Parfum

Jason Wu Eau de Parfum

Jason Wu’s eponymous scent is his first, and is meant to reflect the jasmine growing near his childhood home in Taiwan — a focus the designer chose after blind-smelling hundreds of raw materials with perfumer Frank Voelkl. Wu may have found his notes by trial and error, but he had a specific idea of what he wanted his fragrance to be like…

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Fendi L’Acquarossa ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 19 November 2013 40 Comments

Fendi L'Acquarossa perfume advert

A very long time ago, March over at Perfume Posse wrote a line about perfumes that fill your head “with a deep, profound, Zen-like nothingness”, and despite the fact that I can hardly remember my own phone number these days, that line stuck in my head. I quoted it at least once, also a very long time ago, and I think of it whenever I smell a new fragrance and my only reaction is well, yes, smells like perfume.

So you can probably already see where we’re headed with Fendi’s new L’Acquarossa, aka the “red elixir of passion”. I had sort-of-middling hopes for L’Acquarossa — I do keep waiting for Fendi to do something as gorgeous as Theorema, and then put it in a bottle as lovely as Palazzo. But no, all we’ve had lately is Fan di Fendi, a fragrance that so thoroughly filled my head with a deep, profound, Zen-like nothingness that I cannot remember it at all, although I know I’ve smelled it more than once…

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