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Demeter Gingerale ~ brief fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 4 April 2007 16 Comments

gingerale

I’ve slowly been working my way through the many recommendations I got the last few times I posted about Demeter scents, and so far, the clear winner is Gingerale.

As with any Demeter review, this will be brief: it is not a complicated fragrance, and does not require any lengthy description. Still, some of the Demeters are better than others at evoking whatever it is they are supposed to evoke. This one is perfect. It smells like — drum roll, please — ginger ale, and the opening is almost astonishingly effective at calling up the carbonated part; it literally tickles the nose. Admittedly, the fizz part is not long lasting, but the dry down is far from dull. It is a soft but bright ginger…

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Perfume of the day: Curated by Colette Three AsFour

Posted by Robin on 6 January 2006 22 Comments

Last year, the swanky Parisian boutique Colette arranged for a trio of limited edition unisex fragrances pairing perfumers from Symrise with fashion designers; the result was called “Curated by Colette”. For the fashion design house As Four, perfumer Frank Voelkl created Three AsFour, a fragrance that has turned out to be one of my favorite finds from 2005. The notes are lime, bergamot, ginger, iris, sandalwood, cedar, musk and vetiver.

AsFour highlights a trio of fragrant roots…

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Vaniglia del Madagascar and Zenzero by i Profumi di Firenze

Posted by Robin on 26 August 2005 27 Comments

i Profumi di Firenze fragrances

Zenzero is the latest fragrance release from the Italian apothecary line i Profumi di Firenze. It is based on their Vaniglia del Madagascar perfume, which features vanilla orchid and vanilla bean; Zenzero adds white ginger.

Vaniglia del Madagascar is an uncomplicated vanilla perfume with a subtle floral note. It starts out smelling like pure vanilla extract, and dries down to something more like vanilla cake…

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