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Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 19 December 2012 29 Comments

Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme

While having dinner at a restaurant recently, I noticed a pleasant scent — sweet, powdery, clean — coming from the direction of my waiter. I rarely ask men what fragrance they have on because lots of guys think that’s a too-personal question (and I don’t want to appear as if I’m “flirting” either) but for the first time in my life, I asked a waiter what perfume he was wearing. As I feared, he seemed taken aback at the question, uncomfortable; he hemmed and hawed, said he could not remember, and fled. Then, near the end of dinner, he returned to say he had remembered; it was the “blue” Dolce & Gabbana scent: “I have three bottles at home with different colored caps…this one is in the bottle with the dark blue cap.”

I did a Google image search when I got home and saw the blue-capped D&G scent was Pour Homme; originally released in 1994, it was just relaunched by Dolce & Gabbana this autumn. Could it be possible there existed a D&G scent I liked…

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Prada Eau de Parfum & Prada Intense: perfume review

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2006 30 Comments

Prada Amber

Prada released Prada Eau de Parfum, their first mainstream perfume offering, in 2004. It was developed by Carlos Benaim, Max Gavarry and Clement Gavarry, and the notes include bergamot, orange, bitter orange, mandarin flower, mimosa, rose absolute, schinus molle, peru balsam, patchouli, raspberry flower, labdanum, tonka bean, vanilla, musk and sandalwood. Prada won a Fifi award for the fragrance in 2005.

Prada Eau de Parfum was meant as a…

…modern take on essential oils, said the company. It is an amber scent built around four time-honoured essences, each meant to reflect one of four dimensions: sandalwood oil from India is pure; patchouli leaves from indonesia are addictive; labdanum resin from France is precious: benzoin from Siam is profound. (via Cosmetics International, 6/1/2004)

Prada Eau de Parfum is all about amber; other notes come and go, but the amber is prominent from the first spray. Citrus decorates the top notes, a whisper of florals the middle, and a dry, earthy patchouli with vanilla accents the base, but the amber is the star here. It is, as advertised, a modern sort of amber; it is warm but not rich or heavy, and smells nothing like its hard-hitting oriental forebears…

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