Australian designer Naomi Goodsir will launch Iris Cendré, a new unisex floriental…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2015, part 10
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. Today’s post includes collector bottles from Bvlgari, Clive Christian, Davidoff and Naomi Goodsir; plus new concentrations for My Burberry and Ormonde Jayne.
From Bvlgari, limited editions of Man in Black and Man Extreme celebrating New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team. Both are in 100 ml…
Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ fragrance review
It seems the more you throw into a perfume formula the less you smell (as in individual fragrance notes). Looking over the Naomi Goodsir Or du Sérail ingredients list (apple, orange, mango, coconut, honey, rum, tobacco, clary sage, maté, amber, davana, beeswax, cocoa, geranium, ylang ylang, oak, cedar, vanilla, labdanum, musk)…then sniffing Or du Sérail…bears this theory out. Most of those notes just blend in.
I’d love to have a magical machine; I’d place a perfume in the Per/Fume-Separator and order it: “Remove cocoa!” “Delete maté!” “Obliterate beeswax!” It would be interesting to see what notes do make a discernible difference in a scent…
Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ new fragrance
Australian designer Naomi Goodsir has launched Or du Sérail, the brand’s third fragrance…
Best Men’s Fragrances of 2011-2012-2013 (Better Late Than Never)
Did I really skip 2011 and 2012 when it came to writing my annual best-of-men’s-perfumes post? (Wow…and the world kept turning — imagine that!) I’m two years behind so today I’ll catch up by picking my favorite men’s fragrances from 2011, 2012 and 2013 (you can see my picks for 2009 and 2010 here). Some of these perfumes are unisex, but with a masculine edge (to my nose anyway). Though I missed my fair share of fragrance releases, I’ve still smelled tons of perfume product in the last three years. I don’t feel that a masterpiece escaped my attention.
Every year, I tend to write about men’s fragrances that I either “love” or “hate” (using those verbs with feather-weight intent since I don’t cry over favorite perfumes gone missing or reformulated, and I don’t gnaw on my fingers when I encounter awful perfumes). I’m still, I believe, a Perfumista, but I’ve put perfume in its proper place…