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Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendre ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 19 October 2015 21 Comments

Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendré brand background image

Iris must be the Meryl Streep of fragrance notes. In Frédéric Malle Iris Poudre, she plays a 17th century lady at her dressing table. In Le Labo Iris 39, she’s the earthy bohemian mistress with an intellectual bent. In Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist, she’s the wild child with aristocratic roots and a pagan godmother.

In Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendré, iris might be a medieval monk who works in the garden during the day and faithfully attends incense-laden vespers, but who enjoys the comfort of his pipe and armchair in the wood-paneled library…

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Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendre ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 27 August 2015 2 Comments

Naomi Goodsir Iris Cendré

Australian designer Naomi Goodsir will launch Iris Cendré, a new unisex floriental…

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2015, part 10

Posted by Robin on 7 July 2015 7 Comments

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.

Bvlgari All Blacks

From Bvlgari, limited editions of Man in Black and Man Extreme celebrating New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team. Both are in 100 ml…

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Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ fragrance review

Posted by Kevin on 10 September 2014 21 Comments

The Turkish Page by William Merritt Chase, detail

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…

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Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 June 2014 6 Comments

Naomi Goodsir Or du Sérail

Australian designer Naomi Goodsir has launched Or du Sérail, the brand’s third fragrance…

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