Country music star Trisha Yearwood has launched her debut fragrance, Trisha Yearwood Eau de Parfum…
Christian Louboutin Bikini Questa Sera, Tornade Blonde & Trouble in Heaven ~ new fragrances
French luxury footwear brand Christian Louboutin will launch their debut fragrances, Bikini Questa Sera, Tornade Blonde and Trouble in Heaven…
Amouage Opus VII & VIII ~ fragrance reviews
Wow! How I’ve fallen behind on the Amouages! Let’s skip the formalities and go straight to reviews of Amouage Opus VII and VIII from the Amouage Library Collection:
Opus VII was developed by perfumers Alberto Morillas and Pierre Negrin. Its notes include galbanum, pink pepper, cardamom, nutmeg, fenugreek, agarwood smoke, patchouli, ambrox, leather, ambergris, costus root, muscone, sandalwood, olibanum and cypriol. In short, it’s a rich and smooth, slightly funky, leathery fragrance. It skews masculine, but I’d be perfectly comfortable wearing it…
Jo Malone Orris & Sandalwood ~ fragrance review
On learning that the Jo Malone line now includes Orris & Sandalwood Cologne Intense, my thoughts went something like this:
Orris & Sandalwood? I love both those notes. This might be amazing!
Of course, it’s Jo Malone. Does that mean it’s simply a literal translation of the two notes?
And if it were, is that so bad?
There was only one way to get to the bottom of it, and that was to sample.
Perfumer Pierre Negrin developed Orris & Sandalwood. The Jo Malone site lists its notes simply as orris, sandalwood and amber. It doesn’t take a genius to add jasmine and vanilla to that list — and black pepper. Lots of it. Frankly, I’m not sure why they didn’t just call it Pepper & Orris and get it over with…
Jo Malone Orris & Sandalwood ~ new fragrance
Jo Malone will launch Orris & Sandalwood, a new unisex fragrance in the Cologne Intense Collection, in January. The scent was inspired by the iris root of Tuscany…