INFO Insolence by Guerlain 75ml EDT. HOW DID WE GET HERE? Many years ago I saw a colleague spray some perfume before she started her shift. Her sillage hit me instantly. I asked her what it was and she told me that it was Insolence. My partner at the time was kind enough to gift …
INFO Coromandel by Chanel 200ml EDP. HOW DID WE GET HERE? I explored the Chanel “Les Exclusifs” collection in Selfridges and this scent was my favourite within the range. My brother was kind enough to gift me this scent for my birthday. HOW DOES THIS FRAGRANCE MAKE ME FEEL? I tended to write off Chanel …
INFO “Jungle L’Elephant” by Kenzo 100ml EDP HOW DID WE GET HERE? I watched a YT video about fragrances that have the strongest projection. This perfume was consistently mentioned in people’s lists. The fact that Dominque Ropion is the perfumer behind this was enough to motivate me to blind-buy it. HOW DOES THIS FRAGRANCE MAKE …
INFO Miss Dior by Christian Dior 100ml HOW DID WE GET HERE? My wonderful brother gave me this fragrance as a birthday gift. I love you BDO 🙂 HOW DOES THIS FRAGRANCE MAKE ME FEEL? This fragrance makes me feel like a stay-at-home daughter, a hypergamous wife, a passenger Princess, a haute couture femme, a …
INFO Mystic Leather Nights by JesĂşs del Pozo 100ml EDP HOW DID WE GET HERE? My friend sent me a voice note and said “Stop whatever you are doing and buy this!”. Well, there was only one thing to do after that…research the notes endlessly on the fragrance databases to confirm that it was worth …
INFO 5th Avenue Royale by Elizabeth Arden 75ml EDP HOW DID WE GET HERE? A friend told me that she thought I would love this because of the listed notes. So I decided to make a blind-buy purchase. HOW DOES THIS FRAGRANCE MAKE ME FEEL? To put it simply, this smells like your inebriated great …
INFO Amarige by Givenchy 100ml EDT HOW DID WE GET HERE? I read a book called “Perfumes: The A -Z Guide” by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. This fragrance was listed in the book as being among the “greatest fragrances of all time”. I decided to hunt this down to see if the authors were …
INFO Si by Giorgio Armani 50ml EDP HOW DID WE GET HERE? I was reading an issue of Vogue during the pandemic, there was an ad for this fragrance with a “peel and sniff” sample. For the first time in my life, I was compelled to make a purchase solely because of a magazine advertising. …
INFO Woman by Ralph Lauren 50ml HOW DID WE GET HERE? I absently-mindedly sprayed this fragrance while I was on my way to start my shift at my workplace at the time. By the end of the month I was responsible for a 75% reduction in the volume of the store tester bottle because I …
INFO Twilly d’Hermès Eau PoivrĂ©e” by Hermès 30ml EDP HOW DID WE GET HERE? I was shopping in Hermès (EDIT: Typing out the previous phrase made me cackle. Please note that this was a once-a-decade scarf purchase and I do not come from wealth, I am very much a middle-class pedestrian). I decided to smell …