Perfumer, Olivier Polge says, "The comet is a strong symbol for Chanel, and I’m thinking in particular of the Comète necklace from the 1932 High Jewellery Collection"
There needs to be more praise for mastic resin in perfume. Also known as lentisque, this resin comes from Pistacia lentiscus, an evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean basin and in the same family as pistachio trees. The resin has an aroma that I would describe as "green incense," only mildly smoky in scent and flavor (it's considered a spice that's long been used a chewing gum), but more so sweet-verdant, raw-earthy, and with turpentine-coniferous top notes similar to that of frankincense. There is a radiance to it that feels like sunshine to me. I love its use in Sisley's Eau d'Ikar (now repackaged as L'Eau Rêvée D'Ikar), Tom Ford Vert des Bois,...
Perfect cheap casual round the house scent. A bit sweet, a bit fresh, a bit creamy, a bit of depth complexity. A guilty pleasure.
If you like the opening of Delina, you'll like this. On me, this is the rhubarb, lichi, pink pepper, and tea rose opener of Delina made slightly fuzzier and dragged out through the 6+ hour wear time. Like Delina, this accord can pull sour or go bug spray on the wrong day. In my side-by-side test with Delina - I found the Delina unpleasantly astringent and sharp in comparison with Afnan's dupe. Over three wearings, my experience of Souvenir is more predictable on my skin - it's not as likely to go full on bug spray in the way Delina does. And when it does, the bug spray phase is much shorter. I have to be in the mood for this scent profile, then...
This is a modern commercial amber woods fragrance, lacking a soul or a spine, much like its smell-alike Oud Wood. No forest really smells like this. No wood really smells like this. No church pews really smell like this. What does it smell like? Cedary, ambery conspicuous consumption—Veblen goods (a 100ml retails for $345).
This is the problem with geosmin. I am fascinated with the the way it smells, but so seldom does a perfumer use it in such a way that it doesn't overpower a formula. In White Whale, perfumer Christian Alori comes close, so very close, to making it work that it hurts. It hurts me so much that I just can't get past it here. It still ends up being entirely a geosmin affair with all else in the periphery. Some sensation of saltiness and ambergris is suggested, but GEOSMIN. The feeble murmurs of osmanthus whispering through the GEOSMIN. Ionones are present, yet they end up further elevating the GEOSMIN. I just can't get past it. It takes a good hour or so...
This didn't quite meet my expectations. It's not that it isn't attractive, but it just seems a bit hollow, with very little to ground it. I saw that galbanum was listed, and having a voracious appetite for the mean green, I wanted there to be a bit more of that viridescent presence, but the opening is rather muted. There is a pleasant, polleny mimosa accord, and this stage seemed the most promising: it feels pastoral in feel, and granular to the nose. Suggestions of new mown hay, green wheat, and wild grasses follow, but it's so gossamer, I must really bring my nares close to the skin to experience it. I feel like even a more nuanced style such as this...
Mount Auburn Cemetery is one of my favorite places to visit. Not only is this burial site a National Historic Landmark where such luminary figures as Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Dorothea Dix were buried, but it's also a botanical garden, with its winding paths teeming with remarkable botanical specimens. I visited last weekend, perusing the many spring flora on the grounds, and I came across what seemed to be hybrids of the Spanish Bluebell (Hyacinthoides hispanica). Indeed, it is not the fabled Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) that carpets the primeval forests of England, but these were scented, which leads me to believe...
Odalisque begins with a cool radiance like a day where the sun is beaming, but a cold front sends a chill that cuts into warm air. The bergamot and sweet orange peels seem crystalline and jasmine pierces like heartache. There are pittosporum hedges in bloom, at first fooling me into thinking there are orange blossoms, but there is a whetted blade of greenness that exhilarates me. The lily of the valley flower-bells ring and sing their haunting tenor. Then it feels like basins of nectar in oversized flowers suspended in the air, pouring their contents all over me. Vapors of mouthwatering juices render me nearly delirious. Over time, white flowers weep,...
I'm new to perfume. I want to buy a light-smelling perfume with a light floral fragrance for my wife. I have a budget of 200 US dollars. Do you have any recommendations?
Searched, could not find. Are there any synthetics for labdanum? Thank you.
Dunhill has lots of fragrances but what would be the best of them like scent and performance wise?
Hi, it's my first thread on this forum. A short note: I'm a painter and new media artist and a fragrance-lover. I have no experience with perfume making. I know that this project is not the best way to start with this journey. I want to create an animalic-industrial themed fragrance (might be very stinky) – latex, plastic, rubber, dirty animal notes, turpentine-solvents, nail-polish, smoke, metal etc. It's going to be a part of a conceptual art exhibition, with other artworks complementing it, so it doesn't have to be a well-refined, detailed scent. It's going to be experienced with a sprayer bottle and paper strips, so it doesn't have to perform...
I'm looking for a demo formula or similar to Givenchy Ange ou Demon perfume. Any perfumers to help? Thank you in advance for your attention greetings from Brazil
Hello 👋 I had this silly idea to make a tanghulu candied orchid fragrance. I'm a bit stumped about the sugary, ever so slightly caramelized exterior of tanghulu in terms of recreating the smell. I'm considering using bran eo Ethyl Maltol Methyl furanone But these smell way to much like brown Caramel. Tanghulu is not fully Caramelized and has a bit of a raw sugar scent to it. I searched through odor index for sugar, and none give a raw sugar scent. Most are caramelized, burnt, or contain florals. I also found a sugar accord recipe but I don't like it because of its use of vanillin
From the NYTimes 5/19/24 Trending scents By Callie Holtermann Reporter on the Styles desk There’s something going on with the way teenage boys smell. It’s become a cliché for adolescents to douse themselves in Axe body spray at the first sign of puberty. But lately, teen and even tween boys with money to spare are growing obsessed with designer fragrances that cost hundreds of dollars. Ask a teenager why he wants a $200 bottle of cologne, and he might tell you he’s “smellmaxxing,” a term for enhancing one’s musk that is spreading on social media. “I started seeing a lot of videos on TikTok and thought, I don’t want to miss out,” said...
Do perfume molecules take the same amount of time to evaporate in both alcoholic/spray perfumes and attar/oil perfumes?
So I'm yet to dip my toes into the wondrous ocean of perfume-making, but I'm wanting to create a list with materials I seem to fancy (or ones that I think I would fancy for that matter). Of course materials that mimic florals and such aren't a problem. But what proved a little more difficult was trying to find materials for more "fantastical" accords. For example, I'd like suggestions for materials that could make accords such as: ink, freezing air (I know some ozonic materials can be used, open to new suggestions), metal (I've read aldehydes are good at providing metallic nuances, as well as one-octen-3-ol), I know geosmin can be used for earthy and...
I recently got my first fragrance which is prada carbon. When I spray it on the inside of my elbow and stick my nose next to it and smell, it smells terrible. But when I waft it towards me it smells amazing. When I spray it on my neck I get that same bad smell. Is this because my nose is right next to it and is this how other people will smell it as well?
