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"
Frangipane is another magnificently peculiar selection from Santa Maria Novella, reflecting the old-world apothecary feel of the house that was founded over 400 years ago. While others claim that the frangipani (plumeria) flower eludes them here, I on the contrary feel it amongst the pronounced herbal balm of thyme and nutmeg, soft candy-pastel beneath the surface, somewhat peachy and creamy. This seems to represent more that of the scented gloves made popular by Marquis de Frangipani: these frangipani gloves were more a melange of plumeria, red jasmine (Jasminum beesianum) and a melange of herbs and spices, fixed with balsams. The result is a swirl of...
Current (2014 version) notes per Morabito website Notes de tête : citron, cardamome, armoise, bois de rose Notes de cœur : lavande, violette Notes de fond : patchouli, bois de cèdre, muscs
I'm not getting boozy, but it is a great rich warm resinous ambery vanilla with a hint of slightly synthetic blackberry in the back. The woody elements are smooth and blended well enough that they only back up the amber and don't add edges or huge offensive projection. Really liking this! For the name, I think a touch more blackberry would be good and the boozy note the other reviewer got would be nice, but I don't get that at all. .Still, nice!
Coastal Salty Forest by Zara, launched in 2022 and performed by Coralie Spicher and Fabrice Pellegrin, enters the Zara Collection Forest alongside Sacred Green Forest, Mountain Woody Forest and Frozen Pure Forest. This fragrance is an amazing woodsy aquatic little gem and another winner from Zara. A deep resinous aromatic woodsiness encounters a profound cool oceanic saltiness. As well as told somewhere, this fragrance is an escape to Galician countryside, a place where the balsamic green vibe from the forest (eucalyptus, pine tree and cypress) meets the ocean's salty breezy air. Coastal Salty Forest is definitely an aromatic/balsamic fragrance and a juice...
Jean-Claude Ellena cooked up Hattaï for Le Couvent, and he kept things very simple here. It's pretty much a dark vanilla with some character from spice and cacao and an unabashedly naked amberwood, which used to create the kind of structural diffuseness that is an Ellena trademark. It opens rich and boozy, then the sour wood takes over for a stretch before settling into cozier, fruitier cacao-dominant territory. If you were hoping for a lost Ellena masterpiece on the level of his Hermès creations, it isn't that, though his impishness and talent is detectable in the use of the amberwood here: it's dosed just up to the point where it could become...
A sales associate at Barney’s (RIP) introduced me to Bois D’Orage in 2008. I was still exploring dark, gothic scents but never forgot about it as an elegant, daytime scent with no sweetness. Finally picked it up last week. This is a Feb 2023 batch. A few different wearings have revealed a few different facets. Poking around online I see the now renamed as French Lover has a cult following that matches my memories of it. If anything it’s a little more vivid than I remember but it’s all there. Rooty, vegetal, green, at times the cedar giving pencil shavings, at others the vetiver and incense…for such austere notes the scent is a real carousel...
Oud Absolu was marketed as the encapsulation of the Cartier oud line up until that point, a distillation of the multiple oud extracts that Laurent had been using throughout the line. To emphasize this use of ostensibly precious materials, it comes in a smaller bottle size than the rest of the line. While I do actually quite enjoy Oud Absolu, it's not one of the line's highlights. Oud Absolu is essentially what you'd get if you took Tom Ford Oud Wood and put real oud in it: which is to say it's the default "modern" synthoud profile elevated with the musty-sour-animalic touches of real oud. So Oud Absolu is a prestige-priced frag for someone who likes Tom...
This is my first wearing of Mancera Amore Caffe, a 2023 gourmand that has gotten a lot of buzz in recent months, this year’s Tonka Cola, in that respect. Right off the initial spray, it’s sweet and even a little syrupy, but not overly heavy, a quite pleasant coffee scent that, while not having a ton of coffee in it, nonetheless does not fall into the category of smelling like a bakery or other desserts. It’s lightly spiced and boozy, with notes of amaretto, speculoos, and brown sugar, without too much evidence of non-gourmand notes. It genuinely smells like something that could be part of a dessert. I find it much more wearable than Aoud Cafe...
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...
Lately I've been feeling kinda of burnt out choosing a scent to wear (even though I WFH) daily and/or being enthusiastic about anything new in the fragrance world. I have been more so into creating ones but even that is starting to feel the same. I feel like I'm going through some sort of ennui. Scent that excited me in the past just feel so meh lately. I've felt this way before so it doesn't feel like I'm at an end of the road situation thankfully. I've been pondering about weeding out my collection because I feel like I have too many scents that I've never finish them which I won't considering I do have too much. I think I have somewhere around 175 to...
I am looking for something new. I like Terre D'Hermes and my current regular wear is Eau Noire(The older green colored version. Not tried the latest version yet). I like Vetivers also. Guerlain Vetiver is lovely so are a lot of other Vetivers. I tried most of the popular ones so I am trying to find something new I tried a lot of the Ouds, but they all seem to over loaded on super ambers, which I find is not to my taste. Plus other new fragrances are loaded on Ambroxan and the like which overwhelms my nose, I cannot seem to smell anything if thing if the scent has a lot of ambroxan. So I barely smell Creed Aventus, Sauvage, BR540. So I am looking for...
What's going on at the molecular level? Remember my IQ level is barely double digits, so I'm pretty dumb. I know it's (mostly) not the alcohol causing the effect because I use pre-diluted ACs, so the effects I'm smelling are purely from the different ACs interacting with each other. So how are they interacting? Do they combine together to form new chemicals? If this is the case, do we have more information on which chemicals combine best with other ACs? Can I mix 2 ACs together to create a 3rd? Is this the thing that is happening on the molecular level? How long does this process take? Is there a way to speed it up? How long does the process take,...
Just received a bottle of Polo Green, which I have been wearing for nearly 30 years, but got away from it for the past year or 2. The current scent is so far off from what I remember I don't even recognize it. Nothing like it was. So now I'm asking for suggestion for a replacement in the same price range (4 ounces for around $80). Looking for something similar without any sweet, flowery or vanilla tones. Green, peppery leather would be nice. Dave
Is it true that the concentration of the perfume directly influences its longevity on the skin, or is this just another myth?
Palisander Rosewood is just wonderful on my skin. Are there any affordable unisex/mens fragrances with a prominent Rosewood, together with Neroli/Orange Blossom, and Orange? I'm looking for a fragrance I can use all year round, daytime and nighttime. If this is mission impossible, then perhaps a spring/summer day fragrance. Not too old man, and not too feminine with lots of flowers. Other than these notes I like amber, patchouli, basil, ginger, a bit of fruitness, natural smelling balsam fir, cypress. I dont like smokyness, too much musk, fragrances high in aldehydes, Iso E Super, and cheap aromachems. So perhaps a more green/herbal and fresh...
Dear Basenotes community members, New member here and also a DIY wannabe. I have purchased all the lab supplies and a precisiob scale but the most important thing is AC and naturals. I live in France and I came across perfumersworld website, they offer AC in small quantities and also free shipping if the order is more than 100$. Is it a good starting point to order from them and learn the materials then up my game and order from European suppliers. Do you have experience shopping from them is their quality decent? Thank you
Hi everyone! I am new here, playing around with the possibility of starting my own perfume brand. I'm watching lots of videos, getting inspiration for ingredients to buy, hoping to start formulating my own fragrence soon. I was wondering how many ingredients do perfumes typically contain? From a business sense it seems sensible to not have too many ingredients however I am wondering if a simple formula will just not be effective? Any advice on would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi Guys, I'm just starting out to learn fragrance making (not professionally trained) but I'm passionate about it. Can anyone judge my Milk Accords I just made, it smells towards Milk but not exactly what I consider Milk. What should I increase/decrease or add/take out so I won't break my bank. Diacetyl 250 Maltol 50 Ethyl Maltol 25 Vanillin 30 Ethyl Vanillin 25 Isobutavan 10 Anisaldehyde 25 Aldehyde C-14 15 Aldehyde C-18 2 Coumarin 70 Hedione 2200 Tonalide 1500 Mimosa Absolute 15
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