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"
2023 Love Always Wins - "starfruit" and coconut water. 2023's version smelled like separate perfumes mashed together without anything connecting them into a cohesive whole. A year of aging has managed to make this scent more cohesive - the fruit is waxier now and works better with the coconut water. I don't like the strange powdery funkiness of its literal coconut water note. Dries down to a woody amber molecular with a hint of sweetness. 2024 Love Always Wins - citrus and sage. This is a more cohesive scent reminiscent of a department store masculine. Leans citusy and woody. Thankfully not as soapy as many scents of its type. Seems to share the same...
Mancera Kumkat Wood was launched in the 2013 and the nose behind it is Pierre Montale. This is a particular take on ambery vetiver being the latter the main protagonist under my profane nose alongside talky resinous amber, sandalwood and wet spices. Vetiver (initially wet due to fresh spices, citrus and grapefruit than more woodsy resinous, powdery and mildly spicy) is notable throughout while influencing this musky-cedary-ambery aroma and expressing a parade of different facets. There is definitely a certain ambery refreshing dustiness a la Chanel Allure Edition Blanche in it all around (being anyway Edition Blanche a different type of freshly ambery...
Black to Black by Mancera (2013) didn't quite survive to reach its tenth birthday on the market, as it got scrapped alongside several other slower-moving fragrances from the earlier years of the company's history, before Mancera really tried to separate itself from Montale by being ostensibly "French" in design. Mancera and sloughed off perfumes before, and most of it's pre-2010 lines have ceased to exist long before most people ever got to even review them, like Mancera Silver Intensitive Aoud (2008), the enigmatic Maltese Falcon of the early range only seen these days in pictures pulled from the Wayback Machine online. In the case of Black to Black,...
Well, oof. The one is hard for me to write simply because Cuir de Russie in extrait form has been the perfume love of my life. To me, there is simply nothing that compares to its gorgeous and somehow sophisticated amalgam of horse hide and jasmine. How-evah...since i can no longer get my greedy paws on the pure parfum (thanks, marketing-morons at Chanel!), this new EDP will definitely do. It's not as androgynous as the old EDT, it's true, and it's definitely not as civety and animalic as the ancient EDC, AND it's not as smoky and intense as the current extrait, but it's still my baby. Still the most beautiful rendition of floral leather ever made. So...
Scents of Wood Sandalwood in Oak is an appropriately more woods-focused blend that nonetheless has a boozy aspect from the aging process in barrels that inspires the scent and many others in the house’s now-rather-extensive catalogue. Sandalwood mixes with guaiacwood, sage, burnt sugar, pepper, and vanilla. It’s a bit resinous, slightly sweet/smoky/spicy, all while having the blend of woods as its main centering characteristic. There’s a vaguely syrupy, peppery gourmand quality to it even though it’s far more a woody/smoky/resinous blend. As with the rest of the house’s creations here, the quality is very high and the performance above...
As Moment Suprême, I immediately experience cloves, lavender and rose, underlined with geranium, and I am sent to a happy place. There's something that tickles my senses when lavender and rose are combined (see also Penhaligon's Hammam Bouquet, Oriza L. Legrand Cuir de l'Aigle Russe, es Parfums de Rosine Rose d'Homme). For many, this combination may feel antiquated or stuffy, but I on the contrary, find it to be almost poetic: the counterpoint of aromatic and floral, a perceptual dissonance to resolved consonance. It feels almost metaphorical. This is built around a heavenly mellis accord. I would classify this as an amber fougere, robust yet not...
Starts out floral with a small hint of skank (very small). Something like Rose 31. It's not until about 2 hours when you actually get the wood notes. Beautiful fragrance overall. Unisex for sure due to the rose in this one. It's an Amouage, so you know the longevity is above average. I feel Woods Symphony could have been named something else because the woods is not the main accord I get with this fragrance. A nice fragrance nontheless.7/10
Listed Notes (from NST): frozen morello cherry, bergamot, pink, white and yellow jasmine, pink pepper, freesia, violet, tonka beans, amber and sandalwood *** Medical cherry Better from the cute mini Awesome on my wife Fittingly disco A bit suave and rico Like some former life Excellent freshness From this Red fruity temptress Fleurs to keep her cool But warm up the base And I'll venture this Ace is Sure to play the Fool Cough syrup cutie With LPRN's beauty Six years prior to Perhaps that's the way T'was meant to be, Cartier Here's a toast to you! *** There's a part of me that enjoyed my wife wearing Délices de...
Welcome to the Weekend Sync for 2024-25! Feel free to participate Saturday, Sunday, or both! The goal of this sync is to explore your collection through different lenses (aka themes). It is a great way to get to know your collection better and maintain interest in it. Another purpose of this sync is to get to know other Basenoters and see how a diverse range of fragrances relate to a common theme. It is great fun to read the connections that other BNoters share. Don’t worry about if I had a particular scent in mind for a theme - I can assure you that I did not! I have no idea what I will choose myself - that is what keeps it creative and fun for...
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I love more and more weird, strange fragrances what are some of this type of scents you have tested recently ? mine is Akro Infuse. Very weird, but it's a masterpiece Jeff
For the month of June, let's share our appreciation for the house of Dior. Let's wear some fragrances and have some discussions about Dior! What fragrances do you own? Are they bottles, decants, or samples? What do you like and don't like about Dior?
Hi. I' m looking for a good "dandy" fragrance, a light Musky/oriental powdery. Maybe : chanel n5 l' eau ? Nicolai New York intense ? Pennhaligons hammam bouquet ? Este Lauder White Linen ? Histoire de parfum ambre 114 ? Hermes bel ami vetiver ? Amouage Gold man ? Kouros (new version ) ? Guerlain habit rouge l' istinct ?
Hi, I am currently trying to work on an aquatic fruity, but vanilla, dominated unisex cologne but can't seem to get the dry down right. My formulation consists of: calone:0.025 laitone:0.050 maltone:0.2 ebanol:0.050 Galaxolide:0.050 vanilla:0.2 I showed the result to my mom earlier to which she said it was leaning towards the masculine side and not enough to be both masculine and feminine.
Hey all, I have just finished my modern jasmine speciality base demo formula. It's nice and simple and a little quirky (relying on an overdose of indolene) but the result is a very beautiful "jasmine blossoms floating on the air" type base which is very lovely. Only 12 ingredients and all pretty common.
I was always a fan of Lime Basil Mandarin, though it was kind of weak and aside from wearing it casually around the house, didn't have much need as it didn't last too long. So over time I've written the house off as fickle and dismissive. In recent times I've seen the cologne intense setting out, smelled a few that were nice, but didn't pay much attention. Fast forward to my trip, I was walking out of Nordstroms and the SA at the Jo Malone counter asked if I wanted to smell anything, so I kept an open mind. Right away she showed me Cypress and Grapevine. I was immediately captivated by the woody and musky character. It smelled so good on the card. She...
Share your most worn scents for the month of May.
Anyone here tried Aventus Vintage formula from Jaime Frater? What do you think about it? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0682/1448/9400/files/Aventus844456.pdf?v=1697832702 I wanted to experience the famous Aventus, so I assembled the formula above (I've never smelled it before). I made some mistakes - the biggest one was accidentally overdosing Ambrettolide (not sure if it made a huge difference but I should redo it to see). I also didn't have the courage to use 10% of Ambroxan (and I only have it in DPG and was afraid that it would put too much DPG in), so I did 6.5%. I was also afraid to do 30% final concentration (I normally don't enjoy too strong...
