Fragrance du jour, recent sniffs, random notes.
Watery peach tea and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the spring.
Great for a high school girl with a big allowance. When she goes to college, she’ll graduate to Lancome Tresor.
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I love everything Tones and I does with their voice–this stripped down cover is haunting.
Big generic vanilla that chews up all the almonds and covers up the floral tonka mush. Grubby amber on the bottom makes it stiff and unyielding.
Dido’s White Flag came out in 2003–another female English hit, but with better staying power and more sweetness.
The peelie advertises pear, iris, leather and patchouli, but all I get is baked vinyl car seats, hot tires and a melting popsicle.
Perhaps the “New Gentle Man” needs to park his convertible in the shade?
Edit – 5/12/21
Fresh from the bottle he pear comes through, but with more plastic fruit than juicy crispness. The iris and patchouli make a nice powder somewhere between baby talc and sawdust, but I’m still not convinced.
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I want to hang out in a Gorillaz video.
Beach lingerie.
The sea salt projects at arm’s length from the skin, and the frangipani a handspan, which makes for an interesting personal experience. The wet/windy ambroxan base augments the ocean notes brilliantly.
Lasts all day on the skin and until the tide turns on clothes.
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A lazy beachy song–
Silly sweet rich girl.
Very high end but trend-tired caramelized amber, this time supporting peach hard candy.
A loud giggle, but doesn’t stand out from all the others enough to warrant the price tag.
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Another apple for the teacher–this one is passionate about Victorian literature and floral print dresses.
Honeycrisp by the bushel and Crabtree & Evelyn rose talc, with modest sillage until tea time. Woodsy amber at the bottom lasts longer on clothes.
I kind of feel like this is what an American designer thinks London should be–cliche and prissy and pretty history–without acknowledging the grime and colonialism and punk rock.
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The “DKNY Hearts the World” line came out in 2012, when this song hit it big in the US. (And Florence is actually from London, unlike this perfume.)
Manly herbaceous man who fashionably needs to shave tones it down for a corporate meeting.
Grapefruit juice and lavender for breakfast, oak desk and middle management musk at the end.
He’ll get his promotion soon.
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The Blind Boys of Alabama are fantastic. This was the intro theme to The Wire.
Manly herbaceous man who fashionably needs to shave goes on a date, and he cleans up rather nice in his vanilla dress shirt.
Lavender and good manners on top, apple wood and patchouli on the bottom.
Still not over it.
Manly herbaceous man who fashionably needs to shave, and dried fruit.
Lavender and bergamot on top, testosterone and trail mix on the bottom.
Sandalwood and vanilla that turns chocolaty on me. The saffron makes it soft and rich and a little bit butch, in a marvelous battle-ax sous-chef way.
Quite lovely but almost no sillage. Lasts through the cheese course, but not dessert.
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