Yep, it’s that time again — Fall’s Top 10. As usual we’re going to cheat it. Here are some of the ways to welcome fall– Skanky – you knew we’d start here, didn’t you? If you’ve been holding back because of the warmer weather, now’s the time to break out your favorite cumin-rich, musk-ridden, armpit-redolent [...]
Tom Ford Italian Cypress is big salty, earthy cypress. It feels very masculine, but I think women who like strong wood scents will be quite taken with this. I can’t find a list of notes on it, except it mentions wood resins and scents of Italy, whatever that means. I’ve put it next to CdG Hinoki, and [...]
A fine perfume friend gifted me with a sample set of the new Humiecki & Graef fragrances, including the original Skarb, which was released last fall with the instant-fame-achieving news that it was a conceptualization of how men cry. In my elegantly constructed sample set — a box with sample vials in individual niches — [...]
Well, I’d like to say that I’ve done more than cursorily sniff the new Milan store Tom Ford exclusive, Italian Cypress, but I haven’t. Just on the cursory sniff, it is very, very woody and cypressy, and it leans much more masculine, though I do like it. That’s as far as I have gone, sorry! [...]
I had a crushing perfume blow last week that I can´t quite bring myself to talk about yet, mostly because I´m embarrassed by how much it bothers me the way things didn´t quite work out. So I, your trusty perfume handmaiden, turned to my long-ignored stash of biehl parfumkunstwerke once more, figuring that if [...]