Since it is spring, I’ve been going on a little hyacinth kick and remembered that I had a little decant of MDCI Un Coeur en Mai that I did enjoy. Well, the small decant had been lost and promptly ordered another decant. I’ve been wearing this on and off for the past week. Un Coeur [...]
Whew! 2011 is nearly over and I still don’t have my Escape limo and I have NO idea where Woody Harrelson is right now. Better hustle!!! But – we still have a few days so let’s take a look back at the best/worst/most intriguing of 2011. Most of this will be perfume, as it is [...]
I give up. I was told that MDCI Promess de l’aube was reformulated, but I’m smelling the old version and the new one and can only pick up minor differences on the open and maybe a little less powderiness in the new version. The new version seems to last longer and have more strength in [...]
By March There’s a perfume review down there. But first – thanks everyone who came out and played on Sunday, giving me all sorts of new words to think about in other languages. I was/am totally unsurprised by the number of language geeks on here, by the way. It seems to me that perfume people [...]
A few weeks ago I reviewed Patricia de Nicolai´s new scent for Parfums MDCI, which now has an official name, “Le Rivage des Syrtes,” taken from the French novel by Julien Gracq. Claude Marchal of MDCI describes the fragrance as telling the story of a sailor´s travels, gathering various fruits, flowers and other aromatic materials [...]