August 1st, 2007 — Guest Blogger, Perfume Reviews, Smell-alikes from Tove @ Aromascope
By Tove Solander
Today’s theme is tar. I’ve compared three tar scents – in fact the only tar scents I know of: Comme des Garcons Synthetic Tar, Tauer Perfumes Lonestar Memories and Le Labo Paychouli 24. Only Lonestar Memories has tar listed as a note, although the Comme des Garcons scent has it in the very [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Lonestar Memories, Andy Tauer Perfumes Lonestar Memories is a rich leather scent, intense and multilayered, with a lasting, soft and gentle woody accord. Andy Tauer Perfumes I was so happy to get a chance to try this fragrance, thanks to a POL'er. Descriptions of it made me wonder how it would do on me. I......
- Neil Morris fragrances, part 5 Gotham (end) Neil Morris spoke to me about this lovely, dark, lush fragrance: I was walking one October in New York City, which is also called Gotham. It was a particularly warm evening, very dark, almost menacing in an intriguing way ... almost intriguingly menacing, it spoke to me of things hiding......
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July 17th, 2007 — Guest Blogger, Perfume Reviews, Smell-alikes from Tove @ Aromascope
By Tove Solander
When I first tried Diptyque Tam Dao I came to think of Wickle Chestnut & Vetiver, so I thought I’d do a side-by-side test for a smell-alikes post. They scents have no notes in common – for Chestnut & Vetiver I know of no other notes than the two mentioned in the title, [...]
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July 3rd, 2007 — Guest Blogger, Perfume Reviews, Smell-alikes from Tove @ Aromascope
By Tove Solander
This smell-alikes post is a little different since I don’t own one of the fragrances and hence can’t do a side by side skin test as usual. Thanks to Chayaruchama, I have a decant of Chanel Coromandel, and upon trying it I was surprised to find the top notes smell just like a [...]
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