Douce Amère’s sonorous name, meaning “bittersweet” in French, brings back memories of childhood with a Prustian rush: the precarious balance of bitter and sweet like a poisonous plant, like bitter sightshade; the smell of danger and dare of a bitters …
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Break This Bittersweet Spell on Me
April 10th, 2008 — , Review, Serge Lutens, absinthe series, anise, apocalyptica, artemisia, bittersweet, douce amere, rasmus, ville valo, wormwood, youtube from perfumeshrine @ Perfume Shrine
Libertine by Vivienne Westwood : Perfume Review
May 15th, 2007 — Boudoir, Fragrance, Libertine, Perfume, Perfume Review, Review, Viburnum, Vivienne Westwood, bittersweet, coffee from Divina @ Fragrance Bouquet
Libertine… Gluttonous abandon, hedonistic encounters… The word brings many associations to mind, but perhaps most salient to me are the wordy, loquacious, sometimes downright pleonastic writings of the time. But no matter which association my wandering mind stumbles upon, the perfume itself seems incongruent with its gifted name. No, I do not mean that this is a fragrance with mass-market
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