Sometimes ignorance is a blessing. Not knowing any background info on a brand, notes, etc, allows one to smell a perfume with a fresh nose, so to say. Not, to my shame, being familiar with Domenico Caraceni, upon sniffing their eponymous blend, I decided it was a feminine fragrance, and the rare species at that - a chypre. Have I done my homework before sniffing, I would have realized that a line
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Perfume Review: Domenico Caraceni
November 26th, 2007 — Chypre, Domenico Caraceni, Masculine Perfumes from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Perfume Review: Lalique Encre Noir
October 15th, 2007 — Lalique, Masculine Perfumes, vetiver from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Dragging behind the whole enlightened perfumanity, I finally tried Lalique’s fairly recent masculine release, Encre Noir. (Many thanks to Robin for sharing this marvel with me!) So good is this deceptively simple, elegantly earthy creation, that it might just revive my passion for vetiver. When I say that it is deceptively simple, I mean that it appears relatively straightforward: vetiver and
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October 11th, 2007 — Guest Posters, Masculine Perfumes, Michael Storer, Tom from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Review by Tom
Gaia over at The Non-Blonde reviewed the womens scents of this new niche perfumer; I thought I would review the mens. Happily, he included samps of the womens as well in my order of the mens, so I will review those as well next time.
Il Giardino opens with soapy greens adding in pleasant lemon/ neroliness that reminds me a bit of an amped-up Dior Eau Sauvage. Black currant and
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Perfume Review: Bond No. 9 Saks DNA
October 4th, 2007 — Bond No 9, Guest Posters, Masculine Perfumes, Tom from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Review by Tom
The house Bond No. 9 is an interesting one, with such lovelies as New Haarlem, with it’s rich coffee goodness, West Broadway with it’s musky Mate and Bryant Park’s oddly delicious Raspberries and lilies. So I was very interested in smelling the signature scents they cooked up for Saks Fifth Avenue stores. So on the day of the first rain we have had in LA in months I decided to
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September 26th, 2007 — Annick Menardo, Diesel, Jacques Cavallier, Masculine Perfumes, New Releases, Thierry Wasser from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Annick Menardo is one of my favorite perfumers, and I was intrigued by the scents she co-created for Diesel. Diesel Fuel For Life For Her was done in collaboration with Thierry Wasser, Diesel Fuel For Life For Him with Jacques Cavallier. I have no doubt that some sort of a complicated, “hip” marketing campaign accompanies the scents, but I am not that much in2 Diesel, not curious enough and
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Tom Ford Strikes Again. One Average Couple Reacts
September 14th, 2007 — Masculine Perfumes, New Releases, Perfume Ads, Tom Ford from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Tom Ford is not nudity-shy (remember the gorgeous specimen in the M7 ad, or the Opium ad with Dahl or basically any shoot in which Ford participated in any way) and he loves to shock. For his upcoming scent, Tom Ford for Men, he issued this tasteful little number (and there are others, just as …tasteful):
My first reaction? I don’t know what to say. I am repulsed by the tacky blow-up-doll-ness
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Perfume Review: Christian Dior Eau Sauvage
September 6th, 2007 — Guest Posters, Masculine Perfumes, Tom, dior from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Review by Tom
Lee of PerfumePosse and I recently had a ‘fume exchange: He sent me some SL’s he didn’t care for and I picked up a couple of bottles of things he wanted. He also slipped in generous samples of all sorts of things that I had not tried, and one that I had actually owned, but not had in years.
Flashback to the 70’s: I am a teenager and yes, I liked scents even then. I would ride my
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Perfume Review: Robert Piguet Cravache and Visa
August 17th, 2007 — Masculine Perfumes, Reissued Scents, Robert Piguet from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Owing to the facts that Cravache and Visa are being re-issued together, that I first tried them at the same time and that I am a romantic fool, I will now forever imagine them as a couple. He is sophisticated and sensible, significantly older than her. She is young, impossibly pretty, feisty and capricious. He is tenderly protective towards her, she worships him. They are on a honeymoon, cruising
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Perfume review: Eau Noire by Christian Dior
July 12th, 2007 — Guest Posters, Immortelle, Masculine Perfumes, Tom, dior from Colombina (Marina) @ Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog
Review by Tom
Well, it was another hot weekend here in LA, which of course meant shopping. I visited the iPhone (see my blog for the reason why I’m not getting it), dropped into Neimans to once again realise that even at 50% off I can’t afford it, and variously cruised through other department stores along Wilshire Boulevard before deciding that yes, I did deserve a trip to Cold Stone Creamery
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