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A New Year

Another year has passed, and not without leaving its scars. For the new year I resolve to give more. To teach more, write more, smile more, listen more and love more. I resolve to blend, experiment and distill; to hear when my heart speaks and ignore o…

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Aurora by Roxana Villa : Perfume Review

Long-time Fragrance Bouquet readers already know my stance on the issue of natural perfumery since I have written about it in the past, but if there is still any doubt in your mind about whether a great natural perfume can ever stand next to a great synthetic one and survive the comparison, then I beg you to order a sample of Aurora right away.

What beautiful, twinkling magic has been weaved

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Vespertina by Roxana Villa : Perfume Review and Thoughts on Modern Perfume Structure

Perfume lovers, critics and writers still talk about perfume pyramids, and perfume houses still release the official notes of their newly launched fragrances in terms of top, heart and base notes. But to what extend do these terms still apply in the world of modern perfumery? It is no longer a secret that most of what we smell in modern perfumes is purely synthetic, no matter how natural it

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