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    The Areej Le Doré History of Attar Collection Thoughts and Reviews

    The Areej Le Doré History of Attar Collection is a reference 'smelling' library for those interested in the traditional attar genre…

    16th September 2022
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    The New Generation Amouage Attars: Thoughts and Reviews

    Amouage's new attars ≠ the OG attars. In fact, they are not attars at all but niche perfume oils. And they're good but not $540 good.…

    13th September 2022
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    Smyrna by Le Couvent

    Smyrna by Le Couvent is a peppery rosewater scent that feels like Rose Poivrée or Rose 31 soaked in stain remover and run through a hot cycle. …

    8th September 2022
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    Iris Malikhân by Maison Crivelli

    Iris Malikhân by Maison Crivelli is a dissonant, borderline unpleasant and weirdly habit-forming fragrance that is only nominally about iris. …

    22nd August 2022
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    Rozu by Aesop

    Rozu by Aesop fills a Rozu-shaped hole in my heart that I never even knew was there. A fresh-earthy-spicy-woody rose that gives me joy. …

    20th August 2022
  • Animalic Carnation Cult of Raw Materials Independent Perfumery Iris Musk Review Sandalwood Violet

    Iris Ghalia by Ensar Oud

    Iris Ghalia by Ensar Oud pits a silver spoon iris against the great unwashed hoards of zoo animal secrete. Somehow, just somehow, it works.…

    17th August 2022
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    Chypre Sultan by Ensar Oud

    Chypre Sultan by Ensar Oud is a proper chypre, by which I mean that it smells like a chypre, not that it is at all proper (which it is not). …

    11th August 2022
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    Vaniglia by Santa Maria Novella

    Vaniglia by Santa Maria Novella smells reasonably like posh gelato in the air but like burning black plastic on the skin. (Minority opinion). Sometimes I like it, sometimes it gives me the dry heaves.…

    9th August 2022
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    Gatsby 22 by Ormonde Jayne

    Gatsby 22 by Ormonde Jayne is a fresh, citrusy floral musk that's definitely not for me but perfect for a modern-day Daisy Buchanan…

    9th August 2022
  • Amber Animalic Iris Leather Masculine Review

    Cuir d’Iris by Parfumerie Generale

      The secret to Cuir d’Iris is that it is simultaneously sooty and wet.  Bone-dry cedarwood and iris kick up dust eddies as stale as the air from a newly-fired radiator.  Floating in this…

    8th August 2022
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