The Areej Le Doré History of Attar Collection is a reference 'smelling' library for those interested in the traditional attar genre…
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.…
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. …
Iris Malikhân by Maison Crivelli is a dissonant, borderline unpleasant and weirdly habit-forming fragrance that is only nominally about iris. …
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. …
Iris Ghalia by Ensar Oud pits a silver spoon iris against the great unwashed hoards of zoo animal secrete. Somehow, just somehow, it works.…
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). …
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.…
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…
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…