Bortnikoff Sir Winston Extrait de Parfum is almost entirely a tuberose scent, so for those who love the intensity of tuberose (or white florals, generally), it may be a match made in heaven. Despite having base notes of tobacco, vanilla, and oud, I could barely detect them throughout the wear of Sir...
Slumberhouse Sova Perfume seemed like an incredibly complex, but beautifully blended, concoction that began with boozy, honeyed tobacco spilled over dry hay with a hint of herbal tea. Early on, there was a burnt note that began quite strong before mellowing out after an hour and a half. That...
Jovoy Paris Psychedelique Eau de Parfum was patchouli-driven fragrance where its dark, earthy, and a little camphorous. It smelled like damp soil, just ready for planting bare root roses at the end of winter. Sometimes it gave dusty, dark chocolate with a little mint, but it was earthy before...
Diptyque Eau Capitale Eau de Parfum is a lighter, barely-in-bloom rose with leafy greens and light, woody and earthy tones. It was primarily a rose and patchouli scent with a greener, fresher rose being the dominant note until deep into development where the patchouli showed up more noticeably in...
Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Ambre Precieux Eau de Parfum is a warm, ambery fragrance that was heady and rich toned down subtly by balsam. It has a more aromatic, lightly creamy lavender opening with the faint play of spices, like cumin and nutmeg, but the amber shows up early on in the journey and...
Penhaligon's Clandestine Clara Eau de Parfum opened with boozy rum and vanilla with an alcohol bite before becoming a more vanillic, honeyed amber spiced with cinnamon. The opening was incredibly short-lived and there was little progression after, so it ended up being a more linear scent (which is...
Loree Rodkin Gothic I is an incredibly heavy, dense scent at its opening, where it's syrupy and vanillic but not sickly sweet and tickled with spice and gets slightly smoother and more buttery over the next couple of hours before the patchouli creeps in and becomes more prominent as the drydown...
Kilian Straight to Heaven, white cristal Eau de Parfum is all about the cedar--dry, robust, and like you've opened a freshly-made cedar chest. While the opening was earthy, like soil, and had rum elements, they were minor players for such a short time. There was pronounced fruitiness that lasted for...
Profumum Roma Ambra Aurea Eau de Parfum is a rich, resinous, salty-sweet amber-driven fragrance that is complemented by lightly spiced woods and incense. It has a more linear progression with the drydown having some deeper, richer sweetness, that still felt like it derived from the amber, as it...
Tauer L'Air du Desert Marocain Eau de Toilette Intense is meant to evoke the dry, cool air of a desert blended with Moroccan spices. This fragrance is characterized by dry, cedar woods with aromatic spices that progressively warms up from slightly smoky, resinous amber as the base subsumes the top...
