Profumum Roma Eccelso Eau de Parfum opens with a zesty citrus, slightly bitter and tangy, that gets blended with earthy spiciness before tangling with fruity-floral sweetness. The musk comes in within 15 minutes and brings all the notes together. It was more linear for the first hour, then sweetened...
Xerjoff Pikovaya Dama Eau de Parfum opens with sweet, fizzy citrus that made me think of a higher-end take on lemon-lime soda. The iris added a creamy, powdery element with aromatic woods that followed, which tended to mute the effervescent quality after an hour. The drydown is lightly spiced,...
is a crisp, cool, and earthy scent that was lightened by mint over patchouli, which was initially on the damper, earthier side and then gave way to a more unsweetened, cocoa-like powder smell later on. The drydown added some muskiness and tamped down the initial mintiness, which meant it was...
Profumum Roma Ichnusa Eau de Parfum has a very crisp, vividly green opening--like fresh, juicy crushed up leaves of the fig tree. That green intensity lasted for a solid two hours before becoming sweeter and sweeter, more floral and less green, through the remainder of the wear.
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Xerjoff Golden Moka Eau de Parfum starts with tangier, zestier citrus fruits that quickly sweeten but have a green undercurrent that mitigates them from getting to be cloyingly sweet. There was a jammier rose that was hard to detect individually but rounded things out. The drydown was more ambered...
Xerjoff Nio Eau de Parfum begins with an intense, peppery dose of zesty citrus that becomes more floral over time; initially, citrus-floral and then slightly tempered with the white floral of jasmine. The woods were more apparent in the drydown and melded with the soft, slightly sweet and citrus...
Naomi Goodsir Nuit de Bakelite Eau de Parfum is an incredibly green interpretation of tuberose; it's not a tuberose scent as other tuberose soliflores would be. Nuit de Bakelite celebrates the greener aspects, almost like the aroma of the water that tuberose stems have been sitting in. It's peppery,...
Xerjoff Starlight Eau de Parfum includes warm, winter spices with a creamy, almond heart that gives way to golden amber and aromatic cedarwood. The journey was fluid and more linear with the clove and cinnamon being more dominant against both almond and amber for about half the wear.
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Naomi Goodsir Or du Serail Eau de Parfum opens with ripened, fresh fruits that were juicy and crisp with mango and davana as the standouts in the bouquet. There was some booziness that ran through it, but it was short-lived. Sweet tobacco and a honeyed aspect soon emerged, but everything started to...
Stephane Humbert Lucas Mortal Skin Eau de Parfum has a more memorable opening with juicy, slightly sweet-tart blackberry, ink (almost has a varnish-like translation), and myrrh. It is smoothed out with buttery iris, lightly spiced with cardamom, and then later, slightly salty, resinous, and aromatic...
