cedar Archives — The Scentaur

"Alright," I sighed. "This is officially phoning it in."It was a hazy late spring day and I was desperately [...]

My first thoughts on smelling Saltus, in approximate order:Oh, that's camphor.A lot of camphor.Wow, [...]

Time for some Matcha Cogitation about Matcha Meditation, a fragrance of great Matcha Delectation. My Matcha [...]

I wanted to like this because it has an alligator on it, and I like alligators. Something about that logic must [...]

This smells like most expensive cherry chapstick ever to exist. And then it is gone.Tom Ford's Lost Cherry is [...]

Like me, my mother is too fickle to ever have a true signature scent, but this is as close as she got. This was [...]

This isn't the literal smell of a book. Not even close. But it is a lovely academic sort of aromatic [...]

Reserved, gentle, and demure, Mémoire d’une Odeur is perhaps the polar opposite of Paloma Picasso's Paloma [...]

Sometimes a perfume note pyramid looks so interesting on paper, only for it to turn out that the base notes hog [...]