Orchidee Vanille Eau de Parfum by Van Cleef & Arpels Review

Collage of Orchidee Vanille by Van Cleef & Arpels and its notes, including vanilla, chocolate, almond, violet, and tonka.

Vanilla cake, chocolate, orchid, lychee, and musk. Orchidee Vanille is Britney Spears' Fantasy all grown [...]

Yesterday Haze Eau de Parfum by Imaginary Authors Review

Collage of Imaginary Authors' Yesterday Haze and its notes, including figs, fruit, wood, tonka bean, iris, and walnuts.

Yesterday Haze is pink. Pale, dusty rose pink. It's formed around a nondescript fruity note, pale pink, marketed [...]

Angel Muse Eau de Parfum by Mugler Review

Collage of Mugler's Angel Muse and its notes, including chocolate hazelnut spread, pink pepper, patchouli, and grapefruit.

Here's the note on the opening of Angel Muse I dashed off last night before running out the door to meet an old [...]

Fantasy Eau de Parfum by Britney Spears Review

Collage of Britney Spears' Fantasy perfume and its notes, including white chocolate, cupcake, kiwi, lychee, wood, and musk.

Fantasy isn't a perfume as much as it is a memory.Hazy clubs. LimeWire. Motorola Razr phones with see-through [...]

Loukhoum Eau de Parfum by Keiko Mecheri Review

Collage of Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum Eau de Parfum and its notes, including rose, honey, hawthorn, vanilla, almond, and musk.

Sometimes before fleshing out a review I wear a perfume and take terse, rather unimaginative notes on my phone. [...]

Fils de Joie Eau de Parfum by Serge Lutens Review

Collage of Fils de Joie Eau de Parfum by Serge Lutens, along with its notes: night blooming jasmine, honey, and ylang ylang.

Fils de Joie is blooming night jasmine and honey.That's it. Either you like jasmine and honey or you don't. If [...]

Santal Majuscule Eau de Parfum by Serge Lutens Review

Collage of Santal Majuscule and its notes, including tonka bean, chocolate, cocoa, rose, rosewood, and old books.

"Hop on the majuscule bus!" My boyfriend, who never seems to tire of this joke, every single time I wear this [...]

Bora Bora for Women Eau de Parfum by Liz Claiborne Review

Collage of Bora Bora Eau de Parfum and its notes, including tuberose, water lily, mandarin, orchid, sandalwood, and ginger.

Liz Claiborne's Bora Bora is a clean, soapy, tropical floral perfume. It feels a little aquatic, a little [...]

Hypnotic Poison Eau de Toilette by Dior Review

Collage of Dior's Hypnotic Poison and its notes, including vanilla, almond, plum, coconut, rosewood, sandalwood, and caraway.

Today I wore Hypnotic Poison and asked my boyfriend if he liked it."Sure.""Sure?""I mean, it's fine. [...]

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