patchouli Archives — The Scentaur

I don't understand Miller Harris' L'Air de Rien.This isn't spitty. I was led to expect spitty. I almost wanted [...]

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

Mugler's Pure Havane was a fragrance I loved and never fully understood. It was one of my very first favorite [...]

Atelier Cologne's Rose Anonyme is a strange one. Seeing the listed notes — rose, ginger, incense, oud, resins [...]

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

Comme des Garçons' Rouge is ginger through and through. Not a dry, powdered ginger you might bake with, or a [...]

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town.Some gave them [...]

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 [...]