synthetic Archives — The Scentaur

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

I have a major gripe with the fruit blossom perfume genre.It's one I've aired before. Most notably at Jo [...]

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

This is synthetic shadows and disposable pen ink on a bed of Iso E Super, minty cypress, and oozing [...]

One of the biggest memes of the fragrance world and most coveted releases of the 2010s, Aventus by Creed is [...]

I spent a long while deliberating between trying this one and some spin-off like Parfums de Marly's Oajan or House [...]

First things first: Fancy isn't fancy by any definition.It doesn't feel expensive, or clever, or [...]

Despite the marketing, there is nothing here that feels particularly British or modern or traditional or clever. [...]

Womanity is not a scent I would ever want to wear, nor something I would particularly want to smell on anyone [...]