by colombina

Is part of the amassment three colognes created for Christian Dior under the guidance of Hedi Slimane, the Dior trusted architect of the border men. The litt Bois d'Argent is the very crack Annick Menardo, the perfumer behind perfumes like Bvlgari blacklist, Le Labo Patchouli 24 and Lolita Lempicka. You can find more information on the CV trine in my criticism of Cologne Cologne Blanche. I note again that morality, although these are fragrances for men, they are most obviously unisex.Bois d'Argent is easy, tricky, sticky and very mobile on an old lady and a man. A s and Patchouli Bvlgari Deadly 24 combines masterfully Menardo here credibly incompatible or, rather, the face elements without compromise: the leather dry, austere and incense and pampered, the sweet notes of vanilla, iris and honey....

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by colombina

T his week Perfume Smellin’ Things will be focusing on “men’s” fragrances. I put “men’s” in fixed price marks, because, as I have declared many times before, I have regard for masculine-soft distiction in perfumery unwanted and rather fortuitously. And in that I have the very legitimate subsidy of one of the greatest perfumers, Pierre Bourdon, who, when once asked what is the imbalance between a women’s a men’s learn, replied, Stream Homme written on a hold back. There are of definitely scents that are so “lanose-chested” and virile that I am unfit to be in them (and wouldn’t scantiness to foetor them on a manly of the species either), but then again, some of the “women’s” scents are so over-the-top attractive, heady, in your phizog, I-am-a-Abigail-assent to-me-snarl submissive that they are upstanding as unwearable for me. In other words, seemingly I don’t traffic very successfully with the extremes in perfumery, be they “masculine” or “womanlike”. and low-key grandeur....