Haunted Rose – floral and spicy and unique
Haunted Rose opens with a burst of nose-tingling black pepper; its spiciness warms an opulent note of rose that’s just a little powdery around the edges.
Tilda Swinton Like This – familiar and comforting and personal
Tilda Swinton Like This opens with a note of sweet, tangy tangerine that’s bright, lively and captivating. It’s followed by a warm, spicy note of ginger that’s joined by creamy, earthy pumpkin.
Vetiver – green and earthy and elegant
Vetiver dries down to a gorgeous, green, floral-tinged beauty that celebrates vetiver's woody, earthy qualities without being dark, heavy, coarse or rough.
That’s what I love about it.
Comme des Garçons Series 3 Incense: Avignon – smoky and resinous and woody
Comme des Garçons Series 3 Incense opens with nose-tingling aldehydes that introduce a note of Roman chamomile that’s softly floral, camphourous and lemony.
Sycomore - rich and refined and worthy
Sycomore opens with a nose-tickling freshness from aldehydes and camphourous juniper berries. A gentle hint of rose adds floralcy and richness.
Bruvuvu – woody and cozy and evocative
One of the fastest-growing categories of niche scents today are ones that conjure winter all year round. On me, Bruvuvu opens with a bracing bright note of fresh ginger and a camphourous burst of aromatic red cedar.
Green Irish Tweed Millésime – sophisticated and distinctive and masculine
Green Irish Tweed Millésime opens with fresh, vibrant verbena, clean and lemony, its floral nuances heightened by a note of powdery, slightly sweet iris. It smells green and deliciously refreshing.
Ambre Cashmere Intense – refined and delicate and warm
Ambre Cashmere Intense opens warm and spicy from black pepper cut with notes of sweet, juicy mandarin and tart lemon. The fruits balance the pepper so that the opening is warm yet light, fresh and just a little sweet - the perfect setting for a heart of iris butter and violet.
PHI - une Rose de Kandahar – rich and sophisticated and refined
PHI - Une Rose de Kandahar opens with a note of rich, fruity apricot gently warmed by spicy cinnamon. Almond appears and adds a soft, bittersweet note that tempers the richness of the apricot, while bergamot gives the opening a gentle brightness.
Cèdre - floral and woody and gorgeous
The first time I smelled Cèdre was from the bottle I owned. It wasn’t a blind buy; it was a gift from a very generous friend who thought I would like it. Well, I love her so I was sure I would like it, at least enough to honour her gift.
Moon Bloom – full and opulent and realistic
Moon Bloom is one of those fragrances that doesn’t go through set stages. Instead, it reveals itself slowly over time.
Vamp à NY – hypnotic and irresistible and addictive
Vamp à NY opens with a hit of boozy rum that links to the coconut facet of tuberose and sets a tropical stage for the buttery, creamy, lush, floral, sexy tuberose to seep into my skin.
Le b. – fresh and aquatic and sensual
Le b. was inspired by Agnès b.’s memories of summer vacations. It’s the smell of suitcases opened after a summer vacation by the sea that hold the scent of water, heady tropical flowers and the veil of linen dried by the sun or skin.
Hummingbird – floral and gently sweet and woody
Hummingbird is the heady smell of a gorgeous garden in full bloom with a woody aromatic, drydown that sits close to the skin.
Baume du Doge - opulent and rich and surprisingly light
Baume du Doge opens with a note of sweet, luscious orange warmed by spicy cinnamon and woody, camphouous cardamom.
Musc Monoï – sun and sea and skin
Musc Monoï drydown is refined, sensual and sophisticated. It smells like warm, sun-kissed shoulders, arms and legs - tanned and sea-sprayed after a lazy, languorous spent lying on warm sand.
Anat Fritz – aromatic and woody and original
Anat Fritz opens with a gust of aromatic lavender. It’s herbaceous, camphourous and heady and gives the opening freshness and brightness.
Sables - sun-warmed sand and salt-kissed skin and intimacy
Sables, dries down to a rich, seductive, masculine scent. It’s the smell of trees and plants, sun-warmed sand, salt-kissed skin and intimacy.
Manoumalia – rich and tropical and lush
Manoumalia opens with a note of fragrea. Fragrea has many olfactory similarities to its white flower sisters - gardenia, ylang-ylang, jasmine and tuberose – so it’s lush, tropical, carnal and creamy.
Tryst – floral and green and romantic
Tryst opens with the scent of tangy, bitter orange zest shot through with a flash of green. The zest has a delicate floralcy that sets the stage for neroli. The neroli here is floral, fresh and green-tinged.
Dirty English – warm and woody and irresistibly cheeky
Dirty English dries down to a warm, woody, and dry masculine scent. It's well-blended, but how it smells is much more than the notes in the bottle. Dirty English doesn’t smell ‘dirty’ so much as it makes you think that way. It’s the cheekiness of it that I find so irresistible.
Midnight in Paris – smooth and woody and seductively masculine
Midnight in Paris opens with bright bergamot and lemon. As these fade green tea and black tea come forward, supported by balsamy, woody rosemary and lily-of-the-valley, which gives it an elegant green floral note.
Venezia – rich and sensuous and womanly
Venezia opens with a note of exotic ylang-ylang that’s rich, floral and almost custardy; it has hints of jasmine that foreshadow what’s to come.
Herbes Troublantes – citrusy and green and the smell of eternal summer
Herbes Troublantes opens with a note of bright, cheery lemon backed by nose-tingling Calabrian bergamot. The bergamot is green, fruity-sweet and has a floral edge that links to a note of orange blossom.