Best patchouli on the market. HG of patchoulis. Woody without being harsh. Fragrant without being sweet. Lesser patchoulis smell flat, one-dimensional. Lesser patchoulis add other notes to make...
Santa Maria Novella
Best patchouli on the market. HG of patchoulis. Woody without being harsh. Fragrant without being sweet. Lesser patchoulis smell flat, one-dimensional. Lesser patchoulis add other notes to make...
Okay, I was smitten with the racecar image when buying this sample from Aedes. It does what it says in making you think of a 1950's black leather race car driven by someone like James Dean. This is...
Okay, I was smitten with the racecar image when buying this sample from Aedes. It does what it says in making you think of a 1950's black leather race car driven by someone like James Dean. This is...
I would have swear on anything I own, that never I would, ohhhh never, never be able to wear and therefore buy a floral. My bad. Mea maxima culpa! SMN's Iris is soft, powdery, a beautiful violet...
I would have swear on anything I own, that never I would, ohhhh never, never be able to wear and therefore buy a floral. My bad. Mea maxima culpa! SMN's Iris is soft, powdery, a beautiful violet...
This fragrance is soap, soap, soap. It smells like old-fashioned, fairly utilitarian soaop that say, a family would've had in their bathroom in the '30s. Very strong, acrid, sharp, sort of "lyey"...
This fragrance is soap, soap, soap. It smells like old-fashioned, fairly utilitarian soaop that say, a family would've had in their bathroom in the '30s. Very strong, acrid, sharp, sort of "lyey"...
Alright, so you want TRUE carnation? Like a scent like the carnation scent from -I think- the most beautifully scented carnation species in the world (dianthus plumarius)? Well, this is it. Hands...
Alright, so you want TRUE carnation? Like a scent like the carnation scent from -I think- the most beautifully scented carnation species in the world (dianthus plumarius)? Well, this is it. Hands...
For all those people out there who, like myself, were excited to try L de Lolita Lempicka but were disappointed because <b>a)</b> it's just too much for warm weather or <b>b)</b> it's kind of...
For all those people out there who, like myself, were excited to try L de Lolita Lempicka but were disappointed because <b>a)</b> it's just too much for warm weather or <b>b)</b> it's kind of...
Tried this in a sample--I really don't get the citrus notes, mainly a woody scent to me. At first I didn't like it much, it smelled too much like men's cologne. But as it fades it gets a little...
Tried this in a sample--I really don't get the citrus notes, mainly a woody scent to me. At first I didn't like it much, it smelled too much like men's cologne. But as it fades it gets a little...
Absolutey beautiful. This is the lavender you sweep your hands across on a rainy July afternoon. It has that wonderful sharpness first that makes you go "aaahhh...lavender" the sharpness that later...
Absolutey beautiful. This is the lavender you sweep your hands across on a rainy July afternoon. It has that wonderful sharpness first that makes you go "aaahhh...lavender" the sharpness that later...
I adore this fragrance. I am a very picky Honeysuckle fragrance lover and this is the best I have found. I was reluctant to try it since I have yet to find a Santa Maria Novella that I liked, but...
I adore this fragrance. I am a very picky Honeysuckle fragrance lover and this is the best I have found. I was reluctant to try it since I have yet to find a Santa Maria Novella that I liked, but...
Balsamo per Capelli is an intensive conditioner that leaves my dry, curly hair feeling soft and controlled, with good curl formation, and an interesting "matte" finish. I also love the scent of...
Balsamo per Capelli is an intensive conditioner that leaves my dry, curly hair feeling soft and controlled, with good curl formation, and an interesting "matte" finish. I also love the scent of...
A tobacco scent accentuating the sweet, honeyed tones to be found inside a cigar box. I once made something very similar from a combination of coumarin, a little vetiver if I remember right, and -...
A tobacco scent accentuating the sweet, honeyed tones to be found inside a cigar box. I once made something very similar from a combination of coumarin, a little vetiver if I remember right, and -...
A real old fashioned nutmeg note, very fresh in the topnote (where you can smell lilac - I think probably due to overlap in the constituents). The nutmegs around today (e.g. Cacharel for men,...
A real old fashioned nutmeg note, very fresh in the topnote (where you can smell lilac - I think probably due to overlap in the constituents). The nutmegs around today (e.g. Cacharel for men,...
Everyone agrees it's not hay, so either the SMN perfumers have no idea what hay smells like or they just name their products at random; probably both. Not a bad fragrance though. To me it's more in...
Everyone agrees it's not hay, so either the SMN perfumers have no idea what hay smells like or they just name their products at random; probably both. Not a bad fragrance though. To me it's more in...
A pleasing variation on the verbena theme. Not true verbena but shaded towards lime with a suspicion of ylang ylang adding an original twist.
A pleasing variation on the verbena theme. Not true verbena but shaded towards lime with a suspicion of ylang ylang adding an original twist.
"Evokes the rolling fields of Scotland", says the official description, but the folk at SMN should swot up on their botany. Ginestra refers to Spanish broom, a different species with a different...
"Evokes the rolling fields of Scotland", says the official description, but the folk at SMN should swot up on their botany. Ginestra refers to Spanish broom, a different species with a different...
I sniffed this on a whim while window shopping and immediately fell in love. I had been looking for something different from my heavy winter scents and was delighted to find such a lovely, bright...
I sniffed this on a whim while window shopping and immediately fell in love. I had been looking for something different from my heavy winter scents and was delighted to find such a lovely, bright...
Preceding the patchouli is an intriguing topnote, of old fashioned varnish and shellac, which immediately takes me back to my student days in a physiology lab. I clock this up as the best of the...
Preceding the patchouli is an intriguing topnote, of old fashioned varnish and shellac, which immediately takes me back to my student days in a physiology lab. I clock this up as the best of the...
Keeter has hit the nail on the head, with her review. Crude, solvent-paintshop smell followed by a more conventional basenote resembling Bulgari Black. Gimmicky concoction totally lacking in class...
Keeter has hit the nail on the head, with her review. Crude, solvent-paintshop smell followed by a more conventional basenote resembling Bulgari Black. Gimmicky concoction totally lacking in class...
That peculiar sticking-plaster note, redolent of casualty departments (and I presume of emergency rooms in the USA) which ruins so many mens fragrances, is here presented in pure format. Awful.
That peculiar sticking-plaster note, redolent of casualty departments (and I presume of emergency rooms in the USA) which ruins so many mens fragrances, is here presented in pure format. Awful.
the best jasmin extract I've ever tried. Green, floral and light. not overpowering as many jasmins out there, it's the perfect choice for summer and spring.
the best jasmin extract I've ever tried. Green, floral and light. not overpowering as many jasmins out there, it's the perfect choice for summer and spring.