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Floraiku- One Umbrella for Two☂

It's a comforting mix of blueberry muffin and hot tea, in a delicate way! The opening may be a little fruity but the tea is definitely present. The dry down is a non-intrusive pastry scent that just makes you feel cozy💜 Very gourmand, just the right amount of sweetness. I could not but think of FugoNara, platonic, like family🍓🍊

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Final Fantasy inspired scent recommendation #7 for Joe

Perfume House: Byredo

Perfume: Rose of No Man's Land

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Papillon Artisan Perfumes is one of my favourite niche houses. It has a very cohesive and distinctive voice, one that draws heavily on vintage perfumes. Although the prices have gone up a fair bit (when I bought Salome in 2016, it was US$160 and it's now retailing at US$205), it has managed to maintain its singular vision and integrity over the years. I feel like when niche houses reach a certain point of success, there is a lot of pressure for them to grow by increasing the frequency of releases and then the quality/creativity suffers. Thankfully, Papillon has resisted that pressure.

I recently tried the house's two latest: Spell 125 and Hera and I enjoyed them both.

Spell 125 seems like a bit of a departure for the house. It has a powerfully resinous, coniferous opening that leans toward the photorealistic end of things. This was surprizing to me as it felt very contemporary, more Slumberhouse than Guerlain. But as the scent develops, Moore's familiar touch begins to emerge - even though Spell is in no way a vintage throwback. But the complexity of the dry down, its development, turns the scent's initial piney blast into something far more beguiling and it is here the scent really begins to distinguish itself. In particular, contrasting with the scent's coolness is a soft, animalic blur of "white ambergris" and fragrant, slightly sour frankincense that imparts an aliveness and a gentle heat that is very much in line with the more overtly fleshy Salome and Bengale Rouge even though Spell is completely different genre of scent. It evokes a spaciousness, stillness and serene vitality that makes it another winner for me.

Hera is more in line with Papillon's traditional vibe and is the more complex scent of the two. To be honest, I personally did not like it as much as Spell (which is just as well as it's retailing at a much higher price point than the others at US$310). It is beautiful, but this scent, originally designed for Moore's daughter's wedding, is perhaps one that speaks so much to someone else that it had less to say to me. It's still an excellent perfume, a vintage style aldehydic floral - but not in a diva-esque, attention seeking way. Quite the opposite, it feels incredibly well measured. Hera opens with a lovely veil of aldehydes that give its florals just the right amount of lift. As the scent develops, the flowers are abstracted but not stereotyped and certainly not the innocently fresh bouquet we associate with brides. Rather they are lushly dense with subtle, interchanging degrees of powder, butter and sweetness, all grounded in a gentle but hefty base of musk, labdanum and sandalwood. One has the impression of light, but it's not sunny in any Pollyanna sense, nor is it one of Dryad's sun dappled fields. It's more of a radiant, soft focus effulgence. There is too much of a sense of corporeality for Hera to evoke simple summertime sunshine. Allusions to the body in perfume are almost always a reference to sexuality, sweat and what goes unwashed but here, it is really about presence. What I like most about Hera is that it paints a portrait of a woman that feels very real, one that you can feel is authored by a woman's perspective. There are no fantasies here about blushing brides, no virgins or whores, no maidens, mothers or crones. I almost feel like I know something about Moore's daughter through Hera.

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August 2023 ~

Le Labo's city exclusive for Shanghai is new for this year - Myrrhe 55. At the center is the myrrh note, with accords of amber, white florals, animalic, and musk . Yet another myrrh-themed scent this autumn, Tom Ford Private blends are also releasing their own interpretation in September.

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“I consider all of my perfumes gender neutral, but I especially like how this particular fragrance opens classically feminine, bright and playful but dries down into something very masculine, cool and dry.”

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Final Fantasy inspired scent recommendations #2 for Clive Rosfield

This is a new addition to Tom Ford's signature collection. I love this because in my perception it opens with a consuming smokiness before mellowing to a fragrance more sweet and subdued. I think this suits Clive perfectly.

Perfume House: Tom Ford

Perfume: Myrrhe Mystère

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I liked my previous samples of Phloem and Nectary from Jorum Studio so I purchased its Progressive Botany set and a couple more samples. Listed below in order from most to least favourite.

Carduus - A bold, peaty opening with hints of anise and dried grasses, spices and leather. Veers toward smoky and then comfortably mellow in the dry down. Evocative of medicinal herbal tea and the outdoors in late summer or fall without resorting to any cliches.

Medullary-Ray - The most intense opening of the set. You are hit with damp, moist wood with the subtle suggestion of unwashed hair. The texture is palpably rich and unctuous but becomes drier in the dry down. Unique and a little more challenging than Carduus, but still very wearable.

Firewater (purchased separately from the set) - A unique aquatic take on the smoky genre that's not the kind of bonfire smoke that the marketing copy suggests. There's the barest suggestion of the dreaded calone but it's so slight it doesn't bother me. It's a little reminiscent of Aesop's Karst in the dry down, but without such a hefty price tag.

Arborist - A pleasant and wearable woody scent, like a CdG but less synthetic. Nothing spectacular but a solid wear.

Trimerous - How I wanted to like this one! I love a good iris but sometimes it can go sideways on my skin, becoming unpleasantly candied. This showed promise in the opening but became a scrubber in the dry down for me.

Edited to add that while I've only tried roughly half of the house's offerings, I suspect Jorum is like a number of houses - Tauer and DS & Durga come to mind - that seems to employ a common base. Jorum's is pleasantly warm and ambery. Even if you really like it, it does make them a bit same-samey.

Questa candela per salutare le feste e ricordare che l’abbondanza appartiene ai sentimenti e alla gioia del cuore. Senza riserve.

D.S. & DURGA - Rama won’t you please come home.

Candela profumata 198gr. Mix aromatico floral/boisé con una tenue vibrazione fumé. Esuberanza di fiori bianchi e sontuosi legni, gardenia, tuberosa, sandalo. In selezionati pv.