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L’Artisan Parfumer, Piment Brûlant
Piment Brûlant smells, upon application, of a fresh from-the-garden green bell-pepper, sliced up, placed on a platter, and sprinkled with finely ground black pepper. The watery green sensation is...
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Sample Summer: Patou’s Joy
Joy might seem an odd choice for a post emerging out of a poke through one’s sample box. After all, it’s generally not hard to come by a spritz of Joy from our aunt’s dressing table, or from a tester...
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More than Just a Bottle of Après l’Ondée
See this picture? This is one of my recent acquisitions, a pre-2011 bottle of Après l’Ondée. But this isn’t just another bottle. It’s the most meaningful perfume in my collection. Last summer, my...
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Retrospective: On the road with Carbone de Balmain
As you may remember from my earlier post on Carbone de Balmain, I chose it as my “travel to Texas” scent. We packed all our worldly goods into a U-Haul in Oregon, then hit the road for… Hotter...
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