Avon Imari Elixir

Lush, wet berries, and sinful vanilla, sexy, ultra seductive, a va-va-va-voom scent, it smells all American and not cheap but young, it smells like a young woman who’s already got men all figured out, who knows the way to flick her hair and swish her hips, the way to glance smouldering over her shoulder to make men stop in their tracks.

It smells as simple and wholesome and lusty as midnight fumbles in the drive in with the prettiest girl in school

Ambre Sultan

Wrapped up in my furs (real, vintage, NEVER that plastic fake crap, except for fake leopard skin, that has to be fake or it doesn’t work) with my painted face that smells ever so lightly of coty airspun (I don’t actually use it as my skin HATES talc, but the smell is too lovely) and the waxy sweetness of lipstick, in my heaviest jewelry, this is the perfect scent, warm and sweet and spicy, bohemian royalty in resins and amber, sandalwood, bay leaf, patchouli.  It is bliss

La Panthere by Cartier

A lush wet fruity floral, the kind of thing a fruity floral should be. It’s complex, interesting, dramatic, and smells extraordinarily, wonderfully luxurious and expensive, no wan dull cheap body wash fruity floral of the celebrity scent school here. Truly unique and absolutely beautiful. Sexy in an expensive dinner dress with a deep decolletage way.

Chocolate Greedy by Montale

On me instead of anything resembling lush, rich chocolate, I get the cloying sweetness and artificial pseudo-chocolate of cocoa pebbles.

Literally, it smells JUST LIKE cocoa pebbles, which incidentally I feed to puppy play subs as fake dog food and they buy that it’s real dog food, so… uh, yeah, no, this is not chocolate. I’ll stick to Chocomusk by Al-Rehab thank you very much.

Miss Habanita by Molinard

Very grape and vanilla which is a charming unexpected combination. It has the heady heavy resin qualities of vanilla, a very sweet french vanilla icecream vanilla with the crisp freshness of grape. There’s something candied in the scent, a little bit grape soda, but not cheap soda, like an artisanal grape-vanilla soda in a glass bottle with fancy graphic design. It makes me think of a very worldly teenage girl, perhaps a teenaged Eloise (of the Plaza hotel) sophisticated, aware of quality but still young and playful.