Tag: Perfume review

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.

Betsey Johnson by Betsey Johnson

Citrus and sweets, very girly and pretty, sugary but also fresh with moderate sillage.  A very wearable likable fragrance in a charming bottle for a great price.  The right sort of perfume for a gal in her 20s, not a teenager anymore but still young.

It’s a fragrance almost anyone should be able to get along with, there’s just something friendly about it.  It says “Glad to see ya” it says “nice to meetcha” it says “happy to be here” it says “here, little old lady, take my seat on the subway.” it says “I talk to strangers and say only nice things” it says “sweet as pie.”

All in all a cheerful boho Pollyana of a fragrance.

Red Door by Elizabeth Arden

Sweet honey and flowers, syrupy and yet fresh. I don’t understand how this gets so much hate. It’s just gorgeous and springy, I mean sure it’s BIG and you can smell it for a mile around bu it smells gorgeous so I have no idea what all the fuss is about.

It’s sweet and flowery and just, well, nice. It has a lot of the sweet fresh rose scent I’ve been looking for forever.

Also, despite what some people may tell you, it smells nothing like Red Moscow (which is a gorgeous fragrance, and my signature, but Red Door has none of Red Moscow’s spiciness and is much more sweet and fresh)

Scent Intense by CoSTUME NATIONAL

Okay, so if Creed’s Silver Mountain water is a fresh crisp apple, this is the spiced, warm, sweet baked apple version. The crisp freshness of hibiscus and tea leaf is there, but the amber and sandalwood give it a warm sweet spicy background, warm and spicy, and yet also fresh and crisp.

Glorious on any gender. Arty, weird, unique and yet wonderfully wearable, pleasing without being obvious, like a hot pink sofa that you thought you wouldn’t like that turns out to really bring the room together.

Silk, Lace & Chocolate by 4160 Tuesdays

When I sprayed it on paper to test it I found it offensive, I put it on skin and I was greeted by the most beautiful, heavenly, ultra realistic chocolate strawberry I have ever smelled.  The silage is moderate, probably safe for work, and the lasting power is a little bit better than average(at least in the perfume killer cold we’re in now), but back to the scent, it is literally like a ripe, perfect strawberry you just dipped in a chocolate fountain at your cousin’s Bat Mitzvah at the Boca-Raton or on that one Valentines day all you did was fuck and eat, that is what it smells like and it is so fucking good.

Loud (For Men) by Tommy Hilfiger

Smells a bit like a perfume test strip in a magazine, you know with that undercurrent of ink and glossy paper. It’s quite sexy as well, a wet, earthy rose/patch that none the less remains very fresh. Wet earth and flowers on a spring day. There’s definitely a tart/aromatic “men’s fragrance” (or almost men’s fragrance of the 90s) note in here, but we all know that that shit never stopped me.

The marketing is a bit silly, but honestly, I really like this one. It’s a gorgeous scent, and I think very unisex, fresh cut sweet rose, warm tobacco and earthy patch with something wet and fresh.

Rumba by Ted Lapidus

On me I get leather, more leather, tonka bean oakmoss and just the tiniest hint of fruit. It’s an almost masculine fragrance, and I quite like that about it. It’s dark, and mysterious and is quite reminiscent of the fluid sensuality of the dance for which it is named. It’s androgynous sexuality makes it quite an interesting fragrance, reminiscent in character to E’tat Libre D’Orange’s Delicious Closet Queen. I can imagine a fragrance like this on a young David Bowie, with his Lauren Bacall hairdo and sinful ethereal beauty