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Perfumes the guide 20187/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The slightly tart, linden-like quality of verbena gives this floral composition a soft, weeping-willow feel that is unexpectedly poetic and affecting. ![]() "This one feels like a blast from the past pulled out of one of Galimard's deep drawers, but I cannot name the fragrance it reminds me of, possibly the old Tilleul D'Orsay. While not hugely original, it has an old-fashioned density to it, a slow reveal, a quality feel, and an interesting fresh-green angle among a welter of woody notes. It is very competently composed by Grasse oil house of Galimard and sits at the bitter, dark end of the - broadly defined - chypre spectrum, in the company of such things such as Guerlain’s Djedi and Lauder’s Aromatics Elixer. "Stones is a limited edition fragrance (why limited?) from choreographer and artist Beau Rhee. This is a delicious dried-fruit damascenone oriental in the manner of El Attarine (Serge Lutens 2008), dark, comfortable, and rich.” LT ![]() "Never was perfume so inappropriately named. Not exactly pleasant smelling, but as with big cluster chords played on a cathedral organ or a shot of wheatgrass juice, the sheer pressure of sensation is fun in itself.” LT “A tremendous, stonking blast of citrus, seaweed and woods. Print review of scents: Blues, Blood Sweat Tears, Stones, Wild is the Wind ![]()
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