Smoky

    20/09/2022

    A new rose / cigar perfume from Antonio Alessandria

    Amado Mio, launched in 2023.

    Antonio Alessandria has the authentic talent to create short but striking and continuously personal motifs that burst with vividness, Sicilian colouring, and warmth and then translate them into voluminous and complex perfumes. The new creation is jet to be named and launched, but a sumptuous, swirling, dark, and glittering marriage of crimson rose and amazingly vivacious tobacco cast a spell on me.
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    18/04/2022

    Naples by Gallivant

    Luca Maffei, 2021.

    Naples works as a piously smoky panorama overlayed with yellow, brown, blue and grey, presenting nature and history of the place, but without the noise and fuss the people create.
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    14/02/2021

    Nin Shar by Jul et Mad

    Sidonie Lancesseur, 2015.

    Nin Shar is a mythical tale about the oriental, empress rose, her hedonism, and her partnerships.
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    07/07/2020

    Al Sahra by The Different Company

    Emilie Coppermann, 2020.

    Al Sahra is serene and light, ambivalently cold/warm oriental
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    29/04/2020

    L’Ombre des Merveilles by Hermès

    Christine Nagel, 2020.

    L’Ombre is a chiaroscuro study of the Merveilles accord in tea, smoke and incense.
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    05/02/2020

    Tokyo by Gallivant

    Karine Chevallier, 2018.

    Swirling incense is here to remind you to feel the world from inside your chest and to melt into fresh and greenish, spicy and warm surroundings, created by Karine Chevallier. Tokyo by Gallivant is swirling, vibrating calmness: while the heart beats the rhythm of Kodo drums, the air inhaled is…
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    21/01/2020

    500 years and Spice must flow – Etat Libre d’Orange’s roses from 2019.

    Cecille Matton, Mathilde Bijaoui

    From 2006., when first Etat Libre d’Orange perfumes were launched, until 2019., ELDO presented only one rose-centred perfume: striking Rossy de Palma Eau de Protection. But in just finished 2019. Etienne de Swardt – bang! – launched three roses: 500 years, Spice Must Flow and Experimentum Crucis.
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