Envoutant (translates as enchanting) seems to be built after an art nouveau olfactive print, with an unexpected middle eastern influence. With an intricate and sinuous construction, resting on the natural curves of flower stems, with striking colorful whiplash lines of sharp spices, and abrupt valleys of oud and vanilla, the perfume is both reassuring and startling at the same time.
Tonkade’s red thread draws you in with a false feeling of comfort and easiness: it’s sweet, feels natural, it’s familiar.
Night is the smell of those long-lost, one-night dalliances that stay with you long after they probably should.
A whiff of darkness, coming from the underground “belly of the earth” and the coldness of narrow stone corridors that are lost in mazes submerged underwater (the R.E.M phase of a reoccurring nightmare for this claustrophobic here). Although it is earthy-moist-mineral-fermented-fruity-resinous, the perfume somehow manages to keep an airy note, running through its DNA.
Nishane: Musiqa Oud Review Synopsis: A perfume fit for a God – if the god is Pan and you don’t mind a lil’ bit of dirty oud on your hoofs A perfume that made me think of the legend which tells the story of how the god Pan invented the “pan flute” when following the …
Alexandria is a real baroque fragrant tale, with rapid movements between its layers, with a Fellinesque sense of realism and hyperbole embedded in its proportions, with lavish nuances and fluid life and presence on your skin.I think I need more of this in my life, ASAP.
Introspective but not of a stern, disciplined nature, Shunkoin is a ritualistic construction of fragile ivory filigree details, no sharp edges, no tension, no escalation.
“Masque Milano – Love Kills Review Synopsis: Moebius Strip Rose.” *Wikipedia: Moebius strip is a one-sided surface with no boundaries. It looks like an infinite loop. Like a normal loop, an ant crawling along it would never reach an end, but in a normal loop, an ant could only crawl along either the top or …
Masque Milano – Kintsugi perfume review “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are” I have sampled Kintsugi with bated breath, the one perfume I’ve been dreaming to smell ever since spring, after reading the beautiful review Ida Meister wrote for CaFleureBon. Anaïs Nin said “we don’t see things as …
Masque Milano – L’attesa perfume review first published in Cafleurebon “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” I went in, knowing it will be a ride on the iris carousel, not expecting too much, as this note – although so beautiful and multifaceted -has this “old world”- “old money” type of elegance …
