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A Goddess, With Jasmine
THE DEVILSCENT PROJECT XV – a review of Neil Morris Fragrances’ Essence of Melina (Note: Found on my laptap when I woke up this morning, a review! It seems I had a visitor last night…) Dear readers,...
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An Olfactory Postcard
– a review of Aedes de Venustas’ Copal Azur Of all the many memories we pack into our luggage on leaving foreign shores and returning home, none are so evocative as the scents and smells of place....
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A Devil, of a Dude
THE DEVILSCENT PROJECT XVI – what happens when a dude meets the (liquid) Devil Dear readers, It’s that witchy hour of darkness right before the birds herald the sunrise, when even in the city that...
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Lessons in Liquid & Solid
– some thoughts a bit past the Genie’s fifth blogoversary Once upon a storied time when I still had a few illusions left, I sat one (very) hot, humid late night in August after my third or maybe fourth...
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L’Incasta Diva
– a review of Amouage Opus IX Whether by accident or (infernal) design, I grew up in an opera-mad household. Family Christmas traditions included (among other things) at least one viewing of Milos...
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STFU
– something on brands, bloggers, dedication and not shutting up Two days ago, which was Sunday in my part of the world, life was grand. All was good. Or it would be, as soon as I replenished that pan...
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The Space I Take
– on the Genie’s overlong absence, perfume writing, and real life roadblocks Ladies, gentlemen and fragrant entities – It’s been far too long. I have in the past six months removed myself from social...
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Vintage Divinity
– a review of vintage Balmain Jolie Madame Once upon a storied time in the early Nineties, I found myself by happy accident in a very exclusive consignment shop in Copenhagen. So expensive was this...
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Vanilla Thrills
– reviews of Aedes de Venustas’ Cierge de Lune & aroma M’s Vanilla Hinoki Pity this orchid the Aztecs called tlilxochitl. Once upon a time ca. 1840, its fruit was a byword for all that was exotic,...
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A Better Brand of Fishbowl
– On the Genie’s absence, the changing state of the blog/vlogosphere and those all-important New Beginnings Dear readers, That I have you reading this still, even after being MIA with no reviews for so...
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The Interstellar Clean Machine
– a review of Parfums Mugler Mugler Cologne You might be one of those people, the ones who love to trail complex, intriguing stories in their wake, the ones who leave an imprint in the atmosphere – of...
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Writing On Fumes
– the future of alembicating, and also the Genie… Ladies, Gentlemen, Fragrant Humanity all — Perhaps you might have noticed over the course of the past year or so how the blog posts and reviews on this...
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Resurrection Royale
– a review of Houbigant Paris Fougère Royale (2010) Imagine you consider yourself a Parisian gentleman of some class and discernment. You know your forks, your knives, your ps and your qs. You are...
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A Once and Future Genie
– Where we were and where I hope we go from here You may have wondered. You may (or not!) have wondered when the Genie would get her derrière in gear and start posting those reviews and musings again,...
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a tribute to Vero Kern. Do you know that feeling when you’re scrolling your Facebook feed on a train and suddenly – pardon the pun – stop dead in your tracks, because one recurring item just has “No....
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– a review of Amouage Bracken Man Are you rubbing your metaphorical hands in anticipation? Looking forward to another Amouage “story”, where the perfume is used as a starting point for a short story...
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– A review of Guerlain Insolence eau de parfum On my way to purgatory/school every morning, the train passes through a series of beechwoods that line a deep river valley – the ‘deepest’ (we’re not...
View ArticleThree Odes to Osmanthus
– three osmanthus-based perfumes for Spring This morning, as I trudged to one of the few open grocery stores for milk for my coffee, something very obvious hit me on the way. It is (still) a glorious,...
View ArticleHow To Be A Perfume Writer
– some thoughts on returning to the fray All my life, I’ve always been considered a bit … strange. Whether caused by an early childhood playing alone with my teddy bear and a rusty tin can in a...
View ArticleThe Color of Wonder
– a review of Neela Vermeire Créations Rahele In a day and age when mass transportation has made travel to anywhere on Earth not just possible, but attainable, imagination has to fill in the spaces for...
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