It’s a cold Summer day, so I thought a musk or vanilla could be nice. Starts with slightly synthetic vanilla essence smell. Listed top note as salt, but I don’t get that at all. Once it dries there’s a really sharp, hot element that I like, maybe that’s the salt. Almost feels like someones rubbed salt inside my nose if I breath it in deeply. Pretty boring otherwise, just a thick vanilla. Hasn’t changed.
Humboldt
Julian Bedel
Fueguia
2010
13 Feb 2024
Hot day
1.5ml sample
Sugary, clear-lolly-sweetness. Fizzy. Shower gel, but the lollyness dulls the freshness a little. Not me.
Melon lolly?
Wood Infusion
?
Goldfield & Banks
2016
12 Feb 2024
Cool night
2ml sample
Wearing Wood Infusion again—I like the opening so much i want to love the whole thing. Working really well: cool night after a hot day. Enjoying it a lot again, it’s stayed sweet and creamy.
Eau de Gingembre
Alberto Morillas
Mizensir
2015
12 Feb 2024
Hot day
1.5ml sample
Nice citrus, a bit of a ginger sting, goes floral but nicely. Citrus actually lingers. Wearing it on a very hot day, walking to shops etc. nice, light.
All these citruses are starting to smell the same, could probably buy any of them…
Seems discontinued.
Velvet Splendour
Wessel-Jan Kos
Goldfield & Banks
2019
11 Feb 2024
- -
2ml sample
Soapy and bitter, very close to dog soap again. Feels a purple colour…fades away to very light nothing pretty quickly, thank fuck.
Blue Cypress
François Merle-Baudoin
Goldfield & Banks
2016
10 Feb 2024
Night
2ml sample
Bodywash and toothpaste. Fresh and minty. It’s not unpleasant, but why would I spend money to smell like a bit of old chewy.
Sunset Hour
Honorine Blanc
Goldfield & Banks
2021
10 Feb 2024
Sunset
2ml sample
Big sweet smell, sharp like caramelised sugar, slightly soapy, rubber/plastic. Raspberry, bitterness of quandong. Not enjoying this, okay if you smell in passing rather than put your nose right up to it. If you can stick with it for a few hours it gets creamy and sweet with a little bitter edge, but i don’t think i can again. Nothing sunset about it.
Salado
?
Carner Barcelona
2019
10 Feb 2024
Warm afternoon
1.5ml sample
Fresh citrus, sweet, a bit floral. gets more floral, white flowers/orange blossom. Probably too sticky-floral for me, but will keep the tester.
Vibes not smells: friendly, casual, fresh clothes in the sun, hot summer garden.
A few hours later there wasnt much smell, but my skin smelt warm like I’d been in the sun.
Southern Bloom
François Merle-Baudoin
Goldfield & Banks
2018
09 Feb 2024
- -
2ml sample
Just getting a big ball of flowers, like a florist. Powdery, a bit stuffy, tickles my nose. When it dries i get coconut, but not obnoxiously. Not into these kinds of smells on myself or others. Vanilla a half hour later as other things tone down. A little smokey, getting okay actually! Still it’s the same as every other vanilla/musk perfume.
Silver Mountain Water
Oliver Creed, Pierre Boudon
Creed
1995
06 Feb 2024
- -
1.5ml sample
Bitter citrus very briefly. Mostly body wash, fake mint, toothpaste, but actually okay. Gets right up my nose in an annoying way. A hint of woodyness later. Might be nice for Summer by a pool, but the Creed branding grosses me out.
Aymara
?
Miller et Bertaux
2022
06 Feb 2024
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1.5ml sample
First impression is of a nice, light, fresh, masala chai. Cinnamon, cumin, cardamom, . . . Would be nice in warm weather; spring, summer. Later it seems a bit harsh and perfumey, but also kinda nothing?