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The Best of 2012 – Perfumes and Perfumers

 – Perfumes and perfumers It’s that time of the year again when I have the agonizing task of determining the best perfumes of 2012. What did I love, what did I loathe? What did we write and what did I...

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A Rose of a Manifold Stripe

– a review of Serge Lutens’ ‘La Fille de Berlin’ So rich in facets and form, so varied in color and so infinitely complex the perfumes that lingers within its velvety folds, it’s no wonder the rose has...

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In Pantherine Ink

 – a review of Serge Lutens’ Sarrasins Once a creature of fable lived, old stories tell, and some say it was a very large, most fearsome cat, and some say it was an animal of another kind, but all of...

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Spelling Eternity

–  a review of Parfums Serge Lutens’ La Vierge de Fer When rumors began to circulate some months back about a new Serge Lutens perfume named after a medieval torture device (I’ll be getting back to...

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Three 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,...

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