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July 27, 2011 | Martin Margiela (Untitled) L'EauCool as a cucumber. Cool as crisp linen sheets. Cool as an ice cube, drizzled over sun-sizzled skin. Some fragrances, The Scent Critic has experienced, have a temperature all of their own – and Maison Martin Margiela (Untitled) L’Eau is definitely on the ‘chilled’ side: a perfect summer spritz, if we ever get the blazing [...]  October 13, 2010 | Plum by Mary GreenwellTell me: what lengths have you gone to, to get your hands on a fragrance…? Continents scoured…? Begging letters sent…? Pilgrimages made…? Well, so consumed was The Scent Critic with the desire for Plum by Mary Greenwell – the debut fragrance from one of the world’s top make-up pros – that yesterday, she left behind [...] June 30, 2010 | Thierry Mugler WomanityI don’t know what fragrance Suzi Quatro (the leather-clad 80s song-belter-outer) would have worn, but if Womanity had been around then, I suspect it would have had pride of place on her Winnebago tourmobile dressing table. It is, as you might expect from the creator of Angel, an unusual creation – sweet-savoury – a fragrance [...] June 15, 2010 | Paul & Joe BleuPossibly the highest compliment that I can pay to a perfume is that it is ‘Guerlain-esque’. Which is certainly true of this, one of two fragrances from the delectably boudoir chic make-up brand Paul & Joe, created in 2003 by Peirre Bourdon. (The other is Paul & Joe Blanc.) So: if you love Shalimar but [...] May 16, 2010 | Eau de ShalimarApplying Shalimar to your pulse-points is something of a rite of passage. Do it when you’re too young, and it’s the equivalent of trying on your mother’s too-big shoes, or smooshing her red lipstick inexpertly around your pout. The original, legendary Shalimar fragrance is a by-word for sensuality: created in 1925 by Jacques Guerlain, it [...] |
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