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October 3, 2011 | Miller Harris La FuméeFor someone who’s never taken so much as a puff of a cigarette in her life, it’s perhaps a little odd that The Scent Critic is addicted to smokiness. Give me an open fire. A steaming pot of Lapsang Souchong (actually, give me that at 4 p.m. sharp in the afternoon and I’ll worship you [...]  February 7, 2011 | Yardley London April VioletsI don’t know if you’ve noticed, but something scary has happened to the price of fragrance in the last couple of years. It’s not just raw materials increases, although those are set to soar further: The Scent Critic is hereby issuing a warning, actually, that due to the devastation wrought on harvests by the tsunami [...] August 12, 2010 | Tauer Perfumes Lonestar MemoriesThe world is divided into those who love smoky scents, and those who really seriously don’t. Now, let me start by saying that The Scent Critic is a Lapsang Souchong tea fanatic. My beloved, by contrast, has not only banned me from brewing it in communal teapots, but from making a pot of Lapsang (or [...] July 12, 2010 | Laura Mercier Ambre Passion‘I want to eat that’. Not often that a fragrance elicits a comment like that from someone who strays within sniffing distance. The Scent Critic isn’t surprised, though: the whole Laura Mercier bath and body collection was originally inspired by foodie Laura’s passion for All Things Edible, and within her portfolio of eaux de toilettes [...] June 6, 2010 | YSL Rive GaucheRive Gauche is one of two ‘default’ fragrances that I switch between for summer when I am not working my way through all the most recently-launched scents – the good, the bad and the indifferent, but probably 250 in an average year, which gobbles up a lot of scent-wearing days. The black, blue and silver [...] May 25, 2010 | Liz Earle Botanical Essence Eau de Parfum No. 1Liz Earle inspires an almost cult-like religious devotion among her beauty flock. Products like Cleanse & Polish have been elevated to the Beauty Hall of Fame – and one of the key factors in their phenomenal success has always been the attractive botanical smells, because Liz herself is so ‘scent-aware’. It was probably only a [...] |
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