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March 9, 2011 | Jo Malone Earl Grey & Cucumber CologneAlthough Earl Grey is The Scent Critic’s least favourite kind of brewed tea (and just about the only one I’ve ever been known to decline), this third in the series of Jo Malone’s limited edition Tea Collection is absolutely my favourite yet. In truth, I don’t really get Earl grey or cucumber, when I initially [...]  March 7, 2011 | Jo Malone Fresh Mint CologneIn theory, fresh mint could be tricky, in a cologne. The danger is it could go all ‘toothpaste-y’. But I don’t find anything Colgate-ring-of-confidence about this second in the sequence of the Jo Malone Tea Collection that The Scent Critic is refreshing herself with over the next few postings: it’s genuinely ‘mint tea’ – that [...] March 4, 2011 | Jo Malone Assam & GrapefruitHave you ever stumbled upon an entire collection of fragrances, launched all at once, that you loved…? Me neither. Until now. Although maybe my passion for Jo Malone’s new tea-inspired collection is because The Scent Critic is such a tea-lover, at heart. Fuelled by cups of tea throughout the day – and quite a lot [...] November 22, 2010 | Diptyque Eau DuelleA baby’s head. A lover’s neck. Heck, even smelling your own unadorned, unfragranced skin can sometimes be one of the loveliest scents in the world. Which is why, probably, there was a bit of a trend for ‘skin note’ fragrances, a few years back, epitomised by Clinique’s Simply (launched 2003, now Simply Disappeared, unless you’re [...] |
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