✅: ❤️👍💬🔔 Some of my favorites for this time of the year. Rose, Woods, Leather, and Spice are some key players for me in October. Let me know what you'll be wearing this fall season. Thank you for watching!
Definitely think that's gotta be that seedy smell for sure adds a unique flair to the fragrance I haven't really smelled elsewhere! Glad it wasn't just me picking it up! lol
A word of warning to other Lalique fans thinking of blind buying Ombre Noire. I’m a huge fan of Encre Noire and, consequently, am positively predisposed and interested in their entire line. So when the opportunity arose to pick up Ombre Noire last week for cheap, I jumped at it. I was hoping for an autumn-friendly fragrance. Ideally a mildly boozy version of Terre d’Hermes or a more austere Stronger With You. I was slightly concerned about the cinnamon note not being a fan of it in almost all contexts. But it was either buy it blind or not buy it at all. So, of course I did. Big mistake. At least for me. It’s the first fragrance I’ve had to wash off before day’s end. I’m relatively new to fragrances so take my impressions with a grain of salt. I did not get cedar or fig, as best as I can tell. What I got was overwhelming amounts of cinnamon, along with a kind of rum-raisin thing and an equally off-putting peppermint note. It smelt like the world’s least appetising cough drop or a curry with coriander if you have that gene that makes you hate coriander. I did my best to try to stick with it through the drydown where it got slightly less nauseating but, after 7 or 8 hours I had to bail. All of that negativity aside, I could tell it was an artfully constructed fragrance that was in keeping with Lalique’s unconventional boldness. But, for me, it was right in the heart of my least favourite territory of the fragrance landscape. If I never smell it again, it’s fine. Because my sense-memory of it is engraved on my viscera. Even the sight of the bottle in the thumbnail made me dry heave a little. I’m still happy I bought it - beautiful bottle and juice, btw - and have had my curiosity satisfied. But, if you can, smell it before buying it. If you don’t absolutely adore cinnamon, I would stay the hell away. But that just might be down to my own olfactory parsing algorithm. Don’t worry, I still love you, Lalique. Never stop being you.
Awesome review as always the most interesting choices. Gotta make a list of your recommendations all sound fire. Mad I can't find the Enchanted Forest😂
500 fragrances?! I cannot wrap my head around that… Those all sound great, and would love to add a few to my collection, particularly the Terre d’Hermes Parfum. My collection is small(and I’d like to try to keep it that way, but man is it hard to do!). This autumn, I’ll be wearing these: Amouage Boundless Apoteker Tepe The Holy Mountain Meo Fusciuni Little Song Parfum d’Empire Tabac Tabou and Fougere Bengale Histoires de Parfum 1740 Arquiste Indigo Smoke Nishane Papilefiko
Yeah definitely would like to declutter my collection though like keeping stuff around for content/comparison reasons. I'd be happy to have under 100 though! Great autumn picks though, not sure I've tried a single one! But lots of them have been popping up Fougere Bengale, Papilefiko and Apoteker Tepe Holy Mountain have been on my radar for sure! Will have to try them out soon! Thanks for sharing!
Eau Sauvage Parfum is my signature scent as well. The elemi creamyness is what gets me every time. I just picked up Ombre Noire on a blind buy from owning Encre Noire L'Extreme, and I love it. A little light on performance, but it's a really good scent profile.
If you like Encre Noir L'Extreme I think you'll be really pleased with the Ombre Noire, both have that nice real woodsy smell and the little fruity boozy fun in the Ombre Noire is a nice twist so they aren't redundant! Glad you've got Eau Sauvage and enjoy so much too! Such a great one! Agree on that creamy texture its one of the hallmark parts of the wear for me!
