L'Orientaliste

I love woody scents and this sounded so exotic! Upon receipt, I was a little disappointed. This is a dry, woody, sandalwood, but with a sharp note in there that just bothered me (a little...

This is a kind of thin dry scratchy amber, which wasn't at all what I was expecting from the notes: Rich amber, bergamot, clove, vanilla and cardamom. It just doesn't agree with me at all, though...

L'Orientaliste Vanilla is Hypnotic Poison without the poison. It's composed of the same kind of vanilla in HP. For anyone who wants to be able to wear HP but gets a headache from it (or who, like...

I visited France during the summer of 2003, when record temperatures desiccated the countryside and decimated the population that was unfortunate enough to be elderly, in poor health, and/or living...

If you have a secret fondness for those sweet, 70s drugstore skin musks but want something that smells a little more authentic (read: less synthetic), try l'Orientaliste Musc. It's not soapy like...

Bit of a twist from your common, candy-sweet vanillas, but not much. L'Orientaliste's Vanille has a touch of spice, just enough to keep it from plunging into Pink Sugar territory. It's like a...

I LIKE THIS SPICY VANILLA, HOWEVER AS PREVIOUSLY NOTED WITH THIS FRAGRANCE IT SADLY DOES NOT LAST THE HOUR.

I wanted to love this, the inital notes of spice and amber are definitely very powerful and intriguing. However within minutes, the patchoulli/incense roared to the forfront to overpower the amber...

Light cotton-candy-like vanilla fragrance with just the right amount of spice and a hint of woods and musk in the drydown. It's not a rich, creamy vanilla, and I actually find it more wearable than...

Sweet, clean floral white musk scent with a touch of powder. It is more potent than most musks I've tried, but it does not have the sharp edges of many cheap drugstore musks. The drydown is...