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Sofia Madeen's avatar

Bulgari Black (asphalt & vanilla) and Je Reviens (old-fashioned nosegay w/inimitable topnote), that's quite a combo to imagine ;-).

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Christine's avatar

It sounds stunning, doesn’t it?

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Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

It’s nice, but not huge

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Emma's avatar

I’m imagining the smell of what chewing black liquorice with aspirin tastes like. And liking it!

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Christine's avatar

They do sound interesting, but I’m not enchanted by ‘Pills’ as a brand name. The blurb says that ‘every fragrance is a sensory capsule’, but I’m just seeing diuretics.

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Emma's avatar

Heehee! Best product name referencing pills I ever saw was Forgot My Pils, an alcohol free beer. The can art was hysterical, comprising a wind turbine array at low tide revealing that the bases of the turbines were actually tentacles. Don’t know why it made me fall about laughing, but it did.

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Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

😂

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Sofia Madeen's avatar

But the real question ---- Was it Czech non-alcool? (Do Czechs make non-alcohol?!)

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Emma's avatar

It’s made by a small brewery in Bath. Any alcoholic drink made south of Gloucester is fondly known as Somerset psychiatry in these parts, so I like what they did with the wordplay there.

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Sofia Madeen's avatar

Lol - I'm just seeing analgesics in Karen form.

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Karen A's avatar

?????? WTF?

Karen

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Reenie Stone's avatar

“Not just a perfume” = “I am not just me. I am more than me, or more than the me everyone seems to think I am.” Perfume for the self-anointing. (Or too much time on Fragrantica)

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Roberto Traverso's avatar

As for mysterious brands, I remember visiting the booth of a company called “Gods of our Fathers” a few years ago at Esxence. I smelled all their perfumes and “A Whisper to the King” struck me as exceptional. It’s an English brand. You should try their juices if you can. Another brand I would love you to review is Mendittorosa. You reviewed Le Mat, but they made other exceptional perfumes.

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Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

Website?

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Kinga Doris's avatar

https://www.mendittorosa.com

I have Orlo and Athanor.

Hoping for a review.

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Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

just wrote for samples

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Roberto Traverso's avatar

I’m afraid that they only have an Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/godsofourfathers/

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Samuel Soroka's avatar

Olfactory Manifesto! Patent that one quickly! It’s a gem ❤️

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Cherry Coombe's avatar

Words on whiff and powdery air, as if bottling O2 like a 70s Guru - but completely free of BS.

Awesome, Luca. I can taste this prose.

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rickyrebarco's avatar

Pao Doce sounds fascinating. That's quite the combination!

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