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Unknowingly – My Vintage-Naïve First Impressions of the Estée Lauder Legacy Collection Discovery Set

Posted on February 29, 2024 by cologniac

It has been nearly two years since I posted anything on my blog. I’ve been quite content to comment on Basenotes for those two years. However, there has been a “disturbance in the Force”, so to speak, and I am … Continue reading →

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Some Potentially Useful Misinformation About My Upcoming Absence From Fragrance

Posted on December 5, 2021 by cologniac

I never thought I would make a post with a bizarro-world title like this one, but then, these are interesting times. Ultimately, this is a post about Anosmia. I decided to do it here, rather than on Basenotes, because on … Continue reading →

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Old Green / New Green

Posted on September 27, 2021 by cologniac

It’s quite nice to see Basenotes (that would be https://basenotes.net) finally getting the makeover Grant has wanted to do for so many years. I’ve helped alpha and beta test the new site (that would be https://basenotes.com), and it is quite … Continue reading →

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Last Call 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017 by cologniac

I wanted to run around the city alone at night wearing a dark blue jacket, mumbling in French, looking pensive and conflicted. Thankfully, the Terre d’Hermès Eau Très Fraïche flanker pulled me back from the edge. But it was rough … Continue reading →

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Diddy Sport: It’s 3AM and Time to Find a Daytime Fragrance for Summer 2017

Posted on May 18, 2017 by cologniac

I suppose that going from the Donald Trump fragrances to Sean John’s line is a bit like jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but what the heck.  Somebody has to tell the truth about Sean John 3AM (if not … Continue reading →

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Four Dudes, a Classy Dame, and a Boozy Babe

Posted on June 19, 2016 by cologniac

….OTHERWISE known as Field Notes from Cowtown – this week’s ruberrific report on my spectacular sniffing experiences, out in the real world of designer fragrance, in the malls of flyover country. But first, a message from our sponsor’s required movie of … Continue reading →

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Cultural Capitalism: Fear and Loathing in the Perfume Aisle at Macy’s

Posted on January 25, 2016 by cologniac

….an abstract symphonic post, in which, by a Kansas tornado of antideconstuctive disestablishmentarianism, we consider the fragrant origins of Donald Trump’s cultural counter-insurgency, mostly by way of stream-of-subconsciousness, non-snob reviews of Trump’s two modern scents, Success and Empire. prelude When Donald Trump announced that … Continue reading →

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Letters To Primrose

Posted on December 1, 2013 by cologniac

One of my oldest and best friends in the fragrance world is Primrose, who is surely one of our “alpha dandies” on Basenotes.  Along with the other veterans of that forum, she has managed to maintain it as one of … Continue reading →

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Nero Profumo. Back to Black.

Posted on January 14, 2012 by cologniac

There are a lot of fragrance blogs out there.  In fact, if you’re starting a blog with the idea of having an army of followers, turning it into a book, to be followed by an indie movie starring Zooey Deschanel, … Continue reading →

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