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L’Étrier d’Hermès: My Stirrupy Sweet Love Affair With Galop d’Hermès

Posted on November 2, 2019 by cologniac

In the process of explaining how I ended up buying what is probably one of the most well-known yet less commonly owned fragrances in my collection, it is my hope to do all of the following: (1) Give readers a … Continue reading →

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Chanel No. 0.5 Eau Final

Posted on July 16, 2016 by cologniac

If there is anything which proves that I have finally reached the status of true fragrance fanatic, it is the fact that I am about to take a five-dollar fragrance seriously. Very.  Seriously. BUT WAIT!  It’s not like this is just … Continue reading →

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Red’s Ultimate Fragrance Blogroll Post

Posted on June 27, 2016 by cologniac

The time has come to do something useful in this life.  And at this very moment, I am struck by the need for somebody to create a simple travel guide to the world of fragrance.  Something useful to newcomers.  Something … 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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Sniff of the Week: Talbots Eau de Parfum

Posted on June 12, 2016 by cologniac

As I get back into fragrance, I’m starting to do what I used to always do – meaning sniff the juice at every opportunity.  So when my wife dropped into Talbots to check out the summer dresses, I took the … 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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Idéalogue

Posted on July 26, 2015 by cologniac

Sorry – I lied.  Not intentionally.  I guess it’s a time-based lie, which is interesting, in a no-new-taxes sort of way.  A change of plans.  But still a lie.  Whatever.  The failings of a finite universe. I was going to … Continue reading →

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Luca’s Rose Garden

Posted on February 9, 2014 by cologniac

Today, we sniff the great and near-mythical fragrance, Shiseido Nombre Noir.  This fragrance, which was, for a long time, the favorite fragrance of perfume critic Luca Turin, is something of a legend in the fragrance community.  I consider it an … Continue reading →

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Heavy Prada

Posted on December 15, 2013 by cologniac

A tale of two Pradas.  Both heavy.  Both rich.  Unlike lighter fare that we have come to expect lately, these two Pradas – one old and one new – are heavy, heavy, heavy.  And great, great, great.  Primrose sent me … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks and the Three Leathers

Posted on December 11, 2013 by cologniac

“Once he hears to his heart’s content, sails on, a wiser man. We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so— all that comes to … Continue reading →

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