Those of you who’ve been following my YouTube exploits for a while will be aware that when Love At First Scent started, it consisted of hour-long episodes with reviews of several scents. The other day, I revisited that format and presented my thoughts on four new (and new-ish) releases, as well as an underrated Guerlain from the 1980s. You can watch the video above or at this link: Chloe Eau De Parfum Naturelle, Perfumer H Rain Moss, Dusita Anamcara, Vacation By Vacation and Guerlain Derby reviews. For a few more thoughts on the scents, please keep reading.
Putting aside the Guerlain – which is a masterpiece and should be reinstated in the brand’s permanent catalogue forthwith – my favourites of the four are, somewhat surprisingly, the Chloe and Vacation. The Dusita is perhaps a touch too cloying and the Perfumer H settles on a base of unengaging woods rather too quickly. But Vacation is both great fun to smell and great fun to wear (though perhaps even better when smelt on someone else’s skin) and the Chloe plays the all-natural card far more convincingly than I expected it to. Then again, if anyone was going to pull off the au naturel feat, it would be a perfumer of Michel Almairac‘s calibre. His work here, as well as Rodrigo Flores-Roux‘s in Vacation, serves as a reminder that when a scent-maker is given a clear idea and is provided with the freedom to express it legibly, the results are invariably excellent.
Persolaise
[Reviews based on samples provided by the brands, except the Guerlain, which is from my personal collection.]
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