Nobi Shioya (his inventive nom de guerre is Sacré Nobi), although we've got by no means met, moves me from his works as a man who wishes issues which are faraway from noticeable and doesn't relaxation until eventually he will get them. a hundred% Love is a for instance. It was once gorgeous within the first model, yet truly now not sufficient. the good, the trismegista Sophia Grojsman recomposed it after just a couple of years. perhaps my day task as a scientist has led me to place too excessive a cost at the novel and the unforeseen, yet i need to say that very seldom (in truth now not on the grounds that 1992) have I had this kind of feeling of shock and overjoyed incomprehension whilst first smelling a body spray. Oddness is simple to achieve—there are many accords no one ever made—and coziness and luxury too, supplied one sticks to the featherbed fabrics of perfumery: rose, vanilla, chocolate, and so on. yet to accomplish either superlative oddness and mind-numbing convenience even as is natural brilliance. If there's a parallel universe within which smells are theorems, a hundred% Love will be anything like an explanation of Riemann’s conjecture. LT 154 Cologne (Jo Malone) ★ ★ dry wooden Bare-bones metallic-woody “sport” body spray for males, no longer first-class yet no longer tenacious both. LT 212 (Carolina Herrera) ★ harsh floral Like getting lemon juice in a paper minimize. TS 212 males (Carolina Herrera) ★ ★ woody eco-friendly An at first attention-grabbing, jarring milky-herbal notice turns out to presage L’Eau Bleue (Miyake) yet settles for being a slightly skinny green-woody smell of no contrast. TS 212 attractive males (Carolina Herrera) ★ musky oriental Curried Gaultier2. TS one thousand (Jean Patou) ★ ★ ★ ★ dry chypre i haven't been relatively keen on one thousand. it usually struck me as needlessly advanced and difficult to learn, like an experimental novel cherished of critics that you are taking on vacation resolving to complete ultimately yet change on the airport for a Robert Ludlum factor with a cracking yarn. Upon smelling it back for this consultant, i used to be struck through the truth that whereas it really is nonetheless to my brain a classy yet a little bit dowdy, deep-voiced, flat-pumps-and-string -of-pearls female, it can make one hell of a masculine within the Derby-Fahrenheit axis. cross, men! LT 1872 for males (Clive Christian) ★ ★ ★ candy citrus a delightful yet a bit phony costume-drama body spray made from equivalent elements vintage 1870s woody-resinous (say Penhaligon’s Lords), Seventies citrus, and a unusual, Gucci Rush-like lactonic accord, as though the artful personality grew to become up on set in his eco-friendly velvet dinner jacket, a bit matted after a broom-closet stumble upon with a woman doused in Clive Christian’s X. LT 1872 for girls (Clive Christian) ★ eco-friendly floral a peculiar, chemical factor that smells the way in which reasonable shampoo tastes should you inadvertently open your mouth whereas showering. LT Acaciosa (Caron) ★ soapy floral i'm certainly puzzled. Acaciosa was once a grand jasmine, like pleasure with a naughty streak, darkened with amber and an animalic honey notice with all of its soiled-underwear connotations, plus a shocking tart pineapple within the most sensible observe.