French jewelry brand Reminiscence will launch Crazy Rem, a new limited edition summer flanker to their 1996 aquatic fragrance, Rem. Crazy Rem was inspired by the colors of Miami…
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Prada No. 11 Cuir Styrax, Reminiscence L’Incroyable Patchouli ~ new fragrance
Later this month, Prada will launch No. 11 Cuir Styrax, a new addition to the Prada Exclusives line. Cuir Styrax was developed by perfumer Daniela Andrier; the notes include leather, styrax (benzoin), orange blossom, white musk, vanilla and incense…
Reminiscence Sea Rem ~ new fragrance
This month, Reminiscence launches Sea Rem, a new fragrance in the Rem series of marine fragrances. Sea Rem was inspired by the island of Mykonos…
Reminiscence Jammin’ Vibration ~ new perfume
French jewelry line Reminiscence will launch Jammin’ Vibration in February. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2006′s Jammin, billed as “the first musical fragrance” and a “tribute to Jamaica”…
Reminiscence Patchouli Pour Homme ~ fragrance review
Reminiscence Patchouli Pour Homme is not a strange, cocoa-sprinkled, cramp-inducing patchouli fragrance like Serge Lutens Borneo 1834 (whenever I smell Borneo 1834 my stomach begins to ache). Patchouli Pour Homme is certainly not a loud, “crude” type of patchouli perfume favored by provincial nouveaux riches. (See Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, where the prissy, aristocratic Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev enters a room, sniffs the air, and complains: “It smells of patchouli in here.” Someone’s wearing cheap perfume…and it’s none other than peasant-turned-entrepreneur Ermolai Alexeyevitch Lopakhin!) Patchouli Pour Homme is also not the variety of oily, overbearing patchouli used by old-time hippies to scent their greasy hair and beards or their sweaty leather boots. Patchouli Pour Homme is a staid patchouli fragrance.
Reminiscence Patchouli Pour Homme contains mandarin, lime, geranium, cedar, patchouli, labdanum, tonka bean, tolu balm, white musk, and benzoin. Patchouli Pour Homme opens with warm lime and geranium leaf; quickly other notes pop: ‘fossilized’ cedar (almost too “dry” to detect), sheer labdanum, well-behaved and CLEAN patchouli…
