Just Stick It!

Crazylibellule and The Poppies' stick perfumes are absolutely adorable, beautiful smelling and convenient. These scents (or flavors they smell like delicious sweet treats) are divine. They are almost good enough to eat! Whats great about these perfumes is that they are made in France with no parabens, sulfates, synthetic dyes, GMO or triclosans so they aren't made out of sketchy chemicals that can hurt you. They also aren't made with alcohol so they melt into your skin when you apply them instead of evaporating. The best thing about these perfumes is that they are portable so you can throw them in your bag and always smell great. We have: Shanghaijava Ananas Imperial from the Shanghaijava Collection, Vanilla Lemon Pie, Vanilla Fruit Sorbet, Vanilla Sucre Glace- all from the Poule de Luxe collection. All of these perfumes we would consider in the gourmand category or maybe floral gourmand category and we love them all!

Shanghaijava is a intoxicating and refreshing pineaple citrus blend. It's really sweet but zingy at the same time. It includes musk that grounds the scent but it also is juxdeposed with the sweetness of grapefruit, peach, pineapple, lime and lemon. It smells innocent but mature fresh but aged all at the same time. (Shown below)

Vanilla Lemon Pie is good enough to eat. It smells like a lemon meringue pie with hints of sweet almond and silky caramel. It's perfect for the spring or even when you want to smell soft but sexy in the winter. (Shown below)

Vanilla Fruit Sorbet smells like a french berry tart. It has light notes of iris but the raspberry notes dominate the perfume making it tart, fresh and alluring. (Shown below)

Vanilla Sucre Glace is a sweet powdery scent that is warm and comforting. It has notes of vanillla, caramel mixed with sweet tangerine and balanced with musk. It smells fresh, cozy, sugary like a custard dessert. (Shown below)

All of the Crazylibellule and The Poppies perfumes are very unique they metamorphosis to get better as the day goes on, they last a long time as well. The scents are so interesting! We want to collect them all! You can buy them at www.Sephora.com for $18.

Date Night Perfume

(www.Betseyjohnson.com) $55

I picked this up at the store I didn't expect much but I was wrong! We tested some perfumes and the perfume that we found that received the most compliments from men is Betsey Johnson's new self titled Betsey Johnson perfume. This perfume is considered a floral gourmand and it is absolutely delicious. It starts off with the top notes of grapefruit, pear, black currant and tangerine this makes it a gourmand perfume. The middle notes freesia, lily of the valley and red apple make it a floral perfume as well. The base consists of cedarwood, sandalwood, praline, amber and musks. All of these aromas unite to form an actually well rounded sweet, feminine and attractive scent. It first starts off very sweet but foody possibly because of the sweet food and berry scents, it then dries down to a softer more sweet musky smell. It's honestly a beautiful scent that is perfect for if you want to get someone's attention or go out on the town. It lasts all day and it smells also really good with the matching lotion. The bottle is over the top and adorable, we love it. The 1 once is pretty good to carry in your purse. I know this is an unexpected find, but the scent will really attract someone...seriously.

(Matching body lotion)

Guerlain My Insolence

3.5 oz $93

Guerlain's My Insolence perfume is a great perfume for every day wear. The scent smells very feminine, soft and it really makes you feel pretty when you're spraying it on. This perfume is in the flower and gourmand category. The top notes include raspberry followed by middle notes almond blossom and jasmine with base notes patchouli, vanilla and tonka bean. Some perfumes when first sprayed you are hit with an alcoholic rank that you have to shake off but definitely not with My Insolence. The top notes are sweet almost like raspberries and cream but not overly sweet because there is a hint of powdery notes that come through as well. I don't think it is too sweet because of the hint of powdery notes and flower notes. This perfume almost smells like a warm, creamy and flowery french dessert in a bottle!

My Insolence is perfect for winter and summer you can wear it from shopping to going to a dinner. It smells very innocent, feminine, comforting and warm. As the day goes on the perfume base notes are creamy and vanilla-ish along with almond notes it also has a bit of musk at the end. The bottle is beautiful (it looks like a tilted orb in shiny milky glass with a little flower bud on top) but obviously it is not good to carry in your purse, but the perfume lasts all day so there is no need for that anyway. I personally love this perfume and definitely plan to buy one as soon as mine runs out, but remember that perfumes smell different on everyone. My Insolence only comes in EDT but it is very similar to an EDP. You can definitely smell the richness and body like an EDP, it lasts a long time and a little spritz goes a long way.

Make sure to test perfume on your skin before buying, do not use those little cards!

Parfume for People Who Call It Perfume

We're going to expand our site to perfume reviews! Perfume is very important, it can make the dingiest outfit smell respectable, it can bring back memories of the good times when you wore it and make someone remember you whenever they smell that perfume. There are perfumes that exude femininity and others that do not, the perfume should describe you. We are going to do a quick easy breakdown of perfumes for everyone to understand. Perfumes have many categories and classifications here are basically all of them:

• Single Floral: Fragrances that are dominated by a scent from one particular flower; in French called a soliflore. (e.g. Serge Lutens' Sa Majeste La Rose, which is dominated by rose.)
• Floral Bouquet: Is a combination of fragrance of several flowers in a perfume compound e.g. Attar Majmua & Fancy Boquet etc.
• Amber: A large fragrance class featuring the sweet slightly animalic scents of ambergris or labdanum, often combined with vanilla, flowers and woods. Can be enhanced by camphorous oils and incense resins, which bring to mind Victorian era imagery of the Middle East and Far East.
• Wood: Fragrances that are dominated by woody scents, typically of agarwood, sandalwood and cedarwood. Patchouli, with its camphoraceous smell, is commonly found in these perfumes.
• Leather: A family of fragrances which features the scents of honey, tobacco, wood and wood tars in its middle or base notes and a scent that alludes to leather.
• Chypre: Meaning Cyprus in French, this includes fragrances built on a similar accord consisting of bergamot, oakmoss, patchouli, and labdanum. This family of fragrances is named after a perfume by François Coty.
• Fougère: Meaning Fern in French, built on a base of lavender, coumarin and oakmoss. Houbigant's Fougère Royale pioneered the use of this base. Many men's fragrances belong to this Since 1945,

• Bright Floral: combining the traditional Single Floral & Floral Bouquet categories.
• Green: a lighter and more modern interpretation of the Chypre type, with pronounced cut grass and cucumber-like scents
• Aquatic, Oceanic, or Ozonic: the newest category in perfume history, appearing in 1991 with Christian Dior's Dune. A very clean, modern smell leading to many of the modern androgynous perfumes. Generally contains calone, a synthetic scent discovered in 1966. Also used to accent floral, oriental, and woody fragrances.
• Citrus: An old fragrance family that until recently consisted mainly of "freshening" eau de colognes, due to the low tenacity of citrus scents. Development of newer fragrance compounds has allowed for the creation of primarily citrus fragrances.
• Fruity: featuring the aromas of fruits other than citrus, such as peach, cassis (black currant), mango, passion fruit, and others.
• Gourmand: scents with "edible" or "dessert"-like qualities. These often contain notes like vanilla, tonka bean and coumarin, as well as synthetic components designed to resemble food flavors.

(www.Wikipedia.com)

To describe perfumes you maybe have heard the terms top notes, middle notes and base notes. Well these basically mean:

Top notes- How the scent smells right after you spray it, these are the lightest molecules that evaporate the most quickly. So sniff quick!

Middle Notes: These notes can be smelt after the top notes dissipate, these notes smell the best.

Base Notes: Base notes are another main theme of the perfume they bring in the solidity and tend to be the lasting notes. They are usually deeper and can not be smelt until around 30 minutes or sometimes more after the first spray.

Perfumes come in different concentrations (more scent molecules vs. less scent molecules)

• Perfume extract (Extrait): 15-40% (IFRA: typical 20%) aromatic compounds
• Eau de Parfum (EdP), Parfum de Toilette (PdT): 10-20% (typical ~15%) aromatic compounds. Sometimes listed as "eau de perfume" or "millésime".
• Eau de Toilette (EdT): 5-15% (typical ~10%) aromatic compounds
• Eau de Cologne (EdC): Chypre citrus type perfumes with 3-8% (typical ~5%) aromatic compounds
• Splash and After shave: 1-3% aromatic compounds

There are also Niche perfumes that are not distributed to the main market (you will not find these at your local department store). These perfumes tend to be expensive and they have smells that are different than the perfume trends of mass marketed perfumes. What's The Rage will mostly cover mass marketed perfume.

So there you go! Now we can all understand some basic properties of perfume. Remember perfume is an art that appeals to everyone's nose and body hormones/pheromones differently, what may smell good on your friend may not smell good on you.