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6 days ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
by Eddie Bulliqi ( 1 comments )When roars coagulate amongst a crowd, individual lion calls sound like a choir of sea birds, with madly syncopating pockets of song all stubbornly trying to recentre the beat in their radius. What the performer feels on stage is like a sandwich with no filling. Screeches and growls, cries and rumbles, life and death, without the colour and shade that dialogue offers. In that respect, clarity comes easy in the spotlight.
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1 week ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Francesca Serritella: portrait by Nina Subin Full Bloom, the new novel by New York Times bestselling author Francesca Serritella, is flavoured by the omen, “a woman’s life is forever changed by a mysterious perfume in this stunning novel about ambition and untapped desire”.
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1 week ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Heeley’s classic floral leather chypre Cuir Peine Fleur has the kind of forlorn, wistful pull that defined a lot of early niche brands (Serge Lutens, Tauer Perfumes, Byredo). It is not an aquatic fragrance by any definition, but I do find it has a cooling clamminess about it that feels like taking shade from the sun under damp vegetation.
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2 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Forget the pyramid, Sawalef’s Empire encourages you to revel in the scented soul of Morocco – saffron-oud, orange blossom, and dates! I love this fragrance. It has generic parts, trendy moments, and sections of pure bliss. Let me take the three in stages. Firstly, there is a strong linger throughout Empire’s development of Middle Eastern fragrance heritage, pressed through modern tastes. It's oudy, but more along the lines of the leathery-nutty musks coming out of labs than oil from the tree.
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2 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
by Eddie Bulliqi 27 minutes ago( 2 comments )The new Dior Homme Parfum communicates nothing of the skill of a "Master Perfumer". Thick, saccharine, foggy, and slap-dash, where's the detail, the emotion, the meaning? After decades of training and work, it's embarrassing to sign your name to such a soupy slop of gender-bending sycophancy. Francis Kurkdjian is rich and famous. He doesn't need Dior's money or cachet.
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2 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Givaudan is touting three new “AI-enabled” hardware devices as successes towards a more efficient and creative fragrance industry. From my perspective, they’re largely redundant junk that recall an 80s product stream of hardwiring puzzles and playtime into digital novelties, often just for the sake of it, in the name of innovation, even if these electronic relics ended up achieving little.
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3 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
by Eddie Bulliqi 05/15/25 15:07:04 ( 16 comments ) There’s something about Guerlain’s new Rosa Verde that feels passionless. Its design is typical of French perfumery – a complex bouquet that romanticises its rosy heart with citrus sunlight and musky whimper. This scent happens to be green and aquatic, too. However, Rosa Verde has an off-the-shelf quality that’s quite annoying, and quite boring.
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3 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Steaming panettone mixing with cigar smoke – malted and creamy. Food trash garnished with festered banana skins guarded by a feral litter of felines – ripe and furry. Tres leches dunked in dulce de leche then flambeed under a blue flame, singeing flamboyances of meringue to a crisp shell – sugar-sweet and smoky.
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4 weeks ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Creed’s Green Irish Tweed and Davidoff’s Cool Water are like two types of pepperoni pizza. The quality of sameness you ascribe to their aesthetics depends entirely on the level of magnification with which you choose (or feel you are required) to apply. Are two pepperoni pizzas the “same"? In category (of ingredients, presentation, preparation method, and stylistic history), likely yes, but are they (always) in flavour profile?
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1 month ago | 
fragrantica.com | Eddie Bulliqi
Usually, studies on the social impact of smell focus on body odour via the same tradition in chemosensory research of animals, as well as the perennial treasure hunt for the truth about pheromones. For example, we reported on a University of British Columbia study that found that sleeping on a lover’s (non-perfumed) shirt improved sleep quality, and Weizmann Institute of Science research that demonstrated the human tendency to form friendships with those who have similar body odour profiles.
