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Excentrique Moi review by Magdulenkan

"Excentrique Moi" by Art de Parfum I'm not eccentric enough to want to smell like cabbage but I'm so eccentric that I can photograph the perfume in a cabbage! 'Excentrique Moi' smells like plum wine, hot tea with pepper and cloves, and at the end like burnt wooden branches. Streaks of smoke flow all over the room, and the sharpness of the spices tickles my nose, making me sneeze. It's a good fragrance for bad weather and contrasting moods. I can hide with mulled wine in my favourite armchair in front of the fireplace, or put on rain boots and run in the rain splashing puddles Info: ▪︎Released in 2016 ▪︎Fragrance Notes: ♤Top Notes: Pepper, Clove, Red fruits ♡Heart Notes:...

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Art de Parfum’s Halloween Essentials: The Witching Hour

I love this time of year! Even though I’m not a kid anymore, there is something very alluring about the idea of playing dress-up for Halloween. I love to stride through the streets of London, kicking over leaves and looking at all the lovely pumpkins glowing in the dark. If there is the scent of chestnuts roasting on the fire somewhere, then even better. Here is a list of my essentials for a great witching hour this Halloween.   The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgarov This is one of my winter favorites! Master and the Margarita is a thinly-veiled satire of life in Communist Russia where artists and writers regularly suffered great censure and persecution. It is scathing, clever,...

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Black Tea & The Story of How Excentrique Moi Came to Be

I thought I’d talk today about one of my favourite raw materials in perfumery, and that is black tea. It features heavily in one of the Art de Parfum fragrances, namely Excentrique Moi, which mixes a smoky, tannic black tea with red berries, hibiscus, dried fruits, spices, and patchouli. Wearing black tea fragrances are so comforting and cozy, especially in chilly weather….of which we seem to have a lot in Britain. When I wear Excentrique Moi, I always feel like I should be curled up under a blanket with a good book on my lap and a slice of fruitcake and a steaming hot cup of tea to the side. Hmmm, actually, that sounds good right about now! While there...

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