Drive-By Samplings 2: Dior Privée Bois Talisman, Amouage Lilac Love, Byredo Mixed Emotions, LV Rhapsody

  This is a series where I document my impressions of perfumes I get to try on my way through airports or blitzing through a capital city department store on a lunchbreak.  Low to zero stakes sampling, in other words.   Dior Privée Bois Talisman A disappointing effort from a perfumer who created the stunning Eau Noire for the same house – a thin burnt sugar-over-firewood effort that is briefly attractive before quickly unravelling into a mess of scratchy woody-ambery aromachemicals.  The scen...