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  • For the men who read the site, a wonderful unisex bath oil which is particular crisp and clean aromatic fougere, with a wonderful dry tomato leaf topnote, is Eau de Campagne bath oil by Sisley, paris.

    Weekend Beauty - Bath & Body: Confessions of a Bathaholic Marina Geigert 2009

  • Many fougere fragrance play on the bitter-sweet aspect of the coumarin present in hay or liatrix.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • Deseo, with its equal measure of trashy coconut and synthetic fruit and clean-cut modernized so-called “chypre” - it reads more like a fougere to me.

    Ultimate Summer Wardrobe - Scents for Every Occasion Ayala Sender 2009

  • What I found may be enough to comfort you oakmoss lovers (and chypre and fougere wearers in particular); but as much as I agree with the author this time (and this it would have been a great response IF indeed oakmoss levels were to be further lowered next year) - also leaves one with puzzlement about the motives for posting such doom and gloom claims in a magazine.

    The Boy who Cried Wolf Ayala Sender 2009

  • And its minty aspect from menthone and isomenthone is what makes geranium a perfect team player in leafy-green, fougere, herbaceous, citrusy and cologne-type fragrances.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • What I found may be enough to comfort you oakmoss lovers (and chypre and fougere wearers in particular); but as much as I agree with the author this time (and this it would have been a great response IF indeed oakmoss levels were to be further lowered next year) - also leaves one with puzzlement about the motives for posting such doom and gloom claims in a magazine.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • Deseo, with its equal measure of trashy coconut and synthetic fruit and clean-cut modernized so-called “chypre” - it reads more like a fougere to me.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • Many fougere fragrance play on the bitter-sweet aspect of the coumarin present in hay or liatrix.

    Greens for Patrick Ayala Sender 2009

  • And its minty aspect from menthone and isomenthone is what makes geranium a perfect team player in leafy-green, fougere, herbaceous, citrusy and cologne-type fragrances.

    Rose Geranium Field Ayala Sender 2009

  • Next, maybe I'll crack the fougere...though I might prefer expanding my understanding of chypre first...

    Vetiver! Round Two ScentScelf 2008

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