lunabee34

Now that I feel well enough to type, have a few perfume reviews from May before I got too ill to smell anything. Neither of these were potential big bottle purchases.

Ranger

The Catalog Description

Untamed wilderness: buckskin accord with Terebinth pine, Russian birch, black ironwood, elder bark, hay, armoise, juniper, patchouli, galangal root, Spanish moss, and cabreuva.

The Forum Reviews

Sweet, masculine, pine, dust, good to layer, most reviewers smell the leather; likened to Golden Priapus, Voodoo, and Yule

Our Reactions

Emma doesn't really like it. She finds it a faint, woodsy, outdoorsy smell with a hint of mint. I smell pine and a little mint. It's sweet and sharp, almost alcoholic. Ranger reminds me of Thanatopsis but sharper and with no dirt. It fades quickly. Josh was pretty neutral/ambivalent. I'm glad to have smelled Ranger, but it didn't ping me as anything special.

Villain

The Catalog Description

A classic Victorian men's cologne: a lavender fougere, with hints of lilac, lime, and citrus musk.

The Forum Reviews

Masculine; creamy; shaving cream; Yardley English Lavender soap; Andra says, "a soft, clean-shaven cheek of a man who is terribly adored"; the reviews seem torn between awesome and aftershave

Our Reactions

My mom thought it smelled like bathroom cleaner. Josh thought it smelled like Play-Doh. I thought it smelled like lavender, but I realized after reading the reviews that what it really smelled like was my late grandfather's shaving cream. Emma thought it smelled zingy and minty and lavendery. She liked it so well that I gave it to her, and she's worn it since. Although it seems a bit of an incongruous fragrance for her to gravitate towards, I like it on her more the more she wears it, and she seems happy with it.