10 Fragrances Every Woman Should Own:
Saying Chanel No 5 is wonderful has become akin to saying Citizen Kane is your favourite film – lazy, predictable and obvious, and it’s been rather fashionable to overlook it of late. But don’t get sucked into the backlash, because to dismiss this most iconic of perfumes is to miss out.
Many think I’ve gone completely off my rocker on this one, since it’s one of those scents that inspires either immediate revulsion or jaw-dropped adoration on first sniff, with no revisions possible, but it’s one of the best smoky fragrances I know.the wet wood cypriol smell of Chanel’s Sycomore and the tobacco notes of Etat Libre D’Orange’s satisfying clever Jasmin et Cigarette, as well as incense – an important note right now – fruit, vetiver and woods.
Musk is sexy. Obviously sexy, like a six-inch stiletto, a red lip or Scarlett Johansson. Which explains why this musk-drenched perfume is, to paraphrase perfume expert Raymond Chandler, a perfume ‘to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window’.
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