GUEST REVIEW: "Diorling", by Caro Fernandez.

If you are a passionate Perfume lover, you will start surfing the web.... and sooner or later you will arrive at "Tè de Violetas" (tedevioletas.com), the bilingual (English/Spanish) site run by Caro Fernandez and Virginia Blanco.
We at "Raiders" are therefore glad to give the floor to well-known expert Caro Fernandez. 
Caro will talk about one of her greatest favourite: "Diorling", by Christian Dior.

"CineScent", by Gabriela Guidetti.

Let's open a new section: Movie and Perfumes, or "CineScents". 

It's a real pleasure to welcome Gabriela Guidetti, critic, writer, and perfume lover.

On Air:

“Murasaki” (Shiseido, 1980) 

and 

“Dressed to Kill” (Brian de Palma, 1980)

GUEST REVIEW: "Knize Ten", by Alfarom.

Alfarom (AKA Francesco Alfa Romero) is a fragrance aficionado known for his reviews and articles on both Basenotes and Fragrantica and for running his fragrance-related blog Neroprofumo (http://neroprofumo.blogspot.it). He doesn't believe in objectivity applied to fragrance and strongly thinks fragrance criticism is all about personal tastes and penchants. Usually drawn towards dark and avant-garde compositions, he's also a big fan of classic French / Italian perfumery and pre-80s vintage from all over the world.

Here at "Raiders of the Lost Scent", we are very pleased to have such an authority as a "Guest Reviewer". 

So, give him the floor immediately....

A trip at the Perfume Chest.

Do you think perfumes stores are "shops where people sell perfumes"? You're right.
Do you think perfumes stores are shops where people sell perfumes  only? Well, this time you're wrong.

There are a few stores which are "Perfume Museums", too. 

Try to imagine it: when you enter in such a store, you enter in a Time Capsule: surrounded by perfumes from 30, 40, 50 years ago... 
A real (and pleasant) blast from the past.
Here, in the heart of Turin, in the northern Italy, not far from the French border, in the beautiful 19th-century "Galleria Umberto", there is a very unusual store: actually, it's a sort of  Historical Museum of Perfumery. Its name? "Elide's Perfumes".
Just enter at "Elide's", have a look around, and guess if you travelled back in time.
The owner, Mr. Gianni Bertetti, is not just the person serving the customer: he is a person who loves to chat, narrating stories and anecdotes about perfumes from the past.
And, above all, is an extraordinarily competent person, with decades of experience in the perfumes field.
(All photos in this article were shot at "Elide's Perfumes" in Turin, Italy)

Fahrenheit: a visual guide (1988-2015)

FAHRENHEIT by Christian Dior is one of the top-selling perfumes in history, and you can find thousands of pages and articles about it.

In this short essay, the main goal is to summarize the different boxes and bottles produced "year-by-year" since its launch in 1988.
No opinion about "reformulations" will be provided: here you will find a sort of "Exposition".

CHANEL batch-codes: solving the major issue.

PROBLEM: as many perfume lovers know, there are apparently TWO different four-digits Chanel batchcodes, in contrast each other. What's the correct one?  
SOLUTION: We should have some fresh-factory perfumes to check.... and luckily we got a few "Bleu de Chanel" for verifying it.

KOUROS: The Scent of Gods (2/2)

This is second and last part, and you will find:

-Kouros Party in Paris (February 20th, 1981)

-Flankers (1986-2014)

-Body Line

-Special Bottles

-Gift Sets & Accessories

-Miniatures

-Advertising

-Miscellaneous

the first part is HERE

How to recognize ROCHAS perfumes.

                              

Famous French fashion designer Marcel Rochas established his fashion house in 1925, followed by his own Perfume factory a few years later. His first perfumes were Air Jeune, Audace and Avenue Matignon (1936), then his most famous scent arrived: "Femme", created by Edmond Roudnitska, launched in 1944. 

DIOR Homme, Homme Intense, and Homme Parfum: BlindTests Year 2014.

...and finally, after so many requests, here it is: the "Year 2014 Review" of almost all Dior Homme classic versions and batches (including DH, DHI, and new DHP).

LIDG & LIDGE: Year 2014 Review.

Year 2014 was a turmoil for many perfumes. One of the most disputed was the higly appraised LIDGE by Guerlain, and its "brother" LIDG. Therefore, in this test we sampled different batches to verify if any reformulation(s) occurred.

TERRE D'HERMES: 9-batches review (2009-2014)

"My Terre d'Hermes is no longer the same as before! 
...the scent seems different!"

TERRE d' HERMES, EdT: reformulated or not?
Many loyal followers asked for a comparating-review of "TERRE d'HERMES" EdT, since apparently there are many differences between years. If you read something about it  (on websites such as Fragrantica, Basenotes, Parfumo, etc.), you will find plenty of arguments in favor and against a reformulation, and differences apparently due to amounts of "Iso E Super" contained in the mixture.
So, what about "reformulations"?