A HOOT!

[Kari]

... some of the fragrance reviews

at makeupalley.com, under \"Productville.\"

Re: J. Lo Glow-- reviewers compared the scent to a funeral home,

old ladies\' talcum, cheap soap, a plastic shower curtain, and urine. One reviewer said it made her want to hurl.



Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass) was compared by some with a mildewed basement. Others thought it was Gothic and

mysterious. One said rotting paper.

[Kari]

A review of Fumarie Turque

perfume, on makeupalley

This scent is all about tobacco, specifically the aromatic oriental-heavy blends of pipe

tobacco which are popular with pipe smokers here in England. Sweet and powdery, amazingly rich and complex, suffused

with tones of rum, honey, flowers and spices. Unfortunately, the evocation is so amazingly accurate I can\'t stop

myself associating it with some wiry old man in a flat cap with a whippet under the table, scrutinising the Racing

Post in his habitual corner of the pub while he puffs away. A fabulous and admirable piece of fragrance wizardry,

well up to Lutens\' usual standards, but for me at least, completely unwearable.

[Kari]

Here\'s another:

A quite

horrid sinus-tinglingly abrasive white musk that smells like a Sicilian laundry. Like all stinkers, of course it has

remarkably good lasting power. Hard to believe Serge Lutens put his name to this. Save your pennies and buy the Body

Shop\'s infinitely superior rendering of this theme.