Ainslie Walker - Fragrance Journalist

Wore the “hers” to Bad Bunny’s “his” at his Sydney concert tonight. 🤩🥰 Amyris for Her. Have loved Amyris for Her for many years but hearing of Bad Bunny’s love of Amyris for Him got me reaching for it tonight…and wearing enough I’m sure he must have smelt it from the stage and even the casita! 😘

New love! 🖤 Patchouli bomb with sweet, delicious amber and smoked, fleeting moments throughout its lonnnng wearing time! Patchovli from is not only a deep dive into patchouli as a raw material, exploring all its wonders but also an incredibly rich, earthy, sophisticated and comforting wear. It is clear I needed a bottle for Autumn, which is abruptly on our doorstep!! 🍁

Discovered in Melbourne’s and available in full size or smaller sampler for those who wish to try! Highly recommend!!

One of my all time favourites from my collection, Angelique Noire from Literally doused myself to kick off my little holiday today because bottle design, although beyond stunning, means she cannot travel. Yes folks, I’m on a plane at last!! ✈️
Green, amber and musky vanilla twisted with sugared spice - this time caraway giving a dry edge compared to my other favourite green vanilla, Vanille from .
Perfumer: Daniela Andrier ♥️

Another iconic treasure from my collection today and this one is sadly no longer on the market.
Beautiful for this tropical weather in Sydney at the moment being clean and fresh with aromatics initially followed by indolic florals like orange blossom and musks in the underbelly keeping it on skin in the sassiest way… plus, the dry down is a dream. 🖤
Cult favourite! Who’s in the club!?

Today’s scent is Vanille..the unexpected vanilla, which was well tested, coping with 40 degree heat, lots of aircon and a dog walk and then the afternoon tropical downpour!! Still very much on my skin. ✔️

Unique, with a firm forever home in my collection because this boozy green vanilla is sensual, comforting and expressive, feeling as if it has an intentional story to tell as each of the notes peer out from the whole. A very enjoyable wear, elevating the day to something special.

I’ve not been ready to talk about the brands recent decision to close as it’s very sad to loose such a pioneering and legacy brand. 💔

What’s your favourite from this brand?

Feeling the swaddle and glamour of Lune Féline this week from a brand I first discovered then went on to meet and interview the founder .clermont in France and Italy at various luxury fragrance events over the years, cementing my love for the brands quality, craft and innovation. This and Cuir Sacre are always in high rotation in my fragrance wardrobe and they truly capture the elevation and magic I love to feel when I spritz on fragrance - both in bottle design and fragrance itself which is rich with concentrated levels of raw materials rather than feeling thin and diluted. The addition of gold flakes is a novelty but perhaps just somehow it adds to the joy I feel wearing fragrances from the brand. 🖤
Now available in australia from and if you’re quick there’s some on sale

HNY and from sunny Sydney! As you know, patchouli always feels cooling to me in the summer heat and this 2024 release, Patchouli Paris from celebrates a glamorous side of Paris with aldehydes in the top, amber and woody-floral iris also showing her face. I’ve really enjoyed experiencing wearing this one in the balmy summer evenings. A tension between cool and warm, clean musks and slightly smoked amber, it’s a love from me. Perfumer Delphine Jelk also scoots closely to the past with a nostalgic and modern interpretation of some heavy hitters from the 80’s that almost haves me reaching for a sequinned evening gown complete with glamorous shoulder pads! ♥️

A delicious treasure from deep within my collection is the stunning and trés special Mohur from Each time I wear this beauty, luck comes me way. Pure Magic by perfumer
A complex and sophisticated rose, Iris and oud spiced and enriched in beautiful layers on top of warm tonka and creamy sandalwood. 🤍

Love love love Francis Kurkdjian and you probably do to once you learn about the fragrances you wear/have worn that he created.
Great article! ❤️

https://robbreport.com/style/grooming/francis-kurkdjian-perfumer-1235821273/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0xH8V30yZJhLiEhOYDU3OhzeS2HicAQSujFbV_i629Bq3RpH7N0dRJa3g_aem_w7TC0NnrfLanmUgov2cjIg

How Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian Learned to Bottle the Zeitgeist Francis Kurkdjian has spent decades making the world's best-selling fragrances. His biggest project? A new vision of Dior Sauvage.

Next stop on my Sydney city fragrance adventure on ground floor in the stunning My most recent love from this brand was launched at the end of last year, a stunning rose overdosed fragrance, with a background of dark fruits and woody amber, Carmina.
What are your favourites from this historic brand?