caroline sabas
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Little Sequin Dress
Vetiver
Attraction Rush for Him
Animale Instinct Homme
Oud Orange Intense
Fragrance Du Bois builds their compositions around sustainably harvested wood oils, and Oud Orange Intense delivers exactly what its name proposes.
Cannabis Santal
Coffee Woman Sense
Coffee Woman Sense O Boticário
Private Show
Private Show opens with a direct shot of dark, slightly sweet coffee—bold and immediate, like walking into a dimly lit lounge rather than a sunlit café.
Glitter Fantasy
You Or Someone Like You
The title's deliberate ambiguity sets the tone for a fragrance that blurs identity rather than asserting it.
You Or Someone Like You Etat Libre d'Orange
The opening is a brisk citrus shock laced with mint and anise—grapefruit's bitterness cut by bergamot's sparkle, the herbs adding a faintly medicinal edge that never quite sweetens.
Badgley Mischka Couture
Botica 214 Dark Mint O Boticário
Botica 214 Dark Mint
Sunflowers Summer Air
Santal Musc
5th Avenue NYC Love
Miami Glow
Miami Glow opens with a warm, powdery sweetness that feels immediately tropical and sun-drenched.
Midnight Fantasy
A volley of jammy fruit—raspberry and plum syrup—announces *Midnight Fantasy* with unapologetic sweetness.
Miami Blossom
Miami Blossom opens with a flash of sunlit orange, bright but not sharp, like citrus filtered through humid air.
Glowing
Avon Luck Eau So Free
Christian Audigier For Him
FCUK Summer Her
Far Away Dreams
Divina
Downtown
The pear and plum opening arrives with a cool, almost watery sweetness—fruity, but restrained, like cut fruit left on marble rather than anything ripe or heavy.