james krivda
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Nuits Enchantees
Fantasy Eau de Toilette
Polo Sport Woman
A blast of cold melon and peppermint announces itself immediately, sharp and aquatic in the way late-nineties sport fragrances loved to be.
Deseo for Men
Fantasy Anniversary Edition
The tenth-anniversary Fantasy edition sharpens the original's playful fruitiness with a trio of exotics — kiwi, litchi, and quince — that read tangier and more precise than the 2004 launch's candy-cotton opener.
Enchanting
Pure
Fantasy
The immediate effect is sweet and uncomplicated—a candied fruit accord that registers as familiar, even nostalgic, before the jasmine begins to temper the sugar.
Paris Hilton
A sheer fruity-floral that opens with a candied orchard of melon, peach, and crisp apple before dissolving into a pale white-floral veil.
Deseo
Deseo is a more serious proposition than its celebrity-fragrance origins might suggest.
Splendor
Splendor opens exactly as late-1990s American perfumery taught a generation to expect — pineapple and apple alongside freesia and peony, a fruity-floral overture somewhere between a fruit salad and a wedding.