Yes, Perfume Shrine is like a university for perfumistas. Turin/Sanchez etc get us hooked, Olfactoria and Bois de Jasmin and many others fuel the fire, but PS creates new synapses. I found her writing too dense and ponderous when I was a newbie but right now I really love her more researched pieces. A bulb went off in my head - I like really many proto fruity florals - it's a genre that was ruined by cheapened copycats, banal me toos and lackluster shampoo/yogurt imitations, but the original ideas were quite avant-garde.
A good thing to know is that fruit notes are always synthetic. Extracting them from high water-content fruit is chemically tricky (fruit esters are reactive and short-lived and turn easily into foul-smelling acids) and this is why the apple you are about to bite into is quite different from 'apple' in shampoo or candy. For the true nerds among us
, some simple chemistry here. I'm obsessed with these because I often don't get fruity perfumes.
The tuberose I enjoyed last night was Beyond Love. (Onomatopetic connection with Beyoncé). A cool, cerebral, sleek tuberose, missing all the enjoyable junk & ballast & grit of Loretta, Poison. Like one of those people you admire but find difficult to approch and love because they are inhumanely perfect.
Today I'm wearing something that smells quite mediocre.
An expensive niche release, but am not feeling the love.