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What Are the Best Rose Perfumes? I Tried Countless Fragrances to Find Out

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By Aleksandra Crapanzano Verified
| The Daily Beast Verified
Roses have sharp thorns. Like the best of us, they can be prickly, insolent, arrogant. And why would we expect anything less? To represent love is a heavy burden, and to be a long-stemmed red rose on Valentine’s Day is crushingly symbolic. What I want most—more than a dozen blooms at my doorstep—is a perfume that is fierce, sensual, radiant, mercurial, and, yes, thorny. In other words, a scent that weaves chaos into beauty, because loving well is an alchemist’s art.
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I Didn’t Believe in Functional Fragrance-Until They Worked for Me

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By Aleksandra Crapanzano Verified
| The Daily Beast Verified
Two sprays of US, the delicious pear, cedarwood, vetiver, and pheromone fragrance by The Nue Co., and despite being in the midst of a busy workday, I’m suddenly swooning. It’s a pure jolt of magnetism and, after a few moments of feeling the charge, I slip out of my study to find my husband. Let me say, having now tried dozens of so-called functional fragrances, I’m more suspicious than ever of their promises—but US ($125, The Nue Co.) works.
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Vanilla Perfume Is All Grown Up, and You Need to Start Wearing It

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By Aleksandra Crapanzano Verified
| The Daily Beast Verified
As someone who’s spent the last 15 years writing a dessert column and many a perfume article, writing a book on French cakes, and publishing a cookbook called Chocolat, maybe it’s no surprise that people often ask me if I wear a gourmand perfume. My answer—always a flat-out no—seems to make people suspicious. I understand the confusion. Why, if I love sweets, would I not want to smell like one?
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