Today I sampled Terre d'Hermes Eau Tres Fraiche and couldn't shake the feeling that I'd smelled it before. After a while I realized that I was recalling the scent that they pump through the Caribe Royale hotel in Orlando. Similarly, my girlfriend would burn the Indigo candle from The Restoration Hotel and I'd drive myself crazy trying to figure out the fragrance it was evoking: Montecristo by Masque Milano. And compellingly, a sniff of Etat Libre d'Orange's Rien brought me back my childhood...

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