Updated LTO Student Permit License Requirements 2019. If you are applying for LTO student permit or license, the complete requirements you need to submit are listed in this page. This article is applicable for both Filipino citizens and foreigners wanting to register a student's driver's license in the Philippines. Follow the procedures in this post.
As usual, my tip whenever you go to any government office or agency, avoid Mondays and the tenth of the day of each month as they are usually crowded. Arrive as early as 7 a.m. When we applied for our driver's license, we came at the LTO center before 7 a.m. Guess what, there was already a long queue of applicants. Make sure you bring any food to grab a bite and a bottled water coz you never know when hunger strikes.
To apply for LTO student permit and license, you must meet the following qualifications.
In addition, for foreigners, the applicant must be eighteen (18) years old and must have been in the Philippines for at least one (1) year from date of application.
If you meet the qualifications above, then gather the following documents for your LTO student permit license requirements. You can get a medical certificate at any licensed clinic or medical center near the Land Transportation Office as they are usually located nearby.
As mentioned, the lists below are applicable for both Filipinos and foreigners.
Medical Certificate issued by any licensed practicing physician stating that the applicant is physically and mentally fit to operate a motor vehicle or otherwise stating his/her impairment.
LTO student license price of getting this permit is P317.63 as of now.
Submit your documents to the LTO staff in an assigned window. The LTO staff will them check your documents and evaluate them. The staff will also encode your details in the LTO system upon approval of the officer.
Once approved, they will call you again in another window for photo and signature taking.
Wait a while for your name to be called in another window (Cashier). You need to pay the required fees in this step.
A Student Permit Card with the Official Receipt shall be released to the applicant. You are required to write your name and affix your signature in the appropriate Release Form.
In most cases, the issuance date of LTO student license will also be stamped on the release form.
That's it. The procedure is simple, yet I suggest allotting a day for the application of your student permit and license because most LTO offices have long lines of applicants every single day. Do not forget for your LTO student license renewal. Good luck!
Does it need to be PSA authenticated birth certificate? Hindi pwedeng NSO lang?
Does an a person with an actually license have to ride with me while I am driving.
Does this person really have to be pro?
Hi! Ask ko lang po if anong mga requirements kapag magrerenew ng student license?
Hi is the student permit already in card format?
Need ba talaga ng medical certificate?
Hi, anong branch ng LtO ka nag apply ng student license?
hi ask ko if hanggang kelan lang ang validation ng student permit?? of student licence???
Totoo bang 5ft above lang ang binibigyan ng students license? Mag 30yrs old na q Hindi na aq tataas pa..
Hello. Does it really have to be an original copy of birth certificate?
Nag-iissue pa po ba kayo ng Student Card? Kasi sabi po kasi sakin sa LTO SM North hindi na daw po. Kailangan ko po kasi sa DFA. Thank you.
mam nakakuha kaba ng student permit card? Need ko din yun for dfa e.
Hi.. Jennelyn san LTO branch ka nakakuha?
hello maam as in card napo talaga yung student permit mo?
Saan pong branch kayo nakakuha? Kelangan ko din po kasi sa dfa eh . Thank you so much .
Hi sis Gracelene, nakakuha po kayo? Need din sa DFA. Please reply.
Hindi yata. Kc i paid 450 for the medical.
medical only ma'am?? soo 317 plus 450 ??? then total bill na magagastos is 767??
lalaki po ako. problema ko pagkuha ng sp eh wala pa akong birth certificate sa PSA. Meron lang ako Marriage certificate. Pwede ba gamitin marriage certificate instead of birth certificate?
May ask question which branch meron student permit id yung hindi papel?
may i ask if resident alien na ipinanganak dito sa pinas pwede na ba yun birth certificate lang ang document na dala or student permit?
Hi! Is the student permit really in card format/form? Kasi dati mga year 2015, kumuha yung Ate ko ng student permit pero hindi sya in card form. Parang papel lang na kasing-laki ng 1/2 bondpaper.
Sa medical exam sabi ng LTO Danao branch effective Jan.14,2019 dapat online na daw ang medical nila,lahat po ba branch na LTO Philippines ganito den ba ang sistema nila kasi nagpamedical ako Jan.03,2019 den bumalik ako Jan 17 hindi na nila tinanggap ang medical ko..
Ask ko lng po saan ang lto branches na mka kuha agad ng student permit I'd card? Anong name ng lto branches?
Ask ko lng po kc ung name ko sa PSA may correction..gusto ko sana kumuha ng student license..pwdi ko po ba ipresent ung PSA ko kahit may mali sa name ko..
Magkano po lahat lahat ang magagastos pag kumuha ng student license?
200 pra sa medical.. 317 pra sa student permit?
Hello po ask ko lang po if may fee po ba kapag kukuha na ng student's license? at magkano po kung sakaling meron?
Hi anong mga lto branches mg bigay agad ng student permit card?? please reply thanks..
Hi. I am married already but I do not have any id with my married name. okay na po ba ung psa certified birth cert and married cert plus med cert as requirements?
Makakakuha kaba agad ng student license I'd ?
Hi 🙂 There are some LTO centers that issue the card on the same day pero on some provinces, receipt muna (which can be used as a temporary permit), to follow pa din ang license card.


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major League Belarusian football: the specificity of the tournament
Belarusian championship on football among major League teams successfully started. Every football fan has the opportunity to join this tournament. So do not lose the ability to see who will be the champion of Belarus football. Watch the online broadcast of the match on our website and cheer for the best!
In the championship of Belarus football take part 12 professional football clubs. The tournament in this country takes place in two stages, that is, the participating teams are divided into sixes. Under this scheme played in 2013 and did not begin to decline in 2014, and in 2015 it will be optimal. Thus, the first stage is a classic double round Robin tournament (matches home and away), and the second stage is formed by the results of those places that are busy teams in the standings after the first stage. After that formed two groups (clubs ranked in the standings place first through sixth) and B (the teams which came in the first phase of places from seventh to twelfth). Such specificity of the football tournament of Belarus.
you can follow all the news, visit our website and watch the online broadcast of the championship Cup. The schedule of matches will represent the date and time of each game, so You don't have to search long, when will the next game. So watch the calendar of matches and watch soccer online, the results of which are always there in the standings. Bet to win only the best football clubs in Belarus.

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If your house is experiencing leaks from above, it is subsequently time to consider house enchancment ideas to your roof and ceiling. A house improvement undertaking, addition, improve, rework, or makeover is not going to make up for a troubled marriage. Throwing a housewarming occasion can appear intimidating, nonetheless, cautious planning and organizing can help throw a fantastic occasion, that shall be remembered fondly by neighbors, buddies, and family.
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With regard to walls, by adding tile or laminate half-wall wainscoting to the lower three to four feet of the wall, you may add a nice touch. And when you consider making improvements, bear in mind the value of different houses in the area. You may be surprised how just a few little dwelling improvement ideas and advice projects could make an enormous distinction in your home value.
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Q: Let $ \ V \ $ be a vector space and suppose that $ \{U_{n}: n \in \mathbb{N} \}$ are subspaces of $ \ V \ $ Let $ \ V \ $ be a vector space and suppose that $ \{U_{n}: n \in \mathbb{N} \}$ are subspaces of $ \ V \ $ . Then prove that , if for every $\ k,\ m\ \in \mathbb{N} $ there exists an $ \ n \in \mathbb{N} \ $ such that $ \ U_{k} \cup U_{m} \subseteq U_{n} $ then  $ \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $  is a subspace of $ \ V \ $. $$ $$ I know that union of two subspaces is a subspace iff one is contained in another. I want to use this property but  I am not sure how to prove the result ?  Any help is appreciating .

A: Clearly, $0\in   \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $
If $x\in   \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $
Then $x\in U_p$ for some $p\in \mathbb{N}$, so $\alpha x\in U_p$ which implies  $\alpha x \in \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $.
Also if $x,y\in  \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $, then $x\in U_k$ and $y\in U_m$ for some natural numbers $k,m$ hence they belong to a subspace $U_n$ for some integer $n$ (By the conditions given in the question,) which implies $x+y \in U_n$, so  $ x+y \in \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $.
Hence  $ \ \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty}U_{n} \ $ is clearly a subspace of $V$.

A: You meant to say for every k and m there is an n . Look if x is in U_k and if y is in U_m  you are assuming there is n so that both x and y are in U_n (a subspace ) so ... This should do it for you ,

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About Global Health Bioethics
!This site used to be Global Health Bioethics, Research Ethics and Review. We are now just Global Health Bioethics.
This website is the home page of the Global Health Bioethics Network (GHBN). The GHBN is a collaboration between the five Wellcome Trust Africa and Asia Programmes (AAPs) in Kenya, Thailand-Laos, South Africa, Vietnam, Malawi and the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. We also partner with the Wellcome Trust Brighton and Sussex Centre for Global Health Research.
The GHBN aims to:
Promote and support ethical reflection within MOPs;
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To achieve these aims, the Network carries out a range of capacity-building activities which include: hosting an annual Summer School; providing annual capacity-building bursaries to researchers (GHBN Ethics Fellows) across the AAPs; providing education, training and mentorship to GHBN Fellows and other AAP staff; supporting AAP directors and other scientists in identifying and addressing the ethical aspects of their own research; supporting funding applications; and providing collaborative on-line ethics resources to promote cross-AAP discussion. In addition to its capacity building activities, the Network also conducts a number of important research projects into practical ethical issues relevant to the scientific and community engagement activities of the AAPs.
The GHBN is funded by a Wellcome Trust strategic Award (096527).


SANTA CLARA — Richard Sherman is very excited to head into the offseason healthy, rather than worrying about rehabbing his Achilles like he was at this time last year. The 49ers cornerback is also a believer in the team's future, thinking that the front office will be smart during free agency and in the draft.
It took Sherman a little longer than expected to play without the pain and limitations of his repaired Achilles. Ending the season healthy comes as a welcome relief.
"I'm so excited," Sherman said. "I think that's going to be the biggest thing for me. To just have an offseason to work hard and to push my body and to let my muscles and tendons and ligaments recover like they should and then strengthen like they should.
Sherman finally started to feel closer to his old self in the last few weeks of the season. At that same time, there was personnel consistency on the defense and that led to them playing sound football.
Younger players on the 49ers had the chance to get valuable playing time under their belts, and Sherman believes that will help the unit be successful in 2019. He was just as positive heading into his first year with the team, but then 17 players went on injured reserve -- including stars Jimmy Garoppolo and Jerick McKinnon.
"I saw '18 as the year we could play," Sherman said. "But, I obviously didn't foresee Jimmy being out for the season, Jet being out for the season, us losing three safeties, a starting corner, two linebackers.
With over $62 million dollars in cap space, San Francisco could be very aggressive in free agency but Sherman believes that that general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan won't make any rash decisions.
Sherman believes that the team already has important pieces in place for its success. He explained that standouts like defensive lineman DeForest Buckner and All-Pro tight end George Kittle have become important leaders in the locker room.
As long as players heed Shanahan's message of not being complacent during the offseason, Sherman believes that the 49ers could have a very good defense.
"When we get back to 100%, we will be very stingy."


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Q: What does mano-a-mano actually mean? I know that expression comes from Spanish a it's literal meaning is hand by hand. However, I often find some other meanings like:

fight; like a man to man; eye to eye.

How common is this phrase in general? Is it appropriate in a more or less formal language? I understand that the meaning depends on the context. l'd like to understand what meaning is is the most frequently used.

A: It is very much slang. It is most common in the Southern parts of the USA, where there are substantial Hispanic populations. It is like other slang borrowings:  "Hasta la vista",  "mi casa su casa", "No problemo"  and so on.  Like other slang expressions, it is not appropriate in a formal context.
Certainly, the fact it sounds like "man-at-man" has influenced how it is understood in English. In English, it is used to mean "close confrontation", or "head-to-head", which is rather different from its meaning in Spanish.

A: "mano-a-mano" is not English, though people who live in areas with a significant Hispanic population may know and use it.
The direct translation would be fighting "hand to hand", meaning with bare fists, also known as a "fistfight".


Save the Date for the Grand Opening of the Seven Corners Collaborative!
There will be refreshments and appetizers. We're excited to show you our new home. Come celebrate with us!
Our current office, located on NE Oregon Street, will be closed on Thursday and Friday, June 14th and 15th for the move. We re-open our office at our new location on Monday, June 18th at 9AM.
We are re-locating to Seven Corners Community Collaborative, a brand new community space and building we will be sharing with our partners: Community Vision, FACT Oregon, Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Nossa Familia Coffee. The building is universally accessible to individuals and families of all different abilities. It includes an Assistive Technology (AT) Lab.
We are excited to be a part of this collaborative effort to create an accessible hub of support and resources for people who experience disability, their support networks, and providers living and working in the Portland Metro area. We look forward to seeing you there.


Today we went to White Sands, New Mexico. The dunes were amazing and a sight to behold. I thought that my feet would burn due to the heat. I was pleasantly surprised to realize that the sand is cool at the dunes and I enjoyed walking barefoot as the family climbed mountains of sand only to sled down the slopes. We all laughed and enjoyed our time together.
It may look easy, but climbing to the top of a dune is a difficult task. My feet sank into the beautiful white scene, and the sand gave way underneath my feet offering me no support as I attempted to climb to the top. It is often frustrating and overwhelming when trying to complete such a lofty venture. My body doesn't move like it did when I was twenty.
My son, an eleven-year-old ball of energy ran gratefully towards the sandy mountain, anxious to get to the top and slide down as fast as he could. As he began climbing, he experienced the difficulties of maneuvering his way up and down the hills. I reached the top as quickly as I could and started cheering him on. I kept reassuring him that I knew that he could do it, and not to give up. When he made it to the top, there was an expression of complete joy and triumph that ran across his face. He made it, and we had a celebration at the top.
This son of mine accomplished something that was unthinkable a few years ago. He tested his body, and it came through. No bleeding, no aftershocks as a result of attempting something completely out of his capabilities. To anyone else looking on, it was a simple climb by a boy who should do this kind of thing in his sleep. My son struggles to build up strength that he lost after spending a year in a wheelchair. With time, it gets better and better.
Today, I am grateful for my amazing son, as he continues to teach me lessons about the human struggle. I learn how to be bold and test the limits of what I think is possible. He reminds me to reach for goals, even after a time of struggle. Praise be to God that we can learn from the youngest to the oldest. Everyone is here possessing a special gift that, when shared, makes the world a better place.
Oh, and we named the white and sandy mountain. We call it "Mount Midge," in my son's honor. That is a family nickname that we call him. Today, he claimed victory over his mountain of struggles to stand at the top of a dune and look at the mountains in the distance, begging for discovery.


Summary: FMCSA announces that it has received an application from the American Concrete Pavement Association, Inc. (ACPA) requesting exemptions from two requirements of the hours-of-service (HOS) regulations for drivers of certain commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) operated by ACPA members: The 30-minute rest break provision; and the requirement that short-haul drivers utilizing the record of duty status (RODS) exception return to their work-reporting location within 12 hours of coming on duty. The first exemption would enable drivers engaged in the transportation of ready-mixed concrete in vehicles, other than those outfitted with rotating mixer drums, and related materials and equipment to use 30 minutes or more of on-duty ``waiting time'' to satisfy the requirement for the 30-minute rest break, provided they do not perform any other work during the break. The second exemption would allow these drivers to use the short-haul exception but return to their work-reporting location within 14 hours instead of the usual 12 hours. FMCSA requests public comment on ACPA's application for exemptions.


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As soon as I started working here, I ceased to be a columnist and became a glorified fea- ture writer, and that wasn't my understanding.". . . In the tempest over Mike Wal- lace's efforts to derail a planned 60 Minutes report on Haiti, stories haven't in- dicated the full extent of Wallace's interests in . that country. It's been reported that Wallace's wife has cousins who live there and that she is a part owner of a small arts-and-crafts store in the country. But there's more: Mrs. Wallace also owns a house in Haiti, which she bought in 1951, before she married Mike. CBS news executives have decided to go ahead with the report. IN AN OUTPOURING OF JOUR- nalistic sleuthing about journalistic sleuthing, at least three books are in the works by authors who think they've got a lead on the identity of that elusive Watergate informant, Deep Throat. - But don't expect the mys- tery to be settled for all time: These latest theorists don't entirely agree with one another. Wilmington News-Jour- nal reporter Joe Trento is preparing a manuscript that contends the famous snitch was a composite of sources for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Wash- ington Post team that .helped crack Watergate. "Some people are claim- ing that John Paisley was Deep Throat," confided Trento, referring to the CIA agent whose body was found floating in Chesa- peake Bay in 1978 and who will be the focus of his book. "It's clear that Bernstein and Paisley were at the. same private parties during the Watergate period. But I'm inclined to believe there's no single Deep Throat." Trento's theory coincides to some extent with an account being prepared by two ex-CIA staffers, who will write that the Post's scoops "evolved out of - a wife-swapping ring of CIA officials and prominent Washington journalists," ac- cording to a report by Jeff Stein in next month's issue of The Progressive. They claimed to Stein that they can show the agency ma- nipulated the Post through Deep Throat in order to de- throne Richard Nixon and his private band of spooks, the plumbers. The third book is being prepared by Random House writer Jim lHougan, who says he is surprised at the CIA-sex theory. "My book will name as Deep Throat someone who most people have never heard of," he said. Woodward wouldn't com- ment, and Bernstein was on vacation. However, another Watergate theorist de- nounced the wife-swapping talk as "a basement ru- mor." One former Deep Throat suspect, David Ger- gen, an ex-Nixon speech. writer now with President Reagan, said, "When they get through naming all the candidates for Deep Throat, we'll have ? an annual re- union in Yankee Stadium." That New D'Amato Intern D'Amato, Sinatra in Daily News photo: Famous grandpa. SENATOR AL D'AMATO'S NEW Capitol Hill intern, as re- ported last week, is named Frank Sinatra and, no, he can't sing. But the 22-year- old student does have a famous relative. His grand- father is reputed Mafia boss Carlo Gambino. D'Amato's press secre- tary, Ed Martin, 'said, "We found this out after we'd hired him. When we asked him about it, he wanted to know if it would affect his internship and said he didn't want it held against Approved For Release 2009/02/04: CIA-RDP91 B00134R000400130047-5 Approved For Release 2009/02/04: CIA-RDP91 B001 34R000400130047-5 he chill wind blowing in Wash- ington did not begin with Ronald Reagan's inaugura- . tion. There was an early blast about two years ago, when right-wing scholars and journalists, affiliated for the most part with the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, began peddling the notion that the Government was infested with "moles"-American officials recruited long ago by Soviet intelligence. The talk of `.`moles" in the Govern- ment has simmered down since .Reagan entered the White House, but there is reason for concern about a pos- sible recrudescence of McCarthyism. Reagan transition, officials said they would take "a close look" at recom- mendations by the right-wing Heritage Foundation to investigate "subver- sives," and the Senate reestablished an Internal Security and Terrorism Sub committee. "Terrorism" is the key word, of course: It has replaced "communism" as the all-purpose menace which pro- vides the rationale for political repres- sion. A recent piece by syndicated col- umnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak illustrated the new shape being given to the old theme of red-baiting. A look at it also allows us to feel what it's like to be on the short end of a witchhunt. Stephen R. Weissman spent the first weekend of February worrying. He is a quiet, carefully articulate political scientist, thirty-nine years old, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Jeffrey Stein is The Progressive's con- tributing editor in 'Washington. 12 / APRIL 1981' For two years he worked under Demo- cratic Representative Stephen Solarz on the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee, specializing in U.S. policy toward Africa. During years, the' Commit- tee had backed the Carter Ad- ministration's sanctions against Rhodesia until a peaceful transition to majority rule was, accomplished, had developed legislation prohibiting the CIA from engaging in another secret war in Angola, and had generally looked for ways to carry out a humane and progressive foreign policy divorced from past entanglements with the white supremacists in South Africa. Late in January, Stephen Weissman received a call from columnist Evans, who inquired about two matters: First. an article by Weissman, "The CIA and U.S. Policy in Zaire and Angola," that had been reprinted in a book called Dirty Work (ll), issued by an anti-CIA group in Washington affiliated with former CIA agent and critic Phillip Agee; second, some remarks critical of Zaire that Weissman had made at an academic conference in Philadelphia. Evans seemed polite, and Weiss- man explained. First, he said, his arti- cle had originally been written ex- pressly for, and printed in, a book of scholarly articles on Southern Africa. It had later keen. reprinted in the august Political Science Quarterly. 1-le had given the editors of Dirty Work (11) permission to reprint the piece, as had other authors from the Defense De- partment and The New York Tunes. Weissman also explained that he had complained to the editors of Dirty Work (II) when lie found out too late that their book would include an ap- pendix listing the names of hundreds of CIA agents. As to his remarks at the Philadel- phia conference, Weissman told MikeKonopaeki' Evans, he had clearly-spoken for him- Approved For Release 2009/02/04: CIA-RDP91 B001 34R000400130047-5 Approved For Release 2009/02/04: CIA-RDP91 B001 34R000400130047-5 self on the panel, and his characteriza- tion of Zaire as "a basket case" came in the context of a lengthy and scholarly exchange on that country's financial situation. (In any event, as Evans would surely know, Weissman's assess- ment of Zaire would be shared by the International Monetary Fund.) During their telephone conversa- tion, Weissman began to suspect that Evans didn't really care, about his ex- planations..When Weissman said a tape recording was available of. the Philadelphia meeting, Evans darkly let it be.known that he had been briefed by pril briefing Pillow talk. Is it possible that The Washington Post's early and consis- tent scoops on Watergate evolved from a wife-swapping ring of CIA' ? officials and prominent Washington journalists? Such is the contention of two former CIA officials, one of whom.told me, in exchange for anonymity, that the sex club provided fertile ground for CIA leaks on the story. A'hook now in preparation, the source says, will show that the CIA deliberately fed the journalists information damaging to Richard, M.. 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I'm a Florida writer, published mostly in the crime field over the last twenty years, with five noir novels, MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE, VOLUNTARY MADNESS, SKY BLUES, CRUEL POETRY, a collection of short stories, FLORIDA GOTHIC STORIES, and a mainstream novel, FUR PEOPLE. In 2008, my novel CRUEL POETRY was a finalist for an Edgar Award. If you like the works of James M. Cain, author of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, you will enjoy my more contemporary style with graphic sex that was not allowed to be published in Cain's era. In addition, my interest in the Florida environment and participation in adventure sports, such as scuba and skydiving, are prominent in the subject matter of my fiction.
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Iguana Love
Separated from her husband, Ramona Romano is a thrill-seeking redhead addicted to adventure. She soon finds scuba diving and body-building insufficiently exciting. So she uses her strength to dominate man after man, testing herself as a lover, as well as a sportsperson. She wants perfection and insists on being in control, regardless of the price. But there's one man who matches her in coolness and detachment, one man who can make her do anything he wants and then beg for more. Enzo. Her most tantalising challenge, her obsession and the man who lures her into a dark world of heroin and murder.
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When Sunny Lytle is evicted for keeping her fur family of thirteen dogs, eight cats, two ferrets, and two rabbits in her apartment in Kentucky, she packs them into a converted school bus and returns to her hometown, DeLeon Springs, Florida. Her dream is to create a no-kill animal rescue, but survival soon takes top priority. Camping in the woods no longer lives up to the memories of her teen years, and the brutal demands of nature and the threatening intervention of Rita, a well-meaning veterinarian, create an ongoing struggle. Buck, a quirky homeless man, becomes her brave ally.
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Hot and scrappy Sherri Parlay gives up her life of depravity, and with best intentions, finds a respectable job as a dry cleaner in hopes for a decent future. But nature and nurture plot against her when she meets the beautiful, tortured, and rich young Payne, who tempts her with the love and life she never thought possible. Even Brenda, Payne's domineering mother, can't keep the lovers apart when Sherri's animal passions take control. Unfortunately, Payne is not only a different kind of man from those in Sherri's past, he's worse than any on her list of sordid affairs. Twisted psychology and a pure heart lead her into the dark realm of disillusionment and crime, where she reaches into her deepest reserves for the strength to survive.
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Vandegrift vs Katy Live UIL Texas Football State Championships Online Info, TV Channel, Saturday Dec 10, 2022
The 2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships are sure to be an exciting battle as Vandegrift and Katy prepare to go head-to-head in the 6A D2 bracket. The showdown between these two powerhouse programs will be one for the ages, and you won't want to miss it! On Saturday, December 10, 2022, tune into the NFHS Network to witness what is sure to be an epic battle for Texas high school football supremacy. Who will emerge victorious? Tune in to find out!
2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships 6A D2 Info
Who: Vandegrift vs Katy
When: Saturday, December 10, 2022
TV Channel: NFHS Network
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The ultimate showdown is set for the 2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships. The 6A Division II conference will feature a battle between Vandegrift and Katy in the championship game. This matchup promises to be one of the most exciting state title games in recent memory, as both teams have shown they have what it takes to become the best in Texas.
Vandegrift comes into the game as the #1 seed, having put together an impressive 11-1 record this season. Led by head coach Charles Taylor, Vandegrift has had a stellar year on both sides of the ball, featuring an explosive offense and a swarming defense. Vandegrift has defeated some of the top teams in Texas this season, including nationally ranked Rockwall and undefeated Cedar Park.
Katy enters the game as the #2 seed, with an equally impressive 10-2 record. Coach Gary Joseph has led Katy to victory in each of their last five games, including two victories over district rivals Tompkins and Cinco Ranch. Katy's defense has been a key to their success this season, holding opponents to under 20 points per game.
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The game will be available to watch online on the NFHS Network and will feature some of the top athletes from both teams. The Vandegrift Vipers are looking to bring home the title for the first time in their school's history, while the Katy Tigers are hoping to add another championship to their impressive list of accomplishments.
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The 2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships will be a battle of titans as Vandegrift and Katy face off in Conference 6A Division 2. On Saturday, December 10th, 2022, these two powerhouse football teams will clash for the state championship title at the NFHS Network.
The odds are high in this match-up, with both teams coming off impressive seasons. Vandegrift finished the 2021-2022 season with a 9-2 record and winning their district title. Katy also had a great year, finishing the season with an 8-3 record. Both teams have worked hard to get to this point and they are ready to give it their all in the state championships.
Fans of both teams have been eagerly awaiting this showdown, with many of them planning to travel to the game to cheer on their favorite team. Whether you're a fan of Vandegrift or Katy, make sure you don't miss this epic battle for the 2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships. It is sure to be an exciting game that will go down in history!
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Before I start, a small housekeeping matter: I'm very behind on fragrance reviews and covering new releases after my break, and I'm afraid I'll never catch up if I write one of my typical, in-depth reviews for each scent. To facilitate my schedule and save some time, I'm going to write the shortest reviews that someone with my OCD can manage, and skip sharing official company fragrance descriptions, other people's perspectives, or arduously looking up retail links all around the world. However, I'll provide note lists, pricing information, and links to Fragrantica and a few shops at the end in case you wish to pursue things further.
Parfum Satori's Satori via Luckyscent.
Luckyscent note list: Bergamot, coriander, cinnamon, clove, cacao, vanilla, frankincense, sandalwood, oak moss, agarwood (oud).
Satori opens with an absolutely wonderful recreation of the scent of top-notch Earl Grey tea, thanks to a beautifully fragrant, aromatic bergamot that's layered with an almost tea-like smoky blackness from the frankincense. A light dusting of equally fragrant, slightly lemony coriander lies on top, while a thin trickle of silky smooth vanillic sweetness runs through the base underneath.
Satori shifts quite quickly. Roughly 15 minutes in, specks of a peppery oud and a ghostly suggestion of oakmoss join the party. Inch by inch, moment by moment, the woods grow in prominence until, suddenly, about 40 minutes in, Satori transforms into a soft, lightly spiced woody fragrance cocooned within a wonderful cloud of smoky "Earl Grey tea"/incense and fragrant coriander. The woods consist mostly of a clean, very peppery, Western style, synthetic (but not screechy) oud layered with clean, soft, minimally spiced beige sandalwood. Parts of it are very nice, but I don't like the pepperiness or the slightly scratchy quality of one of the woods.
However, the Earl Grey recreation or bergamot-incense accord is absolutely fantastic. I'm not a tea drinker but, when I do indulge, it's always Earl Grey and the sole reason why is that beautiful combination of fragrant bergamot and smoky black tea. In my experience, that particular Earl Grey-like aroma is uncommon in perfumery today because so many companies opt for a cheap grade of bergamot that smells either lemony, shrill, or both. Only a super expensive, top-grade bergamot has the smooth and immensely fragrant aroma found in good tea (or vintage Shalimar). And it's here in abundance. Not only is it beautiful, but I love the originality of combining it with oud and sandalwood. There aren't a lot of modern fragrances that I can think of off-hand which have a strong Earl Grey tea aroma to begin with, but I've never encountered an oud-sandalwood with it before. I'm absolutely certain of that.
I don't think the incense's tea-like smokiness is purely a coincidence, judging by a great article on The Scent of Man. It not only covers Satori, but also describes a meeting with Ms. Osawa in Tokyo, her mastery of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, Sadō, "the whole ritual of Kodō – an observance involves heating up rare pieces of aromatic timber, in particular agarwood," and the influence of both these Japanese traditions in the creation of Satori. I'll let you read the article on your own later, because it's filled with fascinating historical and cultural details in addition to insights into Satori, its notes, and its character.
Satori is pretty linear on my skin and doesn't change much except in the prominence of certain notes. After 90 minutes, the fragrance turns simpler and fractionally drier. After 2 hours, the Earl Grey bergamot becomes a ghost that pops up only occasionally in the background. The drydown begins around the 4th hour and consists primarily of a clean but slightly peppery oud-sandalwood combination that is smudged lightly at the edges with incense smoke and heavily muted flickers of abstract spiciness. Once in a blue moon, the "Earl Grey" note reappears, but it's rare. In Satori's final moments, all that's left is simple woodiness that has a nebulous sandalwood-ish vibe to it.
Satori has soft projection, discreet sillage, and average longevity. Using several smears equal to roughly 2 small sprays from a bottle, the opening projection was about 2 inches while the sillage was around 3 inches, maybe 4 at best. Satori turns into a skin scent after 3 hours, although it's easy to detect up close until the 4th hour. In total, it lasted just a bit over 7.75 hours.
In its opening hours, Satori is a soft, smooth, but diaphanous bouquet that reminds me of a watercolour done in the most translucent of hues. The Japanese are not known for their love of heavy, dense, and powerful fragrances, nor scent trails that might be considered intrusive in someone else's personal space. (See my post on Japanese and Chinese fragrance culture for more details.) So, it came as no surprise to me that Satori was a low projecting, discreet scent with gossamer lightness, body, and weight.
What was a delightful surprise, however, was the clearly meticulous precision and care which have been taken to ensure that everything works together in harmony and that no single note stands out like a sore thumb. The spices are light, the smoke is light, the woods are clean; nothing is rancorous, and everything is "just so." It's as though Satori had been constructed like one of the Japan's famous Zen gardens, with an emphasis on precision, balance, elegant purity, and seamless integration. It may not be my personal style of perfumery in its discreetness, but the scent is highly refined, tasteful, interesting, and, in my opinion, demonstrates a masterful technical ability.
Relevant details/links: $175 or €179 for 50 ml EDP, Satori, Luckyscent, the NL's Annindriya, Fragrantica, and The Scent of Man.
Satori Hana Hiraku via Luckyscent.
Luckyscent note list: Melon, bergamot, galbanum, magnolia, iris, jasmine, tuberose, rose, ylang ylang, chamomile, miso [fermented bean paste], kogashi-shoyu [organic soy sauce], beeswax, sandalwood, cedarwood.
Hana Hiraku opens with fresh cantaloupe melon that is so creamy, it feels like ice-cream. However, this "ice-cream" has salty tonalities mixed in as well. It's the scent of miso paste: a fermented, nebulously bean-like, umami saltiness that is quite savory, almost brothy in an odd way. I realise that many of these descriptions might sound unappealing, but it's really the only way to describe the miso's umami-like quality and aroma here. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the word "umami," Wikipedia succinctly defines it as: "one of the five basic tastes (together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness). It has been described as brothy or meaty." In Hana Hiraku, the note appears like a quiet, muted saltiness that has an even more muted subtext of brothy, vaguely beefy or bean-like earthiness buried within.
On paper, it sounds like the most bizarre thing imaginable to pair with melon ice-cream and, yet, it somehow works. The subtlety of the note is one reason why, but another is that salty and sweet elements have often gone together. I should add, however, that the umami saltiness only appeared in a truly noticeable, substantial way in the opening when I applied a generous quantity of scent (several smears equal to roughly 2 and half sprays from a bottle) and, even then, it was short-lived in duration, perhaps 30 minutes at most. With a smaller fragrance application (roughly the equivalent of 2 tiny sprays), the salty-savory miso was merely a ghostly suggestion in the background that was noticeable only if I sniffed my arm up close, and even that didn't last for long.
Other elements are equally subtle. Buried within the melon are insubstantial flickers of lemon bergamot and lemony magnolia. Neither lasted more than a few minutes at most because the unquestionable focus of the opening is a cool, summery, light and sweet fruitiness that is liquidy fresh but also extremely creamy. I happen to love melon notes, even more when they skew towards the green honeydew variety as Hana Hiraku quickly does here, so I thought the opening was delightful.
Hana Hiraku changes direction roughly 1.75 hours in when the melon ice-cream gives way to a floral bouquet dominated by magnolia. The flowers are creamy, no doubt thanks to the lingering effect of the melon, but they also feel as light as a feather. According to a review on The Scent of Man, Hana Hiraku is built around several different species of Japanese magnolia and, according to Ms. Osawa's fragrance description on her website, special care was taken to use floral absolutes and essences as well.
The result is not only one of the most authentic magnolia aromas I've encountered in perfumery, but also the very best. This is magnolia that is on a completely different planet than the wispy, completely anemic, practically indecipherable (and, in my opinion, synthetic-smelling "magnolia" that Frederic Malle featured in his Eau de Magnolia with its highfalutin' claims of "head space" technology. This is a magnolia aroma that feels as real and as solid as if I were to touch the creamy petals of the flower in person. It's truly beautiful.
Its contours are shaded in with other elements, each chosen carefully for the way in which they can accentuate the magnolia's innate characteristics without ever detracting attention from the star of the show. Lingering vestiges of melon exist merely to indirectly underscore the flower's innate creaminess, but they're quite elusive in their own right. Tiny wisps of a diaphanous, completely fresh, and occasionally liquidy floral greenness float all around, but they never translate or read as "tuberose." Insubstantial, elusive, and brief flickers of honeyed sweetness and citrusy freshness appear every now and then to underscore those same parts in the magnolia.
Hana Hiraku contains notes completely unrelated in scent to the magnolia, but most of them are so ephemeral that, to all intents and purposes, they might as well not exist. Once in a blue moon, I detect faint pops of rose, iris, honeyed jasmine, and something woody — each occurring at different times, each microscopic and elusive, appearing for mere instants before disappearing. The miso and/or soy reappears at this stage, but it feels even more insubstantial than before; it's like a soft sigh that casts a breath of umami-style beef broth saltiness every now and then upon the creamy, lightly honeyed, fresh, citrusy magnolia petals. Again, I realise that some of you will be put off by the oddity of that description, but it actually works on my skin, no matter how unusual and difficult to describe it may be. According to the Scent of a Man post, Hana Hiraku is the first fragrance to ever include miso and soy sauce, but Ms. Osawa was careful to ensure it's just a hint, and that care shows, so don't think that you're going to be wafting soy sauce at work. Like everything in Hana Hiraku and like so many of the notes in Satori, it's merely a watercolour vapor.
Roughly 3.5 hours in, Hana Hiraku changes course. The sandalwood rises from the base, adding a quiet spiciness and a woodier sort of creaminess to the floral bouquet. Soft breaths of cedar, chamomile, lemon, honeyed jasmine, and miso/soy saltiness lick the edges. The cumulative effect is a sort of "matte" effect, as Parfum Satori writes on its website, as though the magnolia were seen through a sepia-tinted matte filter created from woodier elements. Hana Hiraku remains as a magnolia-sandalwood duet for about 60-75 minutes, then turns into a lemony, honeyed magnolia with only small slivers of soft, white woodiness buried within. Eventually, in its final hours, all that's left is a simple citrusy sweetness on my skin.
Hana Hiraku's sillage was slightly stronger than Satori on my skin, but it had the same soft projection, and roughly similar longevity. With several generous smears equal to somewhere between 2 to 2.5 good sprays from a bottle, the fragrance opened with about 3 inches of projection and about 4-5 inches of sillage. It was a weightless, airy cloud but strong in scent up close. The sillage remained that way for about 2 hours, before slowly dropping. Hana Hiraku turned into a skin scent on me after 4 hours, but wasn't difficult to detect up close if I put my nose on my skin until the end of the 6th hour. In total, it lasted just a hair over 7.25 hours.
I really liked Hana Hiraku. It was not only interesting, original, and imaginative, but it was also fun, easy to wear, and smelled great. I wore it one day to lunch with my parents, and my mother did quite a head-turn upon smelling the magnolia heart. As she put it, "you know I don't really like most modern fragrances, but that one is really good and has something about it." It does. While I think Hana Hiraku will be too floral for most men, I can think of several male readers who would love this one passionately along with any female readers who love magnolia fragrances, creamy floral orientals, or airy, delicate, creamy fruity florals.
Satori Iris Homme via Luckyscent.
Luckyscent note list: Lemon, cardamom, orange flower, iris, violet, jasmine, amber, sandalwood, light musk.
Iris Homme opens as a brisk, fresh, citrusy floral centered on cool, stony, very rooty iris coated in crisp, chilled lemon and the white pith of its inner rind. Framing them on all sides is a grassy green violet that smells like a mix of woody wild violets and a whole lot of citrusy, very peppery violet leaf.
A few other elements follow suit, although they are muted, occasionally stay on the sidelines, or sometimes act as mere ghostly whispers. At first, there is cardamom, smelling aromatic, faintly earthy, and slightly woody. It is quickly overshadowed by a woody note that smells far more like crisp, aromatic green cedar and cedar wood shavings than the sandalwood listed in the notes. Roughly 10 minutes in, the cedary woodiness is joined by a woody orange that resembles petitgrain far, far more than it does any actual orange blossom or flower. Finishing things off is clean musk, a delicate touch at first, although it gradually grows in prominence.
When taken as a whole, Iris Homme's central bouquet after 10 minutes is primarily a woody rooty iris that is infused with brisk, chilled, cologne-style, lemony citrus and its white pith, then with lesser amounts of peppery violet leaf, aromatic cedar-like woodiness, aromatic citrus and petitgrain-style woodiness, a minute touch of violet leaf, and some white musk.
The fragrance doesn't change in any significant way beyond this during its first two hours, fluctuating only in the strength and prominence of its notes. Roughly 50 minutes in, peppery faux sandalwood joins the citrus and iris on center stage, the clean musk grows in strength, and the faint, heavily muted wisps of violet flower and spice depart for the distant background, virtually unnoticeable unless I really sniff my arm hard up close and concentrate.
I feel as though I'm wearing a flanker to Dior Homme, except this is more muted, restrained, quieter, crisper, cooler, and unsweetened, so perhaps one of Prada's Infusion d'Iris fragrances mixed with MPG's Iris Bleu Gris might be a better comparison. Most of all, though, I'm continuously reminded of Terre d'Hermes. It's not merely the way Iris Homme's lemony white pith resembles Terre d'Hermes' grapefruit note, but also the immense aromatic freshness, the cedar-like element, the pepperiness of the woods, and the airiness of the citrus-iris accord. There may be minimal spiciness in Satori's Iris Homme but, on my skin, it bears major, major Ellena/Terre d'Hermes aesthetic vibes and similarities nonetheless.
Like many Ellena creations, Iris Homme basically dissolves in structure and turns abstract as it develops. Roughly 1.5 hours into its development, the scent turns into a hazy floral woody musk centered on an amorphous, rather impressionistic rooty iris enveloped within a cloud of laundry detergent cleanness that has aromatic citrus freshness and generic white woods subsumed within. By the end of the third hour, Iris Homme is a simple aromatic, citrusy white musk cleanness with nebulous hints of a vaguely iris-like floralcy buried within. The latter grows increasingly elusive. In its final hours, all that's left of Iris Homme is powdery laundry cleanness with a vague citrus freshness about it.
Iris Homme's longevity, sillage, and projection were greater than the two other Satori fragrances, but average when taken as a whole. The opening projection was about 3 inches, the scent trail at about 5-6 inches. Iris Homme turned into a skin scent after 3.25 hours. It lasted just under 10.5 hours, but I suspect that duration is due in large part to the way my skin holds onto any fragrance with a large amount of white musk.
I'll be blunt, I found Iris Homme extremely disappointing after the original, interesting, and creative touches of the other two fragrances. To me, it basically smells like a Dior Homme flanker if it had been constructed by Jean-Claude Ellena with his minimalist, impressionistic style and if it had a big slug of Terre d'Hermes' aromatic freshness and crispness tossed in instead of any sweetness. The scent profile is not only immensely Western in its notes and feel, but it's also a designer, not niche, aesthetic and it has been done boundless times before.
Dior Homme EDT via Amazon.
That does not change the fact, however, that the scent profile has been done before, repeatedly, and particularly within the designer genre that one can find in any mall or department store. And, with all due respect, I fail to understand how something can be a "masterpiece" if it replicates what's been previously done by others numerous times before? After Ms. Osawa's original, very Japanese, and very creative touches in the other two fragrances, I had anticipated smelling something more imaginative than a mash-up of Terre d'Hermes with one of Dior or Prada's iris fragrances, particularly as Iris Homme costs more than any of them at $175 for a 50 ml bottle.
I may be unimpressed, but men who love cool, crisp, bracingly fresh, discreet, and extremely clean iris woody musks are bound to love Satori's Iris Homme, and they should definitely try it.
I briefly tried Wasabon and was disappointed here as well. According to Luckyscent, Wasabon's notes are: Lemon, muscat, mimosa, muguet, almond, sugar, honey, vanilla, iris, guaiacwood.
Reading that list, I anticipated a different fragrance than what appeared on my skin. Wasabon opens on me smelling of sugared white musk, white sugar, vanilla sugar, and cotton (like an actual cotton t-shirt pulled straight from the drier), flecked by tiny specks of clean woody musk, lemon, and something a little bit spicy (almost like fresh ginger but not quite). All of this is then suffused within a powerful cloud of laundry cleanness. From afar, Wasabon smelled entirely like a fresh cotton t-shirt, sugared cotton candy, actual granulated white sugar, and Bounce laundry dryer sheets with a whisper of abstract woodiness lurking deep below.
I really don't know what I hated more: the immense sugariness or the immense laundry cleanness. The combination of the two together sent me reeling, and I'm not being hyperbolic; I physically recoiled and jerked back from my arm upon my first sniff. I tried to last as long as I could, but I scrubbed Wasabon off after 30 minutes.
You might be surprised to learn that Wasabon's scent profile is as much Japanese as it is Western. There are two reasons why. First, according to The Scent of Man, "Wasanbon is a type of traditional Japanese sweets that usually comes in a light golden colour setting, whose sugar granules which are made from sugarcane plants are as fine as icing sugar." Second, the Japanese seem to love smelling of laundry cleanness. In my piece on Japanese fragrance culture, markets, and sales, you'll see that many people prefer the discreet scented invisibility and aroma of fabric softeners in lieu of actual perfume. Sure, I'm not Japanese or in Japan, but there are actual Japanese statistics, figures, and articles referenced in my piece, so I don't think it's purely my outsider's "Western" perception of the taste preferences of a certain segment of the market.
Yet, there is no doubt that their taste for clean, white musk with a laundry freshness also mirrors Western tastes when combined with gourmand elements and sugared vanilla. I kept thinking of Prada's Candy line, specifically the one with an emphasis on cotton and clean musk, Prada Candy Kiss. If Candy Kiss and Aquolina's Pink Sugar had a love child, the result would probably be a lot like Wasabon. In all honesty, until I read that the fragrance referenced Japanese sweets by the same name, I thought it was a deliberate attempt to replicate Western fragrances and the fresh, clean, cloyingly saccharine gourmand style that they've made so ubiquitous, popular, and cheap. They do sell well, after all.
Pink candy floss or cotton candy. Source: Favim.com.
Regardless of the fragrance's actual cultural inspiration or causation, I had hoped for something more interesting from Wasabon than sugar frosted vanilla cotton and sugar fluff covered in Bounce fabric softener dryer sheets. Who knows, maybe it would have eventually developed into something vaguely interesting if I had left it on, but judging by what I've read about Wasabon on Fragrantica where sugar or sugared candy references abound, I don't think so. Nevertheless, if you're a fan of immensely sugary, girlie fragrances centered on sugary musk cleanness, cotton candy, and cotton taken straight out of the dryer, then Wasabon has your name all over its bottle.
As you've gathered, the fragrances were a mixed bag for me. I found the two strongly Japanese or "oriental" style fragrances to be interesting, different, highly original (salty, umami miso and melon!), and a happy surprise. They also exemplified a real technical mastery. Plus, they had some really knock-out elements to them. I absolutely loved the Kodo-incense-Earl Grey tea part of Satori, but I was also impressed with Hana Hiraku's magnolia heart because its olfactory authenticity, depth, and quality are rare in Western perfumery. Since I'm one of those weirdos who also love melon notes, I've thought about buying a bottle for myself but, between high vet bills and discreet/soft fragrances not being my personal style, I've held back for now.
The Satori fragrances with a more Western-style scent profile were a slightly different story for me. There are simply too many things like them here already, particularly in mainstream perfumery. They don't stand out, in my opinion, and they aren't interesting enough for the niche price.
Out of the two, however, I think Iris Homme is bound to win the most fans. I can see a number of male readers enjoying that one. With regard to Wasabon, it will undoubtedly appeal to a female gourmand lover who is either more… youthful (I'm trying very hard not to say "prepubescent") or who adores super-sweet cleanness and fluffy pink candy notes. Whether or not they will be inspired to fork over $175/€179 for a mere 50 ml of a scent profile that is easily found elsewhere for a significantly lower price is a different matter entirely.
All in all, I found it really interesting to explore Japanese niche perfumery. Westerners only really know Shiseido, but I don't think that can really be classified as "niche" given the size of the company and the fact that its roots lie in cosmetics, not perfumery. It is basically more of a designer brand, similar to something like Tom Ford perhaps. Parfum Satori, in contrast, is a truly niche perfume house. When it employs Japanese olfactory elements to go along with its Japanese aesthetic, the results are fascinating and well worth exploring. I hope a few of you will do so.
Disclosure: My samples were kindly provided by Luckyscent. That did not impact this review. I do not do paid reviews, and my opinions are my own.
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I'm so happy to read about Hana Hiraku! I've been searching for a Japanese magnolia scent, as opposed to the commonly used Southern magnolia grandiflora, and this may be it. Like you, I was quite disappointed with FM's Eau de Magnolia. Must order a sample of Hana Hiraku asap. Thank you!
Yayyy for you possibly finding the magnolia fragrance that you've been searching for, and fingers crossed that Hana Hiraku ends up being a new love for you. I hope your location permits you to get a sample easily and quickly. I really wish the line were sold in more places in Europe, Oceania, and N. America, but at least Luckyscent ships worldwide.
I'm in the US so should be able to order a sample! I love your reviews, btw, and have learned so much from them.
You should try Di Ser, fantastic!
Thank you for the tip. I will keep it in mind if the fragrance ever comes to America. 🙂 For now, there are only these 4 available here.
Ah, thank you for the clarification.
Even in bref these are such insightful reviews. Thank you!
I tried Satori and Iris Homme a while ago.
I enjoyed Satori a lot, really lovely, but somewhat sheer. I fulfill my incense cravings with Sultan Pasha Attars at the moment (Those are more to my taste).
Iris Homme i tried from a tiny dabber vial and I suspect it impacted the performance hugely (not in a good way). I was in love with the first 45 minutes (the cardamom – iris combo is gorgeous and thankfully my skin amped up the cardemom).
Too bad, it could have been a nice 'office friendly' scent, but with a development and performance like this, at this price point…..
Still would love to try other iris-cardamom combos… I really like the first 30 minutes of Dior Homme but i get no cardamom, and my skin amps up all the sweetness in it to an annoying level.
Thank you Kafkaesque. I love Earl Grey tea, so I'll give Satori a try; hopefully I'll get enough sillage and longevity to keep me company. Hana Hiraku also sounds like something I would like. The only fragrance I have with a magnolia note listed is Tom Ford's Venetian Bergamot, but it's a favorite of mine. Iris and overly sweet really don't work for me, so I'll steer clear of the other two.
I stumbled across your blog before my trip to Tokyo and decided to go to Parfum Satori as a result. It's a shame the scents aren't more available in the US, since there's quite a few scents that aren't sold here, like Oribe—a pure green tea—that was so green and unique. Thanks for sharing!


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