Now that the New York Times has issued its hypothetical censure over the perfume-swag semi-scandal involving freelance fragrance writer Chandler Burr, we can all rest easy and luxuriate in the savory service Burr provides.

Picked fresh from The List section of the September issue of Radar, we offer up after the jump a sampling of redolent excerpts from recent reviews by the New York Times perfume critic.

YSL "In Love Again"
"A star from a 1959 Technicolor film. The juice is backlit carbon arcs of kleig lights, powered with the scent of the gaffer's white-hot tungsten-halogen filaments."

Versace "Dreamer"
"[A] hint of ice cream, gunpowder, star fruit, hot cocoa, and blood-orange peel crushed on wet rock."

Jo Malone"Pomegranate Noir"
"Like a box of truffles with the lid on, sweet bits of darkness, waiting."

Marc Jacobs "Ivy"
"Has the slightly alarming, mossy, humid, almost poisonous green odor of a hyperrealist photo by Mapplethorpe."

"L'Instant" de Guerlain
"Exquisite blossoms in sunlight passing through space-age glass."

Escada "Sunset Heat for Men"
"This thing explodes out of the bottle like Jamba Juice. I like that