A simple game:
1. Name a place you've never been but you'd like to go on vacation.
2. Name a perfume you have never smelled, but that you think might be perfect for your trip.
Mine:
I'm off to Budapest with Frapin 1697.
Note: image is Budapest - Fisherman's Bastion - Parliament by Harshil.Shah at flickr; some rights reserved.
Morocco. Tauer’s Une Rose Chyrpee.
Ooh, number one. Heh. 🙂
And great choices, too, fumemad!
🙂 Never has a poll question been so easily answered. Now getting there…
Ireland. New Chanel Jersey – I know nothing about it, just want to try it!
Excited to try this one, too!
Jordan with Odin’s Petrana.
Perfect match!
I am packing for Rio with no perfume in my luggage. No artificial fragrances there to experience the city’s beauty to the max.
MOS, I just checked out your blog; I especially enjoyed your MPG Route de Vetiver old and new post.
Every now and then rickbr and others mention interesting Brazilian fragrances from O Boticario and others. Hope you’ll try some and report back!
Thanks for the thumbs up.
I have heard of O Boticario but I haven’t been able to come across a sample.
I took a peek, too. Very nice! It’s awesome that you were able to get the older MPG tester with the juice you fell in love with. I was rummaging around perfume dept. at Saks and found an old tester of Dioressence, at least couple of reformulations back, which had been stuck in the back of a drawer and then forgotten. It was about 85% full with a cap but no box and I had to pay regular price for it so it wasn’t exactly a fabulous Angela/Miss Kitty type find but I was really happy to get it.
It is so nice to reunite with fragrances from the past. Almost like old friends.
Robin, welcome any time, I’ll show you around 🙂
Perfect!
Manguier Metisse by Huitieme Art. It just sounds so good that I kind of don’t care where I go, just somewhere vaguely compatible with mango and frangipani. (The only place I’m going any time soon is Vegas, so maybe I need to try this and see if I like it enough to buy for the trip…)
Vegas has turned into a great perfume shopping city, so you needn’t bring any!
Anywhere I should know about?
I think you’ll run into everything. I do like the Acca Kappa store (in the Venetian) for scented soaps. And there’s a Guerlain boutique, and every other swanky high end boutique. And a nice mall with a department store, can’t remember which, but it had a nice perfume department.
Norway, chanel’s cuir de russie…
Nice.
Oh my gosh – what fun.
Quebec City with Portrait of a Lady.
I like this one — AND I might be going to Quebec city this summer!
Great Anns, er, I mean, minds think alike! Good luck if you go. You must report back!
Quebec was on my short list!
😉 All the swapmania emails must have melded our minds together today!
Mine, too! It sounds like a dream right now in this heat, eh?
And thank you – I did get the sample of Un Lys. 🙂 The Dinners are playing at Tycoon Flats tonight. Are you going?
You are welcome! We will have to have a perfume date one o’ these days. I would love to have seen them at TF- but I am home takin’ it easy 🙂
fresh out of trips to Budapest, but I can help with the Frapin 1697 ….if that darn Serge Lutens ever becomes available I’ll send a sample with your split. 🙂
Hey, do you like the Frapin? Boy, I heard very little about it at all, it seemed to just disappear.
I’m terrible at describing. It reminds me a little of Lubin Idole –that boozy aspect. And some musky/tangy wood notes even a touch of cocoa …it’s different… tipping a bit more toward the masculine end of the spectrum than I usually favor.
You are right; it showed up then disappeared very quickly. But somethings generate a lot of buzz and others don’t.
That helps, thanks!
I’d love to visit Florence, and I’ve been wanting to try some Santa Maria Novellas — so, I’ll imagine being there wearing Angels of Florence! 🙂
Yes! I was in Florence, but didn’t make to the store so need to go back 🙂
The next city on my list is Barcelona. I’d need something that would harmonize with the mysterious layers of history of the Mediterranean coast (the name Barcelona is Phoenician in origin) and the original beauty of Gaudí. I’d take whatever comes out next from either Duchaufour or Sandrine Videault.
Robin, I also love your choice of Budapest and Frapin 1697 – that would be perfect for early fall!
Oh, Barcelona is on my list as well. A friend is going next month and I am soooooooooo envious.
Oh – Barcelona! You must watch the movie “Biutiful” w/ Javier Barden, and then to cheer yourself up afterward, watch “Vicki Christina Barcelona”… also with Mr. Bardem. Barcelona is an amazing background for each of these very different movies. My husband and I talk about going there someday…
Barcelona is wonderful! there is (was? i went five yrs ago) a museum of perfumes, a tiny one crammed with perfume bottles. a bit of aladin’s cave for perfume freaks.
Now that you mention it, I think there are pictures of it on Grain de Musc! That would be fascinating to see (and at the same time terribly tantalizing).
Exactly! And I’ve never been to Barcelona either.
Italy….a.n.y.w.h.e.r.e. in Italy….and I don’t need to select a perfume because me and my credit cards –we’d take a weekend trip up to Germany and wallow around in First in Fragrance until both myself and my bank account are exhausted. 🙂
Wow – that sounds like a shopping trip that would inspire a Homeric ode! 😉
the abbreviated version….I haven’t 10 years to spend on a trip to First in Fragrance….but on the other hand, when the CEO sees the credit card statements I can claim to have been ensorcelled ….and possibly turned into a pig….a perfume-pig….. *oink*
Zeus made you do it, LOL! 🙂
😀
You just couldn’t pick one because it has to be something you’ve never smelled before! 😛
you’re too damn smart! 😉
She IS smart, and she knows you too darned well, Daisy. 🙂
😉
Can I come and carry your bags? I say Lago di Garda after you’re in finished shopping Germany. You can’t go wrong with the lakes.
absolutely! we’re clearly going to need those large luggage pieces with wheels….I hope no one notices that I’m wearing the same outfit everyday…who has room for clothes?
When you were at first-in-fragrance, you both come over to me, we drink a coffee, you can wash your clothes 😉 , and then you go on to your next stop.
it’s good to have accomplices! thanks! 😉
I want to go to Macchu Picchu and hike the Inca Trail…but not really sure what I would take..it would have to be something otherworldly..
Great choice! Memo Manoa is supposed to be inspired by the Incas, and it’s an interesting scent (see March’s review on Perfume Posse). Also, OJ Champaca would be nice for that high altitude jungle environment.
I remember March’s review..It sounded great,….I really can’t wait to see Machu Picchu…I read the book the Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie and it was fascinating. I don’t know how I am going to afford to go with all my perfume/sample buying 😉
something greenish, airy….high mountain altitude-ish….Tibetan Mountain Temple? (wrong mountains…but still mountains!) maybe Shaal Nur….that seems mountainous to me…
I just read Robin’s review…WOW…it sounds perfect…I have to get a sample …thanks..Daisy..
sample of what??
Shaal Nur.
I happen to be splitting some right now! I’m pretty sure I have your address in my file…I’m happy to send a sample 🙂
You’re Tara M. yes? Daisyloo82 AT gmail dot com
Thanks Daisy…you are awesome!!
Dzongkha has an otherworldly vibe, so it might work.
Is Dzongkha the smokey one or Timbuktu? I can never remember so I shy away from both because as I recall which is which. I know I really didn’t like the smokey one..
I’d love to go there! Gotta watch out for altitude sickness, though!
Japan, with Comme des Garcons Hinoki.
Nice. I do love that Hinoki.
A tour of Italy in Annick Goutal Mon Parfum Cheri, par Camille – the fragrance doesn’t come out until September.
What is this Goutal? I am intrigued! I’ve not heard of this. Thanks for the tip.
https://nstperfume.com/2011/05/12/annick-goutal-mon-parfum-cheri-new-fragrance/
Oh, I guess I did, and then I forgot. I have perfumista short term memory, lol. It’s a good thing you are here to inform us and then remind us. 😉
It’s a good thing for me that it’s all written down. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed up & formatted a new fragrance announcement, then realized I’d already announced that scent. LOL!
The Jersey Shore, and I’d wear Bobbi Brown’s Beach fragrance, a lightly intoxicating blend of sand jasmine, sea spray, and mandarin.
Raymond, that sounds delightful! I’ve thought PG Bois Naufrage would be a good one for the beach, too.
Raymond, you would love the Jersey Shore, but you may want to pack some Pink Sugar to go with all the taffy and cotton candy on the boardwalk…mmmm, enjoy!
We took a family trip to the Jersey Shore – chasing a runaway American dream. Now that the Big Man is gone I can only imagine L’Heure Bleue and wandering around the Circuit by myself.
Just adding a sigh in memory of The Big Man.
I am with you on the Big Man….have had the pleasure of not only hearing him live many times, but also meeting him…..a giant with a heart and talent to match.
I sort of adapted to the E Street Band without Danny but I just can’t imagine it without him there. Even when he needed a throne and a cane he was still awesome.
You want to be like him but you can’t….
RIP, CC.
#1 on my list is Wales, and the obvious choice would be Caldey Island Lavender. I’d rather wear GreenWitch, but as I’ve tried that one, it’s a cheat.
I would love to see Wales!
Me too!
Me three!
Good choice – I live in Wales and it’s glorious.
Though I wouldn’t mind visiting you in Hawaii, H!
At the risk of being too obvious…Grasse. I dream of Paris too, but I think Grasse might be more my speed and my speed these days is a bit slow. I’d wear vintage Guerlain Apres L’Ondee, because of all places I *should* be able to find some there. While I’m dreaming…I would also wake up tomorrow magically knowing how to speak French.
Grasse is obviously a great choice! 😉
Grasse…….. Yes, that would be great 😀
Go to one of your public libraries where you are and check out Mango languages, or Rosetta Stone if they have it. 😉 I wish I had good French too!
I”ve been in Grasse, you will have the local -ard-ending companies (Fragonard etc.) but I’m not sure you’ll find any vintage Guerlains.. why don’t you try anything with lavender / herbs, that would echo the surroundings?
Easy question this week! Tuscany, and like Daisy, I wouldn’t pack perfume, but would buy plenty from the Italian perfumers. Also, I don’t want to just go for a vacaion; I want to spend like six months living there, immersed in the culture.
YES!!!!! 🙂
Eat, pray, sniff? Sounds like fun tho!
nice!
You got it! lol! 😀
I would love to visit a shop that carried all the i Profumo di Firenze line. I’d love to smell them but I’ve never wanted to invest in all the samples. Sigh*
That would be a dream!
This is a little like Professor Plum in the library with a candlestick. Im going with Copenhagen and Vent Vert, for some reason.
I like that pairing.
Madeira, Portugal or Barcelona – I just can’t decide. And while Morocco would be the obvious choice for this, I’d bring Ava Luxe Moroccan Mint Tea. Sounds like it would be perfect and refreshing for traveling.
You’ve got a point, odonata. I would tend to mentally associate incense or leather with Morocco (like Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain or various SLs), but travel often needs light and refreshing.
Great game! I’d go to Denmark with Portrait of a Lady.
Must share – am so excited. Just came back from the Chanel store in Amsterdam. First visit to a Chanel store anywhere. The SAs were charming and I was surprised at my pick – Beige! I loooove it. Having a big birthday so that’s my present to myself.
Yay! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! and congratulations on your new fabulous bottle of Beige! 🙂
STILL haven’t tried Beige and have been wanting to forever! Congrats & Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday! or while you were in Amsterdam: Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!
Happy Birthday! Congrats – what a great way to celebrate with a trip to the boutique.
Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes!
many happy return of the day sunsetsong 🙂
Another Happy Birthday to you! ….. and did you buy the BIG bottle?
I’m going to the South of France (staying in Avignon) in August and I think I’ll take Passage d’Enfer. I like its coolness for summer and it will fit well with the gothic buildings!
You are so lucky….How about CdG Avignon?
Don’t know how I didn’t think of that one … duh! Of course that one would be perfect (and I love it)!
Lucky duck- Have lots of fun!
Thanks, Ann!
Jealous!
Katmandu with Shalimar extrait. Wonder if everything smells different at 20,000 feet?
That’s an interesting point. Liquids evaporate faster at higher elevations. I would expect that the change in evaporation rates would affect the balance of the notes. Also, since there are far fewer living organisms at such high altitudes (no trees, for example), I would think there would be fewer natural smells in the air, which could alter your perception of your perfume. Can anyone here comment of this point? If you have had the opportunity to compare the smell of a given perfume at both low and high altitudes, did it differ, and if so, how?
I don’t remember noticing any differences in how things smelled at 8,000 feet, in terms of the same perfume smelling different that at a lower altitude. Nonetheless, the super-dryness of the thin air was hard on the nose, the way artificially heated winter air is. I guess the effect is somewhat like that of winter – the kinds of scents one enjoys in hot, humid day would be too light.
Nice! I turned 20 in Kathmandu many years ago on a cold December night warming my feet by the fire at the Rum Doodle. Shalimar Extrait would have made it even more perfect.
Oh, nice!
I would have my magic carpet fly me to Sardinia and my genie conjure up a bottle of L’A Fleur de Narcisse.
and L’artisan website has some stuff on sale…fyi- Tea for Two and Drole de Rose are $57….
Nice. I used up my sample of Bois Farine and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve decided it is FBW.
I am sure I sampled it several years ago in Chicago- but I was like a kid in a candy store and overtired my nose to the point that I don’t remember it. How was it in the heat?
It is great and I like it in the heat, but I like just about everything all the time and went to bed last night wearing the very Christmasy Ambre Narguile.
I think Bois Farine has more in common with the dry desert wind/hot spice type fragrances from SL and Tauer than it does a heady gourmand. It isn’t a “bread hologram” or doughy on me, but rather an almond-y, papery/old book kind of inedible vanilla perfectly balanced with warm spices and powdery woods. It is a sheer but substantial composition that melts down to a skin scent that lasts for hours on me but isn’t a white musk. Another fave from JC Ellena. I didn’t care for it much the first few times I tried it a couple of years ago but now it is true love.
It is also one of those fragrances that make me wonder if I think it’s the bee’s knees but people around me think I smell like peanut butter and curry. Which isn’t a bad thing I suppose but it smells like a beautiful perfume not a good peanut sauce. Now I’m hungry for satay and roti canai from the pink tablecloth stalls in Kuala Lumpur. And chili crab.
I’d go to Stockholm and try La Tulipe, and then to St. Petersburg wearimg La Blanche carrying No. 5 perfum and Juilette Has a Gun as backup in case I run into trouble.
Ah – good choices. I was just thinking “Stockholm” too before I read your post. My sister went there in August years ago and said how awesome it was. I was thinking what would I wear? I think you nailed it. Nice fantasy trip.
Sweden. I would take Amouage Honour Woman.
I’m looking forward to smelling that one too.
San Antonio, TX. But what to wear? Not Lonestar Memories!
lol- I recommend you visit us in SA in the fall or spring….right now you need to pack a refreshing cologne to combat the heat!
Yes! I’m in SA, too.
I lived in San Antonio when I was in grad school, and I enjoyed it. I found plenty of diversions to occupy me, even on my next-to-nonexistent grad student budget. If you do need some refreshment during the heat, besides eau de cologne, let me recommend the Japanese Tea Garden, which is absolutely stunning. It was constructed in an old rock quarry, and includes a really lovely waterfall. Oh, and BTW, it is free. Free is good!
Thanks for the advice, helenviolette and 50_Roses!
Oh yes- I heartily recommend a visit to our wonderful city. Other great attractions: Mission Trails, Riverwalk, La Villita, the San Antonio Zoo and the Tower of the Americas. Great Tex-Mex food and plenty of outdoor activities are close by. If you have time, day trips to Gruene and Fredericksburg offer even more food and fun. Also- one of the Antique Rose Emporiums (that have been posted about here) is at the north end of the city. A great time to come is in April- when the weather is warm but not scorching and the whole city celebrates Fiesta (and has a two week party- a lot like Mardi Gras).
This sounds great, Helenviolette. Thanks.
The theme perfumes of my trip would be Parfum d’Empire Cuir Ottoman and Ambre Russe. I visited the USSR in 1987 and I want to travel through eastern Europe to China by train. In my own private car – the Orient Express of my dreams with polished wood paneling, deep velvet seats, and sweeping views on both sides. Of course Shalimar would be tucked away in my leather steamer, but I think Epic Woman best captures the essence of my fantasy trip.
Wow. That sounds like a great trip. great smelling too!
sounds fantastic Julia!
Gah – I missed that it is supposed to be something we haven’t smelled before. I think an attar of rose and spices picked up along the way ~ maybe something blended just for me.
I only recently tried MFK Cologne pour le Soir but it is along those lines and I love it. I get mostly a honeyed rose with a hint of incense and spices. I don’t find it overpowering down here in the heat – it is more fresh and cologne-y than it is attar-like. I’ve tried the absolute but the big whopping dose of cumin almost killed me.
I’ll take a trip to Austria (with a stop-over in Chicago, Canada, and Denmark), and pack Xerjoff Oesel! 🙂
Friends just came back from a 4 months trip to Austria. It was great.
Yeah well, it was a long day and I should go to bed now. There were in Australia and not in Austria. Sorry………
I have been to Austria, but not to Australia. In Salzburg, I got a T-shirt that has a picture of a kangaroo inside the circle-with-a-diagonal-line symbol, with the words: “There are no kangaroos in Austria”
ROTFL! 😉
Don’t laugh at me, please… .. 😉
I’m going to totally cheat and recommend that you also pack a sample of MDCI Enlevement au Serail for Vienna, the city of Mozart! 🙂
Will do! 😉
Iceland; Vol de Nuit.
Yes!
Dublin Angeliques sou le pluie. Just because..
For some reason, that does seem like a good pairing. I don’t know why either.
OK, I am finding this difficult. No. 1 is easy, maybe too easy. There are lots of places I would like to visit. No. 2 is hard, mostly because my track record with predicting which scents I will like is not so good. Lots of things I expected to love I have not. Therefore, I will go with Hawaii and Bronze Goddess.
I had the same problem. Plus I’ve been so busy that I’m far, FAR behind in the perfume world (I mean, more than usual). But as I’d like to travel many places, but have only managed Ottawa and Montreal, outside the US…. #1 is easy. 🙂
I’ve not been to many places outside the U.S. myself, but I also haven’t been to all of the U.S. either. One of my goals in life is to visit all 50 states–so far I have made it to 29, and getting to the other 21 is at the top of my travel priorities. Of the 21 I haven’t been to, the one I am most anxious to visit is Hawaii, so that was my choice for #1. Besides, I figured that if I made a bad perfume choice for a trip to Hawaii, it would be OK because at least I would be in Hawaii!
You’re 10 ahead of me, I think, unless I miscounted.
Oh so many places I want to visit… given an open plane ticket I would be so torn…
Leningrad/St. Petersburg – might need two perfumes to deal with the two names: Zagorsk for Leningrad, a severe beauty that is all the more incandescent for its simplicity; for St. Petersburg something solemn, voluptuous yet ladylike and befitting fur coats and remarkable glories hidden from prying eyes for many decades… Zibeline by Weil. (Also the basenotes.net name of a dear friend with exquisite taste. Hi Zib!)
And a cop out. North Africa somewhere and a perfume that I know and love to the extent of buying a full bottle: Andy Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain. I desperately want to visit Morocco and Tunisa, but would have to take Andy’s masterpiece with me. Nothing else would do.
What a beautiful description of an amazing city.
City: Vienna
Perfume: Dior Mitzah
That would really work!
i would love to visit Istanbul, and would choose to take vintage Mitsouko, which I have never smelled, although I wear both the current edp and the perfume and think they are absolutely beautiful.
That would be perfect, Nita!
I love to travel, and when I can’t travel myself I love to hear about other people’s travel plans/dreams, so I am really interested in everyone’s ideas! I had a hip replacement last week, so it will be a little while before my next trip anywhere. I’m going to answer this poll by starting with the perfume I most want to try – Zeta. I think that I would like to wear it somewhere that makes me think of blue seas and skies and sunshine and citrus – the Greek Islands.
Hope you recover quickly, Timbit! Zeta and Greek islands is a combination I’d love to try, too!
Happy healing and dreaming, Timbit!
Thanks so much for the good wishes!
Oohh what a good game!! I love to travel and have too many choices in front of me. I am also like Daisy–head to Italy with my credit cards and buy some scents. But maybe go to Greece wearing Fresh Hesperides or something with anise that smells like ouzo…suggestions?
Etro Anice that is as intensely anisic as ouzo!
There are so many places I’d like to re-visit. But I’d love to visit the “Five Stans” – Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. I’d like a good chai tea scent, but I’ll go with CBIHP’s Russian Caravan Tea – it conjures up visions of the Silk Road for me.
Ha! My daughter learned the countries in Asia, when she was in K, using a song that mentions the 7 stans (including Pakistan and Afghanistan). It was our favorite part of the song.
Hokkaido. I’ve been to Japan (Tokyo) when I was small but my dream is to experience the Hokkaido winter, complete with hotsprings and a good kotatsu. I need to brush up on my Japanese, though. It’ll probably take awhile to get there, though. Still saving up for graduate school. Can’t think of what to take, though. Maybe that new White Pentachord by Tauer. I know I would take Wode once I get my bottle, though that won’t be soon either.
Wode was another I thought of… but I’ve smelled that one too, so it would be cheating. Sigh.
Neat choice of place to visit! Hokkaido fascinated me, when I was in Japan. Be sure to try the melon white chocolate that is the famous treat from the area. Not sure that I liked it, but wouldn’t miss the experience for the world.
I like your perfume choices. . .I’m curious to try Andy Tauer’s White as well. Wode would be a good one because it wears close to the body. I’d definitely avoid sillage monsters in Japan, even in the frozen north. Ja ne!
Well i am going to Greece in July but really don’t have a clue as to which scent would be perfect for this trip…anyone?
I haven’t been to Greece, but I think of those Eau d’Italie scents (such as Paestum Rose) as being designed for the Mediterranean. There’s a new one, Le Jardin du Poète, that was just reviewed on Grain de Musc and sounds good for summer.
I thought the same thing, unsniffed! Greece with Jardin du Poete. That *does* sound like we’re playing Clue. Now I have to imagine another trip 🙂
It’s surprising how challenging it is to match both an unseen place and unsniffed perfume – must be good for the brain! 🙂
Ladyslipper, if you haven’t seen Perfume Shrine’s latest post, go check it out. She’s posted the most beautiful pictures of Greece along with lists of “beach/vacation scents”.
Oh my! 🙂 thanks a bunch…..gone to see!
Budapest is a great choice. I went there 6 years ago, and I was impressed how over the top, how Zsa-Zsa the place was. When it came time to make the Parliament building, they held a contest and the most elaborate design won. However, they liked the other two designs also, so they made all three, right next to each other, and uesd the other two buildings for other government offices.
Here’s what the public swimming pool in one of the city parks looks like: http://vilagesegyebkatasztrofak.blogspot.com/2010/06/szechenyi-furdo.html . We didn’t have anything like that in Omaha.
Agree, Budapest has a special glamour and fairy-tale charm! I also enjoyed the Museum of Applied Arts and the beautiful park on the Margaret Island.
Nice, thanks for the link!
Difficult choices! But if it’s somewhere I’ve never been, I think I’ll have to go with London. As for a scent I’ve never smelled but which I think might suit the location – Penhaligon’s Jubilee Bouquet.
Perfect match.
Oh, London. If it were me, I’d head straight over to Liberty and douse myself with Miller Harris Rose en Noir, and then buy it.
Budapest! It is my favorite city in the world. It is a city of cathedrals–whenever I go I take Messe de Minuit. And now smelling it always takes me back there.
I want to visit St. Petersburg and would take Maroussia.
Oh, that is nice to have a scent you associate with a place.
City: New York
Fragrance: Like This!
I’ve never been to new york, but I am starting to DREAM about going there next fall . And about the perfume, I hear it smells like pumpkin so it will be fitting for the fall trip.
Now if you guys could suggest a frag that smells like chilling air and burning dried leaves to layer under that…. 🙂
L’feu d’issey light? Or maybe Hermes Eau de Merveilles?
SSS Fireside Intense might work.
Ditto on Fireside Intense, although I think that Mitsouko edp gets to the fall leaves part, but not the burning part. Vol de Nuit has a nice cool air vibe too.
CB I Hate Perfume does Burning Leaves – and you could visit their Gallery in Brooklyn. I’m sure you’ll enjoy NYC, kaos.geo!
Ditto on the CBIHP Burning Leaves!
Well I really want to go to Hamburg (and I will in December :D) and I chose Black Vetyver Café but I don’t know my reasoning.
and I also want to go to the Philippines (Manila, Quezon City & Vigan) and I chose Un Jardin Sur Le Nil because I think it’ll be light and refreshing and I don’t want to smell like food but the green mango note should make it tropics-appropriate?
I’ve heard that people are fond of dried green mangoes in the Philippines, so Un Jardin sur Nil makes sense!
Wow, great game, and I’m loving the comments! I think I’ll pick Tirrenico by Profumi del Forte, and take a cruise in the Tyrrhenian Sea with stops in Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. I’m a nut for marine fragrances and for islands!
Tirrenico is nice! I tried it last summer and I remember it as refreshing, herbal and a bit aquatic at the same time. Perfect for island hopping! Also, love the name 🙂
Helle, I have a sample. I think I’ll try it soon!
LOL, H.! Isn’t this a busman’s holiday?? 😀
I am a transplanted Texan living in Beijing, China. It’s been difficult to get certain perfumes here. I will be traveling to Scotland via Paris next month and I thought maybe Annick Goutal’s Eau de Ciel would be good for a rainy place. I have always wanted to visit Finland with maybe Humiecki and Graef Clemency? And finally another fantasy would be Cambodia, but I don’t know what to wear there. I don’t like tropical or fruity smelling perfumes, so maybe something incense, saffron, or lush, instead?
I think you’re onto something with the saffron idea – you might try SoOud Fam and L’AP Saffran Troublant.
Destination: Crete
Perfume: POTL A maze
or
Destination: Sicily
Perfume: Narcotic Venus
Witty choices, Saran!
🙂
Cambodia (it has been on my wish list for sooooo long) with Dzongka.
And then I know it has already been done but St. Petersburg on the coldest day of the year wearing L’Eau d’Hiver.
Now I just need to start saving those pennies…
Angkor Wat has been on my list forever…don’t see that I’ll ever get there.
Paris, France and the perfume id wear on my trip that ive never smelled but would love would be Chanel no’ 19 poudre.
That fits!
good question, this summer I’m going to Berlin fo the first time, what could be the ideal scent for this trip? not too sophisticated, hippy with a slightly rough edge…have to think about it
Interesting – to me Berlin is ultra cool, so something a bit hippy and rough would be a nice contrast. OJ Taif comes to mind.
well I know the OJs..your adding the coolness makes it trickier, do you mean a laid-back kind of coolness (wchich is what I imagine) or an aloof minimalist cool?
I’m thinking of stunning modern architecture, minimalist fashion, etc. Berlin is deeper than that, of course, but on every level it seems a contrast with hippy naturalism, the Age of Aquarius, etc. So I like the contrast of something completely un-ironic.
The other scent that came to mind was S-Perfume 100% Love, the light, surreally lovely chocolate rose scent, but it lacks roughness.
I really didn’t find Berlin rough…I thought it was cozy and homey.
But I was mostly in Mitte and stayed there for most of the trip.
Where I’ll be living looks very different. There are lots of trees etc.
I’m going to Berlin for a semester and trying to think of what to bring with me.
I wore Wonderwood when I was there last time but only because I liked it enough to wear it but not enough to care if the vial leaked.
I think I’ll just bring anything. I was there in the winter and everyone was dressed exactly the same but there was no real sense of style.
I bought Un Jardin sur le Nil on my first trip to Berlin, and have worn it every time I’ve been back since, so now the two are linked in my mind. It may be a strange choice – but perhaps it could fit the hippy and a bit rough description??
thanks for your ideas, people, I’ve just ordered a sample of 100% love, I do have a sample of wonderwood somewhere I haven’t really tried yet, and I’ve just realised it might be the right occasion for trying the escentric molecule range, this is going to be an interesting trip. Challenging poll, Robin!
This has been so much fun that I’m going to play again (is that allowed, Robin?). And – all of my ‘fumes are swapped on PP so I’m finished there.
Scotland – one of the Penhaligons (I’ve not smelled any of them!)
Tahiti – a new one that Laurie at SSS is working on. I’ve smelled a mod, but not the final version (it’s not even finished yet!)
Banff – can’t figure out an unsniffed scent for this. Any suggestions? Oh and I’d go in summer – I’m not a skier!
Banff reminds me of Angela’s September 2010 post “Lodge Chic,” for which she chose SL Chêne. I’m also thinking leather, like Etro Gomma, or how about Vol de Nuit for the woods?
Great choices! I’ve not smelled either Chene or Gomma and would love to try them. Vol de Nuit is one of my HG scents!
Banff is one of my favorite places! I spent a lot of time there when I was (much!) younger. Fille en Aiguilles makes me think of cross country skiing through a pine forest, and then coming in to a ski hut with a warm fire for a hot drink. I wish I could think of something to evoke summer in the park – that would be limestone, sunshine, moss/bit of dirt, and wildflowers – but nothing comes to mind.
Great choice and one I’ve wanted to try!
Hey, why restrict yourself to just one dream 😉
No reason at all…. 🙂
The perfume has to be unsniffed!! that makes it quite difficult.
*Forests of Ireland or even Canadian wildlife- One of boadicea the victorious perfumes
*Petra, in Jordan—-> something old, veery old, that smells ancient like, incensy…The orientalistes of annick goutal i’d say, but as the only one i have not smelled is musc nomade, i guess i say that one. Also i have been told it is the lightest one, better for the HOT weather arround there. And for the Jordan nights (one can’t go only to petra for a week…has to visit some city too..) i’d say Regina Harris perfumes, both of them, which i am willing to try for months
Actually Regina Harris would work for any middle east country i’d say..i am also dying to go to Turkey, specially Istanbul and there i’d carry both Regina’s too
My sister lived near Petra when she was in the Peace Corps. I’d love to go too.
There’s a rumor that they will close it for visits cause the temple is degrading quickly…. =/
Not surprised.
Oooh, I love this game. Travel is my passion, so it is fun to hear dream pairings of place and perfume.
I’d love to go to Venice, and wear Lutens Rose de Nuit. Haven’t experienced either, but both have this impression of opulence that appeals to me this morning. To pair a dramatic, rich, earthy rose with a city of such amazing art, history and romance seems perfect to me.
Venice and SL – that’s so perfect!
I flew over Sudan a few years ago and I was smitten with the view of a vast brown desert landscape. I’d love to be able to visit and if I could, I would bring Mona di Orio Vetiver, or an attar of “dirt”.
Fascinating choices, Helle!
I would say Barcelona and Serge Lutens Vitriol de Oeillet
or
Istanbul and Ayala Moriel’s Cabaret
Yes to Vitriol de Oeillet! 🙂
:D- you are also a carnation and pepper lover I presume?
Me too! Me too! 🙂
Australia for a week of partying and clubbing..
Fragrance would be Tom Ford Santal Blush.
Vancouver – Fracas!
I live in North Vancouver. It’s sad that I got a laugh out of your brilliance.
So many of you have said that Budapest is beautiful. My parents came from there but I have never been. Since I speak the language, I’d better go! I think Nahema would evoke the turn-of-the-century charm of the place.
Hong Kong, Le Feu d’Issey
Tel Aviv or Jerusalim or both. The perfume: something with rose. Let’s say Highness Rose by Montale. I hope it’s not too strong or sweet.
Love the idea of that amazing part of the world with rose. Also, I am testing BK Incense Oud, which is more like incense rose, dry and light – that would also work.
I would love to go to Spain. There are too many perfumes that I have not sniffed to think of one that would remind me of Spain–especially since I have never been there. But I am looking forward to Andy Tauer’s three new fragrances that are being introduced in Rome–where I have been many times.
Prague. Amouage Homage.