Happy International Day for Tolerance!
We're celebrating the same way we celebrate most weekends: with an open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume you wanted for the bottle but not the juice (or vice versa), whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: image is Fall Line-Up [cropped] by Sharon Mollerus at flickr; some rights reserved.
Good afternoon Now Smell This!
A lovely, chilly but sunny Autumn day here today.
I finished my experiments for master dissertation thesis this week so I will have a litte bit more time from now on.
From the exciting news, I found a friend who agreed to be my scent mule and I will be getting a bottle of Andy Tauer PHI Une Rose de Kandahar. I’m very excited about it!
Scent of Saturday is Winter Woods from Sonoma Scent Studio.
Take care!
Oh, congrats on all!
Lucas, I’m very interested in trying the new Tauer! Have you sniffed it and fallen for it already?
Yes, that’s right Marjorie!
Check out my blog, I reviewed PHI last week.
Here’s the shortlink: http://wp.me/p2x0R7-1Rr
Oh shoot! Your description just makes it sound so scrumptious! I must call Our Lady and see if they have any to sample. . . !
I hope you’ll be able to give it a try. If not, let me know and I’ll try to rememdy that.
Wow, you do make it sound extremely appealing, Lucas. Congrats on your new bottle!
Thanks Abyss.
I won’t get it earlier than after Christmas anyway.
I had to pay for the shipping to my Germany-based friend and to avoid further expenses I’ll be waiting until she comes to Poland for Christmas and send me the package in the country. Regional shipping is less expensive that between the countries.
What a wonderful review. Sounds great!
Thanks kindcrow. PHI is unusual.
Congratulations all around dearest Lucas!
Guess what, I did a split of the Explorer Set with another dear perfumista and got the PHI Une Rose de Kandehar. Would you believe I order it on Nov. 12 and received the package yesterday (Nov. 15) – talk about instant gratification.
It is my SOTD and OH MY GOD, it is wonderful stuff!
Thank you sweetie!
That was a great idea to buy an Explorer Set and keep PHI while splitting the other 2 bottles. When you have time, can you take a picture of it and send it to me? I’m very curious how those travel vials look like in reality.
Wow, and a package arrived in 3 days, ultra-fast!
I’m happy to hear you love it.
Excellent news on the thesis experiments! :::applause::::
Thank you Daisy!
PHI sounds like the perfect reward for your efforts, Lucas! What a scrumptious review – I have to try it!
Also, in keeping with this poll, it’s in one of those wonderful Tauer bottles that I don’t have. (I have a couple of his perfumes but in the older plain bottles.)
I don’t treat it as a reward Nozknoz. The experiment part is just the beginning step for my dissertation thesis.
The bottle reason is the exact thing why I didn’t decide on buying an Explorer Set but rather chose to find someone who could get me a real bottle. I just wanted to have one Tauer flacon 😉
This one looks like such a great color, too!
Noz, and here I was lamenting that the PHI bottle looks the same as the Zeta bottle, so if I love it, I’ll have two like that! I guess that’s sort of a first-world problem, though, huh? 😉
LOL – I’ve been known to resent having found a discounted bottle of BK Rose Oud early on because that means I have no excuse to ever buy the beautiful gold-toned travel atomizer that came out much later, even if I find it at discount.
I have to work today, so I’m going to wear AA Tutti Kiwi, which I just won on an Ebay auction for less than $20.00. Full bottle, NIB! I’m finding that the AAs that I’m acquiring work at work.
Hey, great price — congrats!
My source of excitement today is my brand new iPad mini with retina display!
I also have a question about those black SL atomisers that they started doing last year – I’ve read that this autumn they are selling ISM in those. So will they be available at the ordinary export stockists or Paris only?
Ack, you have it?? I am waiting for mine to arrive in the mail.
And yes, I’ve seen those atomisers in several places, so they are definitely not Paris only. You can buy them now on the US Serge site ($190, two 30 ml refills). Sorry, just can’t remember if I’ve seen them at other stores in the US, but I know I’ve seen them in the UK.
And adding…remember when you could buy a Serge export bottle for $80? Sigh.
You can find a few on Amazon. I bought Chergui for under $75.
Nice! I have gotten a few bargains on Serge, but wish the MSRP was lower 😉
Yup! I was not expecting it to arrive on a Saturday so it was a surprise when the courier showed up. I ordered from John Lewis rather than Apple, though, since I had enough gift vouchers to cover most of the cost and they include a free 3 year warranty.
Good to know about ISM, thanks! I’m not buying unsniffed so hopefully I can test it at my nearest store next time I’m there.
And once again, I forgot you were in the UK, sorry. I cannot keep it all straight! Then Harrods has it.
So, do you love it? I am not expecting mine til Wednesday, I think, and then I’ll have to order a keyboard cover right away because I’m too old to type on a touchscreen 🙂
It’s gorgeous and fast, I definitely love it!
I’ll have to think what accessories to buy for it – I wasn’t planning on getting a keyboard thingy, but since it comes with free Pages/Numbers and I’m having to do school assignments, a proper keyboard might be handy.
Bear in mind that I still have a phone with a slide out keyboard. I’m too lazy to retrain myself.
But I’m also thinking that with a keyboard, I could use this for travel and keep NST updated without having to bring my laptop. We’ll see!
Abyss, I got my iPad last year as part of a class, and soon bought a keyboard cover (logitech bluetooth variety, if you care), and I am certain that I use my iPad more and more easily by having a good keyboard! I can’t believe how it has become a part of my daily life–and I’m more low-tech than Robin, I don’t even carry a cell phone! Enjoy your new toy, in any case. 🙂
Cool, thank you both. It’s something that I’ll definitely consider.
MR, I am so jealous of this–I hate my cell phone and badly want to get rid of it and just have an iPad instead. Is it totally wonderful over in the land of cell-phone-less-ness? Do people, like, show up for plans when and where they said they would? (The assumption that all plans can be made or changed by text minutes ahead of time is the bane of my existence. I realize this makes me a curmudgeon but I’m ready to lean into it!)
Sorry to butt in, but — What You Said, C.H.!
This whole thing of changing-plans-on-the-fly really galls me, too! We’re becoming a nation that can’t commit…
(…as she harrumphs back into her cave…)
Thank you Catherine and FearsMice! Yes, my not having a cell phone does force folks to follow through on plans! (Although I suppose I should admit that I have a dumb phone I can charge for $10 if I go on a road trip or something–an accommodation to my friends who thought I was crazy to go off on my own without one.) I waffle on feeling like it’s a wonderful thing and thinking I’m being a touch rude–especially when I was still meeting folks through online dating. But I am NOT a spontaneous person, so I suppose it’s sort of self-selecting–if it’s gonna annoy people to have to make plans in advance, maybe they’re just not gonna be for me!
The other big advantage, of course, is that I’m totally in the moment. I don’t have the distraction of social media, texting, and other random interruptions. Mr. Spicebomb is AMAZING about shutting his phone off when we’re together, and he seems to enjoy unitasking, too, so Yay!
My phone has a slide-out keyboard, too. The onscreen keyboard is too small, even for my small fingers and also does not have the tactile feel of a real keyboard. That said, I don’t even have a text plan and I think that just makes me a freak as I tell my friends not to text me since it will cost me extra per text.
OH, good to know – NEED MORE ISM!!!
I’m tempted by that mini, too.
MR, It sounds like not having a cellphone may have helped screen out the less attentive online dating candidates – undoubtedly a good thing.
Yes, although thankfully I had very few of the truly rude taking-calls-or-texts-at-the-table type. More common is that sense that if I don’t have a phone, maybe I’m not all that serious about meeting people. So many people have become habituated to the last-minute planning being lamented above, and they seem to think that it is *the* way to “make plans”–if you want to schedule something, there’s a subset of the population who seems to simply not know how.
Now I know why I see people constantly checking their phones! Their lives are a jumble of constantly shifting events.
Happy International Day for Tolerance to you, too! One of my favorite “holidays” (also from the U.N.) is the Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/history.shtml). Humanist nerd that I am, I read it every December 10th, and it warms the cockles of my heart.
Today, I’m sampling al02 by biehl parfumkunstwerke. I’m really enjoying its non-synthetic fruitiness and spiciness. With the colder weather (colder by California standards 🙂 ), I’ve been wearing my HG vanilla daily — i Profumi di Firenze by Vaniglia del Madagascar. I am a vanilla freak, and have many vanilla scents in my collection, but this one is my favorite.
And I also have OCD, and I have given in to the compulsion and must correct myself: Vaniglia del Madagascar by i Profumi di Firenze. Geez! 🙂
Hello kindcrow…I was at MinNY last week and I also caved in to a FB of Vaniglia del Madagascar!
Enjoy! I’m almost done with my 12 ml bottle (Beauty Habit has the wee bottles about the size and shape of a bottle of nail polish), and the 50 ml is in my future. There are so many i Profumi di Firenze scents that I want to try — Florentia 22 (peach and lilac), Violetta de Bosco, etc.
Nice. I am making a note to read that on 12/10 too.
Oh, that’s a good one! I make a calendar each year for holiday gifts with my art photos and some random banter/babble in the calendar days. A favorite source of ideas for babble are unusual holidays to include. I admit, I tend to opt for silly (National Yell “Fudge” at the Cobras in N. America Day, June 2nd) over serious, but I try to put in something for everyone! Off to go see if I have something written on Dec. 10, yet!
As a teacher, you should like Dictionary Day (October 16th) 🙂
Oooh, thanks! I don’t suppose there’s a card catalog day, too, huh? I miss flipping through those file cards. . .
Ah, but I just recalled that we’ve bonded over microfiche before, too! I fear I’m just full of anachronisms!
I worked in the library in college (both community college (CC) and university). At the CC, I was there while they transitioned from the card catalog to an electronic one AND when they changed from Dewey Decimal the Library of Congress system. I DO miss the card catalog — on-line catalogs and on-line dictionaries, for that matter, might be faster, but they don’t allow for the happy accidents/discoveries that occur during browsing. So many times I have looked up a word in a dictionary and found several other interesting words on the way to my final destination.
Every time you say that you don’t have a cell phone, I beam with joy. My husband and I didn’t get them until we were in our mid-thirties (as I recall, you are around 35, so beware, you might be of the age to slip and acquire one 🙂 He does a lot of traveling to really remote locations, so I’m glad that he has one for safety purposes (not that you can always get a signal out there). They really help when trying to locate rare birds — it’s cool when someone posts that they’ve just seen the Blue-Footed Booby that you’re seeking at mile marker 9 along Highway number such-and-such. When you’ve been staking out a bird for ages, don’t see it, take off, and ten minutes down the road, you get call from some kind birder who says that the bird is there, it’s nice. It’s nice to be the kind birder who makes that call, too.
Ha! Yes, its the joy of randomly encountering new words or new books or authors that these old technologies encourage! I do miss it.
And you remember correctly, I am 35–actually my 36th birthday is next weekend–so I guess I need to pay attention to see if I find myself wanting a regular cell phone! Do you think that getting your phone so “late” in life has impacted how you use it or has it become as ubiquitous for you as it is for anyone? I didn’t learn to drive until I was 27, and I’m certain that it’s impacted how I drive and how I view driving compared to folks who learned 10 years younger than myself!
Happy birthday in advance! I am not a slave to my cell phone because only my husband has my number. I have assiduously guarded my number for many years, and I’m quite proud of that. 🙂 I recently broke down and got a smart phone, and while I feel ashamed being seen using it (I feel like such a yuppie), I do enjoy being able to use it to look things up when I’m away from my beloved reference books, to check on the baseball schedule, and of course, to check NST when I’m away from home 🙂
I didn’t learn to drive until I was 28, and I think that it has definitely affected how I drive and how I feel about driving. At 42, I don’t drive that often, and when I do, I still feel so proud of myself and like such a grown up for being able to drive. I also feel a little scared, but that’s part of my general nature 🙂
I have been on a serious Lush kick lately. I am blaming it on Jessica and her review of the Rose Jam shower gel. Of course I had to go to a Lush shop to check it out, and then I had to buy a bottle, along with a bunch of other stuff, a couple of online orders, and so on.
I really am finding their shampoos to be the best I have used. I was having trouble with weird, icky residue on my scalp. I knew it couldn’t be buildup from styling products because I don’t use any. All I use on my hair is shampoo, a wide-toothed comb. and occasionally a brush. Sometimes in winter I use a very little bit of conditioner to combat static, but I had not been doing that lately. I wash my combs and brushes frequently, so I am assuming the buildup was either from the shampoos I was using or from the very hard water we have in this area. In any case, since I have been using Lush shampoos the residue is gone, my scalp doesn’t itch anymore, and my hair stays clean looking longer. (No affiliation with Lush except as a satisfied customer.)
My purchases have made a dent in my bank account, but I am justifying it as needed pampering my life lately has been rather stressful. Just last week, my husband was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I wrecked my car hitting a deer, and with the first cold front of the season we found that our brand new furnace didn’t work. Right now, DH is on blood pressure medication, my car is in the shop (fortunately, I had full coverage), and the furnace was repaired two days ago (under warranty). Note to self–never, ever again complain if your life seems boring. Boring is good! It means that everything is going along as it should.
What a week, I’m so sorry! Yes, you need pampering.
Do tell me which Lush shampoos you are loving. I’ve tried a few but have not loved any of them so far.
My favorite so far is the Fair Trade Honey. I admit I don’t love the smell–it isn’t terrible, IMHO, but I certainly didn’t buy the shampoo for its scent. It did, however, remove the icky buildup from my scalp after just one use, and left my hair moisturized but not greasy. It doesn’t actually lather much, so I refrain from the temptation to use too much in order get a headful of lather. I have also liked Daddy-O, which I DID buy for the scent (it really does smell like Choward’s violet candies, and the scent lingers in my hair for hours and hours.) The last few days I have gone back to a Karma Komba solid shampoo bar which I bought earlier this year, and am loving it. It leaves my hair clean but silky and easy to comb through and very shiny. When I used it before, I was having the residue-on-the-scalp problem, but it doesn’t seem to be coming back. I would conclude that the Karma Komba does not cause the buildup, it just isn’t good for removing it once it is there.
A shampoo that smells like Choward’s violet candies? I want!
Thanks! Hoping for another run to the Lush store soon.
For the record, I have very long, fine textured, oily, slightly wavy hair which I wash daily. From previous comments of yours, I gather that your hair type is very different from mine, so you might prefer different shampoos. The Fair Trade Honey, however, is especially recommended for dry hair, which mine is not, but I was intrigued by the idea of a shampoo that is 50% honey.
I find that the solid shampoo bars are very economical. I have very long hair, and one bar will last me approximately 100 uses, so the $10 or $11 price tag for that one little bar actually comes out to only 10 or 11 cents per use.
Yep. I have bad hair. Thanks again, I will check these out!
I like Daddy-O, but LOVE the solids, especially Seanik and Lady Godiva. Karma Komba is OK, but the other green one they have is terrible–so full of twigs that it messed up my extremely short hair; I can’t imagine that it would work for someone with long hair. Their dandruff one is quite good if that’s ever an issue for you.
Oh, so sorry to hear about your difficult week! And yes, boring is GOOD! How many times have I commented to myself that any time now, I’d be ok being bored? A girl can only have so many character-building challenges! Enjoy your pampering. 🙂
50, Sorry things are stressful for you now. Sounds like a scary and diverse patch of issues. Hang tough!
I also use the LUSH solid shampoos. Only ones that don’t tweak my scalp. I was hooked on Godiva for a long time, now k grab the Ultimate Shine. They keep going up in price, but I keep forking over the dough because they ate worth it.
Now, cue the jungle drums: I believe there is a new Rose Jam perfume.
I saw one of those floating banners that said it is avail today only. Those banners always confuse grandma, so you may have to do some research if interested. I have been working pt at the mall and will nip into LUSH and ask for details. Problem is, I will not be back until it is too late to update with details. I have loved the scent and look forward to my morning shower because of it.
This morning I have been testing the L’Artisan Explosions d’Emotions. The Skin on Skin wins by a nose, but it is a hollow victory. I want to fall in love and it just ain’t happening.
Because my tablet autopopulates and will not let me scroll back to correct,my posts look like letters from prison. Mea culpa!
FYI: LUSH customer service to.d me I must have scene last years information online. There I go teleporting again. Sheesh! What passes as customer service!
I think that the perfume might be available on eBay, but Lush’s products can spoil easily, so I’d be afraid of how long it’s been sitting around. Mind you, my bottle of Flower Market from Lush still smells good, and it’s several years old.
Rose Jam shower gel makes me look forward to my morning shower, too! I am in constant pain caused by a botched surgery on my right lung a few years ago. Before the pain, I loved the whole pampering ritual of showering with some lovely soap (I have a soap fetish 🙂 ) and then moisturizing. After the surgery, it became a painful chore to have to reach all over myself to bathe and dry myself and the force of the water hitting certain parts of my body hurts. Rose Jam shower gel smells wonderful, and it the scent is VERY strong. I think that the sensory overload might distract me a bit from the negative aspects of showering 🙂
I’ve never liked taking baths and lowering myself in and out of the tub is a real pain, anyway.
I am still hoping to score a bottle!
Will also put in another plug for the Lush Flying Fox — but you have to like jasmine.
(and so sorry you’re in constant pain, that must be terrible. Is it getting better or something you have to live with?)
Thanks, Robin. Hey, I think that I found your blog during my long time off of work after the surgery. The surgery was almost four years ago. The first year and a half was hellish — the pain was so intense (went up to 11 as Nigel Tufnel would say 🙂 ) that I really wanted to die. It is much better than it was then, but it has leveled off, and it isn’t getting better, and I gave up hoping for improvement ages ago. It’s nerve damage (always tricky) and no treatment has worked … well, a TENS unit helps, but I can’t use it for long because I’m horribly allergic to the little sticky pads.
Well drat. Glad you are finding things that take your mind off it, I know it’s really hard to live with long term pain.
My father lived with constant nerve pain. It is just horrible. Sounds like you are strong. Things like a nice fragrance can make a nice difference.
I found out…well, not much. Seems that some new perfumes will be avail online for a day or so next weekend. I must have looked as confused as I felt because they gave me a free body scrub and a bath bomb, and they don’t do things like that. At least not for me. Very nice! If I find out, I will put out an APB.
Thanks for the LUSH intell. Fingers crossed.
I’m glad you’re okay. Hitting a deer is pretty scary. Hopefully some duller days are ahead for you. You’ve had enough stress for one week.
“Interesting” times, indeed! Pampering is most certainly in order. I hope you’re ok after the deer accident.
I’m a big Lush fan too. That place is a danger to my bank account! I keep finding more stuff there. First it was just some perfume, then shower gel, then shampoo and conditioner, then facial scrub, and so on. At least some of those things last a good long time, so even though it’s expensive, it ends up being well worth it. I got a container of Dark Angels facial scrub that I’ve had for probably a couple months now, and using it almost daily I’ve still only used about half of it. The shampoo bars last a long time too. I have the Godiva bar and love it. Happy Happy Joy Joy conditioner is somewhat less economical but it smells so good I can’t help it.
My new thing is Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner. It smells exactly like the Rose Jam shower gel (of which I also got a second bottle, the big one this time), and it’s working wonders for my skin. You’re supposed to use it in the shower and rinse it off, but my skin just soaks it up so I like to use it before bed. I kind of hesitated at the price at first, but it works so well I don’t regret it for a second.
I’m so sorry about the week you had. I hope that relatively uneventful times are ahead. Mind you, all of those wonderful Lush products can make hair washing a happy event!
So sorry for your icky week but at least it seems that things are now on an upswing.
I, too, bought the Rose Jam Body Shower Gel and went immediately to the big bottle. It smells wonderful! I was inspired by Jessica’s review AND the account of your shopping spree in one of the Lazy Weekend Polls 🙂
As to hair residue, I use Bumble & Bumble Sunday Shampoo once a week and it really helps. Sephora carries the Bumble & Bumble line.
Happy weekend NSTers!
I went to bed last night with Tauer’s linden scent (Zeta) on my wrists–it was lovely and calming and I slept DEEPLY last night! It is good, because I’ve had a long week, even though we had Monday off. I put in at least 45 hours in the four work days. Amongst other things, I had to appear at the state courthouse to testify as a witness on behalf of one my students. Two of my other students were there as witnesses as well, and it was a hard day for all.
On a positive note, I have decided it is time to begin my holiday baking. My father’s family is Danish-American, and I like to make traditional lebkuchen cookies for Christmas. They are best when they’ve “mellowed” for a while, so I plan on baking them this weekend, put them in tins and try to pretend they aren’t there for a few weeks before I give some to family!
I have a decant of Zeta which I use exclusively at bedtime. Linden is one note that invariably makes me sleepy, so wearing it in daytime is impossible. It really is nice, though, to have a nice non-drug sleep aid at hand.
I’m a little envious of you getting to do your baking ahead of time. It is a tradition in our family to have stollen at Christmas, and stollen is best fresh, so I get to bake 6 or 8 loaves of it in the last few days before Christmas. That is part of the reason I do my shopping early (I am nearly done for this year). I have to bake at the last minute, and if I postponed my shopping until December, I would be overwhelmed.
Yes, it is good that the lebkucken are good, even better, after a while. The down side, though, is once I’ve begun to scratch that itch to begin holiday baking, my list of recipes I want to tackle can get a bit out of hand. “Well, it would be really nice to have some Mexican Wedding Cakes as a counterpoint to the spicy lebkuchen. Ooh, and wouldn’t some iced butter cookies be fun? And maybe I should make some candies–caramels are easy, but golly, I’d love to have some fudge. . .” It can be a bit ridiculous! 😀
Your poor student. Going to court is stressful for adults, and I’ll bet so much more so for a kid.
Being a great baker and having too many recipes to try is not so bad, is it? It reminds me of when a baseball team manager has several good players that play the same position — you have to make choices, but you have so many good things to choose from. 🙂
Yes, I have such compassion for my students involved in this! I had a lot of anxiety having to testify, but to have to do it at 11 or 12 years old?! I can’t really imagine. And it’s so hard to know how best to support them–I was able to check in with two of the three at school the next day, so that’s a start, I guess! Thankfully, due to how my school is organized, they will continue to be my students for another year after this one, so we have lots of time to stay connected and support each other.
Oh gosh, I am so sorry to hear that about your student. Hope all involved are holding up okay 🙁
Thank you! I haven’t heard about the verdict yet, but the other two witness kiddos were back in school for the rest of the week, which I was glad to see. The victim kiddo may be out of school for a while, and I do hope that the trial helps her to heal and move on, but it will be a long road. One of the wonderful things about my school is that teachers loop with kids, so I teach the same kids as they go through grades 6-8. Hopefully this will mean we can all continue to support each other this year and next as well!
That works out really well that you can do your baking early. I haven’t decided what I’m making this year. I haven’t even decided what I’m making to bring to Thanksgiving yet! The last two years for Christmas I made chocolates with different fillings to give as gifts, but I’m not sure I’m going to do that this year. The fillings were good, but the chocolate itself didn’t always turn out like I wanted. I did various flavors of caramel last year, so I’m thinking I might try brittles this year and experiment with different flavors and ingredients beyond the traditional peanut brittle. Could be fun, or a disaster, or both!
Fun or a disaster or both summarizes candy making so well! 😀 This year, I’ve been playing with using coconut milk instead of dairy milk in my candies, since I’ve discovered I’m lactose intolerant. I’ve made some delicious coconut milk caramels, and their success have possibly inspired me to try out using coconut milk in fudge, because I would LOVE to have a pound or two of fudge this December! But, it scares me a bit! Could be fun, or a disaster, or both!!!
I could see coconut milk working for fudge. Coconut milk is great stuff. I’ve had vegan ice cream made with it, and it’s fantastic. It gets the right texture and everything. I made a creme anglaise using a 50/50 mix of coconut milk and soy milk that turned out beautifully. The recipe called for half-and-half, but I didn’t have any, so I decided to wing it with what I had in the fridge. This time it worked! I haven’t used coconut milk for caramels, but I should try it. That sounds delicious!
Today I get to visit Our Lady of the Scented Wrists on my quest for a birthday bottle if perfume!
Lucky you! Happy Birthday!
Thanks! I’m trying to decide what gaps I have in my collection. I’m heavy on fall and comfort, but sometimes clear florals beckon after work. But a wintery scent like Fille en Aigilles would be fab too.
Oooh! Any chance you saw the new Tauer there? I was thinking of swinging by this week to check. . . And wouldn’t you know, my birthday is in a week. Hmmm. Maybe *I* could find a birthday present, too!
M, I confess I ignored the Tauer zone completely. I’ve gone off them due to something in the base that repels me. The new one may or may not be there! Good luck with your birthday visit!
I think I’ve developed an allergy to Muscs Koublai Khan. I took the spray mechanism out and put the round cap back on and that helped. But today I decided to take a MKK break and am wearing Padparadscha, from a sample vial.
Oh, I hope that the allergy does not continue! As I recall, you really like that one.
Wearing Beyond Love today. Gosh, this is a beautiful scent! Waiting on some small decants that I ordered: Bendelirious, Montale’s Candy Rose, MDCI Enlevement au Serial & Belle Helene, TM Miroir des Envies & Mirior des Vanites, + a few others (can’t remember, lol). I recently tried Amouages Fate, very beautiful, but doesn’t seem to last as well as the others on me. Reminds me of a softer Opium. I also tried Amouage Beloved, & didn’t like it, for me, too masculine.
Oh, Belle Helene, had almost forgotten that one! Hope you will like all, or maybe only some ($!) of your decants.
Beyond Love is such a joyful scent – my favorite tuberose!
Have always meant to try those Miroir scents. I hope you’ll report back!
Scoped out various sites for limited ed gift bottles, packages, etc and noticed the Lauder site is offering a purse sized flacon of PC Tuberose Gardenia for $55.
Robin, I tested Iris Prima yesterday and it’s not bad but nothing to write home about. The irisy part lasted about 2 mins on me before becoming a musky skin scent. Also recently tried La Vierge de Fer and didn’t really care for it. Think I’ll shop my own cabinet for a little while!
Oh, drat. I have some on the way, I think, but not excited about it then.
I did not care for Vierge either, I will stick with the lovely Un Lys.
Scent of the day: Byredo Green plus I just had a really good acupuncture treatment that included application of lovely Omani frankincense on my abdomen to move stuck wi. Happiness.
Stuck qi
Lol! I was wondering what acupuncture would have to do with those virtual reality exercise things – and then realized that those have a double ‘i’ wii!
Hello All, long time lurker here trying to find “my scent”. I’ve just bought and read “Perfumes, The Guide” which was both entertaining and enlightening.
Luca’s list of Best Masculine scents includes:
Beyond Paradise Men
Derby
New York
Ormonde Men
Pour Monsieur
Timbuktu
Eau de Guerlain
Habit Rouge
Azzaro Pour Homme
….although perhaps a dated list by now.
I am “of a certain age” now, but forty odd years ago I loved Kouros and after discovering a year or two ago that it is still made I’m wearing it again and still love it.
I’ve recently tried Chanel Allure Homme and Boucheron Pour Homme and while they’re wearable they don’t make my heart beat fast.
I know it’s not much to go on, but I have little experience and the field is too broad and life too short…
Any suggestions from Luca’s list or more recent juice, for a total Newbie?
Thank you…
Best Regards
Welcome! I’m sure that you will get tons of great suggestions from the knowledgeable folks here. You could also sign up for the Monday Mail. See https://nstperfume.com/the-monday-mail/.
Thank you.
I’d considered the Monday Mail, but after reading a few felt that I didn’t have even minimal experience to make an interesting post. In fact, I’ve said pretty much all I know in my post above.
…so here I am trying to finess the system on a lazy weekend a get a few places to start my adventure. *Then* maybe a Monday Mail : )
The only one of those that I’ve tried is Timbuktu. I didn’t like it as much as everyone else does. My favorite L’Artisan fragrance after Tea for Two is Fou D’Absinthe.
Here is engelwurz’s official list for men (it includes unisex fragrances):
YSL M7 (I have no idea about the current incarnation, though)
Bulgari Black
Hermes Terre D’Hermes
Comme des Garcons Wonderwood (see also 2 Man)
Dior Fahrenheit
Chanel Egoiste
By Kilian A Taste of Heaven
Frederic Malle Musc Ravageuer
Annick Goutal Encens Flamboyant
Parfumerie Generale Coze
Luckyscent has Bois d’Ombrie by Eau D’Italie all the way to the end of the masculine scale, which I personally disagree with but I suppose to some it is very masculine. This is one of my favorite fragrances right now.
I also really like Etat Libre D’Orange Je Suis un Homme
I’m not a man and I don’t spend very much time around men so I may be a questionable authority.
Since the person under this thread mentions rose, Le Labo Rose 31 is good. It’s a men’s scent even though I don’t know what makes it a men’s scent. See also: L’Artisan Parfumeur Voleur de Roses.
Rose 31 smells better on a male friend of mine than it does on me. I introduced it to him, too. Sigh.
I have a male friend who I think Rose 31 or Voleur des Roses would smell great on but he acted like I was insane for spending 89euro on perfume when I bought MKK. He wears Egoiste and seeing that Chanel bottle with Egoiste written on it in his dingy bathroom always make me laugh. I also found a bottle of Chanel Pour Monsieur in its box just barely poking out of a pile of loose tobacco, rolling papers, take out/delivery receipts. It was a sad sight.
Thank you so much.
I recognize some of the names in your list but have not sniffed any of them, nor any or Luca’s list either. I’ll add your recommendations to my, now growing, list of scents to sample.
I doubt that I’m the proto-typical male and have always had more female friends than male, so your point of view may be just what I need.
(…While no one else is looking, I’ll tell you that I also have a FB of Organza Indecence which I love and I saw that Luca recommended the original Organza as a possible masculine scent.)
I don’t understand the male/female/Unisex thing at all.
Just wanted to add that most people with a more than casual interest in fragrance consider the male/female perfume division to be a marketing strategy. I’m a woman but often find scents that are more masculine to be more comforting, but when I feel like being coquettish I go for the more girly ones;)
I think the The Guide really is a great guide in providing a sort of framework to think about perfume. It also points out many of the cornerstones of the perfume world as it is today. Most importantly, it is succinct, incisive and amusing. Eventually you will form your own opinions of the perfumes that are reviewed there and they may well differ! But, you have been prompted to experiment and actually form these judgments – which is, after all, the main thing.
Gazillions of perfumes come out every year and I don’t think its worth worrying about any particular lists being ”out of date’. If the scents have been around for a while, that is in itself a commendation:)
“If the scents have been around for a while, that is in itself a commendation:)”
Indeed. I thought that as I wrote my suggestion that perhaps Luca’s list was dated.
Thank you for your kind words of advice and encouragement. I’m looking forward to this process more and more : )
This is a great, list, engelwurz! All worth trying, DD!
My advice: you’ve tried 3 scents (Kouros, Chanel, Boucheron). Try about 5-7 more, write up VERY brief reviews of each (can be only a sentence!) and apply for the Monday Mail. If we can have your reaction to around 10 scents, that’s a fair amount to go on!
Right now, there is only 1 person on the waiting list for January, and so you could apply now, get on the waiting list, and then you’d have 7 or 8 weeks to try the other 5-7 scents before your article appeared.
Thank you. I’ll do that.
That’ll be good motivation to get me going on the next stage of this search. Much appreciated.
The poll’s topic is tolerance. I hope you feel welcome in this community. From your writing, you will obviously be a wonderful addition to these pages in the future.
The right fragrance for you will find YOU! It will be the one that smells good TO you and ON you. Few bottles have a gender written on them. Fragrance is for everybody! Enjoy the journey.
Thank you; I do feel very welcomed …and a little overwhelmed, but in a good way… by all the kindness and good cheer and helpfulness.
I’ve been waiting a long time for my fragrance to find me… but I’ve finally realized the wisdom of the lottery joke punch-line, “But first you have to buy a ticket.”
I would suggest trying to sniff as many things as possible, keeping a journal about your impressions of each one, and researching notes for each scent to discern what notes you particularly like or dislike. Try to obtain samples and resist the urge to buy a full bottle right away. Your tastes will most likely evolve. Don’t worry if your preferences differ from those of the “experts” or from anyone here. It is all about what smells good to you. One from LT’s list that I would suggest including in your sampling is the PdN New York. I don’t mean run out an buy a bottle, but do try to get a sample or small decant of it. Of all the scents I have bought for my husband over the years, that one is hands-down one of my favorites. It just smells really, really good, and seems to be a little different each time he wears it. It doesn’t smell like every other men’s fragrance at the department store counters, but it isn’t weird either.
Thank you for all your wise thoughts and suggestions.
I’ve added a journal to my “Perfume TD List” although it’s not a skill I’ve excelled with in the past. Perhaps trying to force myself to write something down will cause me to be more concrete in my observations… which currently run to littke more that “yes” or “no”.
And PdN New York now has two special mentions so it will be coming in a first set of samples. I remember that Luca’s review was rather distincly positive as well.
Hooray for delurking. Robin is doing a freebiemeet early next year (January, maybe) and perhaps you may find a few things you may be interested in trying.
…No doubt, if I have any money left by then : )…
If you want a couple of additions for Must-Sniff Masculines, mine would be Caron’s Troisieme Homme and Guerlain’s L’Instant Pour Homme.
Much appreciated; added to the list.
DD, on LT’s list I think New York is very special and, unusually for me, I guess I do believe it would be better on a man. You must try Guerlain Vetiver, which is classic and a huge bargain. And leathers, such as Chanel Cuir de Russie and Knize Ten.
I relied on The Guide when I started exploring systematically several years ago. It helped me make sense of it all and prioritize. I still refer to it.
I’m not a man but think gender is no barrier to the nose.
Thank you; you’re the second or third person to specifically mention New York so it’s been up-graded to first class in the Sample Flight and your other three recommendations are added to my list as well.
As to gender and noses, I’ve heard or read that women tend to have better senses of smell, taken generally, than men. I have no idea, but I don’t think that I have the best equipment in that area. So, I’m imagining that subtlety will not be one of my more note worthy characteristics.
Hi DD, and welcome! Please continue to comment.
Good sources of samples are the sample sites Surrender to Chance (http://surrendertochance.com/for-men/) and The Perfumed Court (http://theperfumedcourt.com/).
Indie Scents and Lucky Scent also have great sample packs.
Email me at rappleyea11 at yahoo dot com and I’ll be happy to send you as many samples as I can round up. We’re always happy to enable! 😉
I like Luckyscent’s selection more but Aedes has a more cost efficient sample program ($20 for 7 samples and shipping is included). From my list you can get samples of the following from Aedes: CdG Wonderwood/2 Man (and others by CdG), By Kilian A Taste of Heaven, Frederic Malle Musc Ravageuer, Eau d’Italie Bois d’Ombrie. (I’m replying to Rappelyea, but this comment is for D.D. Jackson)
I don’t know why but I often forget about Aedes! So thank you for the reminder.
Also to DD – if you go directly to the perfume companies’ websites, many offer great sample packs of their scents. I think I paid $20 for *all* of the Parfum d’Empire scents!
Thank you very much. You’ve started the “Sample Source” section of my perfume file lol… now to just figure out what to buy where : )
Thank you once again. I’m entering all this into a Word doc so I can sort out what to get first and where to go for it… It’s not for the faint of heart.
Egoiste, Caron Pour Un Homme, M7, Fahrenheit, Bulgari Black, and Terre d’Hermes are big mainstream classics so you should definitely try those. You can go to pretty much any major department store for those.
Comme des Garcons is just something that everyone who gets into perfume needs to try. You can look at the descriptions and see which one/s interest you the most, but I recommend Wonderwood.
Nobody ever talks about Bois D’Ombrie. I think it got left out in the cold because there are too many releases. but it deserves attention so you should try it, imo.
Frederic Malle is one of the big niche names but it is really expensive and it is more exclusive so it isn’t as attainable as the others. It’s not something you need to try early but you should eventually.
By Kilian really isn’t anything special but some of the releases are really good (all are overpriced). But I still think a sample of A Taste of Heaven is worth it.
L’Artisan Parfumeur is another gateway to niche brand. Timbuktu and Dzing might be the most popular, but my favorite is Fou D’Absinthe (Tea for Two has been discontinued). But why not try a rose, ie Voleur des Roses? Voleur des Roses is also at Aedes.
Parfumerie Generale Coze is my favorite gourmand. I think you should try it early on because there aren’t many gourmands coming up in this thread (I think it is the only one, actually). It’s at luckyscent.
I am a woman but my favorite masculines (bought for my husband although I wear them too) are Cartier Declaration Essence; Chanel Egoiste; Caron Pour Un Homme; and Guerlain Habit Rouge and Vetiver.
Thank you; several new ones, plus up-votes for the others into the first tier.
With any luck, I’ve chosen the correct “reply” box such that this will appear at the end of all comments to my original post as of 2pm CST Sunday.
I want to thank each and every one of you, individually and collectively, for your kind, informative and very generous responces to my post. Thanks particularly to Robin for her invitation to apply a bit “early” for the Monday Mail.
All together now I have about sixty fragrances to sample. Being a bit OCD sometimes, I’m going to first try and divide them into their respective genre to try and get a balanced representation as the samples roll in…
50_Roses suggests a journal so, with mild trepedation, I’ll attempt to organize my thoughts enough to write them down.
Hope you all have a wonderful week ahead and thank you once again.
Best…
* trepidation : /
The main aim is to enjoy it all! There is no rule to be thorough or systematic – unless that is the way you like to do things. For me the least stressful way to engage with the hobby is strolling around department stores testing older and modern ‘classics’ – as well as other stuff.
Samples are only necessary for those things that one does not have easy access to, or, to get to test something for a longer while.
Testing the new Aerin scents today. Really loving the lilac one and Evening Rose. This is the first rose I can really recall that doesn’t go weird and sour on me (though Portrait of a Lady and Fille de Berlin aren’t bad). Seriously thinking of getting ER at the scent event next week at NM. Has anyone else tried these?
I’m waiting for samples, so glad to hear they’re good!
Those are the two — lilac and Evening Rose — that I wanted to try. Nice to hear that they have a fan.
Are there testers at N-M? The lilac is the one I most want to try. Did you find the rose to be sweet? I’m intrigued by the cognac note, but wonder if the blackberry renders it sugary.
There are testers for all five scents. The lilac is kind of like the love child of En Passant and VCA Muguet Blanc, IMHO. I really don’t find the rose to be too sweet. You can smell the blackberry, but not in a sugary way. It gives it a little bit of the flavor of Jo Malone Blackberry and Bay. Hope that helps. I really only smelled the other ones on blotters and wasn’t overwhelmed, but am neither a jasmine nor gardenia fan. I did try the amber one time before, and it was really pretty light. It was actually similar to the drydown of ELPC Amber Ylang Ylang, but lighter.
oh good, thanks for the info, I plan to try soon, esp if a scent event is in the offing.
The website says Nov 24-Dec 1 (at least for my store). They are doing pre-sales right now. No samples, unfortunately. They had some special offer to also get a tube of Aerin’s Rose Hand Cream which I think was just for today but am hoping it is also tomorrow. I couldn’t commit that quickly without spending some time with my wrists (that sounds so weird if taken out of context). I am leaning toward Evening Rose, since I don’t have any rose frags.
Today I am wearing a sample of Tam Dao. EDT on one wrist, EDP on the other. I do love it, but would love it even more if would last just a little longer. Sigh…
Is the EdP lasting any longer??
The EdP is lasting a little longer in that I can still smell it, but barely. The SA told me that it has a lime/citrus scent that the EdT does not have. I may need to do more of a full body spray but I was trying to make the sample last.
Thanks. I love the original, & mostly wear it to bed when I don’t care how long it lasts anyway, but was curious.
I can understand why you wear it to bed – it seems like the perfect bed time scent. A scent for bed time only does feel very decadent. I love decadence…about to indulge in a Fran’s salted caramel! 🙂
I can take those to bed too!
Blind eBay buy: a 15 ml bottle of Lancome’s Magie, part of the ‘La Collection’ series released in the mid-2000s. I think all those 6 or 7 fragrances, including the superb Cuir de Lancome, were d/c shortly after. I wish I knew what the story was there – maybe they were only ever meant to be LEs.
Anyway, Magie is a floral amber first launched in 1950. (Magie Noire is its much more famous flanker.) I have not smelled the original Magie and I expect it might seem a bit dated now, so I’m going to be fascinated to see if the re-release seems old fashioned too. Luca Turin found it rather prim, I think. Cuir de Lancome was so well done I’m hoping Magie will be too.
Anyone ever tried it?
I absolutely loved wearing Magie Noire when I was in high school. I remember thinking it was my first really mature fragrance. Yesterday I sampled Coco Noir and it completely reminded me of my Magie Noire days!
I wore Magie Noire to death in the 80s. One of my first mature fragrances too. Wish I’d kept that old bottle. The reformulated version is okay, but not as good. I only recently discovered that MN is a flanker to the original Magie. A rare case of the flanker eclipsing the original.
I wore it in the 80s as well. At one point, around 1985, my mom declared that she was allergic to perfume and asked my sister and I to stop wearing it! My guess is that we were over spraying all of our 80 favorites!
Same here! The current formula of MN is a scrubber for me. Wish I still had that old bottle.
Wearing Spicebomb today. Found it in Marshall’s and blind bought.
Love it, a more interesting version of Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille.
It is TV with cinnamon and chili powder.
Your guy smells NICE, Marjorie Rose!
Welcome DDJackson, try Egoiste, it is fantastic if you like sandalwood and rosewood (a cinnamony wood aroma.) And I wear all perfumes including the original Indecence. It is fantastic! I am also OLD, so do what you want, I do!
Bear
Hey, so glad you like it! Blind buys can be risky. And I am very happy to smell it on my fella (definitely better on him than on me). 🙂
Nice score from Marshalls! I love Spicebomb — one spritz lasts all day. I have the shower gel, too.
Thanks MJ and kindcrow!
Was surprised to find it. But Marshall’s prices on men’s clothes has gone up! No way I’m paying 59.99 for a fleece pullover!
I compared Chanel No. 5 extract and EDP yesterday. The extract disappeared really quickly, which was a surprise. Today, it is the EDT and Eau Premiere. The EDT was not very long lasting either. That surprise me too because my Exclusifs No. 22 EDT lasts all day and then some. I’m really liking the Eau Premiere and the EDP was lovely.
My spell check can’t cope with the word extrait apparently.
It just wants English, apparently 🙂
People have such different experiences of the different concentrations of No 5! On me, the most long-lasting are the EDT and Eau Premiere. The extrait disappears fast, as does the extrait of No 19. What disappoints me is that the NO 5 EDP on me is quite short-lived. I often wonder of I’m anosmic to bits of of it somehow. I’d wear it more often but I’m bothered by the thought that with heavy application I my overpower the people around me.
And speaking of over-application, I was at a school concert a few weeks ago and another mother’s No 5 EDT could be smelled three rows away. Ack.
I’ve yet to try the extrait (I admire no 5 more than I enjoy wearing it). When I sampled the edt & the edp recently, the edt was barely detectable. Then I found an old, very reasonably priced EDC on ebay that still had the gold foil seal, and that was wayyy longer-lived than the current edt.
oops, wanted to mention that I prefer Eau Premiere over the other iterations I’ve tried.
Chanel No. 5 EDT disappears on me after an hour of wear, even with 6 sprays (I normally use 2-3 only for most of my other perfumes…except Saftran Troublant for which I have to use…8). Anyway, I have scent glue skin so the No. 5 EDT is really an anomaly.
SOTD = Tauer Perfumes PHI Une Rose de Kandahar. Wow! I am seriously considering a FB, especially since it is limited edition; I currently have a 15 mL from the Explorer Set. The bottle being green, my favorite color, is an added bonus.
I have a question that I hope someone can help me on. I am thinking of splitting a perfume oil attar with a perfumista friend. Can anyone recommend a place (online would be best) that sells a perfume vessel with a glass rod perfume oil applicator attached to a screw top? I’ve seen “murano-like” vessels but the jars are not secure (i.e. no screw top). Thanks!
This will fit many of their bottles, if it’s what you had in mind:
http://www.sunburstbottle.com/glass-applicator-rod/p/ROD14/
(but not pretty bottles, just functional)
Thanks, Robin! I bookmarked it. You are right, not pretty, just functional!
Congratulations on getting the Explorer size of PHI and I’m happy you love it!
Its now full out summer in South Africa and I’v been soaking myself in everything green, citrus and herbal. In the last week or so I’v suddenly “discovered” Voyage and Terre (Hermes). While before they just seemed far too transparent for me i suddenly got a serious hankering, lol!
So today I took a trip out to a local discounter but arrived there only 20 minutes before they closed (I’m forever late…) Because it was far I decided to spring for the Terre EDT (the EDP is a little sour on me). As I got to my car though, I was suddenly hit by the beauty of Voyage EDP which I had tried (again) on my arm. All of a sudden the citrus seemed juicy, the vetiver tangy and the rose-amber accord magnificent!
Sometimes love hits at the most inopportune times! So, now I’m thinking of going all the way back to exchange it. I need to keep the Terre box sealed but perhaps I will go try it at a closer department store – again – just to make sure. I think its lovely, warm, earthy gentle and tangy but on my skin and to my nose it seems a bit TOO subtle for the price.
Also I’m not sure how it jumped the line ahead of Private Collection which I have been wanting forever and which is the same price! Or Miroir de Majestes – though perhaps this is not quite so summer-appropriate…
Hey Merlin, sorry to hear that (as shopping indecision and changes of mind are some of my closest friends). in this regard I wanted to thank you and engelwurz for your enabling two weeks ago: as you suggested, I bought coriander by ds & durga, and am super happy with it (and I got so many compliments as well!). hope your experience with terre and voyage ends in a similar manner 🙂
Oh, I need to try coriander, too. I love their sadly discontinued My Indian Childhood.
nozknoz, I was already thinking about a backup bottle of coriander, and now you are making this move feel even more urgent … Is My Indian Childhood really really good? From the descriptions it sounds so, but maybe it is better for me not to know at this point (if I remember it correctly, you once posted an interesting comment about your relationship with untried and discontinued fragrances) I also sampled Bowmakers, Cowboy Grass and Siberian Snow, but while they are all nice, luckily, I can live without them.
Merlin, I was wondering whether your preference for Terre and Voyage over FM Bigarade and Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte (assuming there is such a preference) is the matter of tenacity
Hi Morgana, thanks for the good wishes! Yes, buying indecision and changes of mind are a constant problem for me! Consequently i try hold back for a month or so before making any purchases. Sometimes though this means that I forego perfumes I love for sudden impulse-type purchases that are prompted more by suddenly wanting to buy something than an attraction to the particular perfume!
I am so glad the Coriander has worked out for you! Sometimes lots of sampling blurs things instead of clarifying them:)
Eau de Orange Verte – and the concentrate, were really good when I tried them some time back. Also, I love the bottle! The reason I didn’t try them again recently for this decision was because Voyage and Terre seemed quite different to anything else I have while EdOV smells different, but is similar in feeling, to others I already have (Eau de Rochas come to mind).
Bigarade, I only tried once and didn’t get a very definite feel for it. Because of the price of Malle (in SA its double a Lutens) I probably wouldn’t want a cologne style Malle fragrance!
DS & Durga come up with the most amazing names: ‘Bowmakers, Cowboy Grass and Siberian Snow’!
I like My Indian Childhood very much. I have a very small bottle from an early batch and a regular bottle from a later batch, and they seem a bit different, although it could be a maturation difference, I guess. I think it includes an Indian attar, kewdra, and a chocolatey patchouli. I’ve tried a couple of samples from Seattle-based House of Matriarch (Kevin reviewed one of theirs), which are a bit similar, if you’re in that area or like to order samples. I think MIC is a bit more subtle, but I haven’t tried all the HoMs yet.
VERY relieved to know I’m not missing too much with those others. Yes, I get frantic when I think that I may be missing the perfume love of my life in the torrent of new releases, discontinuations and evaporating samples. Can’t let myself dwell on that.
Just wanted to conclude my little ‘saga’!
I went out this morning and tried all the scents I mentioned over again. And, I realized what had tipped me over the edge for Terre while I have been holding back for so many others. Turns out to be very simple: a matter of comfort! Somehow it works for me like a very neutral coloured nail polish. I don’t feel like I’m wearing a particular ‘color’ at all. It’s nude transparency is like a salty shimmer round my skin – and the scent of sun-baked rock makes me feel really grounded!
Quite unique in my collection!
yay!
The only perfume I’ve bough sheerly for the bottle was Jean Paul Gaultier’s Eau de parfum, as a mini. Everyone once in a while I shake the bottle for the storm of golden flakes.
Just bought a bottle of Adam Levine for Her, which I think I will call Lady Levine from now on. It’s a cozy winter scent of saffron and spices, and doesn’t get cheap at the drydown. My favourite drustore scent since…Anais Anais I think!
Hey, well that was a good pick for a “just for the bottle” — I’ve love a bottle of that too.
I’ve thought about getting some of the JPGs just for the dress form bottles, in fact, I’d love to have a collection. So far, I’ve managed to restrain myself. 😉
I’m wearing Bois d’Encens from Armani Prive and I feel like a walking Notre Dame cathedral 😉 It’s a beautiful incense scent but more to contemplate than to wear for me.
Hhhmm the bottle I crave for? That would be Diptique’s Volutes or a big one from Atelier Cologne, preferrably Trefle Pur.
I could wear Bois d’Encens no problem, just need somebody to gift me a bottle
LOL, that’s Bois d’Encens, all right. 😉 Occasionally I soften it with a touch of Etro Sandalo.
Wearing Calyx today. We got a little cold snap for a couple days but it’s back up in the 80s, so Calyx just felt kind of right. I’m going to go see a friend’s new house for the first time. She just (finally!) closed on it last week, despite the seller’s best efforts to get her to walk away at every turn. The house had been on the market for years, and hearing about what a jerk the seller had been throughout the process, it’s not hard to see why. But it’s all done now, and the house is officially hers.
That new Calyx bottle with written Clinique on it just looks strange to me
I guess I haven’t seen that version. I have an older 15ml bottle I found at Ross. At least I figure it must be older since the ingredient list on the box still lists oakmoss.
I’ve bought three or four vintage perfumes primarily for the amazing bottles, such as Liu, but that doesn’t really count, since they’re collectibles. In terms of current perfumes, that blue AG Nuit Etoileé bottle looks dreamy, doesn’t it?
Perfume Stop has several hand painted AG bottles for sale.
Good to know – I wasn’t familiar with Perfume Stop – rushing off to check it out!
Do you mean One Stop Perfume on ebay? I’m seeing the most beautiful AG Songes there…and some of the other fancy AG bottles.
I already have Songes but I could buy this one to have on hand as a “gift,” couldn’t I…
NozKnoz, you are far too nice – I would get the pretty one and keep the not-quite-new standard bottle aside for the gift, LOL!
Me enable – NEVER!