It's Go Big or Go Home Friday! Our community project for today...just what it says, and you can interpret that howsoever you please.
As always, do chime in even if you're not participating in the community project.
I'm wearing La Via del Profumo Tawaf. Mighty big jasmine, and I admit I'm wearing only a dab or two.
Reminder: next Friday, 1/9, is Foody Friday: wear a gourmand or foody fragrance.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2015, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Big Ben [cropped] by Antonio Thomás Koenigkam Oliveira at flickr; some rights reserved.
I interpreted this to mean Broadway Nite. 🙂
LOL…but of course!
I only wish I’d thought of that too!
It’s so voluminous and neon!
Oh, that *is* a nice big one.
I really love it. It’s my favorite of all the aldehydic rose-violet scents.
No scent just yet, but in a little while I plan to put on some Amouage Gold Woman, which I consider to be a “big” fragrance in the best possible way. No apologies, no masquerading as laundry detergent or shampoo, no claims to be clean, fresh , or light. It is perfume that isn’t afraid to be perfume.
Absolutely. I considered wearing the original version of Gold Homme.
That’s what I’m wearing today! Scent twins! 😀
I’m wearing it too! It was between this and No22, but it’s been longer since I last wore Gold so it won 😀
I just don’t see Gold as big, I find it rather delicate to be honest. It does smell very perfumy but in the best possible way. I love it.
I always see a woman with elegant shades marching forward in couture and high heels, and then an entourage of men carrying luggage, shopping bags, jewelry cases, and two prime pedigree dogs in tow….. Gold is just the bomb!
Totally agree – I was planning to wear Gold but got the day mixed up. Hah, the night is young. 🙂
Happy Friday Everyone! I am a little upset today because my 2 – week winter break is coming to an end. Its back to work on Monday for me. Boy, how time flies! As I fight it kicking and screaming, my “Go Big or Go Home” SOTD is Santal Blush by Tom Ford. Tom Ford is a force to be reckoned with and so is this fragrance. It is my “power” fragrance that makes me feel bold and powerful. 🙂
Sorry! You’ve got lots of company at least!
I’ve had a nice two weeks off as well. Although I am working from home today, but hey, it’s better than having to get up early to commute to the office 😀
Ugh. Don’t remind me! And I have about 15 hours (no exageration) of grading I’d brought home to do over break–and of course, it’s been entirely untouched these two weeks! I’m trying to figure out the least painful way to plow through it and still feel like I’m on vacation. . .
Maybe it’ll snow for Monday? 😀
The weather report in Houston says that we will have a light freeze here on Sunday night. We Houstonians don’t know how to drive on icy roads. Is it wrong to keep my fingers crossed that the freeze will cause schools to be closed on Monday? One can only hope! Lol!
I opted for “go home,” so I’m wearing Love, Chloé because it reminds me of the wisteria in the park near where I grew up. When I first smelled this one a few years ago, it immediately took me back to my childhood, so even though Love, Chloé is a little out of character for me, I can’t help but to like it. I find it very youthful and spring-like, so I layered with Barbara Bui to make it feel a little more seasonally appropriate.
That sounds like a great combo.
You must smell lovely today! I adore Love, Chloe.
Well I’m not sure if I’m going big or going home, but this morning I’m trying Bal d’Afrique. I haven’t showered yet, so I’ll probably try something else after the shower, but I’m not sure what yet. A lovely problem to have I think!
As for the Bal d’Afrique, it’s really pleasant but TBH it smells an awful lot like the Bath and Body Works Fresh Picked Tangerine body creme I have (nearly identical so far), and the BBW Tangerine is significantly cheaper! 🙂
I like Bal d’Afrique a lot but yeah, it’s a bit pricy for what it is.
Totally. Had a free sample, thought about buying a bottle…until I saw the pricetag. Woof.
Try the BBW body creme! 🙂
Okay, I’m finally showered and now I’m trying Lipstick Rose for the first time. I guess I’m doing ‘go big pricetag or go home’ day! 🙂
Haha! Seriously….
I wanted something with big presence and some sillage so I put on Aromatics Elixir, but I guess my skin eats this scent, because I can only smell it if I sniff my arm. Oh well…
Hah! I did the same. Wearing more spritzes than normal because I’m not at work.
I’m terrible about ‘eating’ scents – it’s one reason I like to try out perfumes before I commit to a full bottle – I like my scents to last more than a few hours.
AE extrait for me today, still plenty big.
SOTD = Serge Luten L’Incendiaire
I’m home and I am going “big”. Since I really could not wear my 80s vintage Opium, I decided to go with BIG money perfume. I’ve been hoarding my sample and unless this goes on sale or is part of some deal or I go bonkers, I will have to make do with my remaining sample or try to acquire some more samples (I can be persuasive sometimes).
ugh…that should have been Serge LutenS
I forgot to do the poll yesterday, but I wore this one for the first day of the new year. It’s so lovely and yes, this is a BIG money perfume! A little too big for my taste, but I’m glad I have a sample of it.
I’m wearing TWO spritzes of Amouage Fate.
Mmm, that’s a wonderful fragrance 🙂
Fate Woman is one of my top 10- You smell fab!
Awesome. Delicious.
Wearing Angel for today’s project.
Always works for big 🙂
That was my backup “big”. The leather Angel is still sitting out on my bureau… You do, by the way, smell great. 🙂
Arabian Oud Kalemat (thanks hajusuuri!) Yummy, and feels so warm for a chilly day. :^)
Glad you like it.
I was planning on Broadway Nite or Gold or something else BIG but felt like something a bit more soothing so instead i went big in quantity.. at home today so i doused myself in Tom Ford Noir, and tonight many many sprays of Jasmin Noir L’Elixir, which with its candied orange and jasmine and resinous notes is just what i needed.
I’m wearing three sprays of Ambre Sultan, feeling like a prehistoric bug happily encased in a solid block of rich rich amber for all eternity.
Hahahaha perfection!
Planning on wearing l’elephant tonight.
Nice!
Wonderful!
Hi perfume people. I’m wearing Ambre Sultan tonight . I toyed between this and Black Orchid but I’m staying in and Black Orchid seems like a paint the town red perfume to me.
It was a toss-up for me between Carolina Herrera (big tuberose) or Panthere de Cartier (big civetty floral) and I went with the Cartier. I stocked up last summer when it was discontinued so I have a lifetime supply. I still don’t understand why it was discontinued-so customers wouldn’t confuse it with the new La Panthere? But somehow folks remember similar flanker names, so I don’t know…perhaps it didn’t sell well.
Well, the original Panthere debuted in the mid-1980s. It might be a case of no longer selling well, but it had a pretty decent run.
I put on my biggest scent, with a half-life longer than plutonium, so aptly named “Rien”. I put on a tiny spray this morning and have just added a big spray! I may smell like this for weeks 🙂
Your clothes certainly will! BTW have you tried the Intense version? I don’t know how anything could be more Big than the original…
No I haven’t. In a way I do not wish to, as the original Rien is so good. I sort of giggled when I read that they had created an Intense version. It’s hard to imagine anything more intense, or bigger than the original.
Great choice! Can’t think of anything stronger and that name really is the cutest joke. I wore this one yesterday… been working on the same tiny sample vial for literally years. I do love wearing it every so often, especially when I’m in a cranky mood. I am so curious about the new “Intense” version… can’t imagine it being amped up either!
I’m wearing Estee Lauder Youth Dew, which is perfect for a chilly day that I’ll be spending mainly at home!! Wowza. But I love it.
I can only do a dab from a sprayed cotton ball of that one! Love it, but it overwhelms even a sillage-queen like me!
I just ordered a vintage mini of Youth Dew from ebay. Since I had bad luck with the lack of sillage from Aromatics Elixer, maybe I’ll do better with Youth Dew.
SOTD is Habanita Eau de Parfum (the modern, relaunched version) applied sparingly.;) Smells of tar, woods, smoke and leather to me. Love it.
😉 Habanita is definitly big and bold! I only put on a spec when I wear this, and then love it for hours and hours! A few sprays would definitely get you some space!
Nearly my entire collection would suit the “Go Big” category, however you interpret it! (I’m not such a subtle person, I guess!) BUT, as I have scheduled a massage this afternoon, and I’m desperately clinging to what is left of my vacation while still trying to check off items on my to-do list, I am going to attempt “going home,” instead. I am torn between a truly quiet/serene scent (L’eau d’Hiver) and a deeply familiar, comforting (not as subtle) scent (Guet Apens). Will have to decide soon, before I head out to accomplish stuff. . .
L’eau d’Hiver is so pretty and I am *sure* your masseuse would like to smell it. Just realized my own decant is drained, though, rats!
Such a beauty! You know, Our Lady is supposed to start carrying Malles some time this month. I could possibly help you acquire some more L’eau d’Hiver some time soon. . . 😀
I wore that one yesterday!Soooo good!
MR the Enabler might just be striking again!
*blinks innocently*
Black Orchid. You can always rely on Tom Ford for BIG. Anyway as this is my first comment for 2015 – happy new year everyone!
Yes, I never really thought of that as “big” but it’s one of the few that’s gotten office compliments. So!
Happy new year!
Ha! A co-worker wears this BIG all day every day. As much as do like Black Orchid, enough is enough. I need to expand her perfume wardrobe.
Get her some Poison! 🙂
L’Arte di Gucci. Diva roses, y’all.
NIIIICE!!Two thumbs up!
Good one! No prisoners in the world of beauty here!
Checked the notes and reviews and immediately added it to my test list. Must be a diva indeed. And I haven’t even heard of it before.
Wearing Chinatown, having gone big AT home…
We’re scent twins. I was going to wear my DelRae Emotionelle, but then I forgot and wore Chinatown by accident. But it works! Feeling big and conspciuous….
DelRae Boid de Paradise is definitely very bold. Too much for me today!!!
I am in a “go home” scent today. Blowing through my second decant of PG Felanilla, which is soft, fuzzy, but still has a nice strong spine! It’s a damp, dreary, overcast day here so this is what jumped out at me after spin class and shower.
I just finished listening to the “Serial” podcast and am thinking of going through it episode by episode again in case I missed anything the first time around. Anyone else interested in that murder mystery…? it’s a sad and perplexing story for sure.
Hope everyone is enjoying the new year so far =)
Oh yes to Serial! I followed it week-by-week as it was being produced. Really well done! However, it makes me very concerned about how we investigate crimes–the “get one working hypothesis and run with it” strategy must expedite things, but scares me that it could railroad innocent people. Or at least people innocent of that particular crime (in this case, I feel that the boys are hiding *something* but I’m not sure what!).
Yes, I thought it was really well done too! Old School investigative journalism as its best, not hyperbole and “entertainment” as mainstream journalism seems to be now. I cant even imagine the amount of work and research that went into it! I am clueless about the truth of events, but its hard to tease apart all those lies. I know what my heart tells me, but “beyond reasonable doubt” it what keeps me intellectually undecided.
I hoping you chose the Malle scent- I love that one but have to admit I haven’t smelled the other choice you posted.
Guet-Apens is the alternative name for Attrape Coeur (which was also briefly released as No. 68), all Guerlain. If you haven’t sniffed it, I can’t decide if that’s a terrible tragedy or a blessing! It is a gorgeous rose violet, and sadly deeply discontinued. Once in a while bottles can be found for generally outrageous prices and sometimes decants for slightly less outrageous prices.
In any case, I *did* decide on Malle today. Hard to go wrong with it!
You know Jay has now done a 3 part interview, right? Google ‘Jay interview’, you’ll find it.
Will also put in a word for the Serial subreddit…but it’s like a black hole over there, I say I’m going to read for 5 minutes and 10 hours later I regain consciousness.
Wow! I just went to that site and I can surely see how you might get lost for a few hours! If you are MIA for more than 24 hours, we now know where to search for you 😉
Ha! Serial in general was a huge time drain. I kind of hope she does something more boring next time.
Yes, I spotted that last week and have read the first two parts thus far…and nothing is any clearer of course! I really wish I was a fly on the wall when it happened so that poor girl could rest peacefully!
I love Felanilla!
Everytime I see “Felanilla”, the first thing I think of is “That’s a nice name for a cat” or perhaps that is what I will call my Forester from here on forward 🙂
Felanilla was my second PG FB purchase.
Montale Intense Tiare, 8 or 9 spritzes. I’ll still be smelling this tomorrow
And for big news–4 of us (Ihadanidea, missionista, hajusuuri and myself )have organized the first NY live swap. It will be on 1/16 at 6:30 in Manhattan. We have 8-10 slots available. The idea is to bring a few things and go home with different things. Comment here then shoot an email to me– my yahoo address is my screen name
Ooh! I am not in the area but it sounds like a great time! Please let us know how it went. I would love to do something like this….So sad I live in the perfume equivalent of BFE =(
BFE, ha! So do I.
Ha! Yeah, let me know when there’s a rural Virginia swap.
Wearing Profumum Ambra Aurea. Great big amber, I love it.
Happy New Year, everyone!
I’ve never tried this one. How does it compare to Ambre Sultan or Ambre Russe?
Oh and Happy New Year of course;)
Have a great 2015, Austenfan! Ambra is a beautiful, smoky amber, less herbal and hence a tad sweeter than Ambre Sultan, but I have still to try Ambre Russe.
Russe is more boozy and sweeter than Sultan. Another favourite of mine is Ambre Précieux by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier, which very elegant.
Love this one! I went in on a private split with two other perfumistas. My portion will pretty much last forever.
Yeah! I looked at Luckyscent and they only carry 100 ml. Impossible, that would last me seven lifetimes and more.
Staying home today, literally and figuratively. SOTD Adam Levine for Her. It was a blind buy for nearly pennies a couple days ago. Someone on NST has mentioned this a few times but I can’t recall who. This is my first wearing. It’s cozy and soft – perfect for cleaning up after two weeks home with lots of activity.
I had a hard time deciding, so in the end, just went for the vintage Poison again. However, I am wearing SIX (yes, 6) generous dabs of it. I get to be in an office all by myself all day doing data entry. I have no idea how strong the sillage is–I can’t really smell myself any more. I may have blown out the nerve endings in my nose. 🙂
😀
Mine are having a hard time with 2 sprays of Rien! Poison is an excellent choice for going BIG.
Poison’s pretty big. If I’m wearing it, it’s two spritzes max.
…if you’re dabbing, is it the esprit de parfum? that version seems a little softer than the original edt, anyway.
Mals, you’re *good*! I just double checked the bottle, and it is indeed the esprit de parfum. I also have a small sampler of vintage edt, and it does not seem to have aged as well, so I don’t wear it as often as the other (not that I wear the esprit all that often either.)
Vintage poison was my choice too! First time I’ve worn it and the bf is not impressed which is a surprise because he usually loves BIG scents, he even owns a 100ml bottle or Black Orchid! Well it was his to begin with, now it’s “ours” hehe
I think it’s a man/woman thing. I know a lot of women who love vintage Posion, and almost no men who do. My primary partner can’t stand the stuff. Hated it then, hates it now. Enjoy it, and know that both you and the bf are in good company. 🙂
As usual at this time of year, I lost track of the days and was convinced today was Saturday. However, my chosen scent on this cold but sunny day is Ambre Sultan, which fits pretty well into the “Go big” category.
Went out “nude” this morning(as in No perfume,Lol!),as I was planning a BIG testing day!And I did GO BIG!Lys Noir(Isabey),Oud Ispahan(Dior),Mitzah(Dior),Belo Rebelo(Liquides Imaginaires),No.22(Chanel),Sympathy for the sun(Dear Rose).YES.ALL on skin.At the end of these-and some others,I came home smelling of a big,velvety red,spiced-up Oud-Rose!.a Bit much?Yes.Worth it?Absolutely!!
P.S: Bruno Acampora Blu has dethroned Fracas as the best Tuberose ever!!In my humble opinion!
I am also wearing Ambre Sultan, that seems a popular one. I can only hope by the time I go to the hockey game tonight it will have quieted down LOL.
Today I Go Big with tuberose, that is EL Tuberose Gardenia. I might have overdone it a bit with the spraying…
I’m at work so I couldn’t go TOO big, but I did want to do something unexpected so I wore Ormonde Jayne Ta’if, big lush roses and dates (of all things). Just wonderful. I might need a bottle of it.
Love Ta’if!!
We do, of course, need LOTS of roses (as a wise person recently pointed out)! 😉
I went big with Rochas Femme today. I don’t wear it often because of the cumin but I like it
Love this one too. Haven’t got a bottle yet but it’s on my ridiculously long list …
I should have worn this today! You smell fabulous 🙂
Kingdom edp. Floral, cumin, spicy, cumin, perfume with fangs… and cumin.
Oh, so perfect! I don’t have the courage to go big today, but this would be the one.
Going big is not my style – I don’t think I have anything that would fit today’s project! It’s been very cold for San Diego the past few days (40-45 during the day! It usually is cold in morning/at night, but during the day is crazy – even snowed in some areas that never get snow). Anyway, wearing La Maison de la Vanille Vanille Noire du Mexique. This was one of my first non-mainstream purchases (at the time at least!) as I first got it at Anthropologie. This is also one of the few scents I have re-bought as I am on my second bottle, though I rarely wear it now. It’s often described as powdery and generally I hate powder. Not sure why I get along with this one. Happy New Year everyone!
I forgot to go Big because I had to go to work! So SOTD = Bois d’Iris. Love this one….
I am planning on wearing Chanel Coco (EDP), tonight…. does that count as big?
PS: I am only 26.
Definitely counts as big, and kudos to you for embracing it at an age when everyone else is going for fruity florals!
Ta’if by Ormonde Jayne in the parfum concentration,… I was sick 2 weeks ago and I think I cleared out the elevator because I couldn’t figure out why I could not smell my new bottle (of the parfum version – I dabbed and dabbed and dabbed, then I sprayed and sprayed and sprayed, but couldn’t smell a thing! The parfum was not defective…. so you might imagine what happened). With EDP I could just do two spritzes and it would last all day. Well my nose is back and yeah, it takes only a spritz or two to last all day and my clothes will have the faint scent until washed . My experience with BIG! I don’t even want to think about how much perfume I wasted that day because my nose wasn’t working!
Oh dear… I OD’ed on OJ Taif edp once (five spritzes, I think), and now I can’t wear it. Wound up swapping away my decant.
I can so imagine the poor elevator gang LOL
And I completely understand the nose not working, several years ago I had a terrible cold and couldn’t smell a thing. Unknown to me I stepped in dog poo and tracked it inside the office! OMG! People were sniffing around to find the culprit and when I was found to be the guilty party everyone had a huge laugh as I sat there with a “what??” expression on my face. I never lived that down.
How awful! I love Ta’if, but can only deal with a small spray that I dab around. OJ Woman needs a lot of control too! At least you smelled good when you smelled big!
Funny, I love a good solid 4 or 5 sprays of OJ Woman. I typically wear just 3 (small sample), and I think I only have one application left…until the next sale!
Normally I am not a Go-Big-perfume girl, but for some reason I love Fracas (and Nahema, they are in the same league). Had a working day today so didn’t wear Fracas in big style though but quite moderately. But at least I enjoyed it :).
Scent twins! I dabbed from a sample, and I’m getting just a bouquet of flowers, nothing animalic. I’m still a newbie, but I’m a little worried if I’m anosmic to things that might make others recoil in horror.
I LOVE Nahema.l have a bottle of parfum my husband gave me 14 years ago when were married. Still smells beautiful. One of the best rose scents ever IMO.
I forgot it was Friday/theme day and wore Demeter Pruning Shears (because of the mention here yesterday). Anything Demeter is of course – sadly – opposite of GO BIG! Is someone at Demeter hearing our plea: please try big sometime! Top marks for FUN though!
My go big choices were Lush Lust, Rochas Femme or Kenzo Jungle Elephant, and I went with Elephant. It always makes me think of an Asian elephant trumpeting its way through a forest of spices. Go Big, indeed. 🙂
I joined you in the Jungle Elephant herd! I knew my workplace would be practically deserted today, so I applied without reservation. 😀
Make me a third Elephant…. I’m wearing it to work, too! I’ll probably be sent home!
I’m late to the stampede but was just as noisy and loud as the rest of you crashing through the jungle in L’Elephant.
I am wearing Coco Noir pure perfume today. Couldn’t decide between that the Mona d’Orio Rubj extrait.
How is the Coco Noir perfume vs. the regular Coco Noir? I found the coco noir edp to be a bit of grape juice and patchouli and not so much my style. Are they very different?
I went home with NR For Her edt. I usually wear the edp when i wear For Her, so this is a new experience. I am probably asnomic to it. Oh well!
Can you smell the edp but not the edt? I love the OB in the opening of the edt, but can’t smell anything after about 20 minutes. It never occurred to me that I might be able to smell the musk in the edp. I’ll have to give it a try the next time I get a chance.
Considered 24, Faubourg. Not in the mood for Joy. Have EL Knowing, but can’t remember whether I’ve really tried or like it. Opted for Ungaro Diva, vintage bottle purchased for pennies on ebay. As someone who typically has champagne tastes, love it when the cheap thrills work out. My perfume is large and in charge.
I love Ungaro Diva!!! Yowza~!!
I got a mini of the modern Diva, which is pleasant enough, but I’ll have to look out for the vintage. I imagine you smell amazing!
POISON!
4 SPRAYS!
I must say I feel like I have quite a bit of sillage. And Poison is soooooo sweet. The tuberose hit me this morning like never before…
I admire your guts!
I love Poison in general. I haven’t worn it in a long time, which I thought was a good reason for dragging it out for this Friday. I’m amazed at how it smells, though; I really don’t wear perfumes like this any more.
Also, I knew almost no one else would be around today at work (lots of people are still off till Monday) and no one would complain about my sillage! 🙂 )
It is very much of its time. I love it though.
I love perfumes of that time!
Am I the only one in vintage Opium?
(brave, bold or dumb?)
A few tiny dabs from my thrifted mini, EDT, and I have hours before work for it to wind down a little.
I wore my vintage Opium on New Year’s Day. It was great and you smell all warm and spicy!
If I had it, I’d wear it, too! Vintage Opium is gorgeous stuff. You smell marvelous.
My last bottle of Opium was not quite vintage enough to Go Big with. You smell fantastic, though.
I like galbanumgal’s comment about her perfume being large and in charge!
I am wearing Andy Tauer’s Orange Star. That one always projects well on me and is good when I want sillage.
So, I couldn’t think of a really big perfume that I have. I went with Serge Lutens Miel du Bois. Not big, but I know a lot of people really don’t like it. I just get honey to the extreme, so I like it. Although, I wished I had gone with Rochas Femme today. I realized Femme is more fitting for my mood.
I love Miel du Bois and it’s just honey on me too.
Femme would also be gorgeous, though. So different.
I have quite a few that could carry this category for room clearing awesomeness, but I had to demure today and needed to chill post-holiday. I’m wearing some Guerlain Bois d’Armenie, but otherwise, if I was going for it, I would have picked eitherThierry Mugler Alien Essence Absolue or DelRae Bois de Paradise. BdP carries it’s massive-ness for about 24 hours! I’m about at the point if I want ot wear BdP, that I will just apply some on my ankle and let it waft up.
Being that I had to get myself together to head back to the office today after being out for 10 days I needed a scent that really gives me support and that honor falls to 31 Rue Cambon. There’s something about this scent that makes me feel very Parisian (whatever that is), and Paris is always a happy place for me.
So happy tomorrow is Saturday :))
Xerjoff Lira – my present to myself for the holidays. I smell like a delicious caramel vanilla cookie.
SOTD is Organza Indecence. Curiously quiet on me this time, but it could be because it’s so cool in our house (keeping it around 68). Might have to spritz a little more.
Well, not sure this qualifies as BIG, but SOTD is Caron Tabac Blond edt, sprayed with abandon. I didn’t think I had anything that truly fit the “big” bill until someone mentioned Joy, and then I remembered I have the dregs of a sample of Patou 1000 … oh well. I also have some OJ Tolu, but similarly to Mals I OD’d sampling the Ta’if/Tolu/Orris Noir trifecta and now have to be in the right mood for the OJs.
I was originally thinking that I’d utterly failed at this Friday’s theme, but after reading the comments I realize that I simply (and inadvertently) chose ‘go home’ rather than ‘go big.’ I’m in Bulgari Black, which is by this point in the day nothing but a lovely little whisper of vanilla- cozy and comforting.
I wore the vintage Dior Poison that I scored for Christmas. Actually made a night of it (I was really excited to be wearing it) The bf and I went to the casino and drank martinis all night. I felt like I was out of a James Bond movie – you can’t help but feel strong and sexy wearing a perfume like that! haha
Several Poison wearers today! Good for you!
Cappy, based on your username, did you used to live in NJ and then move to OR? If so, I know you IRL…
I’m wearing Fendi perfume over Coco body lotion. It’s my last day at work without a scent-phobe co-worker so I’m enjoying it while I can! Happy New Robin!
Happy new year, everyone! I’m wearing Lancôme Magie Noire. It’s the first strong fragrance I fell in love with. It was not originally love at first sniff, but once I acquired a taste for it, I find it really hits the spot when I’m in the mood for it. I wore a dab of my Rien sample yesterday, so I couldn’t do two days straight with that puppy! The tiniest vial of Rien has literally lasted me for years!
Wearing Alien Absolue today, not a bit demure at all!
Gorgeous!
I am wearing the smallest drop of Kamali Zagorsk. Big, indeed.
Zagorsk is pretty big…
Forgot today was Friday and wore Shalimar because I had been wearing it, but, actually, it’s big for a classic scent.
I love Shalimar. You smell great!
I’m going with Coromandel tonight. It just jumps right out there on me! Didn’t have the courage to wear it to work since last week there was a “comment” at work and that was just 2 half sprays of BV. I can’t even imagine what Coromandel would do to the poor dear!
Hi everyone! Late to post but my four huge sprays of vintage Norell edp from ten am is still going really BIG! It is lovely though lol
You are to be envied! For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about frags I loved as a teen, and Norell is one. I never owned any, but I always made a point to sniff (and sigh…) whenever I saw it in a store.
I picked Onda EdP today, four spritzes. My sniffer is not fully functional, so I may have killed people when I ran a brief errand. Fun reading about what everyone thinks of as BIG fragrances. I recently got a crazed idea to layer Onda extrait and Carnal Flower, two huge scents, and it was not half bad. I may do that again! Be well.
I forgot about GBOGH Friday, but happened to wear Roberto Cavalli Oro, lavishly applied. It is still going strong after a day at Knott’s Berry Farm. Given how many times my personal space was invaded today, it didn’t seem to be offensive to the general public.
Today I went big with a sample of Caron Bellodgia. Usually I dab very, very sparingly, and then sniff-sniff-sniff very, very carefully. Must conserve this discontinued lovely.
But in the interest of science I put at least 15 good sized dabs on one wrist then smooshed it upagainsy my other wrist. Whooo! Spicy and warm. When I got in the car a few minutes later, my traveling companion thought the car was on fire. 😛 Win!
Without thinking, I just grabbed Jessica Simpson’s Fancy Love. it does start out very big on me, but I love the dry down, and how it softens, but still remains quite there.
That was about 3:30 this afternoon, and it is still going strong at midnight!
I haven’t worn a scent that lasted this long in forever, and I really love that it has lasted this long.