It's Wednesday already. A couple reminders: our swapmeet is still open, and the next damage poll is coming up soon! What fragrance are you wearing today?
I'm wearing Keiko Mecheri Osmanthus.
Reminder: this Friday, 27 March, is Figgy Friday: wear a fig perfume, if you dare. I know some of you won't dare, so partial credit for other dried fruit notes.
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 untitled [cropped] by yezi9713 at flickr; some rights reserved.
Amouage Beloved, oh dear, I fear I’m hopelessly smitten. And it’s so expensive!
My sympathies!
Thanks!
Check out fragrancenet…I know they sell various Amouges there, including testers which are deeply discounted.
I just checked…with their 20 percent off coupon it is 264 in USD
Ouch! Love hurts…
Thanks for sorting that out for me, I might still have to pay import duties, but I’ll look into it. Have to be very good first and start saving pennies!
I thought you would be! The least expensive bottle I came across is 289,90 euro’s (parfumswinkel). I think they also sell 5 ml decants at request (in a travalo). I hope it will find a way into your collection.
Yeah, I’m becoming quite predictable to myself included. I’ve found an even cheaper option (€ 275,-), but it’ll have to wait. I took several years to decide I couldn’t live without Amouage Gold. Thanks for the tip by the way.
Beloved is really gorgeous. It’s going to linger on my to buy list for a long time…..
A tester of Amouage Beloved woman is about 196 USD with a 25% coupon at fragrancenet. Very tempting . . .
My favorite Amouage…Love Beloved!Desert Island stuff.Hehe
I love it that everyone is trying to get me to buy a bottle, thanks for all the tips!
This was a Bergdorf Goodman exclusive and originally $430. I think it is discontinued, because it isn’t available on the website any longer, and BG has new, even more expensive exclusives by Roja Dove.
So my guess would be is that current prices at the discounters are as low as they’ll ever be (except for the unfavorable euro to dollar exchange rate).
Last day in Berlin (mostly just sightseeing at this point, wandering and taking in the sights like the wonderful Tiergarten) and I am finally wearing La Fille de Berlin, which might be my favourite rose ever: if I ever buy another full bottle of Lutens, it’ll almost certainly be this one.
Enjoy your last day! You smell perfect, of course.
Ah, so perfect!
Perfect choice!! *applause*
La Fille de Berlin is really beautiful and my new favorite rose that I’ve tested. I got a wonderful sample from a lovely NSTer, and once I smelled it, it went right to the top of my to buy list! Very nice.
I can’t decide between La Fille and Lyric Woman for my #1 favorite rose. Let’s call it a tie.
Oh, and there’s Mohur Extrait, too!
They’re my top 2 also… have you tried Rosae Mundi by Profumum? Ive actually avoided re-testing my sample because i loved it so much im afraid i might still do!!
Opium Vapeurs de Parfum. A beautiful floriental, one of those perfumes that simply smell good, but are also interesting without challenging you to prove you’re intelligent enough to get them.
Nice description
I’m wearing YSL Nu, which smells just right today.
Is that from the hockey puck version or the new cube one? I ask because I thought that I liked Nu, the original version when I tried it years ago, but I tried it again recently -from the cube- and it did nothing for me. Either my taste in fragrances has changed, my memory is playing tricks on me, or a reformulation has changed something.
Hockey puck version, which I found in a little shop in Downtown Crossing in Boston several years back. I’m willing to bet the reform is different, though I haven’t spent any real time with it.
Oh, you are lucky to have it! I smelled the updated cube-bottled Nu and Yvresse in a duty-free a few days ago and am sad to report that they are meagre, diminished versions of their former, vintage selves.
I’m not surprised … YSL hasn’t taken very good care of its fragrance line.
Wearing Poivre Piquant today. One of those back-row bottles that I always rediscover from time to time.
That’s where my Osmanthus is usually hanging out
Soivohle Amun Re:The Tears of Ra
Great name…
Getting ready for fig day so I am wearing (for its fig leaf note) Pink Sugar with a heavy overlay of aged dark patchouli which really tones down the sweetness.
Totally forgot it had fig!
O wow!I had not realized it has a fig note!So there ARE more fig fumes I love!!
I am wearing FM Eau de Magnolia,one of my favorites.
I’m going to have to re-sample that one. The one time I tried it being unfamiliar with magnolia, I thought mmmm smells expensive!
I am wearing a drop of vintage Le Dix extrait. It is so soothing.
You smell great! Le Dix is gorgeous in the spring
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Yes, you smell fantastic! One of my very favorite spring scents. I am parsing out my vintage to make it last.
PG Felanilla today- a soft round fuzzy hug in a bottle. Blasting through my second decant in record time…
Deva-
Received the Terracotta yesterday. It is wonderful! I am so glad I did this blind buy. I wish they had it in lotion too. I am anxious to hear what you think.
Kris, I will let you know for sure. So happy you are liking it.
I’m not really a BWF fan but the reviews have indicated that this is a nice solar floral for people who are not really floral lovers. I’m a little nervous…
Do you read it as a heavy floral?
Not really a BWF fan? Ordered 100ml of Terracotta blindly? … Lol… Now im SUPER curious to find out what you think!!
(I really enjoy Terracotta but I LOVE bwfs.. it is on the lighter side.. a bit like Lys Soleia but more jasmine than lily)
I wouldn’t say it is heavy, but if you don’t like BWFs I am not sure you will like it. I would agree with perthgirl that it is on the lighter side and I did not smell lily. It smelled more like gardenia to me. Be anxious to hear your report.
Oh boy, now I’m getting worried. Maybe this is not going to turn out well. I do like jasmine as long as it’s not super indolic…
The Terracotta after sun cream is wonderful, I bought it at Saks last year, not sure if it still exists. It complements the perfume very nicely.
Thanks. I am going to have to look now.
You smell great–I love Felanilla.
I love Felanilla, probably my favourite gourmand iris.
I’m in the orange-blossom-and-cumin goodness of Gucci EDP. This morning it’s more orange-y than usual, and nearly good enough to eat!
Love that one! that is the only cumin perfume I ever owned!
Me too! I haven’t tried a whole lot of others, but it’s hard to imagine anything else coming close to how beautiful the Gucci is.
You smell fabulous!! This is one of the few ive got a back-up of as i’d hate to not have any!!
Same here – the Gucci and Le Temps d’Une Fete are the only two fragrances (so far!) that I never, ever want to run out of and have stocked up on. (Wow, what a bunch of bad grammar that was. Reminds me of my favorite grammar joke: A little boy is in bed ready to be read a story, and when parent appears with a book the boy says, “What did you bring that book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”)
Omg- the grammar story is so spot on. Whenever I get worked up about something I tend talk just like that. And when I get really mad, I cry! Both very embarrassing traits as I am long long past the toddler age.
I’m wearing Eau de Narcisse Bleu at the moment, one of my favourite spring scents. Incidentally, I plan to buy a travel set of Thierry Mugler’s Womanity from the Duty Free this evening, so I’ll be all set for Friday.
I got a sample of that a couple of days ago and am really looking forward to trying it. I bet it’ll be great for spring.
Narcisse Bleu? It is. And I say it as a person who generally prefers something more dramatic. Good luck with your sample!
SOTD: Flowerbomb Rose Explosion.
Sampling this today. Strong stuff! Similar to the original – the sweet, syrupy floral and now with some “oud” thrown in to the mix.
This sounds interesting….
SOTD is Amouage Epic Woman from a nearly forgotten Olfactif sample. It is lovely – really peppery! I may have to re-think my Pandora stations for this one!
Today I’m wearing Un Jardin sur le Toit. I thought a lot about what to wear today, then decided to go with rose something and remembered sur le Toit … Just a pretty, green, fresh rose. And so perfect for today, which actually feels like spring! The crocuses are up and blooming and I see the tulips peeking out of the ground. And it’s sunny
Sure le Toit lives in my “what to wear when I can’t be bothered to decide” group. It is always appropriate and perfectly polite.
Yay for spring!
At first, I had no idea what to wear, but then I threw on L’Heure Bleu in a sort of “whatever” mode.
I can’t stop smelling my wrists now. I’ve worn this several times before (decant is getting dangerously low) and always thought: meh, it’s nice. I get it. It’s a classic and it’s good, but not FB worthy. Now…. I’m rethinking that. I went through the same thing with Mitsouko. I didn’t even like either of these Guerlains when I first tried them, but after smelling so many fragrances in a year and expanding… I’m starting to really “get” them now. Does this mean I’ve leveled up my perfumista power? *insert Mario mushroom growth sound here*
Haha!
Yeah, those old Guerlains are like that. You have to learn how to smell them. Kind of like classical music … usually not “catchy” but with enough exposure something clicks.
That’s what I kinda figured. Even as I was typing it all out I thought: I sound like such a NOOB!
L’Heure Bleue is gorgeous!!
I think what also happens is that the more you smell, the more you realize how “mono” or even just crap and thin a lot of fragrances are. When you go back to those Guerlains it’s like someone put it in 3-D stereo. It’s all there baby! I think what they did so long ago was amazing, and they really hold up. Your nose and brain are like thank you thank you!! Finally something real to smell!
Even though these are the newer versions, I think you are right. There’s something about them that really stand out. It’s nice to get jolted out of the humdrum of perfume styles every once in a while. I also think my tolerance / appreciation of certain notes has helped too. I wonder if I’ll get the star level-up when I can tolerate cumin notes (Jubilation made me dry-heave and I had to wash it off after 10 minutes).
I can only stand the tiniest bit of cumin in fragrances, ditto on oud and cedar notes…. There is always hope for development and finding new accords/notes you love, but some never get there. It sure is fun trying though!
Ha! Ha! Regarding cumin I am not there yet…or at least how my skin responds to it is not there yet!
I love that transition from consternation to getting it to loving it! You definitely level up
SOTD is vintage Ivoire from a sample. I tried this last year, thought it was too pretty for my tastes, then tried it again on Sunday. I usually don’t wear the same scent in a week, but I NEEDED to wear it again. Can’t. Stop. Huffing. Wrists.
vintage Ivoire is so ladylike and gorgeous!
This morning my daughter said, “Mom, you smell great but…you have way too much perfume on. ” I think I may have lost touch with what is appropriate fragrance application.
SOTD Tom Ford Santal Blush
I like to purchase some decant supplies. Does anyone have recommendations about the best place to purchase, or are they all fairly similar?
Always got to be careful with Tom Ford!
I only ever ordered decanting supplies from STC, so I couldn’t say how they compare to others. Sorry!
I’ve had good luck with pilotvials.com (no affiliation). And Sandalwood has this way of getting bigger and bigger while wearing.
I love how candid children are. Their honest opinions are like reminders of what everyone else (adults I mean) says in their head, but have been programmed to be polite (or not!) and refrain from saying anything yet give the annoyed side-eye or passive aggressive cough or whatever they do to show some sort of dislike.
For atomizers I prefer Best Bottles.
I second that….Best bottles has good prices but you might need a minimum dollar amount to make a purchase.
A lot of the places that have the best prices require minimum purchase or sell in lots of 50, so if you’re just starting out, I wouldn’t go that route. I recommend accessories for fragrance (seller on ebay) – their glass atomizer prices are a little high, but plastic prices are good and you can mix and match lots of different sizes if you want, instead of having to buy 50 of the same size!
2nd.
I’ve ordered from myperfumesamples.com and had good luck. Prices were reasonable and I didn’t have to order a huge quantity.
Thanks all for the recommendations!
One of my favorites! You smell amazing!
I hope those in my morning meeting were equally appreciative of SB as you!
I had planned to do a fig week, but I failed already! The weather isn’t right for it (still too cold in Montreal) I guess… Oh well! Some other time!
SOTD is Violet Blonde from a sample generously sent to me recently, and I really like it! I might grab a bottle before it gets too hard to get since it is discontinued.
Hi from another fellow Montrealer. What are your favorite fig perfumes? My favorite is Dambrosia.
Hmm… I don’t know that one (nor the brand, at all actually), but it sounds very interesting according to the notes on fragrantica.
I don’t have any fig full bottle (except for the fig note in Bvlgari Au The Rouge, which you swapped away to me! Still loving it), but from the samples I tried so far, probably good old Philosykos. Although I need to do some proper testing in warmer weather to really make up my mind and choose which one I’d like to get. The samples I have are of Philosykos (EDT and EDP), Jardins de Kerylos, Jardin en Med and Ninfeo Mio. But know I’m tempted to add Dambrosia as well!
Try Wild Fig And Casis by Jo Malone. If you are a true fig lover, you will enjoy it.
I should try Philosykos then. I can make a sample of Dambrosia for you if you like, email me.
Thanks Hera!!
Violet Blonde is wonderful – you smell great!
Thanks! I’m surprised they discontinued it.
Starting with the figs today…
Pacifica Mediterranean Fig.
You smell great! Med Fig is one of those scents I can grab and spray when I haven’t a clue as to what to wear fragrance wise…and so far no one has ever complained regarding how I smell whenever I wear it(believe me I have gotten complaints from family/co-workers on some of my other fragrance choices
!!)
I was debating between Rendez-vous, Trefle Pur, and Blossom Oud. In the end because I was having problems getting into my samples, I went with Caligna, because it was the easiest. First time to wear, and I am enjoying it.
I looked up Blossom Oud – it is available very reasonably priced on Amazon. I might have to get some – it sounds perfect for me. What is your experience of it? Is the jasmine fresh or rank? I like it both ways…
Gloomy rainy day here, so I am comparing Black Flower Mexican Vanilla with Spirituese Double Vanilla! SDV sweeter and more flowery to begin with, while BFMV is a little sharper with something else, some pepper or cumin or salt, giving it a more masculine feel. After 4 and a half hours, the SDV has receded to a faint warm skin scent. I might expect a little more from this, considering the price, but it continues to be very pretty and I love it.
BFMV is still going quite strong, more vanilla, less sharp spices, extremely rewarding to sniff the back of my hand! I like this more in later stages, but that might just be a function of comparing it early on to something so pretty. I like them both, and given the price difference, I will be buying a bottle of BFMV long before I spring for a FB of SDV. Plus, the adorable hubbie has come out firmly on the side of BFMV. SDV seemed like “too many flowers” to him. As if there were such a thing! Lol!
meredifay- I think I have you to thank for sending me over to Dame Perfumery….I am waiting for the first quarter poll to end and next month my intention is to buy a few of those 7ml bottles including BFMV……have you tried any other fragrances from this line?
I have a sample of the one with Mate, Patcholi and something else. It’s ok, but patcholi is not one of my favorites. Although it is a lighter formulation that BFMV. I am sort of waiting for warmer weather to give it a real chance. I read somewhere, some very nice things about the Rose one, Prairie Rose or whatever it is called, but I have don’t have a sample of that one…
Did our Keiko Mecheri discussion prompt your choice today?
I do like osmanthus in general, but I didn’t have a chance to smell that one. Your review of ten years ago suggests it’s not an absolute favorite, but I hope you’re enjoying it.
So that no-buy of mine? Did not last. I was trying to behave, particularly because I thought I was about to move elsewhere in the city, but circumstances changed, and suddenly I had a new bottle of Oliban by Keiko Mecheri and ordered a bottle of L’arte de Gucci this morning….whoops? But I’m having a delicious, delicious time. Plus, the road trip down the California coast that I was going to take with a friend had to be cancelled due to family complications for her, so maybe this is making up for it a bit?
All I can say is wheeeee.
Hope you’re all well!
We all make life choices based on our fragrance addition.
Welcome to the club, lol!!!
Angela once wrote about perfumes that blend with your skin in such a way that they become part of you – that is what I am experiencing with L’arte. It is making me so, so happy.
Yes, it did! And it’s very pretty and glad to be wearing it, but don’t really have any different reaction than I did 10 years ago (except this time, quite sure I never needed to buy that bottle!)
Ha, so true!
You’ve both inspired my bedtime choice- Soussanne from the bespoke range. Opulent, dark, heavy lily. Like brocade.
I have this in the coffret and its second favourite after Canyon Dreams, but I just scored a full tester cheaply so i can be spray lavishly!!
Be lavish – go with your bad self!
We had a little bit of snow overnight and it’s in the thirties today, so I decided on Les Nereides Opoponax, something I like to wear in colder weather, Want to enjoy it a couple more times before I feel it’s too warm out to wear it.
SOTD: Oud & Bergamot (Jo Malone)
Oh, I love he dry oil spray in that scent! You smell Goooood!
Fifth day of the same fragrance: Heure Exquise. This is a first since falling down the rabbithole! Can’t get enough this exquisite iris sandelwood.
Heure Exquise is very beautiful! It was my gateway greens/galbanum/iris fragrance. I’ll never forget the afternoon I totally got it. It is one of my HG fragrances.
Thank you for replying! I have by now quite a collection, but have not fallen so hard for any fragrance as this one. I indeed have the same experience of ‘totally getting it’. HG indeed. What are your other HG’s? (or is HG per definition not plural?) Do you love another AG this much?
I was asked this question a few weeks ago and tried to make a list of my HGs. It’s kind of a moving target in a sense that some things I adored about 4 or 5+ years ago have changed as my nose has developed too. I used to lean strongly to orientals and roses, and as time passes I like more greens and chypres. The only thing that remains true is that I don’t really like sweet or sugary fragrances. If it smells like I could eat it, I’m probably not going to like it.
Actually, yes, I have a few more AGs that I love equally or more to HE. HE is also a sentimental fav for me b/c of it’s role opening my brain to galbanum fragrances that I now totally adore. AG has become my most collected house. Right now my fav AG is the original Eau de Sud, but I can’t pick my fav of hers. There are too many outstanding compositions in Goutal to pick a total favorite. I adore almost the entire line. I think I have about 16? 19? bottles of AGs?….
OK, so to get to you question. Fragrances that I hold in awe above all others:
Annick Goutal Heure Exquise
AG Songes edp
AG Eau de Sud
AG Ce soir ou jamais edp
Chanel No 5 edt
Chanel No 19 vintage extrait
Chanel Coco edp
Chanel Sycomore
Chanel Bois des Iles
Guerlain Nahema
Guerlain Chamade, esp. vintage
Guerlain Mitsouko
Ormonde Jayne Ta’if
Gucci L’Arte di Gucci
vintage Hermes Amazone
ITB Cologne a la Francaise
JD Bal a Versailles ~ must be vintage
Lancome Magie Noir vintage
SSS Encens Lavande
TC Alahine
Cartier Baiser Vole edp
… But I could go on!!!
Oh, good list!
you piqued my interest with SSS Encens Lavande….(incense lavender? discontinued? please share details
!!!!)
I’m drooling!
Lovely lovely list, and useful for me as I see I share quite a few of your favs. I love Songes, and will sample Eau de Sud.
Thank you.
Bardot: the encens lavande came from a series of incense mods Laurie was working on about 5 or so years ago ? and that I was testing. I was the “I don’t really like incense” guinea pig. There were a bunch that she was developing, and I think eventually resulted in her launch of incense pure? I don’t remember very well so I apologize if I get this a little wrong. But I was really captivated by the lavender mod. It is the most gorgeous lavender fragrance I’ve ever smelled. I bought a small bottle of it and it goes on HG b/c there is nothing else like it.
Now I know which Goutals I should check out….
Bexca – you should check out all of them, lol! There is a lot to pick from AG!!! Like I said: I have more bottles from AG by far than any other house.
Iris and Sandalwood – two of my favourite notes! You must smell great
I’ll have to try this.
One of the few swoon at first sniff fragrances for me, and I still adore it.
When did you first sniff it and swooned at it? Wonderful word to swoon, I like the Dutch equivalent: in katzwijm vallen…(whatever a katzwijm is
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SOTD is Guerlain Idylle. I layered it with the lotion–so pretty!!
I’m going to the movies today to see Cinderella with my daughter. I was careful not to overspray
Hermes week continues, today I’m wearing Cuir d’Ange which I’ve truly fallen for. My favorite leather and is catching up to Vetiver Tonka as a fave Hermessence.
SOTD for another cool, yet sunny – spring may be here soonish – kind of days: vintage Fendi Asja.
Wearing Atelier’s new Mandarine Glaciale and finding that I am enjoying it more with every wearing. Getting lots of compliments on it too.
No 5 Eau Premiere. I bought a bottle six years ago. The love endures.
Eau Premiere is indeed awesome. The older version is just so perfect. I need to get a backup bottle!!!
AnnS, I’m so glad now that I bought the huge bottle. At the time I felt kind of silly for doing so. I had no idea that they would reformulate it.
Really, this is a bottle I would take if I were stranded on a desert island and could only have 5 perfumes.
Ditto that – I got the 5 oz bottle too b/c at first it was the only one they released. I kept thinking that I shouldn’t bother to buy a backup b/c it is so much. But now I regret that. I still have a lot of it, but they changed the formula, blah. What is wrong with them! It is one of my go-to frags.
Terracotta showed up last night and I’ve been wearing it ever since. The SO even liked it, which is a huge compliment considering how uncommon that is.
Oh, that bodes well for my blind buy that is scheduled for delivery tomorrow
I hope it ends up working out for you!
Diptyque Eau d’Elide today, trying to remember to use my decants.
This one is strange. I love the juicy orange and the spices, but at the beginning there’s a slightly queasy note… finally worked it out.. roast pork! So aside from the greasy pork moment which is a bit sickening, i do rather like this oddball discontinued Diptyque
Roast pork. That is very curious. I get a “fried food” accord in the base of some of Andy Tauer’s fragrances.
Yech! I can’t even imagine that! Lol
I love Eau d’Elide but I don’t get any piggy associations with it. Just odd lavender.
LOL – I can’t remember which perfume offhand, but there’s one in The Guide that reminded Tania Sanchez of Vietnamese beef salad.
Tiziana Terenzi White Fire today for a visit to the vet. It starts with quite a bold (but clean) jasmine, musk and green notes but settles quickly to a nice background hum of jasmine, amber, and sandalwood.
Ooh, that sounds lovely!
Horrible, drenching rain here today, so I drenched myself in Jour d’Hermes to create a personal little bubble of sunshine.
Jour works so well for personal little bubbles of sunshine!
Wearing L’Occitane Eau Spontanee. It’s fun and fruity, nothing spectacular but nice in the warm weather we are having. According to the box (which has braille on the side – never noticed that on another perfume box!), it is “light with sparkling citrus fruits and bursting with a sweet fruity heart, delicious and spontaneous.” Sounds about right!
Staying with the fig theme in Hermes Un Jardin en Méditerranée. One of my favorites in this line.
My favorite fig!
Scent twins!
I’m actually wearing PdE’s Osmanthus Interdite!
I really like this one out of the group of osmanthus samples I recently purchased. I think this is my favorite.
The flower is so beautiful too.
I would probably rather have a bottle of that than the Keiko Mecheri. Both pretty though…
Premier Figuer lotion from l’artisan + Bulgari Black. I think I must have learned of this combination here?
Regardless, it’s a killer duo. Fig softened and the smokier aspects brought out properly.
It’s Secretly a Rich Lady Wednesday, and I am wearing Encens Mythique. Rats, my chauffeur seems to be running late…
Thats the problem with secrets! No one knows what is going on…
Good Afternoon Everyone!
My SOTD is Byredo Pulp. My sample finally came in a few days ago and I was excited to try it. Again, I have been looking for a fragrance that would “wow” me and I thought this could be the one. It is a nice fragrance, but it didn’t wow me. The descriptions that NST readers use to describe this scent is right on the money. It is totally a “burst” of fruits and is quite “jammy”. I never thought I would say this about any fragrance, but this one is too sweet for me. Nice fragrance, but not FB worthy in my opinion.
Wearing the remains of my Tom Ford Amber Absolue decant today – my husband commented, Wow, that one has a lot of body! (= it is very strong).
I agree! I love it but it’s nuclear!
Enjoying my patchouli on the sweet and playful side today with EL Pleasures Delight, perfect for warming up a chilly and damp spring day. Only a tiny spritz is needed to last all day, but then that seems to be true for many of the EL scents: in terms of sillage and longevity, you sure get a bang for your buck!
Testing Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine on one wrist today, and finding it rather pleasant. The other one is sporting Smell Bent Florist’s Fridge, in honor of the potted hyacinths blooming out. I smellz gud.
Hyacinths! I need a hyacinth perfume, I really do. I will check this one out…
It’s nice. Elizabeth Coudray Jacinthe et Rose is nice too, but softer.
I decided to start early with the figs, so I’m wearing Hermes Un Jardin en Mediterrannee.
Figgy Wednesday!Haha!SOTD the new L’Occitane Iris Bleu/Iris Blanc.I of course wanted to compare it to Iris Silver Mist,but that does seem unfair!Lol.Still,it’s pretty and inoffensive,and I did enjoy the 5-second rooty,orris blast.It does have a nice blackcurrant note!
I couldn’t decide what I was in the mood for but went with Limette 37. Not sure it was the right decision. I keep thinking it smells like someone else’s perfume, if that makes sense.
I did manage to buckle down and do our taxes today so one more crappy task crossed off the list. Oh, and our air conditioner is fixed! Apparently, a wire had come loose and been sucked into the inside unit and the outside blower was forcing the cooled air the wrong way. Does anyone even know if that’s possible? Sounds a bit unlikely to me.
I think I will shower and smear on some Vol de Nuit, a scent that always feels very me.
Vol de Nuit is great, and much easier to wear than the other classic Guerlains.
Yep. I loooove Mitsouko but for comfortable wearability VdN wins every time. I haven’t fallen for any of the others, although I’m sure it’s just a matter of time
I’m in Passion Fruit, Orange Blossom, and Vetiver from Dame Perfumery Scottsdale today in honor of the beautiful warm spring day! It’s a very fresh, “spring green” fragrance, especially in the first hour of wear: lots of brightly astringent (rather than super sweet) orange blossom, tart/sweet passionfruit (not honeyed or overripe or candied/jammy), and grass-green vetiver (in contrast to the earthy/dark variety). There are no dark corners here, no indoles peeking through the bright green/white/sunshine of this blend; don’t get me wrong, I loves me some skank, but it’s a nice change of pace in my fragrance wardrobe–a pop of neon in a field of dusky plums, deep roses, burgundy reds, and smoky greys
I feel like there is a conspiracy to get me to the Dame Perfumery website. I can feel my bank account cringing in anticipation.
Come to the dark side, we have Black Flower Mexican Vanilla
SOTD = SL Chergui
I gassed myself with it this morning and I am still enveloped in its honeyed tobacco ambery goodness. Love!