Welcome to another week! And it's Salvador Dali's birthday. What fragrance are you wearing to celebrate?
At the moment, I am commando. My lily of the valley are in bloom, and I have a small glass full of them on my desk. That's enough fragrance for the moment!
Reminder: this Friday, 15 May, will be Fake Flanker Friday — wear a perfume that doesn't have a flanker but should, and tell us what the flanker should be called and what it should smell like.
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.
Having been away for a week it feels nice to be able to join in again with my SOTD. It’s Vanille Intense, which is not PdN’s finest perhaps but fun to wear all the same.
I love the scent of real LOTV, so I can appreciate not wanting to blend that scent with perfume.
Welcome back!
It is amazing how well the original Diorissimo captures it, though! Every year when they bloom I am reminded.
Well I didn’t want to bring up your favourite again. But you are absolutely right. I own a small amount of vintage Diorissimo that I occasionally steal a sniff of.
SOTD is Freschiiissimo which has been my packing scent and also to symbolize a fresh start since it is my newest scent.
Nice to have a fragrance for a fresh start, esp. one so perfectly named!
I like your thinking!
Having a rough Monday so I indulged in Carnal Flower.
Sorry, hope the CF is making it better…
Every little bit helps
Since it’s Dalí’s birthday, I’m wearing a vintage-ish (10-year-old?) splash of his namesake fragrance, which is so fantastically good. I hate to think of his last years (a lot of terrible things happened to him) but I’m pretending he had a hand in the scent, since he was still alive when it was launched: I bet he made them put ocelot pee in it or something.
Oh, perfect!
I had no idea he even had a namesake perfume. I just looked it up and it sounds really nice.
The sales bumf at the time was that he had actually contributed to the making of the perfume, which I now know to be almost certainly untrue: he most likely just lent his name to it to make some money, which is nothing to be ashamed of, particularly since he never made any secret of his love of celebrity and money — he used “Avida Dollars” as a pseudo-pseudonym (it’s an anagram of his name, “avida” meaning “greedy”).
bumf! perfect word, hee-hee! I bet it makes the marketing people cringe.
Guerlain Iris Ganache, and for the millionth time, I want to know why it was discontinued and if they’ll ever bring it back. One of the great discontinuation tragedies in my opinion.
Totally agree on this. Iris Ganache is one of my all time favorite scents
It’s warm (70s) but grey and overcast, and I was a little sad about it being Monday so I went with the slightly melancholic Iris Poudre. And I’m wearing purple
That picture of Dali is awesome!
Agree about the Dali pic. He was so wonderfully weird!
Amouage Sunshine
Inspired by the huge bunch of lilac my dad gave me from his yard, I put on Aerin Lilac Path. I’ll probably switch it up later though as this scent usually starts to irritate me after a while. It’s kind of like cheesecake for me – too much of a good thing.
Concentre d’Orange Verte (Hermes).
I do love that fragrance!
I am flying out for vacation this evening so I thought a bit of vintage En Avion was in order.
Ah, I’m envious of both the vacation and the En Avion – you smell great!
Congratulations on the fresh flowers, Robin. Nice.
My SOTD is Stila Creme Bouquet.
I love lotv, and they spread so nicely every year! We started with a tiny clump and now have a decent patch…
I would like to plant some of those, but I read that they are so poisonous, I am afraid my chickens or my ponies would think they were a special forbidden snack and get sick…
I’ve read the leaves and flowers are poisonous to dogs, cats, and horses. Even the smallest amount ingested can significantly damage a cat’s kidneys. Which is why this is, unfortunately, a flower I can never cut and enjoy inside, only through open windows. To a cat, there is no such place as ‘out of reach!’
I remember when Creme Bouquet was very popular but for some reason I’ve never tried it. Just looked up the notes, it sounds lovely, pretty bottle, too, and I didn’t know it had a lilac note.
I wish that I had that pretty bottle! I only have the rollerball.
Wearing Boxeuses, which, so far, is the first SL fragrance that has actually spoken to me.
Thierry Mugler Angel Sucree
One of the Berry College eaglets I’ve been ‘watching’ since February just fledged, started off my morning with this pic of his first flight and wanted to share. Can’t you just feel his joy?
https://www.facebook.com/berrycollegeeagles/photos/a.220624758101436.1073741830.220202244810354/454805318016711/?type=1
I’m treasuring simple joys today with philosophy Falling In Love.
Thank you for sharing this, Laila. What a breathtaking picture. It lifts my spirits.
This little eaglet was sitting on a branch near his nest when the branch broke and he fell 15′ below to another branch, stayed there for a day or two as he couldn’t get back to his nest, then decided it was ‘now or never’ and took off for his first flight! Watchers have said he’s slowly working his way back to his nest (I guess they come and go for awhile even once they’ve fledged) and still learning how to land. Meanwhile his sibling sits alone on a branch near the nest testing his wings and preparing for his first flight. I find it totally fascinating!
I saw that! What a cliff-hanger!
Hi Laila,
Sharing your love of the wee babies out and about. The back of our house is a small wooded area backed by a tree-covered hill, so we get lots of fledgling birds and baby animals… we have two very small skunks (both we’ve named Cornelius since we cannot tell them apart) and about a dozen of the tiniest squirrels running about. The baby birds are hanging out under the bird feeder while their mamas watch them fiercely. Have to keep the cats belled and locked up when their is too much family time happening out there
Oh, sounds delightful! I love it when the baby birds flutter their wings and open their beaks wide, you can just hear them say, Feed me! Feed me! When I had cats that like to go outside, they were triple-belled and collared and could only go out briefly around midday when all was relatively quiet, so I know what you mean. If they came too near, mom or dad would swoop down and that would take care of them!
Wheeeeeeeeee!!!
So fun to see those wings outspread! I’m glad to hear it is fledgling season. I was wondering because on Friday we had a sparrow fledgling land in our driveway, then launch himself into a parked car’s window. Ouch!
The little thing was stunned and bloodied, so my son put him in a shoe box to rest. He wouldn’t or couldn’t fly away. It was a cold day, so we gave him a nest made from a dishtowel with a heating pad set on low head under the box. By evening it was clear the little birdie wasn’t going anywhere, so we kept him safe overnight with some water and food recommended by our local bird expert.
The next day we took him back to his crash site. He flew into a car again, but then he was able to launch himself into a tree where he hung on and started to squawk like a lost kid. After a few minutes of chirping he attracted the attention of two adult sparrows who swooped over to check him out. They started to feed him, then coaxed him into flying across the street onto a lawn. Pretty soon three young sparrows joined the group, so our rescue effort seemed a success. Hopefully the fledgling was back with his family.
Spring is fraught with so much drama!
Oh, what a sweet story!
SOTD is Violet Blonde on a grey and drizzly Monday.
I love VB – one of my favorite spring perfumes and just right for a drizzly day.
I’m wearing SL Tubereuse Criminelle today – luckily those crazy top notes were gone by the time I got to work, and now I am enjoying the beautiful dry-down.
By the way, when my lily-of-the-valley were blooming (they are just about done now after the recent hot weather) I put a small bouquet on the windowsill in the kitchen and they perfumed the entire house for a day or too. I would sure love to smell vintage Diorissimo, if it really captures the scent of these flowers.
Infusion d’Iris is serving me very well on these summery days. It makes me feel pleasantly alert, if that makes any sense.
LOTV does that to me too. It seems like a stimulating fragrance, as opposed to the ones that lull me into a nice slow trance … vanilla and lavender….
Oh! Is there LOTV in Infusion? I guess I’ve been missing it. Will analyze again now…
I don’t get much LOTV in Infusion – you just said it waked you up, and I was just saying I have that response in general to LOTV, as opposed to Iris. Iris just makes me feel cheerful, but not alert, the way LOTV does…
Sorry I didn’t communicate successfully!
Nope – my misreading, so no worries at all.
Always good to have an invigorating scent or two. I should probably acquire another….but any excuse to acquire another is a good one, isn’t it?
I am happy to enable the acquisition of new scents, for therapeutic usage, of course!
I think the reason IdI makes me more alert is that it has vetiver in it. Whenever I need to feel put together and capable I wear vetiver scents. They tend to make me more productive. I’v also realized I’m extra resistant to going to sleep when I’m still smelling vetiver. Has to be replaced with lavender…
I’m not sure I’v had that effect with LOTV, but I will keep a watch for it!
(To clarify – I think IdI does have quite a pronounced vetiver note. Iris does not have this effect on me
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I think it was you that was talking about the invigorating effects of vetiver the other day, and I made a mental note to try this. I’m always so tired, so I’m hoping it works.
Thanks Merlin!
It sounds like IdI is helping to do the job! Guerlain’s vetiver is more pronounced and astringent, so probably props me up a bit more
I’m very dozy in the day, so I need all the help I can get… Glad something is helping you!
There is a distinct change in the season, so I am wearing the summery BP PC01.
SOTD = DSH Oeillet Rouges, cheerful red carnations to spice up a grinding Monday, short some essential coworkers…
Thumbs up on your OR.
I have a decant of Bel Respiro in my bag so I can refresh when it starts to fade (which is often). It is lovely for spring though, and I send thanks to the nice NST swapper who sent it to me!
I love Bel Respiro! It’s a great spring/summer scent. You smell great
I completely agree with you and Jenkr, Bel Respiro is lovely.
Robin, you just gave me an idea to grab some of the lily of the valley I found growing at the side of my garage this weekend to bring indoors. They smell wonderful. In fact, my whole yard smells wonderful. Is it kinda sad I’ve been so generally busy that I had no idea what plants were all growing around my yard? I took some time this weekend to look at them and found hyacinths irises, and tulips along the side of the house. Then there’s more irises and I think we’ve got some lavender ready to bloom in the back flower beds. Some other white flowers I couldn’t identify – actually two different kinds but one might be snow drops. Lots of ferns, magnolia trees (too young to bloom yet), several azalea bushes in front and back, a white flowering dogwood tree up front. And then I found the surprise batch of lily of the valley hiding behind another azalea bush on the side of the garage away from the house. Also, there’s a ridiculous amount of lilac trees in the neighborhood. I went for a run last week and I was constantly getting wafts of lilac as I ran.
Speaking of… all those lilacs prompted me to put on After My Own Heart by Ineke today, which is a lilac perfume.
Your yard flowers sound so lovely!
I’m glad I took the time to actually get a better look at what was in it. I’ve been so preoccupied with furniture/ painting that I forgot we also have a fully landscaped yard to care for. I’m looking forward to what else pops up that I’ve not noticed yet.
What a delight to move into a fully landscaped yard! I can only dream. My yard will always be a challenge b/c of the shallow rocky soil. But I have nice trees.
SO nice.
And wafts of lilac are heavenly.
They really are. I was so enamored with them that I made the fiance take a walk with me last night in the neighborhood so he could smell them as well.
I know that feeling…you get busy, and boom, the lilacs are over for the year.
Yes! The hyacinths and tulips are already gone from the side of the house unfortunately. They were blooming the week we moved in though and I got a good dosing of their fragrance then. I’m so excited for all the irises now! And even though it’s ridiculously humid/hot today I may still go for another run in the neighborhood to smell those lilacs before they go.
Sounds beautiful! Take the time to discover and enjoy it and remember to breathe deeply. Furniture and painting will always be there waiting, but spring and flowers are too ephemeral to waste!
That is a terrific picture!
SOTD is Amouage Journey Woman.
In SSS’s Jour Ensoleillé from a teensy sample… It is pretty, but I get a strong whiff of that white wood base she uses, which can give several of her fragrances a strong similarity after the initial top notes… Yesterday, being Mother’s Day, I decide to wear the last drops of some vintage Chanel No. 5 extrait (from a decant from STC–sadly not a bottle I owned). My beautiful husband surprised me at brunch with the kids with a bottle of Carnal Flower. I had to put it on and let everyone sniff it… but needless to say Carnal Flower just plonked her curvy flank on top of the No. 5… and that was the end of that… Extinguished without a trace! I love CF, and if there is anyone out there who has not tried it, I have some left over in a decant I’d be happy to pass along!
I would love to try CF! Maybe there is something I can pass along to you in exchange? My email is lisa dot stahl at ymail dot com.
you got it. am emailing u now
Don’t see the email but I’ll check back later . . .
In my genius I left the l off your last name and sent it to G mail instead of Y mail
. Second time ’round should do the trick!
Sorry, still no email. Maybe I could contact you?
Sure. ann dot eisenberg at comcast dot com
:-)!!
Oh dear!!! ann dot eisenberg at comcast dot net
SO SORRY!!
Your visual picture of Carnal Flower vs. No 5 was funny and charming!
And if you can spare another decant, I would love it (and you). Karen dot beadling at gmail dot com. I will let you know what I could offer in return.
The other is a decant/sample I purchased from STC, but I would be happy to decant a sample from my FB for you. Email me at the email above!
Like Robin I am also commando right now because I have a small vase of lilacs on my desk and they have scented my entire home office. Lilacs are at peak today, so a blend of deep purple, light purple and a few white are making me smile. LOTV in our area (Minnesota) are still a little ways off.
I wish I had a true lilac perfume, any suggestions? The ones I’ve smelled always smell so artificial. In real life they are so fragrant, why can’t a decent oil of lilac be found? A spring mystery?
Good question! I would like to know the answer to that as well!
I love DSH White Lilac. En Passant is lovely but SO fleeting on me that I barely get even an hour out of it. I Profumo di Firenze Lilla is very nice (but hard to find and expensive, unfortunately).
Patou Vacances – at least the 80s rerelease – is equal parts green leaves and mostly-lilac tender spring flowers, and it is Just About Perfect according to me.
Can’t wait for my decant of the new version to show up.
I have not done well with Pacifica French Lilac or Ineke After My Own Heart. However, I like a lot of green freshness with my lilac scents, and those don’t really have it. Then there’s Soivohle Lilacs and Heliotrope, which I find really heady. I almost can’t breathe if I’m wearing that one (and don’t even know if it’s still in production at Soivohle or not).
I do well with DSH scents – I’ll ask for a white lilac sample when I buy my bottle of Oeillets Rouges…soon, very soon, my sample of that is almost gone…
How is the Firenze “Lilla” different from their “Lilla Serenella,” or is it different at all?
Um… I think it may have been an earlier incarnation? My sample was from 2009, via a friend who bought a bottle – it’s possible she didn’t include the last part of the name. Or maybe they just *changed* the name, I don’t know.
Lilacs are hard to re-create but from the first test I thought Desarment was pretty realistic.
I’ve tried most lilac fragrances and my favorite by far is the d/c Yves Rocher Pur Desir de Lilas (Annick Menardo), just pure lilac with a touch of almond, but then I prefer soliliflores of the flowers I love most. Alfred Sung d/c Sha is a lovely, soft white flower bouquet with a predominant lilac note that my favorite of the non-soliliflores..
Has anyone tried Highland Lilac of Rochester? https://www.highlandlilac.com/
Had a sample. Didn’t like. But as I said, I like my lilac soliflores with lots of leaves and a bit of dew in them, and the Highland was almost soapy.
Continuing on with some unworn fragrances I am wearing Jacomo Silences. I haven’t worn this since last spring or summer. I really love it. Other than #8, are there any other Jacomo favorites out there? I never hear anything about any other than those two.
Because when “Silences” speaks, we all obey!
Love her!
Jacomo Parfum Rare / Coeur de Parfum (same perfume with different names over time) and Eau Cendree are amazing.
Hello everybody! Facing the new week with my second mug of Earl Grey.
SOTD: Private Collection by Estee Lauder. There is something about the green and herbs that calms me.
p.s. I agree. That picture is pretty awesome.
Gosh, it’s been a while since I had a chance to comment on my SOTD. Since today is my birthday as well, I thought I could share what fragrance I selected. My SOTD is Wild Fig & Cassis by Jo Malone. It’s kind of a dark, woodsy kind of scent. It is appropriate for the type of day I am having. Had to go in shut-down mode at my job today (I am a school counselor) because of a tornado warning coming our way, I had 3 students who flipped out this morning that I had to deal with, and to top things off, the other counselor didn’t come in today. So, I am responsible for the well-being of 1200 students on my campus! Birthdays aren’t supposed to be this way.
Happy Birthday anyway! I hope your day turns around later.
Aw, that sounds dreadful. I hope the day turns around.
Happy Birthday !
Good luck with your panicky students. I hope you’ll get a perfect opportunity to celebrate very soon!
Hope Wild Fig & Cassis lends you all the warmth you need! Happy birthday – I’m sure the students really appreciate you spending it the way you are. Hopefully you have a more celebratory evening!
Happy Birthday! Tornado warnings are scary. Hope your day gets better from here
Yikes. That is a hectic birthday. Do something special for yourself this evening!
Happy Birthday! I hope your day has gotten better and that you can celebrate yourself another day!
Oh my, what a job! Hope you treated yourself to a new bottle of JM for your b-day.. and hope it turns out better than it started
Ugh. I say you do your birthday all over again this weekend.
Good idea!
I hope that you at least had a safe birthday and that you can treat yourself to something fun soon.
Finally it’s super hot and sunny – not normal spring weather for us. I gave myself a liberal spray down of Cristalle edt. I’m totally loving it.
My hand was hovering above my Chanel tray, moving between Cristalle edt and Bel Respiro. Since my Bel Respiro is portable and I’m at work today, it won out. Cristalle tomorrow…
Bel Respiro is great in hot weather too. I’d probably wear it more if I had more than my small decant.
Today had a rough start, after being up in the night with one of my kids. I wanted comfort, so went with l’Ambre des Merveilles, layered over the shower gel. I thought it might be too rich for the clear sunny skies, but it feels right. Maybe when I’ve finally woken up I’ll switch to something else.
Warm and sunny here too… I’ve got sheets hanging on the clothesline and a dab of BK Sweet Redemption (flowers AND candy!) on my wrists.
And my daughter comes home from college tonight. Just for a couple of weeks before she heads on to her summer internship, but still. I’ve missed her.
I love hanging out linens. I need to wait a few more weeks until the tree pollen is all gone….
It sounds like the return of your daughter is going to be a slightly late mother’s day treat!
Finally, finally it’s warm in Brussels. I arrived from Tallinn this morning and hoped to smell Jour d’Hermes Gardenia at the airport, but they didn’t have it yet, so I sprayed myself generously with Monsieur Li. I really like that one.
Lily of the valley is a childhood scent for me, my grandmother used to grow the flowers (and my mother still does). As a child, I used to draw them all the time, I thought they looked perfect. I love the scent in nature, in perfume not so much – although I’ve had some lovely moments woth Diorissimo.
I finally got some LOTV pips started in my yard this year. I would love a carpet of them in my woody garden. I don’t enjoy wearing LOTV very much, but I certainly do like the plants and flowers.
We’ve had ours in place for years, and some years they’ve spread more than others. And took them a few years to spread at all…
Lucky you – I’v heard that Tallinn is beautiful!
It is nice, yes. Not quite Paris or Prague, but it’s interesting and diverse and manageable. For me it’s been home for many years: I grew up in the Eastern part of the country, near the Russian border, but went to work in Tallinn straight from the university. Now I go there once a month or so, but I’ll hopefully return in five years.
What sounds so exquisitely exotic to someone on the other side of the world, is interesting, diverse and manageable’ to the person who actually lives there.
Li is lovely isn’t it? I was very pleasantly surprised, as I didn’t like du Toit much, and something about Jour is really jarring to my nose.
You know what it reminded me of a little? Eau du Lude.
I really, really like it – it’s definitely my favourite of the gardens together with Sur le Nil. Must compare with Eau du Lude.
I didn’t sniff them side by side, trying it on in a small Séphora in France it sort of sprang to mind; this is a bit like Lude. Probably the green and the jasmine.
I still think Mousson is my favourite, but when I wear Nil I like it a lot as well.
I love reading about how everyone is perfuming their houses with fresh flowers.
Wearing Jo Malone Grapefruit today. It’s already worn off. Will have to apply something else.
Kouros and Demeter Paperback. Mad scientist type stuff over here.
Ha ha – yes!
That is a really interesting combination. Mad scientist, indeed! I like your style.
Yes! I don’t know either scent, (though I must have smelled Kouros at some point) but it still sounds fabulous.
Thanks! I’d have bet that the boy would eat the book for breakfast, but after battling it out up top, a bunch of licorice reigned over the double heart, and civet danced with binding glue in the base. Quite a ride.
Yes, that is unexpected – given the reputation of Kouros!
Another gray and chilly morning here in SD (we seem to be having the opposite weather as the rest of the country lately). So I reached for another vanille – Creed Sublime Vanille from a sample. Still looking for my Un Bois Vanille sample and have some in my cart at fragrancenet – it’s super cheap right now!
Did you get much of that massive snow? That’s usually the weather we have for this time of year, lol! I hope at least, you have some nice ground water for spring after it all melts.
No snow here in San Diego! And we would love some groundwater but that isn’t happening due to our crazy drought – it did rain a little last week, so that was nice.
Oops – I thought SD was South Dakota. My bad. I wish you water too….
Well, SD is correct abbreviation for South Dakota so you are right – apparently my SoCal attitude makes me too lazy to spell out San Diego
Checking out FragranceNet right now! I need a BUB
Happy to enable! Almost got one on ebay recently, but this is about the same price and without all the pain of bidding and waiting!
For Mini Monday, and continuing Bottle Porn, I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka from the most adorable tiny purple apple bottle. Even if the scent weren’t nice (and it is), that bottle is irresistable.
On my last day in Seattle, I’m wearing Eau Premiere and (thanks to my brother) drinking Upton Teas’ Sacher Blend Scented Darjeeling, which has bergamot and vanilla. It’s Shalimar tea!
How have you enjoyed your visit?
It’s been great! My brother and sister-in-law are two of my favorite people, so I’ve really enjoyed spending time with them. The trip has been a good mix of planned activities (like a They Might Be Giants concert and a Mariners game) and just hanging out and enjoying the weather and good food.
Wonderful! Glad to hear it
Ohhhh, I love They Might Be Giants and baseball! What fun!
Shalimar tea! Oh, I must try!
Cashmere Mist Liquid Nude – an old friend for this dreary Monday.
SOTD = Dame Perfumery Black Flower Mexican Vanilla
It’s my first wearing and I like it. It is not my favorite vanilla but for its price, it is very satisfying.
I like this quite a bit. What do you like better than this?
Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille
Il Profumi di Firenze Vaniglia del Madagascar
VC&A Orchidee Vanille
Indult Tihota
Le Labo Vanille 44
Tommi Sooni II
Dior Addict
My Inner Island Vaniglia Sopraffna e Rhum
Dior Feve Delicieuse (no FB yet)
I’m probably forgetting something but as good as BFMV is, it is middle of the pack good but you can’t beat the pricepoint.
I really wanted to fall head over heels in love with it but there’s too much competition out there.
I hsven’t sniffed most of those, but SDV is my favorite Vanilla.
Hajusuuri, have you tried the Jacques Zolty Van-ile yet? I think it’s really good, and I know you’re a vanilla fan.
Not yet…i may have to buy a 100 ml sample
I went with Un Jardin en Mediterrannee today. I’ve never smelled actual LOTV plants, or lilacs for that matter. Neither of those grow around here, as far as I know. I finally got to smell a magnolia up close recently. The scent doesn’t seem to carry very far, so when I see them in trees around neighborhoods, I can never actually smell them. But I was at a nursery and saw dwarf trees that were in bloom, and at perfect sniffing height. So I got a good sniff.. and then circled back around a couple of times to sniff some more.
Layering:
Am wearing NEST “Wasabi and Pear’ Body and Soul spray. It’s very light, with a fruity, ozonic sort of smell that is perfect for after working out in the mornings. Does not last- it’s just enough to perk you up, and that’s it.
I just applied Gardenia by Chanel, which is perfect on top of the barely there fruitiness of the morning.
The day started out with a dense grey sky and oppressively high humidity here in the DC area, temps hovering around 80 and no breeze whatsoever. I couldn’t figure out what fragrance might alleviate the density in the air, and the thought of perfume made me feel vaguely nauseous. Then the sun broke out, we had a rain shower in full sun, and I spritzed on Monsieur Li. I find it interesting, very much like a sophisticated version of Demeter’s Dandelion. However, I may not be accurate at all, as this is the third perfume I’ve tested in the last three days, and my first reaction to each was an itchy nose and the allergic salute performed for a couple of hours after application. I have no idea if I am experiencing some sort of allergic response that is manifesting due to what is obviously a high pollen count here, or if there’s some common ingredient that’s triggering this response. Gosh, I hope it goes away.
It could easily be the pollen, which would also be exploding during the morning. Let’s hope it’s not perfume!
I’ve been testing Bogue Maai. It reminds me of VP Onda extrait, but drier and cooler, almost an incense fragrance. I’m glad someone is doing perfumes like this. Some have said why not just buy vintage perfume for less, but I don’t find Maai to be vintage simulation.
Ah, I am interested in trying this Maai. What does it seem like to you?
Reviewers are calling it a chypre, but to me, it’s not that easily categorized. Although tuberose is one of the ingredients, I would not categorize it as a floral, either. flathorn on basenotes describes it as an evocative perfume, like Djedi and vintage L’Heure Bleu, and I’d say it is like those two in being complex but subtle, with the notes blended into a whole.
That reminds me that I have a sample of Maai at home that has been sadly neglected because I suspect it’s not quite right for an office environment. Testing it out shoots right to the top of my to-do list for when I get home this evening.
SOTD is Knot.. lasts all day and I love it for that reason alone!
Growing up we had quite a crop of LOTV down the street under a huge oak tree and I loved going here and picking one-by-one a huge handful for mom. Such a gorgeous smell and so pretty too.
SotD has been mandarin essential oil. It’s my lucky essential oil for the year of the sheep.
http://australianperfumejunkies.com/2015/03/04/lucky-essential-oils-chinese-year-goat-sheep/
I’ve been inhaling this all day. It smells divine. Usually it gives me a lift, but today it is so satisfying I want to take a bite out of it.
Citrus scents tend to make my mouth water!