Welcome to Flirty Friday! Our community project for today: wear a flirty fragrance (whatever that means to you).
As always, do tell us your fragrance of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
My pick: Christian Dior Eau Sauvage, the smell of crisp sheets and money.
Reminder: on Friday 5 June we're doing British niche....wear something from Ormonde Jayne, Penhaligon's, Miller Harris, Floris, or any other British niche brand.
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 roseate spoonbill courtship dance [background color removed] by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters at flickr; some rights reserved.
I forgot to flirt. I’m wearing Narciso, though, in the frosted white bottle and it’s sort of flirty, or sensual, anyway, I guess. Enjoy your Eau Sauvage!
Hey, I think that qualifies!
And you smell great!
This has been the most difficult theme for me so far – I just couldn’t think of anything among my scents that would say ‘flirty’ to me. In the end, I’m in Apres l’Ondee, because:
1) I just felt like wearing it
2) I’m sure it was considered the hight of flirtiness a century ago.
I’m curious to see what others have picked.
Maybe we should have just done “sexy” — that seems clearer for many people!
I see flirty and sexy is very distinct categories. Would have gone for a totally different perfume for “sexy”!
I agree. And I wasn’t complaining – I very much enjoy the themes that motivate me to wear things I otherwise wouldn’t. It was simply a failure of imagination on my part.
I think I agree… “flirty” has to do with appreciating someone else’s attractiveness, with a sense of fun, in my book.
Oh, for sexy I’d have dug out something with civet. “Flirty” is lighter, less of a commitment. It’s the sidelong glance rather than the “come-hither” look.
Yes, agree with both you and Mals. I see flirty as girly (or boyish), superficial, harmless.
Oh, agree they’re different. Just meant people seem more sure what is sexy than what is flirty.
Crisp sheets and money – LOL!
I planned to wear Aimez-Moi because it smells very girly and flirty and because of the name. But today I just did not feel like using it. I sprayed Narciso Rodfriguez For Her EDP instead. For me, it is a sensual, intimate fragrance. Besides it has rose, musk, peach and a pink bottle.:)
Aimez Moi is totally flirty!
“Flirty” to me sounds like fruity-floral so I’m wearing DSH Pretty & Pink.
I took the theme rather literally, so I’m wearing Caligna. It says “to flirt” on the bottle!
I’m flirting with disaster…? Not really, I’m just spritzing on some vintage No. 22, not knowing if it’s parfum or what, when it might get a bit warm out today. Very exciting!
No 22 is very flirty -I could wear that with a drink a sophisticated drink in hand
Yes, indeed!
You smell gorgeous. I am getting to know no 22 and I am falling for it.
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You raise an interesting pointing! Flirting with whom or what?
Flirting with fame?
Flirting with fire?
Flirting with plan B?
I have fragrances for all of these, or at least I would like to.
No 22 vintage parfum is divine! Definitely flirty, too – I wish I’d thought of it.
No flirty frags in my inventory, at least I don’t consider any of them flirtatious, but my SOTD is Au Masculin Fraicheur (Lolita Lempicka). Happy Friday! 🙂
Carnal Flower for me. I wanted to see which one I like better, PG Tub.Couture or CF and I can’t really decide.
I’d wear Prada Candy if it was colder, because that’s what I was wearing the last time I felt flirty.
I’m still debating between Worth’s Courtesan, which is pretty flirty to the outright skank of Bal a Versailles. Maybe Shalimar would be a good comprimise.
I went with Bal a Versailles today! Less of a flirtation than a guarantee, perhaps, but to the same general point.
Bal a Versailles seems more to me less like flirtation and more like a direct order. “You. In the bedroom. Now.”
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Retro-modern flirting! I was just talking with someone about hook up culture, and thinking how long Bal has been around. (Insert Eartha Kitt purr sound here) 😉
Yes, BaV is the fragrance for sealing the deal. Major seduction.
Love by Killian-
Not one that I reach for on a daily basis but there is something I find very flirty and fun about this one.
Wearing La Chasse aux papillons today although I can’t smell it due to having a severe head cold. I’m even wearing a skirt today (highly rare for me).
You went all in!!
Well, everyone around you got a real treat. Hope you feel better soon.
I went with Eau de Cartier Goutte de Rose which, being a pink and fruity rose, is the flirtiest thing I own. I don’t wear it too often, as it’s not really my style, but every time I do I like it a lot.
Escale a Portofino, because it’s fresh and a little sweet and very approachable – it whispers “come closer” (rather than purring it … or shouting it). Happy Friday! 🙂
Come closer on a double wide hammock!
On the cliffs overlooking the deep blue of the ocean – definitely! 🙂
I once wore (discreetly) a scent at work that a fragrance-hating co-worker couldn’t get enough of. She declared it “flirty”, although I think a better descriptor is “suave, but not in a cheesy way”. But flirty it is, to at least one person: today I’m wearing L’Instant de Guerlain Pour Homme. It’s so incredibly good.
Make that at least two people! I love love love the smell of L’Instant Pour Homme.
I bought it for my boyfriend…
Oh hey, I must try it! Don’t care for the girls’ version.
I think of flirty and it makes me think of fruity. I am probably too old for this (in my 50’s), but decided on Escada Turquoise Summer. Not sure I am crazy about it, but I think it would be nice on a younger person.
I really wanted to wear No 5 Eau Premiere today! It’s flirty in comparison to No 5 edt, to my nose. It’s playful and less serious.
Eau Premiere flirts with a few good and promising side-long glances!
Lol! Good one, Ann S.
I had not even checked what the category was today, but I am wearing an Armani Prive Suzhou mini which was a gift from Sniffapoolaza.
It is more sugary than flirty, and in fact much sweeter than I would usually chose. But then again, I generally do not like sweet scents.
The perfume is supposed to be inspired by Chinese Gardens. I don’t know why Hermes and Armani have both chosen this year to represent Chinese Gardens with very sweet scents. I associate Chinese Art as sometimes delicate but not particularly sweet, (even the flower paintings). I know that some Chinese restaurants in the US serve rather sweet dishes but I think that tends to be an adjustment to American tastes. If anyone has any insight I’d like to know.
Anyway back to the fragrance, beneath the sweetness lies a peach scent and a bit of peony. I would recommend this as a sophisticated sweet tooth perfume, particularly to that mythical young girl who is still in the phase of life where all things should be sweet and girlie, but somehow has acquired a luxury department store charge card and a budget for Prive scents.
Too hot here to be flirty today.
So I went all kinds of tropical drink/dessert with CSP Coco Figue.
It’s a totally non-serious, feel good scent that gets a lot of use in heat and humidity. It’s an edt but one spritz lasts all day on me. Totally great bang for my buck.
Happy Friday!
Flirty: Fruity with a wink, charming but classy and 50+ appropriate…In love again by YSL. Besides blackcurrent, and cassia, peony and rose, I get a whiff of fig, fits the flirty I suppose. Have a lovely weekend all.
TGIF!!!
SOTD: Narcisco Rodriguez for Her.
I am 200% anosmic to this. You can spray me with water and I can’t tell the difference. 🙁 But since it’s to flirt, I guess it’s more important to the person smelling it (hopefully he is not anosmic to it too…)
I am also 200% anosmic to this, thought I was the only one!
I bet there are more of us out there!
I think its quite amazing in the sense that they added many types of musk molecules (7, I think) to try and cover the anosmia base but still there are people like us that just can’t smell a thing!
I can’t smell it either, and it actually makes my throat close so I avoid it.
Now I’m intrigued that so many people are anosmic to it! Will have to try it!
For Flirty Friday I picked Wit. It’s light, pretty, and says, “Come closer and sniff me.”
That’s a good one for the theme!
Thumbs up!
I’m such a sucker for Wit. I hadn’t thought of it as “flirty,” but since it’s one of my faves I’m glad to see that some read it as such. 🙂
I really wanted to wear Chinatown but it hasn’t been unpacked yet so instead I’m wearing JHAG Moon Dance which is pretty and lush
Flirty made me think fruity floral so I’m wearing Scarlet Larkspur from Ineke’s Floral Curiosities collection. I smell of cheerful floral cherry shampoo but it is a pleasant scent.
Actually, we were without power for about ten hours after the latest storm blew through and it wasn’t quite cool enough in the house to be comfortable so a fruity fresh scent is probably the best idea for me today anyway.
Flirty today for me is SL La Fille de Berlin. I’ve been hording my decant – soon to be replaced by a full bottle. It is a seductive purring rose for sure.
Ann-
I have been curious what that is like. Is it anything like Stella or would it be more on the order of Jo Malone Red Roses. It may not be like either one, but I have smelled those two.
It’s better than those. And more potent but in a good way, not bad..that’s all I can add. Even though the question wasn’t directed at me. lol. It’s a must sample.
Thanks Omega. I enjoy Stella, but JM Red Roses is not my cup of tea so if it was like that I wasn’t going to sample.
Hi Kris: LFdB is different than Stella, but kind of in the same category, generally as a spicy oriental rose. There is no significant amber or patchouli in LFdB – it is a very rich, liquor-y, but sweet rose, with a nice lightly spicy musky drydown. The musk is very light (I don’t like a lot of musk), but it gives it a cashmere quality – very tactile. I like and own Stella, but it’s more linear. LFdB has more dimension. They aren’t really the same b/c LFdB is more complex. I can see Stella being a kind of stepping stone to LFdB. On the other hand, JM Red Roses is definitely more of a soliflore “green” fresh florist rose. Not even close, nothing else going on. I think Red Roses is fine (esp. for layering), but LFdB is an oriental with a much richer and more interesting accords and development.
Thanks so much for the information. I think I may have to get a sample.
It’s really well done. Good luck!
“Flirty” made me immediately think of Fracas, so that is my SOTD. (This is pretty heavy flirting, so maybe its a good thing I do not have to go in to the office today.)
“Pretty heavy flirting” – yep. 🙂 (In a good way.)
Good call!
SOTD is Eau de Merveilles, because my fiancé loves it, and it smells sexy (almost literally!), so that’s as flirty as I could think of on my very early morning.
Funny story, yesterday I was wearing Bronze Goddess and I received a compliment from a sales man in an sportswear store who said I smelled nice, like fig! I guess if the milkyness of the fig can be perceived as coconut, the opposite can happen as well. Ha! I also thought it was quite unusual for someone who’s not necessarily into perfume to recognize a fig scent.
Eau des Merveilles is exactly what I think of when I think of flirty. I remember it as effervescent. I’m going to buy some one of these days…when I have work again!
Yes, I felt flirty, but in a proper adult way, when I wore this. My little sample drained too fast, and I haven’t bought any more, but I love it.
I am wearing Parfums de Rosine Rose Kashmirie, as I get a lot of compliments and and positive comments about it from other people, and it seems to be the one that men notice the most when I have it on.
Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Centaure which is a little smoky jasmine with a lovely balsamic background and enough mint and lavender to smell fresh without smelling “fresh.”
This sounds really interesting – I’ve not heard of it. I’ll have to check this out.
Ditto!
Thierry Mugler Angel Eau Sucree is my fun, flirty scent for today.
I would have worn that, too, but unfortunately don’t have any.
Excellent flirty choice! Eau Sucree is so much fun!
I wore it yesterday! I may need to layer a non sweet gourmand to get more oomph.
My choice for Flirty Friday is Rochas Tocade (pre-2013 reformulation). Prelude to the scent itself is its very name – whim, fancy, infatuation – and its bottle (that perfumistas love to hate but I unapologetically enjoy). It’s a bit silly and over-the-top but has the whimsy I love. Tocade is cheerful, optimistic, playful -and, yes, a bit loud – but she’s well-intentioned and having a good time for the day. Friday is always Fun Day, and her serious side remains at home.
Vintage Tocade is SUPER fun. The bottle tells you all you need to know about what’s inside. I never smelled it reformulated because I knew it wouldn’t be good.
I totally agree!
Tocade, yes, very flirty! like a sorority girl with a few Mai Tais in her.
Great description!
I had a boyfriend who loved Tocade. Sadly, I donated my bottle to Goodwill in a cleaning frenzy a few years ago. I hadn’t worn it in a long long time. Wish I had it back now.
I love the bottle too. Unfortunately, the perfume smells like scorched plastic to me. (Stupid nose.) Lucky you, you can enjoy both!
Anne Pliska EdP today seemed perfect. Thanks to the NSTer who taught me about this one. Its coy wink is somewhat wasted on my off-day back in the office computer training, but I have high hopes for later!
Wearing Jasmine de Nuit, which does seem to purr.
I was thinking about wearing Songes edp again today b/c there is that super sensual jasmine/skank part in it. Jasmine definitely has the “night moves”!
It is cold out, and I feel fat. Trying to work up to flirty…flirting with anything seems quite beyond me right now. The curmudgeon in me wants to wear Tea for Two, but I am going to stick to my plan of Good Girl Gone Bad (as if!). 👿
I’m in Good Girl Gone Bad, too, which I do believe is the flirtiest thing I have. Flirty name, flirty bottle, flirty fruity/floral.
I’m liking it and my husband’s eyebrow went up. Still much prefer Imperial Tea or Love and Tears if I’m going to choose among his fragrances, but this is nice.
Your husband’s eyes went up? Oh that makes me feel better. Nothing worse than being a grouch while smelling like a peach… I’m working up to “reserved” which is not exactly flirty, but it is the right direction.
I haven’t sniffed the two other Killian you mentioned. Will do so next opportunity!
Yeah, he did that “I’m intrigued” eyebrow lift thing. I make him sniff absolutely everything I put on and this is about as close to “I like it” as I’ve seen. I basically wear whatever I want regardless, but it’s nice to have someone’s opinion (even if I toss it aside promptly).
Imperial Tea is fantastic if you like the smell of jasmine tea. I happen to think jasmine tea is the greatest smell on earth, so I was sold. Problem, of course, is that the fragrance is fleeting and the bottles are expensive. Someday I’ll own it and spray with wild abandon, but that day ain’t today.
Love and Tears is a very pretty jasmine. Not quite as smashing as Imperial Tea to me, but pretty all the same.
Good girls who have gone bad only feel voluptuous!
Oh, I’ve had many of those days. I hope it passes soon. 🙂
I love the idea of Eau Sauvage being flirty and smelling like ‘crisp sheets and money’!
I’m wearing Shalimar because of unexpectedly cool weather here. I suppose it could be called flirty by certain metrics. Very intense metrics.
My flirty scent is FM Lipstick Rose. I think I’ll add some magenta lipstick as well.
Thanks for all the words of support yesterday! The news turned out to not be so good (I got laid off) but my situation is ok an I feel lucky and thankful for that. So, I’ll go all out for flirty Friday with a generous application of lipstick rose and bright lips 😉
Wow, what a bunch of hacks. Sounds like your head is on straighter than theirs will ever be. Onward and upward!
I’m so sorry to hear about this, rose pepper. BTW, your former boss is a complete tool for making you wait all day to hear that news.
I agree with both SicilianaNM and mjane3. Your positive attitude will take you past this temporary setback!
I am so sorry you are dealing with this. I love your great attitude. Full colors flying, smelling fantastic, head up. There’s a better work situation out there for you. May you find it, soonest.
Good attitude, although I’m sorry about your bad news. Chin up smelling good is the only way to go. Good luck!
Adding my sympathies, and glad you’re ok.
Sorry about the bad news Rose Pepper. I always try to keep in mind: We’ll see…
So sorry to hear about that. I’m glad it’s not getting you down though. You smell great today!
Sorry to hear about that. Your boss is a schmuck.
Oh, I must have missed this before, sorry to hear such news. Good luck, a better world awaits you! Enjoy the in-between-time.
Ugh! Keep your spirits up. Your ex-boss was a jerk.
Trying vintage Coty Chypre for the first time today, which was lent to me by a friend. I’m not sure I’d call it “flirty.” But the notes in it tease me, appearing and disappearing. Something very animalic. Something oddly peppery, reminiscent of the smell that wafts up when I open the spice drawer. Something assertive that feels very old-fashioned, liked I’d smelled it on the fur collar of my great aunt. (When I understand more about fragrance notes, maybe I’ll be able to specify that note.)
BTW I was just reading the discontinued 2015 list at basenotes – it looks like Agent Provocateur is dumping most of their fragrances. Anyone know what’s happening over there? So if you like Maitresse, L’Agent, etc get ’em while they’re cheap.
I love the community projects that are open to interpretation! Fascinating to read about what everybody picks and why.
I’m in Scent by Costume National – it always makes me feel quite flirty and a bit… frivolous somehow. It’s easy to spray and easily approachable. Which is a good thing as it shakes me out of my old belief that fragrance should be always “intellectual”!
This topic had me stumped. Settled on Neroli Portofino, which to me says walking in the country, sundress slipping off the shoulder. (And easy on the bronchitis.) Really enjoying everyone’s responses on this.
Yeah, I’m stumped too on this one..
Flirty is in the “sexy” territory for me, and as I’m not ready to stop wearing Mohur that’s my choice for today.
So happy it’s Friday! Yay!
Flirty is tough…to me it isn’t sexy exactly or seductive. I think of it as being more girly/playful like a flowery summer sundress. With that in mind, I’ve gone with Flora Nymphea. All tanned limbs and wild flower sweetness.
This is a perfect example of what I picture when someone says “flirty.” Not quite outright sexy, not quite young and pink. Just a confident woman in a summer sundress.
I agree. You and Gi put it very well.
I’m wearing Hiris today. Not a girlish flirt, but flirty in an irisy way: clear and approachable, neither too sweet nor too dirty. But it also still feels a little aloof, as if ultimately, she doesn’t care if you want to leave with her or not.
That’s a perfect description of that scent.
I need to try this one!
I’m wearing Love Diane by Diane von Furstenberg. For some reason it’s sweetness communicates innocent flirtation to me.
Today’s my anniversary, so the topic is perfect! My husband and I are going out this evening, so I think I’ll wear either Coup de Foudre by Parfums Delrae, or Lovely by SJP. Both are very flirty, I think.
I’ve not smelled Coup de Foudre (but I’m such a fan of Parfums Delrae and should!), but I do agree that Lovely SJP is flirty. I wore it for my wedding ten years ago. It was before I was ever interested in perfume, but I’m happy with my choice all the same.
Happy anniversary!
Happy anniversary! I thought CdF was gorgeous for an hour, after which it shrunk down to skin level and had to be snorted at point-blank range to be smelled at all. What I could smell was really beautiful, though. Hope you’re getting better mileage from it than I did.
Coup de Foudre is very pretty and flirty too! Lovely. Congrats on your anniversary.
Happy anniversary! Stay flirty
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Thanks to all for your kind comments. Have decided to go with Coup de Foudre since it has a romantic name. 😉
Happy Anniversary! May your evening be as romantic as your scent.
Joining in the anniversary congratulations!
Hope you had a nice evening! Wearing Lovely today, and it is indeed lovely.
M7 (or original Dior Homme), extra dry gin martini, raw oyster. Winning flirty combo.
However, right now it’s Comme des Garçons 3, iced coffee, and sandwich. Flirty at work is frowned upon.
I love these fragrance/food combos!
lol.
I’m wearing Madonna Truth or Dare for Flirty Friday. It most certainly doesn’t make one feel like a virgin. Big white floralbomb!
Yeah, white florals can be really flirty. Nice.
Attended 8th grade graduation for my youngest this morning, so didn’t feel particularly flirty. (ARGH THE PASSAGE OF TIIIIIME) But what I picked wound up being both appropriate and flirty in a mild sort of way, so it’s all good.
I’m wearing the first Ines de la Fressange (Calice Becker, 1999), which has a color in my mind – a beautiful pinky-coral. It smells primarily of fresh (not candied) peach, rose, ylang, carnation, and sandalwood to me, and it is a terrible shame that it’s been discontinued so long that bottles are not to be found now.
Just used up my sample of DelRae – Bois de Paradis. I get berry, wood but also something menthol or pine? I’m really enjoying it, and might go for a decant if I can find one.
That one is very weird on my skin – I get turpentine, which is like pine gasoline, and I suspect it’s ME. But there is a highly aromatic aspect to it, yes.
I went past the flirty stage and jumped straight into the outright seductive phase with Givenchy Organza Indecence.
Thought about this one since the bottle seems flirty, but too warm here for that now.
You know how if you say a word (even just in your head) enough times, it starts to sound weird? I’m right about there with flirty after reading this thread. Flirty flirty flirty. 😛
I don’t know from flirty, so I guess I figured if I went with the fruitiest, girliest thing I have, that might fit the bill, so I went with Calyx.
You smell great!
Reminds me of Jon Lovitz saying “Tartlets … tartlets … tartlets – the word has lost all meaning” in an old episode of Friends.
LOL Yes! I had forgotten about that.
Wearing Eau Sauvage too!
Hey twin! Surprised there aren’t more of us today.
Done with clients, just ate a bunch of fresh pineapple and I’m about to go crazy with a bottle of Ananas Fizz!
Flirty AND delicious!
Late to everything this morning, so haven’t read any comments yet. Will have to come back at lunch and catch up!
Planned on wearing Miss Dior Cherie, but went with Alien Eau Extraordinaire at the last minute.
I am wearing Misia once again. I think it has become my favorite Exclusif. It is also somewhat flirty.
I thought about wearing Misia, too. Gorgeous.
late to the party, but discreet spray of Diva, y’all. Robin, your choice was super, and love today’s photo.
Not in a flirty mood ( I doubt I ever am) but did think it a fun challenge. I would have chosen Vamp à New York for a fun fragrance but I needed something a wee bit more solemn so am now enjoying the stunning drydown of Enlèvement au Sérail. Eau Sauvage is great for any occasion.
Vamp would be a good flirty choice!
Femme de Rochas. Probably a little more than flirty.
Lol, past flirting to heavy petting!
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Yes, I am afraid.
I chose my fragrance before noting today’s theme, so am wearing BV Knot – again! – I’m still in the early stages of infatuation with that one.
Now I’m wondering which of the scents in my cupboard could be considered “flirty”. Austenfan’s suggestion of Vamp à New York is a good one; maybe also the original (Lagerfeld) Chloe? Beachy scents are flirty, too, to my nose, so Écume de Rose would do nicely. But my cupboard is pretty well stocked with Chanels and chypres: poised or mysterious, but not flirty!
Like several others, fruity florals seem flirty to me, so I’m wearing Ed Hardy Love & Luck. It’s fun and a little too sweet for me now, but I like it a lot.
I was thinking of an Ed Hardy one as well for flirty. My Escada Turquoise Summer today smelled somewhat like the original Ed Hardy. I like those scents for fun!
I used to have an Escada in a turquoise bottle that I loved – Ocean Blue? Very 90s.
I was torn between two scents for this theme.
On the one hand, Jasmine de Provence is flirty in a “seal the deal” sense that the Bal a Versailles contingent mentioned above. On the other hand, I was recently at a very flirty party, wore Jardin sur le Toit, and was complimented on it by a flirty person. What to do?
In the end, I wore the jasmine, as I’d worn the other more recently. However, now the day is nearly over and the jasmine is wearing down, I think I’ll refresh with sur le Toit. 😉
I am testing Helmut Lang today for the first time and I am absolutely thrilled with it. My boyfriend however, has stated that it smells like…….wait for it….’old lady’.
I am wearing SL Sa Majeste La Rose. I find this one flirting.
SNM Melograno. It smells so good in a freshly scrubbed with Ivory soap and sandalwood cologne kind of way. Sexy without skank, not obviously on the make, but rather disarmingly natural and unpretentious. Certainly not fruity, hence not a girly kind of flirt but rather an Amal Alamuddin arch of the eyebrow flirt. Also, as the fictional Vesper Lynd’s cologne, so it enhances romantic self-confidence, the great aphrodisiac. I wonder which was the more difficult heart to capture – George Clooney or James Bond? 😉
I suspect George’s heart has been captured and uncaptured many times over his lifetime … and I’m not sure James Bond HAS a heart. Well, at least not since he was unmemorably portrayed by George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and married Diana Rigg, who was killed off in an early scene.
Samples arrived in the mail today, so now I’ve got a spritz of Diorissimo on one arm (meh – should try to find some vintage) and dabs of Lumiere Blanche on the other (wow – yum). The combination is kind of giving me a headache – I choose to blame the Diorissimo!
Okay, have to pop back in and take back the “meh” – now that it’s settled a bit, the Diorissimo is wonderful! It’s from the most adorable mini-bottle, too.
I associate flirty with summer, and it’s winter here. So finally I went with Baghari: feminine and warm. Perhaps too retro to be flirty? Anyway, I smell good! 🙂
Like others above, I think of flirty as fruity-floral. I dusted off my bottle of Chanel Chance – a mainstay in my early to mid-twenties when I was single and regularly stayed out until the bars closed. (Seriously, I can’t believe I ever walked out of a bar and went straight to breakfast. Oh, youth.) I got so many compliments on this one back in the day.
Lolita Lempicka L’Eau en Blanc from a sample. The picture of the bottle looks flirty!
Hmmm, I started the day with Séville à L’Aube, but my husband said “What’s THAT?” in a less than flirty tone! So, then I played hooky from work and went to the mall, and sought the Breath of God, but all I got was pencil shaving breath, so I moved on to a “back of the hand show-down between No 5 and Eau Premiere”, and No 5 won that going away…but they (this is Macy’s) only had the refill bottles for my little travel case in the “real perfume strength” as the SA put it, and they wanted $100 for that 10 mls of history, so I skipped it. And by the time I got home and fed the horses and cooked dinner and tucked the barns cats in, and tucked the chickens in, and checked on the horses and closed the gates, the Chanel had been defeated by the reality of my life. So I sprayed myself with Cashmere Mist which is adorable hubbie’s favorite, but he is sound asleep in his recliner and here I am, telling you all my sad failure to be flirty tale! Ah well, tomorrow is another day, as Scarlett would say! There’s a question- what perfume did Scarlett wear?
Brilliant post, meredifay
I hoped people would find it funny, and not just pitiful! LOL…
Ditto! I love this post. We were scent twins for a short time this morning.
So funny. I suppose Scarlet wore Florida Water.
Very late to the party!
SOTD = L’AP Seville a l’Aube
I was in a hurry this morning but wanted to stay on theme. If you’ve read Denyse Beaulieu’s The Perfume Lover, you’ll know it’s Flirt with a capital F 😉
I love this perfume and I know there are quite a few commenter fans!
Scent twins…
I went with fruity-floral, too–Histoires de Parfums 1804 (George Sand). Lovely, realistic pineapple that mellows into something more floral. This was a really interesting topic. I think it produced a greater variety of choices than any previous themes.