Are you glad it's Friday? We're celebrating with British niche. Our community project for today: wear something from Ormonde Jayne, Penhaligon's, Miller Harris, Floris, or any other British niche brand.
As always, do tell us your fragrance of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm wearing Ormonde Jayne Frangipani.
Reminder: next Friday, 6/12, we're looking at literary connections: name a favorite novel, and wear a perfume that fits the novel or a character in the novel. The summer reading poll will follow on Saturday.
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.
SOTD: L’Eau Bleue d’Issey Miyake Pour Homme
Could not locate anything British niche in my perfume arsenal… 🙂
Oh well!
Wearing from my sample of Maison Francis Kurkjian Oud Cashmere Mood. Smells more like an oozing tree stump in the lumber yard, but I enjoy it. The shirt I chose today was kind of neglected in my drawer, and the downside to vintage furniture is the musty smell it imparts. This sample is definitely knocking that back.
This is a lovely scent but man is it pricy! 🙁
I have samples of the Oud offerings from MFK, but don’t think I’ve tried them yet. I bought the skanky Cologne Pour le Soir, it is definitely a challenging fragrance.
Make that Absolu Pour le Soir… I need more coffee :-~
I LOVE that one! I never thought I was into skank, but oh! I love APLS!
I’m wearing OJ’s Frangipani as well. 🙂 It suits the weather really well, as it’s suddenly really hot (by Dutch standards) and this is an incredibly cheerful and summery scent.
Scent triplets! Like you and Robin, I picked Frangipani. Lovely, as always – the most uplifting scent I know. I think it may be one of the first bottles I ever use up from wear, not just decants.
With so much love for this one, I’ll have to revisit this one from my sampler set.
Hey, don’t we all smell great!
SOTD: Miller Harris Fleur du Matin, my favorite grapefruit perfume. Sadly, it’s discontinued and impossible to find. I’m nursing my decant along.
That was a nice one.
I am wearing the great polarizer – L’air de Rien, by Miller Harris. In my top five, if not my favorite. I tend to wear this at home instead of out and about, so I’ve sprayed discreetly so as not to offend any delicate sensibilities. On me is isn’t particularly barnyard, but you never know what people will smell.
Thanks for an excuse to wear it, Robin!
Snap! I’m wearing this too, and it is also one of my ‘top shelf’ fragrances. I however, believe that perfume is to be smelled, and am at work wearing six spritzes. I may smell like a pretty barnyard, but I smell better than some of the Friday night stale booze and smokes folks on my train 🙂
Quite! I’d count myself lucky if I got a whiff of lovely L’air de Rien on my train. You both smell great 🙂
Thank you dear!
You are classing up the joint, Perthgirl. Well done.
Me too! I think this is the first time I’ve ever worn it to work—I love it and usually wear it on weekends at home. I don’t find it particularly dirty and neither does my husband but, like you, I wonder if others might be smelling some sort of musk in here that I’m missing.
They might be. I also can’t really smell much in Muscs Koublai Khan, as much as I’d like to, so maybe we’re anosmic to certain kinds of stank. In either case, I love how we smell today! 🙂
I wore this yesterday – great stuff! Not too animalic on me.
Miller Harris Tangerine Vert. Tangerine + oakmoss, this should really be a summer staple. Also have Fleur du Matin + a mfr’s sample of Jasmin Vert–what did you think of that one, Robin?
Tangerine Vert is wonderful–I’ve got a sample of it.
What did I think of Jasmin Vert or Tangerine Vert? I like Jasmin Vert but don’t adore it, and sorry but can’t remember Tangerine — it’s possible I never smelled it!
Meant the Jasmin Vert–it was your SOTD recently. As I recall, it doesn’t bowl me over either.
Floris Malmaison. Will we someday have an Italian niche day?
That sounds fun!
Oh, you smell fantastic. I really want to try the “Encore” version.
And of course!
Does anyone in the states carry the Encore version?
Not that I know of.
I am wearing my sample of Penhaligon’s Ostara. The top notes are beautiful: spring flowers and damp soil. Very realistic! But then, unfortunately, the fragrances gets weirdly synthetic and later still I mostly smell vanilla. I generally like vanilla in perfumes, but here it somehow does not work. And in two hours the fragrance nearly disappeared.
I tried Ostara several times and have to conclude that it is just not for me. I give up.
At least it disappears quickly and can be replaced 🙂
Scent twins! But, like you, I’m not sure I love it. I like the opening but the drydown seems really musky and soapy. Oh well, money saved!
Would be wearing MH’s Fleurs de Bois, if they hadn’t discontinued it! Wore it when, in my humble opinion, MH was more ‘niche’ than it seems to be now – still can’t believe they closed their original Needham Road location, it was so much more pleasant than any of their other stores I thought (but again, used to visit when it was their only standalone shop). My other option would be Crown Perfumery’s Crown Ess Bouquet, also no longer available. So it’ll have to be my current & fairly long-standing signature, Penhaligon’s Bluebell.
Samantha at I Scent You a Day recently reviewed Bluebell. I’ll have to get a sample of it, having never smelled an actual bluebell.
Thank you, Laurels, I’ve just read the review you mentioned. We have bluebells growing in the woods behind our house, though if memory serves they are a protected species & you’re not supposed to pick them – they smell similar to hyacinths, but earthier – I have loved the scent since I was little. I hope you manage to acquire a sample, & that you like it – Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez gave it a one word review in their book: “repellent” – it may be one of those smells that polarises opinion, although I’ve never had anything but compliments when I wear it.
As Austenfan wrote, it is suddenly very hot in the Netherlands (for one day 😉 ) and I am wearing OJ’s Tiare, from the sampler. It is a watery, green, citrussy rendering of tiare, nothing tropical, more like the cool and mossy Cristalle. It has the, to my nose typical, OJ dry down, faintly sweet and almond like. I like it a lot, but don’t love it as I do Cristalle.
I also find it similar to Cristalle (and to the new Diorella, too) and like it a lot, but haven’t bought a bottle.
I wore OJ Tiare to a wedding in Brazil last year. It felt so right.
You smell divine!
I had intended to wear something from the Ormonde Jayne sampler set, but at the last second my bottle of Cristalle EDP leaped off the shelf and right into my hand! Well, with such eager enthusiasm, how could I disappoint it? 🙂
You couldn’t, not Cristalle! But you can pretend it is OJ’s Tiare 😉
An excellent suggestion – so we’re pretend twins! 🙂
That happens to me all the time! Some of those gals are really pushy, lol. If it weren’t still a bit on the cool side of warm where I am, I would have worn Cristalle today too…
LOL, AnnS! They do sometimes become insistent. 🙂
I opted for the dirty Dark Heart of Old Havana by 4160 Tuesdays today. Love this one.
On me this was dirty ashtray which I don’t particularly enjoy.
Same. I think because I used to be a chain smoker.
Well, there goes the theory that all former smokers love tobacco in perfume. Is it tobacco in general or just this one?
I’m wearing my sample of ‘tart’s knicker drawer’ by 4160 Tuesday’s , just because I want take one to ask me what I’m wearing & see their face when I tell them !
Oh, I do hope someone asked you! Would have loved to be a fly on the wall … 🙂
MH Fleurs de Sel–I really love a lot of the salty, mineral scents like this, Sel Marin, Sel de Vetiver, or Terre d”Hermes.
Twins! This is my one full bottle from Miller Harris. I also like JM Wood Sage & Sea Salt and find Eau de Merveilles very salty.
Triplets! I too love the salty stuff, and this is my only sample of anything British Niche. I’d been looking for something else salty that could match up or surpass my love for Eau des Merveilles, but nothing so far has hit that mark for me. Fleurs de Sel is nice, though.
Quadruplets! It didn’t work for me that well the first half of the day, but I’m happy now I’ve reached the drydown. I am a huge fan of salty/mineral notes.
Gah, I don’t have anything that qualifies!! I may have to order some samples today,any of you smell so amazing 😉 Since no British niche, I went with CdG Kyoto.
Fleurs de Sel is one of the frags that I would buy if I suddenly had access to as much fragrance money as I wished. It is just so well done and very unique.
I completely forgot about this so even though I have Ormonde Jayne Woman in my collection I am wearing Le Dix. But the sun is shining, I’ve got a cute dress on and it’s Friday. I have decided its going to be a good day.
I am definitely going to do next week’s challenge, though. What a great idea. Now I just have to come up with a book character/scent combo…
And you are wearing Le Dix–lovely scent!
Oh, you smell wonderful! Le Dix is one of my favorite vintage scents and the one that inspired my love of violet notes.
No British niche in my collection, yet! I will need to remedy that – I have Ta’if on my to sample list… better get on that!
Today, speaking of samples, I am wearing for the first time La Fille de Berlin, courtesy of a lovely sample set I got in the mail yesterday from a generous NSTer. In my search for a Rose to love, this smells very nice, but faint, on my scent eating skin. At this point, 4 hours in, I have a pretty floral odor, not clearly rose, but pretty. No pepper to speak of. Does this come in an Intense version?
A really nice sweetish spicy rose is Aramis Calligraphy Rose. It’s in the same vein as La Fille, and the rose is very pink/red, almost candied petals. Worth a try for rose fans imho 🙂
I keep hearing about this one…will probably have to try. Gotta feed that rose habit of mine.
Interesting, I like the name, I’ll have to check this out…thanks!
I would second Calligraphy Rose! My skin also gobbles up scent in no time, but Calligraphy Rose has some punch.
From the notes, it should “have some punch.” I am very interested to try it out now…
I find this one more well-behaves than I thought it would be. Nice, though! Give me a holler if you would like a sample.
So tragic! I am very lucky then b/c I can smell LFDB for about 10+ hours. The other day, when I wore some of my treasured small decant, I got some in my hair. I could smell it the next day. Take heart – there are a lot of very well done rich rose fragrances out there. I’d recommend you try the Annick Goutal Ce Soir ou Jamais EDP version for something very similar. Or you could try some of the JHAG roses…. Aerin Lauder Evening Rose…..
You are a fountain of good suggestions! Thanks…
I’m in Pink Vetiver from Jo Loves today, one of my most loved pick-me-up scents. It is such a lovely vetiver with just the right amount of pink pepper to give it a kick. I am almost through my 30ml bottle and have to restock – that is a very rare thing for me 🙂
This sounds good. Any other favourites from Jo Loves? I’ve been meaning to try that line for a long time.
Green orange & Coriander is interesting, it is rich, fresh and juicy at the same time. And the flower shop is a lovely, slightly bitter green floral bouquet – not overly sweet t all. I also like a shot of thai lime over mango, it is a wonderful summer cocktail. Very well made fragrances, and the shop in London is a gem.
Ok, I was not very clear: the shop in London is not a perfume, I meant their perfume boutique at Elizabeth street!
Ha ha – another compulsive clarifier 🙂
Thank you! Thai lime and mango sounds especially wonderful.
TGIF!!! It’s raining out but my heart is all sunshine 🙂
SOTD: Petals From My Garden by Floris.
It is a very gentle, and thus, fleeting fragrance. I may wear something else later in the day. Cherry Blossom, also by Floris.
I’m glad that today’s challenge gives me several lovely options that I’m actually in the mood for. I went with Amaranthine which is perfect for the several hour drive home today with a cat who is prone to comment and a husband who won’t be able to listen to music.
I’ve really gone for it today!
Amaranthine first thing this morning ….
MH Terre d’Iris this afternoon … and planning to use the last of my sample of Papillon’s Anubis later this evening.
You smell lovely!
Oh, lucky you! I’ve never had a cat that didn’t ‘comment’ on even the shortest of drives. 🙂 One time I was on a – 12-hour road trip with two cats who had been given tranquilizer medication before the journey. Instead of caterwauling, it was drunken caterwauling!
I can’t imagine 12 hours! Mr. B. is really pretty good and I’ve certainly endured worse. His sister and our other dearly departed feline were both prone to carsickness which always prompted loud complaints from the back-seat chorus so one cat is easy in comparison but we still don’t dare stop anyplace out of the ordinary or turn on the radio. He starts to nag when we slow down for traffic snarls too. I’ve been cramming him in the car regularly since he was a few weeks old so he is used to it.
I’ve taken two car trips with drugged cats – one was drunken caterwalling for all 200 miles. The other was mostly silent, but I could tell he (kitty) was Not Happy, and the drugs had almost no effect, except to make him (again, kitty) hyper-aware that I was responsible for the torture. Not Fun.
OJ Ta’if, roses and dates, which always puts me in a good mood: it’s just so darned cheerful.
Gorgeous!
Aaargh, I am a bad Brit. Totally forgot about the community project and liberally sprayed myself with EldO Fils de Dieu this morning.
However, with so much love here for OJ Frangipani, I’m going to finally test out my sample of it this evening. Seems like a good opportunity!
I wore Fils de Dieu yesterday, and it took all my self control not to wear it again, and participate in the community project instead.
It is addictive stuff! I can’t stop sniffing my wrist – it settles so well into warm skin.
Fils de Dieu is gorgeous, so I forgive you 😉
First of all, happy National Donut Day, America!
I’m wearing OJ Ta’if, which I don’t think I’ve ever actually worn before. Very lovely so far. I’m really liking it.
I stopped at my local DD for my iced coffee this morning and had a very hard time turning down that donut!
OJ Ta’if smells like a dream.
The only British niche that I own is a 5ml decant of Penhaligon’s Night Scented Stock, so I’m wearing that. I got it on one of STC’s 5ml sale Fridays, which I don’t think they are doing anymore. I would love to explore some Floris scents. One of my favorite mystery series of books is Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher series, set in the 1920s. Phryne loves Floris scents, especially Stephanotis. Unfortunately, I don’t think they make this in a fragrance any more, just as a bath product.
Thank you for mentioning your favourite mystery series, I will look it up, always happy to try a new British mystery. Stephanotis must have been lovely.
The Kerry Greenwood series (she has one set in the 1920s and one contemporary series) are set in Australia. They are both a lot of fun and the difference in the setting is interesting. Both are set in Melbourne, so the development of the city from the 1920s to contemporary times is fascinating.
That is even better! I ordered the first 3 in a sort of omnibus for a bargain price, to take with me on holiday. I will report back, thanks again and have a lovely weekend.
And there is a television series from Australia, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Two seasons so far with the third under production. Phryne’s clothers are to die for.
I confess to not being a great fan of the Phryne Fisher books, but I remember in an early one she wore Jicky.
http://thefabulousmissfisher.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/phrynes-toilette-phrynes-favourite.html
Scent twins! How are you finding the Night Scented Stock? This is my first time wearing it, and I think I might be anosmic to part of it.
Wearing Union’s Holy Thistle. Mmmmm, good, on a cool spring day.
I totally forgot that I have a Union sample or two around
Fun house, but so quiet it is easy to forget about them.
I’m also in Union today: Quince, Mint and Moss. Shared by a lovely NST member 🙂
Darn, I forgot the theme today. I’m wearing Tailspin (Lucien Lelong, 1940. Not that my juice is from 1940. I’ve no idea; it’s a decant.) My first try with this, and I love the top, all medicinal herbs slowly yielding to a warmer heart. Can’t quite tell yet what variety of warm heart it will be. Will try for British SOTE.
Shoutout to Laila for sharing such delightful scent impressions at my requests. Thank you, Laila!
You are most welcome, leathermountain!
National Donut Day?! Have to celebrate later.
My only British niche was a sample currently en route to another NSTer, but I will report: 4160 Tuesdays’ Centrepiece was lovely, can’t describe it other than to say it reminded me at once of a favorite, vintage Dana Ambush. They both seemed to remind me of Profumi del Forte’s Night White, but where the notes coincide is apparently beyond my crude sense of smell. All beautiful, though.
Commando for a doctor’s appt.
Later you can put on Eau de Donut. This can actually be done! I had a student who tinctured a bit of her breakfast of glazed chocolate donut, and her tincture smelled exactly like the original.
This literally made me snort with laughter!
Thanks, I can go to sleep with a smile on my face.
My SOTD is Illuminum Tomato Leaf. I’ve gone green today. British niche green.
Happy Friday!!
The lovely OJ Champaca. I love wearing this in early summer. And there’s nothing like an early summer Friday!
Hope everyone has a great day!
You smell very lovely.
You smell yum.
House twins with missionista today–I’m wearing Union Gunpowder Rose. I’m generally not a rose fan but this one is unusual. Also, besides being National Donut Day, it’s National Ketchup Day, and the local news is featuring some of Portland’s eccentric uses for the condiment–ice cream, for one. I think they had beer a few minutes ago. I will stick to donuts.
Oh, I wanted to love Gunpowder Rose, and just couldn’t. It went way too powdery on me.
While ketchup on ice cream sounds awful, I once had a cucumber sorbet that would have been fantastic as a topping to a bowl of gazpacho. So I can envision a way a frozen tomato concoction could work…Having said all that, now I want a donut!
House Triplets 🙂
Keeping Portland Weird. 🙂
I should have worn something from Ormonde Jayne as well, Champaca maybe. Unfortunately, attempting to be original, I chose Atkinsons The Odd Fellow’s Bouquet that I eventually washed off. I tend to indulge those nice heritage brands, but this really represents a pure victory of marketing over product. I replaced the Bouquet with Miller Harris Fleurs de Sel – better, but somehow not quite right for the very hot day we’re having (finally!) in Brussels.
I’m consoling myself with the fact that I’m leaving for Barcelona tonight, for a long-ish weekend. Perfume shopping tips much welcome!
Perhaps a visit to Ramon Monegal? I think he’s based out of Barcelona.
I’m in Fleurs de Sel too and I agree – it’s not sitting right on a summery day. It’s on my winter perfume tray, for I wear it in winter, having a wintery beach day…
If you haven’t yet visited the perfume museum, don’t miss it!
Annicky,
Re Barcelona: there’s always the perfume museum
http://museudelperfum.com/
Thank you, everybody. Monegal and the museum are now definitely on the list.
Carner Barcelona…
I am wearing the eponymous Ruth Mastenbroek – it’s divine! – and I am looking forward to trying Oxford her new one which comes out later this year.
I have Nothing that qualifies for today’s theme in my “collection,” such as it is.
So I went with CSP Amour de Cacao again. It makes me so happy! It doesn’t hurt to smell like a chocolate donut on National Donut Day, does it? Plus, the icing on the top is that I got a 30ml bottle for about 5 bucks by usuing my Amazon dollars.
Cheap and easy. Right up my alley! Happy Friday Donut Day to all 🙂
Oh, nice! It doesn’t hurt to smell like chocolate ‘anything’ anytime, especially on a fun Friday! High-fives ‘cheap and easy’ but good!
Very nicely done, all around. 🙂
I’m wearing Guerlain’s London. The rhubarb note is great for spring, which we’re still in the middle of in New England. I know Guerlain isn’t niche, but since the fragrance was released only in England…half points? partial credit?
I have that silly line from The Kingsman stuck in my mind this morning… “Oxfords, not Brogues…”
So my question is, what are non-niche, mainstream British scents? How do you define niche? Wiki says that Penhaligon’s sold £10.7m in perfume in 2005… probably a lot more in recent years…
For all that, I am in Artemisia sent to me through the freebie meet by a very generous NSTer. It is very soft and cozy…yet without the je ne sais pas of Bottega Veneta… I prefer BV, but they share many qualities… I think I’d like hair and body products in this scent.
I personally define by distribution, not sales volume, but of course everyone has their own way of categorizing niche vs. mainstream. Non-niche mainstream British would be things like Stella McCartney and Vivienne Westwood.
Ah!
SOTD: OJ Ormonde Woman. Because I’m worth it! 🙂
🙂
Twins! One sprtiz from my travel spray. If it stops raining, I may stop by Saks for a mini sniffa.
You smell gorgeous.
Triplets! 🙂
I’m wearing it too. It’s my most complimented fragrance, a bit of a man magnet!
Me too! It turned cold this week so OJ Woman seemed like a good idea. We all smell good!
I see that Liz Moores of Papillon is not represented today so I shall go home and liberally apply Anubis. It is always a pleasure to do that.
Good idea. Maybe after I mow the lawn and bathe I’ll put some on too. I like all three Papillon scents and completely forgot about them today.
I think it would not be too much of a stretch to wear a Kilian Henessey fragrance today since the family’s antecedents are Irish……
I wore Angelique on Monday. Love!
Wearing Union’s Quince, Mint, and Moss today. My sister’s been travelling around Scotland mountain biking, and posting great photos of windswept moors and craggy tors. This scent feels like it fits right in. Today it feels more masculine than on other wears – more moss, less mint – which I don’t necessarily mind.
SOTD is Mary Greenwell Plum. I forget how much I love this one until I wear it, and am curious about the other three (?) fragrances in the collection.
Happy weekend, everyone.
I’m in Penhaligon’s Violetta. There is a heat advisory out for today after a week of straight rain. Happy Friday everyone!
I’m wearing OJ Osmanthus; I’m very happy about today’s theme, because I haven’t used my sample in quite some time. I really like this one. I have an osmanthus plant in the house (it’s a straggly little thing, but it bloomed it’s little heart out for most of the winter), which has helped me find the osmanthus in the OJ. Education for the nose!
I love OJ Osmanthus, one of the first niche perfumes I bought.
I don’t have much British niche in my collection, even in samples, but I happened to have a sample of Miller Harris Geranium Bourbon handy, so I went with that. It’s nice, though fairly masculine.
Ditto on GB for me today – it worked for me pretty well b/c it’s not too hot and I was doing garden work. It skewed to the green spicy geranium for me today. But it’s definitely unisex. I only have a handful of British frags and they are all mostly cold weather types.
SOTD is Victorian Posy by Penhaligon`s, spring in an English garden! Top notes are amalfi lemon, orange, hyacinth, galbanum and chamomile; middle notes are violet, jasmine and rose; base notes are amber, sandalwood, patchouli, oakmoss and vetiver.
This lovely, woodsy, mossy floral is a treasured remembrance of my first trip to England. My son, a young teen at the time, planned a London shopping trip for us that included Geo. F. Trumper and Penhaligon’s – I’d never heard of either at that time. The guys had a wonderful time in Trumper’s and came away with some very neat shaving stuff, while I sampled everything available in Penhaligon’s that day and chose Victorian Posy to come home with me.
I rarely wear it these days as there’s only a tiny bit left and it’s been d/c, so it was a treat to renew its acquaintance – it’s aged well – and share it with you today . . . as well as remember all the lovely English gardens I saw on that trip.
It sounds lovely, I’m sorry it was dc’d.
Wearing En Passant and feeling fresh while I wait for my flight to depart for Los Angeles. Meeting my partner there this weekend as he finishes his 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles for AIDS/LifeCycle.
Those are supposed to be super fun, and they do raise some money as well for a great cause. Good for him!
Been offline due to a move so I am not in sync, but smelling good in Amouage Lyric edp.
Beauty is its own reward.
I have some British Niche in my collection,but currently working my way through some samples.SOTD Datura Noir,so much fun to wear.I read Elisa’s article over at Bois de Jasmin,and yes!I finally got the coconut note she mentioned as well!Very nice on a VERY chilly winters’ day!Happy Weekend NST!
I have a circa- 2008 sample of Datura Noir and just CANNOT get into it. Anybody have a theory why?
I wondered if I might be anosmic to something, but I have a very odd nose. Either Kafkaesque or The Black Narcissus had a review that was was closer to what I smelled.
If you’re smelling what they’re smelling, you have a very sophisticated honker 🙂
Ha! No, but I think certain aromachemicals hit my particular array of smell receptors the same way. It’s a bummer, actually, when perfumes that others love are bland or annoying or smell like chemical soup. (Not to mention the musk anosmia that makes some things disappear completely.) On the other hand, it keeps my to-buy list fairly manageable.
I sprayed myself with Datura Noir at the airport yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Visiting Epcot today and stopped by France, England and Italy for some refreshing sprays of guerlain vetiver, English Lily of the valley and Aqua di Parma. So fun!
LOL – I love Epcot Center!
Big downpour right now but expect it will pass shortly.
It really is quite entertaining to visit.
SOTD OJ Tsarina. Somedays I enjoy this and other days it seems like the only thing I smell is IsoESuper, the reason I have no FB of OJ so far.
How does it smell on a good day? I’m curious about this one.
SOTD is MH En Sens de Bois. It usually wears dry and woody, but today I’m getting warmer spices. Maybe because it’s so hot out! Later tonight will be the eponymous Ruth de Mastenbroek. One of my top 5 chypres.
I am in Vivienne Westwood Cheeky Alice. It’s really nice for spring and summer.
Today is the day for a spritz from a sample of Penhaligon’s Lp No:9. It’s got a vivid purple colour, so I’m assuming it’s the version for the ladies since the gents’ version has an opaque bottle.
Funny thing (besides me thinking fragrance isn’t gendered) is that I love the top of this, the lavender is gorgeous, and the floral heart is beautiful, but the base is giving me an oddly surprising hint of old-time barbershop.
Manly yes, but I like it, too. 😀
LOL
I have several new Penhaligon’s samples, and went with Night Scented Stock, which is pleasant enough, but smells thin to me, which makes me wonder if I might be partly anosmic to it. It stuck around (quietly) for the better part of the day, though. It’s a spicy floral, which to me seems in the same vein as Nuit de Tubereuse, but with clove in place of pink pepper.
This morning before my shower I tried a little Cornubia, which seemed appealingly odd, but maybe a little too rich and sweet to suit me today. Tomorrow, for what promises to be a boozy and trying brunch with my extended family, I think I’ll wear Malabah, which is a summer-weight spicy oriental.
L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse. I had to look it up.
I had such a stressful day at work I was not able to post. I deliberately wore Ormande Woman on Friday, a scent I should wear more often because it never offends anyone and yet I can smell on me and it is wonderfu!