It's Thursday, better known as almost-Friday! Hope everyone is having a great day so far. What fragrance are you wearing?
I'm in Timbuktu from L'Artisan Parfumeur.
Reminder: tomorrow, wear an incense fragrance. (suggested by Janice)
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.
I’m currently in remnants of the Indigo Vanilla I wore last night and post shower will be commando since I’ll be going sniffing later with my NY fumie friends
Since I’ll be joining in later, I wanted something that would definitely fade by end of day. But also something that would have presence NOW. In the end, I went for Iris Silver Mist. Strong presence, no sillage, and should be done by evening.
I only sprayed my neck and dabbed my inner wrist so, hopefully, I’ll have enough free skin for later. Looking forward to meeting you guys 🙂
My Coromandel may stick around for a while 😉
I’m in Ormonde Woman today. It’s my second time trying it. I tried it a couple of months ago, and I think it was a bit too early in my budding perfume life. Today, I’m enjoying the complexity. In some moments of arm-sniffery, I experience “eyes rolling to the back of the head” ecstatic olfactory pleasure. In other moments, I’m still not sure.
Don’t buy until you’re 100% positive!
I’m going to try not to, but I’m just so hopeful. I respect it so much, and I want to love it, too.
Well, I respect it too but never did fall in love. I’m more of a Frangipani person 🙂
🙂 I do believe it was your declaration of undying love for Frangipani (somewhere in the Orris Noir review) that led me to purchase a sample. Should be here by the end of the week. I’m looking forward to it (i.e. planning to love it, buy it, and get the shower gel/lotion/whatnot while I’m at it. OMG, I’m so easily influenced).
Ha…you’d better wait and see how that works out too! But if you get shower gel & lotion I’ll be majorly jealous 🙂
I love this one so much. You smell fantastic!
Thanks, Missionista! Enjoy your sniffing adventures today. ????
Yum, Timbuktu! I’m tempted to join you.
It’s nice over here 🙂
Wearing ELdO’s Dangerous Complicity today, and it rocks! The hubs took notice and gave me a 2nd sniff! Got my sexy on today…..LOL
On a total whim, I bid $16 on a bottle of EL Brasil Dream last night, and won it. Guess in a few days I’ll report if the scent takes me to a beach in Rio….I have pledged NO MORE EBAY until further notice! 🙂
I had to force myself to curtail surfing ebay for vintage and discontinued perfumes a couple of years ago. I could always find several interesting things that I wanted and knew I might never see again, or not at that price. Not looking is the only way to avoid spending. I do occasionally dip my toe in now and then. 😉
It’s getting colder here, so I’m wearing Nanban. All that leather and spice and wood and smoke and resins… Nice.
Really looking forward to sniffing that one, it sounds really nice, and i love the story behind it. I recently read the novel ‘The thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, about a Dutch official in 18th century japan, and would love to reread it while wearing Nanban!
It’s one of my favourites from this year. And I gather you liked The Thousand Autums, if you plan to reread it? I don’t know why I haven’t read any Mitchell.
He’s such an amazing writer, definitely one of my favourite contemporary novelists. He has a very unique, style, and even tho his themes often vary greatly from novel to novel, they are so distinctly his work.
I agree with mayfly, from everyone’s descriptions this sounds rather lovely. Still resolutely mild in London!
Definitely worth a try, if you like rich woody/spicy/leathery perfumes.
I heard that this was supposed to be the coldest winter since 1963, which i’ve been quite excited about,as i always feel winter should be cold, frosty and generally christmassy, but it’s been disapointingly mild here (sussex) too.
Disappointingly mild here in Montreal too… No snow yet other than a couple of dustings that melted away.
Scent twins! I decided to try that one today. It’s very windy and chilly out today and I’m quite loving all these spices.
I may have sprayed a bit much for the office, but whatevs. It’s been quite a morning here so I’m feeling rather rebellious and Queen Sheba-ish so it’s ok that I’ve given myself a few extra sprays. The men in this office are such princesses that I don’t mind showing them who really gets stuff done/ wear the “pants” so to speak and smells fabulous 😉
I like your attitude 🙂
Nanban is pretty assertive, but it does calm down after a while, so I don’t think you’re suffocating anyone (although you might secretly want to…) I find it very well balanced between making a statement and being wearable. And it does have that treasure chest feeling I love.
Ooh, ‘treasure chest feeling’, i really must try it ASAP!
If you have trouble finding it, let me know, I can send you some. Although, be warned, I’m so disorganised that it’ll likely take me a month…
You go girl! I divas regardless of gender.
I agree, go go go!
SOTD: Amouage’s Beloved.
Can’t wait till tomorrow’s project!
Twins!
Finished the last drops of my decant of Ambre Sultan, i’m going to feel withdrawal symptoms, and will need a FB ASAP! (when finances allow of course)
Sacre bleu intense on my sleeves from yesterday also present, should be a funny combination, but i’m enjoying them both.
Not to tempt you but fragrancenet has if for $58.49 with the 25 % off coupon for 1.7 oz.
Not to further tempt, but I’ve gotten three bottles of SL from fragrancenet and they’ve all been perfect.
Ugh, I was looking at those last night. My Amouage Lyric purchase opened the flood gates of “what is an extra $50-60 here or there” but I really should NOT buy any more!
I just took a closer look on fragrancenet to see some of their offerings for their “cybersale”…..oh boy am I in trouble!!! 1 oz of Silences is $9(yes, under ten dollars!!!!!), 1oz of Hanae Mori PERFUME is $25, 6.8 oz of Esprit D’Oscar is $36 and the L’Artisans are almost all under $70 (the 3.4 oz of Seville A L’ Aube is calling my name).
I know. I really have better things I should be reserving the cash for but wow.
And yes likewise, all my Fragrancenet bottles have been fantastic.
Ooh, thanks!
I’m not really into incense as the main theme of a fragrance but I’ve found something for tomorrow. Today, however I’m paying homage to my favourite category of fragrances; florals. I’m wearing Divine par Divine and feel great.
You smell wonderful! Divine is an underrated treasure.
Flying today, and wore Cristalle. I usually don’t wear it this time of year, but it’s what I need for being up early at the airport.
You’ll be the best scented passenger on board!
I love vintage Cristalle as the weather gets colder! (vintage is a bit different from the current stuff which I would probably be more inclined to wear in the summer…the current stuff is lighter and brighter than vintage)
God bless you for wearing Cristalle–a vast, vast improvement over airplane smell!!
Remnants of vintage Nocturnes de Caron on my sweater and Winter Woods on my neck and wrist.
Timbuktu! Ormande Woman! Those are some of my favorites AND are the two first niche FBs I bought. I’m currently wearing a sample of Bruno Fazzolari’s Au Dela and really enjoying it.
(Aside: the Fazzolari Discovery set is excellent, complete contrast to the sample set I was trying yesterday. I’d love to see a poll of people’s favorite sample sets.)
I liked Au Dela too! Does it remotely remind you of Mitsouko?
I think I got my bottle of Mitsouko during a bad patch–it’s very thin with a sort of incense/furniture polish opening and a faint peachy drydown. I like Au Dela better — it actually reminds me of Jicky (perhaps my favorite single perfume) in a “sweet by not edible, with naughty animalic undertones” way.
I just bought Mitsouko (2015 version) and have owned Au Dela for several months. I don’t really think they are alike except for maybe that they both have orange blossom in the notes. I get a lot of cumin from Au Dela and don’t get any from Mitsouko. Au Dela was an instant love although I usually detest cumin. I guess Au Dela is my exception.
SOTD = Mitsouko
Thanks Petunia and Doc. I think I still have some of my Au Dela sample ( I don’t recall cumin–but my nose and memory are quite fallible!)–I’ll try them wrist to wrist… funny how something in something can remind you of something else, and then on closer comparison you find you are totally mistaken. My Mitsouko is extait, but I think it is also from the dark days of Mitsouko reformulations… maybe 2013? I love it still…
Oakland, I love the extrait version of Mitsouko! Since I’ve been very naughty in my purchases recently, I opted for the EDP. Au Dela probably smells totally different on me than it does on you. since my skin amps cumin. Also, Au Dela is supposed to be a modern chypre so I totally see why you find some similarity between the extrait and Au Dela.
I’m the same way–don’t usually like cumin (in food or scents) but I love Au Dela. I also just realized that the sample set comes with a coupon for a FB… Watch out wallet!
Trying not to be too technical but will – how would you define Discovery Set vs Sample Set?
I don’t believe there is any difference, but perhaps I’ve overlooked some subtleties. Some of us “discover,” while others simply sample. ???? Either one can hook me.
Doc Sinister, please correct me if I’m wrong, but Hajusuuri, I thought Doc’s comment was just to say that the fragrances themselves were nicer in the Fazzolari set than in the Commodity set Doc mentioned yesterday (with the different terms just being a matter of the branding–Commodity is pitching their product as a “fragrance fitting kit” http://www.instyle.com/news/commodity-fragrances-fitting-kit-review while the Bruno Fazzolari ad copy at Twisted Lily seems to use both “discovery set” and “sample set”: http://twistedlily.com/shop/bruno-fazzolari/bruno-fazzolari-discovery-set/ )
That’s right, it’s just a branding difference. I’m using either to mean “set of samples assembled by the brand” as opposed to “samples assembled by me on Luckscent… 😉
Fun question about best sample sets! Etat Libre has a nice one on Sephora right now (incredibly). I think they’ve made nice choices on which fragrances to include and it’s only $12 for seven samples (1.5ml each).
I’ve been eying MDCI’s–very pricey at 90Euro for five samples or 140Euro for eight, but they’re very large (12ml each) and the whole price is applicable to a bottle purchase, which is really a very generous arrangement (for anyone in a position to front the cash.)
I think the Rosine one is really nice in terms of having something for literally everyone–every imaginable variation on rose, very much including masculines. (By contrast I think something like Juliette Has a Gun has somewhat narrower appeal, although good for the right person.)
Ormonde Jayne’s set comes in a truly beautiful presentation but it doesn’t come cheap ($75 I think?) and again, I’m not sure it necessarily has something for everyone–the OJ base is fairly consistent throughout and I know that’s not everyone’s thing. More a nice treat for a perfume lover than a reliable in-road for someone who doesn’t know fragrance yet, if I understood correctly yesterday that that’s what you’re shopping for.
Kurkdjian does variety sets of travel sprays (130Euro for eight 11ml sprays on the website or like $195 from Neiman’s), but his brand’s website also does sets where you can pick four 2ml samples à la carte for only 14Euro and free shipping, which I think is an unduly well-kept secret! (I haven’t included other links because I know too many will send this comment to the spam filter, but since the MFK sample program is kind of hard to find, here’s that one! http://www.franciskurkdjian.com/fragrances-to-share_3_samples__echantillons.html?lang=2 Ignore the part of the link that says it’s only three samples–when you get to the webpage, you get to pick four.) And I feel like his line is good for folks who don’t know fragrance–mostly very refined, not too many that might frighten the horses 🙂
Hope that helps! Would def love to hear others’ ideas too…
Hahaha um sorry you guys, apparently I have a lot of thoughts about sample sets 🙂
Thanks for those thoughts (and for the MFK link, will check it out even though I am officially not spending money on anything until I’m back working 🙁 )
I totally agree about the ELDO value set, which I ordered a few months ago. Ships to Canada, good value, and eminently swappable if I don’t end up loving them. I will add that I bought the OJ set for New Years 2014 when an NST poster shared a free shipping plus discount link that made the whole thing $45, which might come around again this year…
Ha! You do have a lot to say :about sample sets! I’ll recommend:
Teo Cabenel
Parfums d’Empire
Ineke
Atelier Cologne (the set that you get when you purchase a gift card)
Andy Tauer (I think he still does the 5 spray vials in a tin…I haven’t looked lately)
Mid-priced samplers:
Ann Gerard
Olfactive Studio (the 4 mL each version)
Higher-priced:(and you get a decent amount of juice)
Neela Vermeire
Andy Tauer Explorer set
I thought I was going to wear Chanel 19 today, but when I went to the perfume shelf my hand reached for Cuir Mauresque instead. As a compromise (with myself), I layered it with TDC Kashan Rose. And now I have a question: do most of you find that it works best to literally layer fragrances over one another, or spray them in adjacent areas and let them mingle in the air? Or does it depend on the combination?
I find that there is a definitive different in how my nose perceives the fragrances combined based on how I apply. If I layer (and even that is dependent upon which one gets sprayed on first and how much I spray of each) it does smell quite different from spraying in adjacent areas. Lately I have been layering Jo Malone Orange Blossom (one spray as the base) with Pacifica’s Tibetan Mountain Temple (two sprays on top) and loving it. I think the method you use for layering and the success is based on the fragrances themselves…some work and some don’t…..perhaps experimenting is the best way to find out.
that would be “difference” not “different”! Ugh, time for more coffee!!!
I spray one on top of the other. What I haven’t tried is literally mixing the liquids.
I have actually mixed liquids into a third bottle….not recommended!!!!!! The only thing that has worked is adding pure essential oils to some perfumes to ‘amp” them up a bit (I have done this with some of the Pacifica fragrances like adding Australian sandalwood e.o to their Indian Coconut Nectar or labdanum to their Spanish Amber.)
and agarwood (a/k/a) essential oil is also nice to add to any conventional perfume……a very inexpensive way to get your oud fix…….
UGH! that would be “a/k/a oud”
Good to know!
Thank you both! I guess I’m not wildly out of the norm on layering, then.
SOTD is Tauer Incense Rose – so beautiful. I love his roses. And although I’ve been wearing incense fragrances all week I somehow forgot about Timbuktu! I think that’s what I’ll wear tomorrow, thanks for the inspiration.
De nada 🙂
Almost-Friday is my almost-favorite day of the workweek. 🙂
Today is another deposition day, which means another No 5 EDT day. This beauty deserves better than being relegated to boring days, but she is the perfect lovely yet non-offense fragrance for being shut in a room with others for 7 hours.
No. 5 can be the sensual pleasure of the boring day.
Calvin Klein Euphoria is my SOTD. This scent is one that gets neglected with me. Whenever I wear it, I’m thinking “why don’t I wear you more often?”
Amouage Lyric, which really comes to life magically in these cooler temperatures.
Lyric is so gorgeous.
My decant of this is due to arrive any day and I can’t wait!
It’s good, good stuff. Enjoy!
You smell great! It’s tied for my favorite rose scent with PHI Une Rose de Kandahar.
PHI is wonderful, too, Almost wore that one today!
You smell gorgeous. I cannot wait to get my bottle!
Day 4 in my quest to wear my much neglected favorite fragrances. Today, I am wearing an OLD favorite. Borsalino by Borsalino. (a leathery chypre)
This fragrance has been with me since it first came out in 1984. (that dates me!) Back then I had only 6 fragrances to my name and those 6 have all managed to stay with me through the years. More than just nostalgia, they represent the olfactory groups that I have always preferred: leather, woody, and chypre.
They all take me back to the time when fragrances became important to me… and they all still manage to thrill me after all these years.
and since I forgot to post yesterday, I was wearing Interlude Man for all of it’s incense-resin-woody goodness, and because It’s an Amouage fragrance that I unfortunately tend to save for a “special occasion”. (could be a good one for tomorrow too)
Borsalino sounds intriguing. And the association with really fabulous hats (OMG, I love hats) just sweetens the deal.
I would love to know what those six fragrances were in your 1984 fragrance wardrobe! Back then I was wearing Nocturnes de Caron, Nikki de Saint Phalle, the original Oscar de la Renta, Chanel 22 EDT (before it was an exclusive) and the original Karl Lagerfeld Chloe. I wore Calyx a lot but I think that one might have come out after 1984. Like you I would only keep about 6-8 full bottles in rotation until one was drained and then I would move on to something new I wanted to try or replenish an old love.
By order of purchase:
Antaeus, Eau Sauvage Extrème, Trussardi Uomo, Krizia Uomo
Borsalino, and Chanel pour Monsieur.
But my very next purchases were in fact Nikki de Saint Phalle and Diva. Ted Lapidus Creation was everywhere at the time and I wanted it badly. I finally to added it to my collection last year-along with Calyx!
For some reason, 1984 was a good year for perfumes.
Dragging myself out from under the flu: woke up and thought, “Lutens today? No, Samsara.” And vintage(ish) Samsara it is. So much sandalwood!
Mmmm… Nice.
Get better!
I’m in my go-to for fall: Ambre des Merveilles. It never fails me!
Delightful perfume, I really do like that one.
yum- just got a full bottle of this one, it’s really fail safe!
Another day at the computer all day banging away at the keyboard to finish a very small book for work by Dec 10 (very very small–nothing remotely as interesting as the brilliant novelists here are writing!). It is on compassion and human rights, and…well…it has been a banner month to be dwelling in such a zone… Dec. 10, coincidentally!, is international human rights day….(and that is all I shall say about that…)
So, in Pichola today… hopefully it will be my muse.
May your writing prosper.
Happy writing. I often burn scented candles when I write to trick myself into thinking I’m not working…it doesn’t really work, though. I have one that is Bourbon Bundt Cake that smells like rum and raisin ice cream and I swear it just makes me feel hungry. Who makes Pichola, please? Everybody probably knows the answer.
It’s Neela Vermeire.
I burn candles on my desk when I’m writing, too, as a concentration aid.
Thank you …and you, too, Waterdragon.
I moved my candle to my desk to see if it will help. It is a cheapy little thing from Yves Rocher called Pomme Delice.. could be Pomme Pâle…. but at least it is inoffensive. And, to amp up the concentrating vapors… I have just burned some papier d’armenie…. I think it is a toss–could make me brilliant or I may simply asphyxiate myself!
Hi, Kanuka. I think it’s Neela Vermeire (sp?). I think it might be at World, but I might be muddling it with Naomi Goodsir.
I just read Robin’s review of Pichola and it sounds fantastic.
It is gorgeous. In my hermit-like work environment I can apply with abandon…
Hermit would probably be a good name for a personalised perfume for writers
Since I’m only working a half day today, I decided to be bold and wear Mitsouko. Haven’t ever worn it to work before. it’s just so darned sexy! I tried to use a light hand, which is fine for now. But I think I might drench myself in it when I get home.
Hey Twin! 🙂
I’m wearing Mitsouko at work today and I’ll be here all day. I just try to spray a bit lighter when I wear heavier scents to work.
Yes, now that I’ve gone and done it and no one has complained (that I know of) I think I’ll wear it to work more often.
ah I wear mitsouko to work all the time! it’s my go-to liquid backbone. No one’s whined yet. You’re doing your co-workers a favour, blessing them like this!
I haven’t tried that one at work, but after all your inspiration, I’ll give it a go one of these days.
Hello NST folks! I have not been reading, visiting, commenting, or buying perfume in a while, but I always come back eventually. I have been on an extended no-buy, but since I bought and moved into my first house that dark time may be over, lol. My SOTD is Safran Troublant with an extra dab of rose oil.
You smell great!
Congrats on the house!
I bet that dab of rose oil is a fantastic addition. I’m certain you smell wonderful!
First house! Congratulations, that’s an exciting move. And you smell terrific.
Congrats on the house! Buying a first house feels like such a huge accomplishment! Now treat yourself with scents.
How exciting. Congratulations on your first home!
OMG! Congrats on the new house! This has been an ongoing goal of mine, so you give me hope!
Congrats! I’m envious. My dream is to never have upstairs neighbors again.
Yay! Congratulations! What a huge accomplishment! Maybe you should have a house – warming party where everyone has to bring you some perfume. 🙂
Congrats on your new house!
Hello all, in a few sprays of vintage Opium today – for a celebratory day and just because. It feels rather good with a black knee length dress and sparkly red earrings…
That sounds like a really winning combination!
Very nice!
Parfum Sacre was so wonderful yesterday, and since it just came out of the cabinet to the hatbox on my dresser (where I keep my “current rotation”), I’m wearing it again.
I love that one. You smell great!
psst Mals, just got a bottle of Alba Botanica Midnight Tuberose shower gel. Haven’t tried yet, but smells great. $11.09 on Vitacost for 32 oz.
SOTD is Donna Karan Black Cashmere, from head to toe: started out with the shower gel, and topped off with a spritz of the perfume. Here’s hoping I don’t gas out my meetings all day….
If you do, people will collapse wearing blissful smiles!
All that talk of Beloved yesterday made me crave it this morning so that’s what I’m wearing. And it’s so lovely.
I’m waiting for my bottle of Beloved to arrive Elisa. It is beautiful. You smell great!
Thanks! Enjoy your bottle!
You smell wonderful, I thought about wearing it but opted for Divine instead.
I don’t know Divine, but odds are you smell divine 🙂
Wearing Bois d’encens today.
Perfect. 🙂
Wore Profumum Oblidanum this morning. I was thinking about Parfum Sacre for tonights Xmas do, but decided to go with Eau de Merveilles instead. It hasn’t been a great day and I wanted something easy to wear.
Eau des merveilles is always the right choice!
I’m wearing Vanille 44. I’ve been thinking about it since hajusuuri mentioned it the other day.
this one is so nice. good choice.
Nice!
SOTD = Chanel Coromandel
Woody Semi-sweet patchouli with freshly-ironed shirt musk, benzoin and the classic Chanel irisy base. I detected zero rose and jasmine and I barely got any citrussy top notes. This is a beauty! My 75 mL bottle is halfway gone. I’m wondering if I should buy a back-up? Any rumors of reformulation? Also, per mL-wise, the larger bottle with 200 mLs of juice at $120 more is a much better value but I kinda like the feel of the smaller bottle.
I wore that one a few days ago. It’s a beauty and lasts forever on me!
It does on me too but I must say I am a generous sprayer in order to get the full effect – 4 sprays.
Coromandel is so, so lovely and it seems to be a scent perfect for a chilly fall/winter day! I have a teensy tiny GWP bottle and I just use teeny drops and it lasts all day!
I like it best in fall/winter and today was the perfect weather for it.
One of my utter, use-sparingly-so-it-lasts favourites. You smell sublime!
Thank you!
Love that one! My husband got me the ginormous bottle for my anniversary one year and I wore it so much he started calling me “Cora.”
LOL! Your husband sounds like a hoot!
I am obsessing over that one right now… I agree the small bottle is easier to handle, but the price is better on the big one.
Very big difference in price indeed!
Umm, not to enable or anything, but you could buy the 200ml bottle and (carefully) decant some of it into the 75ml bottle when that one is finished. Win, win.
Too late, I got enabled anyway. I ended up with 200 mLs of Sycomore since Bergdorf did not have the smaller one.
How would you decant to the smaller one though. The atomizer on my smaller bottles are crimped and not screw top.
I believe someone on basenotes posted a youtube video on it, but I think you take the small removable sprayer cap off the top and use a syringe with a needle on it to draw up the perfume through the plastic tube that extends down into the bottle.
Okay, I ended up with the 200 mLs of Sycomore so if anyone is interested in splitting, the bottle is brand spanking new AND it will benefit from a % of the rewarding beauty discount at Bergdorf….
I put on Elixir des Merveilles today, but I would have been happier in Eau des Merveilles.
I tried the Elixir recently too. It is a bit sweeter than the Eau. It made me appreciate the Eau even more! 🙂
Rose Flash for me today. It’s strong enough to be ‘heard’ over the smell of the dogs I work with, and my boss likes it too, so it’s a win all around.
With all the talk recently about 31 Rue Cambon, I had to put it on today. And I sprayed 3 times, which for me is a lot! Three sprays has definitely improved its longevity, and I’m still enjoying it five hours later.
Excellent! I probably sprayed 3-4x yesterday, and it lasted a good 9 hours.
I’ve noticed that as well with the Exclusifs line. The ones that don’t last very well need a good dosing and then usually linger throughout the day. Although a little on cuffs and scarves helps as well.
You smell wonderful!
working from home in a dense cloud of vintage Cabochard. it’s a knockout!
WOW! Glam!
it really helps to cut the monotony of working from home!
My headache seems to be gone and I’m liberally doused in Fur. Too bad today’s weather is so terribly wrong for it. Anyone tried the other Madhat scents? I’m really lemming a FB of Fur but wonder how much I really need of a scent this potent that is built for cold weather. Too bad decants aren’t available.
Never mind. Y’all are a bunch of unintentional enablers with your high-dollar impulse splurges. I feel positively frugal for ordering two Madhat bottles, and will probably be happier with them than I would be with the Malle coffret (or so I tell myself).
I have several MadHats… ordered more Sandiver than I should have, though. Want a decant? Email me at emc dawt 7 1 1 7 in the land of ggggmail.
😀 Good for you! I could benefit from more spontaneity, myself. I figure if I hand around here long enough…
I blind bought Madhat’s newest scent Sandhiver. It has a really nice sandalwood opening but then it turns very metholated/camphorated so I put the bottle aside for my nephew. His prices are great though and the owner is super nice. I know he offers small quantities… maybe a 15 ml of Fur?
Never heard of Madhat – must look this up!
I have seen Madhat compared to Slumberhouse, but Fur is nothing like any Slumberhouse I’ve tried. It is strong, a delicate touch on one wrist from the sample vial gave me adequate sillage for an initial test, but doesn’t have that syrupy-ness that makes Slumberhouse scents unwearable for me (I appreciate them all, but can only wear Pear + Olive).
Fur is gorgeous, smoky, musky incense-amber with that lovely fruitiness that pine sometimes gives and it reads fairly dry to me. I blind bought, er, ordered a 15ml sample (thanks hajusuuri) of Royk because the incense in Fur was so lovely that I wanted to see his idea of a straight-up incense.
SOTD is a small spritz of Box of Eels. In a small room all day 1:1 so I didn’t want anything huge. I had a little fright when the other half of the 1:1 jumped up and said she had sudden nausea and headache and ran for the restroom.
Turns out last nights seafood salad is giving her some back talk and she is having unpleasant GI issues. Sorry she is feeling bad, but glad she’s not a perfume-a-phobe!
Deva, You can’t go wrong with Box of Eels. In my top ten.
Hope your 1:1 feels better soon!
Me too!
I’m wearing Muscs Koublai Khan on this rainy, chilly, gray day. It’s a good day to turn on the oven and test some new holiday recipes. If they turn out well the neighbors will get a bit of each so I don’t have to eat them all (or throw them away). I don’t like to waste food).
one of my absolute favorites. you smell wonderful!
SOTD : Jo Malone’s Dark amber and Ginger Lily. I needed something sheer and pretty today, and this hits the spot! OOTD: Skinny jeans, a yellow blouse (why???) and a dark charcoal sweater with short chunky boots.
Our outfits match today: drab mustard dress with charcoal shirt and tights, short black boots. I used to own that JM and got the sweetest compliment on it from a blind gentleman once.
that is one of the few Jo Malone’s I have yet to try….next time I am in a JM shop I will have to seek it out…..
I just recently bought a bottle of this and I absolutely love it. It’s a good one!
A friend has just sent me a bottle of Lolita Lempicka Sweet as it caught her eye in the duty free ( and she’s kind and knows I like perfume). It’s thrown me a bit as I haven’t worn any Lolita Lempicka and wouldn’t usually pick something called sweet. My first impression is that it’s quite thin. The scent is like raspberry lemonade or creaming soda ( I don’t know what Dr Pepper lip smackers were like…though I’ve read the comparison in reviews). Where I would expect the raspberry to be weighted down with vanilla ( to add a bit of richness and warmth ) the perfume base is cooler, slightly watery musk. The cherry isn’t a patch on Serge Lutens RL and if I was going to make a perfume comparison…based on my mainly mainstream perfume background…I would go with Cartier Lys Rose…not because they smell the same but because they are both aerial, light scents… The scent flits about above the wrist and then dips out of view and returns in a slightly duller version. Maybe rainbow would be a better analogy. I wouldn’t buy it ( cause I hate the bottle amongst other things )but it’s okay…and I think it might grow on me. Thanks to my friend!!!
Should add…it’s summer here and it’s a good BBQ scent
Ha! I still use use Dr Pepper Lip Smackers when I can find them. It’s sort of a cherry-cola-ish smell.
Nice.
I think Bois de Jasmine liked it — i could have sworn the way she described it that it would be similar to Guerlain French Kiss but she said no.
Very good morning, one and all. It’s Friday here, and I’m in community project mode, so am wearing Lyric for its incense-y dry down. It never bothers me to wear “posh” perfumes with casual clothes, which is what I’m doing right now: my favourite, much washed, now faded jeans, a white Tee, red lippy (I love Chanel!) and Lyric. Yum to Lyric; yay for a day in a fully relaxed outfit.
Lyric is one of my all-time favorites!
Chanel no 5 eau premiere, cause I’m worth it 😉
Happy Almost-Friday everybody!
Casual party this evening, so I’m contemplating what perfume to wear. It should be warm, attractive, and interesting. On the short list are L’AP Seville a l’aube, Amouage Beloved, SSS Tabac Aurea, and BK Liaisons Dangereuses. I’ll have fun sniffing the sprayers and thinking about this as I get ready.
I vote for Tabac Aurea…
sigh…forget my perfume, I’d like to be warm, attractive and interesting at a party too.
Smelling great is half the battle, Oakland Fresca! 😉
Your comment made me think of the article or link to the article that Robin (or maybe one of rhe commenters) posted about Jo Malone and how it takes her about 30 minutes to prepare for an evening out complete with a bath, make up, a glass of wine and a light dinner. I don’t think she’s the thpe to dither over which perfume to wear!
Guerlain bois d’armanie. Needed something warming and comforting on this sad Southern California day.
SOTD is NV Mohur. My decant is quickly emptying and I am trying to NOT save it til it evaporates!!
It’s so hard not to hoard the last drops of your’e favourites, especially the really expensive ones!
I am determined to enjoy every last drop and not waste ANY of it!!!
Not really perfume related (although I think there may be a deep connection to Roja Dove’s Tutti Frutti Aoud for millennials), but kind of fascinating article about “Bob Ross’s Strange Afterlife”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/fashion/mens-style/bob-ross-the-joy-of-painting.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Fashion%20%26%20Style®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
Holy cow, thank you. I can confirm that my 17 year old son learned about Bob Ross from the weird/ironic/annoying YouTube channels he frequents, and will love this article.
It’s a strange new world, Robin!
He reminds me, after I sent him a link, that he first learned about Bob Ross from Twitch (“the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers”), which is mentioned in the article. But I can confirm that he will sit and watch the actual show!
Another dark dreary day… Andy Tauer to the rescue with Incense Extreme. Ahhh…
Late to the party again today. Just getting my sense of smell back and wanted to wear something that wasn’t overwhelming. I chose Deseo by JLo. Its a nice, pretty scent.
I ordered the sample pack of the new Boadicea the Victorious perfumes from one of the online stores and it arrived yesterday. I am wearing Torc today. It does have oud, but there are many notes listed for this one, so the oud doesn’t take over. I seem to be getting jasmine, leather, raspberry and maybe some saffron and sandalwood at the moment.
Minor bummer PSA: I had a let-down with the new Jo Malone Blackberry & Bay “shower oil” (not to be confused with the “bath oil” or the “body & hand wash”). I had a $15 gift cert burning a hole in my pocket and since I’ve been really happy with the body cream and the body & hand wash, I thought, well, why not–well, it turns out that why not is because the shower oil components really distort the scent 🙁 It does succeed in leaving behind something of a Blackberry & Bay scent once you’re out of the shower, but while you’re actually using the product, the lather has quite a sharp, sour smell. Not what one wants at Jo Malone’s pricepoint!! (Or ever, for that matter.) A very lovely SA at Saks was happy to let me exchange it for the “body & hand wash” instead, and confirmed the issue–I thought maybe I’d just gotten a bad batch but she told me, no, she had one at home too and that’s just what it smells like. The honesty and helpfulness have made her my very favorite SA, and I’ll make a point of returning to her, but would recommend again this particular iteration of the product, in this scent at least. Maybe in something that’s a little more tart to begin with? It did make me think a little of Lime Basil & Mandarin, but otoh I never liked that scent so it’s not like, a ringing endorsement on my part!
Tea for two, plus a little AP Ylang oil underneath, I smell very good, thanks to swappers. Delighted to hobble over to our Vancouver smell meet up tomorrow, should anyone else local be into it.
Ooh you smell great!
Wish I were around for the meet-up. Will have to make it up your way one of these days!
Please do! We can have one in your honour if you make it to Vancouver…and maybe by then I’ll be de-crutched. ;-p
I’m wearing Histoires de Parfums 1826 today. Hadn’t worn that one in a long time, so I picked it out of a bag of travel sprays that was still sitting on my dresser from a recent trip (I didn’t wear it while on the trip).
I was thinking about the theme for the week, and I’m realizing that while I like incense, I actually don’t have much, that I can think of. I mean, I have CDG Kyoto, and I think that may be the only bottle I’ve got. I need to go through my samples and see if I’ve got anything else lurking around that I’ve forgotten about.
Vintage Coco Chanel.