The usual open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the perfume you're hoping to try soon, the last perfume you changed your mind about, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
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SOTD – Coup de Foudre from a sample. Am wearing a “crisp white shirt” for the office so it seemed appropriate. Not likely to purchase, though. The slightly sour berry notes just don’t suit me. On the other hand, DelRae is offering a free jar of cream with every matching bottle edp purchased thru the 18th – now that’s tempting. Just trying to decide, especially for the cream – Amoureuse or Bois de Paradis?
Wow – wish I’d known about that. I just ordered BdP Body Creme from BH, having tried samples of the fragrance and the creme first. I absolutely love it and highly recommend it, however, I’ve heard the Amoureuse creme is also really great! No help at all, am I?
That was the othe option – ordering from BH with the current discount promo. Cheaper if you only want the cream – and am currently broke…
That is very tempting! I do love Amoureuse.
Coup de Foudre was sour on me too, but I just chalked it up to not being a big rose person. DelRae claims it’s a super-realistic fresh-picked rose, but I didn’t get that at all — glad I have company, anyway!
I’ve not tried the body cremes….oh my….I think I’d have to pick the Bois de Paradis….ohhh hard decision!
Not trying to increase your lemmings, Daisy, but I do have a tiny pot of BdP body cream. It’s a rich, non-greasy formula and smells exactly like the edp…..
LOL —I’m not sure it’s possible to INCREASE my lemmings…I think that’s at full capacity as it is! The only thing that can tamp them down is the fact that I’m pretty much all spent out….the bank account has a hollow echo…..
Oh, btw, Daisy – I’ve really enjoyed the 88 Orange Blossoms that you sent along w/ Tonka Imp. Perfect in the heat, and lasts!
Cool! Orange blossom is always good in the heat. 🙂
I adore Amoureuse! There’s something slightly off with Bois for my nose…but on the other hand, sometimes creams and lotions smell a little different than the perfume.
I have inner conflicts over BdP from time to time. It’s gorgeous, but feels like I’m wearing a candle or potpourri scent instead of a perfume….
I have the same issue, and so only wear a dab of BdP along with a bigger dose of Guerlain’s SDV.
Has anyone sampled CdG Wonder Wood yet? I’d love to hear some first impressions, tia!
Oh, wearing CdG Odor 71 today. It’s refreshing on a truly hot & humid day.
My split just arrived, I have a bad cold but, very pine-y wood goodness…
I tried Odeur 71 for the first time recently – it doesn’t work on me at all. It reminds me of the smell of a doctor’s office.
I haven’t yet, but hope to soon…
There’s a split of Wonderwood going on over at Scent Splits. Can’t recall if it has closed or not but it’s a good deal as the host is getting it with the 25% BH discount.
I just received this yesterday…it is lighter than I expected, a nice mix of woods. The drydown was almost completely vetiver, but overall, it is decent. CdG is a hit and miss line for me. It is over 90 degrees here, so I am looking forward to trying it again in cooler weather.
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SOTD is L’Heuer Bleue. It’s funny because this particular fragrance was one that I didn’t initially take to. I kept sampling it and passing it by. When I did finally break down and buy a bottle I still wasn’t sure if I truly liked it. I liked the idea of it, though, so kept with it. It’s become almost a staple now, and the one I’ve been wearing the most lately. It seems very frozen though, something that never truly blossoms but at the same time I think that’s what I like about it as well. It’s like a moment trapped in time.
It’s extremely hot & humid here in the capital region, weather I certainly couldn’t imagine wearing anything too heavy in and yet while walking to the Metro this morning I was hit by the wafting of Poison. So I’m curious, what non-warm weather suited scents do you still wear when it’s ridiculously hot outside?
My ultimate fave tried and true sticky miserable hot weather scent is Eau de Givenchy. It’s a beautiful green fragrance with decent staying power! Can’t recommend it enough!
another lover of Eau de Givenchy, here
I wore EdG years ago!
And no matter how hot it is I love FM Carnal Flower
I was going to say – That’s a pretty sultry scent to be wearing today down there! I bought L’HB edp on a whim at Saks 12+ yrs ago because I trusted my then Guerlain SA, still the best I’ve ever worked with. It was far from my favorite at the time. I don’t wear it often because it’s such a BIG fragrance, but I do savor it when I wear it and the CEO loves it.
You’d be surprised the non-warm weather scents you can get away with on a hot day. My criteria is that it has to be “dry” – last summer, I wore Taur’s Incense Rose and it was just fine. Probably anything with a healthy dose of sandalwood may fit the bill because sandalwood has a “cooling” effect in the heat.
Walking to the Metro in the heat! Ah, memories! Especially the ozone action days…
Down here in Florida, the nation’s steamroom, I was surprised to find Havana Vanille worked really well on a sticky day. It’s named “Havana” so I guess that’s no surprise…anyway, it was interesting enough in the AC but when the hot stick air hit me…boom! The tobacco notes just exploded! So that’s a hot weather buddy for me.
Stay cool in DC!
Oooo! it’s going to be 90 again today—I’ll have to try a spritz of Havana Vanille to see if I get the tobacco explosion too!
OOh! I just won a vintage bottle of L’Heuer Bleue on eBay, and I’m really excited about it.
I love to wear non-summer scents in summer, especially arabian attars. Just a tiny bit, and they explode into a warm, velvet cloud that just hums on the skin…
Rose, oudh, sandalwood, the usual suspects : )
L’Heure Bleue is a recent discovery for me. Those classic Guerlains are killing me. Seriously! Few fragrances compare on skin.
My favorite Guerlain in these hot days is Chamade… and I just made my first eBay fragrant purchase… A 1/4 full 30 ml bottle of Vol de Nuit extrait…without box…I am crossing my fingers!
Anyway, in these hot days, wether I take the metro or my bike, I am favoring my best fragrant friends: Carnal Flower, Beyond Love, une fleur de cassie, and surprisingly I am really enjoying some Chanels: Beige and Bois des lies, the latter is a complete rediscovery…thanks to the heat, I think.
I fear my nose is getting really very bourgeois, must shake things up a bit!
We had all this horrible hot dry weather for like 2 weeks and I was regularly dousing myself in edc’s. Then suddenly it rained and got all cool one day. I really needed something different and reached for the L”Heure Bleue edp, which I wore and reapplied all day long on Saturday. It was heavenly!
Great question, Klytaemnestra! I’m about to try BK Back to Black and the Ouds. There is an appealing dryness/lightness to these Kilians that may enable them to work in any season, even though I think of the notes more as fall/winter ones. I’ve been wearing them at home in the AC, but that walk to the metro IS the real test.
Yesterday i had a sudden craving for L’Instant. I don’t wear it often, sometimes it’s plain sweet and flat on me . But yesterday It was deep and interesting and really bloomed on my skin, and it was very hot and humid evening. So, i don’t think we have to follow some hard rules concerning what perfume suits what weather. If you feel like it wear it! 🙂
I really like L’Heure Bleue when it’s hot.
I wore LHB to an Irish festival last weekend, where it competed with the scents of sunscreen and beer. Picture a small group of insane grown women among a medium-sized group of teenagers, 95% girls, who all registered for the outdoor dance competition because we’re determined to promote at least one stubborn dance even though this festival is always either blazing hot or pouring with rain. (This year we hit both with a midafternoon thunderstorm.) Classic backstage outfit: dance dress unzipped to waist to reveal tank top, curly wigs and tiaras on the girls, curly real hair going wild in the heat on me, white cotton socks, Crocs over soft shoes. I might have looked ridiculous but I smelled great.
SOTD is Nuit de Tubereuse which I find oddly addictive. It’s like Indian food which I really like, but it isn’t my all-time favorite type of food, BUT I often crave it and must have it. NdT wasn’t love at first smell, but it got under my skin (so to speak) and now haunts me to the point that I might just have to buy a bottle. Unless there’s a split out there needing a participant 😉
Anyone else find themselves craving scents that aren’t on their holy grail list?
It’s more like I’m craving something new to smell and don’t know what. Nothing feels right lately, like Goldilocks – too heavy, too fresh, too whatever. Maybe I’m just cranky from the heat. 🙂
I find there’s a basil note in NdT that reminds me of Thai food a tiny bit and is addictive.
And yes, often strangely crave things not on my “list” (not that I have an HG list).
I find both NdT and Amaranthine oddly addictive. I wonder what it is?!
Me too, Haunani. I don’t know what it is but they’re both created by BD.
I sure do love his work! 🙂
Must try Amaranthine…
I need to prioritize that one on my “to buy” list. My decant is gone, and I swear – I really do have cravings for it!
I’m suddenly loving tuberose, which is a complete turnaround. I never thought of myself as a flower person in general, or a tuberose lover in particular. OK, I did wear the original Chloe decades ago, but that was clearly an aberration. I dislike Fracas and am immune to Tuberose Criminelle and Carnal Flower. But suddenly I’m sleeping with AG Songes, keep BK Beyond Love in my purse, find myself considering a natural, HdP Vamp a NY, and I’m also falling for Nuit de Tubereuse. I can’t believe I’m saying this!
I had such high hopes for Vamp a NY —alas, my split has turned out to be an unsniffed mistake…sigh. Sadly Nuit de Tubereuse didn’t pass muster either. I think tuberose just doesn’t like me! 🙁
There is something incredibly treasonous about any perfume not loving Daisy! 🙂
well, heck….I feel the same way! Especially after I’ve shelled out carefully hoarded perfume bucks for it! sigh….but that’s why there’s perfume swaps etc. and also why Robin always advises us (and quite correctly) to test before purchase…. I just never learn.
Hello everyone, I love an open thread!
We are having a few days of cold, rainy weather so I’ve been wearing some heavier scents. I re-visited Amouage Epic a few days ago. Still no real love but I realised that it reminded me of Attrape Coeur. Anyone else find this?
SOTD, for the second day in a row, is SL Bois de Violette. SL is one of those brands whose scents I often like but never enough to want a bottle. With BdV I think I’ve met a Lutens that I can imagine owning.
You’re in luck since that one is export!
Good to know, Robin, thanks. Liberty website says it’s exclusive to them so I wasn’t sure what the deal was regarding the export/non-export thing.
Luckyscent has it too. And probably other places….
Ah, so it probably means it’s exclusive to Liberty in UK as I don’t think I’ve ever seen it at another retailer here. Still, better than Paris Only and I’ve a discount voucher for Liberty….hmmmm….
Yeah ive never bought a bottle of Lutens either. I would want quite a few of them @ half the price tho.
Hello Everyone – today is an at the office day and because I have decided that as long as I don’t wear a sillage monster, anything goes re: perfume ..so am wearing just a dab of FM L’Eau d’Hiver. Can’t stop smelling my own wrists…mmm love, love it!
I do have a question for anyone who cares to respond. I have been going through various perfume lines, trying them ALL whether I think I will like them or not. So how do you evaluate a sample? Do you all have a strict method? or does it just hit you right away – like or not to like? I have been struggling with this a little. Because I am finding the longer I wear something…like 2 or 3 days in row…it can grow on me…ones I thought were scrubbers are making me re-think them and getting new samples of the same, just to be sure! Am I crazy? Have I gone over the perfumed edge? Please help.
Before the number of launches got so overwhelming, I tried to test everything 3-4 times before I gave up. Now, no way…I dismiss things that smell generic or boring right away. If it seems interesting, I keep going. I do find it helps to skip days (or even weeks) and then go back to something with a fresh mind.
Thank you all for the great advice! I like the idea of spreading it out instead of 2 or 3 days in a row. And taking into consideration the seasons is great also. Not sure if I will go the spreadsheet route but WOW that is amazing to me. Love the ziplock bags…this will all help immensely – thank you all so very much!
I kind of put mine in a rotation -more of a pending pile than purgatory. I used to keep lots of notes on fragrances (not so much anymore), and I would mark if I liked it or not – very causal type of way. And I would always naturally remember if I really like something outright, as it goes on a to swap/buy list. Unless it is a total scrubber, which is rare for me, or one I know is not my taste, which go in a ziplock purgatory, the others I am indifferent/lukewarm about go in this glass dish. I will revisit fragrances every few months or so and then test them in different weather, etc, to make sure that my impression wasn’t biased by something other than just outright dislike. There are a few fragrances I’ve come back around to after having lukewarm first impressions, that I’ve come to love, notabley Mitsouko and Noir Epices. But now I have a pretty rigorous standard to buy something, so even if I think something is good, rarely do I want to buy it unless it really knocks me socks off. A lot of time I will try to get fragrances that are good, but not HG status, through swaps as we all have something someone else wants!
Why the ziplock bags, do samples evaporate or dry out a bit over time if left in the open air?
I’ve been storing mine in these small Turkish coffee cups I’ve got, but I do notice the samples smell…
I have two zippies: one for the ones I want to swap away, and one for seasonal sample favs that I’ll regularly rotate into my purse.
Putting the ones I am lukewarm about or want to revisit in a ziplock is just easier. That way when I am searching for one of them to retest or swap away, I can find it easily. The ones I like or want to keep for “reference” are all stored away in organza baggies by house in a nice train case. “Solo” fragrance samples without housemates are all stacked up in those small jewelry boxes in the train case. I also keep an inventory of the ones I want to keep for reference or b/c I like them. The ones I don’t want to keep – why waste the time on ineventory?
I’ve only ever had ONE regular sample vial evaporate on me, but I have had a number of those dorky snap on 2.5 ml spray samples evaporate away. I am certainly glad that I didn’t have anything particularly valuable in those little spray decanters! In any case, I don’t t hink storing in ziplock would prevent evaporation, as at the molecular level they are not really airtight.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there must be some nominal evaporation as my train case has a lovely mixed perfumey smell – and there are a few samples I have that you can actually smell through the plastic top. But most of them are nice and sound.
That’s a great system! I don’t have more than about 20 samples now, but I think I’ll have to keep an inventory too because it’s hard to remember what exactly I’ve got.
My method is quite like yours, Anns, but you’ve expressed it really well! There are usually a fair amount of scrubbers that get tossed in the “reference only” pile, and an even smaller number of “love at first sniff”s. The rest are perhaps the most interesting: I’ll try one or two every day for a few days, to see what they resemble, try to identify how the notes react with each other, try to classify them in my mind. Then I write a “personal review” and move onto something else–unless someone here mentions one of them, then I’ll happily revisit it!
I wear a sample for three days in a row, then jot some notes down in this word doc I’ve got going for perfume… I’ve had different kinds of experiences: a few times I’ve sworn I loved something at first sniff, but then I got a bit less excited about it on the second and third try, other times I hated a scent so much I dreaded wearing it on the second day, then as time went on I found myself not minding it (though it’s never gone from total hate to total love.)
I’m not one to follow the crowd, but I do keep on trying with scents that have legions of rabid followers. Maybe I’m just pig-headed: I don’t want to give up until I figure out what’s so darned great about the scent. STILL trying to figure that out about Mitsouko! The non-legendary scents that don’t immediately work on me get dismissed pronto — life’s too short to keep flogging a dead horse.
My rec, if you haven’t done so already, to deal with the Mitsouko conundrum is to get your hands on some edp or extrait. I had a lot of trouble with it when I was testing the edt. As soon as I tried the edp, I was a goner. The extrait is even softer and more diffuse.
My sample is the edp — oh well!
Oh, me too – once I got hold of some Mitsy edp and found that I didn’t care much for it, I stopped trying so hard. There are other Guerlains that I hated HATED in edt but enjoy very much in the stronger concentrations, but sadly, Mitsouko has not played nice with me.
I found that I started getting Mitsouko once I got to grips with ‘easier’ chypres – namely 31 RC and Jubilation and, to a slightly lesser degree, AdP Profumo. Then a vintage Mitsouko sample landed on my lap and I thought “hey, I think things are starting to click into place” so I went out and tried the (modern) extrait. It’s still not a must have for me but I do find myself reaching for my sample from time to time.
It’s good to have other big chypres to compare it. Vintage always helps, but then sometimes comes the disappointment too b/c its hard to get if you fall in love. See, for me Jubilation is MAJOR and I find it hard to wear. Chypres are tough for sure, but I think that is partially what brings all the pleasure and love once they come around.
Jub25 is a major love for me but I’ve no trouble wearing it, thankfully. And I totally agree that while chypres can be temperamental, when they do work, they are absolutely spectacular. A good portion of my absolute favourites are chypres – 31 RC, Jubilation, Bandit…
AdP Profumo is my HG chypre. It seems so perfectly balanced, and it’s SO beautiful! I need to give Mitsouko some more wears. I appreciate it but don’t know whether or not it will be love. 🙂
Profumo is great, isn’t it? I find it very plush so it works particularly well in the winter and I just love the plum in it. I think Mitsouko is a little more austere by comparison (less so in extrait, perhaps).
Plush is a good descriptor! And I love the plum, too!
I do like many chypres (31RC, Bandit, Colony, even Sous le Vent at times) but for some reason Mitsouko just doesn’t smell right to me. I also realized that it conjures up bad associations — someone I knew long ago wore Mitsouko — and I think that problem is unsurmountable!
Seems like I get on very well with floral chypres,but the fruity ones just make me feel as if I’ve eaten something that disagreed with me.
I don’t have to love everything.
N., I know what you mean about not giving up on understanding some of the classics. I have some moments of wondering if some things are just a case of the Emperor’s New Perfume, or if it’s something I actually will come around eventually to appreciate. I have to say, though, that I’ve noticed one of two things will happen if I try over and over to “get” a fragrance: either my tastes will have changed enough that I suddenly love it or at least appreciate the structure of it, OR I am never going to like it. It’s more often than not the latter that happens. I figure if I still don’t love, say, Jicky after three years of trying, it’s never going to happen.
My 13 year old loves Mitsouko..which pretty much dumbfounded me…just because typically at that age, it’s bath and body works or some britney spears nightmare they go after. So I asked her what it was that she liked so much about it., and she says to me…”well…at first to me it smells like I’m hiking through a forest..smelling the trees, and moss, leaves…then it’s like you stopped for a picnic in the middle of the trees…and have a wonderful glass of sweet tea piled full with lemon slices, and a nice bowl of over-ripe sweet peach cobbler.” I couldn’t argue that her logic was flawed… for 13 she does seem to have the ability to pick out various notes that some people may miss… just last night she declared within 3 seconds of sniffing she liked the chocolate note in Missoni.
Goodness – sounds like you have a potential master perfumer in the making….
I certainly agree.
I saw your comment on the verbena thread about how your 13 y/o ran to the Mitsouko after being away. Really great story.
Excellent nose on your young’un!
Wow! Good for her! One of the things I like best about Mitsouko is that smell of “being in the woods”, esp. in the early fall when the leaves come down. She sounds like she has a really great nose!
I bet she would also love Ormonde Woman!
oh my! your 13 yr old has fabulous taste! But you realize how scary this is , right? My daughter was the same way —and at 16 was (I’m certain) the only girl in the high school in Guerlain, Chanel and Amouage, while the others were dousing themselves in B&BW Putrid Amber….I this in your future. Just wait until she informs you that she requires a bottle of Bel Respiro or OJ Ta’if or Hermessence Ambre Narguile…..arg!
I’m quite similar to AnnS. I tend to test most things a couple of times but not necessarily on consecutive days. Some things work better depending on the season so if I’m unsure then I’ll put a sample aside and return to it at a later date. On rare occasions you encounter either a complete scrubber or something that inspires instant love, but at least those are quite easy.
I like to sniff lots but I buy few bottles as I’d rather have a smaller collection. I’m not really into decants/splits because if I really love something then I want a bottle and if I don’t absolutely adore it then the existing sample is usually sufficient.
This is a great sub-topic!
I don’t usually love anything immediately—it’s either “interesting” (as Robin noted” or not. Interesting stuff gets worn until I decide whether or not I like/love it, not-interesting goes in my swap pile.
Very rarely, I love/hate something right from the gate:
Loved: Coup de Foudre
Hated: SL Louve
Oops! Forgot to close my note! )
First, I must confess…I am a business analyst by profession…so my system may seem like overkill to some. What seemed blasphemous to some, I actually enjoyed the 1-5 rating system that is used by LT and TS in Perfumes – The Guide.. so I changed over to using that for myself. I keep a spreadsheet of all my fragrances (and one for a ‘wish list to try”) also. I keep the name, house, official notes, and my rating and comments on it, if it was in PTG, then I also make a note of their rating and comments. Recently, I have also been keeping notes from blog reviews for each as well.
Then I have white paper bags labeled with the numbers 5, 4, 3, etc. and I put all my samples and small decants in each bag based on the corresponding rating I gave it. I like the white paper bag for a couple of reasons…#1, I can write on the back of the bag the name of each sample as I drop them in, it will help with the sunlight not getting to them and causing them to turn so easily, and I know immediately what my impressions of the scent was based on which bag it’s in. I also keep one for true masculines that I would never wear, and a purgatory bag for ones I can’t decide on. I must admit….sometimes after resniffing a sample…it gets promoted or demoted to another bag.
I like your system! I’ve always kind of grouped mine by house, but the past year I was really considering whether I should regroup them by season or by type – so I’d have all the chypres together, etc. But sorting them all by their ranking is really an interesting method.
The scents I’ve brought along for my NJ beach vacation: Carthusia Via Cammerelle (a new discovery, it’s great but short-lived), Philosykos, Escale Pondichery (decided I LOVE this), Melograno, Jardin a l Mousson, KenzoAir. Also, Guerlain Eau Imperiale, which I decided is too blah for me, but good in the heat.
Anticipating receipt in a couple weeks of some CdG Wonderwood, unsniffed (among several other decants incl. Stephen Jones!), and planning to split a small, discounted Iris Nobile with a friend — yet another great iris.
Hey, how is the beach? I assume you got the same couple days rain we did, but it’s nice here today.
It’s been really great, even the thunderstorm & downpour the other night and other sporadic rain. This is summer to me. Even though the heat can be brutal, I don’t mind if I’m just lounging on vacation.
Very nice! 🙂
Good!
SOTD is Ineke Balmy Days & Sundays. It’s finally gotten warm here in SoCal, so I’ve been wearing lots of refreshing things – yesterday was Cristalle eau Verte and Jatamansi (not at the same time)!
Excited that I will be getting my bottles and supplies tomorrow for the first split I’m hosting! Hope everything goes smoothly.
Good luck with your split!!
Yes, good luck! One of these days, I will have to get my feet wet and host one.
It’s really no harder than making up samples. Once you’ve done that, it’s a piece of cake.
1) finally bought Cuir de Russie. Love.
2) Both Nuit de Tubereuse and Amaranthine both turn sugary sweet on me. And here I thought this whole skin chemistry thing wasn’t really true. It is. NdT = sugar melon. Where’s the tuberose? Tenacious as hell, too.
3) Tilda Swinton Like This- bought it and was thrilled to find a skanky musk note a la L’Air de Rien in it. Yay!
4) Sampled things from The Different Company for the first time this weekend. Fun stuff! Sublime Balkiss made me laugh out loud in delight, loved Oriental Lounge, learned what bergamot was thanks to Divine Bergamot, and enjoyed the rooty true iris opening of Bois d’Iris. Good line! I’m a fan!
Ooh, congrats on Cuir de Russie! Which concentration did you go for in the end? This will one be my next purchase too, just need to decide between edt and extrait.
I ended up going with the big ol’ bottle of the EdT, which I am ok with. I know there’s that extrait out there, and perhaps someday I will get over to Bergdorf in NYC to try it out. Thing is, I don’t think either are going to broadcast their presence, just by nature of the scent, so I’m cool with an EdT. Ideally I’d like to have some extrait to layer with the EdT!
Can’t go wrong, either way, I think. And those big, heavy bottles with their magnetic caps feel incredibly luxurious every time you pick ’em up.
I agree…I just love holding those bottles! They are quite stunning lined up on the shelf!
Jared, I wore Bergamote yesterday and Bois d’Iris is one of my staples. I just love them both! Gotta try the Balkiss one of these days…
Sublime Balkiss is totally Angel, but I was really loving it. I’d like to try them side by side, because I can’t imagine needing both, unless berries over patchouli is really your thing. Still, it produced a genuine laugh, and I see that as a good thing! Wearing Bois d’Iris now, and I must compare with Heeley’s Iris…very similar
Well, berries over patchouli is really NOT my thing, LOL, but I am curious about it!
P.S. I love it when a fragrance is amusing!
I think the Heeley brings together lots of different iris facets, and is probably my favorite. It’s like the best parts of the other irises I like, all rolled into one. Floral, rooty, spicy… it’s all there.
Note to self: “Scent Twin Boo’s favorite Iris is Heeley” Thanks 🙂
Can you believe I haven’t tried that Heeley iris either?
I agree E – that one and the VC&A are my favorite irises so far.
I was hosting a bottle split for the first time in my life yesterday and I really fought with a decant! It didn’t seem to spray when I closed it tightly. I buy from Accessories for Fragrance, which seems to be a great brand. I must be doing something wrong here….
Closing decants 101, anyone?
Will greatly appreciate it, thanks!
I’ve had problems with defective sprayers too, as have others. Try unscrewing it, taking the tube off, and then putting the tube back on. You might not want to “prime the pump” next time — it’s nice to test it for the recipients, but it’s probably more prone to leaking in transit.
“prime the pump” meaning…?
oh G
osh, I’m so green 🙂
Thanks!
I think she meant not to prime the pump as in not to pump the sprayer once you’ve got it put together – you might have done that to test to see if it’s spraying, but it could cause some leakage. Does that make sense?
Yes, thank you, it makes a lot of sense. And yes, of course I did it to be sure that everything is right for my split partner. I will make sure and pour it into a different decant now so that it won’t leak.
Thanks, Springpansy! And yes, Miss Kitty’s right that perfume people are a forgiving bunch, so don’t worry about it all too much…
I’m going to also warn not to do any test spritzes. They most definitely do leak if you do. The only time I ever had anyone complain that something leaked was when I tested it first. I’ve also only ever gotten one decant from anyone that didn’t work, but I tried often enough that it finally submitted. I think if you did, by chance, send someone a bottle that didn’t end up spraying, you could always send them another bottle that you did try first (if it’s empty you obviously don’t have to worry about leakage). Perfumistas are a pretty forgiving bunch. As long as we get our perfume fix one way or another, we’re happy. 🙂
Thanks, Miss Kitty!
Great idea!
SOTD- Kelly Caleche I finally got my supplies to denant hay! and I was like trying to pour into a 1m vial not realizing I was holding the vial up side down… and I spilled some perfume all over the place.I can still smell it in the morning!! It’s ok, my place smells great, and it’s all good!!!
oops, mispelled Decant.
LOL…I’ve done that many times!
I love Kelly Caleche, it always makes me feel so ladylike! Haven’t tried it in the summer, will have to.
I broke a vial of Chanel No. 5 on my tiled bathroom floor once, it smelled very luxiorous for a few days! 😉
I’ve been sniffing swiftly along my way down the list of “100 scents every perfumista should try –” some I’ve worn for several days, others I’ve just quickly sampled by dabbing some on the back of my hand… I sometimes wear two or three perfumes a day now, as I dab lightly and most are Edt’s anyways…
The ones I’ve worn for several days in a row were Coco Mademoiselle, which was nice but maybe a bit too sweet, DKNY’s Be Delicious, a nice green apples scent that works well on humid days but isn’t anything special, and EL Pleasures, which wouldn’t have been bad but I got this soap note at some points in the drydown that I couldn’t stand. There was also Pure White Linen, which turned sour on me and gave me my first major perfume headache 😉 And LL’s Eau du Desir, which was too sweet for me without the interest of the original LL. I also got a little bottle of Yves Rocher Pur Desir de Lilas on someone’s recommendation here, but all I could smell was pure alcohol, then a brief powder-lilac, then it faded. I guess all the more to appreciate En Passant if I ever get my hands on it…
There were others I quickly tried with a dab on my hand, mostly because I was dying of curiosity about them, and because I got really bored after a couple days of wearing florals and needed something else.
They were: No. 5, which I tried long ago and dismissed as a powdery old-lady scent. I didn’t love it this time, but I didn’t find it nearly as bad as I remembered. Opium: nice, but somehow boring? I think quite a few women wore this around me while I was growing up, and I blank out wiht it like I do with CKs: I’ve just smelled them so often that I can no longer really appreciate them… Shalimar made me gag and smelled really foul on me (I’ll see if this opinion gets better after I wear it over several days.)
Did I really LOVE anything I tried?
Poison, Rodrigues for her and Philosykos were all INCREDIBLE, and fully deserving of all caps. The later probably impressed me the most, it has this top note that smells like you’re laying in the park smelling the leaves, grass and the dirt, and then it changes into this sweet (but not fruity or floral) goodness that my nose can’t really describe in much detail. Glorious stuff.
What fun! Glad you found at least 3 you really love.
Just received a Luckyscent sample suite in which I ordered enough samples to tide me over. I’m super broke right now so I’m holding off on any bottles.
ELd’O Like That– nice but a strangely gourmand/savory. Reminds me of curried potato pastries one gets at Thai restaurants. On the first try I loved it but it’s quite quite strange and I might not be so infatuated now.
Andy Tauer Un Rose Chypre– Well done but so reminiscent of Habanita that I thought it was mislabeled.
Boudicca Wode– Beautiful. I might be putting a bottle of this on my Buy List, whenever I can get to it.
VC&A Muguet Blanc– I love it! And it’s doing really well in Houston’s humid heat. I would definitely be saving for a bottle if it wasn’t so expensive.
CdG Red Series: Harissa– Not nearly as red pepper-y as I was hoping for. Feels like Timbuktu after too much plastic surgery.
And that’s been my scented week. 😛
I think your URC must have been mislabeled – it is so far away from Habanita that I can’t even imagine a smell-alike situation, unless something blocked the aromas and you are only getting leather in the base. URC is all heavy spices, rich rose and leathery stuff. H is all powdery smoke and leather…. Hmm.
I agree with Anns: your URC sample must be mislabeled!!
Can that sort of thing happen?
My Habanita doesn’t sound like yours. There is powder but it’s got a rich, almost syrupy rose and a light layer of vetiver underneath. The only reason I think it IS Tauer is because there’s a bit of his spice mixture right up top, the one that’s also in Vetiver Dance.
Also, Ann, I was locked out of my hotmail account awhile back and I’d totally forgotten that I was supposed to email you back about the Nahema. I’m so sorry. If you’re still interested, give me a shout:
ericbrandonh at gmail dot com
OK!!!
I’m going to agree that URC and Habanita seem light years away from each other. But I also have to say that when I first tried URC and just dabbed some on, it smelled VERY different from when I finally got a decant and sprayed it on. So who knows. I actually have gotten stuff that was mislabeled before. It does happen.
I liked Wode a lot too. Not sure it’s going on the buy list, but it might.
It’s beautifully mossy and spicy. It makes me pretty happy.
Hot weather continues unabated so I’m wearing what are to me hot-weather scents. This morning: Montale Attar, a ludicrously beautiful rose-sandalwood. Post-shower, Demeter Vetiver, bright and grassy and perfect for the heat.
I never was a summer person. I can’t wait for fall so I can start wearing all those dark warm autumnal things I love the most.
I’m with you, Pyramus — I can’t wait to get back to my fall scents.
Fall person here too!
Not that the heat is preventing me to turn to my favorites fragrances: some fave “heavy hitters” bloom in the heat, I just apply them lightly…
I’m *sort of* with all of you. I love deep, warm scents, rich chypres (can’t understand what’s wrong with wearing Bandit in 90 degree weather), incense… And I love winter clothes. Give me my boots, a long black dress, and my leopard coat and I’m happy. But I love summer! I suppose I could be like Stevie Nicks and just stay in air conditioning all day (with a fireplace blazing), but I’m not up for being that wasteful.
SOTD is JM White Jasmine & Mint — this is such a humidity-friendly scent and I just really enjoy it. In fact, I’m actually draining my bottle, which is quite a rarity.
I’ve also been enjoying my sample of Micallef Note Vanillee (thanks, Daisy!). This so lovely and I’m sure I’ll wear it more in the fall. I find it very similar to Laurence Dumont Tendre Madeleine, which I also like very much.
It is humidity-friendly, and boy have we got humidity here today…
SOTD: Institut Très Bien Cologne à la Française. This one lasts a long time on me for a cologne. 4 hours and counting! Beautifully soft citrus, magnolia, iris scent. Love it, and perfect in this hot weather!
Perfumes I’m hoping to try: TDC’s De Bachmakov, and some old ones on my list – Hermes Vanille Galante and Osmanthe Yunnan. I’m curious about the rest of the the TDC line as well. Haven’t tried any yet.
Perfume I’m curious about: Thierry Mugler’s Womanity. Bought a small bottle of it and have worn it a couple of times. Curious what others think of this fragrance. Have you tried it? What do you think? It’s strange, but I think I like it.
Funny story: Decanted some of my fragrances into sample vials to send to a friend. First time I’d done it. Thought it would be a disaster, but it was easier and quicker than I thought. All proud of myself. Labeled everything and wrote up a note listing all of the scents, etc. Well, I placed the package of samples in the box with some packing peanuts. While I was writing the note, I pulled out the samples to make sure I’d listed all of them in my note. Placed the note on top, sealed up and addressed the box, and dropped the box at the post office. Went grocery shopping. Got home. Saw the package of vials sitting on my desk. I’d forgotten to put them back in the box!!!! ACK!!!!! Was able to get the post office guy to retrieve the box for me. He laughed. Of course, I didn’t tell him that it was PERFUME that I had forgotten to pack up. 😉
I sampled Womanity a week or two ago, just on paper. I couldn’t stop sniffing it – it was something salty, almost like popcorn. But then combined with the sweetness, I think it was too much. But hey, they have 10 ml bottles, so why not?
Speaking of, get your free Womanity sample here: http://esampling.womanity.com/us/
I still haven’t gotten mine, but I do hope they still have some!
LOL! I usually write nice little notes and forget to put them in, but have never forgotten the perfume itself. 🙂
Oh man – I’m missing another open thread!! Your story is tto funny Karin! Classic. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to get back here and participate later.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one that does things like that. I sent two packages of perfume out of the US a while back (I mean, no, I didn’t! Shhh!!) and got there to find out I had packaged everything wrong. So they were extremely accommodating at the post office, and gave me another box to use without having to actually unpack anything… So far, so good… Except dumbass here addressed both packages to the same person, and now had no idea which package was which. It all worked out, but I was clearly annoying other people in line, and the postal employees were significantly less patient by the time I left there.
I’ve had Gucci Envy, Diorissimo, and Patricia de Nicolai’s Eau d’ete in heavy rotation during this high heat we’re having. I love them all. I am the opposite of Pyramus; I love the scents of Spring/Summer.
Me too!
I guess what I like best is that there is variety here where I live–you can enjoy summer fragrances in summer and winter fragrances in winter. There is both enjoyment in the moment, and looking forward to something different for the future.
Yes! I used to have a favorite season, but it has changed over the years. Now I know that I love them all… I just wish winter was much shorter. In my ideal world, winter would only last from Thanksgiving through January, instead of our October through May.
SOTD: CdG2 Woman, which I’d forgotten all about! It always makes me feel so… competent. Even when I’m not. Like, say, putting a client’s check in my pocket and forgetting to take it out before doing laundry and having to shamefacedly ask them for another. Oh well, at least I *smell* professional!
LOL…excellent. That does call for an assertive perfume.
I usually don’t get excited about iris, though I liked bois d’iris (both the VC&A and TDC).
A couple of days ago I tested Chanel La Pausa, and LOVED the way the iris had been rendered buttery (smooth and silky, really luxurious). It would have been a full bottle purchase, but it really didn’t last enough to justify the splurge – and usually I don’t mind low lasting power.
Do you know a fragrance with a similar understated creamy iris?
Are Mythique or Iris Silver Mist similar in feel?
Thanks!
ISM — no, extremely vegetal. Mythique — iris used in a similar way, but not a substitute for La Pausa at all (and not so focused on iris anyway).
bit late, but have you tried Prelude to love (By Kilian)? My favorite iris is Iris taizo (now oriental, parfumerie general), has huge staying power on me, but I’ve heard other opinions, and anyways, the iris note is rather subdued
Hi Bee, Thanks, I think I have a sample of prelude to love somewhere…
I never really tested it (I smelled the vial and feared it would be too sweet, but that’s not a fair assessment!)
I’ll try it out. And Iris Taizo, when I come by a PG counter.
I really loevd the butteriness of la pausa, it was the first time I got that effect in an Iris perfume!
ops, I wouldn’t define them buttery, but they are different takes on iris! (no vegetable-carrot ) , mabe because they don’t start off typically, Prelude to love is kind of citrussy at the beginning, taizo is more spicy, and both become more typical iris after some hours, both are interesting!
Waiting on a bottle of Frapin 1270 that was backordered. Should ship soon i hope. I requested some samples from the Les Nereides line. Dont ever hear any talk about them on here, so i hope they are ok.
Hi Rictor,
I have Douceur de Vanille by Les Nereides, and it’s very pretty. I discovered that I’m not a huge vanilla fan, but it felt (to me) like a nice quality fragrance for the price : )
Howdy!! SOTD: I am layering AT L’ADDM (b/c I needed something very dry in this insane humidity we are having) with No 5 eau Premier. I know it sounds nuts, but L”ADDM give No 5 (even the regular No 5) some warm, dry gravity that I really craved today. And, I also discovered the other day that PdN’s Rose Pivoine layers really well with Joy edp.
Here is my question for anyone that can answer: All you Nahema lovers out there: I have the pre-reform edp. It is gorgeous. Any comments from those of you with the extrait on how it is the same or different? I’ve read that is is rosier and less oriental. Any comments?
L’ADDM? Mind is blank.
Sorry – I’m getting too much into abbreviations. Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain. 😉
Ah! If you’d said “Tauer L’ADDM” I would have figured it out!
Ann, I haven’t compared them in a while, but I will agree the extrait is more richly rosy/floral. There is a plasticky, tropical note in the heart of the edp that gets in the way of the rose for me. Should have been my first Guerlain purchase 15 yrs ago, but I walked the bottle back to Saks less than 20 min after the test spritz on my wrist started to develop out of that wonderful initial first blast of pure roses.
Hopefully you’ll get more responses on this.
BTW – I think LDDM sets a beautiful frame for a lot of rose fragrances….
Oops! Must have been half asleep when I posted last night. That would be L’ADDM…
Operafan – thanks for the comments on Nahema. I’ve been dancing around getting some extrait for a few years now. Perhaps that will be my perfume quest for the fall! I don’t get plasticky from the edp, but it does get rather “thick” at one point as the heart notes develop. I figure she needs some space at that point before she settles down.
Wearing my Bois 1920 Classic 1920. One of my very few unsniffed purchases. I’ve gone back and forth on this one, but I would say, it really was not a successful purchase. I love a couple of other Bois 1920 scents – but this one just doesn’t suit me (maybe the vetiver? I often can’t wear that), though it certainly suits the weather – light, non-sweet, green and vetivery. Think I’ll have to find something to do with the rest of my bottle. Ah well, there are many other perfumes to wear instead, right?
Actually, the drydown does get better, but still…
Maybe swap some of it away on Scent Splits?
I’m wearing the edt version of Donna Karan Gold today in the 90 degree heat and high humiidity of SE PA. Smells great – all indolic lily and a slight vetiver note beneath. I have smelled the EDP version but can’t remember how it differs from the edt. Does anyone wear both and can compare? TIA
I found it heavier & warmer, probably less suited to summer.
I have/wear both and I think the EdP is a bit more intense, has more longevity. The Edt has a little more sparkle/ brightness? At least that’s the way it seems to me. Both are a fabulous rendition of lily. I don’t get any indoles though —which is good because I don’t like anything very indolic.
SOTD: Sinan de Jean Marc-Sinan. Love, love, love this Chypre Floral from 1986 which I have to use sparingly because it’s so hard to find and extremely expensive now. One drop of the edt lasts all day!! Anybody else know it?
I don’t!
I haven’t tried it, but I think it’s been compared to Ungaro Diva and Montana Parfum de Peau, both of which I am familiar with. Big rich rose chypre, right? My fave rose chypre is L’Arte di Gucci. Have you tried any of those?
SOTD is Calyx which I thought would be perfect for 90 degree humidity. I thought wrong. For some reason I’m not getting any green, just a straight blast of guava. I smell like a garbage can of three day old fruit peels. Has this ever happened to anyone else? The bottle is fairly new (a few weeks or so), so I don’t think that’s the problem.
Even worse, I’ve been sneezing all day with terrible pressure under my eyebrows. I really hope I haven’t developed an allergy to perfume.
I’m off to take a shower.
Oh dear! Had you worn the Calyx before?
I sympathise, Calyx smells gorgeous on paper, but on my skin at any time of year rotting fruit happens. Hope you feel better soon!
You’ve made yourself the cautionary tale for the rest of us. I was going to buy a bottle, but now I know to test it on skin first. (Which I know. I really, really do.) I sampled something the other night that others love– what was it??– and it smelled SWEATY on me. So glad I tested it first.
Yeah, Calyx has a real split personality on me, both a nice leafy green and a shrieking harpy fruit. Take a nice cool bath!
Three-day-old rotting fruit peels is just about what I get from Calyx too, although I love how it smells on other people. I think I’ve read that Calyx turns bad quite quickly — although you bought your bottle 3 weeks ago, it’s possible that it sat on a shelf for a while. In any case, sorry for your bad experience!
Calyx does that rotting-fruit thing on me too. Bleah.
Yep, I find it revolting.
Lucy – Calyx is tricky. I have a small bottle, and I only wear it occasionally. I find it to be a very cranky fragrance. Sometimes it is just glorius fresh green, juicy goodness, and other times a guava nightmare – like someone has trapped me in a drying room for sugary guava strips. I never know how it will act until after I put it on. so I only attempt to wear it once in while. I have read that it turns quickly too, which may be a problem here.
I went old school(ish) today with some CK One lotion and cologne I picked up at TJ Maxx. Haven’t worn it since around 1995. Dropped my kid off at the rec center today and some guy was walking out with his son – and proclaimed loudly to his son, “Something smells utterly delicious! I think it’s that lady in front of us!” 🙂 Guys love that stuff for some reason. I’ve yet to figure it out, since it’s supposed to be unisex. I will say I also got a CK One Summer version that I gave to my 10 year old son, because it made me smell like a dude.
I still have a soft spot for CK One 🙂
Me too! But I hate to break it to everyone who has not sniffed this since the 1990s: MASSIVE MASSIVE reformulation. I recently tested this in a department store for old time’s sake and it bore absolutely no resemblance….I mean ZERO…to the original thing, which I wore as a teen. I did not recognize it in the slightest, but my nose remembers. Yes, my nose remembers. I think all the “summer” iterations were used as a distraction so they could tamper with the real thing….and over time, no one noticed!
Oh no, really??? I would not have thought it had any natural or expensive materials that would require tweaking. That’s a darned shame.
I know, it came as quite a shocker to me too. But next time you’re out, locate that tester!
I absolutely HATED CK One when it first came out. Now I have a summer version from a few years back that I enjoy. Thanks for reminding me.
Oh, I wear laughably inappropriate fragrances in the summer heat – objectively I know I should crave light, citrusy things, but I keep turning to my big orientals and musky whoppers. Maybe it’s a masochistic “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” impulse that makes me crave Opium, Obsession, or Coco when objectively I know I should be suffocated by them, but I really do think they bloom nicely and turn so much sultrier and earthier on my skin in the heat (when applied sensibly, of course). Up yours, oppressive July humidity, I’ll wear what I want! 🙂
Having said that, I’m a little sick of wearing a room-clearer every time I go out the door lately, so my SOTD is CK Be. So nice. No obnoxious citrus or air-freshener accords, just damp, subdued mossiness that seems tailor-made for humid weather (it’s a sauna out there today). It’s also the fragrance that Got Me Into Fragrance, if you know what I mean, so I like to keep it around to fondly recall when it was the only thing on my shelf and I had no idea what else was out there. (My wallet misses those days.)
I love that you wear Coco in the summer. I do that sometimes too. My other fav heavy for summer frags are Magie Noir, SSS Rose Musc, Hermes Rouge, and AT Maroc Pour Elle. But I am a light dabber anyway, so perhaps that helps me from clearing rooms!
The words “Up yours, oppressive July humidity, I’ll wear what I want!” are going to be my new mantra. (Except when I say it in my own head, it’s in the voice of Cartman from South Park.)
Oh, I heard Cartman in my head, too. 😛
It’s hot all year round here in SoFlo. So I just wear whatever mood hits. I’m so glad I’m not the only one to wear a thick amber or oozy oriental on a steamy day (but then it’s air conditioned to meat locker temperature at my job so I guess that balances it out).
I have read that Guerlain Attrape-Coeur has a violet note, but I don’t see it listed as a note on the Guerlain website. Does anyone detect violets?
I know. I read that, too. I have decants of AC – LOVE THE STUFF! But I get mostly jasmine and ylang from it. No violet!
BTW, I’m always wondering if we need to all occasionally reset our noses by smelling the real things. I may say “jasmine” and someone else may say “violet”. What’s our frame of reference? Do I really know what a violet smells like? If someone tells me a fragrance has violet in it, then I’ll presume that I’m smelling violet. I smelled AC, though, and huh? Violet? Is that what it is? Doesn’t read that way to me at all. Perhaps I need to find some violets and sniff, then perhaps I’ll smell it in the AC. Though, as you say, the website does not list it! I wondered the same thing! Why is everyone saying “violet” and it’s not listed in the notes at all! Tuberose is also one of the notes. To me, it’s a white floral chypre. Amazing stuff…
I got a wonderful blast of violets in the opening when I tried it for the first time. Candied and a bit raspy, gorgeous. Unfortunately that was the only time it smelled that way. I don’t know if I imagined it completely or if it’s possible to develop anosmia after one wearing but whenever I’ve worn AC since it’s just been an ambery, vanillic scent, no violets. Nice enough but not particularly exciting.
I do get the violet – it’s sort of fruity, and in my mind it sort of sliiiiiides along with the rose. Maybe the rose (if you’re getting that) is casting a big shadow?
This is perfect timing for an open thread. I have a question about how to work with French fragrance companies when one’s French is less than stellar. I’ve sent emails both to Caron (curious about Parfum Sacre parfum extrait) as well as Molinard with regard to some iffy site issues when I tried to order a product and haven’t gotten any responses. Is it more a matter of peppering them with email? I’m so frustrated and have no ideas where to go next given the difficulty of tracking down the desired items, which I don’t believe are available here in the States…
Oh, and SOTD is Lea Extreme with a spritz of the Kiehls Musk over top. It is mad hot out there so I told myself I’d try this combo since I’m indoors today avoiding the heat. It’s really a great pairing since it amps up the LE musk so nicely. 🙂
Try calling them. Use skype or something so it doesnt cost you. Im pretty sure every company in the world has english speaking customer service agents, considering most call centers for american companies are outsourced to somewhere overseas.
I second this. French old fashioned companies are very bad with email. Skype them, and speak in english. The person that answers the phone will most likely speak english just fine, and be able to transfer you to someone who can help. Calling is always the most direct way to get information in France. They only just switched off of Minitel to the internet!
For Caron, you might try calling the New York boutique. Even if they don’t have the particular item you’re looking for, they should be able to help you track it down.
Do you use Twitter? Caron has an English twitter page, and quite sure they’d answer you.
Parfum Sacre extrait is (sadly) discontinued as of a few years ago, but I don’t know if Caron has bottles hidden in the storeroom…
You can also contact the Perfume House in Portland OR that carries most of the line, including some perfume versions, or perhaps Perfumerie Nasreen in Seattle that often carries hard to get fragrances.
Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. I’ll give them a go. I don’t have a Twitter account yet, but it’s one of those things I keep meaning to do… 🙂 And too bad about the PS extrait… I bet it was glorious and will have to go a-hunting to see what I can find.
I just recv’d my bottle of AT Orange Star – and it’s great even in the current high heat and humidity. I am really surprised – I would have expected to be lying on the floor in an incense induced coma. It is truly wonderful, and Kevin’s description hits the nail right on the head. I’m in one of my wanna buy a FB moods – does anyone else have these?
Yes! Can’t you see the monkey on my back wearing a Tshirt that says “Full Bottle Lust”?
AnnS – he’s a fragrant monkey, a good monkey, and his needs are sane and reasonable. Give the monkey what he wants!
Yes! My monkey and I smell very good, lol.
I received a decant of Orange Star a couple weeks back and totally love it! I was worried bcause so many here seemed to dislike it.
I usually don’t get that FB craving when I’ve recently received one! 🙂
I love it too!
Joe, we don’t usually diverge so much. Orange star smelled like crushed Smarties mixed with Comet to me. And I normally like fougery herbal type things!
and all I got was greasy car garage…..sigh…..
Oh, anxiously waiting for my Jil Sander Woman III to arrive……can’t wait!!
Hope it gets there soon 🙂
SOTD: Stella
Today is a salty, musky, rose day according to my husband. What I like about Stella is that when I can’t decide what to wear, she’s always there, and never dissapoints.
Also, since my husband only maintains a catalogue of about 10 fragrance names, when I ask him what I should wear, there’s a 1/10 chance it will be Stella ; )
My husband really likes Stella too. It is in my normal fall/winter/spring rotation. I don’t normally wear it in summer although that is when I first realized how much I like it.
I like Stella too. It’s a good go-to scent on those days I’m not sure what I’m in the mood for.
Weird that you would bring this up today. I was just last night thinking, Been a while since I’ve worn Stella. I need to break ‘er out. It’s not really a fragrance that works on me, but I love it, and yep– get lots of compliments when I wear it.
Stella layers well with Noir Espices!
Ooh! I need to try that!
ooh! Ditto that!!
I threw on some Stella the other day when I got home from work. I had forgotten how really nice it is.
My SOTD is D&G Light Blue, from a sample. I was undecided, but today it’s very light, fresh and a bit musky, which is great as it’s been very hot here, mid 90s. I read that a comparable frag was Lanvin Arpege Eclat, so I will have to try that.
Also looking forward to trying Balenciaga Paris. Anything else I should try if I make it to Nordstrom this summer?
I really liked Balenciaga Paris, even though I didn’t expect to – it’s really nice. It’s on my list of “Things to Buy (Mebbe) When They Hit the Online Discounters”.
Same here!
Please explain what you thought about how it smelled. I got to sample it in May at Nordies, but was also sampling some others. Sadly they had no testers to give out. My impression of it is muddled with my impression of Prada Eau d’Ambree which I liked very much. I got kind of a lovely “cold cream” type thing from BP, but am not sure how well I remember it.
Lanvin Eclat d’Arpege is VERY similar to Light Blue. I have a little mini I got on ebay and it’s very nice. It can be found very cheaply at online discounters and ebay ($30 for 50 ml at overstock.com right now).
I fell for Paris as well…and got sucked into a full price full bottle from my SA at Needless Mark-up…I mean Neiman Marcus… 🙂
However, today, my SOTD(s) are Bois de Iles on the left and No 18 on the right… and I’m thinking the No18 is a very close cousin to Prada’s Infusion d’Iris.
Last night…after several tries…feel in LOVE with PdN’s Odalisque..and have declared it FBW. If the heat (93-95 degrees) keeps up here…I’m thinking tomorrows scent will be The Unicorn Spell by Les Nez.
Paris was awful on me, sadly. Love BdI, No. 18 and Odalisque, though! I have splits of the first 2, and haven’t decided if Odalisque is a split or a FB… but still have some of my sample left.
Boo – how was Paris awful on you?
I don’t remember specifically… it just had a generally plastic/synthetic smell to it. I get a similar thing from most of the Bvlgari line. Still love the bottle, though.
I have read on other blogs that we should get our hands on Odalisque while we can for it’s under threat of reformulation because of regulations…by the IFRA… or “Idiots Founded on Ruining Aromas” 🙁 I just fear of buying multiples for not being sure how long they will hold up before turning, if they actually turn at all. Why don’t we get “born on” dates for fragrances like you do for beer? Who knows how long a bottle has sat around in inventory somewhere….
SOTD is FM Musc Ravageur. This is currently at the top of my FB list. Also have a split of Cinq Mondes Ritual de Java on the way. Thanks to NST for introducing me to CM with the review of Eau Egyptienne not long ago!
So glad someone else is trying them! They’re really so nicely done.
This is perfect for wearing in this heat and is great for those days when I don’t feel like a citrusy scent.
I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of a bottle of CM Eau Egyptienne which I blame entirely on the NST review, I can hardly wait!
I was going to…but will now wait for Daisy’s full report. 😀
Wearing Dune today. My most recent purchase is Tabac Blond parfum from the tiny jewelbox Caron boutique in Manhattan. I wore it the next day, and someone who hugged me said, “Mmm, you smell so good!”. Next day I wore Bellodgia, and got another compliment from someone who passed my cubicle. Day after was Farnesiana – no compliments, but I thought I smelled good!
Sooooooooooooooo jealous of your Tobac Blond!
SOTD: JPG Ma Dame (just received sample). Lemon-poppyseed cake + neon plastic raincoat = trashy fun.
Interesting references that conjured up for you
All I can picture is Lady Gaga (which would no doubt satisfy Jean Paul G).
If Lady Gaga dressed up like the Morton Salt girl….
Love Ma Dame!
Me too! Definitely a “smile” scent.
Perfect description of Ma Dame!
Agyness Deyn led me to expect something punk-rock and tough; instead it was such a rainy-day childhood memory scent that I actually started bouncing up & down in glee. Love being surprised!
Yesterday, I received my Rose Oud by Kilian. I fell in love with it after trying it last week. The rose is almost liqueur-like and has a raspberry edge. The oud is discreet, but you can definitely smell it. Rose Oud lasts an insane long time and has superb sillage. I sprayed a little bit on my Shirt 12 hours ago and it is still strong. In my opinion it is much better than Pure Oud, which didn’t last and had no sillage.
I also fell in love with Habanita de Molinard. It’s really strong and first I thought it is an “eau de parfum intense”, but I found out it is just an “eau de toilette”. Habanita smells like a mix of Shalimar and Back to Black by Kilian.
Wow! That sounds really good. I think I need to put Habanita back on my list.
If you liked the Rose Oud, you should try Aoud Rose Petals… I found the two similar but kept going back to the Montale Aoud Rose for some reason… I have been loving some Oud lately (Czech & Speak Dark Rose and Midnight Oud by Juliette Has a Gun, too) but the heat and humidity lately has me reaching for lighter options.
I have tried Aoud Roses Petals and it’s too sharp for my taste. The oud is medicinal and the rose ist very oldffashioned. In Rose Oud, the rose is stronger and has this great liqueur quality. The oud is more soft and cuddly, but also distinctive. I know, rose + oud is a commo combination, but Calice Becker has done a great job 🙂
Ohhhh, I LURVE Kilian Rose Oud! To me it smells of rose and soft supple leather….which is probably the oud. But I’ve smelled so many highly medicinal ouds that it’s hard to remember that not all oud is like that. Anyhow, it does last F.O.R.E.V.E.R. , doesn’t it? great stuff.
You’re right, it lasts F-O-R-E-V-E-R! The first time I heard Kilian is going to do a rose and oud scent, I was really disappointed. You know, rose and oud is the most common combination that you can find when you search for oud fragrances. But Kilian’s Rose Oud is outstanding! I still can’t believe that I blew 300€ for 50ml of fragrance…
You’re right, it lasts FOREVER! The first time I heard that Kilian is going to do a rose and oud scent, I was disappointed. You know, rose and oud ist the most common combination when you search for oud fragrances. But Kilian’s Rose Oud is outstanding! I still can’t believe I paid 300€ for 50ml of fragrance…
Kankuro –
I’ll be darned!! After reading your reply… I decided to give them another go today…the Rose Oud and Aoud Rose Petals together…. and you are right!!! I don’t know what it was the first few times of me trying them separate that made me favor the Montale…but today together one on each hand… it’s the Rose Oud that is the winner… and Daisy you are also spot on.. it’s the one that has lasted hours and hours… the Montale is barely a whiff if at all… I guess I should say a big “Thank You!” although…it’s the RO that breaks the bank! 😉
sadly, the Kilian Rose Oud is gorgeous and way too spendy. But at least they have those travel size and refills now that ,while still pretty darn spendy, are at least a bit more attainable.
I’m glad you like Rose Oud! But you’re right, it is VERY spendy. I paid 300€ for 50ml, I still can’t believe it! I always thought my limit is 200€, but if you fell in love with a fragrance, you’re willing to break your own limits.
Have I already mentioned how beautiful the box is, with it’s gold plaque and key? I own several other Kilian fragrances, but non of the other boxes is as gorgeous as the Rose Oud presentation. Even the flacon has a gold plaque and a golden atomizer.
K., I also fell for Habinita, which I’ve nicknamed “Habitnita”. I can’t handle it in the 95+ degrees temps but I plan to get a FB in the fall.
Habanita is great for winter, but in summer I could not bear it, too! It is just to heavy in hot weather (though it is an eau de toilette).
Yesterday, I discovered that 15ml of Habanita Extrait only cost 70€. I think I will buy a bottle as soon as I can. Where else can you find an extrait for less than 100€ ?
Habanita was my first real perfume “quest” in the days before the interwebs. I had a mini, fell in love, and looked high and low for a long long time for a full bottle. I still have some of it left. it’s great stuff. I think I may need to try the parfum.
Habanita is not overtly expensive. Even the extrait has a reasonable price. The 15ml cost 70€ and the 30ml cost 109€. It’s a good price for an extrait!
Love Habanita! and now I want to try Rose Oud…I’ve been trying out the Montale Rose Aouds and really like them…Royal Aoud is wonderful! Just got Al-Aoud also…but hubby calls it “King Butt”…:)
I haven’t tried Al Oudh, but heard that it has lots of cumin in it. The Montale oud fragrances are much to medicinal and sharp for my taste. I prefer Kilians oud, they’re more soft and not at all medicinal! Though, Pure Oud is still not easy to wear.
I love the way Habanita smells. I find it actually hard to wear, but I love smelling it on other people or when I test it. It is so dark and powdery! It is a real stunner.
I can see your point. Habanita IS strong and potent. Not everyone can handle such an intense fragrance.
Molinard has two lighter versions of Habanita: Miss Habanita (Grape, Peach, Vanilla) and Un Air d’Habanita (Jasmine, Rose, Vanilla). Maybe you can handle one of these two fragrances better than the original.
SOTD is Balenciaga Paris. I hated it at first (it smelled like rubber gloves) but then fell in love after several wearings. The drydown is especially nice. However, it hasn’t been a great frag for a hot/humid day. It smells metallic and stale today. I found this to be a great scent for spring, however.
Interesting! Have not worn it in real heat yet.
I have a huge lot of samples from TPC that I’m currently working through (my favourites so far: Anne Pliska and Apres L’Ondee – wish that last wasn’t so hard to find!) but today I’m testing something decidedly more mainstream – DKNY Be Delicious Fresh Blossom, which I got as a free sample with my last Sephora order. It’s really awful – in fact, I need to go scrub it off because it’s literally bringing tears to my eyes.
Find a little girl to give it to… I gave mine to my 5 yr old who, despite her usually exquisite taste, likes it quite well. The fact that it’s “her own” might help. 😀
SOTD is JM Lotus Blossom and Water Lily layered over the White Jasmine & Mint lotion-perfect fresh and green. I’m a happy camper.
Has anyone tried JM’s new cologne Intense scents? If so, what did you think?
Oops-I meant Jasmine & MInt bath oil, not lotion.
I tried a couple of them very briefly and wasn’t blown away. The first one I was drawn to was the iris one but it seemed quite synthetic, I recall lots of laundry musk. The vanilla one smelled of something very green, I couldn’t quite place my finger on it but I’m tempted to say neroli or, perhaps, bergamot. The opening didn’t match the name and I didn’t bother waiting for the base. I might try the other two when I’m passing through Harvey Nics next but I won’t go out of my way to do it.
Abyss, thanks for the info! Laundry musk isn’t enticing, at all. 🙂
Oh, too bad! Hoped these would be great.
That sounds like a pretty summer combo!
SOTD is Musc Nomade by Goutal. Lovely, lovely not too clean, not too obtrusive, just absolutely spot on.
Received my sample/discovery set from Tauer perfumes yesterday. Have tried Le Maroc pour Elle and Lonestar Memories. I am smitten. I foresee a lot of purchases from this house in the future. They are strong but mellow, not harsh at all, and totally unlike anything I have smelled so far.
What fun — hope for your sake that you won’t fall in love with *all* of them though!
Like the packaging on that discovery set!
Guilty Pleasure of late: YSL’s Elle. Guilty only in that it is not really on the perfumista’s radar, huh? I dab from a mini I bought online for about $10. Sweeter and girlier than I usually wear, but I was looking to shift myself out of my usual groove of cool classics and greens.
So a question: are you in a perfume groove, and what would jolt you out if it?
I guess it isn’t, but hey, who cares!
I really like YSL’s Elle, it starts out all berries and maybe peony on me and then it’s just CEDAR, which so nice and comforting, esp. when it’s cold out.
I think the best way to get out of a rut is to do exactly what you are doing, try perfumes diff than what you normally would wear and try not to make any preconceptions. I’m really loving D&G Light Blue this week, which I thought was sooo unsophisticated, but I’m really loving it in this summer weather. Another must-have for me is SSS Champagne de Bois, the notes are: aldehydes, jasmine, clove, sandalwood, labdanum absolute, amber and vetiver. I thought, “That doesn’t sound like me at all!” But when I tried it it’s just spicy and musky and exactly what I’ve been looking for!
Thanks, yes, there is a comfort aspect to Elle. It’s making a good winter bed time scent for me. And I have a sample of SSS CdB on its way to me right now. I’ve heard so much about it, I have to give it a try!
Today I’m wearing my new perfume: Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Lavender. It’s been a gift of my brother for my birthday.
I think I will enjoy it this summer, as I enjoyed the fruity Green Tea Summer some years ago.
Lavender is quite noticeable but it still has the print of the other Elizabeth Arden Green Tea scents. It’s not so different. I like it.
You have a nice brother 🙂
Yes!
He works in the airport so for him it’s easy to buy a perfume. And he has discounts 🙂
The vast majority of my perfumes have been gifts of him.
hmmm….I think he needs another sister….I happen to be available…
SOTD is Ormonde Jayne Osmanthus EDP. I loooove this. pure summer in a bottle. Have also been wearing No 5 Eau Premiere recently, and loving my sample of Narciso Rodriguez for her EDT, which I think is FBW.
One of my favorite summer scents too!
SOTD is whatever is on my bra– might be Amoreuse and Black Afgano. If so, they smell good together, which is extremely odd. Have to wait until I get home to put something on for real. I love love love the Black Afgano, now that it’s finally here. Even if it’s the wrong weather for it I can’t stop myself from wearing it. So that’s probably what I’ll put on. (And then maybe do a wash load of delicates– I swear, I really do wash my bras. I realize I just made myself sound like a dirty hippie.)
nah, miss kitty. most dirty hippies skip the bras altogether and wear layered tank tops or halter dresses instead. been there, done that! lol 🙂
Thanks for the laugh, Ms. KV! 🙂
I just tried Black Afgano this weekend. It’s all over my bra now, too. (kidding) I enjoyed it, but my first thought was it reminded me of Patchouli 24. At least in the opening. As it dried down it was woodier, and quite persistent- I kind of love it when showers don’t even kill a fragrance. Get your money’s worth!
Hey, you should bottle that and call it “Dans My Bra”!
LOL!
Black Afgano kicks butt – I was surprised at how much I like it. Not a bad thing to have on your brassiere at all!
LOL — I think everyone has had times when you open the bra drawer and …IT’S EMPTY! That’s how the laundry gods let you know it’s time to take action. I gotta tell ya, sometimes that second day bra smells pretty darned good!
oh, everyone except the dudes in the room…..sorry guys!
I started a water exercise class recently, and I just can’t help but spritz myself with fragrance first! I know it’s a waste, but I DO have to smell good for the drive there, right? And I’d forgotten how good a chlorine-soaked swimsuit smells! Oh – my SotD, applied and then re-applied, LOL, is D’Orsay Tilleul. Loving it!
H, I know what you mean. I wear a generous splashing of 4711 on my way to the pool everyday. I make sure I give my clothes a good splash so that when I put them back on after the pool I can still smell it on the drive home. 🙂 (Also 4711 is a cheap way to do pre-pool fragrance!)
4711 is an excellent suggestion!
Wow, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks – personally and perfume-ly speaking. First, I’ve been so busy with work & a sick cat that I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. My cat is doing better now, and assuming she doesn’t deteriorate, we have a follow up with the vet on the 31st.
In perfume-land, I’m hosting a couple of splits and getting a bottle of Tauer’s new one LoTV. If you’ve sniffed it, do tell!
But finally, something is going on with my body chemistry lately that is turning everything I wear into barnyard-leather-skank within 30 minutes of application – even fragrances that one doesn’t normally think of as skank…like fresh aquatics! I’m beginning to wonder if it has something to do with the chemicals at my new pool (i recently moved) or something in the CeraVe I’ve been slathering myself with lately? Anyway, as they say in Facebook-land “Dislike!”
I thought Tauer’s new LoTV was pretty amazing. I am not a fan of the flower’s use in fragrance, but this was pretty much spring greenery crushed in the palm of my hand. And there was this oily leather kind of note underneath it all that was very interesting. This scent was one of those true-to-life kind of things, where I really believed I was smelling green things I had just plucked from the earth. Cool.
Neat! Thanks for your review, Jared. I can’t wait! Now if I can only get my mail-person to deliver my mail. Left me a note today saying the mailbox wouldn’t open. Pffft!
Oh, sounds good – I am a little worried about the LotV.
Yeah, me, too. It kind of ruins Onda for me, and I’m also not a fan of its appearance in Malle’s Lys Mediterranee, but here I’m ok with it. It’s just such an intriguing fragrance.
I’m sorry to hear that your cat is ailing. That’s always such a worry! But she’s getting better, and that is good!
Thanks, H.
M – funny you should bring up swimming and chems and skin chemistry. B/c I was thinking of asking you what you did to keep your skin so fragrance friendly, as I have so much trouble with that when I swim. I am really torn as I love swimming and I love my perfumes, but my fragrances NEVER smell right after I swim – even through the next day (unless I get a good sweat in from garden work, etc.). I would imagine that the chlorine in the new pool is your culprit, esp. if you had been using the prior pool for many years – you would have got used to how your skin behaved. I see you are having the same problem I do! Ack. I hope you find resolution.
I’ve noticed that many fragrances don’t do well with heavily chlorinated skin. (so of course I’m drawing a complete blank right now) In fact if my chlorine level gets too high—most everything seems to turn after a few minutes.
Hopefully it’s not too late for a question, but here it goes… I LOVE Bigarade Concentree but it’s a pain to get in Canada (only available in Vancouver) and a bit pricey ($130 for 3 x 10 ml travel sprays + cost to ship). Are there any Big C lovers out there who have an alternate suggestion that might be easier for me to purchase? I’d like to buy something this weekend to bring with me on vacation the following week. Is it the one and only?
Hermes Eau d’Orange Verte and Concentrate Orange Verte are bothe great.
Thanks Dixie!
SOTD: wore Fidji edt this morning but in the afternoon, as local temp reached 95F, applied Aliage, my go-to in desert heat. (I don’t have any picks for humid hot climates because I’ve never had to live in one, thank goodness).
I adore “Fidji”. Have you tried the extrait? I prefer it to the EDT- much smoother. It is the fragrance I wear to “big hat” events like weddings.
I too prefer the extrait but decided to use the edt in such hot weather, though as the day turned out I had to step up to Aliage anyway.
I need to get me some Aliage. Great green scent.
You can buy it from the EL website, and the price is delightful.
wow, memory lane… Fidji was my first perfume choice, decades ago, when every teenage girl was wearing Charlie… I’ve never tried it since then!
SOTD: Stephanie De Saint Aignan’s “Un The Au Sahara”. I’m LOVING this sample and foresee a full bottle in my future. The top notes remind me of Weil’s “Antilope” – animalic in a great way- then it transitions into more of a tea scent, while the dry down is a soft, powdery floral. Other hot weather favorites I’ve been enjoying lately are “Paestum Rose”, “Rossy de Palma” (both are a fresh, transparent rose on me, not at all heavy), “Eau de Rochas”, and “Fleurissimo”. I’m looking forward to trying the new Armani. Any opinions on that one yet?
I still haven’t tried the new Armani…need to get over to the mall and see if it’s there yet.
Oh, I’ll have to try that one. Love Antilope, and a few of the other SdSA frags have been really nice.
Chergui for two days
Little vial almost dead
Heat index 105 degrees
Panic
Sets
In.
Aw!
Quick – call the fire co. and douse you with some citrus!!!
Please no, anything but bergamot!
*faints*
I received a sample of Shanaan by Micallef and WOW! I love it! Why is it everything I like is so darn expensive?
I got a sample of this a couple of days ago and I’m testing it now. Wow, it smells just like Christmas! I’ll have to revisit this in the Fall as a possible split. 🙂
SOTD morning – Roger & Gallet Bois d’Orange – nice light citrus with a bit of woody warmth, just as the name suggests. it is finally warm out.
SOTD afternoon – my new bottle of Eau Premiere arrived! I have been doing fairly well on evilbay lately and got this for about 1/2 price. Bonus: my lust object gave me a hug and told me I smelled good.
Today I bought a very interesting-looking bottle of Bal a Versailles Eau de Cologne. It looks seriously old, and the person selling it said she found it in a closet at an estate sale. Fingers crossed that it is not completely disgusting, but even if it is, I have been getting enough deals to even it out.
I want to hear the rest of the story on the Bal a Versaille! Just got my edt of it…such an interesting one!
Oh, do tell us how the Bal turns out!
SOTD L’Artisan L’Eau L’artisan…keep comparing it to Vie de Chateau though…guess VdCh is in my future….esp with the BH sale!…and LEau is sooooo fleeting on me!
I love both of them 🙂
Just got back from town where I sampled a few Serge Lutens- Borneo 1834, 5 O’clock Au Gingembre and Fille en Aiguilles on my wrists and arms and Rousse and Chergui on paper strips. Think I like the 5 O’clock best.Perfect for a crisp, sunny winters day! The Borneo was too fleeting, I can’t smell a thing 3 hours after spritzing it! I also like the piney notes of the Fille en Aiguilles.I will reserve judgement on the others as I find the trouble with perfumes on strips is I can always smell the paper/card and it ruins the perfume for me. Ah well…
I prefer to try on skin too, but cards are better than nothing when you run out of open skin 🙂
5:00 and Chergui are about the only Lutens frags I’ve liked enough to consider buying… and even then, I think they’re splits rather than FBs. Sadly, all the interesting weirdness everyone loves about this line fails to show up on my skin at all, and most go too sweet and bland very quickly.
A week ago i walked along the street and suddenly saw several old fragrances in the window of some lingery shop. It turned out that previously the owner had a perfumery there, and now he sells its “leftovers” on really REALLY bargain prices. So i bought prereformulated Paris and Grey Flannel aftershave (that’s not sold in my country for some 15 years!, so i can be sure it’s prereformulated) for something like 13 dollars each. They smell great! 🙂 Just wanted to share..
Oh, how cool!! Lucky you.
That is a great situation! Every fragrance fiend’s dream to find some hidden stash somewhere!
bit late for this, SOTD Manoumalia, I just had to, after all the negative comments over at perfume posse, and I just love it again and again! Receiving lots of compliments for it too..
Glad somebody loves it. I found it somewhat hideous, but it was odd that my kids think it’s just “pretty flowers.” Perception is everything, I guess – once you pick up something weird, seems like all you notice is the weird…
I keep meaning to try that one, but haven’t gotten to it yet…
I guess it’s either love or hate (apply sparingly, though, potent stuff), let us know when you have tried it!
Boo— I can send you some , I’ve got sample packets to make this weekend anyhow…..adding it to the note on my computer. 🙂
Some new things I’ve tried:
Odin 1 – Love it
Wonderwood – Just Ok. Did it live up to the hype? Not so sure
Lubin Itasca and Inedite – Very enjoyable but decants will suffice
LaP Nuit de Tuberose – Oh I likes ya alot!
Penhaligon’s Amaranthine – a little weird but I LOVE it
M. Micallef Red Jewel – To. Die. For.
Bond No 9 Little Italy – eh
Bond No 9 Montauk – Can you say generic?
Heeley Oranges and Lemons – This cologne gets my vote! oh Yes!
Wonderwood, Itasca, and the Heeley are all on my eventual “to try” list. Itasca is almost required, given where I live.
Just Holla if you want a sample..e mail. 🙂
Hope everyones bottles make it through the heat of this summer! It has been Hot-Hot-Hot!
I hope so too! This is not good perfume-storage weather.
I’m wearing VCA Bois d’Iris today. I love, love, love this scent. It’s been a stressful week for me, I’m thinking I need a scent purchase pick me up. Trying to decide what shall it be. I want something simple, pretty, easy, summery. Nothing that will break the already broken piggy bank. Any suggestions?
If you have a Whole Foods or other natural-ish market near you, try to find the Pacifica line – they have both sprays and solids in some great scents (love the Malibu Lemon Blossom for warm weather). Price is definitely right, too, about $20 for the sprays.
I’m anxiously awaiting BdIris. Hope I love it too. For a cheapish thrill I’ve been enjoying L’Occitane Bergamot Tea lately.
The new Verbena at L’Occitane is nice and Kiehl’s musk isn’t too expensive.
Okey…. So I want to share my happiness with everyone here! I finally received my bottle of Sweet Oriental Dream a week ago. I have been wearing it every day ever since. I love, LOVE, LOOOOOOVE it so much. I bought it unsniffed of course:) But I am a huge loukoum lover, and this beats everythin I ever tried so far! It’s powdery (which I like) but not as powdery as Keiko’s Loukhoum. I am just so happy right now I found my HG:))
Yay!! So glad for you. Always nice to find something you love.
Hi! 😀
Sorry Robin for being so late… but I want to tell you that I have bought a big bottle of “Aire Loco” by Loewe and I love it.! It has been hard to find it in my country. Regards