Hey, it's Skank Friday! Our community project for today: wear something skanky.* (If you need help, try here or here.) Thanks to Dawn and Ihadanidea for the idea!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I'm practicing for our upcoming Reeking Havoc project — on one arm, I've got the old civet standby, Guerlain Jicky, in vintage Extrait. On the other, the indolic Tawaf from La Via del Profumo. I smell just gorgeous.
Reminder: on 10/6, wear a fragrance with lily, if you have one.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2017, where I'll try to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is white flower against blue [cropped] by edward musiak at flickr; some rights reserved.
* The definition of skanky, from A Perfumista Lexicon: a fragrance with animalic or other “sexy” notes. Skanky has pejorative connotations in “regular” slang, but among many perfumistas, it is meant as a compliment. The use of the term to apply to perfume was popularized by March at Perfume Posse.
Dzing!
Tea is sweet shanghai
Scent sisters! (But I had coffee.)
I had some Inka after my tea this morning, tastes sort of like coffee but not the same.
Anyways, we smell great don’t we twin!?!
You smell great!!
Mid-eighties Bal à Versailles, gloriously corrupt and suggestive. They absolutely don’t make them like this any more.
Twins, although mine is 1960’s oil.
We smell glorious
NICE. Maybe some day I’ll get my hands on some really vintage BaV, although in truth I never felt the need — my understanding is that well into the nineties it was still the same formula.
My older sister wore this in the 80s. Since I coveted everything that was hers I would sneak sprays when she was out. Gorgeous sense memories!
I do love BaV – such sexy smelling stuff. I think my bottle is 80’s (ish). Unfortunately, it’s another one that I can’t wear to work.
APLS…all week…and now my decant is done.
Looking forward to Hollying it up on reeking havoc week!
But what a way to go !!!
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Absolue Pour Le Soir? Sorry, my memory fails me.
yes!
I love big white florals – went for lovely more than skanky:
Elegant & classy and an Old school
SOTD:Amoureuse by Parfums DelRae
AMoureuse is gorgeous.
Salome, from a sample, sadly. But I do see a FB in the near future.
You smell divine.
I’m wearing Salome as well from a bottle I’ve had since he came out.
great choice, you smell wonderful!
If you do a split I’m in.
You smell fantastic!
Triple strength coffee
Extra long workout
Absolue Pour le Soir Maison Francis Kurkdjian.
Not suggestive on me, cumin, amber, honey. Honey!
Wanted some sourdough and Plugra with my late supper spinach salad yesterday.
Picked the bread, went the dairy aisle (2 items, I had to walk the entire store, LOLOLOL) .
The same woman I saw at the bakery was sniffing the air as I retrieved the butter.
That is a wonderful cologne, I would wear it myself if it wasn’t for men.
No worries, I’m wearing a woman’s perfume.
I thought her already arched-too-high eyebrows would shoot off her head!
LOLOLOL
😉
It’s Diva by Ungaro. You’re welcome.
🙂
It does smell like a honeymoon suite stocked with flowers, a do not disturb on the door for the past 72 hours.
😉
Carpe Diem.
Peace.
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Poor woman! You gave her a shock.
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What a wonderful description of Diva! It is beautiful, and I bet it is great on you.
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Thanks mals86 !
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I love that story ❤
Love the way you describe Diva. It is an amazing perfume.
Hilarious. And it sounds like something I should sniff….
Hilarious! I am joining you in APLS today.
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1) You smell lovely today!
2) And that’s great! It’s good to have our aesthetics choices shaken up a bit!
Thanks for the ???????????? Everyone! ????
Bear, Diva is wonderful! You smell amazing!
Thanks SmokeyToes !
????I just pictured that woman’s eyebrows shooting off her face like bullets and knocking items off the shelves.
Anyway, it must be a sign: I was just looking at the notes in Diva last night. This means I need some, no?
Yes Creosote!
It is a fantastic perfume (I have the EDP).
That’s a great story! You rock, ????!
Thanks Gail !! 😀
No Bear emoji on my laptop !
I got a great big grin on my face as I read of your adventures in grocery shopping. Too funny!
And you were wearing Sheherazade grocery shopping, Jalapeno !
That is a perfume I have never encountered.
Rock on !!!
I have yet to try Diva, but it is on my list. 🙂
I never dare wear Fleur de Cassie to work, but today I am daring! Thanks community project. It’s glorious.
I had a sample of it and it did seem very big 🙂
you smell fantastic!
Gorgeous!
Wearing Diptyque Oud Palao.
Not skanky at all.
One of the prettiest oud fragrances.
I get a beautiful animalic skank from this (as well as Oud Ispahan), the finish is divine! 🙂
Ah yes, I find these two similar as well
I also get an animalic note from this one, but I love it on a cool day (not today, alas).
Suited me well for today’s weather.
Suited me well for today’s weather.
This is one where we don’t share the love. It smells like vomit to me.
1960’s Bal a Versailles Oil.
I smell bloody amazing – can’t stop sniffing myself.
This could become an HR matter 😛
Only if you file a complaint against yourself…
** Giggle**
LOL!!
Off to new project
National coffee day!!
Perfum Satori for first day.
it is national coffee day, I saw that *$ took out a full page ad in the WSJ this morning to talk about national coffee day.
Cheers!
Oh, that explains the weird “in praise of coffee” email I got this a.m. I was confused as they didn’t seem to be trying to sell anything (in particular.) Love this: *$ by the way. Lol
Oh, thank you, then I will have to have a nice iced coffee this afternoon!
What is it like?
What, nobody wearing Muscs Koublai Khan here yet? I’ll be the first to do it then. 🙂 Very skanky first, then becomes a cozy comfort scent (but still with a distinct musk note) on me.
Smells like No5 on my skin.
No skank.
YMMV
😉
One person’s skank is another person’s No5! 😀
Funny, I do not find them even remotely similar.
Vintage no 5 edt was too animalic for me! Straight up un-neutered cat marking its territory!
Ha! Funny. It wears like a super smooth light floral on me. I think my bottle is from the 70s (maybe 80s?)
Whew, this website has just given me a message that I am blocked from commenting here. Seems to be ok now.
Sorry. Crappy spam filter.
I got that yesterday, was racking my brains to think of how I could have offended any one, and what my last comment had been!
My husband is wearing it. No skank on him, just clean cozy musk.
you smell wonderful! let me know if you’re interested in a swap, I’d love to have some more of this. madtolive88510 at gee male.
No swap, sorry – I’ve only got about 5-6 ml for personal use. Plus, I am in Eastern Europe. Thanks for the compliment though, I like this scent too. 🙂
Wearing Dzing and got an ultimatum from my hubby: Not to wear this perfume anymore in my whole life again as long as he is around. 😀 He said I strongly smell of wet camel hair and that I contaminate clothes and everything around with it. He was really annoyed.
He barely tolerantes any type of perfume. Even though he is not against my perfume wearing or collection (he sometimes buys some for me), I have to be very careful when he is around. Flower body lotions lightly applied or a perfume spritz work better in this case.
Next time I will spray on Dzing after he is gone for work. Patience!
Maybe the hermes lines, they seem very under the radar
Hermes falls in the category that he does not complain about it. At least I can wear them safely.
hello twin..I dabbed Dzing..how do you apply it?
Hi twin! I had 2 sprays. I guess I also need to dab it the way you do.
I dab and its ok
My husband has a similar response to anything with patchouli. But he does like Dzing!
You are luckier. Mine has problems with almost all my perfumes ( sigh!)
Love Dzing! I am wearing it, too – one spray. My husband freaked out the one time I tried Angel. However, I have to say that I agreed with him.
When I asked my H what he thought of Angel on me, he said, “You smell good. Like a girl. That’s what high school girls smelled like.” He graduated in 1996, so spot-on 😉
Lol!
Angel is great but scary 😀
I have to be in the right mood to wear it.
My husband passionately hates the first 15 minutes of Dzing!. However, he really loves it once it’s been on my skin for at least an hour. (It’s a complicated timing matter on the days that I decide to wear it.)
I always spray on perfume after he is out or just before I leave home. I can wear almost anything around him, as long as it is no more than one spray. As I say he prefers light florals. However, he does not say a word when my MIL drenches herself in La Vie est Belle. I guess he just does not want to hurt her feelings with a negative comment about her perfume….
Well there’s your problem right there! He is so traumatized by the nuclear cloud of La Vie est Belle that he can’t bear perfume at all.
I have to think the folks at L’AP would be thrilled that your H thinks it smells like a circus! Not much fun for you, though 🙁
You are right 😀 L’AP would love it. In my case just awful 🙁
“I strongly smell of wet camel hair” So, did you get the feeling that your husband didn’t like it? ????
I would have mistaken that for a compliment, myself ????
And I would have been thrilled that he could make some real life scent comparison. When I ask what something smells like, he always says “perfume”.
His face expression and voice tone was more than enough not to take it as a compliment 😀
Mine uses facial adjectives. There is “you smell like perfume!” with a look of revulsion and “you smell like perfume” with a look of relative neutrality. Sometimes–and this usually happens when I’m wearing a Dame–I get a “you smell like perfume 🙂 “
😀 😀
Oof, I empathize with your significant other perfume woes 🙁 sorry.
You know how difficult and boring it is 🙁
My husband is also no fan of perfume. He gets migraines from scent, and it seems to be getting worse so I generally only wear perfume at work – and light stuff at that. Light stuff is generally my taste, but I miss being able to wear some darker stuff – or having someone tell me they like my perfume! Have to get my compliments elsewhere 😉
Aw, bummer. But you smell fantastic!! …Um, I can’t help it, I gotta ask: does he have firsthand experience with smelling wet camel hair?? ????
Not at all! He mentioned among other things the smell of a zoo, a farm and ended up with the wet camel hair statement. (A speech!). He wanted to make clear that I understood how much he hated Dzing! I laughed but I knew he was not joking 😀
Your hubby’s reaction to Dzing! is making me curious to try it out and see for myself what it smells like. BTW, thanks for your comment last night.
Please try Dzing ig you have a chance. It is reallh worthy.
Hysterical!! They way you explain this, so cute! Very funny to imagine!!
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Read the definition of skank, not sure this qualifies, FM Musc Ravager (darn spell check for being in English).
One of my favorites!
You smell great.
No skank on my skin.
YMMV
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YMMV?
Your mileage may vary.
Adopted from vehicle commercials to mean, your experience could be different than mine.
Is that line in vehicle ads worldwide or just USA?
I’ve never seen it in [the bits of] Europe [where I’ve noticed car ads]
But like a lot of Americanisms, it explains itself. :^)
Scent twin! It’s not super-skanky on me, just a hint of mildly-exercised armpit early on, before it goes straight cuddly.
Skank, not skank, who cares, you smell wonderful! ❤️
you smell fabulous!
I don’t wear skank well, but I can and do wear fragrances with cumin (which some find skanky but which, on me, just seem creamy-sweet). SOTD is the orange blossom/cumin wonder of the Gucci EDP from 2002 – dark brown juice, heavy clear crystal flacon. Mmmmm.
Thanks for reminding me, I have to make my bottle more visible.
You smell great!
I lift weights just so I can hold that bottle!
LOL
🙂
Best impetus to start lifting weights ever!
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You have that one too? Awesome – I’ll bet it smells better on you than on me. I’ve gone through 2 of the small, more-liftable bottles, and have the HEFTY bigger one in reserve. I have to just set that one near the edge of a sturdy shelf and hold my wrist in the spray’s path because I can’t simultaneously hold it and spray it. 🙂
In that vein, I’m going to go with Serge Noir this morning. At some point, this dries down to the most delicious, warm cloud of incense that envelopes me in the nicest way. I think a lot of people find this reminiscent of body odor. I don’t, but I’ll be taking a shower before I meet some friends for lunch, just in case.
Love that one! What a pity that it was d/c’ed.
I know! I’m on my third small (30 ml) bottle, but they’re starting to disappear from ebay. 🙁
SOTD (skank-of-the-day) is Rozy VDE. Gorgeous!
I debated over Rubj this AM, but I never get any skank out of Rozy. I live what different body chemistries do to scent
*love*
Rubj is more skanky on me than Rozy for sure, but I was afraid it’d be too much for the office. Love them both.
Scrubber! Zoologist Panda. Should have sprayed on a tissue first, but applied two very small sprays to my wrists. I can’t believe how strong this stuff is, and after a few minutes I had to remove it 🙁
However, will try it again sometime.
Thinking about applying Leather Oud (Dior), may wait a while though.
The same happened to me the first time I wore Panda. The following time I tried it was amazing. Hopefully it will work better for you next time you try it. I love Panda now. One of my favorites from Zoologist.
I really don’t like Panda either (I gave it a lot of chances)! But I have a friend who likes it a lot, so he got my sample.
I’m not participating in today’s Friday project. My favorite skanky fragrance is Smell Bent Prairie Nymph, and the travel spray is empty. So I just continued on with my ongoing project of going through every Atelier Discovery set sample I have. SOTD is Mandarine Glaciale, about as far from skanky as you can get.
AC doesn’t really do skank 🙂
I can think of one (and only one): Philtre Ceylan with ugh, cumin. This one smells like B.O.
Ah, I will have to try that one again!
No skank here but I am human so perhaps some natural is inherent. ????
I’m in the lovely Iris Poudre today…from Swapmeet spoils!
how do you like it?
I like it. It smells on the cooler side to me…kind of clean. I think I have been comparing it in my mind to N. 19 Poudre as well.
I recently sampled No. 19 Poudre. The green aspect reminded me of Au Dela. Have you tried AD? Curious if you find any similarity?
Love Iris Poudre- so beautiful.
It really is.
The word of the day is DECADENCE.
Wearing a dab of Musc Ravageur, because (yay!) temps have cooled down and today’s high should be mid-70s. Drinking cafe’ affogato out of my favorite mug.
I don’t find MR *very* skanky, just a tad. A pleasant tad. It’s still too warm for much skanky, iffen ya ask me.
Enjoy your decadent Friday!
you smell wonderful!
You smell great. Love MR.
Yay Skank Friday! I’m in L’A al Oudh, which is loaded with cumin (my favorite skank). That said, probably my skankiest scent is Diptyque Oud Palao, which has a strong animalic note on top of the oud, but I decided that needed to wait for a cooler day. Happy Weekend!
Oud Palao and Al Oudh are both unbearably skanky on me. I don’t handle cumin well.
Cumin works really well on me (I get compliments on al Oudh all the time, and it’s not exactly a typical crowd-pleaser) but I have to stay FAR away from anything with any type of pee note because I will smell like a barn. Grapefruit, honey, etc. – all very dicey!
Heading to work, and had two skank choices, APLS (sweaty man) or Angel Liquor (cat pee) shockingly I went with cat pee. I’ve been trying to wear APLS for almost two years, and I still can’t wear it. To me cat pee is one of the worst smells ever, but in Angel Liquor I really only detect it if I hold my wrist to my nose. If I remember not to do that, I can enjoy it. I think it’s the honey in both of these that gives me trouble. I would love to smell APLS on someone else. Has anyone tried anything from the Ganache perfume line? They are having a real good sale right now, and am curious.
Never heard of the Ganache line but it sounds yummy.
I saw a you tube review of it, and it seems like an interesting gourmond line with good prices. I am tempted to blind buy, but wanted to ask here since I trust the opinions here.
I saw one of that line recently as well. They reviewed Ice Cream Shoppe. ????
That’s the one I was interested in, and another one centered around coffee.
I’d been missing Prairie Nymph recently, but I wouldn’t put it in the skank category except for maybe the mousey musk note I get from it counts as such. Mouse doesn’t equal skank to me, although musk can. For some reason, I interpret skank as having a sorta piercing or pungent note. Huh, go figure …
Since Robin has chosen to reek havoc (yay!) I’m joining her and have added a dab of Rochas Tocade to the mix, aka “That Slut Tocade” courtesy of mals. Voila! Prairie Nympho.
Prairie Nymph was very skanky to me. My recollection is sweaty boy’s locker room.
I love your fragrance marriage today ???? Hilarious!
Prairie Nymph smelled like cat spray on me! Definite skank.
That Slut Tocade & Prairie Nympho!! LOVE ????????
Oh, that’s hilarious!
Hysterical!! They way you explain this, so cute! Very funny to imagine!!
Ha ha ha….you go, girl!
Penhaligon’s sadly discontinued Amaranthine- a delightfully skanky white floral. I’m down to my last 10ml!! I also have a bottle of vintage Femme, but it’s hiding in a deep cupboard in a secure house since Hurricane Irma, and it’s not coming out until hurricane season is totally over, as in, when I move to Ohio!!
Amaranthine was on my short list – but it’s too distracting for work. It makes me want to eat rice pudding and think about or do the deed.
Wait — what?! Amaranthine’s been discontinued? I’m wearing some of my now-even-more-precious bottle today, even though I don’t think of it as all that skanky. Since I work from home, I’ll revel in how great I smell and cook up some rice pudding for lunch…
You smelled divine, although Amaranthine is not very that skanky on me. And just 10ml left.☹️ Have you checked the discounters lately, just in case?
SOTD is Orto Parisi Stercus, which has got to be the most… skanky, yes, but also borderline repulsive scent I have at the moment. I really do enjoy it on cold fall days like today but it is not one anyone in my family can appreciate. To me, it is dark and oddly floral. I try not to think about the inspiration. This one is not going on the full bottle wishlist but I will likely eventually finish the sample.
I feel the same way you do about Stercus. Terrible name, interesting (and wearable) scent. I was expecting much worse from the comments around the web.
I smelled the new one from them; Seminalis, and it made me gag!!
I followed Stercus up with vintage Fendi; now THIS is a beautiful skanky scent!!!
Oh, Orto Parisi. I tested Bergamask once; I put on only the tiniest dab and could only smell rubbing alcohol. When I ventured into the kitchen my husband said, “What smells like burning rubber?” Too edgy for my household, I guess!
A small dab of Guerlain Derby from a neglected decant. Dabbed, it’s fairly tame, but I do get an animalic leather when I spray. This is what I imagined Bandit would smell like before I ever tried Bandit. Bandit smells like galbanum-laced baby powder on me.
Derby is dark, leathery, a little green and herbal, and slightly oily but also smooth and elegant.
you smell great!
I was going to do Guerlain today too, Jicky, but I changed my mind this morning
Le Labo Labdanum 18. Even though this has civet, I don’t know if I’d classify it as skanky. I would classify it as sexy as all get-out though.????
you smell great!
I should try it on skin. On a card, it smelled like a bonfire.
Well, no skank for me…..it just doesn’t work in my close quarters at work. Maybe this weekend….
Going the polar opposite and wearing Stella McCartney Stella. Light fresh roses; not much else. I really like it though!
HAPPY FRIYAY!!!!!! Hope everyone has a great weekend!!
Twins! Early morning meeting, and this is my safest scent. And it’s pretty!! Can’t go wrong.
That’s a nice rose.
How is the Perfume Grinch today? 😉
The Perfume Grinch is in FriYAY mode, so he’s behaving! 🙂
I wore Stella yesterday – you smell lovely!
Yes- fresh roses and air, perfect for a work day!
You smell pretty! Stella sent/scent me down the rabbit hole. Owned 3 bottles back in the day. Still love it.????
Stella is so pretty–you smell great!
I’m wearing some vintage Habanita (not sure what strength, it’s from a decant) and finding myself awfully stinky. Is stinky=skanky? I’m not sure.
Love Habanita. Good choice!!!
Fruity floral tobacco. There is musk but I never got skank from it. To me it’s more sexy than skanky.
Agreed! I really like it – does somehow remind me of Au Della….
When I was decanting for a swap, L’Heure Bleue and Queen Latifah Queen were battling it out for dominance. Then Habanita (the modern version) came in and flattened them both.
Kiehls Musk today, which smells skankier to me than MKK. I love it.
I find that one more sensual than skanky, to be honest. You smell like the best hug on a cold winter day.
good choice!
Francesca Bianchi’s Sex and the Sea on my wrists and Cafe Tuberosa on my chest for coffee day. Sex and the Sea is not particularly skanky to me – but is indeed reminiscent of how one smells after a day at the beach with lots of sunscreen.
I’ve been wearing Dryad, which isn’t really skanky but it’s an office day. I almost love it but not quite enough to pay £128 for 50ml. If the drydown was a tiny bit mellower….
Will put some vintage Miss Dior on when I get home.
Sorry, don’t know why that appeared as a reply rather than a comment.
I love Dryad so no worries, you’re in good company 🙂
I meant to wear Civet, as this is also Coffee Day (or Espresso Day?) or something, but I think my brain was just thinking, “perfume with cats on the bottle” and I actually applied Dzing!
Hope everyone has a lovely Friday!
hey twin! Dzing is getting a nice showing today
I am wearing APLS, but after seeing some nice ideas here, I am going to add a spritz each of El Attarine and Aziyadé, which I love and teeter right on the border of skanky. I think they have cumin but it’s well-blended enough to be tolerable.
I am really looking forward to reeking havoc week.
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Scent twin 🙂
Dzing! for me post yoga. Is this skanky? I am not sure. Definitely a little animalic with the leather and musk notes. I love it.
Don’t ask.
LOL!
Hey’s it’s Friday! National Coffee Day.
1) Am in a combo of Aromatics Elixir shower gel and SJP Stash oil, which is a perfect sensual combo-sexy as hell and yet because it is close to the skin and clothes appropiate for work.
2) And back to the rain! Much needed. I am gonna just try to rescue the lavender with some plant food and plenty of water & compost, and a rainy weekend will definitely help!
good body products combo!
I didn’t think of Stash!!! I will absolutely wear that tonight when I get home!!!! That’s a goodie!!!
Oh yes! I really do find that Stash is lovely to wear, and that the elixir is VERY versatile- you put drops in hair or skin and subtly scents for HOURS.
Rien!
Seville a l’Aube. Not really skanky on me but I’m a preschool teacher so skank isn’t really on the menu during the day!
Twins!
good point
Wearing Dusita Oudh Infini for this skank Friday. This one is an absolute favorite. She may be in my top five favorite perfumers.
Penhaligon’s Hammam Bouquet – acts the prim and proper Victorian gentleman on the outside, but underneath, the animalic, untamed core oozes out right, left and centre.
That sounds wonderful.
Heading out the door to the dentist wearing Shalimar. It’s my safe skank and when it wears off, vintage Bal PdT.
good choice!
Gorgeous!
I’m in Le Labo Rose 31, which is only slightly skanky and can be worn to office.
Skanky Friday! What a great concept. I want drinks with that. SOTD is my first and most fav skank-olicious fragrance: vintage Jean Desprez Bal a Versailles pdt. Cheers to everyone!!
In a spritz of Femme. Might try a dab of a sample of MKK. That seems to be about it for this category in my home.
I’m late to the party, and to add insult to injury, I’m contributing zero skank. Not because I don’t love skank, because I do. But, decided to go with BF Au Dela Narcisse for another crazy work day…! Happy Skanky Friday to all✌????
You smell great! I love that one.
SOTD is BeauFort London “Iron Duke”.
Notes are leather, tobacco, rum and gunpowder.
The leather is animalic (not overwhelmingly so) and at times I could swear I get citrus and/or ginger-like spice. The effect is meant to suggest the Duke of Wellington astride his horse (animal; leather and metal; gunpowder in the air). I like it, and will re-test when I’m over my cold and can smell better. :^)
I’m not sure this one quite slides over the border into skanky though, so I think my skankiest scent this week remains yesterday’s Absolue pour le Soir.
When I saw Duke I immediately associated John Wayne. I hope you feel better soon.
Well, why not? Horse, check; leather-and-metal of bridle and saddle, check; gunpowder, hell yeah. Maybe the rum should be whiskey! :^)
Hope your work week was okay. Soon be weekend.
It was brutal but I came out smelling like roses. Albeit very tired stressed roses with a snotty nose and a tickly cough. :^D
French Lover (in its Bois d’Orage packaging). Was commando until after my bodywork lesson this afternoon. I have only five perfumes to choose from, because that’s all I brought with me (am in Rome for four months): FL and Iris Poudré (YAY, travel sprays), and decants of Bottega Veneta, Infusion d’Iris, and 31RC. Somehow I thought I would have more time to browse through the perfume shops — such was my intention! — but I have been terribly busy, and got a fairly cold shoulder in the one I tried (my Italian is intermediate-level and I am clearly American, two points that usually cancel one another out, but I guess I picked the wrong day or the wrong shop).
My husband has had great luck in Italian perfume shops, do try again. Did you try Mazzolari?
Also a bit late to the party, but kinda skanky smelling in Alexander McQueens Kingdom edt.
It’s nowhere near as skanky as the edp, but ok for daring office wear.
Have a great weekend everybody!
I’m wearing Escentric 2 today. No skank at all, but 12 compliments so far.
I’ll put on something skanky tonight if it’s below 90 degrees when I leave work.
SOTD: Nicolaï’s Incense Oud!
For nearly 30 years, I could not do skank in any noticeable quantities on my skin, whether in classic or modern perfumes. Last winter, while visiting the DSH Studio, I picked up a bottle, gave it a sniff, and then spritzed. I was overcome by the softest, furriest, coziest fragrance I’d ever tried. Entranced, I turned over the bottled, and was shocked to see the name, since I knew from Dawn’s newsletter that it was her new animalic fragrance. It grew more and more gorgeous as it warmed on my skin. I immediately added the largest bottle of it as EDP to the day’s purchase, and I wore it constantly during the winter and spring. It’s the one I chose for today, as it is utterly office friendly, and great year-round: DSH Chinchilla. If skank scares you, or hasn’t worked for you ever before, I *urge* you to sample this beauty. It will change your mind about animalics!
I’ve now worked up the nerve to try deeper animalics, and several of them have joined Chinchilla in my wardrobe, including the furry daddy to Chinchilla’s doe-eyed baby skank, DSH Foxy (which would have also been perfect for today, except that I prefer that one in cooler weather). MKK still hates me, but Salome, Zoologist Civet, and vintage No 5 have all joined Chinchilla and Foxy on my ‘skank shelf.’ ????
What a great story! :^)
I wondered when Chinchilla would make an appearance – so glad you like it. I haven’t been able to graduate to it yet, I have a sample and it did not agree with me for sure the first time I tried it.
I love many other of DSH offerings though!
Good thing you got to sniff before you saw the label! I’ve got this one on my wishlist for when the weather changes. I love your description!
I have a sample of Chinchilla that I’m still considering, but I do really like Foxy. I took a gamble on a little 3ml decant of Foxy during DSH’s summer sale and am so glad I did! Also, DSH has just impeccable customer service and I say that as a long-distance/mail order customer.
Ottoman Empire by very very very talented Russian Adam of Areej le Dore. It has real musc in it, but I am not feeling much skankiness (which is a good thing). I am still getting my feet wet with skank, and have been scarred by a few fragrances – MKK, Miel de Bois, Musc Tonkin. Ottoman Empire however is on a whole new level and is making me appreciate natural ingredients more and more.
It reads very nicely. Sadly all sold out now.
I think it Ex Idolo “thirty-three” was the rose-oud I tried made with natural ingredients/ 30-year old oud oil. But judging by the notes, the two perfumes would be quite different in feel.
Since I have to work around other people today, I chose Beloved which I think is stunning. I was watching a review of this frag on YouTube recently and was surprised to learn that it has three animalic notes, civet, castoreum and musk. I don”t love skank as a rule, except when I do. Beloved is one of my exeptions.????
House twin! You smell divine! I considered Beloved today but went with Gold…
You smell great! (and I still do not “see” any skankiness about either Beloved or Gold 🙂 )
I didn’t find any skank with this either. I drained my sample and it’s now a lemming. You smell sooo good!
Couldnt post this week but did wear APLS. And now Im in Seville a l’aube, which has a prominent beeswax note on me, not skanky but connected to APLS ????
I dug out my sample of Bogue MAAI for today. I remember it being dirtier than it seems now. I think I either have a very high tolerance for skank or my skin just tamps down those notes. It’s kind of reading like expensive soap with a little dirty peeking through.
Gorgeous. I was more afraid of its vintage-y chypreness (yes, I will just make up words, thank you) and tuberose than its skank, but it is very wearable.
I was meeting a friend for coffee this morning so wore Berdoues Assam of India, avoiding all skank and smelling delightfully refined and lovely. I’ve been trying very hard to locate the really skanky sample I tried last week but to no avail.
SOTD = Chanel No. 19 EDP
This is as anti-skank as I could get without getting into clean territory.
FYI, I won’t be offering anything in the freebiemeet as I want to fulfill all my swap obligations this weekend (if I can). I am still trying to recover from having to put everything on hold for the past 4 weeks to deal with the weather and earthquake-related crises. I am looking forward to the Splitmeet as I have a few candidates and also want to confer with supreme enabler clarissa.
You do freebiemeet all year long and are the grand dame of perfume fairy/godmother…you are entitled to skip 🙂
he he. Clarissa blushes 🙂
Hope that your work quiets down soon and you can get back to a less crazy schedule! I don’t blame you one bit for needing to take a breather.
I just picked up one of Gaynor’s mystery perfume samples …holding th bottle at arm’s length so I can make out the small print on the vial. Majda Bekkall Fusion Sacree Obscur (Lui). It’s so delicious, a kind of lavender boozy liqueur . A fail on skank but a hit with me. Saturday here and no sounds except the birds waking up and singing. I heard a california quail in the section below our house yesterday…there goes the neighbourhood.
Ha! At first I didn’t get it – I would be excited to hear or see a California quail and I live in California! (I have seen them once or twice and love their little plumes). I had no idea they were introduced around the world!
We have a lot of Californian quails in the countryside but it’s unusual so close to the city ( the cats probably get them). I like them a lot too’ especially when they have lots of chicks in tow.
Newly-hatched quail chicks–especially a clutch of them running around together–are quite possibly the cutest thing in the world.
My grandparents lived in San Diego County, and for years a pair of quail (are they a brace when still alive?) lived near (in?) the tree just off their patio, and had chicks every year, which trailed behind their parents adorably. Creosote is right–quite possibly the cutest thing in the world.
Oh, I have a sample of that, might try it next week and compare notes. :^)
It’s 10:45 in the morning here and I am still in my nightgown and robe, after not getting to sleep until late last night. After my shower I’ll be wearing MKK. I thought about Salome but I wore it fairly recently, whereas MKK would have been sometime last spring. I have missed it.
Thanks, LisainDenver, for reminding me that I need to get a bottle of Foxy. From the comments this week, it also appears that I need to sample Jubilation 25 and Beloved.
Happy Friday, everyone!
I wish I lived closer than Aotearoa-NZ, because I could give you samples of both J and B. I’ve always found some skank in Beloved, though to give everyone due credit, Richard found it first. Jubilation is just a bit funky on me, but that’s probably the skank coming through. I didn’t know how to label it before. I think you’d like both.
By Kilian Rose Oud from a decant. Love the rose and spices. Might add some Beloved later. Have a lovely weekend.
Two lovely choices!
Friday! Finally! My body is exhausted. I ran 1 mi yesterday for the first time since my foot broke. That’s a lot harder when your legs are so unaccustomed to bearing weight. I also did 21 push-ups and 17 sit-ups, and am sore in muscles that I’d forgotten I have. Then we walked 6.2 miles to get to and from a Maroon 5 concert (woooooo!) to avoid the horrific traffic, so really I’m just tired everywhere. On the upside, my foot held up pretty well.
I’m in Guerlain Flora Nymphea! It has a touch of honey in it, which is often interpreted as skank. Of course, FN is just the prettiest, soft-cloudiest, gauziest of scents, so…not really any skank at all.
Happy almost-weekend, all!
Glad you are up and about!
As my skin doesn’t do florals well, I often find anything with jasmine or orange blossom really veer to “she’s a dirty girl” territory in short order! 🙂
Maroon 5!!!! How was it?
AWESOME. This was actually the third time I’d seen them, and from the absolute worst seats (free lawn seats through Alaska Airlines), but it was still tons of fun. Adam Levine is still gorgeous, and–when in the zone–an excellent singer. I also love seeing the dynamic between him and one of the guitarists. He also messed up “This Love,” but had the grace to joke about it 🙂 so it ended up being cute and not embarrassing. He also changed up some melodies, which I imagine is what one has to do to avoid getting too bored with old music. It was a good mix of old and new, with the loudest cheers for the oldest stuff, of course.
I was just thinking that I basically grew up alongside M5. They first became popular when I was in high school, and I was in love with Adam Levine then, and now, at 30, still am. It’s kind of nice.
Have you tried Adam Levine’s fragrance for women? It’s really good for its price range (VERY inexpensive, and now widely available at Marshalls, TJ Maxx, online discounters, etc.) In fact, I think it’s really good, period. Fragrantica says: “The nose behind this fragrance is Yann Vasnier. Top notes are saffron, citruses, marigold and spices; middle notes are indian jasmine, australian sandalwood and rose petals; base notes are benzoin and vanila.” It smells more expensive than it is.
I haven’t! I heard of it yesterday when we were looking him up 🙂 that sounds amazing. Mmm. I can’t imagine needing a full bottle, but if it’s basically free…hmm.
I second that it’s very nice. It reminds me of Estée Lauder Sensuous.
Hey, go you for doing pushups! Just be sure to take it easy getting back into exercise… I’ve heard a few horror stories about overuse injuries from folks.
I was going to wear Secretions Magnifique but I’m at work, I’ll save that for home….
For now, it’s Narcisco Rodriguez Musc oil (old formula) For Her. A bit more polite for the work environment.
I love that NR Musc – my bottle went off but I wish I still had it. I literally had someone follow me around in my wake. You smell marvelous!
My sample of SM is due to arrive any minute. What do you think of SM?
I’m pretty impressed by anyone who has the courage to try SM!
Haha. I was all prepared for it today and it’s stuck in transit. I guess biohazard. I’ve read ppl get iris from it so ha we will see!
Please, let me know if you really, really, really find iris (my favorite note) in SM…
I love SM, on skin it reads like a leather/aoud perfume, with a touch of floral but not distinctly iris.
The first time I wore it, my MIL asked me what I was wearing…
Imagine my explanation? I was at a loss.. :O
SM sounds really nice on you!
I can’t do much skank – I must have enough naturally – as it seems to magnify on me to levels that aren’t tolerable – ha!
So to try and get on theme today I went with A Lab on Fire – Messy Sexy Just Rolled Out of Bed.
At least it sounds a little skanky from the name, and their ad copy made you think it might smell a bit on a raunchy side. But really I find it very soft and comforting – a stay in rainy Saturday don’t fix your hair kind of day – I could use one of those!!!
The notes for Messy Sexy look really similar to their Mon Musc a Moi….have you tried the latter? I’m really interested to know if Messy Sexy is a repackaged Mon Musc.
Hey Eldiyen –
I’m so sorry not to have seen this earlier! Been out of town working, yes I’ve tried both – and while they are similar they are two different scents. Mon Musc is much “muskier” on me – it has a musk bite that Messy Sexy doesn’t have – at least on me. I prefer the Messy Sexy – for this theme I think the “skank” factor is greater with the Mon Musc. I’m very glad I sampled both as I would not want a bottle of the Mon Musc, but do of the Messy. Some sources reported that the two are the same scent, one marketed to Europe (Messy) and the other, Mon Musc, for the US. I would disagree with that, and also point out that Barney’s is now carrying the Messy so it can be purchased stateside now as well.
Hope you see this and that it helps!
Hi Cecilia – thank you so much for the reply, that is indeed very helpful! 🙂
Good evening Everyone!
Absolue pour le Soir- Soooo beautiful, I could cry. Daytime was Laurie Erickson’ s Sienna Musk, which isn’t necessarily skank, but a good dose of sleepy musk is in there.
I love Sienna Musk…sadly she discontinued it.
Yes, such a shame… Luckily Nasomatto
Pardon bears some resemblance to it. Not exact twins, but the same vibe.
Very late today. Just another bad night. I’m wearing Jubilation 25 to see if the funk I detect is skank. I think it is. I don’t smell delicious, exactly, more…complicated, darkly moody, even slightly feral. Oh yeah! But should I waste this on scrubbing the grout? Nah. I think I’ll put in a lace top and announce that we’re having dinner or lunch out, maybe both ????
Be well, all.
That is very sound reasoning.
I’m in a couple of minis from an antique store…Ungaro Diva and Nina Ricci Nina. Fragrantica says they both have civet and oak moss, and that is why I purchased them.
Diva definitely has something spicy going on, but lots of floral, too. Sadly, the Nina has mostly gone to baby powder, so no skank or civet clues there.
Does anyone have any opinions about these two? I also picked up Parfum d’Hermes, Krizia Uomo for men and Leonard Fashion, but haven’t tried them yet.
Skank on, ladies and gents. ????
Bear was just wearing Diva (see above) – I know it is pretty well loved, but I haven’t tried it.
I really like Diva, and I do get the civet, along with a spicy rose. I love a big 80s perfume, but I wear that one sparingly. I think if I got a backup bottle, it would be another mini.
I am wearing Siberian musk, by Areej le Doré. From a sample.
I dont think it is skanky, but it IS very musky (not the clean variant though).
Its gorgeous!
I loved skank week! Even though I have a hard time defining skank.
Salome and Maai are mostly just cuddly cosy to my nose. Not skanky. But I know some people rate then pretty high on the skank-o-meter. Isnt it funny how scent and smell work?!
I think the skankiest frag on my skin this week was Montecristo. I did get a bit of a body odour vibe from it after two hours. But its still a nice version of body odour. Not the sour arm pit variant.
Montecristo smells like a scent a sexy pirate would wear. 😉
Ah yes! that is a good description! 🙂
Who needs skanky perfumes when one’s commute is skanky to the max?
Ha!
🙂
😀 😀
I’m ending the week the way I started it, in dabs of MKK. I added a few more dabs this time so it would stick around longer. I don’t find it that skanky, but this is all I felt fine wearing to the office. I’ll put something skankier on tonight when I get home. Maybe Oudh Infini (thanks, Elizabeth!)…
I was forgetting I have a sample of that. On me, it smells like I’ve been trampled by a herd of sheep.
Theo Fennell’s Scent. Gorgeous lushness and filth. (The saffron makes me a little weak at the knees, and this is one of the rare roses that doesn’t go sour on me.)
Scent twin, yay! I bought this years ago and have hardly worn it because I found it so hard to get past the “unwashed lady parts” in the beginning. Getting past that today, however, has rewarded me with a luscious, rosy drydown.
Plus, the weather here has gone cool and rainy, so it’s perfect.
Have a good weekend, all!
Hi AnneE! Hope u have a lovely weekend. (waves manically).
???? Thanks, mayfly! You do the same.
Hurrah!
That’s an awfully polite way of describing the first few minutes of Scent. (Is it wrong to admit I’m partial to using the term “whore’s drawers” instead?”)
I may or may not just have bought a back up bottle. Ahem. (hey, it was only a tenner!)
Love your terminology, too. Can’t believe how cheap this was – that opening must have scared off everyone else as well.
Now I’m so tempted to blind buy a bottle of this!
Discontinued, right? (Closing my eyes and sticking fingers in my ears, so as not to be tempted to run right off a cliff.)
Aye, gone for years. It looks like a big cache of testers and overstock was unearthed a few months back, as there was an out-of-nowhere surge of them on ebay, and some of those bottles are still kicking about on ebay. (But this was in the UK, and I have no idea if any made it overseas.)
Jubilation 25.. just gorgeous.
Late as usual. Tried vintage Arpege sprayed on a tissue and practically killed the dog, who ran from the room. So SoTD is vintage Cabochard, which the dog likes, but which is asphyxiating me, even sprayed behind knee. Sillage is insane, feels pretty skanky although it’s not on any of the skank lists y’all have put forth. I love it but wonder how I got away with this in the 70s.
Cabochard’s a leather scent (albeit with musk amongst all the other notes), and I only have the recent version, but I imagine the vintage might have some skankiness.
One of the ingredients in vintage is castoreum. Skanky beaver essence. Don’t know if it’s in more recent versions? Ten hours in and still projecting.
Good grief, how did it get to be Friday already?! I’ve gone AWOL lately (for no good reason, tbh), so I must try to catch up on things here in the NSTverse…
I’m in the sophisticated skank of Amouage Gold today. It never fails to make me do the perfumista salute and huff my wrist.
Have a super weekend, all!
You have a great weekend. Glad you’re back
Thanks! I’m glad to be back.
Hey there! Good to “see” you back!
Hi! Good to ‘see’ you, too!
Love Amouage Gold. You smell wonderful!
Thanks! I think “Gold” is the perfect name because some serious perfume alchemy went into creating it. ????
SOTD = vintage Sheherazade PdT, by Jean Deprez. From the sample stash. Wowwee! This stuff out-skanks vintage Femme on me. It is one of those Grand Old Everything But The Kitchen Sink perfumes. I’m digging it, even if it wasn’t exactly the right thing to wear for getting groceries.
Eh, phooey, anything is right for grocery shopping.???? [Heads off to Fragrantica to look up Sheherazade…]
This is one of the few scents where I smell it as the whole thing. I’m not really getting any individual notes from it at all.
Sheherazade? Oh wow, you smell gorgeous! I finished up my vintage bottle a few years back. I got skanky carnation/powder from it.
Very Va va VOOM kind of scent.
Definitely agree with you on the skank! There is also something wonderfully spicy in this, too.
That sounds like something I’d love. Might have to put it on the sample list.
I hope that you can find some.
I don’t do skank deliberately!! Was up the town today and went to Lush. I suppose the jasminy indole which always hangs round the stores, and soaks into the SAs and customers counts as skank, so I am in the zone today.
SOTD on one arm is Lush Rose Jam Body spray (bought that, simply gorgeous lemony turkish delight rose) and on the other Lush Coffee and Cardamon. ( I really want that, next pay day it is mine). Coffee note is first and is ok but cardamom spicy soapy section is awesome.
Both sound great. I need to make a trip to Lush soon.
SotD(r) = A la Nuit
SotD(l) = Joy edp
I dabbed these on right arm and left arm from samples I’ve had for a few years. Today I’m all about the jasmine.
Loved reading about everyone’s scents for today.
Do you find A la Nuit skanky/indolic?
hi Laurels! Yes, A la Nuit goes to tart’s knickers after a few hours. It’s not overwhelming, but it’s more than a vague suggestion. A few dabs is enough for me.
On me, it didn’t last a few hours, so maybe that’s why I don’t remember skank.
So, so late to this party. My whole week has been like that. Anyway, SOTD is Lush Lust. Big ole batch of indolic Jasmine counts as skank, right?
I should say so! You smell divine!
Yes it does!
I tried that in the store and nearly passed out. You get the win, as far as I’m concerned.
Posting a second comment to share …
Commuting Woes No. 395:
A guy on the train was sitting on the middle seat of a 3-seater, his coat draped on the aisle seat with no one sitting by the window. I gestured that I would like to sit on the aisle seat and he gave me the dirtiest look!! Seriously, you dirtbag – you DO NOT OWN the train and I can darn well sit where you have selfishly taken over an entire row of seats. And by the way, the next time you have to take a long transcontinental flight somewhere, I hope you get squished between a couple who decided not to sit next to each other because they couldn’t fit in a regular seat.
Nice revenge! Love that idea.
Ha, that would definitely be the appropriate punishment! Sheesh, what is wrong with people?
Wearing the original Agent Provocateur because it is smashingly sexy and skanky!
Super late to the party.. I just applied the last of a sample of Delrae Amoureuse.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. We had summer temps this week, then the clouds rolled in just in time for the end of my workday.
LOVE Amoureuse. I will wear a bit this evening.
It’s pretty fantastic. I can still smell it.
I thought I would not be participating in the CP since I do not do skank. But Robin’s choice (actually, the discussion of the possibility of it yesterday) gave me the idea: even though I do not classify this scent as such, I love Jicky extrait – so I’m wearing it now (it’s 5-6 years old, so not a vintage). It’s such a pleasant lavender…
You smell fantastic! Jicky is a priority on my FB to-buy list. It’s. Just. So. Good.
I’ve never tried the extrait, but I thought the edp had just a hint of skank, and possibly even that was the power of suggestion.
Wearing Cartier La Panthere edp, from a decant given to me by the lovely mjane3. I had smelled it on paper, and thought “meh.” It was clean and a bit boring. When I tried it on skin, however, and it warmed up a bit, I thought, “oh, my.” It starts off as a peppery floral (I don’t really get the fruit, or at least no sweetness), and then ends up smelling like sex. Specifically, like sex with a woman. I think I might need one of those delightful little panther bottles, if I ever muster the nerve to wear it in public.