Hello APJ, Welcome to our small scale collaboration project. Old Herbaceous (OH) of Serenity Now Scents and Sensibilities and I will be doing a monthly post on different perfume notes. We are not perfumers but aficionados of fragrance. So lots of our information will come with links for further reading or text references. We are learning as you are learning, or refreshing.
Hello APJ, It has been years. Sorry for the radio silence but after the double hackings and the rigmarole to get APJ back up the steam had left my will to continue. We had lost all our followers TWICE! The first time saw a reasonable rejoin but the second time took us months to fix the problem and people stayed away in droves. Considering the work that went into seven days a week content it was easier to continue Guest Posting elsewhere and leaving APJ as historic content. With A Bottled Rose on hiatus APJ will be the home of a new, small scale collaboration project. Old Herbaceous of Serenity Now Scents and Sensibilities and I will be doing a monthly post on different perfume notes.
Hi APJ,
I’m wearing Shalimar EdP and vintage extrait by Guerlain.
Shalimar Madagascan Vanilla (Sha-Lemur) EdP and vintage extrait by Guerlain
Shalimar EdC by Guerlain
For Mardi Gras Parade I’m wearing Shalimar EdC and spritzed on vintage extrait from my favourite cigarette lighter case.
Hey All,
It’s just us here now. The final days of APJ. Your tenacity, loyalty and love have not gone unnoticed. Thank you.
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Portia
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Hi APJ,
A SOTD (Scent Of The Day) thread is a really good conversation generator. The idea is you’ll chime in through the week with whatever scent you are wearing. You don’t need to be super knowledgable, have high faluting tastes or be a published author to comment. Just tell us what fragrance you’re wearing, smelling, buying etc. and how it makes you feel and/or anything else about it that tickles your fancy.
You can also comment on everyone else choices too. It’s great to tell someone how much you love their choice, ask for more info about it, the house or perfumer. There’s someone here from around the world 24/7 and perfume people love to chat.
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
Woo Hoo! A week away in Singapore Changi Airport and Koh Samui Thailand with Jin. Every day an adventure. Full of the fun and romance of international travel with this funster. It’s been so low tech that it’s Friday before I pull out the computer to get some work and blogging done. NAUGHTY!
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Portia
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Hello Fellow Fumies,
At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.
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Narth
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Hello friends, Narth here with a quote from my most recently read book.
“Scent, for me, is a medium. I rarely use if for ornamental purpose.”
This I How You Lose the Time War, Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone
This is so true for many of us who have spent a long time with fragrance. We wear our scents as talismans for who we are that day. Continue reading
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Val the Cookie Queen
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I greet you APJ for the last time on this platform!
What follows is a bunch of photos taken during my time as Australian Perfume Junkies raving reporter. They are in no particular order, and most of them you will have seen already. APJ has been an incredibly huge part of my life. I mean freaking enormous.
In Harrod’s with Portia.
Innsbruck with Vero.
Esxence 2019 with Megan. (Megan In Sainte Maxime) (Atelier des Ors)
Tara (A Bottled Rose) and I sniffing Sale Goss in London.
With the fabulous JTD JTD in Los Angeles.
Carnaby Street with A B.londeswunder and Tara.
Hannah/B.londeswunder in Bloom.
With Freddie Albrighton, perfumista and tattoo artist. Salzburg.
Hannah had arrived around 23:00 in Vienna, having travelled from Salzburg, to see Portia. She asked for donuts and Portia ran out for a box. Why just one when ten would do?
Visiting the amazing Aus Liebe Zum Duft. Flat hair because German water made it too soft.
Antonio and Vero. Milan.
Thomas – The Perfume Candy Boy
Vero and me in Florence. Sorting out samples for me to take to the States.
The gorgeous Michael watching me sniff some Le Labo stuff. Brick Lane, London.
Anima Vinci. Les Senteurs.
Thomas and Tara. How I love them both.
Milan train station. Portia, Vero, and Antonio.
Coffee and chilling with @scentosaurs in Edinburgh.
Last but not least Vanessa (Bonkers About Perfume) and me in Augsburg, Germany. Meeting up for perfume, and a gig. But that is a Strange Tale on its own.
I have loads more photos but setting them into WordPress is about to give me a complete and utter meltdown. So I am gonna stop.
Bussis to the moon and back.
Your CQ.
“Just what is it that you want to do? We want get loaded and we wanna have a good time.” PRIMAL SCREAM. RIP Andrew Weatherall.
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Portia
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Hi APJ,
A SOTD (Scent Of The Day) thread is a really good conversation generator. The idea is you’ll chime in through the week with whatever scent you are wearing. You don’t need to be super knowledgable, have high faluting tastes or be a published author to comment. Just tell us what fragrance you’re wearing, smelling, buying etc. and how it makes you feel and/or anything else about it that tickles your fancy.
You can also comment on everyone else choices too. It’s great to tell someone how much you love their choice, ask for more info about it, the house or perfumer. There’s someone here from around the world 24/7 and perfume people love to chat.
Australian Perfume Junkies 