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Portia
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Hey there Frag Heads,
You may remember a few weeks ago I bought a bottle of M Micallef Vanille Marine? Well looking through my decants this week I discovered 5ml of another in the line. Because I loved the other so much I’d basically ignored todays and so I thought we could look at it together today.
Vanille Orient by M. Micallef 2012
Vanille Orient by Jean-Claude Astier + Geoffrey Nejman
Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Spices, vanilla, sandalwood, amber, musk
Opening is vanilla, quickly tempered by sweet citrus and warm resins. There is some cardamom or something equally green/smooth floating around and a smokiness on a low level. A simple creamy amber, very easy wear, is the heart. Nothing ground breaking or distinctive but it does smell very luxurious.
I keep smelling myself and thinking that Vanille Orient transports me to an expensive European hotel lobby in winter. Resinous, woody, balsams and a clean musk with a faint reminder of long dead cigarettes and coffee. It’s a clean, warm, comfortable scent that would make a terrific candle.
PDI
I don’t know if you ever go to art galleries but there is a certain slim line 40+ woman who wears a black wool polo neck jumper, boot cut jeans or a tailored skirt and comfortable boyishly styled shoes. Often her greying and kept natural hair is cut in a modern super short bob and she accessorises with white gold. I have come a ross these wonderful women and they will chat about the art sometimes. They LOVE this kind of amber. A happy middle ground between the sweet, bakery style and the bitch tar leather ambers.
This wears resinous rather than sweet, is dry and warm with no animalics or darkness. A 100% comfortable amber that smells very good. Excellent for wafting in the cool halls of galleries.
PDI
Further reading: Notable Scents and Muse In Wooden Shoes
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What do you wear to go to the gallery?
Portia xx
Australian Perfume Junkies 
Hi Portia. Vanille Orient sounds lovely. Love going to galleries for alone time. So that is when I wear Narciso Rodriguez for Her Musc Eau de Parfum Intense. It’s the most aloof perfume in my collection.
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Hi there Lisilou,
Gorgeous choice for drinking in someone else’s paint of view.
Portia xx
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Hi Portia,
I’m usually taking advantage of an unexpected opportunity, a spare hour or so, when I go to a gallery so I’ve bever planned what frag to wear fot it. But if I did it would probably be something meditative and calming. Perhaps Serge Lutens Gris Clair or Comme des Garçons Kyoto…maybe YSL Nu?
Lil Xx
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*never not bever
Why is it our eye slides gracefully over typos right up until we press the post button LOL
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HA!
I am queen of the dodgy typo and missed auto incorrect.
Portia xx
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Hiya Lil,
Kyoto is an inspired choice. Great idea. So contemplative.
Portia xx
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Hi Portia, I must admit that I truly enjoyed all of the Micallef Vanille series. Loved Orient and Cuir. To the gallery I would wear an Hermessence such as Osmanthus Yunnan or Iris Ukiyoe. Sandra xo
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Good choices for the gallery Sandra,
We need to do some galleries together next visit.
Portia xx
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I didn’t dislike Vanille Orient but I never felt compelled even to finish my sample.
Gallery visit is not something I really plan or cherish, and since I wouldn’t be afraid to really bother anybody (it’s so easy in that type of a setting not to stay around anybody you don’t want to be around – be that for their smell, not necessarily perfume, their voice or anything else) that I [would] wear anything I feel like wearing that day.
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Hey Undina,
Yeah, I get that it might not be interesting enough for loads of people. It’s a pretty and safe amber.
Good point, galleries are good for getaways.
Portia xx
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