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Portia
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Hi APJ,
I’d like to try something new here at APJ, I see these SOTD (Scent Of The Day) threads all the time on Facebook and they are really good conversation generators.
SOTD 16-22 October 2017
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.
You probably won’t have time to write every scent, every spritz but whenever you feel the mood take you share your current spritz and a few things about it. Maybe you love/loathe it, want it, are excited by the notes/bottle/SA who sold it: WHATEVER! As always here at APJ, taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
Hopefully you will come back and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them.
Over 100 responses I will draw a Scent Sample Pack (from my collection)
This week:
Amouage Dia Parfum
DIOR Mitzah
Miller et Barter A Quiet Morning
Neela Vermeire Creations Rahele
Vintage CHANEL No 19 EdC
Comment purposefully on yours or anothers comment & you’ll have a chance, random.org will draw on Sunday.
Last Weeks Winner: FIRST WEEK!
eMail me at (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with the eMail you’d like me to send your Gift Card to.
Go To It Crew.
Portia xxx
Today was Serge Lutens Le fille de Berlin. Yum
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VERY yum Lynda.
Portia xx
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hey there… early in morning I wore a sample of Smeraldo by Sylvaine Ducolite. This evening I’m wearing Rochas Absolu
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I’ve never even heard of Smeraldo by Sylvaine Ducolite Saffyishere,
What’s it like?
Portia xx
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It’s one of her musk collection, I bought the sample pack and quite liked this one, it is quite green. Is she Delacorte?
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AHA! The Guerlain woman! You know I’ve not smelled anything from that line.
Portia xx
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Tonight my SOTD is Guerlain Champs Elysees. Fruity violets, mimosa and dewy lilac fluffed up with powder. Gorgeous.
Portia xxx
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I love Champs Elysees….It is one of those fragrances which you can wear well in hot and cold climes.
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Usually I wear something that I think will not offend anyone to work, like Cuir Beluga. This week we are preparing for assessments and the students are all giving me grief…I AM BLOODY WELL WEARING JICKY.
So there.
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Excellent choice for some backbone and spirit JackieB, wear an extra two spritzes for me please.
Portia xx
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Hi everyone! Today started out a little cooler so I got out a sample of Interlude Woman by Amouage. I didn’t enjoy it the first time I tried it but, on revisiting, I really enjoyed this rich but unchurchy incense. The only problem is that, after 5 hours, I can’t smell it at all! I expected a little more longevity from this house.
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Interesting Mary,
Was it a dab or spray sample? that might make a difference.
Portia xx
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It was a spray sample. Actually, I can smell it if I press nose to wrist, but it doesn’t waft upwards as some do.
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Incense can be a bit of a close to the skin adventure. You don’t expect an Amouage to go quiet though. BUM.
Portia xx
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I started off the week on a cold cold day in Tauer’s Au Coeur du Désert. I may offend a sensitive coworker today!
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Fingers crossed they’re too cold to notice Gina,
Portia xx
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Today I am smelling of sweet tobacco. Profumo di Firenze Odori Tabacco. Long lasting tobacco with some honey playing the supporting role. Moderate sillage and good for work.
The smell reminds me of my childhood. On my way biking to school I passed by a tabacco factory that smelled very much like this. The other smell of my childhood is the sweet smell of the sugarbeet factories in my home town. Haven come across a sugarbeet perfume yet 🙂
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OOOOH, great story Jac, I love when stuff reminds me of my youth. Recently a tomato leaf frag did it, happy memories.
Good luck finding beetroot, if you do let us know please.
Portia xxxx
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Demeter (Library of Fragrance) makes a Beetroot scent. Now I want to try it.
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Interesting, what is the smell of a sugar beet factory like?
I am curious because sometimes when visiting York there was a strong smell of biscuits cooking (digestives) and we always assumed it was the chocolate factory but later I was told it could be sugar beets, it was really distinctive and sort of pleasant but it was so pervasive and persistent it became exhausting after a while in the way gourmand scents can.
Wearing Sideris today and loving it….
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Yes, sugar beet factories definitely smell of biscuits. We have one on the outskirts of town and when the wind blows in this direction it’s very biscuity. But at least it’s not unpleasant!
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Yes, sugar beets have a sweet biscuity smell. The timing is also important. Sugarbeet factories typiccalt run from somewhere in august till jan/feb, dependent on the crop. If you would smell it in spring/summer, it is most likely not the sugar mill.
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After some really awful rainy days, October has decided to turn into golden leaves, sunshine and clear blue sky. I am taking the chance and wear some of my summer favourites (probably for the last time this year). Today it is Parfum de Rosine’s Un Zest de Rose.
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Hey Marie,
I love Un Zest de Rose, lovely scent. Enjoy every waft.
Portia xx
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Sampling Twilly today, but I don’t have an opinion quite yet…. will see how it does in my preschool music class!
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Good luck MmkInPA with Twilly and the class.
Portia xx
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Today was Slumberhouse’s Kiste. Yummy peach galore!
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That’s the dark pink juice right Stephen?
Portia xx
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I think that’s Sadanne? Kiste is a golden brown colour but I want to try Sadanne too haha.
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I love the idea of Kiste but alas the scent didn’t live up to my expectations on skin. However, I would love to smell it on others, such a nice autumnal perfume. The only Slumberhouse scent that won and keeps holding my heart is Pear + Olive. It’s a shame that it is discontinued.
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Pear & Olive for me too Marie. #1 by FAR!
Portia xx
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I wore Kiste about a month ago at my rehearsal dinner–got compliments galore, everyone asking what was that amazing fragrance.
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another Pear + Olive fan
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I love the Pear/Olive….. very ‘different’ but gorgeous. So sad it has disappeared so quickly.
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N°5 parfum. Few dabs. I’m baking. xx
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Lavish baking frag Val. I love you.
Portia xx
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I just bought Fancy Nights from Fragrance dot Net. I’ve read about it for years -it’ll be a blind buy cause it was so cheap. Wish me luck!
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OMG! I love Fancy Nights ClaudiaS. Excellent perfume and SO cheap.
Portia xx
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Love, love, love this one! Except for the name, lol!
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Antimony by House of Matriarch–I need a little psychic protection so this is it. Left a nice scent throughout my bedroom too.
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Fingers crossed for the psychic protection Shiva-woman.
Portia xx
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Lutens’ Féminité du Bois for me today. It’s pretty straight up slightly-sweetened cedar on me, with little nuance, and almost no variation in its 12 hours or more of life. I don’t often think about it, so don’t often wear it, but I still like it. Though maybe it’s not quite right for a dark and blustery Monday on the edge of Ophelia…
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and a glorious post-bath dollop of Shalimar tonight, to counteract the howling winds outside.
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Please stay safe , crikey…..Have you tried the Shiseido Fem d Bois?
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Woo Hoo! Lovely choices, you know how much I love shalimar. YUMMY!
Portia xx
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Feminite du Bois is one of my favourites for colder weather. It feels like a scarf around my neck, really cozy and comforting.
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Alternately grey and sunny here. … and quite cold. L’Artisan Iris pallida for me today.
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Hey Ceil,
How gorgeous is Iris Pallid? I have a bottle here that I adore but rarely use because it’s so precious.
Portia xx
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I’ve just started noting my STODs on Fragrantica since last week. SOTD of today 16 Oct. was Nicolaï’s New York Intense. I love it so much that it’s one of the rare perfumes that I have more than one bottle of.
SOTN is going to be either Gallivant Tel Aviv or Brooklyn for testing. Haven’t decided yet.
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New York Intense JH! Excellent. I have the original and love it. Perfect mid season wearing.
Portia xx
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STOD (17th): Timbuktu.
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Oops I mean SOTD… Always get it wrong 😂
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SOTN (17th): Guerlain Arsene Lupin Voyou (this one is pretty boring…)
SOTD (18th): Zoologist Hummingbird (gorgeous, might get a full bottle!)
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OH NOOOOOOO JH,
Guerlain Arsene Lupin Voyou is BORING!! That was unexpected. HA! My eyes bugged out ofd my head like a cartoon.
Portia xx
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Well I think Voyou is a nice one. It smells comfortable, but for me it lacks that something special, exciting. I wish I had the chance to know Dandy!
Recent SOTDs and SOTNs:
LAP Traversée du Bosphore,
Zoologist Rhinoceros,
Gallivant Tel Aviv (what a beautiful jasmin!),
Derby,
Santal Royal (wearing now).
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Isn’t Santal Royal lovely. It took me a few wears to really get it but now I hope to not be without it.
Portia xx
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My SOTD for this brisk Fall Monday is one of my favorites, Juliette Has a Gun Lady Vengeance. Sounds more fierce than I really feel though…gee, I hope no one at Bible Study asks what I’m wearing…
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HA! I hope they DO ask Maggiecat, imagine their reaction.
Portia xx
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STOD is Nuit de Noel parfum. I was making some samples for a new friend (I also included samples of Pear and Olive, Zahd, Tubereuse Criminelle, La Myrrhe and Fumerie Turque) and it reminded me of how much I love the sophisticated warmth of this perfume.
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OMG! What a line up of samples ElizabethC, lucky friend.
Portia xx
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Yesterday was Cologne du 68 by Guerlain. I’m beginning today with a sample of Gold by Amouage. But after my shower, I’ll be applying something else. Not sure what yet.
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Cologne du 68 is a great scent. Hope Guerlain will bring it back someday.
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Hi Kate,
Nice pair there, the warmest cologne. Guerlain had a really interesting, flamboyant fragrance. Bummer it didn’t sell.
Portia xx
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SOTNight. Was up late watching The Good Wife. Impossible to press stop. It’s now nearly 5am so I’m spritzing The Different Company Oriental Lounge. Spicy sweet vanilla and woodsiness. Beautiful.
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Would Alicia Florrick wear Oriental Lounge? I think yes. 🙂
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HA! Maybe she would. Though I imagine her in something more galbanum crisp like CHANEL No 19. I bet Oriental lounge style is her evening choice.
Portia xx
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Wearing Hiris today, it surprised me with how much I like it. It’s nice when a scent hits all the right notes.
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Hi Tiffanie,
Hirsi is lovely.
Portia xx
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Today for work was Tory Burch by Tory Burch, lovely citrus and florals. The first and best from the line, IMHO!
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Hey VerbenaLuvvr,
Tory Burch bottles are so beautiful, I want one just for that but even the scents are extremely wearable.
Portia x
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Today I wear one of yours, Portia – Gucci No. 3.
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I bet you smell fabulous in Gucci 3 Ingrid, such a good scent.
Portia xx
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As our beautiful sunny, crisp September has made its usual turn to grey, gloomy, decidedly chilly and often raining October, I realize that I don’t have any orientals to keep me warm. (Besides the always worn Shalimar 😊)
The best I can do today is a shower in Neutrogena Rainbath and after my specialist appointment some Karl Lagerfeld Floriental from his Kapsule collection. Nothing special but soft herbal green and then powdery violet and warmth, suitable for today.
Clearly it’s time to take a wander through my samples.
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Hey Lindaloo,
Is that one of those square bottles with the atomiser on the top corner?
Portia xx
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Indeed it is. I have to admit that I bought a half-used one purely for the bottle. Was pleased to find I liked it. Interestingly the three Kapsules could be layered. Hard to think of Karl in the Jo Malone field, but whatever works, and in great bottles. The pale blue one is called Light and is reviewed as citrus and nutmeg, the dark blue is Woody with mostly plum and cedar. They were sold as unisex. Can’t quite imagine the violet of Floriental on a man. No man to try it on at the moment, but I’ll keep looking.🙂
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For a day where I needed something inoffensive to others, but to give strength to myself – Annick Goutal Mandragore
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Annick Goutal Mandragore is WONDERFUL Greennote.
I may spritz that myself this afternoon.
Portia xx
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Amouage Bracken Man. This is a sample and the first time I’ve tried it. I like it.
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OOOOOOH Swampy! EllenM.
Portia xx
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A sample of Belle d’ Opium…..It isn’t ‘grabbing me’ but since I’m really just going grocery shopping, and it isn’t ‘revolting’ I shall endure.
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HA! If that’s the worst you have to endure today I reckon it’s a win Saffyishere,
Portia xx
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Van Cleef & Arpels Bois d’Iris. An almost salty woods and iris. Love!
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I like this privé range, love the patchouli and amber Moira. Yet to smell the iris.
Portia xx
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Yesterday I went with Les Nez Turtle Vetiver Front. That’s one of my favourites for Spring. Today I’m trying out Acqua di Parma Profumo. My goodness, this is strong stuff!
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Hey Greg, Wish I’d bought bottles of the Les Nez Turtle Vetivers. So cool.
Portia xx
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Contre Bombarde from Sauf. I fell in love with these and then decided to gift myself one for my birthday end of September. Inaugrated the bottle today 😀
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Hi Mariann,
I’m end of September too. Happy Birthday.
Portia xx
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Today I am wearing Aventus for her. But the best perfume I have smelled over the last few days is Dana Emir which surprised me.
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Fatal,
You know the ridiculous Panty Dropper thing? I remember when the Aventus for Her came out and a few wags were wondering if mens jocks drop. So, did they?
Portia xx
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hahhahahah, no. The panty dropper thing is weird. In fact, this is how I sometimes tell whether someone loves perfume for the sake of perfume or to impress others. If you want a perfume that impresses the most number of people, I am skeptical you actually love perfume. If you love a perfume but it also garners compliments, then that is a bonus.
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Super lavish bubble bath in La Chasse aux Papillons L`Artisan Parfumeur. Madonna Truth or Dare lotion and haven’t decided on a scent yet……..
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I am going to sign a new work contract today and thought that I can just as well celebrate this in a waft of AG Songes. Contrary to the rest of the perfume world, I actually prefer the EdT over the EdP as it is softer and more floral, less vanillic. Yum.
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Beautiful choice, love Songes. Good luck in your new role Marie.
Portia xx
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Truth or Dare today woo hoo..
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Sexy beast that you are Anna-Maria
You smell freaking GORGEOUS!
Portia xx
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No. 19 EdT today crisp and green 🙂
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Beautiful choice Lillibet.
Portia xx
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Filthy wet and windy here, the dogs were blinking and squinting against the onslaught in the park! My defence was Trayee by Neela Vermeire.
It’s still cool enough for luxurious baths…anyone have any suggestions??
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Hey JackieB,
Trayee can put the world at peace anytime. Good choice.
YEAH, grab some Rodox Bath Salts and add about a teaspoon of your fave Shower Gel. Throw them in the bath. YAY! Bubble bath.
Portia xx
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Today I am wearing Sadanne by Slumberhouse. The weather is finally cooling a little, so it’s the perfect time for this. I find this fragrance way too sweet for warm weather, but it’s perfect for fall and winter days.
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Hey Kandice,
Glad to read you’re getting some of your cooler stuff out to wear.
Enjoy this yummy mid season weather.
Portia x
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Unexpected burst of sunshine today, so it was the so cheap it feels as if they paid me — Avon Green Tea and Verbena shower gel, followed by a splash of L’Occitane Green Tea. Washed it off later (my skin holds base notes forever) so I could use my current favourite cologne — Dior Escale a Portofino. Citrus and almond blossom. It too came from a trio. Haven’t smelled the others. I think they’re duty free only.
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Hi Lindaloo,
I think there are 5 of the Escale range. the discounters have them very reasonably nowadays.
I like the Portofino one too.
portia x
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Five! Will have to check that out.
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Pretty warm day already here in Adelaide so pulled out Le Jardin sur le Nil for its first outing since last summer.
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YAY! Hermes garden Series is always a winner in the warmth Lillibet,
I’m currently booking a short January holiday to Adelaide. We should grab a coffee if we can.
Portia xx
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That’d be lovely Portia!
Lil Xx
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Lucky you Lilibet! I wish we had spring here but we have to get prepared for winter 😦 I love Sur le Nil and now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ll wear it at least at home today.
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It is lovely Neva. Sur le Nil wasn’t my first perfume by a long shot but it was definitely the one that the fragrance that triggered my full scale plunge down the perfumista rabbithole. While trying to find out more about it I stumbled over perfume blogs and there’s no going back now LOL!
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Oh boy this is one I’ve been eyeing lately! Haven’t even sniffed but it looks gooood
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A day of long journeys, with delayed and cancelled trains (thanks, Ophelia!) and some hard thinking and tough decisions. Boxeuses was the right choice: resilience and reassurance, rather than a full-on “shield maiden in battle charge mode” type of strength-scent. Home, and super-tired, and it’s still trailing about me. And it’s still rather lovely, even this late in the evening.
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Sorry to read you had a hard day Crikey,
Hope it all gets better.
Portia xx
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Thank you, Portia. X
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So today I’m trying another AdP that I haven’t encountered before: Lavanda Tonica. It’s gone quite soapy on me; let’s see how it lasts.
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I quite like soapy Greg. How did it end up wearing?
Portia xx
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I like soapy when it doesn’t end up smelling like cheap detergent. This one was pretty good, and it lasted well for something described as “tonic”. Never seen this AdP before; have you heard of it?
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No never Greg.
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Today was the first really cool day in our fall and so I pulled a sweater out of a moth-protection bin and it smelled deliciously of Portrait of a Lady. So I sprayed myself a bit too. Tonight someone pulled me aside to ask what I was wearing and voila! I had a bit of a travel spray in my bag and gave it to her on the spot. Spread the joy!
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That is an excellent story Amy. I bet your recipient was thrilled.
Portia xx
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Today I traveled all day in a car with a male coworker, and wore Lavanila Vanilla Coconut. By the end of the ride, he told me he was stopping off at Sephora to pick this one up for his new wife as he found it irrestible (!)
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Woo Hoo! That is a definite win VerbenaLuvvr.
Nice going.
Portia xx
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For most of the day at work, I was in the cuddlefluff, Cuir Béluga. For evening, I spritzed Oriental Lounge to go with a nice helping of lasagna and red wine.
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YAY SunnyDay,
You wore two of my loves.
you smelled beautiful all day.
Portia xx
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Healey Cuir Pleine Fleur. Supple leaher, dusty roads and some flowers. Very calm and perfect for the evening with Jin. We are going for Vietnamese I think. MMMMM
Portia xx
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Oh, that’s a lovely one Portia, especially in autumn weather. It has good sillage, but some Heeley perfumes I can hardly smell after half an hour. I think this is the case with his citrus based scents.
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Yeah, I have the same problem with some of them too. Cuir Pleine Fleur though stays around softly whispering.
Portia xx
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OOoooh, nice! I keep having a sniff of that when I take a dangerous short cut home through Harvey Nichols. I love it, but, like Neva, I get almost no time from it. Their Chypre 21, on the other hand, is an all-day pleasure.
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What a heavenly stroll you take to work & back. Well JEL.
Portia xx
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I’m wearing Tiempe Passate by Antonia’s Flowers today. Feeling kind of nostalgic but optimistic.
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Bet you smell beautiful Neva.
portia xxx
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Scent on the evening was No 5 EdT for some crisp cooling aldehydes and jasmine-inspired loveliness.
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Bought pumpkin spice body butter at Trader Joe’s yesterday and felt like SL’s Gingembre would be the perfect accompaniment. I’m also covering both ends of the spectrum-cheap and expensive. Seems almost sacrilidge to combine the two, but it makes me happy 🙂 And only APJ will know!
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Very, very fatigued today and have a board meeting this evening. So something gentle, yet reviving — Diptyque Eau de Lavande. Taking nice deep breaths of it now. Think I’ll use some Shalimar lotion tonight to soothe me to sleep.
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Jo Malone’s Dark Amber & Gingerlily this morning. It’s going to be a trying day.
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Good luck, I hope it boys you up Lillibet,
Portia xx
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Monday was Papillon’s Dryad, green and wears very close to the skin, not much left after a few hours, but lovely while it lasts. Yesterday was Miller Harris Vetyver Insolent, lives up to its name. Today, Gabrielle, light and airy.
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WOW AnneT,
That’s an incredibly diverse three days. Sounds great.
Portia xx
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Le Galion Sang Blue. Old fashioned barber shop made new again. Really good, I smell wonderful.
Portia xx
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Oh i sniffed this on the weekend and it is wonderful!!
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Aha! You had a good Sniffy Meet then Esz? Sounds like it was full of good stuff.
Sang Bleu is YUM.
Portia x
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So today was Floid Vigoroso after shave. Sometimes I just feel like a really old-fashioned splash on the face instead of spritzing niche fragrances all around the place. This is the real deal, a bracing traditional 30s-style after shave with some menthol bite. It smells of spice and oranges, and is as cheap as chips. What more could you ask for?
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Sounds wonderful Greg.
Portia xx
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It’s gone cool again here today so I’m taking advantage of it to wear Hermes Galop to carry me through Friday in a blissful cloud of rose saffron leather goodness.
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Woo Hoo! Love it a little cool Lillibet.
Portia xx
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Mitzah today, which felt good on a rainy day. Had the rare delight of seeing my niece this evening who, on hugging me, declared that I smelled even better than I looked, and I looked *fabulous*. There are reasons I love this niece to bits.
Shameless flatterer that she is, she has astonishing taste in perfume. (A few years ago I sent her a big box of samples and testers as a cheer-up and distraction present in a bad time. Her favourites, at the tender age of nineteen, out of all the cheerful mainstreams, fruity girly-whirly delights, and odd ball indies I’d rounded up? L’heure bleue, Bois des iles, and Yohji Homme. I am a proud, proud aunt.)
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Crikey, your niece sounds like a gem.
How freaking fabulous is Mitzah?
Portia xx
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She’s a whole damn jewelcase, that one.
I am incredibly lucky: I have four amazing niblings, all of whom have grown up to be rather remarkable people.
(and the mitzah is divine. And I get to use it more lavishly now I know from previous conversations here that it is not actually gone for ever…)
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HA! Well, you have to get to Paris or have a mule grab it for you.
Portia x
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Home all day revising contracts. Nobody to offend, so I’m wearing Treazon by Ayala Moriel. A massive tuberose with extraordinary lasting power. Surprisingly so, given that it’s all natural and I’m wearing only a couple of dabs from a large sample.
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Great frag name Lindaloo.
Portia xx
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Today was a bit cooler in Melbourne and I wore the Parfumerie D’Empire Ambre Russe I picked up at the sniffy meet last weekend. Maaaaan it’s so good! Rich and warm and it lasts forever! A solid 12 hours later and it’s still going strong. It really is perfect and set my mood for Friday so well!
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Hi there Esz,
Oh yeah, Parfum D’Empire Ambre Russe is KILLER! I love it too. Excellent frag, you smell fabulous.
Portia xx
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Today I wore my favourite Tauer and, no, it is not LDDM. I may be weird, but I love Lonestar Memories much more, and that was my SOTD.
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Hi Greg,
I think that was the Lonestar that used to attack me? Yeah?
Portia xx
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Now that you mention it, I think it is!
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Glad it found a loving home and that you are getting the enjoyment I was unable to.
Portia xx
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Today’s SOTD was a small sample of Library of Flowers’ Root. A wonderful, green, slightly aquatic, woody scent. I don’t get the earthy bit, but I like it probably because of the moss, one of my favourite ingredients. It reminds me of Eau d’Issey. I had some pre-winter things to do in my Mum’s garden and the scent felt just right. Longevity is very good.
In the evening I’ll go to a big birthday party and I think I’ll wear one of my vintages: Giorgio Armani or Jil Sander III…don’t know yet…
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I can imagine you pottering around the garden wafting great gouts of glorious scent. The flowers must have given up in despair Neva.
Have a fun party.
Portia xx
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Not much time for perfume this werk but did try out Pelagorium from Aedes, lovely!
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Ahhhhh, I think I had a decant of this. it’s really good isn’t it? Now I’ll have to go searching Mariann,
Thanks for the reminder.
Portia xx
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Where did all the nice weather go? Right when the Spring racing gets serious, we go back to winter. I cheered myself up with some squirts of Chanel No 19 EdT, and then went op shopping.
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For the final SOTD of the week, I went for MP&G’s Racine. There’s a tartness to this one that I find quite refreshing; it’s not your usual vetiver.
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I loved Racine while I had it but after a while I didn’t pick it up anymore. No reason except I have TOO MUCH perfume.
Very nice choice today Greg.
Portia xx
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