SOTD 9 – 15 July 2018

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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.

SOTD 9 – 15 July 2018

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.

 

Go To It Crew.
Portia xxx

200 thoughts on “SOTD 9 – 15 July 2018”

  2. My SOTD is Le Cri De La Lumiere from Parfum D’Empire. It is indeed a luminous veil of rose and iris with a radiant dose of ambrette. It is glorious and sunny. I love most of PdE’s line, especially Tabac Tabou. I do, however miss the older, plainer, larger, cheaper bottles. I’m not a fan of paying for luxe packaging. I can’t wear packaging and, at my age, no one sees my boudoir.😂 Cheers!

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  3. I love Cuir Amethyst, must remember to revisit. Today was Cuir for me too, Cuir Beluga and just now some Trayee on my hair before bed.

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  4. Today I wore Ann Gerard Cuir Nacre. I don’t know what’s going on with this one because I can barely smell it. Other people report the sillage is very weak but I imagine it must be an anosmia issue as well, which is a shame because I love a soft suede.
    After a while of that I sprayed some Eau des Missions over the top. Yum.

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  5. Lashings of SMN Melograno…wore it last night and the middle Marzipan remarked on how good I smelled…there is a high likelihood that she will start using it as well which means the bottle will surely be done before summer’s end.

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    • So I also went to Sephora and tested three things…happy to report that while lovely I don’t need them 🙂

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      • What did you test, Brigitte?
        I have to do so many blond-buys since I’ve been living in the countryside for the last seven years, and I often regret not having the opportunity to try new perfumes before I get a full bottle.

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        • LOL! I figured you meant blind buys! I live in the countryside as well and my “local” sephora is quite a distance away. It is very small and doesn’t have nearly the large amount of offerings that the Sephoras in the city do. I tested the new Nests (Cocoa Woods and Black Tulip) and Eau de Merveilles Bleue. They were all pleasant but not enough to make me want full bottles….which for me is a good thing 🙂

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          • I hear you: with a wishlist growing so quickly it’s actually a good thing not to fall for a new perfume. We fo know that it’s only a matter of time.

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  6. Woke up too early this morning, so decided to spray some soothing perfume and try to go back to sleep. NV Niral was the easiest sample to find. A pretty, calm perfume which still isn’t on my FB-list of perfumes to buy.I like it, don’t love it: I still haven’t tried Bombay Bling which I sense may fill a gap in my collection, so hope to find “my” NV perfume in the future.

    Clouds and summer rain today, more like normal summer than the temperatures we have had lately. Forgot to put on perfume during the day, but will spray on some Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile edp in the early evening, my experience is that this one really blooms in summer. I need a change from the many citrus scents I usually wear.

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    • Hey Ingeborg,
      Clouds and summer rain can be very refreshing after a heat storm. I don’t know the Gelsomino Nobile, what’s it like?
      Don’t you just LOVE finding a fragrance that you don’t feel the need to buy a bottle of? That seriously makes me happy.
      Portia xx

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      • Gelsomino Nobile is not very i challenging. Ther’s some citrus and then jasmine, but creamy rather than very indolic i think you might say. The brand usually has polished perfumes, doesn’t it?

        Well, good not to fall for everything, but it so happens I’m waiting for a partial bell jar of tubéreuse criminelle, to arrive in August. Hopefully thinking of it will keep me away from too much tax free shopping later this month.

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  7. Right now I smell of several different Fragonard scents, having happened upon a shop – had to go in and sniff and try a few things. The winner of the skin trials is fleur d’oranger Intense – it’s not complicated but it has some staying power considering it’s quite hot here and the Metro was very crowded and sweaty.

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  8. NR Santal Musc for a very busy Monday. We’ve had actual summer weather here for the past month or so with temps in high 20s and low 30s, almost unheard of in recent years. It was overcast this morning so I thought I’d get away with the sandalwood as I was going to be working in the bowels of the building where sunlight cannot reach.

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  9. Wearing Terracotta Le Parfum this Monday morning. Inspired by Brigitte’s current loyalty to Melograno, I plan to wear Terracotta daily for a while. Hope to enjoy a good portion of this bottle over the summer.

    Terracotta was new when I first fell down the perfume rabbit hole, was it in 2014? I remember reading the reviews on perfume blogs, the rush of excitement. Bought a sample from STC and fell in love. By then all of the bottles were gone and I had to wait to find one. Terracotta was first announced as a limited edition, but it seems like it has been available every summer so far, so I’m safe for now.

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    • Yay!!! please report back on your feeling about Terracotta as the days pass. I find that when I wear a perfume for an extended amount of time I see so many different facets of it….and I love that 🙂

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  10. Been going through a weird phase of craving iris scents, and pale sorts of skin scents. So, last night was a break from that and I drenched myself in Bkack Perfecto.

    Today, I plan on ELdO’s Putain and later on Bianchi’s Angel’s Dust.

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  11. I’m in Italy at the moment, in Puglia, and it is dry and warm. Wearing Slowdive which really blooms in the heat, I smell roses in all that honey!

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    • Oh Hamamelis!
      Slowdive is FABULOUS! I really loved it. Bought the 10ml but it smelled so good on Morrigan I passed it to her. It bloomed in ways I never dreamed of on her.
      Have fun in Italy, how lucky you are.
      Portia xx

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  12. I found a bottle of vintage Givenchy III at the back of the cupboard. It turns to vegetable soup on the skin but smells bright and fresh on fabric. So I’m wearing 2-3 spritzes on my shirt.

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  14. I got my first Mitsouko edp last week (blind buy) and I can barely smell it 30 minutes after (heavy) application. Doesn’t even last on fabric. It was purchased, NIB, on Amazon. Oh well, it only cost 40 USD, so…

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  15. Late again, as always.

    Monday was YSL Opium Pour Homme. I’m not sure about this one; it’s maybe a bit too big and brash for me.

    Today I’m wearing Rochas Man because sometimes only coffee will do.

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  18. My travel size of Areej le Dore Russian Musk arrived today and I am macerating in it. Loving myself sick.

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  20. Terracotta again today, it’s summer in a bottle. I am wearing than usual and was able to really appreciate the top notes. There’s a hint of something spicy hiding in there, a bit like cinnamon.

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    • Snap! Thanks for the inspiration. I can’t even remember how many sprays, but it was loads. And I don’t care😼

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      • Yes it does feel that Terracotta could become a summer staple. It has been so many years since I wore the same fragrance with a daily loyalty, it’s time to give it a try.

        I’m hoping I will enjoy Terracotta for many days to come without getting distracted by something else. It’s a perfect summer scent. And I find that adding something citrus-y over Terracotta’s dry down is very nice too. The gentle vanilla and musk are revived in a lovely way.

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        • Yeah, good idea adding citrus over the dry down. I bet it works swimmingly Tiffanie.
          I have tried to do a week with one frag a couple of times since starting the blog but it currently feels impossible. I hope you have a less frenetic need for change and can enjoy Terracotta for a while.
          Portia xx

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  21. Mad late to comment but today was super hectic! Inspired by Tiffanie yesterday to crack out the Terracotta. I don’t know why I don’t reach for this more often, especially with our fab weather.

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  23. So happy APJ is back!
    Tauer Une Rose Vermeille. Lovely on a hot summer day, I think a full bottle is in my future!

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  24. Melograno…..the middle marzipan has taken a liking to it as well so it looks like we are sharing it for the summer…this happens quite often…I will wear something for a while and one of the marzipans will like it so much they start to wear it as well …this is how I “lost’ my bottles of CSP Aloha Tiara and Vanille Abricot…..I am not complaining, though, because the whole house smells divine whenever the middle one wears either…plus, our fragrances are getting worn and loved rather than languishing in the basement….

    and tiffanie, we are most definitely not a 2 spritz family-LOL! I have gone as far as 20-30 including skin and spray and walk through the air….so yes, we reek chez Marzipan!

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  25. On the theme of not just saving the good stuff for best: vintage no.19 perfume because it’s Wednesday, because I feel like it, and because it smells bloody amazing.

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      • I actually think this is a misnomer because it doesn’t have a very strong note of that. The lime/linden lasts throughout but is very smooth and creamy. I really haven’t smelled any other like it. Do give it a go. I will send a tester if you’d like?

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      • I forgot to add that there’s a good dollop of tuberose here as well, it really rounds out the whole thing.

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    • I don’t think I have tried any OJs and oddly enough I am OK with that…I know that house gets a lot of love …I like frangipani as a note so I will say you smell lovely 🙂

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  28. I finally received my bottle of YSL’s In Love Again (the previous editiion with a golden cap) yesterday, yay! It took two weeks to get it from Siberia which is kind of unusual (but not unheard of). I haven’t smelt ILA in seventeen years but it is exactly as I’d remembered: black currant and a hint of vodka.

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  29. Wearing Terracotta again, third day this week. Still enjoying it very much.

    Last night I craved something different but wanted to stay in soft floral territory. I settled on Infusion d’iris EdT plus a spritz of the Amande flanker. They smell like perfume-siblings, each with the same great bone structure, still beautiful in their own way.

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  30. L’artisan Vanille Absolument today. Loving this perfume so much and was so so lucky to find a bottle for sale on ebay – not sure why i looked that particular day but someone must have known something. I ADORE IT! Have added a splash of Montale Honey Aoud to it, just because i can!

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  31. Vintage Hermès Equipage today. This is the version with the knobbly brown lid. The batch code is illegible, but I think it’s around late ’80s, early ’90s vintage. Beautiful fragrance.

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  33. Still sticking with Melograno…yesterday the youngest splashed it on like an aftershave before heading to his summer college class. This one is definitely unisex. Smelled so good on him 🙂

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  34. Wearing Escale à Pondichéry, I think my second bottle of this will be finished by September!

    Does anyone have suggestions for good , calming scents to wear to bed in the heat? I usually cannot tolerate lavender in perfume, nor am I a lover of rose perfumes in general.

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    • I was going to suggest lavender but since that isn’t an option maybe a soft musk? Kumba Made has some nice musk oils or Dame Perfumery Musk for Man (it’s completely unisex). Also, maybe something with heliotrope? LT Piven’s Heliotrope Blanc? Or something with almonds? Berdoues Tonka & Almond?

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      • That would be LT Piver…also thought of perhaps something that smells like expensive soap or clean sheets such as Jo Malone French Lime Blossom or something from the Philosophy line (Amazing Grace, Pure Grace, Baby Grace or Inner Grace) or the Clean line (some of their earlier releases).

        Not sure how you feel about citrus but I really like Berdoues Assam of India in the summer with notes of lemon, tea and mysore sandalwood….I wore it for seven weeks straight in the summer of 2016, morning, day and night.

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      • I’m not familiar with these. Don’t usually care for perfume oils. The Tonka and Almond is something I should take note of for later when it is cooler.

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        • I have a bottle of that, sadly totally unloved. I should get round to finding a new home for it locally, postal restrictions are stopping me from sending it across the Atlantic!

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      • Insence is not a favorite note at all, it feels often foreign (and not in a good way).

        Salty I have just tried an Italian niche perfume, something with breeze in the name and then Wood Sage and Sea Salt which I seem to remember didn’t last long. I forgot which house has a perfume inspired by the coast of Brittany.

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        • Was it the Miller Harris Fleurs de Sel? That’s a big favourite in the crikey household. I’ve never found a Jo Malone that works for me–they all vanish in a pale wisp. The Heeley Sel Marin is another I hanker after, but is probably too close to the FdS to justify.

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        • Was it Brittany Breeze? I eyeball all fragrances with the name Brittany in it ….did you like it? I also tried yesterday for the first time Un Air de Bretagne….it was nice and the drydown good too.

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          • The oneI tried was Brezza di Mare frim Profumi di Firenze. Nice salty note in it, but not seaside the way it smells along the Atlantic coast. I think it was the L’ Srtidsn one I ess thinking would be nice to try. IT Lions like one of the perfumes NOT avsilable here.

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          • Ingeborg I got your ideas! I know my phone does the same 🙂

            the l’Artisan one was really nice..I could see it being someone’s summer staple…and the bottle is so pretty as well…

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      • See comment below. Thank you for your suggestions. In fact I started looking at my collection and found Voyage d’Hermes in edp, and it works quite well as a calming scent. Perhaps because of woody notes? The edp has little projection compared to the more citrus-y edt.

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  36. A day in Sycomore is never an entirely bad day. However irritating work is, at least I smell good. (Me and vetiver? We’re having a thing this year.)

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    • I always thought vetiver was not a note for me..until I started inventorying some of my favorite scents and realized that they all had vetiver in them…

      I hope your day is improving at work 🙂

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      • I hadn’t realised the vetiver connection initially either–I knew I was a push over for a good oakmoss, but vetiver snuck up on me and moved in before I noticed it was there.

        Thanks, it is! (It’s just clients being clienty. One has a problem with the concepts of causation and linear time.)

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        • You could tell that client the add-on charges for manipulating space-time are astronomical, and the results are less than stellar.

          You smell fabulous by the way.

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  37. Hiya, APJers, Terracotta again for me. it’s a warmish summer afternoon here. I’m running a fan to stay cool. Debating whether to sit still or get my lazy self off this chair. If I stand up I could turn on the AC then get a splash of 4711 out of the fridge. Decisions, decisions.

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  39. About 4 a.m. and only commenting now☺️ For shame! Busy day with my daughter enjoying ourselves at a concert. Sister Sledge, Dnce, Bruno Mars. Fandabbydozee. And what got an airing? Samsara. Obviously on a sandalwood kick this week.

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  40. Portia- you changed the home photo!!! (nice bottle of Chamade, btw)

    SOTD- Melograno….I think this one may be done soon…the youngest has taken possession of the splash decant and is wearing it like an aftershave. I will have to think about which fragrance I will move on to next….decisions decisions…. 😉

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        • OMG that’s fabulous! Where did you ever find it😀 My bottle is the atomiser like the one in this clip. The perfume is in great shape considering. Only the top aldehydic notes are faded, but still lots of oomph.

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          • Meandering through the world wide web 🙂 I love the commercial…it really is dated, isn’t it? I bet it has lots of oomph!

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          • Friday night off to bed wearing Lancôme’s Miracle. Woke up feeling ‘tired’ … how does that happen? Anyway, I’ve applied some Amazing Grace…I see a theme here…soft ,delicate and powdery. Later this arvo when I go to work I’ll be upping the ante by wearing ‘something’ strong and ‘skinky’…yet to be decided.

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  42. I’m in Guerlain Terra-cotta le parfum today.. I picked it up at the Neiman Marcus on the Las Vegas strip last weekend as an I pulse buy and I’m currently OBSESSED. It’s similar to Annick Goutal Songes (which is also in my collection) but it’s a bit lighter and more transparent. I’m going to pack it with me to take to LA next weekend where I will be doing some serious damage at luckyscent.!

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  43. It’s so darn hot these days, my decision to try wearing Pleasures on one arm and then some vintage Opium on the other turned out to be poor: they both nearly drove me crazy, and not in a good way.

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  44. Wearing a couple of spritzes of Eau des Merveilles at the moment, wore Terracotta this morning. A good day so far. Yesterday I did get off that chair and turn on the AC. I forgot the 4711 when I was distracted by Vol de Nuit edt which is pretty nice in the heat. Hope everyone enjoys the weekend. 😉

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  45. Commando this morning as I get ready for the two hour trek into the city….the mini marzipans are going to Koreatown for the third and final summer trip…I am heading to Saks Fifth Avenue to explore the new beauty on 2 (second floor) completely revamped and chock full of niche brands that I have never been able to get my nose on….needless to say I am leaving my credit card at home!!!!

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    • Leaving your credit card at home is a smart decision, and a brave one, too! Still, did you find anything full bottle – worthy?

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      • Nope… thank God!! I spent two hours there and it is gorgeous..roomy bright with large windows overlooking Fifth Avenue.. the SAs were all lovely especially Darren from Eric Butterbaugh fragrances who made me a huge sample without me even asking but I bought nothing.. I did get a free promotional mini from Lartisan and finally got my nose on some Ormond Jayne and Portrait of a lady and Muscle Ravageur.

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        • Musc!!!!! My silly spellcheck on my phone changed it to “muscle” and I thought i had changed it back!!!

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          • LOL’d at muscle ravageur, an excellent autocorrect. We should keep a list of those.

            If ever I make it back to NYC as a tourist, I will give up a day of museum wandering for Beauty on 2! Sounds marvelous.

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          • Muscle Ravager is superb as a new name. (My phone has renamed Agar Ebene as “Again Ebeneezer”, which has mentally overwritten the real name.)

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        • Tiffanie- if you ever make it back to NY let me know…I will make the two hour train trip and join you in SFA on 2!

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        • I made a list this morning and between skin and sprayed cards I tested 35 fragrances yesterday..lots of stuff that everyone raves about that I have never gotten my nose on.

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          • None were nopes…I could easily wear everything…but some were just likes while others were really like. Here’s what I got my nose on- Eau Plureille, Vinaigre (weird), eau de Lierre (really like), Fleure de Peau, Lente, L’eau, Velvet Lavender (really like), Future Bloom (really like), Melrose Freesia, 1947 Dahlia, HRH PEony, Apollo Hyacinth, Un Air de Bretagne (really like), Pimant Brulant, Poivre Piquant, Seville a L’Aube, Bacarat Rouge 540,Sambac Jasmine & Marigold, 154 (would like this for my son), Musc Ravageur (do not change to muscle!!!) Portrait of a Lady, Bicarade Concentre, Jasmine Marzipane, Orange Bicardes, Iris Dragees, Santal Kardamon, Cedre Sambac, Myrrhe Eglantine, Agar Ebene, Cardamusc, Musc Pallida (the Hermes lasted a New York minute on my scent eating skin), Morning Chess, Room Service, Ta’if, Champaca, Frangipani and Chat Perche.

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        • Wow, you’d smelled all of those in two hours?! Perseverance is everything for a perfumista, isn’t it :)?

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          • yup! I wanted to take advantage of the fact that all those great niche fragrances were right there in front of me! What I missed out on were the Serge Lutens, Dior, Chanel and Guerlain…from what I heard there is a custom bar in the Guerlain section….you take a quiz and the computer creates a custom scent for you, bottled and made right there in the store. It definitely deserves a second trip 🙂

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  47. I’m wearing Bois d’Iris by TDC which I love but in this summer heat it turns somewhat carrotty.

    Hope you all are having a great weekend!

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  48. I’ve been wearing Seville à l’aube earlier today. Now I plan to put on BV Knot for the night.

    Still having trouble finding the right SOTD when it is this warm. Thursday I put on 6-7 sprays of Dior Escale à Pondichery, but with the heat and torrential rain with thunder and lightning I didn’t keep the fresh feeling for more than an hour! However, I did manage to place an order for a new bed. Now if I could only find some good chests of drawers. I tend to fall for design furniture and sometimes those pieces aren’t quite worth the price tag they come with. Just like perfume, not everything is a must-have on closer inspection.

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  49. Missed a few days, so I’m catching up.

    On Friday morning, I had an earworm of a bit of doggerel I wrote and published here a few years back, which inspired my choice of fragrance:

    “When the depths of winter coment
    I find citrusy scents are notent.
    What best suits my moudh
    Is the warm scented oudh
    Of M7, by Yves St Laurent.

    Saturday was Bastille Day, so I had to go French. I chose HdP Rosam. I went to the football and had the horrible thought that the team wearing red, white and blue might beat us on Bastille Day, but fortunately that didn’t happen.

    Today it is ice all over the car, a serious nip in the air and just bloody cold. To perk myself up I’m indulging myself in a rarity – Dior Jules.

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      • I have one partial bottle of Jules after shave that I found in an op shop, and a mini that I got on ebay as part of a vintage Dior coffret (which also had vintage Eau Sauvage, Eau Sauvage EDP and Fahreneheit in it).

        I feel like that’s not a lot, so I tend to wear it very sparingly, like my Envy for Men. I guess I have to use them eventually but, once I do, that will be it.

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  50. Faffing about with packing, so I will almost certainly smell of *everything* today, as I work out which scents to take with me tomorrow when I head off to Germany for a research summer school/colloquium. It’s going to be stupidly hot, and I want to find the right mix of interesting-inoffensive-non-overwhelming-courage-inducing fragrances to wear. (I’m thinking No.19 for the day I give my paper, maybe some Copal Azur, Aeon…)

    Inoffensive sounds a bit wishy-washy. I think I just mean avoiding the giants that turn godzilla-scaled in heat and closed rooms.

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  51. Testing my EB Floral Velvet Lavender very large sample that was so graciously given to me by the manager , Darren , at Saks Fifth Avenue. Very nice sweet soft lavender and perfect for our morning yoga class.

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    • and I have to add that out of everything I tested this house impressed me the most…sniffing the fragrant pink ribbons this morning I concluded that they are skillfully blended fragrances that remind me of some of the vintage loves of my past…Future Bloom was the other EB that I really liked. Still not itching to buy anything, just appreciating quality perfume 🙂

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  53. I had a really bad shift at work last night, and half way through had to ‘get a grip’ in the loo before facing the rest of the hours. I was complimented on my perfume choice, by one colleague I applied Fancy Nights to go to sleep in. Hubby came home from his night shift with a ? broken finger…h saw Doc and awaiting x-ray results tomorrow. Luckily it his left hand affected ,so he can still cut vegies lol. I’m commando atm perfume -wise

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  54. I wore Escale à Pondichéry on Sunday. Then had to change to something more potent while cleaning up the mess and getting rid of the terrible smell resulting from cooking catfish which was surely off, something I wasn’t sure about before it had been in the oven for some minutes. Seriously my whole place was reeking! So put on Citizen Queen , to have something nice to sniff and sat outside while airing all rooms.

    I don’t know why I don’t trust my nose more than the “consume by” date, would have saved me 45 minutes of frantic cleaning. I guess this was a reminder to get a better fridge..

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