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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 13.8 – 19.8.2018
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
Hey Crew,
I have a LOT of vintage Miss Dior EdT on. It’s quite the cloud of fabulousness. WHOOSH!
Portia xx
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YOu are smellin’ fine…mighty fine….
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Ooh, I love Miss Dior, she’s one of a kind. I was thinking of decanting some of vintage EdC but now I kinda want to splash it all over me and go with it 😄
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Prada Tendre for regular wearings and one tiny spray of Jo Malone Vetyvr in honor of youngest’s bday …I stole a spritz when he wasn’t looking 🙂
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FRAG THIEF!!!!
What is Prada Tendre like Brigitte?
Portia xx
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On my scent devouring skin it is a very pleasant woody sweet citrus…gentle and inoffensive…something I would wear just to smell “good”….I wore this very large decant (it’s in a full size bottle but only partially full…another gift from a very generous APJer) in the cool spring but wanted to see how it wears in the summer heat. Folks on other sites describe it as strong and a shapeshifter with top notes and base notes reversed. My juvenile nose isn’t getting that. It’s just all around pretty to me. I will wear it until it is done.
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Nice
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Great choice, Brigitte, so classy. Happy birthday to your kid!
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that’s a great word to describe it! Classy!
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Wishing your baby boy a happy birthday.
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Thanks Saffy! The baby boy who is much larger than his mom (but then again, everyone in my house is larger than me-LOL!)
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Happy birthday to Marzipan minor!
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Thank you crikey!!!!
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Having a sad day today, so I reached for an old friend, Dzongkha. It is comforting me.
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Sorry to read it TaraC,
I hope your Dzongkha is cheering you up.
HUG
Portia xx
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Hope your spirits lift soon 😦
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Sorry to hear you are having a sad day. Good to have a favorite to help lift your spirits.
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Oh sad days are not fun. Have a big huff of your arm, or respray the Dzongkha and breathe deeply.
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Lolita Lempicka Fleur de Corail. Citrus, tropical flowers, definitely summery – I don’t think I have ever worn in the winter. I bought L de LL for the vanilla note (during my early-on vanilla obsession) and then bought this one because I liked the bottle and the pair of them together. 😳
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Yes, really cutie bottles, and also very fine fragrances. They command big bucks nowadays as they’re becoming a rarity. I wish I had stocked up before now.
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YAY! So rare to see some LL love. Her bottles are so fun and I’ve not met an LL frag yet that I hated.
Enjoy your sweet scent MMKinPA.
Portia xx
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Love the LL bottles and style but have yet to find a perfume I wanted to hold on to.
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The One Essence today. No marked difference between this and the original except the price. They saw me coming😃
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HA! They see us ALL coming Cassieflower.
Portia xx
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So French by Eisenberg, my favourite fruity leather. I said it before and I’ll say it again: to me it’s as powerful as Cuir de Russie by Chanel but even more rich. I see a second bottle in my future.
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Is there much price difference between the Eisenberg and the Chanel?
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Oh yes, Saffy! I could buy at least three bottles of SF for the price of any bottle from Les exclusives de Chanel.
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WOW! Big call Diana.
Portia xx
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Yeah! IMHO and all, Portia but I’ll stick to it ☺
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Just read up on this one, Diana as I’m not familiar with it at all. Sounds really interesting.
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I hope you can try it and see if you like it. Leather is one of my favourite notes and I find that it’s beautifully done in SF. I also like Cuir de Lancome which is more floral but its “leather” is actually styrax, not isobutyl quinoline like in many old-school leather-centric scents like, for example. Cabochard, and SF reminds me of the latter.
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Parfums DelRae Emotionnelle. Wow! Definitely something I wouldn’t wear in a tightly packed space but what a rich, textured melon. Glad that there is no hint of aquatic :).
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HA ElizabethC,
“Definitely something I wouldn’t wear in a tightly packed space” is such a good descriptor. I might steal and use that in the future.
Portia xx
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Wore Amouage Ciel (from a carded sample) for work today. Need to drain the sample really and it is a good one for the slightly warmer weather we got today. Le Jardin de Monsieur Li in the afternoon, very citrusy, I rememberede it as more aquatic when I tested it from my sister’s miniature bottle. Then Un Jardin sur le Toit this evening, that one is more my cup of tea and is less fleeting than M. Li. Still, none of these would be easy to over-spray. And as a side note: Wish the bottles in these Hermes sets had been spray bottles. The presetation is otherwhise really neat, a set of 4 small “le jardin” bottles in the typical orange Hermes box. Gives some variety without buying ffull bottles of each perfume
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Hi Ingeborg,
How bloody cute are those sets? Best gift.
I think that dab or splashing these babies also doesn’t get enough juice on your body. Monsieur Li lasts all day for me and most things don’t.
Weird that they don’t do spritzes. Next time buy a set of the 15ml Travels. You can pick any fragrance they make just about and it comes in the box, and each one has a little bag of its own\n.
Portia xx
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Inspired by MMKinPA I’m wearing Elle L’aime Lolita Lempicka. SHIT name but fabulous soft white floral and vanilla. Perfect for end of winter warmth.
Portia xx
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El Lame?! Oh dear. ;D
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Guessing you’re not a fan of this, M? LOL
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The name is dumb Saffyishere
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Lempicka sure loves alliterative names (or the letter/sound L). You smell amazing Portia!
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Wearing Montale Musk Oud & Mancera Black intensive oud today.
Yesterday I trialled a couple of my Zoologist scents – Camel and Moth. Camel is quite sharp at the start, but soon calms down to a sweet, fruit, amber musk. Maybe Jasmine and tea. A super interesting scent but quite light. It reminded me of Tokyo Milks Pretty Rotten. Maybe it would like a warmer day. Moth was hard work! I wanted to scrub it but persisted through the sharp, stale, medicine start. Later it softened but not to something I would wear. I didn’t really find the notes others had mentioned like rose, honey and smoke but I might say it finished as a powdery floral. I was super interested that they changed so much and there was a huge difference between initial spray and later. I’ll give Elephant another spin and see if I can review. I picked these three looking for my usual woody, orientals so have been a bit surprised not to find that. Might research the others in the range to see if there something more me.
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Hey Melanie,
Montale and Mancera!! I bet they could smell you in the next city!
There will be a Zoologist to suit I reckon, just give them all a couple of goes.
Portia x
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Giorgio BH as it was on my desk doing some paperwork!! It’s a bit strong… am thinking I need to try some low key perfumes?
Also my friend from school was telling me she only wears one perfume and it’s Coco … Chanel which I love but I don’t know if I could live with just one signature scent!! Mmmmm
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Anicasunny,
I LOVE that you’re rocking Giorgio Beverly hills! What a stellar frag.
You have some quiet stuff too, what about your SJP?
Portia xx
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I got frustrated looking at my pile of samples/decants, and just couldn’t decide. So I went for another lucky dip in my perfume drawers…..right at the back of drawer 2,my hands grabbed a bottle. Cinema by YSL. Wow….it has been AGES since I last wore this stunner!!!
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Fabulous choice. MM MMM
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I got one of the best complements today. I was in a training, this girl came to me and said- Do you mind if I stand next to you during the whole training. I was like ok with a weird look. Then she said- you smell so good. what are you wearing? The toughest question to answer. I get nervous when some unknown person ask me this question. I was like- MFK APOM. She is like what is that? Then I had to do the abbreviation. She is like wow. I had to write it down from where she can buy. Later after finishing the training we had a small chat. And she said she is going to get it this weekends. 🙂
SOTD- APOM PH over Masculin Pluriel (MP). I must say MFK is a genius. And I am sure she was getting the APOM. I do love APOM. To me one of the best masculine florals. APOM with MP is just wowed me. The weather in Sydney is perfect for this combo. The dry down is phenomenal. I get the powdery musky floral with woody dry leathery lavender. The lavender is barely noticeable but I get the vibe. Love it. If you haven’t try this combo please try and let us know what you think.
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Today I finished off my sample of Comme des Garcons EDP 2001. The sprayer had evaporated so it was a sticky mess in a physical sense as well as olfactory. While I find the proudly synthetic concept refreshing, the scent itself was less interesting than its notes list suggested.
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Hey M,
I wonder if it had oxidised and lost its beauty>
Portia xx
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Tendre (again)
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Use it up!!
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Oh yeah! and now is the time because it is so lovely in the heat 🙂
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Currently sporting Helmut Lang EdC.
Very nice over the Oud Spirit remnants.
Portia xx
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This EDC sounds very unusual, Portia. I’ve never seen heliotrope next to rosemary and other traditional cologne notes.
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Hey Diana,
It’s traditional cologne plus really. There’s something lived in about it fro the very first spritz. I need more time with it to understand it though.
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I’ll stay tuned then!
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Hey guys, you were right: both packages arrived today: Sublime Balkiss and my first Alien – Eau Sublime, plus one of the sellers added samples of Aura and Alien Flora Futura! I haven’t tried neither of the scents so I’m currently wearing all of them which is not a good way to form an opinion 😄
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*haven’t tried them before.
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Totally want to try the Flora Futura. Aura wasn’t quite my thing but super interesting.
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If you like big white florals, give it a try. Do you like other Aliens? I’ve bought this Eau Sublime because of numerous reviews mentioning bird cherry blossom but I don’t feel it yet (hope it’s just the bottle shock). Anyways, now I think I gotta get me a sample of the original Alien and see how it all began.
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Nice!!!!!!
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and thanks for the tip on the Russian food…I am going to have to start exploring and finding a Russian restaurant…if not near me then definitely in the city. Thanks for all of your wonderful suggestions!
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I’m glad if I could help 🙂
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I’m Sublime-squared, lol!
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Hey Diana,
Very nice choices. So funny that you’re wearing them both. Go for it.
Portia xx
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You know how it goes: I’ll only try this one. And this one, and maybe a teeny-tiny drop of that Aura everyone’s been talking about 🙂
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HA! Indeed
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I thought I got a blast of Mugler on the breeze today 🤔
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It must have been me 🙂
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Hello Diana…… Merry Christmas!!!! Enjoy your treasures.
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Thank you, Saffy!!
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Today I went for Nicolai l’eau Corail. Mango! Doesn’t seem to be available on the website but I snagged a 30ml at the boutique in Paris. I love 30ml bottles – they make me feel like I have a shot at actually using them up someday. Tomorrow I’m going to start tackling some samples to use them up… I have already culled a large number for giving away but there are quite a few that I want to wear again and now is the time – before school starts and I worry about offending someone!
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That is one of the things that makes me somewhat avoid this house…they seem to d/c or LE lots of their scents.
Yes, join the THUNK/USE IT UP CLUB before you won’t be able to do uber spritzing and massive sampling!
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Hi there MMKinPA,
Anything up to 30ml bottles are the best. I love the thrill of finishing something.
Yeah, I keep wanting to use up some samples but I have this terrific collection of bottles that call to me……
Portia x
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It’s an illness, Portia.lol
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HA!
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SOTN- TF Patchouli Alsolu….
Rosemary & Bay leaf are very prominent. Love it..
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I started the day in Coudray Rose Tuberose but after a day of intense concentration in work I came home and gave myself a blast of Opium Parfum. It reawakens my poor old fried-to-a-cinder grey matter. Think I’ll have to crack open a bottle of something dark red🍷
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I’m on a vermouth kick nowadays but I know that feeling when you get to open a bottle of merlot (or something else).
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We’ve been enjoying vermouths lately. There are some lovely ones available 🙂
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What are you doing with this Vermouth kick? Is there a new way to indulge?
Portia x
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Nah, it’s pretty simple, Portia: Cinzano Bianco or Extra dry on the rocks, with or without soda, sometimes neat. It’s a lazy summer 🙂
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With an olive garnish :). There is a very tasty vermouth (I can’t remember its name) that has a sandalwood note to it!
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WOW!
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Ahhhhh, Mum used to drink Rosso. I think with some. Is there such a thing as Rosso & OJ?
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I think there is. BTW, Rosso & grapefruit juice is delish. Dammit, it’s noon i.e. much too early to think about cocktails!
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In my case it was a Spanish Grenache, heavy on the grrr.
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I love me some “grrr”, lol!
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What does vermouth taste like?
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Brigitte, it’s a fortified wine. If you tried Martini this is what it was. Now, I usually drink dry wine, champagne and beer but turns out, simple homemade cocktails may be a nice distraction after a long day.
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Aahhh, Martini Rosso with a slice of lemon, lots of ice and a splash of soda😍 Brings me back years.
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Ah thank you for the info! I drink wine and beer on occasion….but I will tell you that my user name used to be Marzipan which speaks to my sweet tooth! Therefore I like sweet wines and beer with fruit flavors…I know very juvenile but the taste buds want what they want! However, I am open to trying new things and I would not turn down a glass of vermouth. Do you drink it in a wineglass or a glass for hard alcohol?
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I remember your nickname, Brigitte, it struck me as something from German fairy tales I used to read when I was a kid, you know, the Nutcracker and so on. I’ve always preferred dry wine and beer but then again, sometimes one just needs a change.
As far as I know James-Bond-style martini is supposed to be served in a conical glass which I don’t have so I make do with a highball glass 🙂
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Marzipan is one of my favorite treats and something I grew up eating and enjoying. Yes, I could definitely see the connection to the Nutcracker 🙂
ah I see on the vermouth…and if I read correctly above it should be mixed with something (water, ice, club soda, orange juice, etc)
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You could mix it with anything you like or have it neat. I like to mix it with bitter tonic such as Schweppes, it creates a nice contrast between the mild sweetness of vermouth and quinine.
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Hope its an Aussie Shiraz
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Morning all…. Tis Wednesday…I have a rather mundane day planned; banking and groceries. . However I’ve decided to choose a scent which is not at all mundane…Fetische EDP created by Mark Evans
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Love that name!
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What’s it like, Saffy? Does it live up to its name?
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Tuberose and Leather. I sprayed a full 2ml vial, and only lasted about 4 hours on my skin. I was a little disappointed ,actually.
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Hmm, such fleetingness might be disappointing. Sounds interesting, though.
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Still on the Tendre kick 🙂
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I admire your determination, Brigitte!
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L’artisan Mure et Musc, lovely but rather fleeting on me.
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Beautiful choice, Cassie. Mure et Musc is in my wishlist, it’s such a gorgeous scent.
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Vintage Miss Dior, edt. I splashed some of it on my arms and neck. My. God. Or should I say “goddess”?
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Definitely a goddess 🙂
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Move a little closer, Diana…. I wish to smell the sublime Miss Dior.
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Aww, thanks! I’m working on it 🙂
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G’day all. Finally the sun is poking through the clouds today. And it is calm!!!! I’m off to the hairdressers today… cut ,condition and colour. I’m well overdue because I tend to not go as often as I should. At least my ‘old girl grey’ will be covered up.
I’m wearing PHI Rose de Khandahar, from a sample. And I will join the THUNK club, because I’ve bundled up a few unwanted samples to take to work tomorrow.
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Ha! welcome to the club 🙂
I had a decant of PHI and enjoyed it enough to use it up.
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I love that you’re sharing the NO SAMPLES among your colleagues Saffyishere. They are going to love them.
Portia xx
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My mop is due for an overhaul on Saturday. It’s a boring process, I find.
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Errands completed, accompanied by the always warm, musky, spicy and delightful Roberto Cavalli Just Gold for Her. A few more sprays as I binge watch season 2 of Narcos.
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YAY! Love a binge. Currently I’m watching Season 2 of Lucifer.
Portia xx
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LOVE Lucifer (he’s a cutie, right?). Have you watched the Indian Detective yet, Portia? The lead actor is hysterical and I just found out that he is a comedian…..makes sense.
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Lucifer IS a cutie.
Yes, watched the Indian Detective, it was fun.
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Morning all. Wearing Monyette Paris, the perfume oil version. Beeoootiful.
But wait. . . Just picked up a little treasure from the PO, a tiny little bottle of vintage Magie Noire, also a perfume oil and did the frantic sawing with car key to get it open. Oh holy sheets, it’s indescribably fabulous. I had a bit of an emotional reaction actually. I am a saddo, I know. It brought me back to 1991 or so when I got my first bottle, it was a Christmas pressie from the then boyfriend now hubby.
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Vintage Magie Noire? Oh my!!!
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Magie Noire! I will always think about Scott when I smell it. Great choice and the vintage is SO GOOD.
Portia xx
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Vintage Magie Noire is beautiful beyond words.
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I couldn’t agree more. And this one has obviously been stored well because there’s no noticeable deterioration at all. It’s just as I remember from the first sniff.
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It’s great that this bottle has found a caring new owner 🙂
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Well guess what folks….. I left my bag of samples at home on my kitchen table. NO ONE at work noticed, or said anything about my hair, TGIF is not the same to me, and my shoulder is ok. A sore shoulder/ back ect. unfortunately comes with the job.
Heading off to bed soon, after having a nice hot shower, and a spritz of Ostara.
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Oh well Saffy, you’re not alone there. When I have my hair done I have to go in and announce it and demand that they say it looks fabulous 😃
Glad your shoulder is improving, it must be hard to feel better when you’re doing something repetitive, it doesn’t give you a chance.
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What matters is that you like your new hair colour. After all, people really see the whole: our positive attitude is what makes us attractive. Glad your shoulder is okay.
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I am all tapped out on the Tendre because my middle marzipan asked for a decant to take with her to university. so today, poor man’s Cardinal in the form of Vitacost 100% Pure Frankincense oil.
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Is the Frankincense oil beautiful?
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It’s stunning…I think many folks would be surprised how beautiful and complex essential oils can smell..osmanthus absolute is so complex it is a perfume unto itself. Same with tuberose absolute. The first time I smelled frankincense oil I immediately thought of Heeley’s Cardinal (which is probably my favorite incense). I have also been using the frankincense to make my own solid perfumes. I was a busy beaver this morning and made four (two for me and two for the girls) using a variety of oils and combinations.
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WOW!
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Where do you purchase the osmanthus from? I’d love to try it.
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Eden Botanicals. But I am not sure if they ship outside of the States. They have a massive selection of gorgeous oils….if you can get your hands on some go for it! I always got the samplers as they were less expensive…with the small samples (they only put six drops in a one ml vial) I would add some jojoba oil to it to make it more attainable (it’s hard to get to those six drops which sink to the bottom of the vial) and also longer lasting. I wore osmanthus and also tuberose as perfumes that way. And they blend beautifully with other oils…osmanthus + yuzu and tuberose + coconut pulp or vanilla.
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Hey, great taste runs in the family 🙂 I remember our talk about this oil, can’t wait ’til Vitacost figures it out and I can try it myself.
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I meant “figures shipping to Russia out”
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YEs , I “figured” that was what you meant 🙂
I would recommend any pure frankincense oil…I happen to use the Vitacost one because it is highly affordable.
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I’ll be sure to let you know when I buy one. It’s just that with all the supplements & cosmetics I buy off of iHerb I rarely get to indulge this old obsession with essential oils. I will, though.
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Home from the hairdressers….very happy. I’m now copper coloured!!!!. The PHI lasted until nearly 7pm…so a good 8 hours. Now I’ve applied Sweet Oriental Dream from a sample….it is high on the WANT list.
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Nice on the hair!!!! I need to go really red one day…
PHI lasts even on my scent eating skin. The Tauers really pack a punch! Incense Rose is a BOMB on me as is Maroc Pour Elle. I think my absolute favorite is LAir de Dessert Maroccain although I still have not tried Couer de Desert and am thinking that when/if I ever do that one might make it to the top of my list of Tauer favorites.
Sweet Oriental Dream is a MOntale, right?
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Yes a Montale…. will be prob next Winter before I buy it
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Do check out the online discount sites….I often see the Montales massively reduced there.
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Congrats on the new hair colour! I was a red head for three years which is a long time for someone who enjoys dyeing their hair.
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I almost forgot to name my SOTD: Boid d’Iris by the Different Company. That was instant love for me.
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Yesterday I thunked a small decant of L’Artisan Premier Figuier. Today was Jo Malone French Lime Blossom.
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French Lime Blossom is beautiful and sadly discontinued. I bought myself the large bottle and body cream when I turned the big five 0. Nice to see you working your way through your samples!
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It’s getting contagious: I’ve started emptying or giving samples away 🙂
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Life is too short and there just isn’t enough skin…I like to make others happy and have no qualms about lending or gifting perfume to family and friends….eventually the generosity comes back in other ways…karma, in a good way.
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Absolutely! I love the idea of paying it forward.
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I have been wearing Carthusia The Essence of Central Park two days in a row. It is a light green floral, actually best in early summer. But it is office friendly, so perfect for a day with meetings.
After the first 20 minutes you cannot find anything demanding in this one. It has a nice construction and it lasts pretty well. Since the extreme heat (for our shores) started already in spring, this hardly got any wear earlier in summer.
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Sounds delightful, I’ll try to try this one! I’ve found out lately that green florals just might be my next obsession.
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Joining the ‘Thunk’ club today with Tokyo Milks Honey & the Moon. A lovely change to my usual picks, sweet, jasmine and sandalwood.
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Would you buy it again, Melanie?
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I don’t think I would Saffyishere. While I like it, and it’s long lasting, it’s not love. I prefer French Kiss by same brand.
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Ok, I have to report my SOTD at least once a week! Today I wore Johana by Keiko Mecheri. Every time I wear it I think how much I enjoy it. Too bad this brand isn’t wider available where I live: I suspect I’d have found more favorites from them.
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I own a small vial of this scent, Undina. gifted to me, possibly from Portia. I will have to try it again to see what I think of it.
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Do it! I think it’s perfume with some character.
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Friday has arrived again….. off to work to show off my hair…lol And take my little goodie bag of unloved samples. Oh and while there I will have to heave and hoe a few oldies. Wearing the fabulous floral Il Bacio.
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Good luck with the heaving and watch your shoulder. Let us know what folks like from your perfume stash and TGIF!!!
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They’ll be equally impressed by your looks and your generosity.
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And one good turn deserves another.
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I am going with Sonoma Scent Studio Incense Pure. Recently I actually bought the very last of Laurie’s juice …decants of Amber Incense (my Christmas present from the mini marzipans)…I tapped her out 🙂 Hope the new owner continues with her legacy.
And funny story, I wore Incense Pure once and a Tibetan Buddhist nun stopped me in my tracks to ask what I was wearing because it “smells so spiritual”. I had to write down the name on paper for her. Then she invited me to her monastery for free meditation 🙂
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More great incense?! I’m taking notes 🙂
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And did you take up the offer?
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No not yet…apparently they offer free meditation one night a week but I never got there! It’s a bit out of the way.
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And I’m crossing everything that SSS will have a new owner that stays true to Laurie’s recipes. 🤞
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Me too…there are a few I would not mind owning again! Hopefully same recipes and hopefully not a jack up in the prices!!!!
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I’ve joined the club and am wearing Pohadka by Ys Uzac from an almost empty decant. I like its distinctive tobacco note combined with subtle floral notes. The only downside is the price.
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Wearing my beloved Magie Noire again. I’m going to use this one up soon as, because it’s old and now that I’ve broken the seal I’m afraid it will turn, as it’s not a spray. The oil has preserved the scent splendidly. I keep sticking my nose down my top and sniffing. I don’t do it where anyone can see me, though, or people might start to talk😂
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That’s a good plan!
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Well I’ve chosen my scent/s. I mixed 4 sprays of Estee Lauder Amber Mystique with 6 spritzes of Fendi’s Theorema in some unscented sorbolene cream. Wow….think people can smell me a couple suburbs away lol
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I can even smell you over here, Saffy. And very lovely it is.
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Haha, I know what you mean! I bet we all look borderline appropriate when sniffing our wrists and whatnot! There was one time in a shop when I ran out of place to put perfume on, and I sprayed some on my gloves. I must have looked madder than the hatter 🙂
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Today’s thunk is Byredo Pulp. Smells like the fruit bowl in the kitchen that should be eaten today!
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Ha!
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I like Byredo in very hot weather, preferably on a tropical vacation.
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Saturday… and it is very cold….. forecast to only reach 8C today. I wish I could stay at home, in my central heating. Alas there is perfume to buy {and a TV} and everyday bills, so money has to be earnt!!! I don’t really know what to wear today…. I’m feeling quite ‘uneasy’, so I will need something to help focus and keep calm.
Shall report back in an hour after I’ve showered and got ‘public ready’
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Yes, please do.
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At the hairdressers having my mop top tended to. Spritzed on some Portrait of a Lady. I have a wedding this afternoon and I might just top up with this as it’s the mini spray so will pop into my bag to take with me.
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oh, you smell GORjus.
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Lovely choice, Cassie! Have fun at the wedding.
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Fabulous choice for a Wedding
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Went to the Cherry Blossom Festival today and I forgot to wear DIOR Sakura. Very upset at myself.
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but what *did* you wear, and how did it go with the cherry blossom viewing?
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Remnants of last nights VC&A Pour Homme. It was a smoky, oak mossy whisper. My nose was a bit blocked anyway so really I was a bit useless for scent.
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Oak moss and sakura blossom must get along, I reckon. Hope you had fun, anyway.
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SSS Amber Incense…something about this one reminds me of what I “remembered” Magie Noire to smell like (haven’t smelled it in probably 30 years).
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I could send you a dram if I wasn’t afraid that the post police wouldn’t confiscate it. I would rather pour it down the drain than let them do that. (B@$}%ds). Who said that? Not I, said the fish🤣 (The tale of cock Robin, with my own bits added in.) Punctuation is all over the place. Blame the gin.
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No no…you wear it for me…I am smelling it on you right now 🙂
and yes, it would in all likelihood get confiscated.
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Chrypre Mousse today, from the travel spray the lovely SA gave me when I was dithering between choosing a bottle of this and Reve D’Ossian. Just the sort of gorgeous confusing tangle I’m in the mood for today, even though I’m pretty much flattened by tiredness. And being a still-in-PJs at noon type of sloth.
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found some energy–went to the gym, then had a wee swim, and a horrible horrible half hour sauna (I hate saunas, but my coach is a big believer in the bloody things). And then wrapped myself up in layers of Mitsouko (lotion and EDP) and sank back into sloth.
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Hey nothing wrong with being a sloth, crikey. You do smell fabulous though.
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Go you!
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HI All. I was remiss in letting you know my SOTD, I ended up making a ‘concoction’. I applied 4 sprays of Amber Mystique with 6 spritzes of Theorema in Sorbolene cream.
Now I’m home. sitting at my ‘puter in my jammies, . I showered and applied a hearty spray of Shalimar.
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Your concostion must be divine, Saffy, and Shalimar just makes everything better.
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In Love Again. Ironically enough, ’tis not the season: it’s way too hot outside.
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YSL’s In Love Again? I rather think it is most suitable for the heat. Having said that ‘some’ days are too hot for anything, so perhaps this was one of those occasions?
I’m off to shower and get ready for work….popping in early to watch the netball…prelim. final today…. Shall return in a couple of hours to tell you my SOTD.
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Yes, YSL’s. It was + 35 yesterday. ILA was alright but I suspect it would be greener when it’s colder outside. Chypres and green scents have made me hate autumn and winter less since I’m always curious to find out how a certain perfume might behave. It’s August, though, and I just can’t stop whining in my heart that the temperatures will soon start dropping.
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getting ready to drive the middle Marzipan off to university (her first year)…needed something soothing so I am wearing my homemade patchouli body oil and my homemade solid perfume of jasmine, lavender and frankincense. I always turn to my essential oils when I need comfort to ease my nerves.
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safe travels! And best luck to the middle marzipan as a new adventure kicks off.
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Thank you!!!
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Hope you’ll have a safe trip!
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Thanks Diana! I am back! But will be repeating this same exact trip tomorrow to take the eldest back.
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Please travel safely. Hug that middle marzipan really tightly…..then allow her to spread her wings.
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Oh she is spreading her wings all right! She kicked me out of her dorm room and wouldn’t allow me to help her unpack-LOL!
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I am vaguely under the weather, and wearing Paul Shütze’s Behind the Rain to try and perk myself up a bit. (It’s a lovely resiny vetiver with a spot of grapefruit.) Two more weeks of work nonsense, then I hope I can get some sleep back, up my exercise levels again, and get some energy back. But tomorrow, I’m on a 620am flight and, ugh. just ugh.
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TRIPLE UGH
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Safe travels tomorrow. The only thing that could possibly comfort you a little is that this madness will soon be over and you’ll get some time for yourself.
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good luck, crikey and safe travels!!!!!!!
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Be kind to yourself, crikey. And know ‘we’ at APJ have ‘yer back’
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hey all. I wore Criminal Elements fragrance called Hearth to work. During my shift at work I overheard a couple of colleagues ask each other if they could smell ‘something burning’ I sidled up to them and matter of factly stated….’it’s me, kids… I smell like a fire…..then walked away laughing.
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That’s brilliant, Saffy! Never heard of the perfume nor the brand, will look into them: I’d like to smell like fire, too.
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Ha! fantastic!!!!
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I finally chose my SOTD by the time it was time to wear SOTN. Anyway, I’m wearing Feminite du bois, and it’s bloody gorgeous!
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It is indeed bloody gorgeous!
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Oh my heart…. tell me it is the Shiseido version.
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Alas, it’s Lutens but still a rather old batch. Shiseido FdB is one of my unicorns.
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Oh yes….. if we had known what we know now , we would have stocked up on the Shiseido. I still have the one bottle I bought, complete with the box. Every so often ,when feeling melancholy I have a whiff.
Should I buy a Lutens?
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I’m baaack. Was busy yesterday and didn’t post, but I was wearing nuclear amounts of Magie Noire, several squirts from my little vintage bottle overlaid with several dabs of the parfum. My daughter came into my room as I was applying and she loved it. She called it my little bottle of gold dust😉.
Today I’m in Shalimar Parfum Initial. Can’t understand why this didn’t perform well for Guerlain.
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WHOA! Magie Noire is heaven;y. Excellent choice.
Portia xx
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