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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 21.1 – 27.1.2019
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
Paramela 🙂
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Looks like love 😉
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It’s the perfect antidote for our nasty weather. It’s a real mood lifter.
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I hear you, Brigitte. Winter always gets on my nerves..
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Me too LOL 😂
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Mohur leaped onto my wrists today and managed to lift me above the humidity…delish.
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Excellent choice JackieB,
One of my all time favourites.
Portia xx
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MdO Musc.
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One day I need to smell this on you. It lies dead on my skin.
Portia xx
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Has to be worn in very cold weather.
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Tauerville Vanilla Flash.
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House twins!
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Tauer Sotto la Luna Tuberose. Well executed with the familiar base.
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This one is so under the radar. It astounds me it isn’t broadcast by tuberose lovers, for it is glorious.
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Guerlain Insolence.
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Excellent choice Matty,
I think I’ll war the same this morning.
Portia xx
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Bottega Veneta Eau de Velours for an office day at home.
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Woo Hoo! Home day! Enjoy the break away from the office madness in your comfortable space Neva.
Portia xx
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You smell fabulous, Neva!
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Theo Fennel for the evening on a cold winter day. If i spritz carefully, my boyfriend doesnt complain.
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I see on your blog that you thunked a few face creams!
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What blog Brigitte? Tanja, you’re a blogger? Let’s all go see
Portia xx
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Hit on her name….she has food, fragrance and skin care… nicely done 😁
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Old Ladys Musings. And APJ is on her blogroll.😍
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Written in two languages ( making me resurrect my German) and she knits like a pro!!!
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Does he have a problem with the cumin/sweaty armpits aspect of it?😉
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Love that knitted cowl on your blog.
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same here! (and also a big Twin Peaks fan, so I can see why the name grabbed your attention.)
Love TF Scent, too.
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Dusita Iris again, from a soon-to-be-thunked sample. I’ll miss it.
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I have a feeling a full bottle might be in your future. I sent mine to a good friend and she loves it.
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I like your prediction very much. Do tell, is there Issara bottle as well 😉 ?
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She is holding off due to other expenses
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I thought so. You’ve worn it a lot recently. I hope you’ll have a FB or at least a decant soon.
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Thanks for your kind wish, Neva! I’ll let you know how this works out 🙂
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Floris Honey Oud – glad to have tried it – honey, vanilla and a touch of oud. Too soft and faint for me – thunk.
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Seems to be a Floris failing. I wish I could get Floris with volume turned up.
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I am wearing Nautica Latitude and Longitude because it is discontinued and I got it for a good price. The smell is kinda predictable but I am still liking it because it is what I imagine to be a fragrance that would have been released by Gillette as inspired by their aftershaves such as Cool Wave. It reminds me a lot of Gillette aftershaves deodorant smells from late 90s
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Aquatic type scent, Fazal?
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Still emptying my vial of Oranges and Lemons, so nothing else to report.
Oh, other than that I became a grandfather again on the 21st.
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Congrats on the new grand child…. girl/ boy? Name? Is that Heeley’s Oranges and Lemons?
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A boy; his name is Heath.
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Congratulations!
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That’s the one Saffy.
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Congrats!
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How beautiful! Congrats Greg and welcome baby 🙂
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Congratulations on the happy event 👶🏻
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Congratulations, Greg!
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Yesterday, Monday I ran away by train to a nearby town. Found a room for 2 nights. I wore Lemon and Ginger. Today, Tuesday, I had a full on freaking panic attack, and rang my husband to come and collect me .He didn’t come for about 4 hours!!! I wore PHI Rose de Kandahar, from a decant…..thunking decant number 1…. another in my sample drawer.
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Hope you have de-stressed by now! PHi is beautiful…I thunked my decant a long time ago.
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How terrible. I hope you feel good now.
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Hoping that the tides of panic have eased, and that you have re-found some balance.
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Hope you’re feeling better, Saffy! PA suck 😦
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Oh dear, hope you feel better by now!
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Paramela
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Aiming for another thunk, Mrs M? 😉 You seem to bathe in Paramela.
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This is a full bottle so it will be a while until I thunk it…I give myself a month 🙂
cant help it though…love this stuff in the cold….I hate the cold…real plays on my psyche…but this stuff elevates my mood 🙂 so i just keep applying!
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I totally understand you. I’m disgusted with the thought of going out now and cleaning my car from the snow
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😥😥😥
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You smell gorgeous!
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😁😁😁
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Today it’s Mugler’s Chyprissime – a sample from dear Cassie. Finally a perfume with longevity. Interesting, the drydown reminds me a lot of Eau Sauvage. It must be the strong oakmoss-patchouli combination.
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Hmm, I need to retest it. I know it reminds me of something but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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DK Gold, big lily with spice and Amber. All the good stuff😍
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yum yum. Love a good lily.
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Oh yeah 🙂
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Ooooooh! Gold is a bells and whistle type lily. Sublime choice, cf!
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Chergui. It’s bitter cold but getting warmer this afternoon. I usually don’t mind the cold but having been under the weather over the weekend and not being able to eat for a couple of days I’m feeling chilled all the time. I sure smell great, though!
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you do smell great!
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I hope you feel better and get your appetite back. Feeling that chilled makes it harder to recover. Do hot drinks help at all? (And yep, you smell fabulous.)
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Get well soon, M!
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Oh you smell great! Mmm Chergui!
Hope you are warm & cosy, And able to eat well. Take care. xx
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Huh, I guess I didn’t actually click “post comment” yesterday. Which was Neadertal Dark, plus a little Neandertal Light on the other hand to see how they play together. Very nicely, it turns out. I’ll be sorry to finish the Dark, but, I don’t think there will be an FB in my future. Cuir Cannage for late evening, that lovely cool elegant leather was a nice follow on from the northern coastal rocks-and-air-and-lichen of Dark.
Vetiver 46 this morning… a bright incense to help me out of the house for the first time since Friday. w00t! Light gym session (aye, I know, I know, but I need to prevent de-training with the Nationals coming up in a month!) and then back home to nest. Because, bloody hell, but I’m still so tired. Now wrapped up in several layers, and a good dose of Cuir de Lancome (merci bien, CQ!) and planning a completely slothful rest of day.
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You’ve earned a sloth-fest! Can’t think of dragging myself to the gym if I was feeling as crap as you were at the weekend.
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I hope you’ll get back in shape soon. A flu can really be nasty and take so long. Cuir de Lancome is a great remedy 🙂
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Clarins Eau Dynamisante. Surprisingly, it reminds me of vintage Christian Dior Eau Fraiche which is as beautiful as it is expensive :). ED is, on the other hand, affordable. The only thing that stops from getting a bottle is that my decant comes from an older batch, what if the new formula is not as good?
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Yeah, the everlasting dilemma…
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Honestly, I’m so tired of these dilemmas, I’ll just put it in the box named “Buy when I get filthy rich” 🙂
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I’m wearing only samples these days. I will never be able to buy expensive perfume ever again and I don’t want to have any of my bottled scents to be associated with this distress. So for this morning before work Rosa Psychedelia by 4160 Tuesdays. Still so heartbroken
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That’s a very good idea.
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I like that 😀
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Finished my vial of Oranges and Lemons today. How do you people finish anything? It took me four days to get through half of a tiny vial.
My conclusion is that I really love the opening of this fragrance; such a wonderful citrus and neroli waft. I like the tea note too. However it doesn’t last very long at all on me. I’d be wearing this in the hot weather, so I’d have to be respraying to make it last and I think I’d rather be respraying a cheapie like Monsieur Balmain, Eau de Rochas or Mugler Cologne.
Anyway, I have now legitimately thunked something =, as opposed to selling or donating it. A first.
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Welcome to the Thunking club , Greg.
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Hope you’re over your episode, Saffy. Take it easy.
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Wohoo
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Greg I finish by dumping/drizzling the entire vial in one fell swoop…also, I have scent devouring skin so I usually am very heavy handed and can also do multiple wearings in one day because most stuff lasts only a few hours…congrats on your thunk!
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I guess we overspray Greg 😀 It takes me usually 2 days to empty a standard sample vial.
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I know, right?! I’m super-bad in thunking.
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Perry Ellis Royale Vetiver Oud for me today. Any chance anyone has tried Perry’s Saffron Rose?
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Haven’t tried any, Melanie. Some sound my cup of tea though.
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Mr. M’s snoring and me having to pee and also dying of thirst forced me up…so I am wide awake! I sprayed on my natural L’artisan Cote D’amour which i have doctored up with patchouli oil, a vanilla bean pod and orange and mandarin oils….I smell good…like a sweet citrus patchouli bomb!
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The combination sounds soooo good. Mr. M will wake up from the beautiful smell…but maybe that was your intention 😉
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LOL 🤣 not this time!!
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Watched the Versace drama on netflix….finally fell asleep at two…up now for work…will go with Paramela…between that and lots of tea I might be able to wake up! I can also still smell the Regina Harris on my bathrobe from when I tested it a while ago…..can’t even remember what day that was!
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how was the Versace thing? Any good?
Hope you got enough sleep to make it through your day…
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Watched only one episode and so far yes it’s decent
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Guerlain’s Encens Mythique today. I’ve worn this so much less this winter than last, and it was feeling neglected.
I’m curious to know whether the repackaged version of this–now in a dark version of the bee bottle rather than the flat and gold-specked clear bottles–is much changed, if at all. It looks like it’s going to be on much wider release, but is 50% more juice for 50 quid less price… is it out of the realm of possibility that it’s the same stuff? Though they have done that before with the switch to Mon Guerlain from the small release version…
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I’ve just taken a look at the bottle – both are beautiful 🙂
Wait? They will be selling more mls at a cheaper price? Something’s fishy here…
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The original version was in a very limited distribution. But aye, I’d definitely want to test side-by-side before replacing my running low bottle…
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Today I have no flu but my nose is running like crazy. I must be fit by tomorrow for my trip!
K de Krizia is my SOTD. It says “limited edition” on the package and I don’t think it’s the real vintage stuff but I cannot find out where this came from. I bought it rather cheap on ebay a year ago.
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Where you off to tomorrow? I think you said last week but old woman brain can’t remember 🙄 Are you packing a bikini???
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Actually I do, Cassie 🙂 I’m going to Cabo Verde. A week of relaxing by the sea, reading and drinking cocktails – all inclusive 😉
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Ah wowsers. Please drink cocktails for me. As many as you can😉 Have an amazing time 👙 ☀️ 🍹 🥂 🍸 🥥 🌴 😎
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I promise, I will Cassie 🙂
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Oh, Neva! Enjoy!
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Thanks, dear Kate!
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Fun! Have a drink for me!
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You can count on me, Brigitte 😉
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Neva, have fun in Cabo Verde for all of us 🙂
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Enjoy your trip. Make beautiful memories
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Testing Miller Harris Powdered Veil, half the tester sprayed and I can hardly smell it. It is very quiet. Pretty enough, light floral and faintly powdery but nondescript, with no oomph or presence.. I won’t be purchasing a fb of this. Not performing as I’d expect. Money saved!
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My mum is in hospital and I’ve taken her absence to be a boon. I was cleaning her bureau and found quite a few perfumes I had never tried. Old Britney Spears ones. I have been trying them. They pack a punch. Sweet, zesty, high spirited. Not my type of scents, but I have to applaud the quality of them. All are first issue versions, so pre 2010.
Then I found the Pure Poison I gave her. Sitting in full view of the afternoon sun and dusty! I was tempted to retrieve it. It is a vintage, so really needs more attention. Sadly, it still does not sit right on me.
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Pure Poison😍 that sure was a goody. I had it back in the day (well, about 10 or so years ago).
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I hope your mum will be allright soon. Meanwhile, enjoy her perfumes 🙂
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Kate, I hope that your mum will be back home in no time.
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Perhaps you could move the Pure Poison away from the sun? Hope your Mum makes a speedy recovery
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Hope all is fine with your mother. It’s always fun finding hidden treasures…
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Anyone know where Jyotsna is? Been kind of quiet lately… 😕
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I’ve noticed that too. I hope she found a new job and is happily busy.
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Rose Poivree as my SOTD, and Tabac Blond for the evening.
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Regina Harris for bed…to say that I am tired is an understatement. Luckily Mr. M is taking the youngest to his volunteer job at the library…I would be falling asleep behind the wheel.
I am wearing the Regina now but leaving the bottle in the girls bedroom because I predict that when middle one comes home for spring break she will smell it on me and confiscate the bottle anyway. The bottle is stunning, btw, really ignites my bottle porn…very Middle Eastern in style.
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Wow, bottle porn indeed! How do you like the fragrance? Any filthy elements in there😉
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It reads very sweet with a touch of smoke. Get your mind out of the gutter 😉
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In the gutter is my default setting. ☺️
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Mine too LOL 😂😋
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I wore a dab of Ambre Sultan to bed last night….glorious, but I think I’d love to smell it on a cold Winter’s day. This morning I’m wearing the sample of Tauer Noontide Petals which Inge sent me…. brings smile to my dial.
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Noontide Petals is an easy to wear Tauer, in my opinion. It also shows Andy Tauer can make perfumes of several different styles.
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The bottle is stunning, indeed. Do you have the Frankincense one or the other? Or maybe I was looking at the wrong Regina…
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Honestly I don’t know if it’s the Vanilla Amber or an original Regina Harris. Because there’s no name on the bottle. I read a comment from years ago that the original came in the same blue bottle but I can’t find any other information.
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It’s all about Montale today – Dark Oud for this morning and thunk.. with Fantastic Oud for this arvo.
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Both are very bold choices, Melanie, you smell fabulous!
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Packing my stuff for the trip. I’ve taken only perfume samples with me and I hope I’ll thunk most of them by the time I’m back. SOTD – Memo Lalibela…a rose with strong incense. Something’s not right here and I cannot define what. I just don’t like it. Will have to switch to something else later.
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Paramela
Woke up from a glorious dream this morning. I was in Canada gorging myself on sweets I had never even heard of or tried before.
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Sweet dreams, literally, lol!
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😁😁😁
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What? And you weren’t also spraying yourself silly with unknown but fabulous perfumes?🙀
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No…my mind was fixated on all the sweets!!!!
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Inspired by Undina’s post on her blog today, Ormonde Jayne Tsarina. Had forgot this was one of my choices for my travel set – I had been focused on the summery scents. It’s an elegant suede, soft enough for work which is always a bonus for me since a number of my faves are just too much for a preschool setting 🙄
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Wow, Tsarina seems really great, I love me some good suede..
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Miller Harris Peau Santal is getting a tryout today. Nothing earth shattering here either. Nice. But yet again poor longevity and sillage. These aren’t cheap and if I had sprung for a bottom I’d be very disappointed. But it may be a case of YMMV.
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Bottle!! Sausage finger 🙄
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Poor longevity in expensive perfumes is so disappointing. They must think: they love the scent, they’ll just have to use more i.e. buy it again and again, – hell no!
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Yep, they’re not fooling me either!
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Givenchy III layered with De Bachmakov. I was making decants for a new perfume friend: three different versions of vintage Mitsouko, three vintage Shalimars, The Different Company and a few more miscellaneous scents. Now I need to choose which ones from her collection I want to try, and I’m too tired (not from decanting) to even think about it. Life is hard, life of a perfumista is something else.
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You are sending her some nice stuff! Let us know what you get in return!
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Three different vintage Shalimars 😻 Wowsers.
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Oh man it’s hot. Yesterday I volunteered to work a second shift at the store just so I could stay in the air-conditioning. Today is even worse. I have to give my Humanitarian of the Week award to the 4WD owner taking up two of only about a dozen shaded spots in the entire supermarket car park on a 45 degree day.
Anyway, yesterday I wore Chanel Allure Homme Sport. I’m really liking this one and, since i only paid $20 for about half a big bottle at a flea market, it’s turning into one of the best-value fragrances I’ve got. Today I’ve got DS & Durga’s Italian Citrus on. It’s not coping well with the heat, but then neither am I.
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oh i hear you Greg – the air con at work is so much better than home for me. One of the ladies at my work had two stops to make yesterday and she left her car running while she ran into the shop so the air con would stay on – very brave me thinks! hope the cool change arrives soon – its cooling down in Adelaide so will push it on to you!
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It was a horrible day here. Cool change arrived about 10 pm and blew our gate open. It’s still 29 at 11 pm.
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I don’t drive, but don’t ya hate ‘privileged entitled’ drivers?
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OMG! Those bastards that take up two spots make my blood boil Greg. I will freely admit to being the worlds worst parker but I’m ALWAYS within my two lines.
End rant.
Portia xx
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Paramela…next week I might move on to something else…don’t think I am ready to thunk this one yet….
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Home from an exhausting shift at work…air con was working in the corridors, however the bedrooms were very stuffy, because there is no air flow. Anyway I wore Saffron Calligraphy, but was very glad I sprayed it an hour before I began work. Mental note…keep this scent for cooler climes.
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Having a moment with Mr Gardoni’s epic MAAI. So what if it’s a day of errands? I’m going to smell *AHMAYZING* everywhere I go.
Rozy VdE yesterday, and a dab of the extrait as well last night–a very kind extra from an eBayer I bought something else from–so I was radiating beautiful badassery while sitting under a giant moon in a 12thC cathedral.
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Crikey,
You often have the most spectacular frags in your line up. LOVE it.
P{portia xx
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Go big or go home, right?
…or go big and stay home, and stink up the place to your heart’s content 😉
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Back to the oldies today with Hypnotic Poison.
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and? Please elaborate…the only Poison I know is the original…and I wore it when it first came out.
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Oh this is an entirely different little beastie. It’s not an aggressive powerhouse for starters. Rather, it’s more of a snuggly comfort blankey. Sweet vanilla with almond and jasmine, but for grownups. The one I have currently is edt which has moderate sillage. I previoualy had the elixir which is more interesting but is hard to get hold of now. Try it if you spot it, you may be pleasantly surprised.
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OOO that sounds good…love me an almond frag
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And also keep an eye peeled for Midnight Poison.
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Annick Goutal Vanille Exquise. My bottle is at about 50% – dating to my vanilla obsession days.
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What other vanillas were you obsessed with?
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I LOVE this one MMKinPA. It’s the loveliest vanilla. Thanks for the reminder.
Portia xx
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I had a mini bottle of this some time back. It was in my handbag while I was in the supermarket. I don’t know how I managed to upturn the bag but my bottle hit the floor with a crash in the fruit aisle. The place smelled very fragrant🙂
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Has anyone but me noticed Portia’s new gravatar? it really threw me for a loop! But I LOVE it…
this evening I came home to an empty house…so what did I do? Made two oil blends-LOL!
First one vanilla bean, cardamom, rose and sweet orange
Second one- bergamot, bitter almond, carrot seed, labdanum, amber, cedarwood and fir balsam
Will let y’all know how they turn out 🙂
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PHEW! I was worried it was a bit bland. Thanks Brigitte.
What a fabulously fragrant way to spend an evening.
Portia xx
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NOT bland at all…and I love that it includes APJ….I think it’s perfect 🙂
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I like it, too. It’s taken from your header pic?
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Oooh, I bet your house was smelling pretty gorgeous 😍
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It was 🙂
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And yes, I copped the new gravatar.
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It’s Straya Day today, so I thought I’d better wear something from an Australian deisgner. I don’t have many, and the ones I do have don’t seem very good for summer wear. You’d think Aussie perfumers would be all over that.
So I ended up wearing Gregory, the fragrance I made myself at Fleurage. It has everything plus the kitchen sink in it really, but I’ve got a bergamot and mint opening and a vetiver and sandalwood drydown, essentially.
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Forgot to mention, I did a round of the local op shops today, given the weather was slightly less horrible. Not much, but I did find a NIB bottle of the discontinued Nina Ricci Fleur de Fleurs. No barcode on the box, so it dates somewhere between 1982 and 1989.
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Fleur de Fleurs? I hope you snagged it! I loved it back in the day but never bought myself a bottle.
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Now I know what I should ask from that new perfume buddy of mine I’d told y’all about!.
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Sure did Brigitte!. It ticked a lot of my boxes for collectibles (see my response to the Saturday Question).
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You always hit on something wonderful on your op trips.
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Dang, Greg. I trawl my local op shops. Never a perfume to be seen. Your side of town must have a different demographic to mine. Loving your bargains you score.
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“My side of town” is all sides of town. I look everywhere; that’s how I find stuff.
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Maybe you get all the things before I do. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Woo Hoo! Wearing your own designer scent is COOL Greg.
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Well I can take the credit if it’s good and I only have myself to blame if it isn’t. 🙂
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Wow! Love that you made your own fragrance!
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It was a birthday present from my wife. Very cool. i wish I’d written down the notes somewhere; I lost them when we moved house.
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31 Rue Cambon.
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That’s a departure for you, Brigitte.
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I am giving Paramela a rest because I am not ready to thunk it. I might stick with Rue Cambon the whole week. I am kinda enjoying the monogamy 🙂 …monogamous perfumes seem to be my thing these days.
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Ha, you’re totally faithful, unlike this here flighty slut😁
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Lol. Totally relate. It is rare for me to last an entire day in one scent.
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hahahahaha!!!! but we loves ya, you hussie you!
But seriously, I just want to get to know these fragrances and pick up all of their nuances..the only way for me to do this is multiple day wearings…hence, perfume monogamy 🙂
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How unusual, Brigitte! I do like it when a scent becomes one and only for a short while.
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😃😃
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HdP Not a blue bottle 1.3 this morning. I should really like this blood orange and leather number but something in it feels scratchy every time I wear it. I think this might go into a swap pile for someone less of a wuss about woody-amber bases…
Coromandel this evening. Smoooooooooooth. Yes.
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Been a funny scent week. Pushing myself to revisit my “like” collection. Nothing made me sit up and take note really. Ennui might be setting in. Or I don’t really enjoy summer scents as much. I did get immense pleasure from Irises by TRNP, No 19 edt, Light by TRNP and Rentless by Lush. The dirty patch in Rentless is very moreish.
I stole back a mini Beyond Paradise from my mother’s bureau. It was never used. She won’t miss it. She only ever wears the pale ones from Philosophy now. She was a hard core Poison wearer for YEARS. She cannot stomach anything harder than 2 sprays of Amazing Grace. I think the Pure Poson does get used, but on her clothing. I left everything else caked in dust. I am not sure if she used the samples of Deauville and The Only One whilst in hospital.
My eldest has been using his TRNP oils and edps. He is taken with Bulgakov and Mikhail. Both are robust and have transitional changes he likes. They also fit his socialist, Rick from The Young Ones style.
My youngest is still going strong with his Fahrenheit deodorant. It has been a year and it shows no sign of bottoming out. I think he likes the old school masculinity element. His tastes lean very Cary Grant type.
I might drag out the last of my No 5 soap bar and then go quietly with Coty’s L’Aimant. I need some gentle talc scent.
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BTW, Irises and No 19 are LOVES, not likes. Needed to clarify that. They were the scent highlights of my week!
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OMG L’Aimant😍 I can remember the small pink bottle of cream perfume with the little dabber. Would love to get my sticky paws on some nowadays.
And Fahrenheit smells fab on youngsters. My 18 year-old Godson was wearing it last week.
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Isn’t Fahrenheit just divine on young ones?! Hopefully it has a resurgence and picks up popularity.
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Am loving that your boys wear fragrance. Lordy, Laimant! Blast from the past!
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Oh and I wore lashings of Poison back in the day but also enjoy the Graces…. favorite being Inner Grace but I have drained several FBs of Pure, Baby and Amazing Grace!
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I actually don’t mind the Graces. They do belong on my mum and not me. She is much more the spiritually quiet one. These suit her demeanour. I am much more the tempestuous of us all.
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I am also a spiritual quiet one but that never stopped me from wearing powerhouses back in the day!
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It is still freaking good stuff! Mine is a newish bottle, but captures the powder/talc like no other can.
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Here comes Last Minute Larry. With the talk of Black Opium in new sniffs I thought I’d give the rude finger to YSL and wear honest to goodness Opium, and lots of it. Take that!
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Going to a concert tonight to see the Tex-Mex band Calexico. What else could I wear but Tauer’s Lonestar Memories?
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Wohoo the bomb
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Wonderful choice Greg.
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I may be in seven layers of scruff, and wandering around the flat in fuzzy socks talking to myself while I try to get my head around a very dense essay about theories of craft…but I’m wearing some of my cherished Onda extrait today. Because some things are far too good and far too enjoyable to save for “best”.
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Don’t save anything… enjoy it all now!!!
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OMG! I am at Axil Roasters in Chadstone. I am wearing Tubereuse Trianon and secretly adoring myself. Next to me is a guy possibly wearing Baraondo or Rhinocerous and waving a gorgeous aura. On the other side of me is a woman wearing La Vie Est Belle so discretely. Together we are smelling UNBELIEVABLE! I do not want to move away.
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What a perfume party!
Totally right to be adoring yourself. And how great to smell other good things in the wild.
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