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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 18.2 – 24.2.2019
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
Myrrh Cassati by Mona di Orio
Writing my TRIVIA Q&A and smelling fine.
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I bet you are, P! The MdO line, believe it or not, is a new discovery for me (thanks to the generosity of a fellow APJer)….have loved two enough to thunk them (Oud and Tuberose)….will definitely do some more exploring in the future.
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Ahhhh. Jin wears the Oud and I most love Vanilla and Eau Absolue but have a few more bottles kicking around here too. YUMMERS!
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Oh yes the Vanilla is GORGEOUS!!! I had a decant of that one too until middle one took it with her to university…they are indeed yummers 🙂
and I keep saying that Jin and I are scent twins
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eau naturelle at the moment….shoveling snow for cardio and weights…post shower I will decide on my SOTD.
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You’re partaking of Canada’s national sport 😒. Keep your form going!
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Ha! Two hours later having shoveled both the driveway, front walkway and front porch and steps on my own and I am exhausted…feels like my body was hit by a truck!!! I am too old for this , Marcella! LOL!
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😬😬😬 I’d be out of there quick-smart.
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Would you believe that it’s snowing again???????Help!!!! 😫😫😫
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Wahhh🥶🥶🥶😢😢😢
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I hear ya! That’s why we have a guy with a plough now. And our walkway and driveway are minuscule compared to your’s!
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Sadly a plow would not work on our driveway. Plus, in our area you need to sign a contract and pay by the month whether there’s snow or not. Hence, we do it ourselves.
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I saw a T-shirt on the weekend: “Shopping is my cardio”. I need that T-shirt.
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Oh but that’s just hysterical!!! I want one of those. Although a co-worker of mine found a t-shirt that reads “I speak fluent sarcasm” which she says would suit me to a T….. LOL 🤣 😂
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Amber absolutely – Fort and Manle 👌🏻👌🏻 Ambery and Plum finesse 👍🏻
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Love Amber absolutely!
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Bloody lovely stuff, you smell amazing.
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Oh Portia, how are you getting on with Myrrh Cassati? I should have a sample somewhere and I remember loving it. And it is on sale. And you smell lovely.
Wearing Rozy EdP from a sample. Oh boy, I am falling for Vero like a rock. She is one of the reasons I am happily down a renewed rabbithole, together with AA’s Tanja. Vero’s fragrances do remind me in some ways of Mona di Orio’s ones (Rozy reminds me of Rose Etoile de Hollande), but I do think Vero’s perfumes are much more prismatic to borrow a term Kafka (used to?) use(s).
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The edp is so voluptuous. I love it. Completely different to the Voile/Extrait.
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I seem to remember your husband associated it with, well, you know, not a bikeshop. My husband gives me ‘the look’ when I wear voluptuous, especially rozy voluptuous 🙂
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Good memory. #bordello. ☺️
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It made quite an impression on this (most of the time) well-behaved perfumista. Recovering though, from well-behaved.
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Rozy is absolutely gorgeous! I’m savoring a small sample!
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Hope it will last you a long time!
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Where is it on sale< hamamelis? Thank you!
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Gina Myrrh Casati is on Sale (not Rozy). It is on sale at parfumaria, a Dutch shop, they ship internationally. It is a lovely shop (website is that name and then .nl).
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Thank you!
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Heya Hamamelis,
Having gone through a 10ml decant of Myrrh Casati it has pained me that it only comes in the new bottle, which I don’t like. Seeing it for a superb price on my buddies sale list pushed me to action though.
I love it, and it wears beautifully for me. Better in the cool weather, lasts much better.
Portia xx
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Thank you!
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Parfum de Thérèse for some beautiful company on what is shaping up to be a l-o-n-g day.
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I love this one, Marcella! Went through a travel spray some time ago and every time someone mentions it I feel the urge to buy it again.
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Don’t deny that urge 😉. I saw that you were wearing Salome the other day! How did you like it? Did you buy/try any other Papillon’s?
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You know that I’m on a no-buy diet so nothing new for me. I was wearing the Salome sample that Cassie sent me and there’s enough left for at least one more wear. It’s fascinating. Papillon samples are the first I’m going to buy when I decide my no-buy is over 😉
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Oooo. So glad you’re on the Papillon train! Be patient. The wait is worth it.
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GOOD LUCK….hope the long day won’t turn out to be too unpleasant.
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Thanks! Enjoy your day off….shoveling 😂
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At least you know you’ll be super fragrant all day with PdT Marcella,
Portia xx
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Damned straight! She’s still hanging in!!
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Beeeooitiful
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And the creative spelling award goes to……..Cassie 🤗
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ta daah 👏🏻
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Yesterday a girlfriend from my school days who knows about my passion for perfume brought me a mini of Halston 1-12 which she found hidden in her apartment ❤
Today I've spilled it on my neck, wrists, hair…I'm remembering all the guys I've met during the eighties who used to wear great perfumes back then 🙂
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Ha! they sure did have some great fragrances in the 70s and 80s for men.
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HA! Excellent scent memory. I hope they were all good guys and good memories.
Portia xx
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Yes they were 🙂 I try to remember only the good things 😉
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my greatest crush wore Aramis Devin. I loved it!
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And I’m remembering a particular guy back in the 70’s who used to wear a great perfume as well. And it ain’t my mister 🤨.
Speaking of Halston, I remember wearing one a long time ago. The bottle was a very fluid shape. Almost like a smoothly worn river rock. The size of my palm. Weird ivory coloured cap and dark amber liquid. Anyone have any ideas what this could be??????
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It’s the classic Halston women’s perfume. It was so beautiful but don’t ever buy the new version. I did and I almost cried when I tried the new formula. It’s a travesty of the original.
1-12 and Z-14 were men’s perfumes.
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Figures, eh? What a shame; and how predictable 😒
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I used to wear several mens fragrances in the 70s and 80s….some were just so good that it didn’t matter to me….
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I still wear Habit Rouge. i love it XXX
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I wore Fahrenheit in high school because a boyfriend of mine wore it. We reconnected a couple of years ago and bought a vintage bottle to share.
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Love that.
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That’s a good one, Matty!
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Do you remember which ones???? I had Trussardi Uomo and Kouros.
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Off the top of my head…Grey Flannel, Joop! Homme, Aramis, Royal Copenhagen and Royal Copenhagen Musk, Paul Sebastian….about a year ago I inherited Marbert Man..it was a vintage from the 80s I think…made several decants and wore the heck out of it until it went thunk.
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Ah, Aramis was wonderful, slightly bitter.
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I wore Shiseido Tactics in the 80ies. Was a good one
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I still do! (and have done ever since I discovered Antaeus in the sixth form…)
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🙂 🙂 Of course you do, crickey! and so do I (Marbert Man)
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I only started with the ‘men’s’ fragrances when I got older. You were very avante-garde!
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And I’m remembering an ex from the early 80s who wore Drakkar Noir, which I loved. (Couldn’t quite say the same about the wearer😉)
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Mr M has a mini of Drakkar.
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I loved Drakkar so much in high school, too, that I bought a mini recently and wore it. I also bought the men’s and women’s Santa Fe. Been rocking those, too.
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Dropped that one real fast I bet 😂
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I wore that classic Halson back in high school…I remember it well. The bottle was fascinating.
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So was the fragrance? I can’t remember. I think I liked it 🧐
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It was a classic chypre. Wasn’t the favorite one in my collection but it was popular at the time. Bet you I would adore it now.
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LP28 EdT.
And baking nearly 700 cookies. It’s a one order record. 😫
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I suppose that qualifies you as cookie empress.
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Wow! That’s a lot of cookies! Wish I lived near you as I would be happy to volunteer as your tester 😉
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OMG…how long does it take to bake them?
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About 6 hours. Then packing them up ……
They go to 12 stores. 💪🏽
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WOW! 700 COOKIES is huge Val. Happy baking.
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Madness.
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-11 Fahrenheit with wind chill in Colorado. On my way in to work, wearing Parfum d’Empire Ambre Russe. Provides the only comfort I’m feeling this morning!
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Sounds like a perfect choice for such a brutally cold day. Wish I could share some of this absurdly mild Scottish winter…
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YUM! You smell all warm and cosy through that freezing cold weather. MMMMM
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So good in the cold.
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I am in Burbery Brit Limited Edition 2010. It reminds me of Shalimar without the weirdness.
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I didn’t know there was a LE of Brit Gina. How different is it?
Portia x
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This is the only online info I could find about it: https://nstperfume.com/2010/09/14/burberry-brit-limited-edition-2010-new-fragrances/
It is very different to my nose than the Burberry Bri EDP that I have.
citrus, pink pepper, baked apple and plum (pomarose), cinnamon, peony, cedar, sandalwood, amber and tonka bean; sort of weird and unique blend of citrus, pepper, apple and amber mostly
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Interesting…I had the original Britt as well as Britt Red and Britt Gold (loved them all and kept the empty bottles)…wish I had known about this LE I probably would have bought it too!
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I have red and want gold badly!
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Both Red and Gold were fantastic. I bought them heavily discounted. Had I known they were LEs I never would have emptied them.
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I needed something light today so wearing Rosa Pop.
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I like this one! I do wish it lasted longer as with most of the AA line.
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So do I,but they are lovely while they last.
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You inspired me. I had a rough day with a colicking horse while I was at my new job. Dealing with calls and vets and three hours at the barn after work. I got home and needed rose and peony. Rose lifts me. I sprayed on Rosa Pop because you put it in my head this morning! What’s your fave Guerlain AA? I think mine might be Winter Delice though I do love Pamplelune and Herba Fresca in summer.
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I’m very sorry to hear you had a bad day.I’m pleased I inspired you to spray Rosa Pop. I’ve got a few AA’s. I can’t really say which is my favourite, I love them all .I do like Limon Verde, very fresh.
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So pretty Matty.
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In my first wearing of Bogue 07738.
Please don’t ask me to analyse it in any useful way–even if I was a note-hunter and unpicker of scent threads, it would be impossible. The best I can do for now is wave my hands around, say “spiced, chypre, resinous floral” and smile very broadly. And I’m still only about three hours in… This is a swirling, rich, many-angled creature of gorgeousness. And it has everything in it; before he revealed that it is “bello” as written on a calculator, I would have guessed 7738 ingredients. It is absolutely a Bogue perfume, and clearly one of that complicated beautiful family.
You know I am a Gardoni fan girl, but, so far the only downside I can see with this perfume is the extremely limited amounts in the world.
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I had to research Bogue 07738, sounds glorious. Sadly bottle sold out at Luckyscent. Bogue makes beautiful fragrance, I like Maai.
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I’m glad that I didn’t hesitate, because it was sold out in under 24 hours after release.
I’m hoping that jtd (scenthurdle) or ClaireV (Take One Thing Off) write proper, informed reviews that express their experience of it more coherently than I can.
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Your review was great and piqued my interest to do more research!
Wow, sold out that fast? You did well getting a bottle right away!
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OK so wordpress just ate four of my comments to y’all above….
finally showered and am wearing my homemade body oil of lavender, patchouli and labdanum…patchouli reminds me of jytosna (forgive the misspelling) and I hope she is OK…
also, a spritz of Eau de Lierre from my vintage bottle gifted to me by a very generous APJer…I guess it was languishing in her collection so she sent it my way knowing I would love it….and I do….no doubt in my mind it will be thunked some time in 2019….especially if I keep wearing it…..and I really want to keep wearing it…so green and so spring like…puts me in a better mood….
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Just hang on to Eau de Lierre. It’s really beautiful and you can imagine sitting in a green flower garden enjoying the sun on your skin 🙂
I too wonder where Jyotsna is…I hope soon she will join in again.
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I will 🙂
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I think we’re all wondering what Jyotsna is up to.
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Hopefully she’ll chime in soon.
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Happy Monday everybody 😄 I’m having a great day – scored myself a bottle of Tendre Poison earlier. And it didn’t cost a king’s ransom either. In Frangipani today.
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It’s snowing and a day off school for Presidents Day. Husband and son went skiing but with our yo-yo weather (warm/cold/rain/snow) apparently the conditions are terrible but at least it’s not crowded. I’m wearing Alien, because it’s neglected and it’s not a “school day” perfume!
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Mendittorosa Nettuno, an unusual take on an iris scent.
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Oh I like that one and have some I need to pull out. My memory is ‘outer space iris’ even though I am not even sure what that means.
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I love your description, Amy!
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Not wearing anything on Monday, although I did drop a sample of Penhaligon’s Ellenisia on the floor, so I guess you could say I was wearing that.
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OOOPSIE! Did it smell good Greg?
Portia xx
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A bit floral for my liking. Sillage was only mild and longevity was, fortunately, also quite low. I wont be walking on that carpet barefoot though.
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Wore Comme des Garconnes Monocle Hinoki today. Perfect for calm focus, not naturally my strong suit.
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It’s beautiful. I’ve bought it for my last boyfriend but actually I’ve bought it to enjoy it myself 😉
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Micallef Vanille Orient.
Bloody hell, I dismissed this when first trying it. Now I’m wanting a bottle.
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Micallefs are quite nice. I’ll bet Vanille Oriente is cozy!
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Summer has fled, at least temporarily. It got down to 9 degrees last night, and I’m sitting here in jeans and jumper feeling cold. I’m wearing Tabarome, which is just the thing. Shout out to Portia for convincing me to buy this.
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as part of downsizing process, I sprayed a bunch of perfumes to see if anything changes me mind at the last minute and so far no though they got mixed up so I had trouble knowing which one was which 😀 those going away are Byredo Baudelaire, Mont Blanc Starwalker (I love Starwalker name due to my obsession with space and space is the reason I got in the first place but the perfume could not have been more banal), Dsquared2 Potion EDT for him, L’Artisan Mure et Musc Extreme, L’Artisan Nuit de Tubereuse (have lot of tuberose perfumes already and this does not seem to add much to what’s already out there), and few Carthusias such as fiori de capri and caprissimo. Didn’t spray Carthusias though did take a quick bottle sniffs of them.
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Congrats on your decision to go through with the downsizing. I understand that you should be careful because if you give away something you’ll miss in the end, you’ll have to pay at least twice the price to get it back.
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you are right. I am being careful, especially, with those I suspect will be harder to get in case I miss them
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Tauer L’eau. And THUNK!
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😁😁😁
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have to revisit my sample
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The most gentle offering from this perfumer. Not quite so punchy.
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Liz Claiborne Vintage Soul. A perfectly, suitable office scent.
I got in touch with Jyotsna- she’s been sick, didn’t go into detail but I told her we’ve missed her terribly and hope to see her back here soon.
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Thanks for letting us know.
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Thanks Melanie. It’s good to know that we all keep in touch 🙂
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Glad to have you back, Melanie! Thank you for contacting Jyotsna. I hope she recovers soon.
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Great idea, Melanie. Send her our good wishes.
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Greg- hello! Wondering if you have any other Histories de Parfums in your basket for the markets- would you have any 1826 or 1899??
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Eau de Merveilles in a one ounce bottle heavily doctored up with lavender essential oil. It works for me 😊.
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How interesting! Did you decant it from a larger bottle or did you reformulate the whole bottle?
I’m a bit jealous of your mixing skills. You can improve any perfume you don’t like 😉
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decanted from a large bottle. Then I doctored it up. I usually start with a smaller 3-5 ml decant in case it doesn’t work. But thus far I have had good success. The eau de Merveilles serves as an excellent base for neroli, patchouli or sandalwood e.o.s as well. If you’re daring you can also add bergamot to brighten up any vintage that has lost its top notes.
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I’ve said this before, but start up your own little biz! Heck, everybody and their uncle is now making and selling perfumes. Most with far less experience than you!
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The middle one took my e.o recipes and sold little bottles in local stores. Unfortunately all the stores went out of business. And with the money she put in she barely broke even. Not worth it unless you have financial backing. I am quite content doing what I do for family and friends. For me that’s enough
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Well then keep playing the Loto. Maybe your fortune lies there!
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If I won lotto I would surely quit my job and then have enough money to make and buy perfumes for everyone on APJ….or even better yet…come in person bearing fragrant gifts 🙂
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I’ll take option B. The personal delivery 😀
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Well I play lotto every week so I am working on it 🙂
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What a fantastic idea!
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I only came up with it because I could barely smell EdM on me…wonder if there is a dominant note I am anosmic to? With the added e.o.s I can finally smell it!
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Vintage Halston 1-12 again. I’m enjoying it soooo much!
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-27C with the wind chill. Yup! Sure feels like spring is in the air 🙄. Warming things up with Musc Ravageur which, in my opinion, wears just as beautifully in the heat.
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Same here… freaking freezing…oh spring, where are you?
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This is soul destroying. I’m so tired of wearing multiple laters. Ugh. When I read blogs in the autumn “time to pull out your cozy sweaters” I shudder. They probably don’t have to wear their cozy, effing sweaters for SIX effing months 😒
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Hmph, cosy sweaters are overrated, but a necessity. I’d be happy in a T-shirt and shorts all year round.
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I am with you!!!
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You and me both 🏃🏽♀️
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Yeah…. and I love when folks get “excited” over snow…. I always invite them over for a shoveling party 🎉🎈🎉🎄
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LOL! I don’t share their excitement, and can never hide my feelings, either 🙂
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😉
Because you and I both know what repeated snow storms are all about!!! The novelty wears off quite quickly!
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It’s just ridiculous now😬🥶
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Oooo! The freezie face worked!!!
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Another bitter cold day riding light rail on my way to work. Keeping it cozy and polte for office, Histoires Ambre 114.
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Polite.
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And the perfume awesomeness continues. My new (old) bottle of Magie Noire arrived and it’s all good. Wohoo. Another frantic sawing with keys to get at it.☺️
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Congrats, Cassie! Magie Noire is a true treasure.
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It sure is. Think I’m sorted for the rest of my days now😉
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Wonderful! Thaks again for the sample of Magie Noire you’ve sent me 🙂
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It was only a smidge. I was worried that it might be confiscated by the postal militia so didn’t send much😉
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Oh yes the key thing. It’s supposed to be accompanied by crazy eyes, slight drooling and seriously deranged hair 🤪
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All of the above! Mind you, that could be any day.
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Love it! 😂
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Today vintage No.19, since I’ve just bought more – my supplier (I should call him my dealer, he hooked me on the stuff by giving me a mini when I bought something else) has just let me know what I can buy. He lives abroad and comes back rarely, so opportunity is cherished.
RIP Karl Lagerfeld – my mid-70s Chloe love started me on this path.
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Chloe 1975 was his first fragrance. I have a tiny bit of the extrait left.
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My SOTD has been Comme des Garcons Soda which to me is a memory caught in a bottle. It reminds me of a drink I used to make when I was a kid: I’d mix baking soda with lemon juice and water. It had the same sharp smell.
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What did this drink taste like? I used to mix lemon juice and water but would add loads of sugar instead of baking soda 🙂
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It tastes like a sugarless soda. If one doesn’t mess up the proportions, it might even be drinkable!
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Interesting… but I am afraid to experiment!!!🤣🤣
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Don’t 🙂 Remember that while I was growing up, Pepsi was non-existent here, we had to make do with what we had.
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OK will give it at try this weekend…I have all the ingredients at home 🙂
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OJ Woman today, as it is starting to feel a bit like spring. I think it would be better in warmer weather, have to keep trying.
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L’Artisan Vanille Absolument, which is absolutely not a vanilla forward scent. More like rum and tobacco. A blind buy which was only successful once I let go of the idea of the vanilla. Good for a cold day.
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MMK, I adore this one. Wish I had come across it before it was discontinued. You smell beautiful.
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Channeling summer in Until Air de Bretagne by L’Artisan.
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Un NOT until……and would you believe wacky spellcheck wanted to change it to unfortunately this time around?
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Until could work, though 😉
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You’re full of good ideas! I’m copying you in channeling summer. Wearing What I Did On My Holidays by 4160 Tuesdays.
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Just thought I’d let you know – after spending the day painting walls and myself my post shower scent is TRAMP😂 (and it wasn’t even red paint).
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LOL!!!
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Hahaha! Of COURSE it is 😂
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My third attempt to post🙄
Filling the air around me with Magie Noire. All the glamour here – in my old painting duds. Busy morning washing and prepping walls in utility room for painting. Just having a coffee while it dries. And to put some power into my elbows 💪🏻
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Ok, I guess you have enough Magie Noire on stock when you start using it while painting the walls 😀
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Very decadent altogether ☺️
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Today I wore Nasomatto Pardon because chocolate.
I spent most of the day documenting the unsold frags from last week’s flea market, ready for sale on FB. There’s about 100, and that’s only about half of my collection. Hopefully somebody will want to buy them.
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Greg, if you are willing to ship abroad, please let us know when and where you will post your perfumes for sale. Among 100 perfumes there must be something for everyone 😉
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Excellent idea Neva!
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Indeed there must.
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Sorry Neva, but I’d be breaking the law to ship abroad. For some stupid reason neither Australia Post not couriers will ship perfume because it’s hazardous. When i ask them how did all that perfume get ti almost every town in Australia if it can’t be shipped, I get no answer. I can run the risk domestically, but international packages are much more likely to be checked.
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I understand Greg. We have the same stupid regulations here Good luck with your sales.
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Same story here, Greg. Cannot post any liquids outside the country. And yet, I buy most of my perfume from outside the country so it’s obviously a total nonsense. Yet more rules and regs the try to foist upon us.
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It is indeed complete and utter nonsense. There must be perfumes being freighted to all parts of Australia every single day for decades on end, and never a single instance of any hazardous incident. The whole thing is a complete joke based on zero evidence, and only applied to individuals. Companies can ship as much of the stuff as they want to, wherever they want to send it.
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Good luck with the selling!!!
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Mother Nature is reminding me that it’s only February and winter is not over – snowing and a delayed start for school. Up to 4 inches of snow expected and I think there is a glaze of ice undeneath (heading out to walk the dog and hoping that’s not the case!). Wearing DSH Colorado. I smell like I’m skiing through the glades at Aspen.
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Just scored a vintage Diva EdP!!! It was my late cousin’s signature scent and I’ve been looking for a bottle for the past year since she passed away. Wearing it will bring back all sorts of wonderful, happy memories!
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Congratulations, Marcella! Diva lives up to its name.
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It sure does!
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Fantastico! I hope it’s wonderful for you when it arrives. Be ready for a flood of memories, though.
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Yeah. I’m a little apprehensive about that.
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Great! I hope it’ll smell just as you remember it 🙂
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I will report!
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YSL Blouse. I was considering it as a birthday present for me but I’m not sure anymore 😦
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Not familiar with this at all, Diana. Is it a new release or an oldie?
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It was released last year, Cassie, as a part of their Le Vestiare collection. It’s a rose-focused scent, very musky, too.
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It happens to me so often lately I try it and think – very good! I go through a sample and still think – I want it! Then I order a decant and totally lose interest in it…
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A perfumista’s mind works in mysterious ways, lol!
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Indeed 😁
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Yesterday as Gucci, by Gucci in the big brown bottle.
Today CK Reveal – lovely scent, silly shaped bottle.
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Reveal sounds great, I like salty perfumes.
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So do I. What’s your favorite? Right now my salty seaweed kick comes from Un Air de Bretagne.
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Sel de Vetiver might be my favourite. I wish I were able to wear Womanity: the composition is beautiful but something in the basenotes just doesn’t smell right on my skin. There’s also “salt and marshmallow” Swan Princess made by Duchaufour for a Russian perfume brand. What are your faves, Brigitte?
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Aside from Bretagne two others that come to mind are Greylocke (salt, vetiver and apple blossom) and Leau Froide (Serge Lutens) which I am assuming it has a salty vibe because it smells kinda savory/salty to me…..there may be some sort of seaweed note in there and seaweed always brings salt to mind for me……I think I am somewhat inline with Kate’s post on “food/perfume” cravings in this conversation 🙂
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oh and there’s a Profuma one…Aqua Di Sale? a good friend sent me a decant for the eldest of my three because she likes beachy notes…also CSP Aqua Motu which might also have some salt in it….. and Sel Marine (Heeeley), while I like it , lasts a nano second on my skin……wondering also if Aramis New West for Women (which was a calone bomb) has salt in it as well…gosh I adored that one…had a cult following back in the day….now sells on ebay for ridiculous prices…..
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Thank you for so many suggestions, Brigitte, they sound amazing, especially Acqua di Sale and Heeley.
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Reveal is a really underrated scent I think.
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OOO I loved that Gucci…had that big hefty heavy bottle and drained that juice a long time ago.
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Today I am wearing Dior Eau Sauvage Parfum. The hot 20-something redhead who served my morning coffee said “Oh, it’s you that smells nice”. So now this is my favourite fragrance ever. 😉
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Greg, I guess you’ll be revisiting the place some time soon…and wearing Eau Sauvage again 😉
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Ha!!!! You go Greg!!!!!
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I’m still wearing Halston 1-12 during the day, reapplying to my neck and wrists often. I just love all the memories it brings.
Yesterday evening it was mb02 from Biehl Parfumkunstwerke for my swing class. I think the whole place smelled of it afterwards but my friends don’t bother to comment anymore. In the beginning they were asking what perfumes I was wearing but the wouldn’t know any of them.
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Your friends must be thinking: What’s the point of asking, it’s just another super-rare perfume with an unpronounceable name 🙂 I’m sure they appreciate your olfactive elegance.
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I do hope so too 😉
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Woke up to more snow. Might go for more In Air de Bretagne after I shovel. Then off to work. It will be a very long day today as I won’t be home until after 7.
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Yeah I did type in Un not In…..I am ready to murder this spell check along with WordPress….
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Still typing the name and email address every time? Me too 😀 😀
I comment only when absolutely necessary, LOL!!!
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YUp I am 😦 I think it’s a wordpress thing…PITA…..
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Neva, I cleared cache and history on phone and it’s happening less often.
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I only use my laptop for my mails so I have absolutely no clue why this started and how to stop it…
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A good kick in the pants for those two 😡😂
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I’ve been staying late in my little office. Mr. LH has some confounded new project going on in his workshop. Making birdhouses and ‘restoring’ old garden tools. Scythe, anyone? Nice and shiny! Anyhow, this seems to require the simultaneous use of every power tool down there. For prolonged periods of time. So, the ‘away’ office it is. And yesterday that little office was awash in the glorious, old world glamour of MAAI. Stunning. My daughters came bearing gifts last night! Not my birthday, just ‘because’ they said. I guess they got fed up hearing me whine about my no sample pergatory and wanting to get my nose on Bogue. So decants of both MEM and MAAI are now in my grubby hands. It will be MAAI again today because it was just that good.
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Wohoo, happy days. Wonder who I could whine to . . .? 😉
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Well you could whine to Mr. LH, but doubtful if he could hear you over the din. If he has any hearing left 🙄
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🙉 yep, same here. And then there’s the selective hearing.
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Yup. But they can hear roast beef being sliced from a block away 🙄
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hurrah! Yes, it really *is* that good, isn’t it?
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It’s absolutley incredible. What a brilliant piece of perfume art!
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Oh! And Bogue perfumes brings to mind Crikey. Let’s not forget she has her big competition Saturday. Nationals, I believe. Let’s start sending her luck and positive energy for a successful showing!
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thank you, marcella! Yep, it’s on saturday morning (probably lifting at about 1030am UK time. If anyone’s awake then and wants to watch one of the least-interesting-for-spectators sports ever: https://www.britishpowerlifting.org/livestream
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Will try to tune in!
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I’ll try and give it a go! Can’t be anymore boring than dressage, which I used to compete in. Like watching paint dry.
Good luck!!!!!
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Oh, I like watching horsey dancing. But I have done a little myself, though never competed.
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You’re a rare breed Crikey!
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I’ve bookmarked the link and hope I’ll be able to watch for a while. I’d love to. Fingers crossed!!!!
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Good luck tomorrow!
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Good luck crickey! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Thinking of you and sending best wishes!
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Power to you, Crikey!!! Give it socks.
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thank you, ms flower!
I will indeed be giving it socks: red and black striped ones 🙂
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Yayyy, best colour combo ever. 🤞
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DK Gold all over. My Tendre Poison arrived so a quick spritz in the crook of my elbow. I forgot how potent this is! And it’s a 100ml bottle, and I was thinking it was 30ml. Score on the double.
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100 ml! Best be getting the Smallies onto this one. It’s gonna last a long time 😉
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And Smally arrived yesterday so she can have some to go home with😉
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Awwww! Those Smallies ❤️❤️
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Breath of God today. Mentions here recently reminded that it’s been *ages* since I’ve worn it. Just the ticket for a cool but gloriously sunny day.
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Will you be wearing a competition day scent?
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Yep: I wore Rozy
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Balmain Ambre Gris for me today.
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I have always been curious about that one..it shows up heavily discounted online.
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Le Troisiemme Homme de Caron today. I know what the redhead likes, so now I need to find out what the other baristas like. 😉
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Hahaha! You’re on a roll Greg, you sly dog 😏
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Didn’t work this time. Bloody Caron.
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LOL, keep on trying, Greg. You have at least a hundred more perfumes to experiment with 😉
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Good point Neva. Bound to find one eventually.
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Ha!
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Ha!
(and P sorry but I posted too fast before I could type my entire name in! AGAIN!)
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😂😂
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Better luck next time😂
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Exhausted this morning…got home late from work last night..
might just go with my Lavender Eau de Mervielles today…I need something soothing…
thankfully it is Friday….
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Your tweak on Eau de Merveilles sounds very appealing!!
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I love it…. but I am mad about lavender.🌸🌼💮
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I’m coming around to it in a big way. Baby steps with Pour Un Homme. Then adolescent strides with Kiki VdP and wearing the big girl pants with MEM. Apparently, I have a strong affinity towards lavender. Those drawer sachets almost did me in tho.
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LOL
You are coming around
I could bathe in lavender
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Yeah, but you probably have the high-falutin’ extra pure, high grade, steam distilled, reverse osmosis lavender e.o. to trickle in your bath 😉
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No ..not anymore due to budget restraints no more Eden Botanicals lavender in the house…just simple Now Essentials lavender….but it does the trick 😃
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Vintage Shalimar perfume. Like wearing an old pair of jeans and a comfy sweater. Which, as it happens, I am 😁
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The NST community project today is lime or salt in honor of Margarita Day. So I grabbed my sample of Nicolai L’Eau d’Ete and pretending it’s summer despite the snow on the ground. The lime in this is quite long lasting, but not unpleasant. I’m imagining it chilled in the fridge and pulled out for a blistering hot summer day…
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Blistering hot summer day. Sounds great! I’ll take one, NOW!!! I’m going to look up l’eau d’été. I’ll need to refresh my spring/summer scents!
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Samsara. It’s snowing again but I don’t even care anymore: the spring is near.
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Let’s hope so🌹🏵️💮🌸🌷🌻💐
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🐞💐👣👩🌾👚👒👛🐥🐛🐜🌱🌿🌺 Want it. Need it. Deserve it.
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Yup 😂😂 😂😎 😋🙃 😳
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Mmmm, yum.
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Lavender and I are hardly on speaking terms, usually😬 There is the odd exception.
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Well MEM is pretty odd. That could be the exception!
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Don’t know if I would risk it, but I’m giving serious thought to a decant of Maau. Somebody talk me away from the edge🥴
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Oh try it! It’s intense and gorgeous. You will LOVE it! Did that help 😏
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That’s the general opinion. I may have to cave in and sample. 🤨
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DON’T . DO. IT.
Enjoy your vintage Magie Noire and 100 ml of Tendre Poison.
There…… did that help? 😇
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Thank HOTY, Saint Brigitte😂 I’ll try to follow your wise advice.
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LOL!
Honestly, cassie, do whatever makes your heart happy!
But if you need to be talked out of something, I am your gal 🙂
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DO. IT.
Don’t listen to St. Brigitte. You already know how Tendre Poison and Magie Noire smell. You don’t know how MAAI smells. And I know you want to know 😈
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oh my goodness..I am laughing my bony little a$$ off here…Marcella, you are one naughty lady!
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And I’m not even trying….
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Snowing again? Oh no… but I like your attitude AND your perfume 🙂
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Today was springlike. Temps in the low teens, but a killer breeze with razor-sharp teeth. Spent all morning out with Smallies running, jumping, swinging, zip lining, muddy puddle jumping, and we were pretty cold when we got home at lunchtime. Of course I gave my Tendre Poison a whirl, and so did Smally this evening post-bath.
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Awww ……… that’s priceless. Make her a decant.
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She’s such a girl, it’s unreal! Will have to lock up the makeup soon or she will appear downstairs in red lipstick.
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Hopefully not doused in Tramp. Keep that delinquent fostering stuff away from her
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Hey, it served me well😉
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😂😂
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Those Smallies 😘
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Yep. Standing in her towel and turban looking into the drawer, she doesn’t know which perfume to pick. Welcome to my world, I was thinking. So I showed her my new green bottle and she was happy with “all those flowers” Ha, she’s something else!
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Oh my goodness, that’s unbearably sweet. Such a little yummie!
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Love this ❤️❣️♥️
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Same weather here today. I need to go out and buy a birthday present for my cousin but I can’t bring myself to start dressing for the cold.
Smallies ❤ how old are they?
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2 and 5, a right pair of live wires😉. Raining this morning so won’t be playing outside. Will take them off to indoor play centre to join all the other crazy children. Will you be purchasing a present of the fragrance kind?
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Awww, how sweet 🙂
I think I’ll buy her a gift card so she can choose herself.
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Another lovely day. I’m wearing Malle Bigarade Concentree. Going out tonight and I will be wearing Chanel Egoiste EdT.
I posted my flea market leftovers over at Fragrance Buy Swap & Sell Australia. There’s a feeding frenzy on; I think I know what I will be doing tomorrow.
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The Malle is so yummy! It sounds like it will be a successful sale for you. Great!
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Hey, waft some of that Egoiste my way please…. good stuff!!!
Sounds like you’re on your way to selling all of your bottles!
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SOT I can’t sleep and it’s 3:19 am MAAI. Now I don’t want to sleep. It’s too great to waste on something as indulgent as sleep 🙄
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Crap on the insomnia….I hope you get some sleep tonight 😴😴😴
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Not much, but I sure smelled nice
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It’s absolutely effing torture! No matter how good you’re smelling at 3 a.m.😫
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I HATE it sooo much! 🤬
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I was a bit down the last few days and -guess what – I wasn’t in the mood for perfume. That was such a strange experience for me. I don’t think it ever happened before.
The reason was that the guy I was dating since the beginning of the year has decided to break up with me. He was very kind and all, no hard feelings, but I feel such an enormous sadness. It will pass eventually, I know. I deliberately didn’t want to associate any perfume with this phase.
Tonight I’ll go to a birthday party and I think I’ll wear Cassie’s sample of vintage Magie Noire. It will boost my confidence for sure 🙂
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I can understand you not wanting to associate perfume with a sad time in yor life. Hope you are soon feeling better and spraying lavishly. XXXX
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Sending hugs, Neva.
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I’m sorry to hear that this relationship had to end but it means that there’s someone better for you. Hope that Magie Noire will lift up your spirits. Sending you some cyber hugs
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Sorry to hear that things didn’t work out Neva. Of course you are right, the sadness will pass, but that doesn’t make it feel any better. I hope the party and Maggie Noire will take your mind off things. Big hugs to you 😘
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Thanks, girls! I meditate a lot, surround myself with friends, drink some red wine (or herbal drops when my heart suddenly starts pounding). Time will heal everything. Another lesson learned: no matter how old a man is when you meet, always ask him if he wants to have (more) children
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Meditation is excellent…and yes, time heals all wounds..if it wasn’t meant to be then it wasn’t meant to be…remember “life unfolds exactly as it should” 🙂
xoxoxo
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True. I cannot thank you enough for the beautiful poem and wise words 🙂
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my pleasure…it’s helped me through some tough times too 🙂 xoxoxoxo
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I do hope that it works its magic for you as it does for me. I’m sorry you’re feeling down, it’s new and raw but give it time and expect to feel hits of gloom. And know that you’re smelling fabulous tonight.
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After my conversation with Kate I am craving succulent so I will go with Blackberry and Bay this morning.
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Sounds great and yummy 🙂
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It’s really good…I know you like berry notes so you might like it…it’s not too sweet either…very aromatic and succulent…do you have access to Jo Malone? If so, give it a try.
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No Jo Malones here but I’ll give it a try when I get a chance 🙂
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It’s beautiful. I had a 30 ml bottle last summer and I finished it, of course.
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Oh I could definitely see this being a summer staple!
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No need to scent up this morning. MAAI, which I spritzed at 3:00 a.m. is still doing it’s thing. Heaven!
I wonder how Crikey is faring. Had I not eventually fallen back asleep, I would have watched at 5:30.
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I watched her lifts but couldn’t keep tuned in for results because Smallies. I had to take myself off to my bedroom for some peace to watch it. She did well!
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Happy to hear that. Perhaps she’ll fill us in. As long as she was satisfied with her effort, that’s what counts.
Enjoy your Smallies ❤️
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Dusita: Le sillage blanc on my left wrist and Fleur de Lalita on the right one. My birthday’s coming up and I’m thinking of ordering something: I haven’t bought anything since last November.
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Please DO get yourself a birthday present!!!!
Mine is coming up in April and I am on the fence about whether to order another bottle of Reglisse Noire..but the prices are going up next month so I might just bite the bullet and do it because I have very little left in my current bottle that I bought not that long ago.
I bought only two bottles recently, Heaven and Reglisse Noire but I cannot remember when I bought them…all the naughty APJers talked me into buying them (looking at you cassie and marcella-LOL!)…so maybe I am due for something new?
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Brigitte, the no-buy can only be violated when it is your birthday. That doesn’t count 😛
I’m only saying it because I intend to do the same 😀
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Ha! You just talked me into a whole bunch of naughtiness 🙂
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Oh no…my name will now enter the Hall of Shame together with Cassie’s and Marcella”s 😀
I feel so guilty…NOT!
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LOL!!! No worries…i will only succumb to one bottle 🙂
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That’s a problem as old as time itself😰
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Buy Buy Buy. Get in there before price rises. You know that you’re going to power through it anyway.
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You’re right…I should just do it NOW.
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Do it. Do it. Do it. Hell! Never mind prices going up, what about reformulation 😱
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🤭 oops.
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Thank you for encouraging me, Brigitte! Let me return the favour: please go order that Reglisse! You deserve it, plus you’re going to have to get a bottle sooner or later, it only makes sense to buy it now 😉
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Diana, perfume as a birthday present to yourself is obligatory. Go for it!
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Thank you, Neva! I’m grateful for your wise words 😉
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Chanel Bois des Isles today, in tribute to a special soul that reminds me of this heavenly scent.
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Post workout post shower sprayed on some Casablanca..the produce lady in my supermarket went gaga over it.
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I hope she was a lady about it. Lady Gaga? 🙄
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Today I was wearing several sprays of First. Was visiting my oldest sis and she asked what I was wafting around me. So then we got to talking vintage and she would love to get her mitts on Kiki. She’s always singing its praises.
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Kiku by Fabergé
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I’ve never heard of Kiku but First is such a classy perfume. Good choice.
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First. Classic ❤️
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And post bath Miss Smally was wearing Powdered Veil and it smelled glorious on her little self.💗
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I am sure it does….you are creating a whole new generation of perfumistas!
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A battle royale going on, on my skin. First proper testing of MEM. The lavender and ylang have been duking it out all day. In between rounds the animals come out to play and deposit all sorts of bodily fluids on the battlefield. MEM is not having a good time on my skin. And the feeling is mutual.
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Oh dear. That does not sound like a good perfume day. Maybe set it aside until the spring, and try again then on a warm, bright day?
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Sounds like an idea. So…..that would be early May. Still such a long way to go 😒
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As I expected, I spent all Sunday following up on the sale. I forgot to come on here and say that I was wearing Azemour Les Orangers.
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I’ve been considering trying Azemour with a view to bolstering my spring/summer line-up. How would you describe it? Longevity?
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