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Portia
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Hello Fellow Fumies,
At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.
Over 100 responses I will draw a Secret Scent Sample Pack (from my collection)
Last Weeks Winner:
eMail me at (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with your address please
Saturday Question: What Are You Waiting For?
Are you expecting a parcel? Have you shopped or is a friend sending you a package? Maybe there’s a bottle you desperately want and your waiting for available funds to purchase it? No matter how your waiting for your fragrant thing, tell us what, how, why and where it’s coming from…
My Answer:
OK, so one of the FaceBook groups do a bulk order from First In Fragrance every second month here in Australia. It’s usually a few bottles and when last I hosted it someone’s PayPal was a waiting to be cleared when the order went through so I covered it. That meant I’ve had those Euros sitting in my account awaiting splurge time.
Hiram Green – Slowdive
I bought the 10ml of Slowdive when it first came out and fell madly in love. Then another friend also fell madly in love so I gave her my 10ml and then I was sad. HA! So when I saw Slowdive on special this month at FiF I jumped on it so quick.
Caron – Pour un Homme Millésime
A few orders ago FiF sent me a sample of the new and improved Caron Pour un Homme. It felt creamier and more rapturously glamorous, a cur well above the original but still recognisable as a flanker of the original. You know how much I love the first, even in its current iteration. I saw that someone else was grabbing this and got excited.
Parfumerie Générale – Aomassaï No.10
“Inspired by Southern Africa and the art of the Baoulé tribe” all the yummy warming stuff with hay, incense and woods. It’s no secret how highly I rate Pierre Guillaume as a perfumer. Can’t wait to get a bottle of this beauty and spritz lavishly.
A package from fragrancenet which has two massively discounted Escada LE bottles for the eldest mini Marzipan’s birthday since she thunked her two other bottles. I also added a mini of Ombre Rose for myself for three bucks and a travel spray of Safari for 12 bucks to get to free shipping because I have wanted more Safari for a long time. This box was coming from a neighboring state but they sent it down south to Kentucky and now back up to Pennsylvania so it’s taking longer to get here!!!!
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Ombre Rose is a lovely addition to your order and gift for yourself. It is such a vintage powdery rose musk, so gorgeous for such a relatively low price.
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I haven’t worn it in 40 years. You get the enabler pin because you told me about that mini a while ago and I have been wanting it 😃😃
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I hope it is still a love for you after all of these years! Every time I wear it, I’m reminded how much I love it (even more than Malle Lipstick Rose and Chanel Misia!)
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I will love it because it will be a transportive scent taking me back to my teenage years wearing it in ballet class in Manhattan. A fellow ballerina turned me on to it back then!!!
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What a great question! I am (mostly) waiting for next month’s trip to Italy (first time in Tuscany and Florence!) so I can splurge on some Italian fragrances! Suggestions, anyone? We’ll be in Tuscany for a week and then splitting a week between Florence and Venice. Santa Maria Novella is on the list!
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Oooo yes to Santa Maria Novella!!! That would be my suggestion! There is another house but the name escapes me. Off to research.
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Profumi do Firenzi…..adored their Amber do Napale…..
Profumum Roma….love Aqua di Sale.
And have fun🛫🛫
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Thanks! All ideas and suggestions will be gratefully received!
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Looking forward to reading your posts on your sniffing adventures in Italy when you return.
Safe travels!!!!!
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Villoresi! Do try some of his perfumes, and the scented candle Mediterraneo is very nice. I think the candles still come in both mini and a more standard size.
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Yes! Yes! Great suggestion 👍👌
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Hey there OH! I’m with Brigitte,
Profumo di Firenze Ambre de Nepal is amazing. I also have a bottle of their Patchouli but I can’t remember the rest of the name (I need to remind it)
O M G! Have you been to Santa Maria Novella in Florence? It’s amazing. We had a ball testing and seeing all the extra things other than perfume.
Venice also has a couple of choice perfumeries, one on the Ponte Vecchio and another in the maze of alleys behind the main square.
Have a spectacular time.
Portia xx
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I can’t wait! I’ve never been to Florence, or Venice, or Tuscany. Four weeks from now …
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OMG!!! I was there in 1994 and loved all three! You will have a spectacular time!!! Enjoy!!!!!
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My husband is going to be in Florence and I want him to bring back some of the Santa Maria Novella liqueurs. I’ve always been intrigued by the connection between perfumers and distillers 🙂
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Ooo interesting! Let us know what he brings back!
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And thanks ,P, for creating a new lemming with that Pour Un Gimme flanker.
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What the h$ll??? Again??
HOMME
HOMME
HOMME
You would think by now that autocorrect would get it right 😤😠😡
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Ah stop! We are just gonna have to rename that. The universe is telling you . Pour in Gimme Intense🤣
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Un. Grrrr it strikes again😡
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LoL 🙃🙃
Yes, I think we need to officially rename it
I might just call it Gimme from here on in.
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But Pour Un Gimme is SO awesome!!
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Yeah I may keep it as such from here on in 😁😁
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Please do. Pour un GIMME! Is Hilarious.
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Agreed, it sounds great! Lavender is one of my favourite notes.
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What are your favorite lavender perfumes?
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YSL Rive Gauche Pour Homme is my undisputed number 1.
Other favourites:
Xerjoff Alexandria II
Prada Luna Rossa Extreme
YSL La Nuit de L’Homme
Tom Ford Beau de Jour
Chanel Platinum Egoiste
How about yourself?
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St Clair Scents First Cut
Pour Un Homme
Hermes Brin de Reglisse
Yardley English Lavender -before reformulated- I wore it in the late 70s
Kyse Perfumes Lavanda something…the name escapes me but it’s a gourmand lavender that smells like a lavender shortbread cookie
Eden Botanicals Lavender Absolute
Eden Botanicals Lavender Malette
Jo Malone Amber & Lavender
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Check out Crikey’s Instagram. She had lovely words for First Cut!
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Oooo thank you!!!
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Gimme a Job Malone sip for our Mimi 🤣
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You
Are
So
Bad
Lol
😈😈😈
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I
Know
😜
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L
O
L
🙃
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Portia’s gonna get mad at us for playing our games.
Should
We
Stop
It
?
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I‘m waiting for a train to Vienna – leaves next Wednesday morning at 08:30. B.londeswunder and I will go get a 50ml Chanel Deauville and samples of the Rivierra. That‘s the plan. 😎
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Oooooh Val, envy! Let me know what you think of Riviera!
I’m trying to be patient for my trip to Dallas first weekend in Sept to get my nose on Riviera in the Chanel boutique there.
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You have the BEST life. I am so happy you and Hannah are besties. Hug BJTG and the whole crew from me please.
Portia xx
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Oopsie!!! Forgot yesterday’s order! A free travel spray of Jo Malone Velvet Rose and Our for eldest Mimi cause she’s wanted this for a long time and a bar of soap for youngest mini for his graduation present as the Job Malone’s are his favorite luxury soaps.
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OMG!!!!! I give up!!!
Eldest mini!!! Not Mimi!!!!
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You are the queen of the autocorrects! I turned mine off long ago. More trouble than it was worth, especially since I type frequently in both English and French.
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Wait…what??? You can turn it off?!?
I will ask the minis how to do this!!!
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On iPad it’s under Settings-General-Keyboard.
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Turn it off? Where????
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I am on an iPad. You go under Settings-General-Keyboards and turn off Auto Correct.
So sorry about your BF’s surgery, wishing him a successful outcome and speedy and complete healing.
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And Job Malone. I swear I’m crying laughing here.
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I am crying too but for different reasons lol 😨
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And I see two more-
Oud not Our
And….
Jo not Job….
Sheesh!!!!!
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🙂
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Typos aside, it looks like your perfume no-buy went poof!
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Not really as these are gifts . Unless you are counting the $3 mini and $12 dollar travel spray that I bought to avoid $8 shipping fee?
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Hajuusuri math says they don’t count so I did not break my no buy 😈😈😇
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And I am counting on my APJ family to back me up on this one 🤣🤣
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Slowdive is just great. I only have a small decant but full bottle incoming in the future. For now i’m expecting a package on the next week with a bottle of Clementine California from Atelier Cologne 😋 perfect for the summer heat 👌🏻
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So many of the Ateliers are perfect for summer….I also like Orange Sanguine.
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Solid one for summer 👌🏻
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YAY for Atelier Cologne Alen. I just saw the newest bottle for Orange Sanguine and It might just tip me over the edge to a buy.
Portia xx
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I want that bottle too! You know me P, and my addiction to bottle porn😉
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New bottle? Tell me more, my 30 ml bottle is running low, so maybe I should get a bigger one.
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It’s a limited edition in the most amazing shade of blue…. gorgeous!
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https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/atelier-cologne-orange-sanguine-10-year-anniversary-limited-edition-3-4-oz-100-ml-prod222550264?navpath=cat000000_cat000730_cat25120735
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Beautiful blue, but I don’t really like the decorations on the bottle. What a relief, I have other things on my want list!
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LOL 🤣 😂
Well good that I squashed that lemming!
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Yes, absolutely!
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🙂
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Funds… or rather decisions about available funds…and then Iunx Talc, a FB of Shangri-La (discontinued and still some available at least last time I looked), and a FB of Unter den Linden (April Aromatics).
Opportunity to smell Les Eaux de Chanel, and 1957, I think it needs a visit to Amsterdam, and then possibly more funds…and samples of the last Papillon (fur of the cat or something, I never bought a Papillon, I often think this will be the one but even Dryad didn’t click with me), and this years Essences Insensees (Dyptique), tiaré…
Slowdive is gorgeous!
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OOOOOH Hamamelis! Didn’t know Diptyque had a new Insensees out. Exciting news.
Talc sounds so good. I was just in Paris and am bummed I didn’t know. Oh well, it’s not like I will run out of choice.
Portia x
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I would be a lot more excited about the Diptique Tiare LE if it wasn’t $250 usd and a puffer sprayer, which I hate.
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😨😰
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Slowdive is on my wishlist. I loved my sample and shared it with brother-in-law now all gone. Twisted Lily has had 20% off sales; however, Slowdive has always been out of stock. So I’m waiting……..
I’m now waiting for my fragrance.net order (they are slow to deliver but can’t beat the prices). I ordered bottle of Boucheron in EDT and EDP and a mini of Dali.
Also, I’m waiting for small decants from TPC of Dior Feve Delieuse (per Ingeborg’s recommendation, thank you!), Dior Ambre Nuit, and Ormande Jayne Rose Gold.
And I was waiting but received my bottle of Annick Goutal Songes from beautyencounter yesterday.
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S❤️nges. Swoon. Have enough here to do me til I go toes-up.
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I am loving Songes, and have coveted a bottle ever since I read the book Coming to my Senses by Alyssa Harad, and she chose Songes as her wedding fragrance.
Such a special perfume, I’m so happy to add it to my collection. Mutual love for us, eh? And I adore the bottle!
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And one NST reader also adores it. It’s understandable😍
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Ooh, I love Dali! Those minis of the parfum are terrific!
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Really? I’m so glad to hear you love Dali! I’ve read about it over the years, and never got to try it in its glory days. I am really enjoying exploring fragrances from that era, when perfumes enveloped you and had longevity and sillage!
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I have three minis of the Dali parfum, which is different from the “parfum de toilette” (and I think better). Love it!
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So happy to hear Dali is a love! I’m excited to experience it.
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Nice!!! Glad you got Songes!!!!
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I was looking at those Boucheron samples off the new, already discounted, exclusives line. The bottles look very plain but Brigitte wa excited about one of them and now I’m kinda lemming.
Dior Feve Delieuse is fricken beautiful. As is songs. YUMMY stuff heading your way.,
Portia xx
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Ahaha….we have pl67 to thank for our lemmings of those Boucherons cause I really like the Iris de Syracuse sample that she sent me!!!
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I’ve ordered the original Boucherons in the blue and clear glass bottles, which I adored in the 90s and recently re-visited and couldn’t believe I forgot about them. And then I noticed the new to me exclusives, and the samples available from fragrance net. Iris de Syracuse and Ambre de Alexandrie are definitely on my next order!
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Those original Boucheron EdT and EdP are still stellar even now. I love the and they still get some wear around here. So glad of this reminder.
Portia xx
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I am waiting for funds… could be a long wait. But I plan to sell some backup bottles so I can buy the Papillon Bengal Rouge. Gotta have it.
I looooove Slowdive too.
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New Papillon? Nose quivering here.
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Ditto
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I am with you, Tara, can’t wait to try it!
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Sell!!!! So you can get that Papillon!!!!
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Yeah, that Bengal Rouge is calling my name too TaraC. I haven’t bought any ofd the Papillon bottles yet, I feel like a bum. They are all wonderful in different ways and I definitely think I’d wear them but I have had some decants.
Portia xx
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I’m not waiting on anything in the post. I swear I’m not lying.
But I’m waiting on the release of Bengale Rouge, like a few others here. I’m also waiting to visit Floral Street in London next weekend. Hope I have time to get in there.
Think that’s all. Oh, I’m still waiting to win the lotto, no sign yet. . .
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You and me both on that Lotto win!!! I would not have to worry about funding college and could quit my job and all the female drama that is currently happening 😉
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And hire a gardener. And buy a place in Florida. The possibilities are endless😃
Plus PERFUME.
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I would become a mad scientist in my basement and make oil blends for everyone and hand deliver them to you all as I travel the world
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Yeah, I wish all of our APJ family a big LOTTO or any kind of pools win before Xmas. Something above 6 figures for everyone.
Portia xx
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You ought to be waiting on a ‘bday’ card from me, no less. I have all the supplies on hand to qualify it as home made. But I need to buy glue. And, there will be something in there for the Smallies, so that they can help you ‘decorate’ your walls 😈
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Haha, I cannot wait! Will there be glitter? Will there be shiny things? Will there be a wig for Smally? 🤔 A wig, you might ask? OMG you should see the picture I got from my daughter yesterday evening. Smally was upstairs with her magazines cutting out pictures when she took a notion to trim her own fringe. The results are catastrophic 😂 she not only trimmed the fringe almost to the butt, she took a huge swipe off the top and from each side. So she’s now got the most unspectacular mullet. And her hair was so gorgeous. She saw herself in the mirror and started bawling, and her mam and dad probably had harsh words as well, though they were trying desperately not to laugh at the same time. So granddad and I had to talk to her to try and distract her. Poor thing was still sobbing. I couldn’t stop laughing every time I saw the pics because I was also a demon scissorhands at her age.
Oh, forgot to ask, will there be perfume😉
Yippeee
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All will be revealed when you open the package 😉.
Poor Smally. But don’t tell her I’m laughing too. My youngest daughter did the same. I guess she was about four or five. Blonde, very curly hair. She thought if she cut in a fringe her hair would be straighter 🤣 Wound up with short, tightly curled corkscrews springing out of her hairline. She cried as well but directed her next hairdressing attempts at the overpopulation of Barbie dolls we had breeding in the playroom. Her older sister was beyond furious 🤣.
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Wheeeee I love surprise perfume packages💃🏻. Oh gawd, tiny sticky-out corkscrews must have looked hilarious. Kids do the damnedest things😉
I shall await sort of patiently for my soopwise
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I hope it gets there. I’ve addressed the envelope already:
Cassieflower
Of APJ,
Ireland
I figure that ought to do it. I’m sure you’re known around those parts 😊
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It’s sure to find me. I’m famous 😂
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I bet you are 😝😜😘
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Hey Brigitte, ask her what she’s famous for! I wanna know. Don’t tell her I asked you to ask, k?
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Cassie, a little 🐦 wants to know what you are famous for 🤣
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And it’s not me 🤥
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Not waiting for anything in particular. BUT
Leaving for Dubai, Crete and Capri tomorrow and there is lots of empty room in my suitcase…to be continued!
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Ooooh, however will you fill it? 🤔
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Oooo!!!! Let us know what you get!!!!
And safe travels!
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Have the most stellar holiday JackieB,
Summer in the glamour centres of the world. AMAZING!
Portia xx
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Thank you for all the wishes. Yes, all the glamorous people lying on lounges in their bikinis, sipping Spritzes and getting tans.
And then there’s me. Hehe
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Im waiting for my annual home leave to Switzerland in 2 weeks. Then I shall sniff to my hearts content (no niche whatsoever here in Chile and not a lot of the higher end department store perfumes either). And at the end of said home leave, hopefully I’ll owe a new bottle 😁
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YAY for holidays. Enjoy your Swiss break and sniff like CRAZY Mariann,
Portia xx
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Andy Tauer has a new release coming up too, no details but he put up a teaser of FB this week. Yay!
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Really? This is exciting news!
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Yay! Wonderful news and I am so looking forward to Tauer’s new release!
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I’m not waiting for anything either. Songe seems to get a lot of love.I’ve never had a chance to sniff it.
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Hey Matty,
Songes is creamy vanilla, white floral and citrus. Beautiful fragrance.
Portia xx
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What is FiF? I am dying to own Hiram Green.
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First in Fragrance, I think. Fantastic German perfume shop.
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Yes, First In Fragrance.
Portia xx
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Waiting for the ethylmaltol caramel trend and the harsh woody-amber trend to die.
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Hiya JHX,
The ethylmaltol has been huge since 1992 and no signs of it slowing.
Since so many of our favourite perfume bases have been restricted or banned there is far less scope and that woodsy oud smell has filled the gap.
Amber has been around as a major player since at least 1978 with L’Artisan’s L’Eau d’Ambre, you’re going to have to live with it too I’m afraid.
We are due a new thing, it should be along soon. I hope it’s to your taste.
Portia xx
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Uh, and that musk filler that takes over from 20 mins in until the last 20 mins of dry down. Yawn. Puts me off all the recent mainstream scents of late. Joy Dior, Beautiful Belle Lauder, Burberry Her etc.
Delicious Delights’ Arlene calls it ‘lady musk’. Cracks me up, but she is right.
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The juvenile boy here is grinning.
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Waiting for funds, mostly, but as I am in San Francisco this week a few $ might find their way into my hands for a birthday gift from my husband. (Although he usually finds out after the fact that he’s bought me something!)
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There is no better way to celebrate your birthday than buying something for yourself and making your loved ones give it to you MMKinPA. Best thinking ever. Everybody wins.
Happy choosing.
Portia xx
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Lol!!! I do the same thing. ….” Look,guys,at the beautiful perfume that you bought me for my birthday” 🤣🤣
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so relieved I am not the only one! 🙂
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🤣🤣
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But it’s very considerate to buy your own pressie from your husband as it saves them the time and brain drain. ☺️
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And don’t forget that the kids can each buy you a bottle too 😁
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Of course! And they can be really generous ☺️
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Which is how I ended up with four bottles this year 😈😈
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Oh!!!! And you have grandkids too!!!! Even more fragrant gifties!!
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And then Smally can help me use it up. Win win.
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Hysterical 😂! But so true!!!
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Waiting anxiously for the new Guerlain Ylang coming from Paris, and a pristine vintage bottle of Black Tie by Oleg Cassini that I found online for BUBKIS! (cheap as chips)
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Oleg Casini!! Haven’t heard that name in eons!! And good for you getting it for bubkis !!!
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OOOOHHHH! New Guerlain! Be still my beating heart……
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I am crouched in front of the mousehole that is Fragrancebuy for the wee sleekit mousie of a 10 ml Oud Satin Mood. I succeeded with Baccarat Rouge 540, and one day OSM will be mine.
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Are they selling decants or travel sizes? I don’t see it on their site.
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Search under “travel spray”
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Don’t tell me this!!!!!! 😆
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@Tara, it would be a travel spray. Vancouver fragrance friends have scooped up little bottles of Serge Lutens, with the fancy case no less, so I am sure that fragrancebuy will come though for me – one day.
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What is fragrancebuy?
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It’s a Canadian discounter site like Fragrancenet.
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On a serious no-buy ( YTD = $0.00) but searching for a sample of 1957. Living in the middle of nowhere makes even mainstream stuff so hard to sniff. Still, I have been having so much fun playing in my own collection.
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Wow!!! I am so impressed by your conviction!!! I need to remind myself to also play with my collection.
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Tena, it really helps to narrow down our tastes, hey? I am actually grateful for this financially tight year. I have become so much more intimate with notes, so I can pinpoint what I will consider buying, or not.
Being far away from places to sniff is a bitter-sweet thing.b
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Tena, send me an eMail please with your address.
Portia x
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A whole lot of samples! Besides the Chanel and Hermes I’ve never tried these so I’m looking forward to checking them out:
Armani – Attitude Extreme
Chanel – Platinum Egoiste
Hermes – Terre d’Hermes Perfume
Xerjoff – Zefiro
Zegna – Sicilian Mandarin
A*Men – Ultra Zest
Sospiro – Laylati
Tom Ford – Noir Anthracite
Xerjoff – Richwood
Sospiro – Ensemble
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Nice list!!!!
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Oh and I forgot to day that Platinum Egoist is phenomenal…. someone I dated a long time ago wore it….
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Agreed. I always spray it when I’m in DJs/Myer. I thought I’d grab s sample before (probably) pulling the trigger on a full bottle!
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Let us know if you get the bottle! I say you should 😉
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PHWOAR!! Cool list jd.
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I am waiting for
My own cherries to macerate and get them to the distillery for my own cherry spirits…
Sadly i am also waiting for an appointment for the boyfriend on friday. He has to undergo prostatectomy…poor darling. My old university pal will do it, he gladly is supposed to be an expert
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You get to make your own? So nice.
Hoping for an uneventful procedure for your boyfriend
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A few things. First, TRNP’s newest scents. I visited Teone mid last month and got a flying trial of them all. Two are perfumes of her incense range, which are a hit with my eldest, Harsono. There are some terrific masculines I am keen to get my hands on.
Second, VELVET SPLENDOUR by Goldfield & Banks. Dimitri, if you are reading this, my thanks. You created one of Australia’s best ever scents. That mimosa is superb. It will be my treat/self gift for becoming qualified.
Third, that elusive bottle of Le Maroc Pour Elle by the talented and ‘Can I please spend a day in your company?!’ Andy Tauer. Just a funds issue. I am patient.
Last, yet another bottle of Chloe Nomade shower gel. Sheer laziness to go to DJs to buy. It has become a necessity item.
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You visited Teone???!!!! Next time please, please, please can I tag along. Teone!!!! Squeee!
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What a woman she is!
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OOOOOH! Kate, I didn’t know there was a Nomad shower gel. LEMMING!
You guys have me super interested in Velvet Splendour now too.
Portia xx
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I’ve been through a lot of the shower gels. 🙊
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Did you say “mimosa”?! 🙂
I like this brand, so now I’ll need to get a sample… And then I have something to wait for in mail 🙂
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I’ll be very interested in what you think of it, Undina. It is not a powdery, demure mimosa at all.
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Velvet Splendour is wonderful, husband bought it for me for our anniversary. It has mimosa (australian wattle?), opoponax and tonka bean. Super yummy but not overly sweet. I love it, best so far! And I have a bottle signed by Dimitri himself (he visited Montréal last week).
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Tara C, congratulations on your anniversary! You obviously chose a grand husband. He chose your present wisely.
Opoponax is possibly what gives VS it’s sparkle.
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He’s a jewel for sure. He’s contributed many bottles to my collection and loves my perfume hobby.
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I agree! He’s a keeper!!
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Awww, that is SO romantic! You are both fortunate.
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I wore Cartier L’Envol edp for the first time and while top notes are not exactly my favorite, the fragrance bloomed after just 15 minutes or so. I am so impressed I think it might be the best perfume I have smelled this year and might also be the best designer creation I have smelled in a long time. It does not hurt that I also have Ted Lapidus Envol and love it. Mathilde Laurent has done an amazing job on this one though I don’t think Envol has gained much popularity in fragrance forums, unlike Declaration d’Un soir, also from Mathilde, which I did not like and sold within a week or so.
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Love that bottle for Cartier L’Envol Fazal. thanks for the heads up on how good it is. I’ll try it.
Portia xx
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I’m waiting for a chance (i.e. funds) to buy a fb of Bel Respiro. I fell so deeply in love 🥰 with it late last year- thank you, Mel and Jacki for my samples.
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Hey Jyotsna,
Bel Respiro! I have tried it numerous times in the mall but never spent alone time (if my memory serves). I usually love the CHANEL Exclusives, thanks for the reminder.
Portia xx
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I absolutely love Bel Respiro! I had a decant some five years ago and thought it was so beautiful and utterly wearable. I’ve been hesitating to try it again, wondering if it’s been reformulated since then.
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Yes reformulated to EDP for more money 😣
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Why am I not surprised 😒
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I’m not waiting on anything. I do not even have anything on my “to buy” list – maybe a couple of samples… maybe. I wanted to say that “but several others are waiting for something from me” but it took me so long to finally put together the packages, that I don’t think they are even waiting for those any longer 🙂 But they go into the post on Monday.
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Hey undina,
Don’t beat yourself up. All of our lives get in the way of perfume. Sometimes I find the ennui utterly stultifying.
Then I get back in the saddle and go crazy again.
Portia xx
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I’m waiting on some Issey Miyake Bleue and L’artisan D’Ambre Extreme to arrive – must be close.
And when I save up my pocket money again I think Witchdoctor from Libertine. And when I win xlotto some Camel by Zoologist
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Isn’t Camel amazing?
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Tena, Camel is amazing. First time I tried it I wasn’t that sure but second time was like Wow and now I think I need more xo
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Heya Melanie,
L’artisan D’Ambre Extreme is YUMMY! Are you awaiting Issey Miyake Bleue Pour Homme or did they do a girls version?
Portia xx
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Bleue Pour Homme – I loved the pepper so much xx
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100% with you. Bleue is excellent on me too. I may have bought a bottle in the not too distant past. YAY!
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I noted this on another fragrance group the other day. For the past couple of weeks I have been huffing and sighing sadly after checking the letterbox and back doorstep and finding no fragrance. Remembered on Friday that I haven’t ordered anything!
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HA HA HA HA HA! That’s freaking hilarious Sue.
Portia xx
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Talk about wishful thinking!
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Ooo weee. I’ve got a bottle of Aomassai and just love it to bits. Sooo good for fall and winter. Yum. Discovered Slowdive only a few weeks ago and it’s a beauty so I’ve got a decant for when the weather gets cooler again.
I’m waiting impatiently to get a sniff of Liz Moores’ latest, Bengale Rouge. I think it’s out in August and Crikey gave it a resoundingly gorgeous review!
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I think many APJers are waiting for that Papillon!!
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I am eagerly waiting for the newest from Papillon!
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It looks that way. I posted first and then read all the other comments. A lot of folks wanting to get their sniffer on that one. My average with Papillon is good with three out of her current five being ‘love it’ for me, so I’m optimistic.
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I like everything I have sampled from the house as well even if I can’t wear Salome out in public!
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You make me worry about that 🤣. I happily wear it out and about, but I wonder if I’m giving off the wrong signals?? Maybe what I smell is not what others are smelling? Oops!
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Ha! I doubt it. I am sure it smells exquisite on you, both in and out of the house.
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I think it does…..but, then again 🤨. It must, cuz it’s one of LH’s favourites. But……then again….maybe he’s just a dirty old man 😉
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