Saturday Question: What Is Your Sweetest Fragrance?

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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: Marcellavmiller

eMail me at (portia underscore turbo at yahoo dot com dot au) with your address please

Saturday Question: What Is Your Sweetest Fragrance?

We talk often of the sweet cataclysm in the 1990s that started with Angel. It’s extraordinary riff on patchouli and ethyl maltol (fairy floss) but sweet had already been around for nearly a century. Shalimar, with its fabulous lemon ice cream and animal was created in 1925. The vanilla craze that amber and the fragrances that looked dreamily towards the far east was also sweet in an entirely different way. There was fruity sweet, civet and musk sweet and a plethora of other ingredients that had sweetened up our perfume long before the current craze for candy came along.

My Answer:

OK, I have a few but I think the sweetest in the candy realm is Liberté by Cacharel. Sizzling citrus and fairy floss on a clean swept patchouli base.

For the sweetness that warms, cuddles, gives me the feeling of safety and strength then I think the winner is Ambre Céruléen by Huitieme Art. Pierre Guillaume is one of my favourites. Yes, he’s super hot……. Here’s my all time favourite shot of him. Now, THAT is sweet! What a honey.

Apart from that, he has a way with sweet that is even more deft than Guerlain. Somehow he manages to make sweetness dry and never sickly or stomach churning. I never feel my teeth rotting from a few spritzes and the sweetness feels rich and cozy rather than screechy, bakery or totally food oriented. Here I find sweetness that could, if this is how your mind runs, be called masculine leaning.

 

My Saturday Question to you is:

What Is Your Sweetest Fragrance?

52 thoughts on “Saturday Question: What Is Your Sweetest Fragrance?”

  1. Sometimes it just has to be sweet, comforting after the evening bath. Loukhoum by Keiko Mecheri, or Traversee du Bosphore maybe.
    Makes the hubband sniff your neck. Hehe.

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  2. My favorite sweet fragrance is Dior Hypnotic Poison, intoxicating warm and sweet. I have loved it since the day I first wore it years ago.
    Runner-up is Indult Tihota for sweet gourmand vanilla.
    PG Ambre Ceruleen has been on my to-try wishlist.

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  3. As usual I have a hard time answering this as the lines are always blurred with regard to what is technically mine Chez Marzipan. So I will say there is Pink Sugar, Black Flower Mexican Vanilla, Vanille Abricot , Flowerbomb ,Ginger Biscuit, Vanilla Vera Cruz , Vanille Insensee and Casmir in full bottles strewn all around the house including the basement ( I am sure I am forgetting half a dozen others!! )

    That which is exclusively mine, well, probably my custom blend Brigitte might be the sweetest. I also have Tocca’s discontinued Brigitte which has pannetone as a note but there’s only about 1 ml left in that bottle.
    Of that which is

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  4. I tend to avoid sweet scents as they make me queasy. Therefore I nominate my blind buys, Agonist Isis and Guerlain Angelique Noir and TF Noir de Noir. Explains why I won’t blind buy if i can avoid it 😁

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  5. Same house as you Portia. Pierre Guillaume’s Sucre d’Ebène. As you have mentioned, while some of Pierre’s fragrances can be described as sweet, they are not cloying or foodie sweet. Dry sweet is the perfect descriptor. Sucre d’Ebène has one of the most addictive notes that I have ever smelled. A toasted brown sugar with a somewhat herbal twist. I’m certain it’s the witch hazel contributing it’s magic. A rich nuttiness adds considerable depth. It’s a cozy, snuggly scent but soft and airy. I have only a few more wearings left in my bottle and will probably replace it when it’s done. It fills a slot in my fall and the season that follows (which shall not be named!) like no other does.

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  6. I had to think about this, I may not have a lot of sweet fragrances. Slowdive maybe because of the honey, and Calling All Angels is a sweet incense, and Traversée as was mentioned before. And I think Sultan Pasha’s Sohan d’iris with its honey, chocolate and almonds…! Do violet scents like Misia fall in this category? Or linden?

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  8. I have few sweet scents, even if both Theorema and Dior Ambre Nuit have sweetness mixed in.

    I would say Prada Candy ( the original) is the sweetest, with a burnt caramel note. But I also own the dense Casmir, which Brigitte already mentioned. I haven’t got anything with more vanilla, and don’t own any scent with much stewed fruit or plum.

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  9. So my comment is awaiting moderation, sorry Portia, must have a typo in the email address or something! I just put on the very sweet Prada Candy, not out of place at all on a lazy and rainy day.

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  10. I am not a fan of very sweet perfumes, especially if they are gourmand. I have several in my collection, but I have to be in a very specific mood to wear them and that doesn’t happen very often. I would say that Hiram Green Slowdive, Floris Honey Oud, L’Aromatica Kulfi and Tauerville Rose Flash are the ones that I like the most. The least that I like in my collection is Philosophy Fresh Cream. Others that I enjoy from time to time are Lolita Lempika, Casmir, Queen Latifah Queen and Lush Rose Jam.
    I swapped my bottles of Angel and Prada Candy long time ago as well as the decant of Aquolina Pink Sugar. They became at some point headache inducing. However, I have to say that I appreciate Angel a lot.

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  13. Of things that i actually wear, my sweetest scents are Lolita Lempicka – the original and Sweet. I know I have a bottle of Pink Sugar somewhere and that is definitely the sweetest thing I own!

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  15. Sweet tends to get amplified and really sweet on my skin, so I don’t wear sweet scents too often. The ones I do enjoy are Hermès L’Ambre des Merveilles, Givenchy Organza, YSL Opium parfum (the 1977 version), and Lolita Lempicka L de Lolita (which drives Dear Husband wild, he loves it so much it’s embarrassing).

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  16. Wohoo, Casmir is getting major mention here. It’s good to see it. And I’ll agree with all others who said that. I’ll add Guerlain Insolence, Lolita Lempicka Coral Flower, Montale Intense Tiare and Al Rehab White Full. I’m sure I’ll think of more. And congratulations Marcella on PPP win. Yippee.

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    • OOO you reminded me that I have the Tiare too..I think..some sort of Tiare from Montale…and yes, it is sweet for sure!

      I sprayed Casmir on my hand and my goodness does it bloom beautifully in this blasted heat wave! So wouldn’t you know it eldest smelled it in the air and promptly placed the bottle in her go back to her apartment bag!!! LOL! Guess that bottle is gone now.

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  17. I generally dislike sweet scents and avoid them at all costs. One exception is Penhaligon’s The Tragedy of Lord George from their Portraits collection. It’s a beautiful sweet, boozy shaving cream on me.

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  19. Definitely for me Hypnotic Poison Dior and Lira by Xerjoff are the sweetest from my collection. But anyway i love them a lot 😜😜

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  21. I’m not a fan of candy sweetness; I think my olfactory sweet “tooth” leans in the direction of honey. I’d probably say that Seville a l’Aube is the sweetest-smelling fragrance that I wear regularly.

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  23. I’m with you on the Ambre Céruléen, the sweetest powderiest one I own, but so comfy. Also Fantasy by Britney Spears. The opening of Coromandel is pretty sweet, but it doesn’t stick around. Maybe Sables by Goutal as well? X

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  24. I do not like sweet perfumes too much though I have some favorites. The sweetest perfume in my collection that I can think of is Captured in Amber from En Voyage Perfumes.

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  25. Isn’t it funny when we read someone else’s reply that we remember that we’ve got it as well.? e.g. for me
    Britney Spears Fantasy.I’ve also got some Al rehab oils. One of them called Soft. It’s very sweet. I looked it up on Fragantica and lots of people said it smells like Aquolina Pink Sugar……and it does.
    I’m sure I’ll remember some more !! XX

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  26. Like some others here, I am not a big fan of sweet and I am still looking for a vanilla that I love; I seem to associate vanilla and sweet very closely. Perhaps the sweetest is something like The Body Shop’s Madagascan Vanilla Flower, purchased when I just wanted everything, and definitely a blind buy. I still want everything – except really sweet vanillas.
    I am willing to try anything from M. Guillaime, however. Yowzers! I can only imagine how good he must smell.
    Congrats on your win, marcellavmiller.

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  27. I am an unashamed fangirl of sweet, frags in this category are some of my favorites–Comptoir Sud Pacifique (especially their many vanilles), Laura Mercier (the eau gourmands), and Chabaud (lait series). Also FSSA’s Cara.

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