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Portia
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Hi APJ,
A SOTD (Scent Of The Day) thread is a really good conversation generator. The idea is you’ll chime in through the week with whatever scent you are wearing. You don’t need to be super knowledgable, have high faluting tastes or be a published author to comment. Just tell us what fragrance you’re wearing, smelling, buying etc. and how it makes you feel and/or anything else about it that tickles your fancy.
You can also comment on everyone else choices too. It’s great to tell someone how much you love their choice, ask for more info about it, the house or perfumer. There’s someone here from around the world 24/7 and perfume people love to chat.
SOTD 13.1-19.1.2020
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
I randomly picked up a sample of Une Rose and sprayed it today. Forgot how good it is.
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That one is so lovely. Une Rose and Musc Ravageur are my favorite FMs.
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I love, love, love Musc Ravageur. Top five for me!
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The whole collection is the highest quality. There’s so many I’d own if money were no object.
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Love Une Rose. Love it!
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It’s gorgeous and lasts all day.
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Weather much cooler today so going with Winter Woods.
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On a base of homemade neroli cardamom body lotion….yum…
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Vol de Nuit vintage extrait by Guerlain from the gold cigarette lighter case. My fave flacon from Guerlain by far.
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Nice! I have that one too but must revisit it soon
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I love that case!! It’s very glamorous.
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It feels like I’m a 1970s movie star when I use it Marcella. POSH!
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I sure did love the 70’s!
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P, you ARE a movie star 😍
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SOTb is areej le dore, a sample of Russian Summer, it’s very vintage in mood and smells like a musky fur coat.
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Those fragrances are amazing. I have Flux de Fleur and love it.
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The cold is back. Few sprays of Hermes Ambre Narguile to wake me up. Feeling tired and under the weather today. Hope the day improves!
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I hope you feel better soon!!! At least you smell good 😉. Does it remind you a bit of Bengal Rouge?
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Thank you! AN has a Bengal Rouge vibe for sure.
I wanted to let you know that I finished the sample of your Jergens scent yesterday. How did you make it? It is so soft and powdery. Very, very addictive and it lasted on my skin the whole day. A Big winner on me. It put a smile on my face!
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I used the bottle of Fille de Berlin and added my homemade vanilla bean oil and Eden Botanicals bitter almond oil ( which isn’t bitter at all… very sweet and marzipan like). I was going for that cherry almond vibe.
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It is amazing!
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Glad you like it!!
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Brigitte’s Jergen scent is amazing! I love it too. Brigitte could be a perfumer and market her blend. It would be a big hit and compete with niche/indie perfumers .
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LOL 🤣 😂 thank you for that vote of confidence but I beg to differ🙃 However, I really do enjoy the experimentation aspect as well as sharing with family and friends. You guys are all my guinea pigs 💜💜
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Don’t let that cold take control!
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Trying my best! The real season hasn’t started yet and it is already taking a toll on me. But I will survive!!!!
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That’s the spirit. Perhaps some wanton thunking will empower you to fight harder 😉
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I pulled out Annick Goutal’s La Violette.
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Memo Granada, orange blossom and jasmine. Sits close to my skin so good office fragrance today.
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Nice! That is a great office scent!
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Going to lunch and sniffing with a friend today. Hoping to try some fragrances from Carthusia, which is a new to me house, so I’m commando until then.
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Let us know what you sniffed!!!
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Too many to properly list! The Carthusias I tried on skin were Via Camerelle, Mediterraneo and Terra Mia. First two only lasted an hour on skin, and I didn’t care for the TM.
I had a great time, though!
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That’s too bad about the longevity but glad you had fun sniffing! Only one of my dear friends in real life is obsessed with perfume as much as I am so getting together with her for a sniffathon is a real treat.
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Last of the Sylvaine vanillas today. Virgile, nice herbal opening but like most of this line it’s gone in 15 minutes. What the dickens is it with some perfumes and their zero lasting power?
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cassieflower – I had the same problem with the Sylvaine vanillas – gone in no more than 15 minutes.
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It’s a shame as a couple of them were really good on opening. But no depth or lasting power is a big fat no for me.
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Yeah I don’t like that. Many of the Hermessences do that with me….gone in 60 seconds…..
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We should make a film about disappearing perfume😂
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Ha!
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It would have to be a short film Cassieflower
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Boom 😉
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That’s my pet peeve. I don’t care how knock your socks off the opening is, if it’s gone in less than 4 hours it’s a huge no for me.
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Seriously, there are colognes and skin scents with more longevity. At a fraction of the price.
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This
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Exactly.
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Iunx Eau Blanche today. I found a place in the US that carries a number of the Iunx perfumes and I love the travel sprays. This one isn’t my favorite — that would be Eau Sento — but they are good and very work friendly. (Which means too soft for some!)
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Where do you find Iunx in the US?
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Alder and Co in New York sells some.
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Alderandcoshop.com
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Thank you Brigitte!
I took a peek, IUNX are pricey! I was curious to sample them after Cookie Queen raves about them. perhaps better not go there!
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Brigitte’s got it.
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😀
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Melodie de l’amour.
I haven’t said it before, but my heart goes out to all the Australian wildfire victims. So many people lost their homes, so many animals have perished, it’s heartbreaking.
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Le Mat this morning at 5:30 am. It’s still humming along nicely and so am I. Project inspections done. Multiple meetings done. I think my energy is finally returning. Maybe a return to the gym will be in order next week 🤞
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Wohoo. But softly softly catchy monkey.
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I’ll not forget that phrase! 🤣🤣🤣
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VCA Bois d’Iris today from a sample. One of several EBPs on my desk at work.
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That VC&A prive line has some beautifully constructed scents in its line up Ingeborg. I’ve got the amber but the patchouli also calls to me.
Portia xx
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Oh, didn’t see the amber when I was out sniffing in November. Next time, maybe. I find I use samples of amber perfumes, plus my Ambre Nuit, L’Ambre de Merveille and Fève Délicieuse a lot now
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I have this hiding out somewhere and need to rescue it. It’s the right season for it for me here as things get colder again.
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Unscented just now -which feels weird. Waiting for a little box of samples from scentsamples. First out of the box I want to try is DS & Durga Radio Bombay.
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I am feeling all types of ANGST this morning. I have found a sample of Miller et Bertaux A Quiet Morning in hope it may calm me. Later , if I am relaxed I will tell you a story
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I hope you feel better and more collected soon! Sometimes the right perfume really helps,at least for a little while. Please make sure you get enough sleep,too.
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I agree with you there Ingeborg. All sorts of unpleasant emotions are more likely to surface and present problems when we are low on sleep.
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2 sprays from a sample of TF beau de jour. It is def. inspired by YSL Rive Gauche Pour Homme and Rive Gauche is better in my opinion. If you have Rive Gauche Pour Homme, esp. in the original tin can, beau de jour is redundant.
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Back to the hot weather and the smoke; I’ve been staying inside virtually the whole week so far.
Monday I wore CdG Energy C Lime. I really like this; probably my favourite lime fragrance. Today was Cologne Indelibile, finally thunking my sample of this.
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Carner Barcelona D600 in copious amounts. So good!
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Winter Woods all week because Mr M really likes it on me. It’s a rarity that he comments (except to say something is too strong) so this is a high compliment. He likes Incense Pure too. I think he has a thing for SSS on my skin.
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SSS has gorgeous fragrances, no doubt you smell wonderful.
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I am feeling better about the fact the the company is back in business and I don’t need to worry about thunkin’ a bottle.
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😅 no panic now.
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Yes!!!! I can spray with reckless abandonment.
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Chanel No. 19. Yep, it’s gonna be that kind of a day. A couple of our suppliers are going to get a strip ripped off them this morning. Then, I’ll duck into a phone booth, transform into my charming alter ego and try to smooth talk a potential client into a “signed on the dotted line” client. Bring it on!
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So No. 19 is your get shit done/take no prisoners/superwoman cape kinda perfume. Go out and take on the world, one step at a time😉
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Same here, without any intentions regarding tearing strips off people.
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Loll! It had to be done 😂
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Rose Oud today. Yesss, back to ‘proper’ perfume.
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Aha! No more vapid, disappearing ‘perfumes’. That’s more like it!
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Lipstick Rose by Frederic Malle. Feeling pretty glam right now,
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Flash around your Mitsouko ‘lighter’ and the picture is complete 😉
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Lovely! You’re smelling gorgeous in Lipstick Rose!
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Vintage Chanel No 19 EDT today. I possibly should be wearing something better suited to stinking hot weather, but this one just sort of gravitated into my hand.
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Beautiful scent. Perfect in any weather.
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Memo Siwa. Beautiful yellow floral vanilla. It took me a couple hours until I finally figured out what it reminded me of. Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Ylang & Vanille. I’m going to compare them side by side tomorrow to determine if I am correct.
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Yes, I got that similar vibe too.
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I promised you a story. I will tell it soon . But firstly I wish to say the A Quiet Morning didn’t help me yesterday . A spray of Poeme at a local pharmacy did though. The past 2 days Ballarat ahas been blanketed by smoke. I am staying home and watching tennis. My scent for today is Laura Ashley No 1. Now for my story!!!!.. On Saturday last week the day I was wearing Miracle another “ perfume story ‘ unfolded . Jack is approx 94 years old and he moved into the nursing home in mid November. We immediately clicked . He never married but has a grand nephew named Jason who visits every Saturday. However as well as some fruit Jason bought 2 gifts!!! 2 bottles of ARAMIS!!! After Jason left I asked Jack about the Aramis . Jack told me he had been wearing that scent since the 1980s ! A gentleman of class and taste
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Lovely story. Aramis is a classic.
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The smoke in Ballarat sounds awful. Does it make breathing uncomfortable? Will it sift if the wind changes direction? I can’t imagine living in Australia knowing the such an enormous amount of your country is burning. I’m so sorry.
Gentleman Jack and his Armani’s was such a sweet story ❤️ Thanks for sharing it with us!
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OMG! My post is full of autocorrect bloopers. I’m just gonna leave them. You can all play ‘spot the errors’ 🙄
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Autoerrect poopers😃
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Auto erect?? 😈😈
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Filthy mind 😉
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😃😃😃
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Twas the phone wot did it 😉
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Yeah sure…
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😂🤣😂 Beauty!!!!!!
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Aw that’s just so heartwarming. And Jason is a great guy for bringing him his favourite scent.
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I love that story. Aramis is a classic gorgeous fragrance. I appreciate people who appreciate perfume!
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Winter Woods.
But tonight patchouli oil for yoga class.
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Hurray for yoga!
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The eldest is home to take back my furball and middle one doesn’t head back until Sunday so it will be the three of us. She has been their teacher for 12 years!!!
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Group yoga, even better 😉. I hope Pickles will come back soon for some more sleepovers
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Me too 😩😩
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Awww! Don’t worry, she will 🤞
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Taking it easier today. Yesterday wiped me out and I’m still feeling the effects. This seems like the millionth day of cloud, so I’m wearing Carnal Flower to remind me that winter is not the only season we have 😎
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You need to take things slowly 🐢🐢🐢🐢
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Apparently so 😒
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I wish there was a sloth emoji cause that’s what I woul be posting now 🙃
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The turtle was pretty good. I had a nice chuckle out of that!
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Back to testing the Sylvaines and I’m on the orange blossom set now. Orzana is the first out. Spray spray spray. It’s 4711. Honestly, that’s what I’m getting. Not saying that I don’t like it. Not at all. But.
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But? You’re underwhelmed?
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But. 4711 is cheap as chips😉 To be fair though, the longevity is pretty good. I’m kinda surprised that it’s still humming along quietly.
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There’s a plus. 4711 lasts about 20-30 mins on me. And, I actually don’t like how it smells 😂
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That’s the scent of my childhood. That and Nivea.
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I actually love 4711 original. But I’d need someone to accompany me to hose me down with it every 10 minutes or so. Unbelievably, Orzane is still working away😳 You wouldn’t like this one, I’m guessing.
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Probably not. My grandmother wore 4711. She would visit from Holland every summer. Good scent associations, but my mother would bustle about wearing Shalimar and Oma was in 4711. You know where my allegiance lies 😌
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No contest! Poor Oma never stood a chance.
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Not when it came to perfume, but when it came to doling out snoopjes (treats) she aced it.
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I am sure my Oma and Opa wore it too. Hence it trickled down to my parents. It was quite common in Europe to carry a travel splash in one’s purse as a hand sanitizer and freshen up product.
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Interesting. And 4711 is cheap as chips.
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The longevity is pretty good on this, I’m pleasantly surprised 😯 This would be good in the heat.
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If only you had some 😏 Still raining there?
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Now that’s a stoopid question😏 It hasn’t done anything else since Sunday. The sky is about one foot over the roof of my house. And it’s so dark and gloomy today. No wonder that we’re a nation of tipplers.
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That does sound miserable. The sky part, that is. Not so much the tippling 🥃
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We have a national preoccupation with the weather here. Today you could meet several people who would greet you with “that’s a day for the high stool.”
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You Irish are certainly clever with words. We have the same weather preoccupation. Too cold, too much snow or too humid in summer. Oh, and the fact that winter starts before autumn is done and lasts well into spring.
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Enjoying my Givenchy Gentleman today as I sit here at work wishing I was somewhere else – oh well, at least I smell amazingly suave and sophisticated!
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Thursday morning . Less smoke . Even a little water from the sky last night!!! According to news reports , and NASA the smoke from Australia has circumnavigated the world!!! Amazing. Last night I wore Fancy Nights to bed and could still smell trailing this morning. After my shower I decided the day called for something ‘ pretty ‘ . Penhaligon’s Iris Prima
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Jasmine de Pays, Perris Monte Carlo. A beautiful creamy jasmine, bliss! I love this!
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Menthe Fraiche today. Wonderful day, with the rain coming through last night and the toxic smoke cleared away (at least for now).
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Just seen on the news that some areas got half decent rainfall. Hopefully there’s more where that came from.
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We got about 12mm, but that was only enough to tamp things down a bit. The smoke is back today and will get worse over the weekend.
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Sylvaine Olyssia. Nice.
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Description please
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Well it’s a bit more rounded and creamy than yesterday’s 4711 cousin, but that base ob is the same. It’s supposedly got jasmine but my nose couldn’t detect it. It is a nice floral though unremarkable. For someone who doesn’t want to smell too ‘perfumy’ it would be perfect.
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Thank you. And thank you for making me feel as though I am not missing out on anything 😀
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Not missing a thing! You can go about your business without a care in the world.
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🤸😀💜
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Dior Feve Delicieuse. Thunk!
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👍👍👍
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YUMMY! I love Feve.
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First Cut. Another reminder that summer really does exist.
🦥 my spirit animal for the day.
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I should steal some from Mr M’s bottle.
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Do it!
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Tomorrow I will!!!
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Blessed rain here in Parramatta.
We had a couple of wet the ground a bit showers through the week. That’s good because It meant that it was ready for real rain and is soaking it up. We should have some green grass in the parks next week!
In other news, my SOTD is Bronze Goddess. by Estee Lauder. MMMMMMMM
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Wohooo for rain. Buckets of it 🤸♂️ 🤸🏽♀️
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Wearing Calvin Klein Euphoria Men today. Not usually my thing, but it was one of a clutch of fragrances I saw in an op shop for $1 each. How could I not? I think it smells OK for a cheapie, with just a bit of ginger and pepper to it.
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Cool today . The sky looks dark and grey. My mood is just as gloomy. Friday fragrance for Friday Ted Lapidis Altamir
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How could you not, indeed!! What were the other bottles? Did you get any of them?
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The others were Polo Black and Obsession (women).
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Obsession!!!! For one dollar???? I hope you bought it!!!
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I did.
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The very cheerful Electric Rhubarb. Not the tart rhubarb I would like but it’s really good.
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Is that CdG?
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No it’s Floral Street. Available to sniff in Sephora I do believe (or think). Jus’ sayin’
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Good to know 😀😀
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First Cut
Marcella made me do it
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Yes I did! And you listened. Hmm….maybe I should be an influencer 🤨
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👍👍👍
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Mr. M is missing some sprays, eh?😉
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Hee hee….he said to me this morning, ” Did you buy that for me or yourself?”
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Atelier Cologne Blanche Immortelle. Not my cup of tea. Reads masculine on me. Another sample thunked!
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👍🤸👍
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Holy Shmoke you really mean business💪🏼
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She’s the Thunkinator
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😆🤣
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Sure is. We’re puny in comparison. Well, I am anyway. Only one thunk so far this year.
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I am going to get rid of most of my samples this year!!!! 😀
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Wohoo
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Go go go!!! Then you can focus on your full bottles!!
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The sun is shining, but there’s a price to be paid for that. -30C. I hate these cold temps 🥶. So, what perfume can stand up to this frozen wasteland? Angel, of course! Tbh, I don’t love it anymore 🙁. I think it was tampered with sometime in the last 15 years.
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What you need is a heavy coating of Carnal Flower!
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Ya think? I don’t know. I thought about it. It’s a good winter relief scent, but I don’t want to risk associating it with such awful temperatures. Anyhow, you’re probably just trying to throw me off track. You hate Angel and you’re worried that if the wind blows in the wrong direction you might get a nose full of it 🌬🌬🌬sending something your way 😌
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Damn, you busted me😂 But seriously, I absolutely love a BWF in the coldest of weather.
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I hear you on that. Well, tomorrow will be a tiny bit less cold with a snowmageddon forecast. Carnal Flower it will be. I’d switch up now, but…….ya know…..it’s Angel. It’ll stick around a loooong time.
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You’ll have to have a scrub down with a wire brush😬
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I’ll put a mask on just in case I get any whiff of you-know-what.
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Have you ever tried Angel Muse? I love that one, but only because it’s like nutty caramel.
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I think I did. Not sure. It was one of the flankers. Oh! I think it was Eau Sucrée. I didn’t like it anyhow and gave it to my daughter.
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Yes, I think it’s been reformulated several times. I had and wore the original when it was first released in the mid 1990s. Back then it was groundbreaking.
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And it was fantastic back then!
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Oh yes!
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Chanelling my inner ‘Brigitte’ by sampling four scents at once. Thank you LKNU.
Maya Nije Tobak
imaginary Authors the Cobra & the Canary
Daniel Josier Green Leather (pineapple alert)
Libertine Smoked Bloom
Strangely enough they all kind of sit well together. Tobak and Green Leather are my favs just now.
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You go, Melanie!! Bet you smell great!
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Got some vintage (70s?) Eau Sauvage on today, as we headed out to see a couple of French films.
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Nice! I had a vintage and my dad ” borrowed” it 😀
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Incense Pure
We are expecting ❄️❄️❄️
Needless to say I am not happy 😩😩
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Just home from my midnight shift. I wore L’ Artisan Le Chasse Aux Paplions … and I received 2 compliments., including from Gentleman Jack!!! Shower soon then Fancy Nights to help sleep
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Gentlemen Jack is a man of taste😃
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Your post reminds me of the wedding I went to last week. In his speech, the bridegroom concluded by saying. “One final thing, Dani and I would like to announce that we are expecting” – pandemonium ensues – “you all to have a good time”.
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🥶😥 Hats,, gloves and shovels at the ready
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I’m in SL Five o’clock au Gingembre, trying to get a work project done. Hopefully I’ll manage that by Sunday evening, so I can get feedback from a coworker on Monday.
Also waiting impatiently to hear if a relative picked up a 40 ml Dior Grand Bal for me in London yesterday.
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And what’s more important? Feedback on your work project or the Dior perfume? Umm……let me guess 😉
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Finished shoveling
Wearing Farina 1709 to bed
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Got another one of my $1 op shop finds on today – Ralph Lauren Polo Black. Not as fruity as I Expected; in fact there’s kind of a fizzy vibe to it – maybe tangerine?
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Sunday morning heading into arvo! So tired . These midnight shifts really tire me! I used a Body Shop Mango scented shower gel to help me wake up! I have chosen Pravda L ‘ Eau Femme to work .
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Farina 1709 again.
It’s quite refreshing.
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