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Portia
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Hey there APJ,
It’s Mood Scent 4 week. WOO HOO! With the first Monday of the month the crew are looking at floral fragrance. It’s a broad and deep selection and winnowing it down to best in show has been big deal for me. These choices are subject to change, daily. Can’t wait to read about your favourite florals in the comments too.
So excited to be blogging with these three superstars again: Esperanza L’Esperessence, Megan Megan In Sainte Maxime and Samantha I Scent You A Day. Check theirs out too.
Mood Scent 4: Floral Fragrances
Caron Pour Un Homme by Caron
Lavender! Over the last couple of years I have fallen madly in love with it. There are a slew of lavender centric fragrances lurking wistfully in my collection but the one I reach most for is the creamy, masculine, sweet and interesting Caron Pour Un Homme. It will always and forever be named Caron Pour Un Gimme after a Brigitte typo, and that makes it even more special to me.
I Am Trash by Etat Libre d’Orange
This is a shit name but fabulous smelling fragrance. My wearing of it doesn’t;t really reflect the notes of rose and apple. It wears much more sweet, breathy, white floral with soft woodsy underpinnings. I Am Trash has become an easy breezy spritz and go fragrance for me this summer. Smells great for hours and hours of social whirlwind, even in Sydney’s punishing summer heat and humidity.
Love Mimosa by Amouage
LITERALLY a breath of fresh air. Amouage has created the perfect mimosa for me. A little dark but mainly the sweetness and light of a late winter/early spring morning dream of crisp and cool rambles picking wattle. Full of the waxy yellow softness of pollen and bees.
Mohur by Neela Vermeire Creations
This is my rose. One rose to rule them all. As distinctive and richly tapestried as you could possibly want. Neela spends more on her perfumes than almost any other company and when you’re wearing Mohur you can tell. It’s rose but rose with every beautiful bell and whistle imaginable. Bright, shining, dark and lustrous, a rose for every season. My mate Michael picks it on me every time. Mohur smells like I dream I do.
Rose Oud by Yves Rocher
The rose oudh combo is a familiar one in my collection. I really love it. While there might be 20 choices the one I come back to again and again is Rose Oud by Yves Rocher. It’s so wearable and while it packs a fragrant punch it’s never overpowering or too dense for company. More than just roses and oudh there are a bunch of other, less powerful motes, lifting and setting the basic fragrance. Simple but beautiful.
Sampaquita by Ormonde Jayne
A dewy floral bouquet surrounded by greenery. Sampaquita is softly melancholy. A perfect impression of a water filled spring flower garden, like strolling aimlessly through the botanic garden and catching wafts of flowers as you pass. Jasmine, freesia and peony to my nose backed by water, grasses and some broken leaves. A calming, stately fragrance that still retains the twinkle and beautiful sadness of lost youth.
So there are my Mood Scent 4: Floral Fragrances
What are your choices? What are your most loved Floral Fragrances?
Portia xx
I love the Gimme too!!! Such a fantastic lavender!
I think right now my favorite floral is St Clair Scents Casablanca. It’s so potent it will literally knock your socks off. 😃
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HA! Brigitte,
Casablanca! Does it smell like Casablanca lillies? I love them so much.
Portia x
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Portia you would love it… it’s over the top…50 percent extrait….orange blossom, tuberose, ylang ylang and quite animalic. I kinda wish it came in dabber format because even one spray is super lux.
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I’m a bit naughty with this, three or four sprays. Nearly blow the doors off the house🤭
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Whaaaaattt????
You are something else 😉
Bet everyone can smell you coming LOL 🤣 😂
It’s really is a huge BWF, eh?
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It’s incredible. My friend who muled it back for me calls it my hippyish perfume😂 That’s the vibe she gets from it.
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Interesting. To my nose it’s a vavavavoom from the 50s fragrance.
But I could see the interpretation of hippie because it has a very high percentage of naturals and wears different on different skin…plus it morphs over time. I think Portia would love it.
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I can totally see Portia rocking this.
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Yeah me too!!!!!
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You should try Donna Karan Gold, stunning lily and amber with spice.
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I love Donna Karan Gold Cassieflower. There’s an EdT and EdP lying around here somewhere.
Portia xx
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You should trademark Pour un Gimme😄
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I know, right? LOL 🤣 😂
But that was all our beloved autocorrect.
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I absolutely love Mohur. It has become such a leather bomb on me, I dunno, was not like that a couple of years ago. ❤️
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It makes me so happy that you have fallen for Mohur Val. Everyone gets a different ride. There’s so much “naturals” in there that they react differently with everyone they touch.
Portia xx
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Jour d’Hermes, Diorissimo.
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Lovely choices PL67.
Portia xx
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I don’t wear florals a lot, but apparently when I do it’s neroli or orange blossom. Nicolai Neroli Intense and Cap Neroli, Seville a l’Aube. I do own and enjoy the YR Rose Oud from time to time and also some violet and iris, but the lions share of my collection lies in other categories. (Amber, anyone?)
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Neroli & Orange blossom are so beautiful you hardly need another flower at all MMKinPA,
Portia xx
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Dear Portia, thanks to you I was able to try I am Trash and I really enjoyed it! Then my daughter snatched the rest of the sample…
I don’t have many floral perfumes so the choice was easy: Tiempe Passate (sadly, discontinued) and L’Artisan’s Caligna.
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Hey Neva,
I’m not surprised I Am Trash got snaffooed. It’s bloody lovely.
Caligna is beautiful too. I’m sure Tiempe Passate came my way at some point, it sounds so familiar.
Portia x
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I’m having a Guerlain phase, lots of Mon Précieux Nectar (orange blossom), L’Heure de Nuit (heliotrope) and Rose Barbare. I also love Amouage florals like Beloved and Honour.
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YAY for Guerlain! They have a way with florals like no other TaraC,
I especially like the much maligned Champs Elysees.
Portia xx
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I think that florals make up the bulk of my collection. Trying to choose is difficult but here goes. Songes, Frangipani, Fracas, Fragile, and like Brigitte I adore Casablanca. And your own youthful gigglefest, Anus Anus, though I don’t wear it myself, it was my mum’s favourite. I recently bought YR Rose Oud and it’s gorgeous.
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Oooo!! Anais Anais!!! Hahahaha….I am slow but eventually I get it🙃🙃
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How interesting! I’m also a floral person in perfume but mine are all different from your picks!
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SONGES! You know I often forget my Annick Goutal fragrances. Thanks for the reminder Cassieflower,
Portia xx
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Cassie!!! For a half-second I was like: “Anus Anus? What a weird name, but hey, there are tons of those nowadays”, and then it hit me. Gosh. First Gimme, now this, lol!
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🤣 That’s what Portia called it way back when he was a sniggering youth.
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Forgot Jour Ensoleille!
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Oh my goodness!! Yes!!! Love that one too ❤️❣️♥️
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And Tara C alerted me to the 20 percent off on SSS code SCENTS20 until February 14.
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I got the notification but I haven’t got a mule😉
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Okay Portia, you’ve talked me round on ELDO I am Trash. It just makes me think of bin juice but your description has changed my mind and I might even venture into sample territory. The thought of you wearing I am Trash on hot weather was a bit ew, but I trust you and your description made me want it. I always love your description of Mohur and now desperately want some. I’d never heard of Sampatiqua until today, but now I want that one too. Remind me never to go perfume shopping with you, I’d be homeless by the end of the day! love from Old South Wales xxxxx
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YAY! I’ll take my enabler pins for those thanks Sam.
I think you have my eMail? Send me your address and I’ll hook you up.
Portia xx
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Hi Portia. Mohur is divine isn’t it. It’s the absolute bomb. I also dig Caron Pour Un Homme. The mimosa sounds good too, so will try and get my nose on that one! 🌸xx
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Fortunately Amouage is now available almost everywhere to sniff Megan, you’ll find it everywhere.
Portia x
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Hi Portia, Love Caron Pour Un Homme as well, interesting I wouldn’t have thought it to be a floral. Mohur is stunning have to wear it soon. Love how you describe Sampaquita, almost like a Monet painting. XxEsperanza
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DAMNIT Esperanza! Sampaquita is definitely a Monet painting. I’m so bummed that the correlation eluded me. BANG ON THE MONEY.
Portia xx
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I’m in negotiations with myself now as to whether I should buy Love Mimosa. It’s lovely.
I love floral perfumes and could probably list a couple of dozens. But let’s do five – not necessary my most favorite but I enjoy them all: Since we were talking about Amouage – Dia. Keiko Mecheri Johana. Ineke Hothouse Flower. Ormonde Jayne Tiare. Grandiflora Michelle.
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Heya Undina,
I’ve gone through nearly half of 100ml of Love Mimosa this season. Sure, I did a couple of decants for people but this has also been quite a lot of use.
DIA is amazing. I love it too. My bottle is one of the older extraits. It smells flipping amazing.
Portia xx
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Beautiful choices Portia! I love floral perfumes, too many favorites to list but like others I adore Casablanca. My favorite floral perfumes are blends with several floral notes such as Ysatis, Salome, Flux de Fleurs, Champs Elysees, MDCI Vepres Sicilienes and Le Rivage Des Syrtes, L’ Instant Magic, Valentino Donna, Mugler Alien. I could go on and on, too many to mention!
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Oh Kathleen,
So happy to see Ysatis and Champs Elysees mentioned. Two of my faves.
Portia xx
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It’s odd but I never think of lavender perfumes as floral, but of course, they are (Jicky has a special place in my heart). Rose has been one of my favourite notes for a very long time, there are so many great rose-centric scents out there, and I’ve mentioned them all, so I’d rather talk about those I’m not supposed to love because I normally dislike the main note: jasmin & tuberose. Again, I’ve mentioned Melodie de l’amour more than once, but it is the perfect white floral to me. Gucci Ambrosia di fiori and Armani Prive Rouge Malachite are also worthy contenders.
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Nice list Diana,
I love the Armani Malachites but can’t remember Armani Prive Rouge Malachite, I’ll go back and try it.
Porttia xx
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