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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 17.2-23.2.2020
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
Australian Perfume Junkies 
Yardley Iris. Full bottle thunk!!!! 💃
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Woo hoo!!!!!
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😀😀
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Derek Lam 10 Crosby’s Afloat. Pretty, but not special. I picked up the sample pack of 10 for $AU20, so it’s a bit of fun.
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Frederic Malle. Rose & Cuir. One of my favourite perfumes ever.
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D&G Velvet Desire.
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Traveling so I have a little decant if Tauerville Amber Flash. I like it but I have so many beautiful Amber perfumes that I don’t need it.
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Oscar de la Renta Flor.Nice and light
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A cacaphony of citrus due to sample making this morning. It’s a national holiday so no work today. Post shower will probably go with lavender lollies.
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It is really muggy this morning . Humidity index at 96% . My hair is frizzy and annoying me ! I want to have another shower already Being Tuesday I have a day off so I think I will try a few more of the Goldfield and Banks samples. I tried Blue Cypress yesterday but not really convinced .
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Really late here. Cracked off to an early start with the 6:30 meeting and was wearing Felanilla. I’m just home now, checking in on the SOTD while there’s still a SOTD to look in on! Shalimar for the evening.
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I wore partial Opium Fraicheur that arrived. I must say it, indeed, has a very realistic cola note as some reviewers noticed. It is actually alcohol-free so I was surprised it lasted for more than 10 hours on my skin with just 3 sprays. I got regular wafts from time to time. Overall, I am glad to have it in my collection.
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Insomnia!!!!!
Wearing an Olo oil called Lightning Paw. To me it smells like narcissus and spring. But according to the notes on the box it’s bergamot, Jasmine, patchouli and vanilla. First time trying it and I really like it.
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Sounds lovely, Brigitte.
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It’s quite good 😊
I am going to enjoy wearing it in the spring
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Lightning Paw! That sounds like some sort of moonshine corked up in a brown jug labeled XXX. You sure that insomnia hasn’t messed with your brain? You better check you didn’t just rub booze all over yourself before you wander off to work 😳
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LOL 🤣
No seriously. The company is Olo…they make oil roll one and sell them at boutiques all over the world including Europe and Australia. It really is called Lightning Paw…no joke. I might keep it in my 👛 for an aromatherapy pick me up.
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So is it a perfume? Or a body oil?
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It’s a perfume oil. Comes in a 10 ml roll on for easy application. It was a gift that I had hidden in the basement. I forgot about it LOL but I was rummaging around in the basement at 1am and found it
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Because, of course, that’s what one does when they are awake in the middle of the night, right 😏
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Exactly 💜😂😎
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You’re funny Brigitte! I’ve always been afraid of the basement in the middle of the night!
I’m glad you found a forgotten gem!
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Marzipan calls the basement my lab. It’s usually where I mix my oils. And keep my perfumes because it’s dark, cold and quiet. So I don’t mind much going down there as long as the lights are on!!!
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I like that, your perfume lab! No doubt it smells good down there! I keep my perfume in the basement as well for same reasons.
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Penhaligon’s Iris Prima. Always lovely!
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Are you doing an iris week?
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I don’t think so.
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Oh because yesterday was an iris too and last week you did a week of roses 😁
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I know! But I don’t feel in the mood for iris the whole week. Iris has to be patient and wait its turn! 🤣
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LOL 🤣 okay gotcha👍
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Sedona Sweetgrass. I never really feel ‘perfumed’ when I wear this; I suppose because it doesn’t smell at all perfumey. It smells like some fantastical place of high grasses, releasing their scent under the relentless beating sun of mid-summer.
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Nice
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Dusita Oudh Infini.
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You smell sexy and beautiful
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A Portia package arrived so I am testing Oriental Brulant….. yummy 😋
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Oh yummy, yummy, yummy!!!!!!
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You tried it too? It’s quite good! And it has an almond note!!
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No 😞. I’ve not tried it, but I’ve read reviews and looked at the notes. Based on those it should be delicious. Besides, it’s Guerlain. Need I say more 😉
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It is delicious. And for some odd reason reminds me a bit of either Mitzah or Bengal Rouge.
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Then I would like it, is what you are saying.
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Yes!
And looky… there’s the disappeared comment LOL 🤣
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Well I left a comment but it disappeared. But in case it shows up I take back what I said. It reminds me of Mitzah but it’s Slowdive that reminds me of Bengal Rouge.
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Really? Slowdive and Bengal Rouge? On me, Slowdive is all about the honey. Lovely and hyper realistic, but not much more going on in there. I had hoped that BR would be a little more nuanced.
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Bengal Rouge was extremely sweet on my skin. And Slowdive is the same…..honey, caramel and Tonka to my nose. Hopefully Kathleen will chime in because she has worn Bengal Rouge a lot and knows it’s nuances.
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Sweet I usually like. But I don’t need another honey perfume. Poo Bear will be following me around the block.
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LOL!
Do you have a favorite honey? Tara C gave me a bottle of Paramela which is my holy Grail honey….citrus, herbs, honey and Paramela wood. The drydown is sweet and delightful. Plus, I love that very few know about it or wear it.
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With the exception of Slowdive I don’t seek out fragrances with a honey note. If it’s there, no problem, though. I believe Indochine, which I wore today probably has honey in there.
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I can see the comparison of Bengale Rouge with Slowdive because of the honey in both. Slow dive to me is more honey, BR has much more and very well-blended with sandalwood, myrrh, Tonka. I can’t really pick up each note individually, the overall impression is very vintage. Almost powdery drydown but again more.
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Thank you!!!! Perfectly put 😻
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Sounds extremely appealing. I like Slowdive from time to time, but it’s rather linear on me. Honey, honey and then more honey.
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Liz Moores was inspired to create Bengale Rouge by one of her cats. It truly is soft and sensual, like the most beautiful cat fur. My best comparison is to L’Air de Desert Marocain; not that they smell similar in any way. However, they both have a very dry, seamlessly blended unique scent. It’s difficult to describe but with both when wearing, you keep smelling the best smell ever, and realize it is you. The more I wear it, the more I love it. I wish I could spray it on you!
I, like you also love Salome.
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Eventually, I will order a decant of Bengal Rouge. I just haven’t felt that push or compulsion to make the effort. I guess I’m in a bit of a lull when it comes to sampling. Plus, I’m very satisfied with what I have.
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I have sampled so many perfumes it’s all becoming a confusing blur!! One thing’s for sure- to my nose there is a lot of redundancy.
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That doesn’t surprise me at all. That’s one reason why I don’t take a more active approach to sampling new releases. I reckon pretty much everything has been explored and done by now. And oftentimes, better, the first time around.
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If I was more of a collector I could see having different brands of similar scents. But that’s not me.
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Monday I was wearing Comme des Garcons Calamus. I like the green notes in this, but I’m not sold on it overall.
Tuesday I ventured back into the pool for a swim session. It was a complete and utter failure. I was cramping badly and could not swim even one length without stopping. So I gave up and went over to the oldies pool and did some hydrotherapy on my shoulder. Too soon, I guess. Anyway I had some Demeter Linden fragrance oil in my shower bag, so that was my SOTD.
Today is L’Artisan Fou d’Ansinthe.
I have been getting serious about thunking. In the lest few days I have sold bottles of Millesime Imperial, Green Irish Tweed and Serge Lutens Arabie. I plan to keep this up and really pare my collection down.
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Awesome 👍 on the thunking!
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Thunked another one today – I sold the Fou d’Absinthe.
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💃👍👊🤸
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Where’s Cassie at? I think this is the week she is getting her elbow injected. I’m hoping it went well 😬
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See below ⬇️⬇️
She’s riding the 🐘
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Hi everyone, what does ‘thunk’ and ‘thunked’ mean? I see it a lot and don’t know what it is. Hope someone can explain…
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Hi Carolyn! Are you new around here? Welcome. I believe this term came via Brigitte. Perhaps she has the trademark on it 🤔. Thunk is the sound a decant/bottle makes when you toss it in the bin cuz it’s empty. So, if someone has thunked a bottle of Angel (for eg) it means they’ve finished the bottle or decant. A source of pride for many perfumistas esp if they have a substantial collection. For the record, I am not an avid thunker. My collection is not that big and I tend to hoard!! The thunkers are very anti-hoarding, so I’ll get in heck for this confession 🤣
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Thank you! ☺ I’ve been following APJ for a few years but early on I didn’t always get to read everything so I must’ve missed the beginning of “thunk”. I’m not a collector, I just love perfume and reading about it. I usually thunk after my birthday and Xmas because my son has strict instructions to gift me with perfume. He learned very quickly to ask what I wanted after he made a few disastrous choices (he went for quantity over quality). The budget is $AU50 so no high end anything but it keeps me happy and smelling nice. I’m not a hoarder either, I’m a user; I think what’s the point in having perfume if it just sits in a drawer, perfume is made to be worn and enjoyed. I hope I haven’t offended the the hoarders, I’m sure I’d be one too if I could afford it 😉 Thanks again for your very friendly explanation and reply. ☺
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I am not a hoarder either and pretty much use up what I have. We all approach this hobby in different ways so I don’t think anyone takes offence 💜💜 Some of us have collections of 1500+ bottles and others just 2-3 favorites that get worn over and over.
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I count any reducing of the collection as a thunk, including selling. I think somebody told me that was OK.
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Me!!!! Because I do the same thing. Anything that leaves the house is a thunk!!
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Welcome Carolyn Where are you located ? I am currently in the process of thinking many samples I own
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Hi Saffyishere, I live in Adelaide, South Australia. Where are you?
Did auto correct “think” your “thunk”? LOL
As I said to marcellavmiller, I’m not a collector, I’m a user (wearer). I only have a few mainstream perfumes from the lower end of the price range, 5th Avenue, Oscar de la Renta, Arpege, Balenciaga Paris, Bvlgari Jasmine Noir and a Bvlgari rose one, an Estee Lauder (can’t remember the name), and some Avon Imari; my Mum gave me a little roll on one year and I loved it, so she gave me some every 6 months or so until Avon left Australia. I guess that’s the only perfume I’m hoarding ‘cos I know once it’s gone, it’s gone ☹ Oh, there’s a tiny, empty but for the smell, bottle of Champs Elysees I chose from a Geurlain miniatures set Mum bought when she and Dad went o’seas 20 yrs ago, I loved it! And 6 months ago a friend gifted me a full Prada L’eau Ambrée eau de parfum and body lotion which is gorgeous!
I didn’t realise I had that much till just now, I feel quite rich 😄
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You have a beautiful collection! I drained many bottles of Oscar and Imari. I bought my first bottle of Imari when it was releases in 1985. It’s a classic.
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Thank you Brigitte 🙂 I only ever see the niche or very expensive names here and thought I must be a bit of a pleb. I guess I’m not 😁
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You are not a pleb !!!!! I have got quite a few Oscar de la Renta perfumes.I also have Avon. I like the Imari and its flankers. I follow Samantha Scrivens blog.. I Scent you a Day. She’s a big Avon fan. I bought some Avon perfumes after reading her reviews. Especially when they have been on offer.The last one I bought was called Celebrate.I really like it. Look up her bblog and join. She also writes joint posts with other bloggers including Portia. I’m in the UK, same as Samantha. I don’t know where you are and what’s available. Let me know if you find her and if you enjoy her blog.
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I really enjoy Samsntha’s I Scent You a Day blog Matty. Always a good perfume review and read. She also does some guest posts on CafleureBon, and of course the group review with Portia and two other bloggers.
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I’m glad you are another fan of Samantha’s blog. I read all her other contributions on other blogs as well.
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Oh goodness! Not a pleb at all! So many of us wear anything and everything from drugstore to celeb scents to mainstream to niche.
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Thank you Matty, I’m in Australia, Avon left us much to my Mum’s (and my) regret. She used to get so much pleasure from perusing the catalogues and picking a new lipstick or perfume and buying me the odd Imari now and again. I’ve written the blog name down and will have a look. It’s good to know Portia will still be around, I’ll miss her and APJ.
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I’m sure you will enjoy Samantha’s blog. I think she has some fans who post here.
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Yeah, Me. 😃
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So good to know Brigitte 🙂 I feel so much better knowing that
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Hi Carolyn! Welcome! Marcella have a great explanation. But I will also add that I count anything that leaves my collection via ” borrowing” or gifting as a thunk.
With that being said, I thunked about 100 samples and several full bottles over the last few days. Life is too short not to share.
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Hi Brigitte 🙂 Holy cow! A 100 samples! And I just commented to Marcella that I felt quite rich after listing the perfumes I have, all 10 of them LOL That’s millionaire status compared to me 😉 You’re right though, life is too short not to share, and if it gives you pleasure at the same time it’s well worth it. 👍
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Many of these samples were gifted to me by generous perfumistas. I usually try things once or twice and then pass it on to friends and family.
Before I discovered Perfume blogs I went decades of having no more than 5-7 bottles in my collection and no Decants or samples as they couldn’t be purchased back then.
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You give me hope LOL
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If you enjoy a small collection stick with it 😉
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Vintage Guerlain Mitsouko EdT. I only have about 3mL left. Sigh.
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What vintage are you looking for Tatiana? I have some, but I don’t think it has huge age on it.
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I am pulling a Marcella….
In spirit I am “wearing” Pour Un Gimme 😆😁🙃
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Way to go Brigitte!!! 😘😘😘
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👍👍👍🙃😁
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Smelling wonderful in Pacifica Tibetan Mountain Temple. Beautiful, comfy scent sadly discontinued. Love it, especially in very cold days, like today.
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I love Tibetan Mountain Temple. Makes no sense that it was discontinued.
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Found a few samples from Isabey, wearing Fleur Nocturne. A heady big white floral. Beautiful with longevity!
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I’m wearing Indochine today. I just realized that I’ve not been wearing my PG perfumes as frequently as last winter. Hmm……maybe my crush on Pierre is over. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Not enough room for your crush as well as mine. ❤️😏
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You can have him now. I’ve taken what I wanted 😉
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I don’t want sloppy seconds😂
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Hahaha. That’s exactly what I was thinking when I offered him to you!!
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In the Elephant’s Jungle 🐘
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Mmmm…..that one is yummy
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Never smelled that one either. It seems to have quite a following over on NST.
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It’s a cardamom custard. I used 20 sprays at a time and thunked my decant. Definitely full bottle worthy to me ( one of these days)
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It’s very soft and billowy on me but folks say it’s a powerhouse so ymmv
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Cardamom custard sounds very appealing.
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20 sprays?????? 😱😱😱😱OMG! One spray is already too much! Beautiful scent, but It is a huge bomb! You were lucky nobody got killed by the sillage!!! 🤣😂
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My skin ate it up!! No one could smell it unless I sprayed lavishly 😁
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I can pretend I’m in the hot and steamy tropics. Despite the god damn incessant rain🙄
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Yeah. You all have been getting drenching after drenching. Miserable.
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Ah! There you are. Traipsing around the jungle, elephant wrangling. How was the injection? Did you get it yet? Are you keeping that arm immobilized?
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Had it on Monday. It throbbed with a strong pulse for 24 hours afterwards. Now it’s back to just aching and tingling like it was beforehand. Think it’s going to be yet another waste of money. It’s impossible to not use it, though I’m trying to keep quiet. Perhaps doc should have put me in a strait-jacket🤔 Could have cured several ailments at once😀
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There’s that wit🤣. I’m gonna miss it!
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Why? Where’s it going? 🤷🏻♀️
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Well APJ is wrapping up next week, no? No more cheeky, salty comments from you! Unless you have decided to start your very own blog. You could call it Cassie’s View
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Yeah. All wrapped up and nowhere to go😨 But I’ll HAVE to go somewhere!
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Roses. Got a big decant of Amouage Lyric to make sure before I go for a bottle. Also got a sample of Serge Lutens Rose de Nuit, since it’s not by Christopher Sheldrake. I really like it a lot so far. For a while, I thought TF Noir de Noir was going to be my great dark rose, but no. I still like it, but it’s like lust – great fun and done.
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Amouage Lyric is my favorite great dark rose, love it!
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I think Lyric is going to be #1 for me as well. It is beautiful!
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I’m the some with Lyric Man, although Noir de Noir runs it close.
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Lyric is gorgeous!!
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A favourite today: L’Artisan Saville a l’Aube
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Kenzo Jungle L’Elephant after Brigitte’s 20 sprays made me crave for it! 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘
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Home from work at 1230 AM . Straight into a shower using Body Shop Mango shower gel. Now I am wearing some Sll About Eve Body Lotion
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I think she created a lemming. I *need* to try it.
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You definitely need to try it.
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You’re empowering my lemming! I can usually beat them into submission.
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You MUST try it! 😀
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Decant ordered. Brigitte gets yet another pin.
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What??? Really?
I hope you like it!!!
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I hope you like your pin 😉
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Indeed I do 😊 👑👑👑
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Hey I have worn/ mentioned/ loved / warn/ encouraged it’s wearing!!!! I want an enabler badge too!!! Jungle L’Elephant is splendid on a cold frosty day
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Passing you the crown, Saffy!!
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Wohoo, twins a day apart 👯♀️
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💃💃🐘🐘
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Yay!!!! Enjoy the 🐘🐘🐘🐘
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😀
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Going out tonight and I might need to pull that one out! You smell terrific!
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There was a fair bit of chatter about honey yesterday, so it’s Slowdive for today. Probably the perfect weather for it as well; our temps have not come out of the minus teens for the past few days and the wind is enough to strip off a layer of skin in 60 seconds. I am so fed up with winter 😞
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Ouch ouch ouchy 🥶
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🍯 🍯 🍯
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
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Layered up in Wowilla oil with Bengale Rouge on top. Have an unexpected AGM with friends this evening. Only planned it this morning. Will have to try to keep my right hand in a pocket to keep arm quiet😀
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That sounds like a brilliant layering combo, despite not having smelled either one. Certain things I just know. Like there’s no way your right hand is obediently staying in your pocket all evening. Not gonna happen. Can you perhaps use a make-shift sling? More as a reminder, than to serve any real purpose.
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Will tie a bright ribbon round my wrist. I’ll have them primed to shout at me if I start waving it about.
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Excellent!
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Wowilla even by itself it gorgeous and quite strong for a body oil. Just got my Rose and Amber oils today. Andy (or whoever packed it) added a card sprayed with his new ‘fume Air des Alpes Suisses. Now, just read the notes and I shouldn’t be mad about it but it is gawwwwjuss. But I’m not buying it! No siree 😀
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In my mind wearing 🐘🐘🐘
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In my mind I am back on vacation!
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LOL 🤣
Don’t blame ya!
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Great idea. I’ll join you for a cocktail 🍹 Pass the factor 30, please.
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🏄🏼♀️ I’m busy!
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So am I 🏝 🍹 👙 ☀️ 🕶
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Coming ashore. I hope you’ve got my🍹ready.
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Yep. Cracked the coconuts myself and all.
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🤣🤣🤣
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Oh
My
God
I am going to miss these crazy convos
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Very very late to the party. I’m enjoying a few days by the sea with my dearest, with limited network access so a super quick post. Have bought with me a little containers of full and half full samples to wear. My motive being lose some to gain some! A couple of thunks (Zoologist Hummingbird) some nice but not amazing ones ( Trydon Olim, Michael Kors for Men, Mugler Pure Leather) and a few stand outs like Zoologist Hyrax and Waldens Solid Earth. Not too many have lasted the whole day which is disappointing however, these will go into the gift box to share as I can not bear to throw them away. Catch up on all that’s going on here when I get home with unlimited internet access xx
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Enjoy your vacation!!!!
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Lovely. Have a nice relaxing holiday.
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Up in the wee hours so doing some testing
Knightsbridge, Trimorous, Telegrama, Myrrh Intense and Myrrh Elligiante… don’t hate em, don’t love em.
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So it’s Valentina Myrrh Assoluta and Hermessences Myrrh Eglantine…..totally butchered the spelling.
Now I am wearing Hensley Blonde which I like a lot…nice dry iris. Hits the spot.
And it’s 4am folks 😝😜😬😵
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Hendley…..jacka$$ autocorrect!
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I was up in the wee hours too. But at other stuff😉
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LOL 🤣 Do I even want to know?
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Nothing sinister😀 Up sharing a nightcap with a friend who was staying over and listening to cheesy old tunes from our youth. And laughing at things from our earlier AGM with our other friends.
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👍👍👍 sounds like fun 😁
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Parfum d’Empire Fougere Bengale. Sample thunked!
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You are on a thunk roll!!!
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Love that one.
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Trying my best! 😀
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Keep going!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thunking my little decant of Le Cri de la Lumiere. The rose makes me realize I don’t need a full bottle but darn if it isn’t really pretty. I need to spend more time exploring Parfum D’Empire when my no buy ends.
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Rose Flash oil and Portrait of a Lady.
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I have to get my nose on POAL because it gets lots of love. Next city trip I will head to the Malle store.
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I’m nearing the end of my bottle and will definitely be replaced.
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Must be good then!!!
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Oh yummy. Like Brigitte, I have yet to smell Poal. And, I was downtown, so I could have stopped in for a sniff. My mind was not on perfume tho.
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Hellish day. Wore Pour Un Gimme cuz I was thinking of Mrs. Marzipan this morning. Home now after riding the metro downtown and observing first hand every type of disgusting, creepy and anti-social behaviour possible. Clothes went directly into the wash, I wanted to disinfect my entire body, but settled for my hands.
I think I’ll spray some Le Mat. I’ll bet this has some common ground with Poal – both have rose and patchouli.
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Eek! Sorry you had a yucky day. Pour Un Gimme is great for soothing the soul and a hellish workday.
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It worked a treat. Next time I have to take public transit I will wad up a handkerchief soaked in The Gimme and hold it to my nose. There was some ill-mannered Neanderthal farting up a storm standing right next to me.
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Oh goodness 😷😵 yes a lavender lollies soaked handkerchief would do the trick. I surely don’t miss the days of public transportation.
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It’s horrible. People are nuts. Thankfully it happen very often.
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It doesn’t 🙄
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People really are nuttier these days. I see it too during my drive to work.
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Yep.
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😱😷 I hate crowded public transport. What you really need is to bring some Angel and spray it at them in retaliation. That’ll teach them a lesson they won’t forget.
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What if they like it?? Then they’ll follow me around asking for more 😬
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Unlikely!
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Down to Melbourne on Friday for a rock concert (The New Pornographers) so I amped up the leather and musk with some vintage Van Cleef & Arpels concentrated cologne. Today I’m wearing YSL Pour Homme.
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What a sensational name for a rock band , Greg.
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It is, isn’t it? They picked it up from the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock and roll the new pornography.
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Envelopes in gorgeous scents today. Casablanca! Eutopie No 4 , vintage Victoria. Gorgeous!
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Mmmmm!!! Come sit closer to me!!!
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I’m smelling fine thanks to you! xx
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My pleasure ♥️♥️♥️
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Tested five Etros early this morning….Musk, Heliotrope, Etro, Via Verri and Vicola Fiori.
Post shower might go with the Gimme.
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Nicely cocooned in Fragile.
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Nope
Change of plans
Because of the Saturday question I was inspired to go with Paprika Brasil. It does count as an ode to APJ because of a full bottle and travel spray gifted to me by APJers.♥️♥️♥️
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Cuir Beluga which is probably not the right choice for the gym. It’s about as cozy and relaxed as you can get. It demands that you put on your comfiest track pants, grab a bag of Oreo Birthday Cake cookies (Rule: you must eat a minimum of 10), a slightly cheesy book (any Jack Reacher will do) and a cup of tea then read, munch and sip for the next few hours. Hmm…..have I just talked myself out of going to the gym 🤨
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Wait wait wait….what? Oreo birthday cake cookies? Elaborate please.
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You’ve not tried??? You poor deprived woman. The filling inside tastes and looks like Milkbar’s birthday cake. A little salty, a lot sweet and they are absolutely addictive. And this is from someone who is not an Oreo fan (I find the traditional filling too sweet). I’ve tried the carrot cake and gingerbread ones as well. Don’t bother. Stick with the Birthday Cake filling.
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Holy crappa!!!! I needs me some!!! Must look for this at the supermarket!!
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I have never ever eaten an Oreo biscuit
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You’re not missing much IMO. I know many people that go gaga for them tho. The Birthday Cake ones are worth a try.
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I am feeling really low . Would have been my wedding anniversary today . I am wearing Stella McCartney’s EDP Had a picnic with a work friend.
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Sorry that it’s a hard day for you, saffyishere. Glad that you got out with a friend.
Is your Stella the one with the gold collar, or the silver? I’ve heard there’s a difference, but not sure which is better now!
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Sue I was given the Stella by my mother a few years ago. I have never seen the original bottle. Mine is from her Print Collection
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Sending you a fragrant hug ♥️
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Virtual hugs to you Saffy.
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It’s good you got out instead of brooding and feeling down.
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Thunking my Zoologist samples of Beaver and Panda. Both were very likeable and happy to have tried them. Squid and T-Rex on the want next list.
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I really want to try Sloth because I am a sloth. And I love the bottle.
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I have just been reading that a slightly tweaked version of Bat is to be / has been released with Sloth. I haven’t tried any from this house, but they certainly sound intriguing.
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Sue, I’m no expert but Zoologist are pretty cool – so many layers. Camel is my favourite. The packaging is so beautiful. Pretty sure you’re an Adelaide gal – I’d be happy to share a few of my Zoologist samples with you. If you’re keen let me know.
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Yes, there is a new Bat being released with Sloth. I tried quite a few from this brand, none compelling enough for me to buy full bottles but I know other perfume folks really love some of them . I think I am more intrigued by the bottle and name when it comes to Sloth.
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I wore Cologne du 68 today for a trip down to Daylesford for some serious vintage shopping. It must have bought me luck, because I found another pre-WW1 Jicky bottle. Nothing in this one, sadly, but I bought it anyway. Oh, and there was a full bottle of 90s era Givenchy Gentleman there as well. 🙂
I picked up another thing because it cost next to nothing. A 1940s era mini of Chypre de Coty in cream form. Looks like there might be a bit left too.
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I am speechless.
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I can’t believe what you find, Greg! I never find perfume in 2nd hand shops here in SA.
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Holy crap you defo win the shopping crown.
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Vacillating between Paprika Brasil and Paramela ( because we are getting sun and warmer temps today 40F and Paramela pairs nice with 🌞😎🌞)
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Ok so I went with Paprika Brasil over Clinique Wrappings Body Smoother….such a good pairing!!
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I’m in layers as well. Shalimar: body cream, EDC and perfume.
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You’re smelling mighty fine Marcella X
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Thanks Matty!
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Yum
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I am giving you an enabler pin because I might just order that cream soon.
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An advance enabler pin! Woo hoo!!
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Yes ma’am 😊
I see that even Walmart sells it for a good price!!
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Fancy Walmart! All I ever see in the one here is stale chips and ugly underwear.
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It’s the Walmart online which means my sloth self can get it from the comfort of my 🛏️ LOL 😂😘
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And there’s Birthday cake Oreos 😋😋😋
Walmart online!!
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Sylvaine Ozkan, orange blossom and leather. Very nice indeed, but still a problem with longevity.
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I have the orange blossom sampler set, cassieflower, and I would agree. Haven’t tried them all yet … perhaps today.
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They’re all really lovely for the first fifteen minutes or so but then almost disappear. A tweaking of materials could sort this out.
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