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Narth
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Hello friends, Narth here with a quote from my most recently read book.
“Scent, for me, is a medium. I rarely use if for ornamental purpose.”
This I How You Lose the Time War, Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone
This is so true for many of us who have spent a long time with fragrance. We wear our scents as talismans for who we are that day. Continue reading
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Val the Cookie Queen
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I greet you APJ for the last time on this platform!
What follows is a bunch of photos taken during my time as Australian Perfume Junkies raving reporter. They are in no particular order, and most of them you will have seen already. APJ has been an incredibly huge part of my life. I mean freaking enormous.
In Harrod’s with Portia.
Innsbruck with Vero.
Esxence 2019 with Megan. (Megan In Sainte Maxime) (Atelier des Ors)
Tara (A Bottled Rose) and I sniffing Sale Goss in London.
With the fabulous JTD JTD in Los Angeles.
Carnaby Street with A B.londeswunder and Tara.
Hannah/B.londeswunder in Bloom.
With Freddie Albrighton, perfumista and tattoo artist. Salzburg.
Hannah had arrived around 23:00 in Vienna, having travelled from Salzburg, to see Portia. She asked for donuts and Portia ran out for a box. Why just one when ten would do?
Visiting the amazing Aus Liebe Zum Duft. Flat hair because German water made it too soft.
Antonio and Vero. Milan.
Thomas – The Perfume Candy Boy
Vero and me in Florence. Sorting out samples for me to take to the States.
The gorgeous Michael watching me sniff some Le Labo stuff. Brick Lane, London.
Anima Vinci. Les Senteurs.
Thomas and Tara. How I love them both.
Milan train station. Portia, Vero, and Antonio.
Coffee and chilling with @scentosaurs in Edinburgh.
Last but not least Vanessa (Bonkers About Perfume) and me in Augsburg, Germany. Meeting up for perfume, and a gig. But that is a Strange Tale on its own.
I have loads more photos but setting them into WordPress is about to give me a complete and utter meltdown. So I am gonna stop.
Bussis to the moon and back.
Your CQ.
“Just what is it that you want to do? We want get loaded and we wanna have a good time.” PRIMAL SCREAM. RIP Andrew Weatherall.
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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.
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
Even though it’s been rush, rush, rush to get things organised all week I’ve felt calm about it. Going at it at my own pace and getting things done one at a time has allowed me to focus on each thing. At times it’s felt quiet zen.
Fragrance has, as always, played a major part. There are some cool spritzes from the vault.
Saw some friends but all in all it was work, organise, sleep, repeat.
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Portia
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Paying it Forward: (in) Puredistance Gold
This post is a part of a joint giveaway, held by Undina (Undina’s Looking Glass), Vanessa (Bonkers about Perfume ), Lucas (Chemist in the Bottle) and Portia (Australian Perfume Junkies)
From Undina: In this age of advertising in social networks and working through influencers, vloggers and instagrammers, it is hard to justify spending marketing resources on a handful of“old school” bloggers with quirky blogging styles and limited outreach via followers or organic search. A very few keep doing that through the years.
Puredistance is one brand that was extremely friendly and generous with bloggers. Late last year Puredistance sent a travel spray of their newest perfume Puredistance Gold. I tied and I liked Puredistance Gold.
We decided to share – to make sure it reaches more people.
Parfumo gives these featured accords:
Top: Italian green mandarin, Calabrian bergamot, La Réunion pink pepper, Moroccan rosemary, Madagascan clove
Heart: Indian jasmine absolute, Spanish cistus absolute, Moroccan geranium, Madagascar cinnamon absolute
Base: Honduras styrax, Laotian benzoin, Myrrh, Indonesian patchouli, Green madagascar vanilla, Venezuelan tonka bean absolute, Castoreum absolute, Haitian vetiver
A gloriously fizzy citrus opens, I say fizzy but not like a 21st century celebuscent. Here we have the lustre of golden dawn tempered by shadows of spices and the clarion call of white flowers. I make it sound overly dramatic, it’s not. Puredistance Gold is satin smooth and flawlessly blended.
The heart becomes a sensual incense. Yep, I never thought those words would become a pair. Here we have it. Incense, patchouli, vanilla are all tempered by resins and animalics. A light sweaty breathiness that underpins the heart and dry down, giving this unearthly beauty humanity.
If you are all about your fragrance being an introduction as or before you enter a room then I double you’ll be moved by Puredistance Gold. We are talking seriously refined understatement, yet so unusual that it is a statement of its own. It says to me, “I have no need of gauche display. My perfection and grace are enough. A perfect cover for our imperfect selves, how better to trick the world than smell like this”
1.5ml handmade sample of Puredistance Gold is offerred in a giveaway on each blog for a reader from the specific geographical region:
Undina’s Looking Glass – the US and Canada
Chemist in the Bottle – Europe (without the UK)
Bonkers about Perfume – the UK
Australian Perfume Junkies – Australia/NZ/Asia
To enter, tell me where you would want to wear Puredistance Gold in the comments below.
I’ll draw a random winner Wednesday, while I’m on Holidays in Thailand.
Go To It Crew,
Portia xx
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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.
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Sandra
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Hey there dear APJ community.
Words seem to be failing me at the moment. How do I bid you all farewell? How do I say goodbye to a much beloved safe fragrance space?
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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.
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Portia
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Hey there APJ Crew,
This week was kind of chill. Loads of fragrance and some good food.
We have had the most gorgeous amounts of real, driving rain. I don’t remember it being so plentiful in the five years we’ve lived in Parramatta. It’s dog walking with a golf umbrella and wellies kind of rain.
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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.
Australian Perfume Junkies 