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Part 3- Fully fledged perfumistas- share your fragrances

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shoeprincess2 · 22/01/2013 17:27

Part 2 is nearly full!

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CointreauVersial · 06/02/2013 18:44

Well, helloooooo ProFumo! Beyonce Heat, you say....? Wink

The Tauer Orange Star didn't get a lot better - the DCs all remarked on the "awful smell" in the car when I picked them up from school. Hmm

Niminy - enjoy the Bois des Iles! I didn't hate it, but it was a bit "meh" for me. I can see why it's regarded as a great fragrance, though.

Even more samples arrived today - a batch from Les Senteurs, included the long-awaited Fat Electrician. Must.Stop.Ordering.Samples.....

florascotia · 06/02/2013 18:46

Welcome back Profumo
We need (and enjoy) your wise words.

My scent today in the windy, sleety north is the chilly (and conventional) Guerlain Eau de Cologne Imperiale. Am wearing it because I need to stay alert. It's about as far possible from your splendidly sumptuous diva perfumes, but I think it would be OK for the most formal business meeting.

Witchesbrewandbiscuits · 06/02/2013 18:56

ooh i love amber, vanilla and sandalwood.

any suggestions?

sorry if repeating, not read full thread.

ProFumo · 06/02/2013 20:40

Beyoncé Heat is a captivating fragrance that unleashes a spirited fire within. It is a unique expression of a woman's powerful sensuality: sexy, elegant yet feminine with an air of mystery, this fragrance reflects a self-assured woman, who is not afraid to desire and to be desired.

Right. Grin

But - if stars are aligned correctly, I might experience some real heat tomorrow night. It may involve heaven in a form or other. And possibly a python.

ProFumo · 06/02/2013 20:49

Sorry, poor editing...
Heat has a flanker now, Heat Rush.
Can immediately come up with at least three subsequent flanker names, can you?

Haberdashery · 06/02/2013 21:00

How about Heat Rash? Grin

Incense Rosé again today. I really like this one. This is as dry as Sycomore (which gave me a headache) but not so cold.

IsabelleRinging · 06/02/2013 21:12

'Heat Exhaustion' ???

Haberdashery · 06/02/2013 21:14

Prickly Heat?

williaminajetfighter · 06/02/2013 21:35

Hi... I too was wearing orAnge star today. Not sure about that one. My new bottle of SL louve arrived and think I might have spent £60 to smell like baby powdery baby wipes!

Can anyone recommend an almond-y perfume? Struggling to find one or any I like.

Thx all.

IsabelleRinging · 06/02/2013 21:39

Datura Noir has lots of almond.

clb · 06/02/2013 21:49

I really like Heeley's L'Amandière, willaminajetfighter, and am struggling not to buy a FB.

Unbelievably, I too was trying Orange Star today and also not enjoying it very much. DD2 snuggled up and said "Do you like that perfume, Mummy?". I said I didn't think I did and she looked very relieved.

CointreauVersial · 06/02/2013 21:55

Grin Grin at the Heat flankers. They couldn't possibly be worse than the original

ProFumo · 06/02/2013 21:57

Ouch I know that full bottle remorse! Ladies, use up the samples and decants first. Your taste will change. You don't usually marry the first man you meet either... Louve might have an after-market though, it has many fast friends.

Almonds - Farnesiana, Hypnotic Poison, Amandes Orientales - quite different styles. There are many, many more but it's very easy to be heavy-handed with almondy aromachemicals.

I suggest selling our flanker name ideas to Coty. I could find a lot of uses for the royalties...

Going to wear some tuberose to bed. One of these in fact. He's a bit of an authority on that note, so worth listening to...

ProFumo · 06/02/2013 22:15

An applause to L'Amandiere! Heeleys can be great, no?
I have an uncontrollable craving for that perfume in the spring. To me, strangely, it smells exactly like a dark sweet cherry - not a maraschino cherry or a candied cherry or a yogurt&shampoo&lipgloss cherry, but the real thing, stems and all.

Coty have come up with Heat Sparkling Body Mist

williaminajetfighter · 07/02/2013 08:56

Thanks all for the great advice. I will look out for some of the almond perfumes. A friend told me that the best almond smell comes from Jergens almond and cherry lotion. And only 3.99 a bottle!

I have loads of samplers I no longer want. Will list them when I get home and see if I get any takers.

YouOldSlag · 07/02/2013 08:58

Ah Profumo. The thread feels in proper working order again now.

I also liked Perfume Shrine's article on fruity florals, especially their origins and how it all began. There are way too many, but every now and then there is a really good one.

I also loved the articles on chypres and aldehydes. Both were excellent and really taught me a lot. It's an excellent blog.

shoeprincess2 · 07/02/2013 09:13

ProFumo- I'm thinking it is something to do with Chinese New Year. Am I on the right tracks?

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ProFumo · 07/02/2013 09:48

Yes, Perfume Shrine is like a university for perfumistas. Turin/Sanchez etc get us hooked, Olfactoria and Bois de Jasmin and many others fuel the fire, but PS creates new synapses. I found her writing too dense and ponderous when I was a newbie but right now I really love her more researched pieces. A bulb went off in my head - I like really many proto fruity florals - it's a genre that was ruined by cheapened copycats, banal me toos and lackluster shampoo/yogurt imitations, but the original ideas were quite avant-garde.
A good thing to know is that fruit notes are always synthetic. Extracting them from high water-content fruit is chemically tricky (fruit esters are reactive and short-lived and turn easily into foul-smelling acids) and this is why the apple you are about to bite into is quite different from 'apple' in shampoo or candy. For the true nerds among us Grin, some simple chemistry here. I'm obsessed with these because I often don't get fruity perfumes.

The tuberose I enjoyed last night was Beyond Love. (Onomatopetic connection with Beyoncé). A cool, cerebral, sleek tuberose, missing all the enjoyable junk & ballast & grit of Loretta, Poison. Like one of those people you admire but find difficult to approch and love because they are inhumanely perfect.

Today I'm wearing something that smells quite mediocre.
An expensive niche release, but am not feeling the love.

ProFumo · 07/02/2013 09:52

Chinese New Year - cool, cooler.
Keywords: Python, paradise, cognac.

CointreauVersial · 07/02/2013 13:22

Today I needed something soothing after yesterday's Orange Star trauma, so I'm wearing Fils de Dieu du Riz et des Agrumes by Etat Libre D'Orange (I think that's right - god help me if someone wants to know what perfume I'm wearing!).

It's very lovely, reminded me of a Thai curry at first, all lime and coconut, and has now settled to a soft spicy warmth. It doesn't project far, though.

IsabelleRinging · 07/02/2013 13:29

I am wearing Roberto Cavalli today, which was a duty free impulse buy last year. Lots of orange blossom, a nice soft warm fragrance, quite 80s feeling. It is very pleasing and pleasant, but doesn't 'speak' much. All these great fragrances I'm learning about which are very individual in style are spoiling me for the more mainstream 'nice' scents I used to like.

clb · 07/02/2013 15:21

SsOTD are Lys Mediterranée on the left wrist and Carnal Flower on the right, after a very enjoyable visit to Les Senteurs. Love 'em both, alas.

niminypiminy · 07/02/2013 15:40

Surely one of the heat flankers has to be called Deep Heat, no?

YouOldSlag · 07/02/2013 18:10

I think it should be called ON HEAT

coffeeinbed · 07/02/2013 18:44

Well, I'll admit it.
I don't get on with the Turin/Sanchez guide.
I think lots of it is just being funny/cutting/witty for the sake of it in a self-indulgent way.
I'm not in any way disputing Luca Turin's credentials as a scientist and nose, and I know Tania is an aspiring writer, but the Guide is sometimes wallowing in it's own cleverness.
I do read some blogs - PS is indeed well researched and now that Victoria's writing has sobered up - it used to be very flowery I like that too.

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