Part 4- All you ever need to know about fragrance continues

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OneLittleLady- so pleased it was good news

ToysRLuv- hope you are OK. I know exactly what you mean about gourmands- I always seem to be in the kitchen and hence I don't like smelling of food!

SoTD .. I'm breaking out my O de Lancome. It's a sunny 26 degrees here and contrary to my earlier post, I love lemon as a fragrance, 'specially in the sun. I have to take the scratchy hound to the vet today. Hmmm The Vet, think Dr McDreamy from Greys Anatomy, make him slightly taller and give him a French accent

O de Lancome is perfect in the heat. I also love lemon in perfumes. I like Cristalle and it has pretty good lasting power too.

Ladame would love to meet your vet.
Another day with mustard gas Loretta. I absolutely love the medicinal edge in this and this is recognizably close to the tuberose absosolutes I've smelled.

Citruses are indeed wonderful when it's hot! We still have some days or weeks before the summer heat sets in. It was 24C yesterday and I wore cashmere - not hot at all, light knits are often cooler than synthetics. Anyway, I'm wearing my opulent florals now. Yesterday I smelled for the first time this year orange blossoms on trees (a fantastic treat on a traffic-clogged boulevard) and the jasmine bushes are budding! May-June here is when everything is blooming and we'll get the first figs in June... So yes, am indulging in bouquet.

Sorry about terrible grammar and syntax - multitasking (clearly not very successfully).

One congrats on your results! Definitely a cause for treating yourself

Toys My eldest DS took a few weeks to settle at Pre-School (he started last September) will they let you stay with him for a few sessions? That was what really helped DS and he soon forgot I was there so I was able to sneak out!

SOTD is Twill Rose by Parfums de Rosine, I love the fresh green opening of this one, lots of violets too. I don't really get the animalic qualities Luca Turin describes though, it's now a soft, sweet musk and to me is on the feminine side, although it's supposed to be masculine

Got a few samples on the way but after that I need to avoid buying any more for a while (hmmm didn't I say that a few weeks ago?)

Frugal- it's interesting you should mention jasmine blossoming. You've reminded me of a recent perfume epiphany I had.

I'd always thought Jasmine smelt thin and like an air freshener (maybe the indolic side coming out?) but recently I tried Serge Lutens Sarrasins and was blown away by the beautiful heady jasmine in it. It totally changed my perceptions of jasmine. In fact I mistook it for a bluebell smell at first.

Oh no, I wore one spritz of Carnal Flower on my wrist today, a different colleague today asks "have you been using deep heat?" (must be the eucalyptus in it?). I didn't own up! Obviously my work friends have less sophisticated ideas of what perfume smells like!

Whew. Nursery was lot better today. No sadness and DS practically skipped in! It was only an hour, though (were going to half an hour, but he was doing so well that they extended it). Devised a reward system for DS. If he goes to nursery nicely (no crying) on two days, he gets an aeroplane (diecast, small). Also, after each successful day he gets a treat (ice cream, choc). Fingers crossed!

Fuzzy: I'm allowed to stay, but only in the parents' room down the corridor. DS was fine about it today. He knew I was nearby and ready to get him if he got very sad. Will try an hour and 15 mins tomorrow, then building up to the full 3 hours. Too bad that we've booked a 3 week trip to Finland, going next week, so that's going to disrupt things (we didn't know when DS would get a nursery place, then he suddenly got one last week after we'd booked the holiday).

SOTD: Byzance for extra granny strength. It's faded now, so can put something else on. Maybe Lolita Lempicka (will see whether it gives me a headache this time).

Isabelle: Carnal Flower - Deep Heat? That is just WRONG. I wonder what perfumes your colleagues wear..

Fragrance Fail - went off to work with no perfume on. I felt naked!

I made up for it this afternoon with some summery, light L'Occitane Pivoine Flora.

Another live floral reference today! We went to a very old church - it was filled with white lilies. Smelled exactly like Malle's Lys Mediterranee.

A gray morning. Need the sunny feel of droopy pollen-filled lilies, so Lys Mediterranee it is. Safari by RL would have been a perfect choice too.

SOTD. Premier Figuier extreme .... ( boo) my sample is almost all gone.

well done toysrluv my ds had problems settling and has always hated school. We have had major trauma over the past 18 mths as he just could not settle at High School, due to extreme noise sensitivity. Just this week he has started at a little school which deals with kids with anxiety about school etc AND LOVES IT! He comes out skipping with excitement. I was in tears the first 2 days to see him so happy (got told off by a very buoyant 13 yr old!).

I swear our vet is an Athena poster waiting to happen. He walked through the waiting room cradling a tiny puppy and speaking to it softly in French. Me and several other ladies just melted off our chairs. Sadly today am nursing cold I must have caught on the plane and am mostly smelling of lemsip/menthol combi. Raining here today. Toysrluv really glad to hear that you got your son settled . I know it's hard when they are little, but my DD is in Uni and I wish I could do it all over again as I miss her so much.

Good that your son is settling toys . I'm wearing Lolita Lempicka today, it was an impulse buy a while ago and I find it a very comforting scent. I think it reminds me of something my mum wore when I was really young but I'm not sure what it is

Thanks kiwi and Ladame! Yes. he was fine again, today. But I did bribe him (no aeroplanes in the shop so he got a lumber yard attachment to his wooden train set) and he only stayed 1 hour 15 mins. But still. Again on Mon and then off to Finland. I've been known to say that if I could, I would happily give birth to a 6 year old to skip all this small child stuff, but there are happy/proud moments, as well. Can't imagine him in Uni. That's absolute aaaaaaages away.

Wearing eldo Fild de Dieu. On me it is really cologney, with citrussy oakmossiness (which I'm not fond of) which could be an olfactory illusion created by ginger and lime, but nevertheless. Now after a few hours it's better, but for some reason expected it to be sort of softer and creamier with coconut. Still, not bad, at all.

Ladame: Imagine if he was your gynaecologist!? I'd die of shame.

Thanks, OneLittleLady. I quite like Lolita Lempicka, as I love liquorice, but sometimes it's almost petrol smelling and headachey.. Not to be worn everyday (by me).

2nd day with Yatagan. Lavendar is a difficult note for me, but here it works. Adore the castoreum and pine - dry-herbal-leathery without the fartiness you sometimes get with piney fragrances.

All of a sudden drawn to dapper and debomair classic masculines - Geranium pour Monsieur, 1725, Trumper Spanish Leather, Antaeus and this. To me, these are the ultimate comfort scents...

SOTD: Jeux de Peau. Love it!

Have been very very naughty and ordered 12 samples from Luckyscent.

I just tried a sample of Womanity by Mugler and it is shockingly horrific. There are no words.

I was HORRIBLY assaulted with Hilfiger True Star Gold in a shop today. I smelled like I was 13, all melon and bubblegum. I admit to buying a bottle to put away for my niece for Christmas

Chocs: Funnily enough, I though that, when I first sampled Womanity in an airport a year ago. Even called my mum over to have a sniff. I swear, it smelled like a woman's bits (during the time of the month, no less!).

A bit later tried it again in House of Fraser, just to show my friend how fecking awful it was. But it was good! Got a mini bottle, but don't wear it, as it turns out it gives me horrendous headaches.

OneLittleLady: That sounds like something a teenager would love. However, I have to admit that I am on the hunt for a perfume that smells of bubblegum, but in a sophisticated way (that's why I was so disappointed at eldo Encens et Bubblegum not being bubblegummy at all). Now waiting for my sample of Heeley's Bubblegum Chic, which is meant to be Tuberosy? Hmm..

It does doesn't it. I love the smell of bubblegum, just not so sure I'm young enough to pull off being coated in the scent myself! It will be good for my niece though, she might only be 7 but in her mind she's a grown up already!

Oh, a 7 year old will like it, I'm sure. Have you ever smelled those awful Barbie/Disney "perfumes" meant for little girls? Now THEY are an abomination.