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

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Well, we're nearly all full.

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I have been sniffin'

Mitsouko - loathed this, old lady's handbag filled with crumpled tissues and spilled face powder.

Chergui - loved this, just the thing for a cold day, with the smell on your scarf.

Having felt a bit poorly sick all day had a bath and used my Body Shop Coconut Scrub and Body Butter. Thought as was doing it that it might be a mistake, yes, oh FGS yes - now smell like a giant Bounty bar crossed with a Rafaello and it's making me feel sick, stupidly have scrubbed the smell into me and can't get it off . Am stupid and coconutty in the worst possible way boak.

I love a bit of coconut, Ladame, especially in the summer, as it reminds me of tropical suncream and pina coladas. Perhaps not if you are feeling icky, though.

Fuzzy, your samples were waiting on the doormat when I got home from work; looking forward to trying them tomorrow. I immediately recycled the packaging, using it to post a couple of vials on to clb - hope you enjoy them! Ooh, I love all this swapping.

SOTD Le temps d'une fete by Nicolai. Hate the first hit of it - something queasy lurking in the background but love the contrast of sharp narcissus against a soft, sweet base.

Coconut is really divisive. It's often paired with tuberose or fig - the former I usually like and the latter I generally do not. Pear+Olive is very coconutty so avoid that! (Mmmm, olive oil... Went to a tasting last night and it's nuanced like perfume - fantastic grassy aromas!)

SotD is Tom Ford Oud Wood!!!! It came this morning oh joy of joys, it's gorgeous!!! Little 8ml sample from STC, I'll have to be careful with it. After last night's coconutgate, had long shower this morning and was sans coconut, sprayed this on and now have nose-stuck-to-wrist syndrome. Haber you would love this I think. It has everything I - (and I suspect, you ) - love in a scent. It's a green, clean laundry, cool sparkling spice - with that faint sweet oud-y note. No flowers at all that I can detect. I know that if I smelt it on someone, I would have to know what it is. Not aftershave-y, a real unisexy, sexy, smell. ((sigh)). Just wish it wasn't so eyewateringly expensive. Pocket how are you getting on with Coromandel?

Frugal I know what you mean about Olive Oil. I live down in the South West of France and they take it very seriously, love the peppery EVOO. Mr Ladame and I have our own walnut oil made from our trees. I use it in everything!! (Wonders if contacted Tom Ford, we could do a swap

Oooh, Ladame, I'm coming to your neck of the woods next week. Near Eauze.

SOTD is Mure et Musc, thanks to Fuzzy. Well....in the words of a well-known advertising campaign, "it does exactly what it says on the tin". Soft berries and musk, lovely for daytime but possibly a bit too fruity-sweet. I thought at first it was quite soft and faint, but I am getting plenty of little wafts as I type. Wearable, but not "wow".

Hi everyone. I'm distracted in a great way today by the fact that I found out today that I probably DO NOT have Ovarian Cancer. I'm sick and starting a whole new sets of tests etc BUT dammit the world is a better place today. SOTD was Biotherm Eau'd Energie. I have a weakness for Eau Vitaminee (also Biotherm). It is more of a fragranced body water than a perfume but I love being able to spritz on a whole load of citrus and not kill everyone around me.

hi ladame . I feel awful I have tried the Coromandel and while it comes close I just can't overcome my patchouli aversion. I can smell the skill and I like the dry down very much but the patchouli means that I know I just won't wear it. I am going to pass it along to an impoverished student friend who I know will appreciate it. Thanks so much though. It was so lovely to get your package and to get to try my first Les Exclusifs! At least I have saved some money from not falling in love with another expensive perfume. Still planning a little trip to London and Les Scenteurs! Thanks also for all the lovely good wishes

Haber - You'll be a bit further down than me. Eauze is in the Midi-Pyrenees and I am at the bottom of the Dordogne. Just to say that we've had lovely weather this week (sorry UK ladies have tried to keep that to myself ahem). So you might be lucky enough for it to continue - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Cointreau - you must try it, it's sooo gorgeous. As it's so pricey am trying the old trick of layering it on a thin smear of vaseline to make it last longer, my skin is terrible for hoovering up scent too quickly. So far it's working well, but you don't lose the first note for a while - not a problem . I am being naughty and being on MN when I should be working - right, that's it - back to the kitchen.

Thanks. I think any weather would be an improvement on what we currently have here so I will be easily pleased! If I see the sun, I will count that as a victory!

Pocket, that is wonderful news. I should make it to the post office tomorrow so will send your sample.

Pocket good to hear things are looking up!

Cointreau glad the samples have arrived, I felt much the same about Mure et Musc. Thank you too for the Orange Star and the infamous Knize Ten! I'm trying out Knize today and it's not as scary as I'd imagined, I wasn't sure about the rubbery opening but once it settled into my skin I found it rather lovely- deep, smokey and leathery with florals peeking through. I didn't use much but I found a few dabs was plenty. Think I will have to explore some more leathery and smokey fumes!

That's great news pocket . Hope they find what's causing your illness soon though, it sucks being ill and having no answers as to why.

Pocket - that's a relief, you must have been so worried. Hope it all gets sorted soon.

Fuzzy - well done on the Knize Ten - I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't get past the whiff of bicycle repair shop!

More samples arrived today from clb - I feel like a kid in a sweet shop - which to try next?

Pocket (waves back) Fantastic news! I know you still don't know what is wrong, but at least it's not that. OneLittleLady I hope you get equally brilliant news as well, horrible not knowing, I know. Pocket I know what you mean about the Coromandel, I really really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. The patchouli was too much even for an old ex-hippy like me. I hope your friend likes it. Someone will. Still loving the Oud Wood, it has a sort of mouthwatering deliciousness, even in dry down.

I was meant to have had my results by now but I haven't heard anything. tried to get through to the clinic this afternoon but no one answered. Will have to wait until after the bank holiday and chase them up.

Today I'm wearing Kenzo madly. It's a lovely slightly musky floral scent. Smells a bit muskier in the bottle than it does on my skin though. The dry down is nice, I smell jasmine in there. Very happy with it, I think it ill be a nice scent for slightly warmer nights.

onelittleday. :( to waiting the whole weekend. I did finally get to the post office this morning so a little package is on its way. fingers crossed for you and good news

Brilliant news pocket. I'm so pleased for you.

Very best wishes to One Little Lady. Tough to have to wait for so long.

Like Ladame we have sunshine here, though it's still freezing (literally). I saw two skylarks yesterday, but they have not yet started to sing. SOTD = sample of very springlike Ajaccio Violets by gents barber GF Trumper. If you like violets - and I do - then it's lovely. Simple and soothing, but, alas, not very long lasting - on me, anyway. Very refined, but perhaps just too polite...

Oooh, I love violets, have been looking for something based on them. I shall have to look that up and perhaps try to get a sample if I can. Thank you all for the good wishes, fingers crossed everything is alright.

Ooh the Ajaccio Violets sounds interesting. I also love Violet scents ( and its my second daughters first name). Any other Violet recommendations out there?

Fellow Violet-lovers

You can buy (small) samples of Ajaccio Violets from Hungary: www.parfumneroli.hu
Acording to them,the scent is for men (!!) and is made from the real extract of the flower.
Relatively speaking, the scent itself is not that expensive (from Hungary), compared with many others.
Although I said that it's faint, it has lasted about 4 hours and I can still (just) smell it on my wrists.

OneLittleLady, I really hope you get good news soon. Hope your Easter weekend is not spoilt by the horrible waiting.

Fuzzy, yay for another Knize Ten lover! Have you tried Cabochard? I want someone knowledgeable to tell me what that identical smell is in the two perfumes. It's the floral part with a kind of woody edge. I like it a lot, whatever it is.

Off to France next week. We are flying from Heathrow Terminal 5. I am hoping there will be some sampling to be done at the airport if they have a reasonable range.

They have Les Exclusifs in the Chanel shop at Terminal 5 Duty Free, Habs.

Oh good. There are a few of those I want to try. Thanks!

Haber Be sure to check out La Roche Posay in the French Pharmacies. It's brilliant very famous skincare used by dermatologists and make-up artists worldwide. Have a google as they have several ranges for different skin types. No nasties in it and my skin has improved so much since I started using it. You may of course already know about it, but if you didn't, it's really worth getting some. Have a great trip and today (sorry ladies in the UK), is still sunny . SotD still Oud Wood, I just can't help it.