Part 5- And the perfumes just keep on coming...

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Shiny new thread for some shiny new perfumes (and classics and niche brands)

Just to mention to fans of niche fragrances that Annick Goutal perfumes are turning up in TK Maxx a the moment.

Thank you mrs cocoa, I will look out for that.

Sotd Tabac Blonde thanks to fuckit this is v nice on me, sparkling light feminine. Not getting much any tabac though? Smells more like diorella or something. Are you sure I have the right sample fuckit?! I must resniff my toys mystery samples because it is just like one of those...

Surrender to Chance have 15% off some French and Italian perfume lines until October 15, 2013.

"15% off CB I Hate Perfume, Etat Libre d'Orange, Frederic Malle, Guerlain, Montale Paris, O'Driu, Santa Maria Novella with code italyfrance2. (not combinable with any other code)"

If I remember right postage is a bit pricey alas but I am keen to try some Frederic Malle so might go check it out!

SOTD Mona di Orio Vanille, mmmmmmm.

Plus VERY exciting here in Dublin, we got a PERFUMERY!!!! From my quick peek last week they had Etat Libre Orange, Bob & Eight, Olfactive Studio among others... have to go back adn have a proper lok, I just hope she does samples.

No Mona di Orio alas.

I tried iris Silver Mist last week, it's absolutely beautiful.
Really tempted.
really really...

Are we not sniffin' any more?

TK Maxx on Charing Cross Road has almost the full range of Annick Goutal for around £50 for 100 ml bottles. I picked up a bottle of Eau du Sud. They also had all the Hadriens, Ninfeo Mio, Duel, Petite Cherie and a raft of others. No Grand Amour. Oh I think they had Sables as well, and Vanille Exquise.

I have purchased two FB of perfume from my youth. "First" - still absolutely love it, also Halston Classic, which was my first Grown Up Perfume (after Jovan's Sex Appeal for Women ), which has also stood the test of time.

Well done Mrs S on your Eau de Sud: that's one of my absolute faves and no sign of it up here yet (just lots of Ninfeo Mio - which is lovely but I am not feeling so figgy at the moment).

Oh they had Nuit Etoilee as well. Yes, MrsC, I was delighted to find a bottle of Eau du Sud lurking at the back. I think the cheapest I have seen it is £75.

Sorry if this has already been asked at some point but there are a LOT of posts so I couldn't check! Can anyone explain to me what's happened to Miss Dior Cherie please? I thought you could still buy it but apparently not?!

Mrs S - yay, eventually found one too , and have persuaded DH to salt away as my Xmas pressie.

Loads in store now, including Songes, Eau D'Hadrien and Petite Cherie. Never seen Vanilla Exquise before: has anyone tried? Is it very sweet?

Wooo! I'm off to the US for work so it's the perfect chance for me to raid Surrender to Chance. crosses fingers for some good offers next week

Hi ladies, long time no see!
I've been travelling non stop since July.
Have felt quite unadventurous with perfumes lately.
Worn last week - the perfect fall 'fumes:

Chanel No.19 EdP for three consecutive days - perfection
Prelude to Love, By Kilian - brisk and efficient
Eau Noire by Dior - my favorite inflight perfume
Bois d'Armenie by Guerlain - a sweet nighttime treat

Plus a lot of raw materials - have been to about five or six blind sniffings with perfumista friends. Addictive but challenging!

Oh and I met Francis Kurkdjian recently! (He's tremendously sexy!)

What are you wearing, liking, buying at the moment?

I appear to have a bit of a seventies thing going on at the moment, and have been wearing Halston Classic, First, Estee and Cabochard of late, with the odd veer into the eighties via Pierre Cardin's Choc.

Mrs Schadenfreude, think we may have similar taste. I like Choc and you've inspired me to dig out my old bottle. What's the Halston classic like?

Thinking about YSL Nu for bonfire night...

T K Maxx seem to be stocking E Coudray too. I rather like E Coudray, though it's not quite as exciting as the Annick Goutal.

MsSchadenfreude, that Charing X branch is quite exciting, isn't it (and then the lovely Foyle's over the way).

MrsCocoa! I have Nu as well! Halston Classic is quite green initially and then woody underneath if that makes sense. A chypre?

Yes, thecat, love TK Maxx in Charing Cross Road! Picked up some bargainous Christy towels in there too. And nice soaps.

Fascinating picks ladies! My contribution to the 1970s vibe - Tom Ford's discontinued chypre Mossy Breches (olfactory equivalent of the mossy green wall-to-wall carpet we had circa 1976), plus the hairy-chested old-man classics Antaeus and Yatagan. I'm also looking for a ladylike chypre fleuri as well but haven't found the right one yet...

I was in Tuscany over the weekend and took a walk in a mossy oak forest. The tree trunks were pale gray with oak moss and there was a heavenly retro perfumery feel in the air! You would have loved the basenote!

I wore AG's Ninfeo Mio all summer long but now that the days are cool again I'm looking forward to rediscovering my cold-weather perfumes. It's still too warm for proper ambers.

Question for you all: does anyone know of a decent 'scent selector' website which throws out ideas if you tell if what you like? Have never found a good one, but read in one of the Sunday papers a couple of months back that, something was about to be launched? Any ideas?

Mrs S: I had a bottle of Halston Catalyst which DD smashed - wasn't heartbroken as it wasn't quite right (can't identify the dominant floral note in it I didn't get on with - perhaps gardenia?). I liked the spicy/powdery notes though.

You might try Fragrantica?

I've already taken to wearing L'Occitane's Amber on dark wet days this autumn.

This is an Australian scent selector site. The problem is that you need to know something you like and the alternatives given are quite esoteric and hard to find.

My personal suggestion would be to identify key scents in different parts of the fragrance wheel featured on that site. Most people love more than just one group. I think I have favorites in almost all domains of the wheel, including classic masculine areas. But once you are able to pinpoint your comfort zones (for me, greens, orientals and woody fragrances and mossy woods above all) you will have a good starting point and be able to experience the area in depth.

A warning: mainstream mass-market perfumes use an extreme limited palette and many of them are a bit meh and me-too. If you stick to the ladies department in an average duty free, you will mostly find fruity florals and fruitchoulis, gourmands (a subtype of orientals, characterized by sweet, edible, dessert-like use of ethylmalthol and vanilla; Mugler's Angel is the mother of most gourmands; Prada's Candy is another good mainstream example) and various fresh, aquatic and musky perfumes. For me, it's really difficult to find my personal favorites there: I tend to like greener, woodier, mossier, heavier and quirkier perfumes, and leather and incense.

Although I don't generally want to smell like shampoo or candy, I'm thinking about wearing an ultra gourmand today; Acqua e Zucchero by Profumum Roma, smells like the brunch in a patisserie...

I promise you it's the right sample Wilting I think Tabac Blond is one of those perfumes that's been bastardized beyond recognition by numerous reformulations. I didn't like it at all, although I could smell something like a slight smoky 'tabacness' mixed with a lot of spicy carnation. Not for me. I got a sample of Narcisse Noir from Caron aswell expecting a dark, animalic, seductive scent, and what I got was a nice enough (if you like that sort of thing) white floral. Disappointing on both counts.

I'm excited to see this thread up and running again!

Autumn perfumes for me have been my usual mix of ambers - I'm a shameless hussy and wear them all year round!

So: L'air du Desert Marocain (still my ultimate favourite) Ambre Precieux by MPG (I love it but my family hate it, particularly when it's first sprayed ) and Coromandel.

I am also loving Amouage Lyric - but it's eye wateringly expensive and I cannot afford a FB.

Also Hasu-no-Hana by Grossmith. A really beautiful, quite retro smelling oriental.

I've been trying various florals in the hopes of moving out of my comfort zone and finding one I like. I've tried some Frederic Malles: Carnal Flower, Une Fleur de Cassie, and Portrait of a Lady, and although I can appreciate them as being quality compositions, I don't actually want to wear any of them . I persevered with Fracas too, in an attempt to like it, but really, it's just too much.

I did rather like L'eau D'Hiver by Frederic Malle though - very subtle and 'pale' smelling.

The story of Miss Dior Cherie here!

Fuckit loving your taste, ambers and incenses mmmm! If you like L'Eau de Hiver you might enjoy other heliotrope/ mimosa perfumes as well!

My perfumer friend organized a series of evenings where we built an 1) amber, 2) chypre, 3) fougere base from scratch (=4-6 raw materials) and then built top notes in very different styles. Really eye-opening and a great way to learn!

SOTD Yatagan - braising meat so sweet gourmands wouldn't work but this has a great woodsy outdoor barbeque feel.

This great blog is updating again and I need to read the book!

SOTD, or more accurately, scent of yesterday: Mona di Orio Vanille. It's still lingering though. My kids love this one and I love it too, but I have to be in the right mood. Sophisticated, delicious, smoky vanille it might be, but it's still vanille and it lasts and lasts with it's orangey tang. Wearing it for the day is a committment!

Today I fancy some Black Aoud after posting about it on another thread. Will rummage in my samples box...

Frugal Une Fleur de Cassie was very much a mimosa and I did like it. Thought it was beautiful. Very evocative. Just not sure I'd actually want to wear it IYKWIM. I find it really hard to find anything outside of my amber/incensey/woodsy zone that I would want actually want to smell of.

Apart from Black Aoud, which I adore. It's not for wearing lightly though is it. A woman needs some confidence to pull this one off. Definitely one for a good hair day

I've been wearing Iris Silver Mist quite a lot recently.
Nothing on today, yet.

Coffee ISM is stunning!

I'm wafting about in a cloud of tuberose and coconut, Beyond Love, By Kilian. In Italy, you can wear killer tuberose and still be seen in public (yesterday, an ancient lady in the supermarket wore one of the most poisonous aldehydes known to man: on her, it smelt like embalming fluid). Went to mass today (it was lively, Romans take their dogs to church and the nuns play tambourine) but was distracted by a black poodle and the lady in front of me who wore In Love Again. I really liked it. Some of the YSLs are really great, I've longed after Y and In Love Again recently.