Where are the perfume lovers gone???

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Remember our chats??

Our SOTD (scent of the day)?

Is there a thread I've missed

If not, lets take it up here :)

SOTD an unknown sample from my perfume drawer, woodsy and irisy, am baffled but enjoying it!

SofaCanary, I've always been a bit obsessed with perfume. The cupboard really is a bit doomy. Can't comfortably fit everything, even though it is really deep.

Blimey, that cupboard would raise my blood pressure! I'm wracked with guilt every time I catch a glimpse of the Very Expensive And Underused Eau D'Hadrien.

I would do Toys,but sadly I only have samples of these.I'm glad you like the Nuit etoilee.It just doesn't suit me ( along with ninfeo mio) whereas I love eau d'hadrien.

I'm another one that hates clutter.I 'm much happier with minis and decants as I become so easily bored by the same perfumes.I store my perfumes in an antique French marble lined bedside cabinet ( its nice and cool).I have a cupboard for Winter and one for Summer.

Olfactory I can include a decant tube in your package ( courtesy of Toys).Can you pm me your address?!

SOTD (from my very modest doomless drawer): YSL Nu, the original version in the round metal container. Only ever wear this in winter, it scares me the rest of the year!

Thanks Frugal. I have been on Fragantica, and have established that I like vanilla! Also, that the perfumes I like are quite fruity apparently, which surprises, as whenever I go in a store and sniff a lot of the newer perfumes, they are intensely fruity and I find it too sickly. Same with vanilla actually, so I think I want something with a vanilla base, and with rose, definitely, but not too sickly sweet. More grown up.
Plus peach? Allure has peach. The old Chloe that I loved is Tuberose, so that's in.
And think I prefer a slightly "damp" floral, as opposed to a " dry" smelling one, if that makes any sense?
I don't think I like anything too oriental, on me anyway. I had Samsara years ago, and gave it away, as it sort of made me smell like an ashtray in a curry house (!).
By the way, what is that smell that's in Angel, and also Georgio I think, and Cool Water maybe. It's like those red shoelace sweets . I loathe and detest any perfume with that in it and always wondered what it was.
Oh God, I am planning to quit alchohol for good in January. ..Have I found a new addiction already ?!

What about YSL Cinema, that's clementines and vanilla I think. I'm a mere beginner so I'm sure the experts will give you lots more exciting choices.

PS it is hugely addictive!

IfNot I'd like to help but I'm not big on fruity perfumes - peach in particular is a tricky note for me. We all have such highly individual likes and dislikes that trying lots of different things is really the only way is to go. Vintage Chloe is still available on eBay. Cinema is a very nice and stylish light amber. It sounds like orientals and gourmands are not your thing - ethylmaltol is that cotton candy ingredient in Angel - but you may like light ambers and florientals. Giorgio was supposed to be a tuberose, so are Fracas and Poison, that note can be used in a variety of ways, Mona di Orio does a very nice light tuberose (Tubereuse) that is more like a honeyed orange blossom. Carnal Flower is another unusual tuberose.

I did some sampling at Dior (for something very understated try Bois d'Argent). Cuir Cannage had to be retrieved from upstairs, probably not their biggest seller... I expected a big scary leather like Knize 10, Cuir Mauresque or Leather Oud. What a surprise - it's a diaphanous and feminine honeyed floral! On my skin, there is a powerful and dominant orange blossom note, makes me think of the handwash after a Turkish meal. Underneath, I can smell a classical leather iris pairing. Actually this is so orange blossom dominant that it is not a million miles from Narcisse Noir! The leather aspect is a bit hidden under a froth of floral notes. I'm not sure whether I love this or not. In some ways yes, but this combination feels familiar already and I might get tired of the kebab shop aspect. I'd love to have a mini, but a 125ml bottle is overkill...

Anyway, if you haven't been to Dior, their boutique perfumes are one of the best kept secrets around. Some of them are gone for good (Mitzah?), others a bit insipid, but they do really stylish stuff and there is something for everyone. They are expensive but the bottles are beautiful in their extreme simplicity.

Toys loving your cupboard! The stinky musk I dislike is common in masculines, but Koublai Khan is not problematic for me. Yes it smells like butt cheeks but I like body smells and animalic and urinous perfumes - 'peed in your pants' Bal a Versailles for example. (Cannot remember but think Body Kouros has that stinky musk that I hate. Not even sure whether it really is musk... Just something that makes me feel queasy.)

Frugal: I just thought of another one I can't stand: Putain des Palaces. So, yes, body muscs are sadly out.. I like Kouros, never smelled Body Kouros. Not sure if I want to!

I could never ever walk into a Dior boutique. I would dissolve into a shaky puddle, as it's not a place I could afford to buy anything, really, and I think it shows. I also look like too much of a trampy, eccentric student most days. I have never even been inside the local Harvey Nicks. I think I would likely get a security guard following me around..

Had a shower and now put on some of Canny's Esprit D'Oscar. I'm pleasantly surprised. It is very similar to Teint de Neige and Ombre Rose (both which I love), but a bit less powdery and with some citrus.

Ooh, I do want to try Cinema, and Fracas, thanks. Hated Georgio and Poisin at the time.
And thanks about the cotton candy smell. I know what to steer clear of now!

IfNot: Hmm, have you tried Dior - J'Adore, D&G - The One, Dior - Dolce Vita, Essenza di Roma by Laura Biagiotti, Organza by Givenchy, or even Coral Flower by Lolita Lempicka? Cinema is also nice, smooth and easy. The other ones that I though about are discontinued, so I will not taunt you with them..

Can I buy a sample of Jicky if anyone has it please? I would offer a swap but I don't have anything exciting enough to tempt you I don't think!

Diptique Do San - fresh, creamy, tuberose
Tendre Poison - the original 90s version

They're about as exciting as it gets, the rest is pretty basic

Only few drops of Tom Ford's Moss Breches left. This is one off my fall favorites - multi-faceted but sadly discontinued. Today I smell waxy snuffed-candle aldehydes, a dash of cinnamon, and a heap of brown leaves turning into mulch in the top notes - and a sweet, high-pitched breeze of cool air.

Today in Boots I was goofing around with my son and the Library of Fragrance testers. He was very amused at the idea of smelling like grass. I bought a bottle of their Amber - it's very nice. I used to wear amber a lot (in an oil in a roll-on bottle from some hippy shop in Berkeley, CA). I often blended it with vanilla. I have a Vanilla body butter and body spray (sold alongside the shower gel at Asda) and I might have some fun with combining the two... should be a blast from the past.

SOTD: shop squirt of Tom Ford's Plum Japonais. Nice cosy winter jumper sort of smell. Not a million miles off Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir, I think.

Fabulassie: Sounds like lots of fun! I really never layer stuff. I feel like I might spoil finely tuned things. Also, not really sure what to combine with what, as I have very few singular/uncomplicated scents..

SOTD: Theorema. I do love my spicy, ambery orientals. Why on earth was this discontinued?!

hello perfumistas

I've mainly being using up perfume samples lately and have finished my Tauer ADDM. So I thought i'd try his Maroc pour Elle which I bought at the same time but wasn't too sure about. weirdly I now really like it, something about the spicy rose is just very warming.

Strange how perfumes just fit better sometimes.

I like spicy orientals too Toys . I've just ordered samples of Chergui, and Coromandel & Bois des Iles

SOTD: Aedes de Venustas EDP again. I see a FB of this in my future (despite hideous expense), it's just GORGEOUS on me.

Had fun time trying different vetiver scents in fancy perfume shop Parfumarija at the weekend (the joy of being unexpectedly in town with no small children in tow and nothing to do for half an hour), for some reason I seem to gravitate towards Manly Smells in winter. The Frederic Malle one is lovely.

I have never worn anything other than No 5. Perfume shops and areas such as john lewis and self ridges give me a headache.

Toys, thanks so much for the decants, yours will be in the post tomorrow!

I LOVE Dzing! – it’s funny, there’s a sort of continuum between Dzing, Chergui and Black there, where the various tea, rubber and leather notes overlap in different ways. Dzing is my favourite – I’m wearing it today and it keeps changing. One minute it smells like a sweet buttery gourmand, then the weird synthetic cardboard note takes over, it’s so complex.

Bvlgari Black surprises me a little – it reminds me of Tauer’s Lonestar Memories with the rubbery plasticky notes only not as harsh (that’d be the vanilla) – I don’t like it as much as I thought I would but I’m delighted to try it.

Chergui I’d tried before and loved – it smells like warm hay on a summer’s day. It’s actually quite like Dzing.

Traversee du Bosphore is intriguing and I’ll have to wear it before I can figure out what I think about it. It’s a lot lighter and fresher than I imagined – I thought it would be more oriental. DH said he gets celery notes from it which I don’t!

Thanks so much, I love having decants far more than FBs I think.

Yesterday’s SOTD was Malle’s Portrait of a Lady – I had a lovely rare child-free brunch out so thought I’d dress up and wear something a bit special. Maybe POAL not the best perfume for brunch, I felt like a planet carrying its own atmosphere. It is a Humvee of a perfume. Beautiful but a little too much for daytime. And incidentally, not ladylike at all, it’s really trampy! (not in a bad way)

Stokey: I like Maroc Pour Elle. Not enough to buy an FB, though.. I think it might be my favourite Tauer (most of them leave me cold).

Shins: Cool, I'm so relieved to hear you got the packet ok! I love Dzing too. I think if I absolutely had to choose one thing to wear for the rest of my life it would be Dzing. I get a funny vanilla cardboard thing with it, which I love. I also love Traversee du Bosphore and think it a bit of a masterpiece, but I might be somewhat biased with my Mediterranean roots/memories.. Yes, and love, love, love Black. Vanilla rubbery leather...mmm...

I really didn't get on with POAL. No idea why.

Sotd is Lipstick Rose on one elbow,l eau de Hiver on the other,Ambre sultan on one wrist and Maison Martin Margiela ( untitled) on the other.

Love love Lipstick Rose ( smells like me ).L eau d'hiver has such a cold vibe and the warm Amber is spicy and cosy.But the Maison mm smells of burnt rubber and asphalt on me .I pick this up in Nuit Etoilee as well.

Frugal,oh resident perfume expert do you know what that burnt smell could be?

Hurrah, my Atelier Cologne sample set arrived. Have had a quick dab of the vetiver one (see above re recent vetiver obsession), it's loooovely.

Also wish the little bottles were squirty rather than dabby, but otherwise it's a great sample set and v good value, especially with the special offer shins linked to. Can see many SOTDs to come as I try them all out...

Argh, lost a post - Canny not sure but a good post on off notes here.

SOTD Violette Blanc

Canny [envy) at Lipstick Rose.Want, want, want!!! I've got around 4 ml of Eau d'Hiver, which is also lovely. I didn't get the point of it at all first, as it's so subtle, but I really have grown to love it. I wish I had a bigger decant.

Theorema has worn off. Might put some of Canny's Clair de Musc on later. It's such a cosy, clean musk.