Let's revive our old perfume threads, perfumistas!

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I know it might seem like we've nothing left to say but I'm sure we have :)

I have to tell you: Seville a l'Aube is on the TK Maxx website for half price - lots of other L'Artisan perfumes but that one is very special and I wore nothing else all summer!

SOTD: Cuir de Russie. Like a fuzzy hug with vague undertones of marauding Cossacks from the 19th century.

I didn't know that, missB. Geranium candle sounds lush. I'm liking the true grace green tea, just smells lovely and fresh and not too strong.

I saw Miller Harris candles in TK Maxx for £15 last week..

It is too dangerous for me to go to TK Maxx right now. There are bargains galore on really good brands that I would normally only be able to buy online or in London.

SOTD Papillon perfumes Salome. I'm trying varying quantities of this to see whether I can make it "respectable" for day wear. I love the fragrance, it's just a bit rude smelling. a tiny dab added to Tobacco Rose makes TR much more edgy. Love it. Still trying to resist buying a FB, but seem to be gravitating to it every day, so maybe it will become a signature scent. Hum, ha, hum, ha.... Don't know....

YetAnotherNC. Be careful! It will make people want to have sex!

Do you think they'll want to have sex with me??? Or just a passing whiff might just get feeling a little ooh la la, and they won't know why??! Yikes. Could be a hilarious school gate experiment! Ha!

If you're wearing Salome, everyone will get wood.

So, I have caved, and I have ordered a bottle of Salome....

Sorry guys
After all the Salome talk ( why do I want to spell it Salami?) I'm wearing the extremely virginal Annick Goutal le Chevrefeuille.Its such a beautiful spring fragrance that makes me feel young and pretty. Started off the day with Acca Kappa Calycanthus - a stunning Jasmine and Calycanthus perfume which has been my best ever perfume bargain.I think I paid peanuts for it in the M&S sale and its an expensive perfume in the real world.

Anyone ordered direct from Frederic Malle in Euros? It would be cheaper to get it from France than anywhere in UK it would appear...

SOTD - Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt. It's gorn already!

What was the longevity Like Cointreau? The only Jo Malone that lingers on me is Pomegranate Noir which I didn't like (My Perfume Law of Sod- hate it? 15 hour longevity. Like it? Poof! it's gone!)

I've been wearing Feminite de Bois this whole week. boring
i do love that stuff.

Longevity poor, MrsB! Not a trace of it by the afternoon.

Yesterday's Cinema had some staying power, though. Lttle wafts all day - I smelled like a French macaroon.

Went to town today (to buy boring things). Nothing exciting in TK Maxx, a happy chat with my favourite sales adviser in HoF, a quick squirt of Alaia (nice but just missing "I have to buy some" would have said yes to 10ml complex floral to start, and so difficult to disentangle that I would guess synthetics; sophisticated, musky, longevity good). A squeeze of Guerlain Vetiver on the other wrist, now gone... but lovely.

When I worked in Paris, my first office was between Annick Goutal and Frederic Malle, and a few doors down the street was a shop that specialised in slightly less run of the mill perfumes, such as Juliette Has a Gun and Serge Lutens (plus a load of others I'd never heard of).

Cat does not like Musc Nomade or Ivoire, so have concluded it is Vetiver that gets him going.

SOTD is Choc by Pierre Cardin, which I used to wear in the 1980s, and picked up in a French supermarket. Cat is indifferent.

at discerning cat.

I've yet to elicit any response to a particular perfume from our resident dwarf Russian hamster. Unless I have a mealworm concealed about my person she's indifferent.

SOTD is the last of my Shay & Blue samples, Salt Caramel. Now, this is something I love to eat, but I really don't think I wish to smell of, so I've saved it for a day when I'm not going anywhere. Just applied....we'll see if it goes anywhere. DH will probably like it - he's a vanilla fiend. I won't ask the hamster.

Wearing Shalimar Mexique today. I've been off sweet gourmands this winter, but have to go out and buy birthday treats for DDs in the afternoon. Mexique has a strong butterscotch note.

Not wearing anything today as I'm going to take the children swimming this afternoon.

Yesterday I was wearing Tauer Le Maroc Pour Elle, which I hadn't worn for ages. I was reminded of it by Heeley Phoenicia, which is a peppery-woody oriental, rather masculine, in the Heeley style, and went back and dug out my sample of LMPE. I'd forgotten the lovely aromatic seville orange opening - one of my most favourite openings ever - and then the dark woody-oriental drydown. Oh, how I love it! Not for everyday, but such a dark, deep, mysterious scent.

Watching the discussion about Femininite du Bois, I was pondering why I find fruit notes so difficult. I've tried to like FdB, and I really like the cedar note in it, but the fruit, yuck. It's too sweet and, well, fruity. I think may be the reason that I don't, by and large, like 4160 scents. I was given a tin of samples for Christmas and there's only one I like, the rest all have fruit notes. Would anyone like to do some swaps?

Niminy I have had a hard time with fruit notes too (not helped by the profusion of junky fruity florals in the market). When I started exploring perfume, fruity chypres smelled deeply old lady to me. After exposing myself to lots and lots have started liking some of them - figgy, plummy and peachy ones. My real comfort zone, though, is woods, resins, and ambers.

I have bought perfume from Nose in euros, and all was well. Efficient service too. At the moment, I am buying ski stuff in euros to avoid currency exchanges, but I have the euros pre bought loaded on a card. DS salopettes were much cheaper in euros than in sterling in our local Billabong store, even though they were shipped from a UK warehouse.

I don't mind some fruit - in fact, FF's list of acceptable ones is about right - but I don't like berries, or anything too "jammy".

Salt Caramel isn't getting any better. DH said I smelled like a bar of chocolate, and DD1 said it smelled like "the most generic perfume ever". Meh.

SOTD is Cardinal by James Heeley. Lovely little samples arrived in post yesterday, nice little glass spray vials. I chose Phoenicia, Cardinal, Cuir Plein Fleur, Agarwoud and Sel Marin to try. So far, I like Phoenicia, love Cardinal, even though H tells me I smell like a tarot reader's underpants, defo not keen on Agarwoud, far too fake-rose smelling for me, not sure about Cuir Plein Fleur, need to try again, and haven't tried Sel Marin yet.
Tidying up an Everest of washing....fun.

I'm not keen on fruity smells either, although I was when I was pregnant. So I have some unwearable perfumes hanging about now- they make me gag. Can't understand why I thought they were worth buying, damn those pregnancy hormones.

California Reverie today as first thing was a very wet Cross Country race for DD2 an hour away.I needed a bit of cheeriness and uplift.Now rampaging crissly round the house getting kids to wash numerous pairs of football,rugby,track,AstroTurf and bloody normal Boots in various states of degradation.