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.

It's funny you should say that niminy. I didn't used to like fruity scents or fruity florals but Sarah McCartney adds the entire fruit bowl sometimes and I've accidentally fallen in love with many of them before I could help myself. I love What Katie did on Friday Night (now called Fruits of the Tree of Knowledge) and it smells like cherry jam! I used to loathe peach but ended up falling for Doe in The Snow.

Yes, I think Sarah McCartney's signature is fruit. Some of them I like. I'm very fond of Sunshine and Pancakes and may even buy it, and there are a couple of others that I like. But I like fragrances to have a bit of heft and complexity and, for me, fruit is just too simple, insipid almost. I have a sample called Peche et Vert that Ronni (from the late lamented Scent and Sensibility) put in with some others, and it's, well, just too peach-y. Fig is ok.

Like Frugal, I tend to gravitate to resiny, leathery, woody orientals. I think that's my other Sarah McCartney issue - those things really aren't her style.

I think some 4160s definitely have heft and complexity. Shazam, Midnight in the Palace Garden and Evil Max are massive. I also loved Goddess of Love and Perfume, which was a complex multi layered chypre. I have to admit though, that I don't really like the Sexiest Scent on The Planet Ever (IMHO). I just can't get to grips with it all.

Oh and I miss Ronni! I haven't been able to top up my Tauer samples since she closed down. Even Les Senteurs has a two week wait for Sotto La Luna Tuberose, although they have the gardenia ( which I didn't like)

Evil Max I have, and like (even though it's a cherry chypre - how consistent is that?), and Shazam has been on my 'want to try' list for a while. Maybe I'll have to eat my words!

You know you can get Tauer samples direct from his web site? I keep meaning to lash out on a discovery set - with Sotto La Luna Tuberose, naturellement.

I know, but he doesn't ship to the UK now? Postal regs have changed. I have just ordered a sample of Lonesome Rider which can get to the UK, but that's all I can get.

Tauerville only ships 30ml bottles to the UK, but I don't want to buy blind. I just checked the Tauer site and they do not ship to the UK.

Oh, that's pants! I hadn't seen that because I hadn't got as far as actually ordering

Really liking Shalimar Mexique. There is a loud and clear lemony note that cuts through the custardy sweetness. I keep sniffing my wrist, this perfume is nuanced and comforting and stimulating at the same time. I'll move the bottle to my dresser! too bad it's so ugly

Forgot that I have a candle from Malle, Cafe Society. It has a good dose of Shalimar.

Thanks for mentioning Choc Mrs S - I like it too.

Oh God, I really should have carried in resisting the temptation to click on this thread.

For weeks I have stayed away. For months I have stayed away from fragrantica.
Now with one quick read I desperately want to try Salome.
Curses to you!

Salome arrives tomorrow, in all her full bottle raunchy comforting loveliness!

SOTD Etat Libre D'Orange Rien Intense. It's definitely intense! I think I like it, but I can actually taste it in the back of my throat, so may go off it when it gets to tea time.... Very incense-y, reminds me of the inside of a incense storage box, but it's also got a zesty fresh note to begin with.

How is the Salome YetAnother?
How skanky do you find it?

Salome IS skanky, but my nose has adjusted, and now I just find it interesting and deep. I found it a bit of a shock at first as I usually go for incense-y, cedar-y, pine-y fragrances, so florals jasmine and animatics was a big punch to the senses. But in a good way. I think I would dare to wear it in very small quantities during the day, but I might be a bit self concious, but I would definitely wear this at night. It's beautiful in a vintage, unwashed but perfumed film star way. Totally love it, but it could divide your friends and acquaintances!

DCs gave Rien Intense the thumbs up, they said it smelt "posh". !!!

Salome sounds intriguing, I'd probably like the skanky part. Need to wear my fave pee-in-the-pants perfume, Bal à Versailles more often. Wore oudh to work today but stayed in my room

I dabbed on some Pikake from my Hawaiian rollerball. Lush lei flowers to offset darkness and drizzle.

Well YetAnother if it all gets too skanky for you I'm happy to buy some of it from you to relieve the burden

You lot are getting dirtier and skankier with every passing day. I blame the weather! I am hovering over a Salome sample as I cannot bear the ignorance.

cresset pm me if you'd like a sample.... Also buttons....

I bought a small bottle of this on eBay the other day, for less than the price of a pint. Gorgeous! I wasn't after a barnyard oud, just something wearable. Can't go wrong, really.

Bless you! Have pm'd

cointreau I stockpile al rehab chocomusk, it's to die for and never fails to get compliments.

Sorry to come back to the question of little spray bottles for decanting, but any recommendations? Am assuming I need glass to avoid contaminating juice with plastic? But do I also need a metal spray mechanism, etc? (I have a number of things in dab bottles that I'm trying to move over into spray format (15ml max)).

I bought some nice PET bottles in Muji (PET is a very stable, hard, transparent plastic) which have worked well; I'm also toying with the idea of buying some on eBay.

After living with my 4160 Crimes of Passion samples for a month or so now I am completely in love with Maxed Out and Midnight Gardens.
Silk and roses is my runner up.