Revived perfumistas thread 2

[maryclarey]

Let's go!

Teta, more than happy to swap or just send you a bit. I like it but the entire bottle was only twenty quid so I really don't mind giving some away! Also, it's nice but it's a bit safe and dull for me.

Revving up for some swapsies I think. Dial down expectations for me as I have DMil visiting and she needs lots of looking after. A couple of weeks before I get any real time to myself I think.

SoTD: dzing... no reason. But gorgeous regardless. Will check in as and when, but happy to make a Dune sample and post it....

SotD is the Yohji Homme - there's a beautiful floral phase in the middle that's growing on me but there;'s also a persistent hint of that generic masculine aquatic note which leaves me cold (damp?).

On a completely different note (literally), thanks to Yet I'm now the very proud owner of a bottle of Sahara Noir. Just sniffing the dry heat of incense from the lid makes me very happy. indeed

SoTD yesterday for my DD christening was JHAG Moon Dance - which is heavy on the rose, patchoulli and tuberose and long lasting. Really love it.

SoTD today Jovan musk oil. Lovely and clean. Similar to Kiehl's musk but at a fraction of the price. Applied this morning and it's still there - most impressive for £4

Is vintage Cabochard a really different animal from the current version? Has anyone tried current Cabochard and liked it? It is very cheap. Talking about Gres, I recently purchased a bottle of Cabotine for my mum. She used to wear it in the early 90s and it brought back lots of memories smelling it on her. It's actually really unusual and quite lovely

Ambroxide thank you!
I can send you a decant tube if you wish.Tell me the sorts of perfumes you like and I can see what I've got.
I have masses of decants and samples.
Sotd last night Plum by Mary Greenwell.
Now is MFK Amyris Femme.It's been snowing this morning and I wanted something with a bit of warmth n woodiness (Oud) in.

Frugal l love Aedes de Venustas too.The way the freshness and the Incense combines is sublime.But last time I wore it I forgot it's fairly strong and annointed myself with 6 big sprays.Near suffocation for the rest of the day .I havn't worn it since.I need the memory to fade before wearing it again.

No problem at all, teta! I will wash a sample tube thoroughly, and pop it in that. I have loads of empties kicking around. PM me your address some time.

SOTD Lonestar Memories (the most cheering thing I own). V weird weather today and had a lot of boring work to do.

I tend to like either massive rather masculine big hitters (eg Lonestar Memories, Yatagan, L'Air du Desert Marocain, Chergui, Timbuktu, lots of the heavier Tom Fords) or very green and light stuff (Premier Figuier, Chanel No 19, Eau de Campagne, Ninfeo Mio etc). Notes I always seem to like include leather, tar, sandalwood, fig, incense, smoke, lavender, tomato leaf, pine, grass. I don't normally like iris or rose much. I really dislike gourmands.

Winter has returned with a snowy vengeance, so I'm nice and cosy in Cinema, it's one of those perfumes that I tend to forget about but always enjoy wearing.

Ambroxide you're on my wavelength! A tad heavier maybe but I love LADDM, am hoping for a FB for my birthday soon. Love leathers. Have been quite put off my my previous forays into Tauer (apart from LADDM) but maybe I should seek out a sample of Lonestar.

I see you don't like gourmands but have you tried Mona di Orio Vanille? Heavy orange musky opening, lightens to a gorgeous woody velvet vanilla but not foody at all. It's kind of oriental but without the headiness I associate with that.

It's my SOTD in fact . One spray only in consideration of colleagues

Bit of an iris lover too so we part company there !

Ambroxide I love your taste. Tar, leather, dark woods, yumm.
I walked to work and was caught by a hailstorm. The awful weather makes me crave thick incenses, ambers and oudhs and also big, bold tuberoses. But I am wearing Infusion de Vetiver from the bottle I keep in my office. It is great too and reminds me of another great office perfume, Eau Noire from Dior.

Very glad that you found Sahara Noir!

Am only just discovering my taste for leather . Seems a common denominator in lots of things I'm liking at the moment, including Mon Numero 10.

Cabochard was a fabulous smoky leather/sandalwood chypre. Think it was reforumlated twice in the 80s and no longer seems to get good reviews?

Sister perfumistas! Nice to know other people who enjoy those heavy masculine smells.

I haven't tried that one, wilting. I can do citrus but vanilla scares me!

It's gorgeous , I have a tiny spare sample, will send it to you if you like! Check out the reviews and see what you think.

MrsCocoa glad the Saharah Noir got there in one piece. Really hope you enjoy it. It needs an owner who will appreciate it, and not just wish she'd sprayed LADDM or Cardinal instead that morning!

SOTD Gala again, I do love it.... SOTE Papillon Salome. Yum.

I like Ambroxide's list too, and my current favourite perfume remains Cuir Cordoba.
I loathe most white florals.
Was chuffed that I was right about my student, I was giving her feedback today and asked and yes, it's Miss Dior original, and yes it's her mums.

Cuir Cordoba sounds interesting.

I will go and check out some reviews, wilting, that's really kind of you!

I went to buy flowers for a colleague who is leaving us and saw a gardenia in bloom in the shop. So now I have a gardenia on the window sill of my office. The smell is breathtaking, much better than any gardenia perfume. They are notoriously tricky I hope I can keep it alive.

On my wrist, Aedes de Venustas, but it's nothing compared to the gardenia.

Those flowers sound divine, Frugal. I can vividly remember the first time I encountered Tuberose growing in Thailand, I literally swooned...no perfume has come close to capturing it.

SOTD: A new one for me, Serge Lutens 5 o'clock au gingembre. Warm and spicy without sweetness, nice. Reminds me of something else that I used to wear years ago, can't think what though.

My gran had a bottle of Goya Gardenia. Along with her Je Reviens, and Hartnell In Love, it was probably what started me off on my perfumista route.

I have been switching between my Dioressence, La Prairie Life Threads Platinum and Bruno Au Dela.

But based on Teta's review of Lemon I have just ordered the purse spray - I used to LOVE O de Lancome and miss how it used to smell. And chypre plum sounds delicious so I got that too!

I had a bit of a find at the weekend at a vintage fair - there was a little box of 5 samples, including Ma Griffe and Givenchy III, as well as Miss Balmain, Vivara and Antilope. They are a bit dark in colour, but they don't smell as though they've actually gone. And it was a fiver!

Coming on for sympathy, not perfume talk. Although SOTD was Jicky, so no disaster! Have my DMiL visiting, and going bonkers. Every remark is an invitation to an argument, and I am as guilty as her. PLEASE, talk me down with soft wafts of lovely fragrance and reason... or murder will be done.

My bargain bottle of Bvlgari Black turned up today (part of my slow burn project to see how many of Luca Turin's 5* rated perfumes I can track down for a tenner or less on Ebay. Beats climbing Munros...). Buying blind really is more miss than hit though, even if in theory the notes and composition are great.

Cant't really get to grips with the Black yet, as SotD was Seville a L'Aube and it's still going strong. PS. has anyone tried Traversee du Bosphore?

That doesn't sound too good Cresset . Just looked for a gin emoticon for you and realised we need a perfume one. Found a contender:

MrsC that made me laugh, and do I need it! Love the perfume Munro idea, and it definitely beats mountain climbing or even fell-walking! Thank you.

Cresset my sympathies. Chin up, perhaps wear something suitably warlike? Boadicea the victorious?!?! Alternatively wear somethings v calming and soporific and mellow the hell out of her?

MrsC love the idea of perfume munros. I like that I can see acquiring perfumes as a challenge and not just an indulgence.