Lovely, friendly perfume thread continued- Come and discuss all your fragrant foibles!

[MissBattleaxe]

Continuing from the previous thread. It's always so lovely to see new posters come and talk perfume. Everyone is welcome. Come and tell us your SOTD ( scent of the day) or ask us anything perfumey. Someone will know the answer! Get stuck in and get sniffing. You'll find no snobbery here!

OC - saw a reasonably priced 5ml decant of Sahara Noir on Ebay earlier.

Are we celebrating or commiserating with you MrsCocoa?

My Tauers are here!
Also included were two free samples! Yay!
Phi, a Rose Kandahar, and Lonesome Rider. No! I hate them both! Never mind, DM loved Phi and DS has already snaffled the LR.

I am starting with La Maroc Pour Elle. Wow!
First hit was a memory from childhood (Avon?) then cedar, then ambergris?, then jasmine, all within ten seconds. It's now been on half an hour and changed so many times. It's sweet, beautiful, heady and feminine. I thought "it's not me, I'll pass it to DM" but I keep sniffing at my wrists and I know I'm going to wear it again. It's deep, full, and sensual. It's just so exciting!

Fizzy bath cubes!
I had fizzy bath cubes as a child, in the late 70s. They were wrapped in silver foil with a white label with flowers on and smelt just like this. They were my pride and joy.
And quite possibly from Avon. 😂

Bittersweet Baroness - as is All Good Things.

Baroness, your family are quite the perfume cognoscenti!

Naaah. They just like freebies.

SotD started off being Outside (one of 4160''s collaborations with the Mrs Glossers). Have just moved on to Tea for Two - needed an olfactory hug. Although it is linear and not very complicated, I cannot imagine being without a bottle. What are your 'lifers'?

Merry xmas lovely smelling ladies.
mrscocoa here's to a good 2017! I'm not sure I have a lifer perfume but wish I kept old bottles for the scent as I never get the chance to have the olfactory memory!

I'm smelling of prada Amber that a wonderful elf sent me and I collected from post office today. Thanks.

MsC, as we shall now salute you. Tis a dreadful day when your marriage burns out on you. I am sure that this time next year will be a whole new story, and a much happier one. Sending Christmas cheer to you and all who matter to you.

Thanks for your kind thoughts - has been quite a year. Lovely evening tonight snuggled up peacefully with the kids on the sofa. Xmas eve night felt like an occasion for Opium - had forgotten how lovely but how huge it is.

Happy christmas ladies! Im slowly but surely becoming a total fume head! Feeling very lucky today.

Happy Christmas Coco - I see Santa has done you proud!

SotD is Citizen Queen - second pick from my JHAG discovery box. Delighted to have received a copy of Scent and Subversion too.

Newbie poster on (but longtime reader of) the Mumsnet perfume threads. I derive so much pleasure from reading your perfume stories!

I would never have known about 4160 Tuesdays if it hadn't been for these threads, so thank you very much. I ordered the Taster Set for Christmas and have been working my way through the 8 scents in the last two days. They kindly sent me an extra scent, which I hadn't ordered but it turned out to be one of the nicest, however my absolute favourite was The Lion Cupboard. It provoked a very powerful emotional reaction in me and I am absolutely smitten by it.

The strangest one was The Dark Heart of Old Havana. I think I do like it but it also slightly repulses me. My first though upon smelling it was that I could smell poo! Am I going mad or is there something fecal going on in there?

Lastly, I would love to get hold of some vintage Cabochard. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would be so grateful.

Hi Cardigans - that makes two of us on the hunt for Cabochard. Let's try not to bid against each other on Ebay! (PM me if you're going after something and I'll steer clear).

4160 fans: I have a new and sealed 50 ml bottle of Rosa Ribes in original packaging : a gorgeous blackcurrant/rose chypre which I'm putting up for sale to finance other purchases. PM me if you're interested.

Hi MrsCocoa, fellow Cabochard fan! I'm afraid I'm a complete Luddite and haven't got a clue how to bid one eBay, so no worries there.

Cardigans - buying is very straightforward ruinously so
Haven't investigated other ways of buying vintage - sure someone will be along with ideas shortly....

Enjoying my perfume society box. DH came through first Xmas. I'm starting to think that you either have a yen with roses or white flowers. For me it's jasmin/white flowers. Roses often feel prissy to me. I love the lushness tropicalness of white flowers. Altho maybe I haven't really tried any really great rose perfumes.

Not the right place to be posting at all, but PLEASE talk me out of buying Tom Ford Neroli Portofino!

I've been gifted about 300 pounds (a combination of multiple smaller amounts for a milestone birthday) and nothing particular I'd like to spend it on. I'd like to buy a few biggish gifts to myself rather than fritter it away on food and basics.

I really love the smell BUT it's not so gorgeous that I can forget how ludicrously priced it is AND it is notoriously short lived! I also wouldn't be able to replace the bottle once finished. (low income- I don't struggle with basics like food and housing but luxuries like nice clothes and holidays (cheap!) are carefully budgeted for. 150 quid on a perfume would be ludicrous)

Have bought Invisible Palladia in the 4160 Tuesdays New Year Sale and i'm really excited to get it. i was also given Coco Mademoiselle and the original Ghost fragrance for xmas so i'm happy with my lot. I don't tend to have more expensive perfumes, like the Chanel in large amounts as i use it more sparingly than cheaper stuff so because it's used less often i like to keep it fresh so go for smaller bottles. I may get some more int he 4160 sale if there's anything that grabs me when i get paid

Artemis - not sure this is ghdn place for people you talk you out of a big perfume purchase. To some degree it's a great use of money on something that gives pleasure. Maybe just make sure the TF is absolutely the one and you'll love it for ages.
There's also dupes you cokld buy instead at perfume parlour of you could buy a decant etc before going for a full bottle purchase

Also Bois de Jasmin has this to say on neroli portofino boisdejasmin.com/2011/04/tom-ford-neroli-portofino-perfume-body-products-review.html
She's really good imo. So I'd be tempted to try some of ghdn alternatives she suggests. Although I do think the bottle is just gorgeous too

Ageing yes, I'm afraid you're in totally the wrong place to be talked out of a perfume purchase

Seriously though, I now have a low income (hence me lurking more than posting!) but think perfume is one of the best things to spend "personal" money on. You wear it every day, it gives you pleasure (and the people around you!) and, for me at least, is central to my identity.

My mother always told me to spend as much money as I could on shoes and mattresses as you're always in one or the other. I would add to this, spectacles and perfume and tattoos - all of which I wear every day and want to have the best I can and get pleasure out of them every day.

Get the perfume!

I spend my "disposable" money on lovely perfume although I buy little decants of the £££ stuff and lots of perfume parlour stuff. Occasionally my DH secretly saves up and presents me with a £££ bottle which means all the more as I know it makes him happy to see me happy

I think women, especially mothers, are conditioned to feel guilt all the time including spending money on "themselves". Well sod that, (if our bills are paid etc) we deserve to smell nice and be happy and have luxuries just as much as everyone else! In fact, more

I hope you get it! Report back...

And also spend as much as you can on books. And cats. Hmm I can see a problem with this now

I knew this was the wrong place to ask for a reality check

Problem is, I love it but I'm not "in love" with it. If I were a millionaire I'd buy it regularly, but I don't want to waste a big treat purchase on a nice smell.

That said, I have simple tastes and nothing else I want or need so maybe I'm going to defendants to have another sniff, and i'll order some perfume parlour to see if it hits the spot or not

Artemis, if you aren't in love with i would head over to perfume parlour, get a spray bottle for a fiver, stick your money in an isa and save it for when you find The One.
I got no perfume at all for Christmas. Dh thought I had got plenty! Definitely ltb territory.
My brain has gone mushy from too much port, but remind me where you got the JHAG samples?