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!

Citrussy types I like: Jade by Yardley (honest, it's brilliant, loads better than £££s Cristalle by Chanel- it's crisper somehow) Lots of L'Occitanes are quite citrussy, Fragonard do orangey lemony ones.

Head off to Perfume Parlour and buy some dupes, then you get to own lots and lots all at once and compare them to the real stuff.

SoTD (2nd day running) Coeur du Desert. Of course.

Hello! Would any of you have suggestions for a warm, slightly sweet, slightly spicy fragrance? Happy to have a bit of floral/rose in there too? I used to wear Chanel Allure (about 10 years ago) and I did like that. Only in the last year have I come out the other side of having three babies and I went totally off perfume but now I'm craving a particular type I'm just not sure what it is :). I've tried Aqua de Palma Rosa Nobile- too sweet and too Rosy. Liz Earle Nmber 20, I do like this one a lot but doesn't have the lovely warm dry down I'm after. Kiehls, Nashi Blossom and Grapefruit, I love the dry down bt the first hour with the grapefruit makes me feel ill. I've just tried Laura Mercier L'heure Magique which sounded like it should be perfect but was too heady. I really don't like overly sweet or really strong perfumes, I feel like there must be a perfect match out there some where!! I'd really appreciate any suggestions x

Rosielea - there was lots of enthusiasm here for Mary Greenwell's Fire. Meets your brief and is a steal (The Fragrance Shop).

Vintage - the Obsession was sold as vintage, but with Ebay you never really know with decants do you? I had a similar experience with Coco, which I wore in my youth, but now seems tamer than I remembered. I wondered about reformulation but it may just be my taste is darkening. (I spent the afternoon admiring EL's Knowing - that wouldn't've happened in the 90s!).

Rosielea ,Serge Lutens Fleurs d oranger is Orange Blossom with Rose,Tuberose and a bit of warming spicy Cumin.I'm wearing it today and it's beautiful in cold weather .Alternatively Houbigants Orange Blossom is similar but with the rather more gentle Nutmeg instead of Cumin.

I bought Fire blind and find it rather too masculine unfortunately ,so it's worth testing first.

Liz Earle no. 15 is very nice, warm spicy

Rosielea I've just bought a bottle of Presence D'une Femme by Mont Blanc. Lovely and soft and warm and spicey without being in your face. Cheap as chips from Allbeauty, I paid £19 or thereabouts for 50ml edt. Good staying power as well

Thank you to the lovely person close by for a glorious start to the day! A magic carpet ride back to the decadent androgynous thrills of the mid-1970s, and my student self. Amazone (though almost certainly reformulated in ways that pass above my paygrade) still touches me and pleases. The initial galbanum whoosh remains a recurring note in my perfume choices. I'm less keen on the narcissus that follows it nowadays, but it evokes women's lib and student politics.

ah, you are very welcome OC. I agree that is has changed, and not for the better (def the notes that follow the initial 'galbanum whoosh') but then a lot of perfumes (always seem to be the ones I like) are a mere whisper of their glory days

no SOTD for me today as am waiting for some samples of Frederic Malle Musc Rav and Serge Lutens Chergui that are due today

if anyone likes Paloma Picasso i noticed a bottle (edp) for £24 in Boots yesterday- bargain! i used to love this but it doesn't seem to smell nice on my skin anymore although it does on other people!

I'm sadly very excited by my eBay purchase of vintage Vent Vert - a 10 ml decant.I've always wanted to try the vintage version .I also scored a half bottle of Vol de Nuit yesterday.Its just too easy to click and buy using Paypal .
Aedes de Venustas - gloriously fruitily green is my SOTD.

who was the ebay seller teta?

7922nikki.
Disclaimer: i haven't bought anything from him before but his feedback is 100% positive!

thanks teta; will you let us know what the Vent vert is like when it arrives

Right then- I am of to Darlington tomorrow to have a good ol' sniff round Binns as they have rejigged their cosmetic and perfume department.

What perfumes should I try out if I like

Chanel Coromandel & Sycomore
Frederic Malle Vetiver Extraordinaire

Looking for spicey , or woody, or green. They sell Hermes, Chanel (not the Exclusifs) , Prada, Bulgari, Guerlain, Creed, YSL etc

Of those brands, I like several of the Hermes (especially the Jardins and the Merveilles, which for me is a cosy warm evening small). I like Bulgari's Eau de Thé Vert and Black (but the latter is discontinued IIRC -- it's reminiscent of l'Artisan Dzing!). If they have it, I also like the Creed Aqua Fiorentina, which is green and rhubarb-y with some plum, pretty in spring which is possibly further away for you than for me. Happy sniffing!

The Amazone is still just hanging in there with me, after walking SockDog and an all out assault on my floors, so

Smell, not small. I must proofread more attentively!

Hello, I hope you don't mind me posting as I am only an occasional lurker on this thread.
I was wondering if anyone could recommend where I could obtain the original Dior Addict at a reasonable price (or at the one that has a gold top)? The silver topped re-formulation is a travesty and barely a patch on earlier version(s).
OR ... could you suggest any perfumes I might like which are similar and no more than £50/£60 for 50ml (wishful thinking i know). I think it's the heavy vanilla I am missing in the newer version of Addict.

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Hello NotAQueef- there are a couple of gold topped bottles on ebay.

I have been boring this week perfume wise and alternated between Coeur du Desert, Lonestar Memories and LADDM.

I must change tomorrow as they are now all morphing into one!

OC - you might like Barbra Herman's Scent and Subversion if you haven't seen already? Great chapter on the 70s with at least three examples of advertising copy for mainstream perfumes which directly reference the Women's Movement (albeit in cheesy ways). And yes, androgynous thrills and grown-up womanly complexity in the fragrances of the era.

It was the zeitgeist, honest. Haven't seen Barbra Herman, MrsC, so will search it out tomorrow. It sounds like my sort of thing.

Clearly I should proofread more carefully too.

Here you go OC: Barbara Herman's Scent and Subversion

SotD: Vintage Insense from the very back of the bathroom cupboard.

I'm interested in your views on Musc Rav, I got a sample last week and it smells exactly the same as Tauer Phi - and both have reviews on Fragrantica saying they've been reformulated to hell and no longer smell like the original. I need to put one on each wrist to compare.

Sample OTD was Fille d'aiguilles and I am in love - actual pine resin, like climbing trees, and dark sugar and wood. It came off in the shower and I'm torn between putting it back on and testing the difference between the Phi/Musc smellalikes.

Anyone know who does the perfume called 'Amarige'? (if it still actually exists). I had a teeny tiny bottle of it a few years ago,in one of those sample sets,where you get 6 different perfumes in mini sizes. I loved it but have never been able to track it down. Shop assistants just look blank when I ask. Also,is there a perfume by a Susie/Suzy someone? I tried it in Debenhams about a year ago,loved it, intended to get it but circumstances intervened and I never got round to it.

Janey: Givenchy - think Boots and The Perfume Shop may have it online?