Lovely Friendly Perfume Thread: Part 3

[MrsCocoa]

Continuing the discussion of all things perfume related. Tell us about your long standing favourites and tell us about the latest finds you've sniffed out. Everyone is welcome.

Just dropped by for lovers of SJP Lovely, to say Boots have the 50ml bottle with a body lotion in a box for £20 and triple points currently.

Back from the day's paddling and feeding, and heavens, the 4 day event is going to test us all to the limit. Secretions Magnifiques has to be the scent; it's not about smelling nice, but nothing else is as raw or biological. Start at 6.00 am, canoe or run 35 miles, and at Easter we do it for four days consecutively. 17 to 70, these are hard yards. Completing WILL feel epic.

In reality, I wore PP Amouage Beloved, but didn't even notice it in the fray!

That sounds very, very hard work Sock. Is the idea of the Secretions Magnifiques to make them paddle faster to get away from it?

The Caldey Island scents sound very appealing MrsC, especially at those prices, and anything reminiscent of Dirty Honey ought to be investigated.

Oh What, yes, definitely Ron would have something a bit naff smelling that he got for Christmas. I am still stuck on Aunt Petunia. Would she be the type to empty half a bottle of Youth Dew over herself and never mind the nuclear strength sillage?

SOTD is Bulgari Black which is not half as weird as I thought it would be. The vanilla and sandalwood dry down is lovely and the burnt rubber is never overpowering. I think Sirius would like this one too.

Saw this vintage ad in Barbra Herman's book and thought of us

Saw this vintage ad in Barbra Herman's book and thought of us

Double apologies Barbara

I spend more on perfume than clothing

SpongeBob- thank you! I am going to have to get some of this seeing as everyone raves about it!

Judy Don't worry! I don't know much about Harry Potter either don't worry only what I hear from one DD endlessly talking about it

Sock that sounds like such fun, if very very tiring - imagine how good you will feel after the big event! You will feel amazing! Eau de Deep Heat, perhaps?

I was a late convert to running and had a plan of doing the London Marathon before I was 40 - had to stop running when I became ill and never did the marathon - this time of year makes me feel a bit wistful...I am going to buy a new garden chair and sit outside every sunny day. Smelling gorgeous

L'Air du Temps today I think!

Those on holidays - enjoy!!

Secretions: Magnifiques for deterring swans, which scare canoeists! There are lots of swans on the canal, they are large and fierce, and they are at face height with the paddlers, so they are a hazard, especially when they're nesting.

Eau de Deep Heat and muddy water blended with urine is the scent motif of the Waterside Series and I expect it to be the main extrait of the Devizes-Westminster event. The canoeists 'Everest'.

The Pure Distance sample set arrived in a sumptuous padded white box reminding me of the gloriously padded. ornate, first communion books we were given as a child.
The perfumes are so smooth,beautifully blended and smelling of natural essences that they're akin to fine wines - the very expensive sort costing a few hundred a bottle.

SOTD is Miu Miu. Sorry for my Harry Potter ignorance - I have neither read any of the books nor seen any of the films.

sock I think swans and any other birds/humans will stay well away if you were spraying SM around.

Wow OC that is hardcore! DH has a kayak in the garage that takes up nearly all the bloody space he normally pretends to be exercising by going for a few very sedate jaunts over the summer that strangely involve lots of beer.

I love spotting perfume references in films and TV. Currently watching Silence of the Lambs- Hannibal has just told Clarice that she wears 'L'Air du Temps, but not today.'

SOTD is the very sharp and green Carven Ma Griffe.

Disappearing, I have to fess up, before you think we are hardcore canoeists, that we are merely the feeders and supporters looking after two 17 yo , in a kayak. But it is a huge challenge, for which they have been training for eight months. Adults do the course in one stretch, and international Olympians have times of 15 hours or thereabouts; club canoeists are happy at 17-20 hours, you have to be 15+ to enter. It's a big event for the Army, who have several regiments competing. Juniors (Us) do the course over four days, camping between Newbury and Westminster. Parents hand feed every morsel of food to prevent water contamination, and handle health and hygiene, and transport and clean gear between sites. It is a very tough endurance challenge and life-changing for kids who are daft enough to tackle it. (Last year, the final day was called off because of 70mph winds). But it is taken very seriously in uni applications as evidence of grit and determination. One state school does it, in the whole country -- from a county you might not expect. It is not cheap to participate because the gear and kit required is specialized and so, not cheap. But watching a fairly weedy kid grow in confidence in his own ability, it is priceless. Apologies for the lecture.

Bit obsessed, currently. Normal service resumes after Easter weekend!

Wow *OC" - good for those 17 year olds! (But I have to ask, do you spray them down with SM before they get in the kayak or do you spray yourself, and scare swans from the river bank? Or have I just lost the plot..? ).

Depending on the weather, the spray could be sun screen or insulating grease! The scent is my enjoyment, a secret pleasure in the hard yards. I don't think there's a swan antidote. I'd be selling sprays (and would have hordes of customers) at every stop if anything put the b*ggers off.

If anyone knows a scent to keep swans 10 feet away, please say, NOW. It would be a huge contribution to human happiness.

Ha ha, that ad is rather too close to home MrsC. But for me number 4 would be cats, number 5, books, and then perfume jointly with polish, at number 6. And I easily spend more on perfume than clothes - but then I don't enjoy clothes shopping.

Sock, it had never occurred to me that swans are a hazard to canoeists but, yes, I'm sure an aggressive territorial swan must be very frightening to encounter from a canoe. Perhaps Secretions Magnifiques and Beaufort London 1805 combined might scare them off.

Judy don't apologise, DD and I spend far too much time randomly speculating about characters in books we like.

Nobody ever gave me a gloriously padded, ornate, first communion book. I did have a veil with a comb sewn into it to keep it on my head. My goodness it was painful!

SOTD started off as a JHAG Romantina sample. I've decided I must not unless very tempted order any more samples until I've got through some more of the existing ones. It is tuberose, jasmine and musk, and listed as a "particular favourite" of Fairley and McKay in The Perfume Bible. For me it is mostly musk and very underwhelming. I washed it off and replaced it with Y, so I smell like a pile of fresh, warm, grass clippings. Bliss.

Beaufort and SM together ought to scare anything and anyone, into the zombie apocalypyse. Would bet otherwise. With cygnets, swans are probably the most terrifying critters, give or take a zombie or two, in normal life. Yet to be convinced they pay attention to how things smell! They just defend!

''Twas a bit puzzled as to whether you were doing it cock or your ds was doing it.Either way it sounds character building for all of you.What about those alarms we all had in the 1980's .To defend ourselves from marauding rapists.Are you allowed to defend yourself from these swans or are they protected?The very best of luck for your ds.
Green I had one of those too attached to a hairband.My dd1 had a fresh flower ring circling her head.She looked so cute but she hated it as she was a real Tomboy.

Sorry Sock !

Good morning! The postie has just been! And the new smells from Heeley arrived, so I have Verveine d'Eugenie on left wrist which is garden fresh and citrus, but not as much as St Clements, and Iris de Nuit on the right. At first sniff, the Iris is a bit vague but it may be because the other is overpowering my schnozz!

Well good luck sock it all sounds exhausting, whichever capacity you are doing it in No swan advice sorry, I love swans and the whole mating for life thing. I love seahorses too, the whole Dad bringing up the baby seahorses thing.

Funnily enough, my mother and I were talking about mass/incense and perfume this very week. My DH and mother are both Catholic and love the smell of incense (I feel these two things must be related ), DH likes the scent of things like Fire and Shalimar that have that note in, and he is usually a "yes that's nice" (with slightly bemused look too) to any perfume .

Not decided on SOTD yet as still in bed

Hmmm, I have just my own post back and it sounds very much under the influence of painkillers taken on an empty stomach Apologies!

(Seahorses?! )