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.

I'm in Miss charming layered with not a perfume today. It's rather orangey and reminds me somewhat of Clinique happy which I though was the height of sophistication years ago and can't tolerate now. I sniffed aromatix the last day - I'm on an aldehyde buzz at the moment and thought it was quite nice but didn't spray it on my skin. I'm still reeling from rive gauche the last day, I felt so enveloped in scent.

I do!
I wonder if we were ever there together sneakily spraying stuff!

I remember buying some Estee Lauder foundation (called Country Moist, which conjures up rather unpleasant images now ) for £17 and it being the wrong shade and giving it to my friend whose mother was horrified anyone would spend that much on makeup. (It would have been around 1988 so thinking about it, makeup hasn't really gone up that much in price compared to other things)
I also bought some Kanebo lipstick which cost a fortune and you had to have some special lipstick remover to get it off!

The Atelier Cedrat has totally gone now, I guess as colognes they aren't going to be very long-lasting. Gives me chance to try another after I get my elbows out of the hot cross bun mix.

It is very much Easter here, feet washing in church last night (I was just a bystander, my horrendous feet would have had the priest screaming and running for an exorcist- though I believe he is the town's one himself ) and lots of Madonnas (not the truth-or-day one, the Virgin with a capital V one ) being carried around on huge tea trays. I'm a disinterested observer, I love the pomp and the incense wafty thingy made me think of Lonestar Memories and you lot!

Well it isn't Lace after all (need to go to Specsavers) but a bottle of Yardley White Lavender, which has completely gone off. I do seem to remember my mum having Lace at some point though, along with Chique and Panache

SOTD is EA Green Tea, which is lovely but really needs a hot day to shine.

VP the Easter celebrations sound amazing!

I'm in eau de chip pan, as me and dh have have egg and chips for tea.
Right anyone been watching Corrie? What's the vintage perfume poster behind Michelle?
My Chanel 19 came, it's nice enough, needs a warm sunny day though.

And now my Miss Dior. Hey it's a whopping bottle! I know only Eau d' cologne, but still. It's got the houndstooth label and says 90 on the back, so don't think it's too modern.First sniff I thought it had gone over, but it's settled nicely now. Dd likes the new version, so she won't like this, no, no no.
So, what is everyone wearing this Easter? Doesn't look like its going to be warm enough for the summer scents yet.

Mary greenwell - lemon SOTD

I shall be in some nostalgic Anais Anais I think. Possibly alternated with 19. It's the time of year when I do a massive nostalgia thing. (not that I don't the rest of the time lol)

I showed dd the Atelier Colognes and said she could choose which ones she would like to have, so she sat sniffing and separating into 2 piles. She has taken most of the citrussy ones, and the sweet ones (some are very very fruity and sweet) I haven't had chance to see what's she's left with me (she says "all those dead heavy things you make me smell in airports" )

Is your Miss Dior the same as mine? About 50ml and in a splash bottle?

Congratulations on the Miss Dior OhWhat, whopping and a houndstooth label sounds just the ticket to me. My Diorella landed yesterday and I spent a happy half hour investigating it on Raiders of the Lost Scent. For one glorious moment I thought it might be from 2001 but, alas, it turned out to be from 2011 so it is a Diorella with its fangs drawn. It still smells amazing though - sparkling citrus with a very odd meaty/animalic/leathery? note and a fabulously mossy dry down. Very, very grown up.

TK Maxx has loads of Yardley English Rose, English Bluebell and English Lavender for £7.99 if anyone is interested. And my local Fragrance Shop had the Mary Greenwell purse sprays in Lemon and Cherry for a fiver each - though they seem to be £7.50 on the website today. I managed to resist the Mary Greenwells, but succumbed to a funny little thing I sprayed on casually which smelt just like a patisserie. It's called #iloveYou by #Parfums Hashtag so is quite clearly aimed at DD's age group rather than mine! If anyone else fancies smelling like delicious biscuits, it was £5 for 30mls.

VP Easter celebrations down your way are a lot livelier than the ones I remember!

Off to poke around in the perfume drawer to pick a SOTD - I am running out of space for them!

Bingo indeed Green, this is what Perfume Shrine says "if you chance on the Eau d'cologne it is surely vintage and they are a pretty good acquisition in lieu of extrait de parfum, if you can’t afford or find it." It's definitely got something dark,animal and dirty about it, can't believe it was targeted at debutantes. It's unbowed, but has a 3 digit code-s10. Anyway, I'm chuffed.

I think I have exactly the same Miss Dior- says 90 on the back, and is 57 cc. Have lots of wee bottles of Diorella, went ebay mad for it last year and have about 6 of the 10ml bottles.

Green - https://www.fragrantica.com/designers/%23Parfum-Hashtag.html

Ollivander yes, that's the bunny. Despite the long list of notes it really and truly smells just like a patisserie to me. I justified buying it by telling myself DD would like it too...

SOTD was easy in the end. It had to be Miss Dior to celebrate Oh What's haul. Mine is Eau de Toilette but with a houndstooth pattern label and an odd quantity, 54 mls, so it is pretty old too. I tried very, very hard to sniff it objectively, and yes, there is something dark in the top notes but the powdery, elegant dry down is too inextricably associated with my mother when I was small to be anything but a scent blanket. This one is definitely top of my Desert Island Sniff list.

Have you compared vintage and modern Diorella VP? If so is there much of a difference? Barbara Herman's description is so at variance with the one in Fairley and McKay that they sound like two completely different perfumes.

I wore 4160Tuesdays's "The Lion Cupboard* today. I fancied something with a bit of heft to it, as I was going for a long walk this morning and it was sunny, but very brisk and breezy, and I thought a light, bright scent would just disappear. It is a woodsy, spicey, scent with lavender and a strong heart of tobacco and other lovely things. I was going to try something else this evening, but I can still smell Lion on me, 12 hours after I put it on!

Green, the "I Love You" sounds rather fun - I have a fondness for sweet gourmands and who could resist smelling like a delicious biscuit?!

Thanks to this thread I just bought that hashtag one

Hope you like it too Ollivander. Calm if you're tempted it is this one.

The Lion Cupboard sounds marvellous. I can't believe how many 4160s I've yet to try despite my lovely Advent calendar of samples and all the free samples 4160 send when I buy something.

Happy Easter everyone!

Been away for a while with a work conference (DH got three and a half hours sleep the first night I was away so the trick-the-baby- with-perfume thing didn't really work!). Mostly took some new PP buys with me (winner of the new batch was Rive Gauche but didn't like Portrait of a Lady dupe at all) but did get comments when I went for a bit of Coromandel.

Been working through the 4160s Our Modern Lives samples since coming back. Yellow was OK but really like the Green and Aquamarine. Not so keen on the gold but pairing them a bit too well with the silver one. Tried replacing that with molecule 1 (they seemed similar to me...) yesterday to avoid running out of the silver too quickly. Even so, the longevity isn't great - is that typical of 4160s or just this set?

My 4 year old is getting in on the scent love now, and is asking for a spray most mornings. He's most keen on L'eau d'Issey at the moment but I think it might just be that it's the tallest bottle I have!

Sounds like there have been some good eBay finds of late. I think I might need to uninstall the app...

Green that hashtag perfume looks very very tempting to me, I am a sucker for cheap scents the more tasteless the better and anything with a top note of "cotton candy" has to be worth a fiver, surely?

Vintage oh DH would love all those Easter goings on round your way! I too love all the incense and ceremony but am a bystander (well more of a Passover girl so we have all festivities covered in our house )

Cheap excellent work indoctrinating the youngster, start them early I say. Foolishly I let mine loose on the gateway drug of Lush too early and my teen DD has a very expensive scent/toiletries habit now.

Happy Easter to all, I currently have a house overflowing with teenagers (don't their parents want them back on Easter Sunday - DH is ) and wondering if I can stretch the Asda bunny face crumpets to feed everyone...

My finger slipped and I accidentally bought the cotton candy perfume

Happy Easter everyone!

Seville a l'Aube gets it's first 2017 outing this morning - I do like its constancy, but I usually only smell the orange blossom and wax. Would love a bit more incense to come through. Perhaps my skin doesn't get warm enough at Easter in GB?

Came home from a few days away to find a tiny little bottle of very old Dans la Nuit had arrived (60s?). Top notes gone, but gorgeous from 2 mins in.

Have been accompanied on my trip by teen DD with sophisticated tastes - she smelt heartbreakingly grown-up and borderline melancholic in MG's Lemon. (Suits her graver aspects),

Those purse sprays for £5 are a complete steal and make fabulous presents.

Cheap, I agree with you on the PP Portrait of a Lady. Far too much patchouli for my liking, both in the opening and all the way through. Rive Gauche will be in my next order! Some of my favourites so far in the PP range are:

Hypnotic Poison - all the notes of the original, but not so "in your face" and really long-lasting.
Virgin Island Water - coconut, lime and white rum. I would say the lime is slightly stronger than the original and the whole thing lasts longer.
Tobacco Vanille - have never tried the original, but this is just what it says and really good.

I have some others as well. What other favourites do you all have?

Hope everyone has had an enjoyable Easter break we're back home again and I've been investigating my body shop haul. Wearing the Fuji Green Tea today, a light tea/ floral scent, very fresh and spa-like. It's eau de cologne so is not very long lasting, but is cheap enough to re-spray often and would be perfect on a hot day or to take away on holiday.

One of my favourite PP dupes is DKNY Pink Macaroon I know it sounds awful, but I just bloody love the smell! It's very sweet but also very citrussy. The dupe of Love by Kilian is great too for fans of sweet gourmands. Every so often I get the urge to smell of puddings and sweets

Happy belated Easter and hope there were enough crumpets/ hot cross buns/simnel cakes/chocolate to go round everyone.

Having led so many of you astray with #i Love You I thought the least I could do was to wear it to check it isn't a total scrubber. So it was yesterday's SOTD and to me it still smells like a patisserie/ delicious biscuits. I can still smell it on the scarf I wore yesterday so it's putting the longevity of many far pricer perfumes to shame too. So fingers crossed it smells the same to everyone else.

Cheap I like the silver one best of the two synthetics from the Our Modern Lives too. Interesting that you think it's similar to Molecule 01, which I've never smelt - as so many people are completely anosmic to it I've never fancied lashing out for a sample I might not be able to smell at all! Of the seven naturals I like Red, Aquamarine, Orange and Yellow, but the longevity, even when layered with one of the synthetics isn't as good as the other 4160s I've tried. But they are really lovely.

I started off the day with Le Couvent des Minimes Eau du Cloitre (courtesy of a kind MN perfumista, thank you) on one wrist and a sample of Yardley English Rose on the other for comparison. The Eau du Cloitre smelt rosier and fresher initially but the Yardley held up surprisingly well and I couldn't detect much difference after about half an hour. I think the problem with Yardley is, sadly, that it is Yardley and too many of us associate it with buying very old-fashioned bath cubes and talcum powder as presents for relations when we were younger.

I really must keep a list of the PP recommendations. They do seem to be a bit hit or miss, but the hits sound so worth it.

I've had a new batch of samples:
Chanel Bel Respiro, Boy and Bois des Iles
L'artisan Mechant Loup (bought solely for the name)
Serge Lutens Cedre
Maicon Francis Whatsit Cologne pour le soir
I also found a lovely work colleague has a giant bottle of Beige which she brought in so I could test it. It is lovely, mostly freesia to start with, and the scent developed into a warm honey. She says she hardly wears it so if I buy a decant bottle she'll give me a decant for free! However, I might prefer Boy, it's got a bit of lavender on the opening but that does disappear too quickly, it turns out lavender is in my ideal spring wedding perfume image. Bel Respiro was nice too but a bit similar to the new Eau Premiere, and Bois des Iles didn't really do it for me. Of the others, Mechant Loup is a bust - too sweet and gourmandy, and I haven't tested the other two properly yet, but a tiny spray of the cologne started nicely spicy and then turned into lynx after a while.

My search has expanded to find a dupe of Gucci pour homme, the original in the square amber bottle, for my OH, as we both loved that and it's now discontinued and old bottles are insanely expensive. I've just ordered the Le Labo classic sample set as Vetyver is supposed to be a dupe for the Gucci, but we shall see. I tried LADDM on him and it was great, I'm trying to convince him to buy one that I can then steal! if anyone knows any lovely man perfumes do let me know - nothing ozoney though, please.

For those who have tried Lion Cupboard, what is the minty note like? Mint in perfume strikes me as off-putting for some reason, like toothpaste, but I haven't knowingly tried it.

I don't get any mint in lion cupboard but I don't have the most sensitive nose!
SOTD - nenuco cologne spray. Didn't want anything strong on and I adore this

Mary, there's a definite mint in the top notes of The Lion Cupboard, but it's integral to the perfume and very well blended. It goes after 20-30 minutes.