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Lovely Friendly Perfume Thread: Part 3

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MrsCocoa · 28/02/2017 00:00

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.

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Badders123 · 08/05/2017 20:33

If was meow by Katy Perry!
😁

MrsCocoa · 08/05/2017 21:27

Get yourselves to a Guerlain counter and try Jicky! Have only sniffed it a coup'e of times and haven't tried on my skin but it's oddly contemporary and androgynous for something dating back to 1889. I found it a bit unsettling - couldn't put my finger on why until I saw a basenotes review (by ClaireV) that calls it exactly. There is a dissonance in the opening between fresh citrus/aromatic notes and the creamy (so thick it's almost cheesy) tonka and civet, and there follows a cycle of repulsion and attraction.

Speaking of which Green - there is something really, really unsettling in The Dark Heart of old Havana. How do you get on with this?

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MrsCocoa · 08/05/2017 21:32

Sorry Badders - can we just rewind? You and Marine Le Pen were shopping together for a bottle of Katie Perry's Meow?

Did you eat a lot of cheese at bedtime? Grin

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Badders123 · 08/05/2017 21:44

Nnnooooo
I was trying to point her in the direction of YSL and she just keep waffling on about liking cats.

GreenPolishToGo · 08/05/2017 21:49

Grin at Mme Le Pen buying Katy Perry's Meow - how ridiculously perfect!

Mrs C, I really am miles behind you when it comes to distinguishing notes. My only problem with The Dark Heart of Old Havana is that I love the top notes so much I can't resist adding a sneaky top up instead of settling for the lovely dry down. I can't detect anything unsettling in it at all. And you are doing it again - making Jicky sound alarmingly alluring!

Hope Miffy has worn off the poor cat.

MrsCocoa · 08/05/2017 22:09

That's so weird Green. I love all the darker 4160 scents - but the putrefaction (or some other olfactory scariness) here was too much! (Although I like the gone-off fruit bowl effect in Midnight in the Palace Garden).

(PS. credit goes to ClaireV not me!).

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MrsCocoa · 08/05/2017 22:35

Just on the cat sub-plot, mine still smells of Miffy. Did wonder if this might work a bit like a bell and warn birds of her presence? But apparently only vultures and kiwi birds have much of a sense of smell and there's not much chance of either turning up in the back garden....

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OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 08/05/2017 22:48

I love Dark Heart of Old Havana, i was lucky enough to win a bottle as a runner up prize in a facebook competition they ran. I also won a bottle of Maxed Out in another competition they did! lucky me eh Smile I think my favourite of Sarah's is Raw Silk and Red Roses, it's so thick and lush, hints of green leaves mixed with the sultry dark roses and then there's the jamminess that comes through behind that, making it syrupy but not sweet

MrsCocoa · 08/05/2017 22:59

That's good going OneNight! My fave (dark) rose is Who Knew but Raw Silk & Red Roses is beautiful too. At the other end of the spectrum am enjoying Avon golden oldie, Brocade: a light powdery/violet rose. Unfortunately it wears close and lasts a nanosecond.

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OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 08/05/2017 23:08

I like Who Knew too and Babylon Sunset. I dont think there's a 4160 Tuesdays I havent liked so far and Ive got an awful lot of them in splash bottle sizes. I'm not one for sticking to just one bottle, i like to flit between them several times a day if i can, never mind in a week!

Still looking for D&G Feminine, can't believe some of the ebay prices for it, it gets crazy. Much as I love it, I can't afford to spend THAT much on a bottle or even half bottle.

Badders123 · 09/05/2017 09:53

The avons have arrived...
Mmm
I like far away but not sure about the other two.
Still Waiting for my beloved sun moon stars to be delivered.
I'm wearing NR poudre today and it's nice.
I've sent for a sample of NR for her so it will be interesting to compare the two.

GreenPolishToGo · 09/05/2017 10:54

I am not listening to you lot about Avons! I have already had DS point out an aftershave in a bottle designed to look like a steam train.

MrsC I would have thought Dark Heart was a dead cert for you. But I smell overripe fruit - as in not so far gone that you couldn't use it in a fool - rather than rotting fruit, so I suppose that's where the difference lies.

I love far, far too many 4160 Tuesdays: What I Did On My Holidays, Sunshine & Pancakes, Lemon Sherbert, Dirty Honey, Rome 1963, New York 1955, Mother Nature's Naughty Daughters, The Buddhawood Box, Mrs Gloss Made Me Do It, Up The Apples and Pears, Captured By Candlelight, Ealing Green, Goodbye Piccadilly - I could go on and on. It's very lucky for me that they do the 9ml atomisers, and the Commitment Phobia special offer.

Well now I have learnt that kiwi birds have nostrils in their beaks and make snuffling noises a lot because they get clogged up with soil while poking the ground in search of food. So you see a perfume obsession is educational. Perhaps Miffy might frighten away foxes - possible silver lining for poor fragranced feline.

SOTD is vintage Miss Dior in all its elegant, powdery, comforting glory.

Badders123 · 09/05/2017 10:55

Green....then .I will not tell you how close I came to ordering ds1 a flagon of he shape of a Viking long boat 😂😳🙄

GreenPolishToGo · 09/05/2017 11:43

A Viking longboat! DS would sell me! In a heartbeat!

Badders123 · 09/05/2017 16:11

I was sooo tempted! I think dh would have divorced me if it had darkened our door.
His family were far too middle class for avon so he finds my love of avon kitsch very odd and my mil and sil dont perfume....😵😱
I know....
Freaks
😁

Dlpdep · 09/05/2017 16:52

I wore DKNY today - the grapefruity one. Scorching heat here, I just felt like it. Funny, while I liked it before I felt it was too strong but I found it fine today. I wonder is the bottle on the turn, it's been around for a while in my cabinet now!

Badders123 · 09/05/2017 17:09

Sorry if I missed this but have any of you got one of the Elizabeth Taylor gems series?
I've smelt white diamonds and I'm not keen but diamonds and rubies seems up my street...

VintagePerfumista · 09/05/2017 18:08

Freaks! Someone in my secret Santa group always bangs on about "no smellies because on her they all smell rank" Pffft.

After my splendiferous Diorella yesterday I went for Dioressence today, and spotted that I seem to have 4 bottles (the 10mls) of Diorella, but only about 4ml of a 10ml bottle of Dioressence left. Must rectify that.

MrsCocoa · 09/05/2017 20:29

You're making me think I need to smell it again when we do our workshop Green (and still waiting for a reply re: numbers/dates - will chase up...).

D&G Feminine - wow OneNight - that's serious money. Looks cheaper to buy multiple x 5mls rather than a part used bottle. Never know how that works Confused.

Avon - wondering if I need reuniting with the ubiquitous 1970s swordfish? I do have a bell in the post Smile. I need some Persian Wood in one those pink and gold 1960s bottles....

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Badders123 · 10/05/2017 10:16

I am happily wafting around in sun moon stars and yes, it's just as lovely as I remember it!
So much so I've just bid on another bottle!!
Happy sigh.....😊

teta · 10/05/2017 11:43

I'm wearing Evocative perfumes Fleur de Magnolia that has come all the way from Australia.I bought a sample pack of the oils when I saw them in Fragantica .I didn't realise perfume oils can be posted everywhere but perfumes are restricted.
The Fleur de Magnolia smells more like Fleur de Gardenia and orange blossom, with freshness from the green tea, than Magnolia.But it's no less beautiful.
Anyone love Safari here?I'm just received a gorgeous vintage bottle In a swop and it has such a wonderful green blast of Galbanum on a initial spray.I know it's been reformulated and smells quite different now.But I'm just wondering how different?

MsRinky · 10/05/2017 13:04

SOTD: 4160's Goodbye Piccadilly, I love it.

Badders123 · 10/05/2017 14:53

Safari is gorgeous

OneNightTimeMenaceStrikesBack · 10/05/2017 15:19

msRinky Goodbye Piccadilly is fab, i got a sample size of it with an order i placed and i'm very tempted to get a full bottle

SOTD is Drole De Rose, love this. I'm a huge fan of rose scents anyway and i picked this up really cheaply in TkMaxx, it was a blind buy but i knew id love it because of the rose!

Is anyone a fan of Signorricci? I picked soem up a while ago really really cheaply, i mean it was £2.99 a bottle. it seems to be the only heavily citrus based scent that smells okay on me and it is amazing on a hot day as it's so refreshing and cool when it goes on

Dlpdep · 10/05/2017 18:56

Funny, all the talk of sun moon and stars, I remember reading in a mag years ago (like maybe 25 years ago) that it was the scent best suited to my starsign - Scorpio. I kind of want a bottle now too!!

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