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.

LesIncompetents, please tell me about Carillon? I promise I am not stalking you to ask about all your perfumes, I think we just have similar tastes! I ordered an explorer set of 15mls from Tauer earlier this week (birthday gifts coming from mum in the US and asked her to pop these into the package, since Tauer don't ship to the UK) and in addition to Incense Rose and Lonestar Memories, which I know and love, I got Carillon completely blind because wanted to try something a bit different (fully aware that this does not always work out well). I've read the notes but I can't quite imagine what it actually smells like! Is it an actual floral?

SOTD is L'Artisan's Dzing, which I'm on the fence about (another blind buy; I was so sure I'd love it but it's just a bit sweet and flat on me).

No probs thisfalseinsight, I'm more than happy to waffle on about perfume Carillon is seriously strong stuff, lily of the valley and lilac gone nuclear. I put one tiny spray on this morning and still feel like I'm in a cloud of it this evening. I find the base is almost like a strong laundry detergent/ clean musk, not everyone's cup of tea but I love it.

Badders the Valentina Poudre sounds lovely!

Hello fragrant people! I have been on previous threads but NC regularly. I just wanted to share with you that the 90s really actually are back...does anyone remember In Love Again, an Yves Saint Laurent Limited Edition which was around in, it must have been, 97 or 98? It had a heart shaped bottle/lid. DH (DP at the time) bought me a bottle and I absolutely loved it, it was a fruity (blackcurranty?) Floral but not pink sweet like today's poor efforts

Well it is back! Re-released for a limited time, to me it smells the same and it was like being transported back in time....

Just in case there are any other fans, £77 for 80ml though (I don't remember it being that expensive but then I didn't have lots of DC ) I have a scented card as can't afford FB but might see if I can source a decant, it's almost painfully nostalgic though...

Enjoying the perfume talk, I'm not a fan of Flowerbomb or Viktor and Rolf generally, but have surprised myself by loving BonBon by V and R, recently. It's very sweet so not normally my style (I like to smell like rich eccentric old ladies' handbags these days) but there is something in this one that I like. Teenage DD also likes it, I have a dupe from an eBay seller (not Perfume Parlour but very good, smells almost exactly the same).

For some reason, I have recently gone off Patchouli on my skin, has this happened to anyone else? Karma by Lush is one of my favourites so I got a sample of Noir de Noir, love the rose but it just fades to "musty charity shop" on me and I don't like it (actually a fan of charity shops but you know..) Has this happened to anyone else? Definitely not pregnant btw

My tastes have stayed pretty consistent over the years so this is surprising to me. I was very ill over Christmas and found after this I could no longer wear Opium (my Xmas scent) as it just smelt burnt to me, and this love hasn't come back either Is it just me?

Oooh, Carillon sounds very interesting to me, I am still looking for a replacement for my beloved discontinued Penhaligon's Lily and Spice.

Les...sounds like we have similar tastes!
Do try Valentina poudre - very "old ladies face powder" smell 😀

Have never liked the lush fragrances but love their bath bombs!

SOTD is Clinique Wrappings for going out for lunch on a very, very rainy day.

Found a little bottle of vintage Rochas Femme parfum (listed for bottle rather than fragrance -sacrilege! (Although the bottle is beautiful too). It is wonderful stuff.

Thisthing - can't lay my hands on Barbara Herman's book right now (which is odd as I normally sleep with it under my pillow...) but recall it describes Femme as smelling like the inside of a beautifully soft suede evening bag (powdery notes from bag contents), so am with you on this!

I love Femme too. Must wear some today. Although the bright spring sunshine also calls for Y!

This thread has definitely got me more interested in vintages, Femme sounds wonderful

SOTD is Eau des Missions again, can't seem to get enough of it.

Femme and the inside of a lovely suede bag does sound right up my street - I am attempting to ration out my sample habits but will def have this next on the list! I have just ordered a sample of Paris (original one not new) after my nostalgia fit of smelling In Love Again. I also forced DD to sniff Amarige which she quite liked! Will have to get hold of some vintage Obsession My all girls school in the 80s must have had a perfume cloud over it visible from space!

I can't wait for the weather to perk up and Easter time which is the signal in my head to move to different perfumes. SOTD is Yardley Jade which seemed appropriate.

Hello all. I am in love with black opium, haven't used it for months and spritzed myself friday morning with it. I could still smell it going to bed friday night and woke yesterday morning with it still lingering. Perfumes never last on my skin for some reason so I'm impressed. Maybe it was a one off.

"like the inside of a woman's butter soft suede purse that has accumulated the feminine smells of perfume, lipstick and other womanly objects"

(I work with Barbara next to the computer )

Wore the Miss Dior Eau de Cologne last night, am as yet unperfumed, but am going for some comfort food nostalgia I think, so either the old 19 again, or, why the hell not, a squirt of Anais Anais original.

Tell us about Y,, Frugal (YSL?).

Ombre Leather 16 Tom Ford for me today
My nineties fragrance would be Dune

SOTD was Rive Gauche. I always feel quite sophisticated in this for some reason - despite being dressed in dungarees like a kids' TV presenter today.

Frugal my friend's mum has worn Y forever. I think there was a period when you couldn't buy those old YSL perfumes in places like Boots, and she used to have to get it specially by post. She's 80 now and kicks ass.

MrsC vintage Y - now there's a name YSL came up with before search engines existed - is heavenly. It's a marvellous green chypre with a lovely initial blast of galbanum. It's warmer and more golden than Vent Vert and Chanel 19, and wonderfully mossy and powdery. It puts me in mind of the scent of a garden with a freshly mown lawn after a summer shower. It's worth a trial for any green fan. I've no idea how the modern formulation compares.

LesIncompetents I could still smell Eau des Missions on my wrists the next morning. And it was still gorgeous. It really is amazing when you consider the price because nothing about it gives away that it's a cheerful cheapie.

Maud, have you seen there's a new Black Opium flanker - Floral Shock? DD brought me a scent strip home from Boots. Very like the original but much lighter.

My Barbara Herman sits beside my bed. She's cost me a fortune! I love the vintage advertisements - the Ambush and Ma Griffe ones are especially jawdropping.

A bit of a mixed bag on the perfume front this weekend. I started off with one of the JHAG samples - Moondance. I liked it but not as much as Mad Madame. This is a Good Thing because I looked up the price of it. Lumme! I could get Belle d'Opium cheaper.

Next up was a sample of Beaufort London Fathom V, which is supposed to smell like being at sea in a damp wooden boat and does a very good job of it. I liked it for its weirdness but poor old DH took one sniff of my proffered wrist and physically recoiled. So I scrubbed it off and put on a sample of Marc Jacobs' Honey, which smelt just like a shampoo. It was so boring I had to cover it up with Alien Essence Absolue - lovely, lovely, lovely but I forgot quite how powerful it is. DH probably thinks I'm trying to suffocate him.

Well, Ive had a weekend of mmm untitled. So glad I didn't shell out on a fb as I've not fallen out of love but gone off it. Maybe it just wasn't the weather for it.
My wish list is now vintage Y, Opium and Femme, with chaser of Apree l'Ondeé. Fat chance.

I've got a sample of Y. It was a recent purchase so a newer formulation- it's a very pretty chypre. Much lighter, and more summery than most. But still quirky enough to be different.

Rive Gauche - sublime. Only scent Joanna Lumley wears dontcha know! I had a Rive Gauche candle once, that my Mum bought for me in Paris. It got too hot and broke the lovely ceramic container! (the container was part of the package so it shouldn't have at all!) PP version smells more like the original than the newer versions I find. Mine has almost finished, thus the vintage version is also on my ebay searches.

Carillon pour une ange has the kind of name that would make me blind buy.

The only YSL I like is opium - I might try the black opium for autumn/winter this year

The only downside of the Valentina I have noticed is that it really doesn't last long :(
My skin does seem to cannibalise fragrances though so it might just be me?

Still loving it though 👍

I find the Black Opium too sweet for me. But when I sniffed the new Black Opium Flower Shock ( or summer like that) I quite liked it ( but that was on a card not my skin).

SOTD is Miller Harris L'air de Rien.

I actually did buy a full bottle of MMM Untitled via eBay, so I hope I don't go off it, ohwhat! I thought it was perfect for spring and summer. I got it dirt cheap, and can always relist it if I don't love it though.

vintage, I didn't know that about Joanna Lumley! Rive Gauche is something I always have around - I don't wear it on a week to week basis, but I can't imagine not having a bottle on the go. What a shame about your candle.

Badders I find that putting on a decent lotion or moisturiser before the perfume helps it last longer, even better if you can get lotion that matches the perfume. Either that or squirt it on your clothes and hair (maybe test first that it doesn't stain though!)

VP I love flowery, romantic perfumes names, I must be an ad man's dream my favourite perfume name has to be L'Artisan's La Chasse aux Papillons, it conjures up memories of lazing about in the garden on a summer's day, watching cabbage white butterflies dancing across a blue sky

Sunshine & Pancakes for me today, it's quite light on me and I feel I need it after a weekend of indulgent scents.

Carillon pour ange today in honour of some sun at last , with no monsoon rain or snow.I have to be very careful at how much I spray as too much veers dangerously into air freshener territory.Slight wafts of this are beautiful and a sign that spring is here.
I have just spent ages on the Tauer website totting up my selection only to find out they don't deliver to the Uk - Humph!

I think I need a perfume which is called Sunshine and Pancakes!

I have been told that applying Vaseline (suppose the same principle as body lotion) on wrists etc before perfume, helps the longevity. I once absent mindedly sprayed perfume on my wrist when it was already slathered with lubiderm tattoo healer, and that perfume lasted for ages despite frantic washing as it stung like billy oh

It's extraordinarily hard to remember not to spray perfume when it's ingrained into your routine!

SOTD is SJP Lovely, I just love the (I want to say salinity?) salt that I can smell in this and it lasts on me, I am also usually a scent hooverer as very few perfumes last on me unless they're sprayed onto a healing tattoo