The Scarf of a Thousand Scents: Lovely, Friendly Perfume Thread 4

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Welcome to instalment number four of the friendly perfume lovers' thread. Pop in and tell us your SOTD, share your discoveries or ask a question because one of us is likely to know the answer.

Everyone is welcome to join in, whether you are dipping a toe in scented waters for the first time, or a full-blown fragrance addict.

Just popping in before bed time.

Today has been a strange day. American in-laws visiting us have been badly shaken by London terror attacks. They had planned to do all the usual sites - Parliament, museums, Southbank etc - and are now feeling wobbly . We had a lovely family BBQ to pep everyone up, but I could see the fear in their faces.

Perfume once again my refuge!

SOTD was initially Givenchy Jardin D'interdit...a lovely light floral I usually adore in warmer weather...but it was boring me today, so scrubbed it off and went for my happy smell...4160 Tokyo Spring Blossom.

'Spring' is deceptive here. This is not a mainstream, spring floral at ALL. Proper 4160 first rate scent-bomb. Fizzy citrus...then fresh cherry blossom..then a delectable raspberry jam drydown. But never overly sweet, never generic. Beautiful.

Needed it today.

Pallisers Poeme is still available from the Lancome website but I believe it's not at very many shop counters any more. It's a long, long time since I tried Chanel No 5 but my DM and I used to hate it.

he just brought it back from Zurich! Only Chanel I like is No. 19 but not even that much.

I got a new Poeme from John Lewis very recently...

I splashed out on 4160's The Sexiest Scent on the Planet last week in their half price offer and now this week they have my favourite 4160 perfume, Inevitable Crimes of Passion! I have been eking out my 10 mls decant, but it's nearly finished. I'm going to have to buy a full bottle, aren't I? At half price, it's good value but still expensive because it's an extrait. It lasts at least 8 hours on me.

Over the last couple of days I have been wearing one of my safe go-to perfumes, Yves Rocher's Comme Une Evidence. It's a refreshing, distinctive bergamot and rose.

Three, I love Tokyo Spring Blossom! It's another safe one, along with Ealing Green.

Calm I also thought a half price Inevitable Crimes of Passion was just too good an offer to miss. Actually I squealed with delight when I saw it was 4160's Scent of the Week!

Oh dear Pallisers. At least your cleaning lady will be happy though I'm sure that's not much consolation. I wonder how many bottles of Chanel No 5 get bought because the buyer thinks: "Ah, that's a classic. I'm sure that's a safe present." Quite a few, I wouldn't mind betting.

Auld anything reminiscent of Pampelune sounds very interesting.

Your poor ILs Three. I'm sure events like yesterday's terror attacks must be all the more frightening when you are not on your home soil because it must be so much harder to gauge the level of threat. I do wonder if it's rather shallow of me to be wittering about perfume in the face of such horror but, as you say, it's a comfort and a refuge, and a harmless one.

Today's sample was Acqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile, which smelt lovely apart from being too heavy on the tuberose for me. I'm sure lots of other people would love it but tuberose notes in large quantities give me headaches, so after another scrubbing session I fled to the comfort of Dioressence - classy, elegant and slightly skanky.

'Night all.

My feeling is of they stop us "wittering" about things they love then they have won.
Well.
Sod that.
No idea what sotd will be...its an odd looking day out there...

Absolutely agree life should go on as usual for those of us that can. We had friends and family members at the concert last night, I must confess I was slightly worried under the circumstances but so glad they went.

Three Tokyo Spring Blossom sounds great! I have also seen Poeme in JL recently. I tried O de Lancôme but it smelt rank on my skin. Elderly lady but not in a good way And calm and green it would be positively ungrateful not to buy under those circumstances!

Badders I can't decide either on perfume today, I want to go Spring like but it's lashing down and absolutely freezing...I might decide after breakfast and when I gain inspiration from other perfumistass

Hello scented ones.

to all, especially any perfumistas in the vicinity of London Town. dd and I were about to go to bed on Saturday after an X Files binge when saw events unfolding and thus didn't get to bed until 3am, getting increasingly angry with various MN threads and the Me! Me! element that these events seem to unleash.

Yesterday was dd's violin concert and obviously wore scent of the month (?) Rive Gauche.

AuldSpinster- I love your tastes- very similar I think to mine.

Dipdep- never too young for perfume- some of my earliest memories involve my Gran's June, my Mum's Emeraude, and my own Pretty Peach and Moonwind.

Chanel 5 is a funny thing- and I do agree it's the go-to perfume of choice when men think they should buy their women perfume. (although my Mum used to moan that my step-dad would always get her Miss Dior and she was a perfumista like me and she'd say "oh lovely thanks" then say to me "I wish he'd get me something different" I do like it, but it smells different on different people- dd's primary teacher only wore it, and smelled lovely, SIL wears it (as I have mentioned before ) and it smells sweaty on her somehow. I asked her if she'd changed her perfume and she said she didn't have any on- it was just the body cream. It was a bit rank in any case.

SOTD is Youth Dew Amber Nude, in very dreich Edinburgh.

sneaks in I'm so behind on this thread and everyone's lovely perfumes. I've been switching between MMM Untitled and Sel Marin over the last week as it's been warmer, but today is wet and cold (definitely driech, Auld, love that word), so it's JHAG Mad Madame.

I went for nightmusk in the end as I have tonsilitis and am now on antibiotics:(
The sore throat I've been ignoring for weeks has finally caught up with me
I shall have a bath later and lavishly spray myself with twilight body spray

no SOTD for me as yet, i can't decide on anything so going without for the time being

so excited about the 4160 Tuesday's perfume day, really can't wait, i've wanted to go to one for so long but not had the chance up until now!! can't wait

i really need to go through the big box i've got because i'm not 100% of what exactly is in there

no SOTD for me as yet, i can't decide on anything so going without for the time being

so excited about the 4160 Tuesday's perfume day, really can't wait, i've wanted to go to one for so long but not had the chance up until now!! can't wait

i really need to go through the big box i've got because i'm not 100% sure of what exactly is in there

We do have a few spaces left for the Mumsnetters' 4160 Tuesdays Perfume Workshop on August 12 and any thread lurkers who are tempted are very welcome to join us. We are not one bit scary, though apt to rabbit on about scent, and we all smell divine!

The workshop will run all day at the 4160 studio in west London, costs £125 and includes a 30ml bottle of your creation to take home. No knowledge or experience is needed. Sarah McCartney has more than enough for all of us, together with bags of enthusiasm. More details of what the day will entail can be found here. If you are interested PM either MrsCocoa or me and we will add you to the list.

What do you plan to make OneNIght - any ideas yet?

I'm feeling drained today.

I have a discounted bottle of Madonna Truth or Dare that I have been waiting for the right time to try, so spritzed one spray on my arm after work to cheer myself up.

Crikey, its strong stuff! Not unpleasant, and in fact smells expensive and not at all like a sleb fragrance...but a serious tuberose blast. My gosh. One spray and I felt like I'd been bathing in the stuff.

Had a shower a few hours later and have just got into bed feeling fragile and depressed by the news. I'm wearing some of a little sample of Sisley Soir de Lune I got last week. Has anyone tried it? Its a proper fruity chypre, so not me and my usual tutti-fruity-floral-girly nonsense ...but I like A LOT. Yum.

Badders - wishing you better. Tonsilitis is the pits .

Badders hope the antibiotics kick in quickly. Tonsilitis is horrible.

Soir de Lune sounds lovely Three. I also tried Madonna's Truth or Dare the other day. It was a 99p bargain and someone had recommended it as a cheap alternative to Fracas - which I haven't tried and, at the prices it fetches, I don't think I will be trying anytime soon. You are bang on the money about the serious blast of tuberose. It screeches at you and borders on headache-inducing. Not a comforting fragrance but I'm sure tuberose fans love it.

'Dreich' is a wonderfully expressive word. Are non-Scots allowed to use it? It would describe the weather down here today to a tee.

I am also looking forward excitedly to the 4160 Tuesdays workshop. Even if I create a total minger I'm sure it will be fun and fascinating. Does galbanum and rose sound workable or revolting?

SOTD is 4160 Tuesdays Dirty Honey - honey, beeswax, orange blossom and a touch of something spicy. I am so glad I splashed out during the spring special offer.

Grey
Rain
Cold
So it's got to be knowing for me today...though I'm down to my last few sprays! 😣
I'm enjoying the Luca Turin book thanks for the heads up
I agree with everything he has said so far

Sotd is the original Chloe. More drookit than dreich in Edinburgh today.

My lace has arrived...its as lovely as I remember 😁

Badders damn you now I'm watching Lace and White Satin on eBay! I have been looking at old photos and found one including my cosmetics cupboard from around 1988...I have been squinting at the fuzziness and I'm pretty sure there are blue and pink topped bottles of Lace! There is a bottle of deodorant that I used to love, I remember it came from Boots in a green bottle and was sort of a pump action spray (remember all the CFC brouhaha? oh and Natrel deodorant!) but I can't remember the name...

Very drookit and dreich here today!

Green how does Dirty Honey compare to Seville a l'aube as they sound as though they have similar notes? We are going to need some photos of you all at the workshop by the way

Three I love Truth or Dare, weirdly my DS adores it and it smells magnificent on him. I would never ever think of it as a teenage boys smell but it suits him very much. Don't know how he carries it off!

Chanel 5 does seem to be a bit of a marmite perfume doesn't it? I adore the Eau Premiere version (it's in my top five hundred). I think the Chanel fragrances can generally be a bit marmite, 19 and Allure I still love, but I think a lot of us perhaps have Chanel for our first "grown up/expensive" perfume and then grow away from some of them? Recently Allure has been worn a lot here as a kind of comfort blanket.

Sorry!!
Baaaa 🐑

Lace is by Dominique ropion of Fredric malle fame
It's a good un!

Come on badders let's make Lace the new Rive Gauche of the thread