Pink mohicans and cats: Lovely, Friendly Perfume Thread 5

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Blimey we nearly ran out of room. last thread
I'm not in charge, honest. I am in Mary Greenwell's Plum, very nice it is too.

It is very peach though :)

I had a slight name change! It's still me, Calm!

DIamonds and Emeralds is peach and white flowers, so it's the peach note they share. I'm going to buy some Diamonds and Rubies; it sounds lovely.

I really like it and wear it a lot - everyone I've recommended it to on here like it 😁
It's warmer than the other EL diamonds scents imo

Oh I'm so chuffed vintage likes knowing 😁

Just ordered some Tauer samples I've not smelled before like Noontide petals, Phi, Carrillon, Coeur du Desert and a couple of ones I have (incense rose and L'air)

Very excited. Especially to smell the ones out of my scent comfort zone...

SOTD - L'air du desert Marocain. I went on a free flowing Gaucho brunch with my DH and best friends. Highly recommended although I can barely walk thanks to relentless food. I'm really rather pished too as they never let you NOT have a drink and then we went to Balans for cocktails 🍹

Anyhoo - LDDM has worn well. Waiter said I smelled gorgeous and it is still going now. We're in the incense period which I love. Helps the train journey IMMEASURABLY:

SOTD is Heeley Hippie Rose. We're off to the cinema tonight, it seems like ages since we were last out for the evening. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

Perfume - if you are after sunglasses then
The TK Maxx in Covent Garden cannot be beaten. The Kensington one is better for fragrances and pretty much everything else. The Tottenham Court Road one is shite imho.

Splendid! Kensington it shall be then!

The exchange on seasonal choices made me think about the little component judgements in deciding what perfume to wear each day.

Just for fun, I've attempted a diagram. . Some days its a complete no-brainer - others it's about whittling down the choices (and sometimes a lucky dip is fun).

Challenge! What does your decision making process look like? Especially you Pest, in light of the Venn diagram.

I've been to Somerset House! And been told by whippersnapper French perfumer fella doing the talk that I have a good nose! (Bet he says that to everyone!) I got into a discussion with him because he was talking about Allure with another woman and could see me listening in. He finds it too waffly( not his term, mine) as a perfume to understand..I said it reminded me of Dune which we then discussed ( I told him about buying OC's grandmother's vintage Dune from Scent Samples) he says Dune in turn was modelled loosely on Must.

It was all very interesting I thought and have come away in live with Avignon (was convinced it was a Tauer on the sniffy testy thingy) and liked Purple Rain very much too. Chuffed with did, who, when we were sniffing Purple Rain said "soap" so I said "must have Iris then" and lo and behold it did.

Thought Secretions thingy was meh. Semen and milk my arse. Just smelled powdery sweet to me.

Interestingly the guy next to me and did couldn't smell the Molecule 01 so we had a nice chat about that too. (I got minty woody aftershave)

Did-dd obviously

JM Wood Sage again here today. Nice diagram, mrsmacnally. I tend to pick out clothes, lipstick and perfume the night before on work days as I am so rubbish in the mornings.

I'm poorly (after it one day back at Work!!) Horrid head cold :(
So no sotd for me today
I shall have a spritz of lush twilight later...

Not yet back in the UK 36 hours and I've got tonsillitis! And have to go to work on Tuesday. Noooooo. CANNOT BE OFF SICK. Urgh.

I've just managed a shower and have put on one spritz of L'Heure Bleue.

Oh no!

Oh no 3! Gargle with some salt!

Hot water, Lemon and honey

Sympathies to poorly perfumistas. I always get a stinking cold in the first few weeks of term and end up having a day off sick because I can't talk. Last year I had such bad tonsillitis in September I rang NHS 24 and ended up in A&E for the first time in my life.

It's been an awful year for my family health wise...
Poor ds1 may be having minor surgery on his toe on tuesday!
Ds2 has been referred to the orthopaedic surgeons too
Sigh...
I hope I feel better by Tuesday!

Brill diagram MrsM - It's been a lightbulb for me in terms of why having lots of scenty options is so appealing! My clothes diagram goes like this: what's clean and ready to be worn? -> this -> wear it! So it's nice to have something where I can genuinely choose, and the choice isn't dictated by how hectic life is and how on top of our chores we are!

Well done with talking the talk PIAM - glad you enjoyed it!

Tried the Oxford on Friday - very very nice. Sample of Heeley St Clements yesterday - a very dry citrus on me and quite enjoyable. Today was a sample of Heeley Menthe Fraiche. Very frustrating scent - I really really like it - all Summery mojito loveliness - but it disappears after about 30 seconds. Not. Fair.

Did any of you get the ET passion?
What's it like?

What's Oxford like Cheap - the notes sounded very appealing....?

Late congratulations here but very, very well done on the GCSE front LittleFloofy - lovely news. . Floofy I am so pleased the samples are a hit.

Fabulous diagram MrsMac - the name change threw me for a second but all was revealed with your seasonal selections! This is probably an indication that I spend far too much time reading these threads. I'd have to add in a box for the occasions when I have time only for a quick spritz of the nearest to hand, instead of a loving and considered browse of the perfume drawers.

PIAM Avignon, Purple Rain and L'Air du Désert Marocain were my favourites from Somerset House. I was underwhelmed with Secretions Magnifiques too. It smelt a bit sweaty to me.

We have just celebrated MIL's birthday and one of her gifts from us was a set of vintage Elizabeth Arden Blue Grass miniatures - perfume, talc, bath oil and hand lotion. Very dinky and retro, and she seemed delighted with them. FIL does not care for perfume so the last scent she used was very likely Blue Grass of the same vintage.

I was waffling on about our lovely Perfume Workshop at MIL's birthday lunch. Why, I was asked, was 4160 Tuesdays so-called? I was halfway through telling before I realised it wasn't the most tactful explanation to be giving a table of octogenarians...Oops.

SOTD is vintage L'Origan. I think it's 60s or 70s. The notes are intact as far as I can tell, but it is a ghost, although a very pretty one, of the glorious recreation of L'Origan I loved at Somerset House. However when layered with 4160's Killer Rose it is almost as beautiful.

My Oxford may have been a mistake. Lovely but perhaps a little too masculine for my taste. I will give it another try when it's colder.

Hope all poorly perfumistas are on the mend.