Old-fashioned Flemish Fragrance Fanciers - Lovely, Friendly Perfume Thread 7

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Our old thread

Welcome to our new lovely, friendly thread for perfume lovers. All are most welcome to drop in and chat, whether dabbling in scent for the first time or as full-blown fragrance junkies.

Tell us your Scent of the Day, or latest discovery, or ask a question - because one of us is almost bound to know the answer.

OK that bit about getting DH to do it over a towel on the bed, kind of reads a little bit differently to how I actually intended it to

Ahem.

Hi count - love the idea of a rhubarb and ginger 'fume.. .surely there must be one out there already??

"Floral Street’s Black Lotus Eau De Parfum is single-handedly redefining the notion of floral fragrance."

that's quite a claim.

SOTD is See You Next Tuesday as DH doesn't like it.

Floral Street will be in Harvey Nics.

I realized there was this massive gap between Lush and Jo Malone, and I wanted to offer fine fragrance at an affordable price, in a different way, to a younger customer.

Floofy your DH has the right idea not leaving you alone with teenage DC, they can be as hard work as toddlers. He should however be training them to be useful. Keep getting better.

Marc Jacobs Ginger Splash has Ginger and rhubarb. I have a huge bottle that smells suspect and sweaty on me, if anyone wants 5ml, just shout.

Decanting is done on the counter next to the sink. The sink is too hard, the bed is too soft (I obviously rock Goldilocks). I do it on a folded in half clean tea towel, in case of accidents.

Floral Street evidently know all the right people, awaiting a sample set.

Oh MrsP I'd like some please!

Well it sounds intriguing, if slightly...hipster? Be very interesting to read the reviews. I’m a bit bemused as to how anyone can think the only choices for da yoof are Lush and Jo Malone (my own yoof wouldn’t be seen dead in Jo Malone and would consider it more my age group). I suppose a lot of it is just celebrity/Instagram age stuff isn’t it?

MrsP my yoof are pretty good at looking after me (although they seem to think repeatedly offering to “do my brows” for me is excellent medical care ) but one has SN and requires a fully functioning adult, in an ideal world. And let’s not forget the needy floofy cat (that’s the actual cat, not referring to myself there :)

I dislike rhubarb in all shapes and forms sadly but am a sucker for ginger and am very excited it’s nearly the time of year for Lush Karma. Clearly I am down with da yoof!

PM me Count and I'll send you some.

I think my skin hates rhubarb. I also have some L`Occitane Rhubarb and grapefruit stuff, smells delicious, makes a great air freshener. Yuck on me

There are worse things in life than amazing eyebrows Floofy

I like jasmine and love tuberose, it is the rhubarb and ginger which go to rancid sweat. I could probably drown myself in cumin and smell a little spicy. A lot is down to skin chemistry.

PMed you MrsP. Now going to have a glass of rhubarb gin with ginger beer to celebrate .

Not entirely convinced by the rhubarb and ginger scents but Fosco that mention of rhubarb gin and ginger beer has my attention!! Cor!

Floral Street sounds very interesting! I'd definitely give a few a squirt if I was walking past Harvey Nicks. Pest with apologies for the extreme dimness but are you getting a sample set? Or was that just hoping? Let's be honest, anything you don't know about samples isn't worth knowing!!

SotD was L'Aimant (one of the naughty samples which snuck into my first Dark Heart order). Lovely whiff of Swizzles but fleeting to say the least. Had a few top ups but gave up and turned to reliable Oxford.

SOTD is a Heeley sample, the leather and flowers one. It is obviously very pungent, or I have sprayed far too much, as DP just asked me if I had put perfume on the cat...

Just hoping Cheap , if anyone from Floral Street wants to send one my way, I will give if fair review

Green I had the same thought about being scent twins!

Sorry to hear you’re still poorly and perfume free floofy but happy to see you haven’t lost your sense of humour- very funny post. What about all the other British Perfume houses that have popped up since Jo Malone eg Shay and Blue? There’s lot of competition for high quality affordable fumes. And aren’t young people buying mainly PMs anyway? I think Jo Malone is popular with pre-millennials not younguns (probably because they can’t afford it!)

mrsm you’re very welcome to the ELdO J et C - will pop it in with the others

Pest yes please to 4160 lace and chocolate. I’ll pop some things in for you too. Do you like green perfumes? Very impressed by your attentiveness on this thread, knowing what scents we might like

Can’t wait for the 4160 Rhubarb and Custard to arrive - thanks for the preview feedback.

Glad I’m not the only one who finds Jasmine tricky - skin chemistry is a funny thing. I’ll be avoiding Lush Lust then! I seem to be ok with Tuberose though.

Almost forgot ... SOTD was Petit Fracas. Hmm lovely blousy Tuberose with a bubblegum opening. Very long lasting- still enjoying it now. Had a mad day coaxing a toddler around Ikea! All worthwhile as she’s delighted with the little table and chair we bought her!

Quick question- there’s a fair bit of mention on this thread of Oxford. Are you referring to Ruth Mastenbroek or another brand?

Fosco that mention of rhubarb gin and ginger beer has my attention!! Cor!

It is very delish. There's a few gin distilleries do a rhubarb version, I think Edinburgh was the first but it's a rhubarb and ginger liqueur, not had that one but generally those liqueurs are deadly. Mine is from Orkney and is a flavoured gin so I had it with fevertree ginger beer. Some of the Yorkshire gins have a rhubarb version as well. Not that I'm obsessed with rhubarb and ginger or anything .

That's funny - my yoof has done my eyebrows for me today

Today's toothwatch: a crown snapped off its peg just before a houseful of visitors arrived. Dontcha just hate middle age.

SotD is Notes by Celine Dione (long story).

That's funny - my yoof has done my eyebrows for me today

Today's toothwatch: a crown snapped off its peg just before a houseful of visitors arrived. Dontcha just hate middle age.

SotD is Notes by Celine Dione (long story).

Commiserations MrsMac I often think my crowns are more trouble than they're worth, what with falling out out, harbouring infections and even being swallowed - only once but it proved very expensive! Letting your yoof loose on your eyebrows was very brave of you when such, ahem, extreme eyebrows seem to be high fashion with the under-20s.

CountFosco I always had a soft spot for your dastardly namesake because of his appreciation for Marian Halcombe's intelligence and common sense. More Victorian novels could do with a Marian Halcombe. She would have had no patience with Heathcliff and Cathy's antics for a start.

Where do perfume marketers get their ideas from?! Such pretentious twaddle - "single-handedly redefining the notion of floral fragrance" indeed. No wonder 4160 Tuesdays is such a breath of fresh air. Which one did they describe as "smelling like the fruit bowl you forgot to empty before going on holiday!"

So I was all set to dismiss Floral Street and then I saw the mention of 10ml purse-sprays being in the pipeline. I'm all for encouraging perfume addict sizes. And Jerome Epinette is the 'nose' behind Atelier Cologne Trèfle Pur, and Vilhelm Parfumerie's Dear Polly and Morning Chess (smelt both of them at Somerset House and thought they were lovely) so I shall climb off my high horse and give them a fair sniff when I come across them.

Bluebell the Oxford we've been talking about was Ruth Mastenbroek's one. It was half-price from Les Senteurs recently and a few of us splashed out with varying degrees of success. Mine was yet another lesson to me not to buy full bottles just because the notes sound promising.

I decant in the bathroom Floofy just because it's easier to clean up if there's a spill. I am not very good at decanting.

Boldly snap, I'm also in Musc Ravageur and liking it very much. It is so warm and spicy, and very comforting on a grey, chilly day. It's going on the wishlist.

I'm also getting excited about the 4160s Mrs Gloss rhubarb scents. They can't be much longer now.

Think that was MitPG *Green", and it's true!

mrsm oh no re the crown. Which tooth is it? I had one of those on a lower pre-molar. The tooth had had root canal, so I wasn’t aware a load of decay had crept in under the crown, until the little swine popped off. I had it re-made, but there then wasn’t enough tooth to support it, and it ended up being extracted/now a gap (which I looked at getting an Implant in, but the consultant said to see how it was in six months and if anyone noticed. No-one ever has, so I saved myself £1800). Here my upper tooth above the lower one i’m due RCT on is now sore. I am really afraid I am going to end up with no back teeth at this rate.

Sounds similar Judy - although the exact same thing happened previously to the tooth behind and I already have a gap (1.8k = quite a lot of scent). Just off to Dentist now to find out my options.

To 'celebrate" my pirate teeth SotD is The Dark Heart (plus a half spray of Shazam! to ramp up the orange).

Happy Mondays for everyone! Very sad to hear all the dental horror stories it makes me realise that my mum's enthusiasm for dentistry was well advised.

The postie delivered last week's 4160s offer 9ml of Dark Heart of Old Havana (thank you, enablers' badges all round). I am a bit scared terrified of it now; liked Another Kiss by the Fireside, which came with it as a freebie. It's not a million miles from Fire at first sniff, or is that my memory playing me false?

I backed off, quickish, and have sprayed PP Verty Boham. Today, I am reading it as full of hyacinth, which may make me return to scrub my wrists... again. I am a green woody person.

Hello, back out of my sinus hell.
Anyone thinking either Jo Malone and Lush fragrances are benchmarks for anything needs a chat with yer fella at SH frankly.
Love the lush bath stuff and skincare but the fragrances have always underwhelmed.
I have a new love today- am in PP Opium. Ladies, it's a deadringer and it is stunningly beautiful in a way I had forgotten original Opium was. I feel cosy, and warm, and grown up, and sexy and stunning all at the same time. I know it's only a minor note, but it's also a testimony to the PM manufacturers that vanilla doesn't have to be a nauseating sweet cloying cloud.
Agree re jasmine notes- I adore real jasmine- and there is a L'Occitane bath range which is fabulous, but it does head into poo-y nappy territory often. Not as much as oud does though.