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

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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.

Morning all.

Hope the ill among us arent feeling too grim .

I've got a rare couple of hours to myself this morning, so am reclining on the sofa MN-ing reading and mainlining coffee.

Half price Midnight in the Palace Garden winging its way to me as we speak, Greeny [grin.] I can't thank you enough for the heads up. Finally, she shall be MINE .

SOTD is YSL Cinema. Continuing my unexpected recent vanilla love affair after decades of floral chypre lurve and vanilla hate. I blame Badders and her Dior Addict enabling for starting the whole darn thing...

I smell like a soapy lumberjack today.I've received my vintage mini of Alliage. .Its such a masculine smell and chockfull of aldehydes, especially at the start.
Thank you to all for the 'winter greens' suggestions.I must admit I'm a bit terrified of Magie Noire' supposed strength .
I hope everyone has a happy weekend and lovely birthdays and good recoveries from illnesses.

SOTD is LADDM. Off to the theatre this afternoon so taking copious cough sweets.

OTS -SoTD is MitPG in solidarity with you. Beautiful (fermented) fruit oud. Opening is almost fizzy, heart is lush and creamy.

Alliage is something I want to try Teta. If you're worried about strength, you could start of with the current formulation of Magie Noire which isn't fierce at all. There's a nice ebay seller who does 10ml decants sometimes - I'll keep an eye out. And if you're enjoying being a Lumberjack, Zoologist's Beaver would be a logical progression...

The Bella Freud sounds interesting (am a tobacco fiend right now).

I was the JHAG sampler. I passed a Creed Counter today and sprayed Aventus for her. Omg, it is the exact same as midnight oud. I don’t think it’s is meant to be an oud. Scrubbed it off.

SOTD is Heeley Cardinal for a lovely lunch with an old friend. Now in pjs after a long bath, watching Strictly, and we have M&S Dine-In for dinner.

Also intrigued by the Bella Freud - I have 1970 plus a couple of jumpers, I'm a bit of a fan-girl.

Wandered past a Guerlain counter earlier and as MitPG was fading I had a squirt of Santal Royal. Wow! Beautiful and relatively gentle rose oud.

SOTD 4160 T What I did on my holidays. Enjoyed wearing it today - cheered me up on a crappy day

Posted some perfume samples today and was asked if they were in original packaging (they were). Was told you can’t post decants - is this true? He wasn’t the postmaster so will be seeking a 2nd opinion.

I agree, Guerlain Santal Royal is great mrsmacnally

Reporting back from London shopping trip.

I didn't make it as fas as Les Senteurs, worked my way along Oxford Street and went to John Lewis and Selfridges. Unfortunately both were hot and very crowded and I started feeling a bit overwhelmed and tired so headed home. However I did spend a while at a Jo Malone counter and really liked Earl Grey &Cucumber and Mimosa & Cardamom. Will definitely try and get to Les Senteurs and Bloom some other time.

Bluebell - sadly it is true that perfume must only be posted in it's original packaging, I have to know about the carriage of dangerous goods regs for work and the royal mail website has all the info.

Greenpolishtogo thank you so much for that very long list of scent recommendations (just seen). Very much appreciated! I look forward to tracking them down!

Hope you are having a good birthday weekend Badders.

MrsMcNally love the sound of the Guerlain

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Very interesting

Hi Pest - what do you think we should do about the sniff test?

That's unexpected on the postage... EBay and "proper" businesses alike have posted decants, and there are plenty of sample sets/orders that get sent with more than 4 in... How confusing!

SOTD was ET white diamonds. It smells less of the 80s each time I wear it... which I assume means I'm getting desensitised to the 80s note!

I think there is some small print about samples of less than 1ml or maybe even 2ml. Sarah would know the answer. This is from scouring postage and terms &conditions from perfume sellers. Not sure how the ones doing bigger decants are doing it. They probably have to sign up as dangerous goods handlers and send less than 30 ml, another package size where the rules change.

SoTD yesterday was Black Velvet Cafe - meh

After bath was Copal Azur, this is growing on me.

I did accidentally find this place doing scent samples and decants.
I think when they sell samples the new packaging becomes the original and this is covered by insurance and signing up to be a dangerous goods handler.

Thanks Pest that makes sense about decants and postage. Seeing as we’re not going to register as dangerous goods handlers, I guess the blind sampling is off the cards now?

Had a comment yesterday from DH about 4160 WIDOMH - he said it smelt of Holidays! That was about 10 hours after application so I’m impressed with the longevity.

Can I ask, what is everyone’s favourite 4160 Tuesday scents? I know it’s personal, but what are the ones you love? Thinking of getting a sample set. I like a huge range of scents (with the exception of fougeres) so finding it difficult to decide.

Morning all.

Sunny here in London. Contemplating going for a walk if I can get my lazy lump DS off his phone and out of the depths of his bedroom.

No SOTD yet as still in my PJs.

Bluebell - I've sampled lots of 4160T perfumes over the last couple of years. In my experience, all the fragrances from this house take quite a few wears to make a firm decision on. My favourites are:

Doe in the Snow (aldehydic, citrusy, peachy chypre - lovely in cold weather)
Midnight in the Palace Garden (gorgeous citrusy floral-oriental, jasmine and frangipani and then a gourmand coffee-and-spiced-sweets dry down)
Tart's Knicker Drawer (powdery retro floral, violets and roses)
Inevitable Crimes of Passion (boozy pineapple and grapefruit and then dries down to chocolate orange - great fun)

I also have a soft spot for Tokyo Spring Blossom, New York 1955 (candy floss!), Sunshine and Pancakes (lemony pancakes and syrup) and Ealing Green (grass and herbs - hated this for about the first 5 tries, then discovered its absolutely beautiful in hot weather).

You'll have great fun trying out their samples

The only 4160 Tuesdays I have are Centrepiece, which I love, and the MrsGloss one from a couple of years ago which I didn't like, too floral (IRRC, it was only a sample).

Yes, perhaps for businesses the decant becomes the "retail package".

I have sampled quite a few 4160 perfumes. There are some I loved at first sniff and some which grew on me.

Currently my favourites are: Shazam, Rome 1963, Dark Heart of Old Havana, Doe in the Snow, Tokyo Spring Blossom and Ealing Green.

Hello oh fragrant ones.

Headachey sinuses this morning so at the moment no SoTD but will probably go for some L'Heure Bleue or a Tauer once the sudafed kicks in and we've had lasagne and roasted chestnuts. Headache is entirely self-induced as I've refound my cooking mojo and made Sophie Grigson's magnificent chocolate cake yesterday (used to take it into the office in the 90s and we'd all have a massive slice and then roll round going "never again will I touch chocolate cake" sooo rich)

But yesterday I wore vintage Fidji on one hand and new Fidji on the other (or, if not new, not sure if it is still in production, definitely a newer version) Lovely, fresh, beautiful, sophisticated. Like L'Air du Temps but slightly sharper and less girly. Still both of them are lessons to today's perfumers that sweet and beautiful do not have to equate to PM.

I ordered the L'Occitane advent calendar yesterday- the ordinary one, not the posho one as dd has most of the perfumes in the posho one and I have the skincare. Did get a £10 instead of £20 giftset of the Lumiere (is it, something like that) perfume that they brought out this year which is, sadly an UPM (utterPM) It will be OK as a present for PM loving step-niece.

Kittens- if you like Champagne/Yvresse and 4160 Paris then you'll like Y. It's not a PM (and neither are they) perhaps we need a category for a WM (white minger) or a WFM (white fizzy minger)

I now want to try Magie Noir and Alliage.

Green- my favourite of the Ateliers is also the Bergamot.

OnceWas- try Perfume Parlour for dupes of Jo Malone's. No point spending Jo Malone money for a white box with a black ribbon when the scent will be gone in 20 minutes.

Judy- you poor thing- hope you get sorted soonest.
One- hope you are now on the mend
Badders- Happy Birthday! Do let us know what you buy!

Re Liberty- I didn't like it Dd and I went quite early in the morning and there were hardly any customers, so we had the unenviable situation of me trying to show dd stuff, and just mooch around whilst being pounced upon every 2 seconds by a man with a feather duster wanting to help me. Don't shop assistants realise how many sales they actually lose by doing that? It's one thing to engage a customer in intelligent conversation about a product but the "can I help you?" (from at least 4 people) just had dd and I going "shall we go"

Fave 4160's:

Shazam!
Who Knew
The Great Randello
Babylon Sunset
Rome 1963
Tarts Knicker Drawer
The Lion Cupboard
Paradox
Centrepiece
Midnight in the Palace Garden
Inevitable Crimes of Passion
Be Careful What You Wish For
Dirty Honey
Flora Psychdelica
Paris 1948

Lots more are lovely - just not out and out favourites.

Always feel Ealing Green and the Dark Heart should be right up my street - but haven't so far hit it off with them. I need to try them again, on skin not test strip.

Just a few favourites MrsM
stuff on decants from Sarah.

I love a white/white fizzy minger, PIAM . I am sometimes ashamed of my white floral lurve

I also find Liberty hard work. Sales assistants are OTT. If you go when its really busy, around Christmas and the like, although its hectic you don't get pounced on so badly. Its the worst when its quiet.

I still haven't decided on a SOTD. I'm thinking I might wait until tonight and choose something lovely to lounge around and sleep in. Its just me and DD here tonight and she insists on reading in bed with me for ages before sleep when its just us too, so I might even choose a pink minter just for her enjoyment .

just us two