Someone’s hair drawer has the aroma of warm knickers on the chandelier - Lovely Friendly Perfume Thread 10

[MrsPestilence]

Welcome to the long running perfume thread. Discuss Scent of the Day, fave dupes and scents of ALL price brackets. You don’t have to spend a fortune and we will encourage you to get a sample first. That said, hiding your credit card in the freezer is recommended.

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We also have managed to get a 20% discount on a Perfume Society box and are discussing it on The Big Sniff.

Terriers- I am also abroad and iirc the AC set came quite quickly.

Aubergine- I love London 1969 so much, and it;s really the only 4160 perfume that sings to me. I know what you mean about the sherbet at the beginning, when I first smelled it I thought "oh great, another "fizzy sweet" perfume" but I love what it does next.

lasttime- you must (everyone must!) buy all their old perfumes and build up a perfume memory box like mine! (er, it's a massive Harrod's hamper box) I recently got PP Fendi (original) as I remember a flatmate wearing it in 87. It's still a magnificent grown up scent- god knows what we were doing wearing it then, because we weren't grown up at all. I'd say it qualifies for grand dame chypre status. I often have a sniff of Roma in the local drugstore here, cheap as chips, and very similar to Obsession-which I never noticed back in the day. So you see, you went for Roma instead of Obsession!

I also love Jasmine and honeysuckle as real plants. They just remind me of those almost summer evenings when it;s not summer yet but there is warmth in the air.

The opening of Addict is weird on me, harsh and kind of green yet plasticky, almost vinyl. The dry down makes it all worthwhile though, it's divine, so rich and creamy and it lasts forever. Mine is the original 2002 version, maybe the reformulations are a bit tamer?

piam I had roma too! Lovely scent

I think you'll love addict...ive recommended it to quite a few perfumistas 😊

Janet...
Addict is ALL about the Dry down ❤

I think I'm quite into chypres

On retro scents I noticed my local Asda has a body mist of Georgio Beverley Hills for a tenner, which a boyfriend bought me many years ago (early 1990s I think). I can't remember what it smells like so was tempted but think it might be horrible! They also had Sunflowers and a couple of the Britney Spears ones.

Real plant wise yes to honeysuckle! I also love proper English roses, lilac and orange blossom. Have embarrassed dh and the ds's many times by stopping to sniff plants in other peoples gardens - they pretend not to know me . Jasmine also gorgeous but can sometimes be a bit too heady.

Oh Lord
I hated Giorgio! Yellow floral isn't it?
Ugh
That and gourmands are my fragrant kryptonite 😔
I can't remember now who my EFT (evil fragrance twin) is!

SOTE is Lonestar Memories. It's taken me a while to appreciate the brilliance of this one, but I put it on this evening after a bath and actually laughed. It shouldn't smell good but oh, it really does. Creosote, leather, smoke, tar. I wish I could persuade dp to wear this it would be a Valentine's night to remember!

SOTD is the Avery E or whatever it’s called from last week’s sniff box. I really like this, it’s such a “me” scent for this time of year.

kittens it’s so cleverly done, isn’t it? I got a full bottle for my birthday last year and really don’t wear it enough.

Evening everyone!

Mmm I do like Chypres. Although I remember the I Scent You A Day review of Paris 194? had it down as a real classic of the genre and I was a bit disappointed because I think there's just a bit too much peach and it overpowers a bit. Mitsouko's a classic too though isn't it? That restores my faith...

Speaking of Chypres SotD was 31 Rue Cambon. Very very nice - all the elements very elegantly balanced.

Just got home to my goodies from you, Bluebell. Thank you so much! Wanted to try the Annick Goutal abd the Diptyque for ages. Chuffed!

I agree re Paris 1948...I really thought I would love it
But...nope
Dare I say too much peach?
I like mitsouko but am waiting for PP to have it back in stock

Have you tried knowing by estee lauder?
The best chypre ever imho

Amberama might be my new love and 9ml purchase —when I pay off my credit card—

That sounds a great list Terriers. Be sure to report back!

Yellow florals...not my bag to the extent they almost are...in that drawn/repelled thing you get with some smells. Have been experimenting with Sublime, Silences, and with vintage Rochas Lumiere. Not sure if its actually the green aspect of daffodil/narcissus that I'm tuning in to?

piam that's an interesting observation either Roma or Obsession. Plus fendi might have kicked both into touch for me. I remember bring very 'that's my perfume' with fendi. I love (really really love) the idea of a perfume memory box. There's a couple of others I'd add. Although my mums perfumes (that I remember the packaging of she died a over a decade ago) don't hit any smell memory at all sadly. I know she wore tresor and rive gauche but both smell scratchy to me. Kolnish Wasser always gives me teary eyes tho- my grandmother used it like smelling salts on a hanky. God I miss her

MrsR - I know exactly what you mean about the peach, but Paris 1948 layers really well with heftier chypres. I almost always wear mine with Empreinte (suede chypre) and then everything falls into place (and lasts forever). Worth a try!

MrsR it is lovely isn't it? I have a minature from a set of ELs I won on EBay a while back and it's my favourite of the bunch.

MrsG cor, layering. I must get trying that...

Doesn't work with everything Cheap, but Paris 1948 seems very amenable to partnering up with thumping big mossy notes.

Oh I'll give that a go mrsg
I don't really do layering as I'm worried I'll get it wrong!

Well I've scrubbed off sexiest scent and put Dior addict on
Bloody hell its a dream of a perfume
....yum yum

A swap/going to a good home list...

4160s small samples with a spray- half a bottle gone:
Silk Lace &Chocolate
Goodbye Piccadilly
Sleep Knot

4160s 9ml sample, half gone - Paris 1948

Atelier Cologne 2ml dabbers - Halfish full:

Emeraude Agar
Vanille Insensee
Oud Saphir
Santal Carmin
Bois Blonds
Orange Sanguine
Silver Iris
Sud Magnolia
Cedre Atlas
Grand Neroli
Mandarine Glaciale

7ml AC unopened splash miniature - Vanille Insensee

Misc Sample sprays:

Aerin Evening Rose
JPG Scandal
Missguided Babe Power

Can decant but would take a bit longer:
4160s Rhubarb and Custard; London 1969; Eat Flowers; Dark Heart
Ruth Mastenbroek Oxford
CdG/Pharrell Williams Girl
Miss Dior (proper one)

Aubergine - I remember Gap Grass. Didn't it have a sweet clovery aspect - or am I imagining that? Funnily enough, when I did the last 4160s makers workshop I was working to a grass brief.

I haven't found anything exactly the same but imagine combining The Library of Fragrance's Grass and Clover might work? Perhaps with a bit of Fresh Hay? I haven't tried the Marc Jacobs Grass Splash - maybe Pest has?

lasttime. Smell is so evocative isn't it. My gran used to put 4711 on a hanky for headaches.

I am a massive chypre fan but I don't like either Paris 48 or Mitsouko. Maybe they are both too sweet a chypre for me. I'm more of a Miss Dior Paloma Picasso chypresse.

31 Rue Cambon was one of those perfumes that made me go 'oh oh oh!' in a very enthusiastic way when I first smelled it and Lonestar Memories is pretty high on my top 10 at the moment. Your description is spot on, it doesn't even smell like a perfume, it smells like something a vet would rub on an unspeakable part of an animal, and I always wonder if people around me are going "oh my christ who's got the smelly ointment on" but my god I love it!,

Mrs Gruber I reckon you're right on the money with clover. I've got the library of fragrance grass and it's just not quite right, maybe clover is just what it's missing