Hello all, am off sick with vommy lurgy.
Will catch up on all the lovely posts in a mo', but my latest PP haul arrived and on first sniff I loved them all. I now have a separate box in my wardrobe for my PPs and MUST start leaving the lovely people some reviews. Floofy the PP Faubourg is fabulous! I only have a tiny sample of the real thing, but fell in love at an airport with it, and at first sniff it's pretty spot on. Classy, sophisticated, do not mess with me because I am a grande dame sort of smell.
I allowed my fingers to slip on 50ml (about half left) of tres ancienne Miss Dior the other day. Feck, I need to stop. I have my holiday to pay for in two months! I have however, lined up all my foundations 
(did I mention I am also a foundation and skincare junkie) and am going to ebay the ones that aren't the holy grail (ie most of them) to pay for my scent habit.
MrsGruber- I ordered the Annick Goutal (which I think arrived yesterday but I was bedbound and couldn't face the postman) samples from AusLiebeZumDuft in Germany. They ship to Italy, are as reasonable as any sample place and hurrah! do samples of very many things indeed! I get free postage from Allavioletta in Naples to here, but the samples cost twice as much x ml. ALZD come beautifully packaged and labelled (take note, Nose,fr)
Enid (and others) I totally get the perfumes-to-wear-at-home thing. LHB is also one of those for me, as are most of the Tauers. I think because they are so "blimey what's that?" that they might make the horses bolt in public. (I think this about the heavy-cumin perfume my colleague wears, to me she smells of BO, and yet I know she paid 200 euros for it and she loves it, which is fine, but I'm willing to bet a lot of our colleagues think she could do with a squirt of Sure)
SoFancy- that's so kind of you to offer me the Songes decant- but I am in Italy and it's a total pain for people to send me stuff. I may take you up on it in the summer though! Glad you got the Ysatis. It's totally unique in my opinion. I also have several back up bottles as the new thing in the purple box isn't worthy of the name. It was new Ysatis that got me researching reformulations, about 5 years ago I smelled it for old time's sake in JL and thought wtf is this?
Someone asked about Gerald and his decants, here he is flacon.ambaric.net/viewtopic.php?t=7 I am loving that he will henceforth be known as Malcolm or Trevor. I always have a bit of a very very gay hairdresser in my head when I imagine Gerald happily decanting his wares for us all. He apparently dabbles on ebay as well, but I've never managed to find him.
Pomadas- welcome- one of my favourite Neroli perfumes is cheap as chips Yves Rocher Essences something or other neroli. There are always massive offers on their (awful, but worth persevering with) website. I also agree with Pineapple that L'Occitane Neroli Orchidee is gorgeous, very creamy. DD and I have the bath range to spoil ourselves with. Always buy L'Occitane online- there is always some sort of "if you spend £30 you get this thing worth £15 free etc and you get free samples of posh cream.
Liberty- thanks for the Pell Wall tip! Obviously I shall succumb, lots of the descriptions sound very me. I agree about the perfume bottles, the Shalimar Santa bought me is that amazing ginormous one and just taking it out of the box for a squirt makes me feel a million dollars. I have a soft spot for the rounded curves of Obsession as well. And Ysatis. And Dune, with its ridges down each side.
Fennel- PP Chergui is heavenly- I don't know what the real one smells like, I ordered the PP because of the positive reviews Chergui gets on here.
Floofy- yes, the Bronnley lemon soaps were the original lemon soaps wrapped in tissue. I think either Crabtree or Roger and Gallet or possibly Woods of Windsor do them still as well. (did I mention I'm a soap addict as well 
inherited from my dear Mum who always said one has to have good soap.
Wrt Mum perfume- my Mum's signature was/is Caleche, that would be what she always bought for herself. She had bottles of Miss Dior as my stepfather bought it her every Christmas (she'd always say "oh lovely" then say to me "I wish he'd buy me something different") other than that she was a perfumista herself so liked lots of things, Emeraude, Obsession, L'Air du Temps, Paloma Picasso, most of the Lauders except Youth Dew. She wasn't a Chanel fan. I don't remember her ever having any Chanel, except possibly Allure. Her mother, my Gran, I remember having Je Reviens, Ma Griffe, Hartnell In Love. Other gran resolutely wore a bargain shop perfume called June which came in a tiny bottle. My Mum approved very much of my perfumistering although thinks I should buy more shoes.
Off topic slightly- but agree too re Bloom and Wild for flower delivery. I got my Mum and Aunt pop up letterbox decorated Christmas trees (they are both in care homes) and they were brilliant- and really cheap.
I agree (seem to be saying this a lot today!) with dipdep about Oud. The first ever oudy perfume I smelled was a L'Occitane one and I loved it. Then every other one just smells like I've poo'd on myself.
Cheap- so glad you got the Diorella- the other thing you can smell is SKANK! I think it is such a clever clever perfume. It sounds so delicate and girly and it so isn't. I think it is Turin/Sanchez who say it smells like a cross between pants and Vietnamese beef salad. I need to retry Chanel 22. I have a sample which I tried only once and hurled away as a minger. That cannot be, surely, for Chanel. I'll give it another go.
Was flicking through FB last night and there was one of those daft games...reach and grab the first book nearest to you, turn to page 45 and the first sentence sums up your life. " If Shalimar were a gemstone, bergamot, vanilla and civet would be the facets always hit by the light"
Phew, I have caught up with 10 pages of perfuming sans moi. My sotd will have to be something very delicate and easy as still have post bug headache, so probably PP Prada Iris. And Lysoform after I've done the house.