Perfumistas 15: hmm your ideas intrigue me, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter

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Hopefully just in time.

All welcome for any perfume talk of an type.

If you like white flowers a def yes! It's £10 for 100mls on Amazon!

I prefer diamonds and rubies by the great Sophia grosjman but I think that would be too peachy and spicy for you?

If you like tobacco do you like smoky notes?

You might like 4160 another kiss by the fireside...

Kouros 😁 that takes me back. It was that or drakkar noir in my day 😁

Plausible - if you like cigar smoke you need to try 4160s The Great Randello. Perfect plume of burning fragrant tobacco, accompanied by the smell of the sweet trolley. Better in colder weather though.

Blue - did you share your ELd'O Jasmin et Cigarettes with me? If so, I'm still grateful - that unlit cigarette note is just fabulous.

Don't think I'm going to wear my 9ml of Outdoors (that cedar note is a bit shrieky on my skin). Happy to swap...

Welcome Plausible it's nice to (e)meet a male that's passionate about perfumery.

I think most of us on here attempt to engage our male relations without much success. It's certainly the case for me.

Stupidly ordered the lovely converse from TK maxx on click and collect - so I had to browse. Tokyo Milk light 02 was a blind buy, at £14.99 I thought it was a safe gamble. I'm reserving judgement for now - the jasmine has viciously beaten the neroli, citrus and sky into submission, which is disappointing.

Right, sold! I'm going to take a punt on White Diamonds very soon. I'll start with the original and then try the flankers.

There is a fruit note I dislike and I can never quite tell if it's peach or watermelon (my nose isn't very sophisticated) but it's in Mugler Aura as well as Azzaro Wanted.

I do love smoky notes and now I have two more 4160s to try! I get a certain smokiness from Guerlain Vetiver, although it might be just my nose. It's like kindling damp moss, or something; still green, but smoky.

positive I have some success with my OH. He likes the blue Tom Fords, a couple of the Maison Francis Kurkdjians, Chanel Sycomore. I got him Givenchy Gentleman which I love although Givenchy have just relaunched it and now it smells completely different.

I am re-testing Devana from Pell Wall. It's a crapola spray sample- bit like the dreadful quality of the Nose ones.

It's a funny old scent. (You know I'm crap with notes right?) It has that minty thing going on that something else has (is it one of the Annick Goutals?) but something a bit skanky and woody as well. I am off to read the notes..

Oh, perhaps I'm getting better at notes- because fragrantica informs me it has mint and woody stuff.

S'OK. Not a scrubber, but certainly not a lurve thing.

i actually finished a bottle of perfume today!!! it was Vera Wangs Truly Pink. Nice and inoffensive but I don't think it's something I'll be looking to buy again, at least not right now, I have so SO much else to work my way through!!!

Im in 4160 sexiest scent

Woody velvety loveliness....sigh...

SOTD was Rive Gauche, mainly chosen because of that vile perfume thread.

fennel that dress thread! I think people were aghast at the cost - whereas I just whacked a leopard print Whistles sweatshirt on my credit card without much thought. The heart wants what the heart wants, innit?

woody/oriental??
Oooh....
Now you're talking! 😁
May I suggest;

Thank you mrsr . Lots to sniff.

DS is thrilled with Cool Water - he wore it to school today . Good old Luca.

Am home after an awful day at work (tears happened, not like me at all) and getting stuck into the gin. Pizza is on it's way to celebrate ds's birthday. Roll on tomorrow and thanks for being lovely, all

My Handmaid's Tale frock and Bodhi Language has served me well all day

its way, sorry

Very quick post (cardinal sin of not reading back) as I just have to tell you

A. 15% off the The Fragrance Shop until tomorrow, code WIN15 (and they usually have some good bargains anyway) yes my name's Floofy and I am an enabler....

And B I found that thread and that dress is gorgeous don't they realise it has POCKETS! Sadly it would be a maxi dress on me (I need to order a mini dress to get midi length 😬) I love the back, it's a bit like those cross over aprons (are they Japanese?) that someone on MN alerted me to recently

Sorry to hear about your day Fennel

Floof, I have one of those aprons, made of vintage 60s fabric, with llamas on (acquired before llamas were a thing - honest).

Anyway, from llamas to civets. Rubbish day here too, so to cheer myself up I've been testing out Diva and Civet. Honey civet and coffee civet respectively!

They have a lot in common beside the civet - including carnation, ylang, tubereuse, musk and moss. The opening of Diva is really old school - yellow florals, with aldehydes kicking in just behind. Civet starts off in a fruiter/earthier way, with the pink glow of civet already showing around the edges. In contrast, Diva has a complete personality change a few minutes in. The aldehydes burn off, and only then reveal the rosy civet underneath. This is now an animalic chypre, in the vein of Paloma Picasso. Civet smells quite closely related at this stage; perhaps a tad less mossy, and the coffee makes it a bit less warmly expansive.

Double civet . (Cat is now hiding in the attic).

I've just done that thing where I make an inedible dinner and we have to order an emergency pizza

Final update on Pure Havane. It's down to pretty much nothing now, even on skin. There's been very little smokiness (sorry MrsL) and now it's just a hint of very sweet mints and maybe some cocoa. Slightly disappointing. Although it was better than Kryptomint.

That said, my skin can eat fragrance, especially sweet things, so it might perform differently on someone else.

Sorry to hear about your days, Fennel and MrsL.

Diva sounds fab!

Oh Fennel I don't think I'm tall enough to carry the dress as intended but wish I was- looks spot on for the Summer.

MrsR If no other takers then I'm game for the 4160s (except Freeway which I already have) and can decant some Samsara...

PIAM I thought I remembered someone hating 22! Hopefully it's not terrible for others when I wear it cause I'm bloody loving it right now!!

SotD was Shalimar. Desert Island scent if ever there was one.

The heart wants what the heart wants, innit?

Oh my, so true judy (and also, new thread title so early on, result!)

And frankly we need to see a picture of the llama apron MrsL. Sorry to hear your day was below par too.

Thanks for the code floof, much needed now I've spent hem-hem money on potato sacks I will stop now I promise; might wander over there, whistling innocently, and take a look.

It is!

Talking of Shalimar, does anyone know Habit Rouge (original or noughties reformulation)?

pineapple, I was tempted by Tokyo Milk in TK Maxx at the weekend, but resisted. I would have gone for 02 as well, but your review makes me think my self-control was probably worth it. Cute bottles, though.

Ah now Habit Rouge is something I really want to try. My local HoF has it (for the time being) and I've never gone for it, but I think I would like it.

Floofy, if it was my link to the crossback linen pinnies you looked at, they come from .... Lithuania. And they wash and wear well, despite the absence of alpacas.

Welcome plausible and mrsLucas is right - we don’t genderise our fragrances here, anything goes!

Except for Hermes H’Iris. I sprayed liberally at lunchtime and regretted it all afternoon. It just smells of rotting veg. Perhaps it was the heat.

Omg Fennel - that thread! What have you unleashed?

Sote is Etui Noir. This is the leathery iris I’m looking for

Did someone pick up the Carven set in TK Maxx - if so could, they report back?

Caron, sorry.

Oh mrsL and Fennel sorry to hear you’ve had crappy days Whatever you do, avoid watching the Handmaiden’s Tale in your Martha dress - it’s so depressing. I think it’s great, but can’t bring myself to watch live on Sunday evenings as I already suffer badly with “Sunday dread” and just know that’ll make it worse!