Plums, vanilla and bonfires? Autumn with the friendly Perfumistas No.17

[MrsLucas]

Everyone's welcome to join the smelly chat. Tell us about your finds and your long lost favourites. Last thread.

I bought some Wood Fire (baaa 🐑) they didn't have 13 mls so I bought 30 mls. I hope I like it

Found you 😁 been wearing Chanel Chance the last few days. It was a swap with DD1, she now has my Dior Addict. I realised I’d used at twice in a decade so I clearly won’t miss it.

SOTD Liz Earle 15. Yesterday was Rive Gauche. Now I am on HOLIDAY!

SOTD MMM Lazy Sunday Morning. The storm is still going here so today has been a lot of lounging around, not doing much at all.

I'm wearing a sample of MMM By the Fireplace and although I think it's amazing that it smells like a fire and sweet chestnuts, I don't know if I'm enjoying it as much as I admire it. Have a slight headache starting. I was poised ready to buy the PP dupe and now I may not.

Can anyone tell me how they like silk, lace and chocolate? It's half price so I'm thinking about it.
How does it compare to other chocolaties, like Montale chocolate greedy and chocolate etc?

Bloomin autocucumber.
That read 'choco musk' before I hit post

Who knows about how to date Cabochard? I procured a bottle of it today that is certainly late 90’s if not older. It’s EDT, and the box is black with white writing rather than the scribbles which suggests that it is ‘old’ as opposed to ‘vintage’ I guess. I love love love it!!

Hi Dipdep. If you put a photo up I'll have a go...In terms of clues, has it got a bar code? The 'e' estimated symbol on the bottle? And what's the volume described as?

Cabochard was still going strong in the late 80s, and the scribble packaging had been dropped by then.

No barcode -hopefully the pics will attach

There is an e just after the 85% vol - you can’t see it on the pic I don’t think. Thanks so much Mrs Lucas.

Dipdep - congratulations. Think that's post-1976 but pre-1989. Should be fabulous . My first Cabochard was in this bottle and from that era, and I love, love, loved mine too. (Was reunited with some vintage, years later, thanks to a very kind Perfumista here).

Thank you so much, I’m delighted with it!

Barracker, Silk, Lace & Chocolate is like smelling a very expensive box of chocolate strawberry creams. The chocolate is rich and dark. It is sweet but not cloying because the whole thing is underlain with citrus notes. Long-lasting. I have never tried Chocolate Greedy, but I have Choco Musk and I find that quite sickly, much more of a cheap milky chocolate effect.

SOTD is Papillon Dryad, for a long wet Sunday walk in the woods. A rich, dry, herbal chypre; powerful stuff and a future classic, imo.

Barracker, I must admit I'm not a fan of SLC - it makes me think of slightly stale orange and strawberry creams, but to me it's the cheap Quality Street sort rather than some lovely artisan chocolates. It is a step too far down the gourmand road for my tastes.

Yes, I have a similar reaction to Fennel on this one.

Possible you might also like vintage Azuree Dipdep - it's like a turbo-charged Cabochard?

I find Choco musk a bit tricky too. It's like the chocolate milk left behind after a bowl of Coco pops plus... something.

The Montale smells to me dry and slightly stale, like the softened crumbs of old Oreo biscuits in a jar.

I haven't found a brilliant chocolate yet.

Trying a couple of different vintage Cabochard's today. Both pre-80s but very different. The one closest to Dipdep's bottle is an EdT with a lovely soapy/smokey leather quality, a soft mossy underbelly, and is a relatively clean smelling. I have only a dribble of the other, and the top notes are shot, but it is quite different. Hugely animalic, (castoreum and musk) with more pronounced floral notes, much less smoke and moss, and a much dirtier vibe. Not sure, but think this might be 70s EdP?

It's wet, and not in a long wet walk in the woods kinda way, but in the taking two kids on the bus in London with an umbrella kind of way. So SOTD is PP by the fireside because it can make me pretend I'm doing something much lovelier.