We may be filled with despair, but we smell utterly divine. It’s the Lovely Friendly Perfumistas - thread 23. All welcome!

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Thread 23 - everyone welcome to join us for fragrant, friendly chat. Previous thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/3611235-The-lovely-friendly-perfumistas-are-riding-the-Freeway-towards-summer-dreaming-of-being-Bronze-Goddesses-while-sadly-still-huddling-By-The-Fireplace-Join-us-for-thread-number-22

Hi Hoooo how ru?

I picked up a few samples today, also sprayed a lot on myself and then couldn't remember the bloomin' names...

i have to say i now find reading about perfume, smelling perfume and discussing perfume a real comfort (my happy place) and think of you all when doing so!

Miller Harris Dance is quite nice too - very green smelling.

Silences Kali. Is a cheaper alternative to No. 19. I actually much prefer it as I find no 19 a little chilly. Heute exquise is also beautiful.

SOTD L’Air de Rien, for a trip to see Judy at the cinema. Love daytime solo films, but it must have been pensioners’ discount day, because it was busy with elderly women nattering right through.

ooh thank you teta i will investigate.

Hi judy how was the fillum?

Bit of a Miller Harris theme going on...
Brighton Rock is horrible btw.

Any good judy? I'd quite like to see that.

I'm shattered kali just very, very tired and ankle still sore.

Busy day tomorrow too so hoping for a better night.

I sprayed mmm by the fireplace at john lewis yesterday....the pp version really is indistinguishablw to my nose.

Speaking of which...sote pp by the fireplace ❤

Wearing vintage eau d iparie by L Occitane today - Frankincense and Myrrh.
I'd forgotten how much I love this. It's just right for this horrible weather.
It's a green tinged incense to begin with that mellows down to a warm ambery incense. Its very unique and i've never smelt anything the slightest bit similar.

SOTD Jazz Club.

I enjoyed Judy but it was a hard watch in parts. So sad at the end.

Hurry up, weekend. I finish for a fortnight tomorrow, and honestly am SO ready for it!

A week here and GOD I'm ready

I'm now ill, as well as the toddler. School runs for the eldest have been impossible and I've been calling in lots of favours. Feeling really lonely and miserable.

SOTD is Al Haramain Tanasuk, which (along with a cup of tea while DD2 naps) is making me feel slightly more human.

Awww mother (hugs)
It's horrid being ill and having to look after ill children - your world just shrinks for a time.
Hope you all feel better soon x

Sote kingdom scotland

Good grief, I've not posted on here for 10 days! That has got to be a record for me.

Anyway, it's been a long, busy week. I've been enjoying some classics, including EL Youth Dew on Thursday, for my mum who died three years ago on the 10th. I wore it so much when she first died but tbh now really only get it out on the anniversary days. However, it is wonderful, particularly once it's been on for a few hours and has lost some of the tricky aldehydes in the top to become a warm, sweet, spicy amber, really beautiful.

Have also been wearing Givenchy III, and SOTD today is vintage L'Aimant - how fabulous is this?! It's absolutely the scent of my childhood as my lovely grandmother used to wear it and it reminds me so much of my grandparents' house when I was growing up. Their bathroom was pink and black marble with a huge bath and mirrors everywhere - very 70s glam There was always a bottle of L'Aimant around, plus the 'dusting powder' - the smell is just so evocative. I can't believe it's taken me so long to get myself a bottle.

Now need to go back and catch up on the thread!

Sending love to you on your mum's anniversary, Maud. What a lovely way to remember her.

I'm feeling better and my sense of smell has returned! Went a bit crazy and have Diptyque Volutes in one elbow, Eau My Soul on the other, and Centrepiece on my wrists (just sniffing to see what they're like in this weather!)

I guess it's a quirk of my nose rather than the season, because I still get the strong anise notes from Centrepiece! Nobody else seems to smell them. Volutes is delicious in the autumn, I will wear it a lot now I've remembered it. And Eau My Soul is still beautiful but more pungent than I remember it; I think I prefer it in other weather actually.

SOTD - 4160 MNND

Lovely memories maud x

Sotd was avon soft musk delice but I'm in need of something with some more oompf....

Love both YD and Laimant - both of which remind me of my mum.

Chosen sote ambre du cabochard from a decant from a lovely perfumista

Dh not keen on TF scent...might have to wear it when he's away...

SOTD is Beecham and self pity . This cold is rotten. Didn't sleep at all last night, was at 24hr Tesco at 2am buying all the remedies, and drove around practicing parallel parking till 4am!

SOTD FM Hiver. Really missing DP today.

maud and can’t sending both of you 💐.i hope you get some sleep tonight, Can’t.

Sotd avon mesmerize for women

SOTD Byredo Gypsy Water.

SOTD was Burnt Cedar Rainbow Doves on one wrist and Drive Them Wild on the other. Both really beautiful, competent fragrances. Not for me, though -- both are what I would think of as 'going out' scents, and I never go out! Not sure whether to persevere or just sell them.

DD1 is ill and has a fever now :-( I wish we were all better. I'm exhausted and obviously can't leave the house at all when either of them is ill, so I haven't been out for five days.

Burnt Cedar Rainbow Doves is a cool fragrance. I feel like I ought to be going to some kind of music event in a warehouse. The slight smell of burning is very realistic and then it gives way to a mysterious, elusive dry sweetness. Lasts for aaaaages.

Drive Them Wild is for silk dresses and riding in vintage cars and laughing wildly. It's quite a sexy scent, not grown up exactly but a little... knowing. Gorgeous. Wears off me relatively quickly but is almost instantly wearable and appealing.

Hmmmm....
Burnt cedar rainbow doves sounds right up my street :)
Pm me if you want to sell it x