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I’d like a perfume that makes me feel like Dame Maggie Smith is offering me a scone and telling me kindly that I’m doing a great job and everything’s going to be OK.
Stoechas · 10/02/2023 16:23
For clarification I do not want to smell
like Dame Maggie Smith (although I bet she smells lovely) or a scone.
I have a sometimes grim job in a grim part of the world interacting with sometimes grim people and I’d like to be able to put my nose down my top in private and smell something that makes everything a bit better.
No idea about perfumes. Perfume people scare me. Going to JL next week and would like to have a sniff of maximum 5 perfumes and buy one of them.
Do not want anything remotely sexy, rude, obnoxious, syrupy girlie flowers, loud antibacterial sunshine or clean sheets in the rain I just mowed my lawn in a long dress bullshit.
Anything that fits the bill?
mewkins · 19/03/2023 17:57
Stoechas · 18/03/2023 18:09
at the Mitsouko ferry smell. Fine by me I have great memories of the Hull-Rotterdam ferry.
Thankfully I get no trace of vomit whatsoever.
Today I finally managed to get my wrists under L'Heure Bleue. The dry down as promised is very lovely but the journey to get there was an unpleasant journey through the land of monster parma violets. So that’s another perfume and note crossed off the list.
Also had testers of Jicky (a punch to the throat by an anthropomorphised meth-head lavender bush).
Chanel No 19 (too green and spiky)
Chanel No 19 poudre (green and spiky hidden in my lady anti monkey butt anti friction powder
Youth Dew (good Lord no)
Pleasures (more no)
The journey continues.
Have you tried Portrait of a Lady? Sure it must have been mentioned on here. To me it's a lovely Turkish rose but there isn't a bad note in it. It's very smooth. Diptique Eau Capitale has a similar fancy evening rose smell with maybe more patchouli. Neither are harsh in a way that some older perfumes can be. If you can get to john lewis and smell some diptique you may find something.
poundshoptealights · 19/03/2023 20:34
I thought of Chanel No.5. Partly because it was always my mum's 'best' perfume when we were growing up and so very reassuring in that sense. I also think it is an elegant, subtle smell and not too sexy/whimsical/anything else you have listed.
I haven't worn it for ages and you have inspired me to repurchase OP. Love the idea of wearing a perfume to reassure oneself.
SirVixofVixHall · 19/03/2023 20:55
mewkins · 19/03/2023 17:57
Have you tried Portrait of a Lady? Sure it must have been mentioned on here. To me it's a lovely Turkish rose but there isn't a bad note in it. It's very smooth. Diptique Eau Capitale has a similar fancy evening rose smell with maybe more patchouli. Neither are harsh in a way that some older perfumes can be. If you can get to john lewis and smell some diptique you may find something.
Stoechas · 18/03/2023 18:09
at the Mitsouko ferry smell. Fine by me I have great memories of the Hull-Rotterdam ferry.
Thankfully I get no trace of vomit whatsoever.
Today I finally managed to get my wrists under L'Heure Bleue. The dry down as promised is very lovely but the journey to get there was an unpleasant journey through the land of monster parma violets. So that’s another perfume and note crossed off the list.
Also had testers of Jicky (a punch to the throat by an anthropomorphised meth-head lavender bush).
Chanel No 19 (too green and spiky)
Chanel No 19 poudre (green and spiky hidden in my lady anti monkey butt anti friction powder
Youth Dew (good Lord no)
Pleasures (more no)
The journey continues.
Mmm yes, both those are lovely. Grown up and timeless.
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