Scent of the day part 8 - the friendly perfumistas will make you smell GREAT!

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Shiny new thread - link to previous thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5468969-scent-of-the-day-part-7-let-the-friendly-perfumistas-take-you-to-perfume-heaven?page=38&reply=150807767

Thank you @JoRaRaRa 😊

I was all coordinated, wearing a top with a tiger on it, with Sana Jardin Tiger by her Side perfume.

Molecule 02 for me today (TPS sample). I had an evening scoosh of Tilia last night - OMG it's so pungent and floral. Had to wash it off (and could still smell it the next morning!). Why is it that the fragrances that don't agree with me seem to last FOREVER?

Has anyone else dabbled in Montale fragrances? I have a few, and was thinking of ordering a discovery set to try more.

There were a couple in the harrods fraggy cal in previous years, although not this year. They are quite oud heavy I remember, to appeal to the arabian market. I quite like them and was pondering getting the discovery set - you can pick your own samples to go in the set which is good.

Flowerbomb tiger lily for me today - love this one and keep returning to it, must have bought around 3 or 4 samples over the past year. One of my fave designer frags.

The mini dabbers from Notino have landed - really good deal around £5 each. I got 12 including some burberry and chloe.

I received the Fugazzi pomegranoudh sample today, so I immediately tried it and omg! I love it! It's gone straight to the top of my favourites list for 2026 😍 The 10ml has already sold out which I'm disappointed about as the 2ml isn't going to last me long.

Yes you can! There's just so many to choose from. I was wondering if anytime had any tips.

I adore Patchouli Leaves and infinity.

I've also got a bunch of samples (send as freebies, I didn't choose them) from the Mancera house/range (connected with Montale somehow), but I found most of them way too sweet and cloying (too fruity/rose heavy/gourmand).

Molecules 01 + Cistus today from one of the SNK sets. Wasn't keen to start with - smelled kind of fusty like clothes that hadn't been properly dried after washing. It was a bit nicer after settling down (almost like frankincense at one point) but definitely not a favourite. Someone did tell me I smelled nice, though.

I much prefer the +Champaca one.

Aldebaran today - DH just said I smell nice, and he NEVER usually passes comment 😆

Nothing today so far, but SOTD yesterday was Philosykos, which felt appropriate for a sunny afternoon having lunch in the garden, all green and woody.

Floral Street Ylang Espresso which I used to adore a few years ago, it's ok but not quite feeling it, it's quite a heavy scent and I'm into lighter fresher scents right now. Contemplating Ds and Durga Coriander!

you may find this interesting - change of smell with use of GLPs.

Will check out the you tube. I know my sense of smell has changed massively since going on Munj.

Couleur Primaire today. This one is a grower. At first I was like 'why bother with this when I can just stick my head in a box of persil for same effect' but something is making me return to it. It is very photorealistic, linear, laundry scent. But somehow I'm intrigued! Decided not to keep the acne studios if only because resale value is very high -£30 - and I need to make some money back to keep the machine rolling so I can buy more frag!

@MiaN I'm going to watch that later but before I went onto mounjaro I only had 10-15 perfumes (including travel sizes). Now I have well over 100 and I also have a load of candles and scented body creams. I didn't used to wear perfume whilst WFH but now I wear 3 or 4 a day 🤣 so I definitely want more fragrance around me. It's costly this mounjaro lark 🙈

@IDontHateRainbows I think couleur primaire is stronger than acne studios, but they are very similar and probably only one is needed. I used acne studios a bit before remembering that I had couleur primaire and the resale value just isn't great for that one so I've decided to keep both. I think clean scents are going to be big for spring summer so hopefully it'll make it worth it keeping them 🤞🏻 we'll see 🙂

I'm the same with fragrance - before munj I only had about 5 and could quite happily get maybe one new one a year. The minute I started on mj, which was coincidentally advent calendar season 2024 I got really into Byredo to begin with and then everything else. Now have over 100 mainly travel size, could be as high as 130 or so if I properly count up and I keep spraying them multiple times a day BUT they have no calories and I'm also drinking a lot less, so all good.

I've been drinking more again recently. I only drink when out, but last weekend I was so hungover on Saturday for my day in London that I couldn't eat my breakfast 😳 The last time I was drunk was when Chester zoo had just opened up after covid as we went to some friends the night before and went wild on our first night out 🤣 Before then, it was like 2018, I got really drunk and apparently wasn't very nice to my stepdad when I picked up my dog from my mum's. Oops! Seems I'm not a good drunk!

Sigh.. I've just bought a full bottle of Aldebaran, albeit on Vinted, so not at full cost. I really shouldn't have done that

Phlur Father Figure today. Can't make my mind up about this but it doesn't seem particularly strong on me. Not unpleasant, just not a lot to it. Bit meh.

Sote heaven can wait by frederic malle..I always want to say this one is carroty. Not sure if it actually has carrot notes. Definitely some spices and maybe nut.

Ellis Brooklyn vanilla salt - last drop of this which was in a SNK cracker last year, it's interesting but I have no desire to repurchase.

Also, Vilhelm dear polly. My favourite Vilhelm. Nice, addictive lemony tea scent. Miller Harris do a similar one called Tea Tonique which is more lemony. I prefer this.

Shay and Blue Black Tulip today. Wanted to try this for ages and I managed to pick 10ml up on allbeauty for £5.95 with free postage, using a code.

Weirdly it smells (to me) so much like Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit but I'm not sure how. I like it a lot but it's invoking winter/xmas vibes which is maybe not what I want in May. 😃

Sotd
Abel Laundry Day. 🥰

Glossier you doux for me today. It's feeling more like autumn today in west Yorkshire so I'm feeling like I want some of those cosy scents that I was wearing in winter 🥶

SOTD Commodity Moss expressive; having worked my way through the discovery set I’d say this and Milk are my favourites. This reminds me of Initio Musk Therapy with the bergamot and moss notes over a clean white musk.

Just tried a sample of Kiko Milano EDP Scent of Milan. Not tried any of their perfumes before. It's not bad, I think it smells similar to Commodity Juice on first spray, maybe with a slight powdery dry down I don't think Juice has.