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some_stars) wrote2022-02-26 02:55 pm
some_stars) wrote2022-02-26 02:55 pm
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i am accumulating a significant collection of perfumes that don't work for me; sometime soon i'll post a list and see if anybody wants them.
successes since my last post:
interesting failures:
also i did confirm that i do indeed still hate flowerbomb and black opium, which is nice to know.
successes since my last post:
- hermetica, darkoud: this is bliss, intense oud/wicca store vibes and it lasts FOREVER on me. not available on the decant sites but the website does sell relatively large (1.5 ml) samples for five bucks each so i will definitely get like four of those at some point
- robert piguet, fracas (modern): i enjoyed this one but my final notes were "this is slightly excessive" so i have to admit defeat before the Tuberose Bomb. still gonna wear it though
- hermes, Un Jardin Sur Le Nil: absolutely delightful, green and wet in a bright sunny way. on the larger-decant wishlist for sure
- Frederic Malle, Lys Mediterranee: ohhhh this was dangerously lovely, apparently i really like lilies. i smelled none of the other notes and it stayed the same the whole time but that's fine bc it was great
- azzaro, pour homme: citrus leather that evolves into sandalwood, i love it
- givenchy, gentleman: also very leather-forward with fruit notes, which is a FASCINATING combination that i like
interesting failures:
- papillon, spell 125: my notes on application include "compellingly ugly" and my one-hour-later note is, in its entirety, "what the fuck". not keeping this one but it was an Experience
- Parfum d'Empire, Fougere Bengale EDP: this smells like curry powder on me. like literally exactly like a jar of curry powder from the supermarket. what
also i did confirm that i do indeed still hate flowerbomb and black opium, which is nice to know.
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Has other facets (people sometimes say maple syrup or burnt sugar or wood or hay), but unless the context brings those out or harmonizes them, you can easily just get curry powder.
http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.com/2012/01/perfumery-material-immortellehelichrysu.html
Immortelle gone right: https://boisdejasmin.com/2012/11/etat-libre-dorange-the-afternoon-of-a-faun-perfume-review.html
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That Afternoon of a Faun review is lovely, wow.
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I love it when I get to make that intellectual connection and put a name to a note.
I thought "immortelle" was like potpourri for some reason!
No, I think I know what you mean, there's a sort of "preserved flower" vibe to the name. And it is a flower, but not potpourri at all.
That Afternoon of a Faun review is lovely, wow.
Love it. It took a while to grow on me -- I had a sample vial knocking around for years, then started wearing it a lot during lockdown 1 for some reason, then ended up nabbing a bottle in a sale. That and CDG Black have been my two most-worn scents of the past two years.
There, you've got the worn woods/resin thing going on, and then the immortelle gives it this edge which is a bit salty/savoury (it pings as "clean sweat" in my brain), and balances out the rose/jasmine.
In my head, it's not theatre, it's rehearsal room.
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Only slightly??? *g*
hermes, Un Jardin Sur Le Nil: absolutely delightful, green and wet in a bright sunny way. on the larger-decant wishlist for sure
And now you can read the book! Chandler Burr's The Perfect Scent is about the development process for this and for Sarah Jessica Parker's "Lovely".
Frederic Malle, Lys Mediterranee: ohhhh this was dangerously lovely, apparently i really like lilies. i smelled none of the other notes and it stayed the same the whole time but that's fine bc it was great
Yeah, it has zero story to tell, it's just there being beautiful. But it is SO beautiful.
Parfum d'Empire, Fougere Bengale EDP: this smells like curry powder on me. like literally exactly like a jar of curry powder from the supermarket. what
Immortelle, that's what.
I spent ages being baffled or put off by immortelle in things, before finally forging a meaningful relationship with it in ELDO's "Afternoon of a Faun". I love it when I find a perfume that makes a note I have issues with make sense for me -- "oh, THAT's how it can be used in a good way, I get it now".
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I am looking forwards to getting a chance to smell this SO MUCH.
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(Will get to the post office soon, apologies for the delay.)
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yes! only slightly! i fuckin LOVE tuberose, man!
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(Also I am plotting some more tuberoses to rec you once you're on for new recs.)
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Oh noooo //goes to look!
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If it didn't have ambergris, Papillon's Spell 125 would sound like my jam, but then I am a very ambers-and-woods kind of scent person. In fact, I am wearing Commodity's Gold for men right now, and on me it smells of old books and wood mulch and amber jewelry in the sun. Lovely. If you did not like the primarily ambers/woods/balsamic accord you may also want to skip this one, though, since the main notes sound fairly similar. If your wtf experience was disliking way the aromatic hemlock notes play with that, though, you might like Gold for men.