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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:

• 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.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

"exactly like a jar of curry powder" is an AMAZING failure, omg

[rydra_wong]

robert piguet, fracas (modern): i enjoyed this one but my final notes were "this is slightly excessive"

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".

[kore]

the website does sell relatively large (1.5 ml) samples for five bucks each

Oh noooo //goes to look!

[flamingsword]

Azzaro sounds intruiging, but leather notes do not always play well on my skin. I may have to see if anyone in my local community has some to try/trade.

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.