Friday free-for-all

[synecdochic]

HA. I REMEMBERED THIS WEEK.

This post is a free-for-all for people to:

a) post links to perfume-related content they posted elsewhere (on or off DW)
b) talk about anything they want to talk about that isn't big enough for a full post
c) socialize and hang out without worrying about "off topic"

Comments

[thatyourefuse]

I may actually have to take classes in perfume composition, someday, if someone doesn't produce the Smell of my Dreams before then.

(Comments also include brief side-by-side comparison of Etat Libre d'Orange Rien and Rien Intense Incense -- end verdict: Intense Incense is probably better, but not so much so that I need to scrape together the obscene amount they're charging for a bottle, even if they're serious about keeping it a limited edition.)

[synecdochic]

Oooooh. I did some essential oil blending in my misspent youth; it's a lot of fun. I say go for it!

[thatyourefuse]

Oh god you don't understand if I was any good at all I would want to go pro. And there's a money issue right now.

(And no, really, do I just have hideous taste? is there a reason why that combination isn't already a thing?)

(I mean, secretly it is TOTALLY a result of my many failed attempts to find a smell that reminds me of my favorite fictional character right now...)

[synecdochic]

I dunno, it sounds like it would smell good to me! There's a lot of possible range in perfumes, I'm sure it will take thousands of years before someone makes every single option that might smell good. :)

[thatyourefuse]

True enough, true enough. I'm surprised by how many blackcurrant scents there don't seem to be -- I wonder if the raw materials are expensive or difficult to handle or something?

(Polly Shelby Gray from Peaky Blinders, on the off-chance someone might ask. On the off-chance someone has seen that... well. BPAL Bensiabel [plums + leather] is closeish, but too sour and not incensey enough, and Vero Profumo Onda EDP [Jesus, where do you start?] is also closeish, but I can only describe it as "the wrong color.")

[synecdochic]

A little research seems to indicate that blackcurrant essential oil is solid at room temp, which might be the problem! It looks expensive but not ludicrous, though.

[thatyourefuse]

Well, that makes sense. But, you know, still -- maybe it's just never really come into fashion?

(I have to try BPAL Medea just because for metatextual reasons it would be amazing if that turned out to be it -- the actress in question just had an apparently life-altering run in Medea at the National Theatre. BPAL is hit and miss, mostly miss, on me though.)

[synecdochic]

I'm guessing it just never came into fashion, yes. :) There are definite trends in perfumery!

[thatyourefuse]

There are. Even niche perfumery, which, I've just bought like seven Etat Libre d'Oranges. Considering their non-Secretions Magnifiques options include Jasmin et Cigarette, Encens et Bubblegum, and Divin'Enfant [leather and marshmallow]...

Whatever, then, I can be original. Like Vero Kern and her obsession with passionfruit.

[synecdochic]

I would totally buy a sample once you got the kinks worked out ;)

(If you don't know by now, I am a horrible enabler.)

[thatyourefuse]

(I'm getting that. Maybe once I manage to lie my way into a full-time job!)

[synecdochic]

My friends all know that they should only come to me when they want to be talked IN to doing something, not talked OUT of it. ;)

(Actually, I will talk people out of things when I think they're a bad idea. But where's the bad in playing around with some perfumes? Maybe check around you to see if anyplace has a course in perfume making?)

[thatyourefuse]

... I do live in the five-college area...

[synecdochic]

Oooh, the one in MA? Go have lunch at Fresh Side for me, I miss their tea rolls SO MUCH.

[thatyourefuse]

Yep! (I was going to say "A five-college area" but, like, what, there's more than one?) I think I even know where that is, too.

[synecdochic]

Downtown Amherst! It used to be off a side street, but they moved a few years back; they're on the main street now, right across from the campus and a block or so down. Next to the bookstore.

I didn't go to Amherst (my ex did) but I spent a loooooooot of time there. I occasionally head back up to eat at all the places I remember fondly (Fresh Side! wings from the Hangar! Viva Fresh Pasta!) and to go to WEBS. :)

[thatyourefuse]

Yep. I've been by there. (I'n not in school, currently, which confuses the shit out of people -- I'm eyeing the film editing concentration at Hampshire, though, but I haven't figured out how to make that happen.)

[kaberett]

(I keep being a bit sad that there isn't really any sensible way for me to tell ex-who-loves-Rien-because-incense that Intense Incense has been released. Oh well, they'll probably work it out for themself sooner or later.)

[thatyourefuse]

I have seen a few reviews, so one assumes the news is out there. And why I do not understand MANY of ELd'O's creative choices, it's hard to argue with "Rien but AWESOMER."

[gumbie_cat]

Anybody else in the UK? Boots are currently offering two bottles of Library of Fragrance for £25 and I am probably going to give in to the temptation soon.

[kaberett]

oooooooooooooooooooh

[sapote]

I tried Tokyo Milk and it's definitely not for me, as a line! Excess actually has a little whiff of garbage, to me - either my sample has turned (I got it decanted at Sephora), or it's a clever little bit of perfume theater that I would also not wear.

[kaberett]

I put discerning Iranian dudebro (as described by noldo when she picked up a bottle for me a while back) on the friend whose face I am currently putting my face on, and it worked exactly as well as I wanted it to and I was pleased. :-) And then I got to show them the beautifuly catty one-star reviews in Perfume and all-in-all it was a good date.

[sine_nomine]

I have been delighted to realize that I have several scents that delight me to no end and a stack of imps still to try (of which a couple may delight me to no end, and most will be "oh, that's pleasant"; I've already gotten rid of the "Oh Hell NO!" scents).... but that -- once that's over -- I suspect my scent acquisition will be over for several years (about how long I anticipate it will take to go through the multitudinous bottles and half bottles I have... think I'm up to like 6 or 8). Given that I've just lost my job this realization is very timely; there will be no extra funds for things that smell good.