Weekly Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

(I might move this around in the week a few times until I work out when it works for me to post these.)

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"
d) or anything else that comes to mind!

Whatcha wearing today? (Me: BPAL's "Brimstone", which I am absolutely perplexed by. I can't decide if it smells amazing or hideous on me.)

Comments

[thatyourefuse]

I have been smelling things, and blogging them, and completely forgetting to crosspost.

Rochas Femme (reformulated)

Frederic Malle Carnal Flower

Jean Desprez Bal a Versailes [!!!!!]

Penhaligon's Amaranthine

Overall, one smash hit and one that would've been really quite good if it hadn't come straight after the smash hit, which is not bad odds.

[thatyourefuse]

Also, I just broke my "no new purchases" resolution because a money transfer came through earlier than expected, during a 15% coupon code sale at Surrender to Chance.

... I bought Giorgio.

and Poison

and Kouros

They're going to have to ship this in a hazmat bag.

[minim_calibre]

Double hazmat bagged. That's some SERIOUS sillage in that order. (APPLY THEM WITH A TOOTHPICK. I AM NOT KIDDING.)

[thatyourefuse]

Oh, so noted. I very very VERY rarely use more than one dab of the sample wand, especially with something I've never tried before -- I had an interesting experience once with some sprayed Fracas and a car with all the windows up, which kind of confirmed me in this habit -- but I think I'm going to have to be extra careful with this lot.

(I also bought Lutens Boxeuses and Aftelier Sepia, but those should be well enough behaved.)

(I am not going to be a troll and track down the perfume my mother's boss wore in the 80s that she really couldn't stand. I'm not! Even if I bet I could -- it sounds like it might've been Opium.)

[lunabee34]

Tell me more about this vaginal smell that you are noticing. /total newbie

*chin hands*

[thatyourefuse]

I get it from reformulated Femme and from Serge Lutens El Attarine; largely the same smell, which makes me think it's a combination of immortelle + cumin + possibly some chemical base used to create fruit notes, since that's what those two have in common.

And it's -- well -- recently washed female genitals, plus some soap, and nothing else. (N.b. -- plenty of other people get completely different things from both of those, so I think it's some kind of freak skin chemistry reaction on me.) The "nothing else" is the part that rules them out for me -- Bal a Versailles has a distinct note of unwashed knickers, but that's not the only note that comes out on me, and so I really don't mind it.

[lunabee34]

That's so interesting.

I don't think I've ever smelled immortelle.

I tend to not like the smell of but love the taste of cumin and I can see where the leap to lady parts from that smell might happen.

As I'm reading all these posts, I don't know that I've ever worn a perfume that actually has animal musk in it. Probably not. IDK if I'd like it or not.

[thatyourefuse]

I have loved other things with a cumin note, so I think it's some kind of interaction -- and yeah, I think immortelle is practically unheard of outside the classical perfume and skincare world. I can't really tell you what it's supposed to smell like.

A looooot of commercial perfumes have some kind of musk note, although it's usually a very scrubbed-clean one (everyone's animalic notes are synthetic these days, so it's possible to calibrate), but there is such, SUCH a range. CBMUSK by CB I Hate Perfume is sort of the outer edge of pure musk bombs, if you wanted to try something really wild.

[lunabee34]

I will keep that in mind.

Right now I've got my floaties on in the kiddie pool. We'll see what happens over time. LOL

:)

[rydra_wong]

and yeah, I think immortelle is practically unheard of outside the classical perfume and skincare world.

Yeah, it gets used a bit in aromatherapy, mostly under its alt!name helichrysum, because it's very good for certain specific things (healing tendons and connective tissue is the one I'm most familiar with).

But because it smells Kind Of Weird (rather than connoting "relaxing" or "luxurious") and also tends to be relatively expensive, it's one of the less well-known oils.

[thatyourefuse]

Makes sense.