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

[minim_calibre]

I'm wearing Dune (parfum) layered with Jicky (vintage parfum), though it's less overtly sexual smelling on me today than it was yesterday, which I expect means I under Jickyed it. I can't get over how well these two completely different things manage to merge. Or that there's a version of Dune that can be layered at all, for that matter: in EDT form, Dune overpowers everything, but the extrait stays far closer to the skin.

Anyhow, the warm/salt/something of Dune accents the animalic aspects of Jicky (which, by itself, tend to get lost on my skin), and the bergamot sharpness of Jicky adds an edge to the softness of Dune, and everything's good, nothing hurts.

I have all these random vials I need to try, and I'm fixating on this particular mix instead.

[lunabee34]

I have been randomly reading perfume posts by the members of this comm, and I'm pretty sure I read a review of Jicky by you and/or some other members. It sounds fascinating. I suspect I would not like it, but who know? It sounds very different from any perfume I've ever smelled.

[minim_calibre]

Vintage Jicky is amazing. I'm kind of afraid to smell the current formulation, because there's almost no way it won't make me terribly sad. On some people (also known as "almost everyone who is not me"), it's a filthy, filthy skank bomb wrapped in crisp lemon and lavender and nibbling French pastries. I can smell the Jicky in Shalimar, but Jicky, despite being older, is the far more modern-smelling of the scents.

This is probably because the aspects of Shalimar that have been so often imitated over the years tend to be the ones that separate it from Jicky and make it more approachable.

Jicky's not exactly approachable. I love it, but it's kind of the perfume version of Fernet Branca.

[niqaeli]

....well, you just sold me on trying Jicky if I ever decide to attempt mainstream perfume. I mean, I was already interersted, but that description pretty much guarantees my interest.

(I love Fernet Branca. I have a couple of hilarious stories about it, because my bar is ridiculous and one of the biggest regional consumers of it -- I have a Fernet bartending challenge coin that I got at an industry-only cocktail pairing dinner they hosted that was based around Fernet Branca -- but I fucking love it, sharp bits and all. ....I am also the person who acquired the taste for gin on the first taste, so. I like a lot of shit that's not approachable. *grin*)

[minim_calibre]

I would wear a perfume that smelt like Fernet. A bartender friend turned me on to it years ago.

Perhaps not shockingly, I would also wear one that smelt like gin.

[niqaeli]

...if you find either of these things, let me know. I would overcome my strong aversion to mainstream perfume to at least TRY it.

Seriously, I would wear the shit out of a perfume that smelled like Fernet.

(Fernet: I got turned onto it by a bartender who sent a round to our table because the cocktail pairing dinner we were at had been a gustatorially challenging one, ie, there was a shit-ton of fat and spices and the combination was a bit stomach-distressing and because our bartenders. Being me, I tried a sip of it and went, huh, and finished it. Tried it again at a later date and basically fell for it, at that point. ...my love of Fernet later led to hilarity of said same bartender sending a round to my table at a post-filmshoot celebration and our principal actor, on seeing me and my husband take our shots and do them as shots because, oooh hey Fernet, did the same... well, he'd never had Fernet before. His face was a picture.)

[cyprinella]

Comme des Garcons original smells like gin to me, although a gin light on juniper and heavier on the botanicals. Akin to Aviation Gin.

[lunabee34]

Me too. Have you ever drank Hendricks gin? Besides the gorgeous black apothecary bottle, it's got notes of cucumber and rose that are so lovely.

[minim_calibre]

Oh yes! Now I should look for a perfume with notes of juniper, rose, and cucumber...

[lunabee34]

I love reading you talk about perfume. /fangirls

I am realizing that perfume has not been a huge part of the lives of the women in my family after looking at your posts and others. My mom always had tons of little free bottles of perfume from estee lauder and clinique gifts with purchase but she only ever really wore clinique Beautiful.

I should get into her hoard this summer when I visit.

[minim_calibre]

I can't actually think of my mother wearing the stuff often when I was growing up-she just never throws anything out and had a bunch around as a result. My sister doesn't wear it at all. I'm pretty much the only one in the family who wound up a scent head.

I still regret purging a few years ago and getting rid of things I wouldn't or couldn't wear. Ah, well.

[lunabee34]

That sounds like my mother. I think it physically pains her to get rid of stuff. LOL