Apricots!

[kaberett]

Hello all. I feel the need to kick this off by getting you all to enable me some ;)

I turn out to really like scents containing apricot. Really a lot. I currently have BPAL's Grand Guignol (nice when I want booze-preserved apricots), Katharina (white musk + apricot, which goes incredibly spiky on me), and their discontinued March Hare (apricots+clove), which I adore in the apricot-heavy versions and am less keen on in clove-heavy incarnations.

I also have Etat Libre d'Orange Noel au balcon, which I am similarly very fond of - especially in the first five minutes, where it is gorgeous apricot.

In general I tend to dislike florals (and absolutely can't do anything with lily or hyacinth or heliotrope in) and be very fond of leathers, vetivers, woods, etc. (... in which my mouth starts watering at the idea of a leather-and-apricot scent, whoops!) Recs gratefully received. :-)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I've only tried it once or twice, but IIRC it's a very soft, suede-y leather and apricot. Not notably floral on me at all.

[kaberett]

Ooooooh. That sounds like a thing I definitely want, then.

[rydra_wong]

*nods* For me, I want my leathers more tarry and aggressively leathery, whereas this often gets described not just as suede but white or cream-coloured suede. Kid gloves. So it's very delicate, but (on me), not hyper-femme or especially floral.

(Though iris tends not to ping me as "floral" as such anyway -- it's more powdery/rooty.)