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post #1 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:14am
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Woo, back online thank goodness!

I'm testing Ava Luxe Amber Essence today.
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post #2 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:24am
Guerlain Coriolan
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post #3 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:32am
On line again! Great work, webmasters!

Have a great 17th May, all norwegian BN:s! :wave:

SotD: Trussardi Inside for Woman EdP. Sampling. Quite nice. The notes from osMoz are:

Top: Bergamot, Nut Leaf, Rose-Bay
Heart: Coffee, Freesia, Heliotrope
Base: Teak, Amber, Musk

I guess this is a gourmand. I like the coffee and the teak notes. The fragance don´t turn into caramell on my skin, as other gourmads easily do. I am a sweety-skinner, and everything becomes sweet on me, if it can.
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post #4 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:51am
soda - cdg
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post #5 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:52am
Living dangerous Perfume allergy? HAH.

So, Encens & Lavande, Amber and Lavender and.....Jicky

I must be smelling like the Last of the Flower Power Children

Yeah, baby. The things we do for love
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post #6 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:55am
Bravo, BN web team for getting us back online!

Wearing my one and only layering creation today:

Annick Goutal's Le Chevrefeuille with The Thyme's Ginger Milk.

The light, sweet honeysuckle gets a nice zingy balance from the ginger, and the Ginger Milk's cucumber and vanilla notes blend the whole thing nicely on my skin. Love it in spring!
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post #7 of 44
5/17/07 at 5:06am
Jean Couturier Coriandre EdT. Nice to see everybody again and have a terrific Thursday!
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post #8 of 44
5/17/07 at 5:33am
Welcome back Basenotes - had me worried this morning!

I am finally sampling Angelique Encens. I've waited ages for this and thankfully I now have a decant thanks to Peppermint Patty. Lots of other beauties to try in the coming days/weeks.

Angelique Encens is lovely but I'm not sure if I'm in love with it. Sometimes it takes a while for perfumes to grow on me, and this is affection at first smell rather than all-out love.

A vial of SL's Un Lys had broken in the post, and the smell pervaded the whole package as you can imagine. The liquid had already dispappeared by the time I opened the package, but not before soaking eveyrything with pungeant fragrance. Consequently my room smells better than I do. If it smells as good as this on skin rather than just packaging, I need to send for more.
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post #9 of 44
5/17/07 at 6:04am
(Falls gasping into the arms of BN) Let's hear it for the Webmaster!! Was jonesing there for a while.

In a hurry with Caron's Parfum Sacre:

Top note : \tLemon, Pepper, Mace, Cardamom
Middle note : \tOrange Blossom, Rose, Jasmine, Rosewood
Base note : \tVanilla, Myrrh, Civet, Cedarwood

I love Carons - they are so soignee - my still-in-training nose rarely picks out a single note. This beauty is no exception. Smooth dry down and excellent sillage.

Later ladies!!
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post #10 of 44
5/17/07 at 6:26am
Hanae Mori's Magical Moon for me today. On such cold days, incense scents are warm and comforting.
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post #11 of 44
5/17/07 at 6:48am
Michael Storer's Genvieve

Official notes: (T) Damask rose, green tea, muguet, rhubarb, ambrette seed; (M) Bulgarian rose, raspberry, peach, ylang-ylang, mimosa absolute, jasmine absolute, violet leaf; (B) angelica root, tolu balsam, ambergris, musk, tonka bean absolute, sandalwood, civet.

Hmmm. Above all, I just get pepper, pepper and more pepper. ????
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post #12 of 44
5/17/07 at 6:54am
Big temperature drop today! Samsara for me. I ordered the EDP but was sent the EDT and since I'm just too lazy to send it back I asked for store credit.
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post #13 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:04am
BIG Thank you to the engineers and technies fixing this temporary blackout.
My friend finally handed over the Black Aoud from the Montale's Vendome shop last night. I treated him a nice dinner for that
Wearing Black Aoud today... it is amazing!
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post #14 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:31am
I was worried when was I saw the site down...so happy it is back up, whew!

Today, I'm getting together with friends for a lunch out and a walk through the Doris Duke estate.

I will be wearing MPG Soie Rouge
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post #15 of 44
5/17/07 at 8:26am
:wave:Great to be back on-line!:wave:

Wearing Sous le Vent today -- I really love the green opening of this one. It dries to a wonderfully refined leather.
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post #16 of 44
5/17/07 at 8:44am
Whew! Back on line.
Testing again today with Femenite du Bois and Attrape Couer (Thanks again dimps) The AC is gorgeous. I just wish it was more readily available!
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post #17 of 44
5/17/07 at 9:01am
Armani Attitude......Gary
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post #18 of 44
5/17/07 at 9:10am
SO glad that we're back in business...
Nice to see you folks.

Musc Ravageur today- if I can't eat it, I'll WEAR it..
Or, maybe, I'll eat it AND wear it.
What the hell.

Carpe diem,. folks !
[Check your mailbox, Diva...goodies should be arriving SOON !]
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post #19 of 44
5/17/07 at 9:11am
Yay! I'm glad to see everyone.

I'm wearing Guerlain Vega today.
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post #20 of 44
5/17/07 at 10:53am
I'm mixing it up today. Molton Brown's Black Pepper body wash got me feeling peppery today. I applied some Palmer's cocoa butter, several spritzes of L'Artisan's Poivre Piquant, and two light spritzes of Saffron Troublant. My husband loves it!
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post #21 of 44
5/17/07 at 10:56am
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Hypnotic Poison
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post #22 of 44
5/17/07 at 11:01am
SotE: Aigner Black EdP by Etienne Aigner.

Haven´t found any notes. It is a german perfume, my first one. It is black, dry and with some sillage. It reminds me of Prada, but is more gentle, still has much more sillage compared to Prada Tendre. - Suitable for a cold eve of spring, IMO.

Not a single norwegian BN:s here today... Well, I guess they all are out celebrating their 17th May
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post #23 of 44
5/17/07 at 11:35am
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Originally Posted by Quarry View Post

Michael Storer's Genvieve

Official notes: (T) Damask rose, green tea, muguet, rhubarb, ambrette seed; (M) Bulgarian rose, raspberry, peach, ylang-ylang, mimosa absolute, jasmine absolute, violet leaf; (B) angelica root, tolu balsam, ambergris, musk, tonka bean absolute, sandalwood, civet.

Hmmm. Above all, I just get pepper, pepper and more pepper. ????

You poor youngun's!! Shycat had the same reaction...only she got at least a whiff of real gardenia at the start. And all I get is gardenia with a bit of the jasmine and roses. I think it's my age - honest!
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post #24 of 44
5/17/07 at 11:36am
I am testing out Santa Maria Novella Hay (Fieno), and it's interesting. It starts out with the scent of...dryness...and of green grass - like the description of hay. Now it is just mildly spicey and pleasant.

Sestra - sorry about the broken vial. I had two packages arrive this week with leaky vials, there must be a logical explanation - like goblins.
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post #25 of 44
5/17/07 at 12:00pm
How good to see BN is back

Carrying on with my leather obsession, I am wearing Cuir Mauresque today. But I will continue testing my Neil Morris samples in the weekend!
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post #26 of 44
5/17/07 at 12:03pm
D&G Sicily for me today.
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post #27 of 44
5/17/07 at 12:41pm
wearing chanel no. 18 today. it is said to have ambrette seed, but i don't know what that smells like. i have a cold, so i can't detect the notes very well. but it smells good? floral? lol. sorry to be so vague.
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post #28 of 44
5/17/07 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Abigail View Post

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Sestra - sorry about the broken vial. I had two packages arrive this week with leaky vials, there must be a logical explanation - like goblins.

The packaging wasn't strong enough in my case. Sorry for you if your beloveds have vanished in the ether. I miss the chance to put some on my skin, but otherwise it was a blessing in disguise. I have kept the packaging and it makes the whole vicinity smell utterly divine. Good old Un Lys.

My SotE is another divine discovery - Messe de Minuit. Where has this been all my life? Well, in an earlier life it was right there all along, and this is the first time (yes, really) that any perfume has reminded me of a childhood smell. I spent a long time with sensory deprivation then along came Catholic Benediction and incense. And here it is again, and to my profound surprise a memory is a welcome intruder. And even if that were not so, this perfume would still transport me to another time and place of the imagination, always much more important than mere memories. Messe de Minuit is glorious. I have read people saying that this is almost unwearable, and my response is - how can you NOT wear this?
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post #29 of 44
5/17/07 at 12:58pm
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Now I've been to the gym, come back and had a bath, I'm trying Ava Luxe Oude on one wrist and Kretek on the other. Kretek was a freebie. Oude I ordered simply to educate myself because I didn't know what oude smelled like. I can imagine it would be wonderful blended with something else, but I wouldn't wear it on its own.
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post #30 of 44
5/17/07 at 1:08pm
Creative Scentualization Perfect Veil
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post #31 of 44
5/17/07 at 1:20pm
Youth Dew Amber Nude arrived today Yumsters!
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post #32 of 44
5/17/07 at 2:47pm
Glad to see us back online after a long day at work, it was hard not to tell anyone what I was wearing today (pant pant pant)

So anyway, today I wore Samsara on belly and forearms and Daim Blond on throat and shoulders and backs of knees.

It's so hard to spritz just one.
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post #33 of 44
5/17/07 at 4:02pm
Off to Tai Chi in Ava Luxe Nude Musk. Will report!!
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post #34 of 44
5/17/07 at 5:56pm
sooo cold i am spraying on nuits de noho to warm up
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post #35 of 44
5/17/07 at 6:51pm
Maroussia this evening. This one is very heavy duty
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post #36 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:07pm
Sweet Oriental Dream
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post #37 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:08pm
Beautiful day here today and a lot of time spent in the garden. My peonies are about to bloom. I can't wait. Wearing Etro Heliotrope and Le Heure Bleu layered.
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post #38 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:23pm
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Originally Posted by Krysia View Post

Beautiful day here today and a lot of time spent in the garden. My peonies are about to bloom. I can't wait. Wearing Etro Heliotrope and Le Heure Bleu layered.

ooohhh I bet that is a good combo ...

I'm still on vacation, doing some work around the house. Today I tested a few things, but nothing made the lust-list. Tonight, we went to our River Festival Cajun Food Fest ... I'm wearing Chergui.
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post #39 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:27pm
SotE: Kingdom - soft salty floral drydown. yum
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post #40 of 44
5/17/07 at 7:48pm
Got my Fresh Pink Jasmine wonderful delightful fragrance, Put it on as soon as it arrived at door. And compliments. Good job Fresh ,This is my first Fresh fragrance, I smelled it at our new Sephora but got it from Beauty.com no tax free shipping and no horrid busy mall.
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Youth Dew Amber Nude is great and long lasting, A really good fragrance, Enjoy
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post #41 of 44
5/17/07 at 8:02pm
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Originally Posted by shadesofbleu View Post

ooohhh I bet that is a good combo ...

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Yes, LHeure Bleu and Heliotrope are really good together. The Heliotrope is kinda too sweet by itself and the L Heure Bleu is edgy (beautiful but something I might not wear very often). So when I put them together I get it just right.
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post #42 of 44
5/17/07 at 8:45pm
Davidoff Relax
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post #43 of 44
5/18/07 at 2:44am
Yesterday I wore Narciso Rodriguez edt.Even though it was our national day I was working.Lots of stress and ended up in a huge migraine But today I feel better
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post #44 of 44
5/18/07 at 9:57am
Sorry, wrote here by misstake!
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