March Blind Sniff: Those Moody Blues - Page 6

It is my second Blind Sniff hosting together with darkdreams, and we seem to work fine together -- I PM her my general idea, she develops it a little bit, it gives me grounds to elaborate, etc. It does not mean that we like the same scents, just listen to her as she is going to be cussing and cursing sniffing Sample C -- if she chooses so -- but she shapes up my strategies and I criticize her tactics. It is not an argument, it is normally a discussion.

Pictures -- I just gave DD the set of fragrance notes and some personal remarks, like I share with you in our reveal posts. She sends me a picture. I say "It is sort of fits, but are there more?" I do not even have to tell her what is wrong with the picture I am looking at -- she says "I know what you mean, but good pictures are hard to come by". I say "OK, this will work, but do they have something similar in a lighter color?" And we continue looking. She somehow knows what I want.

Two years ago I was a sniffer in a Blind Sniff where co-host -- when PMed -- would say "I am so busy, do not bother me" and the host would show up for a couple of hours only. This time darkdreams was an observer and she -- together with Riannon and Musse -- would PM me with their thoughts and clues.

DD how are the pictures for C coming?

I will write a reveal post right now.

You know what is the activity I have been doing most today? Yes, looking at the white screen between the actual screens changing, with all Refresh function in use.

Anyhow, besides our actual three sniffers and Warum, nobody was able to submit a correct guess for Sample B.

It is Revlon Moon Drops (1970), USA, nose unknown. Our mass market, drug store cheapie, going in the cologne form for $150.00 on the eBay. I told you already how I got mine and how much I paid for it. Mine is 1 oz of pure perfume, now it is about 75% of the bottle.

It is old. It is not in the pristine condition and the top notes are indistinguishable -- citrus and aldehydes die young, so did peach and raspberry in mine, I suspect.

T: Aldehydes, gardenia, peach, bergamot, raspberry;
H: Lily of the valley, rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, carnation, orris, honey, tuberose;
B: Sandalwood, musk, cedarwood, moss, styrax, benzoin, amber.

The reviews are non existent. However, I saw Moon Drops compared to EL Estee Supercologne in some, I jumped up at Thalia's mentioning EL other fragrances. Despite the oakmoss, it is not a chypre -- like our sniffers have noted -- it is a full bodied aldehydic floral with lush woody drydown. It is old school and decadent. Discontinued, hard to find. Long Lost Perfumes had an attempt of reviving this with Irma Shorrell's Luna Rain, but since it was not very similar -- people were not buying it and it was discontinued again. Here is quite a recent review of Moon Drops solid that I liked, but our was liquid and perfume:

http://yesterdaysperfume.typepad.com...vlon-1970.html

No, I do not write this linked blog. I do not write a blog at all. Thanks for encouraging me to shout to the world in your PMs.

The modern and more known product under the name Moon Drops is Revlon lipstick which comes in a variety of colors and both matte and pearlescent finishes.

And no, I do not have a Haarmann-Reimer book at home. I saw the blogger using it. Warum was able to come up with this same blog post by typing "Haarmann Reimer 70's perfume" and a few notes into the Google search box.

NB (suggestions):
Thalia and Aiona -- check your local second hand shops more often;
hilaryjane - wonderful nose, too many words at the same time. Space them so that we can swallow, please, every now and then.
me -- be kinder to people, more patient -- less sarcastic;
darkdreams -- how are Round C pictures?
All -- brush up on our resins.

Thank you, I have answered this last PM.

It must go on! We will be sniffing Sample C -- a designer fragrance -- in a bit, 4 pm Cambridge time. 6 pm yours?

Thank you, DD. We both had hard time choosing a picture for this round and were debating back and forth between about 14 possible candidates, and finally decided on this one -- modern and laconic.

OK, here we go. Happy Clean Mirrors Day -- not really a national holiday, although it should be.

We are sniffing Sample C, a Designer Fragrance.

CA oversleeping as usual, but what prevents London from posting, I wonder?

I will go smoke.

Sorry to all our observers, something did not work. I know I miscalculated London time yesterday, but I corrected my mistake as soon as I figured it out.

I guess I will go up in smokes.

Do please, Aiona, seems you are the only sniffer present.

And in one of the PanteneProVs I am on right now, too.

What type of smell? More floral or more aquatic in your White Rain?

More floral after about one hour. Any particular florals sticking out at you? (Remember yesterday -- there is ROSE in everything?)

So, we got: light blue liquid, smells like synthetic cucumber/melon and then like flowers -- overall synthetic/shampooey feeling.
Designer Scent.

So far, NONE of the official notes have been identified correctly.

You are lucky to have had a sambac bush back home. I like its smell.

No to rose, magnolia, peony.


I know it is hard when you are all by yourself, but maybe our observers have any questions?

No to peach or apricot.

Let's wait, perhaps. another 10-15 minutes and then log back in every once in a while. What do you say, Aiona and Darkdreams?

Disregard my question in the previous post.

Please let me step out for another quick one?

hilaryjane, nice to see you. Please read a minute, OK? I will be back.

Already then, I know I have to quit -- not because of health, but because it is expensive.

So far so good, there is one note mentioned in #339, which is present in the official set of notes.

But: I know one aquatic fruity floral done in blue -- Salvador Dali Laguna. Is this it?

Warum, warum nicht?

Lily of the valley=NO

I am familiar with EA Mediterranean, it is floral woody musk with magnolia, so C can't be it.

Hi Warum.

Freesia=NO (you have not met the "right" freesia yet, W. However I agree it is often used in shampoos)

#339 has one floral identified correctly among C's notes.

Hyacinth=yes (from ##339 and 356)

Lotus=no
Osmanthus=no