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Incel: the new Hermes fragrance for men who never have anyone get close to them.

I think I might actually prefer the smell of Marmite to the smell of Axe. I wonder what the "Africa" portion of it entails?

Diorella (1972) by Edmond Roudnitska for Christian Dior

In memoriam for Basenoter "jtd", talented reviewer/writer and author of the ScentHurdle blog. The fragrance he stated would be his choice if...

I've just learned that my favorite perfume blogger died this past Wednesday. Basenoters will know him from his reviews here under the username "jtd", and his blog was ScentHurdle.com. His reviews...

That's comforting to hear, and yes, it's a substantial body of work. If someone were to coordinate and shape it, ClaireV would be a great candidate (as would you, deadidol). I know she and Conor...

I am heartbroken to learn this. He was by far my favorite perfume blogger, and his reviews were one of the original reasons I joined Basenotes.

Conor was always so gracious in replying to any...

Wasn't there a DaSilva version of this too?

Grayspoole, I feel rather guilty that after you did all that valuable yeoman's work assessing these samples, my main takeaway is that I need to get myself some Haitian and Javanese vetiver essential...

Miss Dior EDT (1947) by Jean Carles for Christian Dior

Partly as an apology to Grayspoole for dissing her beloved Fracas, but mosty because I just bought the world's most adorable mini bottle. ...

Blue Grass was my college years scent too -- Blue Grass in the daytime and Hermes Caleche at night.

It's difficult to have an opinion about something that has all the personality of a doorknob.

I've never yet tried a Sixteen92 scent, but this one sounds spectacular.

(Haha, BN translated the emojis into kanji.)

It's been so long since I had one of those that I can't remember what it feels like.

Birthday greetings to Mr. Quarry and to Caz, who I hope is scooting across the border without incident today.

RIP Prince Philip; I was really hoping he would make it to 100, and now I'm hoping...

My spring meadow is on a Provençal hillside, so I guess I'm neighbors with Kewart:

Eau du Sud by Annick Goutal

I'm a little jealous of everyone's vintage Blue Grass. The old stuff was...

But do you actually wear it, Grayspoole?

Neither of those women would constitute a persuasive source for me. But you might. :)

I've never understood who the audience for Fracas might be. Maybe drag queens with very, very severe anger management issues.

I think I'll go read some reviews just to see who actually likes it.

In my book you get Brownie points just for trying. Hell, I'm female and I couldn't pull off Fracas even if I liked it... which I most decidedly don't.

LiveJazz, are you under the impression that today is Friday? If so, you could be forgiven... I've been confusing my weekdays almost ever since the Covid Year started.

Well, at least she (and her friends) saved you a ton of money by liking the cheapest ones -- with the exception of the Amouage.

Eau Fraiche (1953) by Edmond Roudnitska for Christian Dior

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I hope you'll share some thoughts on this new entry, Hednic. I'm sure ExtremeK would like to know as well.

Another beautiful spring day here, 80F/27C, and all the windows are open in the house,...

Amazingly, they got it corrected in 24 hours after my first email to them. My missing package was delivered to me at 2pm today.

Shock!

It's so beautiful I let it fill my entire screen so I could just project myself into it. Intriguing, too -- it's such a tiny town but all the buildings in it are very, very large.



Haha! It...

Lolita Lempicka EDP (1997) by Annick Menardo for Lolita Lempicka

It's hard to believe that my bottle of this original juice is now 24 years old, but it's true. I just looked at some recent...

Jon, do you know the name of the lake and town in your photo?

It's a storybook beautiful day here: 74F perfect degrees, sunny, light spring breezes -- and most importantly, zero humidity. My...

Good point.

The one scent that invariably gets complimented/noticed every single time I wear it is Vaninger by Oliver & Co. I think it's just so unusual that it gets attention from people. No...

Def. leather but the green in that is more hay than grass.



Or Cabochard, equal to it in leather and galbanum.

Inspired by Tristan, I'm wearing the revamped version of Cabochard that came out in 2019. I do love (and own lots of) the vintage pre-1990 stuff, but decided to give this another shot and am glad I...

You're singing my song. I love every scent you mentioned.



Hurrah! He's always best when he veers back to Corsica. I still haven't tried his wine-based scent, Sante, have you?

With all the bashing that the USPS has taken in this thread, it seemed only fair that I should weigh in with an amazingly good experience I've just had with them.

I had a package due today with...

All I seem to have is a single bird who sounds exactly like a rusty hinge on a door that someone is opening ten times every minute. Not pleasant to wake up to.



I simply must get a bottle of...

The tilted "Y" (not to mention the price!) marks it as pre-1980.

It's hard to recall that we used to buy 75ml bottles for $6. But I do remember thinking it was a big splurge when I once spent...

Only the royals.

I don't use potholders, I'm strictly a floursack towel girl all the way. But those Easter colors are perfect. I just wanted to see your handiwork.

Mine too, along with narcissus. I can even handle tuberose more easily than either of them, and I really dislike tuberose.

Nobody is ever going to ask us to be their flower girl, Starblind.

Gen mai cha tea
Tom Jobim & Elis Regina -- The Waters of March
Ivoire de Balmain

Now there is a photo worth reposting. 450mls of vintage Cabochard: I'm positively puce with envy.

Snow in England! I didn't realize that happened in April.

I'm wearing only vintage Ivoire de Balmain talcum powder today, a recent acquisition. I have a mild obsession with vintage bath powders,...

No, apparently that's one recollection we don't share. Ikea quite often has Marimikko linens.

I felt the urge to wear something floral for Easter Sunday, but they're so scarce in my wardrobe that I succumbed to Mitsouko EDP.

I wish I liked Diorissimo, because it seems perfect for Easter. I...

Inee, that looks like a lovely supper, and I'm happy to see that real Norwegians own Marimekko. :)

I think my only Easter meal contribution is going be to a tray of Hot Cross Buns.

I wish I...

So happy for you and your IPO news, MikeP! Don't spend it all in one perfume shop. :)

I'm joining the samplers today, giving another chance to Castaña by Cloon Keen Atelier. I hate to give up...

Dammit, I must stop reading these threads. I spent $130 last month on samples and hated them all, so I just swore I wasn't going to buy any more for two months. And now I don't think I can resist...

We're not the only ones. People are apparently still buying (and reviewing) dumb phones.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-dumb-phone/

In fact, I'm thinking about upgrading to a better one....

How are we supposed to pronounce that?

They haven't produced anything since 2004. Do we know if it's still an active business?

There's already a fragrance that does all that: Up the Apples and Pears, by 4160 Tuesdays. Yeasty beer, polished wood, tobacco, gin, with some leftover fruits from the lunch crowd. And all so...

Well, if this pass accomplishes nothing else, it may have given us a convenient shorthand for those long-winded WACs we all love to hate: Pool Noodle Perfumes.

I'm feeling less and less...

You just have a problem with authority, Trilby. :)

^^Stealing this.

Oh, I didn't know that either! Thank you, Jean. I actually learned something today.

If you did, someone should submit you for a Ripley's award.



It's too bad Robert Altman is no longer alive; he'd be the perfect director for the movie version.

It's definitely the Australian variety. I recall that I was disappointed that there wasn't more discussion of the sandalwood crisis in India.

Good lord, just seeing it in writing is making me feel faint.

I saw it too. The Sheldrake mention jogged my memory. It was available on the MVgroup torrent documentary site with English subtitles (members only: ...

What an evocative name! I'll bet the Molinard people were kicking themselves in 1932 for not coming up with that as a followup to Habanita. It would have been perfect.

And how old do you suppose...

I changed my mind about the sync -- or rather, the weather changed it for me. I woke up to a freezing 32F degrees, and Hiris just seemed too chilly, so I opted for the warm hug of Tea for Two.
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The weather caused me to do a 180 on the Friday Sync. I was planning to do exactly like Jon, starting out with Hiris and following it up with Philosykos, but I woke up to a freezing 32f/0c degrees,...

At the rate you're going, the number of bottles you own that can't appear in your wardrobe will soon exceed the number that can.

Is your SOTD, Angel Nova, representative of those new bottles?

They look sort of anthropomorphic -- as if they had two arms, two legs, and a head.



Agreed, those are handsome bottles. ...

MasterP, with all those D'Orsays you have, you don't have Tilleul?

https://www.basenotes.net/ID26121585.html

Hmmm, Giacobetti is better represented in my wardrobe than I would have guessed: ...

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I miss the colored glass releases of the old Goutal bottles.

But I'm eager to buy one of the new design bottles when I need to replace one of mine. I think they're very handsome, and resemble...

Yes, he's shown a surprising amount of substance in that arena.

Fool me once....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ6N-sb7SVQ

I have tried it, and it does help. But not really any more than a good saline nasal spray at night.

Somehow the first day of April seemed to call for something special to wear, and it took me a long time to settle on vintage Vent Vert de Balmain. I only own two minis of this in true vintage form,...

Vent Vert (1947) by Germaine Cellier for Balmain

I only own two minis of this and have been looking for a good vintage bottle for ages. The two contemporary bottles I have aren't even worth...

I suffer from the same indecision, but Diorama usually wins. It's definitely in my permanent Top Five.



Yes, when I learned that, I had to get some vintage Fidji. It's good, but they still...

Super cute, and a tremendous bargain. And guaranteed vintage, since PanAm went out of business in 1991.



These sets are not only nostalgia for the scent, but for the days when airlines treated...

Almost enough motivation to inspire me to do some kitchen cleaning. Almost.

I actually wish I had gotten something that interesting from Tobacolor. All I experienced was two hours of a soft blonde tobacco (which was rather pleasant) and then nothing at all. Fermenting...

Diorama (1949) EDT by Edmond Roudnitska for Christian Dior

For a doctor visit and then a little shopping for supper. They have monkfish at the fishmonger, and I love it and can't often get it...

Diorama (1949) by Edmond Roudnitska for Christian Dior

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Wow. I would have bet on Moschino getting that slot before Bel Ami did. Or maybe I'm thinking of Epapsiou rating Moschino higher than BA.

Midnight in Paris

Same here, ~6 hours from Osmanthe Yunnan. Qi only lasted about 3 hours on my skin (and fabric), and that was with a pretty hefty spraying.

There was also a reformulation before the color changed, sometime in the '80s, which is easily identifiable since they changed the typeface on the bottles and boxes at the same time. The "Y" went...

ErinK, Osmanthe Yunnan became a great favorite of mine last year as I started diving into osmanthus. And you're right, it greatly benefits from a generous spray application rather than dabbing.
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No, I haven't, and I'm glad you mentioned it. I've meant for ages to get some from them, and now maybe I'll remember to actually do it.

It smells especially great in here today... Cassini, Climat, Yatagan, Chanel PM, yum. And now Tristan and Camel have made me want to get some old No. 5 Cologne*, since all I own is the EDT. I...

Adding to all the hopeful thoughts for Teardrop & family...

And Jon, possibly best Ms. Q. tribute ever. It made me go look up the original painting to check the details.

Beautiful sunny, cool...

As I put this on today, it occurred to me that it's another that suits your requirements: a chypre-cologne hybrid, light, breezy, and with enough base to give it some heft.

Ô de Lancôme

The...

Ô de Lancôme (1969) by Robert Gonnon

I recently got a newer bottle of this (green band rather than brown) and, surprise, the older is better.
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Ô de Lancôme (1969) by Robert Gonnon

Easy and breezy for a lazy Sunday.
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I'm not surprised that Goutal has been your salvation during your recovery. Their stuff is practically tailor-made to soothe.

Forgot to add: Chag Pesach Sameach to everyone celebrating Passover!

I experience this more commonly in male perfumery than in women's. I get the feeling that the industry thinks men aren't very interested in the development aspects of a scent.



It's funny, I...

Ooo, I want it. If travel and shipping ever get straightened out again...

Neil Morris, because Jon Rodgers wears it a lot

and

Santa Maria Novella

Diorama (1949) EDT by Edmond Roudnitska for Dior

Time to acknowledge spring, I suppose. As if my itchy, watery eyes and sneezing weren't sufficient.

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Azaleas are blooming all over town, so I guess spring is official. Birds singing, too, but mostly just soloists so far; no dawn chorus yet.

Diorama (1949) EDT by Edmond Roudnitska for Dior
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Neutrogena Rainbath shower gel.

*big sigh*

Your notes on Cuir de Chine have left me quite deflated, Grayspoole. I so badly want to find a photorealistic (or maybe superrealistic) representation of the southern Sweet Olive...

No heliotrope for me thank you, I'm going with incense. I like mine with vetiver and some smoke.

Lalique Encre Noir a L'Extreme
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Thank you, Master P! That lineage would make perfect sense. A very green bloodline.

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Ivoire de Balmain (1980). I wish I knew the name of the creator of this perfume.

Inspired by Jardanel's revived thread on galbanum:


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Believe me, it won't be the same. Fortunately, "Y" is not hard to find in vintage form and for virtually the same price as the new. Special mention to the little 1-ounce bottles of bath & body...

More thanks to the thread reviver! I think galbanum might be my very favorite note in all of perfumery, along with vetiver, and the OP here writes beautifully about it. Virtually every scent...