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This next bit is the best and most fun bit of a game. Crunching on the actual ingredients is a much a test of our own noses as to understand where to be constructive from. I shall be sure to sit down...

Over three years later, I've rediscovered this thread by a random search. It is still a fabulous thread because it is helpful, and worth playing with building amber accords because they are a good...

It might be a fun project to do together online. To have a little carrot play on here one day and share our experiments. I've always found it a difficult note.



I found it somewhere. When I...

Oh my goodness that must be well travelled now. One of the others came to me via Jamaica??? Weird times. Try the flat letter thing PK suggests. It needs very slim vials, preferably plastic thin ones...

How funny. I've only just seen this post. I drew that scruffy honeycomb diagram PK posted in post 2, yonks ago. Most probably from something I found. Thats a very smart update indeed Julian.

I'm still trying to decide and it's proving really difficult because there are many different criteria to think by. Back soon with that.

We can talk within spoilers but I would probably say that once Paul and his trusty aide have had a good sniff then we don't need the spoiler hides anymore, and can clean them off within edits to make...

There is your wardrobe as a facility. Look at the top right of your profile and under each fragrance.

Each person here has one and it's up to them to add their own fragrances. It will count for...

Now the funs really starts. I can dig out all your perfumers notes and see if written expression is actually something that starts with a B, ends in a T and is something to do with male cows.

Overall and so far. If many of you guys are beginners, and even if not, the overall standard of the submissions is extremely high. Obviously there will be many tweaks and amends but that is the whole...

Country Lake

Appearance dark amber with sticky dark bits in

What a superb start. An initial nose wrinkling, fat ripe bergamot zest skin popping its rich citric pustules, savoury peppery notes,...

No worries. I'm more sorry on your behalf for those that haven't got where they're meant to be. There are some tiny 0.2ml vials that one can get if you still want to try. They're more like centrifuge...

Billowmist

Appearance pale, pale yellow

Wow. A massive evergreen sort of minty moss green wallop. This has a creamy quality like eating a fruity mint choc ice-cream on the beach.

On paper...

Achooo.. and I thought I was drunk!!!!!

Miami 1985

Firstly, the packaging is fabulous. Nice job.



Appearance mid yellow

A first shot of fruity, well blended, almost alcoholic punch. Very nice and we already feel naughty. What...

Manzanita

Appearance clear

Huge floral musky blast to begin with. Softer flowers like lily of the valley and lavender/lilac violet type, not in your face loud at all. Almost like a sea wind...

Inchydoney

Appearance, very pale yellow

An instantly satisfying and really quite powerful, musky hit of aromatic salty seabreeze, carrying wildflower blossoms and sandy grasses. This really is...

Sundark



Soft citrussy powdery freshness at the very first spray and a nice initial professional style blast. There is a woodsy quality too with a musky feel and an almost cucumbery coolness....

This is the sort of perfume you hanker to be able to put on again. It's really, really lovely on my skin and to my perfume taste. I had fun with this.

I must do some proper work today so i'll type...

The Breath of Riviera

Appearance dark amber

A wonderful jumble of liquid gold spices, flowers and woodsy notes poured out onto my hand. Like a wonderful liquid spice cupboard. Softened by the...

Paradise beach

Appearance clear

I do have to come clean and admit that I didn't dare even try this for ages. When it arrived, I opened it, and even without even spraying any, the whole perfume...

Steaming ahead with my typing today.... These are scruffily written on all sorts of papers and phone notes so it takes some assembly and another wearing to make sense of them. Order is not my middle...

L'eau des Sirènes

Appearance straw like pale, pale yellow

This is a massive 3d perfume. Huge and embracing white jasmine flowers in buckets. Showering ones senses in big fat indolic sambac...

Quiet coast



Appearance clear

This is doing that perfume 'white noise' thing and it's a really hard one to find the notes inside. I've worn this countless times to try.

The opening is a...

Two more then I really must get on with some work. Loving the distraction. I'll be back with more as decipher my scrappy notes written everywhere.

Corniche



Appearance dark amber and thick...

No more tonight. It's got too late. I will continue tomorrow.

Ourmess Untitled


Appearance clear

I tried looking for fruits then flowers then woods etc but this perfume isn't like that. it's more a perfume story so I'll tell it how I smell it.

Fresh...

This packaging is adorable. I do love a good bit of graphics being an ex graphic designer.

Mare Nectaris

Appearance yellow and slightly oily.

This is a huge round and lovely gentle perfume....

OK sorry guys, it has taken a long time but we're getting there. First of more to come when I've typed them up.

Sexy Crush

On skin and on paper, this opens with a bright, soft cirrus burst...

Hooray another parcel today. Ourmess gets the prize for the most secure packaging. i could barely get in. I'm wearing that today.

I haven't wanted to comment on each perfume like Bavard has until...

I was happily wearing Sundark yesterday. I could still smell it a tiny bit as I went to sleep.

Today I am enjoying wearing Quiet Coast.

I want to give each one a few wearings in proper life...

No matter, it was fun.

Something to consider is to pre-dilute your ingredients (or at least a small working bottle of ingredient) before even starting any blending to somewhere near an edt...

Two more here today.

Jolieo, yours arrived just as I was rushing off to look after dad, so I opened it hastily without reading anything and bunged some on my hand.... then was in my car for 40...

Hahaha.... let me play that one.

I've just received Playa Azahar in the post. I'm billowing scent throughout the house. What fun.

And Sundark has arrived too.....

...... and Geco's Quiet Coast


I'll list all that have...

Inchydoney from Marlaney has just arrived and I'm sporting that on my left wrist. I'm off to look after dad today so will have a happy day sniffing this at the same time.

I like to wear these...

Pavomi, your L'EAU DES SIRÈNES has just arrived and I'm wearing that on my left wrist. Wonderful presentation and a safe way of posting. No leaks.

Its bonanza time here. A very perfectly packaged parcel has just arrived.

The breath of Riviera from bluescent

Straight on the skin as I'm about to go on a long journey today. I shall enjoy...

The absolute best stuff to mail perfumes IMO with is the white plumbers leak tape. Wrap it around all open edges. It is incredibly cheap, widely available, doesn't stick to anything and is amazingly...

Cool. That was fast then.

Ourmess, yours is currently in transit as I can see from the tracking.

Your item has arrived at a facility at 6:36 am on July 16, 2020 in JAMAICA NY INTERNATIONAL...

More perfumes have arrived... just opening some.

Sexycrush. Three vials?

Manzanita

and Mare Nectaris

Oh goodness. How exciting.

Two more arrived safely this morning.
Billowmist and Maimi 1985

I’m wearing the Miami first just because I opened it first.

Loving this game. I’m not going to rush having an opinion. Xx

Ooooooh I can't wait. I love smelly games.

I shan't do anything I'm not supposed to.... but I can smell it....

It's almost like getting a present in the post for an unbirthday!!!

... and my daughter is wearing it too. Funny how...

It did leak a bit and I'm surprised they didn't smell something and stop the parcel!!!

I've just received another scent. Am I allowed to say it's name yet?

Edit.... and it's Xii's entry.

I shall put it on now and smell it without knowing anything the first time.

For all those who are stalling.... Don't anyone get disheartened, even if you think your perfume hasn't got or isn't getting to where you intend it to go. Although it's quite a big thing to open your...

Hey peeps..... I have a lovely sample here. I'm surrounded in a delightful whiff and await instructions on how to proceed.

I like to wear a perfume for a day or so with no constraints. Just to...

Every time you buy another bottle it will take you in theory twice as long to be able to wear the one you just bought and fell in love with last time. Set a yearly rotation chart and see how often...

Jolieo has asked me to come here to be a judge. Very happy to do so if you'd like me to... but...

1) Bear in mind my nose is very, very rusty, as I've been completely away from perfume whilst I...

Thank you.

Another thing is not to judge your perfume too soon after it's been made. Let it sit and return to it later, after a week or two, with a fresh nose. The molecules like to play on their...

Hello lovely smelly peeps. I have been asked a question about what angle to approach a new perfume with by PM, and was going to answer it there, but thought it might be more useful here in order to...

Coffee appeals to me for first thing in the morning. So I shall go with Sultan Pashas attar, Cafe Ambre. I could eat this.

Haha. I called our dog after him. Otis.

Maurice made 24 Faubourg too. That makes so much sense as I wore that for years. I'd never made the connection.



Oh the beautiful coloured fags. I...

Oooh me too. Copying two of you in K de Krizia. I have a tiny mini of that one and love it.

I actually used to really use a bejewelled long black cigarette holder a very long time ago. We used to...

You know I would only do this for you guys.... I braved the cobwebs in the long abandoned perfume den and reached for the first bottle in the Avon section...

107956 107957 107955

Its actually...

Well hello lovely smelly peeps. What a nice synch day to re-emerge as the hippy I used to be. The first day to myself for absolutely years it seems.
So I shall wear Mary Quant a.m. for a new start...

I've been researching this too for the summer months. All of the following is newly gleaned internet knowledge, so feel free to correct it.

Deet seems to be considered the most effective but is...

Holy Water is a rather special one IMO

Hahaha. You've just absolutely made my day/week/life with these comments.

Welcome to the merry-go-round. It smells lovely in here.

I'm popping on some new Diorling. Not so much because it's fizzy but because it has an aspirin note for the after fizz. Only half relevant.

I know exactly the smell you mean. New plastic pants for babies always smelled of it too. I suspect synthetic Vanillin.

L'Humidor for me then. Can't get any more artisan/indy than ones own mud puddles...

Missed you all. It smells nicer in here....

So with you on this.

I still love that play dough smell... no blushing and no shame at all!!!!

Hello dear peeps, I haven't been here in a long while, but time is beginning to be my own again in part.

I got asked an interesting question yesterday on my FB page about how to amuse younger...

I've missed you all for eons and eons...... but I'm still kicking....

So what better way to 'spring' back into action and play with you all, than with...

Green and chilly, mossy earthed...

Adding a solvent to an oil or dpg based perfume will alter the scent from where the designer has intended because the rate of its evaporation will be different. Oils hug the skin and solvents...

That is a really sweet thing to say. I've been offline for ages because we're 100% looking after my mum who is now nearly helpless with extreme stage 4/5 Parkinsons. She is going to stay in a nursing...

I've just applied pure undiluted rose otto to one hand and I think I'm dying......

...of pleasure

Of course it's not safe. Nothing is safe. Living life to the full isn't safe.

Eating too...

Hi, sorry too for not responding sooner. My mum has parkinson's so my sister and I are on full time 24 hr care duties. I haven't been here lately.

I suggest looking on the good scents guide demo...

Hello dear peeps, I must have sensed something, as it's most unusual these days that I do join in. Just been far too busy with parental care to do any perfumery for a long while. Nice to be here.
...

I made up quite a number of those old formula and they were along the right lines ishy-ishy-ish. Worth making them up though for learning purposes. I wonder if they will have matured into better...

Brilliant idea. x

My choice for you so far, is:-

Lorenzo Villoresi Firenze, Uomo

Krizia Uomo

possibly Balenciaga Ho Hang

Pay for a bidding programme whilst you're asleep, or even all the time. It costs a tiny bit but it's totally fair and you bid your highest pre-decided price. It does the rest without stress by being...

I have worn an old fashioned one sometimes..... and I keep a fleecy blanket by the top of the pillow to pull over the head... but only because my room is so cold and draughty. Not for beauty reasons...

Interesting. I shall make a point of smelling it when it flowers to see what ingredient profiles are nearest.

Weigh what doesn't get dissolved, bearing in mind it has some of the alcohol in it. But the % is industry standard and the solutions will all be slightly different anyway as it's natural. It depends...

Depends where you are in the world. Bung your flag on your profile and that'll help people help you better.

All my tinctures have been made in the dark and they are aging beautifully but many are up to and over five years old now. I left them a year on the substrate and then let them mature very slowly in...

I've done double enfleurage before and it has worked to a nominal degree. The carrier oil will not be 'emptied' however. What has been put in there likes being in there and the PA will have to beg...

The short-lived Peony in my garden. I can never smell it for long enough to copy it.

Then the lilac which I have spent much time trying to capture. It was captured best by putting the fresh...

Hello fellow DIYers. Missed you all. Just been too busy for perfumes. I made up this perfume as one of the first 'proper' tasks when I first began. I was using that appell formula. It makes a very...

Doesn't look like ambergris at all to me at first glance I'm afraid. Your photo needs to be further away to see much better but ambergris isn't usually greasy looking. Break a bit off and stick a hot...

Thank you. That is the perfect information. Perhaps this special receptor could be deceived, or even overridden by information getting to the brain of a similar nature. Then maybe the nose/brain...

The Nasematto style certainly seems to fit the bill here.

OP, you don't say whether you are male or female. Do you have any preference for scents already or does this disorder prevent that as...

I woke up thismorning having obviously had the mind working overnight. Gardenia is the flower in mind. It has a really deep meaty aroma of its own. Jasmine sambac also with indole. Rose working with...

Norimbanol is able to be used at surprisingly low thresholds to be perceived as quite strong, so maybe there is a case for attempting a body spray with an incredibly nano dilute amount to see if that...

I shall apply my mind to this again anon. I was a graphic designer in my pre child life so that part is easy but the computer bit isn't for me. I'd need a techie.

I found it again here...

http://www.basenotes.net/features/61-When-is-it-simply-too-much

Looks a rather modest collection to me.... hmmmm

I was in a self created citrus, lavender water in homage to this perfume

Wiener Lieblingsduft by JB Filz

I'll pack you another. It doesn't matter if you end up with two. You can give one away on here.

The UK ones should have been there the next day. If you haven't got yours yet, then I can just send another.




Sort of...... Examine the sequence. (but don't tell on here yet if you guess).
...

What a lovely idea to suggest pairings..... I love it

I wonder if you know where I've taken you to....

He had a jacket like this. I can't find a real pic of it. This was just a costume sketch for it. The real one had longer tassels. My teenage heart was so set on one but it never happened. I'm sure I...

I was so enraptured with Shatner when he was in star trek.

Before that it was Trampas... I hankered for a suede tasselled jacket just like his.

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Of course, because they are masters of the skill. Although personally I am not fond of that particular signature accord on my own skin. A few of them work on me, but it depends if ones skin gets on...

I like this question.

Dynamism for me is when all the elements within a perfume have a highly strung perfect balance to create an overall smooth smelling harmony with no pockets, gaps, lunges or...