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What Perfume Are You Wearing Today?
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(Dior) Oud ispahan today!
A lovely oriental fragrance.
A lovely oriental fragrance.
I started off with a sample this morning: Les Parfums de Rosine Rose Praline. It opened very sweet, but got less sweet as it developed, and I got a blend of rose, tea, and some very delicate hint of spice. Overall, very well made and good quality. I will look into sampling the rest of the line at some point. I transitioned to Portrait of a Lady for the evening.
@880, let us know your thoughts about the Ormonde Jayne. @Christofle, I believe Luckyscent carries this line (Ormonde Jayne).
@880, let us know your thoughts about the Ormonde Jayne. @Christofle, I believe Luckyscent carries this line (Ormonde Jayne).
I agree about the tiny dabber samples. I wonder why they don't offer larger spray samples. However, I have noticed that some of my decanted spray samples evaporate quite fast compared to the non-spray versions. Sometimes, I like to hang on to a sample and try it out in a different season but have been disappointed to find them evaporating when I get back to them in a few months. However, I've noticed that this has happened to me only with decanted spray samples, not so much with manufacturer's carded spray samples.
I have always loved Guerlain, especially the classics!
Such legendary perfumes and such variety and quality! And after the restrictions on oakmoss and other ingredients, they are one of the few houses that still make the effort to keep their classics as close to the original as possible. I also have and enjoy a fair amount of their newer releases as well, but their classics are just wonderful.
my sample of Ta’If is older, but my experience today was super well blended, Green opening, almost unisex, slightly creamy, slightly powdery dry rose With a touch of gourmand sweetness from dates at the end. beautiful, classic and easily unisex. As compared to POAL, which I love, (I love all of Dominique Ropion) Taif is far less incense patchouli amber bright. It’s also totally unlike the gorgeous white burgundy rose (that’s how I think of the high notes) in Une Rose. And so perhaps closer to the old blended Voleur de roses (Love the first release Almiranse) or the bargain perles du Lalique.
im trying to recall middle eastern roses and thinking that I prefer one of the Amouage men Official sampler Vials from a while back, but that one was darker, richer and more feminine. . . The pink peppercorns note in Taif is not as predominant as (not sure of the spelling a sniff of Neela Vermeer rose long ago. Taif is not as sweet or gourmand as any of Andy Tauers roses or one of the creed roses (maybe the creed was called Bulgarian rose. Memory of scents is not quite what it used t be. . .
but it was surprisingly tenacious and a little goes a long way.
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Guerlain was one of the first houses to create a synthetic oak moss, but I still prefer collecting vintage Dead stock extrait even with the risks of oxidization etc.I have always loved Guerlain, especially the classics!
I also have and enjoy a fair amount of their newer releases as well, but their classics are just wonderful.
This isn’t the greatest comment on it, but it’s the first one I saw right now
Oakmoss - The Perfume Society
Oakmoss is among perfumers’ most beloved ingredients: an essential element of fragrances within the chypre family (which you can read more about here), in partnership with bergamot: it ‘anchors’ volatile notes. Its more romantic French name is ‘mousse de chêne, but this tight-curled plant –...
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