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I know there are a few of us on BT that are fragrance addicts, so I thought it would be nice to have a dedicated place where we can share our thoughts.
This is not to take away from the lovely What Are You Wearing Today, Fragrance Edition thread, but more a place to post longer reviews, chat about new brands or releases, and just shoot the breeze on anything good and smelly 🙂
For me, I recently acquired 2 new decants that I've been anxiously awaiting. Ever since Lachaton mentioned that MMM was releasing a new scent called By The Fireplace I've been itching to get my hands on it. My decant arrived yesterday, so I'm looking forward to marinating in it this weekend. Secondly, I recently picked up a tiny sample of Shiseido Nombre Noir. Supposedly it is one of the most expensive failures in perfume history - made by Serge Lutens for Shiseido back in the 80s. Of course, with a backstory like that, I was dying to get a sniff 😄
What's new on your scent radar? Do tell!
what a dream.
My next stop was Ex Nihilo. EN is a French niche perfumer. They have a pretty interesting concept. They have a line of 12 scents currently, but they also offer customization of their scents.
I ended up purchasing one of their 5 piece travel sets, which was a surprisingly good value. You got 5 0.25oz vials of their perfume, and you could choose whatever combination of scents you liked to make up those 5 (i.e. you could get 5 of the same, or 5 different, or multiples of a few, etc)
Overall, this was another great experience and I'd highly recommend this boutique, too. The staff were very attentive and friendly, and spent well over an hour with me discussing their whole line.
Thanks!
I recently received a sample of Sweet Morphine and I think I am in love! I was looking to call Saks in TO to see if they have the travel set luckyscent has online.
Ooh, @ChristalM let me know what they say!
I haven't decided yet if I'm going to customize a bottle of any of the travel size ones I brought back, but SM was one of the ones I picked 😉
Sorry but Saks do not have the travel set with SM 😞 I might get it from Luckyscent. Not sure I am ready to spring for the full bottle just yet...
Thanks for letting me know @ChristalM! That's too bad. 😞
I wonder if the Luckyscent one lets you customize the set like I was able to at their boutique?
Finally had a moment to put together my thoughts about the perfume shopping/experiences I had while I was over in Europe, so I figured I'd share them here.
First up, Serge Lutens Palais Royale:
The Palais Royale store is like some sort of dark, gothic atelier. It was beautiful, but sort of maudlin with all its moody lighting and abundance of royal purple accents. It's also within a very quiet courtyard set back from the street, so you'd never know it was there if you weren't looking for it. I had a lot of fun chatting with the one woman who was working the store that morning, and we spent close to half an hour discussing favorites and trying on new scents. They also had the entire beauty line available, but I've never heard anything good about it, and it was much pricier than I wanted to spend on cosmetics. Overall, I would highly recommend any SL fan to make a pilgrimage if they are ever in Paris.
I came home with a bottle of their newest scent, Bapteme du Feu which is a different take on gingerbread than their other ginger-based scent, 5 O'Clock Au Gingembre. Bapteme is an intoxicating scent, with notes of gingerbread, gunpowder, osmanthus, woods, mandarin and castoreum. I've worn it a few times since I got it, but am not ready to put my impressions of it down just yet. I will say that it works a lot better on me than 5 does, which I wanted to love so badly, but smells so terrible on.
Another new JHAG Luxury Collection scent 'White Spirit'
Picked up a sample of Orchid Soleil yesterday from my SA yesterday. This one is interesting. I've only had it on a few minutes. I can smell the tuberose, but there is a spicy gourmand aspect as well. It initially smelled coconutty, but that isn't a note. Maybe the combo of the chestnut and vanilla? Or "whipped cream?"
rice notes in fragrances is blooooowing my miiiiind !
(have etat libre d'orange 'putain des palaces' and 'fils de dieu' on two separate arms right now.)
Loooooooooooooove rice notes.
I wish they came up more often! I feel like you and I were discussing Black Opium Nuit Blanche because of rice notes; I ended up trying it at duty free in the airport and got no rice notes at all 😞
So what is this Juliette Has A Gun I keep hearing about? I don't think I've ever seen it at my local Sephora. Not that I need more fragrances to get hooked on!
I typically like anything spicy, sharp, and clean although I've recently fallen for Prada Candy. I bought the rollerball first but I returned it because the scent was so weak. Unfortunately, the full-size spray isn't much better. After a few minutes it's pretty much disappeared. All my other fragrances have all-day staying power, I don't get it.
JHAG is a French niche perfume brand.
they have a line of about 12-14 scents, 3 or 4 of which are a 'luxury' line.
notes they commonly use are rose and oud
they became more well known because of the not a perfume scent because it is based on ISO super e which sort of doesn't smell like anything at all.
I had a sample of Juliette Has A Gun- Not a perfume (I think that's what it's called?)...I got complimented on it and loved it so much!! I have to bite the bullet and get it ..I love Prada Candy too!
Also, the giant Champs Elysees Sephora had a new Juliette Has A Gun scent in their luxury line.
Notes for the woody oriental include licorice, orchid, tonka bean, papyrus wood, cedar, patchouli and gaia
oh wonder went/if we will get this! Thanks for the pics @Mochapj hoping you are enjoying yourself and finding plenty of goodies!!!
@veronika23 I have my doubts - I don't think we've gotten any of the 'luxury' line at Sephora (at least in Canada)
I've bought a few of the 10ml bottles from them direct.
having a great time, thank you! I went to etat libre today!
Thanks for the info @Mochapj! Hope you enjoyed Etat Libre and you'll share with us all your goodies when you come back!
@veronika23 there seems to be hope yet that we might see the new JHAG scent in Canada.
I was at a store on the weekend and they had 2 of the 'luxury' line scents, which is definitely new to the display 🙂