What are you wearing, Fragrance edition!

[MikuNerd65]

I'm one of those gals that are obsessed with fragrances and have about around 50 60 70 80 and still collecting...(if you want to call it that.) So I would like to know what are you wearing today?

I'm wearing Obsession...(hahaha kinda fits this thread, doesn't it? :D)

[Titian06]

I love sample/discovery sets, @angelwings05 ! 💖💖💖

BTW, if you type the @ sign, a list of recent users in the thread will pop up.  Select the person whose post you are replying to.  That person will then receive a notification of your reply.  (I had a notification for the reply above yours; otherwise, I wouldn't have known. 😥 )

[makeitup305]

@Titian06 the 402 sounds lovely! Sorry the first one didn't work out for you!

[Titian06]

It is, @makeitup305 ! 🥰

[caitbird]

Today's scent of the day is TOM FORD Cafe Rose Eau de Parfum Fragrance with Ylang Ylang & Coffee . I just picked up the travel spray from Ulta, so I'm working on using up the sample vial I have to make room in my collection. I find it a lovely warm, confident scent, a nice mood-booster for a cold, snowy day like today.

screenshot via Fragrantica

Fragrance type: Oriental Floral

Top notes: Turkish Rose, Coffee

Middle notes: Bulgarian Rose, Patchouli, Cardamom, Coriander, Ylang-Ylang

Base notes: Frankincense, Sandalwood.

[Titian06]

This does sound lovely for colder months, @caitbird !  Enjoy! 🙂

[alinaisthebest]

Lol

[CookieGirl1]

I was SO excited when I found out that Kerastase was releasing a perfume based on their Kérastase Gloss Absolu Glaze Drops Anti-Frizz Hair Oil 1.52 oz / 45 mL and I managed to hunt it down and purchase it.

I've worn it several times and it smells very good but it lasts all of 15 minutes on me before it vanishes into thin air--disappointing to say the least.  If I had it to do over again I wouldn't purchase it so I'll enjoy my bottle that I have, 15 minutes at a time 🙄.

[Titian06]

How disappointing, @CookieGirl1 ! 😖  Your optimistic view for the rest of the bottle is wonderful.  Love your nail polish! 💚

[Samtian]

@CookieGirl1 Oh that is such a bummer!

[caitbird]

@CookieGirl1  aww man, that is a bummer 😞 sorry it was disappointing! (love your nail polish btw!)

[Titian06]

Today I wore Bon Parfumeur 801.  This has a light grapefruit, citrus, and woody (forest-like) scent.  Although I like citrusy/woody scents, this one is not particularly impressive.

Top:  Ivy, Grapefruit, Citron, Italian Mandarin

Middle:  Sea Notes, Rosemary, Pink Pepper, Nutmeg

Base:  Cypress, Cedar, White Musk

[caitbird]

@Titian06  I do like a nice citrusy/woody scent, too bad this one wasn't that special.

[Samtian]

@Titian06 It has notes that I like and don't like, doesn't sound impressive to me either, sorry about that. 

[Samtian]

My fragrance for this week was 1270 by Frapin. 

Not my photo

From Luckyscent-

Gender

Unisex

Concentration

Eau de Parfum

Country

France

Released

2010

Perfumers

Sidonie Lancesseur, Jérome Epinette

Fragrance Notes

• Candied Orange, 
• Cocoa, 
• Coffee, 
• Exotic Woods, 
• Hazelnut, 
• Leather, 
• Nut, 
• Pepper, 
• Prune, 
• Raisin, 
• Spice, 
• Vanilla, 
• Vine Flowers, 
• White Honey, 
• Woods

Fragrance Style

• Boozy, 
• Exotic, 
• Fruity, 
• Gourmand, 
• Spicy

The Scoop

Named for the year the Frapin family established itself in the Cognac region of France (and continues to make cognac to this day), 1270 was created by Beatrice Cointreau, great granddaughter of Pierre Frapin. Together with Frapin's Cellar Master, she sought to create a noble fragrance full of the scents surrounding the creation of cognac. 1270 is dry, rich, velvety and smooth. The flowers of the once-proud Folle Blanche (a grape nearly extinct from the region), the vineyard grass, the wine warehouse, the rich smell of damp earth in the cellars, the wood of new casks, the loamy smell of humus where the ancestral cognacs are stored– all these notes can be detected in 1270. Gorgeous is putting it mildly... this scent defies flowery prose. A true masterpiece.

My thoughts- 1/5.  A very strong, I mean very headache inducing strong start of coffee, hazelnut, cocoa, prunes and spices. Shortly leather joins in. 3 minutes in the strength in scent drops but it's still a headache inducing power. The scoop mentions what they wanted it to smell like and that is very very accurate. Which is not for me. Wear time was less than 8 hours. 

[caitbird]

@Samtian  wow, this sounds like a pretty intense scent...sorry it gave you a headache!

[Samtian]

@caitbird Thank you, it definitely was. 

[Titian06]

@Samtian - I'm sorry you got a headache!  Ironically, as I read the notes, before reading your review, I thought, "no way, this is a migraine waiting to happen!"  Then I read your review. 😅  Why do some perfumiers think more is better?

[Samtian]

@Titian06 Haha that made me laugh! No idea why they do that. 

[Titian06]

I've worn my three new fragrances twice each:

Phlur Cherry Stem.  This has a gorgeous Bing cherry; brandy; sweet, but not too sweet; leather; woody mix.  This was a blind buy.  I am sooo not disappointed!

Top:  Black cherry, brandy, orange

Middle:  Sugar, plum, jasmine, red freesia

Base:  Leather, ebony, caramel

The 7 Virtues Cherry Ambition.  This is a lovely Marachino cherry, sweet, musky mix.  I tested this in store and really liked it, as I do most The 7 Virtues fragrances.  This and Cherry Stem are two different scents--do you want light and sweet or heavier and boozier?  I love both!

Top:  Cherry, pink pepper, marshmallow, mandarin orange

Middle:  Saffron, cherry blossom, osmanthus, orris

Base:  Frankincense, vanilla, amber, guaiac wood, musk

Nette Lemon Puff.  I cannot smell this one, not even after a shower.  Not one little passing whiff.  I am so disappointed.  This was a blind buy.  I'm going to try layering.

Top:  Lemon, bergamot

Middle:  Jasmine sambac, bitter almond, vanilla, merangue

Base:  Sandalwood

[Samtian]

@Titian06 Well that's a bummer about the Nette, that sounds amazing!

[Titian06]

@Samtian - I don't usually blind buy, but the notes sounded so good! 🍋