Scent/Fragrance of the Day thread - Page 906

Pre-shower: Lys Fume
SOTD: M/Mink

If you want weird & woodsy, I'd recommend Slumberhouse Norne.

we were? i can't remember seeing YY mentioned around here.

I didn't go back and check to make sure, but I'm pretty sure at least one of the regulars here was a big fan of the YY scents. Maybe that person or those persons will step forward and show me not to be a liar.

I like YYPH. I had a full bottle and sold it because I didn't like that style of gourmand fougere enough to hang onto it in the face of rising demand and prices for bottles. I've since regretted that I didn't hang onto a decant at least because I've gotten to like the style a bit more. From what I can tell though, I think I prefer New Haarlem or A*Men, but I'd have to smell them side by side to be sure and I've never had all three at one time.

Man, I was going to say I thought it was Baron but I didn't want to look like an idiot if I was wrong! (And I was too lazy to use the search function to find out.)

Hermès Équipage Original Forumla.

Today: Kolnisch Juchten. I did it up today and put the remaining amount on. It was a little different—it went on slightly smokier, and I could detect a faint orang-ish note in the opening (lasting into the dry down) and the soapiness is still there (I love that...). I only wish it had more sillage; I could barely smell it walking around outside today.

L'incandescence, do you know if there is a significant difference between the vintage Farina Gegenuber Kolnisch Juchten (the decant I have), and the newer Parfums Regence? I'm interested in purchasing a FB, and I want to make sure I am getting the right one...

^^ HORNS is going to know more about that than I will. I don't want to say something misleading, so I'll leave it to others.

To be honest, I think a lot of the regulars here are better informed about fragrances in the leather genre than I am--for example, people like Baron, Thomas, Rach, etc. (It's a genre I enjoy and have some opinions about, but I'm better informed about other genres.)

I don't know anything about KJ, never smelled it (though I've wanted to for years) and didn't know there was a previous iteration. Does anyone know what the store in San Francisco charges for a bottle?

There's a story of Kolnisch Juchten that may very well be a myth for all I know (as I suspect many of Creed's stories are, for example). It's supposed to be a couple hundred years old, made first by Farina (I think?), the company that made the famous Koelnischwasser. At some unknown point in history, Parfums Regence started selling it.

Thanks, L'Inc. Anybody else have any insight on this?


Well, I don't know about SF, but I found an ebay auction of the Parfums Regence version (an EDT) going for $129.99 (BIN) for 100 ml. I was thinking of bidding on it, but wasn't sure it was the right one. (Honestly, the box and printing looks a little sketchy—like the name's been rubber-stamped on. My decant from Surrender to Chance is the "Farina Gegenuber Vintage Kolnisch Juchten Cologne" version, and it has great, classic design, so I'm a little baffled...)

I'm going to need to do more research, I think...

If you're buying a full bottle of KJ, I think you're almost certainly buying the Parfums Regence. That's what I've got. (Or more specifically, I have a decant from a Parfums Regence bottle.) There's only one place in the US where you can buy KJ, and that's in San Francisco. (That's why HORNS is in an ideal position to know about this.)

The Kolnisch Juchten sold by Andre at Jacqueline Perfumes in San Francisco is around $85 per 100 ml before tax.

As far as the story behind the perfume, who the hell knows, because I have researched it as well as Parfums Regence and haven't come up with many things - it seems like a big circle-jerk of the same information that is plagiarized from one source to the next with me knowing who was the first to make the claims of the age of the recipe. My understanding from Andre, who is deliberately vague about everything, is that it is an old formula and that Parfums Regence acquired it somehow.

Ah. Thanks.

FWIW, I found these on the interwebz:

The Farina Gegenuber version:


The Parfums Regence version:


If they are indeed the same formula, I think I'm going to hold out for the vintage version if I can find it. I would assume that the vintage has more pronounced leather (since isn't birch tar on the IFRA-regulated list?)...