Scent/Fragrance of the Day thread

[rach2jlc]



All this talk about Roudnitska has me wearing Eau d'Hermes today. One of the oddest things about this one is the soapiness at the opening, considering the cumin and the rather ripe citrus notes. It's all very light too.

+1. The lightness is part of its fascination for me, as well. Roudnitska does this well... takes notes that otherwise would be hard/heavy and frees them up. It's interesting to compare this to another attempted "light" cumin, Lutens Santal Blanc. The lightness is completely lost, in my opinion, and though not necessarily "heavy" still feels sort of oppressive or overwhelming.

Eau d'hermes is not "pleasant," of course, but it still doesn't feel like you're wearing a thick blanket of notes from which you can't escape (which is how I feel with most Lutens... )

SOTD is Moustache.

HORNS, thanks for the rec and review of Satori. I shall make a trip there my next go-around. She sounds like Tashiro-san, the lady I mentioned in my area who does bespoke scents (and who studied under Roudnitska.)

 

[Master-Classter]



It's Diorella that's like Eau Savauge, not Diorissimo. Or maybe they both are, but Diorella is really the one that's closest.

Yes, Diorella. Diorissimo is nothing like Eau sauvage, except that both are by Roudnitska and so obviously have his "DNA" in them.

yah yah, I actually meant Diorella, that's the one I tried. Just looked back and realized I typed Diorissimo for some reason... wearing it again today.

 

[tps16]

Today, Heritage

 

[rach2jlc]



yah yah, I actually meant Diorella, that's the one I tried. Just looked back and realized I typed Diorissimo for some reason... wearing it again today.

I join you this evening with Diorella (parfum), finishing it up. Happy to finish up a bottle... sad because the original (and parfum version) is no longer available. Wonderful scent that, given how popular Eau Sauvage is (and has remained), I'm surprised it hasn't stayed in production.

 

[owin]

need some advice guys,

according to your advice i ll go and order some samples


i ll write down few my favorite ones, and will ask your opinions


gucci pour homme 2
gucci pour homme 1

bvlgari pour homme

hermes terra dhermes (still not sure if this is a good one or not though)


for now i need something for summer, but i dont wanna smell like over floral

when i say i need man fragnance i dont mean i wanna smell like an arab shikh (like those over tobacco smells)

maybesomething woods something easy going pure and elegant


omg what am i talking about

just need somesummer advice

 

[b1os]

http://www.styleforum.net/t/292039/fragrance-spring-top-favorites good enough?

 

[L'Incandescent]

All the talk lately about Roudnitska has got me wearing TF Violet Blonde today. (Roudnitska was a great perfumer, which put me in mind of great perfumes in general. And that put me in mind of Violet Blonde.)

 

[Master-Classter]

B, what sort of vibe and also notes/accords do you get out of TF VB? 'Cause I spray it constantly and give it to women but my impression is '50+ year old boring conservative lady'... what am I missing?

 

[james_timothy]

perfume and the memory of war- a lovely piece of writing on the great perfumes, the society that produced them, and what they meant to the people wearing them. Scent as art, and art as a reflection of something alive in the moment.

It's the kind of writing that suggests things that should be true even if they are literally, factually not.

The classic scents of Ernest Daltroff and Jacques Guerlain are scents that were understood to be great then, were great because they encapsulated the terrible beauty of a doomed civilization, in a time when the educated and cultured knew they were living at the edge of damnation. Ernest Beaux’s beautiful scents for Chanel are the scents of a man who has found a fragile, tentative refuge amongst beauty from slaughter.

 

[L'Incandescent]



B, what sort of vibe and also notes/accords do you get out of TF VB? 'Cause I spray it constantly and give it to women but my impression is '50+ year old boring conservative lady'... what am I missing?

I literally LOLed at your description! IMO, this has a very different aesthetic from the rest of the TF Signature Series. I find this delicately beautiful and very demure. I can definitely see how that might come off as 50+ year old boring conservative lady. (To me, it's more like a 30-something well-mannered lady.) To my nose, the violet is very prominent. (I've seen other reviews that suggest the violet is fleeting,and emphasize the jasmine and peppery notes instead. I don't smell it that way at all.) To my nose, violet is a melancholy, pensive note, and Violet Blonde definitely has those qualities. But what I love most about this fragrance is the drydown. There's a wonderfully creamy woody note that emerges and moves more and more to the forefront as the fragrance develops. I detect a touch of cumin along with the creamy woodiness, though nothing in the notes suggests that. This is definitely on my short list of favorite fragrances.

 

[rach2jlc]



perfume and the memory of war- a lovely piece of writing on the great perfumes, the society that produced them, and what they meant to the people wearing them. Scent as art, and art as a reflection of something alive in the moment.
It's the kind of writing that suggests things that should be true even if they are literally, factually not.

Interesting; thanks for posting! Djedi, like vintage Diorling, is certainly one on my perfume "Grail List." Others would be some of the early Roudnitska scents for Rochas (Mousseline and a few others.)

Today it is wet and humid, so Givenchy III fits the bill nicely. A classic chypre, with a wet group of florals and oakmoss, but not particularly stinky. Great for spring rains.

 

[b1os]

Bond no 9 - New York Oud. Very dominant rose, like we already said. The very light oud plays a great supporting role in the drydown. By the way, have I said that the longevity is quite good?

L'Inc, would you pay 10€ for a sample of New York Amber? I will soon order more samples and I'll probably order NYA, too.
Damn, there are so many L'Artisan scents.. which are a must-try? I've just googled the most interesting ones (i.e. the name is good) and looked up the basenotes review-ratios... right now I have chosen Passage d'Enfer, Tea for Two, Dzing, Poivre Piquant, Thé pour un Été (among other non-L'Artisan ones).

 

[L'Incandescent]



Bond no 9 - New York Oud. Very dominant rose, like we already said. The very light oud plays a great supporting role in the drydown. By the way, have I said that the longevity is quite good?
L'Inc, would you pay 10€ for a sample of New York Amber? I will soon order more samples and I'll probably order NYA, too.
Damn, there are so many L'Artisan scents.. which are a must-try? I've just googled the most interesting ones (i.e. the name is good) and looked up the basenotes review-ratios... right now I have chosen Passage d'Enfer, Tea for Two, Dzing, Poivre Piquant, Thé pour un Été (among other non-L'Artisan ones).

10 Euros for the regular bon-bon sized sample? Honestly, I enjoy New York Amber but I wouldn't pay that for a sample. (Unfortunately, New York Amber is very expensive, which is why I'll never buy a full bottle of it. I got mine b/c Rambo threw it in as a freebie with a purchase I made.) If you can find it cheaper, though, I'd definitely recommend trying it.

In addition to the L'Artisans you've mentioned, I'd definitely try Mure et Musc. The name really is accurate. (True story: A lady I was courting associated me with the smell of Mure et Musc. One day she found herself craving that smell and she knew that she wanted to be with me. I haven't worn that scent in a long time b/c I gave her my bottle.) Dzing is really fun; it always makes me smile when I smell it. And Tea for Two is a classic, but it's recently been discontinued.

 

[k4lnamja]

Question: Does cologne ever go bad? Does it lose its smell?

On a side note, I just purchased 2 4oz Creed Green Irish Tweed cologne bottles. I bought one for my bro in law but my sis says he only wears Acqua di Gio (.... i know, right?)

I can't even return it because I don't even have the receipt. Anyone possibly interested?

 

[L'Incandescent]



Question: Does cologne ever go bad? Does it lose its smell?

Yes, it definitely can go bad. It's not like milk, though; that is, it doesn't just naturally go bad by some fairly specific date. If you take good care of your fragrance, it will stay good for a very long time, decades even. (rach, for example, has lots of vintage fragrances that are as good as new.) The trick is to store your fragrance in a cool place that's not too humid. Also good to keep it away from bright lights if possible. So for example, don't keep your fragrance in the medicine cabinet in your bathroom.