Scent/Fragrance of the Day thread

[HORNS]

Today I am wearing La Via del Profumo Tabac.

 

[papillo]

Wearing Kilian's Musk Oud. This is some strong stuff, no more than a couple of sprays is more than enough.

 

[L'Incandescent]

I am wearing Frederic Malle Une Rose today. It's probably been six years since I've worn this. I enjoyed it then, but I'm enjoying it even more now. I'd always noted the sharpness and fruitiness, but I'm picking up the honey a lot more this time.

 

[DeSense]

Winter is on and Amber Absolute is out. What a sillage/projection bomb. One spray and it's ever present on the brink of cloying.

On TF, someone seen the 2016 Reserve release of Bois Marocain? Is it worth the admission (on LS 50ml @$330 or 100ml @$450 is no joke)?

 

[HORNS]



On TF, someone seen the 2016 Reserve release of Bois Marocain? Is it worth the admission (on LS 50ml @$330 or 100ml @$450 is no joke)?

Jesus, really? About a year ago I got a bottle of the original off of eBay for $150 or so. It's a very good fragrance and apparently the Moroccan cedar component was the too-expensive reason why it was discontinued.

 

[Master-Classter]

Wow, I've been out of the retail game for a while but seems all the brands have done some major price bumps. about 3 years ago we were selling Fords for $225 CAD so like $175 USD more or less. I remember they went up a bit to $235 which at the time was about $190-200 USD or something.

I think I caught a picture of the Bois Morocain and it's got that solid gold physical plaque instead of sticker so maybe it's more concentrated or something?

 

[DeSense]

For that kind of dough it better be gold-plated, at least.

 

[HORNS]

So today I wore Bois Marocain, so I could feel like a big-timer.

 

[DeSense]

Good for you. I opened a bottle of Sullivans Cove American Oak. ;p

 

[sebastian mcfox]

Yesterday I wore Imaginary Authors - Cape Heartache. I describe this as Slumberhouse - Jeke 'light', less the dark, foreboding forests of Bavaria and more the clean, crisp forests of coastal Maine.

Like Jeke, Cape Heartarche has an undertone of fruit, designed, apparently, to invoke nostalgia. The strawberry here isn't green or fresh, it's a syrupy, sickly strawberry found in jam or sweets.

The whole thing is akin to chewing strawberry bubblegum while walking through the woods. If this sounds odd - it is! - but the contrast is addictive

Sillage is poor but the fragrance was still there, as a skinscent, into the next day.

 

[HORNS]

I haven't been a big fan of the Imaginary Authors line. The one I kind of liked was Cobra and Canary.

Tonight I am wearing Vero Onda extrait.

 

[HORNS]

Today, for the Old Year, I am wearing Knize Ten.

 

[HORNS]

Today I wore thirteen year old Mysore sandalwood oil.
This evening I am wearing La Via del Profumo Casablanca - a jasmine and tobacco fragrance. I really like this one.

 

[Master-Classter]

So past couple of days I worked through a sample of Jo Malone Oud & Bergamot. It hit me that it reminded me exactly of Demeter's Oud, which I could never get my head around, but since they're a similar type of oud smell, I know it must be something real.... I'm really just a beginner on oud so maybe you guys can help me understand the type?

I know there's a warm oily nutty smooth type of oud like Tom Ford's Oud Wood. Then there's a dry stinky cuminy powder style like Oud Fleur or L'artisan Al Oudh or Diptyque Oud Paleo, then I've smelled a sweet pissy smokey oud like in Dior Oud Leather (maybe it was the leather smoke I was getting, not oud?) and Zegna's Indonesian Oud, then I've smelled a smokey hollow dry wood type note like Kilian's Oud series, and I have Mona Di Orio's Oud which is also sort of warm and smooth with some funk...

but these two, the Malone and Demeter were different. They smelled like some sort of waxy polished wooden floor or something. Fairly sharp, chemical. My best description is still an oily chemical wood like old furniture and wax and polish etc. Maybe like a mahogany or something? Do you guys know what I mean?

 

[HORNS]

Today I wore Rochas Lui, a fantastic rich fragrance in an eau de cologne style - it could easily be a flanker of Aqua di Parma Colonia.