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Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 21st March 2009, 05:32 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,011
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Profumo: Team Two's sampling impressions

I don't usually choose rose-centered scents, but I do enjoy rose in supporting notes, so it is no surprise that I start to groove with Rose Des Bois when, after around twenty minutes, the fresh,...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 18th March 2009, 03:37 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,011
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Profumo: Team Two's sampling impressions

Karo Karounde, yes Purplebird, I too smell honey/urine. Also something hay-like and a sour smell that mades me think of tannic, citrus, molasses smell of tamarind. I love tamarind to eat, but not...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 18th March 2009, 03:21 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,011
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Profumo: Team Two's sampling impressions

I'm chiming in after living for a few days with my batch of samples. First Lakeflower. I sprayed on a lot of this. First a rush of mixed, strong spices -- a little disorienting because I couldn't...
Forum: Fragrance Industry Discussion 16th March 2009, 08:44 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 425
Posted By Chestnut
Re: The evolution of kissing partly rooted in smell

That's really fascinating, Purplebird, but how would that explain our (bn'ers) typical penchant for alternately wearing a variety of scent-types (one day favoring amber-patchouli, one day something...
Forum: Male Fragrance Discussion 10th March 2009, 08:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 426
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Nuit de Cellophane is in front of my nose, and.....

I'm smelling it right now, 30 minutes in and am freaking out -- want to wash it off badly. I love Sarrasins though it's too indolic for me to wear comfortably, and this is very different. Sarrasins...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 24th February 2009, 04:44 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 570
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Yummy Peachy, Plummy Lactones

One I've just tried (and that was very positively noted in the new Turin/Sanchez update) was AdP's Profumo, a transparent, complex, modern-retro very plummy chypre. I love it, but find it quite...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 17th February 2009, 09:17 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 658
Posted By Chestnut
Re: woody/gourmand but without the toothache

Mauboussin, Felanilla, richly gourmand, ambery-fruity and vanille-safran-wood, neither too sweet to my taste. Bois d'Armenie: very rich ambery balsamic, not exactly sweet. Un Bois Vanille --...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 17th February 2009, 08:35 PM
Replies: 128
Views: 2,874
Posted By Chestnut
Re: La Via del Profumo's samples -- Impressions

Wow, I'm loving these descriptions, Aiona and Quarry. Can't wait!
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 17th February 2009, 08:32 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 606
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Why weren't Jean Patou Perfumes more popular?

I wear Sublime sometimes. Love the bottle.
Forum: Fragrance Industry Discussion 17th February 2009, 08:30 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 380
Posted By Chestnut
Re: New York Maple Syrup Smell Mystery SOLVED! (it's fenugreek!!)

The neighborhood of Tribeca in new york used to smell strongly of pepper, clove and mace, I think, or some similar spice, for blocks and blocks. It was an evocative, local thing that was finally...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 16th February 2009, 08:52 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 3,679
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Best/worst name of a perfume?

Orion, I agree about Gobin-Daude. I've never tried any of them and don't think I'd mind without those fey, poetic names!

As opposed to "I Am King" -- I could only stand that on a woman -- and...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 16th February 2009, 03:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 232
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Has anyone sampled/purchased PG Drama Nuii

I liked my sample of Drama Nuii enough to wear at my birthday party this year. As sucrose says, it's a bitter-green (absinthe) take on a white floral -- it's got a great yin-yang thing going -- and...
Forum: Fragrance Industry Discussion 14th February 2009, 01:16 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 524
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Sex Smells: Odor, Sexuality, and the Erotic Imaginary

Thanks for posting this Marcello, I enjoyed it. It's really fascinating to realize that our olfactory impressions (which seem so primitive and indescribable to so many) are so culturally (and...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 10th February 2009, 07:07 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 241
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Do rose + citrus = peach?

It is! Doesn't get a lot of attention that I've seen but I'm loving it -- exactly "lovely" and feminine without being wispy or sweetly delicate. Might have to get more, but I think it might be...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 10th February 2009, 06:14 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 997
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Your favorite character's scent!

Theodora -- now that would make a great name for a perfume. Has one ever ever existed?
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 9th February 2009, 09:40 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 997
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Your favorite character's scent!

Back to catwoman: I do vote for Julie Newmar and imagine her in Dzing.

For my lifelong girl-crush inspiration, Jane Eyre: Iris Taizo. Cool/warm, earthbound yet extravagant, and full of sexy...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 9th February 2009, 02:06 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 997
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Your favorite character's scent!

odysseusm -- I'm impressed with your dedication to acknowledging female talent and I will definitely check out the Dearie tunes. Shirley Horn is a big favorite of mine -- I think of her voice as...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 8th February 2009, 04:40 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 919
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Fragrance & Men?

My husband has always worn something (and he's -- at least ostensibly -- straight.) Antaeus, then Sables and as of this year lots of good things that he chooses from the dozens of samples I...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 8th February 2009, 04:24 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 241
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Do rose + citrus = peach?

You're right, of course -- it's just the Profumo -- it is peachy somehow. But I just tested Rosine Un Zeste de Rose -- mostly lemon/rose and there's nothing peach-like about it. So went back and...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 8th February 2009, 04:10 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 2,188
Posted By Chestnut
Re: What Perfume makes Men take notice?

My husband likes me in amber/patch/orientals. He likes Mauboussin, Coromandel, Patchouli Leaves. He has also liked Eau Illuminee -- Delrae (tart and green). Unfortunately, I have never had another...
Forum: Male Fragrance Discussion 7th February 2009, 04:37 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 568
Posted By Chestnut
Re: LesNez Manoumalia - Reviews

Got mine -- wanted to love it but....don't. At all.

I hate to give such a flat report after Helg's really insightful and persuasive review. I love ylang in some perfumes but don't even really...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 7th February 2009, 04:10 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 951
Posted By Chestnut
Re: All Invited! ♥ ♥ ♥ Sniff 'n' Speak Saturday, February 7, 2009 ★★★ ANIMALIC

Okay, I'm piggybacking with Bal a Versailles -- really like the complicated, mid-century vibe on this. And by the time family gets home from basketball I'll be smelling like mom and not animal...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 5th February 2009, 06:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 241
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Do rose + citrus = peach?

Dimples, I hadn't thought of the color correspondence. Let me know how your experiment turns out.
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 5th February 2009, 03:43 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 663
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Nearest I get to perfume compliment from my husband!

My guy loves perfume --his. Occasionally I get a compliment -- seems to happen mostly when I douse myself in Coromandel or Mauboussin, both heavy hitters. Maybe that's because he's already...
Forum: Female Fragrance Discussion 5th February 2009, 03:24 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 402
Posted By Chestnut
Re: Please help me find rose and cedarwood scents!

Great thread, I'm rushing to try Incense Rose. I just tried Rose Flamenca, Rosine's woody rose, (thanks Quarry!) and loved it. What it made me realize is that I like "furry, comfy" woody roses and...
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