Hello,

Due to another thread, I'm a bit worried about the very low temperatures perfumes will be exposed to in airfreight. I have the option to either fly or ship them, what would be safest? What would you choose to do? Has anyone experience perhaps with both?

Thanks a lot!

Good morning all,

I guess I'll start the SOTD, though I'm thinking I'm going to butt out for the next couple of weeks. The stress of the move is mounting, and I find myself blundering through my days, which includes not making much sense over here. The brain wants to reserve all its capacity for the enormous task at hand, I suppose, which is reasonable.

Anyhow, Coromandel. It takes on a much sweeter facet these days. Perhaps even my skin chemistry has altered a bit.

Rock on, and Dawn happy birthday, woman!

I decided to finally try my sample of Ambre Canelle from Creed.

I was especially fascinated by this fragrance because it is my understanding that Eva Peron on a trip to France fell in love with it, and it became her signature fragrance. She (Eva Peron) is riveting to me, the fascination with her life and the mythology around the woman has always been very intriguing to me.
But also, one of my favorite Mexican actresses is Maria Felix, and Maria and Evita Peron were dear friends. In interviews, Maria Felix said that the last few years of Evita Peron's life, they spent alot of time together. Eva Peron was fascinated with Maria Felix...she had always wanted to be a movie star, and a movie star on the level of Maria Felix. Maria Felix was the muse of Agustin Lara (great musical composer), Diego Rivera also painted her, and I believe that Jose Alfedo Jimenez also made a song for her ( Ella). She is basically the [b]Mexican Elizabeth Taylor![/b, man-eater all the way! No man could resist her. When she got off the plane from Argentina after Eva Peron's death, she was greeted by Jorge Negrete. She and Jorge Negrete had worked previously together on and off for about 10 years, and they had a love/hate relationship. But when she came off that plane, he greeted her with roses, and their courtship followed and they married shortly after that. I could go on and on about her (Maria Felix)...but ultimately...
Maria Felix, always admired Eva's role in politics and the life of a politician. Both women were iconic, and I think they each envied the other's fame. I thought maybe Maria Felix adopted Ambre Canelle for her own? I have never known what her signature fragrance was? Does anyone know?

Anyways...back to the fragrance! It smells like a soapier, more transparent, and classier Opium from Yves Saint Laurent to me.
It is classy (most Creeds are), and has an old-fashioned sensibility to it. The staying power was average on my skin.
I prefer Opium to the Ambre Canelle. But....I might purchase one day, just to be in the perfumed aura of such a fascinating lady, Evita Peron. And maybe Maria Felix wore it too.

What are your thoughts on Ambre Canelle? Does anyone else see a similarity to Opium? It is much soapier...but starts out dirty and spicy, no doubt sexy, but ends so virginally (wink)...much like these women! Yes...these women have been put on a pedestal!

In all the years I've been enjoying fragrance, I think the most valuable thing I've learned has been to be a bit more open-minded regarding certain fragrances.

Granted, there will always be fragrances that simply don't agree with us no matter how we look at them, but then there are always a few that we write off, only to find out years later they agree with us.

This happened to me with Michael for Men back quite a few years ago. When it first came out, I couldn't believe such a product was available at fragrance counters. It was rank, horrible stuff that simply troubled me to no end. Then one day, like magic, it just seemed to agree with me in an amazing way. One of the strangest things I've ever experienced when it comes to scent.

We then have some fragrances that while capturing attention, have other qualities that make us "unsure." We then put it back into our rotation/collection with the HOPES of it someday stimulating our olfactory senses sending us into a fragrance orgasm.

For the past month now, I've been going through this odd cycle of trying to warm up to a certain fragrance. Prior to this, I've let it rest for four or five months. However, I recently revisited this scent almost FORCING myself to figure out the fragrance, as if it were some complex math problem that you KNOW there's an answer to.

At a total loss, I come to the experts... YOU!

As I've said, I've walked away from this fragrance for months, but I'm bound and determined! Maybe that's problem?

Has this ever happened to you? If so, what was your "breaking point?" When is enough, enough!? When do you REALLY call it quits?

I'm sincerely struggling with this.

So, I've been seized by this desire to stockpile my favorites so that whatever happens in production in the future, I'll at least have them in their current incarnations. I've long been annoyed by what happened to Diorissimo, and the department store visit and smelling what the latest EDT smells like, not to mention the unavailability of the ELUSIVE, MYTHIC parfum, was the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back. If this can happen to Diorissimo, then no perfume is safe from future mutilations either! What I'm wondering now is, is this hoarding behavior going to be any helpful in reality? Like, what if I buy like 50 bottles of Philosykos and I find out after 10 years or so, they have all gone BAD! If not bad, then "aged" in an unexpected way so that it is no longer appealing. What do you do when you want to stockpile your favorites, and what do you do to preserve unopened bottles? Thanks!

I came into work today and put my stuff down on my desk and then suddenly a co-worker/friend, a nice gal friend, on the job; she came up to me and immediately said

"What are you wearing?!" "I want to lick you but I won't!"

Guess what scent?

I'm sure if you look at the SOTD thread, you'll find out.

Just felt like posting on this rather funny exclamation towards a scent I am wearing to work today.

I love the clean lines and simplicity of this bottle:

http://www.fragrantica.com/news/Hermes-Ter...-2010-1336.html

Hello all. We have the photographer and stylist here for a photoshoot so I think my day is going to be disrupted!

I'm wearing vintage Dioressence which is always delightful.

Have a good day, everyone.

So I tried the date site recommended on here but does not recognise this one. Sorry no photos as no camera.

But it is the old style ribbed bottle 50mls eau de parfum and a dab bottle!!!!! Yes I said a dab bottle.
The code on the bottle of the bottle is WL 5GA1.

Story behind this one. I attended an evening with Roja Dove when he still worked for Guerlain back in the 90's and actually won this in a large white box lined with silk and a body lotion in Shalimar too. The body lotion still is good even though dated use by 12/97. I keep them both still in the presentation box. Did decant a small amount from the edp bottle perhaps 10 mls at most.

I have the old ribbed bottle in 30mls edp which I have dated as 1997, with the code VL 25D.

Over the years now and then I try to find out about this dab edp Shalimar and draw a blank.

Since Miller Harris has been having difficulty with their US distributor (went bankrupt I believe) there have been loads of MH perfumes on discount at Bloomies, FragranceNet and ebay.

I have a few already that I quite like, namely:
Noix de Tubereuse (my favorite)
Geranium Bourbon (brisk, herbal, rose geranium for summer)
Coeur d'Ete (gentle little wisp of a thing)
Fleur Oriental

And I don't like: Coeur de Fleur, Feuilles de Tabac (straight patchouli on me) L'air Rien (gasp!) and Fleurs de Sel (double gasp!)

I'm eyeballing Fleur Oriental in pure parfum on discount.

Also wondering about Jasmin Vert, Fleur de Bois and Piment des Bais.

What do you think of MH fragrances in general? Have you tried or do you have any in pure parfum? I admit to being a bit taken by the pure parfum bottles...(is sheepish).