Derring-Do by Ineke
Sometimes you just want to smell nice. On a warm day when you’re running around you might even want something fresh and light. Rifling through the sample ‘ho pile I came across this little number by San Francisco-based perfumer Ineke. It has bright citrus and something called “rain notes” (which I actually enjoyed) before becoming a very nice fougère with a lovely woody skin-musk drydown. It’s listed as a man’s scent but I see no reason at all that you ladies shouldn’t indulge. If I was, say, March I’d consider keeping this next to the 4711 in the icebox. Unlike the classic cologne, this has lasting power. At $88 for 75ML it’s also a relative bargain.
Available at her website or at Nordstrom. Don’t know where my sample came from. Space maybe.
I have After my own Heart, Evening in Paris & Gilded Lily. All 3 are lovely and very wearable.
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 10:16 am
I have to try those. So far I’ve only done Field Notes..
If you don’t know where the vial of Derring-Do came from, it sounds like your sample pile has been involved in several naughty pastimes that have resulted in the birthing of new, unknown tubes. Or something like that. /:)
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 10:17 am
I think it has. Of course if it means I get things like these I am not complaining..
Ninara Poll Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 3:56 pm
The vials in my sample pile are effectively living in a convent/monastary. I’m wondering what might tempt them into, you know, producing offspring ;)
Ineke does some lovely fragrances-and Derring-Do is one I might wear myself, would love to smell on a man, most anytime.
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 10:17 am
very well put! :d
It’s funny. I get a lot of stuff from space too!
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 10:18 am
…and space can keep it coming, right?
Space is where sample vials go to replicate. My armoire has a little transporter room in the back right-hand corner and I often see little samples and decants, gathered on the transporter pad, holding hands and giggling, as they prepare to beam themselves up for a night of naughtiness and replication, bless their hearts.
xo
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 10:18 am
Ha! Love that!
Ann Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 2:07 pm
You guys are cracking me up!! What I want to know is why don’t the uber-expensive samples seem to replicate? I’d love my Vacances or Diaghilev vials to double or even triple, but nooooo.
Tom, haven’t tried Derring-Do but will have to do so soon, now that my local Anthropologie carries the full Ineke line. I do like several of the others as well.
Musette Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 3:10 pm
but I’ll bet you have 40 vials of Beyonce Heat, don’tcha?
xo
Tom Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 5:02 pm
I’ll have to check out my Antropologie and see if it’s there. Thanks for the tip!
Musette Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 7:48 pm
see, it’s stuff like this that just….
I thought we had an Anthropologie – and we did! Then it got eaten by a Barnes and Noble, I think. Or an Urban Outfitters. 
huh. waitaminit. Chicago is lousy with Anthros. And did you guys know it carries SIPs? and Histoires?
see, that’s what I get for being a cranky old lady with no daughters and a granddaughter who thinks perfume is yucky (I designed a princess bedroom (no licensed characters – just lots of silk and ribbons). Turns out she loves Spiderman. The Universe is laughing).
I had NO idea!
xo
Ann Reply:
May 31st, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Too funny! I don’t think my store has SIP or the Histoire line, though (although the scents are spread out all over the place, so who knows?). I saw the Inekes, the Le Labo stepchildren and the Honore des Pres line. Guess I’ll have to do some more looking around next time.
Ineke has a great line of perfumes and she has a sampler pack that is practically free it is 25 $ with shipping included and gives you credit of same for a full size bottle it is available only on her website Ineke.com