A SOTD (Scent Of The Day) thread is a really good conversation generator. The idea is you’ll chime in through the week with whatever scent you are wearing. You don’t need to be super knowledgable, have high faluting tastes or be a published author to comment. Just tell us what fragrance you’re wearing, smelling, buying etc. and how it makes you feel and/or anything else about it that tickles your fancy.
You can also comment on everyone else SOTD choices too. It’s great to tell someone how much you love their choice, ask for more info about it, the house or perfumer. There’s someone here from around the world 24/7 and Perfume Posse people love to chat. We like to keep it fragrant but there’s always room for life events and adventures too. This is our place to share how we smell, live, love, eat, work, raise kids and pets and get on with the business of living.
SOTD 10.7.2020
You probably won’t have time to write every scent, every spritz. Whenever you feel the mood take you, share your current spritz and a few things about it. Maybe you love/loathe it, want it, are excited by the notes/bottle/SA who sold it: WHATEVER! As always here at Perfume Posse, taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.
Hopefully you will come back and see if anyone has responded to your SOTD comment. Then you can reply to them, and so on.
Go To It Crew.
Portia xxx
Serge Lutens Bois Vanille for me, until my little parcel of samples from LKNU arrive. Looking most forward to sniffing Libertines’ Gilded and Bogue MEM
A couple weeks ago, I took advantage of STC’s sale and picked up a few frags by Keiko Mecheri. Some time ago I tried several and struggled with them, (To the point that I forgot about a fb of Cuir Cordoba I was gifted and sat in a closet for years. Worry not, it’s well loved now.)
I’m smitten with Peau de Pêche and can’t stop spritzing. It’s been my SOTD every day this week.
Loving my Memo Paris Irish Leather – so good.
I seem to be on a PdN roll this week. Last year I bought a large bottle of Cap Neroli, which I had tested, and a small one of Neroli Intense, which I hadn’t tested. I should know better, but I had read about it and it sounded like they with both amazing but different. Now I love cap neroli and love wearing it, and I really like the intense also but they really aren’t that much different. the cap neroli is just a little greener and brighter. The Intense is very similar, I think I’d have to have one on each side an A/B them to be able to know the difference. So I kind of bought 2 bottles of the same thing. Oops. Wearing Intense today.
It was our 2nd wedding anniversary (of our registry wedding, not the EVENT!) the day before yesterday and we both forgot. HA! Jin came home after work, told me to get dressed up and took us out for Peking Duck. We almost had the restaurant to ourselves.
He’s a good egg, obviously we are not perfect but it’s so much easy fun to spend this part of our lives together.
Wore Eau Duelle by Diptyque and loved its cool and calm elegance.
Ah, congratulations Portia and Jin. Peking Duck sounds like a lovely way to celebrate.
Portia, I read an amazing post from you over on another site about Opium. I did reply to it but find my replies often just don’t show up on that site for some reason. That doesn’t matter but I wanted you to know that I thought it was a beautiful post and I was moved reading it.
Hey thanks SV, on both counts.
Peking Duck is one of my favourites. Jin has also come to love it.
So happy you love the Opium post. WordPress can be very glitchy for me too. There are a few blogs that my comments just disappear for also. It’s a bummer. It’s really thoughtful of you to come over and say it here.
Hugs,
Portia xx
Congrats!!!!!!!
Day 2 of Wrappings Body Lotion
PdN’s Rose Pivoine, which seems bright and cheerful in the beginning, radiant and sweet and it seems like its going to be like that for a long time but there is something warm in there, it’s still a fresh rose but something more, slightly earthy and warm somehow that just is so lovely. I just wish it was a leetle bit stronger ya know?
Balmain Ambre Gris for me today. Yes, the one with the disco ball for a lid 🙂
Love it. You smell beautiful.
Last night I tried the new Masque Milano Petra and HG Vivacious. Petra is waaay too unpleasantly sweet and lasts forever. Don’t like it at all. Drawing on bottle is creepy – eyes are empty. I was also disappointed in Vivacious. It’s OK but nothing special on me. So today I went with a sweet fragrance I love. I’m very happily rockin’ VM Hedonist.
I’m sorry you didn’t care for Vivacious Maya, it’s one that intrigues me and I’d love to try it. What was it like for you? Heavy? too sweet? boring?
That’s a hard one to answer. It starts out with a nice violet and a spicy note (the carnation?). Both violet and carnation are there together until the violet gets stronger but the “spicy” never leaves. The violet eventually gets a candied aspect. I don’t get much orris or amber or anything else. I should love it, but I don’t…not too sweet, not too heavy, not quite boring. Maybe it becomes just too much in general? I washed it off after about an hour or so. YMMV.
haha, I’m even more intrigued now. I love spicy and carnation… must hunt some down.
Wrappings Body Lotion!!! I am green!!!
Had a Youth Dew bubble bath and then wore the fragrance. YUMMO!
It’s late now and I’ve loaded SOIVOHLE Rosa sour Reuse over the top. WOWSAS!
Portia xx
One of the ‘limey?’ ‘with lime?’ perfumes I have is a lovely mix of white flowers with quite pronounced lime, Ormonde Jayne’s Frangipani. I’m wearing it today and loving it. It’s beautiful but weird. I love white flowers and the citrus lifts the white flowers and makes them bright and cheerful but it is a LOT of lime. Just as I lean into the smell and enjoy the creamy lushness of the frangipani I get a snootful of sharp limeyness that almost, almost is off-putting, and yet in I go for another hit. I’ll do this all day, enjoying it with almost an edge of not really and that will be enough for me for another few months likely.
I love this post SV.
Do you like magnolia perfumes? I often find them VERY citrus heavy too.
Portia xx
I’ve only smelled a couple of Magnolias Portia. I adore FM’s eau de Magnolia but that citrus is way way way less than OJ’s Frangipani. I love Magnolia Nobile too, whose citrus is very elegantly muted, such a womanly scent. The only other one I’ve come across is d’italie’s Magnolia which I can’t remember how it smelled but remember I didn’t care for it. I have never smelled a real Magnolia either haha
Atlas by Laboratory Perfumes. Vanilla, hay and woody notes. Opening has a sweetness to it that is delightful. Have another decant on its way via their discovery set to help decide if one would require a bottle full.
OOOH! Sounds very nice Melanie.
Portia xx
Amor Amor by Cacharel.
All the sweet fruity things go fizz.
Portia xx
Yesterday thunked Grand Soir this morning thunked JPG Classic…both large 4 ml samples.
PHWOAR!
Did you like them Brigitte?
Portia xx
Yes I did!! And the Grand Soir lingers on my bathrobe.
Midnight Fleur, by Nest for me today. A fresh, yet musky, vanilla, pineapple and coconut number. Stunning bottle. This one’s for you Brigitte – and you are never boring xx
i LOVE the Nest bottles, they’re so gorgeous. When I see them it makes me think of signature scent people and how just one bottle could be the flamboyant solo fragrant adventure on a bureau or dressing table. A Nest bottle would be exactly enough to fill the space and add the right amount of beauty.
Portia xx
That sounds like all kinds of fabulous. And what a darling bottle.
Thank you my friend:)
And you smell AMAZING!!!!!!!
Honey Oud by Floris
The opening hour is fabulously feral but by the three hour mark has calmed to a softly honeyed wood scent, cozy.
Portia xx
Oh Mimosa. I don’t think I even know what mimosa looks like, except for the kind you drink. I’ve never seen it in real life let alone smelled it. I’ve never seen osmanthus either and that’s probably why I get them mixed up in my mind. Anyway, Love Mimosa smells so so lovely. I just can’t say if it smells like Mimosa but it sure smells bright and happy. So, swooning in it today and just ordered a larger decant so I can swoon some more later too.
YAY SV,
Love Mimosa is amazing. One day when you come to Australia make sure you come at this time of year and we’ll do a bushwalking and you can smell the wattle in real life.
Osmanthius is different, and way more pungent. I only smelled it once in our Chinese Gardens in Sydney. It was about this time of year too.
Portia xx
My dear Portia, that would be my dearest wish to come to Australia and hang out with you someday! Bushwalking and smelling amazing things, and maybe a good meal too? Let’s hope the world settles down and we all come out of these crazy times healthy and with the ability to afford to go a few places.
FM’s gorgeous Eau de Magnolia. I got my first bottle of this in Berlin and blasted through it not just enjoying the scent but along with it the memories of my trip. An online purchase just isn’t nearly as romantic but the smell is still heaven. Maybe the secret is to attach the memory to the smell and not the bottle haha
YAY for Eau de Magnolia. It doesn’t get the love it deserves SV. BERLIN! Cool city.
Portia xx
Ostara again. It is one of the few perfumes that last amazingly well and smell wonderful in this awful hot and humid weather. I was neglecting this beauty for a while.
Hey Maya,
Ostara is such a weird fish. When I wear it I love it so much but I rarely reach for it. Somehow my idea of it and the actual joy I get wearing it are not linked.
Portia xx
Used my Vitabath original scent green gelee soap…..so stinkin’ good!!!!
Brigitte!
I love to see you here. Every time your name pops up, DAY MADE!
Portia xx
Loves ya right back, P!! But my comments are boring LOL
No way are they boring! Where did you get that crazy notion?
Not heavily into wearing my fumes these days 🙁
I wore Annick Goutal’s Le Chevrefuielle today. I usually find it too sweet like drinking sweetened grape juice but today it just seemed charming.
The name along makes me ache to own this SV.
Portia xx
Last night I wore Kiehl’s Original Musk to bed. It’s so freaking gorgeous in the cold.
This morning I’m layering Miller et Bertaux Santal++++ over it. MMMMMMMM
Portia xx
You know Portia, there are a few perfumes that made me run screaming from the room looking for hot water and soap and a big loofah. Kiehl’s Original Musk is one of them. The thing is some of the ones that I had that initial reaction to I ended up falling in love with and are now some of my favs. Epic Woman, OJ’s Tolu, and even Shalimar. Makes me think I should give Kiehl’s another try someday, I mean if you love it…
WOW SV! That is so interesting. I never hit a musk phase till quite late in the game. Must Ravageur had always been something I liked and wore but suddenly I was trying ALL the musks. Kiehl’s wears so comfortably for me, with none of the rank animal of many others. It’s cozy and floral musk with a crunchy toffee centre.
Maybe wait for slightly cooler weather, it tends to get quite large in the warmth.
You’re right. I REALLY love it.
Portia xx
I’m test driving some of my sample pack from Olfactory, have been since Monday.
How they holding up March? Anything standing out?
Portia xx
LOL funny you should ask! I’m trying to give them a good test so I’m working through slowly. So far they’re nice but I don’t love them as much as the tea!
Teint de Neige. All fumed up with nowhere in particular to go.
WOOF! You are ALL the smells today Cassieflower. Can you even leave the house smelling like that anyway?
Portia xx
Ha, I went out for a nice walk.
Singularity
Thunk
Tell me more!
It’s one of Jeffrey Dame’s newest in his JD Collection. It’s clean but also powdery and sparkly. My nose hones in on the lily of the valley note. My dear friend who sent me the decant says it smells like Dial in the best possible way. I have to agree. And it’s $38USD for 50ml!!! That’s practically free!!
One day I’d like to go visit the Dame workshop. When all this C19 malarky settles down.
Portia xx
Oh my goodness!!! Me too!! Come to NY first and then stash little me in your suitcase as you head to Arizona lol 😉
After 2+ weeks of above 90F temps we had a nice storm roll through last night, bringing 70F!!! Squee! Wearing Victoria’s Secret ‘Love’ which is a charming scent – but on the wrong day there’s a note that can bring up your lunch. Luckily these cooler temps tamp that note WAY down – and if/by the time the temps ramp up, it’ll have worn off – and I can wear Tribute Attar, which eats hot weather like a shark!
Happy Friday, all! xoxoxo
‘eats hot weather like a shark’!!!!! I love that.
All the early Amouages are like that – even Dia and Ciel. They were designed for the Middle East…. and it’s not like they don’t know ‘hot’, right? All the attars bloom gorgeously in the extreme heat. In fact, I prefer wearing them now, rather than in cold. xoxoxo
UBAR in the heat is unbelievable to Musette. Blooms in a totally different way.
Portia xx
Sun is coming and going. We’re promised warmer weather next week. Philosykos for that beach vibe.
Hey Cinnamon,
LOVE a bit of fig in my fragrance. Do you have any others?
portia xx
Interesting question. No, no other figs. I’ve tried loads over the years and found I liked none of them as much as Philosykos. In fact, I don’t recall any of them ‘feeling’ figgy or summery. Any suggestions?
I like the L’Artisan one but it’s a really different vibe…. I think I did TWO entire posts on fig scents awhile ago if you search for Figmania
Ah, will do that. The l’Artisan isn’t much of a much on me. I also recall trying Miller Harris Fig Amere, which also wasn’t terribly exciting. Maybe I’m just grumpy.
Neela Vermeire’s Ashoka is a creamy fig that ends up woody, very interesting lifespan. The original Bulgari Men In Black has a beautiful fig note to me though it’s not noted. I also love the crazy salt water and fig of Womanity.
Portia xx
Wearing Pacifica French Lilac today, a cheap and cheerful scent. Have a good weekend posse peeps!
Hey DinaC,
Pacifica does some lovely scents. I’ve not smelled French Lilac but it sounds divine. It it a calm beauty?
Portia xx
The heatwave continues in Eastern Canada so my pick is Atelier Cologne’s Pacific Lime – from the fridge.
How gorgeously refreshing is a spritz from the fridge Carolyn? In summer I keep a big bottle of Paris Hilton’s Fairy Dust. So cooling. Cost almost nothing.
Portia xx
Might put my new AA Limon Verde in the fridge – once it’s warm enough in Western Canada to warrant it.
L’Artisan Timbuktu today.
Lovely Matty,
You feeling glam?
Portia xx
LE LION de CHANEL.
Growl!
Portia xx
Oh Portia, you’re really teasing me with all this LE LION talk! When’s its Oz release? I need to get my paws on a sample tout de suite!
Should be world released in early 2021 Lee.
Similar to Shalimar?
Hello, Perfume Posse! I’m wearing vintage Chanel no 22 today. It makes me feel like 1989 and smelling on a friend for the first time. The past week I’ve been sampling some Jeffrey Dame Perfumery fragrances. Santal Superbe, Musc, Juste Filthy, and Grand Cuir. The standouts are Musc and Grand Cuir but tgey are all worth the $38 price tag for a 1.7oz. Grand Cuir starts out herbal soapy and morphs into new leather then worn leather into soft suede. It’s beautiful!
Hey troy,
CHANEL No 22 in vintage is amazing. Which do you have? EdC, EdT or parfum?
I remember being at Jeffery’s launch for Grand Cuir back in 2013 at LuckyScent on the perfume Posse ScentSation Bus Tour. I didn’t know it was still in the line up. YUM!
Portia xx
Hey Portia,
That is awesome! Would’ve loved to be there. I’m late to the party on his stuff. Apparently he has repackaged it and selling smaller bottles. The 22 is EdT
Gorgeous! CHANEL has always made the good stuff, eh?
Hi Troy! I am wearing Dame Singularity today 🙂
I really like the fact that he makes beautiful perfumes at an affordable price.
And I wore 22 EDT in the late 70s all the way into the late 90s until it became an exclusive. It’s a beautiful scent.
Hi Brigitte. I love that about his line too. Quality stuff at a great price. Curious to try some more…
Yes it is beautiful!