Hey Hey Posse, Gosh, already we are four months into Decant Demolition 2025. A third of the way through. 39ml of decants emptied! Now it’s up to you to comment your way into a chance at a US$50 Surrender To Chance Gift Voucher
Sorry there were no replies last month but I’m back now from holidays and ready for comments!
Decant Demolition 2025 April
My Challenge
For Decant Demolition 2025 I’ll be trying to drain 30ml of juice every month. In any configuration from 15 x 2ml to a 30ml decant of decanted perfume into a spray receptacle 2ml or more. They must also be finished by ME! No giving stuff away. Although Random Acts Of Kindness are encouraged they do not count for my DD2025.
Your Challenge
Play along. Use up some decants/samples/bottles. Pass those unloved extras on to others or leave them in your workplace bathroom for people to take.
Also, in the interest of driving fragrant discussion and your own thunking there must be 40 comments that are not mine. Yes, you read it correctly. 40 comments, and not lazy, spammy bumps like an OK or Got It. It must be a pertinent comment to the discussion at hand. You can answer someone else’s comment. Ask them a question about their comment. Add your own thunks, thoughts on my thunks. Tell us a story about something fragrant that links with previous comments or the post. The secondary (but most important) goal of Decant Demolition 2025 is to reanimate perfumista conversation and engagement.
Should I make 30ml and there be 40 comments that comply. I will give away a US$50 Surrender To Chance Gift Voucher each month.
In April we hit the mark:
WINNER : LemonCake
Still Waiting for Last Month’s Winner Maya
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I hope you’re as excited about Decant Demolition 2025 as I am.
April Empties
Ambre Mythique Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier 10ml
Ambre Mythique is such a beautiful amber. If I didn’t already have 20+ ambers of which only two get worn I’d be buying a bottle TODAY. It’s warm, spicy and freaking gorgeous.
No. 09 L’Eau Blanche by IUNX 5ml
L’Eau Blanche is a very lovely low key beauty. If the bloody bottles hadn’t been so poorly designed I’d have probably bought this, and the whole set.
Nuit d’Amore by Guerlain 5ml
This is a strange one. I’ve gone through this decant and loved it so much bought a bottle retail in Paris and then bought a back up from a FB Sales Doc but have never written a post about it. Watch this space…
Sensual Orchid by Laurent Mazzone 5ml
This is a really nice fragrance but I’m glad it’s empty.
Sogno Reale by Mendittorosa 10ml
Another bloody good amber that deserves your attention. An aquatic, salty amber. SO GOOD!
Tok’yo Mama Fizzzzz by Smell Bent 4ml
Want to smile for a couple of hours? This simple but also incredibly complex citrus/wood extravaganza will hit the spot. DAMN! I really wish I’d bought more Smell Bent.
WOO HOO! 39ml done and dusted. Had so much fun wearing these. Are any of the perfumes or houses favourites of yours?
Now’s the time to get commenting, replying and connecting.
Portia xx
Portia,
I’m not personally familiar with any of these lovelies. Glad you were able to use up a few more things. Spring is my favorite scent season — all those green florals! — so I’ve been wearing some favorites rather than using up decants and samples lately. I gave into temptation and bought a fb of Balmain Vent Vert on ebay, too.
I thunked a 15ml decant of vintage Jicky edt. But there was only 2 or 3 ml left. I also managed to thunk the rest of my Amouage Memoir body butter and not sure how much that counts but it counts for something at the end of the day.
Look forward to hearing about the travels. I got rid of a sample of Perfumer H Ink. This is what came along with my beloved Smoke and is simply not for me. Vetiver and cedar. Feh. Good riddance.
Nothing thunked this month. I did gift some duplicate samples though. Not made a difference to the number of different fragrances in samples form but I enjoyed sharing the love.
It’s a big fat nothing from me for April because I’ve been travelling for the last month. I’ve tried lots of things that have been new to me and bought a few bottles, and acquired only a meagre number of new samples. I’ve had a much better haul on previous trips, but that’s probably for the best because the aim is to use up the samples I have!
I don’t know how you can even get through almost 40ml in a month tbh.. perhaps I don’t reapply enough. I have been using samples, but they also keep breeding with rewards boxes etc so there are still so many I haven’t even tried let alone thunked.
I haven’t tried Ambre Mythique but MPG Ambre Dore is my favourite amber ever. Can’t say I’ve seen much of the brand around lately either.. Also have Cuir Fetiche but rarely wear it and Tubereuse which I LOVE – if the weather is just right.
Hey Portia. I sent you an email now. 🙂
I have liked several Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier perfumes. Cuir Fetiche was the first leather I fell for. I like Mendittorosa Sogno Reale a lot and it likes me back.
I wasn’t trying but I did finish a 9ml decant of Perris Monte Carlo Arancia DI Sicilia. Getting a bottle! Great prices at discounters.