My beautiful Posse! When Worlds Collide…you can (almost) always Blame Tom (at least I can, because he is my Little Petunia and I adore him and also, I’m usually right). In this case… I… think(?) I’m right but if I try to go back and get stuck in the Perfume Rabbit Hole I’ll never get this post written – and it’s already past noon on Monday!
So. Blame Tom it is!
Awhile back he (or someone like he) wrote a post …or he wrote a comment…and somehow Tesori d’Oriente came up and…. (insert shrug emoji)…I ended up checking it out on …fragrantica(? – again… no rabbit hole!) and, for some reason, I decided to try the White Musk body creme. There was a Not Posse post somewhere titled…(I think. LawdJAYZUS! can you imagine me on a witness stand?)…… “The Cleanest Bathroom in the World” and… welp! I just had to try it, never mind that I don’t even LIKE laundry-fresh scents! So it arrived, in a dented metal jar*, which was an inauspicious beginning , but I figured (again, shrug)… took a shower, put some of the creme on and…
huh.
This is not the Absolute Worst thing I’ve ever tried! That is ‘faint praise’ but hear me out – it’s one of those aldehydic musk scents with a decidedly ‘fresh’ note that I don’t really liiiike – but not that Dreaded Frog Fresh note (which I REALLY don’t like) – more… it’s reminiscent of the original Clean scent from eons ago, which I absolutely loved (hey! I was young!) until I realized it was giving me sinus headaches. So, not quiiite as agressive as that (or White Linen which stomps right through Headache and shoves its stiletto straight into Migraine). There’s also an ‘Aromatic Perfume’ (???) … but that ain’t gonna happen (I like it – but I don’t like it like that)… I did get the shower cream which is great for a shower if you’re not wanting to commit to, say, the heft of an Amouage…and even better for shplotzing a dab into a bucket of water to wash the bathroom floor (seriously)…
so… the ‘Worlds Collide’ title? Whazzup with that, Musette?
Well! You know when you want to wear a perfume but, left to its own devices, it might be a bit too aggressive for the situation (or your nerves)? Mine is almost always No5, either the parfum or the edt (edp smells like a whole ‘nother scent altogether, imo)… if I go whole hog (gel/body oil or creme/scent) I can clear a room – and while that can be Davis/Crawford-level fabulous it’s sometimes not a great thing. But I still wanna No5! So. Enter Tesori d’Oriente White Musk. This (extremely) cheap and cheerful little shower gel and body creme has the ability to both support and slightly tame No5’s olfactory power!!! Who’dathunkit!
And the gel makes a damb fine bathroom cleaner! It really does make my gorgeous new bathroom smell like The Cleanest Bathroom in the World! and that is NOT ‘faint praise’.
I love this stuff!
Yes – I will even wash the chandy with it!
Have you ever ‘tamed’ a beloved-but-strong scent with a cheap and cheerful body creme? How did it go?
Photos: my bathroom!!! I coo at that chandelier regularly. Tesori body cream: stole it off their website. * I don’t think the jars start out dented – but it’s thin metal in wonky packaging… (again with the shrug).
I LOVE the idea of washing up the bathroom with a “clean” scent. You and I (and others I’m sure) are perfectly willing to use fragrance in various off-label ways … I’ve been spraying that Hinoki in the bathroom and all around the living room, thank you!
That Hinoki is GORGEOUS, innit? I am texting my Avon Lady to see if it’s still available!
Gorg chandy! I also need more new bathroom pix for inspo.
Please never mention White Linen again. I’m sure it has a mix of calone & vomit inducing musks. Whatever it drills a hurt big hole through my top palate& adds a carillon of hammers into my sinuses hitting my brain’s vomit inducing cells until I need two days laid in a dark & silent room sipping only water.
Onto better things, weren’t you a fan of Lazy Sunday Morning? Another clean scent, diffusive af but really lovely
OMG WHITE LINEN, UGHHHHHH
Lalalalala… holding nose NOT listening ?
Me, either!!! What’s that called… you know… when a scent memory (!) can make you ill…?
I should know cos that’s what sniffing peppermint does to me. Calone is just a visceral reaction rather than acquired. Gonna have to google the scent memory thing. BRB
Hyperosmia is being super sensitive smells or certain smells.
Also phantosmia is smelling things that aren’t there.
As certain smells can act as triggers in those with PTSD I have self diagnosed that calone & peppermint essential oils are linked to migraine in my traumatised subconscious. Hence they trigger migraines now.
The peppermint I understand. A colleague gave me a peppermint face massage to prevent a migraine developing when I got aura symptoms. Didn’t work & now peppermint triggers migraines.
Calone? Calone just stinks bad. Worse than a locker room full of teens with stinky feet covered in Axe
Sisters! WL is… terrifying!
And yes! I absolutely love LSMorning.
Hmmm… maybe I love clean scents more than I thought..
I cackled out loud in my empty room at Frog Fresh! I need you to expand on that — does it smell swampy? Like what Shrek’s house would smell like? Faintly mildew-ish?
I haven’t ever had a body cream ameliorate a scent and make it less stabby, but I’m delighted that this one did the trick for you.
Oooo, that light fixture is so beautiful! Have you reached the finish line on your bathroom now? What’s the color scheme? I need to live vicariously since my bathroom needs a makeover!
OMG! yes! ( minus the onions)
I promise to bore the SNOT outta y’all as soon as the bathroom is finished- he ( the vaunted Cranky Contractor) just has to install the closet doors and we’re done.
But he’s currently doing the heavy lifting on my porch so ( yk the drill – that shrug emoji is getting a workout!)
I’m with Tom: more bathroom pics!!!!! I don’t wear scented body cream/oil. My skin has a hissy fit if I stray from Cetaphil, requiring anti-itch cream. Interestingly, it’s fine with perfume. Who knows. Maybe the clean aspect of this tames the aldehydes in No 5?
I wonder about that, as well! Also… if ever your skin turns against Cetaphil, try Vanicream. Every dermMD I know loves it – and so do I
I have had the opposite happen to me. The original Bum Bum lotion amps up Courtesan and the Hempz Age Defying caffeine amps vintage BaV or Shalimar or anything musky.
oooh, I love the idea of combining Bum Bum w Courtesan … might put that on right now!
Ha! The minute I read Eldarwen’s comment I thought “hmmm …I’ll bet Missy March will love that combo!”
I have wanted a pendant chandelier forever but it always starts an argument in my house. Yours looks divine.
I ADORE it, Ms A!!
Well you’re more than welcome to blame me. And I’ll blame you for sending me off to Amazon to get the body spray..
Love the bathroom- we need more pix!
Oh, My Little Petunia… once it’s finally done y’all will be BEGGING me to stfUP!