We’re now post the autumn equinox and we’ve decidedly tipped towards autumn here. The middle of the day can still get quite warm but that’s sandwiched between cool mornings, sometimes misty, and evenings that darken earlier, which means cooler too.
The painter finished the front of my house. Lots of washing down, repointing, patching, a couple of new airing bricks. The house was last painted around 10 years ago, I think, if not a few more. That go-round was lavender. This time I’ve gone for silver blue. I live on a busy road and houses that are white or beige look dirty very quickly after repainting, which you can see from the sliver of house on the right side of the pic. That’s my neighbour who isn’t terribly house proud.
Trip into town for haircut (and attempt at new coffee shop, which was totally meh). And, Saturday night was a harvest moon. Beautiful — and a bit spooky.
Un Coeur du Desert is the second to last of my recent round of sampling. I guess I felt like catching up with Tauer’s offer. In any case, however, I recently noticed a new Tauer juice has been released which is based around geranium.
Released in 2016, notes for Coeur include resins, coriander, cedar, ambergris, patchouli and cumin.
The opening of this is classic Tauer, as in classic L’Air du Desert Marocain – this is a sort of flanker to LDDM. But, it has an odd, sort of fascinating, barnyard note, which I wonder is an enhanced leather aspect or just the cumin. Per the notes list, no birch tar, etc, that you would expect to represent leather.
As it warms and opens up, I get L’Air but more intense and less sweet. Strong incense (those resins?), a very gentle whisper of vanilla (not in list).
Very good longevity, as is the case with many Tauers. In the drydown we’re in amber territory. Almost sweet but not tipping over into it. Plush, comforting.
The thing I liked most about this is the hay, barnyard thing. It’s pongy without being too much.
This is available here priced at £165 for 50ml of extrait, which makes it a bargain in the current scheme of things.
It occurred to me after doing Tauer Shadid, this and the Villoresi Sandalo that I am really not wearing these types of perfumes much right now (so, why did you buy the samples, you wonder…).
Yes, Lutens Arabie will still be prominent in autumn (once it’s colder)/winter rotation but I am much more focused on classics and big white florals at the moment. In between samples, I’m doing a load of Divine, Eshal or Shalimar.
What about you? What are your in-between choices for this autumn?
Pics: pexels, mine
WOW! “Divine, Eshal or Shalimar” are three of my faves Cinnamon! Smelling super fine.
We have had spring, summer, autumn, winter and nuclear winter here in Sydney this last week. Sometimes all in one day. It’s made perfume choosing a crap shoot. LOVE IT!
The new steel blue, char blue and white look very fresh.
Portia xx