...just before thanksgiving this year. Blue Grass brings her image to me more strongly than anything else. I wish a happy holiday season to all my fragrant friends, and I appreciate all of you who post and share your knowledge of perfume with everyone...

...me it's Timbuktu by L'Artisan. It reminds me of the biblical story of the Magi, bearing their fragrant gifts to the baby Jesus...

...seeking advice from my fragrant people :-)Someone is offering a partial of L'Artisan "L'Eau D'Ambre", and I'm contemplating a blind buy. I really crave a warm blanket type of scent...

...new scents for myself out of what I already own. This past summer, I took a few months to create my own perfume from my own fragrances and my own fragrant oils. It was a labor of love and pure enjoyment of fragrance. The end result was something I can truly call my own.I use all of my fragrances, I...

...no leather listed, I smell it and cumin, osthmanthus. Yasmin asks to sniff osthmanthus from my perfumery notes kit—ah, yes, it’s a bright and fragrant floral halfway between apricot and peach, if perhaps more powerful. Also immortelle, the everlasting flower (wait, wonder if that would work on a...

...remove the labdanum. We are no longer in the land of Chypre de Coty’s hypnotic, languid, animalic, mossy bliss. We are beneath an oak tree in a a fragrant meadow, possibly the best meadow ever. It’s pointless to compare them, like trying to choose between stars and moons. Which do I prefer? Both... returns us to the classic chypre accord, save for bergamot which is no big loss since galbanum, plum and violet stand in for it so well.” Sweetly fragrant cardamon is added to the classical jasmine-rose-iris floral heart. Amber is in the base which is otherwise pure chypre: oakmoss, labdanum, patchouli...

...recognizable individual notes. In this case magnolia, musk, clary sage, horse mint and citruses blend to create a non-synthetic impression of a more fragrant water. Pleasant, light, but for me not really outstanding.L'incendiaire. The arsonist. No notes listed in our database. On his website, SL says he...

...Blond. I’ve looked forward to exploring this one. It means blond suede or pale suede. Wow, dryly beautiful on first sniff. On skin it reeks a fragrant wood of some kind. Must be in the leather note because there’s no wood listed. Instead, it has the curious combination of cardamom, pink hawthorn...

...Sorry to tell you this but you may have a difficult time finding a phalaenopsis that's fragrant. They do exist but they're pretty uncommon. Go for a cattleya if you want something that smells heavenly. :)This is a Beallara orchid called...

...Grey. So glad to hear the poor orchid didn't freeze to death! Sorry to tell you this but you may have a difficult time finding a phalaenopsis that's fragrant. They do exist but they're pretty uncommon. Go for a cattleya if you want something that smells heavenly. :)This is a Beallara orchid called...

...you, Cincy. It was beautiful while it lasted and it was fragrant, too. :/The thing about fertilizing orchids is that if you're going to do it, you also have to flush them out with lots of water periodically...

...is the only floral in this even more musky-resinous-woody spicy scent, vermouth of all things enhancing the top and it works. What a richly fragrant unisex perfume. It's in the same family as the Penhaligon, but more compelling. Mmmm.A final quick sniff of my hands and arms tells me if I buy one...

...d tried either, I expected Incense Rose to smell like this. It smells exactly like a 'hippy' store crammed with incense, potpourri, Indian textiles, fragrant oils and carved trinkets of exotic wood. There's quite a lot of lavender and cedar (ISO E super - a Tauer favourite) along with the rose, resins...

...top note and amber-musk-vanilla base. Instead of florals, it has green spices and woods. Unusual. A man could wear it or a woman who wants to smell fragrant, but not sweet.”KenzoFlower by KenzoTop Notes: Ginger, Lychee, Mandarin, VioletHeart Notes: Camellia, Mimosa, RoseBase Notes: Amber, Patchouli...

...PaulKiler:I'm so amazed by some of your thoughts...it clearly shows what skin types do, or don't do, and what people come expecting when they read certain notes... It's *really* interesting to read your notes...I've read notes for years, and when I get a scent in the mail, many times it's not at all what I expected it to be like... I am so amazed that someone got "Bitter Coffee" from Cafe Diem..., especially when others get hardly any coffee, and they get more sweet rolls to it. hmmm...But I must confess that I don't hardly use any vanilla in my scents, *THE* most popular fragrance element used in the World...I feel like this Cadillac Commercial, (Which the clip cuts off the opening question:) "You know what's the world's favorite Ice Cream Flavor?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTlPQyQ-gY"But if you're in the mood for something tasty, test drive one of these..."I find a sympathetic partner for eschewing filling our lives with Vanilla, in Cadillac, or at least for this one commercial... :-)Hope you all keep smellin' good! PKI don't mean offense for what I said. I wear saccharine sweet scents, so you can imagine my collection is full of fake vanilla sugary sweetness. :P It's a different kind of gourmand than what I am used to in the commercial world.

...I'm so amazed by some of your thoughts...it clearly shows what skin types do, or don't do, and what people come expecting when they read certain notes... It's *really* interesting to read your notes...I've read notes for years, and when I get a scent in the mail, many times it's not at all what I expected it to be like... I am so amazed that someone got "Bitter Coffee" from Cafe Diem..., especially when others get hardly any coffee, and they get more sweet rolls to it. hmmm...But I must confess that I don't hardly use any vanilla in my scents, *THE* most popular fragrance element used in the World...I feel like this Cadillac Commercial, (Which the clip cuts off the opening question:) "You know what's the world's favorite Ice Cream Flavor?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTlPQyQ-gY"But if you're in the mood for something tasty, test drive one of these..."I find a sympathetic partner for eschewing filling our lives with Vanilla, in Cadillac, or at least for this one commercial... :-)Hope you all keep smellin' good! PK

...it will end up smelling like JHAG Vengeance Extreme.Oh Triffid, you are gorgeous, I love the mental picture of Mr and Mrs Triffid dispatching fragrant goodwill to all men, (nankind) even if they're on the moon, what beautiful clear skies you must enjoy, sillage all the way to the space station. You...

...roses in no particular order are Creed Windsor - delicate, clean and a little mentholated which gives it a masculine feel, plain rose oil - very fragrant and inexpensive, and finally Amouage Ayoon al Maha - this is natural and the most beautiful shimmering rose and oud combination ever, synthetic rose...

...Ginger, Pink pepper, Cardamom, Rose, Cinnamon bark, Patchouli, Frankincense, Vetiver, Cedarwood. For me this is the best so far. Warm cardamom and fragrant patchouli lend beauty to this scent, as does bergamot — a citrus hard to overdo. On my skin it grows even prettier. It goes in the final sniffs...

...bearing questions!My hubby took a liking to Lubin's Gin Fizz and since it's going to be his birthday soon, it seems like an obvious choice for a fragrant gift. Unfortunately there's a note in GF that annoys the hell out of yours truly. Can't quite place the rogue component but there it is. So I guess I...