As it turns out, it’s difficult to get back into the habit of trying a new perfume every day once you break your streak for too many days and working a lot doesn’t really encourage me to wear fragrances. I actually have a post I need to make from a few weeks ago when Erika and I tried the same fragrance and compared notes. I’ll hopefully be able to post that in a week or so (it requires going through a video we took, maybe editing it?)
To bring myself back from my Not Wearing Scents hiatus, I’m wearing Iris Prima, a Penhaligon’s fragrance.
This one is a little powdery but in a really subtle way and I actually am on board with it in this unlike in many other scents. I think it would be very different if a little old lady was wearing it vs. me, an androgynous youth, wearing it.
One of the reasons I don’t like wearing perfume to work, even really subtle scents like this (and it is! It’s very subtle, which I have come to expect from Penhaligon’s), is my inability to dress for the scent. Like, I’m already dressed for work (currently wearing velvet pants and a dark green and blue flannel button down) and it just doesn’t jive with Iris Prima. This is a scent that I’d either want to wear with very light colors OR with dark colors but a pretty feminine look.
I know the idea behind Iris Prima is ballet, hence the powder and floral, and I feel that. Like it conjures an image of a ballerina getting flowers after opening night. So it works better as a nighttime scent than the majority of feminine fragrances I’ve smelled in the past. Something about floral usually just screams day time to me, probably because gardens.
Here’s the full description from Penhaligon’s:
Iris Absolute. The regal Prima Ballerina. Delicacy in her every movement. The precision is resolute. On stage the lights go up with bergamot. A flood of radiant transparency. A whirl of pink, the energy of peppercorn and amber pirouettes make the whole rounded, arrondi. From the wings, the Iris makes an entrance, reaching high to bow down low, lofty softness and powdery grace, but Orris root must come back to earth. A pas de deux with Himalayan Jasmine. Majestic femininity, the strength of flight. Leather hints at the back stage preparations:
the flesh of ballet shoes that fall and rise point-to-point on sandalwood.
Vanilla and benzoin remind us that we are also skin to skin.
Haha yeah my nose is not picking up on all of that. I think the fruit-but-not-fruit smell may have been bergamot. And I think the leather is the thing I haven’t even mentioned yet because I couldn’t put my finger on it? Maybe benzoin? To be fair I’ve never smelled benzoin independently so. Who knows.
I think I might give this to Rebecca as a gift because ballet and also I think it would suit her very nicely!! I think the soft feminine parts of me are more suited for the outdoorsy scents that make me feel like I’m running through flowers, and Iris Prima definitely feels like it is made up of indoor environmental components.
Fête des Mères : Penhaligon's nous livre ses coups de coeur
Fête des Mères : Penhaligon’s nous livre ses coups de coeur
Quand on est maman, ce que l’on souhaite, c’est que son enfant soit heureux, évolue librement, ait de belles valeurs, réussisse sa vie, que ses rêves soient réalisés. Un enfant pour une maman reste toujours son bébé et l’amour est toujours là, aussi fort qu’au premier jour.
Je suis fille et je suis aussi maman. J’ai gâté ma maman et j’ai été aussi gâtée en tant que maman. D’ailleurs, mon plus…
Taze ve şeffaf bergamot ile perdeler açılır; sitrus notası ile baş balerin spot ışıkları altındaki zarif yürüyüşünü yapar..
Yeşil amber, tıpkı parmak ucundaki bir balerin gibi, ışıldayan pembe biberle birlikte etkiyi ve kontraslığı yumuşatıyor.
Hemen sonrasında yaseminle birlikte zambak, pas de deux ile sahneye giriş yapan dansçıyı sıcaklığı ve zerafetiyle sarıyor.
Pointe ayakkabıyı anımsatan deri notası ve sandal ağacı ile ışıkların dokunuşu, vetiver, vanilya ve benzoin ile antik tiyatronun ruhunu canlandırılıyor.
