#perfumeblogging

[apenchantforpedantry]

channel no5 really was the smell of my childhood.

[scentedsalamander]

First Look at Eau des Merveilles Bleue by Hermès / 1ere vision de Eau des Merveilles Bleue de Hermès #fragrance #parfum #perfume #olfaction #culture #scents #perfumeblogging #perfumeblog

[byzantienne]

logicalframework replied to your post:perfumeblogging: Serge Lutens Sarrasins

Your perfumeblogging is like reading explicit porn for an alien species.

I win at perfumeblogging

[byzantienne]

tobreakandblossom replied to your post:acroamatica replied to your post:perfumeblogging:...

Linden pls diagnose me a perfume. I do not like floral, I do like amber and heavy/dark vanilla and spice. & you know me.

We’re in Lutens mode today, Talitha, so for you: Ambre Sultan, which is one of the best ambers I know: amber plus herbs and cedar and spice.

(Or, I mean, you could go for Shalimar, but I think it’s actually too much of a thing; Ambre Sultan is a little younger, a little sharper.)

[byzantienne]

acroamatica replied to your post:perfumeblogging: Serge Lutens Sarrasins

you like lutens? me too, but i am a five o'clock au gingembre person. :D

I love Lutens. Gris Claire is my go-to I want to feel safe and beautiful perfume, and Miel de Bois is ... definitely not safe but definitely still beautiful, and I will wear Mandarine Mandarin to every holiday party and fuck people up with the celery seed note, it’s great

also Iris Silver Mist, which I find unwearable but the closest thing that exists to petrichor.

[byzantienne]

perfumeblogging: Serge Lutens Sarrasins

I haven’t done perfumeblogging in ages, but today I got some new samples in the mail and have a sudden need to explain to you all, o tumblr, about the magic of carnations.

So. Serge Lutens Sarrasins is billed as a highly indolic jasmine scent, big white flowers. Indoles -- the aromatic benzene-pyrrole molecules which occur naturally in jasmine (and other flowers, including honeysuckle and lilac) and can be synthesized in the lab, much to the delight of perfume manufacturers -- are the thing that can make a floral perfume smell dirty. Not nice earth dirt, either (that’s iris root): I’m talking about bodily fluids dirt. On perfume blogs ‘indolic’ can often be a shorthand for ‘smells like unwashed sheets after sex’ or even ‘smells like sweat and barnyards’. But indolic is also the scent that you find if you stick your nose in a lily or a jasmine blossom, that prickling sharp rich scent, that’s almost narcotic. It’s a heavy scent; to me it has enormous texture: it smells like the feeling of the inside of orchid petals, that almost-slick high-weave paper feeling, too smooth, too much. It’s great.

Jasmine perfumes are usually the ‘white floral’ that has the most capacity for indolic formulations, and Sarrasins is a jasmine, but it’s a jasmine built around a carnation heart, and oh my god, carnations.

So carnations are also indolic, but they have a core of pepper and cloves. Carnation is far sharper than jasmine, and the combination of the two in Sarrasins is utterly vicious: it transforms the jasmine from hyperfemme flower explosion  (i.e. Fracas, which is a great perfume that I literally can only wear in August while also wearing a sundress, preferably in Covent Garden while drinking gin and tonic, Fracas is so femme it’s a little absurd, Fracas is too much for me, and that is saying something) into -- oh, Sarrasins is a little feral. Still extremely femme, still heavy-slick-flowers, but edged. It’s like -- oh, it’s the cyberpunk version of Fracas, that’s what it is. This is the white flower behind the ear of the glass-and-wires assassin with her reflective eyes.

also the perfume itself is BRIGHT PURPLE.

I might have worn it to work, and I might feel like work is definitely not where I should be wearing this.

More like: a club in a skyscraper, at about one in the morning, having gone up onto the roof to let the sweat from dancing dry in the early-summer chill, with the lights of a city like hot stars, burning.

Something like that.

[ceruleanvulpine]

PERFUMEBLOGGING 2

zomg smells' Dessert Rose, on me, goes on, spends about two minutes in SUPER ROSE TOWN, and then all the rose abruptly vanishes and is replaced by vanilla cake. nice smells, but I wish they were not ships-passing-in-the-night-ing each other

[ceruleanvulpine]

PERFUMEBLOGGING

my sense of smell is not very good. I mean.. I can smell small amounts of things well, but I am very bad at identifying what they are. I am not In Touch With My Nose. so that is the disclaimer.

I have also been trying to find a perfume I actually like for a long time; most of the problem is that lots of stuff makes my nose hurt, especially if I am smelling it constantly. I have turned to ZOMG Smells for tiny samples of nerdily named scents, and have been pleased

today’s experiment is Blue Dwarf Star v 1.0. here is the description:

"Blue Dwarf Star has real blue tansy oil, which is a deep indigo blue and tints the scent in your vials faintly blue-green. I am ridiculously excited and dorktastic about this one, BECAUSE: stars go through life cycles, and I have red musk, blue tansy, white musk, and black musk in this mix to pay homage to that cycle. The other notes holding Blue Dwarf Star together are wormwood, dragon's blood, red resin, and a few uplifting drops of iris, gardenia and hyacinth. It's not exactly a floral, despite this; it's very complex, a little sweet and a little bitter, with a hint of earthy mint from the tansy."

it is SUPER NICE! that is.. pretty much my only comment. uh, it smells like incense. I would wear this frequently. Unfortunately, it is an experimental thing only being sent out as a bonus squee rn, so I will have to wait.

and make notes so I don't forget.