Weekend perfume sync June 2023 - June 2024

[sakecat]

I'm a day late on this synch since I was out of town and sans collection this weekend.

The keepers in my collection have a through thread of a sweet musky drydown.
This is true across both the indie oil and the designer/niche sides of my collection.

Eris Perfumes - Scorpio Rising is a good example.
Spices, incense, some greenery with an amazing sweet musky sandalwood base.
Mxxx is an even better example of this thread - but I felt like wearing something a bit drier and greener this morning.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

I will be syncing with Serge Lutens Chergui. Hay, tobacco, honey, woods notes. A perfect scent for transition into fall.

 

[sakecat]

Synch 1 - The Harmonist Royal Earth.
The opening on this reminds me of a Hay EO I encountered at a perfume-making workshop last year.

I miss having Chergui in my collection.

 

[purecaramel]

Hah!
My "Rolling in the Hay" scent is anything Animalic. No.5 EDC late 70's early 80's is what my Girl used to seduce me.
However, I shall be wearing PG Arabian Horse 3.1 which proves Pastoral with a Whisper of Hay bulked Horse Manure, Saddle Soap with a touch of Sweat. Another Leather scent Heeley Cuir Pleine Fleur which somehow carries a Note of Hay.

 

[sagebrush]

I've used up the samples with an obvious hay note, so going for simply autumnal with Etro Patchouly EdT (crisp, brown leaves, inkiness, aromatics) - the time for making hay here is past. Later, I'll wear Nicolai Bois Belize Intense (sample), just to give it an outing, as the notes seem suitable. Or an amber for the golden aspect, perhaps even LADDM.

 

[CookBot]

However, I shall be wearing PG Arabian Horse 3.1 which proves Pastoral with a Whisper of Hay bulked Horse Manure, Saddle Soap with a touch of Sweat.

Oh, I wish I'd thought of that! It made me laugh the first time I wore it and realized it smelled like the hay when it was entering the horse from one end, and also as it smelled exiting the horse from the other. It's a fantastic atmospheric scent; I may have to dig it up and wear some this evening.

I still have a decant of that somewhere. Can't recall whether I got it from you or from @DuNezDeBuzier, bless his absent little heart.

Meanwhile, I had already synced with the hay and dry grasses of the Mediterranean maquis as conjured by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato: Corsica Furiosa from Parfum d'Empire.

 

[purecaramel]

LOL!
Of course, You are right in regards to the in and out of Hay!
I know I sent you a decant, however DuneZ may have sent you some as well!
It really is an unusual and satisfying scent to wear. Not sure if it is pleasant for others to nose on one.
My bottle I had to order from PG direct as it was not stocked by anyone in Canada.
I suspect that is not popular up here and it's asking price was 1.5 times that of regular PG offerings.

 

[sagebrush]

No way was Bois Belize Intense going to harmonise with Etro Patchouly, which is still going strong nearly 12 hours later. Instead, I've added Etro Ambra, for that golden glow (but no hay).

 

[Ken_Russell]

Syncing with Azzaro PH- as a scent that always had, at least to my nose and in spite of/addition to its aniseed qualities, also a very hay like autumnal note (almost like a very earthy combination between earthy, moss and even oak, not just oakmoss, herbal, resinous notes.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

I synched yesterday with my beloved Bohemiens en voyage by Alkemia - hay, iris, tobacco, sugar cane. Hay is very noticeable and the scent feels somehow refreshing. Too bad the small oil bottle is getting dangerously low.

 

[CookBot]

Bohemiens en voyage

Such a marvelous name.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Such a marvelous name.

Absolutely!
A good name is basically half the job to get my attention.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Continuing the sync/nearly post syncing thanks to Sergio Soldano for Men (in its orange bottle version).

Namely as one of the few vintage powerhouse tier male fragrances that, apart from being still readily available inexpensively.
And also containing a certain type of Van Cleef & Arpels PH, Fahrenheit, Guerlain Derby, Drakkar Noir as well as original Drakkar, Bogart/Lapidus, Duc de Vervins (including flankers of each), Versace l'Homme, Floris Elite, Lancetti Uomo and/or Concentree style beast mode male/unisex fougere floral notes, also allows hay like green, mossy, herbal, resinous, earthy hints to pleasantly endure in it and its development.

 

[yellowtone]

I am traveling this weekend, a belated summer holiday, to the Southwest of France. Lots of freshly harvested fields and bales of hay on the way. I had hoped my travel size of St Clair's First Cut would have reached me by now, but unfortunately it has not. That's the best, most poetic hay scent I know; sweet, grassy, tangy goodness. Instead I opted for Tabac Tabou, by Parfums d'Empire, Erich is a hay and narcissus scent to my nose. Beautiful but remarkably short lived. In similar vein, but more leathery than hay like: Mont de Narcisse by L"Artisan. Not talked about much, but a beauty.

 

[yellowtone]

Buckle up, we're going Wuthering Heights this weekend! I thought I had put myself in trouble, seeing as a I only grabbed a box full of random samples to take with me on my holidays, and my full wardrobe does not even contain many scents that particularly scream 'Heathcliff!!!', but for some strange reason I found a great option in my limited sample stash: MDCI's Chypre Palatin. A murky, prickly, brooding fougere-amber with lots of difficult (to my nose at least) immortelle... I am stoked! Now what is everyone else going to select?

 

[sagebrush]

CdG Black; which also continues the Friday Synch of mystery. Has to be fairly restrained, as I am working all day and evening today.

 

[JoM68]

Along the lines of of tortured, rather than tantrums, I've gone with Les Abstraits - La Douleur Exquise (The Exquisite Pain) explained by Eugen as: Who among us has not experienced the pain of loss mixed with the memory of love, transforming into the paradox of sweet torment?

 

[fanny]

Decided to go for complex and dramatic: Opera by Sospiro

 

[CookBot]

Who among us has not experienced the pain of loss mixed with the memory of love, transforming into the paradox of sweet torment?

Wow, that could not possibly be more Heathcliffish.

I am stoked! Now what is everyone else going to select?

Man, I really did my homework for this sync. But I'm waiting til tomorrow for the reveal.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Syncing with C&E Sandalwood.

While this fragrance may seem less dominated by Heathcliff's and/or WH sense of style, personality and/or edginess, far more likely fitting into the far more civil, mild, gentrified style of Thrushcross Grange.
As well as by extension to the mood of the thousands of kilometres apart (albeit Irish/traditionally British inspired) Old South of the US, as well as more of Jane Austen rather than the Bronte sisters-embodied in a fragrance.

Happening to so far enjoy this highly underrated classic worthy of Byronic heroines and heroes as one of the BEST and up to now wisest scent buying choices.

Even more so, taking the liberty to celebrate the amazingly wonderful heights of the current sync with a few musical tributes to this outstanding and so exquisitely linguistically, literary, musically gifted, talented fragrance community with a few (likely/hopefully sync appropriate choices) with some musical tributes.
Along of the lines marked by ideally most, if not all creations worthy of the current sync, like:

With many thanks in advance, feel free to enjoy and/or comment.