Weekend perfume sync June 2023 - June 2024

[sakecat]

Had a few options - though none with peony as a note.
I decided to continue my personal 21st century fruity floral comparo.
That family of scents scream "I'M PINK, FRILLY, AND PEOPLE PLEASING DAMMIT"

I had peonies in my yard that were absolutely beautiful for a couple of weeks and were a floppy mess the rest of the year.
Contemporary fruity-florals remind me of those peonies - interesting for a short time (usually the top and heart), then a floppy mess (the drydown).

Today's choice - Givenchy Irresistible

Pear top, pink rose heart with a touch of iris, slightly caramelized woody contemporary aromachemical musk drydown.
Differentiators from the rest of the family - a touch of the powdery iris note throughout and the rose in the heart.
Doesn't seem as shouty as her cousins on my skin.
Didn't survive a night wearing when I did my initial test.
Which is a good thing.

 

[Pheusinger]

https://basenotes.com/fragrances/eau-de-rochas-homme-by-rochas.26120516

 

[ClockworkAlice]

I have quite a fair share of pink and frilly fragrances - which amuses me as I do not consider myself a pink and frilly girl, but something about happy and fun scents keeps calling me, I guess?

However, I do not have that many with PEONY note, although I do like the flower. It's one of my mom's favourites, and they always bloom around our birthdays in June, so it always makes for a lovely present. Peonies in my area also tend to smell nice, too, or at least I do like the smell. However, perfume wise I vastly prefer roses.

I do have a few that both feature peony and are pink or somewhat pink - and that's L'Extase Caresse de Roses by Nina Ricci and Idylle EDT by Guerlain. Idylle is more creamy and elegant than pink and frilly, but it's definitely girly/feminine and pretty, I'll save it for tomorrow. L'extase caresse de roses is a very soapy rose/peony scent with some lily of the valley, too. It's definitely blush pink (and the bottle is lightly pink, too!), but I'd say it's also more elegant and mature than frilly, vivacious and screamingly girly. So I'm wearing this soapy, pink and peony-filled L'extase flanker today and topping it up with something that's truly pink, frilly and girly - the original pink La petite robe noire by Guerlain!

 

[CookBot]

My only (known) peony scent is also one of very, very few girly scents I own. It might be more 'womanly' than 'frilly', but it's definitely seductive. I think it might be what Nigella Lawson's bosom would smell like. I bought it because of Luca Turin's review, and because I didn't own a prominent rose scent at the time and thought I should, but didn't want to spend much money on it.

...this brilliant Michel Almairic composition turns out to be a landmark, among the first of a recent slew of transparent roses and one of the best.... a clean rosewater note and huge musk give it a down-pillow softness that make you want to go back every hour and spray some more. Makes a superb masculine.​

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Because it gets so little use (and because of its fugly bottle), it spends its life inside its box at the very back of my cabinet. Today it smells so good to me that I'm going to leave it out and wear it again very soon.

Cabaret by Grès

 

[Ken_Russell]

While not containing peonies (at least NOT as officially shown/displayed specific note) in its composition, still decided to wear Habit Rouge.

As a near ideal choice for an, at once indeed, both big, pink (ish) hued and somewhat still frilly option.

Likely among the few male/unisex appropriate floral scents that became classics in an enjoyable-albeit also in minimally or NOT peony dominated way.

 

[sakecat]

Day 2 of pink and frilly weekend (she states as she wears sweats and a T-Shirt with a cow on a surfboard screaming Cowabunga!)

Dior - Sakura.

What I would expect a box of expensive dryer sheets with a big peony on the front to smell like.

 

[yellowtone]

Got my Big Pink Frilly on, aka Etro Dianthus, and will be spending the day gardening. Whilst it is mostly a clove-carnation scent, there is also orange and a slight rose note in the opening to fill it out.
In reality, it's not the biggest, showiest carnations that have the best scent (these days they're bred for looks not fragrance), but rather the smaller, plainer pinks.

Those look great! I'm guessing most cut flowers are bred for looks only, it's unfortunate.

That family of scents scream "I'M PINK, FRILLY, AND PEOPLE PLEASING DAMMIT"

Today's sync scent yells exactly that, and it's relentlessly optimistic to boot. It's Anick Goutal' s Rose Splendide, a big pink frilly rose if I ever met one. This brand also has a rose called Rose PomPon, which I imagine would fit the category even better* but I have never smelled it.
*It does, I just looked up the not pyramid and it actually has peony in it! I mean come ON

Because it gets so little use (and because of its fugly bottle), it spends its life inside its box at the very back of my cabinet. Today it smells so good to me that I'm going to leave it out and wear it again very soon.

Cabaret by Grès

That is indeed a hideous bottle, brrrr....

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

One that I used to own Neil Morris A rose is a rose had a prominent peony note. A nice aromatic floral with rose and amber.

 

[yellowtone]

This weekend...

June 17 & 18 - Roaring 20s - Scent your 20ies, the current 20ies, or the ones from the previous century, it's up to you

What did you wear in your 20s? Or what fragrance from the 20s will you pick?

I wore only 2 fragrances in my 20s: Chanel No. 5, and YSL Babydoll. The latter I wore last weekend, so I'm picking the former, which coincidentally also was issued in 1921! I have also scoured my scent wardrobe for some options that came out in the last 3 years, and I have found the gorgeous Jasmin Antique (2020), and Heeley's L'Amandiere EdP (2020).

 

[CookBot]

I wore only 2 fragrances in my 20s: Chanel No. 5, and YSL Babydoll. The latter I wore last weekend, so I'm picking the former, which coincidentally also was issued in 1921!

So in your 20s you vacillated between teenybopper and femme fatale. Interesting.

I might have to join you in some of that No.. 5, since I haven't worn it in ages -- but I definitely did NOT wear it in my 20s.

 

[yellowtone]

So in your 20s you vacillated between teenybopper and femme fatale. Interesting.

YES!!! Omg that is the best summary of my 20s I've ever heard, hahaha! I was so all over the place.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

This weekend...

June 17 & 18 - Roaring 20s - Scent your 20ies, the current 20ies, or the ones from the previous century, it's up to you

What did you wear in your 20s? Or what fragrance from the 20s will you pick?

I wore only 2 fragrances in my 20s: Chanel No. 5, and YSL Babydoll. The latter I wore last weekend, so I'm picking the former, which coincidentally also was issued in 1921! I have also scoured my scent wardrobe for some options that came out in the last 3 years, and I have found the gorgeous Jasmin Antique (2020), and Heeley's L'Amandiere EdP (2020).

I can say I have a very hard time relating to anything in the 2020s, too much of a generation gap.

For the 1920s here's what I have available to look at:

Chanel:
- No 5 (1921)
- No 22 (1922)
- Cuir de Russie (1924)
- Gardenia (1924)
- Bois des Iles (1926)

Guerlain:
- Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat (1920)
- Rue de La Paix (1922)
- Shalimar (1925)
- Djedi (1926)
- Liu (1929)

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Syncing with Chanel Cuir de Russie perfume extrait

 

[yellowtone]

That's a beauty @N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer, and it looks vintage, is it? I've never tried vintage Cuir de Russie, is it very different from today's EdP and the former EdT?

I am wearing double helping of No. 5 today, vintage extract from (I think) the 70ies, topped with the EdT. The EdT is how I got to know No. 5 and what I wore during my 20ies, but the EdT today is quite different from what I wore in the 90ies; it's lacking depth and that certain je ne said quois that had me addicted to smelling my own wrist. Layering vintage extract gives the current EdT some oomph, but still it is not quite the same as the old EdT.

 

[sakecat]

Wearing my signature scent from high school through my 20s - CK Obsession

I wish this poor girl had aged better.
The current formulation is sharp, thin and rubbery.
I hope Calvin Klein revisits this scent and tries again - or puts this poor girl out of her misery.

I need to figure out how to salvage the evaporated 1986-era mini...
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Edited to add - Got motivated and decided to attempt an experiment. Details in the Vintage SOTD thread.
Cleaned the 1986 mini with my arm.
So now I smell like concentrated vintage Obsession + new obsession, amplifying the new tire smell found in both.
Smells better than it sounds.

 

[fanny]

For today I am wearing vintage Mitsouko EdT, I should wear it more often. 💚
Since I have not yet made a picture of this beauty all by herself, here's a tray where she is sitting in the background.

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

Gonna go with my fave recent flanker from Hermès - from 2022.

Terre d'Hermès Eau Givrée​

It's perfect this time of year!

 

[CeeTee]

Well, not sure if this counts, but right now I’m wearing Alien, Thierry Mugler (only because I found a vintage“ and wanted to test for ”legitness“.) I sprayed it last night, so of course, it’s still on my wrists.

It came out in 2009, if I’m not mistaken. This one I just got is supposed to be from 2015, pre-eformulation in 2016. I think it could be legit….but. I was hoping to get the awesome golden “solar note” vibe it used to have. It’s been so long, I can’t really recall It exactly. The jasmine/grapey-ness was always a cool feeling, but there was just something about it that simmered.

It doesn’t seem to have it, but I get the feeling that some of it could have burned off. It is almost 10 years old, so…I guess that’s possible. It’s also possible I was duped. People really can pull off anything these days. It’s a little sweet like the 2016. Anyhooo.

I’ll do something from the 20s later, once I peruse my collection.

 

[Ken_Russell]

While having initially considered to join this wonderful sync with Knize Ten-one of the few scents from this age do own, eventually chose Sandawood by Crabtree & Evelyn, one of the best fragrance discoveries ever had (and worn) during my mid to late 20s.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Syncing again with Guerlain Liu, haven't worn this is a long time - might as well have a go for this occasion.