Weekend Perfume Sync June 2022 through June 2023

[CookBot]

(And I changed into Hermes Hiris from a decant - not an icy scent, but a cool and cooling one)

Good idea. Hiris feels very cool to me too. Now that I think of it, Hermes Osmanthe Yunnan feels cold to me in the same way, but with osmanthus in place of iris.

There is an Ice effect that tickles my brain cells and has my cold senses triggered.
No.18 EDT.

Yeah, I get that. No. 18 feels like an icy gin martini to me, straight up in a sweating glass.

 

[thrilledchilled]

Imagination by Louis Vuitton seems very cooling and refreshing. That is my sync scent

today.

 

[purecaramel]

Good idea. Hiris feels very cool to me too. Now that I think of it, Hermes Osmanthe Yunnan feels cold to me in the same way, but with osmanthus in place of iris.



Yeah, I get that. No. 18 feels like an icy gin martini to me, straight up in a sweating glass.

Are you sure you weren't that girl who used to hang upside with me in the playground?

 

[CookBot]

Are you sure you weren't that girl who used to hang upside with me in the playground?

Pretty sure. I'm enough older than you that when you were still on the monkeybars, I was already out smoking cigarettes behind the gym.

 

[purecaramel]

Pretty sure. I'm enough than you that when you were still on the monkeybars, I was already out smoking cigarettes behind the gym.

I always liked hanging with the older girls, that shot me a Butt here and there.
A paper route earnings only allowed an occasional pack of Player's filter.

 

[LiveJazz]

I forgot to post this past weekend, but I wore:

Slumberhouse Grev - a very strange scent, icy clove, and something briney, and an earthy bitterness, like an alpine bitters. I'm not even sure I like it, really, but it's certainly icy and remote smelling, and somewhat unsettling.

Voyage d'Hermes Parfum - more approachable fare. The opening bright greens and cardamom is distictly cooling, and I swear I detect something like angelica in there, though it's not listed. Also something I perceive as cool. The base sweetens up but always remains chilly and aloof to my nose.

 

[thrilledchilled]

I forgot to post this past weekend, but I wore:

Slumberhouse Grev - a very strange scent, icy clove, and something briney, and an earthy bitterness, like an alpine bitters. I'm not even sure I like it, really, but it's certainly icy and remote smelling, and somewhat unsettling.

Voyage d'Hermes Parfum - more approachable fare. The opening bright greens and cardamom is distictly cooling, and I swear I detect something like angelica in there, though it's not listed. Also something I perceive as cool. The base sweetens up but always remains chilly and aloof to my nose.

Grev is brilliant IMHO.

 

[LiveJazz]

Grev is brilliant IMHO.

There's something very compelling about it. When I sniff the sprayer, there's a moment of revulsion, and then I want to smell it some more, and then put it on, and during the wear it demands my attention. I suppose that's a form of brilliance. Definitely an example of "fragrance as abstract art" and not all art is pretty or easy.

 

[thrilledchilled]

There's something very compelling about it. When I sniff the sprayer, there's a moment of revulsion, and then I want to smell it some more, and then put it on, and during the wear it demands my attention. I suppose that's a form of brilliance. Definitely an example of "fragrance as abstract art" and not all art is pretty or easy.

It conveys a world of ice cold glaciers. To me it is like absolute zero. Astonishing evocation of frigid cold.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Let's get tropical! I can't think of a better scent other than Creed Virgin Island Water

There's probably a couple other good picks, I'll have to brainstorm a bit.

 

[yellowtone]

I was checking this weekend's theme while wearing Guerlain Terracotta, how appropriate for a tropical theme! Heaps of creamy Ylang, a hint of coconut, a twist of lime. Like drinking a very expensive cocktail while lounging on a beach in a very luxurious resort wearing very boogie suntan lotion. I may wear some Hiram Green Moon Bloom later this weekend, a steamy green tuberose that make me think of tropical rainforests. It is a gazillion degrees here so I will for sure stink up the place.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Syncing with Creed Virgin Island Water. Lime, ylang-ylang, coconut, rum, musk.

 

[grayspoole]

I don’t “do” tropical very much, if by that we mean beachy, coconutty, fruity. But my love of floral scents has brought me to appreciate some perfumes with heady, tropical floral notes.

I think Songes EDT was probably my gateway to this type of scent, so I will wear it today. The composition is so well-balanced that my peaty-oakmoss-loving, galbanum-huffing nose can accept the honeyed sweetness of the jasmine and ylang ylang in this.

Note to yellowtone: I smelled a lot of honeysuckle in bloom on my trip to England and loved it! Most spectacularly in the gardens of Hardwick Hall, the Renaissance home of the magnificent Bess of Hardwick but also in ordinary front gardens bordering the sidewalks. I’m not sure that I would be able to discriminate between different varieties, or begin to explicate the differences between honeysuckle and jasmine, but it was a lovely smell. I don’t know why honeysuckle isn’t more frequently grown where I live.

 

[CookBot]

Guerlain Terracotta, how appropriate for a tropical theme!

I came across a sizable decant of Terracotta that I think I bought during a BN sample pass -- or maybe it was for that Turin Quest thread? -- and I sniffed it as a contender for this sync. Uh, big fat NOPE.

Tropical is just not my jam, whether in climate or perfumes, even though I could eat my body weight in mangoes. So I'm going to cheat for this sync and press into service a mid-century chypre that's pretty much tropical in name only:

Fidji by Guy Laroche



Fidji isn't the kind of perfume I usually like, being fairly kitchen-sinkish in the florals department, but they're handled here in an admirably restrained manner, and the classic chypre structure is well maintained with a citrus-galbanum backbone. Also, lovely bottle design on the parfum.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Though owning far more "tropical" (i.e. more pineapple, coconut, vanilla etc. laden/based) scents , just realized inadvertently that the quite randomly chosen Chevignon Brand for Men has little to no sweet tropical notes, yet often got me comments about marine, warm sand, seaweed and/or salty air notes in it-that might be just enough for syncing.

 

[thrilledchilled]

So I am wearing Terracotta Parfum

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Going with Kilian Moonlight in Heaven - It has some grapefruit, mango and coconut, some tropical vibes here.

 

[fanny]

Wearing Pour Femme by Nino Cerruti because of the ylang-ylang, delicious!

 

[yellowtone]

I don’t “do” tropical very much, if by that we mean beachy, coconutty, fruity. But my love of floral scents has brought me to appreciate some perfumes with heady, tropical floral notes.

I think Songes EDT was probably my gateway to this type of scent, so I will wear it today. The composition is so well-balanced that my peaty-oakmoss-loving, galbanum-huffing nose can accept the honeyed sweetness of the jasmine and ylang ylang in this.

Note to yellowtone: I smelled a lot of honeysuckle in bloom on my trip to England and loved it! Most spectacularly in the gardens of Hardwick Hall, the Renaissance home of the magnificent Bess of Hardwick but also in ordinary front gardens bordering the sidewalks. I’m not sure that I would be able to discriminate between different varieties, or begin to explicate the differences between honeysuckle and jasmine, but it was a lovely smell. I don’t know why honeysuckle isn’t more frequently grown where I live.

That's my kind of tropical too grayspoole! I find most coconut scents appalling. If you ever come across a good honeysuckle scent, hit me up!

I came across a sizable decant of Terracotta that I think I bought during a BN sample pass -- or maybe it was for that Turin Quest thread? -- and I sniffed it as a contender for this sync. Uh, big fat NOPE.

Tropical is just not my jam, whether in climate or perfumes, even though I could eat my body weight in mangoes. So I'm going to cheat for this sync and press into service a mid-century chypre that's pretty much tropical in name only:

Fidji by Guy Laroche

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Fidji isn't the kind of perfume I usually like, being fairly kitchen-sinkish in the florals department, but they're handled here in an admirably restrained manner, and the classic chypre structure is well maintained with a citrus-galbanum backbone. Also, lovely bottle design on the parfum.

Idem on the body weight in mangoes. I can imagine a juicy, non sweet, non candy-esque mango note could be excellent in a perfume, much like a well placed overripe peach, but I can't say I've ever come across a scent that manages that.

I am all hot and sticky from a day of house painting in oppressive heat and wearing Moon Bloom in a defiant case of the if you can't beat 'm join 'm

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

For the milkyway, I see two ways to interpret it. First is something that is solar or space related perhaps by the name or looks. Second would be something metallic smelling.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

I have a third interpretation:

There was a very popular chocolate bar in my childhood called Milky Way. I remember we all loved it as kids. However, they stopped selling it in my country quite a few years ago. I haven't seen it for years now.

I might be bad and synch with Lait et Chocolat by Chabaud for the milky and chocolaty Milky Way.

Unless I think of something that feels like made out of stars and from out of space, of course!
(Mugler's cosmic pebble Angel Muse comes into mind, another chocolaty scent! 😀)

 

[yellowtone]

@ClockworkAlice we still have this candybar! It's a fluffy milky mousse-ey soft nougat with milk chocolate, very sweet but quite nice!

Indeed, we are traveling to outer space for this weekend's synch.

Falling stars, black holes, nebula's & meteors, which scent takes you there?

I have to think about what to pick for this one. I feel like I want something that evokes the feeling of lying on the deck of a sailboat at night in a quiet bay somewhere on a Greek island, staring at the darks sky and the twinkling lights and you can hardly tell where the sky ends and the sea begins...

 

[yellowtone]

What do you know, I’m at work atm and in the candy jar I find...

 

[grayspoole]

I’m still thinking, but in the meantime, this song keeps running through my head...

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

What do you know, I’m at work atm and in the candy jar I find... View attachment 275928

A nice dumb reach pick, I'm sure it tastes good let alone smell good.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

I’m still thinking, but in the meantime, this song keeps running through my head...

What we do to revisit the year 1988.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Syncing with Joop Nightflight

 

[fanny]

Synching with Moon Dance, thankfully it's not tropical today

@ClockworkAlice and @yellowtone: Next to Milky Way we have Mars bars, which was my fav in high school:

Tomorrow I'll probably choose Ganymede.

Happy weekend everyone!

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Synching with Moon Dance, thankfully it's not tropical today

@ClockworkAlice and @yellowtone: Next to Milky Way we have Mars bars, which was my fav in high school:

Tomorrow I'll probably choose Ganymede.

Happy weekend everyone!

We do have Mars too!
But I forgot about them as they're my least favourite bars of all 😀
(Yours truly, team Snickers)

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

For a metallic vibe I probably could go for Xerjoff Mephisto or Creed Silver Mountain Water

For space/astrology, for picture I could go with Givenchy Pi. For name perhaps Frederic Malle The Moon or Kilian Moonlight in Heaven.

 

[CookBot]

If anyone still owns this Lagerfeld creation, it would be ideal in concept, if not in smell. It's a Sophia Grojsman product, hence nothing I want anywhere near me.

When it first came out in '94, I bought a bottle for a friend who had a band called the Cosmic Krewe. She loved it. I hated it.

It was much maligned by perfumistas at the time (a super-heavy fruity floral oriental), but now vintage bottles are fetching unicorn prices on eBay, so go figure. I still have a mini lying around somewhere,

 

[knit at nite]

Guerlain Vol de Nuit EdT is the closest I can get on Milky Way
Maybe will wear Alien tomorrow for the far end of the Milky Way

 

[CookBot]

Yes, we still have Milky Way bars all over the U.S., too. Very popular here throughout my entire lifetime, as well as Mars bars.

And Alice, don't you have one of those quarter-moon bottles of Ghost in your collection? That would work for this sync.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Yes, we still have Milky Way bars all over the U.S., too. Very popular here throughout my entire lifetime, as well as Mars bars.

And Alice, don't you have one of those quarter-moon bottles of Ghost in your collection? That would work for this sync.

I don't!
Although I do contemplate blind buying it for the bottle alone from time to time.

I only have a mini of original Ghost and a tester bottle of Ghost Dream, not exactly fitting - unless I would say I'm dreaming about Milky Way.
Hmmm. This might fit too.

Or I'll just wear a chocolate scent for Mars and MilkyWay!

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Going with Creed Silver Mountain Water for the sync. I don't normally wear it but it's the only metallic scent that I could find at the moment.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

Yesterday evening I went with Mugler's Angel Muse EDT - grapefruit, tart berries, chocolate spread, nuts, vetiver and akigalawood that smells similar to patchouli but so much better (well, to me, I'm not the biggest fan of normal patchouli - although I Iike how Chanel does it). Chocolate is for the associations to those MilkyWay and Mars bars!

And all the ads for the Angel Muse EDP and EDT are all in outer space, possibly in Milky Way.
Per marketing legend, the bottle itself is a "cosmic pebble" that flies out there. 🌟

 

[thrilledchilled]

The closest star to us is the Sun. Today’s sync is Sunshine Man by Amouage. It contains “everlasting flower” notes, which is a métaphor for the Great Infinite and Everlasting.

 

[CookBot]

And all the ads for the Angel Muse EDP and EDT are all in outer space, possibly in Milky Way.

Every time I see those ads with Georgia May Jagger in them, all I can think of is Redneck Perfumisto suggesting that Dior should name their newest fragrance Diorthodontist.

Hey, It just dawned on me that Angel Nova would have been a good choice for this sync too. I'm surprised @FiveoaksBouquet didn't think of that, since it's one of her favorites.

 

[FiveoaksBouquet]

Every time I see those ads with Georgia May Jagger in them, all I can think of is Redneck Perfumisto suggesting that Dior should name their newest fragrance Diorthodontist.

Hey, It just dawned on me that Angel Nova would have been a good choice for this sync too. I'm surprised @FiveoaksBouquet didn't think of that, since it's one of her favorites.

You’re right, Cook.bot, Angel Nova would fit right in! I usually only participate in the Friday sync but in a way it could be said I was inadvertently in sync here. I’ve been wearing Le Lion, which is a constellation, and had topped it up with N°5 Body “Cream!”

 

[CuddleCat]

We also still have Milky Way bars here in Australia.

I did sync over the weekend with Moonlight Patchouli by VC&A.