Weekend Perfume Sync June 2022 through June 2023

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Not sure here. Ink smells may be appropriate!

September 9 & 10

That new book smell

Back to work or school with some fresh supplies

I got nothing for this one.

Only thing I can think of is scents appropriate for wearing to work or school.

What would you wear to class if you were a teacher/professor?

What to wear if you went to the office as an employee?

 

[Cook.bot]

Fahrenheit EdT really does evoke the smell of my newest, as yet unworn, dance shoes.

This was my biggest surprise on Basenotes this week. Nothing I've ever read by you would have led me to think you were a dancer.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Great sync choices everyone!

While both out of school for many years and simultaneously not highly eager to return either as a student nor even as teaching staff, still wearing Chevignon Brand both as a recollection to most of the high school and university years, as well as towards the better vintage as well as current formulation scents that might work for this requirement/occasion.

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

I went with my last half-drop of Neil Morris Vanille Rosé. This fragrance has a strong "old book" vanilla note. I often carried old books to school, as my supplemental reading in high school, and I enjoyed wearing this scent to work.

 

[sagebrush]

This was my biggest surprise on Basenotes this week. Nothing I've ever read by you would have led me to think you were a dancer.

 

[filledoux]

Any thoughts on Commodity’s “Paper”, Demeter’s “Paperback” or the hyped Powell Bookstore’s “Powell” ? As a bookworm, this weekend’s sync definitely peaked my interest as I love that particular smell.

 

[Cook.bot]

or the hyped Powell Bookstore’s “Powell” ?

Didn't know this existed!!

 

[yellowtone]

I see some good ones here! So what will I pick? I don't have anything that literally smells like old books so I'll go more abstract with the theme.

I don't want to wear what I wore to school (Chanel no. 5), as I also wore it consistently throughout my 20s and early 30s, so it's not specific enough. When I was teaching at university I wore whatever I liked, so that's no help.

I think I'll be embracing dark academia vibes, and pick a scent that would feel right at home in a dimly lit, wood panelled library, reading a leather bound copy of The Secret History while the rain is beating down on the gothic windows... You get the picture. Mona di Orio's Carnation would feel appropriately moody and classical.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

If I was a school teacher or a professor at a university, I probably could see myself reaching for Ralph Lauren Polo

 

[yellowtone]

September 16 & 17

Osmanthusgeddon

Bring your best Osmanthus

Time flies and Osmanthusgeddon weekend is already upon us! Funny how I placed this in fall, where the only Osmanthus fragrances I have I associate with spring, but there you go. I'll wear my favourite osmanthus scent tomorrow, Qi by Ormonde Jayne, which smells like Japanese green tea, supple suede and apricot skins; delicate yet present.

I know we have some Osmanthus lovers among us so let's hear which one takes the cake for you.

 

[Cook.bot]

I know we have some Osmanthus lovers among us

You bet your sweet apricots we do! It's the only floral I love whole-heartedly. And I've been on a two-week perfume sabbatical so am really looking forward to pouring on some osmanthus this weekend.

Like you, I'll wear Qi at some point, but my main love is Hermes Osmanthe Yunnan. I also have some decants of other ozmanz so will probably audition those as the spirit moves me.

I also live in a place where osmanthus trees abound, and this is the main season for blooming, so your placement of it on the schedule works perfectly for me. (Around here they're called Sweet Olive or Tea Olive trees, and you can smell their delicious scent from many yards away.)

 

[grayspoole]

Put me down as another osmanthus lover. I don’t have many of the recent scents with osmanthus notes, but I usually manage to pick up osmanthus within the complex floral brew that is vintage Patou 1000, so I will wear that today.

Not actually sniffing osmanthus, but close enough.

 

[LiveJazz]

Wearing my beat up but well loved Patou 1000 EDT as well:



Osmanthus isn’t often a note that agrees with me in its sweeter / apricot-suede cladding, but I love it in a more structured context like this.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

I don't have anything in mind for Osmanthusgeddon.

 

[Cook.bot]

Osmanthus isn’t often a note that agrees with me in its sweeter / apricot-suede cladding, but I love it in a more structured context like this.

When it's very prominent, It does seem to lean more toward the feminine side of scents. With its tea aspect amped up, or when swirled into a leathery floral blend like Patou 1000, it seems more acceptable to the gents.

I'm starting out by joining @yellowtone in Osmonde Jayne's Qi. This is a pretty straightforward osmanthus with lots of smoky tea, which might have shared top billing with my Osmanthe Yunnan (and exceeds it in longevity), except for the fact that it has a neroli note that keeps creeping up on me, and that's one of my kryptonite florals.

Later I'm going to give another wearing to Dyptique's Kimonanthe, a decant of which I got from @HouseOfPhlegethon. She's very enthusiastic about it, and I might have been also except for a camphorous smell that keeps wafting in and out of it. It deserves another try, though.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Finally managing to join the weekend sync with Osmathus Interdite by Parfums d'Empire- one of the (far) better and more crafty niche/alternative/exclusive unisex ones that manage to render osmanthus notes on an likely impressive level

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

I have at least 3 osmanthus scents. Will start later tonight!!!

 

[yellowtone]

Put me down as another osmanthus lover. I don’t have many of the recent scents with osmanthus notes, but I usually manage to pick up osmanthus within the complex floral brew that is vintage Patou 1000, so I will wear that today.

Not actually sniffing osmanthus, but close enough.

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Who is this gorgeous ginger?

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

I am now in a massive cloud of Tea Olive (cologne) by Hové Parfumeur of New Orleans.


This is a very enjoyable floral, transparent, clean, and uplifting, but it is nuclear strength, even in the cologne, and lasts forever. One of Hové's best sellers!

 

[grayspoole]

Who is this gorgeous ginger?

I just found this kitty on the Internet!

 

[ClockworkAlice]

I was actually waiting for Osmanthusgeddon to happen!
I fell in love with the osmanthus scent in perfumery so easily - it was the first flower that I truly liked and could not get enough of! And, sadly, I haven't smelled the real thing yet. I don't think we have any osmanthus where I live. :/
So, I'm a big lover of this lovely soft peachy flower, but I'm definitely no connousseur.

Yesterday afternoon I wore Osmanthus by L'Occitane from a sample - it's a bright, fruity, very peachy osmanthus. It's a light and slightly springlike scent and very easy to wear. I truly enjoy it, but maybe not enough to get a full bottle - I guess the sheer volume of my collection is keeping me at bay a bit. It is quite similar to Osmanthus by Molinard which is also peachy and airy, but I'd say Molinard is brighter, maybe slightly citrusier and L'Occitane is slightly sweeter and fluffier, more feminine. However, I haven't tested them together and writing it out from memory, so take my words with a pinch of soil.

Yesterday night I applied a little bit of my beloved Love Osmanthus by Atelier Cologne - I really enjoy this, however, I'd say peachy and airy osmanthus plays only a supporting role in this scent, because Love Osmanthus is really about the lemon and the cedar. It could be called Love Lemon or Love Lemon & Pencil Shavings and this would be very close to the truth. The scent might remind you of a variation of Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue as it does have a very similar scent profile, but I'd say Love Osmanthus is more nuanced and I like it better (again, talking from memory). But the peachy, lovely osmanthus does round the scent out and gives a perfect soft transition from a tart, sharp lemon to the cedary base.

Today I'm in a little cloud of scent that started it all for me - Narciso Rodriguez For Her EDT. It's a soft, dreamy, fluffy, rounded, only very slightly peachy (just to give it the tactile softness) osmanthus & orange blossom over the bed of musks with some woods and vetiver to accompany them. The scent is very linear and it's not easy to pick out the notes, but if you really squint your eyes you can feel the vetiver, the woods, the soft florals and the musks playing together. When I first tried it, my eyes rolled back and I just had to have it. And after reading this has osmanthus, I also started looking for this flower in other scents, too. I still love it.

 

[Cook.bot]

I was actually waiting for Osmanthusgeddon to happen!
I fell in love with the osmanthus scent in perfumery so easily - it was the first flower that I truly liked and could not get enough of! And, sadly, I haven't smelled the real thing yet. I don't think we have any osmanthus where I live. :/
So, I'm a big lover of this lovely soft peachy flower, but I'm definitely no connousseur.

Alice, I think the osmanthus tree requires more of a tropical climate than your region could provide it. It might be a greenhouse plant in some places, though. The scent in the air around the blooming tree is truly something to experience, and in our humid air the smell just hangs in air so thickly that it seems almost palpable.

Even though it's a crazy-expensive Hermessence offering, you should really make an effort to get a sample of my sync scent today, Osmanthe Yunnan, because it offers the smell I find most realistic to the blooms themselves, and I think you'd love it. Jean-Claude Ellena strongly emphasized the black tea aspect of the osmanthus flowers, and that smoky aspect is the perfect counterpoint to the apricot-like fruit.

I haven't tried nearly as many of the other osmanthus offerings on the market as I should have, because this one just stopped me in my tracks.

 

[thrilledchilled]

My heart was happy when I saw the theme. I love osmanthus. I have a number of them. Now I have to decide which one to sync with.

 

[sakecat]

Decided to play along this afternoon with SL Nuit de Cellophane.
To me, the osmanthus in this scent leans more leathery in combination with jasmine.
Then my skin begins to amp up the soap.

 

[thrilledchilled]

 

[Cook.bot]

I wonder how different this is from Ormonde Jayne's Qi?

 

[yellowtone]

From the review ClareV did I gather that Qi smells more like osmanthus than Osmanthus does....

 

[yellowtone]

Alice, I think the osmanthus tree requires more of a tropical climate than your region could provide it. It might be a greenhouse plant in some places, though. The scent in the air around the blooming tree is truly something to experience, and in our humid air the smell just hangs in air so thickly that it seems almost palpable.

Even though it's a crazy-expensive Hermessence offering, you should really make an effort to get a sample of my sync scent today, Osmanthe Yunnan, because it offers the smell I find most realistic to the blooms themselves, and I think you'd love it. Jean-Claude Ellena strongly emphasized the black tea aspect of the osmanthus flowers, and that smoky aspect is the perfect counterpoint to the apricot-like fruit.

I haven't tried nearly as many of the other osmanthus offerings on the market as I should have, because this one just stopped me in my tracks.
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I would love to smell that! I always think of osmanthus as quite a light floral, either watercolourey or a bit leathery, so the real thing having a thick, palpable smell seems surprising

 

[yellowtone]

It's harvest moon weekend! Which refers to the full moon closest to the fall equinox, and apparently this year's harvest moon was already here on September 10th, but oh well!

I am coming to the conclusion that I don't really have any specific fall fragrances, that is, I have a selection of scents that I only like to wear when the weather is colder, and of those scents the sweeter ones I do reserve for the depths of winter, but none of my scents have a specific fall association. I do have very specific spring and summer scents, and can even make the distinction between early summer and late summer scents, isn't that odd?

This weekend I'll go with a late summer scent (August comes to mind) because it reminds me of warm golden light and very ripe peaches, so it seems fitting enough for the harvest part of this weekend's theme. The scent is Promesse de l'Aube and it's a stunningly rich sandalwood/jasmine/peach concoction.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Considering either something smelling very ripe, heavy with autumnal incense notes or, on the contrary, something rather airy, ineffable, quite light yet still distinctively noticeable though smooth for the harvest moon weekend sync

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

Harvest moon...Harvest mooning?

For fragrances, I suppose anything that makes reference to a moon?

Kilian Moonlight In Heaven and Frderic Malle The Moon come to mind.

 

[ClockworkAlice]

I thought for a while how to go about this - at first I thought wearing something with hay or autumnal fruit notes for the harvest, but then I chose Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria Pamplelune - because it's a deep, dark grapefruit that I like wearing in the colder months (although I'm not sure when grapefruits are harvested; I have only picked citruses in supermarket. My Google search told me from autumn to spring, so maybe they're not really ripe yet), and because its name is Grapefruit Moon, of course.

I might wear La danza delle Libellule by Nobile 1942 (because of the prominent apple note paired with cinnamon and vanilla - we do all bake lots of apple pies after apple harvest in September, don't we?) or Le Roy Soleil by Salvador Dali (because of the overripe fruity opening with pineapples, peaches and other stonefruit, also paired with cinnamon and ambery resins) tomorrow.

 

[yellowtone]

@ClockworkAlice grapefruit moon made me chuckle, perfume names become a bit less poetic whens translated, don't they? I still haven't smelled Pamplelune, even though I suspect I will like it.

@N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer if you manage to harvest moon us with your fragrance pick I will be much impressed...

I also though of hay for this weekend. I like the idea of a hay scent but so far most hay classics have disappointed me, until I smelled St Clair's First Cut. It an excellent hay fragrance that has something bittersweet that's just so moorish, especially in the opening. I'll drain my sample this wekend and contemplate buying a bottle, something I rarely do these days.

Now I'm off to remove my old fridge and place a new one... thoughts and prayers!

 

[ClockworkAlice]

@ClockworkAlice grapefruit moon made me chuckle, perfume names become a bit less poetic whens translated, don't they? I still haven't smelled Pamplelune, even though I suspect I will like it.

Hehe, it's still very poetic to me! Tom Waits, one of my musical and lyrical loves, has a song by this name:


Grapefruit moon, one star shining, shining down on me
Heard that tune, and now I'm pining, honey, can't you see?
'Cause every time I hear that melody, well, something breaks inside
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining, can't turn back the tide
Never had no destinations, could not get across
You became my inspiration, oh but what a cost
'Cause every time I hear that melody, well, something breaks inside
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining, is more than I can hide
Now I'm smoking cigarettes and I strive for purity
And I slip just like the stars into obscurity
'Cause every time I hear that melody, well, puts me up a tree
And the grapefruit moon, one star shining, is all that I can see

Now I'm off to remove my old fridge and place a new one... thoughts and prayers!

Best luck to you!

 

[Cook.bot]

I live in a place where, for more than a century, "harvest" meant "tobacco". Both North and South Carolina were the most prolific tobacco-growing areas in North America. At this time of year, all the tobacco leaves would have been stripped from the plants and now be strung up in bunches to "cure" in an open-sided tobacco barn. I'm sure we can all imagine what the smell of walking into one of those places would have been like.

Now, of course, the tobacco growing industry is mostly a memory. Many of those old metal-roofed barns still stand in places around where I live, but they've mostly been converted into things like antique shopping malls, big car repair shops, and auction halls. Because their metals were untreated, they oxidized and patinated in colorful ways, and people have repurposed them creatively; my boss bought a salvaged roof and had it made into her chicken coops.

I'm going to wear Feuille de Tabac by Miller Harris for a harvest sync scent. It's not a big, dark masculine fragrance such as we usually associate with a tobacco smell. It's more the scent of a green, uncured tobacco leaf, somewhat herbaceous, with a bit of sharp spice bite. It winds down into a mild, pleasant sweetness from tonka that gives it a well-mannered and gentlemanly smell.

I know this only lasts about three hours, so after a while I may give it an overcoat of vintage Havana by Aramis, just so I can feel like that green tobacco got cured and is now a rich, dark brown.

 

[Tea_Lilly]

I'm wearing Treacle by Pineward from a sample.
Perfumer Notes state: Tobacco, lapsang souchong, molasses, raisin, honey.
My take: This is a sweet, smoky tea with tobacco. Definitely smells like breakfast consisting of lapsang souchong and a raisin bagel topped with honey. It's nice but it may be too sweet, but my husband liked it. So I am sure I'll try it again. Quite comforting - good use of smoke.

 

[Redneck Perfumisto]

My Friday sync scent, Midnight Amber Glow, by B&BW, would have been great for this sync, too, but now I've switched to their new fall "masculine" Coffee & Whiskey, which is perhaps some kind of tropical harvest plus moonshine, but that's all a bit of a stretch.

It's a great scent, and I'll review it later, but for now, I'll just say that it fits the name quite well.

 

[Ken_Russell]

Great sync choices everyone.
Chose for some (so far difficultly definable, yet also quite personal) reason Sandalwood by Crabtree & Evelyn for the current sync-as a fragrance of both Harvest Moon mystery and richness at once, in a fascinatingly Old School style formulation.

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

I have a sample Frederic Malle The Moon on hand so that's what I'll be going with. It works well for the evening.

 

[thrilledchilled]

Journey Man is my synch. It’s rude and strong. And Fallish.