What did you buy today? (2022)

[Pippin06]

Congrats on those two wonderful purchases!

Thank you, hednic. I appreciate you, and am looking forward to having these in my wardrobe.

 

[DoctorM81]

I thought they were equally good like all the others from the house/

Thanks. It's going to take me a while to get around to these two I think, but I'm up to 5/6 (plus 1 candle...!) from the main line.

 

[Toxicon]

Had birthday gift money, so I purchased Bel Ami and Azemour Les Orangers.

Very cool - I also snagged my first bottle from Parfum d’Empire (Wazamba in my case). Been meaning to try this house for a while.

 

[ajmc]

Jorum Studio Gorseland (blind buy)

 

[Professor Value]

This new-to-me fragrance recently came on my vintage radar, so I nabbed a mini bottle.

CALVIN

 

[exquisitecrops]

Parfum d'Empire - Mal-Aimé


I finally found a bitter green perfume that isn't galbanum-forward.

Mal-Aimé celebrates common invasive plants, so the notes are nettle, fleabane, thistle, bramble, and iris. It smells like crushed foliage - crunchy, watery, bitter, saline - and settles to a slightly bitter dry-rooty iris.

To me it smells like dandelions and daisies, although the thistle is quite pronounced, I haven't seen that note since Jorum's Carduus. It makes me think of foraging, gardening or just going barefoot in grass. This will sit with Ostara and Virgilio as my "summer field" perfumes. Very blissful.

I wish the longevity is better, but I think it's impossible with this genre.

 

[hednic]

Lettre De Pushkar by Ella K 100ml EDP

 

[cazaubon]

Pearlescent Perfumes Baklava & Septamber

 

[N.CAL Fragrance Reviewer]

This new-to-me fragrance recently came on my vintage radar, so I nabbed a mini bottle.

CALVIN

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I received a bottle of this as well from another individual recently, it's not bad.

 

[hednic]

Parfum d'Empire - Mal-Aimé
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Congrats on this buy! It's a real nice one!

 

[Danny Mitchell]

Pinaud Clubman Gent’s Gin!

 

[ChypreInBloom]

I've just bought Guerlain's Shalimar Millésime Tonka. Superb! Dry but not dusty vanilla with the Shalimar DNA, I fell for it straightaway. Actually more wearable than Shalimar EDP, however much I love it still. I have just worn it too long and often now.

 

[Ifti]

Knowing zilch about batches n variations... Got a big Decant of that "Napoleonic" fragrance 😉

2020 batch? Dunno what that means. I get pineapple.
As discussed at much length, hard to prize apart my actual feelings from all the hype, marketing guff, and general skewiff of perceptions.

Is it big in iso e? It's.got that iso nose blind feeling. Never loses the pineapple. Dry woody. Jasmine. Has the base got to mature and bloom?

I really don't know!

A term i didn't coin yet feels right on "a meme fragrance".
Who knows, maybe I'll be blown away? Jury be out!

 

[hednic]

Hasard Bazar by Maison Matine 100ml EDP