SOTD: Strange Invisible Perfumes Fire and Cream

A celebrateish mood, and some very nice dusty oranges.

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SOTD: Comme Des Garcons Leaves: Tea

Today is an extra grumpy day. I believe in the principle of scent association - that a bad experience can ruin a good scent - so on extra grumpy days I never wear anything from a bottle or even a large decant. Unless, of course, it's a bottle or large decant that I'm trying to persuade myself to declutter.

Instead, I tend to wear scents that I want to talk myself out of. If the scent survives the grumpy, then it's started to prove itself worthy of purchase consideration. If it doesn't, then that's one more bottle that I won't spend money on.

So today, it's Comme des Garcons Leaves: Tea. I have an on-and-off craving for a bottle of this, in spite of its strong resemblance to dry cleaning fluid. So we'll just see how it goes.

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SOTD: Nothing again!

Long weird unscented day.

Tired now.

That is all.

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SOTD: And Sunday, too

No scent today. But another murder mystery. Good trade?

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SOTD: Scentless Saturday

No perfume today. And no sampling. And clouds. But good murder mysteries.

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SOTD: Several

Today started with modern Balmain Vent Vert. This is a scent that I tend to unfairly ignore, because it doesn't approach the glory of vintage Vent Vert. But it's lovely all the same, so why don't I wear it more?

Then I went to Alchemy Botanicals, again, to play with the Dawn Spencer Hurwitz perfumes, again. I re-sprayed Bancha, and while I still love the drydown, I found out that I'm not as big a fan of the first couple of hours. What to do? 

I re-sprayed Tubereuse, and it was, again, gorgeous. It starts out with a fog of tuberose candy mixed with gasoline, and, yes, that is a lovely thing, no matter how it might sound. The gasoline fades over time, leaving the tuberose candy, which is much nicer than other perfume candy.

I already have Parfumerie Generale Tubereuse Couture. I intend to buy Serge Lutens Tubereuse Criminelle. I think that there's at least one other tuberose perfume that I own or intended to own. Just how wrong would it be to buy this?

I also tried Prana. It's interesting. It's puzzling. I got a strongly animalic feel from it, even though it doesn't contain even one animalic note. I suspect that I'm smelling a combination of the cardamom and oud.  Sadly, over time the oud started to dominate, and I really don't like oud. But this perfume comes closer to making me like it than any so far, so I may give it another try.

So, Vent Vert sort of lost the spotlight today. Maybe I'll try it again Sunday.

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Rambling: The high-speed trip from beautiful to tiresome

I went to lunch today, and was served a salad with a very pretty green ribbon of tarragon dressing. I enjoyed the first two or three bites very much. And then I didn't like it one bit.

This is my normal reaction to tarragon - I remember, years ago, a diner that had a chicken salad heavy on tarragon. The first two bites were so very good that I would sometimes get an order just for the pleasure of eating them, and then pick at the rest, or take it home so that I could reset my tastebuds and experience another "first two" bites the next day.

The same is true of salmon. I love smoked salmon. Adore it. Dream about it. But I only eat it at buffets, because the dream is entirely fulfilled in three bites, and then I don't want to see it again for at least a day.

Some perfume notes affect me the same way. I've mentioned more than once that orange blossom is gorgeous for less than a minute, and then it annoys me. Whatever note usually produces grapefruit pleases me for a good five minutes, and then I read it as synthetic. That lime peel note in Sweet Lime & Cedar is lovely for perhaps half an hour, and then it seems to grow and grow until I want to flee.

Is this just me? Do I have naturally fickle tastebuds? Or do you also have some scents and flavors that you adore, and then promptly push away?

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SOTD: Parfumerie Generale L'Eau Rare Matale

So today is L'Eau Rare Matale (delicious burned wood and tea) again. Dark, bitter, and a little grumpy. Yum.

Maybe if I keep wearing this, I'll keep remembering to wear it. If you see what I mean.

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SOTD: Parfumerie Generale Tubereuse Couture

In winter, Parfumerie Generale Cadjmere is my comforting fuzzy scent. I was cranky enough today to consider wearing it, but decided that in warm weather it would be too much like drowning in coconut.

So I put on Tubereuse Couture instead, and found that it has a similar comforting blankety feel. Nice.

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SOTD: None, and The Magic Of Backdating

Tuesday, I didn't wear a scent, and I didn't post about not wearing a scent. Shocking.

Which raises a question: Am I sometimes not wearing a scent because the day feels too busy to write about it?

That would be silly.

I'll have to think it over.

Meanwhile, have a sleepy kitty. I've been saving him for just such an occasion.

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