Leathers...
Chanel Cuir de Russie
A loving embrace and a glimpse of the privileged life. Notes: iris, Birkin bag, expensive lipstick, trust funds.
Lanvin Scandal
A surprising rush of endorphins, hitting like the snap of a whip, brought on by a kiss from a great-smelling, cashmere-sweatered stranger. Notes: floral bouquet, leather whip.
Luscious iris...
Chanel No. 19
Too perfect to be loveable, too haughty to be anything but invincible. Notes: galbanum, iris, vetiver, leather.
Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist
Magical thinking will get you here. Carrots and beanstalks pulled out of the ground turn into fantasy delicacies. Notes: carroty iris, icy iris, bready iris.
Rich green florals...
Malle Editions Une Fleur de Cassie
Lazing in a string hammock smelling the mud, the sea, and the acacia during a monsoon. Notes: acacia, mimosa, jasmine, sandalwood.
Ormonde Jayne Woman
Like handling malachite worry beads: almost too smooth to get a grasp on, but comforting. Or, a cool, spiced, dark green, shadowed forest. Notes: cardamom, coriander, black hemlock, jasmine, woods.
Pure creature comforts...
Guerlain L'Heure Bleue
All the colors of dusk, from dark violet to peacock to midnight blue. Notes: anise, bergamot, Guerlain's magic ochres and Prussian blues.
Jean Deprez Bal à Versailles
Necco candies and sex. Notes: Rose, jasmine, civet, musk.
Shiseido Féminité du Bois
Pulling full-test pure cedarbark pancake syrup in Hansel and Gretel's violet-strewn forest. Notes: cedarwood, violets, undergrowth.
Fendi Theorema
The most delicious mandarin sandalwood cream liqueur in the entire world. Notes: mandarin orange, osmanthus, wood.
6 comments:
Wonderfully succinct and laconic descriptions: it's not easy to do!
And your choices are so in tune with mine that an inward smile and a mental list of my own was materialising as I read yours. :-)
Theorema. I think I might want to smell that more than the original Chaos....
...I think...
Beautiful list, this. Sounds--er, smells--like a wonderful fall for you!
I don't know how I've managed to never smell Shiseido Feminite de Bois, but I haven't. (Puts toward top of list)
Your list sounds/smells lovely!
I am really going to have to give my teensy Bal a Versailles another go.
And pick up some Necco wafers. :-)
PS: What is the photo?
It looks like an alien spacecraft crash landed in the woods.
Ha! I don't even know what it is, and I took that picture. It just reminded me of fall in New England, I suppose. I guess it's an old cistern in the woods in Western Massachusetts.
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