The best rose thread got me to thinking (and wearing...after my shower tonight I am going to lavishly spray this on!) of one of my FAVORITE roses fragrances! It is the discontinued Zita from Paula Dorf. I bought my last couple of bottles in '04 at TJMaxx. I am not sure if this beautiful and unique fragrance can be found anywhere now? Does anyone know?

At any rate...it is dewy pink fresh roses. I really feel as though I am in a beautiful garden of pink tea roses in the early morning hours walking on verdant grass when everything around is still wet and the sun has just risen. It also has the fresh green quality of the heavily petaled peony. This fragrance has AWESOME staying power and is cultured femininty. I adored this and I have a third of my last bottle left

I loved wearing this in all seasons! It sparkles in the winter, and its' lush green quality cuts through humidity in the summer and feels cool and ladylike.

So sad that this is almost gone and I will never have her again...

Who loves this perfume!?

Not sure if I love it, but it's so different and refreshing. Why doesn't Clinique sell it year-round? Do they offer it at any other time than at Christmas?

(I'm beginning to see a pattern in my perfume loves - most have aldehydes. I'm such a novice at this.)

Right now I think Une Rose must be the best rose perfume ever. It is so lush, rich and beautiful.*

What are your favorite rose perfumes, and why are they your favorites?



*Notes are: Turkish rose, geranium, camomile, patchouli, vetiver and castoreum

Hi, I am wondering if anybody has tried the new Diorissimo EDP (available at Saks). I'd like to try it but unfortunately I can't sample it unless I order a full bottle online. How is it compared to the EDT? Many thanks!

I purchased two bottles of this YSL scent, YSL Homme Haute Concentration off Parfum1.com's website for quite a deal, two bottles with 20% off off totaling to $46.00 some odd dollars, including the shipping.

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26122210.html

I have read the many reviews on this one and some are very good and some are not so good; but I have been craving very light, citrusy stuff lately. Kind of scents that will evoke nice bright sunny days during these rather rainy, dark cloudy days (of which I'm totally enjoying here!!!)


I am very much looking forward to trying this one out; the longevity factor on this one from my many readings on it seems like it's uber-strong! Which kind of suits me well. I am one for wearing scents make an entrance when I walk into the room.

So what say you on this men's scent?

I'd love to hear what you guys and dolls think about it.

How does this once compare to other Tuberose Fragrances?

Some of my faves are: Shalini, EL Tuberose Gardenia, Goutal's Tubereuse and Carnal Flower. Fracas is too sweet for me.


I really don't know a lot about Diptyque. I've tried Phylosykos(nice, but Premier Figuer is enough for me) and L'Ombre Dans L'Eau(too green, and the black currant was way too much).

Over the last couple of days I have been testing a sample of L'Occitane's Fleur de Cerise (Cherry Blossom) lotion. I am liking it very much and this is a note that for whatever reason I have never researched.
I'm interested in hearing recommendations for scents with cherry blossom since I may need to add this to my collection.

Good morning! Oslo is still sunny, although with a thin layer of mist which dims the sun a little. I started biking to work yesterday, and my behind is really aching. three months off the bike seat is too much! I have to do some biking indoors during winter to avoid this.

I'm calling out for spring, scented with Gucci Envy Me, and it is actually melting around me, so there's hope. I wish you all a nice day!

Gunda

Reporting in on exploration of Beige. It's a wonder how wearing a perfume, different things come up from one day to the next. I applied Beige this morning and could get whiffs of it on and off during the day, mostly spring flowery-type notes. Then, as I was sitting down in the evening around 10pm watching TV, the frangipani struck! During the day or in the past few days of wearing it was not a salient note but all of a sudden, as I was innocently sitting there, the frangipani came out like gangbusters! I recognize the note from other scents like Songes and a few years ago there was a Must de Cartier Eau Légère that had the note. What a surprise to suddenly find myself enveloped in a frangipani cloud!

Normally I find frangipani too blatant but in Beige it tends to be more sneaky. You know how some perfumes when you smell them smell like you've known them all your life (just like a person you meet) while others are strangers it takes some time to get to know? Well Beige is like a stranger I am getting to know, not an immediate fit with my olfactory experience and not easy to categorize or pinpoint. Of course that makes it very interesting.

Now I'm wondering if someone else has zeroed in on the frangipani note in Beige and also if you make a distinction between perfumes that seem more familiar from the outset and others that seem a bit strange and harder to assimilate. If so, what are the perfumes and how did this type of experience work out? Did you get to feel closer to the perfume or did it remain a stranger?

Just to set the frangipani mood...

http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/21b625ad-36bc-4...ab28930851.aspx

Opium is too spicy for me to wear, but it was a favorite of my shopaholic female relatives in the 1980s, and it smells great on them.