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kaberettComme des Garcons Series 2 Red: Sequoia. This goes on good cognac (and nothing else); during early stages of drydown develops an undercurrent of rotting wood and loam. It turns into hot sap and soil and a slightly crunchy layer of conifer needles underfoot on a hot day; it is glorious and therefore, naturally, discontinued. I will be keeping an eye on eBay for bottles of this.
Laboratory Perfumes #003 Samphire. LEMON THAT WANTS TO BURN YOUR FACE OFF (when wet, on me - it doesn't do this on the friend it belongs to, on whom at a similar point it's a pleasant citrus with some interesting green). On me once it's got past TRYING TO DISSOLVE YOUR SINUSES WITH LEMON it ends up sort of anaemic and inoffensive and bland and uninteresting, not really much like samphire at all (I assume they're just going for abstruse vegetables for their naming schemes?); on my friend it goes via a lovely browned butter & spices stage and ends up More Interesting Than On Me.
CB I Hate Perfume - Mr Hulot's 301 Holiday. Coconut-scented suncream after six hours at the beach, when you're slightly sticky and a little covered in sand with a small crusting of salt, and the sun's still warm but the evening breezes are getting started. It is fantastic and it is on my list of Things To Consider in the general vein of coconut scents.
Comme des Garcons Peppermint Series 5 Sherbert. In the bottle: SALAD. Wet: antiseptic salad, developing a baffling note of overripe banana after a minute or two. It genuinely smells like someone has, for reasons known only to themself, made a overripe banana-peppermint smoothie, and I was perplexed and dismayed (friendperson had a sniff and reckoned it was actually mint + artificial watermelon). And then even more confusingly in the proper drydown it goes via pure toothpaste back to pretty much what it smells like in the bottle, i.e. salad, but it's a boring salad. Friend gets interesting salad and I am a little envious, but honestly not terribly because peppermint isn't my thing.
Byredo Parfums Palermo. FURRY LEMON WITH TEETH THAT HASN'T WASHED IN SIX WEEKS. No, really, it's a TOOTHY LEMON that's decided "bearskin coat removed from slightly mouldy storage after rather too many years and many too many mothballs" is a good fashion decision. Peculiarly fascinating; not something I want to wear.
Laboratory Perfumes #003 Samphire. LEMON THAT WANTS TO BURN YOUR FACE OFF (when wet, on me - it doesn't do this on the friend it belongs to, on whom at a similar point it's a pleasant citrus with some interesting green). On me once it's got past TRYING TO DISSOLVE YOUR SINUSES WITH LEMON it ends up sort of anaemic and inoffensive and bland and uninteresting, not really much like samphire at all (I assume they're just going for abstruse vegetables for their naming schemes?); on my friend it goes via a lovely browned butter & spices stage and ends up More Interesting Than On Me.
CB I Hate Perfume - Mr Hulot's 301 Holiday. Coconut-scented suncream after six hours at the beach, when you're slightly sticky and a little covered in sand with a small crusting of salt, and the sun's still warm but the evening breezes are getting started. It is fantastic and it is on my list of Things To Consider in the general vein of coconut scents.
Comme des Garcons Peppermint Series 5 Sherbert. In the bottle: SALAD. Wet: antiseptic salad, developing a baffling note of overripe banana after a minute or two. It genuinely smells like someone has, for reasons known only to themself, made a overripe banana-peppermint smoothie, and I was perplexed and dismayed (friendperson had a sniff and reckoned it was actually mint + artificial watermelon). And then even more confusingly in the proper drydown it goes via pure toothpaste back to pretty much what it smells like in the bottle, i.e. salad, but it's a boring salad. Friend gets interesting salad and I am a little envious, but honestly not terribly because peppermint isn't my thing.
Byredo Parfums Palermo. FURRY LEMON WITH TEETH THAT HASN'T WASHED IN SIX WEEKS. No, really, it's a TOOTHY LEMON that's decided "bearskin coat removed from slightly mouldy storage after rather too many years and many too many mothballs" is a good fashion decision. Peculiarly fascinating; not something I want to wear.