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Perfume Chat Room, June 2

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant to be a kind space, so please try not to give or take offense, and let’s all agree to disagree when opinions differ. In fragrance as in life, your mileage may vary! YMMV.

Today is Friday, June 2, and we have really entered summer where I live. The trees are fully leafed out, the roses are blooming (again), and gardens all over the city are bursting with flowers. The fragrance of the air has shifted from the springtime pink magnolias and spring bulbs to the scent of roses, white magnolias, and even some gardenias.

Eight weeks from Monday, I will be retired! It seems to be turning out that summer is a great time for someone like me to retire, because I have so many summer activities I enjoy and will have more time to do: primarily gardening at home, but also visiting other gardens, going to farmers’ markets, walking, etc. Talk to me again when the mosquitoes hit, though — I’ll probably be singing a different tune, lol!

I recently got a decant of Guerlain’s Chant d’Arômes and I’m really loving it. I hadn’t previously paid much attention to it, but it is a very lovely bridal bouquet that is perfect for June. I don’t know that I’ll pursue more than the decant I have, but I’m very happy to have it.

Do you have any perfumes lingering on the periphery of your awareness, that you haven’t yet tried?

5 thoughts on “Perfume Chat Room, June 2”

  1. Counting down these last two months will be fun! You will have plenty of warm weather after you retire for lots of gardening and travel. I love visiting gardens when I travel. The best garden I have visited was at Sissinghurst in the UK. It was Vita Sackville-West’s home and she and her husband were avid gardeners. The gardens appear almost haphazard and ‘wild’ compared to the very manicured, controlled gardens of the 17th and 18th centuries, but they were carefully thought out so that there is almost always something blooming in each of the mini-garden plots at different times of the spring and fall. It was all so beautiful and so relaxing. I would love to go back and see it again.

    I also loved the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. Any landscape by Capability Brown is superb. I’ve always wanted to see the gardens of Versailles, but never made it there. Please include some photos of your lovely garden in some future blog posts, if it’s not too much trouble. 🙂 That is a stunning rose in this week’s photo. I’ll be it smells divine, too.

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    • Got it! I love to visit gardens in other countries too. I haven’t yet seen Sissinghurst or Blenheim, but I have visited Versailles (many years ago, I’m excited to go back!). It’s a bit overwhelming but very lovely.
      I will post some photos — maybe I’ll get some good ones this weekend. Usually I post photos of the garden at my other blog, oldherbaceous.com. Here’s an older post from when I first installed my real vegetable garden: https://oldherbaceous.com/2021/04/10/saturday-snapshots/.

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  3. That must be an exciting countdown!
    I would say the whole Matiere Premiere line has been lingering on the periphery of my awareness, but I would prefer to get a chance to try them in a store rather than buy another discovery kit right now.

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