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 16, and we have a three-day weekend because of Juneteenth being celebrated on Monday as a holiday. Juneteenth, if you didn’t know, is a historically important date because June 19 was the date in 1865 on which the last remaining enslaved people in the United States were finally assured that the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued effective January 1, 1863, and they had been declared free by President Abraham Lincoln. Major General Gordon Granger, the Union officer in control of Galveston, Texas, issued an order confirming their emancipation on June 19, 1865. The date was long celebrated informally among African-American communities in Texas, then the custom spread during the Great Migration of the 20th century. It was made a federal holiday by President Biden in 2021. By the way, if you don’t know much about the Great Migration, I highly recommend the prize-winning book “The Warmth of Other Suns”, by historian and journalist Isabel Wilkerson.
I will be celebrating by spending the weekend continuing to weed, plant, and otherwise tidy my garden. My precious roses are blooming again, and one of them has decided to blossom in the middle of my Annabelle hydrangea. I love flowers! I’ve been wearing a new-to-me fragrance a lot lately; it is Miller Harris’ Coeur de Jardin, a chypre floral with several fruity notes in the opening. Very pretty! I would call it more “chypre lite” than fully chypre. Today, however, I was back in Bitter Peach by Tom Ford. What are you wearing or smelling these days?
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My current garden flowers are the early day lilies. My mom was a collector of them, so I will always have them (as well as hosta, she collected those too.) I’m hoping to add some more interesting perennials this year (I set aside a portion of my landscaping budget for some new plants each year, trying to fill in beds.). Today I’m wearing Nicolaï Fig-Tea – had a hair appointment and my stylist enjoys my perfumes when they aren’t too “girly”.
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Ooh, you smell great! I have quite a few daylilies too, and hostas. Love ‘em! My favorite daylily right now is an older pink variety called Chosen Love. I also have and love Big Time Happy, a beautiful light yellow that reblooms. Cheap as chips, too.
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P.S. I have a daylily you might love, it is fragrant! Is called Scentual Sundance, and it is bright yellow. In my garden, it’s been covered with blooms for weeks, and they smell great.
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I’ve worn Fig Tea recently as well. I always get compliments when I wear it. It seems to be a scent that is pleasing to many people. I have the body lotion as well, which helps the fragrance last longer.
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Your flowers are beautiful 🌸🌹🌺 I’m wearing roses this week, Izia by Sisley and Guerlain’s Nahema. Izia is a citrusy rose, perfect for hot, humid weather. Nahema is a softer scent in the drydown, but with a lot of depth.
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I adore Nahema. I must try Izia if I ever get to a Sisley counter again. The have a set of new offerings too.
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Izia sounds really lovely — I think it’s unusual for modern fragrances to highlight an aldehydic opening, isn’t it?
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You’re right, I can think of very few modern aldehydes.
Maybe they will comeback after the current niche green has blown out
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The rose hydrangea hybrid is stunning! It sums up Bitter Peach very well too.
I adore lilies, all lilies & if they are scented I love them even more.
DH has never enjoyed the smell of them but the summer before Covid a friend gifted me about 20 stems of highly scented orientals from her garden & I had them almost everywhere but the bedroom. DH had a constant sickly headache. The lilies went outside & I aired the house. His headache went. I miss cut flowers.
It’s been a cologne or Colonia week here other than the supermarket scent testing. Been far too hot
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WOW OH! Those flowers! They look like a Valentines Day greeting card they’re so perfect.
Tonight I’m wearing Rosine Une Folie de Rose. Working my way through a stonking big 10ml decant and enjoying its soft woody chypre with a lovely fizzy rose at the top.
The weather in Sydney has been so beautiful. 20C/70f clear blue shies and fabulous.
Portia x
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Your weather sounds ideal! I love several Rosine fragrances (no surprise, given how much I love roses). One of my favorites is Clair Matin.
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I love hydrangeas and had a very healthy white one at my old house. Idiot-proof to care for. I adore lillies, they scent the house like no other flower. I can’t have them around when my daughter is visiting as it makes her asthma flare up.
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I love lilies too, they smell so luxurious. I always get a couple of pots of Easter lilies at Eastertime, then move them outside when the weather is warm enough. They don’t often come back but sometimes they do!
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