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, July 28, and it’s still hot! I am consoled by the fact that my garden is now providing generous amounts of tomatoes and eggplants, as well as a second flush of rose blossoms. Also, I’ve found a new favorite recipe for eggplant parmesan: Delish’s Skillet Eggplant Parmesan. Honestly, it’s way better than normal eggplant parmesan because it’s not as bready. Normally I don’t think my husband and son would touch eggplant with the proverbial ten-foot pole, but they devour this. My second attempt was even better than my first, because I used a tomato sauce that includes truffle, porcini, and cream. Heaven!
As for the tomatoes, we are now happily in tomato sandwich season and I plan to eat that for lunch every day. Even if my own plants don’t deliver daily, our local farmer’s market sells plenty! The New York Times recently ran an article on tomato sandwiches that set off a furor in the comments, because its headline implied that tomato sandwiches are particular to the South: The Sandwich Southerners Wait for All Year. Folks from New Jersey, which is justly famous for its excellent tomatoes, were particularly incensed.
Given the current bounty of my garden, I thought it would be fun to identify fragrances with notes of both tomato or tomato leaf, and rose. And of course, what popped up but a longtime favorite: Gardener’s Glove, by St. Clair Scents! Also La Feuille, by Miller Harris. Another fave of mine, Un Jardin Sur le Nil, famously combines a tomato note with florals and other notes, but not rose.
Do you have any favorite scents with tomato or tomato leaf notes? Or a favorite tomato sandwich recipe?
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I’m a huge fan of Sisley’s Eau de Campagne. An early work by Jean-Claude Ellena
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It sounds terrific!
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What lovely garden bounty! I have a black thumb, a vegetable garden is not in the cards for me. Off to the farmers market! My husband loves tomates, we have caprese salads all season. For a sandwich – well, I have always loved a good grilled cheese with tomato (and bacon, if I’m not too lazy to cook some). I don’t know that any of my perfumes have significant tomato leaf. I did enjoy my sample of Gardeners Glove. Today I may wear either Cap Neroli or L’Eau Mixte. Or maybe go totally old school with some refrigerated 4711. It’s very hot here too – the kind of day that I would have spent entirely at the pool as a kid (back when we all had a deep tan every summer and didn’t think at all about sunscreen…)
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All of those options sound wonderful! And cool.
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I’m always amazed by your knowledge of perfumery. I wish I could grow tomatoes. My sweetheart doesn’t have much success with them either.
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I often don’t do well with tomatoes but this year they’ve been great! The cherry tomatoes are the easiest to grow, but I’m really pleased with my Cherokee Purple big tomatoes this summer. I think they’ve also done better this year because I’ve been much more regular in pinching off the suckers that make the vines just grow and grow with fewer fruit.
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Hey OH,
My favourite sandwich is tomato and onion on fresh white bread, butter, salt and pepper. The most delicious thing for me.
Often I find tomato leaf in fragrance overwhelms everything else. I’ve been trying for years to wear Bohea Boheme by MdO but it still blasts me
Portia x
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I adore tomatoes, any which way they come. I don’t eat white bread very often but if someone were to give me a sandwich made with white bread, a thin slather of butter, very thinly sliced and stacked tomatoes with a good sprinkle of salt and pepper and topped off with salad cream I would devour it. Yum. The taste of my childhood. My hubs gets some mixed varieties from the man who lives across from his workplace, always delicious. In perfume I’m also a lover of Gardener’s Glove, unfortunately Diane doesn’t post internationally anymore. DKNY Woman has a tomato leaf note and is a really good hot weather scent that is very green – and I don’t have any at the moment. I may rectify the situation, it’s cheap and plentiful. I can swap some of your heat for some of our rain, July has been a washout, and it rained on St. Swithens Day too, arrrrgh.
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I think I have DKNY Woman somewhere, must try it!
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*Swithin’s
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