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Perfume Chat Room, February 9

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, February 9, and Valentine’s Day is next week! Happy Valentine’s Day in advance! Do you have any fragrant gifts in mind, for yourself or anyone else? I am saving up all my fragrance wishes for an upcoming trip to Paris — all suggestions of perfume sites to visit are welcome, especially places that don’t have branches in the US. Palais Royal is on the list for sure, for Lutens and Rosine; probably also Jovoy Paris, since I’ve loved their store in London.

Most of my fragrance interest right now is in roses — real rose bushes, that is. I have some on order that should come in March; and I’ve bought some bare root roses of varieties that are highly fragrant and have the old-fashioned blooms I love, when I found them at a ridiculously low price at a big-box store. So those have kept me busy. My spring bulbs are starting to come up now, and most of those are very fragrant also — narcissus, hyacinths, starflowers. I’m delighted to see that my lavender plants seem to have survived the temperatures in the teens we had a few weeks ago.

Please share any fragrant plans you have for Valentine’s Day, and do suggest any favorite spots in Paris, perfume-related or otherwise! We’ll be there for a week, which offers plenty of time for tourism.

12 thoughts on “Perfume Chat Room, February 9”

  1. We don ´t do Valentines day (my boyfriend is an engineer, so not romantic at all), but as it gets warmer i like some of my greener rose scents. My fave is Coriandre. But your Paris trip sounds like a good opportunity to smell it all

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  2. We don’t really do Valentine’s Day. It’s a made up cash grab celebration IMHO.
    Paris, take comfortable yet beautiful shoes & boots! Those Parisians are so condescending if they don’t consider you’re dressed correctly. It’ll be cold or wet & the farmers are demonstrating every so often.
    Guerlain, Hermes & Chanel if you can bear the SA’s. ELDO & Molinard are maybe’s. Perfumer H has a shop in Paris too. One of the LAPs is a must.
    Caron, even though they’re a bit meh now.
    Basically perfume paradise, but you know that.

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  3. YAY for Paris shopping trips!
    So much to sniff and most of it doable in a single a day out.
    If you start at Palais Royale then Jovoy is just down the park, Rue Cambon a little further. Then up Champs-Élysées to Guerlain.
    Le Bon Marche has all the mass-tige and is much less touristy than Printemps and Galleries Lafayette, though I also love to go check them

    Megan did an excellent round up of the Marais back in 2016 https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2016/11/01/paris-perfume-shopping-le-marais/

    Paris Tourism puts out this list too
    https://parisjetaime.com/eng/article/outstanding-perfumes-a360

    I like to visit Oriza LeGrande, Teo Cabanel, Divine, État libre d’Orange, Nicolaii and always end up doing Guerlain shopping at Place Vendome because my luck is never good at the Champs-Élysées store. It’s also a good wander before high tea at the Ritz.

    GAH! Wish I was coming with you. Have a wonderful time.
    Portia xx

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