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, May 3, and I am still obsessing over roses. Real-life roses, in my garden and online, and also in perfume (though I don’t wear much perfume on days when I’m spending a lot of time working in the garden).
But in fragrance, I have taken my usual May detour into the realm of muguet, or lily-of-the-valley, honoring May Day and the yearly appearance of these fragile, fleeting blooms. Unlike roses, lilies of the valley don’t rebloom during their flowering season. One and done! They’re also challenging to grow en masse here in the hot, humid Southeast, though my sister-in-law has succeeded in growing the kind of large patch of LOTV here that she and I both knew from our childhoods in Connecticut, where they grow and spread like weeds.
Nurturing hopes of perhaps getting my hands and nose on a tester of Patricia de Nicolai’s new — and already sold out — muguet perfume, Une Fleur en Mai, I recently tried her 2009 creation Un Coeur en Mai for MDCI. It’s not a muguet perfume but it is a floral green fragrance and very lovely. Dominant floral notes are rose and mimosa, with a hefty dose of green galbanum. I really like several of her fragrances for her own line, like Odalisque, Rose Royale, Odalisque, New York, Musc Intense. I think I need to add to my reviews of her fragrances!
Do you have any of Patricia de Nicolai’s fragrances, either under her own line or created for others? What do you think? Any favorites?
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Hope you get the bottle somehow – sometimes good things come to those who really want them!
Unfortunately I didn’t love anything in the discovery set I tried from this brand, but out of those, New York Intense was the one I found most intriguing.
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I tried several PdN’s perfumes (not too many), but didn’t fall in love with any. Odalisque was the closest, but I didn’t buy it 13 years ago when I tried it, and since then I’m sure it was reformulated, so I’d need to test it again.
I didn’t know she created that perfume for MDCI: I remember liking it when I tried it at Harrod’s, but it seemed too expensive back then to pursue.
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It’s still quite expensive, like all the MDCI fragrances, but the quality seems very high. I won’t be buying a full bottle any time though!
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I have never tried any of de Nicolai’s output. Don’t know why, just haven’t.
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I was surprised by how much I like Musc Intense. I expected to like the others and did.
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