I was traveling last week so it’ll be a short post – whatever I collected before my trip started. Also, if anybody was wondering, I want to mention that my monthly stats post is still coming. I know it’s a little later than usually but I cannot do it on the road.
Lemmings
Birgit (Olfactoria’s Travels) makes sure my lemmings for the latest release from Amouage keep swarming: Beloved is a big perfume, and despite the previous comments about its grandeur and drama, it is not hard to wear, actually I find Beloved particularly easy to wear, with a lovely, but not intrusive sillage and excellent lasting power (Do you know an Amouage that is gone in two hours? I don’t, and this one is no exception.)
Laughs
Vanessa (Bonkers about Perfume): Even the sales assistant apologised for the extreme woodiness of this scent, saying that it might appeal to men. Or extreme wood-loving women, obviously. An 8 out of 10 on the “trapped in a tea chest” / “planky” scale.
Birgit (Olfactoria’s Travels) about images invoked by L’Heure Convoitée: My doll Sonja: an unfortunate plastic child I practiced plastic surgery on. She never recovered and my dreams of becoming a surgeon where nipped in the bud (at least I married one, talk about projection!).
Loves
Susan (Fragrants) about my favorite Petite Cherie by Annick Goutal: Smelling this perfume makes me want to grab up my daughter and shower her with kisses while she is still small; smelling this perfume makes me want to be the best mother I can be and the best woman I can be. And it makes me acutely aware that the minutes, hours, days, are slipping quickly by. If you’re curious, here’s my take on this perfume.
Sigrun (fragrantfanatic) shares her experience while wearing one of my favorite perfumes from Amouage: Wearing Gold makes me reach for my most elegant skirts and dresses instead of jeans. It makes me take my time putting on make-up in the mornings, going for a full skin routine and red lips instead of the usual transparent gloss. It even affects the way I paint my toe nails. If you didn’t read it before you might find amusing this story about a blind sniffing test.
I found some of my favorites of the week in your post, too. Welcome home!
Not there yet but heading :) Thank you anyway.
Those reviews that are coming out of Beloved, wow. Between this and Opus VI, it sounds like Amouage is having a good year.
With Amouage prices (which I think are totally warranted) I almost wish I won’t like these two when I finally get to try them :)
Aw!! Thanks for choosing me this week. :)
Thank you for writing about my favorite perfume :)
I hope that the more people write about those, the more popular they will be and there will be less chance of them being discontinued.
I didn’t realize it was your favorite! It’s lovely stuff.
(whispering) That’s why I put it in the category “Loves” ;)
I should probably explain in every episode what those categories are.
I just followed your link and found Susan’s blog, Undina. What a lovely piece of writing! I’ll look forward to exploring her blog some more.
Yey! It works! :)
wow! thanks :)
Thanks for including me in your Laughs category again! In this week’s round up I particularly enjoyed Sigrun’s Amouage Gold / painted toe nail observation, and learnt about Susan’s blog for the first time. I must confess to being woefully behind on the reading front though, and am not sure I can catch up now on all the good reads I missed in the past fortnight. ; – (
You didn’t ask for an advice but let me give it to you anyway: don’t try to catch up, just start reading from the newest ones and then work your way back if you have time.