It was a great summer week: I got to wear a summer dress twice (!) and yesterday it felt like a Bronze Goddess day – so I showered in it. It has been more than a year since I won my decant at Dee’s blog and bought a full bottle of this perfume but still every time I wear Bronze Goddess I think of Dee: small acts of kindness go a long way.
Laughs section is unusually full this week – and I haven’t even had enough time to finish reading all the posts from my reading list!
In addition to my regular sections Lemmings for perfumes I want to try, Laughs for posts that made me smile, Loves for posts about my favorite perfumes and Leftovers for everything else I find noteworthy from my readings, I introduce a new section Looking for – to publish requests for perfumes.
Lemmings
Parfumista (Parfumistans Blogg) keeps reviewing new (at least for the US) niche brand by Ramón Monegal: The general impression of Umbra can be summarized as the picture and smell of the coolness of the mossy, forest floor under high pines a summer day. Even if classified as unisex I precieve Umbra as the most feminine vetiver I have sniffed so far.
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Laughs
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Blacknall Allen (aperfumeblog by Blacknall Allen): […] French Women Don’t Get Fat. It was full of helpful advice about dieting including eating leek soup (leeks are ace diuretics) and then limiting portion sizes drastically. You can have anything you want, basically, so long as whatever it is comes in a tiny spoonful. Quiche? Go for it. Mousse- no problem, grab your spoon and then put it down, you’re done. Do not repeat.
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Portia (AustralianPerfumeJunkies): One of those spectacular grabs was Tous EdP in the gold package with the TOUS bear on top. Is it just me or does the TOUS bear look like a bear putting its arms behind its enormous BOOBS!!!! It looks very Dolly Parton/Pamela Anderson to me.
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Arielle (Scents of Self): I blame Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which taught me that having sex causes your boyfriend to revert to his evil vampire state and then you have to kill him to close the vortex to a hell dimension.
Loves
Birgit (Olfactoria’s Travels) revisits Jeux de Peau – one of my favorite Serge Lutens’ perfumes (see Mind Games: My First Decant – Jeux de Peau).
Leftovers
Melissa (She Blogs it All) is trying to organize a trip to/meet-up in France .
Looking for…
I’m on a Guerlain kick. I’m looking to swap for or buy at cost 2-3 ml decant of current formulation of Jicky extrait, Vol de Nuit extrait and Chamade extrait as well as 5 ml decants EdT versions of the same perfumes. If you have any of these please contact me and we’ll work out the details.
Undina's Looking Glass 
I’ve got a lemming for those Mugler leathers too. I also laughed at some of the same things you did. I missed the Nutty Squirrel review so I’m going to have to go check out the rest of that one. There are some fragrance houses who could release a scent with that name and it would be perfectly okay.
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Nutty Squirrel… Yeah, it’s a good name for a perfume from ELdO, Smell Bent or Gorilla Perfume.
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Should you ever see a fragrance named Nutty Squirrel, you read it here first and I want my share of the revenue! Or at least a free bottle :) Thanks for the mention U. I’m glad I could provide some levity to the blogosphere.
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We all are witnesses: it was your idea :)
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I can send you 4 ml (my only decant size!) of Jicky EdP if you want, along with my other stuff…. Thanks for the mention :)
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Thank you, Melissa! I’m trying to figure out which concentration I should go with. I didn’t realize there was EdP as well :)
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I got such a kick out of reading Steven’s comment about Merchant Loup! Too funny, too true!
Regarding your Jicky extrait request, I’d love to send you a spray sample, no swap necessary. You’ve sent me plenty of good things so we’d be already even. And if Melissa sends you some edp then you’ll get to know it in two different formulations.
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Thank you, Suzanne.
Does Jicky extrait come as spray? (my too only parfums are Climat and No 19 and they both come in dab bottles) I’m asking because I want to experience it the way it’s in the bottle, so if it’s a dab bottle I’ll ask for a dab vial.
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Undina, the extrait comes in a dab bottle so I’ll send you a large dab sample since you’d like to experience it that way. Will get that out to you this week.
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Yey!!! :)
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I’m happy to share some Chamade EDT!
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Thank you, nina. I’ll contact you in e-mail (is acs***n@gmail.com the right address, without asterisks, of course?)
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yep! I’ll wait to hear from you.
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Hi Undina, Hope you’re sticking to the spoonful diet. I am! Religiously! Of course! Or I will, right after this cookie break…
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I’m trying to!!! But those cookies are even worse than perfume lemmings – they appear from nowhere! ;)
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I personally haven’t experienced a Guerlain kick yet, so I still haven’t tried Jicky or Vol de Nuit and I’m pretty sure my little spray sample of Chamade has evaporated by now, but if you ever want some pre-2011 Après l’Ondée, give me a holler.
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Thank you, Dionne.
Guerlain isn’t the worse house to fall for (price-wise, I mean) but with at least three or four perfumes I think I like enough to want them in my collection I just can’t go with two (three?) version of each – so I need to choose at least the entry point.
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I laughed at Buffy the Vampire Slayer bit as well, plus the caption under the photo “if this is not abstinence only education I don’t know what is” had me :) Ari is so witty :)
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Yep, the caption made me laugh as well. :)
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Undina, I don’t think I’ve said it before but I have thought it, I so enjoy you doing these round ups of what’s good in the phumo-blogosphere at the moment. As I’ve been away a bit this summer and I also had an awful back lumbago that very efficiently has prevented me sitting in front of the computer, it feels like a big task catching up with everybody, but by reading your blog posts, I have a good idea where to start :)
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Thank you, Sigrun!
Computers are evil when it comes to our health. We should offset the harm by taking long walks … in perfume aisles, breathing deeply new fragrances and, of course, laughing at those great jokes our fellow-perfumlanders produce every week.
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I have a small decant of Jicky EdT – let me know if you’d like to swap!
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Thank you, odonata. I’ll contact you.
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Hey Undina,
I’m so glad I gave you a chuckle. Unfortunately I don’t have modern incarnations of any of your requests,
Portia xx
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Thank you for making me laugh.
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I shared the lemming on the new Muglers. I will definitely be stalking these when they come out. Thanks for catching me up on some posts I missed this week!
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One good thing about Mugler’s new things is that they will be available to test at stores.
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Thanks for mentioning my Ramon Monegal serie. It will continue during the autumn as there is many interesting findings in the line..
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I’ll keep reading :)
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