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Saturday Question: For Which Brand(s) Do You Have a Week’s Worth of Wearable Perfumes?

I just blinked, and my week ran away from me. Due to various reasons, I didn’t wear perfumes every day. One of the reasons was decision paralysis: I felt too overwhelmed with other stuff and was afraid to make a wrong choice. That got me thinking: would it be simpler if I chose just one brand and went through 7 perfumes from that brand? Do I even have any brand with enough different scents to do that?

Saturday Question on Undina's Looking Glass

Saturday Question #156:

For Which Brand(s) Do You Have a Week’s Worth of Wearable Perfumes?

I’m asking not about just any 7 perfume from a random brand: most of us will probably have a discovery set or 7 random perfume samples for several brands. But do you have 7 perfumes from a brand that you bought (or swapped) because you liked them and planned to wear them? You can count any bottles or decants of 5 ml or larger but not samples.

Bonus question: How often do you wear perfumes from the same brand on multiple consecutive days?

My Answer

I practically never wear the same perfume two or more days in a row. And I rarely wear perfumes from the same brand within a week.

I have several brands for which I counted enough scents to support my imaginary project. But one brand stood out: Jo Malone. Even though in recent years I lost interest in their new creations (as in “getting not more than one or two new mini bottles per year”), throughout my hobby, I accumulated enough perfumes that I like from this brand to wear a different one for at least 3 weeks.

So, starting tomorrow and until the end of March, I will wear one of Jo Malone’s perfumes. Luckily, many of them are not too tenacious, so if I apply one in the morning, I’ll be free to choose any other scent later in the afternoon.

Jo Malone

How about you?

 

For Which Brand(s) Do You Have a Week’s Worth of Wearable Perfumes?

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64 thoughts on “Saturday Question: For Which Brand(s) Do You Have a Week’s Worth of Wearable Perfumes?”

  1. So many to choose from but I’ll choose 4160Tuesdays. So accessible with smaller sizes & samples to buy. I do miss the 9ml travel sizes though but 15mls sizes are good. I enjoy a well blended fruity & Sarah McCartney fell in love with fruity notes when she discovered Diorella. Now she has a great touch with fruits.
    I could have said Dior, Chanel, Estée Lauder, Lush, Guerlain, Lutens & unbelievably SJP!
    I guess I need a clear out

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  2. I might miss some brands, but now it comes to my mind:
    Chanel
    Serge Lutens
    Jo Malone
    Hermes
    L’Artisan
    Guerlain
    Dame Perfumery

    I don’t wear perfumes from rhe same brand on multiple consecutive days, very often, but I should change that.

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  3. I don’t wear from the same brand on consecutive days unless I’m testing a discovery set. My houses are Narciso Rodriguez, Guerlain, L’Artisan Parfumeur and possibly Dior.

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  4. I was going to say Chanel but then I looked at my perfume list. Nope: L’Artisan Parfumeur. Most of them I wear seasonally but Passage d’Enfer works year round. It helps that discounters sell this brand!
    I wear the same perfume two or three days in a row usually.

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    • Even though I tried many L’Artisan perfumes, I think I own just 5 (and one of them might be off :( ). Somehow I missed buying several more that I liked and wanted to have – and then they were either discontinued or reformulated.

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  6. I keep most of my perfumes in ‘houses’ so it was an easy question. They are:
    Annick Goutal, I think I can wear them for two weeks! Goutal was my first perfume love
    Chanel
    Vero Profumo, I have almost all of her scents in EdP, VdE and Extrait
    April Aromatics
    Hiram Green

    I used to have quite some Ormonde Jaynes but sadly their drydown started to get on my nerves.

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    • Hamamelis, It’s Annick Goutal for me, too. I think I have all the fragrances from this line that I want. I really love this line-it makes me feel special and all the fragrances are intriguing but they’re not difficult for me to wear.

      After that it’s L’artisan, Serge Lutens, Guerlain, Frederic Malle and surprisingly-Mona di Orio’s fragrances. I have been wearing Suede de Suede, Musc and Dojima every March since 2020. I really love this line too-so interesting and different and beautiful.

      It’s two degrees here-sunny and cold but the snow is starting to rot-bring on spring! The time changes here today and my grandmother used to say-now you can see where you’re going when you slide off the road lol. Hope everyone has a great week in front of them.

      Best regards,

      Carole

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      • From your list, I could join you probably only on SL and Guerlain.

        I hate the time change and hope we’ll stop doing it eventually: since I’m not a morning person, I suffer a lot when I have to get up an hour earlier.

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    • I wanted to have more of Goutal’s perfumes, but I wasn’t quick enough to buy colored bottles. And I don’t like any of the newer bottles. But I have several strong favorites from the brand.
      I still like the original OJ collection, but I think I know what you mean about the drydown. I still could do a week with travel sprays.

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  7. I rarely try before I buy, because I haunt thrift and secondhand outlets, and don’t live near major retailers.
    However, I usually know something of the style or notes. My list:
    Aramis
    Atelier Cologne
    Chanel
    Dior
    Estee Lauder
    Guerlain
    Jean Patou
    Max Factor
    Mugler
    Rochas
    Serge Lutens. Your question, happily, makes me I realize one house for seven days is a simple starting point when no craving is forthcoming! :) Have fun, Undina, as you “March” along with Jo Malone. Let us know if one sweeps you off your feet in a way you did not remember.

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      • Estee Super Cologne is my desert island grab. I love so many from this, to say brand seems so trite but it is, brand. Perhaps the life story of Mrs. Lauder who I admire influences me. But I did not know it all until after I fell in love with Youth Dew, White Linen, and Tuscany per donna. Not to go on, but 10 or more years ago in a found second-hand lot of minis, I got to sniff vintage Estee, No. 19 epd, and a few other great oakmoss delights. Down the rabbit hole I went.

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    • MossyBerry, do you mind if i ask which Patou’s and which Max Factor scents you have? I never hear tell of some of the brands you have listed. I wish I had thrift or second hand places to shop from-I used to see some scents at Winners but there haven’t been any for ages. I love the Rochas line, too.

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      • Oh, I love to share about Max Factor! Check out his history. I have and enjoy the most Epris and Golden Woods. But if you appreciate the drug store classics vibe, you’ll like Primitif, Hypnotique, Aquarius, Le Jadin and Le Jadin d’amour. My love of Patou started with Sira des Indes and Ma Liberte, which is a spicy, lavender bomb and more. I got to Undina’s 7-day threshold because my lemmings found a cheap bottle of Adieu Sagesse, which made met curious about its sister scents, Deux Amours and Que Sais-Je. I also nabbed L’Heure Attendue and a travel spray of Sublime. Lemmings start scampering around when a brand is discontinued. Just sayin’, but some people are squeamish about Ebay. For me, not so.

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        • Patou Sublime! Be still my beating heart! I was searching for something else last week & found a site with almost every Patou BUT Sublime. That’s 2 lemmings this thread has set off

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            • Thank you Carole, if I was in the US I would have bitten your hand off!
              I’m in the UK & Fragnet no longer ships to us from any of their sites since the UK shot itself in the foot & kept shooting

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        • There was a great post about all the reforumulated fragrances- on here, I think, if you’re interested in reading it. I love Chaldee, and am curious about the rest. And I love Max Factors work-I love the glamour of the 30’s movie stars :)

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    • From your list, I have Chanel, Guerlain, SL and Dior.

      Tuscany per Donna was my favorite EL for years. I think, I went through a couple of bottles of it. All I have now is a mini – I should see if it’s still alright though.

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  8. Great question! My brands with a week’s worth of perfumes are Guerlain, Chanel, Serge Lutens, Parfums de Rosine and Teo Cabanel. I don’t have quite enough of Eau d’Italie perfumes yet, but I’m getting there.

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  9. Frédéric Malle, Micallef, Maria Candide Gentile, Guerlain, Serge Lutens, L’Artisan, Memo, Atélier Materi, Montale, 4160 Tuesdays, Van Cleef & Arpels, Dior, Amouage, BDK, and possibly more but that’s what I can think of off the top of my head. I rarely wear the same scent or even the same house in one week.

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  10. Every now and then I go on a run with a certain house, but usually I mix it up. I can go a week or more on the following – which seems crazy…
    Nicolaï (my largest brand collection)
    DSH (with minis)
    Estée Lauder (with minis)
    Tauer (with minis)
    Yves Rocher
    Fragonard
    Ormonde Jayne (with travel sprays)
    Guerlain
    Atelier Cologne (travel)
    Dior
    Goutal
    4160Tuesdays

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  11. I don’t have that many from a single brand. I think right now I have at most 2 from any brand: Masque Milano, Le Labo, Chanel, 4160Tuesdays, Essential Parfums, and Nez 1+1. Some of these I could rotate for a week if I wanted to, but I don’t tend to repeatedly alternate between 2 unless I’m traveling or trying to use up something.

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    • Many of us who are in this hobby for over a decade went through the acquisition phase when there were less niche brands available and more consensus among perfumistas on what was worth buying. These days with the number of new brands and releases, we rarely even create lemmings for each other. Which might be not that bad.

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  12. I need to run my pivot tables again but my last spreadsheet shows 21 brands that I own 7 or more bottles of (yikes!). I could technically go two months in all Amouage but I rarely wear the same brand in the same week or even the same month. I prefer to pull out a “theme” of scents for a week or two in advance (leather scents for example) and compare them from various houses. I do feel like once I have a number of bottles from a brand I get sucked into the whole “completion” thing where I want to have them all to make a full set (although I only have that for maybe one or two houses that have limited numbers of
    Fragrances : Baruti and Naomi Goodsir come to mind). Great question!

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    • I know what you mean about full set, though for me it usually happens with sampling: I tend to cover the complete brand. But at least now I stopped trying to do that if I didn’t like the first several perfumes from a brand.
      Amouage! It was my first answer. But then I decided to go with JM. But if I had to go with a single brand for the rest of my life, I would have probably chosen Amouage. It took all of my willpower to stick to my “no-buy” and not to grab a sample set of their most recent perfumes. Luckily for me, it sold out quickly :)

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  13. Ohh, great post! I’d say Four houses;
    Chanel (No. 5, No. 19., No. 22, Coromandel, Chance)
    Estee Lauder (Estee Super cologne spray, Knowing, YD, Spellbound, Azuree, Aliage)
    Fendi (Uomo, Asja, Life Essence, Fendi by Fendi, and Theorema)
    Guerlain (Jicky, Shalimar, Shalimar Souffle Intense, AA Pamplemousse, AA Mandarine Basilic, and Coriolan, Mahora, Meteorites, Samsara Extrait)

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  14. I had done it and like to stick to one line for a week although I end up getting bored at some point. The lines for which I have 7 or more bottles (including travel sprays): 4160 Tuesdays, Atelier Cologne, Chanel, Chris Rusak, Dior, Diptyque, Guerlain, Hermes, Jo Malone, Jorum Studio, Kilian, L’AP, Lush, Mugler, Pacifica, Prada, St. Claire, Serge Lutens, Slumberhouse, Sonoma Scent Studio, Tauer, Tom Ford.

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  16. Off the top of my head Pacifica and Jo Malone but I am sure there’s more. I’ve been known to wear the same perfume for weeks… the entire summer in Assam of India and a whole month in Reglisse Noire until I thunked the bottle… did the same with Stash… three weeks one winter and the 30 ml bottle was gone

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  17. Cool question! Only one brand would fit the criteria – Guerlain. :) That’s for sure (although not sure where some of the decants are).
    But I’m quite sure that Serge Lutens would com close. And then Chanel.
    This is actually interesting to see which brands I enjoy the most.
    A bonus answer: if I had had more money when the brand was originally active, I would have enough of Aedes de Venustas as well.

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    • I was surprised to discover that Guerlain was such a brand for me as well taking in consideration that when I started this blog I haven’t had a single bottle from the brand (and previously used just 1 of their perfumes).

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    • Minus Nicolai, I’m with you!

      It’s interesting how some brands just didn’t get into my orbit when I was actively acquiring perfumes: usually it was because B&M stores around didn’t cary them, and I didn’t want to pay for samples.

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  20. I just checked my list and I see that I have 8 bottles of Ormonde Jayne’s lovely fragrances, so that’s another house to ad to my “Week’s Wear” list and I have 6 bottles of Jo Malone, almost enough for a week. On reviewing my collection, I see that I have a habit of buying a number of fragrances from houses that I like and I’m sure I will continue to do that. If a brand works for me, and maintains it’s quality, it makes sense.

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  21. The two brands that I have enough to wear for 7+ days are Jo Malone (too many to list) and Bulgari (several from their Omnia line, plus a few others)

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  22. I was going to say OJ, but I don’t own enough. ;) It does instantly spring to mind as a brand I generally get on well with.

    Then I definitely wear perfumes from the same brand on consecutive days, or the same perfume, even!

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