Perfume Log


Love in Black

Erwin Creed, Oliver Creed Creed 2008
19 Feb 2024 - - 1.5ml sample

Ugh, so soapy and waxy. Crayon-like. Stuffy. Had to wash it off, remaining smell a bit like a blackcurrent lolly.

This was thrown in as a freebie in an order. Suspicious.


Sel_Vanille

David Maruitte Maison Tahité 2020
17 Feb 2024 Warm evening, dinner out 1.5ml sample

Some boring vanilla smell. A slight hint of saltiness later. Can’t people just get shit like this at the Body Shop or something? Personally offended someone would pay $250 for a bottle of this.


Tea Tonique

Lyn Harris, Mathieu Nardin Miller Harris 2015
16 Feb 2024 Warm day 1.5ml sample

Pleasant, fresh, lemon scent. A little bit of a generic, soapy moisturiser smell. A little bit woody if you put your nose right to the skin. I don’t smell tea, unless you count a lemon herbal tea smell; it’s that kind of lemon. Nice enough, but not unique, not at all worth $288.

After a couple of hours the only remaining scent is a faint musk that reminds me a lot of a part of Another 13 by Le Labo.


Musc Invisible

? Juliette Has A Gun 2020
15 Feb 2024 Warm day 1.5ml sample

A quiet, sweet, powdery musk. Tiny bit soapy if you really get close and breath in, but it doesn’t bug me like that usually does. Doesn’t seem to change. It’s a pleasant scent to wear when you don’t want to wear much, but nothing interesting or exciting.


Vanilla Vibes

? Juliette Has A Gun 2019
14 Feb 2024 Cold Summer day 1.5ml sample

It’s a cold Summer day, so I thought a musk or vanilla could be nice. Starts with slightly synthetic vanilla essence smell. Listed top note as salt, but I don’t get that at all. Once it dries there’s a really sharp, hot element that I like, maybe that’s the salt. Almost feels like someones rubbed salt inside my nose if I breath it in deeply. Pretty boring otherwise, just a thick vanilla. Hasn’t changed.


Humboldt

Julian Bedel Fueguia 2010
13 Feb 2024 Hot day 1.5ml sample

Sugary, clear-lolly-sweetness. Fizzy. Shower gel, but the lollyness dulls the freshness a little. Not me.

Melon lolly?


Wood Infusion

? Goldfield & Banks 2016
12 Feb 2024 Cool night 2ml sample

Wearing Wood Infusion again—I like the opening so much i want to love the whole thing. Working really well: cool night after a hot day. Enjoying it a lot again, it’s stayed sweet and creamy.


Eau de Gingembre

Alberto Morillas Mizensir 2015
12 Feb 2024 Hot day 1.5ml sample

Nice citrus, a bit of a ginger sting, goes floral but nicely. Citrus actually lingers. Wearing it on a very hot day, walking to shops etc. nice, light.

All these citruses are starting to smell the same, could probably buy any of them…

Seems discontinued.


Velvet Splendour

Wessel-Jan Kos Goldfield & Banks 2019
11 Feb 2024 - - 2ml sample

Soapy and bitter, very close to dog soap again. Feels a purple colour…fades away to very light nothing pretty quickly, thank fuck.


Blue Cypress

François Merle-Baudoin Goldfield & Banks 2016
10 Feb 2024 Night 2ml sample

Bodywash and toothpaste. Fresh and minty. It’s not unpleasant, but why would I spend money to smell like a bit of old chewy.


Sunset Hour

Honorine Blanc Goldfield & Banks 2021
10 Feb 2024 Sunset 2ml sample

Big sweet smell, sharp like caramelised sugar, slightly soapy, rubber/plastic. Raspberry, bitterness of quandong. Not enjoying this, okay if you smell in passing rather than put your nose right up to it. If you can stick with it for a few hours it gets creamy and sweet with a little bitter edge, but i don’t think i can again. Nothing sunset about it.