Saturday Question: What Is the Best-Known Perfume for Each of These Brands?
I know it’s almost Sunday Question, but let’s do it anyway. There are several brands with which the answer to this question would probably come out immediately. Chanel? Of course, No 5. Guerlain?...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What Is Your Favorite Masculine Perfume?
Just to avoid going through the argument that any perfume is for anyone, and there are no rules about who can wear what, I’ll do this disclaimer: I’m talking about the style of perfume that...
View ArticleMiller et Bertaux. Do You?
Hey ULG Crew, Miller et Bertaux are a couple of art dudes who ventured into fragrance 2006 with a strange set of three scents. #1 (For You) Parfum Trouvé, #2 Spiritus / Land and #3 Green, Green, Green...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What Is the Largest Bottle in Your Collection?
Setting aside the significance of this aspect for other areas of life, I am quite confident that many of us consider a large size of a perfume bottle to be a rather negative characteristic. But we do...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What Is Your Favorite Herbal Note?
Summer is a perfect “salad season”: all herbs and leaves are “in season,” all vegetables are local, and some of them are quite tasty. But what about herbs in our perfumes? Saturday Question #125: What...
View ArticleAfternoon Tea Sniff with Sonya
Howdy ULG-ers. Last month I was thinking about a friend of mine quite a lot. We hadn’t seen each other in real life for well over a year. So, I do what we do when the call comes, I got in touch. We set...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Wear Fig Perfumes?
I love figs. Usually, by now I would be getting fresh figs and eating them with goat cheese and wine or making flatbread with prosciutto and red onion (and eating it with wine). But for some reason...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Have You Ever Bought Perfumes in a Duty Free Store?
It often comes up in perfume-related threads that we saw, smelled or tried something at a duty-free shop in an airport. But does it ever go beyond testing? Saturday Question #127: Have You Ever Bought...
View ArticleY by Yves Saint Laurent 1964
Hi there Crew, Yves Saint Laurent is one of the big names in fashion that I’ve followed since childhood. When they took his first name from the brand it changed the way the houses name felt in my...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Own Any German Perfumes?
Usually, when I travel abroad, I either bring with me perfumes from that country’s brands or buy them while being there. Or both. This time, while traveling to Germany to bring my vSO’s mom to the US,...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Have You Had Your COVID-19 Yet?
I know that it’s Sunday already. But I didn’t want to miss the week completely, and I had absolutely no energy to do any posts yesterday, and today my creativity is still somewhere AWOL. Hence, I’m...
View ArticleFlesh by Pekji 2021
Hi Looking Glassers, Flesh by Pekji is newly arrived at Chez Portia. My buddy Scotty bought the set as soon as they came out and brought them over for sniffing. It’s taken me a while but now I too have...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Are You Happy With Your Perfume Collection?
The change of season means mental reshuffling my collection to prepare to the cold(er) season. This exercise allows me to take a look at my collection and evaluate its content. Saturday Question #130:...
View ArticleScent Semantics #11: MISANTHROPE
I am so behind with this collaboration: I started and have not finished at least a couple of previous topics. I still might publish some of those, but I decided to try to do it this month. I think it...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Know Any Successful Perfume Reformulation?
In the comments to the recent Scent Semantics post, hajusuuri mentioned that she didn’t think that a vintage formula was always better. This brings us to today’s question. Saturday Question #131: Do...
View ArticleCuir de Russie EdP CHANEL Les Exclusifs
Hi there Crew, CHANEL Cuir de Russie EdP was released in 2016. It’s a modern riff on Ernest Beaux’s 1924 leather & smoke bomb. A soapy reinterpretation of even the 2007 EdT. It’s still better than...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Have You Ever Broken a Perfume Bottle?
First of all, I’m sorry for the missed Saturday: I know that you all perfectly survived without it, but I’m trying not to miss at least these posts without a good reason. This time I just ran out of...
View ArticleHad a BIRTHDAY!
OMG! So sorry Looking Glassers. I’m late. All my fault, take full responsibility. OOOPSIE! TBH I really thought I’d finished the half finished post that you’ll now get in a fortnight. Last week was...
View ArticleSaturday Question: What 5 Perfumes Do You Look Forward To Wearing This Autumn?
Last several SQ topics were … not exactly negative but… So, I decided that we need a dose of positivity. In perfume form. Saturday Question #133: What 5 Perfumes Do You Look Forward To Wearing This...
View ArticleSaturday Question: Do You Wear Gourmand Perfumes?
As the nights get colder and, unrelated to that, the stress level goes up (nothing to worry, just work-related), I find myself thinking about sweets more. Or maybe I just like sweets… Saturday Question...
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