I have bought kind of a lot of perfume samples.

[sapote]

Pursuant to an amazing rec set by rydra_wong (in comments), I have ordered samples of:

- All five of the Comme des Garcons incense series, though I am made aware that that is just scratching the surface of Comme des Garcons unisex-incense-and-forest smells. I appreciate that there's a whole perfume house that understands that I just want to smell like a tree, please.
- Knize Knize Ten, which was recommended as a really old-school castoreum (now synthetic)
- Andy Tauer Incense Rose
- Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypree (I'm determined to get this rose situation hammered out, apparently)
- L'Artisan Parfumeur Dzing!, which I believe everyone else on DW has already smelled, and which was recommended for animalic notes
- Andy Tauer L'Air du desert marocain
- L'Artisan Parfumeur Al Oudh, which was rydra_wong's suggestion for "heavy skank".

I appreciate that my range here is "smell like a tree", "smell like a pretty flower", and "smell like an armpit".

I AM EXCITED and possibly also about to offer to mail someone some perfume samples that don't work for me, but it will be a learning experience either way.

Comments

I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[rydra_wong]

I appreciate that there's a whole perfume house that understands that I just want to smell like a tree, please.

No, no, they understand that one may also want to smell like packing tape, or an overheated photocopier and willow branches, or like "violets that have been hit by a meteorite". They are very understanding.

I appreciate that my range here is "smell like a tree", "smell like a pretty flower", and "smell like an armpit".

Nah, I think you've also got "smell like a desert", "smell like steampunk machinery" and "smell like cats" covered there.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[sapote]

True! I should have not represented their cooperativeness so narrowly. Also, it is true, I will smell like EVERYTHING.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[sapote]

Also, remind me which one was violets and meteorites? I am already making a prospective list for next pay cycle.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[rydra_wong]

That's the Comme des Garcons Stephen Jones one. Which I will be babbling about in the post about violet perfumes which I've promised to write.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[sapote]

yesss I want to know ALL ABOUT VIOLETS.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[sapote]

Oh wow, the bottle looks like a meringue with wings on.

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[sapote]

While I an spamming my own comments: RYDRA I WISH TO REPORT THAT I HAVE SMELT BANDIT. My friend had a vial, it turns out. I will write a post tomorrow, but man, that is a massive fuck-you of a chypre, isn't it?

Re: I feel the need to clarify some points *g*

[rydra_wong]

SEE WHY I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO GIVE UP ON CHYPRES? *g*