Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Favorite Fall 'Fumes




Sonoma Scent Studio Champagne de Bois: You will see that Sonoma Scent Studio is well represented in my fall favorites line up. Laurie Erickson creates scents that feel like comfortable cashmere sweaters on my skin. Champagne de Bois hearkens back a few decades with a vintage chic aura. I imagine a beautiful lady with glossy coiffed hair and perfectly lined lips and calves spritzing this right were her pearls will be placed in the scoop of her collarbone. This is such a special scent to me that I wore it to my sister's wedding. The fragrance lifts with sparkling aldehydes and golden sunlit woods and drys down to velvety soft sandalwood. On a chilly day it rings like a crystal bell and sings. My travel spray is now empty but I see a larger size in the future. Maybe a birthday gift to myself.

Sonoma Scent Studio Fireside Intense: If Champagne de Bois is lightness in the woods, then Fireside Intense is shadowy warmth in a den. Yes, it is an intense fire when first applied but the dry down smolders so warmly with leather and wood that it almost comes off as a the outdoors clinging to your skin after a brisk walk though a winter wood. It feels like fuzzy slippers on chilly feet and brown hues and dark fire lit places, safe and warm. I have used up my travel spray and will be purchasing a 17mL next.

Sonoma Scent Studio Tabac Aurea: My precious. My sweet. My mom gifted this bottle to me for Christmas and it remains my favorite gift. This fragrance wraps me in a halo of sweet amber leaves of tobacco, spices, patchouli and vanilla. I derive much pleasure from finding this scent lingering on cardigans or scarves from previous wearings. Tabac Aurea feels sensual and natural. I do hope you give this one a try one day. Sonoma Scent Studio has an excellent sampling option, as well as smaller sizes and wonderful pricing for such high quality juice. The fragrances come in parfum strength and offer incredible longevity and sillage.

Atelier Cologne Vanille Insensee: Clear and concentrated vanilla at its best. This can be a tad toothache inducing during the hot summer months but once the humidity rolls away and the temperature drops it sits lovingly on the skin like a decadent sweet treat of vanilla bean ice cream.

Serge Lutens Chergui: Sweet vanilla laced fruits, amber, and woods. It will pull compliments from people. It smells pleasingly exotic yet approachable. The sillage is medium strong (dabbed- I cannot imagine spraying this) and the longevity is great, several hours. Full bottle worthy.

What scents do you gravitate towards when the weather starts to chill and the leaves fall from the trees?


6 comments:

  1. SSS does a lovely job with their scents. I love Chergui on other people but it smells too ashy on me, sadly!

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    1. Do you have any SSS favorites? That is sad Chergui gets ashy on you. Does Lutens agree with you?

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  2. The SSS I wear most often is probably Ambra del Nepal type since I have it in a bottle, though I'd have to pick through my samples to see what else I have. Un Bois Vanille is probably my all-time fave SL, though I also like Santal Blanc, Fluers de Citronnier and Bois et Musc. I have a vial of Borneo 1834 as well, but it's such a blockbuster patchouli scent--the tiniest dab tends to knock out everyone around me :D

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    1. Borneo is mega strong! A sample vial lasted me quite a few wears. I have not tried those Lutens yet. I love his juice though. I just picked up my first bell jar this past weekend.

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    2. Nice! Have you heard of The Perfumed Court? It's a great way to sample lots of the niche frags without having to invest in full bottles, especially now that the Makeup Alley swap isn't what it use to be.

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    3. Yes! I have never used them but I do enjoy Surrender to Chance. I usually by my samples and decants from them. I will have to look around TPC soon.

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