Comments on: Scents Of Summer

By: Ina

Ina — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:08:28 +0000

Amazings lists, y’all! Thanks for sharing! I’m getting ideas…

By: Flora

Flora — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:16:01 +0000

Everybody has such nice lists I won’t add much more – but Solander’s comment about swimming in lakes was interesting – it’s why I love SL Datura Noir, since it smells exactly like the lake I lived near as a child, and we would go there at night when it was sultry-hot and swim in the warm water. When I first smelled the fragrance I was bowled over by how it brought me back there.

Also Anais Anais, Jungle Gardenia and Patou Cocktail can swoop me back to long-ago summers just by evoking the smell of a hot day, a beach, a memory.

For modern day summers I like to wear SL Un Lys as well as the Datura Noir, Ines de la Fressange & Mariella Burani’s Amuleti. All stand up well to heat and humidity.

By: chayaruchama

chayaruchama — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:31:05 +0000

Tommasina, mi hermanita…
Boldoot is an old, Dutch EDC that really rocks. think 4711 +++
Cepes et Tubereuse, is an oeuvre by Mandy Aftel- it’s a wowzer of a magnificent scent, which I didn’t intend to love the way I do;
Sballo is an evil juice by Bruno Acampora…full of flowers and hay.
So lovely, it hurts.

By: Tommasina

Tommasina — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:46:35 +0000

OK, Chaya, ya got me; please, what are these:

Eau de Boldoot
Cepes et Tubereuse (sounds faberoo!)
Sballo

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:30:11 +0000

Summer for me is all about luxuriating in the heat, going to the ocean, hiking, gardening and having late dinners outside in the evenings and, frankly, I wear the same scents I do all year around, just in even greater moderation than usual (never, ever, ever spritz anything). Love all the scents on your list and can’t believe I’ve practically forgotten Ciel, Mon Jardin. Must go find it.

By: chayaruchama

chayaruchama — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:23 +0000

I LOVE the picks, here…

My brain is mush, yes, but not my nose.
So, without duplicating :

Dog Days [Woof !] -
Cypres Musc, Selection Verte, Eau de Campagne, Rose Ikebana, Vetiver Tonka, Poivre Samarcande,Baie de Genievre, Angeliques Sous la Pluie, Bois Du Portugal, Eau de Boldoot, Imperiale, Fleurs de Cedrat, Blenheim Bouquet, The Pour Un Ete, Rose Muskissme, Fraiche Passiflore, L’Eau de Gantier,MPG Exotisme de Fruits parfum,Eau D’Hadrien EDP, Petite Cherie, Eau de Ciel, Eau de Sud Un Air de Molinard….

Evenings : Jasmin de Nuit, La Haie Fleurie, Fairchild, Riverside, Pan, Cepes et Tuberose,Cognac,Daim Blond,Lonestar Memories, Habanita,Acqua di Cuba, Velvet Gardenia, 50/50 Moss Breches/ Amber Absolute, Sballo,Maharanhi,Vanille Tonka, Vanisia.

Many more, but I don’t want to hog space…

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:06:18 +0000

I love most of your list, as you know. Adding just a few others:

Hay, etc.: L’Artisan Fleur de Narcisse, PG Bois Blond

Beach: eau de merveilles (or parfum), ava luxe viva

humid scents: Miller et bertaux 3, TDC Sel de Vetiver

balmy evenings: CB Cradle of Light

adding (since I don’t do dessert:):

summer incense: Passage d’Enfer

a thing of beauty: L’A Fleur d’Oranger

and

my new DH: TF Moss Breches!

By: atti impuri

atti impuri — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:20:45 +0000

summer, heat and humidity are the best for most perfumes of mine!

Tubereuse Criminelle in the summer skips the harsh narcotic stage and gets right to a sexy passion fruit tuberose.

Fleurs d ‘Oranger is most beautiful in the summer, supersexy and no cumin or spicy harshness!

Rose Barbare, more complex in the winter but in the summer its longetivity on the skin is stunning!

YSL Paris …voluptous hot sillage for…streetwalking bad girls! lol

Feminite du Bois…class-act girls get guys hard!

By: dinazad

dinazad — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:01:46 +0000

Hi Ina!
Summer: heat so intense you can see the air dance – Messe de Minuit. And Gris Clair for searing hot stones in a cold river.

Fresh gras -: Cologne by Thierry Mugler, and Vent Vert, of course.

Hay – SMN Fieno! Bois Blond as well…

Garden, humid and fragrant after a summer rain, but already heating up again: Andy Tauer’s Reverie au Jardin

Sultry evenings: Le Maroc pour Elle, by our Andy

Balmy nights on the balcony: L’Air du Désert Marocain

Summer trip to a city, ruins, churches, good food and all: Laura Biagiotti’s Roma

Early summer mornings, when it’s still cool. Or dewy pitchers of cold drinks. Refreshing fruit: Miss Rocaille

Indeterminate summer feeling: Versace’s The Dreamer and Eau de Reglisse

Summer by the sea, eating ice cream under a pine tree, enveloped in a trace of sunblocker: Terracotta Voile d’Ete by Guerlain. I miss that!

By: Solander

Solander — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:59:21 +0000

What a great list! I’ll have to look up all the grass/hay scents…
I don’t know, but perhaps summer in Sweden is pretty close to summer in Latvia?

Summer for me is…
Swimming in lakes – that would be Sel de Vetiver
The smell of not real jasmine but a sort of less glamorous version that grows further north (I don’t know if I have ever smelled real jasmine, this is what I compare jasmine fragrances to). Don’t know which jasmine fragrance best represents this… Once I thought Beyond Paradise was perfect but now I find it too sharp and green.
Bright, cool summer nights – maybe Fine Leather? or Cuir Amethyste?
Summer rain – I don’t know a good scent for this. Certainly not Apres l’Ondee… I’m no good with cool/watery scents, or they’re no good to me.
Meadows and barns – Bandit
Picking berries and eating out in the garden – I’ll replace Ciel mon jardin! with the greener, crisper Rhubarb Sherbet.
Greenhouses – Memory of kindness (it’s too cold to grow tomatoes outside here. The best thing is almost smelling the tiny plants in the window inside before they’re even planted in the greenhouse…)
Ridiculously hot days when everybody else is on the lawn in a bikini and I’m sweating in my room with the huge window – Oriental Lumpur