Guiding Water - a watery fresh. Bought it only bc it was on sale.
What perfume have you bought recently?
Passage d'Enfer Extrême. Had to order it from France with a help from a relative since I couldn't find it at a decent price here.
I took a chance and blind bought Stash Eau de Parfum Elixir and it was one of the better blind buys of my entire life.
Bought this Le Monde Gourmand/UO sample set. Not a total blind buy, I think I've sampled like 6 or 7 of these just coming across them in discount retailers/urban outfitters stores. pretty good deal in my opinion! $38 for 10x7mL spray bottles. containing the following:
Pistachio Brûlée Eau de Parfum
"Thé Matcha | Urban Outfitters"
I took a chance and blind bought Stash Eau de Parfum Elixir and it was one of the better blind buys of my entire life.
Ok I also recently blind bought Stash Eau de Parfum Elixir and I'm waiting for it in the mail, so excited!
And? Is it similar to Les Élixirs Charnels - Gourmand Coquin ??
Dear @Hammudas i am not familiar with this brand but it seems it has some delicious fragnances and it suits with the cold weather too ☕🍮🥐 Enjoy them!. 😉👌🏻
I will compose a review very soon! A friend is sending me a small decant of Les Élixirs Charnels - Gourmand Coquin in the mail right now
Dulcis in Fundo and Iris Shot from the souk
+ "Collection Extraordinaire - Orchidée Vanille | Van Cleef & Arpels"
Recently, I've bought from the Souk:
Eau Duelle Eau de Parfum decant
Avicenna full bottle
Cèdre decant
Vanille de Tahiti Eau de Parfum small decant
Black Tie decant
Bois d'Arménie decant
Cinabre full bottle
Rousse decant
From retail, I bought
Rose d'Isparta just arrived today. Found it at a good retail price and for the first time I bought a candle, "Delice" from Diptyque
Just purchased a bottle from the first year (2013) it was made of J'Adore Voile de Parfum. I made a lowball offer of a seller who sells housewares, so I guess they didn't know anything about perfumes, and the seller accepted. Lucky Me!
Just a heads up for anyone buying fragrances on an auction site. Before you buy that perfume, look at the seller's other items. If they sell anything other than perfumes, chances are they don't know much or anything about them, and just want to get rid of them. So, if they are accepting offers you can lowball it. You might not get the item all the time, or they might come back with a counteroffer, but you will get that perfume cheaper than the original listed price. From the items the seller I purchased from had I think he/she was an estate seller who just wanted to unload what they have, which was a win for both of us.
recently bought 3 bottles of Silvestre by Victor, from early 80's or late 70's, stunning stuff
In last 1 month:
"Oud Stars - Alexandria II (Parfum) | XerJoff"
and i must really stop buying it at least for a year or something. Open for suggestions
Mitchcraft
Taking advantage of ATH Black Friday sales. Xerjoff said they are not participating in it at all this year, so they can wait for my money at another time while i make good of the people who are giving us sales. Thanks Aaron
Since Legend (2023) is possibly being discontinued, i got a 50ml before i run out.
And i picked up Notorious (2023) 10ml to try it out.
If you spend enough he is willing to ship internationally, so if you have been waiting now is the time to buy if you are not in the UK.
Just picked up Celebes Wood and Vetiver Amber
Mitchcraft
I was ordering a Christmas gift for my sister from Sephora and couldn't help look at the deals and saw
"Emporio Armani - Stronger With You Intensely | Giorgio Armani"
This has caught my eye a few times even though i said i had more than enough designer in my collection, i think i will like this one a lot.
Usually I'm not a fan of blind buying. However, ever since Toy 2 Pearl was announced, I was obsessed with the bottle. It's colourful. It's tacky. It's cute. I love it. Is it worth buying a perfume for just the bottle? Usually not. So for the last months I've been visiting perfumery after perfumery, seeing if they had already stocked it so I could smell it. I haven't run into it once. I checked their websites. It wasn't there. Waited a week, checked again. They still didn't have it. Then I waited a month. They still didn't have it. And eventually I just caved. Based on the notes it would be something that I would love. Plus I just won NaNoWriMo and if I don't end up liking the perfume, the bottle itself is a nice enough trofee. It was quite the challenge finding a shop that ships it to the Netherlands. Even the Moschino website insisted they'd send it to Belgium (maybe this perfume isn't available here due to licensing or something like that?). So anyway, I have it now. The bottle is cute irl too. The first impression of the scent itself is positive.
"Oud Harmony" by the Saltworks Company. Never knew that I would literally fall in love with an oud scent.
Top Note: Oud, Amber
Heart Note: Saffron, Geranium
Base: Rosewood
I definitely recognise the rosewood in there and it smells insanely good, even my man complimented me on it when he usually despises every single perfume I wear.