After several years of, well not actually scorning but not wearing for sure, fruity-florals, I am now back where I started from.
Well, not exactly where I started from but back where I actually enjoy the smell of such perfumes and enjoy wearing them.
It was the fact that all perfumes started smelling typical how I accidentally stumbled upon the perfume community. I don’t remember how it happened, I just remember it happening and after discovering this new perfume world, the fruity-florals lay forgotten by me in my pre-perfumista days.
I got a hint that things might be changing after discovering Aqua Fiorentina by Creed but I dismissed that as just a really good example of perfumes I no longer consider good.
As it happens, my scorn went and bit me in the, well, you know where.
it doesn’t mean I will be wearing solely fruity-florals from now on, it is just that I can enjoy wearing them again, along with the rest of the wonderful perfumes out there.
Tagged: I've been thinking, perfume thoughts
All I am - a redhead 
We want NAMES 😉
I know what you mean, I’m at a point where I’ve been wearing clean soli-flores for days running! I must admit only for half days- because they don’t last any longer on my skin, but still… I suppose one day I’ll find myself wearing something with a melon-ozonic top, killer tuberose heart and fuel-like oud with greasy cedar in the base, and loving it 😀
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I’m not sure I should name any names. 😉 My credibility might plummet. 😉
And you had me laughing out loud with your perfume description. 😀 I do hope I’m not near you when you decide to wear this though. (just in case I might like it too) 😉
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Good for you. In my opinion it’s a good thing to go back to your perfume roots / origins once in a while.
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Thanks Lucas. 🙂 It feels good to return too.
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Well, if you’re wearing Creed Acqua Fiorentina, doll, you can come sit by me.
I’ll return the favor by wearing Viktoria Minya Hedonist or SoOud Ouris (because you know I’m sweet that way!). 😉
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That’s a deal! 🙂
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You both can come and sit by me – no matter what perfume you’re wearing 😉
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Awww.! Sounds good. And let’s have some wine while we’re at it. 🙂
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Perfect! 😀
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I find I do this all the time, and not just with perfume but with all kinds of ideas. I have them for a while and then I let them go and hopefully I’ve learned something (not clear what, though) in the process 🙂
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I’m sure it’s somewhere in your subconsciousness, just waiting to come out. 🙂
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Coming full circle comes to us all if we wait long enough! Ex-Mr Bonkers is of the firm belief that one day the doctors will say smoking 40 a day is good for us, so much has health advice gone in and out of fashion down the years. Me, I like a few fruity florals too (we do want names!) and surprised myself the other day by finding Opardu wasn’t as laundry musky on my skin as the first few times I tried it. I was despairing of ever ‘getting’ that one – though maybe it was genuinely behaving differently on my skin / in this weather.
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I wonder if the same thing might happen with alcohol consumption (going with the idea of cigarettes). 😉
Glad to hear Opardu is growing on you – I hate when perfumes get the laundry musk component in my nose.
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I never swore off fruity-florals completely but I’ll admit that they aren’t the most popular position in my perfume wearing/testing routine.
Since you didn’t name names, I’ll do it! I do not mind that genre – as long as it includes By Kilian In the City of Sin, Byredo Pulp, Hermès Un Jardin sur le Nil, Jo Malone Blackberry & Bay, Juliette Has A Gun Miss Charming, Neela Vermeire Creations Bombay Bling! and Ramon Monegal Impossible Iris.
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Arrgh! I haven’t yet tried In the City of Sin but would love to. I just love that name. 😀
You know, I find Jo Malone perfumes really easy to like and different enough from what I usually wear that I keep waiting for their shop to appear here.
No go yet…
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