The scene: Local mall, 2 p.m.
Eau de Cartier Goutte de Rose is one of the new rose launches that Victoria at Bois de Jasmin wrote about earlier this week. Everything is coming up roses this summer.
Notes: Rose
My reaction: Well, this is very rosy. I understand why Victoria said it doesn’t smell cheap. And what a nice scent strip it has. [A rose, about 6 inches in diameter, with die cutting so it sort of resembles the paper snowflakes you make in grade school.]
Five minutes later.
Right. The perfume. Rosy. Still very rosy. That’s nice. Oh look, there’s a trash can. I think I’ll throw this away now.
Mademoiselle Piguet is one of the new Piguet launches from last fall, along with Casbah and company. I thought I had smelled through this whole line in December, but it seems not …
Notes: Bergamot, orange blossom, tonka bean
My reaction: Ew. Eww. Ew Ew Ew Ew Ew Ew. Get it away from me. Eeeeeeeew. Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww. [Hyperventilates]
I’ve never tried this one, but I’d actually like to see a “revival” of sorts of rose scented perfumes. Who doesn’t like the smell of roses?
Everyone says that they bring up memories of our Grandmothers, but the more I think about it, half of our Grandmothers also wore Chanel #5, or some kind of Chanel, as all things Chanel were then and are still the “ultimate” in timeless, class. Roses, to me, are the same. So I say, humbly, bring the roses!
I like the smell of roses! (raising hand)
I don’t think they smell like grandmas at all, which I wouldn’t mind even if they did. And you are right: my grandma wore White Shoulders.
I didn’t plan on trying these and now I don’t plan to do it with a vengeance
Speaking of the rose-scentric perfumes… Today I tried JGAH’s Miss Charming for the first time on myskin and unexpectedly liked it. I’ll have to try it again: I can’t believe I liked that much of rose in one perfume.
You will not be missing anything earth shattering.
That is surprising about Miss Charming! I have not liked any of those enough to spray on skin, as far as I remember. But maybe that is when they shine.
A bit of time back, I wore Elizabeth Arden, True Love. It is no longer in style, now, but for it’s day, it was a very pretty perfume. I wore it everywhere, day or night. At work or at home. I worked at the time in a very professional office in academic administration, and loved this perfume so much that I couldn’t resist a dab here or there. It was always a hit because the perfume was done so well and smelled so pretty in a “delicate and faint” sort of fashion that it never became inappropriate. And if asked what the main component was in that scent composition, one would only have to say “roses, roses and more roses.”
They go everywhere, from day to night. Men loves them as much as we do. Our Grandmothers loved them for the same reason that they loved those “recipes” that were passed down and that we will, in turn, pass down to our children. Old doesn’t always mean “silly” or “antiquated.” Sometimes it goes hand in hand with “timeless intelligence.”
I don’t think I have smelled True Love. It’s impressive that it garnered compliments from pretty much everyone who encountered it. Your description, and it’s “so pretty” nature remind me a little bit of La Tulipe, a perfume I tend to get compliments on a lot. And I couldn’t agree more that old doesn’t mean silly or antiquated.
Those mini impressions are hillarious, you’re so funny!
Aww, thanks!
you’re welcome, they really made me laugh.
I take it that Mlle Piguet was not a hit then? And as for walking around with a blotter for a few minutes, before finding a bin for it, that is so true. It feels like you haven’t tried hard enough to chuck it after less time than that, yet the urge may well be almost instant!
Mlle Piguet was certainly not a hit. With me, anyway. The blotter walk is a common occurrence with me, and the cause of many scents not ever making it onto skin.
Natalie – funny to read your experience with Mademoiselle Piguet. Mine was the opposite – I fell in love with it. I’m not a fan of orange (neroli, petitgrain) but orange blossom absolute is floral and I can also detect hints of jasmine and tuberose. Indolic and addictive. Why does the one perfume I love have to be the most expensive one??
It is so cruel that the most expensive ones always seem to be the ones we love! Thanks for sharing the opposite take on this; it sounds like Mme. Piguet really sings on your skin! I hope a bottle lands in your lap somehow.
Thanks Natalie. My sense of smell seems to change all the time – the more smelling I do, the more it changes and I detect chemicals I didn’t detect before. Probably this time next year I won’t like Mme Piguet. I will never forget when I first smelled Serge’s a la nuit – I was in heaven but 3 months later though it didn’t smell so special.
It is an ever-evolving thing, I think. And sometimes I believe I have outgrown something, then come back to it later and fall in love again.
Ewww says everything with such hyper-ventilating economy!
Oh for the rose to be treated reverentialy as it deserves.
As for grannies, mine was rather partial to April Violets by Yardley and none the worse for it. She had a sweet shop sort of a personality,
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Hyperventilating economy – love it!
Thanks for commenting!
Oh noooo! Poor Mademoiselle Piguet. Have you tried Petit Fracas, by any chance? I’m so curious about that one!
I did spritz Petit Fracas at the counter, but it didn’t impress me much one way or another. Who would really need Petit Fracas, when there is Truth or Dare, was my thinking.