Scented Letters

Being a lady of...a certain age, I have a soft spot for chypres. In my late teens, as I was beginning my fragrance journey, they were still a big deal in perfumery. Wildly out of fashion today, of course. These days it seems that unless a perfume is diabetes in a bottle it just isn’t considered ‘feminine’. In my opinion that’s just nonsense - many of the great female perfumes of the past weren’t sweet at all so I don’t get why sugary = feminine. *Sigh* I guess I’m just showing my age here. I should just be glad that so many of the old warriors of yesterday are still standing - some still fabulous although others are battle scarred to a greater or lesser degree. I have a few in my collection Aromatics Elixir - quite a polarising one, this. It’s quite surprising that so many people are, apparently, still buying this, as it’s so far from what’s current. Every Clinique counter still sells it though. The first time I tested this I was repulsed for the first few minutes but had no o...

I think it’s safe to say I am a little bit obsessed with perfume. I have what you might call an embarrassment of riches in that regard, and the collection is ever expanding despite my constant promises to myself to stop buying more. What can I say, I’m weak willed when it comes to perfume. It’s a good thing my addiction is fragrance and not crack cocaine, that’s all I’m saying. So this morning, as so often happens, a delivery occurred. The postman probably thinks we’re running a business from here with the amount of packages we get every week, between my perfume, Mr A’s watch parts/tools etc, and female offspring’s endless Amazon purchases of, well, literally anything. Today’s delivery was bottles of Cartier’s ‘La Panthere’ and Scherrer’s ‘Nuits Indiennes.’ Nuits Indiennes was a blind buy but sounded right up my alley, so I took a chance. Fortunately I love it and am wearing it today. I believe this bottle is an older formula - as far as I can tell, the newer version has an al...