I was too busy lately to write another review for you, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to keep you idle at the same time, so I came up with the idea of a weekend challenge. I might do more of those in the future (or not) and the rules are very simple. A challenge is a task to do and today I dare you to write a perfume review which will be just one sentence long. I will start!
By Kilian Imperial Tea smells like… a lovely green tea infusion with dried jasmine flowers, a very natural and realistic interpretation, but that’s just it – nothing more comes to my mind.
Serge Lutens Iris Silver Mist smells like… an old and damp underground catacombs with the walls covered with green slime-y plants and with a lot of terrible, rotten carrots buried in the soil-floor.
If you feel like accepting my challenge, please submit your own ideas. Use a format: Perfume X smells like… and show your creativity. Give everyone a reason to laugh out loud. Until next week!
Chemist in the Bottle 
Vintage Diorissimo smells like lily of the valley and jasmine petals crushed by fairies into an emerald green potion.
Amouage Gold smells like Madame Rochas gave birth to an extravagant daughter who swirls around on a cloud of fizzing aldehydes, clutching expensive bouquets of white flowers to her bosom.
Aromatics Elixir smells like the witch of the forest after she’s bathed in a deep, mossy pool and anointed herself with rose oil.
Love this game!
Great reviews in 1 sentence, quite poetic I’d say. Especially love the Diorissimo one with fairies 😀
I’m rather fond of fairies and witches ……..
Me too
Ooh, great review of Aromatics Elixir — a fragrance I’ve had in my wardrobe since its release in the early 70s.
Glad you like it.
Faries one is nice 🙂
🙂
Frederic Malle Carnal Flower smells like a fragrant blast from a florist shop refrigerator.
Nice, nice. You like this perfume, don’t you? Do I remember well?
I do like it but have not bought a FB because a little bit goes a long way and I know I am unlikely to wear it often. If one of those travel refills come up for swap, I may do a swap for something nice…like an Ormond Jayne Travel Spray, for example 🙂
I see!
Serge Lutens Chergui smells like bug spray when you apply a little bit, so go big and you’ll get honeyed tobacco and chocolate with chili pepper flakes.
So funny! Who would’ve thought Chergui might smell like a bug repellent when you spray with no abandon
Actually, if you spray a little bit, it smells like bug repellent, but if you spray with abandon, it is absolutely addicting.
I only had a sample once so had no choice to spray at all (it was a dabber vial) not to mention spraying with abandon
We may have to remedy that if you haven’t given up yet on Chergui :-).
I don’t know if I have given up on it or not…
Tokyo Milk Dark Bittersweet smells like chocolate cake batter – yummm.
Funny story, I met someone at Sniffapalooza and offered to gift her with some samples from my collection. When I listed the perfumes I have that were in the gourmand / amber family, I knew I had to list Bittersweet but instead of calling it Bittersweet, I accidentally named it Cake Batter on my list.
I don’t know this one but sounds appetizing. Eau de Cake Batter. Sounds a bit like one of Demeter scents
The Tokyo Milk Dark Series perfumes have whimsical names. I have 3 in my collection — Bittersweet, Tainted Love and Excess. They are cheap thrills at $36 for ~ 50 mLs. My Sephora recently brought it in-store although it had been available online for a few years. I know I am skirting the edge of having to give up my perfumista badge for liking this line but hey, who’s judging 🙂
Not I! I’ll have to see if my Sephora has Bittersweet. I thought Tainted Love smelled great but was awfully light, which I know for many is a feature, not a bug.
I like lighter scents too, but don’t mind something bigger once in a while
Hajusuuri, nobody should ever judge someone else’s taste! We like what we like, and that’s just fine.
Exactly, a taste is a taste
Agreed, Jillie 🙂
Our minds think alike
I know the names, really nice.
Here in Poland they’re hard to access.
Elie Saab edp smells terrific if you love orange blossoms and aldehydes, but I’m only 50%.
Hmm 😉
Olympic Orchids California Chocolate smells like dark chocolate oranges, but better–amazing!
sounds super yummy
Joy by Jean Patou smells like a flower dropped in a barnyard with lots of cow manure lying around. 🙂
Oh yes, Ricky! A friend of mine wears Joy, and that is what she smells like only I couldn’t put it into words – but now you have!
Good job!
I’ll stay away from it!
Certainly no barnyard in any joy I’ve ever smelt 🙂
Each person has a different perception
L’Heure Bleu is like the piper playing a lament on the beach at Normandy at the end of the day on June 6, 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day, meditative and mournful.
Quite sad…
This is fun, Lucas. I may have some further “inspiration” later on.
No problem!
Andy Tauer Le Maroc Pour Elle smells like a zigzagging walk through Marrakesh’s spice bazaar, emerging blinking into the sunlight to be greeted by a rose seller laden with swags of flowers, wearing a dazzling (and just slightly wonky) smile.
I haven’t tried that one, I guess I should
Guerlain Habit Rouge smells like a big family reunion sounds where you have to wait till the most obnoxious member of the family drops unconscious drunk till you can hear what everyone else is saying
What a comparison!? haha
Jean Couturier Corriandre smells like Tom Ford White Patchouli after graduating from a good manners finishing school
A graduating perfume, ha!
Lanvin Arpège smells like a well trained piano soloist performing warm up exercises, playing octaves from the highest pitched to the lowest bass
I like this one too!
nice
🙂
You probably understood I really love this game…
Good good!
Serge Lutens Un Bois Vanille smells like coconut sneaked up behind the vanilla with a hunting blade
oh and I likes the ISM one, pretty accurate
This iris is my nightmare
Quite good. UBV smells like a woody vanilla pudding to me
CdG Zagorsk smells like a tiny little flower struggeling to survive just outside the doorway of a wooden, ortodox church, a windy, autumnday on the taiga.
Nice one, my faves CdG is Kyoto
My husbands too, and Jaisalmer…I think Zagorsk is most feminine in the incenseline.
Could be
Kerosene Whips and Roses smells like a rose scented bug spray I bought from a supermarket and, with one sniff, the cat next door was exhibiting the Flehmen response.
I wanted to like this scent but, in the end, I couldn’t. 😦
I didn’t try any Kerosene yet.
I think I once called the experience of Rubj (which I love and have a fb of btw) like eating a sloppy pile of Mexican or Indian food in a giant field of tuberose! Yum 🙂
Nice one!