Treasures from the Vault | Fragrance Posse
Not gonna lie, I miss the floral extravaganza of spring in Washington, D.C. I checked the information and they’re guessing peak bloom for the cherry blossoms within the subsequent week to 10 days. When you ever have an opportunity to see them in particular person — I do know it’s a vacationer cliché however they are surely spectacular down across the Tidal Basin, though you will discover them blooming all around the metropolis and suburbs.
We had Hoth-level chilly for a lot of the final two months, which I … didn’t like in any respect, with Google telling me all too typically within the morning that “with the wind chill it’s minus three levels” (that’s -19C). However we appear to have skipped forward out of the daytime 30s and proper previous the 40s — it’s been within the 50s in mid-afternoon and sort of damp for every week and I’m looooving it. Every little thing nonetheless appears fairly useless, because it does round right here in winter. The ornamental cacti in folks’s yards are desiccated and droopy and that hasn’t modified but. However within the walled backyard in entrance of my home now we have these tiny daffodils (Musette mentioned they’re referred to as Tête à Tête, I believe) and a lone crocus. They’re not likely out elsewhere, however on my neighborhood dog-walks I can see the daffodil leaves are up and the stems are beginning to swell with future buds, which thrills me. Aside from a number of scatterings of untamed violets, nothing else is blooming but, however the promise is there.
Final summer season I began allergy pictures after a depressing spring, and I’m about to learn how efficient they’ve been. I’m not hoping for complete reprieve, however an enchancment can be beautiful. I used to be patch-tested and the excellent news is I’m allergic to nearly nothing; the dangerous information is I’m wildly allergic to juniper which is totally in all places right here. Enjoyable truth: juniper depends on our excessive desert wind for pollination relatively than bugs or birds, so within the spring breeze there’s a lot pollen it appears just like the bushes are smoking and about to burst into flame. Anyway, fingers crossed my response to it has decreased dramatically after 9 months of pictures.
After Musette wrote about Ines not too long ago I acquired a hankering for one thing fruity and spring-like so I dug round in The Vault (my large, hermetic transport container with all my fragrances) for the very first thing I considered — L’Artisan Mûre et Musc. I can’t scent all of it however I can scent it! And (provided that I’m in a brand new workspace) I really feel like I can provide myself a spritz and never wreck anybody’s day, it’s simply not that robust. I additionally pulled out the previous standby Annick Goutal Eau du Sud which I may scent and I believe I’m going to dig some extra of these out, I appear to be extra in a position to scent the AG scents? Unsure why.
Lastly I pulled out a small bottle I acknowledged as one among my back-in-the-day MDCI decants (how might I give that up?) I believed it was the rose one however no, it was MDCI Enlevement au Serail. That is my unique decant direct from Claude Marchal when he was nonetheless naming them, mine says FK3 on the entrance. Notes from Fragrantica: “Enlevement au Serail was launched in 2006. The nostril behind this perfume is Francis Kurkdjian. Prime notes are Ylang-Ylang, Mandarin Orange and Bergamot; center notes are Jasmine, Tuberose, Wallflower and Rose; base notes are Sandalwood, Vetiver, Vanilla and Patchouli.” It’s so attention-grabbing, my quirky nostril. At first it was kind of like once you scent an previous fragrance and it’s gone kinda off and flat? Solely that’s my nostril, not the perfume. However because it warms up on my pores and skin, I began to get extra of the complete impact – not the full full impact, however rattling. This scent … do they even make this any extra? I believe not, sadly, as a result of it’s A Lot in an excellent manner, a naked-in-mink-and-pearls old fashioned bombshell of a scent. Possibly the illicit love baby of classic Mitsouko and old-school Rochas Femme? I in all probability received’t put on it to the workplace however I’m having fun with swanning round the home in it.
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