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Recipe for a good day-
Equal parts of:
Bulgari Black
CdG Tar
Yum!
-ben

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My favorite combo is Bvlgari Black + Samhain from the Goth Rosary. It's AWESOME. Smoky, creamy, & spicy.

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Discovered a new layering combo that transports one to a woody church of flowers and incense and earth.
Feminite du Bois applied to the outer forearm and inner crook of elbow.
Parfum Sacre applied to the inner wrist.
ahhh........... good for meditation and reflection.
What could be a good name for this combo? The Sacred Feminine, perhaps?
Adding it to my list of combos.

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Originally Posted by rtamara41 Discovered a new layering combo that transports one to a woody church of flowers and incense and earth.
Feminite du Bois applied to the outer forearm and inner crook of elbow.
Parfum Sacre applied to the inner wrist.
ahhh........... good for meditation and reflection.
What could be a good name for this combo? The Sacred Feminine, perhaps?
Adding it to my list of combos. I like this notion, and the naming possibilities, too.

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Quarry, mochi227 and rtamara41 - I am beginning to think that we ladies (and lurking men) who love to layer complex scents are a very rare breed.

I do note always layer to 'improve' a scent but rather use my scents like paints with which to create new, wonderfully delightful scent pictures.

I get quite excited when I discover a scent / note which inspires many new combos but it is rather frustrating that I have no one to share or try them with. Sadly, the majority of perfume users (even here on Basenotes and my other home from home, MUA) consider layering complex perfumes together close to sacrilege! The equivalent of giving the Mona Lisa a 'What Not to Wear' & 'Colour Me Beautiful' makeover.

Well, to h*ll with them. Today I have 'truly' discovered fig as a note & it is beautiful! I have many, many new combo's I am planning to try (see my blog) but for New Year's, tonight with my sweetheart, I shall be wearing:

Ava Luxe Wild Black Fig + Jo Malone Wild Fig & Cassis




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Some of these discoveries come quite by accident:
A flannel cuff retains yesterday's Wet Garden (Demeter scents last better on clothing than on skin), a wrist carries remnants of last night's Nuits de Noho ... and voila! A new scent combo is born. I've just reapplied both scents--best kept lightly applied and not too close together. They smell better with their scents slightly separated. I picture the vapors rising and twisting together like multi-strand ropes of yarn.
Like Orange Blossom, Wet Garden has got to be one of the most useful layering scents. It adds a natural, life-like quality that puts more dimension into the smelling experience.

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I like layering. I layer according to my mood. Also my makeup goes with my mood. I have different looks, and different scents. One thing I like about layering is that when someone smells me and they like it, the actual scent remains a secret because they can't detect what it is.

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Originally Posted by moondeva Quarry, mochi227 and rtamara41 - I am beginning to think that we ladies (and lurking men) who love to layer complex scents are a very rare breed.

I do note always layer to 'improve' a scent but rather use my scents like paints with which to create new, wonderfully delightful scent pictures.

I get quite excited when I discover a scent / note which inspires many new combos but it is rather frustrating that I have no one to share or try them with. Sadly, the majority of perfume users (even here on Basenotes and my other home from home, MUA) consider layering complex perfumes together close to sacrilege! The equivalent of giving the Mona Lisa a 'What Not to Wear' & 'Colour Me Beautiful' makeover. I watch you layering ladies with awe. "How can they tell what will work?" I haven't really begun layering, aside from using my exquisite new vanilla body lotion under other sugary delights, partly because I'm afraid of ending up with something horrible. Mostly, however, I'm so new at this that I want to get to know these fragrances for themselves first.
To me, fragrance is an art. And art is creativity. I wouldn't give the Mona Lisa herself a makeover but what's wrong with taking that image and playing with it? Musicians do this all the time. You just keep reworking a theme.
So I say: "Layer on, Layerers!"

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[quote=Quarry]Some of these discoveries come quite by accident:
A flannel cuff retains yesterday's Wet Garden (Demeter scents last better on clothing than on skin), a wrist carries remnants of last night's Nuits de Noho ... and voila! A new scent combo is born. I've just reapplied both scents--best kept lightly applied and not too close together. They smell better with their scents slightly separated. I picture the vapors rising and twisting together like multi-strand ropes of yarn.
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moondeva, I feel your pain, I myself admit that I have had self doubts since crossing the line with you, my fellow layerers....and yet, layer I must and do.
quarry, I relate to this above vignette, especially the analogy to weaving, and twisting ropes of yarn. So true. Layering is perhaps a mechanism to expand on the non linear experience even more. As with a single fragrance that is non linear when one experiences the evolution of notes, layering does the same, scents in stereo, if you will. I think it is true that layers are best applied on different patches of skin, though my lolita lempicka and black combo - well , they go directly one over the other.
one post script. the weaving analogy reminds me of a fantasy quartet that my daughter loves, by Tamora Pierce, called the Circle of Magic. One of the main character weaves strands of silk and light and thereby creates magic. neat story.

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Originally Posted by moondeva
Yay! Welcome to the dark side rtamara41 - your view of perfumes will never be the same again!
[/size] moondeva, one couldn't know how prophetic these words would be...alas, have I lost my mind entirely? I ask myself as I sit enshrouded in a fragrant aura of bliss...
from my belly steam is rising scented of montale's velvet flowers. not sure why it is named thus, since it is a searing scent on me, bewitching...i have not even bothered to check its composition... I assume there are flowers in here, duh - which kind? maybe tuberose? I wonder, but know not for certain.
If tuberose is criminelle as i have heard it described here, then it could very well be in this creation of montale...bewitching, I repeat.
on my wrists and forearms rest the warm sultry haze of ambre sultan....yeow!!!!! I can hardly stand myself!! I am in LOVE!!!WOOOO!!!!!!
I doubt I could venture out of the house this way, but I ain't got no plans anyhow...all the menfolk are watching the sugarbowl...me and my sniffies are delightfully alone.
I feel a name coming.... here it comess.....
Bewitched: Ambre Sultan, applied to wrists + Montale Velvet Flowers , above the belly button, the latter applied quite sparingly.