HSFES Day!
You guess right, based on yesterday’s post: I am not amused. This last autumn was the worst we had since at least fifty years, officially!, and therefore I can not remember an august like that. It was the coolest and rainiest august since ….Well, not much can be done there, it is too much a chance thing, this weather. It is as arbitrary as my suits and jacket pockets (What is a woman’s hand-bag are my pockets): In every pocket you will find sample sprayers, labelled with something like Orris 4.12 or Hyacinth1.
The last one was today’s chance discovery, as I went for the leather jacket, in light of cooler temperatures in the morning. I do not remember when I did this trial exactly, must have been in spring, though, and the excel with the formula is not at hand either, thus I am just guessing… but this is not the point of today anyhow.
Basically, today I declare as Happy Sunny Flower Erotic Scent day! It will see me playing with Jasmine and Orange flower absolute, with my beloved Bulgarian rose, the Hyacinth synthetic mix and ambrein and lots of vanilla and oakmoss and ahhh…
One day off from the cool lavender stuff, one day enjoying sunny scents with lots of sexy lines in it. In this sense: Enjoy your HSFES Day!
August 31st, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Dear Andy, this scent sounds absolutely wonderful. I personally have never been a big fan of flower scents but the way you describe it as erotic is something entirely different. On a woman, I personally find that orientals with a touch of animalic roughness are absolutely devine and if there are flowers (esp. Bulgarian rose) the scent can become miraculous. Have you ever worked on a dirty animalic musc scent? something that is even more animalic than your Lonestar memories?
K.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Well, THAT sounds like a delightful way to spend the day, Herr Andy…
Any day spent in pursuit of the erotic is a day to be cherished !
Indoles, ambrein, oakmoss, vanille…
I’m sad that there is so much distance between us- I’d love to sniff away with you.
A propos of this nonsense- please listen to a recording [maybe Regine Crespin] doing “Les Nuits D’Ete”- Berlioz- the song,’ L’Absence’ in particular.
That will express perfectly, what I want to say.
If I were there, I’d sing it for you…
August 31st, 2006 at 7:46 pm
uhhh… I am flushing dear Chayaruchama
Any day spent in pursuit of the erotic is a day to be cherished….that one I have to keep in my memory. Thank you so much for your comment. I appreciate a lot!
Dear Konstantin
There have been a variety of beaver trials in the past, a wonderful, indolic, animalic (but little musky) scent. Maybe I got a little bit shy lately, but I haven’t been into much animalic stuff lately… but I am sure with the temperatures going down this theme will pop up again. I am so much in love with these scents. …
September 1st, 2006 at 12:53 am
I am just cracking up at HSFES Day. Hee! Have a wonderful day enjoying your sunny and smiling scents!
Your mix of notes there sounds terribly enjoyable to play with, and I bet you can actually smell the fun in it.
You need a doctor’s bag for you samples and trials… the litttle mother in me just knows you will wear out your pockets too soon, and someone will have to sew them back up for you :) That said, my husband does the same thing - every so often when I’m doing laundry I find he’s forgotten to empty them, and out spills the most random assortment of his work items, change, and partially eaten candy bars. Once I found parts of a deli sandwich, but unfortunately, I found the dessicated soggy sandwich AFTER I’d already run the wash. Sigh. I really hope someday soon men will feel comfortable carrying purses.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:00 pm
A gloomy August really here in the UK too - although I read a forcast for Sept that promises better things - not too much sign of it today however!
a great hsfes day to you too - have a flagrantly fragrant weekend Andy
Heather
September 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I wish you the same, dear Heather!
I will be bathing in cistus…that’s for sure
Dear Katie
Hehehe… I usally wash my money that way… you know: Swiss habit!
Fragrant wishes from a fellow sufferer to your husband. Don’t be too tough on him, he can’t fight it…it’s the hormones….
September 1st, 2006 at 2:10 pm
For once we in Sweden seem to have been drawing the lucky weather straw, since it has been the a wonderful August, if you manage to block out some days of heavy raining and thunder&lightning;-) Warm, sunny with a slightly cooler nights (thank heavens for that) and I hope September will contiue as it started today - sun and a bit over +20C :-D
Personaly I think we are entiteled to it after the horrible summer of 2005, the longest and coldest winter in ages and almost no springtime to speek of.
I dread the fall, hate it when everything just witheres and dies, get grey, drizzly and cold. Hopefully that is a long way away;-)
Sunkissed hugs,
Ylva
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:42 am
Dear Ylva
The sun is finally back here, too and I hope with you that this winter thing is still far, far away….a fragrant weekend to you!
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Long time reader, first time commenter.
How different summers can be from one place to another and your post really drove that home. HSFES? Living in coastal Virginia, in August? I simply break into song, Cole Porter, “Too Darn Hot”. Must eschew anything remotely vanillic or ambery or oakmossy playing with the delicate blossoms, and instead drench the poor dears in a cooling hesperide before they become approachable to even a light caress. Elsewise it is simply choking on the smells of a too long unvented bedroom.
September 2nd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Thank you, Lisa, for your first (and hopefully not last) comment!
I hope there will be a time in the year, there where you live, when the ambery, oakmossy things come into play again. They are just too good, at least around here, where we wake up praying for just one more day with sun.
I like the picture of the unvented bedroom, though….maybe that’s part of the fragrance game, too…..getting a glimpse of a bedroom in the morning sun, guessing things that only the moon has seen.
September 2nd, 2006 at 7:00 pm
agreed Andy, about the unvented bedroom….the mornings can inded be grandly amusing. But that same bedroom left untended for perhaps a week or three in 90+ farenheit temperatures? I cringe at the thought.