Comments on: Quick Sniffs: Frapin Terre de Sarment, LesNez Turtle Vetiver (Ex. 1), Guerlain Mitsouko (edp), Lostmarch Aod (edt)

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:44:31 +0000

The parfum’s supposed to be difficult to wear? I hadn’t heard that, but I haven’t really paid a lot of attention to the Mitsouko chatter. I would think that the parfum would be sweeter and smoother, probably more so than the EDP, which I found kind of bitter and unpleasant at the end.

By: Juno

Juno — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:59:59 +0000

Try the Mitsouko parfum (vintage) if you can find it: I get no bitterness at all (mine’s probably from the 80s and it’s lovely – I am stalking the internet not very seriously for something older). But I do NOT understand why its supposed to be difficult to like or wear. Is this one of those reputations of the older formulation that accidentally carries over? Or just another example of why I am weird?

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:29:36 +0000

Thanks, but it was so easy to get a great photo of that bottle that I almost feel like an imposter for pretending that I did anything. Seriously, you plunk that bottle down in a pool of light and it’s, like, a three ring circus in front of your eyes.

By: ggs

ggs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:06:45 +0000

Gorgeous photos of the Jalaine Vetiver bottle!!

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:12:50 +0000

Life marches on! Stragglers miss the booze and porn!

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:06:51 +0000

Rats! I fall off the grid for a few days, and miss both cognac AND perfume porn?
Know what you mean about perfume for weather…I am drinking, er, wearing, the thickest fruitiest syrupy stuff lately. Very not me. Very appropriate and comforting.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:29:22 +0000

Ninety years late, but at least I managed to grab a seat before the train pulled entirely out of the station.
Thanks for the input on the concentrations. I was wondering if I needed to search out a sample of the parfum strength, and now I know I don’t need to.
“I own all of them (in multiples)” . . . LOL! That’s some serious dedication.

By: Dane

Dane — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:10:44 +0000

Glad to hear you finally joined the Mitsouko gravy-train! IMO, you tested the best concentration…I own all of them (in multiples), and the EDP is my fav, even over the extrait.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:20:22 +0000

Onda *is* a va-voom scent — I just wish it va-voomed more for me the way I read about it va-va-vooming for every single woman that puts it on.
But that’s okay, I’ll just have console myself with a bottle of Rubj one of these days. Poor me!
And I was wondering as I wrote that post if Frapin Cognac was any good, so thanks for the input. Now I’ll have to go find myself some . . .

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:13:31 +0000

Frapin Cognac is wonderful stuff… even better than the perfume.
Wearing my vetiver vavoom scent today BTW, Vero Profumo Onda. Definitely more than smelly grass roots!