My Fragrance Journey (Tag)

Tagged from Kris from the Fragrant Divide thank you for the mention!
This is a chatty ramble video so feel free to skip.

[@ildriaresvik6468]

Hei! I really like to hear about peoples fragrance journey, especially if they are at my age and have been fragrheads for many years. You pointed out some things that make me sad about the fragcom here on YT, that a lot of channels seem to be doing commercials for the big perfumehouses, or maybe not even for big houses, but you know what I mean. If you always get sent stuff, how do you manage to be honest and make up an opinion that is not coloured by your attachment to the perfumehouse? I am really missing people like Katie Pucrick you made decent and honest and really funny rewievs!

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

I know I feel like I'm listening to a commercial half the time and they all have the same collections I'm like I know certain houses give bottles away for advertising so they are all talking about the same stuff! It's annoying! I miss Katie Puckrik too she was so funny and informative with just the right amount of production.

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

Wendi, I agree with everything you said. I love old school perfumes, too, and Guerlain is undoubtedly my favourite house and always will be. I also love Amouage, Chanel, and Piguet. I feel about L'Heure Bleue the way you do about Samsara. 😄 A few of my favourite notes: Jasmine, Amber, Civet, Castoreum, Hay, Tobacco, Ylang-Ylang, Tuberose, Orange Blossom, Gardenia, Hyacinth, Heliotrope, Violet, Vanilla, Myrrh, Sandalwood, Cedar, Tonka, Dark Chocolate, Cacao, Lily, Ivy, Spices, Ambergris, Benzoin, Styrax, and honey. Thom (Ouch110) and you are the only two reviewers I actively look for on KZbin. What you wear and how you do your hair have nothing to do with anything, kid. Keep doing your reviews. 💖

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

I love Amouage and Chanel too they are a close second! Thank you for sharing your note favorites there are just so many to love that's why I have so many perfumes!!! There's always more isn't there🤣 L'Heure Bleue is so special and almost too incredible to wear I'm transported every time I wear it. Something about those old ones for sure. And thank you for the encouragement, I appreciate that. Some days I feel like a schlub!!

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034 A schlub?!?! Not a bit of it, kid!! 💞

[@CarmenScentrix]

Sarah Mayes enjoys vintage smelling perfumes as well.

[@kellylyons7611]

brave, so brave. to tell the paris hilton story. I now look down on you but hey you probably feel cleansed....hahaha

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

😄

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

I know I was going to take that to the grave but I figured I had to have transparency 😆

[@ankemilia7474]

I adore you and your videos. Thank you for being you❤️💕🤗.... Natural.... Beautiful and original🥇

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

You are really too sweet thank you my friend ♥️♥️♥️

[@programeditor1119]

Loved your video and your thoughtful comments re: perfume vlogging and consumerism under the constraints of late capitalism. Thanks for your wonderful and refreshingly straightforward presence. You inspire me!

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Aww that is really sweet of you to say. Thank you!

[@marcodonati572]

You are just too lovely and have such good manners and tastes I couldn't help subscribing to your channel.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Aww that is very sweet of you. Thank you😊

[@girlonsoapbox]

I enjoyed this video Wendi. I don't enjoy fabricated perfumes vlogs. Fragrance is a part of my daily routine. Even the choice to not wear any scent to bed is a part of my fragrance journey. I started choosing and wearing fragrance as a teen. I would walk 7 miles from school to home to save up for a bottle of Oscar de la Renta Volupte or Fire and Ice. Then my 1st Love was the OG Samsara Edp in the red bottle. Had my 1st job by then. So its hard for me to appreciate over commercialised vlogs. Getting some perk is fine but when your entire presence is scripted you lost me.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Remember when we would suffer and save for our stuff? It was so much more meaningful. I understand about the routine I feel the same way. Also I'm glad to find another person that loves Samsara ♥️♥️♥️

[@AnaAna-jh5wt]

I do support getting back ups, but aren't you afraid your back ups will go bad by the time you wear them?

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

That is certainly a possibility, but at least in the case of Samsara Sandalwood oil never goes bad. So that scent will keep. I've had perfumes go bad on me but it's very rare. I'm not too worried about it:)

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

I was reading recently that Lancome reformulated Magie Noire for the better. I always try to buy 1-2 perfumes for myself around Christmas, and this year I ordered Magie Noire. I hope I will not be disappointed as I was with Tresor. Poeme smells divine, though.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

I'm dying to know what you think of it. The last reformulation I tried was more than 10 years old! And I've never tried Poeme I should though.

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

I will let you know. I hope I love it. I absolutely adore Poeme. If Poeme's notes appeal to you, I think you will be love it once you actually smell it. It is a bit sweet, but it is not candy sweet. It smells expensive and quite elegant in my opinion. I bought it blind, as I do most of my fragrances, and I consider it one of my best blind buys ever. Gorgeous!@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

Well, my bottle of Magie Noire arrived. I am not disappointed in performance. Projection and sillage are good, and longevity is excellent---12+ hours easily, although it does become a skin scent after about 4-5 hours, but it is still noticeable up close even as a skin scent. However, it does not smell anything like the vintage sample I had. Compared to the vintage, it is rather thin, and it does not have that rich, deep, gorgeous, vintage style. In fact, it does not smell at all like my vintage sample, so I would conclude it must be reformulated beyond recognition just like Tresor which I also found deeply disappointing. Poeme is the only Lancome fragrance (current formulations) that seriously impressed me. I never want to be without Poeme in my collection, but this bottle of Magie Noire is going back. I may some day seek out a vintage bottle if I happen upon a good price, but I refuse to pay the prices I have seen on eBay, et al. I am very disappointed. This is not to say that Magie Noire is not a decent smelling fragrance. Anyone who particularly loves chypres would probably find it happily wearable, but I would never guess the perfume's name might be "Magie Noire," i.e. Black Magic. There is nothing dark or magical about it. It does not smell expensive either. Whilst performance is good, the fragrance itself seems rather generic and unremarkable. Paloma Picasso smells so much better than this, so much deeper, richer, and expensive. Sad......@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

@@user-lz6dm5lk9y That is always so disappointing. At some point like why bother you know? I think I'll have to hunt a bottle of Poeme. I love rich expansive florals like that -- and Lancome took it off their website!!!

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

Lancome took Poeme of its site?! Good grief! I hope once you try Poeme you will post a review, Wendi. @@wendisparadeofperfumes5034

[@mamoni7703]

Ouch 110 is superb! Always enjoy his uploads as I do yours. This was so fun to hear your background with perfumes. Paris Hilton seems to be openly reviled, yet secretly loved by serious fragheads. I’ll have to find some of her stuff. Mostly, I watch smaller perfume channels like yours, it feels like I’m winding down with a friend over a favourite subject ❤. Though, I won’t begrudge anyone if they want to make some cash off the time they put into making these videos. I don’t subscribe to the bigger perfume influencers and find myself choosing not to watch the ones lol subscribe to when I recognize they’re being pressured to sell based on whatever contract they have with perfume companies. Not because I’m upset they’re trying to make a living, but mainly because it gets boring, like those old infomercials about Ginsu knives, or Ron Popiel’s hair in a can, or home rotisserie chicken machine. Lol.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

It does get boring. All else aside they all become derivative. It's all the same stuff and it sounds hollow and manufactured. It's off putting.

[@mamoni7703]

@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034 yes, you’re right. They do sound like one another when you know a particular house/perfume conglomerate is doing their rounds with the popular influencers. For instance, Amouage Guidance and Parfums de Marly’s Valaya seem to be high on the top lists all of the sudden. That’s just to name the most common brands but there are so, so many, as you already know. Anyways, love seeing you here, when you do upload. Have you ever done a video on your favourite sandalwood fragrances?

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

@@mamoni7703 I totally noticed the Guidance thing too😵‍💫 And I'm actually working on a long sandalwood list!

[@DD-nu8jt]

Hi, Wendi! I loved learning more about you! You are my favorite fragrance KZbinr (along with Thomas, of course). God bless you for being a veterinary nurse! I always say that people who work with animals are earth angels. I would also love to try Sous le Vent and Vega. Their names are even fun to say. I have anxiety and have listened to your videos when I go to sleep, because it is like listening to a friend. Is that a really weird thing to admit? Lol

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you that is really sweet to hear. My job is rough so I appreciate that, some days I get discouraged. And I'm so glad that I can be a friend to you. That's not weird at all:)

[@CarmenScentrix]

I try to stay away from the bigger channels for similar reasons. I dont want to be constantly sold something. I feel attacked 😆

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Why is that exactly that feeling I feel attacked too kind of duped like hey we had an understanding here and now you are just changing the script on me!!

[@CarmenScentrix]

@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034 I completely understand the hustle and I'm all for them money or receiving free product. I just don't want to feel like I'm watching a sales pitch or being pushed to buy things. I've had to unsubscribe from some of the ones I started watching at the beginning of getting into Perfume KZbin.

[@fragonerd]

Absolutely enjoyed this! Love relaxed chatty perfume videos. I am NOT into influencers at all. Authenticity and honesty is where it’s at! I’m really trying to get my nerve up to properly start my fragrance channel I may “tag” myself 😅

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you so much! And you should it just takes a press of the button 😊

[@fragonerd]

@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034 awwwh thank you for being encouraging

[@PixidisPerfumes]

Hi Wendy, loved hearing about your fragrance journey.. I'm with you with oakmoss, sadly harder and harder to find fragrances with oakmoss. Have you tried the Oriza L Legrand: Chypre Mousse? the most oak moss forward fragrance I've smelt (even more than Rogue's Chypre Siam, which is also very nice)... I chuckled when you said perfume blogs are out, as I've just started a perfume blog 😂 (late to every party, that's me...). Thank you for being authentic, your love of perfume shine through!

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you so much Pixie hope it's okay I call you that. I've tried the Legrand, and will need to keep at it because it's almost disturbingly mushroomy on me! I should narrow down all my favorite oakmosses gosh I adore them. Do you have a link to your blog? I'd love to read it😊

[@scp5577]

Hi Wendi. Haven't commented for a while now but I still watch, enjoy and "like" all your vids. I climbed onboard your channel re: Hermes Caleche and I haven't stopped watching ever since! I love Thomas at Ouch110 - actually he's the one who turned me onto Samsara - and I can't believe you have 15 bottles of it - so jealous - as it is my holy grail perfume - so I've spent a lot on the vintages - especially as I only became a die hard perfume addict less than a year ago! But but but - I'm a good deal older than you so a lifetime supply of Samsara for me is a good deal less! Ha Ha! Listen - somewhere in your vids - I thought I saw that you enjoyed Jean Patou's Sublime - but I can't find it now. If I'm not a total mad woman, and it's true, let's talk Sublime below...otherwise thanks and keep on posting. I love love love your simplicity and authenticity! You're a girl after my own heart!

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you so much! And I'm glad to see another Samsara die hard like myself I admit I've hoarded all the vintage 😆😆😆. Lucky it's a strong perfume and only needs a few sprays. You are correct I've mentioned that I love JP Sublime and I'm wearing it today at your mention. I have vintage and the more current square bottles and I think both are wonderful. Maybe I should do a review? What is your impression?

[@scp5577]

Hi Wendi. So the vintage edp of Sublime are the curvy bottles and the newer version are the more square bottles? Thanks for clarifying that. Fragrantica is just so confusing sometimes. There are much higher ratings on Fragrantica - btw - for the square bottled edp of Sublime - is that how you feel? I know you said both are wonderful but I wonder if you prefer one over the other. Finally, I would absolutely love for you to do a review - maybe of Jean Patou in general - (I do enjoy Joy - don't know if you do) - or specifically focused on Sublime! Whatever your druthers...and thanks so much, Wendi...@@wendisparadeofperfumes5034

[@nullanix9788]

Great video! Looking forward to see your summer perfumes wether they are summery or not, I don’t wear perfumes seasonally myself. Gabby from The Fragrantician is an interesting youtuber who likes vintage perfumes.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

I'll definitely do the tray video then. And thanks for the recommendation for Gabby I'll have to look her up!

[@pinki3dt]

Hi Wendy. I enjoyed listening about your perfume journey.

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you! I hope I didn't ramble too much:)

[@CK44183]

Great video!!❤

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you Christina ❤

[@kellylyons7611]

I kid I kid

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Hey I do feel better after my confession 🤣

[@yanah.965]

Hi Wendi. I love Clinique Aromatics Elixir too. I wore it a lot in the 70's, 80's and early 90's but then I move on to other things. Last year I bought a bottle of the newest formulation and I just couldn't handle the changes in the modern rendition, especially the dry down. I ended up returning it. I'd like to try to find a vintage bottle. Do you have any insights on what to look for as far as how far back I need to go, what distributer or country of origin. I've seen sellers note that the bottle they are selling is from Switzerland but I don't know what is relevant about that. I would so appreciate any knowledge you may have gained from your experience buying vintage AE. Thanks

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Hey Yana! Okay so my older bottles have a gap in the sprayer vs being solid metal down to the bottom. Also AE mos def darkens with age. I've also read that the Made in USA bottles predate the drastic oakmoss restrictions. Also check the batch code on check cosmetics but I believe that they get repeated every few years. If you want an older bottle look for a used on ebay perhaps? Maybe a bottle that's been kept on a shelf for a long time. Also look for different boxes I have a really old bottle and the box is nothing like today. Also have you tried Aramis 900? That one is similar. I love AE and I hope this helps.

[@thefragrantdivide]

Thanks for doing the tag, Wendi! This was a blast! I'm a sucker for perfume stories and ramblings that do not sound like some fake manufactured compliment story. Thomas from Ouch110 is one of my favs, too, and now, every time I hear Samsara, I will forever associate it with you and Thomas.😆

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Thank you for tagging me it was a lot of fun actually. Plus once I start rambling about perfume I can really go🤣 Thanks again Kris ♥️

[@kia83]

I'm a bit curious :) What do you think of Jungle L'Elephant from Kenzo?

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

Honestly...I need to test that. The cinnamon and spices???? Oy vey.

[@kia83]

Yes, you really need to test it :) I could send you a split @@wendisparadeofperfumes5034

[@Joss-Fragrance-Mixology]

Loved hearing your perfume stories. I love Thomas @ouch110 too!!!🥰😍😘and many others you mentioned. Thank you for the mention!!! 🙏🫶have your watched Gabi @thefragrantician ? She loves vintage perfumes like you 💙💙💙

[@wendisparadeofperfumes5034]

We all love OG Thomas don't we! And I'm mos def checking out Gabby someone else recommended her too. Thank you Joss❤️