Persolaise Love At First Scent 19 - live perfume reviews - feat. Amouage, Bulgari, Gucci

Episode 19 of Love At First Scent
This was a Facebook Live broadcast streamed on Friday 31st August 2018. Unscripted. Unedited. Unrehearsed.
Perfumes covered in this video include:
Man Wood Essence from Bulgari (at the start of the video)
Love Tuberose from Amouage (at the 24:00 minute mark)
Alien, Angel and Aura perfuming pens from Mugler (at the 19:00 minute mark)
Daria from Sammarco (at the 33:00 minute mark)
Bloom Nettare Di Fiori from Gucci (at the 51:00 minute mark)
and the classic choice for today was
Kouros from Yves Saint Laurent (at the 42:00 minute mark)
Stay tuned for the blotter update.
[Samples of all of the above provided by the brands, except for the YSL, which is from my personal collection]
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Here comes the blotter update 😊
The Bulgari remains thin and depressing. The less said about it, the better.
The Amouage has become sweeter and perhaps more ‘naive’, but its charm is intact. A compelling piece of work.
The Sammarco is still witchy and engrossing. That honey note is so, so wicked. Enough to turn Pooh onto a path of sin.
The Gucci is even better than at its start. A praiseworthy white floral. Much more daring than the usual stuff we’re offered by the mainstream.
Thanks very much indeed for watching!
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[@FabiWe91]

So good to see you again, lent is over! :D I'll just keep trying - please have Vol de Nuit by Guerlain or the original Miss Dior as your next classic :p

[@Persolaise]

EauYes Thanks! It’s great to be back. And I’ll definitely bear those in mind for next time.

[@zinalabudde4847]

Daria, the spinoff show, was amazing. Clever and sarcastic.

[@Persolaise]

Oh, yes! I'd forgotten she got her own show.

[@BriezyFragrance]

So happy Love at First Scent has returned! Would love to hear your thoughts on Le Participe Passé next time 😊

[@Persolaise]

I'll do my best :-) Thank you so much for watching.

[@Persolaise]

Okay, looks like I have no choice but to cover this one next 😉

[@angelajuneholmes4933]

Great tan on this episode after your summer break. I have been through the seasons with you today on a grey 2020 June day and it’s been lovely . Stopping after 20 for today though . Thankyou so much for the lovely distraction.

[@Persolaise]

Twenty?? Oh my goodness. Thanks for watching them all 🙏

[@angelajuneholmes4933]

I wore kouros for a while myself after falling in love with it and a guy who wore it on holiday . Can’t remember him now but will never forget kouros.

[@Persolaise]

Ha! That’s hilarious!

[@rachelstewart2092]

Mugler reviews 3 years ago that I am watching just days after Thierry Mugler’s passing. His style in life and fragrance will never be forgotten.

[@Persolaise]

Very true. Thanks for watching.

[@gunmetal2445]

I have liked most of Sammarco's stuff so far (except Alter). Definitely gonna put Daria on my sample list. Speaking about strong woody materials aka cliches, I feel that its a problem thats infecting niche perfumery too for quite some time. I've very recently sampled two 300 USD fragrances (Initio Parfum) and was suprised to smell alot of cloying amber-woody materials at such high prices.

[@Persolaise]

gunmetal24 Thanks for the comment. And yes, absolutely, the ‘niche’ sector - whatever that means - is by no means immune. If anything, it’s getting worse than the mainstream.

[@ashfaque_1]

I laughed a lot even though I am suffering from a backpain which gets worse when I laugh. I just couldn't resist watching it after you mentioned about it on Sunday's episode. 😆

[@Persolaise]

Ashfaque S. Oh well, I guess it serves some purpose if it makes you laugh. I hope your back pain gets better, though!

[@margaritamaciasdealba5011]

I just get a sample of Love Tuberose and I can not believe how much complements I have from that one I think I need a bottle. I spray it the first time I thought was too sweet but when dry down turn in a so femenin, delicate, lactonic but sexual in a way that I love it know. You are right is gorgeous

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much indeed for watching.

[@lizseville1]

Can you comment on the Diotyque Boulevard next time? Has it changed. I adore the look of that box.

[@Persolaise]

Liz Seville Thanks for watching. That bottle is a new concentration. I’ll definitely try to cover it next time, or perhaps review it on my blog.

[@a2zin125]

Appreciated Kouros for the decade it represented and the men who wore it, no sense dragging it into 2020 for psychoanalysis. It was a grand opening into a decadent, egomaniacal, and hawkish outlook (on everything mind you), when Reaganomics was a principle (at least here in the US)!!! Let it go kids; it was and still is a thing.

[@Persolaise]

Now I’m wondering whether Reagan would have worn Kouros 🤔 Thanks for watching!

[@klauslispector]

The smell of manspreading! You are just brilliant, sir! 😂

[@Persolaise]

😉 Thanks for watching.

[@Polpofemo_5]

I actually like bloom and its flankers. Maybe they're not masterpieces, but not every perfume has to be. Bloom is quite pleasant and not too "complicated". I like for (almost) everyday, but then I love tuberose...

[@Persolaise]

Thanks very much for watching. I think Bloom is amongst the better recent mainstream creations.

[@dylan45]

do you or a member of you're family know Vivian Westwood? I ask because the other day I had chance to see this new movie documentary (a about her) and they interviewed this lady who was Sat in a room just like that one, the one you are in. In fact, I'm more than sure it's that same room.

[@Persolaise]

Dylan Ha! Sorry: definitely no Westwood docs filmed chez nous. How funny! Thanks for watching.

[@angelajuneholmes4933]

Jazz was another big bold one of its day and much over used by an ex of mine .

[@Persolaise]

I never quite got on with that one.

[@Flaconesse]

Oh well thank you, now I will never get "the smell of menspreading" out of my head, it sounds so disgusting, excuse me 😄 And thank god, my boyfriend prefers Hermes - Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate in summer, no smell of menspreading in here.

[@Persolaise]

Oh dear! Sorry 😆 And yes - your boyfriend smells great.

[@Curdle7]

Oh actually I’m sure you’ve already smelled all those I looked u up and you’re a full on perfume writer well good I’ll read your stuff

[@Persolaise]

Don't worry: there's lots of stuff I haven't smelt. Thanks for watching :-)

[@rachelstewart2092]

Compensating. Like big pickups purchased by diminutive males.

[@Persolaise]

Oh dear 😂