Posted on 06/07/2018 8:52:46 AM PDT by Libloather
Stormy Daniels took to social media on Wednesday morning to announce the release of Truth, her new “sensual pheromone infused” fragrance.
Fans of the adult entertainer congratulated her on the news — with several vowing to pre-order the unisex perfume/cologne — but not everyone was as enthused by her announcement.
Among the many well-wishers and supporters, Twitter critics accused Daniels of capitalizing on her publicity to make money. Another simply called the perfume “gross,” while still others wrote more crass responses.
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Thank you very much——my perfume tastes go way back to the 1950s,Arpege and Chanel#5.
I loved those scents.
I am soooo sick of rules,laws,and regulations——the 50s take a bad rap,but it was a much kinder decade than the one in which we are now living,IMHO.
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My understanding is that the lessened sillage and staying power of modern fragrances is partialy due to the modern taste for lighter,, “skin” fragrances, and due to the fact that the narural ingredients which served as fixatives as well as a scent component are on the “banned” list. I had hoped that good brands such as Amouage, from the Middle East, would escape the long arm of the EU, but because at least their “classic French-style” perfumes have a big market in Europe, they too knuckled under. There are a few niche perfumeries (such as Dawn Spencer Hurwitt), made in the US, which haven’t given up using the traditional ingredients, but they only seem to manage that by not aspiring to become department store brands.
Smelt like the shithouse door on a tuna boat.
The regulatiions have, IMO, pretty much destroyed perfumerie as an art, as oposed to a business. I spent years collecting vintage perfumes from Ebay and other sources, but you have to willing, in almost all cases, to accept at there will be a loss of the unstable top notes. Also, you take a chance (as with everything of this nature) that the perfume won’t have turned to vinegar through improper storage. But I have to say that I’ve been very fortunate with almost all my purchases, especially, thank God, with the big ticket, truly “vintage” discontinued perfumes from the Golden Age of Perfumery. My Guerlain Djedi and and my Nombre Noir will be prised from my cold dead hands, lol. I used to wish that Guerlain would resurrect Djedi, but it’s as well that they haven’t, as it would undoubtedly be a travesty of its former glory.
A good line to check into would be the “Divine” line from France. It was mostly developed after the regulations began to bite, so it was formulated with those regulations taken into account, but the creators managed to work umder those regulations and still create a line of perfume which has the spirit and scent of the grand tradition of classic French perfumery. I love spicy rose scents, so the Divine L’Inspiratrice is my favorite. Thank God for vintage chypres because their like will never be seen (smelled?) again, thanks to oak moss being a main ingredient of chypres.
The reformulated Opium is a shadow of its former self, and that’s a shame because it was always my husband’s favorite scent for me, the first one he ever bought for me. Fortunatel I have a huge stock of the vintage juice in extrait, eau de parfum, and the other strengths.
Now if I could only find a way to purchase “The Garden” line of perfumes in the US. I have a bottle of my favorite, “The Party In Manhattan”, which I hardly dare to use because I haven’t figured out how I’ll replace it, having no acquaintances in Europe.
In case it wasn’t obvious, vintage perfume is my passion:)
You seem to like the aldehyic perfumes, Divine makes a wonderful one simply called “Divine”, as the original perfume in the line. It’s the one in a pale gold flacon.
Cum To Me
Anytime I run across a vintage bottle of perfume at a second-hand store, I snap it up. I have enough to last the rest of my days but I’m currently indulging in my vintage stock of Charles of the Ritz Jean Nate. A soak with bath salts, a splash of friction pour le bain, a dusting of silky body powder, and finally a spritz of cologne. It smells great and makes me feel happy!
TRUTH is she’s a stanky, overused whore
I rarely wear any scents anymore,except a lavender splash after a shower——too old.:-)
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They should have just named it “Whore” - that’s the most appropriate name for anything connected to her. And they could make a men’s scent by Avenatti called “Pimp”
Spermy Daniels personally milked them “cows”...
“Jean Nate”, boy does that take me back. That’s a wonderful, refreshing scent, just made for layering, and it beats by a long shot any of the “sugar water” scents now en vogue. You wouldn’t believe the prices perfumes like Jean Nate, even the original Love’s Baby Soft scents (as opposed to a recent reformulation) bring! And the Houbigant “Ambergris” and “Civet”. Real civet has been on the banned list even before the EU regulations, and now even ambergris (which is only “cured” whale vomit, from their eating cuttlefish, is limited. That one makes no sense at all, as no whales are harmed in gathering it, it’s just whale vomit which washes up or gathered at sea, allowed to “cure”. That’s one reason why I think that the huge synthetic molecule firms have something to do with this, the perfumers are forced to use the synthetic molecule substitute instead of the organic material.
You are really the perfume guru! Now, if I could only find a bottle of Sortilege...that is what I hooked my man with...65 years ago!
And did I tell you? I hate the EU! It should be annihilated.
Au contraire, the older you are, the more “perfume-y” the perfume you can carry off :).I can’t tell you how many perfume reviews of vintage and/or classic perfumes I’ve read, by younger reviewers, who turned their noses up at a classic or vintage perfume as smelling too “old lady”. These are noses which were brought up with an appreciation of smelling like a fruit salad with a pound of sugar dumped in it, completely unsophisticated. IMHO, the younger you are, the more you can get away with smelling like a chocolate cupcake. IMO, it takes a bit of age and sophistication to carry off the classic “perfume-y” perfumes, rather like being old enough to carry off “real” jewelry. But that’s also why, until a few decades ago, these perfumes, at least in extrait strength, came in bottles with little dabbers, because “a little dab’ll do ya”.
And there’s a place in my heart for the cupcake fragrances, especially since my husband finds them attractive-read, sexy-but I wear them to bed, because I’m a grown woman and I’m not going out in public smelling like Froot Loops lol.
For anyone who’d like to sample some interesting perfumes, and find one to wear in which “you won’t meet yourself coming around the corner”, as we say in the south, try a website called “Luckyscent”. It has a huge selection of fine niche perfumes, you can order samples at a low cost, and if you place an order, you can choose a few samples for free.
There are also websites for buying decants of niche, designer, and vintage perfumes, so that you don’t have to invest in a full bottle. A good one is “The Perfumed Court”.
Ebay (if you can find a trusted seller) is a good source for full bottle vintage perfumes. I bought my two bottles of Guerlain Djedi from a seller based in France, who seems to have a connection with someone who formerly worked at Guerlain. He has quite the collection of vintage Guerlains-I drool with envy-and he periodically sells a few bottles there.
It’s good to do your best to make sure the vintage perfumes were stored properly, and not up in someone’s hot attic or exposed to the weather. Even then the volatile top notes will most likely be gone, but that’s acceptable, since the middle and base notes are mostly what you live with when you wear perfume anyway.
My luckiest buy, on that score, was a very rare bottle of Fath Iris Gris, which I found from a seller who lived above the Arctic Circle in Canada-it was in a set of Fath perfumes, and as fresh as the day it was bottled (it also helped that it had never been opened, the silk threads were still tightly wrapped around the neck and stopper).
I agree wholeheartedly! Even if there weren’t better reasons, I’d like to press a button and watch the whole kit and caboodle fall into the nether pit just for what they’ve done to the perfume art and industry! And what makes it most infuriating is that their regulations affected the perfume industry almost worldwide, because of the way perfume is made, distributed, and sold.
I have a vintage bottle of that one. Try Ebay-just be careful and ask questions about how it was stored, etc. You don’t want a bottle they picked up from some estate sale, not knowing how it was stored. Also, try the sites which sell decants. There were some sites which sold well-kept vintage bottles of perfume, but most of them seem to be defunct now.
Oh and thank you, but the little I know is just scratching the surface-read some of the perfume blogs like “Base Notes”, or “Grain de Musc”, or “Now Smell This”. There are tons of perfume blogs/review sites out there, the best of them can tell you things like chemical composition, EU/IRFA updates, etc. IOW, they’re better than “OMG I love this new Jennifer Lopez perfume, my boyfriend says I smell like a cookie” lol.
There was an excellent one which was geared towards vintage perfume, but the reviewer (I think he was a Hungarian man training to be a perfumer/chemist) I believe gave up in disgust at the regulations and the generally dismal state of present-day perfumery.
They call that “skank” in the perfume business, lol. Usually referring to a perfume with a lot of civet (or fake civet, these days) in the base notes.
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