Christian Dior - Hypnotic Poison

When i wrote about Organza Indecence I realised that I haven´t wrote about Dior´s Hypnotic Poison, even tough it´s a perfume I like, or at least like when I am in the mood for it.


The red bottle remind of a red apple, and from that there isn´t such a big step to start thinking of Snowwhite and the poisonous apple from her evil stepmother. Stepmothers, evil or not, is a difficult subject. Do you know of any stepmother that call herself a stepmother without any difficulties? In Sweden, we have come up with several words to use instead of stepmother, such as bonus-mum and plastic-mum. Bonus-mum is ok I guess, but is really plastic-mum so much better than step-mum?


Since I´ve been mother to my husbands -now- grown up daughter for 23 years I think I´ve deserve to be just her mum, and of course she is my daughter and her little, pretty son is my grand son.


Well, this haven´t got so much to do with the smell of Hypnotic Poison. If I´ve been an american I guess I would say that it smells like root beer. But I haven´t drink so much root beer, so i don´t really get those associations. To me, Hypnotic Poison smells almond, vanilla, bitter almond and a little cherry. Yes, it could very well be the smell of an under cover and fast killing poison. That kind of poison hard to not taste, because it smells so good.


Hypnotic Poison is a really strong perfume, the kind of perfume you spray out in a cloud and walk trough... really fast. Just like Organza Indecence I think of Hypnotic Poison as a party perfume. Preferable with ruby red lipstick and an ivory full length dress. Anyway, it´s not often I get the opportunity to go to that kind of parties. So I can wear Hypnotic Poison when I am at home cleaning or out in the forest with the dog. A small spray of Hypnotic Posion in the evening will last until next morning. But then all that is left is a lingering, soft scent of vanilla. Otherwise Hypnotic Poison is a quite linear scent.


I haven´t forget about my blog, but this week I have mainly amuse myself with autumn break together with husband, kids and dog. We visited Norrköping, where I manage to spend almost all my money on Lush. How come the sales persons on every Lush store is such great sellers? I always end up leaving Lush with things I didn´t at all know I needed.


Apart from that I have cher myself, and my family, up with bleaching my almost blackish brown hair. First it got orange yellor, then I belached it agian and it become more of yellow. Then I dyed it with a dark honey blond nuance. So now my hair is the colour of autumn leaves. It looks quite interesting. I guess it will brighten up the winter really good.


Wich of the Poison varieties do you like the best?



Pic: Schoolclipart

What am I waiting for?

When I was about 16-17 years old and all about black clothes and emo (I am still quite black dressed, but not so emo anymore) I read Samuel Becket. I read Waiting for Godot and some other works, I don´t recall how I perceived Waiting for Godot back then. Maybe I should go an watch it on Stockholms Stadsteater? Anyway, it´s about two bums waiting for Godot, that never shows up... they think that if he comes around, everything would be allright.


Really that existencialistic or absurd it isn´t to wait for perfumes and perfume samples, I find it exciting and usually not as pointless as waiting for Godot.


Still waiting for Havane Vanille tough. Maybe everything really going to be allright when I finally got a chanse to sniff it?


Besides that I am also really, really curious about Cartiers Les Heures Du Parfums. They seem really interesting and different. Denyse have write really well about them at http://graindemusc.blogspot.com/


And Comme Des Garcons have a new scent, really, theres more news from them, but one I am particulary interested in, namely, Standard. It´s inspired by the finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto. And with notes from the finnish flora. Yeah! Finally a perfume with some northern notes. Unfortunatly I´m afraid it wont suit me as good, but still great news I think.


Also looking forward to samples from two quite unknown perfume houses/lines. It will be so much fun to try them!


What are you waiting for?


It is autumn break here now, so if my blog isn´t as updates as usual it depends on that I am hanging my kids and husband that have a short autumn break as well.






Pic: Stockholms stadsteater

Givenchy - Organza Indecence

Some perfumes are light, others are discrete and wears close to the skin, while some are transparente and airy and of course there´s also a lot of perfumes that are very noticeable. One of those are Organza Indecence.


This is one of those perfumes that enters a room before you do. You will get noticed if you chose to wear Organza Indecence. Probably, that´s the reason you chose it! When sitting here a grey october day in a cloud of Organza Indecence I feel kind of shattered. Sure, I think it smells good, but not so right for this occation.


Where is the catwalk? Or the red carpet? Or that supermega gorgeus party? Where are my party clothes in wich I will make entré like a shining peacock? Where are the men that will offer to light my cigarettes (even if I don´t smoke)? My satin gloves? My Hollywood-hair cut and dark red lipstick? Well, you get it. All that kind of stuff is really far away from where I am in front of the computer!


Organza Indecence is so loud, demanding and attention seeking that I am afraid that a very shy, timid and beige kind of person could very well be scared to death if spraying on some Organza Indecence by mistake. So... be warned!


Well, I happen to like it anyway. Even tough the top notes are kind of plastic on me. Besides that Organza Indecence is a really funny mix between Dior´s Hypnotic Poison and Shiseido´s Feminite Du Bois. Hypnotic Poison is a little more childish and maybe happier, and feminite Du Bois is way more elegant and classy, but still there are similarities. I wonder if I use Feminite Du Bois and Hypnotic Poision at once, if I wouldn´t end up with something quite like Organza Indecence?


Organza Indecence is something to wear when you want to have really fun at a party! A true mood lifter, but also a little slutty.


Stays on for a very long time and a huge sillage. A magnificent but at the same time a little clumpsy perfume experience, and I think that very young people can find a bit dated.




Pic: Red bubbles.com

Etat Libre d'Orange - Fat Electrician

Are zebras black with white stripes or the other way around? I think they´re white with black stripes, but I don´t think that it really matters.


Anyway, the black-and white stripes of zebras are a kind of camouflage, in the heath on the African savannah their stripes looks like grass from a distant. Predators becomes confused and the stripes are a kind of illusion. Illusions can be fascinating, you know that kind of (usually) black and white pictures that make dots jumping out of the paper and lines that seem to be much longer than they actually are.


Fat Electrician is Etat Libre d'Orange´s latest perfume and it make me think of zebras, illusions, black-and white and a play with light and shadow, contrast and things that isn´t really what it look like.


If you´re a fan of vetiver, don´t miss Fat Electrician! The opening of Fat Electrician could be the fattest vetiver opening there is. Oh, exactly... the fattest. Your greated by smokey, earthy and even rusty vetiver with roots and soil. And by the way, vetiver has really long roots. But, there is also a note of something buttery, soft, round and also quite strange. The name is oddly spot on, at least the fat part.


The vetiver note isn´t at all polite or toned down. This is edgy, harsh and kind of raw vetiver. But as soon as I start to think that I wont manage this scent, the buttery notes are there, softening things up and almost like braided together with smoth vanilla. Fat Electrician changes between dark and light, edgy and smoth, sweet and bitter all the time. Close up the bitter notes are clearer, but from a distant the sweetness stands out.


Yes, it´s like braid a hair consisting of raven black and white blonde hair. Hide and seek, contrasts and a struggle for power is prominent in the scent. Just when I think that I´ve undertand it, it plays new tricks on me. The vetiver become greener, grassier and also a little softer when the scent develops. I find the vetiver in Fat Electrician to be masculin, but the vanilla is more feminin and lend the scent a gourmand character.


When reaching the basenotes, the scent become softer, but also a little boring on my skin. I like Fat Electrician, but it is a challenge to wear it casual, since it constantly changes. Wich of course is on purpose, Etat Libre d'Orange´s perfumes are usually anything but static.


Fat Electrician is well worth the price, longlasting and with medium sillage.





Pic: Alison Ingram

Sinfonia di Note - Coeur de Noisette

There are some perfumes not reminding of anything else I´ve tried in perfumes. When I´m in the mood to wear some of those scents there isn´t anything else I could wear that remind me of those. L'Artisan´s Bois Farine is one, Frederic Malle´s Lipstick Rose is another, as well as Lann-Ael from Lostmarch and Approdo from Profumi di Pantelleria. I´m sure there even more, but I can´t remember them right now. But for now, I think about Sinfonia di Note´s Coeur de Noisette.


This far, I´ve only tried two perfumes from Sinfonia di Note, one of them Amande Suree do smell really good, but remind me of a soft and more sofisticated version of Hypnotic Poison. I am also very curious about their Saveur d'Artichaut, but haven´t come around to try it yet. It´s inspired by artichokes and I think it sounds very interesting.


I think it´s usually very pleasant with nutty notes in perfume. But often I think it´s not pure nutiness, but nutiness drowned in some sort of booze. Probably there is something in boozy notes that strenghten and make the nutty notes lasting longer? But, honestly I don´t want to go around smelling Amaretto every time I am wanting nutty.


Well, you pretty much avoid that with Coeur de Noisette. This is about the purest, smothest and most creamy hazelnut spread you can think of. Imagine milled goldy roasted hazelnuts, a hint of delicate vanilla, butter and a little sprinkle of powder sugar. That´s how Coeur de Noisette smells like. Not the most complex scent around, but I´ve never encountered anything like it.


Yes, this is straight up gourmand, but never to sweet, heavy or sticky. No you are vrapped up in a cloud of heavenly hazelnuts. And yes, this is an extremly longlasting scent with a great sillage.


If you like the smell of nuts, I sincerly recommend you to try Coeur de Noisette.



Pic: Hazelnuts, wikimedia

Autumn favourites, this far...

Am I the only one that thinks the autumn have just begin? Or that summer really shouldn´t have end allready? It´s strange that the autumn take me with surprise every year, at this point I should be used to it.


Anyway, the autumn, at least until mid october is a cozy time of year, clear and sunny days and dark, cozy evenings. The forest is glowing of colours and the air is crispy and clean. Just in a coupple of weeks it will become the grey autumn season, and it will go on pretty much until next spring, since there isn´t any real winter (like in WINTER) here in Sörmland (middle of Sweden)


I´ve got some favourites during september and first half of october. When the autumn turn colder, greyer and more wet I usually change my taste in perfumes a little. But here is ten favourites this far, in no certain order.


By Kilian, Back to Black, I use to write that I can drink some perfumes, By Kilian´s Back To Black I could drown in an still be contempt. The problem is that it´s quite challenging to drown in a coupple of ml of perfume.


Profumi Pantelleria, Approdo, Not to drown in, but to wrap yourself up in when the days a grey.


M. Micallef, Gaiac, Cozy, warm, golden and totally gorgeus.


Korres, Pepper, Jasmine, Gaiac, Passion Fruit, warm, sweet, happy and very enjoyable.


AbdesSalam, Hindu Kush, I want to travel to the distant valleys of Hindu Kush and getting re-married with my husband and maybe stay there forever adopted by the kalash-people.


Serge Lutens, Ambre Suktan and Borneo 1834, some perfumes I can´t get enough of.


Parfumerie Generale, Aomassai, the perfect autumn trip in a bottle.


Shiseido, Feminite Du Bois, Plum and amber, beautiful dreams and sensual evenings.


Montale, Red Aoud, Mustic, beautiful, warm and veiled.



Pic: River of Molten Colours, flickr

Profumum Roma - Thundra

Since I am born and raised less than 150 km from the northern arctic circle elks, reindeers, cloud berries, vast forest- and marshlands and winding dirtroads was totally common during my childhood. As well as the snow was covering the landscape from late october until beginning of may and that the lakes was ice covered until the second half of may. I have at several occations pointed out the lack of perfumes inspired by that landscape, a type of nature covering major parts of the north hemisphere and also parts of the southern.


No way I want to move back to northern Sweden, but I would enjoy a perfume with a vaguely Nordic scent, at least the days I am homesick and got cloud berry cravings.


Profumum Roma´s Thundra offers, if not northern cloud berry marshes, at least a scent featuring northern barren land, coldness and still very aromatic. Thundra has something in common with Serge Luten´s Borneo 1834. Both of them are strong, powerful and patchouli dominated perfumes. But if Borneo 1§834 is the scent of distant East Asian islands, Thundra is the scent of patchouli, as it would smell if it was growing in Siberia, Alaska and the North calotte. If you can imaging the smell of Arctic patchouli, you can almost guess how Thundra smells like.


The cool in Thundra comes from mint, a mint note that never actually smells minty, but gives a chilly, cool and refreshing base to the patchouli. Thundra has an obvious patchouli scent, but at the same time a very strange and different patchouli scent. Of course there isn´t any cloud berries or alpine birches in Thundra, but still it smell very northern to me.


Usually I prefer warm perfumes before cold, but once in a while it is very pleasant to to wear something that smells both familiar and strange at the same time. Profumum Roma´s Thundra manage to do that. It could be a perfect patchouli scent for those of you that find patchouli to be to cloying, strong, heavy and overly orientalic. This is hightuned, clear and chilly patchouli, and pretty much a different take on patchouli.


Thundra is an unisex scent, and I think it´s very, very pleasant on both me and my husband. Lasting power is excellent as with most perfumes from Profumum Roma. The sillage is noticeable and the base is a reliable continuation of the top-and heart notes, wich isn´t always the case with Profumum Roma´s fragrances. Actually, the price is the only thing I can complain about.






Pic: Tundra, upperschoolpeeler