What’s Your Scent of the Day? May 21, 2026
Share your scent of the day and the mood it gives you.
Drop your:
* 🧴 Fragrance name
* 🎯 Why you chose it
* 💭 How it makes you feel
Some belated birthday gifts finally arrived, it took almost two weeks🙈 But I’m really excited to get my nose on these!
Single samples;
Lune Feline (Atelier des Ors).
Iris Fauve (Atelier des Ors).
La Danza delle Libellule (Nobile 1942).
Café Chantant (Nobile 1942).
Molecule 01+ Mandarin.
Vanille 18:00 (Francesca Dell’oro).
Rose Cocktail (Federico Cantelli).
Pêche Velours (Maison Mataha).
Pornosé (Walter Maiorano).
Good Fortune Elixir Intense (Viktor & Rolf).
Jovoy Sample Set;
Remember Me.
Pavilion Rouge.
Private Label.
Psychédélique.
La Liturgie des Heures
Essential Parfums Discovery Set;
Nice Bergamot.
Divine Vanille.
Bois Imperial (already have a decant of this - yum).
Mon Vetiver.
Rose Magnetic.
Orange x Santal.
Fig Infusion.
The Musc.
Velvet Iris.
Néroli Botanical.
NB. I messed up here and purchased the discovery set before I knew about Ambre Latte.. which is now in their latest set 🤦🏼♀️😩
Molecule 01+ Travel Discovery Set;
+ Patchouli.
+ Iris.
+ Mandarin.
+ Guaiac Wood.
+ Ginger.
+ Black Tea.
And free with the purchase another travel of + Champaca.
I failed miserably at a promise to self to make a dent in my decant back log before ordering more.. but sh well!
Had a sneaky sniff of Lune Feline (love) and Divine Vanille (love) last night. Wearing 01+ Iris today.
Recently came across this new release; Ambre Latte by Jordi Fernández for Essential Parfums.
Wondering if anyone has got their nose on it yet and if so, could you share your thoughts and impressions please.
This one just caught my attention and I’m not sure why lol. I love Blue Talisman (by the same perfumer) and in the last year I’ve really started enjoying gentle woody & musky vanillas as bedtime scents. There’s no where for me to test this in store .. I’m almost tempted to blind buy a travel of it, as it’s a reasonable price. But would love to hear some first hand experiences.
Recently, every time I visited the Guerlain counter, I kept being drawn to Eau de Cologne Impériale. The SA would do a good number on me, reeling me in with the dazzling, dangling carrot of the historical background of this scent and its bottle - it was the first bespoke fragrance in perfumery created by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain as a special order for the Empress Eugénie in 1853. And the bottle, made by glassmaker Pochet du Courval, is adorned in 69 bees, the emblem of the Empire. So of course, I couldn’t stop thinking of it and asked for a bottle for my birthday. After all, the birthday princess deserves a perfume fitting for royalty 🤪
I was drawn to the scent as well, of course. As a teen in the nineties, there was a time when my entire bedroom smelt of a 4711 scent bomb, another historical scent created in 1792 by Echt Kölnisch Wasser. And although similar in scent profile, they are different.
Where 4711 announces itself with fresh, green and super bright neroli and bergamot amongst the citrus, petitgrain and herbs, Eau de Cologne Impériale is much more gentle. The orange is a little sweeter, more floral and softer, the petitgrain less bitter, the Calabrian green gold bergamot essence more rounded, all blended to perfection and relaxing into a softer, yet refreshing and cooling bed of rosemary, cedar and the tiniest fuzzy cuddle of tonka in the base.
And yes, it has the lasting power of a fart in an open field on a windy day. But it is clearly a cologne, not a EdT, EdP, Parfum or Extrait. And, to me, it’s beautiful.
The SA told me that they are instructed to spray Eau de Cologne on their hands in preparation of make-up application so that clients are enveloped in the spa like calming and relaxing scent as part of the Guerlain experience as there hands move the brushes around a persons face.
And my immediate thoughts are that I’ll be taking a decant on holiday with me. Where, at home, I love a cozy spray of Eau Duelle, Absolute Aphrodisiac or Naxos as a calming scent for bedtime. I imagine this will be perfect on a hot night, getting ready for bed in a warm climate. The cooling effect of the scent radiating of my skin. Not loudly so, just perfect.
But above all, even though Eau de Impériale is readily available and not super expensive, it feels really special to me. Like a little bit of Guerlain history on my dresser amongst my other Guerlain loves.