We had friends over the other night for a pre-Christmas party.
Staying in the guest bedroom / perfume office, one of them emerged, while we were watching a film in the other room, so fragrantly resplendent I actually screamed.
OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? !!! I beseeched.
“I’m not sure.
Let me look again..
“
“One of them was something called…..
///\\ ..Antonia?
”
“The other one was – I don’t know, you have so many I just sniffed round and grabbed the ones I liked..
.was it ‘Bubblegum Chic‘?…..?”
OH MY GOD REALLY?
(there had been quite a lot of wine)
But… But..
You smell INCREDIBLE! !!! I would never have thought of wearing those two together.
You are a genius!
“They DO smell kind of amazing together”.
I would never have picked these up at the same time..
I would have thought them to be dissonant.
One (Antonia by Puredistance), a verdant lush floral: sharp ivy leaf and galbanum over green rose, vanilla and vetiver; pretty, firm; dignified; the other, James Heeley’s Bubblegum Chic (recently rechristened Jasmine OD) an already very exciting unleashed tuberose jasmine sambac; the first gorgeously restrained, the latter unrestrainedly gorgeous – perhaps why they went so unexpectedly well together; the beauty of the initial clash, as the perfumes rose up in the air together nothing less than INSANE.
The Black Narcissus 
My, what a feast for the eyes! Well, I have half of that equation, but not the Heeley OD; is not enough to have sent me on a Dior Dior hunt but now also this?
WAAAAAAAAAA
Bubblegum Chic is almost like sweet banana it is so tropical jasmine – I don’t know – it might rot your teeth!
Honestly, though, in that moment, this combo was SUBLIME – it was like I was teleported to another sphere in a microsecond and didn’t know where the hell I was
I think Dior Dior could make me scream within if the right person with the right pristine vintage walked in wearing it – if you can swoon inside yourself
unlayered!
The point of this ‘piece’ was that you never know – that there are unthought of combinations and ways of doing things that you can’t come up with by yourself: I have been wearing a modern Guerlain Mouchoir De Monsieur with my vintage mega Shalimar, poured all over me like Nero, and they have complemented each other rather beautifully – augmenting the lack in each; the first a bit dry and flat, the second sometimes too baby poudre, but this is a very obvious combination of perfumes. Bubblegum OD and Puretonia are pure inspiration!
Those bottles…..amazing X
I know …. imagine owning some of them
They would only get smashed in our junk heap of a house though
Same would happen in my cluttered house !!!!!!!
The visitor went bananas
You wete uplifted to Chiquita Superba
I went and got stuck
Dddddddiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzyyyyyyy
Still perfumating!!
‘You were uplifted to Chiquita Superba’
I was.
PS I want all for a Post Christmas Anti Depression Present!!
I will send you them this afternoon
PS I want all of them bottles! Please God or Santa
For After Christmas Anti New Year Depression PresentSSS
Wish I were there for all of it. Sounds like the height of fun.
It was.
Have you ever had a magical melding that was totally unexpected? I know you will have.