The smell was immaculate. I still want it. I adore Patou 1000. And the extrait is to die for. That patchouli !
But as I enter a period of relative impoverishment, ¥5,000 right now is too much. Plus, the way the antique shop presented the flacon, leaking, like an abandoned, bandaged leprosy patient, was, I would say (wouldn’t you ?) …. a pile of tripe.
Awwww.
I’d buy it just to save such a beauty from such a sordid fate.
I am trying to resist the temptation to get it and decant it into the divine green bottle which is depressingly empty
I can relate, especially to the impoverished part and the $. The cost of a perfume is absurd these days. Thus, I stick to my own collection which will far outlive me. However, there are times when I really would like to at least smell a certain perfume. So when that happens I sometimes buy a mini so I can have a chance to smell it, even if I can’t afford to buy a full bottle.
Filomena, I can relate! My collection will far outlive me as well. I rarely buy a full bottle nowadays, I buy a travel-size or a mini. The escalating prices of most perfumes are getting beyond my reach. I have so many gorgeous vintage perfumes that I’m wearing them, for the most part.
Vintage delivers more than anything for me as well…
I love still having that scent curiosity, just browsing and smelling new things but I can’t buy ANYTHING right now and for the foreseeable.
Part of me loves the fact that I will really be appreciating what I do have and eking it out : for some reason I am feeling I need big supplies of Mitsouko
I found this blog by accident!
and What a surprise I have your book!!!!!
Nice to meet you. Hope you like(d) the book
Further jikoshokai please!
I used to study perfumery at the Parfums Satori school.
I wanted to learn perfumery because I read Luca Turin’s book and was intrigued.
I also create contemporary art works, so I was looking for a place where I could learn perfumery as part of my creative activities, and I found Parfums Satori.
Unfortunately, Parfums Satori closed its school, but I saw your book in Satori’s atelier and bought it myself.
Recently, I was researching Yves Saint Laurent’s Rive Gauche and found your blog.
yoroshiku onegaiitashimasu !
How lovely. I am a big fan of Parfums Satori.
Perhaps we could meet some time ..