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Finishing a Bottle – To Repurchase or Not…
. Sandra . Hi there APJ! How are you doing? We are two weeks into the new year and I am feeling the January blues. After all of the merrying, socializing and festive lights, I feel down with the grey...
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Perfume That’s Not Only For Boys!
. Kate Apted . Hello and welcome to 2018 APJ family! Today, I want to discuss some of my favourite ‘male’ scents that I love to wear. One of the things I love about the frag community is the freedom of...
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Rose Oud by Calice Becker for By Kilian 2010
. Portia . Hiya APJers, Rose Oud happened in the heart of the Rose/Saffron/Oud explosion. For some reason, though I love this combo madly, it completely passed me by. Maybe I smelled it but was...
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Beyond Paradise Blue by Calice Becker for Estée Lauder 2006
. Portia . APJ, Do you remember 2006? Yeah, me either. Only snippets really. One thing I do remember though is the beginning of one of my trips to India that year. You may know that my last seriously...
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Saturday Question: Who In The Perfume World Do You Most Want To Meet
. Portia . Hello Fellow Fumies, Every Saturday we have a Question, an idea purloined from Olfactoria’s Travels. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it is a fun...
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SOTD 22 – 28 January 2018
. Portia . Hi APJ, I see these SOTD (Scent Of The Day) threads all the time on Facebook and they are really good conversation generators. SOTD 22 – 28 January 2018 The idea is you’ll chime in through...
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The Velvets, Vero Profumo and Venus in Furs
. Val the Cookie Queen . Hey APJ. Wassup? Synesthesia: A perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory...
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Still Beijing Autumn Air – finding scent that works
. Kate Apted . Heidi ho, APJ family! Last month, I went to Beijing for a week of random pottering around. It was actually to escape my family and responsibilities, but it sounds so much more romantic...
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MASSIVE Teone Reinthall Perfumes GIVEAWAY
. Portia . Hi APJ, We have a MASSIVE Teone Reinthall Perfumes GIVEAWAY today. I think this is the most lavish giveaway we’ve ever hosted here on APJ. Teone Reinthall has given me seven 10ml Travel...
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Lys Mediterranee by Edouard Flechier for Frederic Malle 2000
. Portia . Hey Fragrant Friends, Do you have very specific Scent Memories? A place, a moment, a person? Does one spritz conjure memories even if you never had that fragrance at the time? That’s how...
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Saturday Question: What Do You Have Backups Of?
. Portia . Hello Fellow Fumies, Every Saturday we have a Question, an idea purloined from Olfactoria’s Travels. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it is a fun...
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Scent Diary: 22.1 – 28.1.2018
. Portia . Hi there Perfume Junkies, This week has been humid, close to Equatorially humid. I love the warmth and sunshine but find the humidity hard to deal with, especially in Drag. My whole body...
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Teone Reinthal GIVEAWAY WINNERS
. Portia . Hi APJ, What a wonderful response. HUGE Thank You to the very generous and talented Teone Reinthal. The best way you can thank her is to drop into her shop and have a browse Teone Reinthall...
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SOTD 29 January – 4 February 2018
. Portia . Hi APJ, I see these SOTD (Scent Of The Day) threads all the time on Facebook and they are really good conversation generators. SOTD 29 January – 4 February 2018 The idea is you’ll chime in...
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Laudano Nero by Paolo Terenzio for Tiziana Terenzi 2014
. Portia . Hey there APJ, Yesterday Evan came over for a sniff. Well he really came over to give me a sniff of his newest fragrant beauties. What a fabulous bunch he has purchased lately. There were...
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Chemical Bonding by Ineke Rutland for Ineke 2006
. Portia , Hiya Fragrant Fumies, I had totally forgotten that there is a bottle of todays fragrance in my collection. It has been sitting lonely and ignored for at least a year. While doing a reshuffle...
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Oliver & Co Stand Alone Store Opens + Nebula 1 & 2 GIVEAWAY
. Portia . Hey there lovers of extraordinary fragrance, Oliver & Co seems like a house that flies under the radar. I don’t understand it. The perfumes are interesting, challenging and bizarre but...
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Eau des Merveilles Bleue by Christine Nagel for Hermès 2016
. Portia . Hi there Perfume Lovers, Jin and I were away, driving around Europe last year, when we met one of our girlfriends in Hanover and we all spent three fabulous days discovering the city. It was...
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Saturday Question: Which Of The YSL Fragrances Have You Loved?
. Portia . Hello Fellow Fumies, Every Saturday we have a Question, an idea purloined from Olfactoria’s Travels. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it is a fun...
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Scent Diary: 29.1 – 4.2.2018
. Portia . Hey there APJ Crew, This week turned out to be all about fragrance and friends. We also got the go-ahead to buy a new townhouse so VERY excited about that too. Life has been very generous...
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