tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post2009927212302040134..comments2024-03-27T09:09:56.489+00:00Comments on Perfume Shrine: After my Own Heart by Ineke: fragrance reviewPerfumeshrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-62174650813600013462008-05-02T08:24:00.000+01:002008-05-02T08:24:00.000+01:00Thank you Heather for stopping by and for commenti...Thank you Heather for stopping by and for commenting: coming from you I feel validated in my choice of verse for this fragrance.<BR/>It's no wonder you're part of our little dirty lilac circle: all the good people are in! :-)<BR/>I had so wished to make <I>En Passant</I> my own, but it was not meant to be: after repetitive testings through the years I finally gave up. I do enjoy the melancholy ofPerfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-2241174491087148102008-05-02T05:08:00.000+01:002008-05-02T05:08:00.000+01:00Great post, great topic, great poem, and great per...Great post, great topic, great poem, and great perfume. I, too, love lilacs and they are exceedingly difficult to do right in perfumery. Ineke's is my favorite, with Alfred Sung Sha running a close second. I also like En Passant but partly because of that slightly unpleasant melancholy thing it's got going on. It's a great embodiment of the cruelty of "the cruellest month."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-18429926149273668092008-04-30T21:20:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:20:00.000+01:00Dear Mary,alas.....sorry about that :-(The Lilas S...Dear Mary,<BR/><BR/>alas.....sorry about that :-(<BR/><BR/>The Lilas Spirituel is a solid, from what I know. I think I am buying one myself as well, it being so affordable.Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-79448525717454685452008-04-30T21:19:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:19:00.000+01:00Oops, forgot to say:Yes, the YR one is good. Quite...Oops, forgot to say:<BR/>Yes, the YR one is good. Quite good! Maybe not 100% there, but very nice.Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-9350239663321128172008-04-30T21:18:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:18:00.000+01:00Dear S,everything has a meaning and it's upon us t...Dear S,<BR/><BR/>everything has a meaning and it's upon us to find it ~re: Easter lilies ;-)<BR/>I do wish you that lilacs will bloom majestically in your path this spring :-)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-66666500847712103702008-04-30T21:17:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:17:00.000+01:00Dear LJ,another lover of lilacs: we should form a ...Dear LJ,<BR/><BR/>another lover of lilacs: we should form a sect! It breaks my heart to hear you found a great lilac scent only to hear it's an old one :-(<BR/>I can sympathise, I'm telling you!Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-62162233300576217512008-04-30T21:15:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:15:00.000+01:00Dear I,thank you for the recs: I LOVE Grand Amour ...Dear I,<BR/><BR/>thank you for the recs: I LOVE Grand Amour (and Diorissimo, esp. in parfum)! The Lilas Spirituel is gaining momentum and I will succumb, I feel :-)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-68716059603462754762008-04-30T21:14:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:14:00.000+01:00Thank you Maria for your info and for the rec!The ...Thank you Maria for your info and for the rec!<BR/>The only thing that stopped me from the CLATP's stick was that it was described as being a lily scent (which I also love but I already have things with it)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-4873339481935224602008-04-30T21:13:00.000+01:002008-04-30T21:13:00.000+01:00Dear Risa,I love hyacinths as well! (well, I love ...Dear Risa,<BR/><BR/>I love hyacinths as well! (well, I love all dirty flowers!)<BR/>I smell honeyed pollen in lilacs but I also like your description: perhaps we're talking about a different variety. I only like the purple ones myself.<BR/>The Mathias sounds fab!Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-28472839969751767152008-04-29T10:30:00.000+01:002008-04-29T10:30:00.000+01:00Lilac is my favorite flower and doesn't grow in my...Lilac is my favorite flower and doesn't grow in my area (the winters aren't cold enough here, and lilacs love a good cold winter). Alas! I agree with stella polaris that Yves Rocher does a very nice lilac scent. <BR/>Now I'm off to buy a bottle of Lilas Spiratuel....Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577766593643216036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-78243999897256271092008-04-29T10:20:00.000+01:002008-04-29T10:20:00.000+01:00Ps: it is simple an non-complex, but for me, I mus...Ps: it is simple an non-complex, but for me, I must admit, it is very lilac, Yves Rocher's Pur Désir syrinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-56471086120546814272008-04-29T10:12:00.000+01:002008-04-29T10:12:00.000+01:00I love lilac! One of the best memories of my paren...I love lilac! One of the best memories of my parent's garden is the intense and mesmerizing smell of the lilacs blooming - in June! <BR/>Just now outside my office building the yellow easter lilies are blooming. Have always found the name a bit odd, since they here do not bloom in our easter. Now I know that they bloom in the orthodox easter :)<BR/><BR/>Thank you for this very interesting entry,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-6835716864236979332008-04-29T06:18:00.000+01:002008-04-29T06:18:00.000+01:00I adore lilacs Helg. I have to confess - the best ...I adore lilacs Helg. I have to confess - the best lilac I could get my hands on was Avons "lilac" range that was around many, many years ago. I can still see that plastic bottle of bubble bath with the lilac round plastic ball top. Oh the scent was so true to life. I now have one bush of lilac and its autumn here so I must wait for September. I do wish someone would create a scent with a strong lady jickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09013352537776588166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-29518259216495852752008-04-29T00:45:00.000+01:002008-04-29T00:45:00.000+01:00Finding the HG with this scent is a toughie...Like...Finding the HG with this scent is a toughie...<BR/>Like the lovely armful, Risa, suggests- it reminds one of hyacinth, which is a bloom of 'divine decay' for me.<BR/><BR/>Maria's right- the Lilas Spirituel is pretty. And affordable.<BR/><BR/>Closest I come, is in Diorissimo of old.<BR/>A second thought, is the hyacinth in AG's Grand Amour EDP...<BR/>Truly indolic.<BR/>It is decadent , full of chayaruchamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889166567884475415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-22142002538525509672008-04-28T22:32:00.000+01:002008-04-28T22:32:00.000+01:00My husband and I love lilacs. In California we've...My husband and I love lilacs. In California we've had to buy a special cultivar that doesn't need cold winters to bloom. The plant that Jenavira mentions growing wild in the Bay area is probably a type of Ceanothus, a native plant that is sometimes referred to as "California lilac."<BR/><BR/>This won't be your lilac HG, Helg, but if you want something cheap and cheerful, try Crazylibellule Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-38917760403203678652008-04-28T20:16:00.000+01:002008-04-28T20:16:00.000+01:00I actually just buried my face in rain-drenched li...I actually just buried my face in rain-drenched lilacs this morning! <BR/><BR/>Unlike you, I don't get honey out of the scent of lilacs. I get powdered sugar, slurried with a watered-down apple juice. I think I would find honey too much! But both hyacinths and lilacs share a factor that I call the "blue flowers" smell. For my money, the old, now-discontinued Mathias Lilas room spray was my risahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305216616237465981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-66011226952585707722008-04-28T17:22:00.000+01:002008-04-28T17:22:00.000+01:00LOL, maybe! There is indeed an intense honeyed fee...LOL, maybe! <BR/>There is indeed an intense honeyed feel in lilac blossoms, which I find perversely reminiscent of human skin and intimate caresses. It's perhaps what the creator of <I>Miel du Bois</I> was aiming at as an impression instead of umping the urinous facet of honey absolute. I am hypothesizing here, of course.Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-17714910921741231242008-04-28T16:42:00.000+01:002008-04-28T16:42:00.000+01:00The funny thing is here in California in the Bay A...The funny thing is here in California in the Bay Area there is a wild variety that grows all over, but the flowers are smaller. They smell intensely of honey. Actually you might be better for not having a had a gigantic bush of lilacs, you might have ended up like me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12095625947716520270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-24368566511922520192008-04-28T16:15:00.000+01:002008-04-28T16:15:00.000+01:00How I wish I could have had your bush! They are in...How I wish I could have had your bush! They are intense, no doubt, and I can sympathise, but there is a fragrant intoxication of which I can never tire ;-)Perfumeshrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222733129203280662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3792393342962796253.post-25218089721361545882008-04-28T15:41:00.000+01:002008-04-28T15:41:00.000+01:00I wish I could appreciate lilacs, but years ago we...I wish I could appreciate lilacs, but years ago we had a bush of them blooming, and I must have stuck my head into it too long, and well the scent to this day still gives me headaches. Ironically I had enjoyed the scent of lilacs before that incident.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12095625947716520270noreply@blogger.com