SOTD: Un Bois Vanille

Today I am going with the beautiful woody nectar of Serge Luten's Un Bois Vanille. This is one of those few scents that I can't really imagine anyone hating, then again I think vanilla is one of those scents that is easily liked by most noses (whether you want to wear it is a whole another story). Continuing my exploration of re-interpretation that takes place when bands do covers I offer you Thin Lizzy's Dancing In the Moonlight, first the original version done by Thin Lizzy and then the variation I think that is better than the original, the one done by the Smashing Pumpkins.
Thin Lizzy's:

The Smashing Pumpkins:


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image: The Love Potion by Evelyn Pickering de Morgan 1903
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Smashing Pumpkins video uploaded by ScarTissuetwo

SOTD: Un Bois Vanille

After wearing so many spring scents I had the sudden need for something sweet, most of my scents seem to much on th heavy hitter side or too gourmand, but then the wonderful resinous Un Bois Vanille reached out.

Quote of the Day: Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers

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Daughters of the East by Saira Wasim 2007

SOTD: Allure Sensuelle pure parfum

The lovely sunny spring weather has turned to rainy spring weather. Going through my scent wardrobe I was tempted to bring out my heavy oriental hitters: Organza Indecence, Must, or Un Bois Vanille. But the reality is I simply have come to that time of the year that even when it is cold outside spring is still very visibly here and no autumnal/winter scents are what I want to wear. So instead I am going with Allure Sensualle pure parfum (the only strength of Allure Sensualle I wear), which is very much a floriental scent yet the patchouli used in it has a cool earthy quality to it that makes it appropiate for spring weather. I almost dismissed this image as being to much in the mode of bodice-ripper, but I love the fact that the model is short haired, that is she not the "ideal" of beauty, but she has contemplative alluring quality on her face that well the more I look at the image the more I am drawn to it.

And a quote:

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.-- Peter Ustinov

In these days of craptastic economy I thought this one was highly fitting and appropiate.

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Sensual by Royo

SOTD: Midnight Orchid

Today I am sampling Susanna Lang's Midnight Orchid, at first it starts off very much reminiscent of the vanilla used in Un Bois Vanilla, but as the drydown is progressing, the florals are coming out and I am rather enjoying this one. It is becoming drier and more floral.

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Orchid by Daido Moriyama 1991

Most Worn In February, It's a Four Part Tie Folks!

Un Bois Vanille by Serge Lutens

L de Lolita Lempicka by Lolita Lempicka

Euphoria by Calvin Klein

Infusion d'Iris by Prada

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immortelle flower image provided by www.botany.com/helichrysum.html

pomegranite image provided by http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/category/milk/yogurt/

iris image provided by www.themayfly.com/weblog/this_and_that/

My Top Vanillas (so far...)

Un Bois Vanille by Serge Lutens
Serge Lutens' Un Bois Vanille is a nectourous wooded vanilla. It is adult vanilla that calls up the taste of things not enjoyed as a child, but none the less are sweet desserts. Burnt Caramel, dark chocolate, the tangiest of yogurts drizzled with aromatic honey, and spiced wine; all desserts better enjoyed by an adult tongue ready to appreciate the bittersweet.

Organza Indecence by Givenchy
This is the scent of the esoteric, comfort, and lust meeting. It is the scent of a snowy forest laced with smoke and incense, but encompassed by the all encompassing warmth of dry creamy vanilla. It is the warmth of fur and skin on the coldest of nights.

L de Lolita Lempicka by Lolita Lempicka

This is a heady sweet zingy vanilla that does not veer into girlishness by including the exotic smoky mapley note of immortelle. It is the scent of the beach at night with a tango in the firelight, sweet and womanly.

My top three vanillas by an admitted vanilla lover. And as it goes with all vanilla lovers I am still looking for more vanillas.

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Curry Seas by Tim McDowell

Aspens by a Lake by Eliot Porter

Sea Goddess by TJ Ahearn

SOTD: Un Bois Vanille

Going with a gourmand today, but ultimately not one that reminds you of cupcakes, but rather a scent of harder to enjoy flavors: burnt caramel, a sizzle of licorice, bitter almond and coconut, and a dash of delicious woods all swirled in the liquer of vanilla.

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Sneaking away with the rest by Brandi Milne