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Poop & Pee - A Little Love for Peety (by O'Driù)

6/14/2015

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I've been talking a lot about ambergris lately, which can smell a little (or a lot) like barnyard animal poop.  Enter Peety by Italian perfume house, O'Driù, a self-proclaimed "pleasure factory".  Here's a perfume that smells outrageously good on its own (a bottle of the wonderful perfume is +$200 USD), but there is also an option for you to "personalize" it with 10 drops of your own, unique liquid (i.e. pee).   There's so much fun to be had in the magnificent world of perfume!  Just think of the possibilities, since the scent of urine changes all the time.  Would you have curry that day, or maybe sushi? One thing is for sure: I would neither drink too much water (bland) nor take any vitamin supplements beforehand.  But that's just me. 
Ya, you gotta love the name--"PEE-ty"--and how there is a tiny, yellow drop of tinkle on the bottle.  I've said it before, and I will say it again--don't dismiss this perfume and concept as disgusting.  Peety (giggle) really is one of the best perfumes I have smelled in a long time.  And nobody is forcing you to add urine to it, it's just an option for those who think it might be fun to tweak their $200 perfume and risk hating it, LOL.  

Most people don't even realize that civet, a secretion similar to urine that is forcefully stolen from the glands of a tortured civet cat, has been used in perfumery since antiquity.  Your great-grandmother's beloved Joy by Patou, Chanel No. 5, and Guerlain Shalimar are only some of the famous perfumes that have always contained civet, although likely synthetic now.  [Side note:  I am wholly opposed to animal abuse and torture.  I do not support companies that are known to use real civet when synthetic civet is now typically used in perfumery.  I do not support companies whose perfumes feature "vintage civet", collected long ago, as any purchase of civet creates a demand for it.  At least O'Driù allows you to be the pee-pee source instead of helpless civet cats, so bravo for that!]

To see my full review of PEETY, click here

Also, here is O'driù's website.  It is quite fun and humorous! http://www.odriu.eu/store/

If ANYONE OUT THERE is reading this and actually tries putting their stamp on their bottle, PLEASE leave a comment as to your experiences!  
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Peety by O'Driù
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New Release from Lorenzo Villoresi - Kamasurabhi

6/13/2015

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Lots of exciting new releases lately, including new perfumes from Pierre Guillaume and Tom Ford.  Here is a new one from Lorenzo Villoresi, who is based in Florence, Italy.  


From Lorenzo Villoresi's Facebook page:


KAMASURABHI, from Sanskrit "Perfume of pleasure and joy".



Top Note: Exotic Flowers, Jasmine Sambac, Rose, Orange Blossoms
Middle Note: Tuberose, Ylang Ylang, Narcissus, Sandalwood
Base Note: Sandalwood, Musk, Amber, Leather, Patchouli



Sounds pretty spectacular, but I am partial to Indian smells and flavors ;)
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My Top 10 Favorites...Currently ;)

6/12/2015

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My top 10 faves at the moment, in no particular order:

1.  Fiore d'Ambra by Profumum Roma - The smell of sweetened skin
2.  Ambra Aurea by Profumum Roma - Smoked woody amber and vanilla salt water taffy
3.  Bubblegum Chic by Heeley - Money don't buy you class; loud white florals and lip-smackin' pink bubblegum
4.  Vanisia by Creed - Top quality amber and muted spice crafted into a conservative, polished juice
5.  Anubis by Papillon Artisan Perfumes - Ancient Egyptian temple ceremony 
6.  Fate Woman by Amouage - Time to come up for air and have a shower, way too much sweaty sex
7.  Jubilation 25 by Amouage - Made for a queen; a grandiose, animalic, incensey chypre
8.  Encens Mythique d'Orient by Guerlain - Sweet whale's breath and salty sea spray shimmering under the sun
9.  Chinatown by Bond No. 9 - Smoke suspended in the still air inside a Buddhist temple
10.  Leiber by Judith Leiber - Not a masterpiece, but I can't get enough of the prominent creamy pineapple

The theme here is clearly ambergris and incense, except for Lieber, the wild card.  And just my luck--a bottle on eBay for $500.  No thanks!

You can check out some of these perfumes and buy samples and bottles at www.luckyscent.com
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Ambergris--Fragrant or Foul?

6/10/2015

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PictureGuerlain Encens Mythique d'Orient (photo from Basenotes.com)
I guess ambergris just means gray amber, although it is not even really amber at all…but to some degree it is similar because it takes so many years for it to become useful to us humans.  It is some kind of digestive waste product that comes from sperm whales, and from what I know of it, it smells a bit like poop.  Who would have guessed that whales have played such an important roll in the history of perfume?

Why on earth would people want to smell even remotely like poop?!  Why do people eat thousand-year-old eggs?  Why do Italians eat cheese with live maggots?  Why are such disgusting things considered to be delicacies?  I don’t know the answers to any of these questions, but what I CAN say is that ambergris is indeed an olfactory delicacy.

I am eager to continue exploring the note.  So far I have enjoyed it immensely in Guerlain’s Encens Mythique d'Orient as well as Ambre Aurea by the Italian niche house Parfumum.

To me, ambergris smells like the breath of a whale.  Maybe one that has not brushed its teeth :P  It smells a little funky and poopy; a little bit like the taste of sea water–saline, translucent and sheer; and a bit sweet too.  I don’t quite know what it is about the stuff that drives me and many other people into a frenzy, but one thing is for certain: you will not find this note in mainstream designer perfumery! As we discussed, this is an acquired taste, but I will say that it is by far my favorite animalic note in all of perfumery, after suede (which is actually a synthetic accord).

And who can resist that gorgeous bottle?  Well if you don’t like Ambergris, Guerlain has bottled two other juices in the same bottle, so you might try your luck with one of the other perfumes in this series.

References:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120830-ambergris-charlie-naysmith-whale-vomit-science/

http://www.ambergris.co.nz/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris


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