PERFUMES I BOUGHT (January 2021) | TheTopNote
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- 'Fessing up about the perfumes I bought in January 2021. This is part of my low-buy year diary so, just keeping it completely transparent (and hopefully me accountable). January might have been a little unsuccessful in the "low buy" stakes but I am not giving up.
In order to keep me (and my wardrobe size) in check, I must declutter one bottle for every bottle I add to the collection. Stay tuned for the follow-up "bottles that were booted" video.
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January was a buying ban month for for me :)
So naturally I added 17 new bottles 🤣
😂 naturally! Doing well to keep it below 20!
"I can deal with that later" is a fabulous approach :D This was super enjoyable, as usual!
I have been doing the ‘one in - one out’ perfume strategy for over a year now and it certainly helps keep my collection to a manageable number and ensures that I use everything I own. I recently had a clean out and got rid of five (gave away three and sold two). As a result of my clean out I have a bottle of Guerlain Iris Ganache winging its way to me and a bottle of MFK Gentle Fluidity Gold now with me 😀
Enjoy your new purchases, Cherie. Looking forward to your full review of 24 Faubourg by Hermes!
Chanel no 5 EDP is possibly my favourite in the line. I really enjoy wearing it. I would attribute your acceptance of it now to mostly the magic of perfume and the complexity of human nature.
If you work hard and you can afford it well go buy what ever you want that's my policy. Life's too short 👌
The Roja bottle is sad, but is a testament for its resistance. hahaha
Haha 💯! And also, I can’t be too upset about it’s condition - it’s the primary reason I was able to get it for a steal and I love this fragrance!! No way would I be able to buy it retail
I love your new purchases although never smelled the HG. Diaghilev is to die for... so moody, it’s gazing out the window on a rainy day. Enjoy!
It sure is, I’m so happy to have it. Thanks Eugen!
I'm glad you found the beauty in Chanel No 5😊 I adore it... every version!💗
I love that you are honest about changing your opinions on perfumes, because I'm the same way. I'm also trying to make this a low buy year! Good luck to us both. 😄👍🏼
I had that "add one, lose one" concept for a while, and it just became too stressful 😂 Congrats on your beautiful additions. Sending you strength for the rest of the year 🌹
Haha it’s going to be hard! 💞
I have always liked Chanel No. 5 because my mom wore it, but I don’t wear it. 💕 I’m glad you found some fragrances you wanted!
Every time I've followed someone to ask about their perfume it was either Chanel 5 or 24 Faubourg😀 The recent 24 is nice but crisper, greener, still a very elegant scent though
I too am loving Chanel no 5, hated it years ago. I've been wearing eau premiere for a few years and when I had a chance to try Chanel no 5 parfum version (blown away). I have yet to retry eau de parfum again. I don't have L'eau version - it didn't wow me. Great video! Amazing haul!
Oooh, Diaghelev - what a lovely experience!
24 Faubourg EDT IS squirreled away in my collection.....I love it 💗
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24 Faubourg is still one of my favourites and always get compliments from strangers when wearing it.
Always enjoy you videos 🦋
Thanks! :)
💡 💡 💡 I am going to dust off the yoga dvd and try it with one my neglected Chypre. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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Great video Cherie 🥰
Thank you lovely 😘
What a great pick up with the vintage 24 Faubourg, enjoy! I have been keeping an eye out on bottles of this and I might just sit patiently and find a vintage. I will be looking forward to hearing your perception of their differences. When my collection is getting too much for me, I just start to feel really uncomfortable and a little overwhelmed. I feel ok currently (sitting on about 60 bottles), however, I could easily let a few go. Maybe to make sure you follow through on your downsizing is to do what Pep is doing, which I think is to say goodbye to the bottle first before purchasing the new one. As always, you are a delight to watch🤗💜
Thanks lovely. Yes that’s a good idea. I do pick which bottles are going in advance even if they haven’t left the house yet. It’s that process which helps to slow down the buying :)
Like you, I am a big fan of Chanel no 5. I own the parfum and the Eau Premiere and adore both. Interesting what you say about enjoying scents you really disliked earlier. In the start of my perfume journey I mostly used citruses and freshies. Then I started to like more oriental style perfumes, and I had a lot of Guerlains. But the last year or so, my taste, or my nose, or maybe my skin chemistry started to change. Everything sweet and spicy turned cloying and sickening on me,it got to the point I could not use my perfumes because I got nauseated. Then I tested Chanel no 5 Eau Premiere just for fun,and I loved it, it also was perfect for my skin. So, now I enjoy more green scents, aldehydes, woods and citruses. No more Guerlains in my collection,but a lot of Chanels!
I love this story. This is what I love about perfume. 💞💞
Very nice purchases
I adore Chanel No5 all versions...and the whole body line too, body cream is superb..love it in all its feminine powdery clean, goodness...
Ooh yes! The body cream is beautiful. 💞
I have an unapologetical love for all things N°5. My gateway into it was the EDT and form there onwards there was no escaping it. I have all the iterations and love them all. Today I'm wearing L'eau, after an unusual summer thunderstorm here in Chile, the weather is hot and humid, perfect for citrusy L'eau!!!
I have yet to come to grips with 24 Faubourg, one of these days.
Excellent video and haul!!!!
Thank you! Perhaps I should revisit L’eau 🤪
I'd love to smell the original 24 Faubourg!
Loved this video. Love all your videos. Old and new. Best greetings from Transilvania. I also treasure my one bottle of Roja, Innuendo. It is a masterpiece.
I’m too scared to investigate the other Roja bottles haha thanks for being here! 🤗
My policy for January was None out, three in! Ugh. I need adult supervision!!!
Haha well I would say that’s a successful month! 😬😂
I 💯 agree how Chanel no.5 edp Grewwwwww on me🔥
I too fell in love with NO 5 after getting Eau Premiere. I have been on a hunt for years to find a classy perfume preferably abstract as I do not wish to smell like a particular flower an actual perfume in the truest sense. I always thought I hated NO 5 until I found Eau premiere, after that I had to buy NO 5 and L'eau too, there is something so elegant about them and ladylike. I find L'eau so delicious to spray over the other two and so many of my other fragrances in the afternoon when they are fading. I do not like the edt though, something i the dry down turns my stomach, very animalic.
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Just lovely video, once again, thank you! Taste changes all the the time and quickly - enjoy and treasure your fresh love Chanel edp. That will pass, too =D!
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I had the same thing happen with Chanel No. 5 EDP, I used to despise it and then all of a sudden a switch flipped in me and now it is one of my favorites. Who knew?
So jealous of the 24 faubourg, i rmbr smelling it in the 90s, but i had another signature back then. Now my signature has been reformulated and i bought the Faubourg. Turns out it's a shadow of its former self:(
I laughed out loud multiple times during your video, especially the “Chanel #5” part because isn’t that so true about perfumes? It’s an exposure thing!
Haha yup! That’s why it’s so hard to say goodbye to perfumes I don’t wear- I honestly don’t know if I’ll change my mind about them again in future!
Hi Cherie. I have vintage Mitsouko EDT and prefer the modern EDP (the golden box packaging, the one immediately prior to the current one, I believe) way more, it's more spicy peachy incensey, whereas the EDT has a more musty oakmossy facet. Less sensual than the EDP for sure. Surprisingly I also love the EDP more than the vintage parfum. Regarding No 5 EDP, they have definitely changed it in a significant way. This was my mum's signature in the mid 90s and it was a powerhouse, room filling fragrance, much bolder and richer than the current version. My dad didn't recognize the contemporary formulation either. Would love to see which perfumes you choose to let go! And yes, chasing vintages is definitely a dangerous rabbit hole 😅
Thanks Lara! I haven’t actually tried the edp of mitsouko, it’s strangely hard for me to to track it down for a sniff. Have you tried the modern Mitsouko edt? Would welcome your thoughts on how it compares to your vintage 😍
I haven't tried the modern EDT yet! As a side note, I have read and watched many reviews singing praises of the classic Guerlain extraits and almost trashing the current EDPs, I must have a very pedestrian taste because I think the modern EDPs of LHB, Mitsouko and Shalimar are beautiful, whereas the extraits of LHB and Mitsouko disappointed me a bit... Don't get me wrong, they are stunning but not miles better than the EDPs. I wish we would live in the same continent so I could send you a sample of Mitsouko, I think you would really like it :) it's one of my all time favourites.
I'm not sure if this is true, but i remember that Persolaise had mentioned that the formulation of No. 5 gets tweaked very slightly as time went on to fit people's tastes. Anyway, this was a great haul!
It wouldn’t surprise me. Thanks Yve 💞
Looking forward to the Hermes Faubourg 24 review. I had the new version, sold it...,as you do. For me it was too much powder in the dry down and felt too mature. Please let us now how they compare. Suexx
I still love the modern version too, but I’ll definitely share my thoughts once I’ve had more time with it 😘
May I know where do you shop online for fragrances online in Australia?
Hi sure, actually I buy a lot of my fragrances secondhand these days through local Facebook fragrance groups but I also buy online through Libertine, Peony Melbourne and the BaseNote Perth. If I am buying older releases/designer fragrances I may use discounters or buy through David Jones and Myer when they have sales on (they also stock some niche brands). Oligarch in Melbourne also stock some nice niche lines but I haven’t purchased from them (yet). I still buy direct from the perfumers where possible (especially if the Australian stockists only get the big 100ml bottles) and occasionally discounters like Fragrancex and fragrancenet. Selfridges also ships to Australia - although the way they pack their parcels makes me nervous.
I'm in the same 'no-buy' boat - more or less - clinging on to the rails, trying hard not to fall in.... You're right about Chanel No5 L'eau. But I bought into the hype, especially when it came in the limited edition red bottle(I'm a sucker for packaging) Do you happen to have 51 Pour Femme from Roja? If so, your thoughts, please?
I think a “no-buy” would be a little too hard for me at this stage, that’s why I’m aiming first for low buy, or even slow buy! So far I think even that might be a bit of a fail! 😬
@@TheTopNote Fragrances make me so happy. So one has to do whatever that makes one happy. Looking forward to more enjoyable videos.
Super intrigued by Hiram Greens perfumes! Do you know where else the perfume may be sold?
His fragrances are sold in various places around the globe but I think these days they can also be shipped internationally direct from his website :) www.Hiramgreen.com
Hi!! Would you tell me where I can find Hiram Green Shangri la? I have been looking for a bottle for a month but it is out of stock everywhere...(and I do t have a Facebook account 😕)
Sadly no. The bottle I just bought is second hand, so - pure luck really -and the first bottle that’s still stuck in the UK I bought in 2019. There were only a handful left then. My best advice would be to have a look at Hiram Green’s Instagram, this is the list where he mentioned you could contact him to find out where the remaining bottles were being sold. instagram.com/p/Bzsi9SrIeRC/?igshid=1finmrep82s05 if there is still some left he may know where to find them? Good luck! 🙏
@@TheTopNote Thanks a lot!!! 😘😘😘 I want this perfume as a substitute of Mitsouko, which turns too acid on my skin and has very very poor lasting power. Let's see if I am lucky. And I think I will create a Facebook account and an Instagram account... I have been collecting perfume for the last 10 years and it seems that I am missing a big chunk of the frag community. I though I had it all covered with feagranrica and UA-cam, but I am realising that I was wrong 😂
@@dhoakohime haha oh yeah, fragcomm is everywhere! Haha Facebook is handy because if you join the local groups you can pick up really great fragrances from vetted sellers. :)
Wow now that's what you call a beat up a bottle😃
Haha it sure is! I almost felt bad showing it but it will get plenty of love from me all the same. 😊
I’m not on FB anymore. Are there any good frag groups on IG??
Oh good question, I don’t know if there are “groups” on IG I just follow a heap of people who post about perfume. A good way to find them is through the hashtags :)
I'm on a no buy and just samples every other month. Time could not be going more slow.
I bet! I am aiming to stick to samples for the next couple of months at least 🙏 you’re doing great!
Will you be selling the fragrances that you get rid of?
Yes, though the Australian fragrance groups on Facebook most likely. One is going to someone who had already asked to buy it long ago if I ever decided I didn’t want it though 😊
Nice review😉 but have you tried Chanel 19? Like to know your view? Have a nice weekend❗️ cheerio🍸🍸
Yes I love no.19! Ok I will muster up some thoughts on that one. Happy weekend!
@@TheTopNote thanks dear🙏 Chanel 19 truly deserve more❤️ cheerio🍸🍸
You are so right! I’m wearing it today, inspired by you ;)
@@TheTopNote oh❗️ that's very nice of you dear thamks🙏& I bet Chanel 19 fit you well❤️ cheerio🍸🍸
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