About a month ago I finally cleaned out my perfume "stash".  Though I still have quite a formidable collection still it feels so nice to have it sized down to ones that have managed to still remain enjoyable or special to my nose.

I have also been trying to come up with a better way for me to categorize my scents in a way that makes sense for me.  For the longest time I was categorizing them by season and I have since switched that to the more commonly used habit of separating them according to their distinct scent profile.  In retrospect that would seem to always have been the best choice, I mean why stray away from what the experts do right?  I am certainly no expert but I am certain about my likes.  Rather than just restate my entire collection in a Blog post which I had done much earlier this time I am doing short videos on my favorite scent profiles from my own collection.

Today I will be highlighting what I consider to be my favorite "Green" scents from my own personal perfume collection.  Please understand that these perfumes are what I see as a green scent even though they may not be listed as a green centric scent on on sites like Fragantica.com which I use all the time.  What my nose detects as green may be entirely different for someone else so this really is all subject to individual interpretation for the most part.  To be begin with I pulled 7 scents from my collection which I think are my "greenest".

The first in this new series is from the house of Lolita Lempicka a house well known for quality and enduring scents in the range.  I personally love the original Lolita and have worn that for years.  The only other Lolita that I have acquired since is Si Lolita Eau de Toilette.  The EDP for the Si Lolita came out in 2009 and the EDT was released in 2011.  This is only regarding the EDT as I never had an opportunity to try her predecessor.

On the Lolita Lempicka website it quotes this perfume as being one " who is as natural as she is fashionable, gentle and full of sparkle."  I would heartily agree with this being a scent for a naturally gamine and laughing woman with a twinkle in her eye and a chuckle behind her dimpled and coy smile.

On Fragantica this is listed as a "bright and cheerful" fragrance with warm base notes.  It is said to be a lighter and more playful version of the original Si with more green notes and lacking the heavier spice and licorice notes of the former.  I believe my skin loves the green notes and I really detect that in the initial spray and in fact it lasts throughout the entire wear time which is about 3 hours for me.  Its definately one of those that gets sweeter in the dry

down and with that almost spearmint vibe in the green accords its like walking through a spring garden after a morning rain whilst enjoying a mint in the morning.  That refreshing blast of mint surrounding the scent of sweet peas and spicy flora is what this perfume continues to be throughout the dry down.  I find it delightful and youthful.  The greeness of Si Lolita is such a sweet girly-girl kind of perfume.  Like a tree full of youthful glowing green leaves in Spring this is what this scent brings to mind for me.

I like this little treasure and as ALL the bottles from this House the presentation is gorgeous with a 4 leaf clover glass bottle with frosted edges and golden details along with the signature fabric scarf which in the EDT is red with white and green.  A true feminine and sweet/green perfume for the summer sprite in your heart.

Hope you enjoyed the first in a series of 7 of my favorite green scents in my personal perfume collection and my next green perfume I will showcase will be by ma griffe by Carven.

YouTube and the Female Perfume Community Online

For some time now I've been looking at YouTube to see if I could find the kind of fragrance community that I've been searching for.  In my research I realized that our fragrance community online is extremely small!  Believe it or not the mens fragrance community in general is pretty varied and has some very consistent and excellent content creators and videos and reviews.

The reason why I decided to write a post is because I really fancy hard to find, niche or unusual designer perfumes that I haven't tried yet, or have an interest in a certain fragrance profile.  I try to find reviews or even anything outside of an advert for some perfumes and there is nada!  Why is that? I don't want to just do perfume collections.  I really enjoy individual perfume reviews.  The more obscure the better!  There are a few perfume reviewers that I really enjoy their content and they are funny and just very enjoyable to watch, I will recommend them below so do check them out.

Why is it that the female fragrance community is so disjointed on YouTube?  I myself should qualify this by saying that because of some life trials recently I have done nothing with my Channel regarding posting the last few months.  My last post was about my current status and asking for patience from my viewers and readers.  I really appreciate all that have stuck with me throughout this time.

As an example last night I stayed up trying to find one, just ONE fragrance review of a designer perfume that I was very interested in.  It's not niche and its not discontinued.  I found quite a few reviews on online perfume forums like Fragantica.com but absolutely nothing on YouTube.  Also, I found tons of videos regarding the male equivalent to the perfume I was looking for but no perfume reviews.  I really find reviews fun to watch.  This seems typcial.  I will look for a video review and find absolutely nothing about to watch-only read.  I love reading reviews but for me I really enjoy seeing the effect of a fragrance in real time.

So because of that I have decided to really focus on individual perfume reviews for my YouTube Channel because perhaps its a void that hasn't been filled yet and maybe others that want to expand the perfume fragrance community online will jump on board and we can make it better for all of us with our interest in Perfumery of all sorts.

The mens fragrance community is a lot of fun and interesting and I have found them to be overall very nice and supportive.  So if you are a female perfumista  and like myself find the community on YouTube to be sparse then please jump in the "proverbial" desert and make individual perfume reviews.  Start with what you own and like and perhaps do collaborations with other fragrance YouTuber's like myself and many others.  I would LOVE to collab with someone regarding my obsession with the nose to brain connection.

Since I have not been able to find the reviews I would love to see regarding perfume I will do my best to make a dent in individual perfume reviews.  Thank you to all my supporters.  Every single one of you that has commented, liked, subscribed or just watched a video or read a post.  I appreciate every single one of you.  This is not something I do to make money, this is my passion and for me its a sublime hobby that I love to share with others because it brings me so much joy.

Thanks so very much and I look forward to getting back to it.  The below list of 3 of my favorite reviews so far.  This is not a definite list please keep that in mind.  I'm sure there are lots of fragrance fanatics like myself online, but I haven't found many as yet.  Looking forward to connecting with more in the future though!

Samantha








https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7UTni1UBqs0YNCmxweu4A
(She had an older channel which is closed but this new one is where you can view her awesome content.)

https://www.youtube.com/user/fubar1963  (She's been offline for a little bit but is now back making videos.)  She reviews a lot of niche scents that I have never heard of or thought to acquire.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHwoRDMgPQPMLUIjMUUhWLg (Great reviews on some wonderful scents.)  Wish she'd come back and do more but she's been away to concentrate on other things.  So wish her well!

Samantha's Perfume Channel, Collection and Reviews