#i have two houses in mind where the tester sets the sites themselves offer are much better deals than the sommelier site ones

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It really took me three days in total to settle on a selection. What I ended up ordering:

bdk — pas ce soir (quince, white flowers. The promise of a sparklingly Parisian bouquet. I know it’s basically passé now, but after being too pretentious to try a scent this hyped, I had to admit to myself that I really love tubéreuse impériale, so I figured I might as well try another bdk. It sounds so interesting. I’m trying to downplay how excited I am for this one)

Dusita — Anamcra (orange blossom & other white flowers, tea, blood orange, peach. I’m so intrigued by this house and never dared to try one of their scents. It sounded so delicate and graceful, I’m so looking forward to it. I would’ve tried the other classics (la douceur de Siam, Melodie de l’amour) but they weren’t available)

Elisire— Jasmin Paradis (white flowers with a focus on jasmine, bergamot, musk. I was curious about it and a comment on parfumo.de saying “Grace Kelly on holiday veiled in jasmine” settled it for me. Also the comments highlighting how it’s a green, non-animalic jasmine. I’m really curious!!!)

L’Orchestre Parfum — Bouquet Encore (sichuan pepper, tuberose, jasmine, vanilla, musk. another white floral, this time one described as sugary sweet by German reviewers, which I thought might be fun. But tbh what had sold me from the start is the song. I love this house’s concept of linking fragrances to music and considering it’s a tuberose/jasmine scent with an ‘old fashioned’ title on top, the song surprised and intrigued me. Also it fucks. I’d love to smell like that)

Ulrich Lang — 17 Nandan Road (Green and citrus notes, Osmanthus. German reviewers link this one to a safe and mild office scent, but the international reviews were talking very favourable about how transparent and osmanthus-forward it is. I struggled a lot with picking this last one and finally settled on this because I wanted to try something green)

Spending hours assembling my sommelier du parfum personalised sample kit