Claire, I really enjoy that you have these different angles for discussing perfumes (historical overview, perfume psychology, etc.). I also appreciate your ethics when it comes to perfume influencing and your balanced approach. I wish your channel grows. You stand out in this space!
Thank you! ❤️ I do try to be a bit different. I just thought it might be interesting to look back and see just how many of these fragrances I still have and really what's happened to them. It's not a video I've seen on YT before. 🥰
Claire, no video is better than the video you recognise your own fragrances in! I do enjoy the videos in which influencers present new releases or different "top 10" kind of fragrances, but the one in which I recognise my own fragrances are the best!
Thank you! ❤️ I thought it would be interesting as a one off to just see what I'd bought when I first started and to see what had happened to each fragrance. The turnover of fragrances is really astronomical isn't it? There's always something new out there. People's collections really quickly date, I guess that's why declutters are so so popular on YT. I also enjoy hearing what people say about my own fragrances, it's fun to hear a different point of view on things that you know well 🥰
Thank you ❤️ I do wonder what the perfume lifecycle timescale actually is in the world of YT, I bet it's not long for most people's collections... Stash is fab in cold weather, I completely agree! 🥰
That's certainly vintage now. I have a mini that I remember my mum buying in 1993 and some fragrance from my grandmother that might be slightly older but I don't know. 🤔
Hey Claire 🖐🏼 I've been subscribed to you for a few years now. We don't have/own many of the same fragrance choices but I relate to much of your content. What's always intrigued me is how you seem so introverted yet confident on camera at the same time 💪🏼. I'm only a month older than you which I realised just recently as we turned 40. Keep doing what you do because you're genuine and refreshing. Take care ❤️
Hello Stacey! Wow you are very insightful. You are bang on. I am really the person you would least predict would ever be on RUclips 😂 I am indeed very introverted but I've just really tried to get better on camera 🙈 but I'm not the most confident person at all. If you watch me, you probably already know, but I have made a decision not to take money for promotion or to use links that pay me for sales because I don't want my opinions to be anything but my own, I do try to just be me and I will continue to try to do so, thanks for watching for so long and lovely to hear from you! Happy 40th too 🎈 😘
Yes! It's fab isn't it? Such a bargain at the time. Mine was also a blind buy... It shocked me what it was being sold for now 😱 I really love rediscovering it. 🥰
I love your reflection videos like this, plus your end of year reviews of spending (cant wait for your next one). This video has prompted me to look back at my previous buys. Your channel is a very productive one for me to watch ❤
Thank you ❤️ I'm happy that you enjoy the videos. I think it's really interesting and important to look back at choices. If we don't look at our behaviours and the outcomes we don't learn anything about our tastes and what we enjoy and what was worth it and what wasn't. Thanks for watching 🥰
I love the fact you have a record of what you were wearing and buying at any one time. During the covid lockdowns I specifically didn’t wear anything expensive. I didn’t want to inadvertently create a bad scent memory 😅 I seem to think I was wearing a lot body sprays. I wasn’t watching perfume videos much either, I was watching all of the ‘walk with me’ in various countries around the world as I just needed to escape and feel as though I was travelling 😂 Thanks for your video as always Claire. X
Thank you! ❤️ That's really interesting! I know the pandemic was awful for a lot of people, but the pandemic really didn't impact me negatively at all and I actually loved working from home. I really feel like I've never had such a good work / life balance and it's likely that I never will again. I was so fit too because I used to walk every single day... I'm definitely not that fit any longer. Although I'd started to watch YT a lot in 2019, it really stepped up in 2020! I do think the pandemic was actually the start of the trend towards bodysprays. I'd never thought about why, but maybe you've just provided an explanation! Thanks for watching 🥰
I bought so many fragrances since 2020 , my collection has been doubled . It was then that I started watching fragrance videos on you tube and I remember only using you tube for music and for professional purposes till then. I still enjoy watching perfume videos and I 'm still buying them . I have used up only 8 bottles since then so I thought of taking a break from big bottles until I reach 20 empty bottles. Still I have accumulated soooo many fragrances because I buy travel sizes and nunis This year I have made 2 fragrance hauls in July , my birthday month. But I hav to say I love my fragrances and I want to enjoy them all. Since prices have gone up not only in fragrances but in food and drink as well I know I have to be very careful about my expenses in general . Thanks for the video, you always come up with great inspiration. Greetings from Hellas
I agree! Prices have gone up massively with everything. I have tried to cut back this year as I would like to see my collection shrink rather than grow. I think really this looks back at what's still in my collection and also the recent fragrance tray videos are trying to address those issues. I am also trying to choose travel sizes if possible, I don't want my fragrances expiring before I get to them. I do think that watch YT in 2019 and 2020 really increased my fragrance buying. I think that is probably the case for a lot of people actually. Thanks for watching and greetings and hugs back from the UK 🇬🇧
Hey Claire - I enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. I also appreciate that you continue to be innovative with your content. That’s pretty great and not so easy to do. I have always owned and loved perfume,but it was not until the pandemic that my collection exponentially exploded 💥💥thanks to YT. I would say I have 90% of what I bought during that time. I currently own many of these…and am also a big lover of TF Orchid Soleil too. I think it’s interesting that some of the channels I watched during that time have ceased to exist. Makes me sad but I get it. I think we’ll be looking back on 2020-21 for many years to come. Such a bizarre and scary time.
Hi Jill! Thanks ❤️ yes I have noticed just how many people that began channels at the same time as me are just no longer making videos. I guess people had lots more time on their hands right then, so lots of people went for it. My collection absolutely exploded too, I'd always had a few fragrances, maybe 15-20, but during 2020, I just bought so much! 🤦♀️ I'm still trying to sort out the effects of 2020 and 2021 really. I'm slowly decluttering and finishing things. Orchid Soleil is mmm! Interesting but also delicious in a strange kind of way. Thanks for watching 🥰
I love love love your analytical perfume videos, they are so well done! I was thinking an interesting one might be to looking into how often fragrances house are putting out new fragrances. the frequency of new fragrances compared to flankers etc... ❤
Thank you ❤️ Yes! I've thought about that! I did once check the number of releases one year for Zara and also Guerlain (the Zara of the designer world 😂), it was hundreds for Zara... I've not checked for flankers Vs pillars though. I bet that would be a bigger ratio for recent years in comparison to a while back. From my previous videos, I noticed that there seemed to be a big pick up in flankers (at least for female marketed designer fragrances) from 2018, but this was me just eyeballing releases each year, rather than analysing actual numbers. I will see if there's a vaguely easy way for me to find out the info that I need. Thanks for watching 🥰
Hi Claire, I think the best fragrance videos are revisiting former purchases and discussing whether or not you have used them. Sometimes the fragrance really is great, our taste has just changed. But I find that my taste has not changed since my mid twenties. I do think about some that I loved in college that I detest now lol, like Poision and Fendi.
Hi Claire! Ohh, I also own Black Perfecto and I cannot believe how cheap I bought it for. Although it's sad it was discontinued. I still have never tried Stash, but I really want to! So happy you love it, it's encouraging me to look for it harder ❤
Stash is £18 for 100ml online in the UK. I don't know about in the US, but for the price, it's a bargain and I appreciate that it's not a typical celebrity fragrance. ✨
Hey Claire. I’ve been loving perfumes most of my life so unfortunately I haven’t been keeping up with what I purchased in any given year. Now you’ve given me something to think about. I can’t say I’ve been influenced to make purchases. I like what I like but I won’t buy simply because something is hyped up. It’s about quality and what my nose appreciates. Good video as always.
Thank you ❤️ and yes, the same nowadays, but back then I was doing pretty much 100% blind buying 🙈 I've learnt that lesson now 🤦♀️ thanks for watching, have a fab Sunday 🥰
Hi Claire! Hearing your description of Versace Vanitas as having a creamy element to it made me want to sniff it right away. I bought my 1 oz bottle during 2022, but I haven't yet worn it this summer. I hadn't thought of it that way before as being slightly creamy. Perhaps my genetic coding for olfactory cells are different than yours... but perhaps I can imagine what you mean? The great thing is now I'm inspired to wear it again. It's one of my partner's favorites. Have a lovely weekend smelling fabulous. 🦋🧡🦋
Oh don't trust me 😂 I finished it a few years ago, I am trying to think back to how it smelt, I might be unreliable... I even read my Fragrantica review to see what I thought of it too! I remember enjoying it and thinking it was easygoing. I'm happy that you are thinking about reaching for it and getting more wear from it 🥰
"Thats me in bottle", what a great description. OMG wow $280 that is kind of nuts. Though glad you have your bottle of Nina Ricci L'Extase Rose Absolute. Too bad you didn't like the Paco Rabanne Black XS. Emo fragrance 🤣🤣🤣. The SJP fragrance sounds good. I had no idea she had a fragrance. I love the design of the bottle I would buy it just for that LOL. Ooo a the NR marine scent sounds nice. Great how you tracked down some of these discontinued scents. I think I mentioned before I worked for a woman who had a collection of perfume that fill a small warehouse. She would sell decants of vintage perfumes that still had mink oil in it. Ooo the Tom Ford fragrance sounds amazing I think I smelled this once. Loved this 👍🥰😙
Thank you ❤️ yes I agree that £280 is insane, I hope no one paid that 🤦♀️ the SJP one is worth finding, it's very different to what you might expect! Thanks for watching 🥰
So lovely seeing some throw backs and reminiscing down memory lane the love of a memory smell is so personal ,so I get how it influences us to love the scent ! Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
Absolutely! Scent memory has a huge effect! ☺️ I find it shocking how many fragrances that I bought in only three months back when I first started... I was mad 🤣 blind buying was really the thing back then. 🤦♀️
Thanks for sharing Claire! I've only been collecting a little over a year. But it is a learning experience. The 2 most important things I learned is to sample first & don't be tempted to buy something just because it's cheap or greatly reduced. It makes me wonder if I'll still love my "loves" in 4 years😂
Yes same! You are absolutely spot on! I started out and it was entirely blind buys... It was still the pandemic and sampling in stores was harder. I hadn't yet left the designer realm with fragrances so I wasn't sampling. I really think I bought way too much too quickly and without much thought. I hope now that I am more measured 🤞
A great video idea, Claire. Good Sunday evening :) I think I am about to finish a small 1 oz bottle of a Lira, a Kilian Intoxicated and a Hibiscus Mahajad (all 3 interpretations)! This after 3 to 5 or 6 years! I did finish a Guerlain Vol de Nuit in the beautiful bottle! The bottle now resides in the bathroom filled with orange blossom cologne and a Qtip which I accidentally dropped while trying to dip it in aromatic Guerlain. Now... I have a 3 to 5 year old Vol de Nuit Q-Tip! Et voilà!🎉❤😂
Gosh I bet that smells amazing! I totally understand why you'd keep the pretty Guerlain bottles. And some really lovely choices there, I have loads of Kilian samples, I should perhaps make a review video. 🤔
Hi Claire ! I really enjoy this kind of updates . If I want to quickly finish a bottle I will spray a perfume on my winter coats , scarves and jumpers 😀
Ooh great tip! I did actually wear that VLJ Noir, despite not really enjoying it 🤦♀️😂 I find that the fragrances that I tend to finish these days are either the shorter lasting ones or those that I end up wearing to bed. Thanks for watching 🥰
Spraying generously in bath water is a great way to use a scent as well. You get to experience it, but it’s quite faint on skin when you get out. It even allows unique layering as the scent is different in a veiled form, if present at all. I feel like I’ve commented on adding sprays of fragrance to bath water on this channel before 😅 Sorry for the redundancy if so ✨
It's weird isn't it, it seems so long ago now! I was shocked that my first haul videos were nearly 4 years ago! I was also shocked by some of my choices 🤣
£280! Woah! I wonder if anyone was daft enough to buy it at that price? Your new perfume tray will be useful in reminding you about those fragrances at the back 😊
Hopefully not 😂 The perfume tray is going well actually. I've worn everything once now (I started a week in advance of August). I'm at the point where I am itching to reach for something different though. I'm sure I'll crack soon 🤣 hope you are well. 🥰
Noir Black Perfecto is one of my absolute favorites. I purchased a backup bottle, which I seldom do. To this day, I'm still smitten, and am so very careful about how often I wear it.
I rarely buy backups either as I have so much fragrance, but I think if I see anything vaguely reasonable, this will be a backup for me too! It's lovely! 🥰
Hello Claire 🎉 I really enjoyed dis video n d line up as well. I've got quite a few mentioned here n I'm really on d hunt for black perfecto. Almost everyone talks about new fragrance releases in their videos which can become almost boring. It's actually cool dt u reminded us of some great fragrances dt came out a few years ago which still remain huge loves for me. TFS 🙏
Thank you ❤️ I thought it was something different. I look back at some of my choices and I'm quite shocked really. But I was really in a mindset of literally trying everything at the time. I guess I just needed to learn what I liked and what I didn't and I was doing a lot of blind buying... Black Perfecto is worth finding if you love those notes, but bear in mind overall it's all about powdery rose as that's the strongest aspect of it. Thanks for watching 🥰
Rose absolu l'extase is still a firm fav for me in winter and im soooo glad i have a back up of LPRN Black Perfecto. I never want to be without it. 🥰 I keep meaning to try Z&V but keep 4getting 🤣🤣
They are both so good and they were absolute bargains weren't they? Looking back, I wish I'd got into fragrance much earlier. There were some amazing fragrances around in the 2010s at crazy prices. This is Her is worth trying. I find the cashmeran can get pretty dense in the drydown but that doesn't bother most people I do think. I still think it's a really striking and different designer fragrance, it stands out! 🥰
Interesting balance sheet of your collection, Claire. Overall, you seem to have known what your tastes were even a few years back as you still have most of your purchases or even finished some. What happened to me during lockdown was that I purchased more, my collection was around 100 like yours and now I'm afraid to count, probably around 400 but a quarter are partial bottles. Because of this feeling I've been on a low buy this year which I found very easy to do and buy small bottles and travel sprays, 10, 15 and 30ml maximum for space reasons. LPRN is so popular, very likeable, you have Black Perfecto, mine is another discontinued iteration, Couture.
Ooh I've always wanted to try Couture, that one was very loved too. I think lockdown made a lot of people blind buy, including me, my collection grew from about 20 at the beginning of 2020 to nearly 100 by the end of 2021, I'm still trying to sort that quick expansion and blind buying out really. I have been trying to buy much less, like you. So far this year I think it is working quite well, but we will see the numbers at the end of the year. Good luck on your low buy 🥰
Confession: I'm not a sandalwood fan. But This is Her has some nice notes! Creamy sandalwoods are not terrible to me. And aren't eBay prices insane? I was looking at Womanity, and a bottle w/ a quarter inch was like over $100. Forget Envy 😅 Vanitas sounds lovely! A good tea note is delish! Terracotta is a fragrance I'm looking for a decant. I think I'd love it. Blind buying, esp decants, sates my curiosity. My blind buys have largely been successful, the prominent failure was a sandalwood that really did give the dreaded pickle note. Right now I have a bit of a summer cold, and can't think of a question for you! Although I did have one for Jon to pass on to you (from the interviews you did with him). I'll look it up.
Thank you ❤️ yes Jon will be back hopefully. He's very supportive and helpful and we get on very well. Yes sandalwood is tricky isn't it? It can just be woody and dry or it can be very very gourmand leaning, even milky, or like coconut or fig. It's an interesting note but not something everyone loves. The most gourmand version of it I've ever tried was Piano Santal, that is truly sweet milky deliciousness, but still grown up and wearable and also much more natural smelling that this is her. Which sandalwood gave you pickles? I agree, eBay is insane sometimes for discontinued fragrances. People really inflate prices and try to take advantage. Vanitas was an excellent fragrance for the low price point. At the time, bottles were £20 in the UK. Thanks for watching 🥰
Yes! Totally! I don't think I'd ever smelt a creamy fragrance before, nor sandalwood or chestnut. It was something completely new on so many levels. Really striking compared with what was on the designer market at the time. 🥰
Yes 🤣 I wonder what I'd say to some of my choices in the 2000s too! Same with clothes 😂 I guess times and tastes move on in some cases but not in others. I wonder how much it's scent memories that just mean we love certain fragrances forever? 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume Sometimes it’s the notes and sometimes it’s the fragrance. I can’t love white musk heavy fragrances because everyone in Junior High wore them. All Year Round on highly sweaty, hormonal young male and young female bodies. Sometimes it is the super popular fragrances worn by people who shouldn't be wearing them. Halston was gorgeous but not on everyone who wore it. Obsession was a lively waxy musk, but when "everyone" wore it, it was horrible. i think I stopped telling people what i was wearing in the nineties. i also started buying niche and unusual fragrances because sometimes no one should buy a fragrance because it smells divine on somebody else ‼️
Yes I totally get your feelings towards white musk with the Body Shop fragrance being all over my school in the 90s... And also gatekeeping things that feel like you! 😂
You’ve got me very curious about the Z&V 🧐…. as I mentioned being attracted to kitschy bottles, and this one being so plain, I’m not always immediately drawn to bottles like this. But you’ve made it sound so lovely. 😊
It's not one that I reach for regularly but I think it's a great fragrance for its pricepoint. I can completely see why its had the success that it has. 🥰
Hi Claire! Looking sweet! ❤🥰 I simultaneously love and hate This is Her 😅😅 Once in awhile I'm so in the mood for it.. and it's unique enough I'll probably always keep it 😊
Yes, I think that's my feeling sometimes, I wore it a few weeks ago and later on the cashmeran just felt quite heavy in the drydown, but also there are some times when I wear it and I just love it. It's a really weird relationship that I have with it 🤷♀️
Hello Claire - What a creative idea for a video. I love Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto and I am rationing my bottle too. I only have a 30 ml bottle. You can still find it in the US but it’s going for $40 which isn’t bad but I bought my bottle for $20. Still not sure if I should buy a back up. I only have 3 back ups and they are all discontinued fragrance that I love. What do you think? Would you buy another 30 ml bottle for $40? - Michelle
I would if you love it and if you think you will get onto another bottle 😊 I don't think it's the type of scent profile to spoil easily. I think it's so popular that if you don't end up using it, you could easily get your money back on it in future anyway as someone else would want it. 🥰
The Anti-Claire scents speak volumes! Yes,I was listening to perfume influencers back in 2020. Made some horrible choices with which I am still encumbered. I have so much to declutter but not sure how to go about it really. I could easily part with 3/4 of what I have. I was at the point where I was beginning to think I just didn't care for fragrances at all.🙁 That's still true to a degree. My biggest mistake(s) were in not sampling more. But even when I did the purchased bottle would sometimes turn out to be different than the sample (Green Irish Tweed). Frustrating. Coming to grips (recently/finally) with the fact that I prefer fragrances that tend toward "female" was an important lesson for me. Had to learn what is anti-me.
Absolutely, samples being different to the bottles is something I've experienced too, mostly where the fragrances have in the meantime been reformulated, e.g. My friend sent me the new formulation of La colle Noire and I bought the old one! I think gendering in fragrance is a huge problem... People often ask "does this lean X?" and I just think does it matter? People need to wear what they love. My friend here ScentedSnowdrops, Jon (he's well worth watching), he wears the fragrances that he loves with no regard to their gendered marketing and he smells absolutely amazing in them. I think fragrance is one of those areas that really needs to get with the times, just cos someone likes florals doesn't make them female and just because someone likes woods does make them male. What's next? Only ladies can eat strawberries? 🤷♀️ It's ridiculous... The thing with gendering too is that your opinion is going to be based on culture and experiences you grew up with. There aren't in built rules on what is "masculine" or "feminine" in smells.
I have Vanitas but the edp. I had sampled the edt and it seemed quite different from the edp to me.. I must see if I can find my sample and retest. My tastes have changed a lot in the last 5 years!
I don't think I've ever tried the EDP. I struggled to find the EDT even when I bought that bottle. Perhaps it was already discontinued? But also I just don't think it was ever that popular in the UK 🤷♀️
After a wait of trying to get SJP Stash for a reasonable price, it took me a while to warm up to it. But once I did, I can’t believe how addictive it is.
Me practically passing out when you said you paid so little for Z&V This is Her! WOW! I think I got mine for around $65.. still think it was a good deal, considering it’s so strong and fairly unisex.. my husband LOVES it, too! It is such a lovely layering tool as well. I will say I fell in love with LPRNI two years ago, but now I find it’s far too gourmand for me. Makes me nauseous now. So strange how that happens! That’s probably why I don’t really declutter..because my tastes often change over time. Ps- Not being weird, but I’m always struck by how your skin looks like porcelain, so pretty! You obviously weren’t a sun loving fool like me lol!!
Yes! I remember thinking it was an insane deal at the time. It was £20 but I had a discount with the store so I got 10% off. I've never seen that procedure more cheaply, it's regularly £50-70 here now. I can totally see it being one to share! You mean the one launched in 2022, not the blueberry one? I always wanted to try that blueberry version. I know it got relaunched because it was originally limited edition and it was apparently reformulated but I've never tried either version of the blueberry one sadly. And I think that's a combo of the ringlight and my phone not being the best quality recording equipment 🤣 but thank you! I'm not flawless in real life at all. I am quite pale though as I have iron deficiency. I just came off high dose iron 6 months back and I now have symptoms back. So yeah, that might be why I'm so pale 🤣 thanks for watching 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume So I checked and my order from FragranceNet was over 3 years ago.. so I believe it’s the blueberry one, at least to me it smells of blueberry cotton candy..and I have found a way to wear it without it irritating me; I layer it with Ocean Di Gioia. Ramps up the freshness and it doesn’t feel so gourmand. That’s the lesson I’ve had to learn along my journey, I don’t care for gourmands mostly..I don’t mind a light gourmand BUT it has to have some freshness to balance it out. And, oh dear.. I can relate on the iron issue! But you truly do have quite beautiful skin and being pale suits you! Reminds me of my Mom.. she always had very porcelain skin and maybe had one zit her whole life lol!! ❤️
Wow, I thought it was only me with gourmands, it's rare that I like them. I have no idea what means I will like them or not either. It seems relatively random apart from they can be too sweet in general (although there are some exceptions...). Iron deficiency is really hard to get a diagnosis for in the UK. Doctors won't spend money on blood tests, they only see the symptoms and treat those. I still have no clue why I'm iron deficient. I stopped drinking peppermint tea as I realised that that could be the issue, sadly my favourite tea...
@@dr.claire.perfume We are scent sisters in that regard! Completely the same with me.. it’s rather curious why I can handle some and not others. One recent hugely successful example is Burberry Goddess! It’s AWFUL to me.. same with Devotion. Can’t do it lol 😆 And I’m sorry to hear that, but it seems the NHS is quite similar to Dr’s here in the US. It’s always the bandaid and never the source..which is so frustrating. Particularly for females in my experience. Hope you can get it sorted out! It’s so draining, and unfortunately I relate 100%.
I used to own the Black Perfecto one and I used it up in less than 3 weeks, as I couldn't smell it on me, although it is quite a strong fragrance. I had I think 3 different flankers of La Petite Robe Noire, which I blind bought, and although I love the OG EDP, I didn't quite like any of the flankers. I guess the EDP is the perfect composition for me and all the other notes in the flankers didn't appeal to me much.
I miss all having a Guerlain counter near where I work. I would love to try the Couture and the old Intense and Eau Fraîche flankers, but they are sadly discontinued. LPRN was a great line of fragrances, the EDP was a winner. 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I have the Absolue version, it's like the EDP to my nose but sweeter and denser. Too much for me at the moment, maybe it'll work better in cold weather, but I'm not really optimistic. I think you've said it's supposed to be similar to Black Perfetto - not at all, for me it has a completely different vibe, like I said, sweet and dense, syrupy almost.
Yes, I've not tried it, it's just what people have said but they also said that it's not that similar and much sweeter than BP. So you seem to be in agreement with others. 🥰
I've not tried it unfortunately, my local Guerlain counter closed a year ago and my nearest one is now 70 miles away so unless I buy samples, I can't easily try Guerlain fragrances. The last time I went to a counter was in March and I tried Oud Khol, Tobacco Honey and Florabloom, which were all striking. I absolutely love Guerlain, it's such a shame that I don't have local access to smell their fragrances any longer.
I bought way too many fragrances in 2021 😂 4:29 I had Black Perfecto, but sold it (I think I’ve mentioned this in the past). I’ve been loving the Intense flanker lately 😅
Gosh, I was going to talk about what I'd bought over the entirety of 2021 but there were just way too many 🤦♀️ and most were blind buys too 🤦♀️ I haven't tried the new intense one, do you have the 2022 one or the blueberry one? I really want to try the old blueberry one 🥰
I put Stash up for sale in an online group last month (for quite a low price) and no one grabbed it, wonder if there's still much interest in it anymore?
I feel like it was discontinued whilst SJP took over the production of her fragrances from Coty to her own The Lovely Company, so probably the market is quite saturated again with it? I know here it's available very cheaply nowadays again but it got quite rare and more expensive for a while. 🥰
I haven’t tried Gucci Rush, but I did have Black Dart by Zara which was supposed to be very similar. It was really nice, but not my scent so I sold it.
I don't think so, I think it was replaced by the intense version in 2022. I do still see it around sometimes though. I need to pick up another bottle before it's too late. 🥰
I would like to try for her, I love sandalwood. I have black perfetto if anyone is searching for her. Unsure the quantity due to the black bottle.🖤🌹 I think it's lovely but downsizing my collection. Based in the UK
Ah yes the Rona years were very different. Z&V was not a love for me but can defo see why people love it. BP is one of my favourites I do really enjoy that one. It definitely has a special feel. Yes I imagine it can be one of them thsts heavenly close up on someone. Ah yes the Nina was a pleasant one. Them ebay jokers 🙄. Me and PR really do rarely get on. They defo have a kind of plasticty kinda DNA Ah yes Gucci Rush I do remember trying this one from u. Yes Stash is a good one from back in the day. Well I dunno Claire I expect acting from SJP but I'm yet to see that from her 🤣. Yes I'm very rarely a "caramel" lover. Hmm Katy Perry 🤔 it doesn't sound overly pleasant. Yes you're a big lover of Orchid Solei. It certainly is a very distinctive one. Yes never listen to RUclips 🤣. Yes we can see you definitely honing in on your own particular taste. I was watching it back then. I still have all of mine
Black Perfecto is gorgeous 🖤 I am constantly shocked and disappointed at what people try to charge on eBay... 🧐 Paco Rabanne hasn't been a treasure trove for me. The only one I've enjoyed has been Ultraviolet and that's the older formulation, so who knows now? Rush is striking and interesting but not necessarily me. Stash is definitely SJP's finest moment 😂 You'd have hated that Katy Perry 😂 I'm definitely less receptive to hype and persuasion now 😂 and I still love Orchid Soleil ❤️ I'd love to see your 2020 purchases and see how much you've worn them and what you think to them now ☺️
@dr.claire.perfume now I understand why so many persons buy 'back-ups' of their absolute dream parfums. But sometimes you lack the vision or the budget and so the beloved formulation just leaves you with a memory.
Claire, I really enjoy that you have these different angles for discussing perfumes (historical overview, perfume psychology, etc.). I also appreciate your ethics when it comes to perfume influencing and your balanced approach. I wish your channel grows. You stand out in this space!
Thank you! ❤️ I do try to be a bit different. I just thought it might be interesting to look back and see just how many of these fragrances I still have and really what's happened to them. It's not a video I've seen on YT before. 🥰
Claire, no video is better than the video you recognise your own fragrances in! I do enjoy the videos in which influencers present new releases or different "top 10" kind of fragrances, but the one in which I recognise my own fragrances are the best!
Thank you! ❤️ I thought it would be interesting as a one off to just see what I'd bought when I first started and to see what had happened to each fragrance. The turnover of fragrances is really astronomical isn't it? There's always something new out there. People's collections really quickly date, I guess that's why declutters are so so popular on YT. I also enjoy hearing what people say about my own fragrances, it's fun to hear a different point of view on things that you know well 🥰
I was sniffing Rose Absolue the other day on my shelf and appreciating it all over again.. it really is so stunning to me 🖤🖤🖤
It's gorgeous! I forget about it and I'm always shocked by how much I enjoy it when I wear it again! 🥰
I still have and ❤SJP Stash. It’s a cold weather gem for me.
I’m glad you did a video like this.
It’s refreshing and and honest.
Thank you ❤️ I do wonder what the perfume lifecycle timescale actually is in the world of YT, I bet it's not long for most people's collections...
Stash is fab in cold weather, I completely agree! 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I have perfume from 1989, Dior Poison. I graduated high school that year.
That's certainly vintage now. I have a mini that I remember my mum buying in 1993 and some fragrance from my grandmother that might be slightly older but I don't know. 🤔
Love listening to perfume edits and additions. - Even when they bring out the perfume zombie in me. 🧟♀️ “Must smell”.
Thank you ❤️ haha, 🤣 that's hilarious! 🥰
Hey Claire 🖐🏼 I've been subscribed to you for a few years now. We don't have/own many of the same fragrance choices but I relate to much of your content. What's always intrigued me is how you seem so introverted yet confident on camera at the same time 💪🏼.
I'm only a month older than you which I realised just recently as we turned 40. Keep doing what you do because you're genuine and refreshing. Take care ❤️
Hello Stacey! Wow you are very insightful. You are bang on. I am really the person you would least predict would ever be on RUclips 😂 I am indeed very introverted but I've just really tried to get better on camera 🙈 but I'm not the most confident person at all. If you watch me, you probably already know, but I have made a decision not to take money for promotion or to use links that pay me for sales because I don't want my opinions to be anything but my own, I do try to just be me and I will continue to try to do so, thanks for watching for so long and lovely to hear from you! Happy 40th too 🎈 😘
Rose Extase is probably one of the first blind buy I did and I still enjoy it. Still my favorite raspberry jammy rose that I own. 😊
Yes! It's fab isn't it? Such a bargain at the time. Mine was also a blind buy... It shocked me what it was being sold for now 😱 I really love rediscovering it. 🥰
I love your reflection videos like this, plus your end of year reviews of spending (cant wait for your next one). This video has prompted me to look back at my previous buys. Your channel is a very productive one for me to watch ❤
Thank you ❤️ I'm happy that you enjoy the videos. I think it's really interesting and important to look back at choices. If we don't look at our behaviours and the outcomes we don't learn anything about our tastes and what we enjoy and what was worth it and what wasn't. Thanks for watching 🥰
I love the fact you have a record of what you were wearing and buying at any one time.
During the covid lockdowns I specifically didn’t wear anything expensive. I didn’t want to inadvertently create a bad scent memory 😅
I seem to think I was wearing a lot body sprays.
I wasn’t watching perfume videos much either, I was watching all of the ‘walk with me’ in various countries around the world as I just needed to escape and feel as though I was travelling 😂
Thanks for your video as always Claire. X
Thank you! ❤️ That's really interesting! I know the pandemic was awful for a lot of people, but the pandemic really didn't impact me negatively at all and I actually loved working from home. I really feel like I've never had such a good work / life balance and it's likely that I never will again. I was so fit too because I used to walk every single day... I'm definitely not that fit any longer.
Although I'd started to watch YT a lot in 2019, it really stepped up in 2020! I do think the pandemic was actually the start of the trend towards bodysprays. I'd never thought about why, but maybe you've just provided an explanation! Thanks for watching 🥰
I bought so many fragrances since 2020 , my collection has been doubled .
It was then that I started watching fragrance videos on you tube and I remember only using you tube for music and for professional purposes till then.
I still enjoy watching perfume videos and I 'm still buying them .
I have used up only 8 bottles since then so I thought of taking a break from big bottles until I reach 20 empty bottles.
Still I have accumulated soooo many fragrances because I buy travel sizes and nunis
This year I have made 2 fragrance hauls in July , my birthday month.
But I hav to say I love my fragrances and I want to enjoy them all.
Since prices have gone up not only in fragrances but in food and drink as well I know I have to be very careful about my expenses in general .
Thanks for the video, you always come up with great inspiration.
Greetings from Hellas
I agree! Prices have gone up massively with everything. I have tried to cut back this year as I would like to see my collection shrink rather than grow. I think really this looks back at what's still in my collection and also the recent fragrance tray videos are trying to address those issues.
I am also trying to choose travel sizes if possible, I don't want my fragrances expiring before I get to them. I do think that watch YT in 2019 and 2020 really increased my fragrance buying. I think that is probably the case for a lot of people actually. Thanks for watching and greetings and hugs back from the UK 🇬🇧
Hey Claire - I enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. I also appreciate that you continue to be innovative with your content. That’s pretty great and not so easy to do. I have always owned and loved perfume,but it was not until the pandemic that my collection exponentially exploded 💥💥thanks to YT. I would say I have 90% of what I bought during that time. I currently own many of these…and am also a big lover of TF Orchid Soleil too. I think it’s interesting that some of the channels I watched during that time have ceased to exist. Makes me sad but I get it. I think we’ll be looking back on 2020-21 for many years to come. Such a bizarre and scary time.
Hi Jill! Thanks ❤️ yes I have noticed just how many people that began channels at the same time as me are just no longer making videos. I guess people had lots more time on their hands right then, so lots of people went for it.
My collection absolutely exploded too, I'd always had a few fragrances, maybe 15-20, but during 2020, I just bought so much! 🤦♀️ I'm still trying to sort out the effects of 2020 and 2021 really. I'm slowly decluttering and finishing things.
Orchid Soleil is mmm! Interesting but also delicious in a strange kind of way. Thanks for watching 🥰
I love love love your analytical perfume videos, they are so well done! I was thinking an interesting one might be to looking into how often fragrances house are putting out new fragrances. the frequency of new fragrances compared to flankers etc... ❤
Thank you ❤️ Yes! I've thought about that! I did once check the number of releases one year for Zara and also Guerlain (the Zara of the designer world 😂), it was hundreds for Zara... I've not checked for flankers Vs pillars though. I bet that would be a bigger ratio for recent years in comparison to a while back. From my previous videos, I noticed that there seemed to be a big pick up in flankers (at least for female marketed designer fragrances) from 2018, but this was me just eyeballing releases each year, rather than analysing actual numbers. I will see if there's a vaguely easy way for me to find out the info that I need. Thanks for watching 🥰
Hi Claire, I think the best fragrance videos are revisiting former purchases and discussing whether or not you have used them. Sometimes the fragrance really is great, our taste has just changed. But I find that my taste has not changed since my mid twenties. I do think about some that I loved in college that I detest now lol, like Poision and Fendi.
Yes, tastes do move on sometimes and seeing how useful our choices are to us is sometimes really helpful too 🥰
Hi Claire! Ohh, I also own Black Perfecto and I cannot believe how cheap I bought it for. Although it's sad it was discontinued.
I still have never tried Stash, but I really want to! So happy you love it, it's encouraging me to look for it harder ❤
Stash is £18 for 100ml online in the UK. I don't know about in the US, but for the price, it's a bargain and I appreciate that it's not a typical celebrity fragrance. ✨
Hey Claire. I’ve been loving perfumes most of my life so unfortunately I haven’t been keeping up with what I purchased in any given year. Now you’ve given me something to think about. I can’t say I’ve been influenced to make purchases. I like what I like but I won’t buy simply because something is hyped up. It’s about quality and what my nose appreciates. Good video as always.
Thank you ❤️ and yes, the same nowadays, but back then I was doing pretty much 100% blind buying 🙈 I've learnt that lesson now 🤦♀️ thanks for watching, have a fab Sunday 🥰
Hi Claire! Hearing your description of Versace Vanitas as having a creamy element to it made me want to sniff it right away. I bought my 1 oz bottle during 2022, but I haven't yet worn it this summer. I hadn't thought of it that way before as being slightly creamy. Perhaps my genetic coding for olfactory cells are different than yours... but perhaps I can imagine what you mean? The great thing is now I'm inspired to wear it again. It's one of my partner's favorites. Have a lovely weekend smelling fabulous. 🦋🧡🦋
Oh don't trust me 😂 I finished it a few years ago, I am trying to think back to how it smelt, I might be unreliable... I even read my Fragrantica review to see what I thought of it too! I remember enjoying it and thinking it was easygoing. I'm happy that you are thinking about reaching for it and getting more wear from it 🥰
I'm glad you found some winner in your old hauls. Noir is one of my favorites, lol. I do tend to love sweet scents though!
It is very very sweet! I can see if you like that though that it would be a winner, it's thick and syrupy sweetness not thin and watery. 🥰
"Thats me in bottle", what a great description. OMG wow $280 that is kind of nuts. Though glad you have your bottle of Nina Ricci L'Extase Rose Absolute. Too bad you didn't like the Paco Rabanne Black XS. Emo fragrance 🤣🤣🤣. The SJP fragrance sounds good. I had no idea she had a fragrance. I love the design of the bottle I would buy it just for that LOL. Ooo a the NR marine scent sounds nice. Great how you tracked down some of these discontinued scents. I think I mentioned before I worked for a woman who had a collection of perfume that fill a small warehouse. She would sell decants of vintage perfumes that still had mink oil in it. Ooo the Tom Ford fragrance sounds amazing I think I smelled this once. Loved this 👍🥰😙
Thank you ❤️ yes I agree that £280 is insane, I hope no one paid that 🤦♀️ the SJP one is worth finding, it's very different to what you might expect! Thanks for watching 🥰
So lovely seeing some throw backs and reminiscing down memory lane
the love of a memory smell is so personal ,so I get how it influences us to love the scent !
Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
Absolutely! Scent memory has a huge effect! ☺️ I find it shocking how many fragrances that I bought in only three months back when I first started... I was mad 🤣 blind buying was really the thing back then. 🤦♀️
@@dr.claire.perfume you were no madder than me and the rest of us 😜😂
@@HappinessSparkles 😂
Orchid Soleil is the best! 💎 I am so in love with it and happy you love it too 🩷
Orchid Soleil is in my top 10 I think 🤔 I really do love it. 🥰
Thanks for sharing Claire! I've only been collecting a little over a year. But it is a learning experience. The 2 most important things I learned is to sample first & don't be tempted to buy something just because it's cheap or greatly reduced. It makes me wonder if I'll still love my "loves" in 4 years😂
Yes same! You are absolutely spot on! I started out and it was entirely blind buys... It was still the pandemic and sampling in stores was harder. I hadn't yet left the designer realm with fragrances so I wasn't sampling. I really think I bought way too much too quickly and without much thought. I hope now that I am more measured 🤞
Claire, I love this concept for a video! Excited to watch 😊
Thank you ❤️ I hope you enjoyed it! 🥰
A great video idea, Claire. Good Sunday evening :) I think I am about to finish a small 1 oz bottle of a Lira, a Kilian Intoxicated and a Hibiscus Mahajad (all 3 interpretations)! This after 3 to 5 or 6 years! I did finish a Guerlain Vol de Nuit in the beautiful bottle! The bottle now resides in the bathroom filled with orange blossom cologne and a Qtip which I accidentally dropped while trying to dip it in aromatic Guerlain. Now... I have a 3 to 5 year old Vol de Nuit Q-Tip! Et voilà!🎉❤😂
Gosh I bet that smells amazing! I totally understand why you'd keep the pretty Guerlain bottles.
And some really lovely choices there, I have loads of Kilian samples, I should perhaps make a review video. 🤔
@@dr.claire.perfume that would be so nice, I vote for Kilian review!
@@almatoledo1608 👍
Hi Claire ! I really enjoy this kind of updates . If I want to quickly finish a bottle I will spray a perfume on my winter coats , scarves and jumpers 😀
Ooh great tip! I did actually wear that VLJ Noir, despite not really enjoying it 🤦♀️😂 I find that the fragrances that I tend to finish these days are either the shorter lasting ones or those that I end up wearing to bed. Thanks for watching 🥰
Spraying generously in bath water is a great way to use a scent as well. You get to experience it, but it’s quite faint on skin when you get out. It even allows unique layering as the scent is different in a veiled form, if present at all.
I feel like I’ve commented on adding sprays of fragrance to bath water on this channel before 😅
Sorry for the redundancy if so ✨
No worries, it's a great tip for others too 🥰
Oh!!!! I am also 30% away from finishing Coromandel EDT! I guard its use now! I wear the inspired ones :)
It's sad isn't it when you love something and it's discontinued. 🥰
Hi Claire! I remember my first hauls and all those great fragrances. La Petit Robe Noir is still going strong in my collection
It's weird isn't it, it seems so long ago now! I was shocked that my first haul videos were nearly 4 years ago! I was also shocked by some of my choices 🤣
Hi Claire, love listening to you💕
Thank you ❤️ that's very kind! Have a lovely week 🥰
£280! Woah! I wonder if anyone was daft enough to buy it at that price?
Your new perfume tray will be useful in reminding you about those fragrances at the back 😊
Hopefully not 😂
The perfume tray is going well actually. I've worn everything once now (I started a week in advance of August). I'm at the point where I am itching to reach for something different though. I'm sure I'll crack soon 🤣 hope you are well. 🥰
Noir Black Perfecto is one of my absolute favorites. I purchased a backup bottle, which I seldom do. To this day, I'm still smitten, and am so very careful about how often I wear it.
I rarely buy backups either as I have so much fragrance, but I think if I see anything vaguely reasonable, this will be a backup for me too! It's lovely! 🥰
Hello Claire 🎉
I really enjoyed dis video n d line up as well. I've got quite a few mentioned here n I'm really on d hunt for black perfecto.
Almost everyone talks about new fragrance releases in their videos which can become almost boring.
It's actually cool dt u reminded us of some great fragrances dt came out a few years ago which still remain huge loves for me.
TFS 🙏
Thank you ❤️ I thought it was something different. I look back at some of my choices and I'm quite shocked really. But I was really in a mindset of literally trying everything at the time. I guess I just needed to learn what I liked and what I didn't and I was doing a lot of blind buying...
Black Perfecto is worth finding if you love those notes, but bear in mind overall it's all about powdery rose as that's the strongest aspect of it. Thanks for watching 🥰
Hi Claire Black Perfecto on my trip
to Germany 2018 passing by a perfume store I could smell it’s fragrance bought it and still have it. Love it!
I can see why it would be lovely at first sniff ❤️ it's really one of my absolute favourites 🥰
Rose absolu l'extase is still a firm fav for me in winter and im soooo glad i have a back up of LPRN Black Perfecto. I never want to be without it. 🥰
I keep meaning to try Z&V but keep 4getting 🤣🤣
They are both so good and they were absolute bargains weren't they? Looking back, I wish I'd got into fragrance much earlier. There were some amazing fragrances around in the 2010s at crazy prices.
This is Her is worth trying. I find the cashmeran can get pretty dense in the drydown but that doesn't bother most people I do think. I still think it's a really striking and different designer fragrance, it stands out! 🥰
@dr.claire.perfume this is why I cherish my old ones. They just don't make perfume like they used to. 😢
@@melbert3795 I totally agree 💯
Interesting balance sheet of your collection, Claire. Overall, you seem to have known what your tastes were even a few years back as you still have most of your purchases or even finished some. What happened to me during lockdown was that I purchased more, my collection was around 100 like yours and now I'm afraid to count, probably around 400 but a quarter are partial bottles. Because of this feeling I've been on a low buy this year which I found very easy to do and buy small bottles and travel sprays, 10, 15 and 30ml maximum for space reasons. LPRN is so popular, very likeable, you have Black Perfecto, mine is another discontinued iteration, Couture.
Ooh I've always wanted to try Couture, that one was very loved too.
I think lockdown made a lot of people blind buy, including me, my collection grew from about 20 at the beginning of 2020 to nearly 100 by the end of 2021, I'm still trying to sort that quick expansion and blind buying out really. I have been trying to buy much less, like you. So far this year I think it is working quite well, but we will see the numbers at the end of the year. Good luck on your low buy 🥰
Confession: I'm not a sandalwood fan. But This is Her has some nice notes! Creamy sandalwoods are not terrible to me. And aren't eBay prices insane? I was looking at Womanity, and a bottle w/ a quarter inch was like over $100. Forget Envy 😅 Vanitas sounds lovely! A good tea note is delish! Terracotta is a fragrance I'm looking for a decant. I think I'd love it. Blind buying, esp decants, sates my curiosity. My blind buys have largely been successful, the prominent failure was a sandalwood that really did give the dreaded pickle note. Right now I have a bit of a summer cold, and can't think of a question for you! Although I did have one for Jon to pass on to you (from the interviews you did with him). I'll look it up.
Thank you ❤️ yes Jon will be back hopefully. He's very supportive and helpful and we get on very well.
Yes sandalwood is tricky isn't it? It can just be woody and dry or it can be very very gourmand leaning, even milky, or like coconut or fig. It's an interesting note but not something everyone loves. The most gourmand version of it I've ever tried was Piano Santal, that is truly sweet milky deliciousness, but still grown up and wearable and also much more natural smelling that this is her. Which sandalwood gave you pickles?
I agree, eBay is insane sometimes for discontinued fragrances. People really inflate prices and try to take advantage.
Vanitas was an excellent fragrance for the low price point. At the time, bottles were £20 in the UK.
Thanks for watching 🥰
Also bought This is Her my first year and still love it. It felt so different from anything I'd had before. 😊
Yes! Totally! I don't think I'd ever smelt a creamy fragrance before, nor sandalwood or chestnut. It was something completely new on so many levels. Really striking compared with what was on the designer market at the time. 🥰
I loved this reassessment of your fragrances. I wonder how I would feel about some of my blind buys from twenty years ago?
Yes 🤣 I wonder what I'd say to some of my choices in the 2000s too! Same with clothes 😂 I guess times and tastes move on in some cases but not in others. I wonder how much it's scent memories that just mean we love certain fragrances forever? 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume Sometimes it’s the notes and sometimes it’s the fragrance. I can’t love white musk heavy fragrances because everyone in Junior High wore them. All Year Round on highly sweaty, hormonal young male and young female bodies. Sometimes it is the super popular fragrances worn by people who shouldn't be wearing them. Halston was gorgeous but not on everyone who wore it. Obsession was a lively waxy musk, but when "everyone" wore it, it was horrible. i think I stopped telling people what i was wearing in the nineties. i also started buying niche and unusual fragrances because sometimes no one should buy a fragrance because it smells divine on somebody else ‼️
Yes I totally get your feelings towards white musk with the Body Shop fragrance being all over my school in the 90s... And also gatekeeping things that feel like you! 😂
You look beautiful today and your hair/curls are perfect
Thank you ❤️ the hair does what it wants so it was behaving that particular day 🥰
U need to do hair tutorials. Ur curls always look so soft.😊 @@dr.claire.perfume
I love le petite robe noir black perfecto❤❤❤
It's gorgeous 😍 👌
You’ve got me very curious about the Z&V 🧐…. as I mentioned being attracted to kitschy bottles, and this one being so plain, I’m not always immediately drawn to bottles like this. But you’ve made it sound so lovely. 😊
It's not one that I reach for regularly but I think it's a great fragrance for its pricepoint. I can completely see why its had the success that it has. 🥰
Hi Claire! Looking sweet! ❤🥰 I simultaneously love and hate This is Her 😅😅 Once in awhile I'm so in the mood for it.. and it's unique enough I'll probably always keep it 😊
Yes, I think that's my feeling sometimes, I wore it a few weeks ago and later on the cashmeran just felt quite heavy in the drydown, but also there are some times when I wear it and I just love it. It's a really weird relationship that I have with it 🤷♀️
Hello Claire - What a creative idea for a video. I love Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto and I am rationing my bottle too. I only have a 30 ml bottle. You can still find it in the US but it’s going for $40 which isn’t bad but I bought my bottle for $20. Still not sure if I should buy a back up. I only have 3 back ups and they are all discontinued fragrance that I love. What do you think? Would you buy another 30 ml bottle for $40? - Michelle
I would if you love it and if you think you will get onto another bottle 😊 I don't think it's the type of scent profile to spoil easily. I think it's so popular that if you don't end up using it, you could easily get your money back on it in future anyway as someone else would want it. 🥰
The Anti-Claire scents speak volumes!
Yes,I was listening to perfume influencers back in 2020. Made some horrible choices with which I am still encumbered. I have so much to declutter but not sure how to go about it really. I could easily part with 3/4 of what I have.
I was at the point where I was beginning to think I just didn't care for fragrances at all.🙁 That's still true to a degree. My biggest mistake(s) were in not sampling more. But even when I did the purchased bottle would sometimes turn out to be different than the sample (Green Irish Tweed). Frustrating.
Coming to grips (recently/finally) with the fact that I prefer fragrances that tend toward "female" was an important lesson for me. Had to learn what is anti-me.
Absolutely, samples being different to the bottles is something I've experienced too, mostly where the fragrances have in the meantime been reformulated, e.g. My friend sent me the new formulation of La colle Noire and I bought the old one!
I think gendering in fragrance is a huge problem... People often ask "does this lean X?" and I just think does it matter? People need to wear what they love. My friend here ScentedSnowdrops, Jon (he's well worth watching), he wears the fragrances that he loves with no regard to their gendered marketing and he smells absolutely amazing in them. I think fragrance is one of those areas that really needs to get with the times, just cos someone likes florals doesn't make them female and just because someone likes woods does make them male. What's next? Only ladies can eat strawberries? 🤷♀️ It's ridiculous... The thing with gendering too is that your opinion is going to be based on culture and experiences you grew up with. There aren't in built rules on what is "masculine" or "feminine" in smells.
I have Vanitas but the edp. I had sampled the edt and it seemed quite different from the edp to me.. I must see if I can find my sample and retest. My tastes have changed a lot in the last 5 years!
I don't think I've ever tried the EDP. I struggled to find the EDT even when I bought that bottle. Perhaps it was already discontinued? But also I just don't think it was ever that popular in the UK 🤷♀️
After a wait of trying to get SJP Stash for a reasonable price, it took me a while to warm up to it. But once I did, I can’t believe how addictive it is.
It's one I just get in the mood for... It's great in autumn especially 🍂
Me practically passing out when you said you paid so little for Z&V This is Her! WOW! I think I got mine for around $65.. still think it was a good deal, considering it’s so strong and fairly unisex.. my husband LOVES it, too! It is such a lovely layering tool as well.
I will say I fell in love with LPRNI two years ago, but now I find it’s far too gourmand for me. Makes me nauseous now. So strange how that happens! That’s probably why I don’t really declutter..because my tastes often change over time.
Ps- Not being weird, but I’m always struck by how your skin looks like porcelain, so pretty! You obviously weren’t a sun loving fool like me lol!!
Yes! I remember thinking it was an insane deal at the time. It was £20 but I had a discount with the store so I got 10% off. I've never seen that procedure more cheaply, it's regularly £50-70 here now. I can totally see it being one to share!
You mean the one launched in 2022, not the blueberry one? I always wanted to try that blueberry version. I know it got relaunched because it was originally limited edition and it was apparently reformulated but I've never tried either version of the blueberry one sadly.
And I think that's a combo of the ringlight and my phone not being the best quality recording equipment 🤣 but thank you! I'm not flawless in real life at all. I am quite pale though as I have iron deficiency. I just came off high dose iron 6 months back and I now have symptoms back. So yeah, that might be why I'm so pale 🤣 thanks for watching 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume So I checked and my order from FragranceNet was over 3 years ago.. so I believe it’s the blueberry one, at least to me it smells of blueberry cotton candy..and I have found a way to wear it without it irritating me; I layer it with Ocean Di Gioia. Ramps up the freshness and it doesn’t feel so gourmand.
That’s the lesson I’ve had to learn along my journey, I don’t care for gourmands mostly..I don’t mind a light gourmand BUT it has to have some freshness to balance it out.
And, oh dear.. I can relate on the iron issue! But you truly do have quite beautiful skin and being pale suits you! Reminds me of my Mom.. she always had very porcelain skin and maybe had one zit her whole life lol!! ❤️
Wow, I thought it was only me with gourmands, it's rare that I like them. I have no idea what means I will like them or not either. It seems relatively random apart from they can be too sweet in general (although there are some exceptions...).
Iron deficiency is really hard to get a diagnosis for in the UK. Doctors won't spend money on blood tests, they only see the symptoms and treat those. I still have no clue why I'm iron deficient. I stopped drinking peppermint tea as I realised that that could be the issue, sadly my favourite tea...
@@dr.claire.perfume We are scent sisters in that regard! Completely the same with me.. it’s rather curious why I can handle some and not others. One recent hugely successful example is Burberry Goddess! It’s AWFUL to me.. same with Devotion. Can’t do it lol 😆
And I’m sorry to hear that, but it seems the NHS is quite similar to Dr’s here in the US. It’s always the bandaid and never the source..which is so frustrating. Particularly for females in my experience.
Hope you can get it sorted out! It’s so draining, and unfortunately I relate 100%.
I used to own the Black Perfecto one and I used it up in less than 3 weeks, as I couldn't smell it on me, although it is quite a strong fragrance. I had I think 3 different flankers of La Petite Robe Noire, which I blind bought, and although I love the OG EDP, I didn't quite like any of the flankers. I guess the EDP is the perfect composition for me and all the other notes in the flankers didn't appeal to me much.
I miss all having a Guerlain counter near where I work. I would love to try the Couture and the old Intense and Eau Fraîche flankers, but they are sadly discontinued. LPRN was a great line of fragrances, the EDP was a winner. 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I have the Absolue version, it's like the EDP to my nose but sweeter and denser. Too much for me at the moment, maybe it'll work better in cold weather, but I'm not really optimistic. I think you've said it's supposed to be similar to Black Perfetto - not at all, for me it has a completely different vibe, like I said, sweet and dense, syrupy almost.
Yes, I've not tried it, it's just what people have said but they also said that it's not that similar and much sweeter than BP. So you seem to be in agreement with others. 🥰
Great video!
Thank you 🥰
You got me looking for a good deal on LPRN Black Perfecto 👀😅
It's definitely one of my absolute favourites 🥰
Have you perhaps tried the new Guerlain Habit Rouge Parfum that came out this year? Do you have any thoughts on it?
I've not tried it unfortunately, my local Guerlain counter closed a year ago and my nearest one is now 70 miles away so unless I buy samples, I can't easily try Guerlain fragrances. The last time I went to a counter was in March and I tried Oud Khol, Tobacco Honey and Florabloom, which were all striking. I absolutely love Guerlain, it's such a shame that I don't have local access to smell their fragrances any longer.
I bought way too many fragrances in 2021 😂
4:29 I had Black Perfecto, but sold it (I think I’ve mentioned this in the past). I’ve been loving the Intense flanker lately 😅
Gosh, I was going to talk about what I'd bought over the entirety of 2021 but there were just way too many 🤦♀️ and most were blind buys too 🤦♀️
I haven't tried the new intense one, do you have the 2022 one or the blueberry one? I really want to try the old blueberry one 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I prefer the new one to the blue bottle if I’m being honest. Both have blueberry in 😁
@@andfragt aah I'm getting mixed up with the absolue. 😂
I also have Viva La Juicy Noir, along with a few other VLJ
For me it’s all about the kitschy bottles. ❤😂
The bottles are insane aren't they? 😂 So OTT! They always make me think of Paris Hilton in the JC tracksuits in the 2000s 😂
@@dr.claire.perfume yes!!! My favourite is Sucré because it’s in a cupcake baking tray liner. Love 💕 it!!!
Oh yes! I know the one! I haven't ever smelt it though. 🧁
I put Stash up for sale in an online group last month (for quite a low price) and no one grabbed it, wonder if there's still much interest in it anymore?
I feel like it was discontinued whilst SJP took over the production of her fragrances from Coty to her own The Lovely Company, so probably the market is quite saturated again with it? I know here it's available very cheaply nowadays again but it got quite rare and more expensive for a while. 🥰
I haven’t tried Gucci Rush, but I did have Black Dart by Zara which was supposed to be very similar. It was really nice, but not my scent so I sold it.
Same for me with Rush, striking, different, interesting but just not me. 🥰
I have Katy Perry Meow just because of the bottle....lol.
Aah you see mine was headless so nowhere near as cute 🤣
Is Guerlain's black perfecto still in circulation?
I don't think so, I think it was replaced by the intense version in 2022. I do still see it around sometimes though. I need to pick up another bottle before it's too late. 🥰
I would like to try for her, I love sandalwood.
I have black perfetto if anyone is searching for her. Unsure the quantity due to the black bottle.🖤🌹 I think it's lovely but downsizing my collection.
Based in the UK
This is Her is a great fragrance, it is so different to what else is out there on the designer market. It stands out. 😊
Oh, how I prefer the original RUSH
@@nAlvheim I think it's quite different to what's on sale now unfortunately... Thanks for watching 🥰
I went crazy in 2021 and I'm slowly decluttering likes. Things I like to smell, but not necessarily wear.
Yes! This is for sure a thing isn't it? Great to sniff but not to wear. That is bang on for a few fragrances I've owned and decluttered too. 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I love to take off the cap and sniff. Lol, I feel like it's such a waste, and is honestly.
Well if it gives you joy, is that a waste?! I think if you like doing that, then keep those fragrances until you actually want to declutter them. 🥰
Ah yes the Rona years were very different.
Z&V was not a love for me but can defo see why people love it.
BP is one of my favourites I do really enjoy that one. It definitely has a special feel. Yes I imagine it can be one of them thsts heavenly close up on someone.
Ah yes the Nina was a pleasant one. Them ebay jokers 🙄.
Me and PR really do rarely get on. They defo have a kind of plasticty kinda DNA
Ah yes Gucci Rush I do remember trying this one from u.
Yes Stash is a good one from back in the day. Well I dunno Claire I expect acting from SJP but I'm yet to see that from her 🤣.
Yes I'm very rarely a "caramel" lover.
Hmm Katy Perry 🤔 it doesn't sound overly pleasant.
Yes you're a big lover of Orchid Solei. It certainly is a very distinctive one.
Yes never listen to RUclips 🤣.
Yes we can see you definitely honing in on your own particular taste. I was watching it back then. I still have all of mine
Black Perfecto is gorgeous 🖤
I am constantly shocked and disappointed at what people try to charge on eBay... 🧐
Paco Rabanne hasn't been a treasure trove for me. The only one I've enjoyed has been Ultraviolet and that's the older formulation, so who knows now?
Rush is striking and interesting but not necessarily me. Stash is definitely SJP's finest moment 😂
You'd have hated that Katy Perry 😂 I'm definitely less receptive to hype and persuasion now 😂 and I still love Orchid Soleil ❤️ I'd love to see your 2020 purchases and see how much you've worn them and what you think to them now ☺️
@@dr.claire.perfume it wouldn't be easy for me to work out what alot were 🤣 but it's a good idea
🤣 a much shorter video. I would love to see what you wouldn't buy nowadays. Perhaps some went to Cal? 🥰
Hi Claire ❤
Hi Frances 👋
Dear beautiful person, the world is very small but your heart is very big, maybe one day we can meet, I love you, my dear.
Thanks for watching 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume goodmorning my love
Interesting how we associate SJP with the girlie eccletatic character she plays on tv whereas some of her creations are really unisex.
You're right! She's definitely more than just her roles. 🥰
Where is that fine old video? 😜
Well Jon, it's been banished to YT history 😉
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Have a lovely weekend Yulia 🥰
Omg Chant! 😍🩵💙🩵💙🩵 I've been wearing it for 2 days straight!! 🫶🏻
It's a nice one! It's a really interesting mix of notes too! ☺️
Oh!!!! I am also 30% away from finishing Coromandel EDT! I guard its use now! I wear the inspired ones :)
It's sad isn't it when you love something and it's discontinued. 🥰
@dr.claire.perfume now I understand why so many persons buy 'back-ups' of their absolute dream parfums. But sometimes you lack the vision or the budget and so the beloved formulation just leaves you with a memory.
This is very true! 😢