Potential for another foot of snow today. I alternate between wanting warm, comfort scents and wanting citrus and summer. I didn’t know I was craving citrus until now, when I realize that 4 of the scents in my first order of 8 samples are citrus.
How did I choose my samples? In my quest to develop my nose, I have decided to start with scents on the “100 Fragrances Every Perfumista Should Try” list from Robin at Now Smell This. Now Smell This is a great site for experienced as well as novice noses, and I have been lurking there for some time now.
Although Eau du Sud is not officially on the list, it gets a mention from Robin as being a scent she prefers to the more popular Annick Goutal citrus, Eau d’Hadrien. I am not giving Eau d’Hadrien its own review, so let me just say here that it is this ephemeral thing on me that smells like lemony Pez initially and then turns (not unpleasantly) into that sweet earthy smell given off by rotting plant matter. At least I now know what the note “cypress” smells like.
Eau du Sud starts off on my skin as candied limes, with salt – like a high quality cross between a lime rickey and a margarita. Herbal undertones creep in and change it to more of a salty mojito, but it would be wrong to keep comparing Eau du Sud to drinks – it smells more like air. It ends up as beach air – (still) salty with a bit of sweaty musk from the sunbathing bodies. There is also the smell of a seaside garden, complete with a lime tree, wafting on the breeze. When I ask my husband to sniff it, he keeps saying tobacco (which I don’t detect at all), so, to appease him, let’s add someone enjoying a cigarette in the herb garden so that the vapors occasionally drift down to the beach. For my part, Eau du Sud is both addictive and interesting. I can’t wait to smell it when it is hot and humid.
Me. Taken by the fabulous Alex Howell.
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