Comments on: Les Echappees by Memo, Nautica My Voyage ~ new fragrances http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/ a blog about perfume Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30415 Anonymous Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:48:05 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30415 The winter gloomy hasn't settled in here yet at all, happily...we're still in the 70s and sunny on most days. Hope you'll get some relief soon! The winter gloomy hasn't settled in here yet at all, happily…we're still in the 70s and sunny on most days. Hope you'll get some relief soon!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30414 Anonymous Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:21:04 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30414 I haven't smelled enough Osmanthus to be able to identify it in fragrance, but I do remember smelling Shanghai and liking it very much. Too bad it seems to have vanished. I am with Robin on wanting to escape the gloomy Pacific Northwest. God the weather has been just awful for the longest stretch of time! I'd love to try the perfume with lime - I need something citrusy and happy! I haven't smelled enough Osmanthus to be able to identify it in fragrance, but I do remember smelling Shanghai and liking it very much. Too bad it seems to have vanished.

I am with Robin on wanting to escape the gloomy Pacific Northwest. God the weather has been just awful for the longest stretch of time! I'd love to try the perfume with lime – I need something citrusy and happy!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30421 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:06:31 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30421 Yah, me too ;-) Yah, me too ;-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30418 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:06:06 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30418 True, I don't think they're going for coconut as much as they're going for the smell of fig & fig leaves. True, I don't think they're going for coconut as much as they're going for the smell of fig & fig leaves.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30419 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:05:21 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30419 LOL -- true! Of course, osmanthus tea -- the real thing -- is lovely stuff, maybe that is why? LOL — true! Of course, osmanthus tea — the real thing — is lovely stuff, maybe that is why?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30413 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:04:52 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30413 I'd be very surprised if osmanthus became that much of a trend, but we'll see! I know I smelled Shanghai but can't remember much about it...you're right, it sort of disappeared! I'd be very surprised if osmanthus became that much of a trend, but we'll see! I know I smelled Shanghai but can't remember much about it…you're right, it sort of disappeared!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30417 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:47:34 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30417 Re: fig and coconut. I always wondered about that too, because I dislike coconut in my fragrance, but love fig. Then, this summer I actually got to hang out at a house with a huge fig tree in the yard. I crushed one of the big leaves in my hand to smell and -- you guessed it--there was that coconut note! Not that perfumers are normally restrained by verisimilitude, but maybe that's where the impulse for coconut comes from? Re: fig and coconut. I always wondered about that too, because I dislike coconut in my fragrance, but love fig. Then, this summer I actually got to hang out at a house with a huge fig tree in the yard. I crushed one of the big leaves in my hand to smell and — you guessed it–there was that coconut note!

Not that perfumers are normally restrained by verisimilitude, but maybe that's where the impulse for coconut comes from?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30420 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:36:38 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30420 Spontaneous partying is certainly one of *my* key values. *snork* Spontaneous partying is certainly one of *my* key values.

*snork*

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30416 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:05:17 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30416 Is there a Perfume Rule that osmanthus can only be paired with tea, maybe? Osmanthe Yunnan, Osmanthus Interdite and now this one. It's like the rule that fig must be paired with coconut. Is there a Perfume Rule that osmanthus can only be paired with tea, maybe? Osmanthe Yunnan, Osmanthus Interdite and now this one. It's like the rule that fig must be paired with coconut.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30412 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:45:38 +0000 http://www.nstperfume.com/2007/10/19/les-echappees-by-memo-nautica-my-voyage-new-fragrances/#comment-30412 Is Osmanthus the new iris, I wonder? Tee hee. Speaking of Iris, R., I want to thank you for turning me on to iris in general! I never knew it, never really "got" it, but it's really starting to get under my skin!! What IS it about iris? And I DO love osmanthus. I wonder why Shanghai never lasted? Did anyone ever smell that one? It came out in '05, and was gone soon after. It was an osmanthus-rich frag that was more prettily "Asian" than heavily oriental, as the name might suggest, and it seems to have disappeared into the ether. Is Osmanthus the new iris, I wonder? Tee hee. Speaking of Iris, R., I want to thank you for turning me on to iris in general! I never knew it, never really “got” it, but it's really starting to get under my skin!! What IS it about iris? And I DO love osmanthus. I wonder why Shanghai never lasted? Did anyone ever smell that one? It came out in '05, and was gone soon after. It was an osmanthus-rich frag that was more prettily “Asian” than heavily oriental, as the name might suggest, and it seems to have disappeared into the ether.

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