When I was gifted a bottle of Elie Saab Girl of Now on my birthday, I was asked to do a review on it. I said no immediately but after considering it for quite a while, I think I should because it is the latest fragrance release. Granted now the distributor no longer send us any new fragrance . Before I go into detail with that perfume, I thought I’d tell you about my all time favourite perfume.

I still remember my reaction when I was gifted with a perfume. I think I sent a wrong impression to my friend that I hated my gift. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE PERFUME. Just that I have too much at the moment lol. I currently have about 30 bottles on my vanity table and another 10ish in the cabinet unopen. I wish he ask me what I want and I’d reply diamond

No. 1 Favourite Perfume – Estée Lauder Modern Muse

I cannot tell you enough how much I love the Estée Lauder Modern Muse line. Modern Muse, Modern Muse Chic or whatever just give me all. I’ve gone through the entire bottle of the original Modern Muse. Right before that, I was lucky to be sent the new Modern Muse Chic. Both version carries the same scent. For me there’s hardly any difference. I’m about to finish the Modern Muse Chic and Paris B kindly gave me hers! This is a scent where whenever I wore it, everyone would stop me on the street and ask me what perfume I was wearing. It happened at several H&M store, with the cashier asking me what sensual scent I was wearing. You can really smell a Modern Muse chic walking from far. I remember when I was at the Sephora Mid Valley store opening, out of the sudden I can smell a strong Modern Muse storm. I started to look around and waited. Then all the Estée Lauder PR girls arrived LOL. I told them “I can smell you from far” and they were laughing hard. No kidding. It’s really that good. For me that is

Signorina Misteriosa, Opium, Bamboo, Flora and The Scent

I can’t pick the secondary perfume because I have many! But if I want to save my Modern Muse and use something equivalent, it would be YSL Black Opium. Oh my God. This perfume is so sexy and seductive. The scent is strong but not nauseating. It lasts the entire day without the note changes. Perfume usually has 3 notes in it and each will evolve as the day goes by. Not this one. No problem for me as I like it that way.

And if I want to smell delicious and yet still sexy, I would go for Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia. I’m a floral scent girl so it is no surprise that I would like this one. The scent is so me according to many people. I go heavy handed with this and I don’t find myself drowning in it. Not bad lol. It’s mature, sexy, sensual, seductive. It’s everything a girl would like.

Hugo Boss BOSS THE SCENT has a similar scent to Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia, only sweeter. I don’t usually go for sweet scent except for this one, which I’ve used up quite a bit. It has a light scent despite being an Eau de Parfum. The scent doesn’t last long although I literally bath myself in it. So if I want to smell nice and a little sweet for a quick outing such as coffee run or lone shopping, this is what I’d wear.

This next scent has an impact in me personally. My ex and I each received the same Gucci Bamboo for review at the same time. As much I like this perfume and I’m left with 3% of content, I would want to finish this up and toss the bottle away. That’s because I have a new bottle waiting . If you like a subtle scent, this is the scent for you. It smells really fresh and floraly. I’m kinda obsessed with it. I only wish it was a tad bit stronger so that I don’t have to use so much each time.

Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina Misteriosa is the “darker version” of the iconic Signorina. I like Ferragamo as a whole brand so it doesn’t take a lot of guessing I like their fragrance line as well. The scent is mysterious as how the brand want to package it. It’s a deep, mature, womanly scent that is also sexy and sweet despite being a floral scent.

The Love of My Life – Elie Saab Girl of Now

You know how certain things that you don’t like a first grew on you and you fell in love? Again and again, all over. That is how I am with Elie Saab Girl of Now. Very much the same feeling I had towards the person who gave me this gift.

I received this on my birthday. It was my birthday eve, raining heavily that we had to cancel our Japanese dinner and go for a cozy home Japanese food order from Food Panda instead. Not the birthday celebration I expected and I was rather disappointed. I bought a new dress to wear. You know me. And it was my birthday! Food Panda was not good but the company was. The conversation started out of the sudden like “so I went to ask the lady what is the latest and greatest and the lady said this”. There I was, sitting there wondering what the heck this person was saying (because there was no opening line) and this person bent over to the other side of the table, and put the box in front of me. A perfume?! I said. That person replied yeah, it’s beauty. I did ask why buy me perfume and that I like diamond haha. This person has been telling me a few days ago that it’s something beauty and I’d love it. Because it’s beauty. Beauty is me. True enough. 100 brownie points for understanding me that well. I opened the bottle and mist Girl of Now on my arm. I said it smells like some middle eastern scent and I don’t like it. You know how perfume is. It takes time. After about 30 minutes, I smell something nice. I took a sniff on my arm and I was blown away. The top note has worn off and the middle note emerged. It reminds me of YSL Black Opium, only manlier. The beautiful scent stays on smelling oh so nice for the rest of the night. As I used it more and more, I like it. Now I love it. As I’m typing this now, I’m misting myself with this perfume on me. I find myself doing this a lot lately whenever I’m working from home. I have the bottle sitting in front of me. Hard to not reach out and mist myself with it.

There you have it! My perfume collection and what I smells like most of the time . Conclusion, Modern Muse or Black Opium hands down. Otherwise it’s Girl of Now

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If you are not aware yet, there is a personalised fragrance profiling experience currently held at Mid Valley Megamall, Ground Floor, East Entrance Lobby . This is a joint effort by a few fragrance brand under Luxasia namely Issey Miyake, Narciso Rodriquez, Elie Saab and Jean Paul Gaultier.

So far I have not heard or go for any fragrance profiling available locally before. This was my first time and it was quite fun.

Let Danny walk you through the process of finding your perfect scent. It is especially useful if you are someone indecisive when it comes to choices.

Some background about Danny Ventura.

Danny Ventura is International Training Manager from Beaute Prestige International. With over 10 years experience in the fragrance industry, Danny has gathered extensive knowledge of fragrance users through his interaction with consumers across the world, spanning from Brazil to Dubai to China. His personal charisma, creativity and professional acumen has won him many loyal customers and recently the National Trainer of the Year 2011 by the Cosmetics Outstanding Service Award (COSA) in Canada.

When I reached I was sat down and then given a piece of paper with 20 questionnaires together with a booklet of answer choices. A piece of advice if you plan to attend this fragrance profiling. You have to be honest and be careful with your answer selection otherwise it won’t be accurate

Danny calculated my score and said hmmm interesting. Then he took out 3 mini bottle of scents and told me to say out the color that I think of after I take a whiff at the perfume sampler paper. But before I could smell all 3 scent I need to inhale from a coffee bean container to neutralize smell prior before.

Danny said that he will give me 2 choices of perfume because I like to wear different perfume scent based on my mood daily and sometimes nothing at all. He also said that I’m quite loyal but wouldn’t mind to step out of the box to take on different experience. That is actually pretty much true about me when it comes to perfume. From my profile questionnaire he says that I like scents that makes me confident, elegant but sometimes I also like to be a princess. Okay, that’s really true!

I was matched with Elie Saab for the feminie and princessy mood and Narciso Rodriquez “For Her” for the confident, elegant mood days.

First I took a whiff at Elie Saab. That’s when I go hmmm interesting like Danny earlier. It was not bad. Something that I would want myself to smells like.

Before we move on to Narciso Rodriquez, Danny handed me the coffee bean again to breath into.

This is my reaction when I sample Narciso Rodriquez “For Her”. Yeap, a big smile on my face. I like the scent. I can even imagine myself with this scent. It is sooo me

I told Danny about my “1 week 1 perfume” strategy and he said it’s brilliant! That way I can stay focus with a particular scent for a week without deciding on what mood I want to be.

Do drop by Mid Valley Megamall, Ground Floor, East Entrance Lobby to have a personalized session with Danny Ventura. You can take this opportunity to ask him all the questions you have wanted to know about fragrances, how to match your mood and/or occasion with the fragrance and how to make your fragrance lasts longer. Do take note that Danny will only be here until Saturday from 12pm to 8pm!

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