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Le Salon de The No. Les Feuilles Vert No. L' Aquatique et Clair No. Le Jardin Fruitier No. Fete du Citron No. Update : read a review of the Memoire Liquide custom perfume line. You must be logged in to post a comment. Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Subscribe to followup comments via email. The Memoire Liquide "fragrance menu" is too long to include in its entirety, but here are some highlights for anyone who'd like to kill Friday afternoon at the office designing their own blend: Le Fleurist No.

Leave a reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. The Memoire Liquide selection at Henri Bendel includes more than perfumed oils, displayed in old-fashioned bottles with glass stoppers. The oils may be worn alone or blended in combinations of two or three scents.

The quantity of scents is overwhelming at first glance, but they have been helpfully grouped along a gleaming table in ten discrete categories. I wandered around the table for a while, following my own preferences and concentrating more on the floral-gourmand end of the spectrum.

The Memoire Liquide specialist also helped me branch out slightly by introducing me to some of his favorite oils from the other end of the table, where the woods and musks stand. I had approached the Memoire Liquide counter with a specific idea in mind, which I finally revealed to the specialist: I wanted to recreate the scent of the bouquet that I carried at my wedding in May.

The Memoire Liquide specialist assisted me by placing them on paper blotters, drop by precious drop: we combined the oils in three different ratios, adjusting the proportions of the various notes. After sniffing the blotters, I tried the three alternatives on my own skin. Once I had decided which combination I liked the most, the specialist decanted the oils and blended them into a small black bottle with a cream-and-gilt label. Two further thoughts occurred to me while I was browsing the Memoire Liquide department.

For one thing, although I was confronted by so many scents, their identical packaging and their brief descriptions freed me to form my own impressions and associations. Esprit de Cassis, a potion of cassis, plum, black cherry, red currant, and musk, brought back the sensation of drinking Kir Royals in SoHo with an old friend one summer evening; Voile de Soie, a powdery blend of rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley over white musk, suddenly conjured up the memory of a perfume that my youngest aunt used to wear in the s.

I also realized that the scent groupings allowed me to isolate and re-experience notes that have bored me lately by appearing in too many mainstream fragrances.

Overall, the Memoire Liquide counter offers near-endless possibilities for a fragrance lover who already has a fairly well-defined idea of his or her own favorite notes and olfactory inclinations. If you are planning a visit to Memoire Liquide, allow yourself plenty of time to browse through the printed checklist of scents, to breathe from the various bottles, and to reflect on single and paired notes as they evolve on blotters and on skin.

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I got picked in a drawing for some ML samples on perfumeposse and the lovely Patti of the Perfumed Court sent out my choices, one of which is Bois Sec. I just tried it for the first time today and thought it was medicinal, at first sniff, the way cedar can be sometimes. Then an hour later, smelled a marvelous incense waft by. This really is gorgeous by itself but for me it takes awhile; can't wait to layer it with something else.

Mousse de Chene is another samp I need further exploration of, it's more floral. The ML bottles are great looking, very distinctive!

Sorry it's taken me a while to respond… I was out of town today! But yes, I spotted that Memoire Liquide mention by its founder in Allure, too. Lots of good perfume coverage in that issue! Ah yes… a Californian company with French trimmings. Well, it's hardly the first time, I suppose! Hi Rosarita! Others are simpler. I'm tempted to splurge on the three-scent box of three straight oils next time!