Thursday, July 7, 2011

nosy recommends: muggy-weather scents


My friend Charlotte urged me to make more recommendations on the site. Charlotte is a great encourager, and my first recommendation is to befriend her if given the chance. In terms of scent suggestions, I've been thinking lately of what I reach for now that the muggy-monster is among us. Boston is humid as all get out, and these are the fragrances that have served me best during my least-favorite weather:

I'm a jerk for recommending this (though I recommend it without reservation for all seasons) because it's impossible to track down. But maybe we could rally enough nosy demand to inspire D.S. & Durga to re-release this beauty? (This worked for me once with a seasonal flavor at an ice cream shop in Madison, Wisconsin). I didn't discover East MidEast until it was already on clearance at Anthropologie, and though I was able to manage to hoard a couple of small bottles, I still wear it less than I'd like to for fear of running out. I mention it despite this scarcity because its notes ("saffron, Indian cardamom, Russian roses, & red mandarins") would have, at one time, seemed to me to make it a big no-go for the summer months. In our haste to subsist on watermelon and ice-cold margaritas in the summertime, we forget how excellent spicy foods taste when it's hot. I think the same goes for perfume--though the natural inclination might be to reach for your sheerest citruses, the right big rose thrives rather than cloys in the heat.

Recommended for: Anyone who likes to smell really good, people who can't stand being told what to do, and Katie Puckrik.

Nuit de Tubereuse may be my favorite muggy-weather scent; I rarely wear it when it's not crazy-humid. I bought a bottle, somewhat impulsively, on a super-hot day in New York last summer, and I'm not sure I would have had the weather been milder. Something about this peppery, dirty, juicy-fruity, sexy, incensey stunner just heats up so right. Reviews point to the abundance of white florals (though are quick to correctly note that you won't get your creamy-tuberose fix here), but this smells so green to me. NdT almost (almost!) makes me look forward to muggy weather, and this makes me believe the ad copy claiming narcotic qualities isn't just fluff. I've also noticed that I get more compliments on NdT than on any other fragrance I wear. This could be due in part to the odor-amplifying days on which I tend to wear it, but it also speaks to the tenacity of the scent (especially notable since people's biggest beef with L'Artisan seems to be that their scents fade too quickly).

Recommended for: Women wearing backless dresses, glamorous outdoorsy types, and people who like to flirt on the bus.

I've mentioned this mellow fruit-bomb on the site before, and while it can be a bit too sweet for me, it's perfect for those muggy days when all I want to do is eat popsicles and read the kinds of magazines generally reserved for waiting rooms and long flights. 

Recommended for: Lemonade stand salespeople, freckled stoners, and teenagers attending their first spring formals.

If you have other sweaty-weather favorites, please share them in the comments!

9 comments:

Preets said...

I do so love watermelon and ice-cold margs (with guac if available), but I've thought about this a bit, about how eating/cooking seasonally only happens where there are seasons -- but of course! But I thought it was so strange at first when I moved to America and people talked about how nobody wants to turn on a stove in the summer and so all we eat is salads -- what? I missed just exactly what you're alluding to: eating very spicy, hot-off-the-stove things in hot weather, heavy, hearty things stewed and wok-fried and deep-fried, and also the whole physical feast of standing in front of flaming woks in steaming kitchens, bathed in sweat, dripping sweat everywhere, eating things that made you sweat more and gasp and suck down whole glasses of icy drinks in one mouthful. So, just for that reason, I will try that first perfume one day if and when I can find it.

nosy girl said...

Preets, I do think you would like East MidEast. It has a slightly medicinal quality to it, too, not your beloved eucalyptus, but something that I could see growing on a related tree. I will bring you some when next we meet (hopefully before next summer).

Thanks, too, for such a lovely sensory comment; you've got me hankering for something wok-fried and spicy right now.

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