Decant Demolition 2025 March | Perfume Posse

My Challenge

For Decant Demolition 2025 I’ll be trying to drain 30ml of juice every month. In any configuration from 15 x 2ml to a 30ml decant of decanted perfume into a spray receptacle 2ml or more. They must also be finished by ME! No giving stuff away. Although Random Acts Of Kindness are encouraged they do not count for my DD2025.

Your Challenge

Play along. Use up some decants/samples/bottles. Pass those unloved extras on to others or leave them in your workplace bathroom for people to take.

Also, in the interest of driving fragrant discussion and your own thunking there must be 40 comments that are not mine. Yes, you read it correctly. 40 comments, and not lazy, spammy bumps like an OK or Got It. It must be a pertinent comment to the discussion at hand. You can answer someone else’s comment. Ask them a question about their comment. Add your own thunks, thoughts on my thunks. Tell us a story about something fragrant that links with previous comments or the post. The secondary (but most important) goal of Decant Demolition 2025 is to reanimate perfumista conversation and engagement.

Should I make 30ml and there be 40 comments that comply. I will give away a US$50 Surrender To Chance Gift Voucher each month. 

I hope you’re as excited about Decant Demolition 2025 as I am.

In February I hit the 30ml mark:

WINNER : Maya

Please send me a message
portia (underscore) turbo (at) yahoo (dot) com (dot) au

I’m away Maya but will get on this ASAP on my return.

March Empties

Nuit d’Amore by Guerlain 5ml

Sweet lychee and the fizz of pink pepper over o rose violet bouquet. It’s a bit dated now, smells like it could come from the L’Occitane range or would fit perfectly into the current crop of Maison Christian Dior Collection. A fruity wash of loveliness that doesn’t push any boundaries

Sensual Orchid by Laurent Mazzone Parfums 5ml

There was only 1ml of thick oily grease left. I sprayed it on but it was awful. Completely gone yucky.

Sogno Reale by Mendittorosa 10ml

A boozy, woody amber that has come from the sea and lain sweltering in the sun. My 10ml has evaporated to about 3ml so I was wearing the super extrait oxidised version of Sogno Reale. I think it would have much more lift in the originally bought decant. Now it wears close and mysterious. Still gorgeously beautiful and I’ve been loving it in our Sydney summer heat. Edit: In my APJ review, “Not huge, here we have a very restrained fragrance, all the notes are accounted for but sotto voce. As if this kind of happy weirdness needs to whisper.”

Sunkissed Goddess by Kilian 2ml

Recently I wrote about Sunkissed Goddess over on Undina’s Looking Glass. I was totally bummed because almost no-one commented (thank you Alityke, JillieCat and BonkersVanessa) and that suntan tropical nights boozy beverage perfume is a winner. Also a perfect foil for winter blues. I even did a little comparison with other Lauder perfumes in the same oeuvre at different price points.

Tiger’s Nest by Memo Paris 3ml

I’ve talked of Tiger’s Nest before. It’s an amber, heavily labdanum, and has a cool snowy mountain breeze blowing into the funky den. “Tigers Nest is a lovely, fatty, slightly bitter take on amber. It gets a tingling hit of fresh lime about 5 minutes in. I know absinthe is the essence noted but I also get the distinctive snap of Angelica and a scratchy saffron is also notable. The lasting power is seriously good too.

Tok’yo Mama Fizz by Smell Bent 3ml

Sparkling lemonade backed by crisp woods and towards the end a vanilla ice cream note. Smell Bent was a pioneer is seriously niche, fine fragrance that was affordable and fun. The graphics and wordplay were amusing without the super skeevy sex plays of ELdO. Sadly the house has gone and I’ve found a cache of 3ml samples that are making my heart ache that I didn’t buy more bottles.

With the Candlestick by Clue Perfumery 3ml

Loved this weird beauty so much I wrote about it here on Perfume Posse