Well, today is national coffee day. It would be a great day to grab Amore Caffè or something similar, if the temps weren't reaching the 90s. What are some of your favorite coffee-centric fragrances?

Hey guys, Joe A. here with today's Scent of the Day : Mancera Aoud Lemon Mint - Day 366.Parfumo lists it opening with Sicilian lemon, almond, black pepper, and coriander, moving through mint, jasmine, oud, and patchouli, then settling into vanilla, white musk, amber, Haitian vetiver, and leather.I get a sharp, loud lemon-pepper blast that turns creamy and sweet with vanilla and musk, while the oud and mint barely show up.First Sniff: Like you ordered lemon mint tea and somebody poured vanilla cream in it.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VjHcFX1YvFY

Today after church, I went around with my Mom to get some stuff. One of the stores we visited has a huge perfumes display that are always expensive in comparison to the prices I always find at some other places. But finally I found one with a liquidation price and I felt for it. - Issey Miyake - Nuit D’Issey EDT 4.2oz: $30 (a 98% full tester.) Review coming soon…

There are three meaningful developments this week, and one is a major fragrance-business move. The biggest is Interparfums signing an exclusive worldwide fragrance license with Puma on September 22. Interparfums will take over the creation, production, and worldwide distribution of Puma fragrances, with the first new signature fragrance planned for 2027. The agreement runs through December 31, 2037. Interparfums has been building an increasingly large fragrance portfolio, so this is much more than a one-off celebrity-style release. Upstream, MANE announced a €45 million investment in a new fragrance creation center in Bar-sur-Loup, France, while Symrise inaugurated a new production facility in Grasse for its Lautier 1795 natural-ingredient operation. These investments matter because they're going into the actual infrastructure behind fine fragrance creation and the production of fragrance compounds and premium natural materials rather than consumer marketing. There is also a new niche release that looks worth knowing about: Perfumer H launched Clay on September 24, created by Lyn Harris. It's built around a baked-clay accord, with charred woods, sandalwood, cedarwood, orange flower, maltol, and Ambroxan. The concept came from Harris's travels through Morocco's Haouz Valley and High Atlas Mountains. It's the kind of unusual, material-driven concept I consider more interesting than the routine designer flankers released this week. One regulatory point is also worth keeping on the radar: The International Fragrance Association says the upcoming 52nd Amendment is expected to introduce 48 new restriction Standards, primarily addressing dermal sensitization, with formal notification expected in January 2027. That's not a new restriction issued this week, so I wouldn't treat it as a fresh alarm, but it's the regulatory development most likely to affect future formulations.

I stepped away from the forum for a while but remained casually engaged. Occasionally, I read posts and comment but I haven't been posting myself. I am surprised and disappointed in the decrease in engagement on the board but I am looking forward to rebuilding my connections. That said, here are my most recent full bottle pickups. It's been so long since I posted I am pretty sure that some stuff is missing. My recent purchasing declined for a couple of reasons; first, I have shifted from a full blown acquisition mode to consolidation with less blind buys and random purchases. 10 ml decants is the primary method for trying new fragrances. But these are the bottles that I felt were worth acquiring: 1. Falcon Leather Extrait (very excited to wear this in fall and winter) 2. Lunar Vetiver (bought because it got rave reviews and I got it for $60.00). Trying to like it. 3. Uden, consistently one of my top 3 fragrances and the only back up bottle I have ever bought. 4. Blue Panda by Alexandria, because I was not going to pay $600 for the original. The second reason my purchasing fell is that The Parfums just won't deliver the stuff that I order. I now set a 5-week timeframe for cancelling late deliveries.