tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post1400218085722869264..comments2024-03-14T19:13:03.713+00:00Comments on Bonkers about Perfume: Going The Puredistance (II): Tea And Dutch Apple Cake With Jan Ewoud Vos And His TeamVanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-53491409394818044062011-10-03T09:50:21.806+01:002011-10-03T09:50:21.806+01:00Hi ScentScelf,
I was very interested to get your ...Hi ScentScelf,<br /><br />I was very interested to get your take on the "interview", as it turned out to be.<br /><br />Yes, no battle on the pitch - JEV was so straightforward and engaging that I found myself agreeing with most of his views. Even the significant price point I can get my head around.<br /><br />Where we both differ from him is in our "promiscuity" or Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-5870169754904795042011-10-03T03:47:00.441+01:002011-10-03T03:47:00.441+01:00Hard for me to disagree with sentiments equating t...Hard for me to disagree with sentiments equating the emotional effect of perfume with that of music, or trying to build an audience organically. Points, JEV.<br /><br />Hard also to disagree with the musing about punters, bloggers, and price. (Punters might not yet be in full explore mode; bloggers enthuse but don't necessarily buy; my, but that is a significant price point.) Point, Bonks.ScentScelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264276265890227820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-45156836353362081332011-09-27T16:56:38.267+01:002011-09-27T16:56:38.267+01:00Hi anotherperfumeblog,
I take it you like Antonia...Hi anotherperfumeblog,<br /><br />I take it you like Antonia, though? I must say I was pleasantly surprised when I retested it yesterday - still didn't care for the severe opening, but really enjoyed the warm, ambery? greenish yet creamy vanilla drydown. Reminded me a wee bit of Ormonde Jayne Tolu without the herbal aspect I don't like in that scent.<br /><br />Anyway, I can see that Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-26162195361665451292011-09-27T16:41:57.165+01:002011-09-27T16:41:57.165+01:00Thank you so much for sharing this. What a delight...Thank you so much for sharing this. What a delightful group they seem to be. And I laughed out loud at the "physiologically unsuited" comment. I suspect I would dwarf you, and yet I seem to be unsuited to Antonia as well. I think for me it is a lack of psychological fitted-ness. I don't have a big personality. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-14382004815575031952011-09-27T08:57:32.335+01:002011-09-27T08:57:32.335+01:00It is Vanille, and it was a blind buy I regret - t...It is Vanille, and it was a blind buy I regret - too dark for my taste, sadly. Fancy a snifter?Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-75057799195886100412011-09-27T02:21:15.555+01:002011-09-27T02:21:15.555+01:00Question off topic for now: Is that a small Ajne ...Question off topic for now: Is that a small Ajne in front of your Calypso? If so, which one??lovethescentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12382961211263766637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-75459013615263360732011-09-26T19:49:14.606+01:002011-09-26T19:49:14.606+01:00Hi Suzanne!
I completely agree with you about Pur...Hi Suzanne!<br /><br />I completely agree with you about Puredistance being everything you say in their attitude towards bloggers - open, honest, generous. I am also small (albeit with comments enabled), and I am only speculating that it was my post on the Dutch New Year that caught their eye - Rosanne did mention she had seen it in our early email exchanges. <br /><br />So just as PuredistanceVanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-82689922809484731152011-09-26T18:30:31.586+01:002011-09-26T18:30:31.586+01:00Vanessa, wow! Your beautiful report on PureDistanc...Vanessa, wow! Your beautiful report on PureDistance inspires both envy and awe. I don't think there's ever been a more generous and also more open and honest friend to the perfume blogging community than PureDistance. And I think your report accentuates just how generous they are with their time (in addition to how generous they've been with providing bloggers samples of their Suzannehttp://www.eiderdownpress.com/Perfume_Journal.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-57642517487623304972011-09-26T16:35:21.702+01:002011-09-26T16:35:21.702+01:00Hi Cymbaline,
Am so glad you weren't deterred...Hi Cymbaline,<br /><br />Am so glad you weren't deterred by the monster nature of my post! I toyed with splitting it and then thought it might just be easier to have it in one place, given that it is all about the same conversation, whereas my Hungarian posts that precede it fell rather neatly into "Zsolt Zolyomi the Roja Dove-equivalent", and "What I sniffed in his store"Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-1192907758339160482011-09-26T16:19:30.578+01:002011-09-26T16:19:30.578+01:00I love a "monster post"! I read this ber...I love a "monster post"! I read this berfore bed last night and attempted to comment then, but ended-up feeling like I should mull things over a bit. On first read, I too accepted JEV's comment about large collections of perfumes resulting in the devaluing and diminished importance of each perfume, but have since changed my mind. Maybe people can reach a number where that does Cymbalinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869997513487478698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-17368277756666404892011-09-26T13:22:28.600+01:002011-09-26T13:22:28.600+01:00Hi Olfactoria,
"Bonny old B is obviously hef...Hi Olfactoria,<br /><br />"Bonny old B is obviously hefty enough for Antonia".<br /><br />ROFL!!!!! I left myself wide open to this charge, didn't I, from any Antonia lovers of perfectly - and enviably - normal proportions? For I would describe my physique more as scrawny and a bit raddled rather than "fragile" in any kind of youthful-and-elfin-Keira-Knightley sort of way.Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-64673338307090729092011-09-26T12:47:09.165+01:002011-09-26T12:47:09.165+01:00Thanks for reporting back so thoroughly, I really ...Thanks for reporting back so thoroughly, I really enjoyed reading it.<br /><br />Bonny old B is obviously hefty enough for Antonia! ;)<br /><br />I feel just like you and JEV about the mass of perfumes in our collections. The thought of paring it down to ten or maybe twenty seems attractive at times. But there is a reason we have so many after all, isn't there? The curiousity for new ones is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-43602201608182915982011-09-26T09:33:36.475+01:002011-09-26T09:33:36.475+01:00Hi Ines,
Your reviews were amongst the very first...Hi Ines,<br /><br />Your reviews were amongst the very first I read on this range, and were instrumental in my curiosity to try the line. And yes, I agree that Puredistance have a nice approach to bloggers. Additionally, there was a pinboard in the main office, with clippings from reviews on blogs, FB, Twitter and the Net generally. I spotted something by Dee Howe on there!Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-34790567989864143322011-09-26T09:29:20.072+01:002011-09-26T09:29:20.072+01:00Hi Undina,
Thanks for reading - this one is a bit...Hi Undina,<br /><br />Thanks for reading - this one is a bit of a monster post, but there seemed to be a lot to cover!<br /><br />Puredistance 1 is much more accessible in my opinion, so if you like Antonia, I can't see why you wouldn't care for it too.Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-84598587249939343102011-09-26T09:15:19.742+01:002011-09-26T09:15:19.742+01:00I really enjoyed your report on the Puredistance t...I really enjoyed your report on the Puredistance team. :) They really have a nice approach to bloggers and are very generous.<br /><br />And I love the take-away box!Ineshttp://alliam-aredhead.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-81121013800744569042011-09-26T09:14:10.120+01:002011-09-26T09:14:10.120+01:00Thank you for the story, it was very interesting.
...Thank you for the story, it was very interesting.<br />I like Antonia very much. I do think about a FB of it one day but at this price level it's not something you buy just to have so I want to make sure I actually love it. I haven't had a chance to try Piredistance I yet but now after all the praises from you I definitely will.Undinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292100499371921334noreply@blogger.com