Hamish's Decants

[hamish]

Posting last updated 29 April 2013

Sizes available are 2.5ml / 10ml / 30ml. The prices below are colour coded by size.
2.5 ml atomiser bottles are currently plastic. 10 ml atomiser bottles are glass. Both are new and were purchased from Accessoriesforfragrances.com.

Recent Bottle Split - Leftover Decants
none available right now.

Niche Decants

Amouage:
Jubilation XXV $15/$46

Heeley:
Cuir Pleine Fleure $11/$31

L'Artisan Parfumeur:
Dzing! $9/$26
Dzongkha $9/$26
L'Eau du Navigateur $9/$26
Timbuktu $9/$26
Vanille Absolument $10/$32

Le Labo:
Patchouli 24 $11.50/$35
Rose 31 EDP $14/$49, or 1ml vial for $7

Parfum d'Empire:
Azemour les Orangers $10/$30
Cuir Ottoman $9/$24

Serge Lutens:
Feminite du Bois $14/$42

Designer Decants

Azzaro:
Azzaro Pour Homme $6

Boucheron:
Jaipur Homme EDP $14/$41

Bulgari:
Black $7/$15

Calvin Klein:
CK One Shock for Him

Caron:
Pour un Homme de Caron $6/$13/$30
Third Man $6/$13/$30

Cartier:
Declaration Essence $8/$19

Chanel:
Antaeus $12/
Egoiste $11/$34
No 19 EDT $14/$56
Pour Monsieur $9/$25

Clinique:
Aromatics Elixir

Dior:
Dior Homme EDT $8/$23
Diorella EDT $9/$26
Eau Sauvage Parfum
Midnight Poison $10/$28

Estee Lauder:
Azuree
Beyond Paradise for Men $7/$13

Gianfranco Ferre:
Bergamotto Marino $4.50/$13.5/$30

Givenchy:
Vetyver (les parfums mythiques reissue) $7.50/$21

Gucci:
Gucci Pour Homme Original (Vintage) $6.50/$15

Guerlain:
Cologne du 68 $8/$17
Coriolan $8/$16
Guerlain Homme L'Eau $8/$24
Guerlain Homme Intense EDP $10/$29
Habit Rouge EDT $6/$17
Habit Rouge Sport $7/$20
Heritage EDT
L'Heure Bleue
Mitsouko EDT $9/$21
Shalimar EDP $10.50/$30
Shalimar Parfum Initial EDP $10.50/$30
Vetiver $6.50/$15

Hermes:
Eau de Gentiane Blanche EDC $8/$23
Eau de Pamplemousse Rose EDC $8/$23
Terre d'Hermes Parfum $12

Kenzo:
Kenzo Power $6.50/$16

Knize:
Knize Ten $12/$40

Lalique:
Eau de Lalique $6.50/$15
Encre Noire $7.50/$18
Perles de Lalique $6.50/$15/$40

Lancome:
Cuir de Lancome

Molinard:
Molinard Homme I $7.50/$28

Prada:
Infusion d'Homme $4/$10/$31

Sisley:
Eau de Campagne $8.50/$24

Thierry Mugler:
A*Men Pure Malt $11.50/$38
A*Men Taste of Fragrance (Chilli) $9/$27
B*Men $8/$27

Van Cleef & Arpels:
Midnight in Paris EDT $6/$15

Yves Saint Laurent:
Body Kouros $7.50/$21
Live Jazz $5/$15
Rive Gauche Pour Homme $6/$13/$40
YSL Pour Homme $4/$10

Shipping Charges (NZ only):
$2.80 - Fastpost envelope at buyer's risk (1-4 2.5 ml decants only)
$2.10 - Standard Post envelope at buyer's risk (1-4 2.5 ml decants only)
$4.50 - Small tracked parcel
$7.30 - Small tracked parcel to RD address

My feedback can be viewed by searching for my username, hmacinn, at TradeMe, or there is a link on my profile page.

[hamish]

Added Thierry Mugler - A*Men Taste of Fragrance (Chilli) and Cartier - Declaration Essence, a denser variation of the classic original.

[hamish]

Added Cuir Pleine Fleure by Heeley (a great modern violet leather) and Azemour les Oranges by Parfum d'Empire (a modern citrus chypre). Both are unisex, but read some reviews for opinions.

[maryland]

Is Diorella a vintage?

[hamish]

Jul 13, 2012 11:51:41 GMT 12 maryland said:

Is Diorella a vintage?

I got confused reading online forums about which version is best and when each reformulation happened for Diorella. My bottle is not the current one but the one before that. It has a blue box and a white oval sticker on bottle and looks like the version shown below. Bottle has straight sides and no silver thread around sprayer. The batch code comes back as 2006 from checkcosmetic.net but I don't know if that is accurate. I guess not technically vintage, but not the current "Les Creations des Monsieur Dior" version.

[maryland]

Thanks I really wanted to smell the lemon top Turin was talking about, what's this one like?i owned diorissimo same bottle as your s but it was absolutely foul to me. Oh btw any niche hauls lately would u be interested n 5ml swaps of something, want to extend up my limited scent vocabulary

[hamish]

The 2 new niche ones above have come in and I don't have any other pending orders at the moment. I need to let the bank balance recover. I can swap 5 or 10 ml of anything you see here. (I'd have to half fill a 10 ml bottle for a 5 ml decant at the moment but I'll be ordering soon)

Diorella is very nice, but may be an acquired taste. Turin uses the words woody citrus floral and overripe melon to describe it. Views on Basenotes are mixed, but I like jtd's review best where he compares it to an uptight Miss No 19 seeing red and "Diorella shows that Lauren Hutton gap-toothed smile with every laugh". All those older Diors are challenging in that way, but sometimes the immediately likeable scents become boring more quickly than the ones it takes time to love.

Azemour and Diorella are both technically citrus chypres so they could be a good pair to study. I haven't worn Azemour yet (only smelled on paper) so can't really describe fully.

[hamish]

Lots of new fragrances added, including some coming in June. Revised pricing as well.