Mr Colombina and Little Miss Colombina Have a Sniffathon

Evening at Chez Colombina. Little Miss Colombina and Mr Colombina are emotionally blackmailed bribed into volunteer to test a random selection of perfumes.

Cadjmere by Parfumerie Generale

Little Miss Colombina: It's fruity!
Mr Colombina: Not too strong. It's a bit...fruity. We think it's fruity.
Little Miss C: It's goooorgeous!
Mr C: It's pleasant.

Aoud Damascus by Montale

Little Miss C: I don't like it!
Mr C: We don't like it! Smells cheap.

Orient Extreme by Montale

Mr C: Murder on the Orient Extreme.
Little Miss C: I don't like it!
Mr. C: Give it a second chance, it grows on you...It has some pleasantness on the second whiff, once you get get past the first reaction.
Little Miss C: (gazes out of the window)

Royal Aoud by Montale

Mr C: I'd give it a royal flush. Kind of leather, but cheap, rubbery leather. You'd wear it to stand out in a room of the White Diamonds Convention...but not necessarily stand out in a good way.
Little Miss C: Oh, my wiggly tooth hurts when I wiggle it.

Attar by Montale

Mr C: I kind of like this one.
Little Miss C: It smells like cigarettes.
Mr C: I'd remember this one.

Louve by Serge Lutens

Mr C: Struggling to get a smell...It's kind of weak.
Little Miss C: (sniffs loudly)
Mr C: Not offensive, but...It's OK, nothing special. I could douse myself in it, it's so weak.

White Aoud by Montale

Mr C: I like this one! This is the best one so far. A bit smoky.
Little Miss C: Yeah, like cigarettes.
Mr C: I like this one. It grows on me. A bit oily. In a pleasant way.

Une Fleur de Cassie by Frederic Malle

Mr C: It's interesting. There is a distinctive smell coming through that I recognize but can't place.
Me: Play doh?
Mr C: Yeah...no...Kind of clay? I was thinking kind of like bricks...This is not for everyday, but for a unique event. To wear with a crushed velvet dress. This shouldn't be worn with leather.

Diorama by Christian Dior

Mr C: I like this bottle...looks like a flask.
Little Miss C : (ran out of places to apply perfume, smells her ankle) I can't smell it! How does it smell, papa?
Mr C: I don't know if there was any logic in this selection, but you know that I don't like rosy, and none of them smell rosy today. They all smell kind of unique. This smells very unique. My second favorite, after White Aoud.

Chanel No. 22

Mr C: Industrial size! I'll be honest with you, I probably smelled this before, but not knowingly. I would know No. 5 and No.19, although I wouldn't know which one is which. ...I'd wear this one, although it is a woman's fragrance. I tend to think of scents in terms of music: high and low tones, high and low notes. Flowers are high, musk is low. Incense is in the middle. This smells incensey. It's very nice.

Ginger Musk by Montale

Little Miss C: It smells...how does it smell?
Mr C: Like paint thinner?...I'd say it projects to be consistent. The type of smell that wouldn't change in time and wouldn't differ from person to person...
Little Miss C: My wiggly tooth says, it wants to come out and get a quarter!