Portia’s 5 Byredo Favourites

Hey My Perfume Samples Crew,
It’s Portia from Australian Perfume Junkies, Perfume Posse and Olfactoria’s Travels and thrilled to be writing for one of my favourite Perfume Sample Sites. Over the next few months I hope to bring you some great information, maybe some ideas that you can use in your daily life, a selection of my favourite fragrances from the site and great ways and times to wear them.
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You may know that Byredo is the brainchild of uber sexy scent curator Ben Gorham who began his fragrant business in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006. Ben was a basketball player and has an interesting mixed racial background that has produced a very unusual, sensual looking man that I reckon most of us would like a go at.

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Today I thought we could look at five of the Byredo fragrances that I find particularly good and that I or some of my close friends have in their collections. There are more outrageous fragrances in the line that will blow the back of your head off with their unusual or confrontational compositions but these five are interesting and beautiful and can be worn easily yet are different enough to help you stand a few cuts above the crown in scent and material quality.

All Byredo samples at My Perfume Samples start at $6/ml and go up to $18/5ml

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Accord Oud: A lovely bright and boozy fruit cocktail in a saddlery and stable. Fresh hay, leather, old urine and patchouli oil with a waft of raunchy physical passion, patchouli oil and a soft booze patina that overlays it all. Accord Oud is an excellent starter oud in the modern perfumery sense, not overbearing and only hinting at the cattle poo smell and medicinal aftertaste of the heavy duty stuff. I wear Accord Oud when I want to smell like the landed gentry just off the polo field.

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Gypsy Water: A gift from my mate Clayton of What Men Should Smell Like so wearing Gypsy Water always makes me think fondly of him. I love the super sweet but tart lemon meringue opening that’s a little biscuit base-ish. Gypsy Water wears fragrant but not big, you will be able to wear it to work. I love how the foody feeling fades slowly towards a temple filled with the memory of incense on a cool windy mountain top in India. Earth and woody dry down tones with a non foody vanilla mixed with pine needles. Excellent.

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La Tulipe: La Tulipe is my BFF Kath’s scent, not a signature but when I smell it my mind always goes straight to her. If you close your eyes and imagine standing at the door of a florist shop in spring. The chilly gush of air conditioning scented with the cut stems and greenery of the store mixed with the most heavenly dew sprinkled flowers. A lightly metallic and watery gauze overlays the whole scent giving it a lovely rounded feel. Perfectly placed as a refreshing blast in the warmer months.

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Pulp: It’s a luscious, full bodied citrus that just can’t help but make you smile. And even though it may be pouring with rain and has been wet for eons, I’m happy and warm with this on. One of my dear girlfriends Emma wears Pulp as her go-to party scent, she uses Pulp as a weapon and flirts outrageously. Great times remembered in and around Pulp. When I want a burst of fruit tempered by some spicy woods and sweetened with some toffee then I reach for Pulp.

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Seven Veils. This spicy oriental opens up green, boozy, spicy and sweet, quite different to anything I’ve tried before, like the pink pepper, spicy pimento, carrot and cognac all collide in a super fun whirlwind of scent. Sandalwood and vanilla swing in quickly and run through leaving flowers in their wake and even after 5 hours there is still a vanilla, spicy fruit roll on my skin. I have been through a couple of 5ml decants and will probably go FB in the near future.

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Some honorable mentions go to M/Mink which smells like you’ve buried your face in an old funky fur hat from a second hand store and Flowerhead, the fruity floral with a leather/ambergris dry down released in 2014. I love them both but have only sampled them so they didn’t make the cut.

This is a blog so I hope you get involved and take the time to comment, ask questions and generally become a part of the action.Waft on my lovelies,Portia xx