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When it comes to perfume, subtlety is really key (along with being sensitive about with allergies and situations where perfume is not at all appropriate — such as in a health care setting). A solid perfume seems like a good way to achieve that since you can easily control the amount you apply. I’m going to have to check it out!

Have always wondered about them. Do they melt in the warm weather ?

Thank you !

I would love also a post about perfumes for the hair!

I adore a subtle, “lean-right-into-and-close-to-me-to-catch-it” scent – possible only with solid or oil perfume.

The best one I have ever used, and am so glad to have found after years of fruitless earthing, are oil perfumes by a Perth perfumer and his wife, called “Eternal Scents”. My favourites are Arabian Jasmine, and ones they made specially for my husband, mother and another for myself. They also do out-of-this-universe frankincense ones (all the fragrances are unisex, in keeping their incredibly gifted creators’ philosophy that scent is universal and without gender). My father has an oil perfume by the same perfume alchemists I use, that makes us think of wandering through an old Japanese castle. It’s truly evocative! Used in the tiniest amounts, it is unbelievably intimate because you can only catch it on another person when you lean right in, and uses only pure, non-chemical ingredients. I use a tiny drop in my hairline at the crown, and it’s absolutely magical both for me, and for my partner (the only persons who gets in that close to my head to detect it). Other people get tiny little whiffs if they’re talking very closely to me and inhaling, and I love that I don’t leave a trail of smell after me, like a puppy leaving it’s “mark” everywhere. Perfume should be intimate, and solid and oil perfumes (the latter being my preference, which are either incredibly pure like my husband’s Frankincense one, or my own Arabian Jasmine, or intangibly and evocatively complex like the ones my father, mother and son use). Non-aerosol and totally natural perfumes create just the most incredibly emotional response in the wearer and the one who’s lucky enough to lean in close to you to detect it.

Yes, they can be. They can also stain your clothes.

I love the idea of a weighty, metal case. Very old-school charm. Makes you value and enjoy the experience of applying it more, I think. I haven’t tried solid, but agree that traditional spray can be overwhelming at times. I have a roll-on oil scent I love. It remains all day, but not overwhelmingly so. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for this solid. Sounds like the scent is right up my alley. Have a lovely day, Neada!

I love the subtlety of solid scents. I recently discovered the solids in small glass containers by Roberta Andrade. My favorites are “water” and “monsieur” — http://www.robertaandrade.com/elemental-scents/