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dougie_newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne · member since September 2025

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Retired from the shipyards in Newcastle. My wife signed me up. I like a good fougère, lavender and moss.

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What makes a perfume house 'niche', exactly?My granddaughter keeps calling perfume houses 'niche'. Is it about how old they are, or how small? Cologne, aftershave or eau de toilette?The wife signed me up, so here's my first daft question. I've called every bottle I own 'cologne' since the shipyard…

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Resin, rose, tonka: a perfume timeline you can smellSame here. Tonka smells like every barber's shop I went to as a lad. What makes a perfume house 'niche', exactly?I'll tell her it's about the shop, not the age. She'll say I've got it wrong anyway. Last mow of the year: cut grass or hay?Half marks for me, then. My wife will enjoy that. My late husband's aftershave started all thisSounds like a proper fougère. My wife signed me up for the same reason, to work out what I'd been wearing all those years. Lavender bags for the airing cupboard, from the gardenLavender in the airing cupboard and my wife's towels. Smells like every Sunday of my married life. Last mow of the year: cut grass or hay?It's coumarin, isn't it? That's the hay smell in an old fougère. What was in my late husband's aftershave?Lavender and hay sounds like a fougère to me. Half the shipyard smelled like that on a Saturday night. What makes a perfume house 'niche', exactly?Older than the shipyards, then. I'd assumed niche meant new.