Perfume Pen Pals: Elternhaus MoslBuddJewChristHinDao (Unifaith)


Katie,

Have you tried MoslBuddJewChristHinDao (Unifaith) by Elternhaus? It's REALLY nice. Turin gave it five stars and called it Mark Buxton's masterpiece. And I think it is. It also shares characteristics with Comme des Garçons 3, but it's more substantial, heavier and obviously more expensive-smelling. It's Cary Grant to CdG 3's Hugh Grant.

LuckyScent has been sold out for ages (I think it was only a limited edition) so I bought a sample from The Perfumed Court, which I immediately regretted because I loved it and it's $300 for a tiny bottle.

Elternhaus has an obnoxiously confusing (or confusingly obnoxious) website, which still takes inquiries about it. So who knows? But I think I'd rather buy a couple of Malles instead. I'm up to here with woody florals. (I just saluted at eyebrow level. Which is a pretty high level for woody florals.)

This perfume stuff is such a field of land-mines. Between all the stores and blogs and books and YouTube reviews (Katie takes a quick half-bow at the waist), I feel like my wallet is constantly under assault. And my brain is no f#@king help at all.

I need one of those bodyguards who athletes hire to keep them out of trouble. I'll just walk around with a big black guy, and whenever I go downtown or even click over to LuckyScent, he'll calmly insert himself between me and whatever's tempting me.

Dan


Dan,

Oh no! MoslJewGeorgeAndRingo is really that good? I read up on it a while back and just wrote it off as "more of the same that you can already buy for cheaper". But it's really Cary Grant? Oh no!

Katie


Katie,

I don't know if MoslJewTheProfessorAndMaryAnn is $300 good. It's squarely in the same family as Buxton's other woody florals, but less smokey and masculine than 2Man, fuller and more complex (and lasting) than CdG 3, but it is similar to those.

Plus, hang on Katie, there's a noticeable touch of amber in MoslBuddBaconAndEggs that sweetens it and really rounds it out into something decidedly sexier than Buxton's others. I wore all of them (along with the CdG Incense Series) around the same time and MoslBudd was unquestionably the best.

But was it three times the best? Naw. For the price, Hugh Grant is just fine. Seriously, once you start watching About A Boy, you're not longing for The Philadelphia Story. You're perfectly content with Hugh's charming insincerity. Don't make life any harder than it already is.

Dan


Dan,

Just got the decants you sent! This is even better than Pie of the Month Club. Pie of the Month just sends you one huge pie that you'll never finish, unless you're the Walton family. But your samples are sniff-sized vials of joy.

Went straight for MoslJewLucaTaniaChandler. So happy to finally smell it. I like it...okay. Just...okay. It's the vetiver. I find it a very domineering note, and I'm all I'm getting is vetiver on a cloud of incense, and not really any floral aspect.

So I'm relieved that I don't need to mourn never having it if it doesn't come back. I'm perfectly satisfied with my biehl parfumkunstwerke MB03, Josef Statkus and CdG Avignon.

Katie


Katie,

As for MoslBuddJewAppleBlueberryLemonMeringue, I suppose I enjoy the dominant vetiver over the dominant cedar of Hinoki. Because while it smells similarly, overall it's lighter and has greater lift-off for me. It's less of a winter woody and more of a all-year-round woody. And, yeah, the wood is always dominant over the flowers in woody florals, but if it were ALL wood, I bet it wouldn't be wearable. Not for a sane person.

Dan

Months later...


Dan,

I just retried your MoslBuddLettuceCheesePicklesOnionsOnASesameSeedBun samp, and it hit me differently than I remembered. The last time I tried it, I thought it was a nice woody/incensey thing but couldn't really distinguish much out of the mix.

This time, 10 Corso Como lept out at me (a pleasantly sour sandalwood and rose), soon joined by grassy, smoky vetiver. It's really nice. Though someone said on the LuckyScent site that it smells like Pier One in 1986. That gives me pause. But maybe to them, every incense smells like 80s Pier One.

Katie


Katie,

As for Pier One, yeah, it's probably just a matter of reference points and lots of incense perfumes would place that person in a jumbo cushioned wicker chair.

Or maybe Pier One started the whole incense trend. All this marketing copy about ancient churches and holy places and it turns out everyone just wants to smell like Pier One in 1986. Which, by the way, was a peak year for that store.

Dan

13 comments:

  1. I think you guys hit on a new fragrance for I HATE PERFUME called Pier One 1986. I need a body guard to to stop me from purchasing...lol. I start reading about something and I just know I have to have some for my own and experience it. I just purchased the new CdG Holygrace. Has anyone tried it yet. It was one of those reads about it that made me say..YES I want some please.

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  2. MoslBuddJewKatieandDan sounds like a very expensive and heartbreaking must-try. But, I think I'll pass. I'm already on a whirlwind, vintage perfume ebay bender, madly trying to find the originals of scents that have been reformulated into sad shadows of their former selves. I don't need to add limited edition weird niche fragrances to the list. Or do I?

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  3. onesmalldog, I must hear your thoughts on Holygrace. I couldn't make heads or tails of the description online. Something about "poison mother" and "ozonic" and I was turning the page.

    m61, your judgment is sound, your willpower a marvel. You're doing the right thing, especially with your focus on your vintage quest.

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  4. Not to rain on any small dog's parade, but I tried out the CdG + Undercover line at Colette in Paris and it's . . . meh. But that's just me. Maybe I'm just meh?

    I've been called worse . . . and better! :)

    JewHinduChristianBuddhistMormonScientologist was veddy veddy nice, and I'm truly sorry I missed out on that one. But it looks like they're never going to bring it back into production, which is fine. I have enough beautifully smoky fragrances as it is without having to shell out $300.00 for a concrete sculpture to tower over my bathroom sink.

    Speaking of which -- Dan, when you get that Consumer Bodyguard service up and running? I'd like to sign up, please. Kthnx.

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  5. What, nathan, the perfume doorstop not enough for ya now? (I know, I know, the perfume doorstop serves a different purpose: halting a scent's "sustain" before an unfixable hole's bored in your head.)

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  6. You just had to go there, didn't you! Resurrecting my longing for MoslBuddJewChristHinDao, which for me is TheOneThatGotAway. Making me remember the lover I was trying hard to forget. I have tried everything to get my hands on a full bottle after exhausting all my samples. Even wrote to Mark Buxton and got a nice reply. He said the release was intended as an art piece, a one-off for a particularly high-concept brand, and that he had no idea if it would ever be released for a wider market. I do think it is beautiful, and I have filled my collection with MoslBudd wanna-bes that just don't quite do it for me. Dover Street Market by CDG was close,and for a while I thought it was the answer to my MoslBuss jonesing, but alas, it is only a wan facsilime which only makes me long all the more for the original. Sigh. Here I go, back to ebay for the umpteenth time, hoping to score a bottle...

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  7. Scott, ooops, I do apologize for hindering your TheOneThatGotAway recovery. Though given Unifaith's religious references, perhaps "resurrection" of your longing was unavoidable.

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  8. i thought people who use the term
    "big black guy"
    think they ARE trouble
    and must therefore be unsuitable for preventing it

    o "big black guy"
    why can't you marry "dizzy blonde slut"
    and be done with it!

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  9. x -- wait -- is it an option to have a dizzy blonde slut as a perfume bodyguard? That could work, too.

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  10. I'll admit to being old fashioned, but there's something wrong with this very likely scenario:

    - Uhm, you smell nice! What're you wearing?
    - Eeehhhh, wait it's something like HinduMosl....wait a minute, I have it written down here somewhere...

    Keep it simple. Or at least simpler.

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  11. Junelady, it seems there was a level-headed soul in the MoslBuddJew camp, as evidenced by the timid "(Unifaith)" lurking behind the world religion shout-out.

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  12. i'd hire her too.
    there are so many things i could pay her for.
    and at closeout rates!

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