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Thread: Perfume
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Firenze
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My immediate reaction to the title of another thread - What are you wearing - was to think of scent, not clothes.
I've always enjoyed perfume - whole eras of my life come back to me at a whiff of Anais Anais or Dune.
Lately, I've become a little more systematic in trying to identify the core characteristics of those that really appeal to me ('crushed greenery' seems to be the best description so far).
I have about 10 main fragrances on the go at the moment, each morning's skoosh depending on mood, season, what I'm doing that day.
They say smell is the most evocative of senses, so what do the bottles on the dressing table mean to you?*
*I don't regard this as a female-only question: Mr Firenze currently has 15 on his.
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I have only recently begun to get into perfume as a serious thing - the one I own a full bottle of is Shalimar by Guerlain, but I also have quite a few samples. I like Fleur Oriental by Miller Harris, Cinnabar by Estee Lauder, Opium by YSL, Semna by Odin. Need to get some Tom Ford samples. As you can probably tell, I love heavy orientals - they just work well with my skin. I love vanilla, tobacco, incense, vetiver, dry woody irises and carnation.
Useful things for fragrance fans - Fragrantica where you can look for perfumes you like and see ones you may also like, and also search by note/scent group/designer etc, and Now Smell This a brilliant and very comprehensive perfume blog.
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Firenze
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You might want to look out for Pierre Montale. He uses aoud like no tomorrow. I have Sunset Flowers which is, by his standards, quite a light fragrance - but it's one I would wear for evenings.
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Ariel
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I've always enjoyed perfume - whole eras of my life come back to me at a whiff of Anais Anais or Dune.
It is very evocative. Anais Anais is my post-teenage years, and Miss Dior is the other one that sums up that era, and those exciting trips to London. I can’t wear Anais Anais now, it doesn’t smell the same any more.
These days, in summer I like L’Eau d’Orange Verte by Hermes, which is a cool, refreshing citrus perfume. For cooler days, Stephanotis, by Floris, is a quite rich floral scent that I like. I also have rose, lavender and violet scents – the violets for the spring. I’m still in search of the perfect lavender scent – as close a replica as possible of the real thing. It’s not something that seems to reproduce well and I haven’t found it yet. My grandmother used to have lavender water which she would always put on for occasions or going out and while I hated it at the time I quite like it now.
Coty’s L’Aimant is one that I wear from time to time and like a lot. I also have Blue Grass, which was one of my mother’s favourites, for occasional use. It is quite strong so I use that sparingly. I’m not too keen on the lighter, sweeter scents: they need to be a little heavier and spicier for me.
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I think I am going to end up being one of those old ladies who has worn the exact same perfume her whole entire life ![[Biased]](wink.gif) .
My all-time favourite, which I have worn for lo these last fifteen years, is Jean-Paul Gaultier Classique. Now and again I have other perfumes, usually when people give them to me – most of Chanel’s offerings seem to work for me and a while back someone gave me an enormous bottle of Flower by Kenzo. But in the end I always come back to the same one. I just can’t find anything else I like anywhere near so much.
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Niminypiminy
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I love perfume. I have a few full bottles (and always have several more I'm thinking about buying, though rarely do), but mainly I wear samples. Discovering that you can buy samples has been a great discovery -- there's so much out there to explore. You can also buy decants, part-bottles, so the outlay isn't so painful.
I'm wearing Apres l'Ondee by Guerlain today (one of my full bottles) -- iris, violet and heliotrope, starting cool and green and ending up warmer and softer -- like a garden gradually warming up in the sunshine after rain at night.
I particularly love complex florals - I love Chamade and Une Rose Chypree by Tauer. I also really like Tauer's L'Air du Desert Marocain, which to me is bracingly herby and aromatic - like the smell of that kind of hill country the French call maquis.
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Boogie
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What a good idea Niminypiminy!
I have just requested a free sample. No doubt comes with a ton of spam, but never mind!
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Niminypiminy
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There are specialist perfume shops which sell samples -- Les Senteurs in London and Nose in Paris for example. I've had samples of perfumes I couldn't possibly afford from them for around £3-4 each.
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JoannaP
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I am now allergic to perfume, an apparently lasting side-effect of being changed to a cheaper version of a drug. I tried a sample in a shop at Christmas, to see if it had worn off several months after coming off the drug, and it took at least two weeks for the rash to go away. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
When I wore scent, I liked complex florals and wore Anais Anais when I was younger. My mother gave me a bottle of a Chanel scent (I cannot remember the number now) and that was lovely. It is what I would wear if I could.
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Firenze
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Or you can go into posh shops and blag shamelessly. Hermes in Rue Saint-Honore are particularly generous.
My favourite house at the moment is Diptyque. And my favouritist scent their 34 boulevard Saint Germain. It's described as a chypre perfume ie citrus/floral/woody. Which figures - once, on a warm day, I was on, I think, the steam train that runs from Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge and we were passing above woods. The scent that came up - of leaves, flowers, wood, water, moss, summer - has been what I have been looking for in a bottle ever since.
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Niminypiminy
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Yes, Diptyque. I'm working my way through a sample of Philosykos at the moment. I like the way it starts out cool and green and ends up reminding me of sun-tan lotion (Hawaiian tropic??). Very Greek island.
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I love The Vert (Green Tea) by L'Occitane. Sadly, it's been discontinued but I still have two bottles of it. I bought the second one quickly when I found out they weren't producing it any more!
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Jemima the 9th
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Niminipiminy - those sound like just the sort of scents I like.
I love perfume, but only bought my first "proper" bottle a few months ago. Partly because I was brought up to believe such expense was frivolous & decadent - which, let's face it, is kind of the point!, but also because I so rarely have the time to do proper perfume shopping. And I spent so much time covered in baby sick.
I loved Chanel no19 as a younger woman (ho ho). My mum always used to buy it for me. The bottle I got myself is Chanel Chance Eau Tendre, which is "pinker" than I usually like, but still lovely.
If I'm feeling too bad about big perfume spending, I frequent Lush. I love Lush anyway, but some of their perfumes are lovely. I had Tuca Tuca for ages, which was light and very violet-y. I don't think they make it any more. Also, their perfumes always smell like scent, and not like chemical attempts at scent, which so many seem to on my skin.
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Firenze
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Jemima, if you don't have a lot to spend and like Chanel, you should pop into Lidl and score a bottle of Suddenly Madam Glamour. In a blind sniffing last year it came out as indistinguishable from Madamoiselle Coco.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I love florals, Jo Malone's Red Roses is my current favourite, the most heavily rose laden perfume I have found. I also like Chanel's Mademoiselle Coco and Viktor and Rolf's Flowerbomb. I have a whole host of Floris florals, China Rose being a favourite.
Ariel, I have old fashioned lavender water and rose water as toners, I even an orange blossom one. A perfect lavender scent would be heavenly.
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Pigwidgeon
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I'm also allergic to perfume, but it's respiratory, not dermatologic. Sitting near someone wearing perfume in church, at a theater, etc., can make me stuffy and sneezy for the rest of the day. I hate stores that try to attack you with atomizers when you walk through.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
I love florals, Jo Malone's Red Roses is my current favourite, the most heavily rose laden perfume I have found. I also like Chanel's Mademoiselle Coco and Viktor and Rolf's Flowerbomb. I have a whole host of Floris florals, China Rose being a favourite.
Ariel, I have old fashioned lavender water and rose water as toners, I even an orange blossom one. A perfect lavender scent would be heavenly.
Sounds lovely - a good rose perfume is hard to find, too. I used to like Yardley's Orange Blossom but wore it so often that I went off it after a while. Still like their April Violets though. I'll have a look for the Red Roses you've mentioned above.
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Firenze
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I have Diptyque (of course) Eau Rose. It's quite light and subtle and not overwhelmingly rosy. More your hedgerow wild rose than your standard tea.
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Drifting Star
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I have been mourning Chopard's Cašmir since they reformulated it (well over 10 years ago). It is (was) wonderfully long-lasting vanilla, sandalwood, jasmine and blackcurrant, but the reformulation doesn't really smell of anything very much - certainly nothing pleasant (to me). I have a feeling that even that has been discontinued now.
I've been wearing Dior's Poison, which is quite nice (this time I think they improved it by reformulating), but I don't like it enough to replace the bottle.
I also like Coty's L'Aimant for everyday although I don't find that it lasts very well. I have a bottle of Chanel No 5 for grand events, although it is quite strange wearing it as my mother has always worn it when going out.
I have a truly massive collection of miniatures and samples and I often try out something new, but I am very, very picky.
I'm currently on the search for a new signature scent, and have also started making my own perfumes, lotions and soaps, so I may end up with something truly unique!
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Welease Woderwick
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My all time favourite is probably Dior's Eau Sauvage, Aramis on other men makes me weak at the knees but I'm not so keen on wearing it myself these days. I like Fahrenheit but have moved my allegiance to Davidoff's Cool Water, which is similar but gentler. I used to quite like Zizanie de Fragonard but my dad reacted very badly to it, sneezing, streaming eyes, the works so I've never gone back to it. For occasional evening wear I have CK's Obsession, which I prefer to Eternity. I also have a bottle of Sandalwood "Hanky Spray" which I get in Mysore and which is dirt cheap but really rather lovely for everyday wear.
I have no idea why friends of mine in Chester is the late 70s used to refer to me as The Cologne Queen.
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Doublethink.
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I learnt a surprising amount about perfume from Patrick Suskind's novel, irrc, they call the different scents that come through at different times in a complex perfume chords - which appealed to me. I imagine the more accurately you can manage to describe a perfume, the more able you are to work out what you want in a new one.
(NB If you are allergic to perfume, I guess it might be worth finding out exactly what you are allergic to - a specific kind of base etc. so you can avoid it in what you purchase.)
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Originally posted by Boogie:
... No doubt comes with a ton of spam ...
Are you supposed to rub it on your wrists? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Mine, in rough chronological order:
Early 70s: Occur by Avon
Mid 70s: Wild Musk by Coty
Late 70s: Jontue by Revlon
Early 80s: Cinnabar by Estee Lauder
Late 80s (including my wedding-day): Beautiful by Estee Lauder
Early 90s (briefly): Giorgio Beverly Hills (had to abandon it because my then-boss didn't like it).
Late 90s: Jean-Paul Gaultier Woman (the one in the torso-shaped bottle)
Now I'm back to Wild Musk, having discovered that Wal-Mart still sells it (very cheaply), and it does have serious Nostalgia Value. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
I also have a cheapie called Shades of Blue, which I believe is meant to be like something posh, but I can't remember what.
I can't wear scent at w*rk, because there are too many people with Scent Issues™, and if I'm honest, I have one or two of my own - there are certain scents which make my eyes water and/or give me a headache. Unfortunately if they're on a stranger I don't know what they are, so that I could avoid them.
Having said that, I love nice pongs, and this is just making me think that I must investigate the pong emporium in the duty-free when I go home in September.
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L'organist
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Chanel pour Gentilhomme and Roger&Gallet Eau de Cologne, Floris Limes for male scent; Chanel No 5 or No 19, Guerlain Mitsouko and Floris Boulet de la Reine for women.
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I hate perfume. But I like the smell of Karma soap from Lush.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
(NB If you are allergic to perfume, I guess it might be worth finding out exactly what you are allergic to - a specific kind of base etc. so you can avoid it in what you purchase.)
It's a lot easier to avoid buying any of it. My problem is that I can't avoid it on other people.
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Doublethink.
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I was more thinking of the dermal issue person.
Though it would probably help if you knew, because, conceivably - you could have desensatisation treatment.
(ETA some possibilities.)
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Though it would probably help if you knew, because, conceivably - you could have desensatisation treatment.
Been there, done that -- twice (for two different regions of the U.S.). It did nothing for me, except lower my bank balance.
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Like third-hand tobacco smoke (the lingering fumes on clothing), perfumes often make me sneeze. It comes from decades in meetings with people all day everyday. Desensitization doesn't work when it was acquired through sensitization unfortunately. In 1980 I would have enjoyed perfumes. Also more drinking. Maybe too smoking a pipe.
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My faves are the original Jean Paul Gaultier, Anais Anais and Stella.
My sister is highly sensitive to any perfume, and although I don't see her that often it's made me aware that others may not be able to tolerate my perfume. So I wear it less and less.
I've had several experiences of feeling unwell and overwhelmed by a strong perfume, once at a church I was trying out.
Really nasty experience.
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I have no idea why friends of mine in Chester is the late 70s used to refer to me as The Cologne Queen.
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Just about every perfume I've ever tried smells horrible on me after a couple of hours so for years I've worn the only one that doesn't - Rive Gauche . It's become my signature perfume - both my kids say they're reminded of me when they smell it. I love the smell of a number of the perfumes other people have named, but only when they're on other people.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Tree Bee:
I've had several experiences of feeling unwell and overwhelmed by a strong perfume, once at a church I was trying out.
Yes, I once gave a prospective date a polite refusal when he turned up absolutely drenched in some horrible sugary-smelling aftershave which you could smell from a couple of yards away. I did feel guilty but when I got home my clothes reeked of it, and that was just from being in the general vicinity for a couple of hours.
Come to think of it, I did the same a few years earlier with someone who'd apparently had a bath in The Great Smell of Brut (people from a certain era will remember that one, probably not with much pleasure).
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Good old fashioned Shalimar for me. I can tolerate Chanel #5 but #19 will send me into an asthma attack, which I discovered during the bad old days when the "scent girls" would spray you upon entering the store. I am also partial to Eau de Givenchy in the summer. And if anyone has a few benjamins ($100 bills) laying around I like Joy in the parfum version (hint, hint.)
Has anyone heard of/smelled one called Dahlia Noir by Givenchy IIRC?
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I was once told that if a perfume suits you, you can't smell it on yourself.
I loathe heavy scents - there was a lady in one office I worked in who smoked and wore some very heavy, sweet, perfume - I used to have to try to avoid breathing anywhere in her vicinity!
I like light, green fragrances - for the last couple of years I have stuck to Cool Water Woman, with occasional forays into their summer fragrance which is either terribly sweet, and therefore not acceptable, or very similar to the original and roughly half the price as you get a large bottle for the same price as a smaller bottle of the original. This year's is similar to the original, and I've already bought a bottle for when my bottle of Cool Water runs out.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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I match my scent to the colour of my clothes, so Yves St. Laurent 'Paris' if I'm wearing pink, Nina Ricci 'L'Air du Temps' for yellow, or 'Chloe' if I'm wearing peach. Oh, and 'Arpege' for black! I rationalise this by thinking that the manufacturers choose the colour of the packaging to convey something, which I am picking up on.
Estee Lauder is probably my favourite - 'Pleasures Oriental', 'Youth Dew Amber Nude' - often ones quickly discontinued *sigh*. Or 'Cinnabar' for evening, though it's too heavy for day wear.
Mr. S's late mother once got into a lift with a colleague and said 'Oh, they're cleaning the drains again'. Her colleague replied ' no, that's my new perfume'. She was wearing Dior 'Poison'!
Mrs. S, who *loves* perfume ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by The Intrepid Mrs S:
Mr. S's late mother once got into a lift with a colleague and said 'Oh, they're cleaning the drains again'. Her colleague replied ' no, that's my new perfume'. She was wearing Dior 'Poison'!
That was pretty much my reaction when I first came across Poison - I was sprayed with it in a department store and told the assistant that I thought it truly did smell like poison.
The 20 years and a reformulation later I was happily wearing it!
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Doublethink.
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How does one manage the interaction with shower gels and deodorants ? This I have never really understood.
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Twilight
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Starting about age 12:
English Rose -- Yardley
Windsong (whispers her name)
Ambush --1965 My entire college dorm reeked of this one. The boys all smelled like English Leather.
Emerald
Chantilly
Joy -- An expensive gift I could never have afforded, wasted on me because my cool dry skin doesn't radiate perfume very well.
Youth Dew -- Este Lauder
Red Door
Right now I wear something purple that was a gift. I don't remember the name but the bottle co-ordinates perfectly with my bathroom décor.
Most of the time I smell like Lysol lemon cleaner or straight bleach.
ETA: Doublethink those shower jells peel the skin right off of me. Burn!
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Firenze
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I like florals with a lot of green in eg Diptyque L'ombre dans la eau which is like a handful of crushed flowering currant. And I've just bought Penhaligon's Peoneve which does the same thing for peonies.
But I haven't found a citrusy scent that I like as much as I thought I would. Which is odd, as I love citrus as a flavour and put lemon or lime juice in everything and anything.
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Doublethink.
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Maybe something bergamotty ?
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Vulpior
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
How does one manage the interaction with shower gels and deodorants ? This I have never really understood.
I use fragrance-free deodorant for precisely this reason. And I don't go for strongly-fragranced soap or shower gel.
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Welease Woderwick
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YSL things smell wonderful on other people but on mt they always smell like cat-pee - something to do with my skin, I suppose.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I'll look out for that when a vacancy arises. At the mo', besides the 3 Diptyques, the Montale and the Penhaligon, I have Miller Harris Tuberose, Balenciaga Florabotanica, an Irish artisanal one (a gentle herbal-floral), the Lidl Chanel ripoff mentioned above, and Romea D'Ameor Great Inca Priestesses. This last is an untypical one for me being quite sweet, intense and vanilla-ish.
Plus a couple of dozen samples which I keep meaning to evaluate systematically.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Just about every perfume I've ever tried smells horrible on me after a couple of hours so for years I've worn the only one that doesn't - Rive Gauche . It's become my signature perfume - both my kids say they're reminded of me when they smell it. I love the smell of a number of the perfumes other people have named, but only when they're on other people.
Ahhh memories - I wore that one in my early twenties.
I still remember the blue, black and silver bottles
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Ariel:
... just from being in the general vicinity for a couple of hours ...
When I worked in the art college in Belfast, we had a life-model who we only saw in the office once a week when she came in to sign for her salary-slip, but she wore a very lingering, sickly-sweet scent called, IIRC, Vanilla Fields, which would stay with us long after she'd gone.
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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Some article I read about scent said that the ingredients that make perfumes long lasting are very expensive, so the simple scent in things like body lotions, deodorants and soaps don't last much longer than it takes to get dressed.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Nenya:
Just about every perfume I've ever tried smells horrible on me after a couple of hours so for years I've worn the only one that doesn't - Rive Gauche . It's become my signature perfume - both my kids say they're reminded of me when they smell it. I love the smell of a number of the perfumes other people have named, but only when they're on other people.
Yes, I love Rive Gauche too, and would wear it with blue ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Unfortunately I now have only a small bottle of the perfume (about 30 years old!) which I am now working my way through - I much prefer a spray. At the moment I can't really justify buying more eau de toilette - though maybe for my birthday? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Mrs. S - it's a sad woman who buys her own perfume
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Several people have mentioned Poison. Don't take it personally, but that's one scent that makes me gag and want to put as much distance between me and the wearer as I can possibly manage. I could never understand why anyone found it alluring.
Shalimar, on the other hand . . . I am sure the streets of heaven are perfumed with it.
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