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Ned will you loosen my black mandals?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Darling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the perfume I'm wearing, isn't it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mandalwood"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

*sneezes*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

*quarantines Spencer Chow*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

racist!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Did it ever occur to you that man cologne is actually the same proportion parfum-to-other as the French old-woman cologne you speak of, Tracer Hand? DID YOU?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

don't naked ladies dance there?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

i have to admit i like smelling nice perfume but it's not really a sexual thing, it doesn't attract me to someone or even necessarily make me notice them, it's just a kind of wafting nice thing that cheers me up a little so long as it's not too strong.

the downside of perfume obv is that it gets stale, and the other day i was on a crowded metro with seemingly ten different types of stale perfume in the air and i wanted to vomit.

thank you.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

perfume exacerbates my hayfever bigtime

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i always wear rapture and have for years. i love it. if it gets discontinued i will bomb the victoria's secret headquarters.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Escada Sentiment for Men, these days -- "green lime, nutmeg, pink peppercorn, sandalwood, and cedar" -- which surprised me because it isn't the sort of thing I thought I would wear, but it works on me. Kenneth Cole Black, which I actually bought first because it is the kind of thing I thought I would wear, is terrible after I've worn it for half an hour or so, and gives my girlfriend migraines.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Zirh cologne on occasion.

I've heard good things about Ralph Lauren Purple Label, but I can't find anywhere that sells it around here.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

so i just went to a friend's show, and i was behind the stage drinking beer with some other friends (all ages/no drinking venue). when the first band's set ended, they walked back and the guitar player said, "oh emily, i thought i smelled you"! and hugged me. does this mean i wear too much perfume?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I wore Benneton's Colors from adolescence through college, at which point I decided it was time to stop smelling like the 80s. I still like it though, and I think I still have a bottle. Now I wear Isabella Rossellini's MANIFESTO, which is the best perfume name ever. Here's the description. I never see it offered anywhere now but it takes me a decade to get through a bottle so no matter.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i like l'eau d'issey.

but i hardly wear any, since i'm phobic about wearing too much.

i've been thinking of getting something new. i like burberry brit, but hate the marketing campaign and the bottle. any ideas?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate most perfumes, and I'm not completely happy with MANIFESTO because the floral notes linger longer than the woody/green notes, and so the scent becomes a little too old-lady over time. If anyone has recommendations for a non-sweet woody/green/oriental, pls share.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The non-sweet part is the hard part, I think, but Bvlgari maybe?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

whoa, i wear the same thing that tep does

i used to wear cool water or ck crave

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Aqua de Parma.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an Eau de Cologne strength scent called Sieste made by Fragonard in Grasse. My gf says it smells exactly like some brand name eau de cologne but I can't think of which one. I have a great fondness for Bel Ami by Hermès.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

The office secretary just dropped a perfume bomb in our office and it's suffocating. I'm having shallow breath and narrowness of vision. It might have well have been sarin nerve gas.

― Drake Beardo (cprek), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Turns out is extremely perfumey lotion. It's awful. The bottle needs a warning label against usage indoors.

― Drake Beardo (cprek), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Despite the overly purple presentation, I'm so far very happy with everything I've seen from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (which has a cult-ish following and which, because it lags so much on filling orders, is best sampled by searching Ebay).

Within minutes of my putting Haunted on my hand to test it, Gretchen (a cat, fwiw, not a maid from Benson) jumped up on the couch next to me, sniffed my hand, and laid her head down on it and went to sleep. Your mileage will vary.

(I also like Demeter, if for no other reason than that I can do stupid writerly things like wearing Bourbon and Paperback and smelling like someone spilled bourbon in a used bookstore.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone wear quorum?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://didier.huard.free.fr/Puig-quorum.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I wear L'air Du Temps, but not today.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

QUORUM???? for people who find robert's rules of order sexy????

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

2005 "what do you smell like" update: I have a crazy amount of options, partly because of a Penhaligons sample case that never seems to deplete, and partly because of having dribs and drabs left of things that aren't entirely empty yet. Penhaligons Endymion, Demeter Bourbon (Thunderstorm smells like a dead basement), Escada Casual Friday, Paloma Picasso Minotaure, and Lolita Lempicka for Men, my girlfriend's nostalgic favorite. And now I've got a dozen BPAL samples, some for me and some for her.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyday I wear a sandalwood/rose/spice combo from Bath & Body Works: it's not sweet, which I destest in perfume. I really like the new Prada scent, and may ask for it as a gift at some point.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I am wearin=g Escada Rockin Rio which smells so much like passionfruit that I want to lick myself.

I will not, however.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone gave me some Eau d'Orange Verte by Hermès when I was in Paris in November and I've been wearing it since.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

From now on, I'm only going to buy colognes and perfumes based on the ads and packaging.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody gave me Chanel Egoiste Platinum which smells fancy.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I am wearin=g Escada Rockin Rio which smells so much like passionfruit that I want to lick myself.

Escada came out with a bunch of new stuff over the past couple years, either this is one of em or there isn't a "for Men" version. (Which is maybe good. Do I want to smell like passionfruit? Maybe if I mixed it with the Bourbon.)

Actually, after seeing just how much the Demeter Bourbon does in fact smell like bourbon, I splashed some single-malt Scotch on myself to see what it would smell like. It smelled like I had wasted some really good Scotch.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few gin/juniper-based colognes. I like that scent.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

If I only bought perfume based on packaging, it would be Kenzo Flower.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

spencer, wear quorum.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll check it out. What has their advertising signified?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's new this year, I think, Tep. I keep making people smell me.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure what that means, spencer, but it smells rotten and has connotations of love-making ("quorum"!!!)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting. Something you might have seen in the pages of Oui in 1980?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

so they call it 'quorum' because they can't call it 'quim'?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

quo-rum n.
1. The minimal number of officers and members of a committee or organization, usually a majority, who must be present for valid ~~sex~~ transaction of business.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that all sex is to people? *shakes head*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's new this year, I think, Tep. I keep making people smell me.

I think you have a better shot at getting away with this than I do.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

a brief history of my many smells (my first dead milkmen ref for the day!):

polo (in high school. nauseating!)
gap grass (miss it!)
claibourne for men (discontinued but have stash if i'm ever in the mood--rarely put it on)
dolce&gabbana pour homme (the one in the zebra stripe thingy. works with my chemistry very well. for now at least.)

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

to people who wear quorum!

crosspost

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Jo Malone -- Nutmeg and Ginger.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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