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isn't it? paradoxically, it's the odor of grandmother. when someone says PEEYOO chances are they smelled YOUTH DEW.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

My grandmother wears Red Door which is 800x better than Youth Dew!!! Who greenlighted that nonsense? Yuck.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Know what is the smell of grandfather? Aramis.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Old Spice!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

My mum wore youth dew when i was a kid and i hated it. She wore blue grass too which is just as bad.

I might got for mitsouko tonight and work on the object of my affection's limbic system.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

i love some perfumes, but only spicy, light styles ones. however today i'm wearing an old wooden bead necklace my grandma gave to me as a bracelet and it is infused with a perfume of hers that i do not like at all. i sprayed it liberally with my own perfume this morning (this didn't successfully mask the granny smell) and i've felt mildly guilty about not liking her perfume all day.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Lauren, i love Palisander. the whole red series is brilliant. i think Harissa is probably the one for me.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

SEX PANTHER

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm wearing rive gauche this morning, perhaps i should just re-apply it tonight.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I wear Paul Sebastian, thats it.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

mmm... harissa. cdg are incapable of making bad perfume. the only one i'm not too keen on is burnt sugar, but even that's better than most other scents.

does estee lauder still make cinnabar? that was what my mother wore throughout my childhood.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

What do you do when you're given a perfume you don't particularly like? My boss gave me a bottle of Chloe for my birthday and I'm not at all keen. I've taken to wearing it for work only, because work doesn't really count.

The absolute worst perfume I own is Oceanus from the body shop. It smells like Ferring on a cold day, yet I can't bring myself to bin it! It'll be the work only perfume after the Chloe's gone.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Odeur51 was a good idea but bad in reality (it smelt like baby milk on me!?) Odeur72 was much better, though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm nearly out of my signature scent (Guerlain's Mitsouko). I am rationing myself until Christmas.

I wanted to buy my grandmother Bojour's Evening In Paris, which she used to love when she was my age (she tells me). It's been reissued in America, but the cheapest place I can find it won't let me buy it without giving a state. I don't have a state, or a Canadian province, because I live in the UK. It gave me a UK option in the pull down menu, but I still had to give a state. ARRRRGGGHHH>

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

i mean 53 and 71 :s

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

As far as i know you can still get Cinnabar, i've got a bottle at home.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

i might be able to help you, anna.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

You sound like a spy film L. But thanks.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

yes:
versace noir
annick goutal le muguet
bulgari omnia crystalline

hell no:
annick goutal ce soir ou jamais
jo malone wild fig and cassis (and the new pomegranate one, sadly)
new edition youth dew (still reeks)

fragrance counters are very good for holiday shopping procrastination.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

I doubt I'd like Vetiver any more now than I like Chanel's Coco which I wore when I was 16 and thought I was chic. Now I think it smells like whore.

so true. i sprayed myself with a bit of coco, which i wore in high school, to see if i still liked it. it immediately put me in mind of the french prostitutes in the kids in the hall hotel la rut skit ("i am theenking of tony").

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I think my next perfume will be Chanel No. 5. After 40. How long can you keep perfume anyway? This bottle of Paris I had got so stale I had to throw it out. Anais Anais reminds me of high school and Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink.

― youn, Sunday, 18 December 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

My sister asked for Jill Sander no. 4 EDP for Xams. I ordered it for her on-line so I haven't smelled it yet. Any one familiar w/...?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 19 December 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

i recently started wearing parfum for the first time ever, starting on thanksgiving. for years, i've always disliked any/all perfumes and other "stanks". people have ruined it for me by wearing insane amounts, etc etc. anyway, when my stepmom was over for thxgiving, she smelled so lovely, i was actually following her around and 'secretly' sniffing her. well, she caught on and introduced me to dior's addict. i was really skeptical, but she let me try some and it just worked. i mean, it seem to work well with my chemistry. and i have to admit, it made/makes me feel so womanly or feminine or something. so, yeah, christian dior's addict. lovely.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

i've been wearing noa fleur for about a year.. it's floral, but not too heavy. i like rose, but i hate the grandmother tea rose thing, and this is nice because it gives you a hint of rose but it's mixed with other niceness and is not overpowering.
today, i bought a little bottl of the banana republic perfume on a whim - it is very fresh and clean smelling :)

― tres letraj (tehresa), Monday, 19 December 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

I bought Britney Spears' perfume for my friend's xmas pressie as she likes it for some strange reason. Talk about a red face when i had to ask for it.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 19 December 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Can any Mitsouko wearers tell me where I can find a bottle for less than forty quid?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.strawberrynet.com/ is cheap and ships anywhere in the world, however if you need it for christmas it is probably too late.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

You should be able to get Mitsouko for about £25 in the perfume shop, i think there's one in the Buchanan Galleries.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

The thing about Mitsouko though is that the difference in quality between the eau de toilette and the eau de parfam is massive, far more so than with other scents. You can get small bottles of the eau de toilette in Superdrug for about a tenner, but I think it lacks the clingy dark edge that makes the eau de parfam so great. (I know this is verging on the obsessive, but I've been wearing Mitsouko for years and it is an additcion.)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking of getting that new gualtier scent for the g/f - is it any good?

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

gualtier=gaultier

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I think I'll go and buy a new perfume at lunch now that you've all held forth -- that sounds like something that would sweeten the day.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Can somebody confirm whether Fendi Donna is a man or womans scent??

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Santa hates me :-(

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I don't wear perfume because I am too poor to spend money on smells. But I like people who do.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I need to get more l'heure bleue.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

This one looks and smells like a mans, I won it as a prize. It may just be a masculine ladies scent. The bottle gives no clues.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey does anyone want to hear my theory about the difference between perfume and cologne?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I do

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Go on then. Excuse me while I drink my Fendi.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you can drink cologne.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

It's okay with lemonade....

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

My signature smell is Chanel Chance. I like Allure Sensuelle and Coco too, though No. 5 smells like a grandma to me. So over DKNY Be Delicious at this point. I like Vera Wang Princess. I guess I tend to like "young! fresh!" smells, for better or worse. Embarrassingly, I even like the "Music" smell out of Gwen Stefani's LAMB line. When I feel like a grown-up (rare) I wear Givenchy Amarige.
My BF likes Thierry Mugler's "Angel" which at first I refused to wear, but it's grown on me. Kinda smells like cake or something on me for some reason.
I praise and sometimes wear cK one why because it lol 90s.
The worst thing I've ever smelled: tie between Paris Hilton's Heiress and P. Diddy's Unforgivable. Totally apt name on that last one.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

Other smells that are lol 90s:

Tribe
Exclamation
Charlie

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

I remember a New Girl coming to my middle school and she had this awful, rubber factory-esque smell to her. It was unexlplicable, until one day I saw her with a bottle of Tribe. Wonder if Jaymc remembers her...

― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

Ad-Roc doesn't smell like any of those things.

― nabisco, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

exclamation... haw! i guess debbie gibson's electric youth fragrance was more late 80s, but i think of that in the same way.

― lauren, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

Angel is the absolute worst

― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

Ad Rock smelled like Axe!!

xpost neb, we are just not meant to be, i guess

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, i don't think maintaining a 10-foot distance would work

― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

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