Perfume / Cologne

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.

Other smells that are lol 90s:

Tribe
Exclamation
Charlie

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...

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

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

Angel is the absolute worst

Ad Rock smelled like Axe!!

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

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

So I can get a refund on this juicer?

I like the Jo Malone jasmine and mint but I end up sniffing my own wrists.

Dibs on the juicer, unless neb wants it.

To juice some red apples.

gross

youre gross

You two are making me think I should hang on to the juicer

Well, Marc Jacobs Daisy smells like shit and I was stuck with it all day.

Also: when I got paid the other day I went to the perfume counter and bought a GIANT cK one. I will be lol 90s til I die, I guess.

I've been using a sample of Stella by Stella McCartney lately. Hope to get a gift card for xmas to buy it with.

atm it's l'occitane's green tea for me.

i love perfume so much. it doesn't have to be stinky and artificial.

my two every day scents are l'artisan premier figuier extreme (notes of fig, fig leaf, milk of almond, sandalwood, coconut) and les nereides musc de java (notes of light musk, berries, blackcurrant, violet leaves, sage, fresh cut hay)

i just found out via my mother who is awful at keeping secrets that i am getting a full bottle of serge luten chergui for x-mas

i love l'artisan stuff. no more perfume for me until i use up most of my gigantic bottle of bulgari red tea, but i really want mure et musc extreme or premier figuier.

roxy is it like one of those small 375 ml Jim Beam sizes? I have seen those & they are rad.

I wear Delices de Cartier because it smells vaguely like cherries to me.

Yep, Abbott! I got the same size cK one lotion, too. :X

http://www.8989.co.jp/santablog/1204/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pradairis.jpg

^Is growing on me, but I feel like it doesn't suit me for a reason that is difficult to put into words.

What do y'all think about Kenneth Cole Black?

i cannot get behind any perfume. it all smells really bad on me.

http://www.gizmodiva.com/entry_images/1207/07/Masaki_Matsushima_perfume.jpg

Pretty sure I love this too, but I do not own it yet.

Recommend me something manly.

That is a perfume.

I dated a guy who wore Kenneth Cole Black and I loved to smell him.

Haha, What do y'all think about Kenneth Cole Black?

― roxymuzak, Sunday, February 1, 2009 11:22 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I dated a guy who wore Kenneth Cole Black and I loved to smell him.

Yes, that is what I need! Mrs. T loves Blenheim from Penhaligan's which is really for men of a certain age I think, and although I am OLD it's just a bit too Prince of Charles for me. Anyone read basenotes.net. Amazing the different 'notes' people get from the same perfume. Such as aforementioned Kenneth Cole Black.

I am a fan of this also.
http://www.basenotes.net/photos/st/26123657.jpg

All those Penhaglions smells are great and interesting, but yeah, most seem a little mature.

Some of those people are OTM re: Black, though. It really does smell like tobacco, smoke and mint, only nicer.

I read somewhere that the main note in Chanel's Chance (what I wear almost every day) is hyacinth, and I never realized that before, but it completely explains why I love Chance so much. When I was a little kid, I went behind our house and found a patch of hyacinths growing, sniffed them and proclaimed them "the coolest thing I have ever smelled." I've always been crazy about both scents, but never really connected the two.

http://www.avclub.com/assets/images/media/movie/3573/Perfume_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg

he first study to indicate that chemical signals play a role in attraction was conducted by Claud Wedekind over a decade ago. Forty-four men wore the same T-shirt for three days. They refrained from deodorants and scented soaps so they wouldn’t interfere with their natural smell. Women then sniffed the shirts and indicated which ones smelled the best to them. By comparing the DNA of the women and men, the researchers found that women didn’t just choose their favorite scent randomly. They preferred the scent of man whose major histocompatibility complex (MHC) -- a series of genes involved in our immune system -- was most different from their own.

Researchers knew to look at the MHC because of its importance in animal’s sexual preferences. In mice, it has long been known that MHC not only helps ward off infection, but it also plays a role in scent and mate selection.

From an evolutionary perspective, choosing a mate with a different immune system makes survival sense. Kids of parents with different immune genes are more likely to be disease-resistant and are therefore more likely to survive. The women in this study also reported liking the scents that reminded them of their current or previous boyfriends, showing that MHC attraction is consistent. And because MHC profiles differ greatly from one person to the next, there is no universally “good” smell. One woman’s Romeo was another woman’s raunchy.

By all means kill the bacterial odors. But our native scent is part of who and what we are.

I've never wanted to have sex with a flower.

What about a person who smells like one.

do not care for most perfumes/colognes -- really strong ones make me ill. i'm more of a "small dab of essential oil" chick.

i buy unscented products (beauty/hygiene products, cleaning products) whenever possible, but like i said, if it's a small bit of essential oil rather than a chemical "fragrance," that's fine.

i think i'm going back to Gaultier 2 for nighttime, and clinique Happy for day.

I wear essential oils for the most part--usually something with vanilla in it (sandalwood vanilla, lavender vanilla, etc.) For some reason, if I don't have a touch of vanilla in my scent, it fades too quickly.

I'd like start wearing an essential oil or two, but I can never pick.

Chanel's Coco and No. 19 are my favorites. I guess I like to smell like whore.

In hot weather, I've done Clarins' Elysium (sadly discontinued), Alfred Sung's Pure (ditto, I think), and Carolina Herrera's 212. Think I'd like to get my hands on some Elysium again. Can't do the Chanels when it is hot out.

You know, re weather, I was just thinking; I don't really think about perfume in the winter, more about soaps and lotions. Perfume is def a spring/warm weather pursuit for me, and I think I'll come back and take some ideas from this thread in the spring. :)

I totally think about perfume in the winter. What else does an atheist want with frankincense oil?

Also from the department of HOORAY, they brought back Donna Karan Chaos.

i think about it in the winter too. it's hard to justify smelling like wood any other time, and spring is for dirt and flowers and green. i honestly usually spare summer because i am terrified of bees.

My winter routine is: Prada lotion or cocoa butter, frankincense oil or Chaos or Comme des Garcons Avignon. Bees don't usually trouble me in the summer because I don't wear big floral fragrances. I will also go for anything with cedar oil in it when wearing wool because it's the only thing moths hate that smells good.

I don't wear colognes or perfume to work generally. I think I am too PC on this level, I don't want to offend anyone with allergies or oversensitive olfactory senses. What I wear off the clock: In the pricey category: Chanel 19 (a green scent) & 5 warmer sweet; Boucheron (warm sweet with some spice). Drugstore cheap: Love's babysoft mist (kinda baby powder with a little floral). Have worn it since I was a teenager <a VERY long time ago>!

I have never been bothered by bees attracted to perfume, but maybe it's because I am not in the bees environment too often.

I really like the ideas of cedar oil - it smells nice and earthy with the added benefit of no moths! Great idea!

Oh wait I do have a bottle of Chanel No. 5 but tbh it was a press freebie, scent of it gets on everything and not in a good way.

I'm still a Guerlain fan got L'heure bleue, Chamade, Mitsouko, Nahema, Apres le ondee, chant des aromes, Jicky, Shalimar, mouchoir de monsieur, petit guerlain, vol de nuit plus a few aqua allegoria lighter scents and some of the modern ones that i've got as presents. Have branched out a bit with Feminite du bois by Serge Lutens, Bandit and Fracas by Robert Piguet, Ivorie and Jolie Madam by Balmain, Femme, tocade and madame rochas by Rochas and a couple of Sonia Rykiel scents. Fancy trying Cuir de Russie by Chanel but I think it's only available in Chanel boutiques for ££££££££££.

I have waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much perfume.