Perfume / Cologne

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I really loved one by VS - Encounter, I think it was, but they discontinued it, the fuckers - now I wear Dior Addict which smells YUMMY unless you overspray...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

From an impoverished standpoint, this stuff is just *too* effing expensive. Except for the nasty stuff that smells like pig wee.

(I'm an expert on pig wee, of course. Don't ask. You have to make a living somehow...)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wear Lolita Lemnicka (uh, is that what it's called?) and it smells strangely like cotton candy.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

in france it's ALL called "parfum" - "cologne" is watered-down crap that only grandmothers wear

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not sure I really have a preference for women's perfumes. Do I really like Cristalle or Bulgari, or do they just remind me of certain people? I've certainly never minded a woman's perfume. Also, I don't think I've ever been physically attracted to someone, only to be turned off by how they smell (perfume or BO).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not even someone who smelled of pig wee?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surely it's just a denotation of strength?

parfum > eau de parfum > eau de cologne

Perhaps I am a grande-mere and Goutal is frumpy anyway but some of the scents are only easily gettable as eau de parfum and eau de cologne. I've tried!

Oh god I love BVLGARI. It's the Korean in me. And no, not because it looks like BVLGOGI,

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmm pig wee

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmmm eau de BVLOGNA

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

All Korean barbeque joints throw in a free 2-day supply of Eau de Bvgolgi with dinner.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

in france it's ALL called "parfum" - "cologne" is watered-down crap that only grandmothers wear

This is now the FOURTH TIME I've seen/overheard you say this, Tracer Hand. WE ALL KNOW YR GF IS FRENCH STOP BEING PONCEY ABOUT IT. Before I dump buckets of cologne all over your unshowered ass.

I like those VS Secrets line of colognes except 88 is quite strong, I mean it's like meant to kill a man if you put on too much I think

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, it's called LOLITA LEMPICKA and Sephora describes it as having hints of Ivy Leaves, Aniseed, Amarena Heart, Violets, Iris Roots, Vetiver, Tonka Bean, Vanilla, and Musk. (All together, those smell like cotton candy)

― Mandeee, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer, can't you see that that French Mata Hari of yours is using you as a pawn in her top-secret campaign of reverse espionage? The battle front is right here, in the Perfumanias of the free world.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, not like you guys don't already think of me as hippie enough, but honestly in lieu of cologne I use those scent oils...the stuff I use now is a blend of sandalwood and frankencense (sp?). It makes me smell like MANIMALIUS ULTIMUS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

No it's us who are poncey, I mean men who spray perfume on themselves but need to use this special "man-word". For Christ's sake.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer, teach me in the ways of your manword.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get a room!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Only if you ask nicely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned will you loosen my black mandals?

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

Darling.

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

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

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

"Mandalwood"

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

*sneezes*

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

*quarantines Spencer Chow*

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

racist!

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

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-one years ago) link

don't naked ladies dance there?

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

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 years ago) link

perfume exacerbates my hayfever bigtime

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Aqua de Parma.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone wear quorum?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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