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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

spencer, wear quorum.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

to people who wear quorum!

crosspost

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Jo Malone -- Nutmeg and Ginger.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

polo (in high school. nauseating!)

But such a memory trigger...

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

L'eau d'Issey sometimes if I have to go to work or library
Guy Laroche Fidji if I'm feeling fancy (my mom used to wear this when I was a kid and I still love it)
or Guerlain's pamplelune (like right now) if I need to be reminded that spring will ever come again.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Reading this thread also makes me realize I am really bad at describing smells in language like "woody tones" or whatever.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, most of the scents I like are classified by the manufacturers as "woodsy orientals" or "spicy orientals," and I'm shit at trying to figure out what their commonalities really are. It's a skillset all its own, and with body chemistry such a big factor in how it actually ends up smelling, I'm not convinced it's as useful a skillset as it could be.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I've come around from my anti-parfume stance. Wearing perfume is like having your own invisible protection from the world wrapped around you. I gravitate toward clean, fresh, fruity scents.

Current faves: Acqua di Parma/Lavendar Tonic;Korres Athens/Citrus Body Water; and 06130/Yuzu Rouge.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Declaration by Cartier

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i have been wearing amarige by givenchy for quite a few years, i still really love it. i also wear clinique's 'simply' during the day.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

amarige reminds me of an opium den, but in a flattering way.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah the oriental spice thing is the main reason i like it so much

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I sometimes wear Eau d'Hadrien by Annick Goutal.

― youn, Thursday, 10 March 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Put a guy in Issey Miyake or Joop Homme and I'm a wibbling puddle - I particulalry love the Joop one, it smells of vanilla milkshakes.

But for the most part I cant stand strong perfumes on anyone. I'd rather smell sweat than a bad cologne. Women who sit at work reapplying sceent TEN TIMES A DAY whats up with that? Spraying shit on yrself at your desk? Why dont you poop on your desk while you're at it, save some time.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

you should only apply once! if you have decent perfume it lasts all day.

issey miyake on guys makes me utterly nauseous as it was the cologne of choice of the last chap who crushed my heart. i used to love it though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm trying out a new one by Rodier the moment, it's wonderful. Smells like my mum's spice jar.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

spicy is by far the best i reckon! so much better than floral. what is it called kate?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It is so weird how intensely connected to memory the olfactory system is. I smell what I assume is CKOne all the time and am convinced my ex is walking among the crowd. I cant shake my brain off the idea.

Primitive part of the brain, apparently. Limbic system?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

It's called Rodier pour homme. I don't really like women's perfumes much. Far too flowery for me.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i'll check it out when next i'm in my favourite section of david jones

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

also i am wracking my brains trying to remember where the olfactory senses are processed, it is proving that my psych degree did me no good at all since i did two whole units on physiol psych and sensation and perception and i really can't remember. oh dear. perhaps it was all the cones. you could well be right though trayce.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i find a slight smell of human attractive. must mean i should move to germany. i dont mean stinky though. after breakups i've suffered bouts of sadness when smelling something that reminds me of an ex. amazed find that sometimes this sadness was invoked by the smell of a certain deoderant. agree about the primitive part of the brain.

i wear marc jacobs or fresia from crabtree and evelyn. sometimes i just wanna wear some fruity strange head shop oil but thus far i've held off from moonbeam or whatever. i wish i could smell like rosemary.

― jane (jane), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Demeter should make eau de spliff. I'd buy that shit.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the vanilla scent from crabtree and evelyn is pretty delish too actually. and you're right jane, rosemary is an awesome smell!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I still look for my exes brand of deodorant in the supermarket a whole six years after we broke up because it reminds me of what I now see as a happy time in my life. I don't think they make it anymore....and I think I should get a life :)

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link

All I used to wear was hippy shop oils... sandalwood, that kind of thing. I still have a bottle of Body Shop's mega-intense woody sandalwood, 2 drops and you pong for days, it really clings.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost humans are funny creatures aren't they. i do things like that with regard to the issey miyake chappy too. although not deodorant, more so wine and teabags.

sandalwood is really nice. patchouli is ALL BADNESS though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I have stopped wearing body spray because I've noticed the scent is so unnoticeable on me now that it's not worth spending the $6 to purchase it (though I still kinda like using the travel-size ones for portable air fresheners). The perfume I wear now is something I had to get used to in order to really get into, but now that I'm used to it, I'm extremely happy with it -- okay, hold on, I need to look it up -- oh yeah, Shalimar by Guerlain, which is apparently also the first perfume my mom purchased for herself when she began to get into fancy perfumes. Which is, well, interesting I guess; I'm already turning into my mother?

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

my mum and i totally have the same taste in perfume and we couldn't be more different in pretty much every other way

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I stuffed up before, the Rodier stuff is called Eau Intense, not pour homme, although they also make one by that name.

It says on the packaging that it contains the scent of:

Bergamot
Lemon Bouquet
Fig
Basil
Lavender
Cypress
Black Pepper
Jasmine
Ambery musky notes
Sandalwood
and Vetyver

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

And, well, I have no qualms about people using body sprays or more inexpensive scents or even scented oils. What I could not stand is the person who doesn't want to use any sort of body odor improvement at all. I could see the point of someone who uses a nice soap and a good deodorant/antiperspirant who just wants to stop at that, but I really, really cannot stand that "natural human" smell. To me, that reeks.

(xpost)

Well, gem hon, I don't know if it'll stop at that perfume thing. Honestly, I can actually see myself taking on certain traits of hers. The perfume thing seems to be a major signifier of the transformation.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I love natural human smell. Nothing like your lovah's sweat after a shag, that smell is gold.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Homeless old man stink though - yuck blergh vom.

I am so put off by bad smells, that I've actually decided not to date guys I really liked otherwise. My bf has severely bad foot odour probs and I'm really struggling to deal with it. I hate it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Guy next door to us never ever ever showers. I know this because we have never heard his shower once in the three years we've lived here and our bedroom wall is right next to his bathroom....plus he smells terrible.

Theres this smell between urine, faeces and B.O that humans get. A clammy greasy kind of smell. He has that smell.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

ew. bad human smells make me dry retch (dry reach?) whatever that word is. in a big way, and completely uncontrollable.

but i agree, there is not much better than the nice smell that your lover has when you cuddle up to their back in bed. i can vaguely remember that ;)

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 March 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i now only wear kiehl's musk one. it's great.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 10 March 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyday: Body Shop Pink Pepper. Spicy but subtle, and refreshing in the summer.
Girly: Flower by Kenzo. It's really strong though, and you can smell it if there's someone on the same tube carriage wearing it.
New and posh: Kingdom by Alexander McQueen. The bottle is pretty and it was duty-free, and it's dead sophisticated like. Actually very nice indeed.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 March 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i love perfume. i had to impose a purchasing ban on it last year, unfortunately, after i had amassed a shelf of rarely-used bottles with debt to match. right now i've got bulgari black, bulgari green, nars for women, an escada one that comes in a magenta bottle shaped kind of like the citibank building in nyc, dior's hypnotic poison, and lanvin's eclat d'arpege. i'm currently lusting after one of the weird numbered comme des garcons colognes - it smells like tar, but sexy.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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