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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

my mom wears opium, has since i was v. little. she wears it divinely, you have to be close to her to smell it. her chemistry works well with it. i only know 2 people that smell good with parfum or cologne. i like to sniff them. everyone else smells like fart, i swear.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Sentiment, lauren? (The Escada. I don't know the building.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Or Magnetism if the building is leany and curvy...

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

higher energy, yo.

it smells exactly the opposite to how i look. confuse the senses, yo, and the bitches will love you.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i think it's magnetism, tep. i loved it first, but i don't wear it very often now because it gets way too chocolatey when it settles down.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Am currently wearing Guerlain mentafollia, which is nice and minty. I'm a Guerlain only zone these days as far as perfume goes - my all time faves are Shalimar, Mitsouko and l'heure bleue.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm wearing the prada lately--I generally like it but it's still not perfect. That amarige sounds up my alley, I will look for that. Prada has a patchouli note which would normally send me screaming but it's nice, must be a good quality rather than the head shop crap I normally think of. Also it has sandalwood & amber, two of my favorites.

I want a tea + cedar + sandalwood + pepper I think.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could find some Guerlain Nahema. I had one of those tiny sample bottles of it but when I went to look for a regular bottle I could never find one.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a Guerlain only zone these days - Leigh

I only have a tiny smidge of Mitsouko left in the old-school bottle given me by my beloved granny - only scent she ever wore. It's one of the few things I've got to remember her by now. She told me a story once about being stuck in a super-posh hotel room (in Singapore, I think) with some ultra-rich brats who were splashing Joy (bloody expensive) around like lemonade.

This afternoon I smell of garlic from my lunchtime salami. Hello, fellas!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I still love the Body Shop's white musk, beloved of teenage girls in the early 1990s. I haven't smelled it in ages though, so maybe I'd have grown out of it. I perceive it as a childish scent, in any case.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I got samples of Kiehl's musk and their grapefruit essence, but they did not make me so happy. My favorite perfume, though--the fresh clean smell after bathing with one of Kiehl's body washes--preferably grapefruit, possibly lavender. I'm doing corriander at the moment, but it's not quite me. I read that perfume fades so easily (not a problem for me bc I am actually paranoid about smelling chemically and making others sick) that what you should do is layer a number of the same scent/product line in different formats: soap, lotion, perfume, etc. all smelling of X. I am too easily bored to make such a commitment though I think. There's an article in this week's New Yorker about creating a new scent for Hermes--some good perfume-techie stuff. I learned a new word--sillage--the scent that lingers after one leaves the room.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone remember that cheap perfume for 12 year old girls called "Tribe", circa 1990? i LOVED that.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I wear Paul Smith (green bottle).

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

i like marc jacobs blush on girls

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

The Scent of the Nile - a wonderful article on parfumers. I'm in the middle of it, but in case you want to start reading...

― youn, Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I liked that article. I read it today at the gym - which was bad, because in the middle of my run I started cataloguing all of the unpleasnt gym smells.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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