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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

sorry, 'perfumers' or 'parfumeurs.'

― youn, Sunday, 13 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I wear Angel Schlesser Por Hombre. Does that makes me teh ghey? Mark's reference to Body Shop white musk provoked a Proustian reaction in me. *sighs*

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Sunday, 13 March 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

80% of scents make my nose bleed and I start clawing at my neck and wrists.

That said, I wear Annick Goutal's Petite Cherie, which only makes me sneeze 3 times when I spray it and I think it smells like pears, although it is described as: vanilla, peach, musk rose and freshly cut grass. Kind of weird, since I try to stay away from vanilla scents, but I love it.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Sunday, 13 March 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.fragrancenet.com/images/photos/DECLARATION_M.JPG for me. Makes me smell like a sexy forest.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 13 March 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

hmh.. since i last posted to this thread (in 2001) i've become intolerant to nearly everything except the body shop's white musk. oh well.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 13 March 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a new object of desire: nomad tea by comme des garcons. they seem to be incapable of making anything that smells less than delicious. will someone help me ram-raid the beauty hall at liberty?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Should i wear Opium or Shalimar tomorrow night bearing in mind i'm hoping to pull?

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha I am very pleased there is a perfume called FRACAS! You should wear that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps it would help set the scene if you told us which specific bar you were going to

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Wear Opium. They'll be unconscious within seconds of inhaling, so pulling will be a piece of cake.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to have a wee sample bottle of fracas, perhaps i should head along to harvey nicks after work and try and blag some.

I've got opium parfum, it's really strong.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

haha why does anyone BUY perfume anymore when there are free samples at sephora? (i hate perfume, but i apply the same principle to cosmetics.)

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Last time I was at Sephora I got a sample of the new Paris Hilton perfume. That's so wrong, why can't I ever get a sample of something good?

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I have yet to try it, I should put some on as an experiment and see if it has a siren-like skank effect.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Last time I was at Sephora I got a sample of the new SANTANA (as in, Carlos) perfume WTF?

― quincie, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

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