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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

Three hours of grimacing guitar solos distilled into a 1/2 oz. bottle.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

fracas is, disappointingly, an EXTREMELY strong old-lady floral.

i'm wearing comme des garcons red palisander at the moment. i never did get the nomad tea that i lusted after upthread, sigh.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i think fracas smells delightful! if it had 90 dollars i might buy some. i don't think it's strong at all, not like, i dunno, YOUTH DEW.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

any floral is too strong for me, really. it makes me want to gag. youth dew is totally overpowering, but i think estee lauder got tom ford in to do a revamp and one of the new items is a half-strength version.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

quorum

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Youth Dew is the most vile scent on earth. Oh my god.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

isn't it? paradoxically, it's the odor of grandmother. when someone says PEEYOO chances are they smelled YOUTH DEW.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

My grandmother wears Red Door which is 800x better than Youth Dew!!! Who greenlighted that nonsense? Yuck.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Know what is the smell of grandfather? Aramis.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Old Spice!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

My mum wore youth dew when i was a kid and i hated it. She wore blue grass too which is just as bad.

I might got for mitsouko tonight and work on the object of my affection's limbic system.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i love some perfumes, but only spicy, light styles ones. however today i'm wearing an old wooden bead necklace my grandma gave to me as a bracelet and it is infused with a perfume of hers that i do not like at all. i sprayed it liberally with my own perfume this morning (this didn't successfully mask the granny smell) and i've felt mildly guilty about not liking her perfume all day.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Lauren, i love Palisander. the whole red series is brilliant. i think Harissa is probably the one for me.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

SEX PANTHER

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm wearing rive gauche this morning, perhaps i should just re-apply it tonight.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I wear Paul Sebastian, thats it.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

mmm... harissa. cdg are incapable of making bad perfume. the only one i'm not too keen on is burnt sugar, but even that's better than most other scents.

does estee lauder still make cinnabar? that was what my mother wore throughout my childhood.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

What do you do when you're given a perfume you don't particularly like? My boss gave me a bottle of Chloe for my birthday and I'm not at all keen. I've taken to wearing it for work only, because work doesn't really count.

The absolute worst perfume I own is Oceanus from the body shop. It smells like Ferring on a cold day, yet I can't bring myself to bin it! It'll be the work only perfume after the Chloe's gone.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Odeur51 was a good idea but bad in reality (it smelt like baby milk on me!?) Odeur72 was much better, though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm nearly out of my signature scent (Guerlain's Mitsouko). I am rationing myself until Christmas.

I wanted to buy my grandmother Bojour's Evening In Paris, which she used to love when she was my age (she tells me). It's been reissued in America, but the cheapest place I can find it won't let me buy it without giving a state. I don't have a state, or a Canadian province, because I live in the UK. It gave me a UK option in the pull down menu, but I still had to give a state. ARRRRGGGHHH>

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean 53 and 71 :s

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

As far as i know you can still get Cinnabar, i've got a bottle at home.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i might be able to help you, anna.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

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