Perfume / Cologne

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I know you weren't! I was making a joke as dry as baby powder.

Which Lush? I used their orange flower water Guerrilla Scent for awhile, but although it smelled great in the little sampler vial I got, it never smelled the same coming out of the spray bottle, and now it's years old and I should really throw it away.

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link

speaking of lush, their 'grass' products smell great imo -- sandalwood and chlorophyll

groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

i unabashedly love patchouli oil

marcos, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

Local Garda, you really need to check out Philosykos if you like unconventional fragrances.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

I will investigate.

Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link

CA it was this one: http://staging.gorillaperfume.com/us/products/35/25-43 and it was really interesting nice for summer. I think this summer I just want to smell like the beach.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link

For which this is supposed to be very good: http://www.sephora.com/beach-fragrance-P270559

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link

Vetiver? Frederic Malle "Vetiver Extraordinaire" is my current fave eau de parfum. I always stock up when I visit France. It's way overpriced here in the States.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link

OMG OMG OMG my cute tiny bottle of Maison Martin Margiela (untitled) just arrived and I am so elated!!!! It's so green and delightful and I lost the tester I had years ago and I cannot stop smelling my wrists. It's so pleasant and delightful and not v assertive and I think I might make this my signature daily frag! My only quip is it dries down to like a cinnamon/bubblegum smell but it's still so great. It's a dabber and not a sprayer so I am legit considering investing in one of these:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41k91bk1suL.jpg

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

stevie d: ebay is great place to find people selling samples or small aliquots of scents that sound interesting without having to commit to a full bottle.

kate78, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link

yeah that's where I got this lil baby bottle!!! it is SO CUTE TOO, I just have to post a picture

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/64hGrmj.jpg

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link

I wanted to spend a day w/ each of these CdG frags and let u kno but the prob is I have absolutely no clue how to write about frags.

Also they come in these teeeeensy tiny little vials with a toothpick-like dabber built into each cap, so I'm not really sure how to properly apply them bcz dabbing them with the dabber puts SO little on.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:35 (nine years ago) link

imo take the end of the vial, press it against your skin and flip it upside down and then back. you should have a little circle of fragrance that you can then rub

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link

yeah but even that puts such a small amt on, i mean this opening is V V tiny, but I think I will just do that a few times

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link

yeah just put the palm of your hand over the bottle and flip it a few times

Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link

OK here's what I will tell you

Comme des Garcons BLACK: this is a Very Serious Cologne. I smell like a humorless doctor or a funeral director, like someone stern and smug who maybe makes a lot of money and dresses conservatively. It doesn't smell bad per se but it is just totally not ~me~. It is has no joy; it is not fun in the least. I was expecting it to be kind of cool or modern but it's not really any of those things.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link

It doesn't even smell interesting!

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link

I ordered some BLACK, lol. I AM SERIOUS MAN, STEVIE!!

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link

btw I am going to wear it in my Lexus

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link

xp wait did you rly order some?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link

yes, as a "I can wear this and norms at work will like it" selection

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link

I, in fact, ran it past some work norms and they liked it

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link

mh please please tell me what you think of this frag, I am dying to discuss it w/ someone else who knows what it smells like. What does it smell like to you note-wise? What does it evoke for you?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link

my dad sent me a bottle of this amazing expensive italian cologne santa maria novella and it is the best thing i have ever smelled in my life

http://i59.tinypic.com/ixyull.jpg

the fuckin catalina wine mixer (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link

I will wait until I am hovering over the vial to document my experiences and will do so soonb

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link

what other frags did you order?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link

well that is the only bottle, I also like green and uh wood? I forget

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link

amazingreen? wonderwood?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link

or the Play Green?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link

Wonderwood
Amazingreen
Black
Odeur 53

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link

btw I already have a bottle of Standard

mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link

I just ordered a bunch of tiny samples! I've worn the same fragrance for years and this thread got me thinking it's time to have a bit more fun with smells.

kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link

wonderwood is amazing. all-time classic.

Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Thursday, 26 March 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link

Odeur 53: jfc what is this? this is very, VERY feminine. Does not feel particularly "avant-garde" or interesting or anything, it just smells like a not-unpleasant lady's perfume but not something I would ever choose to wear.

I think I am going to go wsh this off.

mh I NEED yr 2c abt this frag

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link

wish I got a Wonderwood sample! maybe I'll go to the CdG store in Chelsea and spritz a little spritz while I'm in NY this weekend.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link

this whole fragrance adventure is making me think a lot though, like who are these for? Who are these ppl that use all of these weird words (nail polish! burnt rubber! desert sand! gasoline!) to describe this ultimately kind of regular-smelling perfume?? Maybe this is "avant-garde" to ppl who are immersed in this world but to someone who does not wear frags it smells v reg and not at all the "Oh huh, isn't THAT interesting!" that I thought I was going to get from this.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link

also learning that you can get a sense for a thing when you read about film, about music, about food, about art, about books, about virtually any type of thing that people would write about descriptively or evocatively, but basically everything you read about a fragrance will be complete bullshit and is way, WAY farther removed from experiencing the product for yrself than any of the above mediums. The concept I formed in my head of these smells from reading about them smells absolutely nothing like the smell itself smells to me; language seems completely ineffective in representing these things. Maybe that's what makes it cool. I mean, what other objects in the world are absolutely impossible to experience even vicariously w/o engaging w/ the object itself? You can look at a photograph of a sculpture, you can read a synopsis of a film and a breakdown of its cinematic techniques, but what of smells?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link

You should read The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr. It's really interesting and satisfying.

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link

this might be something you would find interesting, arts festival that did a scent/audio/visual thing:
http://www.unsound.pl/news/unsound-launches-ephemera-a-perfume-series-connecting-scent-and-sound

mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link

last vestiges of my head cold were acting up last night, didn't think I would get a good read (sniff?) so you'll have to wait a bit

stevie, are you smelling these on their own or on you for each? they smell diff on people than on their own

mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:34 (nine years ago) link

on a somewhat unrelated note, it's interesting to me how closely I associate certain smells with memories

In certain contexts, Chanel No. 5 makes me really angry now due to past experience

mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link

nah I'm putting them on and then commuting to work and sitting in my cube and thinking abt how I smell rn

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link

everyone who has a sense of smell closely associates smells with memory! it's a powerful trigger.

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link

You should really read that book Stevie

The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link

xp yeah! frags seem way more of a subjective means-to-an-end than any other medium, less abt what they actually smell like and more abt how that smell makes you feel. v powerful stuff.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link

ugh god I just smell like I gave my grandma a big hug or like some jackass aggressively sprayed me with a perfume that is v much not mine; i don't want to wear Odeur 53 anymore.

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link

I like that one but I can't imagine wearing it full time

just pretend you are John Waters right now

mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link

yeah I am trying that and it is just totally not working.

what does it evoke for you? what does it smell like to you?

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link

again, I'll want to smell again with a clear head, but I got kind of a clean baby smell, crossed with a little bit of a musty-but-not-unpleasant vibe, with kind of a kicker of overripe fruit that you left in the garbage can

mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link


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