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
I really enjoy the review I found on some website This smells like my catBy Anonymous on 3/10/2007
― mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
oh whoops sorry I didn't read what you'd said earlier
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
This book is also awesome--who knew perfume reviews could be so amusing?
http://www.amazon.com/Perfumes-The-Guide-Luca-Turin/dp/0143115014
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
I have no real way to describe how my cat smells, but I would perhaps have a stuffed animal at work that I would spray with his fragrance if I could buy such a thing
― mh, Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
philosykos
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
further reviews of Commes des garcons
wonderwood - this makes me think of a really high quality, very normal scent. high, sharp green notes w/a very subdued musk. maybe a bit of a juniper thing?
black - I had a lot more of an incense feel to this originally, but the second time it really reminds me most of a humidor that's had nice pipe tobacco in it. some muskiness and pepper notes. malin + goetz have a "tobacco"candle scent that has some similar notes
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:38 (eight years ago) link
so wait these are all colognes by the same company (or designer?)? Just out of curiosity why are you, mh and Stevie D, sticking to this one brand?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
I am not, it's just a recent interest!I do not speak for Mr. D tho
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:47 (eight years ago) link
my relatively inexpensive default is Kiehl's Musk
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
I am v perfume-dumb but I am such a massive fan of CdG's aesthetic and just playful things that make you go hmmm in general and the frags are so fascinating to read about that I guess I'm kinda jumping off w them.
the more I wear Margiela's (untitled) tho the more I think it's The One For Me
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
Some of the CdG frags are like almost antagonistic in their aggressive weirdness
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 03:46 (eight years ago) link
I think they want to be!
Their collaborations are kind of cool, although the Pharrell Williams one was ehhh. Kind of wondering what their Monocle magazine ones smell like, except, lol Monocle
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
btw I was wearing some of the Black one over the weekend when I went to a new restaurant and had this whiskey cocktail that was served in a whiskey bottle filled with wood chip smoke and between that smokiness, the cologne, and some savory food I was pretty much in rich texture overload
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I want to smell you guys!
None of the men in my life wear cologne (well, Jesse did but he can't smell anymore ;_;) and I'm so intrigued by the scents you two are describing.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
I should buy some for Jesse and just put it on him when he's around me.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
wearing currently:
Ivy perilla:Top notes are Celery Seed, Maillette Lavender, Bergamot, Himalayan Cedarwood, Pine, Juniper BerryHeart notes are Perilla, Lovage Root, Lavender Abs, GeraniumBase notes are Galbanum resinoid, oakmoss, Pine absolute, vetiver, patchouli
incredible
― clouds, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Do you still live in Chicago? Come here and let me smell you.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
i'm surprised you can't now. i love this so much that i probably overapply but who cares.
― clouds, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
CLOUDS I ilx-mailed you!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
Today I'm wearing Comme des Garcons 2.
It's just a flowery perfume, quite pleasant and fresh, not at all cloying, but not terribly ~intriguing~ either. Still not really getting how any of these are niche/avant-garde
OH OH OH EXCEPT for the Series 1 Leaves: Tea which smells like a computer lab or like plastic!!! It's so strange and interesting! This is by and far the most intriguing one I have smelled so far. Not unpleasant but DEFINITELY nothing remotely like you would smell in a perfume.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
All the other ones I have smelled smell like bad or weird perfume, whereas this just smells like not perfume at all.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
you need to smell Standard
― mh, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
If you want stuff that's unlike perfume, definitely try those Demeter scents I mentioned upthread. There are about a hundred of them and they're all based on generic scents, like grass, bubblegum, laundromat etc. the "dirt" one is good as a scent.
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
wearing today:
Distant HeathTop notes: Coriander Seed, Peach, Wild Chamomile, Bulgarian Lavender, Celery SeedHeart notes: Armoise, Ylang Ylang, Frankincense, Jasmine Grandiflorum, Octanol-3 isolateBase notes: Liatrix, Oakmoss, Ambergris, Cardamom Abs, Guaiacwood
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link
brown note y/n
sorry
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
it's okay, i know yr'e jealous~
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Are you smelling these things or are they what is in the marketing?
― mh, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
my friend who is an apprenticing scent maker put it together
i do smell the things i recognize
― clouds, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
imagining the smell of those notes together IS making me quite envious tbh
ysi
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
― clouds, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 5:45 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
FYI clouds' friend who is an apprenticing scent maker is putting something together for me, too, and I am UNREASONABLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. It should be done May 20, he said. Can't wait can't wait! I will need to immediately find La Lechera so she can smell me.
Big thanks to you, clouds, for putting me in touch with him!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 17 April 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
i wanna smell you!
i have switched from my winter to my summer scent and it's lifting my spirits a little
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
grateful that all 3 of you will be ready for me to smell by mem day weekend
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
omg yay carl! so happy i was able to connect you two! i love my scents so much and am getting another more spring/summery floral/woodsy fragrance soon :D
― truvada mangano (clouds), Friday, 17 April 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
i wannna know more about this custom-scenter friend of yours
― just1n3, Friday, 17 April 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/04/21/modern-life-smells-so-good-its-killing-the-cheap-perfume-industry/?hpid=z1
imo it's not that modern life smells good, it's that everything has a scent already
Big companies have helped deflate the scents industry by piling on with their own special smells.
After reading that Burr book LL mentioned upthread this seems incorrect -- there are two tiers to the perfume industry, the creation of "pure" scents and the people combining those ingredients as perfumers. While some perfumers work creating products to be spritzed on the body, that ignores all of the scents used in everything from dish soap to dryer sheets to air fresheners.
I wonder if the industry is actually booming, it's just that stuff spritzed on human beings is in flux.
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
Seems a fairly arbitrary distinction between cheap and expensive scents if things like Katy Perry's fragrance (£11 for 30ml of EDP) falls into the latter category. The decline in "drug store" scents could easily be because drug stores have started stocking celebrity fragrances.
― Ethnically Ambiguous / 28 - 45 (ShariVari), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
The slow prevalence of chain stores like Victoria's Secret marketing scented lotions replacing entry-level perfumes with other scented products has to be part of it. Same with scented shower gel soaps.
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Who needs a Le Jardin gift set when you've got Bath and Body Works?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
I was trying hard not to type B&BW
was it the 90s when they came to power, or was that just for my locale?
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
Why did you not want to invoke B&BW? Are they like the Scientology of single note smells?
I don't think I really noticed them until the 00s? But I could be misremembering.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
when they first opened up in my area every high school girl was slathered in their lotions, especially the fruit-scented ones
I'm getting kind of hungry for apricots just thinking about it
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
there's a link on their wikipedia page to an article titled "Bath & Body Works: 'The McDonald's of Toiletries'"
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
I was a fan of their Warm Vanilla Sugar smell, and I liked some lime coconut offering of theirs as well.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
But I had McDonald's for breakfast.
i figured this is why a glade candle and cheap shampoo can smell similar -they both use the same cheap smell factory scents
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
In the mid-90s or so, my roommate took me to some mall store in the Delaware Valley area where you could mix your own fragrances. I remember there were glass containers of fragrance with glass swizzle sticks in them that you could pull out and smell.
Does anybody remember anything like that?
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
Body Shop!
― kate78, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link