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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Body Shop!
― kate78, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Was it???? I'll be damned.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Yup I did it too and my scent was groooooss
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Totally forgot about that!!
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/art-and-olfaction-awards-what-did-qaddafi-death-smell-like
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
why
― truvada mangano (clouds), Friday, 24 April 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
add to list of "links I will never click"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 April 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
No no it's actually really interesting!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 24 April 2015 06:47 (nine years ago) link
It's about an art exhibit of smells.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Friday, 24 April 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
The Art and Olfaction awards. The award winner that created a smell narrative of celebrity deaths is only a part of the article.
― mh, Friday, 24 April 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link
just got in another shipment of scents from my friend joseph
excited :D
― clouds, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
Got CdG Amazingreen for xmas, reviews of it are so middling but I am telling you it smells so fucking incredible, a bit masculine but definitely not assertively so, very foresty and green with hints of like gunpowder and spice, it is like everything I have ever wanted in a fragrance. I might like it even more than Margiela's "untitled". Cannot recommend enough.
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
stop assaulting my disposable income!!
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
get a tester of it, all these ppl whine and moan abt how very BLUE it is and how very PEDESTRIAN and MASS-MARKET it is, and i agree that it's much more approachable and less challenging than many other CdG frags but it does NOT read pedestrian or mass-market to me, it seems v unique and interesting, and also i'm not really getting the blue, it seems so green to me
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I mean I know you are v into CdG Black and also wearing black clothes and Amazingreen is much softer so idk
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
I am wearing a $3.50 Acqua di Gio knockoff. The scent is dead on but fades quickly.
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
nah, I had a tester it's nice
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 7 January 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
It pains me to say it, but I don't think I've ever heard a better Badn
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 14 May 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
was just looking for Stevie's recommendation and have to say amazingreen is really nice
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 15 May 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
It's great but its longevity is poor and it stays very close. I couldn't spent £80 on something that disappears after an hour. It is a really beautiful scent for 30 minutes though. One of my favourites but doesn't have staying power.
― Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Sunday, 15 May 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
yaasssss
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
rn I am into a bunch of these things I got at some boutique perfumirie in Berlin:
https://www.frau-tonis-parfum.com/en/
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
I just bought four Demeter frags for super cheap! Dirt, Grass, Tomato, and Greenhoue (the first 3 were $25 ea and came in a set for $30 total, which was great bcz I was specifically looking to buy Dirt and Grass).
Have not tried them on yet but am super stoked
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
(also Greenhouse was a free gift for ordering the $30 set, idk what they are doing over there but I'm not complaining)
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
I'm realizing that I've gone from "dabbling in frags w/ a slight curiosity" to, like, being in possession of 20 diff frags now (most of them v small testers but still)
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 19 May 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
slippery slope
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
been wearing a mix i made of black poplar, douglas fir, rosewood, hinoki and orange lately
― clouds, Saturday, 21 May 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
can we just take a minute to appreciate what a great name for a perfume 'Fracas' is
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 May 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
Better than http://oldschoolmemories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tramp.jpg?
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Saturday, 21 May 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
but not as good as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKigfGYwKE
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 22 May 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
the demeter stuff is p cool, whether in the context of it being used in theatre, or as a cologne, or just for general amusement. dirt is really good as a cologne tho.
the earl grey one is nice. there are so many. there's one called funeral home that is good if you want to wear a strange scent as a joke.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 22 May 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link
in theatre??
i think my new frag is gon b 1 spritz each of dirt and grass
my boyf and i saw funeral home on the web page and were horrified
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 22 May 2016 12:51 (seven years ago) link
there's an immersive theatre company called punchdrunk and they use the scents a lot in their shows. like you walk into a room and it is a forest and smells of dirt. their only running show is in nyc at the moment, sleep no more - i think that uses some demeter stuff too, most of their shows do. i've noticed other companies copying this a bit.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 22 May 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
people still do this?
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
rather than put an air freshener in my car I used a half dozen sprays of a nice neutral scent on a paper towel and threw it in the back seat
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
smells way good in there
Which chemicals?
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
ethanol mostly but that evaporates real quick
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 22 May 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm wearing CB I Hate Perfume's Soaked Earth, kind of an evolution of Dirt by the same perfumer. Good rainy day scent.
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 23 May 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
is that the one that's milky white? I think I've tried that before and I liked it a lot; it was the first thing I thought of when I smelled Dirt (well, the second after "omg this smells like dirt")
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 May 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link