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I prefer no scent on people too - I don't even like the smell of shampoo/soap/washing-powder-on-clothes/deodorant. Having said that, some perfumes etc. are really beautiful smelling.

I have a tendency towards puritanism and so for many years I was as fragrance free as I possibly could be. I am a bit more relaxed about things nowadays so I do sometimes wear some perfume or something.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

LYNX is one of those scents which reminds me of powder gay night here in Dunedin, and KC's too. My friend Steve thinks that the constant conjunction of LYNX and these places, mingled with the memory of one night stands has given him associations such that he gets horny every time he smells it.

Someone I knew wore vanilla essence, but stopped after a strange man approached her and said that she smelt good enough to eat.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ally: No, it's not Angel for Men, I think it's just called Mugler Cologne. It's mostly bergamot and citrus, with a nice "clean" scent to it that I can't quite identify.

Just plain soap and water works fine for some people, but I have noticed that there are some people who just smell off like sour dough even if they bathe and/or shower regularly. Which is why the "no scent" option is sometimes dud.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

People who smell like sour dough?!?!?!?!?!

I like Marc Jacob's new cologne. Except I don't like that it's advertised by pictures of Sofia Coppola.

― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So do I. But yeah, Sofia Coppola??? Forget Godfather 3, I hate her for doing that psuedo hipster crap television show High Octane a few years back.

People do have very distintive smells, whether they clean themselves a lot or not. I do remember another girl I knew who just smelled like a goat. It's not like she was dirty, it was her body chemistry.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A goat? Good lord. That's the worst thing I've heard in a long time. You're right though, some people just don't smell pleasing on their own, that's why I think the insistance some people I know have on being anti-cologne baffles me. "I like natural human smell, with maybe just some soap" - not when "natural human smell" means a person smells like sausage (which happened to my sister, our doctor told her to take garlic pills to clear up something and she did and they made her stink of polish sausage until she stopped taking the garlic).

Sofia Coppola is a complete dud, and it pains me to want to buy Marc Jacobs when I feel I am supporting Sofia Coppola by doing it.

― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

THIS JUST IN: Happy For Men does not smell like it was made for men, nor does it make me happy. Wearing fruitier-smelling cologne than your wife = DUD.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan, avoiding Clinique in general is a good bet.

― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

maybe it's supposed to make you smell like you're happy for men.

― ethan, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Joei loves Clinique stuff, though. She thought it would be cute for me to get a sample of Happy For Men since she wears Happy sometimes because then we could have matching scents. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between the two at first. Happy For Men is more masculine in the same way that a severe black skirt is more masculine than a pink tutu. If we're going to have matching scents, I'd much rather they be Obsession.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That was actually sort of funny. Hrrm. WORLDS ARE COLLIDING.

Just kidding. I've never said "just kidding" in a post before, ever.

I'm wearing something called Croquembouche by Demeter. I don't know what a Croquembouche is, but it smells like caramel, which is a bit odd. WHy do I want to smell like food?

― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love perfumes,i use 212 for men,Giorgio Armani's aqua di gio or issey miyake.i feel this is what a gentleman should smell of! I think every young man should get one of them!

― chukwuma Nwude, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

you know i am hopelessly searching for my beloved donna karan "chaos" does anyone have this or know where i can get some??? sigh.......

― r.d. lehman, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Err heref or a start. Or am I missing something?

― Nick, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Has anyone ever tried Adidas? My son wears it, and I have never smelled anything as nice. It is jus a clean smell. :) Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The cologne I'm wearing now is Romance....it's pretty good and all, but I get sick of it fast! I've tried many different colognes in my day, and the best BY FAR is Realm. It's really light and smells awesome. It's also said to contain some phermones in it too....helps attract the ladies....so I'm told. Oh well, Realm is the shiznit.

― Dan Meissler, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i wear holy water by demeter. reminds me of being a girl with catholic parents.

― maura, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't mind perfume as long as it's just a hint. I usually don't wear cologne unless I know I will be active for a while, and will have to attend a large gathering in close quarters - then comes a couple small drops of BRUT.

Otherwise, I prefer shampoo/soap/fabric softener/candle odors than perfume/cologne... I'd rather take a dip in baby powder than spend large dollars on little bottles of excess.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm going to try a new one. Royal Doulton . I love trying new perfumes

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

In flatmate's Cosmo there was a strip of new perfume Miracle (can't remember who makes it). It was gorgeous, even with glue smell. Can anyone confirm? Understand there is also a men's version.

― N., Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

I cant say that I've ever had a quote "signature scent" I've went from the Old school Draakar noir everyone had it, everyone loved it everyone hated it is how it pretty much went.. LOL IM sure more than a few of you still have a quarter full bottle of the stuff or empty bottle just for old time reminiscing. but anyway from that to whatever sparks my sniffer walking through the mall. I usually keep about five or six handy for all different occasions Huge fan of curve, its a nice warm smell for a guy without being too spicy, nice and smooth! D&G is a nice aggressive scent a little spice without being overwhelming, Never liked Tommy a little too citrusy for me but of course I had a bottle of that junk too LOL right now IM actually trying to figure out what to buy next, I don't think I've ever bought the same cologne more than once, I made one exception though. Aqua di geo absolutely marvelous LOL I have to say though smelling good was just a normal everyday thing for me, I didn't realize how much it actually does matter to the opposite sex! it seems as though not all guys share the same desire to smell pleasing the way I do so if you are like me, and your not well informed about the situation at hand.. It really does matter LOL and that's all I've got to say about that LOL ! any comments or help with a new purchase email me at str8confusion@aol.com

― Joseph Hunsinger, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cologne on men is just about as dud as dud gets.

― Sean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yip -stinkie and dudie

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perfume: Tommy Girl and Vanilla Musk are dope. Cologne: Once in a while I rock Escape (the bottle I've had since i was 14) but i usually get headaches. basically people should just use jergens sensitive because it makes your body smell like clean genitals all over

― Ramosi, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yuck perfume (& "cologne" ie perfume marketed at men)...I like the sound of this natural "sour dough" smell...I'm going to aim to mathat my "signature scent", if it's not already.

― halo halo, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yuck perfume (& "cologne" ie perfume marketed at men)...I like the sound of this natural "sour dough" smell...I'm going to aim to make that my "signature scent", if it's not already.

― halo halo, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

My signature scent has always been Christian Dior's Diorella. I lubs it.

My favourite after-shave on a man is Essence of Mysore Sandalwood from Crabtree & Evelyn. Makes me go weak at the knees.

― C J, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm thinking now that duckling meant dud-ie but i first read it as dude-ie, which i thought was great. you would not want to smell like a stink and you would not want to smell like a dude. i'm in general not a big perfume/cologne fan. i squirt some stinky juice on myself when i put on the suit, but that's about it. i do have a thing for ysatis, more on a specific person. she used to wear it in lieu of deodorant, so the perfume would get all entangled with girlie b.o. which was wonderful. i once smelled someone wearing it, years later, on a bus and immediately got off the bus and hopped into the perfume store to buy myself a bottle. i don't put it on me, just maybe spray a bit around the bathroom and such. i would be supportive of people appreciating natural human stank rather than perfumes. also, why do so many people hate patchouli. oh yeah at one point i was messing with some essential oils - there was a cool smelling frankincense oil that did smell kind of like sweet dirt.

― Ron, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wear Eau de Ciel by Annick Goutal. I've tried a few Goutal scents (I'm a sucker for that girly packaging) but like that one the best.

For men, I liked Vetiver by Guerlain (vetiver, tobacco, line), which I bought once on the recommendation of the nice man with a waxed moustache at Colonial Drug for an ex-boyfriend who smoked. I doubt I'd like Vetiver any more now than I like Chanel's Coco which I wore when I was 16 and thought I was chic. Now I think it smells like whore.

Has anybody else read the very gothy Perfume by Patrick Suskind? THE UNDETECTABLE YET ALL- POWERFUL SCENT OF YOUNG FRENCH VIRGINS hehehe

― felicity, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Felicity I love how you could be nu-Suzy if you wanted to.)

― nabisco, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

apparently it's all about Nu, that's what the Frenchies say

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've worn Tea Rose for years. Some of my friends would probably suffer from cognitive dissonance if I wasn't wearing the stuff.

I hate when people wear so much cologne that it's almost visible (especially because then I sometimes have slight allergic reactions), but I hate even more when people smell as if they haven't had a shower in the last decade (one of the many reasons I hate DC public transportation).

I'm bored with the fashion for fruit (especially citrus) scents, and thankful that the vanilla fad seems to have peaked.

― j.lu, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

My dad is a better perfume collection than mine. I stole some of his hugo boss one night. girls still go crazy, yeah yeah it's old. After trying everything the next perfume I buy will be a hugo boss. Try it maybe you'll like it.

― Nelly Carlson, Monday, 19 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...

LYNX smells like the back end of a dirty cat's scent gland plus a locker room thrown in. It is the biggest woman repellent ever created. All the women I know say this.. Sigh! When will men ever learn that if we can smell at a short distance anything you wear for smell, it's done the opposite job it was ment to do. Too much of anything, no matter how nice or expensive is a big big turn off!

― Karen, Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just that name alone! I wear Clinique Happy for men, which you can practically bathe in and not have it be overpowering, and Hugo Boss green, which is a little bit more of a problem with overuse. I swear I'm gross without co-log-nee.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wear Charlie occasionally. But there's barely any need, because I rather strangely smell just like that normally.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm a perfume fetishist (just finished reading "a rebours" by huysmans which was a big bore apart from the perfume bits)....the whole "i love the smell of people / perfume is an abomination" argument really annoys me because there's nothing as delightful and suprising as the way perfume mingles with one's own scent , and how one perfume can smell totally different depending on the wearer.

"angel" was my scent for years, but just recently i decided to go for a change and am wearing the grandly named "jasmine for the empress" by creed, which was created for the empress josephine (napolean's s.o.) it was a limited edition and i probably won't be able to replace it. shame, cos it's heavenly!

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Friday, 28 March 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chanel's Coco which I wore when I was 16 and thought I was chic. Now I think it smells like whore.

I sometimes wear DK Men (discontinued, but I still find a bottle here or there online), it smells like manwhore.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Too bad it's discontinued. What the world needs now is manwhores, sweet manwhores.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reviving, because I need to buy my youger sister some perfume for her birthday in a couple weeks time. She goes through perfume fast (apparently) so I wanted to get her something unusual and from sephora online. She lives in Michigan and is a pastry chef! Any suggestions?

― marianna, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

What kind of perfume does she normally wear? It would give me an idea of what kind she might like.

Me, I want a bottle of Alexander McQueen's Kingdom. I don't even care about the perfume, the bottle is just a little piece of art.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like Charlie and anything that has an undercurrent of vanilla.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

So that's vanilla flavoured heroin, then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

or vanilla-scented Viet Cong

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really loved one by VS - Encounter, I think it was, but they discontinued it, the fuckers - now I wear Dior Addict which smells YUMMY unless you overspray...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

From an impoverished standpoint, this stuff is just *too* effing expensive. Except for the nasty stuff that smells like pig wee.

(I'm an expert on pig wee, of course. Don't ask. You have to make a living somehow...)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wear Lolita Lemnicka (uh, is that what it's called?) and it smells strangely like cotton candy.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

in france it's ALL called "parfum" - "cologne" is watered-down crap that only grandmothers wear

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not sure I really have a preference for women's perfumes. Do I really like Cristalle or Bulgari, or do they just remind me of certain people? I've certainly never minded a woman's perfume. Also, I don't think I've ever been physically attracted to someone, only to be turned off by how they smell (perfume or BO).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not even someone who smelled of pig wee?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

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