I hace a bottle of bal d'afrique; my partner has oud immortel. both gifts. I love both. I've smelled most of their range and these are my two favourites.
I love philosykos too. I just wish its fragrance didn't disperse so quickly.
― belcalis almanzar (||||||||), Saturday, 24 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
have been wearing guerlain l'instant edp (almost edible patchouli and cacao and anise liqueur) and varvatos dark rebel rider (leather, elemi and incense smoke)
― clouds, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
I’ve been wearing a bunch of cheap Caron fragrances recently (Yatagan, Le 3eme Homme, Pour Un Homme) and they’re probably a pale imitation of their eighties peak and not particularly long-lasting but all smell very pleasant - classic, simple masculines.
I’m wearing Le Mat by Mendittorosa today and it’s absolutely wonderful - a warm rose with the sweetness of patchouli and spice of immortelle. It’s €250 a bottle though so I may have to make the 10ml sample I have last.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 2 March 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
yatagan is brilliant but yeah it is not long-lasting
― clouds, Saturday, 3 March 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
Currently wearing Bat by Zoologist. The whole range is influenced by animals but that is often in a semi-abstract way - Rhinoceros, for example, smells more like bay rum than anything. Bat smells like bat, or rather bat caves. It’s one of the only fragrances in the world to use a recently-discovered chemical compound indistinguishable from petrichor - the smell of bacteria in dry soil breaking down after rain. It’s ‘earthy’ in the most literal sense.
It’s overlaid with decomposing banana, fig and tropical fruit with a hint of musk and leather in the background. I’ve never been anywhere more tropical than the faux-jungle bit of Singapore Zoo but it’s evocative of rainforests and life / death supercharged by warmth, damp and richness.
Opinion is split on whether it’s something you could wear out of the house in good conscience but, applied with a light enough hand, I’d say so.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
is it how you'd imagine batman would smell?
― ogmor, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
I want to believe Bruce Wayne will be undone one day by the pervasive dank / rotten fruit aroma that surrounds him when he is out of character, yes.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
I have been wearing my own concoction. I put allspice and clove in a bottle with rubbing alcohol for a week and now I smell like a fresh, cocky sailer!
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
I was just fine with Drakkar Noir, despite its reputation as the scent of latent nazis. When a small bottle of that ran out after 2 years, I went on www.fragrantica.com looking for other inexpensive colognes with few detractors, to expand my range a bit. Wound up with Antonio Puig Quorum Silver (cedar + nutmeg), Perry Ellis M (cinnamon + vanilla), and Mr. Blass (leather + church incense). I use them in moderation (one spray), they're all fine, but I haven't been complemented on them either.
Still much prefer the scent that lingers after sitting downwind of some middling Indonesian aloeswood (oud) incense.
― Free Stormy Daniels (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
even the slightest whiff of drakkar noir triggers every bad feeling i havei congratulate you for moving on
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
From the Fragrantica, ‘people who like Drakkar Noir also like...’ thing, Encre Noir by Lalique is quite good. It’s a dark, inky vetiver.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
drakkar noir smells like bullying, prepubescent shadow mustaches, and awkward boners to me
terrible
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
I've recently rediscovered Cool Water, which has a lot of the same negative eighties connotations, and it's pretty great imo.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
omg cool water is another bad oneadd fahrenheit and you will have the unholy trinity of triggering scents
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
YES
:(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
I have never consciously smelled fahrenheit (a generational thing, maybe) but it is worryingly similar from the notes listed to a lot of leather scents I like/wear
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
this is the peril of wearing scents i guessi smelled most of these in the early 90s fwiw
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
it's also possible my taste just sucks (the big one, generationally, is that I love Poison -- the first fragrance I really, truly loved, as opposed to just found OK -- but realize that anyone alive during the '80s despises it)
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
i remember when i was wearing chanel #5 in hs and someone complained that i smelled like old peoplei was mortified!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
still, smelling like old people >>>>>>>>> smelling like a sexual predatorat least old people are friendly and cool sometimes
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:13 (six years ago) link
it's a classic, might not even make me *scrolls up thread to figure out what emotion I associated with it* angry anymore!
― mh, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
teens can't tell the difference between "old" and "cultured" anyway
https://y.yarn.co/abf77722-317b-44d5-b42e-9b1048439029_text_hi.gif
― Free Stormy Daniels (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
also xxp -- I have a luckyscent order coming in and a byredo sample is in it -- it's Bullion, which I kind of suspect is going to be near identical to eau de velours and/or cuir amethyste (which are already pretty similar) and I have a large bottle of the former already, but we'll see
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Which of the review sites do you all like best? Luckyscent, fragrantica, basenotes? Like, if you had to choose one, which one?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 March 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
normally I go by fragrantica -- I only really use luckyscent to buy stuff and basenotes is just there
also I just realized yesterday why I like poison so much despite an entire generation of people hating it, it's the ladytron of perfumes
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Basenotes probably has the highest percentage of dorks who post about fragrance as though they're on the Steve Hoffman forums but that can be kind of useful sometimes.
Fragrantica wins for me because of the crowd-sourced notes / longevity / sillage voting, though. People ranking which elements predominate (1000 people say iris is prominent, 210 say they can smell tuberose strongly, etc) is much more useful than knowing that the fragrance contains 23 notes, including iris and tuberose - which you could find out from the marketing materials.
Given the tendency to reformulate and water down classic fragrances, it's also great to be able to see what proportion of people felt the scent was weak / middling / strong / huge.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
speaking of tuberose, I keep meaning to try Adjatay, given my last analogy I am expecting it to be more like the Client of perfumes
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Have you tried Fracas? Possibly the Eartha Kitt...
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
I haven't -- I'm not a huge fan of just straight-up florals
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
oh man i love fracasone of my all time favorites
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 9 March 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
i really want a bottle of arpege
― clouds, Saturday, 10 March 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
going through aforementioned samples; frapin 1270 is a remarkably accurate recreation of the experience of taking a bath in a bulk-food bin, mostly candied pineapples
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Someone gave me Burberry Brit for a late Christmas present. I hate it. It has a long-lasting fake vanilla note that makes me feel nauseated.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I still have a a bottle of Burning Leaves and an Earl Grey Lavender water based scent from I Hate Perfume. It's so hard to find scents that aren't cloying or make you want to die if you are trapped with a heavily scented person in a small space.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
I see on this thread that I was wearing Annick Goutal's Petite Cherie 13 years ago. Ha, so weird!
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
not to be gross but why is there no deodorant stick for ass cracks?
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
not to be gross but what's stopping you rubbing a deodorant stick into your asscrack?
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
it's legal, dude, go to town on yourself in the comfort of your own home
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Couldn't you just use a regular one kept especially for that purpose?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
here you go, LGhttp://www.goldbond.com/blog/product/no-mess-powder-spray/
― mh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
I haven't worn any fragrances in years. I'd love to get back into it at some point, but probably can't justify the expense at the moment.
BUT the other day my wife ordered a scented candle from Amazon. Buying scented candles over the internet can be hit or miss even if you're buying from a reputable place with other scents you know and like, but just randomly shopping candles on Amazon was a particularly, um, adventurous move on her part. I opened it up to take a whiff and I'm almost entirely certain that the scent of this candle is Contradiction for Men by Calvin Klein! It was my first scent, and I wore entirely too much of it for at least a year. I mentioned it to her and she was like "yeah, it's too perfumey..." I almost want to light this candle and a Marlboro Light (quit smoking over a decade ago, but it would have mixed in with whatever I was trying to do at the time) and see if it does any weird sense memory things for me.
I might try to hunt down a sample to confirm that it is indeed Contradiction, but I lived with that scent for a while so I'm pretty sure. My impression from my brief experience with the candle is that it's very overwhelming - like, way too much trying to go on and very sharp. Maybe it wears differently, idk. Probably not.
Anyway, just thought the perfume thread people might get a lol out of this.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
entirely, entirely ffs
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
it's no more off-topic than deodorant for your ass crack
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
lol how's life that's funny
― surm, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
where nature sows stink, I shall sow peace.
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
killing time by reading fragrantica reviews of rochas femme, my favorite perfume and the one I'm wearing now actually, and nothing has been more "fucking @ me next time" than this:
"Rochas is the smell that remains of a lovely perfume, once harmonious and joyous when first applied but hours later has been marred by fear laden sweat and soul numbing sadness."
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 16 March 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
(the rest is some weird... WWII fanfiction...?)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 16 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
you'd think after 15 years of posting LG would come up with something funny
― clouds, Saturday, 17 March 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
I'm going to the Emirates next week. Does anyone have recommendations for Arabian fragrances or Arabian editions of international ones?
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 April 2018 11:44 (six years ago) link