Perfume / Cologne

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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

Surely it's just a denotation of strength?

parfum > eau de parfum > eau de cologne

Perhaps I am a grande-mere and Goutal is frumpy anyway but some of the scents are only easily gettable as eau de parfum and eau de cologne. I've tried!

Oh god I love BVLGARI. It's the Korean in me. And no, not because it looks like BVLGOGI,

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmm pig wee

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmmm eau de BVLOGNA

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

All Korean barbeque joints throw in a free 2-day supply of Eau de Bvgolgi with dinner.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

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

This is now the FOURTH TIME I've seen/overheard you say this, Tracer Hand. WE ALL KNOW YR GF IS FRENCH STOP BEING PONCEY ABOUT IT. Before I dump buckets of cologne all over your unshowered ass.

I like those VS Secrets line of colognes except 88 is quite strong, I mean it's like meant to kill a man if you put on too much I think

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, it's called LOLITA LEMPICKA and Sephora describes it as having hints of Ivy Leaves, Aniseed, Amarena Heart, Violets, Iris Roots, Vetiver, Tonka Bean, Vanilla, and Musk. (All together, those smell like cotton candy)

― Mandeee, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer, can't you see that that French Mata Hari of yours is using you as a pawn in her top-secret campaign of reverse espionage? The battle front is right here, in the Perfumanias of the free world.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay, not like you guys don't already think of me as hippie enough, but honestly in lieu of cologne I use those scent oils...the stuff I use now is a blend of sandalwood and frankencense (sp?). It makes me smell like MANIMALIUS ULTIMUS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

No it's us who are poncey, I mean men who spray perfume on themselves but need to use this special "man-word". For Christ's sake.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer, teach me in the ways of your manword.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get a room!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Only if you ask nicely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned will you loosen my black mandals?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Darling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's the perfume I'm wearing, isn't it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Mandalwood"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

*sneezes*

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

*quarantines Spencer Chow*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

racist!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Did it ever occur to you that man cologne is actually the same proportion parfum-to-other as the French old-woman cologne you speak of, Tracer Hand? DID YOU?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 02:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

don't naked ladies dance there?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...

i have to admit i like smelling nice perfume but it's not really a sexual thing, it doesn't attract me to someone or even necessarily make me notice them, it's just a kind of wafting nice thing that cheers me up a little so long as it's not too strong.

the downside of perfume obv is that it gets stale, and the other day i was on a crowded metro with seemingly ten different types of stale perfume in the air and i wanted to vomit.

thank you.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

perfume exacerbates my hayfever bigtime

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

i always wear rapture and have for years. i love it. if it gets discontinued i will bomb the victoria's secret headquarters.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

Escada Sentiment for Men, these days -- "green lime, nutmeg, pink peppercorn, sandalwood, and cedar" -- which surprised me because it isn't the sort of thing I thought I would wear, but it works on me. Kenneth Cole Black, which I actually bought first because it is the kind of thing I thought I would wear, is terrible after I've worn it for half an hour or so, and gives my girlfriend migraines.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

Zirh cologne on occasion.

I've heard good things about Ralph Lauren Purple Label, but I can't find anywhere that sells it around here.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:11 (twenty years ago) link

so i just went to a friend's show, and i was behind the stage drinking beer with some other friends (all ages/no drinking venue). when the first band's set ended, they walked back and the guitar player said, "oh emily, i thought i smelled you"! and hugged me. does this mean i wear too much perfume?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 8 December 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

I wore Benneton's Colors from adolescence through college, at which point I decided it was time to stop smelling like the 80s. I still like it though, and I think I still have a bottle. Now I wear Isabella Rossellini's MANIFESTO, which is the best perfume name ever. Here's the description. I never see it offered anywhere now but it takes me a decade to get through a bottle so no matter.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

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