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The New Power Perfumes: You'll Smell Like Your Mom And Like It
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Mon Dec 21
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11/07/08
11/05/08
I can't do the heavy smells, they bring on my migraines and then I have to be medicated.
I got my sister Black Amber for her B-Day. It's also very nice, not too old woman, not too sweet, not heavy.
11/05/08
11/05/08
As for me, I don't like wearing strong perfumes. I just stick to my Sugar Plum Lady Speedstick and my Burt's Bees Milk & Honey body lotion (which I honestly think smells more like white chocolate with a bit of mint, strangely enough).
Then again, my financial status has improve in the past year...
11/04/08
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11/04/08
Then in cold weather, I wear Yves St. Laurent's Paris. The awesome eau de parfum, not the toilette, so I only ever need a tiny puff. More than that, and it can be a bit of a beast. But I love the way it mellows on my skin over the course of the day, all warm and golden-scented.
My best friend wears The Body Shop's White Musk, and it smells so good on her, I want to eat her skin. I honestly have trouble not platonically necking her when she wears it, it's so delicious. But when I wear it, I just smell like......well.......a trollopy sophmore. It's really annoying.
11/04/08
Nobody has mentioned Comptoir Sud Pacifique, which make some of my favorite scents. They had one called "The" with an accent -- the French word for "tea" that was the most awesome spicy smell EVER EVER EVER. Alas it was discontinued.
Has anyone also had their body chemistry change? At some point (not puberty), all my perfumes began to go skunky on my skin. Like bad. I wore Ivory Soap smell for a long time, and now the problem seems to have gone away . . .
11/04/08
When I think of the 80's, I remember my high school halls reeking of Exclamation and Liz Claiborne. I could never wear those cloying scents ever again. I don't care if Allure tells me to, and that's saying something because I friggin love that magazine and I'm a sheep. I wonder if Lady Stetson will come back into vogue?
Let me know when the scents from the 90's come back, I was all about Escape, Eternity, Tresor, Lauren.....memories of working at the mall. :)
11/04/08
11/04/08
Still, as much as I try to love a new perfume, I can't seem to find another one I love as much.
Any suggestions on a sexy scent that men go crazy over? It also doesn't help that my husband is INCAPABLE of smelling perfume. I don't know why.
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11/04/08
My mother wears Jovhann (however you spell it) White Musk. Whenever I get a whiff of that stuff, I get homesick and text my mom. That perfume makes me sleepy and makes me want to cuddle in a big warm blanket.
11/04/08