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A Small Turnip
11/04/08

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I have two, both totally unfashionable throwbacks. In warm weather, I wear Eau de Givenchy, which is a very light, very breezy, white-flower kind of scent.

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.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
11/04/08

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it took me many years of scent-whoring, but i now have two signatures. i have caught the bf spritzing his phone with both. sake by fresh (sake as in the drink) and eau de merveilles by hermes. he wears drakkar, which i looove on him. so manly. makes me want to hop in the backseat and do some good ol' fashioned necking.
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CrankyOldBroad
11/04/08

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Ha! Ceejeemcbeegee started a conversation about perfumes yesterday and some of us were comparing horror stories about being stuck in elevators with some of these scents.

My mother hasn't worn Tabu for several decades but it will always and ever be her signature scent in my memory.

A beloved Great Aunt used to only wear Hypnotique by Max Factor.
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royaume de coeur
11/04/08

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am I the only one who is into the VS scents? for some reason, they all seem to work pretty well on me. Body by Victoria is my everyday perfume.

my absolute FAVORITE was Secret 55, which was discontinued. I have a teeny bit left that I use for special occasions. my boyfriend is so obsessed with it that he has said he'd be willing to track it down and spend the $150+ on it.
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Cafezinha
11/04/08

@royaume de coeur: I noted upthread that I dearly miss the discontinued "Victoria" from VS. I've never found anything quite like it since then. I'm not a fan of most of their current scents, though I do kind of enjoy "Rapture" and something else...may be called "Luscious"? Smells like blackberry and vanilla and sex.
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Tart of Darkness
11/04/08

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I wore Calvin Klein's first perfume which was just called "Calvin Klein" from the time I bought it in a high end store through its descent in the middle end stores to the drugstore where my mom bought me my last bottle as a gift just before she passed away in 1992.

I wore it because it was the first and only perfume I've ever worn that I got complements about. I wore it very lightly, but people -- men and women -- often complimented me on it.

Then all the citrusy scents became popular giving me a two decade migraine. My daughter wore "Happy" for awhile I and had to forbid her to put it on before we got in my 2-seater car because I'd be sick in minutes.

In all these years the only scent that got close to "Calvin Klein" was Opium for Men which I wore occasionally. I cannot wear citrus or flowery scents, they are major yuck on me.

Finally I discover Thierry Mugler's "Angel" and while I don't like it on me for the first 30 minutes or so, I like it after that and get compliments on it. We use a lemon verbena bath soap and I swear that when I use that and then put on Angel, I smell like a wonderful unsmoked pipe tobacco.

I don't like to offend people with scent, so I put my perfume on awhile before I go out so that it dies down before I encounter the public.

Perfumes are another thing on my list of "why do they have to go out of style?" things. Like good purses. Or great shoes. Or particular garment silhouettes that work with my body.
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Ratinski
11/04/08

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My mother has worn Shalimar for as long as I can remember, but not as an everyday perfume. Special occasions ONLY, thank you very much. Everyday perfumes have changed depending on how poor we were. It used to be Navy and Vanilla Fields, now its CK Obsession and Burberry.
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tomatoheart
11/04/08

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the only scents i'll wear are CB I Hate Perfume. my favorite is In The Library, which smells of old leather-bound books
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the_pest
11/04/08

@delicatetbone: Thanks for this! I think I like this guy/girl already.
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tomatoheart
11/04/08

@diamonds4guns: his stuff is brilliant...today i'm wearing "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" The salty breath of the breeze off the Mediterranean, driftwood, rocks covered with seaweed and the smell of old leather suitcases

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I'm Chuck Bass
11/04/08

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I wear Pink Sugar, which smells like sweet happy love and is probably the exact opposite of a "power" scent. It makes me happy every time I smell it.
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Keter
11/04/08

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Wow, those perfumes always gave me really bad headaches. Not sure what ingredients were at issue, but I remember the misery of trying to work next to women who insisted on showering in scent.

I do wear perfume, but I have to be careful in selecting it - almost everything smells like eau du Raid (bug spray) on me five minutes after I put it on because it reacts with my body chemistry. It lasts an hour or so before changing if I spray it on my clothes instead. All of the old 80s perfumes fell into the "bug spray" category with the single exception of Obsession. The original Obsession was way better than the one that's out there now.

Still, I think I will stick with Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue for warm weather, Calvin Klein Eternity for cooler weather, and essential oil of sandalwood for a big warm up on the coldest days.

The perfume I miss is (don't hate me) Woodhue, which I think disappeared in the mid 80s. That reactive body chemistry thing did absolute magic with that scent - it smelled different on me than on anyone else, something I had to warn people about when they asked what I was wearing.

My mother wore that gawdawful stuff in a hot pink bottle. I have PTSD over that one and thus can't remember the name. Worse, she wore it in the summer - I couldn't come into the house without becoming light headed from it. I hope it's gone for good.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
11/04/08

@Keter: You can still get Woodhue at Vermont Country Store.
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lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
11/04/08

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Mitsouko ftw.
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lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
11/04/08

@lucystrawberry: also, jardin sur le nil. mmmyum.
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tunamelt
11/04/08

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Hermes Eau d'Orange Verte and Chanel No. 5.

Although I just got a free sample thing of Sarah Jessica Parker's Covet and I don't hate it.
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angryblackgurl
11/04/08

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Estee Lauder "Private Collection", I recently bought a bottle, everyone hates it!!
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queenieinmanhattan
11/04/08

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Can we talk about how nasty those men's body sprays are? Last year I dated (ok, routinely slept with) a guy who wore Axe. I wanted to scream, "you're 34; if you want to wear cologne, buy the real stuff, not something that smells vaguely of vomit!"
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Smackdown
11/04/08

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Miss Dior Cherie is my new Winter scent, and it's actually a gourmand that Now Smell This apparently hated, but I absolutely love. Smells like caramel popcorn and strawberry soda and just is so sparkly when you put it on and then mellows throughout the day. LOVE. I haven't loved a perfume like I love this perfume in a really long time.
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nataku8_e30
11/04/08

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Well, I'm sure my opinion doesn't matter much, but ladies - if you're standing by the side of the street and I ride by on my motorcycle with my helmet on and the visor down...and I can still smell your perfume, YOU'RE WEARING TOO MUCH!!! I hate that, and the somewhat more common getting into an elevator and it reeking of bad perfume. You're really not saving any money by buying cheap perfume if you douse yourself in over a pint of it every morning.
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queenieinmanhattan
11/04/08

@nataku83: You shouldn't be able to smell someone's perfume unless you're within a couple of feet, max. Anything else is nasty, impolite (you're drowning out other people's smells and making people sneeze) and just downright tacky.
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