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Perfume yea or nay?

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  • #32
    padd b1975
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    Anyone old enough to remember White Musk?

    Every teenage girl in the early nineties used to wear it.


  • #33
    mrcheez
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    Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille with a generous helping of Beau de Jour

    Combination is the key to heaven.

    So..eh...perfume yea obviously


  • #34
    Blueshoe
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    Definite yay. Just don't smather your self in it


  • #35
    anewme
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    banie01 wrote: »
    For me, as a male I tend to wear Chanel Egoiste, Tom Forde black orchid(a recent discovery)

    Have a few others that don't get any skin time anymore, but lately black orchid is really catching my nose and the Mrs isn't complaining like ;)

    Black Orchid is my favourite. I think it's too heavy for daywear though so I keep it for going out.

    Also liked Neroli Portofino by Tom Ford. I bought an eau de perfum which was eye wateringly expensive but reminded me of something. I then discovered it was that it was that cheap 4711 that people wore in the 70.s and it's about a tenner.


  • #36
    One eyed Jack
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    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Anyone old enough to remember White Musk?

    Every teenage girl in the early nineties used to wear it.


    Burberry Weekender was another popular 90’s fragrance :D


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  • #37
    anewme
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Burberry Weekender was another popular 90’s fragrance :D

    Anais Anais and Lou Lou.

    Lou Lou was particularly rotten.


  • #38
    Leg End Reject
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    anewme wrote: »
    Lou Lou was particularly rotten.

    Eden too. Sickly-sweet, cloying smells.

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  • #39
    Redneck Reject71
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    I can't remember the exact name of it, but there is a Michael Kors perfume the office secretary wears. And it is very nice, almost a citrus/cinnamon scent.

    As for aftershave, I wear either Old Spice or Stetson.


  • #40
    The One Doctor
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    No, perfume smells awful. I'd always know when my daughter had been in her Nana's because she stank of perfume. I mentioned it to my wife and the stink stopped.

    I presume that people who wear perfume/cologne just can't be bothered to shower.


  • #41
    andekwarhola
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    Rufeo wrote: »
    I don't like it personally. I don't mind the smell of her body.


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  • #42
    El_Duderino 09
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    They’re scents I’d normally associate with laundry detergents and household cleaning products or air fresheners! Not that they don’t smell nice, but they have their place (preferably not on a woman :D).

    The ones in laundry detergents and household cleaning products or air fresheners are naturally the cheapest and loudest smells available. You get what you pay for in smells. Proper scents of the ones mentioned above are what it's all about for me.

    I've no interest in a perfume if it's name isn't the actual identifiable scents. None of your Jonny Depp in the desert scent called "who am I?" or any of that nonsense. Bergamot or Neroli are the smells I like on myself. Zegna do nice ones. Jo Malone are nice too.


  • #43
    LETHAL LADY
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    The One Doctor wrote: »
    No, perfume smells awful. I'd always know when my daughter had been in her Nana's because she stank of perfume. I mentioned it to my wife and the stink stopped.

    I presume that people who wear perfume/cologne just can't be bothered to shower.

    I presume you're talking about a Spanish shower? Dirty people don't tend to spend money on deodorant nevermind perfume or cologne.


  • #44
    Ikozma
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    I absolutely love it personally, it's incredibly sexy and alluring


  • #45
    El_Duderino 09
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    anewme wrote: »
    Too much lemon and could smell like a floor cleaner.

    Chanel No. 5 is a classic that has stood the test of time. All that Marilyn wore in bed.

    As above. The really cheap synthetic stuff goes into floor cleaner. What do you expect for floor cleaner? But the actual smells extracted from lemons, jasmine, bergamot, are used in proper perfumes.


  • #46
    Raconteuse
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    Oh my god those 90s perfumes! Exclamation, White Musk, LouLou, Anais Anais... I can actually feel the car sick sensation. :pac:

    There was also Charlie (which may have been a carryover from the 80s but I remember there was a big marketing campaign in the 90s with Claudia Schiffer). My favourite was So...?

    They were still lighter than the 80s ones though, like Poison and Opium. Jaysus. The ads were so gloriously over the top. Usually a woman running through the streets of Rome at dawn, clothing billowing in the breeze. A panther wearing a gold chain stalking her. Then she collapses into a handsome saviour's arms.

    Remember the body sprays too, like Limara (80s - power ballad), and Oe (90s - more natural and earthy; bunch of kinda tribal chicks).


  • #47
    andekwarhola
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShArz5J0bY


  • #48
    anewme
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    LoL it wouldn't last an hour today!!

    Tramp and Tweed and Cachet(cat****)


  • #49
    Raconteuse
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    Lentheric was actually a made up name which the marketeers in some boardroom in London thought sounded dead French and posh.

    I remember as a little kid seeing the ads for Panache by Lentheric and thinking it was the most glamorous thing in the world.

    Tweed was marketed to the older lady - my nana used to wear it.


  • #50
    andekwarhola
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    anewme wrote: »
    LoL it wouldn't last an hour today!!


    The time is ripe to launch one called Dirtbird.


  • #51
    Leg End Reject
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    Le Jardin with Jane Seymore in the ads.

    Made by Max Factor to mask the smell of the 3 inches of Pan Stik.

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  • #52
    Raconteuse
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Le Jardin
    That was another of my favourites. And Dewberry from The Body Shop (where you'd get White Musk too).


  • #53
    Leg End Reject
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    Raconteuse wrote: »
    That was another of my favourites. And Dewberry from The Body Shop (where you'd get White Musk too).

    There was another musk one that I can't remember the name of, but I used to love it.

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  • #54
    anewme
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    There was another musk one that I can't remember the name of, but I used to love it.

    Just Musk?


  • #55
    Leg End Reject
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    anewme wrote: »
    Just Musk?

    It was the Body Shop too, something musk I think. It was much stronger than white musk.

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  • #56
    andekwarhola
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    It was the Body Shop too, something musk I think. It was much stronger than white musk.


    Mostly Musk? Really nice scent/oil actually.


  • #57
    Leg End Reject
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Mostly Musk? Really nice scent/oil actually.

    Yes! Thank you, I'd have been up all night trying to remember.

    It was lovely, I'd still wear it now.

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  • #58
    anewme
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    Used to love Kouros on a man.


  • #59
    Leg End Reject
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    anewme wrote: »
    Used to love Kouros on a man.

    I really fancied a man years ago who wore it.

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  • #60
    zom
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    Seriously love fuel smell ;)

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  • #61
    Capt'n Midnight
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    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    I rarely like women's perfumes. Most are cheap and nasty. Some are simple and lovely. Truth is that nice smells cost money. The synthetic stuff is cheap and smells cheap.

    At least whale and hyraxe poop is sorta ethical.


    Anal glands are highly prized. One is reminded of the Discworld Vermine.

    The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.
    - Pterry


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