Perfume/eau de toilette/Cologne

[Loppan Torkel]

I might buy one as a Christmas gift so I started looking around. As usual there are an abundance of forums and youtube clips reviewing different brands and fragrances. The more you research the more expensive it gets. I'm not really looking for tips since it's it's so subjective in the first place, but it might be interesting to hear other perspectives and thoughts on this matter or the perfume industry as a whole.

Have you been getting positive or negative responses on a particular perfume? Do you use one? One or several different? Do you have a "signature scent"?

 

[Synobun]

Natural Woman

You may look easygoing and laid back, but you know how to turn it up a notch when the occasion calls for it. In the meantime, you're content to let everyone think you're the quiet one. Once in a while, though, you need a little extra something to remind everyone that you hold all the cards, though you may not show it.You like fragrances with floral overtones, but not ones that are cloyingly sweet or girlish. Your favorites are scents topped with some unexpected notes, a mystery blend, just like you.Your ideal fragrance matches: Burberry Brit, Benefit Maybe Baby, Shiseido Energizing Fragrance, Origins Ginger Essence, Ralph Lauren Ralph

I'm not sure I should have taken that quiz.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

sorry, it was what came up after a search

 

[Catharsis]

Sporty Tomboy
High energy and not afraid of a little competition, you're always up for a good game.You like scents that can't be pegged down to one gender immediately. That doesn't mean you always borrow a guy's cologne; you prefer scents that are unisex, yet have a woman's edge. Let your feminine side shine through with a light, fruity scent.Your ideal fragrance matches: Ralph Lauren Polo Sport Woman, Donna Karan Cashmere Mist, Clinique Happy Heart, American Eagle Aura, Philosophy Pure Grace

Eau de sweaty jockstrap for me.

 

[Borachio]

Natural Woman
You may look easygoing and laid back, but you know how to turn it up a notch when the occasion calls for it. In the meantime, you're content to let everyone think you're the quiet one. Once in a while, though, you need a little extra something to remind everyone that you hold all the cards, though you may not show it.You like fragrances with floral overtones, but not ones that are cloyingly sweet or girlish. Your favorites are scents topped with some unexpected notes, a mystery blend, just like you.Your ideal fragrance matches: Burberry Brit, Benefit Maybe Baby, Shiseido Energizing Fragrance, Origins Ginger Essence, Ralph Lauren

Yup. This is me all over. How did they know? Spooky.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

The gamer scents are working for everyone, I take it.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Have you been getting positive or negative responses on a particular perfume? Do you use one? One or several different? Do you have a "signature scent"?

I use this cologne from Jay-Z. It smells really good and isn't that expensive. People comment positively on it, just don't overdo it.

 

[Borachio]

I'm amazed that anyone wears perfume, never mind a bloke.

You can tell you've overdone it when dogs can't stop sneezing when you go by.

When I was a mere schoolboy, the woman chemistry lab assistant used to wear so much perfume you could smell her 5 minutes before she appeared. I suspect she may have had some kind of body odour problem that she was trying to mask. Who knows?

What's wrong with just washing every so often?

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

What's wrong with just washing every so often?

I agree, as long as "every so often" means twice daily.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I'm amazed that anyone wears perfume, never mind a bloke.

You can tell you've overdone it when dogs can't stop sneezing when you go by.

When I was a mere schoolboy, the woman chemistry lab assistant used to wear so much perfume you could smell her 5 minutes before she appeared. I suspect she may have had some kind of body odour problem that she was trying to mask. Who knows?

A group of mere schoolboys can reek pretty badly.

What's wrong with just washing every so often?

Showering once a day is good enough, but men's perfume/eau de toilette is hardly a new thing. I have a few that I use on occasions. Never on a daily basis, I think it's only once a month or so. Why not?

 

[Borachio]

You're right school boys can reek badly. But why should she? It was like chemical warfare.

The nearest I get to wearing perfume, is an anti-deodorant, if I know I'm going to be in a warm crowded place for some considerable time.

And I do agree people naturally smell. It's something I especially notice after I've been entirely solitary for a while. It's not an unpleasant smell, usually.

 

[Cutlass]

Gasoline

 

[Loppan Torkel]

You're right school boys can reek badly. But why should she? It was like chemical warfare.

Maybe it was Did you ever smell her besides her perfume? Maybe she was trying to overcome the smell of sweaty, little school boys.


I agree that it shouldn't be overdone..

 

[Borachio]

Gasoline

This is extremely noticeable if you've been up country for a couple of weeks, I find.

And London is just dreadful, every time I go there.

You can tell it's bad because of the "low pollution" zones in Central London. Ironically so called.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

All these things are an abomination and an offense to my nose and lungs. I'm allergic to it, and anybody who gives me perfume and other such offensive garbage is NOT my friend!

 

[Agent327]

You haven't been given a proper perfume then. The trick is that it needs to scent, while not being overly present. That is very hard to do, and it is an accomplished art. Perfuming used to be a proper trade, like painting, but much more fleeting, as it is an art of fashion, by its very nature. Any scent that's too strong should be avoided; it's the sign of a bad perfumer. Unlike some artists seem to think, not anyone can make a proper perfume - or lend his/her name to it. Obviously, perfume should be applied with modesty as well; women walking in a scent of odour merely give off a sign of "I've no idea what perfume's for, and I'd like everybody to know about it".

The book/movie Das Parfüm/Perfume has a hint of the art of perfuming.

As to the OP question: since there are so many different perfumes out there, you'd think it would be easy to pick a signature scent. But you are most likely to end up with a "signature scent" that is the same as that of many other individuals. If the perfume is subtle however, it gives a blend of your own and the perfume's scent. That is your signature scent.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

All these things are an abomination and an offense to my nose and lungs. I'm allergic to it, and anybody who gives me perfume and other such offensive garbage is NOT my friend!

You haven't been given a proper perfume then. The trick is that it needs to scent, while not being overly present.

Whilst I appreciate your passion for perfumery, this doesn't really address Valka's allergies.

 

[Mise]

I'm not sure I should have taken that quiz.

This thread became inadvertently hilarious


As for cologne, I've never bought any for myself. People buy them for me for Christmas and I use what they give me in turn. I still have bottles of cologne from when I was 16. Not sure if it goes off but it still smells alright...

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

As for cologne, I've never bought any for myself.

So you own 0 de cologne

 

[Borachio]

Aghhhhhh!


Gnnnnnng!!!!


Original, Mr R?