Any really nice grapefruit scents?

Â*Â*So I am wondering -- are there any fragrances out there containing grapefruit that do not make one smell like a kitchen-freshening scented candle, an aromatherapy remedy or a diet drink? Â*Are there any elegant grapefruit scents --- calling Serge Lutens, paging Frederic Malle...Chanel, are you listening?

Â*Last year various stories sprung out of some scent and attractiveness studies conducted at the Scent and Taste Treatment Center and Institute in Chicago. Its lead researcher, Dr. Alan Hirsch, began to pursue this research area after noticing that nearely 1/5th of his patients who had lost their senses of smell experienced sexual dysfunction. He theorized, like others, that there must be a sex-scent link. So what scents? Â*Is it all about undetectable pheremones? Â*If there are sexy scents that we can smell, what are they? Â*(see my thread on the male forum "The ultimate chic magnet" for a good laugh!http://www.basenotes.net/community/Y...1141301395/0#0 ) And what other ways do scents affect our attraction to others or our very own attractiveness?

Â*One of the more interesting findings to me as a woman approaching 40, was that when women of a certain age (as the diplomatic French are wont to say) wore a grapefruit scent, that men consistently rated their age as being approximately six years younger. Â*30 scents were used and the women encountered many men while wearing different scents.

Â*Â*A brief and somewhat accurate AP tidbit from 2005 about the grapefruit angle and age perception.

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiol...rapefruit.html

Yummy, yum, yum, Thank you! Those three certainly sound like trying.

More of Hirsch's research indicated men are attracted to vanilla (but older men even more so) and cinnamon. But guy's top most arousing fragrance (causing a 40% increase in blood flow to the -- ahem, forgive me for getting anatomical -- genital region) was of all things a combination of pumpkin pie (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cream, sugar, vanilla, orange zest, squash) and lavender. Â*Now I for one, think I would rather serve this as a dessert in a seduction scenario Â*(pie a la mode with lavender ice cream) with a side of grapefruit and dim candlelight and maybe that is what is really meant by "the way to a man's hert is through his stomach."

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Thank you, Godzilla.

and judging from the traffic this thread is getting (very low), grapefruit will remain a secret weapon for all those of us over 34 who bothered to read this!

I want to invite Godzilla, the only male responding, to come over while I am wearing AG or the others and tell me I look 29!

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But we are girls!

Thank you, Rita Mae for all this info and insight - that's enough on Calyx to know I don't want to try it. I am sensitive so have to keep scent toned down and subtle or I keep getting distracted or irrtiated by a too-strong fragrance.

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