Do you keep a careful record of the scents you have tried? How much detail do you record and in what format?
I have a list on my PDA of scents I've sampled. Most of the entries just state the house and name of the scent. A few have a one word or acronym comment (yuk, OK, or whatever). Some are followed by a set of initials of one or two Basenoters whose taste I greatly respect and who have recommended a certain scent. There are 485 scents on that list at the moment and I think I began to keep it in about 2002. Every now and again I fill in scents I know I've tried but omitted to add at the time. As new ones come out they go on the list too.
I have a separate list of scents I own (25 at present) which is edited as things come into my collection or get swapped or finished. This is the list that is recorded in my Wardrobe. Finally I have a very short list of scents I know I want (three or four) and another of scents I want to sample - either forthcoming ones or old ones that a Basenotes discussion has made me want to try again (about seven on this list).
I have a list on my PDA of scents I've sampled. Most of the entries just state the house and name of the scent. A few have a one word or acronym comment (yuk, OK, or whatever). Some are followed by a set of initials of one or two Basenoters whose taste I greatly respect and who have recommended a certain scent. There are 485 scents on that list at the moment and I think I began to keep it in about 2002. Every now and again I fill in scents I know I've tried but omitted to add at the time. As new ones come out they go on the list too.
I have a separate list of scents I own (25 at present) which is edited as things come into my collection or get swapped or finished. This is the list that is recorded in my Wardrobe. Finally I have a very short list of scents I know I want (three or four) and another of scents I want to sample - either forthcoming ones or old ones that a Basenotes discussion has made me want to try again (about seven on this list).
