Woo Hoo!!!!!!! At last a place to share a passion of old.
Just joined today so I have plenty of questions and need all your expert help.
I have always chosen perfume in the same way .....spray it... smell it... like it...buy it..and then never given a second thought about why I liked it. But now I am looking for a new perfume and want to know more.
I have already looked at nearly all of the perfumes I know and love and have been for a few days in various places and I have been amazed to discover how other websites and basenotes have correctly suggested what other fragrances I would like if I like this particular one. Wow how clever. Also how everything I like has basenotes of patchouli........even cleverer! (Loved it since I was 13 and bought a tiny bottle of Hippy oil with my wages from my weekend job at the Wimpy bar).
Now I've already sussed that I really am a complete virgin as to what aromas hit you through the different notes of a fragrance but I am keen to learn. At the moment it seems a bit like the way wine tasters describe wines.... but to me wine just tastes like wine, although once I did detect a hint of smoked bacon in a bottle of South Australlian Merlot , but like I say it was only the once.
What I want to ask is can I have suggestions for something which is really heavy on patcholli. I also like coconut (and vanilla but not too much). I probably like other things as well but if I do I can't define them in a perfume.
So here is a list of what I like in no particular order of favorites.......
1 Presence d'une femme by Mont Blanc - A new discovery and I adore it.
2 Casmir by Chopard (which my daughter always says smells of Washing up liquid).
3 Kingdom
4 Ghost Deep Night
5 Eurphoria - Want -don't have
6 Patrick cox - High - Discontinued..Sob
7 Venetzia by Laura Biagiotti - Discontinued...even more sobs
8 Jungle L'elephant - Want - don't have
9 Angel - Want - don't have
10 Jean Paul Gaultier Classique
All ideas welcome but feel like treading the less used path as I am getting older so I wouldn't mind obscure suggestions too.
Just joined today so I have plenty of questions and need all your expert help.
I have always chosen perfume in the same way .....spray it... smell it... like it...buy it..and then never given a second thought about why I liked it. But now I am looking for a new perfume and want to know more.
I have already looked at nearly all of the perfumes I know and love and have been for a few days in various places and I have been amazed to discover how other websites and basenotes have correctly suggested what other fragrances I would like if I like this particular one. Wow how clever. Also how everything I like has basenotes of patchouli........even cleverer! (Loved it since I was 13 and bought a tiny bottle of Hippy oil with my wages from my weekend job at the Wimpy bar).
Now I've already sussed that I really am a complete virgin as to what aromas hit you through the different notes of a fragrance but I am keen to learn. At the moment it seems a bit like the way wine tasters describe wines.... but to me wine just tastes like wine, although once I did detect a hint of smoked bacon in a bottle of South Australlian Merlot , but like I say it was only the once.
What I want to ask is can I have suggestions for something which is really heavy on patcholli. I also like coconut (and vanilla but not too much). I probably like other things as well but if I do I can't define them in a perfume.
So here is a list of what I like in no particular order of favorites.......
1 Presence d'une femme by Mont Blanc - A new discovery and I adore it.
2 Casmir by Chopard (which my daughter always says smells of Washing up liquid).
3 Kingdom
4 Ghost Deep Night
5 Eurphoria - Want -don't have
6 Patrick cox - High - Discontinued..Sob
7 Venetzia by Laura Biagiotti - Discontinued...even more sobs
8 Jungle L'elephant - Want - don't have
9 Angel - Want - don't have
10 Jean Paul Gaultier Classique
All ideas welcome but feel like treading the less used path as I am getting older so I wouldn't mind obscure suggestions too.
