Hello everyone,
Reading perfume blogs and joining basenotes, and has opened a whole new world to me. My thoughts about scent never centered on me and my perfume choices I could talk for hours about roses and which rose had the most perfect scent, strongest aroma etc. to rose fanatics, but never thought at all about my perfume choices over the years, and what attracted me, or the converse what repelled my nose, or didnt work with my body chemistry.
I dont have the ability to detect top notes, mid notes, dry down all those wonderful things you all discuss so knowledgably in posts and reviews except in a most basic way, and while constructing my wardrobe here, of current and past owned scents and rating them, I began to wonder about what actually attracts me to scents and why some become staples and others not.
I certainly dont fit the stereotypes Ive read in fragrance ads, if I did Id be a blonde
because my favorite scent, on me, since the early 70s is LHeure Bleu and will remain the standard by which I judge everything else. I am brunette, brown eyes with beige/tan skin coloring. Nor do I fit "perfume personality" profiles I am a feminist, aggressive/assertive, non frilly in clothing choices, and from what I can puzzle out from the basenotes directory and Now Smell This the common denominators in my perfume staples are florals. What I have also found is that with a few exceptions (Oscar de La Renta & Myurgia) I prefer French perfumes, and seem to be attracted to neroli, aldehydes, sandalwood, freesia, and vanilla.
Would like help from those of you who know more about perfume in constructing a profile for me of scents I might want to experiment with, since I would like to try new ones. Have already ordered decants of some Serge Lutens, since I have had my interest piqued here by the enthusiasm expressed by so many posters.
As stated above my all time favorite is LHeure Bleu. Second current favorite is also a Guerlain, Voile dEte, third is Poeme - Lancome. For many years also wore: Chanel No 5, and Volupte
In younger years: Ciara, Madame Rochas, Flor de Blason and Maja, Opium (only in the evenings)
Two favorite soliflores: present - Freesia Crabtree and Evelyn, past - Tea Rose, Perfumers Workshop
I would appreciate suggestions of decants/samples to order have little opportunity to go to stores and sniff anything only large store nearby is Macy's (went in last week and sniffed a bit) and I am not interested in the plethora of celebrity scents or the teeny-bopper selections they are pushing. Most to my nose were awful.
thanks in advance,
Denise
Reading perfume blogs and joining basenotes, and has opened a whole new world to me. My thoughts about scent never centered on me and my perfume choices I could talk for hours about roses and which rose had the most perfect scent, strongest aroma etc. to rose fanatics, but never thought at all about my perfume choices over the years, and what attracted me, or the converse what repelled my nose, or didnt work with my body chemistry.
I dont have the ability to detect top notes, mid notes, dry down all those wonderful things you all discuss so knowledgably in posts and reviews except in a most basic way, and while constructing my wardrobe here, of current and past owned scents and rating them, I began to wonder about what actually attracts me to scents and why some become staples and others not.
I certainly dont fit the stereotypes Ive read in fragrance ads, if I did Id be a blonde
because my favorite scent, on me, since the early 70s is LHeure Bleu and will remain the standard by which I judge everything else. I am brunette, brown eyes with beige/tan skin coloring. Nor do I fit "perfume personality" profiles I am a feminist, aggressive/assertive, non frilly in clothing choices, and from what I can puzzle out from the basenotes directory and Now Smell This the common denominators in my perfume staples are florals. What I have also found is that with a few exceptions (Oscar de La Renta & Myurgia) I prefer French perfumes, and seem to be attracted to neroli, aldehydes, sandalwood, freesia, and vanilla.
Would like help from those of you who know more about perfume in constructing a profile for me of scents I might want to experiment with, since I would like to try new ones. Have already ordered decants of some Serge Lutens, since I have had my interest piqued here by the enthusiasm expressed by so many posters.
As stated above my all time favorite is LHeure Bleu. Second current favorite is also a Guerlain, Voile dEte, third is Poeme - Lancome. For many years also wore: Chanel No 5, and Volupte
In younger years: Ciara, Madame Rochas, Flor de Blason and Maja, Opium (only in the evenings)
Two favorite soliflores: present - Freesia Crabtree and Evelyn, past - Tea Rose, Perfumers Workshop
I would appreciate suggestions of decants/samples to order have little opportunity to go to stores and sniff anything only large store nearby is Macy's (went in last week and sniffed a bit) and I am not interested in the plethora of celebrity scents or the teeny-bopper selections they are pushing. Most to my nose were awful.
thanks in advance,
Denise
