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post #1 of 54
12/10/07 at 10:48am
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Concerning my collection,I own:

Two x 50 ml bottles of Trussardi L' Uomo (I used to think that this one was the best masculine ever made.EVER).
Two x 50 ml bottles os Havana by Aramis (well,that's more obvious).
Two x 50 ml bottles of M7 Fresh (I trully dislike the original,but this one is another story:sparkling,light,versatile, plus the second bottle was a bargain at about 15 Euros).
Two x 50 ml bottles of Boss Sport (not only a rarity, but also the best Hugo Boss scent ever made in my opinion).
Two x 100 ml bottles of Liquid Karl by Karl Lagerfeld (I bought the first just by curiocity and a second one because I thought that it was an extremely rare/expensive item.Of course that's not the case.I do not wear it,neither I intend to sell/swap it).

What about you?
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post #2 of 54
12/10/07 at 10:58am
The only backup bottle I have is, of all things, Caswell-Massey's Persian Leather. I stocked up on it a year or so ago when it was removed from their catalog and was my signature scent at the time. Then I discovered Basenotes...
I'm not sure I intend to stock backups unless, as with PL, I'm sure that something I love will be discontinued.
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post #3 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:05am
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Backups kept of:

Aramis Havana
Aramis Havana Reserva
Aramis Tuscany
Carolina Hererra for Men
Caron 3rd Man
Caron pour Un Homme
Dunhill (1934)

Davidoff Relax
Zino Davidoff
Dolce & Gabbana pour Homme
Geir
Jacques Bogart Witness
John Varvatos
Lanvin Arpege pour Homme
Lanvin Vetyver (new)
Montana Parfum d'Homme
R de Capucci
Trussardi Uomo

+ many decants of other fragrances I have in bottles
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post #4 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:15am
Cuiron
Rive Gauche Pour Homme Intense
Heritage EdT
Pomegranate Noir - Jo Malone
Carven Homme
Apivita - Spice
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post #5 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:18am
I have a backup of LPNO.9 and NR for Him.
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post #6 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:20am
Cuiron
Rive Gauche PH
Paco XS
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post #7 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:26am
If you give me money, I'll buy some backup bottles.
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post #8 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:30am
I only keep backup bottles of Mitsouko, due to the recent and upcoming reformulations.
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post #9 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:33am
Nicole Miller for Men
Egoiste Cologne Concentree
Santal Noble
JHL
Havana (my "backup" is a bottle of Reserva since I can't tell the difference between the two)
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post #10 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:35am
I don't even have any room for my primary bottles anymore .
I've sold or am selling most backups (Versailles, Asprey, Jean Marie Farina) with one exception: Patou pour homme.
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post #11 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:51am
Not yet, as my collection is new and most bottles are 60-90% filled so far... so no need unless something is going to be discontinued.
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post #12 of 54
12/10/07 at 11:54am
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Armand Basi is the only one so far... It was the first scent I really liked when I first got into this fragrance addiction... It was so good (and cheap) that I felt the need to have an extra bottle on had in case it ever got discontinued.... I still enjoy the scent, though I realize that I didn't need an extra bottle of it...

As of right now, I have full bottles of all the scents that are worth backing up. I wouldn't back up anything that came out in the last few years, so that leaves me with...

Havana
Havana Reserva
Gai Mattiolo Uomo
Loewe Para Hombre
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post #13 of 54
12/10/07 at 12:03pm
Creed Erolfa, Green Valley & BdG
Havana
Tuscany
Versailles
R&G Open
R&G L Homme
Capucci PH
R de Capucci
Colours
Xeryus
Greenergy
Riverside Drive
Carlo Corinto
Worth PH
C&S No. 88
SL Cuir Mauresque
Gucci Nobile
KC Reaction
Lacoste (original)
Captain Molyneux
Romeo Gigli Sud Est
Society Yachting
Tommy
Versace Green Jeans

...all tucked safely away in the fallout shelter.
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post #14 of 54
12/10/07 at 12:30pm
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Originally Posted by JBL View Post

If you give me money, I'll buy some backup bottles.

Exactly. It's expensive enough to keep buying the scents that I don't have yet. I only buy back up when my current bottle is almost finished, or when the scent is being discontinued and I find it cheap. So far, I have
B Man
Nemo
CDG 2
Coriolan
Rive Gauche
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post #15 of 54
12/10/07 at 12:40pm
Quorum
Aramis 900
Devin
Azzaro pour Homme
Jaipur Homme
Chanel pour Monsieur (1955)
Green Irish Tweed
Grey Flannel
Giorgio for Men (GBH)
Heritage EdT
Heritage EdP
Bogart pour Homme
Witness
Arpege pour Homme
New York
Old Spice
Polo (green)
Ambre Sultan

I am looking for backups of a few more.
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post #16 of 54
12/10/07 at 1:38pm
I only get backups of something if I'm almost finished a bottle, or if it's something rare or very expensive (usually both!) that I wear often, and that I don't have a 100ml of, and I see it pop up at a very good price.

Therefore the backups I have are all Lutens exclusives or Haute Concentrations since they're expensive, or rare, and come in 50ml bottles:

Chergui
Vetiver Oriental
Chypre Rouge
Cèdre
Arabie (I got this because I thought it had been discontinued! In any case my first bottle is running out.)

I used to have a backup of Fumerie Turque, but I found I wasn't wearing it enough to merit keeping it, and I sold it off. Same with Opium Pour Homme EDP, especially since it's not super hard to find.

Almost everything else in my collection is 100ml
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post #17 of 54
12/10/07 at 1:56pm
Patou Pour Homme
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post #18 of 54
12/10/07 at 2:32pm
Ambre sultan
Santal Noble
JHL
Tiffany for men
The craziness of all this! I have over 300ML of all the above! My most beloved fragrance's.
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post #19 of 54
12/10/07 at 2:32pm
Back ups as of right now:

Azzaro Pure Vetiver
Azzaro Visit
Bvlgari pour Homme
Bvlgari BLV NOTTE
Thierry Mugler B*Men
Hugo Boss Baldessarini
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Jean Paul Gaultier Gaultier2
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post #20 of 54
12/10/07 at 2:34pm
I try to keep a back-up bottle of my favorite cheapie (That Man by Revlon) and also the delicious but discontinued Balenciaga pour Homme. (No back-up bottle right now, but I hope to change that soon.)
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post #21 of 54
12/10/07 at 4:15pm
Havana 50ml
Havana Reserva 50ml
Heritage EDP Old Formula 75ml
Patou Pour Homme 60ml
Nicole Miller Homme (my bottle is 4.2oz, but the backup is only 2.5)

If I get the chance to find some PPH Prive I may put a bottle of that away as well.
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post #22 of 54
12/10/07 at 4:54pm
Out of fear of nothing other than not having them on hand

SMW
Chanel Pour Monsieur
Acqua di Parma (Colonia and Assoluta)
Tiffany for Men

Used very sparingly

Guerlain Vetiver (old version)
Dunhill (1934)
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post #23 of 54
12/10/07 at 4:57pm
JHL is the only back up I have. I am thinking of getting a back up of Dunhill for Men, but I am a slow user of product, and I wonder how long the great Dunhill would last even in the frig.
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post #24 of 54
12/10/07 at 4:57pm
kiehls musk
nicole miller man
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post #25 of 54
12/10/07 at 5:38pm
4 50ml Ambre Sultan
2 100ml Musc Ravageur
2 100ml Black Aoud
2 50ml CdG Avignon
2 100 Black Cashmere
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post #26 of 54
12/14/07 at 11:28pm
Backups currently kept of

Dunhill edition (my all-time favourite)
Boss #1
Cool Water
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post #27 of 54
12/15/07 at 4:46am
JHL - I was under the impression at the time that it was discontinued
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post #28 of 54
12/15/07 at 5:15am
I have backup of
Cuiron Helmut Lang
Coriolan Guerlain
Vetiver Guerlain EDC vintage
Bandit Piguet
Cabochard Gres (perfume. EDP. EDT)
Equipage Harmes vintage
Derby Guerlain vintage
Jicky Guerlain EDC vintage
Bel Ami Hermes
Eau Merveilles Hermes
well, it`s quite a lot, I did not realize how many bottles are backups...
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post #29 of 54
12/15/07 at 5:15am
Chanel no 5 in various forms...lotion, cream, edt and parfum
Fleurs d'Oranger, first bottle nearly empty
Tabac Blond, in this case multiple decants
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post #30 of 54
12/15/07 at 5:32am
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The only reason for me to get backups is if I think it may be discontinued, therefore:

3 Dunhill For Men
1 Dunhill Edition
1 M7
1 Rive Gauche
1 Guerlain Vetiver vintage

Ged
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post #31 of 54
12/15/07 at 6:25am
At the moment I have backups of:

Iceberg Twice Homme
Nicole Farhi Homme
Acqua di Portofino

All of the above bought cheap at TK Maxx

Caron PH
Caron 3rd Man
Caron Yatatgan

Bought reasonably on line from a local supplier.

I will also be buying back-ups of all four of the Laliques, as well as the rest of the Carons I don't have backed up yet.
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post #32 of 54
12/15/07 at 6:55am
Patou pour Homme - hard to get! I had to pick up an extra when I stumbled onto it.

CdG Avignon and Kyoto - when the "soon to discontinue" scare was hitting basenotes I had to lay in back up supplies of these two.
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post #33 of 54
12/15/07 at 7:34am
Coriolan by Guerlain
L'Instant Pour Homme by Guerlain
The Dreamer by Versace
Santal Imperial by Creed
Silver Mountain Water by Creed
Tumulte by Lacroix (mens and womens)
Aqua Allegoria Mentafolia by Guerlain
Trouble by Boucheron
Timbuktu by L'Artisan
The Pour un Ete by L'Artisan
Kingdom by Alexander McQueen
Eau d'Orange Verte by Hermes (over 1000mLs)
Rousse by Serge Lutens
Chanel No. 22 EDT
Philtre d'Amour Guerlain Vintage
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post #34 of 54
12/15/07 at 8:50am
I only have ONE backup bottle of John Varvatos.
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post #35 of 54
12/15/07 at 9:19am
Let's see... not counting a number of "doubles" I've got in my office, the true backups I've got would be:

Versailles PH
Versailles
Tiffany for Men
Antaeus
Cabochard EDT
Bandit EDT
Nobile
No19 extrait
Shalimar (vintage)
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post #36 of 54
12/15/07 at 10:29am
At the moment I have 2 bottles of Antidote, Unforgivable and Chic by Carolina Herrera.
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post #37 of 54
12/15/07 at 5:04pm
I used to have a hoarding problem, lol. Now, I just get big bottles of everything. I do, however, keep an extra bottle of CK be on the chance that the discontinuation rumors are true.
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post #38 of 54
12/16/07 at 1:57am
I don't suppose this counts, but I own two bottle of Antaeus by Chanel, since the first one got cooked in my car on day [only took about an hour and a half.


...Consider that an expensive lesson learned.
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post #39 of 54
12/16/07 at 10:00am
Iceberg Twice;bought a few bottles because its extreme cheapy at the moment;jabout 15,00 euro for a 125 ml. bottle.I think they finished the production.Its my workout scent and for summer its one of the better ones.
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post #40 of 54
12/16/07 at 11:04am
DK Fuel
DK Unleaded
Havana
Nicole Miller

and I've been thinking about getting a couple bottles of Zero Plus because I love it so much.
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post #41 of 54
12/16/07 at 11:23am
Aramis Tuscan Per Uomo Forte (no longer made)
Aramis
Most of my Creeds
Vetiver - Guerlain
Santal Noble
Ambre Precieux
1934 Dunhill for Men
Krizia Per Uomo
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post #42 of 54
12/16/07 at 2:21pm
I have a great deal of backup bottles, specially of Égoïste (I literally buy one bottle whenever i see it), but some of these other backup bottles were planned and the others unplanned, sometimes i even forget what i already have. But i prefer it that way: if you have one, you may as well have 4.
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post #43 of 54
12/24/07 at 2:42am
Terracotta Voile d'Ete - have 2 backups, and will probably buy more
Mille et Une Roses - 1 extra
Parure - 1 extra

Thinking of backing up Un Jardin en Méditerranée & Un Jardin sur le Nil, both of which I've just bought - thanks to BN - and adore, but much to my distress keep reading mentions in blogs that these may be discontinued. Can someone who is more familiar with Hermes comment on this rumor?
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post #44 of 54
12/28/07 at 5:04am
3 bottles of Cuiron in the fridge !
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post #45 of 54
12/28/07 at 5:55am
Brooksfield Men and Nicolai New York
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post #46 of 54
12/28/07 at 8:56am
Chanel Antaeus
Guerlain Coriolan
Guerlain Habit Rouge edt
Guerlain Vetiver
Guerlain Jicky pdt
L'Artisan Voleur de Roses
L'Artisan Tea for Two
Penhaligon's Hammam Bouquet
Hermès Hiris
Diptyque Opôné
Diptyque Virgilio
MPG Route du Vetiver
Creed vintage Tabarome
Creed Tabarome Milléseme
Jean Patou Voyageur
Floris Elite
Rochas Globe

All of those have spots in the drawer where I collect my fears.
--Chris
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post #47 of 54
12/28/07 at 9:48am
Nicole Miller for Men
Zino Davidoff
Spazio Krizia Uomo
Tuscany per Uomo Fortè
L'Essence de Déclaration
Signoricci/1/2
L'Artisan Vetiver
Romeo Gigli per Uomo
Coriolan
Paco Rabanne Ténéré (multiple minis)
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post #48 of 54
12/28/07 at 2:58pm
Patou pour homme (I have almost 1 litre of this juice)
M7 Fresh (3 bottles)
Witness (2 bottles)
Jazz (plastic bottle - 5 nos)
Balenciaga pour homme (2 bottles)
Versailles pour homme (3 bottles)
Rochas Macassar *vintage* (5 bottles)
M7 (4 bottles)
Tiffany for men (2 bottles)
Amen (4 bottles)

There are other too but thats all i can remember for now.

gupts
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post #49 of 54
12/28/07 at 3:08pm
Gupts .... Make sure you keep that Patou & Versailles in the fridge !!
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post #50 of 54
12/28/07 at 3:09pm
Guerlain Coriolan
Guerlain Derby
Gucci Nobile
Hermès Rocabar
Patou pour Homme Privé
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post #51 of 54
12/28/07 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by gupts View Post

Patou pour homme (I have almost 1 litre of this juice)
M7 Fresh (3 bottles)
Witness (2 bottles)
Jazz (plastic bottle - 5 nos)
Balenciaga pour homme (2 bottles)
Versailles pour homme (3 bottles)
Rochas Macassar *vintage* (5 bottles)
M7 (4 bottles)
Tiffany for men (2 bottles)
Amen (4 bottles)

There are other too but thats all i can remember for now.

gupts




i have an unused bottle of M7 if you'd like.....you couldnt get me to wear that with a gun to my head.
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post #52 of 54
12/28/07 at 4:27pm
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i have an unused bottle of M7 if you'd like.....you couldnt get me to wear that with a gun to my head.

I'll make it simpler...I'd put a gun on your head and tell ya to post that bottle of M7 (with cap) to me or...............


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post #53 of 54
12/28/07 at 4:30pm
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I'll make it simpler...I'd put a gun on your head and tell ya to post that bottle of M7 (with cap) to me or...............


gupts

i'm serious....i'll throw in unused bottle of L'instant De Guerlain and A*Men if you'd like.
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post #54 of 54
12/28/07 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by castorpollux View Post

if you have one, you may as well have 4.

I fail to see your logic; nevertheless, I like the idea. I may consider incorporating it into my own frag philosophy.
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