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post #1 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:17am
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Post the most wacky and unusual things/ideas this hobby made you do/think about.

You know you're a Basenoter when...
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post #2 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:25am
You know you're a Basenoter when you post Sanrio Hello Kitty as your SotD and you get a PM asking you for a sample.
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post #3 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:25am
You cannot wait to get home to take a shower, so you can wash off your current scent and try a new one.

Normal people don't do this, guys.
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post #4 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:27am
You are usually among the first ten members to vew a new thread...

NOTHING gets past me! (seriously, I need a life)
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post #5 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:29am
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Originally Posted by mikeperez23 View Post

You cannot wait to get home to take a shower, so you can wash off your current scent and try a new one.

When you get this damned urge in the middle of a working day that you desperately need to sniff one of your scents, and can't wait to get home to do it.
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Originally Posted by Scentronic View Post

(seriously, I need a life)

And a girlfriend
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post #6 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:32am
You know you're a Basenoter when..
your opinions dont match with others.
you always want more Colonges. on a daily basis if possible.
you sell of perfumes at a big Loss and still smile.
your Top 5 changes every hour
you have more than 10 perfumes in ur collection
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post #7 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:33am
When you're at Buffalo Wild Wings with a group of friends, & make them sniff all of the decant bottles you carry around with you at all times.

(I kinda did this last night )
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post #8 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:34am
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Originally Posted by mikeperez23 View Post

You cannot wait to get home to take a shower, so you can wash off your current scent and try a new one.

Normal people don't do this, guys.

That's the classic me... I do this all the time
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post #9 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:36am
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Originally Posted by Mostapha View Post

And a girlfriend

No - that would require money which I could otherwise spend on cologne!
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post #10 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:38am
When I spend more time on picking my SotD, than I do what shirt, and tie I'm wearing to the office! Go figure.
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post #11 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:40am
when you stand in front of the fragrance counter for 30 minutes trying to look up bn notes and reviews on your mobile phone before making a decision.

when you get a compliment on your scent, and the first think you think of is not "thank you" but "I've got to post about this."

when you justify spending less on things like food and rent so you can buy more frags.
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post #12 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:46am
When you check your tracking status every fifth minute for the fragrances you just ordered online. And continue doing so until you got them in your hands.
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post #13 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:55am
when you tear off 6 small pieces of paper and spritz a different scent onto each one ..variably placing all of them onto 1 large sheet like a paint palette and sitting in the bathtub holding it up to your nose sniffing.. with your eyes closed...taking in the aroma trying to determine which one "stands out" and really gets your attention.. i honestly found myself doing this one time...
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post #14 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:01am
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Originally Posted by bsmith001 View Post

when you tear off 6 small pieces of paper and spritz a different scent onto each one ..variably placing all of them onto 1 large sheet like a paint palette and sitting in the bathtub holding it up to your nose sniffing.. with your eyes closed...taking in the aroma trying to determine which one "stands out" and really gets your attention.. i honestly found myself doing this one time...

I used to take a stack of business cards, maybe 30 or 40, and spray each one with a different scent. Then try and figure out which one is which! (this is actually really interesting, because usually when you pick up a bottle to use or smell it, you precede the smell with a set of familiar thoughts and expectations. When you don't know which one you're going to be sniffing next, you experience the scent in a new way - at face value)
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post #15 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:06am
When you think the SA at Macy's is the devil.
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post #16 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:20am
When SA's ask you questions about the stuff they're selling.
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post #17 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:33am
When the only thing that stops you from telling the fellow customers in the store "nooo! not that one, stay away from that!", "wow you got good taste!", "the SA is bullshitting you!" is your own shyness.
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post #18 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:50am
- You begin to calculate money in terms of how many bottles it could get your favorite fragrance of. (e.g. "200 bucks? Could've gotten myself two decent bottles of L'Artisan with that!")
- Creed has nothing to do with music and MPG doesn't stand for miles per gallon.
- When you don't hear things clearly, you make an association with fragrances somehow in your head (Once I heard someone mention the movie Velvet Gold Mine, and I was thinking "Velvet Aoud Mine? That must be good, yeah...")
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post #19 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:59am
When you login for the first time to basenotes. Seriosuly it only takes taht to be a BNer. and I have never done anything you guys talk about.
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post #20 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:01am
...when you laugh when you hear a dude comment on how good tag/axe body sprays make them smell
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post #21 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by heythatslife View Post

- Creed has nothing to do with music...

You don't have to visit these forums to know that.
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post #22 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:06am
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Originally Posted by heythatslife View Post

-........ (Once I heard someone mention the movie Velvet Gold Mine, and I was thinking "Velvet Aoud Mine? That must be good, yeah...")

lol
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post #23 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:21am
When you call home to ask if there's any post for you. And you get the reply "No colognes/samples, but there is some actual post" I did this yesterday, as i've been waiting on something and got that, today I got my CdG2!
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post #24 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:29am
When you go to the department/fragrance store armed with a pad of paper and pen. Then proceed to spray strips of paper with different fragrances, smell them, jot down notes on your pad of paper, labeling the strips, and then putting the scented strips of paper in plastic baggies. All the while people are staring at you thinking "What in the hell is he doing?"
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post #25 of 594
4/23/08 at 6:00pm
all you had were designer scents.. before you joined the site.. (and only about 5)
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post #26 of 594
4/23/08 at 6:03pm
You know that Galbanum is NOT a city in Texas.
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post #27 of 594
4/23/08 at 6:10pm
....you fart and try to name individual notes, .....corn, sulfur, etc ...
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post #28 of 594
4/23/08 at 6:25pm
A few years ago there was a member who made a hilarious post saying that before Basenotes he thought amber was just a stripper name.

I forgot who it was, but if you're here, please claim credit for this great line!
--Chris
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post #29 of 594
4/23/08 at 6:44pm
You check the basenotes forum before you check your email
You undress a gorgeous women and ponder "hmm what fragrance is that" before you even touch her
Your dresser looks like a Nordstrom's perfume counter
You give a shit about what people say about your favorite fragrance "OH NO YOU DIDN'T . . ."
You get excited when you hear the word "vial" and you're NOT a drug user
You will leave the house on a rainy day (or monsoon) to go try a new fragrance but not to buy food
You are late everyday to work since you can't decide what fragrance to wear
You have more fragrances than ties
You love or hate Creed for what it represents and smells like not what it represents and sounds like
At parties you know people by their fragrances not their names
Chai latte is something you'd rather wear than drink


Cheers,
Ali
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post #30 of 594
4/23/08 at 7:03pm
...it takes you 2 minutes to get dressed and 20 minutes to pick out a fragrance.....and then you end up taking at least 2 with you 'just in case'......)...

...you think someone with 75 perfume bottles has a small and tidy collection.

...you pretend like you are searching for the 'holy grail' but you really are not....what you are searching for is another reason to smell and buy new fragrance...

...even your grandma knows that you are crazy about fragrances.....and all your birthday presents to others are your own fragrances that you can not stand.

... you go to a Creed counter and ask the SA to 'let me try some BdP and RW' eliciting a wild look response, you think that he is either deaf or retarded....or both.

...during sex you sniff your wrists to see how the fragrance transforms when your body heat index rises....

....you have a 3 day trip to Miami and you have been thinking for over 2 weeks what bottles you're taking with you and how are you going to survive with only 6 bottles available....
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post #31 of 594
4/23/08 at 7:06pm
- When you have permanent odor to your fingers from making samples for your friends!
- you buy a label maker just to make nice labels for those samples you send to your friends!
- You sell your books just to have space on your shelves for your new purchases.
- Your family asks you "what fragrance you want for your birthday?" instead of "what do you want for your birthday?"
- Really know how to say the word Millesime! (sorry... from an older but interesting post!)
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post #32 of 594
4/23/08 at 7:10pm
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Originally Posted by Somerville Metro Man View Post

You know you're a Basenoter when you post Sanrio Hello Kitty as your SotD and you get a PM asking you for a sample.

When i know it wasnt me because I already have a Hello Kitty scent...well, a bunch of them.
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post #33 of 594
4/23/08 at 7:34pm
- You begin to think that God created flowers so you can have florals, and animals so you can have civet and various musks (yes, I know it's mostly synthetic these days, but where would they have gotten the idea from in the first place?)
- You find a way to digress in your political science paper so that it's actually on fragrances
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post #34 of 594
4/23/08 at 7:50pm
When you start to imagine what would be the specific scent would be for an odorless orchid (of the many there are without odor)...
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post #35 of 594
4/23/08 at 8:23pm
.....When you constantly use Text-to-Speech and translation sites just to figure out how to correctly pronounce the names of 80% of the fragrances in your wardrobe, and discover their meanings.
Because of this, you are now almost fluent in French.
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post #36 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:42pm
...you spend hours debating which scent to wear to upcoming functions (dentist appointment, night out alone, sleeping...)
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post #37 of 594
4/23/08 at 9:51pm
You say to yourself,
"I haven't a thing to wear."
"I can stop when I want to."
"I only need these 3 to complete my wardrobe."
"No more orders until--no, two weeks is too long. One week."
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post #38 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:26pm
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Originally Posted by DustB View Post

A few years ago there was a member who made a hilarious post saying that before Basenotes he thought amber was just a stripper name.

I forgot who it was, but if you're here, please claim credit for this great line!
--Chris

That b!tch! I just knew she was sleeping around. Well, it doesn't matter. I've got Basenotes now.
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post #39 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:39pm
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Originally Posted by mikeperez23 View Post

You cannot wait to get home to take a shower, so you can wash off your current scent and try a new one.

Normal people don't do this, guys.

Or... you simply omit shower #2 and end up smelling like potpouri towards the end of the day. ... at this stage you tell yourself you're "layering"
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post #40 of 594
4/23/08 at 10:54pm
You spend more time on BN than watching TV.

You put off buying that new car you've always wanted because you'd rather buy more frags instead of making car payments.

You're in a hospital bed writhing in pain but you still think about fragrances and Basenotes .
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post #41 of 594
4/23/08 at 11:24pm
...you check Google to discover that there actually is a Hello Kitty fragrance, and then you go to the Fragrance Directory to see if it's been reviewed, and when you see that there's only one review, but it's pretty good, and it was apparently created by Givenchy, which is more respectable than you expected, so you try and figure out why the wife or girlfriend might need Hello Kitty "Momoberry" perfume, which you can almost justify since Hello Kitty is pretty hip, and Lisa Loeb supposedly has a bunch of HK gear, and so it's not that weird to order some, which you would not want to go to waste, and would therefore try out and review for research purposes only, and since "driftwood musk wraps the composition in a shier veil", you figure that it's your moral obligation to learn the difference between driftwood musk and all the other kinds, and did we say it was for research purposes only?

And you were bummed that there wasn't a Chococat masculine or a Badtz-Maru sporty spin-off, since you could have skipped all the rationalizations and just bought the stuff.
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post #42 of 594
4/24/08 at 12:18am
Lol... the "Basenotes Salute" - nuff said

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Originally Posted by Schachman View Post

- Really know how to say the word Millesime!

How do you say it? From an internet translation it sounds like "mi-zi-muh"
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post #43 of 594
4/24/08 at 1:01am
...when you are pulling A papers, based on the stuff you learned here about the chemistry/make-up/history of fragrances, in classes...
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post #44 of 594
4/24/08 at 4:32am
...when your WALLET IS EMPTY
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post #45 of 594
4/24/08 at 7:23am
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Originally Posted by JaimeB View Post

When SA's ask you questions about the stuff they're selling.

This just about sums everything up, I think. And, yep, it's happened to me.
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post #46 of 594
4/24/08 at 7:28am
When you worry about coordinating your scent with your meal.

When you get pissed off and feel obligated to respond whenever someone dares to support or criticize the Turin/Sanchez book.

Heck, when you get pissed at anything here on the forum. It's just perfume, people!

P.S. Please don't tell my frags I said that. I couldn't go on if they ever left me.
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post #47 of 594
4/24/08 at 7:32am
You become a supporter and the damn site just keeps getting better and better!!!!

Yeeha
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post #48 of 594
4/24/08 at 8:07am
You see a license plate that reads TDH-235 and your first thought is you've just run across a crazy Terre d'Hermes fan. (replace TDH with BDP, FdM, etc, as necessary )
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post #49 of 594
4/24/08 at 8:16am
You know you're a Basenoter when you have a spare five minutes and decide to see what's ending in the next hour or so on Ebay in the fragrances section... and start thinking "hmm, I've been meaning to pick up a bottle of that, and it's only (fill in price here). That's a bargain! Oh go on... I'll treat myself".
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post #50 of 594
4/24/08 at 9:16am
-You bought several songs off of iTunes because they appeared in fragrance ads. This happened to me when I saw the YSL Elle ad and bought Gold Lion by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs...
-You constantly track fragrance retailer websites for new releases. Speaking of, will Dsquared2's He Wood EVER arrive here in the States? It was supposed to arrive here in April, and it sounds like the perfect spring scent...
-You check airport duty-free shops during long layovers for rare scents. After all, US citizens can now buy fragrances and cosmetics in many US airport duty-free shops, but not liquor or tobacco. But, then again, it's the smelllies that matter the most to us anyway...
-You're using an old computer to access Basenotes because new frags are more important than a new computer. (Double brownie points if you have to endure the hell that is Windows ME.)
-You hope that Yankee Candle comes out with a candle that smells like some sort of Creed. Hey, if they can clone Drakkar Noir, than anything's possible!
-You choose a hip hotel by the scented bathroom amenities.
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post #51 of 594
4/24/08 at 9:21am
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Originally Posted by Dennard View Post

This just about sums everything up, I think. And, yep, it's happened to me.

Me too... lol
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post #52 of 594
4/24/08 at 11:02am
Giving credit to the origianl poster, JBL, whose thread is titled:
"Concerned about overspraying...and especially underspraying..."
That's a Basenoter alright.
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post #53 of 594
4/24/08 at 11:04am
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... your wish/test list never shrinks.
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post #54 of 594
4/24/08 at 11:07am
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Originally Posted by Quixotiq View Post

.....When you constantly use Text-to-Speech and translation sites just to figure out how to correctly pronounce the names of 80% of the fragrances in your wardrobe, and discover their meanings.
Because of this, you are now almost fluent in French.


Seriously! Between collecting fragrances and learning ballet, I'm beginning to get a handle on some basic French!
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post #55 of 594
4/24/08 at 11:37am
When you have houseguests coming and as soon as their plane reservations are made you start thinking of the different scents you're going to make them wear each day.
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post #56 of 594
4/24/08 at 12:31pm
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Originally Posted by irrbloss View Post

When you check your tracking status every fifth minute for the fragrances you just ordered online. And continue doing so until you got them in your hands.

Oh thank God...i am not the only one!
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post #57 of 594
4/24/08 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by MFfan310 View Post

-You bought several songs off of iTunes because they appeared in fragrance ads....

Thats me! I purchased Prokofiev's entire Romeo and Juliet ballet (London Sympohony Orchestra) just because I really liked "Dance of Knights" featured in an old Egoiste ad on YouTube. lol!
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post #58 of 594
4/24/08 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by ajmc View Post

Oh thank God...i am not the only one!


Me too, I am useless for the morning I know I am expecting something to arrive...
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post #59 of 594
4/24/08 at 1:35pm
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You pass by a perfume shop, you go in and "test" a fragrance you have back at home, because you suddenly miss it so much and just have to smell it.
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post #60 of 594
4/24/08 at 1:39pm
Mostapha, that's funny.

I sometimes do that if I go out in the moring with whatever SOTD I have on and I have forgotten to bring the bottle.

So I go into a store and top up...
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