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post #481 of 594
3/20/12 at 9:56am
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when you, as hedonist did yesterday, use the phrase, "lovely fecal note" in a sentence

I did something similar while shopping for incense: I sniffed some Balalaika incense (my first time trying that particular flavor) and thought hmmm. It kinda smells like poop. I think I will get this one.
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post #482 of 594
3/20/12 at 10:46am
Oxymorons galore huh lol
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post #483 of 594
3/20/12 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

Oxymorons galore huh lol

Yeah, we're a bunch of oxymorons.
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post #484 of 594
3/20/12 at 10:54am
"Oxymoron" means, like, a special kind of moron that stinks, right?
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post #485 of 594
3/20/12 at 11:06am
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Originally Posted by misscasey View Post

"Oxymoron" means, like, a special kind of moron that stinks, right?

Yes sometimes but mostly it means a sentence or phrase that is contradictory in nature. Examples:
Ice is hot
Fire is cold
Rain is dry
Lovely fecal note lol
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post #486 of 594
3/20/12 at 11:29am
I think she knows what oxymoron means hedonist :P

You know when you are a basenoter when half the french "celebrities" you know are unknown to anyone around you.
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post #487 of 594
3/20/12 at 11:33am
Lovely, lol..I've never have smelled any of those 'lovelies" in any scents, lol..
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post #488 of 594
3/20/12 at 1:11pm
You know you're a Basenoter when you overhear someone getting complimented for smelling good whilst wearing a generic aquatic and think "I smell better then he/she does."
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post #489 of 594
3/20/12 at 2:30pm
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Originally Posted by sarıpatates View Post

I think she knows what oxymoron means hedonist :

Yes, I knew. Hence the cheesy face.

(signifies bad joke.) hehe
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post #490 of 594
3/20/12 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by misscasey View Post

Yes, I knew. Hence the cheesy face.

(signifies bad joke.) hehe

LOL


When you smell your milk in the morning and try to decide if it's 'lactonic' or already gone 'butyric' ... even though you only have a vague idea what these words really mean.
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post #491 of 594
3/20/12 at 9:52pm
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Originally Posted by misscasey View Post

Oh, I love doing that! I always feel so proud although ... my collection is small, so it's not that difficult. But still ... so dang fun and satisfying.

My winter parka smells like all kinds of frags, though. From wearing the same jacket all the time in the winter. I usually apply stuff just before leaving the house: spray self, put on jacket, zip jacket. The jacket definitely picks up a lot of scents. I need to wash it. Hehe.

MissCasey - don't wash it just yet. I bet it smells wonderful! One of my my leather jackets is like that, more than likely permanently.
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post #492 of 594
3/21/12 at 11:17pm
...when visiting Basenotes buddies is on your to do list, when on the road.

I actually saw MORE of my perfume friends in L.A. than I did my relatives. I am not sure what that says about me. Only the adage "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives" comes to mind!
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post #493 of 594
3/22/12 at 6:43am
LOL @ Alona!
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post #494 of 594
3/22/12 at 9:34am
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MissCasey - don't wash it just yet. I bet it smells wonderful! One of my my leather jackets is like that, more than likely permanently.

I probably won't. I may not need it until next year, anyway.

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When you ask people to save smaller boxes for you- for "mailing stuff" -and you're too embarrassed to say that it's for swapping perfumes.

I also just tried to lie to my mom the other day and called my package of Alien from Ebay "more swappage." But then I felt guilty and fessed up. I bought it. Maybe I should go to Ernie's thread ... sheesh.
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post #495 of 594
3/29/12 at 11:44am
When you text your S.O..."I am feeling kinda bummed out a little bit I think"..a reply, "why, you think? Is it cause Basenote's website is still down?". Reply, "I don't know, maybe!" Hahaha.
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post #496 of 594
3/29/12 at 12:44pm
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Originally Posted by kalli View Post

When you text your S.O..."I am feeling kinda bummed out a little bit I think"..a reply, "why, you think? Is it cause Basenote's website is still down?". Reply, "I don't know, maybe!" Hahaha.

Lol. I was in an abstinence-crisis!😖🏥
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post #497 of 594
3/29/12 at 9:34pm
When you actually watch the Live Exscene webcam because the site is down & you can't accept that- and all they are doing is settin up their booths.
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post #498 of 594
3/30/12 at 4:53pm
Your homepage is Basenotes.net?
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post #499 of 594
3/30/12 at 6:03pm
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Originally Posted by knit at nite View Post

When you actually watch the Live Exscene webcam because the site is down & you can't accept that- and all they are doing is settin up their booths.

*LOL* I did this as well - I was quite disappointed each time it went ' off air.'
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post #500 of 594
3/30/12 at 6:27pm
When you finally get to the Michael Edwards Presentation ... and recognize Grant Osborne sitting there ... and wave to him !
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post #501 of 594
4/3/12 at 4:54am
when you smell the sprayer of the bottles as a sommelier of wines.
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post #502 of 594
4/3/12 at 8:16am
While cooking, you start having these ideas about: "How great a scent would smell, if this salt/flour/sugar/mineral water/even meaty/creamy/milky etc. note could only be replicated in a scent"
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post #503 of 594
4/3/12 at 11:57am
When your S.O. goes to a convenience store and goes to the soda machine to get a coke, adds a lot of vanilla to it from the machine and you taste it and say..'ECK, I feel like I am drinking Hypnotic Poison.' lol. I was like, he probably thinks I am so weird, then I thought, maybe I am weird, LOL.
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post #504 of 594
4/5/12 at 1:09am
When the people around you, be it friends, family, the persons you date and/or are your S.O., or even just the people you meet on a strictly work-related basis gradually start understanding your fragrance hobby and even start to receive or even give compliments according to what they have learned based on your fragrance tastes
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post #505 of 594
4/5/12 at 1:48am
....when you wifey jokingly hands you a freshly soiled diaper and says "I think the top notes are fruity in this one"... please check
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post #506 of 594
4/5/12 at 1:54am
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

....when you wifey jokingly hands you a freshly soiled diaper and says "i think the top notes are fruity in this one"... Please check

LMAO!
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post #507 of 594
4/5/12 at 2:00am
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

....when you wifey jokingly hands you a freshly soiled diaper and says "I think the top notes are fruity in this one"... please check

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Originally Posted by alfarom View Post

LMAO!

Its especially funny because the little darling had eaten a lot of fruits earlier in the day LOL
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post #508 of 594
4/5/12 at 2:05am
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

Its especially funny because the little darling had eaten a lot of fruits earlier in the day LOL


OMG, please stop
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post #509 of 594
4/5/12 at 2:48am
When you encounter old ladies wearing the same classic fragrances as you and you think that they can't pull it off.
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post #510 of 594
4/5/12 at 5:58am
when you're taking great steps through the center of a city and you feel called to enter some perfume store to try something, (although you know there will be nothing interesting inside)
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post #511 of 594
4/14/12 at 8:34am
You choose your drinks and foodstuffs depending on the similarity of their smell with the most recent niche scent you have tested/you own
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post #512 of 594
4/14/12 at 12:36pm
When the department store guy says he doesn't carry many perfumes with jasmine and then you name 5 fumes he carries right off the bat that have jasmine.
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post #513 of 594
4/14/12 at 1:34pm
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

While cooking, you start having these ideas about: "How great a scent would smell, if this salt/flour/sugar/mineral water/even meaty/creamy/milky etc. note could only be replicated in a scent"

I made a marinade based on the ingredients in Reflection Man. Orange juice, lemon juice (combined to create a neroli-ish flavor) orange zest, cardamom, allspice (for that 'red pepper berry' note, which I am convinced actually IS allspice. The nutmeg was to combine with the orange juice and zest to give it a bit of woodiness to simulate the petitgrain note), rosemary, and a hint of a vanilla extract.

It actually turned out quite well!

And on topic, you know you're a basenoter when... well... this ---^
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post #514 of 594
4/14/12 at 1:39pm
Sound great, Scuplture of Soul - very creative marinade

Another try: you know you're Basenoter when... you almost ended up devising/crafting your OWN No. 5 or No. 19 or even Ten or Dix etc. and though they hardly have anything in common with the fragrance houses of Chanel, Knize, Balenciaga, a legal battle with these fragrance houses, mainly over the name, may ensue.
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post #515 of 594
5/8/12 at 8:42am
After adding up the total cost of all the fragrances in your wishlist, you go and search how much a kidney is fetching on the black market these days.
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post #516 of 594
5/8/12 at 8:59am
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Originally Posted by SculptureOfSoul View Post

After adding up the total cost of all the fragrances in your wishlist, you go and search how much a kidney is fetching on the black market these days.

Lol. Black humor, I have a love/hate relashionship to it: I always feel guilty when I laugh!
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post #517 of 594
5/15/12 at 6:13am
When you go to sleep and at least one person of your friend's list is online.
When Basenotes is on repair and you're the only member logged in.
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post #518 of 594
5/16/12 at 4:37pm
I received a mail of a post wich is not being shown here.
Posted this to test.
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post #519 of 594
5/19/12 at 6:19am
You use the word "oud" in a Scrabble game. lol
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post #520 of 594
5/19/12 at 6:23am
Good one Kalli; makes me wonder what the scrabble dictionary has for the official spelling of "oud"
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post #521 of 594
5/19/12 at 6:32am
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Originally Posted by Scentologist View Post

....you fart and try to name individual notes, .....corn, sulfur, etc ...

LOL, seriously, thank you!

...you risk antagonizing your husband with yet another blind buy from the ebay account you share with him.
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post #522 of 594
5/19/12 at 6:48am
When your friends, family, SO etc. start criticizing you for buying them too MANY, too expensive, too niche... fragrances.
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post #523 of 594
5/19/12 at 7:51am
Corn, sulfur? Lol..that's got me beat.

When you look up 'oud' in the Scrabble dictionary lol.. "a stringed instrument of northern Africa". There ya go. Couldn't find any other spellings for it.

When you think of celebs coming out with with their own oud scent

Oudonna by Madonna

Miami Oud by Jennifer Lopez

Oud Day by Justin Beiber

Chanel # Oud by Brad Pitt

I am Oud by Sean John
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post #524 of 594
5/19/12 at 9:40am
When your text corrector changes FLW(a kind o "goodbye") to Fleur cause of perfume names;
When your heart beats as a drum when your notification tool turns pink!
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post #525 of 594
5/19/12 at 11:51pm
When you go to a party logged in; you come back to the party still logged in and start to post on so-so conditions.
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post #526 of 594
5/20/12 at 8:42pm
When you are still jumbling around celeb scents... Chanel's Toudally Oud or Toudally Blonde fronted by Brad Pitt. In an Oud de Toilette concentration. And you are the only one who finds this humorous. *crickets* lol.
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post #527 of 594
5/20/12 at 8:48pm
When you need to use a BNer as an example to describe your friend to someone (scent) who doesn't know your friend and the person actually understands the personality type LOL.
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post #528 of 594
5/21/12 at 9:37am
When I made birthday greeting card for my friend... I knew I'm Basenoter

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post #529 of 594
5/21/12 at 9:40am
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Originally Posted by teerose View Post

When I made birthday greeting card for my friend... I knew I'm Basenoter

Very Nice
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post #530 of 594
5/21/12 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by teerose View Post

When I made birthday greeting card for my friend... I knew I'm Basenoter


Nemo and this Donna Karan's Batman-like-weapon intrigues me so much, as that bottle that looks like a bee.
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post #531 of 594
5/21/12 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

When your friends, family, SO etc. start criticizing you for buying them too MANY, too expensive, too niche... fragrances.

very true... and here's what comes next:

said friends, family, SO etc. start saying "I've got so many fragrances now - totally love them but I feel like I've got too many, and almost never get a chance to use them, do you think you could take them back and sell them to your perfumed friends on the internet?"
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post #532 of 594
5/23/12 at 3:52pm
When the greatest part of your phone's battery charge is dedicated to BN.
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post #533 of 594
5/24/12 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by hedonist222 View Post

When you need to use a BNer as an example to describe your friend to someone (scent) who doesn't know your friend and the person actually understands the personality type LOL.

I've done that. :P
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post #534 of 594
5/24/12 at 9:14pm
You first say, "I can't remember what scent I wore today."

then "Oh yes! ...
(Insert scent.) I'd better post that before midnight."
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post #535 of 594
5/24/12 at 9:54pm
Brilliant birthday card!
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post #536 of 594
5/26/12 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by alfarom View Post

Very Nice

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Originally Posted by rompip View Post

Brilliant birthday card!


Thank you
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post #537 of 594
5/30/12 at 7:13am
When you tell your date/love interest/partner/significant other anything from "this gourmand makes you look... well, a little chubby" to "you look beautiful today in your No. 19" (or any other fragrance, insert preferred fragrance name as you please).
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post #538 of 594
5/30/12 at 8:19am
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Originally Posted by kalli View Post

Corn, sulfur? Lol..that's got me beat.

When you look up 'oud' in the Scrabble dictionary lol.. "a stringed instrument of northern Africa". There ya go. Couldn't find any other spellings for it.

When you think of celebs coming out with with their own oud scent

Oudonna by Madonna

Miami Oud by Jennifer Lopez

Oud Day by Justin Beiber

Chanel # Oud by Brad Pitt

I am Oud by Sean John

Love that ! *LOL*

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Originally Posted by teerose View Post

When I made birthday greeting card for my friend... I knew I'm Basenoter


Fab card !

I know I am a Basenoter when I still keep coming back for more ,through thick and thin .
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post #539 of 594
6/22/12 at 2:18am
...you begin start to base what clothes to wear for the day based on your choice of scent for the day.
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post #540 of 594
7/4/12 at 2:10pm
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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've done this numerous times! Its a pity they don't sell proper tester strips like you get in the shops...... I'm forever tearing up scraps of paper - and even more nuts - I write all the names on them as well !

- - - Updated - - -

I've never taken them into the bathtub though.. - Is that the next step?
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