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post #61 of 69
9/27/08 at 9:02am
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this is why I have made a firm and steadfast rule to never buy unless I have tried three times....

Boucheron pour homme drove home that decision..

Boucheron Pour Homme is the only fragrance of which I bought a full bottle which doesn't really find its way onto my rotation list very often. (I'm not counting really cheap $10 bottles of fragrance, by the way.) However, I wouldn't say that I regret having bought Boucheron Pour Homme. I still wear it occasionally, and I think it's OK. I think I just bought it early in my collecting days, and didn't realize yet that there were lots of better fragrances out there.
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post #62 of 69
9/27/08 at 10:52am
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Also.... sorry to the people sitting next to me on the 10-hour flight. This always happens during travel. I race for the Duty Free and spray each finger with something-or-other new release. It's such fun but I generally reek by the time i get on the plane. Maybe another thread - what to wear (or not to wear) for travel?! LOL

Rachel, that is so true of me too, as airport duty frees are fantastic testing grounds - I have a system whereby I can try 10 perfumes on skin at once. Then, as you say, I get to the gate and start to feel self-conscious, compulsively tug on my sleeves, stuff one arm in my coat pocket, don gloves if it's winter etc...

Is sillage more potent at 35,000 ft I wonder, you know, like the way alcohol goes to your head more at altitude?
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post #63 of 69
9/27/08 at 11:07am
Comme de Garcons without a doubt. It was hands down the worse,most antiseptic concoction ever to be called a fragrance. Hospitals even smell better than this.

Bought a FB blind and it almost made me sick from one spritz. I considered placing in a lead container.soldering the box shut and then booking a ferry ride in order to drop it in the middle of the lake....but since I'm fond of fish, I changed my mind......
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post #64 of 69
9/29/08 at 10:45am
Yay-- I salvaged my bottle of Aqua Allegoria Rosa Magnifica (although it took half a dozen experiments to do it!)

Layered with Woods of Windsor True Rose Parfum de Toilette it smells marvelous. I think the combination actually smells better than True Rose on its own-- it's more complex.

I'm dying to try Guerlain Meteorites now but am reluctant to risk buying a FB unsniffed again. *sigh*
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post #65 of 69
9/29/08 at 9:26pm
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Originally Posted by VM I hate civet View Post

I have a system whereby I can try 10 perfumes on skin at once.

Ah, do share. How do you do it? (It will be helpful for my upcoming sniffa').
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post #66 of 69
9/29/08 at 9:30pm
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Ah, do share. How do you do it? (It will be helpful for my upcoming sniffa').

I think she morphs into an octopus!
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post #67 of 69
9/30/08 at 5:05am
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Yay-- I salvaged my bottle of Aqua Allegoria Rosa Magnifica (although it took half a dozen experiments to do it!)

Layered with Woods of Windsor True Rose Parfum de Toilette it smells marvelous. I think the combination actually smells better than True Rose on its own-- it's more complex.

I'm dying to try Guerlain Meteorites now but am reluctant to risk buying a FB unsniffed again. *sigh*


Very happy for you that Rosa Magnifica has a new lease of life! Oooh, I wouldn't buy a FB of Meteorites unsniffed if I were you - it is incredibly sweet - or are you okay with that?
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post #68 of 69
9/30/08 at 5:09am
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Originally Posted by VM I hate civet View Post

Very happy for you that Rosa Magnifica has a new lease of life! Oooh, I wouldn't buy a FB of Meteorites unsniffed if I were you - it is incredibly sweet - or are you okay with that?

Ooh, no... sweet fragrances tend to gag me.

But not always-- Annick Goutal's La Violette is quite sweet but manages not to be cloying, and I love it. The spicy rose note helps.
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post #69 of 69
9/30/08 at 5:13am
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I think she morphs into an octopus!

Haha, I wish...!

BlackCat, the system is as follows, with each arm yielding 5-6 olfactorily discreet sites (unless you spray DKNY Woman, which will nuke your entire arm with an acrid pall of grapefruit):

underside of wrist
back of hand
the fleshy pad underneath your thumb (surprisingly good carrier!)
lower arm just behind the knuckle (remove watch?)
a spot on forearm close to elbow - easier to reach than its underside equivalent, though I have been known to add that site, making 6 sites per arm!
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