Hi,
This is my first post here. I've been trawling this forum and working the search engine in search of some ideas on a fragrance, but I don't seem to have found what I'm after. I hope I'm not retreading old ground too much.
I'm not new to fragrance, but I'm new to having an active interest in it and seeking to learn more about it.
I'm looking for a replacement for my beloved Blue Jeans. I picked up a bottle of it just before Christmas, partly because it was on sale and partly because for the nostalgia factor, as I hadn't worn it in years. I've found that I still love it and it works great for me as an everyday scent during the cold winter days, but I would like another fragrance to fill the same role.
I'm now looking for another daytime, everyday scent for the winter. Going by the advice in posts I've read, I've sampled Givenchy Pi and found it overly sweet and one-dimensional; I smell vanilla and not much else. I thought an oriental fragrance would work, but I sampled Opium PH EDT today and while I quite liked it, I'm not sure about the peppery notes and feel that it would more suited to the evening.
I'm intrigued by Chanel's Égoïste but I'm unable to sample this one in person, so it would have to be a blind buy. If I find Opium EDT to be too much for the daytime, am I likely to feel the same way about Égoïste?
Are there any fragrances that are similar to Blue Jeans but more refined? I'm not even sure how to classify it; the advertising blurb calls it a sharp oriental, but to me it seems to straddle more than one category. I'm pretty sure I can smell musk, sandalwood and lavender in there, which I like. I could be wrong about those notes, though; like I said, I'm new.
Any help would be much appreciated!
This is my first post here. I've been trawling this forum and working the search engine in search of some ideas on a fragrance, but I don't seem to have found what I'm after. I hope I'm not retreading old ground too much.
I'm not new to fragrance, but I'm new to having an active interest in it and seeking to learn more about it.
I'm looking for a replacement for my beloved Blue Jeans. I picked up a bottle of it just before Christmas, partly because it was on sale and partly because for the nostalgia factor, as I hadn't worn it in years. I've found that I still love it and it works great for me as an everyday scent during the cold winter days, but I would like another fragrance to fill the same role.
I'm now looking for another daytime, everyday scent for the winter. Going by the advice in posts I've read, I've sampled Givenchy Pi and found it overly sweet and one-dimensional; I smell vanilla and not much else. I thought an oriental fragrance would work, but I sampled Opium PH EDT today and while I quite liked it, I'm not sure about the peppery notes and feel that it would more suited to the evening.
I'm intrigued by Chanel's Égoïste but I'm unable to sample this one in person, so it would have to be a blind buy. If I find Opium EDT to be too much for the daytime, am I likely to feel the same way about Égoïste?
Are there any fragrances that are similar to Blue Jeans but more refined? I'm not even sure how to classify it; the advertising blurb calls it a sharp oriental, but to me it seems to straddle more than one category. I'm pretty sure I can smell musk, sandalwood and lavender in there, which I like. I could be wrong about those notes, though; like I said, I'm new.
Any help would be much appreciated!
