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1/12/13 at 12:28pm

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I'd like to see your lists, here are mine:

Winter
Pure Malt / Dior Homme Intense / M7 / Egoiste / New Haarlem
(Honorable Mentions: Angel Men, Le Male, Desert Marocain)

Spring
Green Irish Tweed / Silver Mt. Water / Bleecker Street / L'Homme (YSL) / Allure Homme
(Honorable Mentions: Terre d'Hermes, Midnight In Paris)

Summer
Millesime Imperial / Virgin Island Water / Acqua Di Gio / Versace Fraiche / Allure Sport
(Honorable Mentions: Bleu de Chanel, Dior Homme Sport)

Fall
Burberry London / Gucci Pour Homme II / 1 Million / Platinum Egoiste / La Nuit
(Honorable Mentions: The Dreamer, Rive Gauche, Fahrenheit, Spicebomb)

Oh, damn I forgot Aventus. Aventus is the 6th choice for all seasons.

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1/12/13 at 12:34pm

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Don't differentiate by season or year. My fave five always:

Gengis Khan
Siecle
Gatsby
Balafre
Formidable Homme

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1/12/13 at 12:36pm

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I don't do seasons so my top 5 scents (excluding the impossible to acquire Lalfeorosa) would be the same year-round...

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Giorgio for Men (vintage)
Dia Man
Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver
Anat Fritz (original)

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1/12/13 at 12:39pm

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I'm starting this by saying that today I discovered Rume by Slumberhouse, which is literally fall in a bottle.

So:

Winter: Tobacco Vanille, New Haarlem, Aventus, Sova, Memoir Man.
Spring: GIT, Himalaya, Selection Verte (?), Aventus, TdH (unfinished, I'm working on spring)
Summer: Neroli Portofino, Millesime Imperial, GIT (working on summer)
Fall: Sova, Rume, Burberry London, Himalaya, TV.

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1/12/13 at 1:05pm