It's tough to give good recommendations not knowing you well. The best thing would probably be to look around the fragrance directory here and go to a site like scentedmonkey.com and order a few samples and go from there.
Hello to everyone!
I am a newcomer in the world of fragrances, I never really cared about fragrances but I just happened to read a few articles about how important it is to smell great, so I decided to try and find something for myself.
The problem is, I'm living in a fairly remote and small community so I don't have much choice in the local stores, all I can try in the stores is something very common, what everyone wears (dior, gucci etc), and I don't want to smell just like everyone else.
So I decided to go online and buy something blind. I went to this large online shop and just ordered that what had a cool looking name and semeed ok by description and which was not sold retail here.
So I ended up with Paco Rabanne Ultraviolet Man and Kenneth Cole RSVP.
I tried both and I have mixed feelings. Ultraviolet MAn I did like, it's very cool, sweety, sexy and fresh. It's very pleasant to my nose. It screams to be a night-out cologne for me. And I did like it a lot. It doesn't seem like an every day fragrance I think, it's too "seductive".
RSVP on the other hand. It starts great, no doubts, but... after a few hours when it settles down, it starts to smell just like some cheap old man cologne from a discount basement. And worse, after taking sniffs of RSVP (wrists) for a few hours I got a headache. Maybe it's just me and my nose is bad and to others it will smell great.
I will still be trying to "wear in" in RSVP, see how others react to me wearing it (esp. at work). But I want to try something more fresh, less "heavy" and not too old-smelling.
I came here looking for help, considering my inability to go and actually try different fragrances myself, all I have is mail order.
I am 24, I am 220 lbs (100 kg) and 6'3 height (193 cm). I am not overweight, I'm just that - tough. Not very muscular, but "tough" if you get my meaning. People often think I'm 30 years old, not because I look old, but because of my face and girth.
I have a rather manly face - massive square jaw, rugged features, deep-set eyes, so "teeny and young" fragrances are certainly not for me. My hair is light brown and eyes are blue-gray. But I still go to night clubs and I am very young in spirit.
I wear jeans, heavy sneakers and tees with long-sleeved casual shirts in summer and fleece crews and full-zip jacket sweaters with some caterpillar and cabelas boots in winter. I don't dress formal - I hate that kind of clothes.
Please give me a few suggestions as what to buy blind for everyday wear. Something maybe like Ultraviolet by Paco Rabanne, but more on the everyday side.
All I have to say of my preferences is that I like Ultraviolet very much and I am having trouble wearing in RSVP.
I tried reading descriptions of different fragrances, but see.. I liked RSVP's description, but in reality it turned to be something different.
Thank you for your attention.
It's tough to give good recommendations not knowing you well. The best thing would probably be to look around the fragrance directory here and go to a site like scentedmonkey.com and order a few samples and go from there.
Thanks, Dennard.
Hm, I just thought about different notes and I think I would love to try different blends of marine with a bit of green and woody hints. For some reason search in the directory is not working for me - it returns mysql warnings when I try to do a search by different notes.
If only we could search by themes - like marine, floral, green and their combinations and sorted by their ratings.
Don't buy blind - order samples and decants. I live in a place where there's a moderate selection of fragrance in the stores, and I _still_ do almost all of my perfume shopping by sending off for samples and decants, and then sending off for bottles after I've tried the fragrance thoroughly.
I realize that the sample-then-buy process takes much longer by mail, and that the samples cost some money, but you can get a lot of samples for the price of even one mistaken bottle.
YSL Rive Gauche. Get the 2.5 oz for $23 http://www.amazon.com/GAUCHE-SAINT-L.../dp/B000C1W71M
http://www.basenotes.net/threads/260...L-Rive-Gauche!
Cool Water for $22 Green, fresh
http://www.target.com/Cool-Water-Dav.../dp/B000MN2GDE
Last edited by adonis; 19th September 2010 at 11:15 PM.
Welcome Vitaly !
I second the idea of small samples or small decants- you discover so many new scents that way - it's also a lot of fun .
( NB.Also ,check out the wardrobes ,sales threads for ideas or a buy ,because the men here, have good taste .)
Petty small minded people have no place in my life.