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What I find puzzling is that many internet discounters always ship perfume either by priority mail or without anything on the label to indicate ground shipping. Some of these are stores that everyone...

Distracted, Olga let cobras escape.

KOMBU

The reissued Dunhill Edition has lost all the brilliance of the original blend, one of the most disappointing reformulations for me ever.

What stops you from keeping both, man? Just be discreet with the creed :evil:

I mean, she might catch you in fragrante delicto one day, but hey, she wouldn't leave you just because of that, would...

Glad I kept several backups.

Startled zebras zigzagged in panic

PANIC

Victor's enchiladas gave Gina indigestion.

VALNT

Jørgen's Youtube opera sounded terrible

HARPO

I can totally see Frasier going for Patou pour Homme Privé back in the day. A brand new (1994!) release from a classy, yet obscure French house.
Though, just for fun, he might occasionally wear ...

Jeremy adores Yvonne's new earmuffs.

ADORE

Renee's eggplant can improve? Preposterous.

LAUGH

Lemon oregano fried tofu - yum!

LUNCH

Wandering equestrians annoy rural Yorkshiremen.

AYEUP

Barnyard odor distracted dancing yodellers

HOOTS

Sedulous tapirs ignore complacent koalas

ROWAN

Drill instructor's naughty erotic rituals

CREPE

Oh boy. Not another Eau de Cologne Extrait.

Who cares about ooud... (yawn) Russian Coriander, this is new though. Exceedingly rare and precious, grown by collective farms in Siberia. This is gotta...

A highly versatile, well-rounded scent. Morphing over time as becomes necessary, yet sticking to its original line.
But it makes me think Telemann not Bach.

If you are a true communist, Dictator, you already know the answer from the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin (or Trotsky).
Ah, forget it, just buy any stuff you want from the most expensive...

With all due respect, but if you just enjoy wearing the scent as you've said, what more justification do you need?

Personally, I have yet to meet a person who smells like "Barbasol" these days....

A poised and well behaved office fougère? Sounds interesting, I still have to try it.
Just out of curiosity, here's an advertisement for the original :)
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No similarity for me either. Absolue Pour le Soir is a much more complex and intriguing scent.

Very Philip Dick...

I can't smell many musks but I think it's a blessing after I realized I perceive MKK as a gentle flowery scent :)
I had the impression that Hedione smells almost like nothing by itself though, does...

I still wait for that to happen :) A great frag to please the person who wears it more than the others. No problems about longevity either - easily lasts the whole day in a moderate climate.

I recently tried the extrait from a sample sent to me and was surprised by its relatively poor longevity, thought there was something wrong with the sample. I guess there is an issue here, after all....

I subscribed to this thread but now I am puzzled by the post variations and inconsistency in opinions. Could this thread be a fake?

I find Navegar pretty evocative, too. Not aquatic in its true sense though, instead I get a bit of a mineral quality from it. I can almost picture a large piece of rock, a limestone perhaps, scorched...

I'm pretty sure this has been reformulated more than once. There have been at least three styles of the bottle. To me, Bel Ami emulates a completely different style of 'leather' than, let's say,...

That describes exactly what I experience.

I don't know, I'm really pessimistic about this one.
Eau... Extrait... Tell me about oxymorons

DH Cologne is also my favorite although I haven't tried all recent versions. I never had any longevity problems with it. Easily lasts the whole day without being loud. One of those cases when...

Yes, and I'm reluctant to admit it, but I find myself to think about it lately as a sort of 'garden-variety' Windsor... for those days when I don't need anything special ;) I guess the eucalyptus...

Don't mean to derail the thread, but given an obvious penchant for eucalyptus what's your opinion on HdP 1828, if you had a chance to try it? Just curious.

Love Windsor, it is a great frag.

office setting? Bulgari pour Homme

I'm curious what the guy is wearing now, two years later... unless he was smart enough to get himself a stash of Dunhill Edition to last a lifetime :D

Amen

In no particular order

Guerlain Vetiver (vintage) - versatilty
Amoauge Dia Men - opulence
Encre Noire - inkiness?
Chanel Sycomore - smoothness
LesNez Turtle Vetiver Front - organic and healthy...

Petroleum is indeed unusual, with a salty/aldehydic/lactonic note (lacking a better description here) permeating the initial stages of development. I would bet a new aromachemical is at work here. I...

MCM - Success

CBIHP - Burning Leaves

Vero Profumo - Onda (extrait)

well, the only explanation is that one of the flacons must be from a parallel universe - you've got a rare collectible item!

Creed - Cuir de Russie

Knize Ten

Aoud Roses Petals, Homage, Black Aoud

Tom Ford Oud Wood

Very interesting... I actually found in a couple recent reformulations the cloves note more 'sticking out' than what I was used to. I didn't know about limits on eugenol levels, so now I wonder if...

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Cuir d'Oranger

Revisiting No. 88

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Cuir d'Oranger

SotE - Dunhill Edition

a real conversation at a macy's fragrance counter

SA1 - Can I help you?
me -uhh...do you have anything by Thierry Mugler
(trying to make it sound like in the "French pronunciation" thread...

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Dior Homme Cologne - still my favorite of them all DH varieties.

I think this is very likely the case, there were bottles of several styles before but the juice was acceptable, if not identical.

I have both and all I can say is that reformulation has been pretty drastic. The 'diet coke' is an apt comparison. They should have renamed it "edition fresh" or something like that. The two wear...

Happy winter solstice and the rest of the holiday season to everyone!

I would wear Sycomore for a night at the opera and Encre Noir for a trendy bar. Both are worth having IMHO.

From a close analysis, l see similarities, but somehow they put me in a different state...

This thread gets my vote for one of the most inventive Creed headlines.

This:



Long ago, I witnessed two people smelling a chemically synthesized musk from a vial: one immediately turned red in the face and proclaimed that was a vile disgusting thing (though I...

I am happy to report that Mefisto is still a Mefisto :)

When compared on a blotter, it became obvious that my 13 ml bottle labeled "Mefisto" from the sample set contained a different scent...

It's like this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pONcOSlyW48

No problem with either one, they both fulfill their purposes.

"Masturbation is cheap, clean, convenient, and free of any possibility of wrongdoing — and you don't have to go home in the cold. But...

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I couldn't resist - the new sleek-looking black bottle vs the older greenish one.

As I am comparing the two now, the top notes are...

I had it for some time, but only tried it once. I didn't detect any drastic differences from the "Red Box" on my initial wearing, but I need to do another test to be completely sure. The company that...

What a great topic.

How about a little philosophical reason. If we haven't tried anything four-star, three-star or less, how would we come at a five-star definition? In other words, one always...

Annick Goutal - Ambre Fétiche
Serge Lutens - Ambre Sultan
L'Erbolario - Ambraliquida

I like them both, but they are worlds apart. To my nose, Original Vetiver is largely based on a combination of contemporary musks, while the 1948 is, well, old school.

I'm feeling disappointed and puzzled right now... I have an official sample vial of Xerjoff Mefisto, which was sent to me by a kind Basenoter a while ago. Really loved the scent; in fact, it led to...

After studying the development of Aventus over time, I found it more complex than I had thought originally. (Paper is better than skin because I also get the olfactory fatigue with this one). I can...

Cuir d'Oranger

these words are worth their weight in gold

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one of the prettiest women I've met commented when I was wearing GIT: "You smell just like my brother", and I thought, damn...

hey, it just 7-acetyl, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydro-1,1,6,7-tetramethyl naphthalene, or, as some might prefer to say, 2-acetonaphthone-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl (any chemist here,...

I was absolutely in love with the extrait. When the EdP came out, I disliked it immediately, the passion fruit top clashing with my idea of what Onda should smell like (and besides, being diluted,...

I am getting a quite clear rubber from this, not the (tanned) leather. The saffron still eludes me.

The hot and humid weather must be messing around with my brain, because I really start enjoying the aquatics, which never happens otherwise. But let's face it, citruses just don't last that long in...

maisonamour.co.uk

(their selection is somewhat limited though)

I agree, when I tried a sample of this on a paper strip, it showed clear development over time.

So, I see at least three possibilities:

1. There is more than a single aromachemical in there
2....

Older batches seem to be darker, which could be due to natural aging, although I personally find much difference between older and newer versions of the VT. The (in)famous Creed's inconsistency with...

Pontevecchio (for men) is an underrated gem, in my opinion. Last time I looked, Luckyscent didn't carry it - what a shame.

I'm with the OP in that many scents that strike me initially as "perfect", whatever it means, tend to go blah after a while. Beauty, on the other hand, may be difficult to spot right away but to me,...

Yes, let's remember that Claude Monet has painted about 250 or so of the Water Lilies in his days... Clearly, there is still room to go for Pierre.

Costamor Tabacca - apples, fresh tobacco leaves, sweet and yummy (not the pipe tobacco though or smoky in any way)

This is a very interesting thread, I find the personal side of these stories fascinating.

For those interested in a scientific take on the subject, here's a recent review, free in Pubmed:
...

This is fun! I don't remember seeing a big "K" thread for a while. I'm gonna say it's 100% feminine http://www.en.kolobok.us/smiles/remake/no.gif

Well said, sir, well said! I agree, though for some unexplainable reason I think of EdH as being forcefully feminine for this day and time...which proves your point, really.

Le Parfum de Therese
French Lover/Bois D'Orage
En Passant

going back to Queen though,

While we live according to race, colour or creed
While we rule by blind madness and pure greed
Our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion
Through...

Paco Rabane Ultraviolet Man, my Favorite and Completely Synthetic

the rare mineral ambergris (WTF???) masculine, sensual, woody-amber undertones blended with liquid mint, organic vetiver, and...

Amouage Gold Men
Christian Dior Eau Sauvage Fraîcheur Cuir
Del Rae Eau Illuminee
Heeley Sel Marin
Malle Bois d'Orage
Monsieur Rochas
Montana Parfum d'Homme
Parfums de Nicolai New York
Vero...

My main complaint is that it turns rather quickly if not stored properly. I had a small amount decanted into a travel atomizer once, and the metamorphosis it went through after just a few months was...

What's the proper way to pronounce "Xerjoff" anyway? The way I say it is 'zer-zhof' (with a sort-of-french 'zh' and accent at the end), but I could be totally wrong...

Professional jealousy maybe? :)

I guess I am among that small group of people who find her work interesting. From what I've sampled, I can't say I liked everything, but they were all worth trying....

I think you have a point here. The main problem is, their conduct has totally turned me off their products. Many others here have already expressed the same feelings (and I'm sure many more lurkers...

Heeley Sel Marin

(doesn't Chandler Burr's listing it in NY Times make it mainstream)? :)

ADG is not Basenotes-approved?? That's a shocker. :shocked:

How about this baby:

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