...Just ordered 2 bottles of "The Iceberg Fragrance" for woman/femme because I think this gem is being discontinued in the US at least it has been very hard to find this last week. And secondly, I hope to buy a bottle of either L'artisan's "Caligna", "Mimosa Pour Moi" or Serge Luten's "Nuit de Cellophane" on Thursday for my 3rd and final Birthday shopping splurge...I swear!

...CB I HATE Perfume "At the Beach 1966" and Bobbi Brown "Beach" both do very accurate Coppertone Note renditions in their scents, I would check out the notes for these two fragrances because to my nose "At the Beach 1966" is a deadringer for Coppertone Suntan Lotion.

...Ann Gerard "Perle de Mousse", Lubin's "L'eau Neuve- Inedite", Lubin's "Gin Fizz", Keiko Mecheri's "Loukhoum" and Tauer's "L'air du desert Marocain"

...Two come to mind by Ghost1: "Moonlight"2. "Deep Night"- the bottle is even shaped like a sliver of the moon.

...Flaconneur:Did you always want to know what your favorite fragrance notes were? I thought this would be an easy way to visually identify what seem to be my favorite notes in fragrances. I placed the notes of my current collection into a word cloud program like Wordle and this was the result.Simply visit: http://www.wordle.net/Wow! That is incredibly cool!!!

...Flavorite - now I see why there seem to be a lot of sniffing parties in L.A. ChapeauClack - I don't see a problem with posting links - it gives the writer full...

...Los Angeles, CaliforniaScent Bar Hollywood7405 Beverly Blvd.Los Angeles CA 90036Scent Bar DTLA777 S. Alameda St.Suite 150Los Angeles CA 90021On Abbott-Kinney Blvd., Venice Beach, in the 10 or so city block stretch, you will find: Le Labo Boutique, Strange Invisible Perfumes Boutique, and then by exploring each and every shop I found niche fragrances in every store from the kitchen supply shop to the luxury fashion shops. The complete lines of Escentric Molecules, CB I HATE Perfume, EBBA (Miss Marissa, Miss Danielle, etc.), Lubin L'eau Neuve Series, Penhaligon's, Trance Essence, Maison De La Vanille, and Many Comme Des Garcons Fragrances. I spent a week - I could have stayed another!Seattle, WashingtonEssenza615 N 35th St.Seattle, WA 98103 A lovely boutique in the Freemont Area with full range of Serge Lutens, Houbigant, Acca Kappa, Diptyque, Santa Maria Novella, Atelier, Ineke and L'Artisan lines also many special soaps, luxury men's grooming supplies and I think I saw jewelry, candles & clothes there too, but I was so busy with the fragrance section....

...Dulcemio:Cryptic:Speaking of housework, in the last few years I've made a point of getting as much housework out of the way during the week as I can, so I don't have the bulk of it hanging over my head on the weekends. It's SO much better this way!!Does anyone else do this?I Love it! I'm doing this right now!

...Flavorite:I seem to having this problem with "Inedite by Lubin". I stalked it for a year before getting it, Love the bottle so much and now I find it is so...

...IMHO, any company brand that just tries to mass market and get everyone to purchase the same generic scent instead of inspiring, curiosity and demonstrating the real science and art that goes into making a quality scent is doing a disservice in the long run. So by definition AXE Body Spray Designers...should be locked up! Granted, this is a for profit game, but if the branding pitch is like it was for Drakkar Noir and Polo-first ground breaking because it was a first experience with cologne for many of the guys I went to high school with...but as a girl, it became rather....a nonplus (mute point) when all the boys in the entire school are sharing the same bottle of Drakkar Noir...but I'm not sure we can blame Guy Laroche for this social phenomenon either. Who knows?

...I thought I had the same problem with Serge Lutens' whole line a couple of years ago after unsuccessfully trying Un Bois Vanille, Chergui (this smells schizophrenic on me), Fleur D'oranger (actually smelled like vomit on my skin), Feminite du Bois- smells great on some of my friends, but I smell like a gypsy psychic at a carnival, Jeaux de Peau- I wanted to love but it hates me, L'eau and L'eau Froide were also both disasterous! I swore the whole line off. Until one day I found a little Shop that had the whole line and a good fragrance consultant suggested to try the whole line (one by one over time and during different seasons, temperatures and also moods...Now I am the proud owner of 2 Fbs from this line "Five O'clock au Gingembre" and "Daim Blonde"- both of which work wonderfully on my skin...but neither of them work in the Spring or Summer and must wait patiently for Fall. I found SL's Gris Clair and Clair du Musc to be universally good. So I had to take back my earlier declaration that Serge and I would not find a common ground. Keep trying, you may find your pearl yet!

...Flavorite:I seem to having this problem with "Inedite by Lubin". I stalked it for a year before getting it, Love the bottle so much and now I find it is so...

...Flavorite:The furry spot on a dogs head right between their earsI can totally relate to that!Also:- Puppy breath- My dog's smelly feet (corn chips!) and ears...

...I think I just found one! Diptyque's L'eau de L'eau...I can't seem to go wrong with this fresh, spicy, unisex...DH like it (he hates all my other fragrances).

...I seem to having this problem with "Inedite by Lubin". I stalked it for a year before getting it, Love the bottle so much and now I find it is so strong and rich (One single spray on a cotton paper has audibly fragranced my whole clothes closet for 3 weeks!) that I don't feel in the mood to project this level of elegance for the dogs, the bank-teller or the grocery cashier. Maybe I just realized...I need a more exciting social calendar and it's not Lubin's fault at all!

...I had "True Love" by Elizabeth Arden, "Fantasy", "Touch of Pink" by Lacoste and "Delicious" by Gale Hayman. All of them were blind buys and all of them were totally unbearable to my nose. I dumped the Delicious in the Trash bin to freshen things up a bit...hope the trash collector and local wildlife appreciated the effort. I gave the Touch of Pink to a friend whose husband was fixated on her wearing "Daisy" by Marc Jacobs, but she really disliked it, in fact she really dislikes fragrances and works in a Birthing Center/maternity ward anyway, so doesn't really need to get into this hobby with me. But after we tried about 10 different samples on her, I thought maybe Touch of Pink might be ok- or she can toss it. Fantasy and True Love went as extra freebies in a trade- in fact, I begged them to just try them cause I was going to toss them otherwise. The only one I won't admit to publically, but I really like is "Jovan's White Musk"...it's my little secret. Wink wink.

...Lisky:You guys are so lucky to live near places with shops, let alone perfume shops!You know what, this is an excellent point.You're absolutely correct. I am always pining away, wishing I lived some where with a modern niche fragrance shop filled with fancy brands like Diptyque, Jo Malone, Le Labo and Serge Lutens...but I should really appreciate what I have...without that little shop, there wouldn't be a bottle of Vol de Nuit, Mitsouko or L'heure Blue within 50 miles! I would be stuck at the Chemist/Pharmacy deciding which Paris Hilton fragrance was the best. I shiver to think of it...

...Flavorite:.. What really irked me about the whole thing was I had made some really lovely friends trading and I had written 50 or so really good reviews, I...

...Flavorite. I've noticed that I cannot give awards to certain members there. Very strange...

...Pipette:In sympathy, if my reviews were removed - without just cause - I would quit the assembly, too.My Grandmother and now my mother both love to say "It is an ill wind that blows no good" or something to this effect. I think it means everything, even if it seems bad at the time, will eventually lead to something good...like my ending up here.