...Black bitter coffee sounds awesome to me!Hayven:I won a bottle on Cafleurebon of Violet Chocolatier and received a couple of samples.Since I'm more of a fan of the sugary, gourmand, and designer types...this brand wasn't my cup of tea. Violet Chocolatier was so dry, and Cafe Diem smelled like black (bitter) coffee. I do have to say they are very well-made though; Mr. Kiler seems to use quality oils and essences to make his fragrances.

...Silverfire. :DLink to SF's blog per Mia's request:http://www.romanticloner.com/We just got a share from the wonderful Pierre Guillaume.https://www.facebook...

...Silverfire:Signed.Facebooked.Blogged.Thank you, Silverfire, very much appreciated! Please feel free to share the link to your blog - I, for one, would love to read it. :D More exposure from...

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...Like Silverfire, there's no covering up the dysfunctional level of mutual enabling that goes on between us. I know things are bad when my wife -usually the careful...

...Silverfire:If anything, there's some mutual enabling going on. LOL!Hayven:Correct me if I'm wrong. Sometimes I feel like Ulta has a better selection of men's... s perfume.One of the ways I spiraled into the addiction was buying perfume for my wife as gifts which then led to buying fragrances for myself. Like Silverfire, there's no covering up the dysfunctional level of mutual enabling that goes on between us. I know things are bad when my wife -usually the careful...

...Silverfire:For us, it's about a 60/40 split, or maybe a touch higher. I'm the one more into fragrances. However, she's more into food. So we've ended up...

...Pipette:I know that often one of the partnership is a declared perfumista/o and the other so-so.My husband used to appreciate whatever I bought but I was the leader.How is it with your situation? Do you do things like that together, do you have to convince your dear, or do you find non-understanding or opposition?Do tell.For us, it's about a 60/40 split, or maybe a touch higher. I'm the one more into fragrances. However, she's more into food. So we've ended up expanding each other's sensory worlds and it's awesome. We do go to Sephora and Ulta together and there's no problem about buying fragrances and such. There's no opposition. If anything, there's some mutual enabling going on. LOL!

...Cincy:I read that the other day, He does not like the word nose, or juice.I will agree with him on juice, every time I read that word I shudder. :? Here I thought it was just me. :oI'm with you 103%! Juice is stuff you drink. It's not stuff you wear. Please don't demean the fragrant experience by referring to perfume as "juice".

...I don't keep mine, either. A sample is really just a way of determining if I like a fragrance, or a way of enjoying a fragrance that's too spendy otherwise (Memoir Man, for instance). If I hate a fragrance, buh bye sample. I can relate to the pack rat desire to keep one of everything, always, but really, I can't live like that anymore, and samples go bad, evaporate, etc. I use Parfumo as my record of scent experiences. If I don't bother reviewing a scent, then it wasn't worth remembering!

...Silverfire:The other perspective is that advertising agencies are another dehumanization factory for naive women, exploiting them and discarding them when their... me want to jack off, not to buy Opium.Hmm, I wouldn’t restrict it to a dehumanisation factory for women.I share your critical view to some extent, Silverfire. Yet I doubt that appealing to sex, primarily sells sex and neglects the actual product. But rather – and I am not trying to defend advertising...

...Silverfire:The other perspective is that advertising agencies are another dehumanization factory for naive women, exploiting them and discarding them when their...

...MiaTrost:The marketing of perfume involves more than just selling an aroma.(..)"Perfume, in and of itself, is not just an aroma. It is potentially a carrier for the imagination. Perfume is thick; it is poison and pure desire. It is Eros in prison!"Serge Lutens(..)Clearly a commercial must tap into the human psychology and link the brand with a desirable abstract idea, such as passion, femininity or masculinity, to successfully advertise a fragrance.(..)Not surprisingly many perfume advertisements are erotic in nature.The other perspective is that advertising agencies are another dehumanization factory for naive women, exploiting them and discarding them when their youth and beauty are gone. To be fair, that isn't the only industry known for such treatment -- the music industry, the film industry, and others function the same way. I've always thought that if you make your appeal to sex, then you are selling sex first, and your product only secondarily. For instance, the Opium ad just makes me want to jack off, not to buy Opium.

...Sad to say, I probably wouldn't think of taking any. I'd probably be on the run from the NSA or something equally crazy and perfumes would be the last thing on my mind.

...MRoth:And I have a female housemate who couldn't pick out a note to save her life, so it amuses me that she thinks BPAL is the pinnacle of perfumery. :roll:I know about some of BPAL's issues, but still I have to give them props for demonstrating that fragrances *could* express emotions and perspectives that would never be popular. But to answer the question -- I am the only parfumisto in my family, yes. However, my fiancee` has an interest in fragrance and I am helping expand her horizons. :)

...The emotional connection that the scent produces in me, or the emotion that I expect the scent to produce in me, period.

...Silverfire:What you're asking is that is it difficult to be a walking encyclopedia of all the fragrances you've worn or smelled. Answer: yes. However, it's no...

...What you're asking is that is it difficult to be a walking encyclopedia of all the fragrances you've worn or smelled. Answer: yes. However, it's no more difficult than being a walking encyclopedia for every song you've ever liked, every outfit that you worn, every building you photographed, and so on. Most cultures are throwing information at us so quickly and in such amounts that it's a wonder anything can be recalled by anyone at all.

...I also find neutrality rather pointless in fragrance reviews. I'm not interested in something dispassionate; all that such a review tells me is that the reviewer wasn't much moved or is such a master or mistress at stifling their own emotions that he or she could double as a machine -- either way, creepy in a bad way, and definitely weird. And the reporting function? Oh. I think that is a spectacularly bad idea. Usually that is the crack through which censorship spills in and cliques enforce the rule of the mob.

...I guess I'm the only one that liked this scent. :? I ended up smelling like bergamot all day. It was a classy scent, though I'm not crazy about the name or the name or the marketing campaign. My only real complaint is the lack of silage.