...Sleuth:Sleuth:"Terre d'Hermès Eau Très Fraîche"Good idea, or a bad idea?Any thoughts?My husband wouldn't be bothered with a flanker, although he made an exception for DH Intense, haha. But that was because I bought it for me and it disappeared. I's fun when your buddy/husband/SO….even the milkman, joins in with your hobby, habit, interest

...Danieq:When I first began my perfume journey, I tried both L'Heure Bleue and Mitsouko and I thought they smelled very much alike as well. In addition, I felt they had a sour note to them that I couldn't get past and so I left them on the store counter. When pressed, I would have said I preferred LHB. However, neither was tempting me.Then, I purchased a Vintage Lotion Vegetale of LHB and using that from a spray atomizer into which I transferred it, caused me to fall in love. The Lotion Vegetale was considerably lighter so I think it helped introduce me a bit more slowly. Now, LHB is one of my favorites.And, it smells nothing like Mitsy to me at all now. I think my nose just changed over time. My sensitivities have adjusted and what I liked in the beginning I no longer enjoy and what I hated I often find I love.I tried very hard to like Chanel No 5. It took me a long time, but now I love it.I also tried to like Secretions Magnifique, that one, however, didn't fare as well! YUCK!As a Basenoter Danieq, did you see the Monsieur Guerlain post re the original bee bottle samples that Guerlain assembled for the blogging creme de la creme?

...Triffid:I have only just come back to this thread so I missed all the helpful layering suggestions for Aromatics Elixir. Coincidentally, I have some Tea Rose on order. I don't have the other scents but could rustle up something sharp and lemony to try with it.I generally don't go for layering my perfumes unless it's inadvertantly e.g. sampling four at once at the perfume counter of DJs.As for trying harder, now that autumn is here I'm going to have another try with some amber and oriental style perfumes. I've come to accept that this style is just not to my personal taste though occasionally the mood is right. I do enjoy smelling these perfumes on others. To be honest, most ambers end up smelling the same to me. Some have interesting and engaging beginnings and then...blah...usually end up too sweet and bland especially if there's vanilla involved....Ambre Gris by Balmain might possibly tempt you. It's so cheap online that it's worth a blind and the bottle is gorgeous. Somehow I feel it suits those of us in the Pacific Blue, the suggestion of ambergris I guess.

...Dulcemio:"Sacrebleu Intense"Out of the gate this was just another jasmine/orange/carnation thing and I scrubbed it off and put my sample aside. Next! Then, this weekend, a couple hours before my shower, I tried it again, knowing I'd be washing it off soon. Much to my surprise, it morphed into something much more oriental and up my alley. (See Fanny's review for an accurate,IMO,and concise description.)Our brains get used to smells; I say in jest that boiled cabbage was regarded fondly by a Polish housemaid friend of my Mother's. I got the burnt rubber off l"Heure Bleu parfum and I'm in good company, Francis Kurkdjian said the same. I'm okay with the EDT. Sacrebleu Intense is supposed to channel it I believe. PdN is not available locally, at least not easily, so I will pounce on it when I see it. Sort of like dating the sister or cousin of a girl/boyfriend? Not cool? :D

...For me it's Y YSL but if it's early in the morning then Eau du Sud or Noa are my habitual fix

...Having a large perfume vocab was unheard of in my younger years. IPerfume releases were less numerous and not marketed to the same degree, then we consider price relative to income. Many young parfumistas' have amassed a great knowledge and an acute olfactory skill. Sweetgrass, your comments are highly regarded. :)

...Dark Matter mentions the fabulous In Black by Jesus Del Pozo. Yes! and its counterpart, In White has a following too. I don't know the others but this is a line that offers bang for the buck

...Dulcemio:Omni,Answer to your original post, second question: I find LB and Mitsouko very similar. I think they each don't appeal to me for the same reason. First question: Yes! I tried harder to find nirvana in Tauer's dry desert woody air like so many others have, but I simply could not. As it develops and settles on my skin I find myself trying to will it to go in another direction, like it's a bowling ball slowly heading for gutter.Oh thank you, Dulcemio, I thought I was the only one. When my enthusiasm for perfume fails, and it does from time to time, I like to wear a simple skin scent like Yardley Iris. On those days LHB and Mitsouko would be torture. I guess it's another topic because on those days I'm definitely not trying harder. I don't find many joyful encounters with Uncle Serge, so I sympathise with your Tauer's Marocain.

...Dulcemio:Omni:Dulcemio, I was misted in Eau de Vegas, Eau de Nicotine and Eau de Bourbon. Was fun to people watch. Perfume smelt quite cloying in the June heat, testing was a challenge. I mostly wore Eau du Sud and Kelly Caleche EDT but nobody commented favourably or unfavourably because they burn off so quicklyOh the dessert, the lovely, oven-like dessert. You mean you don't love it, Omni, when the air you breath sucks the moisture out of every single thing it comes in contact with? Where body lotion is a joke? And where perfume is vaporized within minutes? "But it's a dry heat!" they say. Yeah? Well, it's tooooo friggin' dry! :lol:Our climate is like San Francisco, so I can't say I liked it, but I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would and I loved just dropping into the pool. The perfumes smelt better in San Fran when we got there.

...Dulcemio, I was misted in Eau de Vegas, Eau de Nicotine and Eau de Bourbon. Was fun to people watch. Perfume smelt quite cloying in the June heat, testing was a challenge. I mostly wore Eau du Sud and Kelly Caleche EDT but nobody commented favourably or unfavourably because they burn off so quickly

...I ordered a bottle of Flora Nymphaea due to an online daily special. I am weak. It hasn't come yet but I will report on it. Katie Puckrik's review is flattering.As for Apres L'Ondee, it is proving very difficult to get and the price is skyrocketing.

...Dulcemio:Yes, Grey, "Noir de Noir" has a strong presence, doesn't it!However, it might be a little too smooth and rounded (too Tom Fordy?) to meet my criteria at the moment. I am dreaming of a luscious rose couched in some oriental richness, earthy, spicy, a tad sweet and a little rough around the edges.As MiaVon Trost (seconded by me) suggested do try the Rossy de Palma, my daughter loves it big time

...Went to Vegas last year, my first time, walked past the Mirage and found that the spray mists that disperse water as humidifiers from the building's frontage are scented in 'Mirage' fragrance. Thought that was pretty cool

...Dulcemio:Yesterday when I wore "Volutes" one of my work friends said I smelled like the lobby of the nice hotel that's across the street from our office.At first I was a little put off, but then I realized that the lobby in question smells fabulous.Yes, this is the feature of Apres L'Ondee that I am constantly amazed by. For a few years we owned an Arts and Crafts house, same vintage as the perfume and that is what it smelt like, nostalgia in a bottle, those wonderful scent memories, or are they inherited memories…

...Having just had a perfume go off I wouldn't risk refillable, even though that's what I grew up with; tamperproof are here to stay. What would be interesting is a Soviet type packaging, all perfume sold in standardised bottles, making the fragrance the only real choice. Oh wait, there's a lovely blue moon with a cow jumping over it

...Dulcemio:"Opium""Tabu""Youth Dew"Skanky, dirty, sluts with a smoker's cough.Fascinating, but too badass for most people to wear with ease.Reviews of Euphorisme D'Opium are tempting. I haven't worn it since the original hit the scene but it was grand in that baroque way

...Chypre Mousse falls into this category for me.

...DieNase:What th f... my tablet just crahed after I had already written a lot. All gone...Well, I was saying that I'm more likely to get comments by close friends that know of my hobby. I don't tell everyone because I don't think normal people would understand the kind of time and money I spend. Sometimes I don't either. So it's kind of a secret obsession. One of them doesn't make comments because she has a poor olfaction. I mean she is the kind of person who applies four spritzes of coco edp and reapplies after 4 hours - at work (I've told her that she cannot do that).DieNase, this happened to me recently. I had just completed a review of Fancy NIghts and I posted it to Parfumo, where it promptly disappeared into the ether. Maybe it's on the German site, but, stupidly, I hadn't made a copy. One of those crazy things. Bravo, your secret obsession and BTW it's safe with me

...Sweetgrass:I am tempted to buy both "Odalisque" and "Chypre Mousse" so I could layer them, I love it!This is the voyage of the Starship Enterprise. Whoooohoo.

...My husband was wearing Dior Homme Intense today. He went to a building site where the strapping young site foreman told him he had no right to be smelling that good early in the morning. I think my bottle of Dior Homme Intense has switched sides of the dresser.