Who Loves Perfume?

Thought I'd share the perfumes that I bought today for all those perfume lovers out there :D I have to admit that I have been wearing Paris since I was about 14! Holly molly that is like 20 years :redface: But for years I couldn't find anything that I liked better until I found 'Romance' and then just as my Paris was running out and I was going to buy Romance someone gave me more Paris as a gift! I know I could have still got other perfume but over the last 5 years I have barely ever worn any perfume. Anyway I just decided last week that I was going to buy some Romance but today I was in the pharmacy and saw a Sex In The City mini pack for only $14.95 (bargain) It has 7 mini bottles which as still a pretty good size and I like the scent of all of them plus they aren't too strong. So I got another pack as a gift for my SIL as she loves perfume.

I am a perfumeaholic :) I love Samsara, Midnight Poison, Hypnotic Poison, and a Alien .......... BUT my FAV in the whole widest world is Flowerbomb! Its amazing! :)

Oooh, Amarige is my absolute fave! I wore it on my wedding day :) And it's old school, but I love Tommy Girl.

GLAMOURCIDE!! this thread is for her.

I wear Pleasures (estee lauder) and Poeme (lancombe).

I love the britney spears range (sadly im too poor to afford anything super nice) so I just stick with this haha!

I also LOVE 'little black dress' from AVON :blush:

The oldest scent I have worn has been Safari (Ralph Lauren) it was my first real perfume and I got it when I was 16.

My regular scent is Coco Madamoiselle. I also have been known to wear Dior Addict, Hypnotic Poison, Pure Poison and Midnight Poison.

Ralph
Issey Miyake
Gucci
Provocative Woman
Be Delicious
Be Delicious Night
Deep Red

Poeme is lovely n2l.

On high rotation for me - Stella McCartney, Diorissimo, Narcisco Rodriguez For Her and Kai perfume oil. Adore the big florals.

Think my first perfumes were Revlon Unforgettable and Coty Vanilla Fields. Hang on, no - The Body Shop White Musk!

I always use Kylie Minogue "Showtime".

Love it! Hard to find at times...

I currently own 11 different Chanel fragrances :)

I wear perfume every day, even on weekends.

I love Issey Miyake it's my all time favourite.
I also love Dior Addict 2.
It's really hard to find a new scent..I am always on the look out, nothing every comes close to Issey Miyake.

i have been wearing romance by ralph lauren for a few years now. i used to always wear paul smith for women - i started wearing it when i lived in the uk. it's still my fave but couldn't find it duty free last time i went on holidays :( i don't feel properly dressed if i'm not wearing perfume! (although i did take a break when DS was a nb)

Ooooh perfume...my fav ever is J'adore its my everyday scent I've been wearing it for around 7 years now :) my latest new favourite is Gucci Rush :)

Issey Miyake is my signature scent. Love, love, love it!!

I also wear Calvin Klein Escape and Gucci Rush - divine!

I cut my fragrance teeth early with a cologne given to me for a birthday, then with some Revlon crap that I thought was lovely!
The stakes were raised when my GF got me Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds. I LOVED it, till I got sick of the smell mingling with ciggie smoke, because I'd wear it out clubbing in the bad old days.
I moved on to Moschino for a little while.
I have Be Delicious, Cashmere, a lovely Estee Lauder dab that DP hates, another one DP bought me that I forget at this moment in time but is a Hugo Boss one, and my current fave...a $7.50 perfume oil from a local-ish craft shop called Erotic Amber that is divine, and seems to be doing the trick with DP :o
I did love a Body Shop one called Rose Musk for ages, then I worked for Body Shop and decided I didn't like their oils much, after all.
My all time favourite has got to be one that I don't think did anything for many people (because it wasn't available for all that long) - Versace Yellow Jeans. Many, many years later I realised what the main note in it was because I almost fell over in a nursery one day, realising I could ask the nursery owner what it was - boronia! The simple boronia scent makes me swoon!
After working in that kind of area for department stores for a while, I got over the perfume thing and have stuck to what I already have (the Cashmere was a gift when I worked for Estee Lauder, and it's quite sophisticated, I think) and the perfume oils that get right to the heart of what I'm feeling :)

I love perfume too and I also wore YSL Paris for many years. Then I moved onto Stella McCartney which i still wear often though I prefer this in cooler weather. I wore Bvlgari Femme for a couple of summers. Then I went through a break up at the end of one summer with a man who was less than ideal anyway so couldn't wear Bvlgari anymore. Then one day I blind purchased Gucci Envy as it was on sale at Priceline and only sort of liked it as it was not my usual scent but it intrigued me... In the meantime I had gotten back together with my first true love, we became engaged and because I wanted to wear Paris on my wedding day and keep it special I continued to somewhat reluctantly wear Envy in the lead up to my wedding, then on my honeymoon continued to wear it as the slight syrupy green fresh scent made sense in a humid tropical island climate... Needless to say with all the beautiful memories associated with Envy it's now my favourite summer fragrance! Does not work in winter though. I also now love Chloe edp- it's my new Paris. :)

I love making blends with essential oils too, but I'm trying to get though what I have at the moment before I go and throw a few hundred at oils :)

Champs Elysses (sp?) by Guerlain and Beauty by Elizabeth Arden :) Mmmmm.....

Oh, and I stopped wearing scents for aaaaaaaages when pregnant with DS! I'm only just starting to adorn myself with scents, hence still having loads of the Boss, Cashmere, Be Delicious etc! Now that I've stopped wearing DD on my front - just was an unconscious thing, but I've figured out now why I stopped!

I love whit diamonds! Other favs are white musk, Japanese musk from the body shop and glow by jlo.


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Ohh i Have Coco Mademoiselle and Coco Chanel & love them both
I have the Gwen Steffani - LAMB- it's ok but not GREAT
I loveds my SJP Lovely
I have Nina - Nina Ricci - this is my 2nd fave
Cool Waters Women

I always stole my friends Versace Bright Crystal and she had another... for someone not overly girly i think i have an ok collection :)

I'm another who has a large collection of perfume and wears it every day..

Some of my faves are:

Chanel Chance
Issey Miyake
Anna Sui, Sui Dreams
Vera Wang Princess
Black XS Paco Rabanne
Escada Signature
Intimately Beckham (The Original)
Amor Amor Cacharel
Good old cheap Red Door :)

Probably a few more but those are the ones I can think of right now..

I have so many I want to try!!

Def a thread for Glamourcide, the perfume passionista!!

Me, though I don't buy the expensive stuff - at the moment I am loving a fragrance I recently bought called golden apple, and I love marousia - have done for years.

Hahahaha I love that you guys thought of me when you saw this thread... I admit, it popped up in the 'new posts' and I was like 'BROADBAND CANNOT OPEN THIS THREAD FAST ENOUGH! PERFUUUUMMMMEEE!!' lol :D

Yes, I'm obsessed! I have a collection ranging from Vanilla Fields and Imari Seduction, all the way up to Dior and Gucci. I'm a big fan of heavy florientals, but living in such a warm climate, I'm always on the hunt for summer-friendly fragrances that won't give me a headache or stink out a room :) Dior Poison was my signature fragrance until I got my hands on a bottle of Addict (had been waiting forever for that one!) - it truly is my 'dream' scent, if I had been able to get into a perfumer's nose and design my own scent, Addict would be it :)
I have heaps of Dior frags, unfortunately Chanel just doesn't seem to work on my skin - I've tried so many and they just come off yucky on me :(
The perfumes that I wear on a regular basis (and I admit that this is just a tiny percentage of my collection, I tend to collect perfumes because they mean something to me even if I don't wear them, or I just like the bottle or the brand) are: Dior Addict, Dior Poison, Hypnotic Poison, YSL Cinema (omg I LOVE this one, it's so vanilla-y and creamy), Gucci Guilty (I'm hanging out so hard for Guilty Intense!), Angel (wish I could love Alien but it smells like fly spray and cough lollies on me), Bvlgari Black, Reb'l Fleur by Rihanna (more on celeb frags in a minute lol), Maitresse by Agent Provocateur and Lolita Lempicka.

My DDs are turning into mini-perfumistas as well - I got DD1 a bottle of Britney's Fantasy for her 4th birthday and she wears it once or twice a week (when we go out shopping and she wants to feel all dressed up), and DD2 always hauls me into the local Terry White after we get coffee and donuts, to try perfumes - she loves Versace for some reason (I only like Vanitas myself lol). I'm not at all a perfume snob but my skin 'eats' perfumes so I find I have to carry celeb frags or other cheap ones (Avon etc) in my handbag to respray during the day, I like high-end perfumes because they're so complex and last all day (I have a dress that absolutely reeks of Addict even after washing it two or three times lol, it just stays in the fabric and smells delicious). There are quite a few celeb fragrances that are wonderful, I was really impressed with Rihanna's first effort, and I'll definitely be blind-buying her new one when it comes out because the notes sound perfect for my tastes. Britney's are super-sweet but I like Midnight Fantasy on cool, sunny spring days - unfortunately Radiance gives me a splitting headache, DD1 loves the bottle but I won't allow it in my house hahaha.

I started wearing perfumes before I hit puberty - nothing fancy, but my mum got sick of me stealing her Miss Dior and started buying me cheap ones like Ici (which I don't wear any more but still keep a bottle of because it brings back lovely memories) and Body Shop perfume oils (I love the old Cinnamon Spice and the old Vanilla - the new one smells like car air freshener). These days, I don't feel 'dressed' until I'm smelling good as well :)
My latest purchases were Agent Provocateur's signature, and Eau Emotionelle - both picked up on an auction site that is getting rid of stock from Perfume Empire (which some of you may know went into liquidation earlier this year or last year). (Anybody who's interested, PM me and I'll tell you where to find them - they have 30-100ml bottles of high-end and celeb frags starting at $20 up to about $70 - RIDICULOUSLY cheap, and absolutely legit!)

*sigh* I could talk perfumes all day! :) Love them - there's such a huuuuge range out there, they're all so different and beautiful in their own ways, and I'm a huge believer in scent being a big part of making memories.

Haha! Wondered how long it would take you Donna! I also agree on the YSL Cinema, LOVE it! And the old Body Shop Vanilla which has disappeared.. Brings back so many memories of when DH and I got together back in 04 and BS Vanilla was my every day scent, lasted forever!! Yummm...

I also like Britney's Curious In Control for a cheap celebrity scent, seems hard to find these days though??

Does Dior do a Dolce Vita in a pretty round bottle with some sort of spotty design on it?? I remember it from my Mum's collection and loved it, might have to hunt it down just for the memories..

^ They sure do :) There's Dolce Vita in the round bottle with the 'spots', and Eau de Dolce Vita in a taller, elongated bottle with the same design :) I have a mini of Eau de Dolce Vita, it smells gorgeous! Ohh, which reminds me, I need to track down another bottle of Dune because I had an old-fashioned one with a stopper instead of a spray-top and the kids emptied it out... the carpet in my bedroom smells amazing, though ;)

I wear Nina Ricci everyday :) it's yum. Sometimes I wear the Crabtree & Evelyn Vanilla scent mmmm. I've also got a little 5 pack of the Bvlgari scents, they're quite nice to wear at night for something different.

I used to wear Anna Sui - dreams but that just reminds me of highschool now hah. I wore White Linen for a while, I like it even though it's kind of an old lady scent. I liked it for work. I also wore Elizabeth Arden's Mediterranean too, that's a nice one.

I love getting into my nan's & my mum's perfumes.... Nostalgia central! I was in a perfume shop the other day and sprayed myself with Lou Lou... It reminds me of when I was little and we had to go stay at Dad's place and mum would spray it on my pillow so I didn't get homesick *sigh*

Ahhh...Lou Lou...Is that you??? (remember the ad?!)

My first BF bought me Lou Lou for Christmas one year. I loved it!!

Glamourcide, I'm the same with Chanel fragrances. I love them on other people but they just don't work on me. Gah.

A big fan of Agent Provocateur here too. I wear the original mostly, so powdery and feminine - but Maitresse is a regular "sniff-by" in Myer.

I don't have a big collection because I like to keep my perfume fresh rather than sitting about going stale so I finish a bottle and buy something different.
At the moment I have
Issey Miyake
Chanel 19
and Gaultier Summer.

I love Armani Mania but I'm almost out of it, and I haven't seen it around of late ...

I also have Femme by Hugo Boss, but it smells different to me, post birth ... not sure why!

At the moment, I'm loving the Dreams handlotion by bodyshop. I don't like the perfume as much as the lotion, but there you go ...

Onyx, that's what I had been doing until I started working for an Estee Lauder company and had them gifted to me all over the shop!

I do! I have tons. It's something girly that doesn't matter what size or shape I am. I also wear it like garlic to ward from vampires. Because people in my past who were often bad people would get migraines from the smell.

Some of my faves are:
Prada light green
Covet by SJP
Harajuku music

Oh and Maybe Baby by benefit for my handbag.

Jean Paul Gaultier Classic, I have worn this for years and still LOVE it.

I can't do Chanel either... Allure and Mademoiselle 'work' nicely on my skin but the scents annoy me after a while. Plus I know a lot of women who wear Mademoiselle so I'd feel like I was stealing their identity lol.

Rouge what does Prada light green smell like?

I also regularly spritz Love, Chloe when I'm in a department store... It's so delicate and light. It reminds me of pears though I don't think it has any pear notes!

Rouge, Maybe Baby is gorgeous.

The Love Chloe is the next on my list.

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Glamourcide, I'm the same with Chanel fragrances. I love them on other people but they just don't work on me. Gah.

A big fan of Agent Provocateur here too. I wear the original mostly, so powdery and feminine - but Maitresse is a regular "sniff-by" in Myer.

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Glad I'm not the only one! I love them on other people, too, just on me they come out so strange, I can't wear them :( You have to get Maitresse, I find it so much more wearable than the original AP - but then I much prefer Eau Emotionelle over the original. I think I'll keep it because the bottle is so gorgeous, but I can't see myself wearing it very often, it's a bit more 'woody' than I prefer. It gets great about three or four hours in, but before that I'm not a fan lol :)

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I don't have a big collection because I like to keep my perfume fresh rather than sitting about going stale so I finish a bottle and buy something different.

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I've actually only had that happen to me with a bottle of Avon perfume, Onyx - if you store them correctly, perfumes can last for years and years :) I have a bottle of vintage Dior Poison that has evaporated over time into a really concentrated, thick liquid - I don't wear it because it's so special, but it smells incredible, just like it did when it was bought. DH gave me a bottle for Mother's Day or Valentine's Day a couple of years ago and it's beautiful, but I hate that they reformulated it, it does smell different :(
I'm actually looking forward to my bottle of Cinema 'ageing' - the tester I tried at the chemist was pure vanilla, but the fresh bottle I have is a lot more floral - if the vanilla intensifies with time, that'll be fantastic :)


My favourite site for perfume talk is Fragrantica - it has a database of just about every perfume imaginable, with reviews and forums, perfume 'news' (things like upcoming releases, interviews with famous perfume 'noses' etc) and a whole bunch of other stuff - I can spend hours trawling around looking up perfumes and reading all about them :)