Thursday Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

Before I forget!

This post is a free-for-all for people to:

a) post links to perfume-related content they posted elsewhere (on or off DW)
b) talk about anything they want to talk about that isn't big enough for a full post
c) socialize and hang out without worrying about "off topic"
d) or anything else that comes to mind!

Comments

[jenett]

I find that the smell in the bottle and the smell on skin can be so very different that the bottle's not giving a scent a fair shake. I mean, what'm I losing by skin testing on a day when I'm sitting around the computer? I might need to go wash my wrist.

I don't test things that have notes I know I have significant trouble with (I'm sensitive to chamomile, and I'd hate to, say, fall in love with something that had it, and then have to deal with the allergy issues.) And I generally won't test something that smells truly miserable in the bottle.

But most other stuff? I'll test it. Eventually. I usually go much more by the notes and 'do I maybe want to smell like this thing' and there are some things I do weed out at that point. But otherwise it goes in the bin of things to test sometime. (Which could be months, I admit, and then I'll do a day of trying half a dozen at a time (three on each arm) and seeing whihc I want to try more thoroughly.

[sathari]

Good points!

I've tried both approaches (three-to-an-arm, washing off) and my own personal problem with those approaches is that on the one hand scents tend to "cling" to my skin (I've used peroxide, alcohol, dish soap, and permutations and combinations thereof, and I still smell at least partly like whatever-it-was) and on the other putting multiple scents to an arm changes all of them, so a scent I like when it's a couple of inches away from another scent on me may not smell so good on its own.

TL;DR, it seems like scents are a bigger "time investment" for me than for some, thanks probably to skin-chemistry REASONS.