Perfumed Court recs, anyone?

[lunabee34]

For my next adventure in perfume, I want to move beyond BPAL and test some more traditional, alcohol-based perfumes. The Perfumed Court seems like a cool place to get sample sizes of those sorts of perfumes. So, I guess I have two questions for y'all.

1. Have any of you purchased perfumes from this site, and what was your experience?
2. This site seems pretty extensive, specializing in a lot of classic perfumes. What should I sample? What's the top ten list of classic perfumes that I should smell?

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I last ordered from them, but TPC have always been reliable in my experience, and have been recced for years by a lot of the mainstream perfume bloggers I follow.

And I definitely agree with the other commenters that going for any sort of generalized list of "greatest perfume classics" runs the risk of getting you a lot of things that may be historically interesting, but aren't anything you'll particularly *like*. It might be simpler to look at lists like the one on Now Smell This!, or even just going over reviews on blogs that focus on a lot of classics (like NST, BoisDeJasmin.com, or YesterdaysPerfume.com) and making notes of anything that sounds particularly appealing to you. And once you've tried a few more you may be able to start figuring out that there are certain dominant notes or fragrance types that really work or don't work for you, certain eras or creators that do and don't fit your tastes, and focus more of your exploring in those areas that seem to click for you.

[lunabee34]

I think you were the person who clued me in to the site to begin with!

this sounds like good advice. I know I don't like super floral things for example, and I don't want to buy a bunch of stuff I know I'll never wear. I'm going to start with the Vetiver sample pack you linked me to and probably do an animalics one because I really want to smell Jicky and CB Musk.