synecdochic: Ba'al looking smug, caption, "when I am an evil overlord" (ba'al - evil overlord)
synecdochic ([personal profile] synecdochic) wrote in [community profile] smellsgood2014-07-18 05:24 pm

friday free for all

Now in the correct place, oops.

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!
cleverthylacine: a cute little thylacine (Default)

[personal profile] cleverthylacine 2014-07-19 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Read Luca Turin, and post your reviews anyway.

I disagree with Luca Turin on a number of things but he's fun to read even when I think he's dead wrong. (Which I do on two topics: 1 being that perfume DOES SO smell different on skin than on paper or fabric and 2 being that Pi by Givenchy may not be incredibly exciting or novel or brilliant but when you put it on my skin it's divine.)
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2014-07-19 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Turin and Sanchez are just as fun to disagree as to agree with, I find. I agree with them entirely on some things; I also love and revere some of their most-loathed, one-star reviewees (notably Kingdom and Miel de Bois).
cleverthylacine: a cute little thylacine (Default)

[personal profile] cleverthylacine 2014-07-20 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I would have to agree though I don't know those specific frags :)

I'm halfway through my third large size bottle of Pi.

I initially tried it on just because I was into Numb3rs and I wanted to know if it was something that Charlie would wear (LOL) but I sprayed it on and it was AMAZING. I get it on eBay usually because it's less expensive and I don't have to explain to a nosey sales person that no, it's not a present for my brother/nonexistent male partner, it's for me...
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[personal profile] sathari 2014-07-19 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the rec! (Sadly, the dude took his blog down, and the PDF copy of it is coming up as a blank for me, mutter-grumble, but I'll poke around some more.)
cleverthylacine: a cute little thylacine (Default)

[personal profile] cleverthylacine 2014-07-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh that IS sad, though mostly I have read his books!
sathari: (Anakin- the world's too much)

[personal profile] sathari 2014-07-20 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, very frustrating! Sigh.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2014-07-20 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow. That seems like such a given. Everything I have smelled on skin smelled different on paper; sometimes slightly so but often times massively so.