Weekly Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

(I might move this around in the week a few times until I work out when it works for me to post these.)

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!

Whatcha wearing today? (Me: BPAL's "Brimstone", which I am absolutely perplexed by. I can't decide if it smells amazing or hideous on me.)

Comments

[lunabee34]

Since I found this comm I've been thinking about the perfumes I've worn over the years.

The first I can remember wearing was Exclamation! Oh, hello 1988. Internet tells me that this perfume has apricot notes and peach and other stuff, but I don't remember a lick of that. What I do remember is that it smelled so divine on all my friends but turned into this icky icky BO smell on me. So sad, baby Lorraine.

In high school I started wearing Tresor by Lancome, and though I don't wear it now, every time I smell it, I am almost viscerally thrown back in time to my teens. I started my first sexual relationship at that time, and that smell is connected with all that as well for me.

In college, I started wearing Clinique Happy. My then boyfriend now husband wore it too. And we had the body wash and the lotion and just smelled like yummo lemons and grapefruit all day (which okay, apparently there's no lemon according to the note description; but I have always smelled lemons).

In grad school, Josh bought me some Kate Spade Beauty. It was such a sweet gift as he'd seen me randomly sniff it and say that I liked it while in a store, but ultimately not a perfume that worked for either of it. It's just too sweet and floral. I will probably be offering this to a good home on a give-away post at some point. It's lovely but not for us.

Then I pretty much stopped wearing perfume and started doing Bath and Body Works shower gel + lotion + body spray, most notably in White Citrus, which Josh also uses sometimes; Aveda's Stress Fix Line (lavender + clary sage); and Fresh Lemon shower gel which is sour lemony and glorious.

So that's my perfume history. I would love to hear about anyone else's history in perfumes. :)

[minim_calibre]

Oh, gosh! Exclamation! Make a statement without saying a word! I keep wanting to smell that again.

Apparently, it has the same nose behind it as Tresor.

My history, it being the 1980s, started with those horrible Designer Impostors scents. I mean, discounting Jean Nate and Love's Baby Soft. I think my first Adult Real Perfume was White Shoulders, which my mother had, and I loved, and was therefore given for Christmas one year. After that, it just got random, because that was when it was far easier to find perfumes in the thrift stores, so I'd grab whatever caught my fancy there, and then whatever sample vials were around the house, which is how I wound up with a strong affection for both Paloma Picasso and Fendi.

I fell in love with Dune in college. A friend who wore Poison had a sample and gave it to me, and it was love at first smell. Same for Fahrenheit, which I love enough to never associate with anyone I've convinced to wear it. (I wear it myself sometimes, too, which helped that.)

Then there was that period of my life where I spent a lot of time waiting out traffic in a mall with a really good fragrance selection during a time where most of my income was disposable income. So many fragrance mistakes during those years. So very, very many. Oh, so many.

Of course, it did result in me discovering Annick Goutal, and also in me finding my One True Standard, L'Heure Bleue, so I suppose the WHAT WAS I THINKING??? of some of Those Other Scents was worth it. (Westwood Boudoir, I am looking at you.)

[lunabee34]

Oh how interesting. I never would have thought of those two being similar. I saw on your journal that you'd gotten some Tresor. I'd love to know what you think.

I don't think I've smelled any of those perfumes outside White Shoulders and Baby Soft.