Perhaps unfairly, I am assuming that Cancerians, Librans & Pisceans will be best able to recall their first scent & how they wore it…From a Mercury in Virgo point of view (Mercury has just one into Virgo – carp at your leisure) it would be interesting to note if particular Sun signs have an affinity with different families of scent? And if peeps essentially stick to the same family of scent the whole way through. eg; you start with Orientals and more or less stay there, merely maturing your tastes as you go along…Is there any one person who’s always stuck with the same scent??? And if so, what is your sign?
A Leo Uncle who specialised in inappropriate but fabulous gifts gave me a massive bottle of Ma Griffe when i was about 13 & despite being told to “save it for special occasions” I became renowned for reeking of it at school. It was, of course, WAY too old for me.
The brill book Perfumes – The Guide (Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez) says it is a “classic green chypre, less herbacious than Givenchy III, less dry than Y, more floral than most, and with a Miss Moneypenny spinsterish loveliness that works perfectly if you are nothing of the sort.” Lol!
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First perfume was Guy Laroche Fidji Parfum given to me by my Air hostie Sagg Aunt.
‘Laroche Fidji is a fresh green floral with notes of galbanum, hyacinth, bergamot, lemon, carnation, orris, jasmine, rose, ylang ylang, vetiver, musk, sandalwood and moss. ‘
Yes I still lean towards blends a little like this. Light floral (not sickly sweet or over powering) with an undertone of something musk,sandalwood and moss.
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My Leo mum wore this until she was pregnant with me (Aqua sun, Leo moon) – said it made her sick. She’d forgotten all about this until I bought it home when I was 18 declaring I had found my scent! I haven’t seen it in the shops for ages.
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Yum! Sounds divine. I want some. Sandalwood and musk are two of my all-time fave scents. And I totally love that they threw in rose and jasmine. I’d replace lemon with limeand lose the ylang ylang.
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Probably the Body Shop’s Dewberry and then Elizabeth Arden’s Sunflowers. Both now give me a headache, and make me feel nauseous, though I still get nostalgic when I catch a whiff of ck one.
I am now a sucker for anything slightly androgynous and exoctic smelling (Serge Lutens / L’Artisan Parfumier) or layering the ex’s cologne on my fragrance (Chanel Allure homme goes on very nicely after Chanel Allure Parfum, thankyou very much…)
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My sister, Pisces with Pisces rising had Sunflowers as her first perfume.
Description: Floral fruityA couple of years ago, she decided she needed to discover her signature scent, so we went on a mission to find her perfect perfume. I don’t think this was what most people would understand perfume shopping to be, this was a painstaking and very long search since the perfume had to be literally perfect. The end result was Romance by Ralph Lauren. But I think she was only 99% happy with it.
Description: Green floral fruity
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Anais Anais at 15 and I wore it at all times so that now it makes me gag. Orientals all the way now. Libra Sun Scorp Moon Gem Asc
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Ditto on the Anais Anais. Toro sun, Canc asc, Gem moon.
Switched to Chanel No5 which I still love, plus a couple of the Aveda chakra perfumes (they only make one scent now, which I do wear).Floral with a bit of woody/resiny something always suits me.
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I have realised I am an Orientals type – coco chanel, M7 by YSL (a mens cologne i bought for myself and YUM), oh and also my all time favourite Bois des Iles..again chanel!
but i do like to chop and change perfumes, I rarely finish a bottle before getting sick of it
other than 4711 as a young girl, My first official perfume was ‘Intimate’ by someone or other, it had a purple lid, pretty oriental i guess – rich and sweet. Probably a bit sickly by my standards today!
as i’ve got older i really like the very green or ozonic perfumes – cristalle chanel (i am noting a theme) etc
I’ve tried some of the amazing obscure atelier-type perfumes, they are AMAZING but at $200 a bottle i really can’t justify it…plus it’s not going to make me rich or famous or find me a decent boyfriend. dammit
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YOu never know!!!!
Is anyone going to be honest and admit to Impulse???
That was my first but then my mother clearly trying to save herself from my pong got me some chanel and STILL i preferred the impulse. Only because i thought it WOULD make me rich and famous with a boyfriend. Whereas Chanel seemed, to me as a teenager, all about being boring and prissy. As a leo i need perfume that makes me people freak OUT over how amazing i smell. Or else i will smell of NOTHING.
Having said all that, hte only thing i know for a fact men love – in scents – is soemthing that smells like crap suntan lotions. Hawaiin thingie. Coconut oil.-
Yeah! Imoulse! Do they still make that stuff? I remember the adverts and the smell, but don’t think I ever sprayed it on.
I fancied myself as too much of a hippie at the time and wore ‘strawberry musk’ some indian incense oil thingie in a tiny square bottle, purchased at a rock festival! I always have a nostalgic snort from the tester if I see it today.
Virgo
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I’ve been through a variety of perfumey phases:
- Opium at 18
- Paris at 20
- Chanel No 5 whenever
- The Clarins fragrance Eau Dynamassomethingorother on and off for years
- That one by Issey Miyake that everyone did to death in mid 20s
- That raging red one by Gucci that smells like a bag of mixed lollies at 30
- The blue furry one by Dolce & Gabbana at 32
- Now …. BO? LOLI can’t wear perfumes anymore they give me a headache. Only natural fragrance via 100% essential oils which I mix around to suit my mood and the season.
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LOL Prowlncat!
BO is now my perfumer of choice as well!
Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs has some nice essential oil and fragrance oil sets as does Twilight alchemy Labs.
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hmmm might have to check those out Foxxy. I do enjoy scents but finding something that doesn’t make me nauseous from the fumes isn’t easy – best I’ve come up with is from a *cough* multi-level marketing company called Neways who do this essential oil perfume called Neroli, beautiful scent but you know tres daggy to be buying stuff off a Mormon conglomerate!
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Yes me too prowln. Very sensitive to perfume too. Only wear ylang ylang occassionally now. Must be atypical Libran as have 5 planets in libra but can’t wear perfume. I don’t think I ever bought any my whole life.
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the first perfumes i was aware of when I was very little, 4 or 5 were 4711 and tweed and such. obviously hanging around chemists. Experimented with making my own with lemon juice when I was about the same age. I actually hated the impulse smells as a teen, they were incredibly gross, but excellent for covering ciggie smell.
Now I am a totally into essential oils, i have zillions of bottles, but also all the Burberry scents and weirdest of all Sarah Jessica Parker- lovely and covet, maybe cos she is an aries too??? But do those pop scents really get to the nose of the pop star?
Have so many smelly things around the shop and house. Incense..nag champa occaisionally.
I recently checked my chart re my fascination with scent and have uranus in libra and Merc in Pisces… perhaps applicable…
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oh yeah and rose talc when i was really little and something that smelt of marshmallow sort of….very little.
then of course at high skool the body shop thing. white musk. dewberry smells like playdough. a girl i knew wore the vanilla and stunk like a giant icecream.
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I’m a Kataka and I like really warm scents, like cocunut or vanilla. I tried rose when I first started, but it was too “cold” for me.
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ooh Impluse yes ~ merely musk?? I think that was its name and yes tres fab for covering ciggy smell. I had totally forgotten all about Impluse!
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My Dad owned a chemist shop, so I was in serious perfume hog-heaven as a youngster – Tabu, Tweed, Charlie, huge display bottles of 4711 – OMG it was wonderful, but Mum was always telling me to lay off the testers ‘cos I was giving her sinus
My Nan always had a bottle of Evening In Paris on her dressing table that I loved for the pretty bottle – pink and black if I remember correctly.
I still love the good old Spritual Sky Frankinsense incense oil – it takes me right back to my young’un hippie days. One night I was wearing it at a work gathering, when the noted office creep bailed me up at the top of the stairs took a deep sniff and told me I “smelled like a whore house of the east” creepy to the max as a tender 19 year old.
These days it’s Vera Wang, Paris and Opium, and still have a bottle of Spritiual Sky Frankinsense for my hippie moments.
My greatest pefume regret is that Chanel No. 5 just disappears on me.
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Thank Goddess someone said Charlie, I thought I was the only one. From there I moved on to First by Van Cleef & Arpels, after which I was stuck with Pleasures by Estee for almost a decade – though I stopped people on the streets with it.
Then I went through a phase were I was wearing Eternity for Men in honor of the Adulterous Toro, now I CAN’T stand the stuff.
After that it was J’adore (outgrew), Romance(outgrew), Chanel Eau Fraiche (still thinking), Carnal Flower (YES LOVE this), and now Pure Poison…
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Chanel and Guerlain before they were made from petrochemicals,
I’ve been to Grasse in south of France and I long for the pure perfume past. I think Issy Miyake was done to death because it stood out as something extraordinary. I also like the smell of neroli oil (from white blossoms of orange trees) wear orange blossom when you get married (it’s ok if it’s the2nd/3rd time too) -
Raining Violets & Hawaiian White Ginger little jars by Avon when I was 9, it was the 70′s. My Mum used to buy them. I wish they’d bring them back in exactly the same packaging.
I’ll admit to Impulse when I was about 14
. Charlie, my first boyfriend bought a bottle with a stuffed Charlie dog, St. Bernard or something.I’ve been through many like prowincat at different times. Poison – Dior & Cinnabar Estee Lauder in the 80′s. Shalimar, Light Blue D & C, Chanel No. 5 – 90′s, Dior – Addict & Dune, Angel & The Rose by Thierry Mugler recently.
I collect vintage perfume bottles & have been known to open the bottle give it a whiff & wear it if it acceptable, one that got a lot of comments was a really old bottle of 4711.
I’d rather wear nothing than something cheap & nasty.
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I collect special pieces of blue glass(not just any old bit of blue glass) so to combine these two themes my most precious blue glass piece is my grandmother’s very first “grown up” perfume that she bought herself from her wages as a tailoress at age 16 in 1933.
It is a phial with a tapered end six sides and a black bakelite cap with still remnants of the silk cord and tassle attached and when I open it and take a whiff… “roses”, still , 76 years on and still pleasant.
My Mother bought me my very first perfumes
#tiny 4711 in santa stocking
#Bluegrass (think it was a Revlon)
#Jontue powdery floral too
#Arpege at 17
#Vanderbilt by 18
I think Estee Lauder Beautiful was the first real one I bought myself in 1988 at 19.
I am still floral all the way, through #Spellbound, #Red Door (which now invokes strong memories of my dying Nan, who loved it so we just bathed her in it for her last week with us),so I had my “floriental stage’ Now I feel like I am the only woman on earth who can’t stand Chanel No 5 but I LOVE #Chanel Allure, #Beyond Paradise, and I flirted with the vanilla stage of Laura Mercier #”Creme Brulee”, and bounced back to Clinique’s #Happy for day and Allure for night. I stick with 2 bottles, wear a small amount every day and use it all up in 12 months and happily get a new bottle for christmas and then brthday (jan 3) every year.My son(7) is already building a scent memory, and can remind me of places we were when “you smelled like that Mum” Lancome #Hypnose (sample bottle that I took on camping holiday) “oh Mum ” he said , “you smell like Charters Towers” and often says to me” You always smell good Mum”and he is loving his LYNX “africa” .. his FIRST man stuff(he calls it that). Its quite nice for $5.
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I used to dabble in all manner of scents as a teen – Impulse had so many flavours after all. Then after my first disastrous drinking episode when best friend cleaned me up and pre-taxi squirted me all over with Poison (appropriately enough) could not abide it. Automatic gag reflex. This magnified a decade later by pregnancy led to everyone else’s scented choices also making me vomit. Literally.
Have only just come back to perfume another decade later courtesy of mother-in-law always buying me perfume. Most are vile still but look so gorgeous. Think I love the bottle more than the contents…. but I am also slyly squirting SJP’s Lovely and feeling, well, very grown up.
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hey aqua aquarios sjp is an aries and she has her moon in cap !
i always loved yardley’s april violets and tabu ! there is a magical lady in my local david jones and whenever i let her suggest a bottle of perfum it always leads to somebody … i think i have some special connection with perfume.
at the moment i love tom fords noir de noir but it is expensive and also tom fords for men. that is awesome !-
Wow. there you go eh… maybe she does have a say….
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Blue Grass & Memoire Cherie by Elizabeth Arden were my first early teen perfumes.
My first French one as an older teen was Balenciaga’s Quadrille & Chanel 19 & have
adored expensive perfumes since then!
In my 20′s was all the Dior’s…..Diorissimo, Diorama Miss Dior & Diorella.
In my 30′s, the Chanel ones….now i’m old enough for Jean Patou’s JOY & Geurlain’s Jicky!
Know my perfumes know me? In bathroom at mo is: Pamplelune by Geurlain, Gardenia by Annick
Goultard, Yveresse by YSL, Romance by Ralph Lauren, Tea Rose by Perfumers Workshop & Fleur d’orange by L’Occitane (both used for room sprays) & 2 sample bottles of Dior Cherie & J’Adore 10 mls only & only 10 drops of Chanel 5 left.
None, sad to say were gifts.
Next will be Jo Malone’s Jasmin & Geurlain’s L’Intense ( the fig one?).
Champagne taste on beer budget, but it represents Luxury & Abundance to me plus Success….that i CAN buy my own perfume……………..dammit!
That Libran Moon of mine explains the love of scents to me. Bottled memories.-
my mum wore bluegrass. it is the essence of nostalgia pour moi. it smelled so good on her…
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Lol picses rising – Diesel Green and Versace Blue haze (they dont make that any more!)
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My grandmother wore 4711 and I would borrow it as a teenager when going out. Since my 20′s the only scent I love on myself or others is rose water.
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J’adore, “J’adore!”by Christian Dior. A beautiful smelling perfume, technically called, Aue de Parfum, so not quite as powerful as the full on perfume. The bottle is voluptuos and beautiful, pear shaped and golden tipped.
Scent of magnolia, ylang ylang, patchouli and s’thing else I can’t recall. So, so yummy.I had only been wearing essential oils for about 8 years, when my Dad bought me the above recently and I can’t get enough. He has a great nose for perfum, literally!
In my early 20s I wore Angel – a lot.
Snif sniff
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oh, Aqua sun, libra rising, leo moon
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Lou Lou by Cacharel at 14 because I loved the bottle!
Pisces Sun, Leo Rising, Moon in Aries, Venus/ Mercury in Aquarius.
Then 10 years with no perfume, until 25 and Armani Mania for years, which I have finally run out of. Now Prada, except I feel silly wearing it during the day as it is so musky.
I wouldn’t mind trying new Armani Onde as I like the bottle and connotations of name, haven’t smelt in yet though.-
OMG Lou Lou!!! That was such a fave in my eary 20′s – along with Samsara. Talk about heady intense scents
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All through my teenage years was BYZANCE……I can’t remember by who…but oh how I loved it…I felt like such an exotic creature being sqirted by that cobalt blue bottle…………..it’s still out there but not popular….not that it ever was……..
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I’m having trouble breathing right now, my nose is having flashbacks…
Whenever I smell Farenheit I am reminded of a French Gemini I did karmic time with in the 90s & these days I can’t take seriously any man who wears it.
The French Gemini wasn’t in love with me, just my scent..a heady, ancient, deep red Indian perfume oil called “Aphrodesia”. -
My dear nan bless her heart wore Estee Lauders’ “youth dew” into hard core old age & then beyond…it was about as religious as she got!
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sure, impulse is like the gateway drug.. i think i started with the musk one, then moved on to mens deo – always musky or those crisp, cool smells. i cant really do floral but im not a girly girl so maybe thats why.
when i finally found perfume in my early twenties it was armani white pour the ladeez.
these days i aspire to getting around smelling freshly washed with a hint of sandalwood or something but if i want to make a statement i wear the usher scent for women.
the new usher scent for women now.
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oh lord. my step nan bought me a bottle of oscar de la renta when i was 13 and i felt sooooo spesh. then i lost the bottle a few months later. it’s floral & yick. then spent most of teens wearin some spiritual sky hippy oil bottle – rose musk i think. then was mad on krishna musk… all a bit sweet really.
most of uni i was a delicate (LOL) scent of patchouili & rose oils and eau de rollies. my best friend (a virgo who CANNOT abide patchouli) still does not let me live it down.
i was into jo malone’s red roses for a while but overkilled it and now have had a half empty bottle for years that my sis sprays everywhere whenever she comes over.i’m wearing a bit of origins ginger essence these days… gingery-citrussy-fresh, it’s nice but a little boring. i like the idea of finding “my” perfume that makes the men swoon but it’s not something i’ve ever made the time for. and the perfume counters do give me headaches… many perfumes give me headaches. if someone gets on the bus with overbearing perfume i have to get off. love essential oils. oh and men wearing joop. i know it was overdone but a particular ex wore it and it still makes me weak at the knees.
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Patchouli oil and ylang ylang oil dabbed copiuosly. Virgo and scorpio rising.
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Versace ‘Baby Pink Jeans’. Yum!
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May I just thank everyone for their posts – such a nostalgia trip! Scents, like music, evoke such powerful memories.
My first scent would have been 4711, like so many of you, nicked from my mother. In my early twenties, White Linen, Jardins de Baguatelle, Opium and Chanel No 5 were dreams. During my child bearing years I wore Amarige, Chanel Gardenia and Tendre Poison. Of late, I have had a thing for really fruity scents (Escada Rockin Rio and I just went totally nuts for Fendi Theorema which was just like smelling Coca Cola). Now I have turned to Shalimar, which is now so super affordable at Priceline.
I am lusting after a bottle of Dior perfume that has a name with something to do with Positano …
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All I remember of Impulse was Impulse fights after PE and at lunch at school – involved spraying your friends up close (i.e. can nozzle to the fabric as much as you could before they ran away). We all used to go to our next class absolutely reeking. I don’t know how our teachers didn’t just throw us out. Of course, being a Capricorn, I did not start this. I acted only in self defence.
Exclamation! was the first perfume I purchased for myself around 15-16 years old. I still appreciate it, though I wouldn’t wear it now.
Description: Fruity FloralAt 18, my boyfriend (now my husband) purcahsed a bottle of New West for Women and the matching body body lotion for me – I walked past it in Myer with him, smelt it and decided that I had to have it – he insisted on buying it for me, though I protested. I still love the scent, and of course it has so many memories. It has been taken off the market, and though I recently found that you can still get it from some websites, I have moved on.
Description: Floral Fresh WateryNow I have a small bottle of Lancome’s Attraction which I really like, a chypre fruity, for occasions. For day, I like BodyShop vanilla, I think I’ve mentioned previously I still have a bottle of the original recipe, which was very vanilla, like custard. Does very good things with my skin chemistry. Now it’s more coconut. I have other perfumes, but since I don’t rate them and they are only a standby, they don’t bear mentioning.
I don’t like musk, and I don’t do straight florals. Those are pretty much my two rules, though I’m sure they’ll be broken one day.
For a fairly complete listing of perfumes with their notes and release dates to within at least 20 years (I think), try perfumeworld.net – the web encyclopedia of perfumes. It could be more descriptive, but for a strictly factual and extensive listing, it’s pretty good.
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i haven’t always used the same perfume, but always the same designer, Nina Ricci, so started with Fleur de Fleurs, the L’air du temps, and now Pretty Nina.
i think they are all very similar and all floral
toro sun, kataka rising, virgo moon
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I was musk-obsessed in my teens/early 20s (Avon Soft Musk, Body Shop White Musk), then as my wage increased so did my $pending on perfumes (Lou Lou, Dune by Dior, Chanel No 19), and nowadays I mostly love perfumes with foodie notes or are woody orientals (Miss Dior Cherie, Ralph Lauren Notorious, Burberry Brit) and mmm anything with strong vanilla, caramel, or honey notes.
Plus I have a penchant for v.heady florals (Narcisco Rodriguez EDP, Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, Gucci Flora) but can only tolerate wearing these during cooler weather.Me = Sag Sun/Moon, Gem Rising
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My mom handed me a bottle of Calvin Klein’s Obsession when I was eight and told me it drives the boys wild. It’s the only perfume I wear, although I don’t wear perfume often. I don’t even wear deodorant, only baking soda. I prefer my natural scent, I guess. =)
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I have always been obsessed with perfume; my mother wore Ma Griffe actually, and the smell of it reminds me instantly of her!
My first at about 9 or so, to wear at Christmas or Thanksgiving, was a little sample bottle of Clinique Happy. Then I bought Love’s Baby Soft and lots of random “Vanilla Fantasy,” “White Must Fantasy,” those cheapo disgusting kinds of perfume perfectly suited to the 11-12 year old I was! And then I had a long love-affair with some random Calgon like…”Hawaiian Ginger and something” that smelled very clean and kind of watery.
High school I had in my rotation, at some points or other, Bulgari Red Tea, Dior Addict, Clinique Simply, Hanae Mori, and stolen spritzes of my mother’s Burberry Brit and Lanvin Arpege. Plus I was into essential oils as well, mostly gardenia and jasmine.
Now I’m in university and my two favorites are Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fleur du Male, which is actually for men but smells so orange-blossomy-warm-soapy I can’t resist, and L’Occitane citrus verbena for summer heat. Still wear the Red Tea occasionally as well.
I am basically a perfume whore and have samples of all sorts, plus names in my head of things I want to smell.The perfume I will wear when I grow into it a little is most definitely Samsara. Can’t wait.
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OH and I can’t believe I forgot, I often wear this little roll-on scent that’s supposedly just for Scorpios! The only hint as to its notes are that the bottle says “ginger/geranium.” It’s perfect for daytime.
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My Libran mother decided to take control of my scent direction as a teenager, & bought me Anais Anais by Cacherel for my 15th birthday.
Very classic, rather Cancerian I think (no surprise as her moon is in Cancer, & Mars/Eros/12th house in Cancer makes me very into all that vintage flowery shit anyway).Now I wear Babydoll by YSL at night & New York body spray in the day, rather more zingy Gemini scents…
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4711 as a small child, to be like Mum! A couple of bottles of Tweed as a young teenager, followed by a couple of bottles of Miss Dior which I loved, until it became unavailable. Late teens I tried Mum’s Eau de Lancome. Haven’t worn anything else since. I have a strange skin which seems to be very acidic and turns most perfumes into vile chemical odours on me, even though they smell wonderful on others.
Just last night Mum gave me a bottle of perfume she had bought for me. Another Lancome, but although it was lovely on her, it was vile on me, so she got to keep it.
Everyone comments on my Eau de Lancome as it suits me so well, so I have given up trying others. Not quite only the one scent, but close. Can only be one sign …!
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Hilarious! My first fragrance was also Ma Griffe at about the age of 13. I loved it.
In my late teens I went through a phase of quite ‘heavy’ scents – Opium, Poison, Gucci #3, Teatro a la Scala… can’t wear them anymore. I was given Lumiere by some girlfriends – quite rare I think, and gorgeous. Floral, but warm and not too girly frou frou. I still like that from time to time. Chanel 5 yes, and a brief foray into Dune and Oscar de la Renta.
Can’t really wear much any more as they give me headaches. Now I wear the Clarins Eau de Whatevers and their pink perfume… uh… L’amour toujours? I think. Floral and grapefruity and quite light.
(Pisces with Leo rising. There you go.)
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Used to be Lu Lu – loved it but it gave me headaches – took me ages to join the dots. Now I wear either Body Shop’s Eud de Toilet Neroli Jasmine or just plain ol essential Rose Oil – which makes me feel like a goddess
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Taurus, and my first was Tea Rose. Old lady perfume for sure.
I’ve kind of been attached to florals since then, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab ones that I get tend towards florals.
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never had perfume of my own until my stepmother bought me some, in London, during my trip over there to audition for ballet schools.. it was Hermes Caleche. I wish I could smell it now.
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I played with testers till my Sagg Aunt gifted me…and then continued to drop random perfume gifts for years later.
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the gifts were dropped to me…and also how evocative is scent when you think of a time and place. I mean it’s not a new concept but just even recollecting a scent can throw me back into some long past time.
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I’m sure I’ve read somewhere that scent is the most evocative of all the senses, and the one linked most strongly to memory?
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When an ordor is inhaled it goes straight to the Olfactory Ephithelium in which 20 million nerve endings
are located, it transmits into a nerve message which is amplified by the Olfactory Bulb then passes along to
LImbic System.
It is then analysed by the Amydala & Hippocampus which are Memory Centres & play a major part in emotional responses. At this point is when it triggers a memeory whether past or recent.
That is from my Robert Tisserand book.He is called the Father of Aromatheraphy & Margurite Maury, the Mother.
Essential oils are the heart & hormones of the plant.‘Look in the perfume of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life’…..Wang Wei 8th century.
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I’ve been searching far and low for my first “signature perfume”, but I just can’t seem to find anything that really calls to me. I know I am strongly attracted to mandarin scents, I think this is a natural choice for a leo? Who knows.
I thought that I had finally found my scent, however when re-examining the bottle I discovered that it was Juicy Couture’s “dog perfume”.-
Try a Jo Malone perfume boutique is one near you. You will find a good range of citrus blends.
The value of pure essential oils are that mixed with your own fairy gnomes will give you your own
unique flavour/aroma as the chemistry changes on contact.
A drop of lemon under arms is good deodorant (not straight after shaving tho’).
They do evaporate fairly quick, the more volatile ones that why in perfumes a fixative is used.
Top notes evaporate faster ie the citrus ones…lime mandarin orange neroli petitgrain (orange wood) & lemon but so refreshing & sparklie.
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I have no idea what the first fragrance I loved, maybe what my mum wore. I have no idea what it was but sometimes I get whiff of something that reminds me of her.
My fav fragrance is Hugo Boss Deep Red, ahh it is beautiful & it’s a constant purchase. But I seriously love anything vanilla even my house smells like vanilla.
I have an obsession with vanilla
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I’m a Sagittarius, with a Pisces rising – so this definitely explains the reason why I’m a perfume whore.
My favourite perfumes changed overtime. When I was 8, my aunt gave me Sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden. It was such a sunny scent. During my teen years, I fell in love with Miracle by Lancome.
Now, in my early 20s, I have 4 perfumes I use in rotation – Jo Malone’s Nectarine Blossom & Honey for the summer, Coco Madamoiselle by Chanel which can be used on a daily basis. I alternate between Armani Code for Women and Dolce & Gabbana The One.
Phew, as you can see, I pretty adventurous with my perfumes.
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I was meant to say, I alternate between Armani Code and D&G The One at night time.
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Wind Song for me an Aqua/Gem/Pisces Venus. Love fruity orientals to this day, but really beautiful and unusual ones.
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