Comments on: Astro-Beauty; Your First Scent???

By: Constance

Constance — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:56:54 +0000

Wind Song for me an Aqua/Gem/Pisces Venus. Love fruity orientals to this day, but really beautiful and unusual ones.

By: The Girl With The Pan Pipe Flute

The Girl With The Pan Pipe Flute — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:12 +0000

I was meant to say, I alternate between Armani Code and D&G The One at night time.

By: lib rising ramzilla

lib rising ramzilla — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:15:33 +0000

my mum wore bluegrass. it is the essence of nostalgia pour moi. it smelled so good on her…

By: The Girl With The Pan Pipe Flute

The Girl With The Pan Pipe Flute — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:11:25 +0000

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.

By: aries,aquarius,cappomoon

aries,aquarius,cappomoon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:09:08 +0000

Wow. there you go eh… maybe she does have a say….

By: Baristagem

Baristagem — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:30:56 +0000

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

By: fallen angel

fallen angel — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:17:09 +0000

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…

By: pegasus

pegasus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:33:14 +0000

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.

By: pegasus

pegasus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:22:58 +0000

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.

By: V Venusian

V Venusian — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:43:12 +0000

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.