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What is your favorite smell or perfume?

If you do wear a scent, do you wear it for yourself or for other people?

Although it won't damage your health, has someone's perfume spoilt your enjoment of a meal?

Does advertising affect your decision about what you will perfume yourself with, as the heady scents of the 80's like Giorgio and Poison aren't as popular as they were.

I wear Lagerfeld when I'm going out, it's deep and not very commonly available, so very unlike me. When I want to smell fresh and clean I love Happy by Clinique, because it's just so fresh and citrusy.

My favorite smell on a woman though is Youth Dew by Estee Lauder, because it reminds me of my Mum kissing me goodnight if my parents were going out when I was little.

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I wear Eternity perfume myself

I adored Lynx Tempest ..... I don't think they sell it anymore :(....... it used to make me go weak at the knees if any man was wearing it in the same room as me :) oohhhhh!!!

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212 for men suits me :)

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If I smell someone wearing Antaeus by Chanel it really affects me. I just want to smell or even hug that person and breath it in.

I did consider buying it myself, but it's probably wrong trying to lick yourself.

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One perfume I really don't like is Samsara (my apologies to anyone who wears it) I think it has a real earthy smell. I find myself checking the room for someone smoking dope before I realise it's THAT perfume!

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Must rember that one Tinks I could have a lot of fun with a bottle of that.

:D

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I believe that perfume or aftershave should fit the wearer like a good pair of shoes, snug and comfy and never tiresome. I like to wear Cerruti 1881 Aftershave or Paco Rabanne; I’m not a lover of much else. I also like to use Lynx Africa and Touch. I wear it for the simple purpose of Not Smelling unattractive when in company.

I love the tones of Youth Jew on a woman, but much prefer the seductiveness of Yves Saint Laurent - Rive Gauche. There are not many perfumes that I dislike other than 4711.

For a blast from the past, I loved Old Spice and still like its lingering tones. For the girls it was Charlie “The Original Stuff” as a teenager it use to pump the pheromones whenever it hit me……..

Just to lower the tone, you can't beat the smell of a good Ale...................:)

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I wear cerruti 1881 but also like the aftershave version on men

Big downfall of mine is I can't help accosting nice smelling men!!! It can get quite embarressing when I suddenly find my nose stuck in their neck!! :o

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I'll be the short fat grey haired old fart standing next to you at the footy tomorrow.....wearing cerruti 1881................:p

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errr what footy tomorrow doug??? It is funny how we posted at the same time with the same scent!!! I also like paco rabanne.

But anyone come near me with Brut and I will probably die of sneezing!!!!

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I can't remember the name either, but I'm having a vision it was produced by Coty.

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On men it's got to be the great smell of Brute.
I'm not a big perfume fan.
I used to love a perfume called Sea Jade by Yardley but they stopped production in the 80s.
I don't like strong Musky smells.

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Just a note gentlemen.

Aftershave is rubbish, it's alchol based. You should always go for eau de toilette, which is oil based and won't irritate your skin. Plus the perfume lasts longer.


[I do hope eau de toilette isn't censored for not being English.];)

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Youth Jew? would that get up your nose or what.:rofl38: :rofl38:

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Lol, I think Doug used to get it from a kibbutz in Israel.:)

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I tend to wear Cerruti 1881 these days, and I love it. If I want something a bit stonger and spicy I will go for Clinique Aromatics Elixir and I also like Clinique Happy.

I remember having some Opium perfume in the 80's, it was really popular then, but it makes me gag now. My mate always wore Poison, and it used to knock me sick.

I'm really fussy with perfumes and it takes me ages to find one that I like. Sales people usually run for cover when I enter a perfumerie. On men I like L'eau d'Issey (or whatever it's called)....

I could never afford expensive perfume in the 80's and early 90's, so me and my sis used to go halves on a copy of Cosmo, rip out the sniff pages of all the new perfumes and rub them all over ourselves for a night out.... A different designer perfume every night for about a quid.... Bargain or what!!!!!!:D

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I think it was Aqua Manda Willow, i used to use it when i was a teenager. I ended up with four bottles of the stuff one christmas.

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So I noticed ;)

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I know im like that too :o pmsl

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I just use all the junk i get bought at christmas hehe

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Can't stand any overpowering perfume at all. Someone I know wears tons of the stuff and when I've been in her company for even a short while I can smell it on me.

I was once paid a big compliment and told that I didn't smell of anything except 'clean'. Sorry, but I always think that people who wear too much perfume are trying to mask some other sort of smell.

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wish i could wear perfume there are some lovely ones around but unfortunatly im allergic to em all ... & men have some lovely smellies too these days.:(

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yep your right mez ! what about good owd fashioned body odour, lovely healthy smelly feet,huummm!whats wrong with using coal tar soap...he...hee that lingered for ever,wearing scent only appeals when it suits the wearer!everyones body chemicals are differant so you may like it on someone else but it pongs on you!:D

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i like amarige de givenchy...

for my birthday i got a very tall slim bottle called flower by kenzo ,with a poppy on it 'thats lovely'
for men i like good old fashioned arromiss,ermmmmmmm nice

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I dont know what the perfume i use is - theres no name on the bottle all i know is that its estee lauder but i dont wear it that often anyway only when im going out. I'm not one that will use it all the time. A bottle of perfume lasts me ages sometimes i even end up throwing a bottle out because its smell has gone awol!

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i love flowers by kenzo....
on men i love diesel (in the red bottle) and lynx africa! i do find that i follow some men around like the kids on the bisto advert if they smell nice...ive ended up in some very embarrasing places doing that!! ;)

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Yes it was Aquamanda......iwas just about to post the name when I noticed that Janet had beaten me to it. I like Clinique Aromatics Elixir......I wear it for me, but strangely I can never smell it on me.......I also like Flowers by Kenzo........I like Lagerfeld for women, but never seem to see it unless I go abroad.......and there was a perfume I bought in Spain.....it was called Hash.......I loved that, but haven't seen any for a long time.

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i wear hugo boss Deep Red, and Eternity, and i wear So for my everyday perfume there are a few people where i work that are not very good with hygene and i dont want to walk past and it be mistaken for me!! (nightmare).

I buy daddiboo Lacoste, and blue water.

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I don't know if people in London stink more than they do here, or it might be the fact that you are herded together closer on the tube, but your nasel senses are definitely invaded more by people's bad smells there.

I did try to restart the fashion for nosegays whilst I was there. Those little posies of sweet smelling flowers our ancestors used to hold under their noses to mask the smell of the hoi-poloi's stench.

Valerie Singleton showed how to make one on Blue Peter many years ago. You take an orange and cover it with cloves, then leave it to dry for a month, attach a pretty ribbon and hey presto!

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i have just thought... i must be getting old,,, i can remember evening in paris and california poppy. ............................

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My grandma always used evening in paris, it was in a little blue bottle, if i remember right. You can still buy it, but it is now under another name but can't remember what it is.

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I don't like strong smelling perfumes either. You know the sort you can still taste 10 minutes after you leave a person. I know its old fashioned now but I like the smell of old spice on a man.

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Ou Qui by Lancome for me
Chemistry by Clinique for Neil

but I like loads i have different perfumes for my mood!
Hypnotic poison....Dior
Beyond Paradise Estee Lauder
Geminesse...........Max Factor but its not made anymore.
Chance.....Channel
Gaultier ll is lovely.......... JPG.........its new and I want it!
Happy..........Clinique.......my summer smelly!!


Oi Rindy you said you were Tweed by Lentheric wearer!

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Now I know why I had my nose down his neck Romps!!!!! ;) :D

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A couple of years ago we were in Adelaide and we noticed that a lady was following us around. We went into Target and she came up to us and asked what perfume I was wearing......I told her that we were both wearing NIAGARA by Courreges.....it is a man's scent really, but I loved it and we shared at the bottle.....well, bottles because I bought a few.....good job too, I don't think you can buy it now. Anyway we told this lady that if she came to our hotel we would give her the bottle.

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No Darling I was kidding. I actually whispered in your ear that you could smell my Charlie.

Neil with chemistry? As in a chemistry set?

Frightening.

I hope you've upped your household insurance.;)

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I wear L'Eau de Issey, its quite light and fresh, I also like Envy by Gucci, I'm not keen on very strong scents Poison, Opium etc, the L' eau d Issey mens eau de toilette is gorgeous.

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my son wears joop,,,,,,and boss... they smell nice

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Love perfume, often go without makeup but never without perfume.

I choose a scent because I like it, which is a bit daft, because once you've been wearing it an hour or two, your nose adapts and you can't smell it any more - that's why you sometimes think you need more when you don't.

The sense of smell is just about the most fascinating sense we have, but don't let's get started on that, anyone interested ask me, and you can have the two hour lecture with slides and experimental data!

I use Van Cleef, because I like it. Interestingly enough, some years ago (yes, I've had my moments) one Christmas 3 different men bought me perfume. The man I went sailing with bought me Dior Dune, which is an open air, fresh, sort of stuff. The posh bloke I went to posh dinners with bought me First - very grown up and sophisticated. The new man bought me Opium, because he liked it (I LOATHED it, but I wore it anyway). It's interesting how differently people see you (or smell you), isn't it.

Once had to leave a concert at the Barbican because the woman in front of me had apparently bathed in Poison. It was either leave or throw up over her. Can't stand Paris, either.

For men? - Jazz by Yves St Laurent. It makes my knees go weak every time.

Tip - never spray your eau de toilette/perfume around your neck/head. When it warms up, perfume rises. Spray it round your ankles and calves, and you'll walk in a fragrant cloud all day! (Coco Chanel said you should spray it everywhere you expect to be kissed, but it can sting, so be warned!!)

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Lynx Tempest also has the same affect on me. I think they stopped making it though, as the number of babies being born when they brought Lynx Tempest out shot up he he he!!!

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i wear either paul smith extreme for women or britney spears curious there both lovely smelling and fresh too.
my favourite mens smelly that makes me go weak at the knees is hugo boss the original good god stay away if your wearing that! :D