It’s my favorite
The blackcurrant is so pretty in La Vie!
I like and wear Hwyl by Aesop.
Also the Replica collection from Maison Margiella is interesting. Especially Autumn Vibes and Lazy Sunday Morning for me. They sell a box containing samples of each perfumes of the collection.
I had a bunch of Replica samples thrown in as freebees not too long ago, the one that smells like a tomato plant on a hot day was incredible. It’s not something I could wear on my skin but just the sheer sensory experience of it off a blotter, it was like I was momentarily teleported to some fantasy allotment in the middle of summer, to help harvest an abundance of tomatos.
I just looked Hwyl up and those notes look so good, I’m ordering a sample. I’m still quite new to green leather fragrances and I love getting to explore like this!
Don’t know anything about perfume but just had to say I love your username
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For everyday use: 4711 Kölnische Wasser. For other ocassions: Kenzo Parfum D’etè (Spelling?) For rare ocassions: Aqua de Loewe. I have some other oils and fragrances that I like but not very fancy. I specially like an eau fraiche called “Cuir vanille” that I bought at a mall kiosk lol.
Echt Kölnisch Wasser is beautiful, it’s so fresh and light. I got through a bottle of that stuff in weeks a few summers ago, it’s so easy to keep topping up every few hours.
Does your Cuir Vanille have a pineapple top note? I have a couple of unbranded dupes with that name and they both smell like the clone of BDK Creme de Cuir that I have, Meringue by French Avenue.
Yes! yes it does smell like caramelized pineapple right off. I also get some toasted macadamia. I will look for that Meringue TSM.
No worries : ).
Heads up though, if you get a bottle of Meringue you’ll need to spray it a few times and then let it sit somewhere cool and dark for a few weeks to sort itself out.
Idk why this is a thing that works to make so many clones better, but it really does.
I’m on my second bottle of Meringue now and those first few sprays were again so acrid and sour, it was unrecognizable against the dregs of my last bottle, and then about 20 days later, the new bottle had somehow caught up and was the perfectly elegant, fruity, white suede and vanilla of thr old one.
For cheap good scents.
I’m wearing the clone of tom fords tobacco vanilla.
I have a few of those! My favourite is the Pendora one, you’d probably recognise it as the one with, for some strange and unknown reason, the picture of Che Guevara on the bottle. It smells like sticky clove rolling tobacco on me till it dries down, and that dry down is gorgeous too.
The Maison Alhambra clone of Tobacco Vanille isn’t bad either, but not one of their best imo.
Ngl, I like clones. I’m into perfume for the sensory experience, and while I have a good few spenny bottles, most of my collection is clones and vintage classics.
You can also go to fragrantica and look at similar perfumes, it has a way bigger database
I can’t find a way to filter by price. Am I blind or is that not an option?
You can filter by price on Parfumo, I haven’t tried it though, so I can’t tell you how accurate it is.
I bought my dearest wife a new perfum: PURE MUSC for her by narciso rodriguez. It’s a great fresh summer scent.
I never kept up with Narscisco Rodriguez after For Her for some reason, I just looked up the notes for this one though and it looks like a flanker- and it has ylang ylang, so I don’t doubt it smells gorgeous!
Do you wear scents too, or just the wife?
Only my wife wears scents.
If it’s warm out i wear Eternity or a Joe Malone or a cheaper, lighter scented bottle from Victoria’s Secret. If it’s chilly out i wear Code or Poison. At night i wear Coco or Valentino. I have an older bottle of my mom’s Channel #5 that i wear when I’m missing her.
I do love me some Calvin Klein, their women’s scents rarely work on me but their men’s tend to be very unisex I’ve found. The men’s flanker of Obsession Night was a cool recent discovery, it smells like if Black Orchid was pear gummy sweets!
My mother collected but rarely wore perfume, my favourite of hers that she kept on her dresser but never wore, was Red Door by Elizabeth Arden. It reminds me more of the dresser than her though tbh.
Which Poison is your poison? There’s so many flankers and reformulations out now it’s hard to keep track.
Davidoff Cool Water
The Aquatic that started them all.
Alas this one never worked on me, it goes sour for some reason.
There was a recent post in womensstuff talking about scents and perfumes:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/64333192
Just in case you want to take a look! I don’t wear scents myself, but they can be very lovely. Good question!
Oooh, thank you! I keep missing these posts.
No worries! It can be hard to search for these things on Lemmy and I am chronically online hahaha. Hopefully some more convo gets kicked up here :)
I’ve recently discovered and gotten very into Aramis and Cabochard.
These two could be brother and sister for how similar they are, both open with clean, crisp aldehydes and fresh green notes, Cabochard really leans in to those aldehydes though whereas Aramis goes green.
Aramis is more complex notes wise, it’s heavier, more spices, more greenery, more masculine. Cabochard is more minimalist, with cleaner lines and clearer notes, it’s also built around a heart of devestatingly beautiful ylang and rose.
Both though do eventually dry down into a very similar and gorgeously mossy leather.
