The Etc Etc of Perfumes & Fragrances

[dg_fan]

OMGGG wow ^

 

[Nemova]

Has anyone ever tried Ralph Rocks by Ralph Lauren?

 

[Alejandro]

good suggestion when buying fragrances, most stores should have this but always carry a little satchel with coffee beans. that will neutralize your sense of smell and you wont get confused when choosing a fragrance.

i am very thrilled to try all of those givenchy ones, i was at nordies the other day and they had no testers (wtf?).

and im really looking forward to smell the Galliano, cause im kinda obsessed with the smell of his room spray/candle from dyptique. I had used the room spray on my closet before cause i can't spray it on my skin

 

[dg_fan]

Has anyone ever tried Ralph Rocks by Ralph Lauren?

i have i dont like the orange one much but the blue and pink one are great smell so calm and teenish i like them alot

 

[Traversant]

I was given Blush by Marc Jacobs as a gift, and blehh, I really dislike it. At first I thought it was ok, it smelled like honeysuckles but then it morphs into something else entirely.

 

[dg_fan]

^ i actually like it maybe becuz im a big jacobs fan and i love anything well almost anything of that brand but i have to say i actually like the smell

 

[Nemova]

i have i dont like the orange one much but the blue and pink one are great smell so calm and teenish i like them alot

Ah, I see. Thanks for the tip.

 

[dg_fan]

^ no problem

 

[Traversant]

I will give it another try d&g_fan, haha, I really do want to like it

 

[dg_fan]

^ yeh give it another try who knows maybe u will like it

 

[Nemova]

I tried Ralph Rocks and didn't like it. It basically smells like sugary orange juice. Not good.

 

[dg_fan]

^ thats what my friend says but i like it though

david yurman is going to have a perfume out and also prada called "rose"
i truely cant wait for the yurman!!

lately ive been going crazy for marc jacobs daisy i cant get enough of the smell!!
the pink pour femme gucci also smellss realllllly good on me smells more like the pour homme one thats why some people think i have put on a clone!! but i adore the smell and like it on me

has anyone tried the beat by burberry? i love burberry's fragrances and beat has to be one of their best so far

 

[Annu]

has anyone tried the beat by burberry? i love burberry's fragrances and beat has to be one of their best so far

You know, I have tried to find it until begin of the year and then I read that they release it next month
I really like Brit Sheer and but not many others Burberry so I hope that Beat is good too. Aggy ad works very well to me. Review in nowsmellthis. Sound promising.

Some blogtext which i found when I try to find review from Beat.
(http://www.portfolio.com/)

Burberry's New Fragrance: Smells Like Deja Vous (3.12.2007)
I'm going to the launch of a new Burberry fragrance tonight, Burberry Beat. It's a big deal with red-hot model of the moment Agyness Deyn hosting and a performance by the Fratellis. Great! Only I could have sworn I just went to the launch of a Burberry fragrance. And guess what? I was right. Lisa Rachal, an analyst at Redburn Partners kindly sent me a list of the Burberry fragrances and their launch dates:
Burberry Beat - March 2007 (women's), Sept 2006 (men's)
Burberry London - March/April 2006 (women's), September 2006 (men's)
Burberry Brit - 2003
Burberry Touch - 2000
Burberry Weekend - 1997
Burberry London (original) - 1995

Two things stand out. One, I'm going to the launch party for a fragrance that will not be in stores until March. That's an easy one. The glossy magazines coperate on a three month lead time so to get the press and the pix, best to have the party now. Plus Rachal tells me a distributor has an exclusive on the scent from January.
But also the speed of the launches has gone from one every three years to one every year. The executives at Bill Blass told me they also plan to launch a new fragrance every year. Why? Because without a critical mass, a single fragrance just gets lost on the counter. So brands launch a bunch of fragrances so that the stores can put them all together on the shelf and they have a greater chance of attracting attention of passers-by.
Someone once described a fragrance launch as the luxury lottery ticket. The cost
to entry is relatively low so failures don't cost much -- except that shelf
space -- and if you have a hit, the pay off can be outstanding. Take Thierry Mugler's Angel. It was so successful that they didn't introduce another Thierry Mugler fragrance for ten years.

I have never thought that it works that way. I have thought that when you launch new perfume, nobody buy olders anymore.

 

[dg_fan]

interesting article thanks well i dont think people wont go for the old perfumes cuz some of my own favs are old perfumes

 

[lollicandy]

I miss smoking so much I was looking for a perfume that smelled like cigarettes....and found absolutely nothing. You can love it or hate it, but I think many people will agree that the smell of cigarettes can evoke some serious moods and memories. I just don't understand why no perfumer, even maybe Demeter would attempt to do a fragrance based on it. Maybe in the future, when no one smokes, then maybe a perfumer would be daring enought to try it I would hope. Until then, all I've come across is really sickeningly sweet cherry and powder scents.

So far....
CB I Hate Perfume Smoky Tobacco; is cherry scent with some powder very forgettable. No smoke here, nor tobacco.

Etat Libre d'Orange Jasmin et Cigarettes; no tobacco here either very ho-hum jasmine that smells like overripe bananas.

Tabac Blond; again no tobacco really, although it evokes the stodginess of an old world dark-panelled man's library. I love it, although it seems to fade quickly on me. This and Parfum d'Empire's Ambre Russe are some of my fave 1930s type scents (even though Tabac Blond is from 1919 and AR is from this century).

I'm also in the mood for lavender, so I'm considering a decant of Norma Kamali Lavande which is supposedly a softer more feminine lavender and I'm being tempted by Serge Lutens Gris Clair even though I completely dismissed it and Encens et Lavande. Ooh too many choices!

 

[dg_fan]

^well once i tried a perfume from versace and smelled like smoke on
me it was purple though i dont remember the name and also the hermes medit. smells like smoke on me my friends thought i started smoking lol! try those maybe u also get the same result

hermes has come up with a new perfume with lavender the name is brin de reglisse

 

[tangerine]

lollicandy, I haven't found any that really smell like cigarettes, but Creed Tabarome (the original more than the Millésime version) smells like tobacco (it is reputed to contain macerated tobacco leaves and flowers), and Serge Lutens Fumerie Turque smells a bit like cherry shisha; it is definitely smoky.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

To add to the search for fragrances that smell like cigarettes Courtney Love gave me a ton of fragrances (you can see some of them in a photo I posted in the Show Us Your Skincare Products thread) and as you know (if you know Courtney) she's never without a cigarette so the fragrances she likes are all very smoky too.

She gave me that Creed Tabarome (both the original and Millesime) and a Fresh (I know..tacky because you can find it at any mall) Tobacco and Caramel and even one from the Body Shop lol called Tobacco Flower.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

basenotes is down

Hermès will release a new Jardin around end of May, this time it's "Un Jardin en Mousson" supposedly to go with their current aesthetics. i'm excited cause i love both previous Jardins (Méditerranée & Nil).

i got a freaking huge amount of fragrances. mostly male stuff (i also realized that most stuff that i have is in blue bottles ) though i got a few usually female fragrances thrown in the mix, simply cause they're gorgeous. i tend to layer them. Addict by Dior for example is extremely delightful, but i mostly go for the vanilla basenote, so i spray it on skin when i go to bed, just to awake to that gorgeous vanilla.

Eau des Merveilles is unrightfully sold as a woman's fragrance. as is Black Orchid.

about the fruity florals: one of the few lately which made me go "NICE!" was Dior's Addict 2, cause it's so clear, shining, girly, fresh and more fruity than floral. but the perfume industry is really just producing more and more safe, inoffensive fragrances.

people on basenotes are always complaining that more and more Acqua di Gio clones are flooding the market.

 

[miu_miu]

^ thats what my friend says but i like it though

david yurman is going to have a perfume out and also prada called "rose"
i truely cant wait for the yurman!!

Do you have any more information about the Prada scent?