Your life in perfumes

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Kiku (eek!)
Rive Gauche
Anais Anais
Chanel 19
Jo Malone Rose
Diptyque vetyver.
The future - who knows?

You?

The main ones I can remember in chronological order:

Anais Anais
Body Shop Samarkand
Opium
Ralph Lauren 'Lauren' (have loads left I never wear)
Lalique EDP (the main one)
Salvador Dali Dalissime (summer months)
Lalique Le Baiser
Lalique de Lalique (a lighter version of the main one, I think)
L'Occitane Jasmine & Bergamot

I have anais anais, Chanel 5 and 19. Was bought Chanel Allure and didn't like it. Daughter has Daisy- I like that.

I like some lemon type fragrance I dont know the name of, and some of the lighter flowery perfumes eg rose.

I hate those heavy chemical perfumes that lots of twenty something's like.

yy to O2 impulse body spray!! (blue green can) the best impulse scent ever. why was it discontinued?

Some lavender perfume form a massive bottle bought for Christmas one year! 11-14 yrs old
Various miniature Estée lauder duty free perfumes in a pack
Tribe (a levels)
Exclamation! (A levels)
Sun moon Stars by Lagerfeld (university)
Ck one (uni)
Issy myake (20's)
Contradiction by Calvin klein (20's)
Clinique happy (30's)
Am 39 now, use variety of dkny summer (work)
Clinique happy summer
Daisy Marc Jacobs

Tommy girl
Britney fantasy (classy)
Vera wang princess
Prada amber
Chanel chance
Chanel coco noir (for my wedding)

I have always gone back to change and tommy girl, and actually get lots of compliments on tommy!

I mean chance!

Also flowerbomb

I particularly remember Eu Jeune and Blue Stratos aftershave from my teenage years
as well as the eternally evocative white musk

What a great thread. Really takes me back. I am a perfume fiend.

White Satin
A perfume by Cacheral, that was just called Cacheral, came in a pink bottle but was relatively cheap compared to others.
Dewberry
Anais Anais
Georgio
Poison
Lou Lou
Chloe
Paloma Picasso
Fendi
Beautiful
Red Door
Cristalle
Tresor
Coco Chanel
Hypnotic poison
Gucci Rush
Gaultier
Angel
Alien
Womanity
Swarovski Aura
White Citrus
Lola - Marc Jacobs

Now I wear for day "Lemon no 1999" by C O Bigelow, which I bought in the U.S. and is the only properly lemony perfume I have ever come across. It's the longest I have ever worn a perfume.

At night either Aqua Allegoria mandarine basilic by Guerlain or Bejewelled by Vera Wang.

Oh I swap perfumes every week
Impulse O2
Anais Anais
Body shop dewberry
CK1
Tommy girl
DKNY woman (still wear)
CK 1 summer versions
Jean Paul Gaultier (still love)
Gucci rush 2
DKNY be delicious

Now - maison martin lazy Sunday morning, 4160 Tuesday's sexiest scent, Clean - cotton t shirt, Thierry Mugler Womanity

I found out about 4160 Tuesdays via one of the perfume threads here and ordered a sample box for £20. (I don;t think she does them anymore.)
Love many of her scents.
It is a business local to me which increases the appeal.
I'm going to do one of the perfume days she runs for my next birthday.

Brilliant idea for a thread. I'm putting it on Watch to peruse at my leisure!

School - Exclamation, Anais Anais, White Musk, Impulse O2

Sixth Form - CK One, CK Be

Twenties - Gucci No.2, Stella McCartney

Thirties - Lolita Lempicka, Chanel No.5, Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Dune

Oh and how could I have forgotten "Devon Violets".

I felt SO sophisticated buying it on holiday and using it aged about 10 .

I wore Marc Jacobs Daisy LOADS about five years ago as well

Devon violets. Now, that takes me back so many years. I thought it was just lovely. Along with a stick of rock and a little ceramic animal to go with my collection. Happy days.

I heard about 4160 Tuesday's on here too
I have what I did on my holidays which is lovely but I got the sexiest scent, and it smells like me. Weird description but it's like it's the perfume I was meant to wear
I want l'artisan Dzing but can't quite justify the price

Stolen spritzes of White Linen and Miss Dior from mum.
White Musk
Obsession
Tendre Poison
L'eau D'Issey
Miss Dior
Marc Jacobs
YSL Nu
Vera Wang
Armani Code
Baby Grace
Miss Dior (again!!!)
Dark Amber and Ginger Lily
Tom Ford Neroli
4160 Tuesdays Shazam

L'Artisan Dzing has appeared in my local t k maxx. It's lovely.

Some highlights:
Diorella, miss dior (old school, pre-reformulation), tabu and femme - all my mother's and used by me in dressing up games!
Love's Lemon Mist
Burnt Almond

• can't even remember whose those were!

Scented cream, that came in a small tub, with a fake jewel in the lid, by the name of 'Topaz', by Avon.

A hippy oil, called 'Himalayan White Musk', from various hippy shops. My sister and I would fight over that!

'Cinnabar' Estée Lauder in my late teen years. Along with various Body Shop oils: chypre, sandalwood and the doughty white musk.

Obsession at university.

New west reminds me of living in Brixton.

Hiris and The Vert remind me of discovering Liberty's fragrance section - which might well have been a recent addition at that point.

Now I am profligate. I love iris perfumes and chanel 19 poudre is my work perfume. I'm rediscovering chypre-likes and love bottega veneta legere and am currently infatuated wit h lavender - I had a pleasing find of burberry Brit rythm in t k maxx the other day, which satisfied the lavender craving.

Oh, and 'Beautiful' was the perfume I took to New York with me. I only have to smell it and I'm back on the lower east side in 1990.

Stitch - was Kiki in a weirdly shaped , yellow plastic bottle? And you could get a matching talc?

Body shop white musk
Giorgio
Dune
CK One
Chanel Allure
Boss intense (forever now)

Devon Violets, what a blast from the past.
Rive Gauche
Poison - the shame!
Ysatis
Chanel No5
Acqua di Gio
Gio
Youth Dew
Coco
Poeme - my favourite I think
L'eau D'Issey - another favourite
Miss Dior
Diorella
Body shop Dewberry
Anais Anais

I'm surprised at how many perfumes I've worn as I haven't worn any for about 14 years. Think it's time to get one.

Any suggestions for a woman in her very late forties.

I'd suggest starting a thread to ask that, P. There's so much out there, and there are some great posters here who will tease out your likes. There's a great long-running perfume thread, too.

Haha!!!
Exclamation
White musk bodyshop
Anais Anais
Tresor
Dune
Gio by Giorgio Armani
CK one
Versace yellow jeans
Moschino cheap and chic
Cool water
Ceruti 1881
DKNY
L'eau d'issey
Various Jimmy choo
Now mostly :
Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb
Chanel chance eau fraiche
Paco rabane lady million