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?

Charlie
Opium
Obsession
Paris
Poison
Beautiful
Chanel no 5
Issey miyake one
Light blue
Private collection
Chloe
Christalle
Miss Dior
Gap Grass
Dune
Clinique orange smelling one
One
Pleasures
Vera wang - the first one
Happy
One shaped like an apple DKNY
Florabotanica
L'artisan one - butterflies
An aqua di parma one
Guerlain Aqua Allegoria mandarine

Many, many more. A smattering of perfumed oils and a sandalwood perfume.

I forgot Aqua di gio! And ceruti 1881, anais anais (how could I forget?) and Daisy!
So many perfumes. So little time.

Body shop musk

Anais anais (I loved it but couldn't really afford it. To this day I love it and keep a bottle in the bathroom just to smell and remember "youth and buried time" every now and then

Cinnabar (stolen from my sister who was earning when I was in college)

Rive Gauche - the early years working

Paris - wedding and honeymoon

Beautiful (estee lauder) good few years of child rearing

Angel by thierry mugler (sp?) My mum came out to visit and asked me to buy some for my sis (who wasn't taking to me at the time) as a present from her. So I bought a load of stuff and fell in love with the perfume. Felt a bit guilty wearing "her" perfume as she was nc with me at the time.

Various other expensive perfumes brought by dh who gets bored in airports - none stuck except my latest favourite: L'eau d'issay. Love it.

I often pick a new perfume if we are going on a holiday or a special occasion because the smell will always be so evocative. Paris brings back my wedding to this day.

forgot 4711 - learning german in Koln.

And Chanel no 19 reminds me of my best friend, age 20.

Chanel no 5 smells of nothing to me.

Teenage years
Charlie
Exclamation
Dewberry
Davidoff Cool Water (the men's one)
Early Twenties
Elizabeth Arden green tea
Joop all about eve
Late Twenties
Ralph Lauren Ralph
DKNY red and green delicious
Valentino Rock 'n' Rose
Thirties
Joop Thrill
JLo Live Luxe (my favourite, limited edition becoming very difficult to get hold of)

I like sweet, fruity perfumes. If anyone has any recommendations please pass them on. I'm seriously in need of a new scent as struggling to get Live Luxe now.

thecatfromjapan - noooo! Have been stalking local TK maxx after spotting some l'artisan on website and Dzing is the only one they haven't had in

Charlie
Exclamation!
Dewberry
Sun moon and stars
Anais anais
Davidoff
L'eau d'issy
Aqua di Gio
CK1
Miss Dior
Gucci Rush
Channel christalle

That takes me from 12-24
The last 15 years s have been better

Great idea!

White musk
Dewberry
Exclamation
Charlie red
Samsara
Cassini
Dolce and gabana
Jean Paul gaultiier
Michael kors original
Now- marc Jacobs daisy or Michael kors jasmin

love this thread.

teens:
Ralph by Ralph Lauren (first ever perfume - bought for me by my late Dad back from Tenerife )
Amor Amor by Cacherel - still always have a bottle of this
Tommy Girl
glow by jlo

then as I got older (I'm mid-20's), depending on time of year:

Chance eau fraiche
bronze goddess
daisy by Marc Jacobs
eau de jardin
coco mademoiselle

the ones I always get nice comments about are Amor Amor and Chance eau fraiche.

4711
Musk oil
Fidgi
Chloe
Lagerfield for women
Obsession
Clinique aromatics (till preg with dd, now can't stand)
Cosmetics to go Ginger
Working my way through Guerlain
Tom ford black orchid
4711

Dd smelt fidgi a few weeks ago and is now lusting after it, she wears Chloe all the time. Wonder if smell taste is genetic?

oh my god how could I forget the DKNY be delicious one (both - the red and green) that turned my neck green in 6th form attractive

Vanderbilt
Loulou (oui, c'est moi!)
Dewberry
Rive gauche
Madame rochas
Amarige (absolute favourite and still wear this today)
Oscar de la Renta
Kenzo flower
Agent Provocateur Maitresse
Roger and Gallet Bois d'Orange

This is fun :)

Anais anais- this is my Nana
Chanel No 5- this is my Mum :)
Calvin Klein contradiction became 'my' scent for many years
Lush Karma
Lots of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scents that I can't remember the name of- a very vanillary one and a blackcurrant one especially
BNever Too Busy To Be Beautiful- Two Hearts Beating as One.
Wore a lot of plain patchouli oil
Now I wear a lot of plain jasmine oil, alternating with Kiehl's Orange flower & lychee, and a new one Lush Sikkim Girls

4160 Tuesdays looks fab- I'll be ordering a selection box! Love MN suggestions like that :)

I started off with my mums 4711, then progressed as follows
Bodyshop Dewberry
Impulse body sprays by the bucket load
Poison
Fake Chanel no5
Exclamation!
Aqua de gio
Paco rabanne XS pour elle
Chanel Allure
Dolce Gabanna Pour Femme
Angel
Boudoir
Coco Mademoiselle
(there have been loads of others in between but these are the ones I remember most) As you can probably tell I have a leaning to blockbuster fragrances
Right now I have a lot of perfumes, my fave is probably Tom Ford Tuscan Leather or Chanel Cuir de russie for winter and for summer I've been wearing Fleur d'oranger by Serge Lutens.

Calyx by Prescriptives - teens
Clarins (red bottle) teens to date
Amarige by Givenchy late teens
L'eau de Issey by Issey Miyake early 20s
Jean Paul Gaultier early 20s
Allure by Chanel mid 20s
Agent Provocateur late 20s / early 30s
Jo Malone Wild Ginger & Lime (later 30s)
Ellie Saab (now)

OneDay - another former BPAL fan! Did you wind up spending too much time on the BPAL forum, too, or was that just me?

Aquamanda..my teenage years
French fern by morny. Still love this smell as it conjures up going away on holiday. My mum would save her Xmas gift from me till holiday time.
Coty l aimant
Tweed...my south African cousin wore this. Se was very cool. So mum and I wanted to be like her.
Avon perfumes whose name I can't remember. Wishing was one
Youth dew....an admirer bought me a big bottle of probably what was my first real adult bottle
Chanel no 5.... Still like that today
Flirted with Poison...a bit heavy now
When we were going regularly to America I used to stock up on st John
Started going to France regularly and tried most of the Hermes ones of the noughties .24 Fauberg st honore being a firm favourite and for my birthday was given a big bottle of Caleche by oh. Special occasions and evenings.
Everyday I still love ck1 .
my daughter bought me some Jo wood which was lovely .

My big, big all time favourite is Origins Spring Fever . It's just fabulous and out of production I think. My friend managed to track some down for me a year ago. I wear sparingly.

I don't wear it everyday. I make a lot of my own fragrances with essential oils so am quite happy to waft around in some aromatherapy creation of my own.

How could I forget Gaultier ( more indulgence on my French trips ) and Hermes Orange Verte which I still love. In fact after smashing what was left in the bottle earlier this year, I'm due another one .

Ha, this has made me smile.

Like many others Anais Anais in my youth.
Paris.
Femme...

Then lots of dotting around, with No 5 as a consistent back burner.

Just remembered Elizabeth Arden blue grass. I still like that
Nina ricci l' air du temps. It never seemed strong enough
Also wore Chloe and anais anais.
I remember topaz and a lot of the yardley perfumes.

Anyone remember men wearing Brut. That smell brings back a lot of happy memories.

I was also deeply in love with Paloma for a time and Tuscany Per Donna by Aramis.

I'm glad so many people have remembered their perfumes. I'm really enjoying reading the lists. It's amazing how intensely perfumes conjures up times for me. Rive Gauche so fit in with my starting a career life stage and Chanel 19 is the scent of my marriage. Now, I can't seem to find a perfume for all days and all the time, so I enjoy myself just sampling and experimenting.

White Musk and Anais Anais as teenager.
L'eau d'Issey
Angel
Theorama by Fendi
Sicily Dolce and Gabanna

Then went without perfume for some years and am now trying to find one I like...

Charlie
White musk
Anais Anais
Lou Lou
Safari Ralph Lauren
Gio Giorgio Armani
Eternity
Chance Chanel
Allure Chanel
Coco Mademoiselle
And still using White Musk oil!