10 Fragrances for Life

[JMAngel1]

There's a popular Youtube video called the above and I thought it would be fun for us to list our all time favourite perfumes.
I was thinking about this as I was going through a memory and found an old diary from 10 years ago of my favourite perfumes and it hasn't changed much at all!
I also would love to read everyone's lists as with lockdown, I'm really missing smelling new fragrances in department stores - spring is usually a big launch time and I can easily lose an hour immersed in the fragrance halls! Instead I'll go down a Fragantica rabbit hole!!

So my !ist is as follows

1. NR for her EDT - my absolute favourite. all year round
2. D&G Light Blue Intense. S/S
3. Tom Ford Neroli Portafino. S/S
4. Chanel Chance. S/S
5. Stella McCartney Stella. Summer
6. Agent Provacateur Maitresse Spring
7. Floral Street Ylang Ylang Espresso A/W
8. Replica By the Fireplace A/W
9. Gucci Rush A/W

10. Nina Ricci Bella S/S

A fragrance I'm dying to smell as it featured in so many of the YT videos is Marly Delina - does anyone have this and if so, do you think I would like it based on my list?

CK One
CK Obsession
CK Beauty
Lancome La vie est belle
Estee Lauder Pleasures
Jo Malone Oak and Hazelnut

Jean Louis Sherrer number 1. Very difficult to get hold of these days but heaven in a smell when you do!!

I have three that I rotate, Ck one and Elizabeth Arden sunflowers from when I was a teenager and Lacoste pour femme that feels relatively new But I’ve been wearing it almost fifteen years! I know it’s not a perfume but I really miss Impulse O2

For me, but I'm not a perfume person,
Noa by Cacharel
Nomade by Chloe
CK1
1881 by Cerruti

Don’t think I have 10 must haves so I will start with the must haves and then the list might drift to the love but won’t die without

1. TM - Angel (all year I love it people generally recognise this as the scent I wear most often)
2. Dior - poison girl unexpected (more of a daytime fresh feeling scent)
3. Givenchy- l’interdit (tried a sample and had to buy it because I absolutely love it)
4. Good girl - Carolina herrera
5. TM - alien fusion

Anything below this is love but non essential

1. Actually nearly all the TM range
2. Dior - j’adore
3. Nina Ricci - Luna
4. Pack rabanne - Olympea

10. Prada - infusion rose

I'm not a huge perfume fan as most of them either give me a headache or make me feel nauseous. But the few I have discovered I do like are:

4711
Chanel No. 5
Jo Malone Orange Blossom
Jo Malone Lime (and something - Basil? Rosemary?)
Penhaligon's Amaranthe
Dyptique No. 34 Boulevard St. Germain

Back in the 70's I used to love Eau Jeaune which was very lemony.

I only have a bottle of 4711 at the moment as the others are really spendy and I've received as gifts in the past but can't afford to replace currently.

Chanel no 19
Chanel Cristalle
Clarins Eau Dynamisante
Gucci Envy- discontinued
L.I.L.Y Stella McCartney -discontinued
Armani-She

Harriet- I loved Eau Jeune as a kid. My friend had a bottle.

Teens:
Love's Baby Soft - it smelled like Baby lotion - still love it
Wild Musk- still love it
Muguet - Lily of the Valley
Nenunco - Spanish Cologne - still love it
Eau Fraiche it was in a green bottle - French. I can't remember who made it. Still love it.

Later:
Samsara - I still like it
Giorgio
Beautiful by Estee Lauder
Sculpture by Nikos
Eau d'Hadrien Annick Goutal
Chanel Jersey

I know that's 11

The Eau Fraiche was Eau Jeune by L'oreal - still love it.

Q

Live way fraiche! Always buy a bottle when I’m in a French supermarket, doesn’t last long though.

Anyone remember Soft Talk from Miss Selfridge in the 80s?

I've just bought eqinox bloom from penhaligans and it's so gorgeous! I keep getting a whiff and it makes me smile

Not a perfume but scent at the other end of the scale- just bought Aldi’s no 4 Jo Malone copy,pear and freesia hand wash and it’s fab, everyone eats to wash their hands even more!

*wants not eats though it is delicious smelling.

Can’t manage ten, but these I love.
Boudoir- Vivienne Westwood
Libertine - Vivienne Westwood
Dune- Dior
Lumiere- Rochas
Truth- Calvin Klein
Ghost Deep Night

If you want to disappear down a massive rabbit hole of perfume appreciation, take a look at www.fragrantica.com/

You can search by ingredient, or look up your favourite perfume & it will recommend others that you might like. Just reference, not a shop.

Over the years I've worn:
Chanel - No. 5
Lush - Karma
Chanel - Coco
Lagerfeld - Sun Moon Stars
Cacharel - Lou Lou
Lancome - Tresor
Mugler - Angel
Calvin Klein - Eternity
Lancome - Magie Noire
Giorgio - Beverly Hills

@IndieTara
Annick Goutal Eau d'Hadrien is a beautiful lemon scent.

I wonder do Perfume Parlour do a dupe @CanterburyWhales ?

Who stocks Annick Goutal?

@LadyEloise having just googled it I think that one will be out of my price range!

IndieTara a brand called Just Jack do great dupes of Tom Ford. I get the lovely citrus one in a turquoise bottle Neroli. A dupe of Ford's Neroli Portofino
Sorry I can't do links but if you google it, it will come up.

Annick Goutal is a lovely lemon scent. You could save up ???

@IndieTara the website is makesscents.ie
They do Jo Malone dupes too under the Jenny Glow brand.
I get the Just Jack fragrance in my local pharmacy in Ireland.

You can get Jenny Glow on Notino.co.uk

Very good, cheap Jo Malone dupes in big bottles.

I've tried the Tom Ford Neroli and don't like it. It starts off lemony then turns musky on me