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Can anyone recommend a spicy perfume?

84 replies

MustardMitt · 05/11/2020 14:30

Just that really! Preferably not something hugely expensive or hard to get, but I’m open to trying anything really (well, lockdown permitting of course!)

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lindyloo57 · 06/11/2020 17:29

I love spice perfume, channel coco is my favourite

Nowisthemonthofmaying · 06/11/2020 17:32

Eau Lente from Dyptique isn't cheap but is my favourite winter perfume - woody and clove-y

Coco is also gorgeous

Tittiana · 06/11/2020 17:36

Angel is cinnamony spicey fruity and narcisso rodriguez is musky spicey more masculin.

ZaraCarmichaelshighheels · 06/11/2020 17:39

Paloma Picasso a very wintery scent and a nice blast from the past.

ProudAuntie76 · 06/11/2020 17:40

LOVE COCO (not cheap though)

Opium
Clinique Aromatics
La Perla
The original pink and black Agent Provocateur
Youth Dew
Faubourg 24
Narcisso Rodriguez For Her but also musky
Cinema is sort of spicy

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 06/11/2020 18:07

Liz Earle 15

Anyone who was out and about in the 1980s will remember being knocked bandy by Impulse Nirvana Grin

This is similar (to my untrained nostrils )

evilharpy · 06/11/2020 18:09

Go back to the late 90s/early 00s and buy Nina Ricci Les Belles Delices d'Epices. The most beautiful spicy perfume ever.

Estee Lauder Sensuous is nice.

AwkwardSquad · 06/11/2020 18:13

I had an amazing spicy perfume back in the 80s and cannot remember for the life of me what it was. I pop onto perfume threads every so often to mourn it :(

TheSeedsOfADream · 06/11/2020 18:14

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

Liz Earle 15

Anyone who was out and about in the 1980s will remember being knocked bandy by Impulse Nirvana Grin

This is similar (to my untrained nostrils )

I loved Nirvana (black tin) but I don't like LE 15! (I'm going to have to dig my sample out now though and sniff again) I do have one that reminds me of Nirvana - Sahara Noire- TF. Well, perfume parlour dupe thereof.
Defiantly41 · 06/11/2020 18:16

@AwkwardSquad it wasn't Skinscent by Ultima II was it? In a round bottle. Sadly mourned

Defiantly41 · 06/11/2020 18:18

Actually it was Sheer Scent not SkinScent https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/UltimaII/UUIISheerrScent

AwkwardSquad · 06/11/2020 18:46

No, sadly not :( but thank you

It was mid 80s, it had a triangular bottle, and it smelled of Christmas

BaseDrops · 06/11/2020 20:10

I was coming on to say Paloma Picasso. Proper spicy cold weather perfume.

TheSeedsOfADream · 06/11/2020 20:31

What colour bottle? I love vintage perfume mysteries!

Craftycorvid · 06/11/2020 21:06

Monotheme Black Oud (nearly wrote black pud but that would be a challenging fragrance to pull off!) M&S sells it for around the £20 mark. It’s like incense.

asifiwould · 06/11/2020 21:10

C K Reveal is a peppery smell. I really like it, but I think it has the ugliest, heaviest bottle!

Gatekeeper · 06/11/2020 21:14

AwkwardSquad...it wasn't Magie Noire was it?

Annebronte · 06/11/2020 21:17

Liz Earle No 15 is gorgeous. Spicy and warm, but not at all sickly.

Chicchicchicchiclana · 06/11/2020 21:18

Paloma Picasso.

Gatekeeper · 06/11/2020 21:19

or one by Liz Claiborne...I used to have one in a triangle bottle

PatsyStone39 · 06/11/2020 21:21

I second the suggestion for Kenzo - Jungle L'elephant. It's my winter perfume. It's a warm, spicy cinnamon ginger. It's beautiful.

Gatekeeper · 06/11/2020 21:22

I had one of these

Can anyone recommend a spicy perfume?
Herdwick · 06/11/2020 21:26

@AwkwardSquad

No, sadly not :( but thank you

It was mid 80s, it had a triangular bottle, and it smelled of Christmas

Shot in the dark but I had a few triangular Liz Claiborne perfume bottles from that era.
Lucked · 06/11/2020 21:27

Sensuous by Estée Lauder is lovely, it is light enough to wear to work, it lingers on the skin all day without being cloying.

I wear Clinique Aromatics in Black as my getting dressed up Winter perfume and get compliments on it all the time.

GetOuttaMyPub · 06/11/2020 21:33

Was it Lou Lou? @AwkwardSquad

Not triangle bottle, but lid. It has cinnamon and anise, so quite spicy.