I've been on the quest for a forever scent for about a year now, with no luck. I have lost a lot of weight recently, so was prepared to spend quite a bit on the perfect perfume once I reached my goal weight. I've bought lots of samples of the higher end stuff, some of which I've liked, some I haven't. I've also tried lots of the dupes from the various websites, and they all smell really chemically and musty to me.
Basically there's nothing I like so much that I'd be prepared to fork out for a whole bottle of it. I have a super sensitive nose (compensates for extremely poor vision) so I don't know if it's that, but even some of the things that smell absolutely wow in a bottle just don't smell right when they're on me.
So anyway, I'm giving up and I'm going to work through my drawerful of samples one way or another, but as an every day scent, I want something fairly budget friendly that just smells nice. Not chemically, not something that will disappear five minutes after I smell it, nothing exciting either, but just something nice. I read somewhere that the Zara perfumes are pretty good and are mixed by fairly expert perfumiers- has anyone tried them and found them good? If not, is there anything else I can try?