i hate perfume
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rackmountI got I Hate Perfumes today!
Mr. Hulot's Holiday is the winner. it's a little fresh shower-like if you're not paying attention, but it really does smell like a Mediterranean summer. I'd add just a little more old leather, but otherwise, it's beautiful on. i keep smelling myself. this is the closest to what i usually go for, which is clean and fresh. but there's a little spice in it, which is new for me.
In the Summer Kitchen smells much better than you'd think. it's beautiful; you can really smell the rafters. It's the scent closest to the title of the scent, strangely, along with black march. But this one is subtle and clean and warm at the same time. it's a toss-up if I like this one better than Mr. Hulot.
at the beach 1966 is not as good as I'd hoped. all the subsidiary smells are hidden by the coppertone, though the primary scent is so fun, you almost excuse it. HOWEVER. it was the scent most immediately appreciated by the husband. i can kind of see why. you could almost see him taking an flash mental journey to some beach and lots of scantily clad girls. this is the one most likely to evoke lust in your boy, though you could probably get the same effect by finding the right sunscreen.
greenbriar 1968 is a bit of a letdown, though i hope it improves on wearing. i can smell the newly mowed hay, but the smell is just slightly fir-tree like (which is different than sawmill i think), so it's confusing, because that doesn't seem right. i think what it needs is more pipe tobacco to warm the scent from the coolness of the slight fir-tree smell.
in the library is exactly as good as it sounds. it was really quite a shock that i preferred any of the others to it, but that says more about the others than this one. it's really quite lovely, but seems more traditional.
i didn't like black march at all when i first smelled it, but it's growing on me. it smells exactly like a walk through fir trees when it's just rained. it's not a pretty smell exactly, but it's the most exactly evocative. this one would be perfect for the hippie friend who wears patchouli (iamtangerine) and maybe needs to branch out. very outdoorsy and alive and evocative. just maybe a little too outdoorsy for the likes of me.
i was really tempted to get burning leaves, but i think i want to smell it first. it could go either way for me. ive never really had a scent personality, excepting that i tend to prefer clean and fresh to musky and lusty. actually, the only scent that ive really liked for myself was a cologne, not a perfume, aqua di gio, but that was ruined by guidos.
[edit] greenbriar is much nicer on! somewhere on the skin the fir trees become sawdust and the other parts of the scent come out quite a bit, particularly the axel grease. i smell like a sawmill today. and while im glad i didn't end up getting a large portion of it as i planned, i think it will be really nice for an occasional smell. i think it's just a bit too butch to become my regular. now i need to choose between summer kitchen and mr. hulot's holiday for a bigger portion. i'll be trying the summer kitchen on my skin later. the dark horse is in the library, which i still can't quite put out of my head. maybe im femme-er than i thought.
Mr. Hulot's Holiday is the winner. it's a little fresh shower-like if you're not paying attention, but it really does smell like a Mediterranean summer. I'd add just a little more old leather, but otherwise, it's beautiful on. i keep smelling myself. this is the closest to what i usually go for, which is clean and fresh. but there's a little spice in it, which is new for me.
In the Summer Kitchen smells much better than you'd think. it's beautiful; you can really smell the rafters. It's the scent closest to the title of the scent, strangely, along with black march. But this one is subtle and clean and warm at the same time. it's a toss-up if I like this one better than Mr. Hulot.
at the beach 1966 is not as good as I'd hoped. all the subsidiary smells are hidden by the coppertone, though the primary scent is so fun, you almost excuse it. HOWEVER. it was the scent most immediately appreciated by the husband. i can kind of see why. you could almost see him taking an flash mental journey to some beach and lots of scantily clad girls. this is the one most likely to evoke lust in your boy, though you could probably get the same effect by finding the right sunscreen.
greenbriar 1968 is a bit of a letdown, though i hope it improves on wearing. i can smell the newly mowed hay, but the smell is just slightly fir-tree like (which is different than sawmill i think), so it's confusing, because that doesn't seem right. i think what it needs is more pipe tobacco to warm the scent from the coolness of the slight fir-tree smell.
in the library is exactly as good as it sounds. it was really quite a shock that i preferred any of the others to it, but that says more about the others than this one. it's really quite lovely, but seems more traditional.
i didn't like black march at all when i first smelled it, but it's growing on me. it smells exactly like a walk through fir trees when it's just rained. it's not a pretty smell exactly, but it's the most exactly evocative. this one would be perfect for the hippie friend who wears patchouli (iamtangerine) and maybe needs to branch out. very outdoorsy and alive and evocative. just maybe a little too outdoorsy for the likes of me.
i was really tempted to get burning leaves, but i think i want to smell it first. it could go either way for me. ive never really had a scent personality, excepting that i tend to prefer clean and fresh to musky and lusty. actually, the only scent that ive really liked for myself was a cologne, not a perfume, aqua di gio, but that was ruined by guidos.
[edit] greenbriar is much nicer on! somewhere on the skin the fir trees become sawdust and the other parts of the scent come out quite a bit, particularly the axel grease. i smell like a sawmill today. and while im glad i didn't end up getting a large portion of it as i planned, i think it will be really nice for an occasional smell. i think it's just a bit too butch to become my regular. now i need to choose between summer kitchen and mr. hulot's holiday for a bigger portion. i'll be trying the summer kitchen on my skin later. the dark horse is in the library, which i still can't quite put out of my head. maybe im femme-er than i thought.
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black march it is!
Date: 2008-06-05 01:15 am (UTC)Re: black march it is!
Date: 2008-06-05 03:20 pm (UTC)mr. hulot is probably the most femme-y of the bunch, though no more femme than, e.g., CK One. Kind of gender neutral. but it's def. slightly perfumier than some of the rest though. the other two smells are less perfumey, more like good smells from the past. or maybe black march smells like perfume only inasmuch as it smells like the woods, rather than a man-made smell.
now that ive worn greenbriar, it's something i'd also recommend for a man or butch woman. if i had an SO who liked the blue collar thing, i would wear this all the time. the axle grease smell could double for the smell of a car repair place. it's kind of great.
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Date: 2008-06-05 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-05 09:21 pm (UTC)Are you at all interested in trading samples of some of your CB for some BPAL testers, of which I have a great deal? I collected them for a while but they started triggering allergies.
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Date: 2008-06-06 02:16 am (UTC)i'd never heard of bpal. what have you got? my primary interest in IHP is that ive always loved smelling things from past times. so flowery things dont interest me so much as the scent of past experiences. have you got anything like that? i looked at the website, and there may be a subset of things that interest me... but recall, im not much gothy. :)
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Date: 2008-06-06 06:20 am (UTC)And I'll definitely go to one of those Chicago stores for a sniff.
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Date: 2008-06-18 02:07 am (UTC)