OK, I'm looking to buy a nice light perfume for summer. Which sounds most appealing to you (on a girl)?

Personally, I always thought the perfume "Beautiful" had a very pleasant scent. It always gets my attention when someone is wearing it.

Hmmm...I don't usually like anything quite that floral. It's pretty, just not for me. The only flower scents I really like are jasmine and honeysuckle.

But thank you!

Smells have names?

Well...scents have descriptions. Perfumes have names. And then there are "fragrance families", eg http://www.sephora.com/browse/me/. Does that answer your question?

There's a fair number of scents that are appealing, but almost no perfumes that are. The difference is the medium in which they're carried. To me, perfumes are almost painful. The alchohol that comprises most of the medium completely over-powers anything else. Oils and such are much better.

And they should only be used to a degree that the smeller has to be right up next to you to smell it.

That's my opinion, anyway.

Mmmm cake batter.

A very light vanilla is nice, but generally I am anti-perfume.

Girls go absolutely NUTS over my cake batter perfume (Demeter Angel Food). Guys hate it though.

My current daily scent is just Bath and Body Works body splash in warm vanilla sugar, which is very light. My only complaint is that it wears off too quickly, so I'm thinking of finding an actual perfume.

Thanks!

Ditto everything Blaze said for me :D

My $0.02

Anything with Patchouli in it should be BANNED! I am horribly allergic to it. I never knew what I was having a reaction to until someone that regularly visited out house in college pointed out that I would always get sick when she was around. She asked me if she should start taking it personally. Of course it was meant as a joke, but it got me thinking. It was true! As soon as she arrived I'd become ill and very smell & light sensitive. I asked her what perfume she was wearing... Sure enough! Although I've heard from many who say it's definitely a hate it or love it fragrance. The funny thing is, I went into a store once because I was enticed by this amazing scent... There was a candle on the shelf burning that I was about to buy. Because I am so sensitive with smells, I read the back. It was sandalwood, vanilla, and patchouli. The storekeeper said that I might be allergic to straight patchouli. Anyway, if I smell it I leave wherever I am. I've switched seats on a plane, left a party and passed up stores because of that smell...

I love the smell of fresh lilacs. It puts me in my happy place.
:wink:

Edit: not OUT HOUSE! Our House... hahahaha

I have always liked the natural smell of a woman. There are very few who's scent does not at least make me a bit happy. But if you're going to go for something, go for a light vanilla scent, and make it an oil.

I agree with Blaze and Steph that perfumes tend to be WAAAAAAy to overpowering. I'm not a huge fan of oils and creams, however, because I find them to be very strong as well, as people tend to put a lot more on to get the same effect... defeats the whole purpose. Here are my "worst invention ever" picks for smells:

vanilla scent (they just don't do it right. Also coffee, chocolate, and caramel)
almost all fruity scents (peach body spray makes me soooo ill... I want to kill all the 14-year-old girls that wear it like it's the only scent they ever want to smell and today's application must last for all of eternity. Citrus is better, but only very very very slightly)
musk (self-explanitory)
men's cologne (it make my nostrils hurt. For me, the smell of their deodorant, Red Zone for example, is way strong enough... with really smelly guys, don't pour on the scent to cover the B.O., do something else. Stay away from me, that's a good one.)

So, as much as I despise the strength and types of perfumes, I got this wonderful perfume called Adrienne Vittadini Venezia for my birthday last year. When I use the small perfume vial, it's light enough that I barely notice it. The scent is a combination of sweet and herby... reminds me of a bouquet of fresh field flowers sitting on a table next to a bowl of freshly cut strawberries and raspberry sorbet, while somewhere outside, a lawn has just been cut... all being smelled from the next room, of course. :D

Marg

Elizabeth Taylor, "White Diamonds," end of story.

i really hope that this is Vin's sarcastic side:-/

Any fragrance from Liz makes my head hurt...

The Tink is correct for ten points, I can't believe someone would be pay SIXTY DOLLARS for that stuff. Go cheap all the way, CK or something, the cheap perfume smells better, generally. If you must go expensive, Red Door isn't bad.....

Our lilacs our covered in blooms right now, and as much as I don't really like "perfumey" flowers, I love lilacs too. :D :)

I'm so jealous! I'm from the Finger Lakes, and I miss that scent terribly! It reminds me of my grandmother and playing in her garden...

You forgot a few

Windex - by windex
Diesel fuel - by Exxon
Burnt Gunpowder - by UMC
Noctine - by Marlboro

:P

Brian
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