Smells recommendations
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- Ranger
OK, time is running out and I need to get my GF a perfume and my Dad a male smell.
Any recommendations?
- MikeJ0
dont buy a perfum for your GF AND your dad
choose different gifts- I think I am gonna be limited to what I can buy in Liverpool St station now. Could get a pasty maybe.Ranger
- Then don't buy anything at ll - how disheartening to receive a thoughtless last minute purchase from a train station!Nairn
- It's something they've asked for but they don't know what they want. So I am asking others advice. No biggie.Ranger
- monospaced0
get her Marc Jacobs
- Horp0
Her: Charlie / Tramp
Him: Drakkar Noir / Kouros
- mistermik0
tom ford - him
Bvlgari Eau Parfumee - her
- zenmasterfoo0
HUGO BOSS
- MikeJ0
Cum-fume
- monospaced0
- funniest — not in a good way — commercial I've seen in awhile.monospaced
- kezza_20
Well, seeing as im an expert, because all I do at the moment is fragrance advertising, I'd say:
You can't go wrong with Chanel No5. Although Mademoiselle is nice too.
For the old man, I'd go for something like Aqua di Parma
- Horp0
Most proper perfumier's fragrances are built around a base note of ammonia I believe. Its to do with the reason why fragrances were invented in the first place during a time when washing wasn't a regular habit.
- still isnt with some folk in this office.mistermik
- washing is a regular habit now, so now what?monospaced
- Ranger0
I've got a coat full of various paper strips with different things sprayed on them. I never appreciated how much perfumes change over 30 minutes.
Dad likes old Spanish ones with lavander and wood and citris in.
GF likes flowery, subtle ones.
So there are some good recommendations above - Thanks.
- kelpie0
well if the base note carries the mid and high notes, and the mid and high are meant to cut through and overpower other smells, then it makes sense that the base should be similar to the smell that it faces off against, or it wouldn't work, n'est-ce pas?
- Nairn0
I often wonder, with a lot of contemporary designer branded perfumes, whether their consumers like the scent itself or just the branding.
- kezza_20
Nairn from all the research I have on fragrances, it's 70% the brand 30% the perfume
- It was a largely rhetorical statement.Nairn
- they measure this stuff. Dull I knowkezza_2
- what about cost?mistermik
- they probably sell more when they up the price, am I right kezza?kelpie
- Or, at least, make more money.
Er, this isn't intended as a sarccy response..Nairn - they are generally priced according to brands standing. Most fragraneces are owned by P&G and made in one place.kezza_2
- Raniator0
Seriously though, V&R is nice. Different too, and less obvious. Last thing you want is to pong the same as every other common fucker in the room.
My girlfriend loves Daisy too, so it's got her seal of approval... and that is worth a lot in my book.
- well i see that as a confirmation then. :)janne76
- You calling my girlfriend a common fucker? Do you want some?Ranger
- nothing wrong with a good common fuck. missionary style..janne76
- no sir, i certainly am not. you know what i mean. and anyway, that reference with about the V&R which is for men.Raniator