Perfume (WAS Gift code )

[serenadust]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> 
wrote:

> Here's a question I have.  The only perfumes I like are very 
plain, 
> identifiable essences of flowers whose smell I particularly love.  
> E.g., I could proposition a pure stranger on the subway if she 
> smelled like lilacs, so beloved is that scent (*terrible pang of 
> homesickness--there don't seem to be many lilacs in my new 
region*).  
> But fancy perfumes never smell like anything but themselves to 
me.  
> They aren't roses or lilacs or lilies of the valley, they're CK or 
> Obsession or White Diamonds (what *do* diamonds smell like?).

I know what you mean Amy. If I could find a perfume that really 
smelled like lilacs, I'd wear it every day.  In fact, when we first 
moved in to our house, I planted lilacs all along the side of the 
house next to the living room windows so we could open them in April 
and fill the house with the scent.  I seem to remember that in the 
perfume department of Bloomingdales, they sold pure essences of 
various flowers (I was very partial to tea rose when I was a 
teenager), and I wonder if they still do.  If so, that might be an 
option for you.

Cindy asked what scents other people like and I have to confess that 
I've worn Estee Lauders White Linen for almost twenty years.  Why?  
Well as much as I'd like a romantic story involving my husband to 
justify the choice, it's really because one of my first office mates 
(a young bachelor) was crazy about it.  In fact, he liked it so much 
that he bought some for his girlfriend at the time and reported that 
he was disappointed because it didn't smell the same on her.  It was 
extremely flattering, and I probably never got over it <bg>.

 
> > Cindy -- who never got a whiff of "Gee, Your Hair Smells 
Terrific!"
> > shampoo, and now it's off the market


Amy replied: 
> I got a whiff.  It didn't smell particularly terrific.  Give me 
> Herbal Essence any day.  But it did have a great name.

When I was in college, we all got samples of Herbal Essence in our 
mail boxes one day, so everyone used it the next morning.  The smell 
in the steamy shower room was so overpowering that several girls had 
violent sneezing fits and one of my friends broke out in a furious 
red rash all the way down her back.  I hope they've toned it down 
since then, since that stuff was dangerous!

Jo Serenadust, who promises she only uses one very light squirt of 
cologne before getting dressed...when she remembers to use it at all.