The one perfume that gets all the compliments

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Anonymous wrote:Prada Candy

+1, love this one. And Marc Jacobs Daisy

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Anonymous wrote:I buy Gap Om from ebay for an obscene price. It was my favorite as a teen, and I still love it (and don't care what that says about me as a now-37 year old). Since it has been discontinued so long, nobody else wears it. I get TONS of compliments.

When you said "an obscene price" I had high expectations because all my perfumes are the "hideously expensive" types, and... wow! You surpassed them! On Ebay it's going for $350?! For GAP perfume?!

If you don't me asking, could you talk about the scents of Om? So far I've heard that it has incense notes, but there is no page for it on Fragrantica so kind of a dead end.

Oh, it is so delicious! It is a "fresher" version of my other great perfume love, Black Cashmere. If you liked Black Cashmere (the original, in the black egg, NOT the hideous reissue), Om is an essential for warm weather (though Om works well in casual cold weather times too).

I posted the following a while ago and am copy-pasting from the old post:

"Donna Karan's Black Cashmere has been my favorite for a decade: if my soul had a scent, this would be it. BC is elegant and witchy and unlike anything popular today. It is bonfire smoke, incense, and cinnamon, with a vanilla/rose hint so subtle that is isn't noticeable is rose or vanilla at all, but just a slight, peripheral sweetness. Unfortunately, it is discontinued, so I buy it on eBay now, and have amassed a stockpile to last quite a while. There is a "reissue" available on the Donna Karan website, but it isn't exactly the same, and lacks the essential bonfire-smoke depth of the original.

Gap OM (from years and years ago) is a variation on the theme of Black Cashmere; BC is like a grown-up, fully developed OM with depth and quality.

The first half hour of Black Cashmere is all bonfire and incense, but after that, something indescribable happens and the cinnamon really comes out. I'm a teacher and I've had multiple students compliment this scent, including a high school boy who wanted to buy it for his girlfriend and a pack of Twilight fangirls (in 2010, which was prime Twilight era) who told me that I smell like vampires. They meant it as a compliment."

I don't like any other perfumes.

BDK Gris Charnel reminds me of Donna Karan Black Cashmere.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don't wear perfume. Yuck.

+1, perfume is disgusting and offensive.

You have a problem with perfume? You are probably one of those people that complains about everything in life and are just miserable to be around. I swear some of you posters are mentally unstable.

I am not the "disgusting and offensive" PP, but your reaction is even more over the top than his/hers. Talk about over reaction and hyperbole.

There are a great many people who find perfume and cologne to be unpleasant. There are also people who are allergic to it (I know several). Most people who wear it use too much. In places like elevators and the Metro, being stuck next a person wearing perfume can be really hard. In these days of daily showers with scented shampoos, conditioners, soaps, body washes, not to mention detergents for our clothes, there really is no need whatsoever for perfume. If for whatever reason you insist on wearing it, please, for the love of Pete, use it sparingly.

Well, you're never going to please everyone. So I'm not going to live my life not wearing perfume because some random next to me on the bus might have an allergy.

Just realize the perfume may not have the effect you intend. Most people I know think wearing perfume is juvenile and not attractive.

We must know different people. And sorry, I don't really care about the effects it has on strangers I don't know, won't ever see again, and don't care what they think.

Or if you are hurting them by giving them a migraine

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White Shoulders

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks so much to all of you who don't care that wearing your perfume (often quite a bit too much) in a movie theater, plane, the next cubicle etc. where I am trapped with you (or have to leave if I can) makes me physically ill. Just thanks. If you were having a similar experience because of that or something else, you would care.

Listen, I'm just not going to live my life denying myself little pleasures because someone MIGHT not like it too bad. I'm sorry if you're one of those people that think the world should bow down to your "special needs." I don't even know you. I, nor anyone else, owe you nothing. Get over it! I don't feel bad in the least. Like I said before--you can't please everyone. So you might as well please yourself.

Wondering how you feel about food allergies

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks so much to all of you who don't care that wearing your perfume (often quite a bit too much) in a movie theater, plane, the next cubicle etc. where I am trapped with you (or have to leave if I can) makes me physically ill. Just thanks. If you were having a similar experience because of that or something else, you would care.

Listen, I'm just not going to live my life denying myself little pleasures because someone MIGHT not like it too bad. I'm sorry if you're one of those people that think the world should bow down to your "special needs." I don't even know you. I, nor anyone else, owe you nothing. Get over it! I don't feel bad in the least. Like I said before--you can't please everyone. So you might as well please yourself.

Wondering how you feel about food allergies

NP. My daughters have severe food allergies and I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Last time I checked getting a headache was one thing, and anaphylaxis is another. My kids, DH and I manage their allergies, and we don’t expect the world to stop eating nuts. I don’t personally wear perfume, but if you don’t like perfume, that’s an oh well, not someone going to the ER.

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Another old thread tonight. You may want to check if you’re replying to someone who posted years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don't wear perfume. Yuck.

+1, perfume is disgusting and offensive.

You have a problem with perfume? You are probably one of those people that complains about everything in life and are just miserable to be around. I swear some of you posters are mentally unstable.

DP. Some people get migraines. It’s not the same as just disliking something. Your perfume could derail my family’s entire evening. It’s not a problem if you’re going to be outside or in a private space like a friend’s house. It’s downright rude in a restaurant, movie theater, etc.

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Grass by Gap. It always gets the “what smells like grass? That’s weird” and “oh my god middle school” compliments.