The one perfume that gets all the compliments

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Anonymous wrote:Check out the Frederic Malle line. Very unique, exquisite perfumes.

+1. I have 3 of his scents: Lipstick Rose, Carnal Flower, & Vetiver Extraordinaire and all of them are amazing.

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Le Labo Santal 33

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Dolce and gabbana light blue. Drives men crazy.

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I heard once that perfume may be connected to austism

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Coco by Chanel.

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Perfumes I have worn which have had the most astonishingly positive responses are, in no particular order:

Eau d'Issy by Issy Miakaye
Allure by Chanel
Happy by Clinique (I know, crazy right?)

But you have to remember, perfume smells a little different on every person, depending on your body chemistry.

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Anonymous wrote:I heard once that perfume may be connected to austism

Austism? Is that some kind of new affliction?

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Dior ispahan only sold at dior Or online

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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.

NP. I complain about bad perfume.
LuckyScent. - you can buy samples
Read Turin and Sanchez's "Perfumes:The Guide"
Neiman Marcus has some nice, if expensive, perfumes. (If you love tuberose get Fracas.)

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Anonymous wrote:I still love Chanel No.5

Too dated and heavy and sweet.

No, it's not. You must have only smelled the Eau de Cologne. The Eau de Parfum and Parfum smell amazing; as does the Eau de Legere. Good stuff.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

That is awesome. I remember your original post about Black Cashmere and it intrigued me so much. I wish there was a way to buy just a tiny bit of it to see if it works on my skin, because you sold it so well. You could be a copywriter for these perfumes, it's amazing. You should start a fragrance block (despite not liking any other perfumes). Right now I am very into patchouli fragrances, but I go for a similar vibe that you described, and you are making me feel that I should move into the incense category. I think the Twilight comment is a SERIOUS compliment- talk about a heady vibe

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That is awesome. I remember your original post about Black Cashmere and it intrigued me so much. I wish there was a way to buy just a tiny bit of it to see if it works on my skin, because you sold it so well. You could be a copywriter for these perfumes, it's amazing. You should start a fragrance block (despite not liking any other perfumes). Right now I am very into patchouli fragrances, but I go for a similar vibe that you described, and you are making me feel that I should move into the incense category. I think the Twilight comment is a SERIOUS compliment- talk about a heady vibe

Hah, I am pretty succinct in describing exactly what I hate about other perfumes. If someone forces me to break it down, I will.

If you are into patchouli, I think you would like the "incense category"; oud is really popular right now, and this seems to be paired often with patchouli, to varying degrees of incensuousness (see what I did there?). You would probably like 10 Corso Como, which is NOT discontinued. But I'd bet that you would adore Black Cashmere. You can buy the old, black egg bottled version on ebay for much less than Om, surprisingly, even though BC originally cost much more. I think it would be a great blind buy for you: just be sure you are buying the black egg old bottle, NOT the reissue version (both are now discontinued). You can come back to this forum to thank me later

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Anonymous wrote:Cristalle by Chanel.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

That is awesome. I remember your original post about Black Cashmere and it intrigued me so much. I wish there was a way to buy just a tiny bit of it to see if it works on my skin, because you sold it so well. You could be a copywriter for these perfumes, it's amazing. You should start a fragrance block (despite not liking any other perfumes). Right now I am very into patchouli fragrances, but I go for a similar vibe that you described, and you are making me feel that I should move into the incense category. I think the Twilight comment is a SERIOUS compliment- talk about a heady vibe

Hah, I am pretty succinct in describing exactly what I hate about other perfumes. If someone forces me to break it down, I will.

If you are into patchouli, I think you would like the "incense category"; oud is really popular right now, and this seems to be paired often with patchouli, to varying degrees of incensuousness (see what I did there?). You would probably like 10 Corso Como, which is NOT discontinued. But I'd bet that you would adore Black Cashmere. You can buy the old, black egg bottled version on ebay for much less than Om, surprisingly, even though BC originally cost much more. I think it would be a great blind buy for you: just be sure you are buying the black egg old bottle, NOT the reissue version (both are now discontinued). You can come back to this forum to thank me later

Thank you, I think I will. I actually researched it the first time you posted, because I was so entranced by the description. But I think now I will have to bite the bullet and buy it. Do you have any tips for finding the genuine article and not the reissue? Or is it pretty obvious and just look for the egg shape?