Recommend Women's Perfumes!

[TennisPlayer]

I'm looking for a new perfume. I like a light perfume smell. I liked Beyond Paradise.


Which perfumes do you like for women?

[ebruening]

I like "White Musk" by the Body Shop; I also sometimes use Bath and Body Works' "Coconut Lime Verbena" body spray

[pisces2473]

I've worn Gap's Heaven for YEARS. I love it, so light and fresh. For "dress up" I wear J'Adore by Christian Dior.

[winneythepooh7]

I don't like strong perfumes. Honestly, all I really wear are the different body sprays from Bath & Body Works. My mood changes daily regarding what scent I feel like wearing, and these are all nice smelling and good on the pocketbook. Hmmmmmmmmm, I haven't hit this store in awhile, I think it is high time I do again ;).

[blueyes]

I used to wear ALIVE by AE - then those bastards stopped making it. Gr.

I tried Be Delicious by DKNY, but it gives me headaches after like 20 minutes. I guess there's something in the lower notes that just doesn't agree with me.

I did get to sample Victoria Secret's Be Sexy last night - not the guys' (although that is some tasty stuff! :evil: ), but the dark red one for women. I sort of like it - I'd have to get around the fact that it's from Victoria's Secret. :(

Mostly, I just wear body spray; today's it mango mandarin. Mmmm...

[shimmer728]

blueyes, why don't you like VS?

Most of what I wear is from Bath and Body (I get the most compliments on Moonlight Path) and Victoria's Secret. I LOVE Amazing Grace by Philosophy.....sadly, I just ran out. :(

CK Obsession is good stuff as well, but a little strong.

[blueyes]

Shim -

Go to Ross Park Mall (the hell that it is) and go into the new VS. It's ridiculous. They spent months remodelling and it is roughly the site of my sister's 2 bedroom, 2 floor apartment. No. Shit. There's an entire section (think separate walls/etc) for the body/bath stuff alone. The Italian collection has it's own permanent area.

It is ridiculous. Although I did see some damn sexy lingerie in there yesterday... :evil:

[pisces2473]

Am I the only person who doesn't like Bath and Body?

[blueyes]

Nope - sometimes I absolutely loathe that place. I've never actually purchased a damn thing from there - I get tons of it as presents though.

[Tayl405]

I wear Chanel Gardenia, but I also LOVE Chanel Chance and all the Banana Republic perfumes. I switch it up in the seasons sometimes, and wear heavier perfumes if I'm going out at night.

[pisces2473]

Nope - sometimes I absolutely loathe that place. I've never actually purchased a damn thing from there - I get tons of it as presents though.
Yeah I stopped buying stuff there in early college. It just gets too old and the scents don't stay on me--and I really don't like them. Plus, they con you into buying a bunch of shit with their 3 for 20 sales. It's fine for the kiddos, but in my opinion, I'm an adult so why not wear "real" perfume?

Oh and when people give it to me as gifts, I give it to the social worker at the school my mom works at and she gives it to the poor girls who could use a little gift as a pick me up (or for the girls who have hygiene issues).

[blueyes]

that's a GREAT idea, Jen!

Now I can off-load the 18 lbs of crap I have at home!

[shimmer728]

That is a good idea.

[Bugsey34]

I don't like Bath & Body Works either. An old college roommate used to spray herself all over with it and she just smelled like a bad fruit basket. I think you get what you pay for on perfume.

For years now I have used a scent I found in Ireland called Inis. It's actually unisex, but works well for girls. Unfortunately I hear from my family in Ireland that it has been discontinued :(. I do have some bottles stocked up from my last trip though. I saw Island by Michael Kors and liked it for summer.

Sephora is also a great place to check out perfumes if you're looking for a new one because they have a whole wall filled with just about every one there is. The last time I went the closest one to replace Inis was Marc by Marc Jacobs.

[ebruening]

I don't really care if the scents I wear are "real" perfumes or not...I just like how they smell. I'm not into the fruity scents at all. I had some eucalyptus spearmint lotion that I used to wear, but the guy I was dating at the time said that I smelled like Crest toothpaste. (He was right :eek: )

[J-girl]

My favorite perfume was something I picked up from England. It was nice and light and fruity from Miss Selfridge called Shimo by Monsoon. I still have the bottle!

Anyways- I used Pure light by Alfred Sung for the longest time, and then I used Metro by BCBG Max, and now I am using Ralph by Ralph Lauren. They are all nice and light and fruity. I am not too fond of Musk.

[blueyes]

Has anyone ever tried anything from Anthropologie? Any luck there?

I was there on Sunday and they had this perfume called Lemon Sugar - it started out very awesome, but got all sharp and citrus-y towards the end of the day.

[Bugsey34]

Whoa I didn't know Anthropologie had perfumes! I will have to check that out.

[MetFanL]

I wear Amarige by Givenchy. I don't think I've worn anything else for like 5 years.

[pisces2473]

I don't like Bath & Body Works either. An old college roommate used to spray herself all over with it and she just smelled like a bad fruit basket. I think you get what you pay for on perfume.
Did we have the same friend???? I knew a girl in college who bathed herself in Cucumber Melon. To this day, I get nauseated at the scent of that. *vomit*

[temptation]

I like "White Musk" by the Body Shop; I also sometimes use Bath and Body Works' "Coconut Lime Verbena" body spray


It depends on what effect you want on guys. White musk is pretty potent. It just makes me horny for some reason.

[summergold]

Did we have the same friend???? I knew a girl in college who bathed herself in Cucumber Melon. To this day, I get nauseated at the scent of that. *vomit*

I still get dry heaves if I get a waft of that stuff :lol:

[pisces2473]

I still get dry heaves if I get a waft of that stuff :lol:
ME TOO. Someone had it on here the other day and I was like GET AWAY FROM ME. People don't understand my aversion to it. :eek:

OH! And last Christmas, my dad bought the lotion for my mom. I MADE her get rid of it, I couldn't take the chance of stopping by and her having it on.

[summergold]

OH! And last Christmas, my dad bought the lotion for my mom. I MADE her get rid of it, I couldn't take the chance of stopping by and her having it on.
OMG I got some of it for Christmas from a friend of my mom's. I politely said thank you, then I pawned it off to someone else as fast as I could. I think I traded it for some chocolate. A much better deal IMO :huge:

[pisces2473]

OMG I got some of it for Christmas from a friend of my mom's. I politely said thank you, then I pawned it off to someone else as fast as I could. I think I traded it for some chocolate. A much better deal IMO :huge:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That's horrible. The worst Christmas present EVER.

And they STILL make it. WTF? I don't get WHY on earth it is so popular.

[ebruening]

It depends on what effect you want on guys. White musk is pretty potent. It just makes me horny for some reason.

LOL! Really? I wear it sometimes around my guy friends, just because I like the smell of it, and I can tell you it has had NO effect on them whatsoever. Hm..maybe they hate it.

[AmbrNrgy]

Dolce and Gabbana (i don't know how to spell it) has a scent called Light Blue and it's wonderful. If you like really light scents, you'll love it. I don't really like heavy perfumes. It's a little pricey, though.

[tina1979]

I wear MISTerious and Love by Torrid, and Love Spell by VS, and my only "real" perfume that I own is Full Metal Jacket by FMJ Paris. I really love Addict by Dior. I use my roommates sometimes.

[ebruening]

My most hated scent EVER is peach. That stuff makes me gag. Second least favorite is "warm vanilla sugar" from Bath and Body Works. Ew, ew, ew.

[tina1979]

LOL! Really? I wear it sometimes around my guy friends, just because I like the smell of it, and I can tell you it has had NO effect on them whatsoever. Hm..maybe they hate it.
YEah I haven't found a guy yet that my stuff just knocks the socks off of, but I know Kenneth Cole on a man can do it for me. I love that scent!

[bridgetjones]

They are probably too busy enjoying the smell of their own farts to smell your perfume. Some of my guy friends fart around me and talk locker room talk as if to forget I am more than a smaller prettier friend with bitch tits. Sigh.... Ok actually some of them do remember. A girl just need to be reminded once in a while you know. I AM A PRINCESS. :huge: :p (So are you!!)

I like Contradiction by Calvin Klien and several other perfumes by Elizabeth Arden. As for perfumes that smell like food items, weird! Save it for the scented candle collection for BJs boudiour (?).

[blueyes]

Uck - warm vanilla sugar makes me feel anything but warm inside. EW.

And yeah, Anthropologie has perfumes. Lots of them are strong and spicy, but I did sort of like that Lemon Sugar one. Knowing Anthropologie, it was probably obnoxiously expensive. :frustrate

[ebruening]

Tina - yeah, LOVE Hugo Boss on men. Yummy, yummy!

BJ - maybe I should start wearing that scent called "Dirt." (I forget who manufactures it.) That might get me more attention from the guys - LOL.

[J-girl]

Onfe of my friends has everything vanilla. Vanilla candles, vanilla lotions. It gives me a freaking headache! And then one day to make things different she got a MANGO body lotion from Body shop! :frustrate

That triggers my migraines.

Yeah I love Hugo Boss on men but now my dad wears it too so that just creeps me out! I think all men's cologones are mmmm. ;):

[ebruening]

YEah I haven't found a guy yet that my stuff just knocks the socks off of, but I know Kenneth Cole on a man can do it for me. I love that scent!

You know, now that I think about it, I was wearing CKone once (years and years ago), and this guy I was dating got kind of weirdly obsessed with it :eek:

[tina1979]

Tina - yeah, LOVE Hugo Boss on men. Yummy, yummy!

BJ - maybe I should start wearing that scent called "Dirt." (I forget who manufactures it.) That might get me more attention from the guys - LOL.
Didn't GAP do something like that? grass, and a couple other scents that were nature related?

A girl just need to be reminded once in a while you know. I AM A PRINCESS. (So are you!!)
LOL!!! so true!

[tina1979]

You know, now that I think about it, I was wearing CKone once (years and years ago), and this guy I was dating got kind of weirdly obsessed with it :eek:
I had a boyfriend who wore that my junior year of highschool. It took me FOREVER not to look around for him anytime I smelled it after we broke up.

[ebruening]

Tina - I think the "dirt" scent (which a chick friend told me about) is made by sephora...but I'm not sure. Yeah, I totally remember when Gap did the whole "freshly cut grass" scent. YUCK!!! I was like 10 and I hated it!

[shimmer728]

I wore CK One ALL THE TIME in HS. It still makes me think of colorguard. Wow, once a band dork, always a band dork. :eek:

I like Cucumber Melon. :lol:

[blueyes]

Oh, I have the same kind of association with Tommy...ironically enough, the guy who wore it was named Tommy. :rolleyes:

[twentity]

I like Hugo Boss for women, gardenia from bath and body works, I actually like some of the flower scents they make, the fruit ones seem to smell rotten after awhile. I absolutely love Heaven by Victoria Secrect. I also wear Pleasures by Estee Lauder and J'adore(sp?) by Dior. Those are the popular ones for now. I used to wear exclamation, only because the boyfriend at the time loved it.

[shimmer728]

Yes, the scent of Polo Sport for men is also forever ruined for me. Which is a shame, because it smells really good.

[summergold]

I dated this guy who wore Polo Sport, which I loved, and I loved that I could smell the traces of it on the shirt I wore the next day (we never got past the make-out stage sadly). Anyway, I was at home for Christmas that year and my brother was wearing the same cologne. It sort of ruined it a bit for me :googly:

[shimmer728]

I dated this guy who wore Polo Sport, which I loved, and I loved that I could smell the traces of it on the shirt I wore the next day (we never got past the make-out stage sadly). Anyway, I was at home for Christmas that year and my brother was wearing the same cologne. It sort of ruined it a bit for me :googly:

LOL!!! Yeah, I have some memories of my hair smelling of Polo Sport. *shivers*

[tina1979]

yeah. me too. my clothes would smell like CK1 after he brought me home. My mom used to say she could always tell when my ex and I had been together because i smelled like him. :rolleyes:

I also like cool water and there is something else one of my guy friends wears. He won't give up the name of it. he says he wants the girls to remember him when they smell it, not go out and buy it for thier bf. I loved it when he would take a nap on the couch. The pillows would smell like him afterwards.

[girlinterrupted]

I love love love Burberry Brit. It is the only perfume I've found that doesn't make me sneeze upon application. Plus I've gotten many compliments on it.

[temptation]

LOL! Really? I wear it sometimes around my guy friends, just because I like the smell of it, and I can tell you it has had NO effect on them whatsoever. Hm..maybe they hate it.


When a woman walks past me wearing white musk, I unconciously follow her for a few steps until I realize what I'm doing.

[temptation]

Onfe of my friends has everything vanilla. Vanilla candles, vanilla lotions. It gives me a freaking headache! And then one day to make things different she got a MANGO body lotion from Body shop! :frustrate

That triggers my migraines.

Yeah I love Hugo Boss on men but now my dad wears it too so that just creeps me out! I think all men's cologones are mmmm. ;):


Vanilla is an aphrodisaic for me. I like thick, sweet smells for some reason.

I wear Obsession Night and I used to wear Dolce and Gabbana. Maybe I'll start a new thread for the men.

[tina1979]

Vanilla is an aphrodisaic for me. I like thick, sweet smells for some reason.
The Love body spray I listed has a vanilly (sp?) smell and Addict too. I really like Vanilla scents

[J-girl]

Vanilla is an aphrodisaic for me. I like thick, sweet smells for some reason.

I wear Obsession Night and I used to wear Dolce and Gabbana. Maybe I'll start a new thread for the men.
LOL maybe you should hook up with my friend. She is from Ottawa too :p

[temptation]

LOL maybe you should hook up with my friend. She is from Ottawa too :p


I'm not a ho J-Girl. She's gotta earn my love. And besides, I thought you and I were gonna get it on. Why are you trying to pass me on to your friend? :torn:

[J-girl]

And besides, I thought you and I were gonna get it on.

But you like Vanilla and I am anything BUT Vanilla :twisted:

[blueyes]

...whoa.

*high five J-girl*

[J-girl]

...whoa.

*high five J-girl*
:huge:
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[shannon08]

I love Vera Wang. I haven't tried to buy any in the past couple months, but I heard that it was discontinued. :sad: It was good stuff. Ralph Lauren Romance is another one of my favs! For the boys, I LOVE Armani Aqua Di Gio (sp?) I will pretty much rape anyone wearing that!!

[Bugsey34]

I'm trying to remember the name of the company that does those Dirt, Chocolate Chip Cookie, and Grass scents. Is it Bigelow? I don't think so. Maybe it's a French name... that's going to drive me crazy now.

[pisces2473]

Demeter

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[temptation]

But you like Vanilla and I am anything BUT Vanilla :twisted:

Ok, I admit that was a good one. What would you consider yourself then? My senses eagerly await your response.

[meatwad]

Vanilla is an aphrodisaic for me. I like thick, sweet smells for some reason.

I wear Obsession Night and I used to wear Dolce and Gabbana. Maybe I'll start a new thread for the men.

I think Vanilla is an aphordesiac for guys in general. I read that somewhere. That and pumpkin pie. Which just goes to show you, it doesn't matter what perfume a woman wears as long as she smells like she just came out of the kitchen. *ducks* :huge:

[Bugsey34]

Demeter

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Good one, Pisces! That's it!

Meatwad - Oedipus complex much? Pumpkin pie & vanilla = someone's mom.

[meatwad]

Good one, Pisces! That's it!

Meatwad - Oedipus complex much? Pumpkin pie & vanilla = someone's mom.

Maybe to you. If I find a woman who'll make me pumpkin pie on command, she'll end up with an expensive ring on her finger.

[wordsmith]

I wear Bijan, which is kind of a more exotic, spicy scent. I looked it up and the notes are sandalwood, oak moss, and orange blossom, apparently. I never thought I would like a darker, heavier, or more womanly scent...I used to only wear more light, crisp stuff. But it just smells good on me.

[phuong]

I have issues with Polo Sport as well - I used to smell of it for the whole next day (and yes, I do shower), the smell just clings to you.

My faves in the fresh league are anything green tea, like El. Arden, Bvlgari, L'Occitane on the expensive side or there is a lot of more affordable ones usually available. eBay might be worth checking out as well.

[J-girl]

What would you consider yourself then? My senses eagerly await your response.

hehehe you are too much

EW pumpkin pie! Meatwad- you are going to end up marrying a 45 year old you dork :p

[meatwad]

hehehe you are too much

EW pumpkin pie! Meatwad- you are going to end up marrying a 45 year old you dork :p

What? Look it up! I swear to God! It's better than raw oysters damnit!