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Do You Have a Favorite [Secret] Fragrance?

In this month’s Scent Sommelier column, Jesse Rutherford shares her delicious discovery of Mistral’s new line of eau de parfum. While we may all have our favorite big-name fragrance designers, it’s often the small, lesser-known designers like Mistral that allow us the freedom to express our fragrance personalities. Do you have a secret fragrance designer? Are you a Chanel No. 5 girl or do you have a special and secret fragrance designer you love? Pray share your fragrance secrets!

 

 

11.05.2009 Report
I am all about Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker.... it really is lovely the Sex & the City gal really knows her stuff.
06.20.2009 Report
i love chanel no. five.... but what is wonderful during the hot summer months in putting some 4711 into the refriderator, and when it is hot... take it into the bathroom, and poor it all over your body.. it is light and citrisy and can be had for wonderlly low price The smell is heavenly and wake you up....

i love it....
11.28.2008 Report
I've always loved Obsession by Calvin Klein, men's or women's. My mom used to wear it when she'd go out, and I'd always smell it on my pillow and it'd comfort me when I'd miss her.
11.16.2008 Report
Creed, it is very expensive, it was a gift or I would not have it. It's made in France and has a very short life because it is all natural essential oils. I have the pink bottle, which is rumored to be Pricess Diana's creation. It is wonderful.
I am a perfume junkie also, I could never wear just one signature scent. I love vanilla and amber scents the most - I like Amber Romance spray from Victoria's secret, and Warm Vanilla Sugar from Bath & Body Works. I love Rosewood from Banana Republic, Hanae Mori, and L by Lolita Lempicka is one of my favorites. For a fresh daytime scent I like Simply by Clinique, but now I have to track it down online, since they no longer carry it in the store.
12.25.2007 Report
I am additicted to Bulgari Notte for women and for men. Before that I wore Angel by Therry Muggler. thanks for the tip about luckysent.com. i will definately try that. I am always looking for something new.
11.15.2007 Report
I know this doesn't concern men, but I love the variety of scents women adorn. Me personally, I prefer the ladies that wear (no pun intended) "Lady Stetson". As for myself, I slap on a little splash of "Stetson for Men", but most of the time it's faithful "Old Spice Aftershave"...third generation user.
09.24.2007 Report
For about twelve years, or possibly more, I have been wearing the same fragrance. I have been told it is what I need to use, because it "matches me". The fragrance is Lalique. It has become more difficult to find the past few years. I read several years ago that if you can smell the fragrance on yourself, it is wrong for you. I cannot smell this on me. I love the way it smells going on, makes me feel all girlie and feminine. I think perfume is an expression of how you think of your most personal self. Even if you love baby lotion, vanilla, lemon or almond extract. I can recall when I first got to dab a bit of my sister's perfume on my skin and how special it made me feel, when I was a child. My skin is the kind that certain fragrances on, will "explode" in a cloud of it's scent. One drop and I can turn the heads of an entire auditorium!!! Not what I want to do.....now, my sister would love that!! Go figure.
In the summer I don't wear too much scent. I get eaten alive by mosquitoes! If anything, it's cocoa butter on occasion. In the winter, I am a big fan of "Almond Glow," a body oil by Home Health as well as "Cashmere Mist" by Donna Karan, though I'm too cheap to buy it. The Body Shoppe has some great vanilla scents too. I have serious memory attachments with scents, so I've abandoned some over the years.
I am pretty much a perfume junkie but there's a lot I can't wear anymore due to allergies. This includes my old faves Chanel No. 5 and Oscar (boo hoo). What I can wear without reaching for the inhaler: Floret by Antonia's Flowers (www.antoniasflowers.com). Honeysuckle & Jasmine by Jo Malone. Mille et Une Roses by Lancome. All florals on the lightish side, although Mille et Une Roses is a bit heavier. What I like about them is that they're not old fashioned or sickly sweet. All the Jo Malone fragrances are designed to mix with others in her line, so you create a scent that's pleasing to you. On a chilly day I can still wear Marc Jacobs or Fracas by Robert Piguet (yes, the original heavy tuberose scent. Proof I'm crazy). The trick is to spray the scent in front of me and walk through the mist so I get just a bit of the scent. Where thare's a will, there's a perfume bottle! I also recommend luckyscent.com, it's a cheap way to try out scents and no great loss if I can't wear it.
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