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[oyceter]

Smells!

Ok, I am having way too much fun with this scent thing ^_^. Sadly, my BPAL order probably isn't going to be getting here for forever, alas.

More smell analysis! Apologies to people who are already bored with this, but this is all new and interesting and exciting!

Tried on Donna Karan's Be Delicious in the department store last weekend, which comes in an adorable apple-shaped bottle. Alas, the perfume doesn't smell like tart green apple, like I thought. It smells like slightly too old, mealy apples. Yuck. And it was on me all day and drove me nuts.

Came home from work and stole some of fannishly's Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, which I thought I would like, given that Embalming Fluid has tea notes. Alas, no. It just smells sort of sour on me. I think it's the alcohol base and my skin, I really do. It's really weird. I think that's why I haven't been able to find a perfume I like before! The only time I don't get overwhelmed with the alcohol smell is with really heavy, musky scents like Chanel No. 5, which I just don't seem to take to on me. A whiff of it on other people smells nice, but it just doesn't feel right for me to wear it all day long. So all the clean scents that I seem to be gravitating toward were overwhelmed by the alcohol and the skin-alcohol reaction. Weeeeiiird.

The really funny thing was that after putting on Green Tea, I played with my rats. And apparently Fitz-rat has very good perfume-skin chemistry! Or, er, perfume-fur chemistry? Last time I tried on Chanel No. 5 and picked him up, he smelled like a really weird combination of expensive perfume and rat for two days. I am quite sure Coco Chanel never anticipated that her flagship scent would adorn a rat. Also, I would just like to say that Chanel No. 5 + rat smells really, really, incredibly weird.

Anyhow, this time Fitz-rat ended up smelling just like Green Tea. And this is after it faded off my skin in no time! And it smells better on my rat than it does on me! This is just sad...

Now I am wearing L'Eau D'Issey lotion, which is really nice and grassy on me. Sort of scared to try the perfume itself, because I think the alcohol smell will take over and make me feel carsick. Maybe Green Tea lotion will smell better on me.

Another happy smell is Gap's So Pink. According to them, it is:
- Top notes: sparkling pink grapefruit, juicy orange, and a watery accord
- Middle notes: muguet, fresh lily, sweet pea, sunny flower
- Bottom notes: fresh jasmine, soft musk

I can't tell. It just smells like grapefruit to me.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Next time you're in a store, try Clinique Happy; it's very citrus.

And you may discover that you prefer perfumes in a body-lotion formation, which is easier to find nowadays.

[oyceter]

Ooo, thanks!

I think fannishly may have Clinique Happy (and have now confirmed this and snitched it from her). Yay roommates who have perfume collections!

I shall try it after the L'Eau D'Issey wears off.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I agree the body lotions are far preferable to perfumes for me. Not all of them, but many of them have bases whose smell I like better than the alcohol-y perfume ones.

[oyceter]

Also, I remember to put on lotion more than perfume. But yes, I definitely dislike the alcohol base.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, and it's useful for something other than the smell; I like that part, too.