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Ooh La Love: Perfumes and Fragrance

Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 11:25AM

I’m more a Kristopher than prissy Krissy when it comes to donning perfume, while I doll up daily fragrance is not always on my check list. Most days you’ll find me either smelling like a lady who’ll never wrinkle (SPF 45), an Organza (Givenchy), or an American heiress and tabloid cover girl (guess).

So until I bottle “Ooh la love,” I’m on the hunt for a signature scent, something a little different from the sea of celebrity fragrance department stores are swimming in.

Michael Kors Perfume sounds lovely, but it’s already taken by Laura Laytham: “The newest, most decadent smell in Sephora. Two squirts on before stepping out are essential. Everyone needs a signature scent and if mine is Michael Kors, then I’m in heaven.”

The Body Shop: White Musk Eau de Toilette’s another scent way married to lildb: “My love for various beauty products, throughout the years, has waxed and waned, but I have remained steadfastly rooted at the alter of this line of scent by The Body Shop. Beginning my affair during high school, and maintaining it through my terrible twenties, nothing can convince me to desert this light, lovely, intoxicating fragrance.” 

And Editions de Parfums.com gets the X, editor Heather Haber has snagged it: “Musc Ravageur is my main nighttime scent. About 6 years ago, I got sick of smelling Angel everywhere. I found this at a beauty giveaway at the magazine where I used to work, and I’ve used it ever since. It’s spicy and mysterious, but you won’t smell it everywhere. I am almost through my small bottle, and have a large one to use next. Note: Don’t wear it if you don’t want men hungrily sniffing your neck!” 

Where are all the unattached perfumes?

Green Valley by Creed “is one of those scents that make people inch closer in the elevator just to get a better whiff. It’s depth of layering will make your special someone snuggle up close and inhale deep. It smells great on a man or woman and works as an everyday signature scent or for special occassions.” 

Thanks, Nicole.

Any others? 

Go “fruity but sophisticated,” suggests Alison Copeland, a la FRESH Index Pear Cassis Perfume.

And Bond No 9 Perfume the fragrance of New York “is a mixture of grapefruit and musk and leaves a truly unique scent,” says Shoebox Princess. Tempting, but if I’m to smell a touch like breakfast I may as well be truer to my lifestyle and float in the scent of four shots of espresso and very vanilla soy milk.

There’s always Chanel, who started fashion designer perfumes. Chanel Mademoiselle Perfume is a classic alt to No. 5: “Makes me feel like a girl,” says jewelry designer Jill Italiano. Or Chance by Chanel perfume: This is a subtle and not-too-musky fragrance. I especially like it when I go straight from surfing to the shop and don’t get a chance to take a shower… Covers up the stink of the Santa Monica Bay pollution,” says Christina Petropoulos.

How French.

Hmm, any more designer? Givenchy Amarige Perfume: “My mum wore it when I was a child and I’ve always loved this super feminine, sexy scent. It’s really unique and when I wear it people always asked what I’m wearing,” says Billion Dollar Babes co-founder Kate Nobelius.

Maybe I’ll just wrap myself in cashmere, a la DKNY’s Black Cashmere. “It’s absolutely delicious, and the saffron note is fantastic,” says perfume blog Uncommon Touch. “Really, the entire fragrance is fantastic. It starts out with floral and spice and winds down into spicy wood, and then finally to an ambery woody base that’s slightly sweeter (but not especially sweet; sweet in the sense of sweet exotic wood, not sweet in the sense of fruit or something sugary).” 

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Reader Comments (8)

Celebrity fragrances are usually just as generic, trying to be all things to all people. Beyonce, Britney Spears, JLo, Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton--all of them have forgettable, interchangable fragrances on the market, sweet, floral, innocuous things that smell like the old dimestore fragrances I remember from my childhood.
October 4, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterdiscount perfume
Buying a fragrance is more than just picking out a smell that you like, because of your body chemistry make affect the scent. Beauty and fragrance products are two of the highest selling items around the world and a mark of culture and fashion.

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February 28, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterMoriah Jahoda
I think the only way to find a good signature scent is to sample, sample, sample. There is no other way to figure out what the notes you love are and most importantly, what works with your skin. I wish I could have a signature scent everyone would recognize me by, but I guess I am too fickle for that. I am all for the fragrance wardrobe instead, a fragrance for every mood, every occasion, every outfit, every weather.
October 3, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterDivina
I agree although whats nice about our site is that we try to really describe the notes within each description of our designer fragrances. Therefore if you do want to buy online, its a great way to do so.
November 30, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterDesigner Perfume Cologne
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April 12, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterPrashant
Be careful when you pick something. I wore Casaque for years and it was discontinued. They make an imitation that is ok but not the real thing.
April 29, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterjen h
I love Serge Lutens new scent, Five O'Clock au Gingembre :) The fragrance lasts for at least half a day on me. Looking forward to getting it after I finish Fleur D'Oranger.

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