Parfums pour homme et femme
Shall we have something nice now and forget about the wankers of the world? Okay.
Scent - that's always good for a treat. When you're shopping for perfumes you can't try that many on in a day, maybe four or five at a push. So if you fancy treating yourself to a new one, it helps to whittle it down to a short hit list before you start.
I've found basenotes.net very useful for doing that, but it can get quite unwieldy searching their database unless you know quite a lot about perfumes in the first place.
Today though, I found something different. It is also surreal, highly subjective and it makes me laugh. For example, everything by Paris Hilton gets the lowest marks and accompanying comments such as "barf-bag floral" and "remedial candyfloss." Others are variously described as "mango overcoat", "ashtray floral", and "trashoid oriental" which just tickles my pickle.
It's a bit bitchy and the list is incomplete, but when it comes to the 5-out-of-5 rated perfumes, I generally agree with them. I'll be coming back to this in future, I'm certain.
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Someone on the Tube today smelled of a mixture of perhaps cheaper than chips aftershave mixed with engine grease. Every time I got a whiff I nearly gagged.
I like the idea of this site that you've found.
My fave so far is Drone Cologne.
*titter*
This is very timely stuff, Ms P. It's my birthday next month and Imogen's asking for hints. I have no idea what I want but had been considering some posh pong. Will have a think and then go out on a testing mission.
I've just been to try on a couple of the Tom Ford ones because they sounded quite nice, in theory.
The amber one smells like something you'd spray on the morning after to cover up the fact that you hadn't had a shower and the other one (orchid? gardenia?) smells like those sprays that squirt you in the eye in public toilets.