Goodguy, these ultra expensive
colgnes, are they mature smells? would they be appealing to somebody in their early 20's?
Okay so I order a
bunch of Creed and Amouage for men cologne samples three days ago and just got them. I ordered these because I
remember reading thread(s) about them by Mobley and Naughtygirl. So far I like Green Irish Tweed, Vetiver Creed and
Ciel Amouage. All the scents smell good to me except the Amouage Gold - it smells like Indian incense sticks. Either
I got a nose that can't pickup the subtle differences or sniffing all of these colognes today just dulled my sense
of smell:
I wanted to know if mixing NPA changes the scent of Green Irish Tweed or Ciel. I tried it with Ciel
and didn't notice any. Before I go buy a whole expensive bottle of one or the other I'd like to get any feedback
from people who use 2 or more dabs of NPA (or any other product for that matter) and any of the Creed or Amouage
colognes. I can't tell anything - I've read that NPA is supposed to stink but I don't seem to notice it; all I
smell is a slight alcohol smell straight from the bottle then no scent. I use 2-3 dabs by the way. Thanks for any
replies.
Goodguy, these ultra expensive
colgnes, are they mature smells? would they be appealing to somebody in their early 20's?
TRock
I have the Green
Irish Tweed. The Green Irish Tweed I think is great for a young guy. It reminds me of Curve but with a little
extra in there. I actually bought it from the scentiments website so it wasn't as much as in the store.
I
agree with the Green Irish Tweed being good for the younger guys. Like I posted before it's one of my top three.
You should buy some samples or go try to get them for free at you local mall if they carry them to see if they're
right for you, TRock. The majority of the Creed scents I got are well balanced enough to for a wide age range, at
least in my opinion. None of them are stuffy or overbearing except the old english leather.
If you want
something that is fairly inexpensive. Try the Axe body sprays. I haven't used them myself. I've only used the
Essence deodorant which is fantastic. If they make the same scent for the body spray I'll buy that for casual
use.
Any suggestions for old farts? Ages
45 on up? Although Ihaven't the foggiest where I can by high-end colognes around here.. I think Old Spice is
considered top shelf...
The best site to buy cologne is
http://www.parfumsraffy.com/
He's got great selection. Everything from the run of the mill stuff
you can get in any department store, as well as the high end stuff (Creed, Amouage, Guerlain). And his prices are
great.
i live in new
york city so it's very easy for me to walk over to sephora in soho and have a chance to try any of their enormous
selection of male fragrances without having to interact with a salesperson. this is particularly good since once i
like something i walk a few blocks to chinatown where i can get a full sized tester bottle for half the price.
(tester bottles dont have a fancy box and sometimes don't have a fancy cap. big deal)
for those of you not lucky
enough to live in new york city i would recommend checking out the scents at a department store and then ordering
online.
anyway, my big recommendation though is for Bulgary Black (aka bvlgary black). it's marketed as unisex
but it seems much more masculine to me. it's a rich smoky sweet scent that's somehow formulated to last a very
long time on you (i can vouch for that). it's a mature scent and works great on smokers like me.
as for mixing
with pheromones it works great --though so far i have only used it with pherone's formula m-11 and v-5, which are
not available at love scents.
anyway, go try out, you might like it.
Phersurf: That's where I got my
samples from- very fast delivery.
As for Rbt, like I mentioned before the Creed variations could work for a
multitude of ages. I think you might like the Royal English Leather Creed. It seems to be the one that invokes a
certain mature feel to me.
As the biggest retailers around here
seem to be Wal*Mart and Target, can any of you recommend a store that might have a decent range of testers available
for male oriented colognes? I suspect we have a Sephora or similar somewhere in this state but it's no doubt a day
trip for me... (meaning its going to be miles and miles and miles away.)
Or, who of the on-line sources have
decent sampler packs. One site listed about 50 different colognes (at $1 each) but I wouldn't have a clue as to
where to start, and I'm not sure I want to drop the money and get *all* of them. Then again, maybe that's the only
way to know...
Creed products do sound interesting. And probably smell better than this $2 a gallon stuff at the
local dollar store. :-)
Originally Posted by Rbt
Sounds like you're even more in the sticks than I am (Yuma, Az). Our "upscale" department
stores are Dillards and Mervyns. I've sampled some stuff at Dillards, though the men's selection of testers seems
small, but the sales girl was helpful. That's where I bought my Ralph Lauren Romance Silver. I think the larger
J.C. Penneys and maybe Sears have fragrance departments, you might try there. I know from walking through it the
Penneys in San Diego has a large fragrance department but I have never stopped to check out the men's selections.
Our local one has a small selection but I haven't seen many testers.
I think for a Sephora, you will have to
go to the big city. The only one I've ever seen is in an upscale mall in San Diego.
take the day trip into the city. gives you aOriginally Posted by Rbt
reason to be out in public and experiment -mones with hot women. hot women typically tend to live in cities.
depending if you get lucky or not, some sephora stores have gorgeous women.
Rbt:
I ordered my samples
of Creed and Amouage from that one place that you were talking about. The 50 samples of different colognes seems
like a lot. If you search the threads here for colognes you'll find a lot of them listed as samples at
parfumesraffy. For example, I recall someone writingg Burberry Weekend smells good so I would try that. Ten bucks or
so is pretty good to get some fine smelling colgnes (ten dollars is the minimum order I believe). Unfortunately the
Creed samples don't come individually and cost more.
That Green Irish Tweed is some strong stuff! I got a
drop of two on my hand last night and I can still faintly smell it. I think it's best suited when your in a place
with a lot of other scents competing with yours.
I've tried NPA with some of the colognes, and I'm happy
to notice no discernable differences in scent from wearing the cologne alone.
marc jacobs colgne is pretty good.
if you're looking for recommendations.
if you do go to sephora you can get alot of free stuff from them. they
have tons of freebies you just have to ask. if you're going to get free stuff don't forget sephora has stuff for
your face and body too. is it true that most guys don't moisturize their face?
There are also a few reputable
vendors on eBay who sell sample vials and decants of good stuff fer cheap.
Just picked up some 1/3 decants of
Villoresi Incensi and Yerbamate, Creed Royal Scottish Lavender, L'Artisan Patchouli
Patch and CdG Kyoto. (EBay rocks.)
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If a guy's a cocksucker in his life, when he dies, he don't become a saint. - Morris Levy, Hitmen
Holmes' Theme Song
Can't argue about eBay. Made some great dealsOriginally Posted by Holmes
there, both buying and selling stuff. ("Never throw anything out until *after* you've tried listing it on eBay."
Trust me.)
Have seen one seller offering stuff like Creed decants and 'mones like PI pretty cheap, but I'd
still like to try the free sample (or really really cheap sample) sniff tests before I go spending money that could
otherwise be used for buying more goodies from LS...
(Also: the nearest Sears is a hardware place
only. There is a big Sears about 25 minutes away I suppose I should go visit one of these days. And this "city" is
supposed to be a major metropolitan area... Ha. It's the "county seat" but I think this seat has a half-moon on the
door. I believe we have more dollar stores and liquor stores/bars than any other type of store.)
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Rbt,
I made
an order from Perfumebay earlier this week and just received it today. I got a
couple of Creed samples in .05 oz vials for only $3 - $4 or so each (a full sized bottle of their stuff retails for
something like $125+). I also bought a few minature collectable bottles of some other fragrances that I wanted to
try. And they threw in a couple of freebies to boot! You might give them a look for inexpensive samples.
So bummed. The Heat version of
TE starts to smell like Pledge wood cleaner after a little while on me. At first it smells like Vetiver but that
soon goes away. The Creed version smells sweeter and remains that way. I guess I can always combine TE Heat with
Pheros and smell like I just got back form a day of wiping down wood furniture. I put a lot on (4 sprays) so I'll
go back to one or two sprays. By the way I discovered that Vetiver Creed smells good with Chikara. It starts to
smell sweet and musky.
according to some
magazines...cologne is supposed to be replaced every year because the smell isn't fresh anymore? i have a bottle a
PI, the one by givenchy not primal instincts, that doesn't seem right. it's proably over 2 years old though.
anybody familiar with this?
TRock:
After getting my
samples of Creed I remembered that I used to have sample bottles of some avon colognes. I looked all day and finally
found them. I was going to dump them out and use them as mixing bottles but before I did I opened up each one and
found that they still smelled just like I remembered them. They were sitting in a box in my closet for about seven
years. They were very tightly sealed though so I don't know if that helped.
Well I just opened up another
sample of Creed. It's called Bois Du Portugal. It smells just like Pheros. If you're into that woody smell then I
guess you'd like this version of Creed. Or you can buy Pheros at a cheaper cost per ml. Pheros retains it's
cedar-like smell while Bois Du Portugal fades in a couple minutes and smells like wood burned by a sander.
Colognes that are exposed to light, heat or air will not last as long asOriginally Posted by TRock
they should. It is possible that your Givenchy Pi turned if it was not consistently stored in a cool dark place,
tightly capped. Splash bottles generally won't keep as long as spray bottles, due to exposure to air. Properly
stored, I've had bottles last 15+ years.
So Goodguy's bottles stored in the closet are still in mint
condition. Closet, drawer, cupboard - those are good places. The bathroom is not a good place - too warm.
The top of your dresser is okay only if your room is kept dark.
When fragrance has turned, it will usually
appear darker than it did originally, and either lose some of its topnotes, or the topnotes turn sour or acrid.
Sometimes it is still wearable once you wait out the topnotes stage (15 minutes or so) but unless it's a real
rarity, I'd probably not bother and just toss it.
I've heard one year, I think I may haveOriginally Posted by TRock
read that here. Considering the size of some of the cologne bottles and their expense, it seems like a waste of
money then to buy the larger size. Even with daily use of one scent, I don't think I could go through a whole
bottle in a year. Maybe that's why so many colognes come in sealed atomizers, to help prolong their life. And
that's just another reason for me to search for minis when buying a cologne. (Besides the bottles often being cool
looking.)
The industry wants youOriginally Posted by InternationalPlayboy
to think you have to throw them out after a year or two so you'll buy more, but this is not true at all if you
store them properly.
Keep them in their box out of
sunlight and in a cool place.
I think I'm becomming addicted
to buying cologne! Someoone please stop me before I go broke (but I'll be the best smelling homeless person on the
street).
I have samples of Guerlain - Heritage and Vetiver, both are quite good.
I also own Amouage -
Dia
And Creed - Implerial
I just bought Creed Green Irish Tweed and love it!
I've already
received a few compliments at work, although it's really a night time cologne.
Tried my Tweed sample today. It comes in a small vial, with a tinyOriginally Posted by phersurf
opening, about the size of an opening in a dram bottle. The cap has sort of an applicator stick on it, but I didn't
feel I was getting anything from it, so I did dabs on my neck, forearms, and behind the ears, followed by two sprays
of Perception. Was only going for one spray, but I partially missed with the first spray. Still thought the cologne
was too light, all I could smell were the Perception pheromones. eight hours later, the cologne is coming through
and smells quite nice, though different than from smelling the vial. I wonder if the Perception spray has changed
the scent any.
Was thinking of puting the contents of the vial in an atomizer, but I would have to empty and
clean one out to do so. Maybe I'll consolidate my two pocket Realm atomizers and use one of them. Also have Creed
Himalaya in the same type of vial to try too though.
BTW, guess I should
give a report on the Tweed/Perception combo. The one thing of interest so far was that I had to make some
adjustments on some video projectors that we've recently installed at work. I was asked to do it last week but kept
getting side tracked with other tasks. There are VIPs scheduled to tour today and so I needed to get it done. The
woman in charge of the area went on on on about how she told my boss how she appreciated the hard work I've done
when I apologized for not getting the adjustments done last week.
I think Perception
does change the scent of Green Irish Tweed. I applied the GTW first and then Perception on my neck. I instantly
noticed the smell quickly changed to smelling somewhat like grass. Then a minute or two later the scent returned to
normal. When I got to work I had one of the women smell me to see if she liked the scent. She said she could barely
smell anything. Hours later she walked by and then said that she could finally smell it. Didn't comment on if it
was good or not though- forgot to ask because I was busy. Does GTW take a while to settle in or was it the
Perception which caused the delay... I wonder?
Phersurf: I too am getting way too addicted to all these
colognes. I guess pheromone use is a gateway to cologne use. I'm going to use Amouage Dia today.
That 50 samples for $50 is starting to get realOriginally Posted by goodguy
tempting as it sounds like it covers quite a gamut of colognes/scents, many of which I don't think I have a ghost
of a chance of finding around here. The only problem would be is that if I gave each one a fair trial it could take
me about two years to try them all...
And I'd of course need to pick up a supply of "unscented" 'mone products
to test with them too.
Whew...
Rbt:
You're right, even
the 22 samples I have are going to take me a while to test. But I can reduce the number down to the ones I like best
by scent. Then use those and get opinions from other people I know. I was more hoping to get a cologne that I would
smell and right away say that's the one for me! These colognes are great but I haven't had that reaction yet. Like
I mentioned before, you don't have to get all 50 just get 10 that you think you might like. Read around on the net,
do searches for the ones that interest you and see which ones you think might be right for you.
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