How do you smell? (This is not an ILTMI question, I promise.)

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You ILS posters seem like a knowledgeable and interesting lot, and I bet you all smell great, so:

1. Do you have a signature scent?
1a. If so, what?
1b. How did you decide what your signature scent would be?
1c. If not, why not?

she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 10 August 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

I was thinking I would like to be the kind of person who always smells like something specific, especially because I have a tendency to form very strong olfactory associations, but I don't know how to go about finding a perfume/cologne/whatev that will smell good on me. Also a lot of perfumes give me a raging headache.

It's totally old lady of me, but I've gone through cold weather phases of wearing Cinnabar from Este Lauder since I was in high school, but it's too heavy to wear all the time and sometimes I am just not feeling it.

she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 10 August 2009 12:29 (sixteen years ago)

i have a lot of sensitivities these days, so i mostly avoid scents. some of my lotions are scented though...i like vanilla especially, as long as it's not too warm/sweet of a scent.

i've found that fragrances vanish on me very very quickly, so it seems pointless to find a scent that smells nice because it's gone within an hour. there was a lush scent that i really loved...flying fox. but it disappeared on me too quickly, so i traded it on makeupalley. doesn't look like they carry the scent anymore.

it's really weird how difft smells translate on difft people. my roommate at my old apartment wore a scent that was very distinctive, but that i didn't recognize til i saw the bottle. it was a fragrance i'd worn all during college. it smelled unrecognizable (but pretty) on her.

JuliaA, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:19 (sixteen years ago)


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