Cold weather perfumes - Obsession by Calvin Klein, Black Orchid by Tom Ford. Warm weather perfumes - Manifesto by Isabella Rossellini, Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden.
All four have been around for years, I try samples of new smells most years, but inevitably end up returning, at least to my cold weather favourites.
The first time each year I use Obsession, it instantly conjures up good memories, smells like Christmas, night's out, parties, getting drunk, laughter, generally getting "dressed up" and having a good time.
I first smelt Black Orchid on a man, thought it an amazing smell, very very sexy.
I can't remember when/why I first tried Manifesto, possibly/probably it was on special offer somewhere. It's no longer produced, it does appear on online sites, but reviews are inevitably bad. I assume it's very old stock, been badly stored or it's fake.
I was given Green Tea as a gift by my son's then girlfriend, years ago, and I liked it straight away. It's cheap and easy to find.
If anyone is keen to try something different, I recommend any of the Escentric Molecules range, they're known as the anti-fragrance fragrance. Very individual on each person, the first time I smelt one of them on a man, I just wanted to keep sniffing him (tbh, I wanted to lick him). Slightly embarrassing to say the least, given it was in a queue in Tesco, and he was nearly young enough to be my g'son. He just smelt amazingly good, almost like all the nicest smells in the world added together, really hard to describe. If I smell someone a bit different, I offer a compliment (as I did with the young man in Tesco) and ask what they're wearing, and it's very often one of the EM range.
