Yesterday we went out for dinner (actually it was street food, eaten in a shelter on the seafront 😂) and to celebrate the occasion I spritzed on a bit of perfume. Similarly my husband used an expensive aftershave (usually he only bothers for weddings and funerals).
Anyway, it got me thinking. It takes me a couple of years to get through a bottle of perfume, I’ve got lots of it (mostly gifts from family and friends) and it’s all good stuff. So I have decided that (if I can remember) I’m going to wear perfume every day!!
Today I’m in my scruffy painting smock, but if this was smellyvision you would smelling Jo Malone’s Pear and Freesia. 😂
I wear Chanel no 5 most days. I just love how it smells on me and I've used it for years. Tried others but always come back to it. In the 70s I wore Vent Vert by Balmain but I think it was discontinued a long time ago.
Almost every day. I like Rive Gauche and Coco Mademoiselle but my current love is Tom Ford's Velvet Orchid. One friend wore the same fragrance always. So much did we associate it with her that one of my children once said "Auntie J's here !" on a holiday ferry, noticing it on someone nearby.
Everyday. It's one of the great pleasures of my life. I use a mid-range perfume from the Fragonard range all the time as a sort of body spray but I have also the classic fragrances like L'Air du Temps , Oscar de la Renta and Miss Dior for serious use. As others have said , I feel undressed without it.
I wear Chanel No 5 everyday. Partly because I like it and partly out of nostalgia as my late mother and grandmother also wore it. I have had some pretty difficult health issues and have found that a spritz of perfume always makes me feel better.
My Obsession is now gifted (Christmas, Birthday and Mother’s Day) from the DDs Daddima. I think I’ve worn it from 1985 when it first came out. I’ve had dalliances with Jo Malone a few years ago, but just CK now and every day. Over the years, they’ve dropped all the ‘trimmings’ but last Christmas the DDs found gifts sets with body lotion and shower gel from Chemist Direct. They always do some research and pay around £25 a bottle. I think I paid more than that myself last Century!
Viktor and Rolf Flower bomb everyday a little spray going out I have the small travel spray for my hand bag. I love this perfume it lasts me about 6 months.
I wear perfume most days . My daytime one is oud rose by a local company. It’s a roll on oil and lasts ages. My other perfumes are all Jo Malone . Pomegranate noir , tuberose and Angelica , and dark amber and ginger lily . The only time I don’t wear perfume is on holiday because it attract the mossies .
Every day - CK Obsession. I get through 3 bottles a year.
I’ve just bought a bottle on a special offer from Chemist Direct, I haven’t seen it for years. I wear perfume every day, usually Agent Provocateur, but the Obsession will be a wee change.
I don't wear it in the house, but I always do when I go out and when I'm on a Zoom/Teams call. I'm not sure why, but maybe it makes me remember I'm 'on stage' in a similar way to being at work.
Every day. I wear perfume according to my mood and the weather, anything from Molton Brown to Jo Malone and a recent addition a Dior perfume from the private collection.
JamesandJon - that as well, Aqua Manda, loved it, earlier teens, Youth Dew a bit later on, maybe when a Saturday job kicked in, the smell always evokes that time in my life if I catch a waft of it now.
I wear perfume every day in or out. I like Clarins Eau Dynamisante, Calvin Klein Euphoria and also CK Euphoria Gold. Sometimes I just have a squirt of some cheap Avon stuff I bought to make up an order but it’s light and fresh.
Everyday, it's part of getting dressed. My daily is Calvin Klein Euphoria. For special days I have one I buy on line from a French perfumier, Fragonard. I visited their place when I was on holiday in South of France some years ago. Its gorgeous
Ah "Youth Dew" the epitome of sophistication when I was a teenager, the female equivalent of Brut, the perfume we danced around our handbags to when out top ranking
I love expensive Oud based scents and don't wear them everyday . My favourite is Halfeti . Otherwise Shalimar is an old favourite . It smells of lavender and talcum powder . I like Diorissimo in Spring as it has a light fresh scent . In the Autumn I love Knowing - to me it's Autumnal , rich and amber smelling . At Christmas , I might wear something that reminds me of spices . I can never recall whether it's Red Door or Red . Normally, after a bath I spray an affordable cologne - Yardley or Marks and Spencers are nice .