Perfume - what are your favourites?

Current favourite is Elizabeth Arden 5th Avenue. I bought it a couple of tears ago in Duty Free and it's been my favourite ever since.
Not easy to get, but has undertones of Lilley of the valley.

My extravagance is 'Diorissimo, it smells of lily of the valley.

My mother always wore Soir de Paris. I've heard it's been relaunched, so am going to buy some to remember her by. They do say scent is the most powerful sense, don't they?

My mum always wore that as well; I think it was actual perfume Maggiemaybe in tiny little blue bottles, rather than the cologne-type sprays we get nowadays.

Jo Malone LimeBasil and Mandarin for me and I also like her Grapefruit one.

Snap Gagagran. I like sharp fruity smells. Hate things like Opium

My favourite at the moment is Olympea by Paco Rabanne it's not overpowering quite light and summery.

I hate all perfumes except very gentle, delicate flower perfumes. Natural ones. In flowers. Anything that comes out of a bottle or a bar of soap or whatever: YUCK!

Opium and Obsession.
I bought Jean Paul Gaultier Classique and I was disappointed as I love their aftershave on my husband.

My all time favourite is Azuree by Estée Lauder...it's one of the classics, ...I've been buying it for 38years lol...also I like opium and the opium black...

Marc Jacob's Daisy or Chanel 5 now. Perfumes I wore and enjoyed for years don't seem to suit me anymore, so I've got several bottles of half used perfume that I won't use. What do others do with their half used bottles?

Well, goodness knows where that post went!

I have different perfumes for seasons, for example when I had a proper, booted and suited job, my summer choice was Cristalle by Dior.

I also think that there are daytime and evening scents, the two that were always remarked on (by men, actually, but those I was meeting professionally, and please realise that was in a sort of corporate way, oh god that might seem even worse, I promise I was not in any way misbehaving )

Anyway, the daytime one was Dioressence (sort of soft, powdery smell, totally different from the other Dior scents with slightly similar names)

The evening one was Cinnabar, by Ester Lauder.

PS I love Mitsouko, by Guerlain, wore it for years, but sadly Mr P doesn't like it. He buys me Opium.

Dioressence was a favourite of mine phoenix , not used it for a long time. Might toddle off and mooch around the John Lewis perfume counters later this week and see if it still suits me. Thanks for the reminder.

For summer I like Chanel Chance Eau Fraiche.

In winter I've been wearing a version of Chloe but this year I might try one of the new Opiums. I used to wear it a lot but then it got to seem old-fashioned. I'll be interested to try the new version.

My all-time favourite is Ferre by Ferre but it's discontinued now.

I used to like Aqua Manda. That was discontinued. But I have recently seen it online. I am wary of buying it though. Will it still be the same and will I still like it? When I was young I also liked Charlie.

I only like Chanel or Escentric Molecules 01

Anything else just gives me a headache or I get quickly fed up of the smell

But I really would like to find something else that I would actually like, when I was younger I loved Just Musk

For some people it is shoes or handbags, for me a good perfume is my idea of a touch of luxury. The ones I keep returning to are J'Adore (Dior) and Cinema (Estee Lauder).
And Channel no.5. I love a quality perfume that lingers on scarves and cardigans the day after. I bought 2 Paul Smith fragrances in a summer sale this year, but find these are lighter and don't last the day.

I too wear no. 15 by Liz Earle it smells exotic to me and I feel as if I have just come out of the casbah

For those, like me, who love Jo Malone (English Pear and Freesia is another favourite) my DD tells me that Aldi are selling blatant copies of their candles. Half of me thoroughly disapproves of this, the other half will no doubt drag me there, as I could never afford the real thing.

A friend of mine had to leave one of the luxury candles at airport security - she had bought it as a wedding present. She was assured it would be destroyed, which cheered her up no end.

Perfume brings on a migraine for me but have found I can wear a small amount of Jo Malone with no ill effects ! Not sure why perfume does this , anyone else have the same happen ?

Maggiemay - I bought the candle (Jo Malone type) from Aldi but could hardly smell any fragrance when I lit it .

Whatever perfume I wear seems to vanish quickly ( to me, anyway although maybe others can detect it.)
Chanel 5 is always lovely but I am using Lovely by Sarah Jessica Parker ( well, she gives her name to it) which is rather nice for daytime.

Agent Provocateur for me. It used to be Chanel No 5, Oscar de la Renta, or Van Cleef & Arpels First.