Thread: Scents -- what do women like?

In my experience, it's also about your own body oils. It's a chemical reaction. It was explained to me a while ago when buying cologne. When a scent "goes green" (not a colour) on your skin, the scent changes. When your body chemicals match the scent, the scent won't change.

This is why you can wear one, and it's gone in twenty minutes, and other scents will stay with you all day. I can't wear anything with "spice", so anything in the sporty category, etc. But if i put on something with citrus undertones, it lasts all day. At first, I didn't give this much credence, but I've experimented with spicy/sporty/citrus, etc, and I consistently get favourable female reviews from citrus, and spicy colognes end up making me smell odd.

Just my two cents.

Maxi

Lucky me, I used to live round the corner from Herzlich Willkommen! - The Different Scent:

An all time favourite is Washington Tremlett's "mp/h". Then "Duc der Vervins". Then Matthias Biehl Parfumkunstwerke "mb02". Top notch stuff, and very unique. Certainly less of crowd pleasers than Armani's "Code", but then again, I do not really monodimensional scents. For the summer, I also have Profumi dei Forte "Tirrenico". Eaux de parfum are simply good stuff.

i always get complements when wearing bay rum.. a few people have told me my brylcreem smells like a fresh changed diaper and everyone loves the smell of the clove cigarettes i smoke..

as far as it all combined.. there is no doubt that i leave my mark wherever i go.. people constantly tell me how their pillow or blanket or couch or car or whatever still smells like me..

I like Dominca Bay Rum. My wife howerver says I smell like that orange that we stuck with a few dozen cloves to make an air freshener as a gift for our moms when we were kids.

I wear it anyhow.

I'm a bay rum guy and am lucky enough to have a wife that loves everything I use, my aftershaves, soaps, everything, even down to the Mama Bears Aromatic Pipe Tobacco soap. She even has her own bottle of Ogallala Bay Rum cologne sitting on her shelf in her bathroom .

I'm the Old Spice man and have not heard praises nor compliments from the first lady here. Every now and then i use L'Occitane, Eau de Baux, as it seems to be the aftershave that milady likes a lot.

I recently got a decant of Creed Green Irish Tweed, and wore it to a family function. I have never gotten so many compliments on my cologne.... ever! I'm saving up for a big bottle now.
In my very, very limited experience, GIT is the most captivating scent I have ever smelled - bar none. When I first sprayed it on, I just couldn't quit smelling myself. I think I would bathe in this stuff if I could.