Gilg, seen as you're ever so good on the perfume front, do you know very much about pheromone sprays? Is it all bollocks?

^^^ Prolly the authority on the subject.

I purchased the Bvlgari Blv.  I like it quite a bit.  It is subtle and very clean smelling--perhaps a bit effiminate as most of the Bvlgari sents tend to be--but worth it. 

I also received my spray decant of the "discontinued" version of the Creed Orange Spice.  That is nice as well. However there is some lingering after scent which is less than completely pleasing--a bit of a distraction.  Wondering if it is the same with the newer version.

Ok.  I purchased the Creed Orange Spice ( ^^ referenced above - the Discontinued version) from the Perfumed Court.  Props to the ladies for speedy delivery and delivering precisely what I requested.  Creed Orange Spice is not very Orangey nor is it, at first, very Spicey.  In fact I could call it Screed Orange Spice as comes on with a definitive (top note) odor of a cat's liter box.  Underneath -  there are definitely some very interesting things going on.  It settles down rather quickly, within the hour it begins to take on a very nice, almost luxorious, clean, grandfatherly pipey scent.  The ingredients mix well at this point and continues as the body warms up.  You don't really notice the spice for a number of hours.  All in all, I really enjoy the scent but you need to be prepared to deal with the intial scatological overtones.

G-

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Alas! I suppose I can see the Dial connection, it is certainly soapy. Perhaps it will grow on you, or you can use it on a domestic animal. If you don't like this, then you really won't like Alfred Sung Homme or Paco Rabanne. G- I think you might have refined, non-brutish taste in cologne!

On that note I've been trying Yves Saint Laurent pour Homme Concentree. Kind of a mixture of nasty animalic musk, fresh lemon, and cedar. Dressy and formal, but also a tiny bit depraved, like our own Buffy.

I'm using the Sung Homme a bit. I think it makes me smell, slightly animal musky but sophisticated and restrained albeit a restrained ape crossed with a bonobo tendency. I imagine it's a faint but solid aroma that makes women want to get closer without being noticed to get a decent whiff.

The trouble is after I squirt it on and smell the first few seconds of stale kerosene and perhaps mothballs,,,,, I can never smell it agin. It's the same for almost anything I slap on. Very occasionally at night I'll catch a small whiff that I think smells just how I imagine. How do you, or how does one, smell what others smell?

The last few pages of SF's WAYW thread have focused on cologne. I was not surprised to discover that the SF iGentry's taste in perfume is at least as banal and bad as their taste in clothing:
http://www.styleforum.net/t/234255/hof-what-are-you-wearing-right-now-part-iii/27255

They mention a few classics (Guerlain vetiver, and Green Irish Tweed, and Polo). They appear to have selected the rest based on price (high), technical quality (bad) and blandness (pronounced). Some pour soul recommends Jo Malone, a line of pretentiously-named fragrances that aspires in vain to smell like a newly-opened J. Crew store. Spoo wears Creed Original Santal, which has the advantages of being slightly harder to find than GIT and smelling exactly like Joop! (available at CVS). Some Comme des Garcons scents make an appearance, which makes sense because the CDG perfume aesthetic is to render the synthetic idiocies of modern life into scent form. The rest of the choices are too boring or inessential to repeat.

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fxh one day I will visit Australia and you and I will go to a swanky restaurant (I assume Outback Steakhouse is the leading restaurant there) and we will wear delightful man-of-the-people colognes and all the ladies will swoon.

G- I think you are being too harsh on the ol' Green Irish Tweed - the bottle I have is unbelievably strong and also has a subtle delicacy that emerges over time. The violet leaf, which announces itself like a hissing gas and doesn't let up for twelve hours, is spectacular. In my opinion it deserves its popularity, though it's not the greatest cologne in history, and it has been so widely copied that it retroactively smells a little generic. I will have to try Aventus (I think Luca Turin derides its faux-Latin name, but Turin has a major hard on for Creed and is not to be trusted on the subject).

I have sampled a great number of Polo scents and found them all quite banal. Perfume iGents venerate the original Polo, in the green bottle, but to me it smells like pine-sol, only not as good. Their more recent offerings (like the "Big Pony" line) are awful.

Tread carefully, I seem to remember that Terre de Hermes has come in for a slamming on here previously.

I certainly slammed it - to me it smelled like toothpaste in an old copper pot. But perhaps I'm missing something.