tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post8792337601614130682..comments2024-03-28T23:25:17.414+00:00Comments on Bonkers about Perfume: Scent Trail SudokuVanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-20858137544288086752010-04-27T13:13:48.004+01:002010-04-27T13:13:48.004+01:00Hi ScentScelf
Erroneous olfactory "uptake&qu...Hi ScentScelf<br /><br />Erroneous olfactory "uptake" for the most part, it must be said, though it seems I am in good company!<br /><br />Your note anagram game sounds fun but fiendish. The notes in so many scents seem to coalesce on my hormonally challenged skin these days - or go "splat" - to use the technical term for this phenomenon.Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-45622532625521472642010-04-27T01:05:37.759+01:002010-04-27T01:05:37.759+01:00Am so late to this one, but just wanted to registe...Am so late to this one, but just wanted to register how much fun I had reading it, nodding vigorously along and chuckling through.<br /><br />SSRI, indeed. For the olfactory "uptake."<br /><br />Later on, I'm going to introduce a corollary game, note anagrams, in which one goes to a perfume counter and lines up bottles with contain the same notes, but in different order. (The ScentScelfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264276265890227820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-7009217866786773062010-04-24T11:49:11.579+01:002010-04-24T11:49:11.579+01:00Hi Andreea,
You are quite right to point out that...Hi Andreea,<br /><br />You are quite right to point out that we may be confused by variations in how a scent performs on other people's skin. And I would like to think I could recognise Jardin Apres La Mousson as well, but I wouldn't bet on it...Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-34376166831287628482010-04-24T11:47:31.632+01:002010-04-24T11:47:31.632+01:00Mals, that is interesting that you mention ID-ing ...Mals, that is interesting that you mention ID-ing perfumes by note rather than naming them, for I was presented with just such a challenge the other night. The conversation went something like this:<br /><br />Friend: "Okay, then, so what am I wearing?"<br />Me: "Oh no, this is the very thing I have just been writing about on my blog as being really tricky for me!"<br />Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-46856322092499260092010-04-23T09:38:26.970+01:002010-04-23T09:38:26.970+01:00There is another challenge: The perfumes smell dif...There is another challenge: The perfumes smell different on different people. I remember some Osmanthus scents, which I could not stand to smell - not on my skin, not on a card, not at all, to ask an newly-born perfumista what she is wearing that smells so nice and somehow peaceful - it was Osmathus Yunnan, which I detected as so called catpee. It was rather magnifique on her.<br /><br />What I Andreeahttp://mybeautyblog.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-64074548073053759002010-04-22T15:37:12.386+01:002010-04-22T15:37:12.386+01:00Unless I am particularly familiar with a fragrance...Unless I am particularly familiar with a fragrance - have worn it myself, or a close friend has worn it repeatedly - I can't identify a random scent either. I'd actually be more likely to identify notes IN the scent. Luckily, people don't challenge me often.<br /><br />I won't yank your perfumista card if you won't yank mine... and you're right, Coco and Opium smell veryMals86https://www.blogger.com/profile/09757305840611623427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-21744654823644076232010-04-22T11:30:16.941+01:002010-04-22T11:30:16.941+01:00Ines, I do think of you as a walking dictionary - ...Ines, I do think of you as a walking dictionary - your command of English is most impressive! : - )<br /><br />I am not doing so well with my one word for mosquito bite (and that was technically Serbian...), although I would recognise the Croatian for "toll" (on your very fine network of motorways) if I saw it again. It was rather a frequent occurrence!Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-13182346419953672052010-04-22T11:24:27.190+01:002010-04-22T11:24:27.190+01:00Hey, Scentimentalist - you are doing better than m...Hey, Scentimentalist - you are doing better than me even to ID three scents correctly on a repeat basis! And that Reese Witherspoon was a complete curved ball...Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-18075064545378502642010-04-22T09:23:45.172+01:002010-04-22T09:23:45.172+01:00Honestly, I'm really not worried about that. o...Honestly, I'm really not worried about that. or about the fact that for some reason, my friends who know of my obsession seem to think I know what each of the scents found in stores here smells like...<br />I get that a lot in other situations as well - for some reason people think of me as a walking dictionary just because I studied English language. <br />For some reason, when people see Ineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12119611878721554991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-64358784652337664112010-04-21T22:13:08.692+01:002010-04-21T22:13:08.692+01:00I'm hit and miss. I can get the really obvious...I'm hit and miss. I can get the really obvious ones: Calvin Klein Eternity, JPG Classique, Amarige (honk, honk). And then my workmates get peeved, and start coming to the office in really obscure stuff, and thrusting their wrists under my nose and saying: 'So, what's this one, then?' One colleague is hell-bent on exposing me as a fraud, and she's doing pretty well, so far: I The Scentimentalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01726819132736339666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-77059255520338849132010-04-21T21:34:01.134+01:002010-04-21T21:34:01.134+01:00Phew, thanks Musette, I find that reassuring to he...Phew, thanks Musette, I find that reassuring to hear! And it is exactly as you say - many scents smell sooo familiar to me - yet remain elusively nameless. : - )Vanessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847145282522572183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4026359168982468373.post-56876038548575218362010-04-21T20:54:55.178+01:002010-04-21T20:54:55.178+01:00Don't feel bad - I think there are tons of per...Don't feel bad - I think there are tons of perfumistas out there who can't identify a random scent - I definitely can't. It's one of those "dang. I,I,I...I KNOW that!"......uh, what is it?" things. <br /><br /><br />xoMusettehttp://www.bearboring.comnoreply@blogger.com