Perfume recommendations

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Originally Posted by Nomi

Do you know that she likes perfume to begin with? I can't stand the shit. I've had Curve and some other department-store shit from my aunt every year and I've told her that I dislike perfume but she keeps buying it for me thinking 'oh no you'll love this one' or something.

I also don't do makeup outside of some of that cover-crap if I have a bad pimple, that's about it. Never bothered with the stuff. They're crappy as gifts anyway.

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Good show. Beauty comes from the body, not face paint and flowery-smelling liquid.

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Originally Posted by Frito

On a similar note, make sure she doesn't spray any of it on any part of her body that you intend to lick. Burns like the dickens.

Also, Curve smells pretty good.

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Parts of the body I intend to lick = whole body

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

Parts of the body I intend to lick = whole body

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toss the salad imo

Asshole licker.

I just spent a while last night finding a scent for my girl for xmas. Settled on Burberry Brit. Smelled really nice.

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Originally Posted by D_N_G

toss the salad

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Perfume is a dodgy gift to get right if you don't know specifically what the girl likes. And I don't even mean brand, though most girls who wear perfume tend to be fairly brand faithful.

Most perfumes can be categorized as powdery, floral, fruity, spicey or musky. Sometimes those are combined. Then there's subsets. How sweet? How clean? How citrusy? How spicey? Does it have too clinical a smell (too alcoholy)?

If you don't know what the girl likes, you could go horribly wrong. Many girls who like sweeter fragrances can't stand something musky or spicey. Younger girls/women tend to stay away from fragrances that are too powdery or too floral. Some people have a big turn off if they smell like something sweet to eat (ie. candy). Sporty people seem to like clean fragrances a lot.

Then there's the problem of 1) most of the time the perfume doesn't smell the same right after spraying a sample as it will an hour later, when it settles, and 2) lots of time, a person's physical make-up chemically makes some fragrances good and some not, so a nice smelling fragrance in the store might not be as nice on the person.

I tend to like a really clean smell and it's hard to go wrong with it as a gift. Vera Wang's normal fragrance is pretty sophisticated, is good for young 20-somethings, isn't too sweet, is clean, and has enough of a reputation to earn you points for at least being thoughtful in your choice. It's middle of the road enough fragrance-wise (I mean in those categories listed above, not in quality of smell, which it excels in) and nice enough reputation-wise that you're bound to please more women buying it than not please them.

But really, you probably shouldn't buy her perfume if you don't know a specific brand she likes. Otherwise, you need to have some idea of this other stuff.

Why do girls wear makeup and perfume?
Because they're ugly and they smell bad.

That's all I have to offer. All I sorta know is a certain cologne (Very Sexy from Victoria's Secret) which was purchased for me by someone I was sleeping with a long time ago and have also gotten compliments on from other women. If left to fend for myself I would probably find only things other people hate and thus will also never purchase perfume for a female.

It's easier to buy her birth control pills. It's a two-way gift.

Fuck her ass instead.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

Good show. Beauty comes from the body, not face paint and flowery-smelling liquid.

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...Yeah. I just think that most perfume smells like shit and I'm too lazy to bother with makeup.