Get a hold of "The Bombshell Manual of Style".  It has a whole chapter on perfume and gives the history and descriptions of several classic perfumes and some I've never heard of before.  That's how I found several that I love!  Good perfume is worth the money and usually a little goes a long way!

I got the book, and it wasn't all that helpful to me.  Guess I'm not the "bombshell" type.

My signature scent?  Olay body wash for work, or Jessica McClintock for going out.   JMC is a light scent of lily of the valley, a bit of rose.  It's fresh and clean..... and I've never met another woman that wears it.

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Fifi Chachnil.

it smells heavenly and comes in the cutest bottles ever.

I wear a gardenia perfume, and sometimes Quelques Fleurs or Tabu.

I wore Gardenia Passion by Annick Goutal for my wedding and love it in the summertime&#33;

Stella McCartney&#39;s signature fragrance is really nice. Roses, more than anything, but it&#39;s light. It has a kind of old-fashioned feel about it.

Any scent advice for us boys? I&#39;ve wanted to try something that isn&#39;t Old Spice.
(I recall another thread on the subject, but at the time being I&#39;m a bit too lazy to search)

I found a great scent but it is from Victoria Serect which I loathe, but gosh, it smells so wonderful. It&#39;s called Heavenly and it has a very crisp clean laundry on the line sort of smell. So light and sweet.  It almost made me forget what a horrid, awful store I was purchasing it from&#33;

I have a signature scent, but it&#39;s something I&#39;ve been making for years. I use an almond oil base and add essential oils: rose, vanilla, cherry and a touch of cinnamon. I always get compliments and people asking where they can get it.

It&#39;s super easy, I just mix it in a glass bottle that has a dropper. You just sniff it as it goes, remembering that the scents will blend a little more over time, and when it&#39;s ready, you can transfer some via dropper into one of those glass tubes that has a little roller on the end so you can cap that and keep it in your purse.

I get the glass bottles at health food stores or places that sell a lot of floofy oils and candles, and the roller tube is just something that used to have perfume in it that was used up. Washed it out good, and it&#39;s perfect for the oils.

You can have so many scents to work with. Essential oils can be pricey or not depending on where you go, and some more than others but places like health food stores usually carry them.

And as for the base, I like the subtle scent that almond oil already carries. Other than that, I like using grapeseed oil or jojoba oil, which is technically a wax and might be called jojoba wax.

The blend I make tends to smell like candy, but I can make it a little more sophisticated by adding more rose, less vanilla and a little more cinnamon.

For practice, you can dab the oil with swabs onto paper and see how the scents mix before pouring them into a base.

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Any scent advice for us boys? I&#39;ve wanted to try something that isn&#39;t Old Spice.
(I recall another thread on the subject, but at the time being I&#39;m a bit too lazy to search)

My signatures are Chanel Coco at night and Coco Mademoiselle for the day/office.  I&#39;ve been wearing Coco for over 13 years. 

I&#39;ve got the Bombshell Manual of Style.  I love that book and it&#39;s so me to a T&#33;&#33;&#33;