# What is your favorite cologne or perfume? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869 "2012-08-08T15:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/41 "2012-08-09T15:48:54Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > If you’ve never been to a Bath and Body works, I highly suggest it! The perfumes are light, relatively cheap, and the variety is amazing. Think I have at least or 6 'Vanilla \"s on my shelf right now, lol. Vanilla musk, vanilla coconut, vanilla blackberry-something, vanila ‘noir’, which really smells like vanilla extract; there’s more, I think. I’ve also found I really like some of their other scents, too. Plus they have many of the scents in lotions that are good as perfumes on their own; just putting a little on your hands makes you smell quite delicious! One of the best vanilla-y scents is one by a company called Demeter. They are famous for making weird scents: tomato, rubber, gin&tonic, cigar, dirt… It’s endless! The scents really do smell like what they are supposed to smell like and not chemically smelling. They have one called Madeleine - the vanilla cookie. I don’t wear it much because it makes me hungry! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/42 "2012-08-09T16:03:13Z")
No love for Old Spice? 😕☹ ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/43 "2012-08-09T17:01:32Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > No love for Old Spice? 😕☹ What do you think my husband uses? So yeah - there be love for Old Spice. 😃 And thank GOD he does! I had an ex who seriously loved Hai Karate. He was an ex fairly quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/44 "2012-08-09T17:10:39Z")
Eugh, Old Spice reminds me of my dad. I couldn’t date a guy who used it. Or Axe! ew. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/45 "2012-08-09T17:12:50Z")
I used to wear Cool Water as my winter cologne. I no longer wear it since I moved to the South Pacific where there is no winter. My warm weather colognes are Fahrenheit (smells like freshly-cut grass) for casual affairs and Boucheron for dressier events. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/46 "2012-08-09T18:43:44Z")
If I’m by myself, I like L’air Du Temps, Sung, and almost everything Escada puts out in the summer. In winter, I wear Joy exclusively, because the Divemaster is allergic to everything BUT Joy. I can’t wear anything else around him, and Joy is far too heavy to wear in warm months, so I go without perfume when we’re together during the summer. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/47 "2012-08-09T19:12:38Z")
Rachell, Rain was very disappointing. My favorite is Angel by Thierry Mugler. [http://m.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?productId=P9864](http://m.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?productId=P9864) It’s light, but spicy with hints of bergamot and chocolate, and it’s sexy as hell. Random men sniff me and ask what it is if I wear it during the daytime. Normal daytime stuff is usually from fresh. It’s not very oily/perfumey and very light. I love their Sugar scent as well as Cannabis Rose. [http://www.fresh.com/fragrance/](http://www.fresh.com/fragrance/) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/48 "2012-08-09T19:38:51Z")
I also like “Man in a bottle”- some french shit I don’t remember the name of. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/49 "2012-08-09T19:58:31Z")
I love Cool Water too, but it’s my daughter’s scent, so I don’t wear it. Is that odd? I love Pavlova but can’t find it anywhere. I used to collect mini perfumes for the bottles, and the stopper on the Pavlova bottle is a ballerina doing that dying swan thing. It has a clean scent, like Ivory soap. When I wear scent, I wear Ysatis. It’s a bit heavy, so I do that thing where you spray the air and walk into it. ---
**Author:** ![gumpy3885](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@gumpy3885](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gumpy3885)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/50 "2012-08-09T19:58:44Z")
My daily is D&G #11 (La Force). For special occasions, I like Bvlgari Green Tea. I actually got it to wear for my wife who is a huge Stephanie Plum fan and discovered that I really like it. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/51 "2012-08-09T22:04:33Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I love Pavlova but can’t find it anywhere. [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Pavlova-Payot-Women-Toilette-Ounces/dp/B000C218SY)? > [@](#): > > I used to collect mini perfumes for the bottles, and the stopper on the Pavlova bottle is a ballerina doing that dying swan thing. [Makes sense](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW01o9x0Alc). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/52 "2012-08-10T00:57:10Z")
I really like Trussardi Uomo, but I think they have stopped making it. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/53 "2012-08-10T01:20:35Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > 20+ years ago, there weren’t many perfumes that I liked at ALL, branding aside. So when I was in a store once and this lady just smelled SO GOOD I had to ask her what she was wearing, and she said “Obsession”. :smack::smack::dubious::(😛 > > I’ve had a bottle of it ever since, and still really like it. Of course nowadays it’s a LOT easier for me, as a girl, to find what I like, because someone finally figured out that vanilla makes a good perfume. Obsession was one of the first ones I ever got. When I took my first whiff, I could practically hear its molecules snapping right into my receptors, and took that as an indication that it went with me well. It’s heavy, sweet, and very animalistic. Good for wearing to dance parties with live punk rock bands playing. I rarely use it any more—still on my first bottle of eau de parfum! ---
**Author:** ![liquorinthefront](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@liquorinthefront](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liquorinthefront)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/54 "2012-08-10T01:46:52Z")
Sex Panther ---
**Author:** ![claramorena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@claramorena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/claramorena)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/55 "2012-08-11T21:00:53Z")
Tears of my enemies and Gardenia oil. ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/56 "2012-08-11T21:40:15Z")
Flowerbomb by Viktor & Rolf. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/57 "2012-08-11T21:46:43Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Pavlova-Payot-Women-Toilette-Ounces/dp/B000C218SY)? Thank you!!! 😃 I look at Amazon first for everything, but never thought to check for this scent. ::happy dance:: And it’s a bargain! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/58 "2012-08-11T21:56:22Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I use Cool Water. Just wondering what others use/like… Same here. Its good shit. In the past I have used and liked Chanel Platinum and Acqua di Gio as well. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/59 "2012-08-12T04:44:46Z")
[Similar thread from last year](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617336&highlight=McGraw). That one gave me a few ideas. I tried Cool Water by Davidoff, and the wife really liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869/60 "2012-08-12T12:27:09Z")
Either “Love” or “Lust” from Lush. They make those perfumes in eau de toilette, eau de parfum, and as perfume stick. I like the stick best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-cologne-or-perfume/630869.md?page=4)