There’s one out there I’ve been stalking for at least a decade. I can’t figure out what it is. It leaves a trail of scent I can only describe as a freshly opened box of fruit loops. A really bright, light fruity scent. If anybody knows what it is, please tell me!
KissMyFace has a hand lotion with grapefruit and bergamot that supposedly smells just like fruit loops. I suspect it’s the bergamot smell you’re looking for. Hope that helps find something you like, maybe even the exact one
I wear Egoiste Platinum by Chanel. It is a great scent. I love cologne but I don’t know what Terre d’Hermes smells like. I may order some based on that recommendation.
Samsara by Guerlain. I don’t wear perfume to work, though, and it’s really too heavy for daytime wear anyway. Plus it gives me a headache if I wear it for more than a couple hours. But I have a bottle that I use on dates, and occasionally when I need a weekend pick-me-up.
For daytime wear, I usually pick out a random vanilla or flowery-scented body spray (the Bodycology line at Meijer is pretty good, they’re a poor-woman’s Bath and Body Works). Body sprays are lighter and less cloying than perfume, and don’t give me headaches.
If anyone knows of anything that smells like actual petrichor or rain, please let me know! I’ve been wanting to try out Demeter’s Rain to see how faithful it is to the actual scent.
I used to like Red but I guess they stopped making it. Bath and Body Works is great, so many great scents! I had a Honeysuckle something from there but a guest liberated it and I couldn’t find it again. Latest is Summer Vanilla (with coconut.) Almost everytime I go out somebody asks what I’m wearing. My choice for a man, English Leather. I guess that dates me but it makes me go weak in the knees.
None. I am apparently sensitive to some substance used in the majority of artificial scents, including perfumes & colognes because it all smells harshly chemical to me and makes my nose and throat burn in any concentration. Scented shampoos, body washes and scented kleenex also give me that reaction. Scented candles and chapstick smell nice though; they must lack whatever-it-is that gets to me.
Caron’s Narcisse Noir–over a century old–has been my favorite for many years. I loved the old formulation more but I think one reason for the change was to avoid animal cruelty.
Donna Karan’s Black Cashmere is amazingly wonderful for a modern designer fragrance but has gotten very expensive. I did splurge on *Tubéreuse Criminelle *after it became one of the Serge Lutens fragrances that did not require a trip to Paris; it begins shockingly but calms down to a lovely floral.
Some of the more herbal Demeter fragrances are good for summer wear. And I risk the occasional few bucks (& perhaps my sanity) at the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab–Miskatonic University is much nicer than it sounds…
I have a lot of perfumes but this is my daily wear one. It’s light and smells so nice. When people do smell it they always ask what it is. I sometimes run a little of the solid perfume in my hair.
The only one I like is the original. None of the offshoots remotely smell like it, IMO.
I also like Jo Maline’s nectarine blossom one.
These are the only two I’ve ever purchased more than one bottle of.
Philosophy’s Pure Grace. Smells like soap and water - very light and fresh. It’s not the kind of perfume that will leave a cloud of stink behind me, which I love.