Have you ever wondered just how popular the perfume that your wearing is? I recently found out/discovered that a much older relative is wearing the same perfume as me. I think in that moment I realized I might be slipping into old age too early. (Not that old is bad. It’s just, well older than I thought I would be).
I was shocked that someone I knew would also be wearing “blah blah”(omit perfume name here, so said relative doesn’t get offended I called her old). When buying popular brands it never occurred to me that one day I would be walking past someone who smelt just like me.
So is your perfume just a cliché or a commonness as you walk down the street? Is your lasting impression the same smell 1000 other woman leave? Sure it’s better than leaving the smell of gastric upset after too many lattes at lunchtime but does your scent really define YOU?
I have recently gone back to my youthful days when I would use essential oils
for everything including perfume. So the scent I leave behind these days is usually peppermint for daily headaches (ironically it could be caused by too much peppermint) Or Ylang Ylang which I literally bathe in with my homemade face-wash.
What is your scent? Is it on the top 10 list? (comment below) Names such as Poison, Hugo, Envy, CK one, 212 sexy – I have actually never heard of. But I do live in a slight bubble called “2 children under 6”. Full top ten list here.
Want to stand out from the crowd? Then check out these links:
How to make your own perfume on Rookiemag.
Guide to Blending Essential oils for DIY perfume.
I didn’t know that Opium was still being produced. It was the scent of my early 20’s.
When I was a little girl I loved Youth Dew by Estee Lauder because my favorite Great Aunt wore it and used the powder.
I decided that I would wear it too “when I got old, old like 50.” Well, I’m 53 now and still haven’t taken the complete plunge. I do enjoy the soap.
Link to “Top 10 Perfumes” doesn’t work ….
I used to love Chole’, but that was until a lady walked by me, it seemed she bathed in the stuff. The problem seems to lean towards women who don’t understand how to use perfume vs colognes. Now, I use perfumed oils from Arabic countries. They seem to suit me better and I find that now I am one of a few rather than one of many with the same fragrance.
My problem is I find a scent I love and they quit making it! I loved Cerissa, Pure by Alfred Wang, and a real oldie (Heaven) I wore in my late teens and early 20s.
However, we have a store (Makes Scents) that allows you to create your own perfume and I finally created one that I love and no one else has!
there was a dior perfume I got as a sample several years ago that I loved. Until one day my sis and I walked passed this lady in her 50’s wearing the same perfume — quite liberally too — and I felt just the same thing. It made me feel old and I wanted a 20-something perfume that fit my age.
I actually don’t have a special perfume right now. Instead I’ve been using up some samples/decants of niche perfumes bought from company specializing in decanting such perfumes. It’s much more expensive per drop, but on the other hand you get to smell and wear scents that would be way too expensive to buy a whole bottle of. And it’s nice to find some less common scents too, of cause — Who doesn’t want to be unique, even in the choice of scents to wear? I get to test out scents I can’t find near where I live (not many places to go in the countryside).
When I was a teenager, it was Love’s Lemon, but not able to find it any more. Now I am smitten with Marc Jacob’s Daisy! And a close 2nd is Avon’s Rare Pearls. That is more of my price range.
Thanks for letting us know Carole. We have now fixed it.