Comments on: Fragrance concentrations: sorting it all out ~ perfumista tip

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:52:16 +0000

In reply to Celestia. I know what you mean about the splash bottles! When I have one (usually something vintage), I almost always transfer some of its contents to an atomizer. It's just so much easy to wear.

By: Celestia

Celestia — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:32:29 +0000

I could never figure out the appeal of a cologne or EDT pour because I hated having to pour the juice down my neck in rivulets. I now know that pours appeal to those who wear contacts and don’t want the light mist in their eyes. Makes sense. I suppose there are also those who prefer not to breathe in that mist directly and just apply right to the skin away from the nose.
Just as a slight aside from the topic, why is it that when a fragrance goes off, it smells terrible and the smell lasts and lasts on your skin? This seems to be regardless of concentration but most mysteriously, all fragrances smell identical when they go off!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:37:56 +0000

In reply to Celestia. You put forward a lot of ideas to ponder in your comment! I'd agree that people like lighter fragrances more now, except that seems to be more true in concept than in practice. Those whopper patchouli-fruit-white flower things seem to hold a lot of market share. It's interesting what you say, too, about how easy sprays are, and of course I wonder, too, how much the perfume market changed when women started buying more of their own perfume.

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:35:18 +0000

In reply to Tama. I'd love to know what you think of them when you try them! The parfum is absolutely gorgeous, but it doesn't last particularly long or have much sillage. The EdT is a lot more playful.

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:34:21 +0000

In reply to missie sue. Are you kidding? Dreaming is absolutely necessary!

By: missie sue

missie sue — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:24:53 +0000

In reply to Angela. One can dream!

By: Celestia

Celestia — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:07:49 +0000

Kenzo Flower comes in Le Parfum which is actually an EDP. Try explaining that to a customer who is not a perfumista.
I love G of the Sea but it disappears in seconds. I would always spring for the extra, say $20, to buy a fragrance in EDP, if it existed. The aquatics category that I love rarely comes in higher concentrations, let alone an extrait. Ocean Dream did though! The fragrances I like almost invariably come in a frosted bottle and are EDT flankers of the original concept.
Since fragrances are now shunned in many environments, perhaps that’s why perfumes are too deep to be worn, and EDP and EDT sprays have replaced the ritual of the dab because it’s quicker. The days when men bought the pure perfume for their ladies seem to have evaporated. Is it the cost? Is it because many women now buy their own fragrance?

By: Tama

Tama — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:21:45 +0000

Thanks for that! It can get a bit confusing when you think that buying an EDT will get you just a lighter version of an EDP – I know salespeople who tried to tell me the EDT of Angel was just a lighter Angel, and I had to set them straight – it has the bones of Angel but is not the same perfume.

I bought Baiser Vole EDP after one sniff when it first came out – it is gorgeous, but now of course I have to try all of them.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:11:03 +0000

In reply to Cybele. In the end, I guess the only way to know which formulations are going to be your favorites is to test them! As your comment shows, it really can vary by fragrance.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:09:49 +0000

In reply to Dilana. I can see that being true, too, that traditionally the extrait was the "original" version of the fragrance, the one going to market. I just had the mental image of all those beautiful old extrait bottles. They were so glamorous, and often so creative.