perfume - to buy or be given

I like to buy my own perfume, cos I know what I like. Although I appreciate being given a Jo Malone product. I like Channel No. 5 a lot I think it's a classic. I'm also very fond of Hermes Eau de Merveilles. As much as I hate Amazon, I sometimes go there for non available perfumes, I recently bought Femme by Rochas which I loved years ago and is quite reasonably priced. Another, as metioned by Janeainsworth, Jolie Madame, I loved it too, is no longer available, but it can be bought on Amazon but at a very extortionate price which sadly is just too much, for me at any rate.

And always get DH to buy me 3 bottles each Christmas which makes us both happy!

Always wear Lou Lou by Cacharel :-)

The one I used to love (as did most of my female relatives) was Ma Griffe which sometimes turns up on Ebay, but could be years old, having languished in a drawer for its whole life.

I bought my self a large bottle of Opium recently as I had run out of perfume and there wasn't a birthday or Christmas in sight so its part of my kit I wear it perfume every day. Yesterday I bought myself some Paris because I had done all the Christmas shopping within budget so I fancied a treat. Usually DH buys me perfume for my birthday and Christmas he favours Chanel No5 which I always love but this year I have left a little hint about Black Opium and a Jo Malone Lime and Basil.

Molecules 01
Wear everyday
And at least once a day a get a comment about how lovely it is
( usually be handsome strangers )

I usually lust over a perfume for ages, keep spraying a bit in Debenhams (pretending it's first time I've tested it) then when I'm at airport buy myself gorgeous scent of choice. HOWEVER OH picks up 'pour homme' anything going and always smells better than lotsa wonga pong I've bought. I use his now

I buy my own and have worn Eden by Cacherel for years.

I don't even put the dustbins out without wearing perfume! Don't go if for makeup much, so scent is my signature. I once telephoned a male friend, it's Anni I said. I know he said,I can smell your perfume! Omg I thought I must smell like a tart's handkerchief.

I have worn Lanvin Arpege for over 45 years, trying others along the way. I like van Kleef and Arpels First, Opium, Balenciaga Le Dix, Miss Balmain, and Lidl Suddenly Madame Glamour for putting out the said dustbins as cash flow doesn't allow the aforesaid for .'at home' nowadays. But always a bottle of Arpege to hand.

Have tried a plethora of perfumes...but all smell of wet dog after a few minutes...OK with perfumed shower gels, so buy really lovely ones. Anyone else have this problem?

I keep trying different perfumes, but they are all vile on me, so stick with Poison which is about the best of a bad choice. MIL tries the same ones and they are all great on her. Some years ago was in one of those "fragrance shops" in shopping malls and quite liked one with Posh Spice's label, but couldn't afford it, but probably would have beenn equally horrible by the time I got home.

Greyduster, I love Cool Water Woman, lovely and light and fresh and doesn't give me a headache. They all smell different on different people, my daughter's expensive one, the one shaped like a corset, con't remember the name, smells like camel's p** on me.

I tend to stick to Chanel No 5. My DSD bought me a handbag spray and refills a couple of years ago. I'm on the last refill now, and have just looked up the price to replace - ouch!

Bit of a risky gift perfume I think unless you know what they like.

I have taken to using replicas of the perfume I love as can't afford it anymore, it is fine..........not quite but fine.

I wish I could afford the real stuff it does give me a boost and I don't us any other enhancements (and OMG does that show) but to know that you smell sublime is lush.

Ask the girls what they wear otherwise you may become locked into a cycle of re buying the wrong thing forever...........

I would happily buy perfume to give as a gift, but only if I knew the recipient liked it.

I don't often wear perfume but I love Dune so husband has been instructed asked to buy me some for Christmas as my bottle (had it for years) is done. That's my night time perfume, for day time I wear Light Blue, or whatever the one from Next is called that smells exactly the same.

I try them out in department stores and nearly always regret it - I don't like any of them.

I use Marc Jacob's Daisy. A couple of years ago DH said he would buy me some for my birthday. He found the perfume in a white box and a gift set where the perfume was in a black box. This confused the poor man so he bought me both. I haven't even opened the second one yet.....

Jo Malone earl grey & cucumber is my favourite at the minute

For me I associate perfumes with happy memories my favourites are alien for evening blue grass for every day and if I'm going somewhere important aromatics whenever I smell opium I think of my niece and I always remember as a child my older sister who was in her teens would allow me a spray of Norman Hartnel in love or aqua manda.

i've worn opium for many years after my now ex husband brought me some back from a trip.
however i can't afford to buy it for myself now so my wonderful son buys me a bottle every year for christmas. he's lovely.
i don't use opium for every day as it wouldn't last the whole year so i've discovered florentyna from m&s - i started with the original one and then discovered their florentyna midnight floral - lovely.
thankfully that's within my budget especially if i've got a voucher from the surveys i do!!

My favourite is envy me by Gucci most of my family and friends know this so I enjoy getting it as a present. When my sons got married I asked both DILs to choose a new perfume so the first time they wore it was their wedding day and would always associate the perfume with their wedding day

I tend to stick to one perfume, occasionally trying another. The main one I love is eau de compagne by Sisley which is quite hard to find even in France, it's country of origin.

I have Givenchy Ysatis and have worn that for forty years. I recently heard my daughter say to my grandchild that my scarf smelt of Granny. Lovely.

I wouldn't buy perfume for anyone else unless I knew their favourite brand. I forgot to take some with me on holiday and bought some on the plane which I hated! I would prefer not to be given it as a present unless it was my favourite Spears numbers.#

Hear, not here!!!