It's really easier if you go together to the shop and she can decide which one she wants.
That kinda takes the surprise out of it.
Here is what I do. Seeing as every pre-holiday season the TV is chock-full-o-perfume/cologne ads, I just make sure I buy for Ena one of the ones she goes gaga over when the ads come on.
Yeah, that's right. You would have a little problem with the surprise.
But I know what I'll do before next Christmas.
I'll go to a perfume shop and select some perfumes I like. And then I'll leave little hints in the flat of my boyfriend, or I'll do the same as your girlfriend does: being subtly excited while watching the tv-spots of my selected perfumes.
And I'll let my boyfriend believe, that his present is a surprise...
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But it is also important to us women that you men like the smell of the perfume we are wearing I do remember our daughter wearing Poison and her dad telling me off for using too much flyspray!
One way to test the smell without smelling like a tarts handbag, is to use the little cardboard strips in the perfume shops. Spray on those and sniff!!
Bet you guys never knew what those ickle bits of card were for, did you now!!
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Hey madsue, the strips are ok but as kinki said above, fragrances smell different on different skins and they also smell different on paper strips.
Some would argue that the strips actually kill the fragrance.
Now smelling perfumes on a stripPER is a whole nother story :jeje:
Ok, bad one!!!
Hey, I got it. For those wanting to buy perfume for their lady friends. Take her shopping with you and before you go, draw out a grid on her body (how much of it is up to you :l: ). Then when you are at the stores, test and sniff the diff. perfumes off of a different grid section each time.
Hey girls, I know a perfume you should never buy. It is the one called La Dolce Vita. I don�t know the brand. I only know that some silly (and bad tasted) admirer gave a bottle of it to my elder sister as a present and made our family's life impossible at home. It was several years ago but I vividly remember the destructive effects of that poison. Every time she used a little bit we had to open all the windows (winter, in Le�n ) and pray for the wind to take the smelling away and let us breathe. I�ve never smelt a more terrible perfume in my life (and my sister has a big collection). A really terrible experience. I still remember my little sister's face getting yellow for sickness when hurrying to open the windows one saturday night when my elder sister was getting ready to go out. :jeje:
If you love well those who are around you, don�t use it.
I still can�t understand how my elder sister never suffocated with it.
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OK, I'll add my two crumbs to the "perfumes of Spain" thing.
Although not strictly Spanish, don't know if you can get it in the US so it might be of interest - "Organza" (can't remember who makes it) is orga-something else on the right skin. It's not very common but curiously I have three girl friends who wear it (I have such great taste in women!) It does bring to mind Marilyn Munroe's "what do I wear to bed - why Chanel No. 5 of course" - it's very subtly seductive.
Not to deviate (in case Jer starts to fret) but the ONLY man's eau de toilette I've ever found that I like (thanks to those little cardboard strips and the dogged determination of my little French girlfriend's nose) is called "By" by Dolce & Gabbana - any girls looking for guy-gifts, check it out.
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OMIGOD!! Dolce & Gabbana... Please don�t fret jer if I digress, just a wee bit...
Many years ago, I went out on a couple of dates with a guy. Never turned into anything (obviously ). I ran into him about 4 years ago. At first, I didn�t recognize him, but as soon as I got a whiff of his cologne, I remembered who he was right away. It was the only time that I had smelled that cologne (and I don�t know if it was "By" or some other fragrance by D & G), but I will NEVER forget it! It is such a wonderful fragrance!
After having started this topic, I now feel it best to consider buying just jewelry for mis amigas. There's a little guy (Lopez?) on C/Prado off Plz. Santa Ana who will open the door if you look half-way presentable...he sells estate plata y oro.
The thought of having my madre, espousa y amiga all along on the same shopping trip is a bit more than even I can tolerate. It might lead to too many questions..........
My life-style as I know it can be complicated enough without three categories of females of the species.
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There are also some "sobaco" smellings which are very difficult to forget, Chica, and they don�t cost a fortune. Those of you who take the underground in summer know what I am talking about, don�t you? :jeje:
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I do remember our daughter wearing Poison and her dad telling me off for using too much flyspray!
