...Sybil by Flora Rheta Shreiber, which chronicles the horror of multiple personality disorder.

...Well, I happen to love my job and my paycheck, so I choose to be discreet.

...There is no correct answer. A small percentage of people can't tolerate scent. One perfumephobe I know is perfectly legit. She also wheezes at diesel exhaust, fireplace smoke, etc., so she ain't faking it.Then you have the puritans, who equate wearing perfume with waving the prostie flag or something. There are lots of different reasons, but I do opt for subtle at work, for instance, because a coworker was once sent home for reeking. The poor guy had been clearing his driveway with a snowblower so that he could come to work. The gas fumes had saturated his hair and clothing, and he did smell pretty toxic.

...I tend to feel opulent in big orientals. In tuberose I feel like teh sexay.

...That's the very picture I had selected. How eerie.Bow down to the goddess Dolby or die!

...Modhood suits you, Dolby. And since I cannot getting the coding to work, you're just going to have to imagine a picture of a dominatrix here: X

...The only one I know of that hasn't already been mentioned is Neela Vermeire. Quick turnaround, beautiful packaging and a handwritten personal note.

...Fragrantica. FRAGRANTICA. Will you look at that? I can type the name of a competing site without being censored. I wonder why they censor Parfumo and not Basenotes?

...For a huge Duchaufour fangirl it is depressing as hell. At the same time, it doesn't seem fair to penalize the niche companies that hired him before this transpired by boycotting his work. I still crave a bottle of Mohur, and I can't see taking out his blunder on a small concern like Neela Vermeire, who is probably struggling as it is to get established.

...I'm just coming out of my allergy funk and my sense of smell is waking up again. My humble recommendation would be Chanel No.19 -- just enough sharpness to penetrate a stuffed-up nose

...The admins over at Fragrantica can be frustrating. Hardly a week goes by without a new thread looking for the sexiest perfume, "man magnet," etc. In a rare moment of helpfulness, I made up an FAQ that contained links to most of the questions that kept popping up on a regular basis to make life easier for the newbies. Instead of putting the thread in a heavily-trafficked forum where the newbies might actually see it, the admins buried it in the chat forum, a place where new members seldom venture, and my effort was completely wasted. Needless to say, I'm done being helpful over there.

...Dolby:MiaTrost:... many seem to lack the ability of using Search functionalities before posting a thread. This results in massive repetition of topics, which is a total bore; let alone the often pointless content.Yes, this is an aspect that absolutely bores me to tears. I feel that the demographics are somehow different here too. Although there are people interested in what I consider Perfumery with a capital P on Fragrantica, there is also a hell of a lot of Victoria Secret body spray enthusiasts and Paris Hilton & co fans.An enormous amount of topics seem to centre around the issues of finding the sexiest frag, or engaging in "games" where the aim is to allocate perfumes to Disney characters for example. :roll:Very juvenile and not stimulating for the grey matter at all, but then I guess that's what you get when admin want to play it so safe that anything deemed the slightest bit controversial gets deleted.All this is not helped by the many members who appear completely incapable of debating in a mature fashion.All in all, I'm pretty much exclusively sticking to my perso thread now.I agree with all of this. In addition, I don't appreciate being told that if I want a bottle of perfume, I ought to save up my loose change in a jar until I have enough and that sort of patronizing nonsense. It's almost like large collections are puritanically frowned upon over there.

...Coutureguru:Meh ... I'm just SOOOO much happier here on Parfumo than I ever was at Fragrantica. I met some great peeps over there and still visit to keep in touch with some of them that are not here ... but that's about it.The fact that members can 'burst balloons' over there is childish ... and I find the admins to be living in the Dark Ages too! Every time I write the word 'Parfumo' it gets 'stop spam'-ed ... how puerile ?!?!?!Nope ... give me THIS site any day ... slowly but surely peeps will just realize it's way better over here!!Look at it this way, cg: if you were able to post the name of this site on Fragrantica, you'd have everyone over here checking it out, including all the nuts. The way things are now, you can invite anyone you like via pm, right?

...Aside from the kind of gross stuff that nauseates everybody, I get queasy from the smell of microwaved popcorn. A few people at work love that shite and are always making/incinerating it. I've discovered that if I unplug the microwave, it usually takes them a while to figure out whats wrong and correct it, so I get a few day's olfactory peace out of each unplugging. :twisted:

...I don't consider myself exiled, merely disenchanted. I received a kind invitation from a Fragrantica member which I may not have acted on had I not been disgusted with the shenanigans that go on there concerning reviews. Apparently, Fragrantica members are using the review section of the site as an outlet for personal grudges by voting down perfectly good reviews. Not something that a genuine perfume lover would do if you ask me.