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Lempi

Help me appreciate sweet gourmands

Lempi | Perfumes by Note, Accord, Genre

... I can completely understand your struggle! I myself have a love-hate relationship with gourmands hahah. When the time is right, I absolutely adore them, but if I smell them on a wrong day, I can't stand them. Also I find many of them absolutely too strong. A few tips that help me that could possibly help you too... I never wear them when the weather is too hot. For me the right temperature for gourmands is about 12 degrees Celsius or less (with the strongest ones a lot less). During a hotter weather most of them are unbearable. With the strongest ones 1 spray is indeed enough. Try not to spray close your nose, for example avoid neck, chest and hair, spray lower on your body. Also you can try to decant the fragrance in a roll on or in a dabber, that way you get a smaller amount on your skin so it won't be so strong. Also don't wear them if you're either extremely hungry or extremely full. Then they might feel gross because some of them are very foody. You could also try brands like Demeter Fragrance, their concentration is cologne so their fragrances aren't too strong but they have some amazing gourmands, also they are designed for layering as majority of them are single note fragrances so you can create a gourmand of your own and balance sweetness for example with something fresh, spicy or woody. I hope this helps and that you could find enjoyment in gourmands too! 🤗

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climabro

10 hours ago

Lempi

Cheapies / Mid-Priced Fragrances that are unusual ?

Lempi | Perfume Recommendations

... Ringtale Oh that's okay dear @Lempi, thanks for your reply♥️ I will watch out for it 😉 As this thread is back up again, I want to give heads up to you dear @Ringtale and everybody else who are interested that seems that "29 High Street / HQ (Perfume) | Lush / Cosmetics To Go" is back! At least I can see it in Lush webstores, I don't know if they have it in the physical stores as I haven't visited one for a while. But atm seems that there's a chance to catch a bottle again ☺️

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grotesqueque

12 hours ago

Lempi

Fragrance Rotations 2025

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... Wishing happy October to all! 🧡🍁 I absolutely love the Halloween season and will for sure be wearing many of my pumpkin favourites from my autumn tray 😁🎃 Thank you so much for sharing @Ursaw, and yeah, September indeed went fast and was full of weather changes. Some days it was summer fragrance temperatures and other days time for colder season perfumes.

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Lempi

13 hours ago

Lempi

Lempi

Scent of the Day

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... Happy morning to all dear fragrant people, I'm wearing "Petit - Attitude Bee | Avon" today 🥰🌼🐝

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Moni43

13 hours ago

Moni43

Lempi

What Does Cyberpunk Smell Like?

Lempi | Perfume Recommendations

... I'd probably associate something like "Déliria / Sautes d'Humeur | L'Artisan Parfumeur" or "Fantabulosa / Ladyboy (Perfume) | Lush / Cosmetics To Go" to cyberpunk 🩶

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Saliva

1 day ago

Saliva

Lempi

Most beautiful bottle design you've seen?

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... I find these bottles the most beautiful from my own collection (not in any particular order): "Alien (Eau de Parfum) | Mugler" "Alien Hypersense | Mugler" "Aura (Eau de Parfum) | Mugler" "L'Eau en Blanc Edition Perles | Lolita Lempicka" "La Nuit Trésor L'Eau de Parfum Caresse | Lancôme" "Sky | Anna Sui" "Fantasia Mermaid | Anna Sui" "Good Girl Dot Drama | Carolina Herrera" "Olympēa Onyx | Rabanne" "Soprano | Xerjoff" "Jardin des Nymphes | Yves Rocher" "Loverdose | Diesel" "John Galliano (Eau de Parfum) | John Galliano" "Bella | Nina Ricci" "Mirage | Oriflame" "Parlez-moi d'Amour Encore | John Galliano" "Orb of Night Opulence | Ghost" "Deep Night | Ghost" "Manifesto Le Parfum | Yves Saint Laurent"

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Ri247

1 day ago

Ri247

Lempi

Scent of the Day

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... Yesterday was the international coffee day but I heard about it only after I had already sprayed a fragrance on. Coffee is one of my top favourite notes of all time so I'm fixing my yesterday's mistake lol and wearing a coffee fragrance today 😄☕️ So "CK Free (Eau de Toilette) | Calvin Klein" it is, just got the matching nails ready also 😘💅☔️

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Moni43

1 day ago

Moni43

Lempi

Why put gender on it?

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... Omnipotato It's always the women on these threads who want to get rid of the idea of gender in perfumery and the guys who defend it, and it's easy to see why: when women wear men's clothing, they are seen as just a bit tomboyish; if a man wears women's clothing, he is a full-fledged transvestite in a lot of men's (and women's) minds. It's the same thing with perfume. If a man wears perfume that is traditionally, culturally, etc. seen as women's perfume, other men, and even some women, will assume he is sending some kind of message, that he is gay, effeminate, etc. When women wear men's fragrance, it's just cool with everyone and no one assumes they are trying to make a statement. Now I must admit that, while I understand that this part of the post was meant to be just a harmless generalization, it really got me quite upset. Why? I am the woman who has been constantly bullied more than half of her life being too "manly" and doing things that are completely "wrong" for my gender. Starting from my childhood how I played with "wrong" toys, continuing to my teenage when I wore "wrong" clothes and listened to "wrong" music and watched "wrong" movies/TV-series and further continuing in my adulthood constantly hearing verbal abuse from my ex and his friends that I'm wearing "wrong" fragrances, or that I'm not wearing makeup and being manly as all people in my gender should have makeup on, not shaving often enough as my hair growth is sooooo unfeminine etc. being not feminine enough in any way. I have actually even heard from perfume and clothes SAs how what I'm wearing is wrong and how I'm looking for things from the wrong side of the store. I have heard from my co-workers how me not wearing makeup or right gender clothes is unprofessional and how in parties I'm offensive to everybody because all women should really have makeup on in all parties. No one ever said I was cool or just a little bit tomboyish. The only thing I have heard is I'm not welcome to be who I am because it seems completely wrong to my gender. I have just chosen not to care but that doesn't mean that those words never hurt me. Yes they did, sometimes I still hear them in my head almost every day. Still, I chose to fight. I chose to stand for everybody who want to be themselves and show that the bullies won't pull me down, I will just continue to choose my own thing and show a living example to everybody else too that anyone can do this despite the horrible bullying. And now I'm hearing none of this ever actually could have happened to me because it's always only men who experience bullying of being "feminine" and I'm just fighting because I'm a woman and it's easy for me? Oh lord indeed. SMH.

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KillaAmanda

2 days ago

Lempi

Looking for a sort of Greyish/ rainy/ concrete scent

Lempi | Perfume Recommendations

... For me the ultimate grey wet concrete fragrance is "CK2 | Calvin Klein", sadly discontinued though.

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Paredes183

3 days ago

Lempi

Why put gender on it?

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... JSO60 It's not a question of need. No one needs perfume. It's a luxury item that people use for different reasons. This is going to be a bit off topic, however I feel I need to comment this, because this is a very common argument that really triggers me, sorry. 😅 Yes, historically perfumes were luxury items, in fact historically perfumes didn't address gender but they did address class, only upper class people could afford them. And thank god it's not like that anymore. 5 euros body spray hardly is a luxury item. What comes to the need , well yeah, what do people need to live? Water, food and sleep basically. Everything else is a luxury item, right? So I could say, for example, that plates, forks and knives are luxury items, nobody needs them so why people buy them? They could save their money and eat with their hands. Same with beds and pillows, we don't need them, why don't we just sleep on the ground in the middle of the forest, would save money not to own stupid luxury items. This is how it feels to me when someone says "nobody needs fragrance". No, I don't need fragrance in order to survive. If the end of the world comes or I end up in the middle of a war zone, I will survive without perfume of course. I pray that in the future no one would have to live like that, it's absolutely awful and not humane. However, in current normal circumstances where I'm thankful to live in, yes, I do need perfume to be comfortable. I need fragrances to cope with my social anxiety, I need fragrances to escape my chronic pain, I need fragrances to ease my depression, I need fragrances to do olfactory stimming as I'm neurodivergent, I need fragrances for my personal well-being. If some people don't think that's important, well I can tell them that forks and knives and pillows aren't important either, why would you use such unnecessary luxury items. 🤷 I personally can't understand why yoga or playing football or watching someone playing tennis in TV would be fun either because I hate things like that, however I do understand that for someone else they might be coping mechanisms and important for their well-being so wouldn't even cross my mind to question why they're needing such luxury.

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KillaAmanda

3 days ago

Lempi

Why put gender on it?

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... Ursaw JSO60 only 2% of the 8071 members who have "Sauvage (Eau de Parfum) | Dior" in their collection are women It's 8076 total Sauvage owners at the time of my response, and 2% of that is 161 (and a half) women. Idk about you, but to me that still sounds like a pretty sizeable amount of women. It's easy to point at low percentages to say "see, that's evidence that this group of people doesn't need this thing". But there are people hidden under these percentages that show evidence to the contrary. How many more women would give Sauvage a chance if it had a cuter name, a pretty bottle and something more palatable than Johnny Depp's crusty mug on the marketing cover? It's a spiced artificially sweetened ambrox bomb. Any gender can fall victim to those. 4923 Parfumo users own "Black Orchid (Eau de Parfum) | Tom Ford". It's listed as unisex here, and 55% of current owners are men. But in my country it's considered a fragrance for women (especially older women) and sold as such. You will only find it in the women's section. Sucks for all the local men who will not be directed towards something they might otherwise have wanted to consider, I guess? Sure, majority of the population doesn't have the time or energy to dive deep into this hobby and thoughtfully sample everything. But that doesn't mean that they don't deserve to have all options available to them. Especially since the ways in which these options are segregated are often completely arbitrary. It would probably be both simpler and way more fun if perfumery was separated based on what it actually smells like. People of both genders can love sweets, or enjoy scents of different flowers, or want to smell like the sea, or sandalwood, or what have you. If everyone was able to freely and without judgement try out things based on their actual preferences rather than whatever marketers decided goes well with a penis this season – I think we'd all be happier for it. Couldn't agree more. 👍

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KillaAmanda

3 days ago

Lempi

Scent of the Day

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... "Scandal Intense | Jean Paul Gaultier" ✨💜✨

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Moni43

3 days ago

Moni43

Lempi

Which languages do you speak?

Lempi | Off Topic

... getitraw English and French! Canadian French, granted. I'd love to learn more languages but my brain just doesn't seem geared to it; I'm fluent in French against my own will, though I'm grateful for it. In my adulthood I've tried to learn Italian and Finnish, and a bit of Serbian. I know some vocab in some European languages due to having been an avid Eurovision Song Contest fan from 2009 to 2023. Welcome @getitraw, and wow, another fraghead who has been studying Finnish, that's just awesome! 🤩🙌 I also love to hear different languages in the Eurovision Song Contest, it's always awesome to hear something different than always the same boring English and it's great that they have subtitles so that everybody can also understand the lyrics.

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Eternity

4 days ago

Lempi

What kind of reviews are helpful?

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... To me a helpful review is something that tells how the fragrance smells like, for example describing the notes or describing what kind of vibes or images the smell is evoking. I also find it helpful if there's some comparison to other fragrances in the same genre so that I can know if it smells similar or different to some other perfumes that I already know. Of course every time I read a review I understand that it's just somebody's personal perception. However I don't find it helpful if someone just says "this is disgusting" or "this is dreamy" or "this smells like my aunt's livingroom". Those things tell nothing about the actual smell to me as I can't know what is "disgusting" or "dreamy" to some other person let alone how their aunt's livingroom could possibly smell like. If they are actually telling why they like or dislike the smell or how their aunt's livingroom smells like, then I do find it helpful.

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Akira1005

4 days ago

Lempi

Where to get decants?

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... Welcome @luvpetrichor! I believe in the US there are indeed several websites you can get decants relatively cheap (compared to most European countries). However if you don't want to spend too much money and you have some decants or fragrances already that you don't feel you really need anymore, swapping is also an awesome option. If some member in the fragrance community has something you want and they want to swap it to something you have, you can send them to each other. I guess there are also some offers in Parfumo Souk (but I haven't tried that yet though and also I don't know how many people from the US are active there).

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luvpetrichor

4 days ago

Lempi

Scent of the Day

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... "Doric Oud | Middleshade" ❣️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Moni43

4 days ago

Moni43

Lempi

Which languages do you speak?

Lempi | Off Topic

... soxnrox Native English, B1/2ish in German (rostig!) A2 in Finnish and actively studying, I love it. In the past I took Japanese and Spanish. Olen yllättynyt nähdä niin paljon suomalaisia!! torille!! Moikka @soxnrox ja tervetuloa! 🙋 Vau, mahtavaa! Studying Finnish, such a brave choice, former Finnish language teacher here approves haha! 😁🙌 It's definitely not easy to learn for a native English speaker, my Scottish husband knows that for sure 😂 I've also been happily surprised to see quite a few Finns here. Our country isn't the most fragrance friendly one but great to see that I'm not the only one offending other people by wearing fragrances daily at public places in Finland lol 😝 So yeah, torille indeed 🤣👍 Edit: ok yay this is even my 1000th post here so more reasons to go torille, woo hoo 😆🥳🎉

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Eternity

5 days ago

Lempi

If your signature scent were a movie character…

Bowling Green (Eau de Toilette) - Geoffrey Beene

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... Such a fun thread! 🤩 My signature scent is "Euphoria (Eau de Toilette) (2023) | Calvin Klein", and she's definitely the plum girl in the movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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SaulGoo

5 days ago

SaulGoo

Lempi

Fragrance Rotations 2025

Lempi | Perfume Discussions

... Continuing my monologue here 😆 Adding something new on the autumn tray of course. I got "Devotion (Eau de Parfum) | Dolce & Gabbana" and "La Belle Paradise Garden / La Belle Fleur Terrible | Jean Paul Gaultier" from the airport yesterday and they're so gorgeous sweet scents that I definitely want to wear them for autumn, I actually sprayed La Belle Paradise Garden already on this morning because I couldn't wait 😍

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Lempi

5 days ago

Lempi

Lempi

What perfume have you bought recently?

Lempi | Perfumes & Brands

... "Devotion (Eau de Parfum) | Dolce & Gabbana" limited edition heart bottle and "La Belle Paradise Garden / La Belle Fleur Terrible | Jean Paul Gaultier" from the airport yesterday ✨💖✨

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DonVanVliet

5 days ago

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