Ha! Some of my loves were mentioned here. Say la vee.

Cool Water. I don't care that it's boring, I just can't take the wretched stench of bile! Honestly, it smells like something you'd find in a spitoon at a sanatorium.

Joop! Woman

Oscar de la Renta Per Lui

It's hard for me to think of any perfumes that I really hate, either. Many of my faves are other's most hated, as has been noted.

However, two that have been mentioned several times already in this thread I too have found to be very offensive, and those are Paris and Meil de Bois or is it Bois de Meil? anyway, horrid cloying fake-honey scent. And biting on tinfoil is a perfect description of Paris (as opposed to "the sucked silver spoon sheen of helional" !)

The little sample vial of LM I once had didn't do justice to the full scent, IMHO. It's got a rich amber/coumarin/vanilla that scarcely makes its presence known when applied gingerly from a vial. Gotta get past all the smoke & hickory stuff to get there, though... Just my 0.02

I'm defending it! Though I really don't need to: I'm happy for each of us to love or loathe what s/he pleases.

"After a certain age, every woman simply must have a gay man for a friend. Margaretta "Happy" Rockefeller"

Rasputin, why wait!

I love it too! I wasn't expecting to at all. I really want a big ol' bottle

Late to this thread. Given my normally demure nature ( ) there will be few surprises here, but here goes:

1. Fracas/Michael Kors/EL Tuberose Gardenia/Versace Blonde/Velvet Tuberose, etc. etc. etc., basically anything where tuberose is front and center. They all make me want to vomit on the spot.

2. Secretions Magnifique, a.k.a. "bottled smegma." Blarg.

3. Mitsouko, a.k.a. "moldy books and dust."

4. Cristalle and

5. Lalique, a.k.a. "nerve gas." They both share that godawful sharpness that crawls right up my nose and will not relent.

Have to agree on the Norma Kamali incense and Norma Kamali ceremony. These are just too vile and are not easy to wash off your skin too.

Giorgio

Angel

Gucci Rush

Red Door - show it the door!

All the Lutens with the Mothballs inside them!

P.S - I agree with the person who said all Vera Wangs scents are shockers too!

LOL, just about everything I love's shown up at this point.

Mine:

Gucci Envy (femmes) - smelling this makes me inexplicably hostile, want to throw things. (Yet Gucci Envy for Men is divine.)

Mandy Aftel Cepes et Tuberose - Yes, it's got tuberose. Floating in a bowl of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, that is.

Secretions Magnifique - the self-conscious, we're-gonna-try-so-hard-to-be-outre-we-don't-care-if-it-kills-us shtick of the line notwithstanding, the fragrance is awful. Anti-fragrance! Salty and rusty.

Miel de Bois - no honey, no woods, no urine even. Just plain old household ammonia. It literally made my eyes water.

Deev

"Are there any of these that you specifically want for Xmas?"

LOL!!!!!

Rufus, if you are Santa Claus then the Deev has been a Very Naughty girl !

I'm scared to sit on Santa's lap!!!!!!!!!

Let's hope this does not accidently get posted to the wishlist thread!

Becca - if it does - I bags the Mitsouko!

Yes its old MOLDY here!

Never have tried Mitsouko, but I like Cristalle and the tuberose fragrances!

Rebecca, life is to short to have NOT smelt Mitsouko!

Now, off you go to the perfume counter this weekend.

Lady Jicky, I agree Mitsouko is special.

Hi Smelka! How have you been?

Hi Lady Jicky! I'm fine, but I missed your posts, glad you are back!

Red Door
ANY Liz Claiborne
White Diamonds (and any Liz Taylor)
ANY Avon
Fracas & Bandit
and I have to add - SL Rahat Loukoum!

1. Opium
2. Un Basier de Dragon
3. Vera Wang (all of them)
4. Anything Alexander McQueen
5. Angel

Hee hee... "moldy books and dust" is exactly how I'd describe Mitsouko. It feels, to me, like walking into a library. The funny thing is that I feel the exact same way about it and I adooore it. Isn't that funny?

It's what keeps the world spinning, babe. Different strokes and all that.

You may have your Mitsouko, sir, and I will take my Royal Secret II and talk to it lovingly about how no one really understands it but me.

Gosh, I dont believe there is a single fragrance that I hate. Yes, there are a few that just don't work well with my chemistry, but none that I hate as I'm sure they probably smell great on the right person.

Here are those that I dislike on myself.

Halston (LOVE this on others though)
Estee Lauder Aliage
Revlon Charlie
CK Obsession Night
Dlish Clean

Amarige is the only fragrance I truly hate.

As a footnote to my previous post here, let me say that, while I am a big fan of a number of Serge Lutens fragrances (I even found the infamous MIEL DU BOIS interesting), I was utterly surprised and taken aback by IRIS SILVER MIST.

I love Andy Tauer's ORRIS and adore the cold iris note in SIENNE L'HIVER...

But IRIS SILVER MIST smells like.... poison to me. Literally, like a poison plant. Leaves of three, don't touch me. Like a broken sprig of poison ivy or oleander or mistletoe... the really lethal plants of the flora kingdom. The kind which kill cows and goats and humans upon ingestion. My mammalian monkey brain tells me to avoid the "poison plant" aspect of ISM like the plague.

I don't really detest but one fragrance and I have never worn it. That distinction goes to Estee Lauder's Estee. Have had evenings at symphony and opera nearly ruined by this one. From my experience with my own fragrance collection, I tend to tire of some of them rather than hate them.

Hey I had that experience at a play with some one who decided to take a bath in Flower Bomb(boom!!)
I haven't been able to wear this since and now when I smell it on someone else it stinks.

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Amarige gives me a headache
Vesace Woman makes me feel ill
I dislike Red Door
Flowerbomb is too strong
Creed Epecia just stinks on my skin

but....I don't hate any of them. They all have their place, just not with me.


Emma

It's funny, I wanted to like these five:

- Bandit
- Teint de Neiges (spelling?)
- Bois de Paradis
- Fleurs D'Oranger
- Cabaret

What a perfectly REVOLTING description. I got nauseated just reading this!

I don't tend to hate many perfumes, but I am sick and tired of smelling:

1. DK Be Delicious. It's apple shampoo mixed with sour hairspray plus it lends itself to extreme over-application because it's "light".

2. D&G Light Blue. The standard scent of female college students . . . did I mention there are thousands of them where I live? Not completely unpleasant, but I'm sick of it.

3. Ralph Lauren Ralph. So help me, the scent reminds me of a freshly cleaned Interstate Rest Area bathroom.

4. Coco Mademoiselle. Another one that's really not all bad, but it's the other scent all of the female college students own. Now that smoking is outlawed, the bars smell of stale beer, sweat, and Coco Mad.

5. GA Acqua di Gio. The standard male college student scent. Used far too often as a substitute for good personal hygiene.

My conscience compelled me to warn everyone. (Consider yourself lucky. The description is nothing next to the actual frag -- it's so much worse it beggars belief.)

1. White Diamonds heads my list--gives me a headache, makes me feel as if I'm suffocating. I have a SIL that marinates in the stuff and my MIL's living room is quite small=dreadful holidays.

2. Ralph Lauren Polo--brings high school and college crashing back for me. Somewhere near 75% of the males I knew not only wore this, they bathed in it! I think perhaps I was attracted to Mr. Flower because he also detested it.

3. Tommy Girl--thankfully, it appears that this scent has run its course and I don't smell it absolutely everywhere I go like I did a few years back. Review in the Guide aside, I can't stand this one. So very chemical!

4. Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose--smells like cheap air freshener to me. I've never actually smelled this on another person, which is as it should be!

5. Axe Body Spray--dear Lord, my oldest DS started middle school yesterday and apparently a can of Axe is on of the school supply list (not really, but DS assured me that he would be they only guy in 6th grade without some if he didn't get some). DS and his friend about gassed me out last weekend, testing out the different scents that they bought. Budding perfumister? Perhaps, but let's hope his taste improves!

Oh Man! I lurve White Diamonds, though I try to use it carefully.

FG, speaking as a middle school teacher, I can tell you that this scenario is all too true. There are some kids' lockers that actually smell of the stuff! You'll be standing in the hallway, wondering where that smell is coming from...you'll follow your nose....right to a locker. And then there are the vapor trails that some of the boys leave after gym class....ay yi yi.

Of course, you also get the faction of kids that haven't yet gotten the hint that they need to shower every day.

And then there's Mrs. Altodiva, trumping them all in my Youth Dew or my Opium!

All in all, middle schools are interesting smelling places.....

Oh yes!! Today was our first day back, but it was a teacher's in-service, so the students weren't at the school. We have another in-service on Monday, at which time the 6th graders come in for an orientation period, but the students don't enter en masse until Tuesday.

On a warm day, the halls of the middle school have an odor that is somewhere between a barnyard and a locker room (after a football game). I teach the 6th graders (and one 7th grade class), so my room is downstairs. The students in the school get older as we move upstairs, and the school gets warmer, so by the time you get to the second floor (I am in the basement--a "cellar dweller")...well, you do the math.

AXE is choking. Luckily, that is seen less with the 6th graders, and as a rule, 6th grade boys are still somewhat "unaware", so many of them haven't even embraced the concept of deodorant, not to mention cologne. At the beginning of the year, the 6th grade hormone levels are not yet in full swing,but by the time spring rolls around......


The girls are very much into Bath and Body stuff. After Christmas, some of the girls show up with higher end stuff and that isn't always a good thing, since they tend to spray with abandon.


I actually think about what I wear to school, since I don't want to bother kids with allergies (or my fellow faculty members who are fragrance sensitive). However, looking at the BIG picture, I'm wondering why I don't wear whatever I want, and as much as I want. In my mind, I'd be improving the environment!!

The only 2 perfumes I can say I loathe with all my heart is Missoni, which is the only fragrance to hold the dubious honor of making my iron-lined stomach clench with nausea. The second is Elizabeth Taylor Passions...yuck.

it is very hard for me to find perfumes that i hate. smthing i hate can turn into something i adore.

1. poeme by lancome. never seem to like this one.
2. i guess eden by cacharel, though i find eau d'eden pleasing.
3. wish by chopard. though i love angel.
4. probably insolence, never liked it.
5. ck one, too ordinary.

I'm kinda tempted to smell the Mandy Aftel Tuberose now just to see if it really does reek that badly.

The one AXE fragrance I thought was truly special was called TSUNAMI. It was basically a soliflor bergamot, astonishingly natural-smelling. Our fathers and grandfathers would've been so lucky to have a $3.00 dimestore fragrance that smelled so classy... And AXE discontinued it.

Eden, Cacharel
Insolence,Guerlain
Jungle, Kenzo

Angel, Tresor and that mix of all the Voctoria's Secret scents you can smell outside their stores.

Hypnotic Poison
JPG Le Male
Polo Sport

I can't think of any others that inspire such a violent negative reaction, but these three...egad.

I dislike D&G Light Blue and it's dupes. It's everywhere! It's becoming far too common. And there's a note in it that makes it smell sort of rancid. I cannot put my finger on what it is.

Coromondel
Coromondel
Coromondel
Chance
Allure

Only one of my perfumes I have actually spontaneously got a bad comment on, namely Kenzo's Jungle l'Elephant. A rather distant colleague of mine said "I think I smell cat pee" once when I went by And after that I have very seldom wore that perfume. I must add that it isn't a favorite of my husband either, to express it mildly.. But I really like this subtle, oriental elixir!

I do not have many that I dislike strongly in my environment (smelling on others). But all the green tea's of Elizabeth Arden for me smells like cheap air fresheners, and I can't imagine why these scents have so many admirers. I don't like "the popular" aquatic perfumes either.

Let's see:
Ysatis: Suffocate me with a floral bouquet
Giorgio: Suffocate AND strangle me with a floral bouquet
Cristalle: Shove grass clippings up my nose while strangling me
Femme: Suffocate me with a urine soaked towel (ROFLMAO)
Aqua di Gio (femme): Spray glade air freshener up my nose

NO - this is NOT A WISH LIST or SICK FANTASY ...

Demetrue, I disagree with you, at least about the ones that I have smelled, as I like Giorgio and Cristalle (I know that I would like Aqua di Gio as I love aquatics), but you had me laughing out loud anyway. "WISH LIST or SICK FANTASY" LOL

These have too much everything to me: Angel(sugar), Miss Dior(powder),Habanita(leather),Lìnstant(amber/vanilla) and Infini(musky)