I’ve been using Guerlain vetiver parfum during this heat wave. It has some spicy notes. Maybe carnation. And some vanilla like notes, probably tonka.

Oh lord, I was made for this thread, I have about 100 or so different perfumes

What price point are you looking at? And what are your preferred notes?

The ones I love tend to be designer and niche, I can recommend some really good fragrance if you like 😃

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I forgot to add my faves....

une fleur de Cassie- Frederic Malls (a mimosa bomb)

Sarassins- serge lutens (jasmine, jasmine, jasmine, oh and some musk too)

L'nombres d'or vanille- Mona di orio (I think its discontinued now, but it'd a beautiful grown up boozy vanilla) also her oud perfume too, very expensive but fantastic

Spiriteuse double vanille- guerlain (another amazing vanilla)

Winter woods- Sonoma scent studio (an American indie perfume house, amber, woodslasts for days and days, and makes me go weak at the knees)

Wild hunt- cbihatepefume (less of a 'perfume' and more of a sensory experience, think pine Forrest, wet earth, mushrooms. If I need to be transported this one does the job)

Bat- zoology perfumes (another indie house, concept is everything bat, so it opens with the food- fruit, the smell of the cave and damp earth with some musk thrown in of the furry bat)

I'll add some more tomorrow 👍

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I have a few I like from a perfume shop near me that does 'dupes' of famous ones and you can get a discount if you refill the bottles - its a much more affordable way to 'test drive' some new ones.

My favourite two recently have both been Mugler Alien dupes - original Alien in spring but Alien Goddess for summer - its light, coconut-y and floral and I really like it in this heat.

I've been using Against Nature by Timothy Han. It's my first foray into designer brands, and I love it's metallic, green notes. I spent many hours searching for a more-so unisex perfume, using the below site as a guide. In my search for carry options, the Decant site (below) is brilliant for a spritz on the go in case the perfume's longevity is fairly short, which Against Nature unfortunately is.

I also came across Scandalwood by Heretic Parfum and Attempted Murder by Sucreabeille, which I'm considering starting after this perfume is gone. I'm not much for layering scents, and prefer indie, alternative perfumes with herbal, marine, spice, and/or certain wood notes. If the perfume has floral notes, I prefer them to be mixed with other notes. In case you don't know, some sites offer samples of the perfume if it's on the expensive side and you're unsure if it blends well with your natural pheromones.

https://www.fragrantica.com/ (You can search for the perfume to see its scent notes in case the website it's being sold on doesn't, or reverse search for the notes you want and what perfumes have it)

https://www.decantx.com/search?type=&q=Diy&options%5Bprefix%5D=&options%5Bfields%5D=&filter.v.availability=

I don’t use a lot of perfumes because my skin is so sensitive. I like to pick up samplers occasionally but I frequently have to give most of them away because I get hives exactly where the spray hits my skin. I’ve had to give away some great smelling perfumes.

The one I really like that doesn’t bother my skin is Versace Bright Crystal. It smells nice and doesn’t give me hives. Sometimes I’ll find a fruity one from Pacifica that doesn’t bother me, but their fragrances don’t seem to last very long.