Comments on Katie Puckrik Smells: Viewer Mail: Help Us Smell Like Badasses!

What a stimulating selection!

2011-07-18T17:04:30.135-07:00

What a stimulating selection!

oh so too late but Yatagan! L'Eau d'Ambre ...

2011-07-18T16:49:49.033-07:00

oh so too late but
Yatagan!
L'Eau d'Ambre L'Artisan
Air de Rien
Halston (original)

You're welcome :-)

2010-06-05T11:19:56.215-07:00

You're welcome :-)

Junelady, what a gorgeous review of Femme! Thank y...

2010-06-05T11:07:37.050-07:00

Junelady, what a gorgeous review of Femme! Thank you very much. I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to read this, so I will re-post as a "Guest Nose" column.

I received Femme in the mail today after ordering ...

2010-06-04T13:27:25.148-07:00

I received Femme in the mail today after ordering it unsniffed - I had only read the reviews on Fragrantica etc. and a few comments on this blog.

Given 10 minutes Femme is easily one of the most satisfying fragrances I've ever had in the sense that it seems so well rounded, no hollow pockets where one note or another should have been. I often get that sense of disappointment with

10 Corso Como? Perfect suggestion, PS! It has a be...

2010-02-08T20:38:06.525-08:00

10 Corso Como? Perfect suggestion, PS! It has a beguiling female personal-ness to it.

How about Corso Como? To me it smells like sweaty ...

2010-02-08T19:41:46.684-08:00

How about Corso Como? To me it smells like sweaty post coital dirtiness with a punk chick who still wears the same headshop perfume she's used since highschool.

Oh, and Heidi, I include Clinique Aromatics Elixir...

2010-02-08T16:49:19.465-08:00

Oh, and Heidi, I include Clinique Aromatics Elixir in the "oakmossy menace" group, rather than the straight-ahead skank club.

Okay - one steaming serving of Liquid Ass, comin&#...

2010-02-08T10:59:05.388-08:00

Okay - one steaming serving of Liquid Ass, comin' up!

I for one would love to see a video about Liquid A...

2010-02-08T09:50:12.142-08:00

I for one would love to see a video about Liquid Ass Secretions. Bottoms Up!

OH WELL, by novices, I meant we've just begun ...

2010-02-07T20:31:59.819-08:00

OH WELL, by novices, I meant we've just begun to read perfume blogs this year. I'm pretty sure my nose needs a little refinement. Fat Electrician is proof! I smelled it and said "Blech!" I think I've been spoiled by sanitized vetivers like Tom Ford's Grey Vetiver.

Liquid Ass! I don't believe it! That sounds like something you might find in one of those

m61, Rose Poivre is right there on the personal ti...

2010-02-07T19:38:26.885-08:00

m61, Rose Poivre is right there on the personal tip, possibly more pit than pant, stank-wise. I don't know Paco Rabanne La Nuit. I shall file that one away for future investigation.

Heidi! Some "novice-type" you turned out to be, with your 1000 and your Bal à Versailles! Well, it's good to know that we're all pitching in the right direction.

I know what

Excellent write-up and suggestions! I wear a few o...

2010-02-07T17:42:49.087-08:00

Excellent write-up and suggestions! I wear a few of these already (Bal, Coriandre, Aromatics Elixir, 1000) because of their delicious skank. Well, I don't get much skank in AE (maybe my version is reformulated?), but I put 1000 on and it's pure, sweaty ass. Which is also what Cuir de Russie smells like to me before it deepens into leather.

Now I just want to say, besides skank,

Well, I don't know if I want to go as far as a...

2010-02-07T14:49:30.807-08:00

Well, I don't know if I want to go as far as an unwashed roadie scent (thinking just waaay to much BO) but for a healthy dose of retro-skank I somehow came up with TDC Rose Poivre. Unwashed undies with a vegetal rose touch. Hmmm, hippie chick with a wilting rose crown?

Oh and what about Paco Rabanne La Nuit? Haven't thought about this one for years. It's an eighties scent

xaryax, we can all be your stand-by pen pals - I&#...

2010-02-07T14:44:55.719-08:00

xaryax, we can all be your stand-by pen pals - I'm just feeling my way through this stuff for the first time myself...

nadine, you mind-reader, you! I'm working my way up to a review of L'Ombre Fauve, which I just purchased 2 days ago!

PS: Katie, please do a review of L'Ombre Fauve...

2010-02-07T14:36:55.728-08:00

PS: Katie, please do a review of L'Ombre Fauve. I'm dying to try it out, but it's only reserved for the in-PG-crowd. Boo!

Secretions Malheur-ifique is defo more roadie than...

2010-02-07T14:35:07.790-08:00

Secretions Malheur-ifique is defo more roadie than groupie. A roadie who spends their time licking shards of cold metal and then spitting blood on to the trash littered floor.

But oh! I can already smell all the hot groupies wafting of patchouli and amber. Mmmmmm!

Oh man, Heidi is lucky! I'd love to snail-mail...

2010-02-07T13:55:49.434-08:00

Oh man, Heidi is lucky! I'd love to snail-mail with a fellow novice...

Thanks for remembering, Katie. Yes, Angi, Tigress ...

2010-02-07T11:05:20.227-08:00

Thanks for remembering, Katie. Yes, Angi, Tigress was my mother's perfume in the '70s. Growing up, I was under strict orders to buy a new furry-capped bottle every birthday. And having smelled it for a good many years, I'm not surprised old bottles maintain their power. After a nuclear bomb, only cockroaches and Tigress will survive. And my mother.

Angi! Angi! (that's me singing your name in a ...

2010-02-07T10:33:11.546-08:00

Angi! Angi! (that's me singing your name in a Jagger yelp) Love the pegging of Amaranthine as a blend of groupie and rock wife. A razor-thin line to tightrope tip-toe, but a line nevertheless.

And I'm chuckling at your Tigress suggestion, but I do believe Pen Pal Dan was traumatized by an over-exposure to Tigress in his childhood. Perhaps he'll drop in and elucidate.
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Arachne, I included Réminiscence Musc more as earl...

2010-02-07T10:22:07.591-08:00

Arachne, I included Réminiscence Musc more as early-70s-appropriate choice than anything else. You're correct, this musk has all beasty basenotes scrubbed right out of it. Let's consider it a "groupie wannabe" starter musk.

Oh yeah - Kiehl's Musk is a perfect suggestion, and I didn't realize that it dates from (gasp) 1963. So Stones women could be wearing this

Found myself nodding in agreement at many of your ...

2010-02-07T10:14:11.362-08:00

Found myself nodding in agreement at many of your recs (Bal à V? Femme? Nuit Noire? Hell yeah!), until I reached Reminiscence Musc. Are we talking about the same Reminiscence Musc? That wholesome, vanilla-almond-white-musk-powder thingie in the starry bottle? I pegged it as the nicer smelling sister to Narciso Rodriguez: a floral-woody-musk at its best.
Personally, I like Kiehl's Musk

Heidi, if you can find it (search second-hand stor...

2010-02-07T09:54:13.616-08:00

Heidi, if you can find it (search second-hand stores and ebay), Faberge Tigress is a good 70's Lady options. It's a lovely amber scent, and even the most decrepit, spoiled bottles I have found still dry down to a nice warm skin scent.

To add to the skank list, Penhaligon's Amaranthine. It may be more Proper English Whore than Stones Groupie, but the skank is definitely

ahsu, I second your emotion on all of those sugges...

2010-02-07T09:33:51.746-08:00

ahsu, I second your emotion on all of those suggestions. And the L'Air de Rien is a perfect melding of "personal" with a whiff of hippie joss sticks, so it covers all the 70s Stones bases.

Yeah, some friend you are, nadine - recommending t...

2010-02-07T09:31:29.826-08:00

Yeah, some friend you are, nadine - recommending the truly revolting Sécrétions Magnifiques that you quite rightly wouldn't even wear yourself. There is so much unholy violence in that smell!

Heidi, steer clear. Sécrétions Magnifiques will get you kicked off the tour faster than Mick'n'Bianca's love fizzled. (Bianca's quote is: "My marriage ended on my wedding