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Topic: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

You know the ones.........it's ALL you smell!  17

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

For me, it's tobacco.  I swear, if the perfumer even thought about using tobacco as a note, I can smell it  vissla

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

For me: PATCHOULI!!!  53

Sometimes I quite like it, whereas other times I absolutely LOATHE it.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Jasmine, I'm always surprised when I look at a perfume's profile and see that others don't smell jasmine as much as I do lol.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Oud.  And when it binds with rose, I can forget about smelling/enjoying anything else.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Orange!  This is good, because I adore orange, it's one of my favorite notes.   29

Licorice is another one.  This is bad, because I can't stand the smell of licorice.  I like to eat it in candy, but I don't like the smell of it in perfumes.  It ruins Pink Candy and a few others for me because the licorice note overpowers everything else.   grater

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Cinnamon. Spicy, yummy, cinnamon.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Treemoss / oakmoss without the right amount of citrus oil to balance.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Orange blossom tends to drown out other notes on me! To a lesser extent, so does lemon- Good thing I like both of them!

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

If there is lilly of the valley in it, that will be ALL I smell.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Wichapi wrote:

Oud. And when it binds with rose, I can forget about smelling/enjoying anything else.

Oud would be second on my list.  It doesn't completely drown out all other notes, but not for lack of trying.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

I often find myself unable to escape amber when it's in a fragrance.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Patchouli, Gardenia, and Sandalwood for me.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Musk....  92 Need I say more? (smile)

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Leather tends to overwhelm me in a fragrance even though I like it -

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Always patchouli, but I love patchouli!!

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Vanilla at all times.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Vanilla too glad and vetyver.  Both i love fortunately  superglad

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Maybe it's psychological when I am aware of the note patchouli; I'm not a big fan of it but I smell it above all the other notes I would like in a perfume.

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Vetyver, on the smell strip and on other people, perversely it disappears on me.

On me Amber tends to dominate almost over other notes contained in anything I wear with Amber in it. Also Lavender.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Tuberose! It just seems to bulldoze all the other notes. Any fragrances based on tuberose all smell the same to me. I'm astounded when someone can pick out other notes.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Radchick wrote:

Tuberose! It just seems to bulldoze all the other notes. Any fragrances based on tuberose all smell the same to me. I'm astounded when someone can pick out other notes.

Tuberose sounds like a bully  superglad

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Sandalwood!

When it's on my skin it also stands out very much. Sometimes I like it sometimes it kind of ruins it for me.

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Re: Which note dominates all others to your nose?

Civet and coconut.

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