Opium parfum

[G-MAN]

My mother likes Opium perfume so I was doing a Google search to see where I could get it for the lowest price (Xmas present) and I ran across a perfume site where people can write reviews of different fragrances. Check out this hilarious review of Opium:

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I normally like fresh fruity florals so this one is a nightmare to me, but on a much higher scale than the typical heedy scents. It smells very 'old lady' in a sinister, unkempt/decomposing sort of way. If one could imagine what an unshowered Joan Crawford and Night of the Living Dead would smell like together or maybe Norman Bates mother - this is it.

 

[oilyriser]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(novel)

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Problem with "old lady" smell, is that they often use so much hairspray that the hairspray fragrance clashes with the perfume.

On another note, cologne and deodorant should not be substituted for bathing.

 

[Shannow]

Something we see around here is that some women (typically younger) seem to think that perfume is a marinade.

 

[G-MAN]

The first time I smelled Opium was when my dad gave my mother a bottle for Christmas in the early 80s. My first impression was that it smelled like Old Spice (an opinion I still hold today). That Opium would smell like Old Spice is not surprising given the original recipe for Old Spice created by Albert Hauck: orange, lemon, spices, clary sage, aldehydes, cinnamon, carnation, geranium, jasmine, heliotrope, pimento berry, vanilla, musk, cedar wood, frankincense, benzoin, tonka bean, ambergris. Several of these essential oils (cinnamon, jasmine, banzoin, musk, and ambergris) are also used in Opium.

 

[Shannow]

I still can't beleive that the best perfumes in the world use whale vomit...surely they can develop a synthetic for it.

 

[G-MAN]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
I still can't beleive that the best perfumes in the world use whale vomit...surely they can develop a synthetic for it.


I'm assuming you're referring to ambergris. I'm pretty sure this comes out the other end of the whale.

 

[Shannow]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/ambergris.htm

 

[Pablo]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
http://science.howstuffworks.com/ambergris.htm


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Ambergris is found in lumps of various shapes and sizes, weighing from ½ oz (14 g) to 100 or more pounds (45.36 or more kg). When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color (sometimes streaked with black), soft in consistency, with a strong fecal smell.


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Because giant squids' beaks have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorized that the whale's intestine produces the substance as a means of facilitating the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have inadvertently eaten.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris

 

[ekpolk]

Originally Posted By: G-MAN
My mother likes Opium perfume so I was doing a Google search to see where I could get it for the lowest price (Xmas present) and I ran across a perfume site where people can write reviews of different fragrances. Check out this hilarious review of Opium:

Quote:
I normally like fresh fruity florals so this one is a nightmare to me, but on a much higher scale than the typical heedy scents. It smells very 'old lady' in a sinister, unkempt/decomposing sort of way. If one could imagine what an unshowered Joan Crawford and Night of the Living Dead would smell like together or maybe Norman Bates mother - this is it.


Throughout the ghastly course of my nearly-forgotten teen years, I must have watched all of the half-rotten corpse zombie movies. Dawn of the Dead and all of its evil spawn. Multiple times over. I always wondered what all those crispy corpses would have smelled like (theaters should have Smell-o-vision...). I guess now I know.

On a slightly more serious note, my one allergic weakness seems to be perfumes. Virtually all of them, at close enough range, make me start wheezing, sneezing, or worse. My wife has totally given up on any form of "fragrance enhancement" which is fine with me. I mean, really, let's not forget the origin of all of these potions -- a desire to cover up the undesirable side effects of the poor hygiene habits of generations past. We now have daily access to showers and baths. Make me dictator of the world, and perfumes and similar substances will be gone in short order...

 

[G-MAN]

Originally Posted By: ekpolk
On a slightly more serious note, my one allergic weakness seems to be perfumes. Virtually all of them, at close enough range, make me start wheezing, sneezing, or worse. My wife has totally given up on any form of "fragrance enhancement" which is fine with me. I mean, really, let's not forget the origin of all of these potions -- a desire to cover up the undesirable side effects of the poor hygiene habits of generations past. We now have daily access to showers and baths. Make me dictator of the world, and perfumes and similar substances will be gone in short order...


A woman's vanity knows no bounds. My mother, with all her lung problems, has been warmed numerous times by her lung doctor not to wear perfumes or colognes. She still insists on wearing them, however.

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: G-MAN
the original recipe for Old Spice created by Albert Hauck: orange, lemon, spices, clary sage, aldehydes, cinnamon, carnation, geranium, jasmine, heliotrope, pimento berry, vanilla, musk, cedar wood, frankincense, benzoin, tonka bean, ambergris.


Apparently following the principle "a lot helps a lot."

 

[Pablo]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
Originally Posted By: G-MAN
the original recipe for Old Spice created by Albert Hauck: orange, lemon, spices, clary sage, aldehydes, cinnamon, carnation, geranium, jasmine, heliotrope, pimento berry, vanilla, musk, cedar wood, frankincense, benzoin, tonka bean, ambergris.


Apparently following the principle "a lot helps a lot."

Really. I'm a little worried about "spices".....certain perfumes make me gag and get all chokey.

 

[moribundman]

I throw up if I'm exposed to the odor of Poison for more than 3 milliseconds. Nobody here uses any perfume. I'll put a little green tree around Captain Kirk's neck on occasion, but that's about it!

 

[G-MAN]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
Originally Posted By: moribundman
Originally Posted By: G-MAN
the original recipe for Old Spice created by Albert Hauck: orange, lemon, spices, clary sage, aldehydes, cinnamon, carnation, geranium, jasmine, heliotrope, pimento berry, vanilla, musk, cedar wood, frankincense, benzoin, tonka bean, ambergris.


Apparently following the principle "a lot helps a lot."

Really. I'm a little worried about "spices".....certain perfumes make me gag and get all chokey.


You have to remember that in a well-crafted perfume or cologne you don't smell all these ingredients at once. You've got a top note, which is generally what you smell when the fragrance is first applied. The mid-notes come through after some time on the skin as the alcohol evaporates. The base notes are what you smell after you've been wearing the fragrance for quite a while.

For Old Spice, all those ingredients break down like this:

Top notes: orange, lemon, spices, clary sage, aldehydes.
Mid notes: cinnamon, carnation, geranium, jasmine, heliotrope, pimento berry.
Base notes: vanilla, musk, cedar wood, frankincense, benzoin, tonka bean, ambergris.

 

[Merkava_4]

Originally Posted By: Shannow
I still can't beleive that the best perfumes in the world use whale vomit...surely they can develop a synthetic for it.


LOL!!! . . .

 

[Merkava_4]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
I throw up if I'm exposed to the odor of Poison for more than 3 milliseconds.


LOL!!! . . .

You guys got me cracking up so hard, that I think I taste blood in my throat.

 

[G-MAN]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
I throw up if I'm exposed to the odor of Poison for more than 3 milliseconds. Nobody here uses any perfume. I'll put a little green tree around Captain Kirk's neck on occasion, but that's about it!


No Religion/Sex/Politics.

 

[Gary Allan]

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You have to remember that in a well-crafted perfume or cologne you don't smell all these ingredients at once.


Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Ooh, but I still smell her.
[inhales deeply through nose]

 

[MarkC]

Ahoy, who among you will admit to wearing Old Spice anyway?
My Grandpa used to.
I like the smell for a minute, but I don't want to smell it all day long.
That includes pretty much anything.