I have bought kind of a lot of perfume samples.
Pursuant to an amazing rec set by rydra_wong (in comments), I have ordered samples of:
- All five of the Comme des Garcons incense series, though I am made aware that that is just scratching the surface of Comme des Garcons unisex-incense-and-forest smells. I appreciate that there's a whole perfume house that understands that I just want to smell like a tree, please.
- Knize Knize Ten, which was recommended as a really old-school castoreum (now synthetic)
- Andy Tauer Incense Rose
- Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypree (I'm determined to get this rose situation hammered out, apparently)
- L'Artisan Parfumeur Dzing!, which I believe everyone else on DW has already smelled, and which was recommended for animalic notes
- Andy Tauer L'Air du desert marocain
- L'Artisan Parfumeur Al Oudh, which was rydra_wong's suggestion for "heavy skank".
I appreciate that my range here is "smell like a tree", "smell like a pretty flower", and "smell like an armpit".
I AM EXCITED and possibly also about to offer to mail someone some perfume samples that don't work for me, but it will be a learning experience either way.