Work In Progress:

Notes of Yay:

• Cinnamon
• Coffee
• White Tea
• Ginger
• Hawaiian Ginger
• Honeysuckle
• Pink Pepper
• Pink Grapefruit
• Violet
• ?

Almost Always Delicious:

• Pomegranate
• Honey
• Gardenia
• Citrus
• Grapefruit
• Lemon
• Lime
• Pepper
• Amber
• Ozone
• Lotus
• Sweet Pea
• Tonka
• Jasmine
• Lavender
• Lilac
• Fig
• Old Paper/Parchment
• Candles, Candle Wax, Beeswax
• Moonflower
• ?

Approach with Caution:

• Leather - doesn't like me, but mmmmmmm on the husband
• Pumpkin - one of my favorite scents, but the lab's pumpkin note tends to be too buttery altogether for me
• Patchouli - better as a supporting character than a main note
• Rose - some are wonderful, some are meh.
• Mint
• Sugar
• Coconut
• Licorice/Anise
• Red Velvet Cake - I love the taste of this, and want to try some, but foody is uncertain on me.
• Booze - will need more testing to know which ones are yum, and which ones make me go blecch...
• Musks - need to categorize. So far white musk seems ok, dark musk not so much.
• Strong Woody Notes
• Frankincense
• Opoponax
• Lemongrass
• Myrrh
• Vetiver
• Beer - I hate the taste of most beers, especially hoppy ones. Haven't smelled it in perfume yet though - who knows?
• Apple - depends on the blend, but good to be aware of it beforehand
• Pineapple - in just the right blend, awesome - otherwise blech.
• Currants - strongly blend-dependent
• Red Ginger
• ?

Notes of DOOM:

• Butter & Buttery Yuckiness
• Milk (only ok on the daughter, but she likes it)
• Cherries - turns to cough syrup, blech
• Grape - much like cherry, smells like cough syrup almost always
• Maple - don't like it. Don't like the smell, the taste, nada.
• Chocolate - have had some success with the dry cocoa type, but very very suspicious of chocolate in my perfume
• Juniper
• Dark Myrrh
• Pine Sap
• Skin Musk
• Aged or Dark Patchouli
• Rum
• ?

Overall, I tend to enjoy spicy/light floral/citrus/herbal type of perfumes more, less so on the foody/woody/resiny side. Still working on narrowing that down. Aquatics & Orientals tend to be harder for me to categorize, but so far so good.

My ScentBase Profile - as up-to-date as humanly possible, this lists everything I have so far.

Wish List

Goodreads

Source: notes you like, notes you don't like