MalJo

Thanks everyone who responded! I have just always been completely baffled as to why Chanel No 5 makes me want to throw up, for lack of a better description! It's supposed to be such a beautiful perfume! I was at the mall yesterday and put a spritz on myself to see if maybe something had changed...and it hadn't. Blech, chemicals! It might not be the aldehydes, I just thought it could have been since I didn't know what they were, and probably is just that specific combination of scents just doesn't appeal to me. I'm going to try to stay away from Ozymandias thought, just in case! Thanks everyone who responded! :-)

I'm a little bit afraid of incense and myrrh from 7 years of being a catholic alter server and coming home countless mornings reeking of funeral incense. Anyone familiar with Catholic funerals been able to overcome this? There are so many neat seeming scents but I'm so afraid of the incense!

Thank you! I placed an order for imps with a lot of orange blossom, because I love it <3. Thank you for the advice, oakmoss and Mountaingrrl. :-) Mountaingrrl, do you think it's the "floral-aldehydes" that we don't like? That honestly sounds like something in which a frog would be floating in 9th grade biology.

So as I sit here making an ever growing list of what I want to order next, I'm very afraid of getting anything that smells like Chanel No. 5. For some reason that perfume smells like chemicals to me. Absolutely nauseating. I found this on Wikipedia about No. 5. "No. 5 is famous for being the first perfume to heavily rely on synthetic floral aldehydes as a top note. Chanel No. 5 is classified as a floral-aldehyde. Its top notes include ylang ylang, neroli and aldehydes; its mid notes rose and jasmine; and its base notes sandalwood, vetiver and vanilla." I don't have a problem with the rose, jasmine, sandalwood or vanilla, but I don't know what vetiver is. Could it be the aldehydes I hate? I have no idea what they are though! Can any perfume wizard help me figure No. 5 out so I can AVOID IT! That stupid perfume smells like formaldehyde. So I guess my real question is...what are "floral aldehydes" and does BPAL use a lot of them? Are they something that can be avoided? Or am I making it up that I can even smell a difference about them? -MalJo (I hope this is in the right spot, I searched and I couldn't find another subject about this! If I'm wrong just slap me silly and I'll move it! I was going to put it in the thread about "What perfume smells like what oil?" but I didn't think it fit.)