Basenotes Wardrobes Back in Action

The Basenotes directory as been back in action for a few weeks thanks to the admin, Grant. Awesome guy. I remember running a website a few years ago and it was a grueling ambition.

Now, Grant has furthered himself by making the wardrobes finally back online but for supporting members. I happen to have the status of supporting member i.e. I forked over a few dollars to be such but I like donating to good causes. I donate to charities any time I can, a dollar here and there can't hurt, hell... after 9/11 I donated $50 to the Red Cross despite the fact I was a poor college student and couldn't afford the rent every month. I managed but that was then.


Back on point, I'm so happy the Basenotes wardrobe has been put back up. For some reason, I can't keep track of all the fragrances I've tried. If you notice, I really stopped posting after the wardrobes officially went down last year. Now they're back up in a semi-force as they've been. I can add and remove from my collection and one I've tried. But really I was using it to keep track of what I have, want, sampled and reviewed.

Also on the Basenote Forums you can list fragrances that are missing from th directory. I've had a few that havbe been missing for the longest time but was too reluctant to list them. Tonight I made a splurge of them. I hope to not offend Grant (more power to him, it's not urgent to update the directory!).

I thank Basenotes and its administrator. Really great website (which is is why I gave you moneys, haha)

Similiarities, Yet Different

Every time I put on Sander for Man, Gucci pour Homme II or Hugo Dark Blue, I get the sudden feeling I'm wearing the wrong fragrance.

All three feel so alike to me, even their colors are quite similiar. Gucci ph II and Sander are the closest smelling of the three so where does Hugo Dark Blue come in? I have no idea. When I wear Dark Blue I feel like I'm wearing a sweeter Gucci ph II. The only note in common between the three is the olibanum/incense/myrrh type notes.

When I wear Sander for Man, like I am right now, I wish I was wearing Gucci pour Homme II. When I wear Gucci pour Homme II I wish I was wearing Hugo Dark Blue. When I'm wearing Hugo Dark Blue I wish I was wearing Sander for Man. It's quite the circle as I like all three!

As a sidenote, I hope Grant from Basenotes gets the wardrobe feature back in place. I've been and so have others waiting for a couple of months now. It may be a lot of fuss over nothing but I'm getting antsy about it!

Findings at TJ Maxx, Ross and Marshall's

I have a sneaking suspicion that all three of these discount stores are owned by the same company. They all have the same setup inside, systems and products.

Here are the fragrances I have purchased from these three stores over the past couple of months along with a mini review.


GF Ferre Lui - spicy and reminds me of Christmas
Oxygene Homme - fresh and spicy
Spark - honey and booze, synthetic
Paco Rabanne pour Homme - classic lavender and mossy
Drakkar Noir - this is the 80's
Paul Smith Extreme - cool packaging, nice scent
Everlast Original 1910 - the best bargain out of all these
Lacoste (original) - lemon and sandalwood, screams sporty polo shirt
Lucky Number 6 - a competent evening scent that not many have heard about
Azzaro Pure Lavender - ugly as a perfume but great as a room spray
Tumulte pour Homme - cedar, cedar, cedar! get your cedar here! also cool packaging

Most were purchased at $15 or less. I feel as if Everlast Original 1910 is the most interesting of them all. It smells like you're put on cologne after a workout but it's not totally skunky.