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Tanger Outlet Center at Tuscola
Tanger Outlet Center offers a big city shopping experience without the big-city hassle. Brand-name stores at great prices including Coach, JCrew, UnderArmor, and Chico's - over 40 brand name outlets! Check out our monthly special events, coupons and sales. Tanger Outlet Center is conveniently located off of I-57, exit 212 in Tuscola. Locations nearby include Champaign and Amish Country.
The 200 Acres
Located in the heart of Illinois' Amish country, The 200 Acres is a working farm that features beautiful gardens, including a spectacular collection of more than 5,000 mums, and offers its heirloom seeds for sale. The 200 Acres is especially known for its more than 300 varieties of rare pumpkins, squash and gourds from around the globe that are grown right on the farm and displayed in its Great Pumpkin Patch from mid-September through October 31 every year. The on-site Homestead Bakery sells made-from-scratch goodies such as pies and angel food cake during spring, summer and fall.
Tri-County Auctions
Authentic, mix-with-the-Amish experience. Auctions held at Vernon Yoder's farm near Arcola.
Shady Crest Farm Market
Come visit this working Amish farm and apple orchard. They have a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables for sale, plus fresh honey, apple butter and maple syrup. A Deli filled with 15 different Country-Cured Meats & 24 different Cheeses is also available Monday - Saturday. While you're there, enjoy a hand-dipped ice cream cone. You can also find Fresh Baked Goods every Thursday - Saturday. Open year round.
Villa Galleries
Fine art located in the heart of the Illinois Amish country. The Villa Galleries has dedicated its gallery to local artists who have ties to the central Illinois area either through living situation or artwork subject. Photography, watercolors, colored pencil, oil and acrylic, stained glass, and pottery are just a few of the mediums featured in the gallery.
Bath & Body Works -- Tanger Outlet Center
Integrating health, beauty and well-being. Combining the introduction of spa products that are easily used at home with the incorporation of simple rituals into daily life, Bath & Body Works is committed to helping consumers improve their emotional and physical being. Purchase lotions, creams, hand soap and more in a variety of scents.
Red Bud Lane Iris Garden
Feast your eyes on the gardens of iris, hostas and day lillies. These bulbs and rhizomes are shipped all over the country. Please call before your visit.
Simply Amish
Many Styles. One Standard. Amish isn't a style. It's a standard of excellence—desired by many and practiced by a very rare few. It's in the fine details of solid wood drawers, hand-finished, inside and out. It's in the skill of genuine Amish craftsmen, passed down from one generation to the next.
Buxton's Garden Farm
Open year-round and offering annual and perennial flowers, mums, fall decor, pumpkins, squash, and fall treats. Known also for the 7 acre corn maze, haunted maze and mind twisted maze. School tours and groups welcome. Christmas trees and wreaths offered in winter months.
Ambero Antiques and Decorative Arts
Located on the west side of the historical Courthouse square in Charleston, IL, Ambero Antiques & Decorative Arts provides authentic antique, vintage, and contemporary furnishings at fair prices. Here you will find an eclectic mix of furniture, mirrors, art, ceramics, metalwares, textiles, and jewelry.
Copper Eagle
The largest antique mall in Charleston, Illinois. The Copper Eagle antique mall is located at the corner of 3rd Street and Madison Avenue, known locally as "Five Points". The Copper Eagle has grown to around 75 dealers offering over 3000 square feet of antiques and collectibles. Inventory changes daily and many of vendors offer periodic specials. Copper Eagle is open every day of the week, so stop in and spend some time browsing - you might just find that one piece you have been searching for!
Olde Brick Wall
Here at Olde Brick Wall we carry a wonderful collection of upholstered and early American reproduction wood painted furniture. There are several styles and colors to choose from. To complete your whole room, we carry paint, curtains, shower curtains, pillows, rugs, chandeliers, shelves and pictures. Established in 1994 in a charming, old hotel building in the heart of Illinois Amish country, Arcola, the Olde Brick Wall features a wonderful gathering of tinware, light fixtures, candles, redware, folk art and primitives. We offer everything you could ever want to give your home that special look, feel and smell of country that we all love so much.
The Primitive Goose
Seek out life's simple pleasures...A gathering of primitives, antiques, folk art, and home and garden decor. A memorable shopping experience!
Amish Country Heirlooms, LLC
Area's largest of hand-crafted Amish and oak furniture, collectible prints, and accessories, along with Country Dreams furniture exhibit.
Locally hand crafted goodness, baked goods, fun decor for the home, children's section & more, soaps, blankets, antiques, sock monkey & designer fabrics, amish souvenirs, hand woven rugs, teapots and more.


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County has some good news amid the economic gloom
Plumas County Administrative Officer Jack Ingstad gave some good news to the Board of Supervisors while delivering his annual mid-year budget report on the General Fund at a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 18.
Ingstad told the supervisors that sales tax receipts only fell by $2,000 compared to the numbers at the same time last year, while transient occupancy tax (TOT) revenues actually rose by $56,000.
Ingstad attributed the good news that the sales tax had stayed relatively flatdue to the efforts of Supervisor Sherrie Thrall, who was chairwoman for the last two year.
He said Thrall was influential in the recent "buy locally" campaign and he also praised the leadership at Feather Publishing for strongly supporting that message.
In terms of the growth in TOT receipts, Ingstad praised Plumas Arts, Plumas Corporation, the Plumas County Visitors Bureau, local chambers and Graeagle Plumas Alliance for their efforts to boost tourism.
"I think the good news is we really are in control of our community to a certain extent. You can make a difference here."
Later in the meeting, Ingstad stressed that these local successes in tourism and sales were truly unique.
"This is not happening all over California and I give a lot of credit to the community (and) community leaders."
He also said the vehicle license fee wasn't down significantly.
In these times, of course, all the news can't be good. Property taxes fell $331,000, although Ingstad said that was about the amount for which the county had budgeted.
County Assessor Chuck Leonhardt said it looked like the previous budget year was the worst ever in terms of a drop in property taxes. He hoped that indicated the worst is behind Plumas in that category, but this year still featured a similarly massive drop.
Ingstad also indicated the cost plan was down, which he said probably made some of the state-funded departments happy.
The cost plan is the mechanism by which the county bills state-funded departments, like those providing health and human services, for work done by General Fund departments.
Basically, if the social services department uses the county counsel's office to look at some contracts or has county technical support work on a computer, the General Fund bills that department.
Ingstad said county counsel wasn't keeping track of its hours doing that type of work.
Current county counsel Craig Settlemire interjected that the issue was with the previous occupant of his office and Ingstad confirmed that was the case.
Ingstad continued by saying spending was down about $305,000 this year and around $1.5 million over the last two budgets.
"I think that shows the quality of our department heads and their ability to control cost and do more with less," he commented.
Ingstad said General Fund revenues were down, as anticipated, and reserves were around 10 percent of the total budget size.
He said reserves went up before the downturn and were now right around the level they were at when he arrived in Plumas.
Ingstad said he wanted another month to analyze what the state was likely to do with its budget before considering any actions at the county level, but asked the board for direction on filling vacant positions in the meantime.
Thrall responded from the budget committee's point of view: "Looking at the proposals that the governor has made and knowing that some of them won't go but some of them will … it would be wise to be very cautious at this point."
Ingstad agreed, "One of the additional concerns we have is our cash flow on hand is way down.
"We're down $926,000 in cash from last year at this same time and that's the money, fund balance … we use to start next year's budget in the General Fund.
"I think I understand why it's down but the auditor is very concerned and she's letting me know that we have a cash problem."
Essentially this relates to Ingstad's earlier comment that fund balance has been dropping over time.
Fund balance is the amount of money that the county has left over at the end of each budget year.
The General Fund isn't in the negative overall; its cushion is just shrinking over time.
Ingstad recommended the board allow him to filter requests to fill positions from General Fund departments for the next month and decide which should proceed to the critical staffing committee.
He said grant-funded, public works, and health and human services positions would go through for the moment, but he wanted to keep a close eye on the General Fund while waiting for the state to act.
In a phone interview Ingstad said that, compared to prior years, "I feel a lot better, understanding what I think the future is going to be."
Ingstad reported he could see a path out of the downturn for Plumas as long as nothing goes very wrong on the state or national scale to cause a double-dip recession.
He also said the county did a good enough job with its budget this year that a mid-year adjustment wouldn't be needed unless a state budget change harmed the county further.
Ingstad was also optimistic about the possibility of selling county properties to the state for the new courthouse.
He said the county owned too much office space and land and would benefit from the extra cash.

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In addition to a full-service spa, The Chatwal New York City features an indoor jet stream lap pool and a 24-hour fitness facility, as well as the Red Door Spa, with spa rooms, three private changing suites, and steam showers; other spa services include manicures and pedicures, skincare, massage, body treatments, nail care.
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- Hey guys, I'm Impo.
If you're reading this, ...that's just plain weird, there are plenty of more exciting people to stalk here. I'm writing this because it makes my Bio look more detailed, so there is really no point in reading it. I'm just going to rant on about absolutely nothing in particular until I feel that it's a suitable length.
I almost swallowed a marble the other day. I was eating Malteasers and there were these marbles, and I accidentally got them confused. The sad thing was I just thought the chocolate was hard, so I almost broke my teeth. Not even two year olds try eating marbles, then take five minutes to realize, "Hey! I'm trying to eat glass!".
Crap, that only makes about six lines on my Bio. Seriously, it looked about twelve lines long when I was typing this, but the minute I save it it just shrinks or something, I don't know. Maybe there's some dark magic preventing me from writing lengthy paragraphs? I sure hope not, because I never really had the skill to drone on and on and on, so that would just be wasting dark magic. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of other more important things dark magic should be doing. Like taking candy from babies, and making old people trip over. Hehe, that always makes me laugh. I don't know why, but imagining an old lady with a stroller tumbling over on the sidewalk gives me the giggles. I know, I'm horrible, get over it. I can tell you're laughing too, so you have the same sick, twisted humor as me. Congratulations, I'm so proud!
Okay, so that's longer, but not long enough. Now I look semi-smart, which isn't good enough. I need to look over-the-top genius, so people think "Why the hell would someone bother to write so much about themselves on a Pokemon Forum?". I want people to think that. I will make them think that. Damn, now I'm thinking about it. Ha! Now you're thinking about it too, aren't you? It worked! It actually worked! Okay, okay, calm down. I have a speech prepared to commemorate this glorious moment.
*Clears Throat*
"I'd like to thank all those idio- Ummm, those wonderful friends of mine for wasting about five minutes of their obviously invaluable life to read this sad excuse for a Bio.
I'd also like to thank God, for helping me with support from above the heavens.
Mum, thanks for everything, but I'm still going to send you to a nursing home.
To those annoying idiots who annoy me at school, look at me now, you twats!
I'd also like to-"
Wait? What! There's a character limit for my speech? That's not fair, I wasn't finished. I didn't have much more to say, either. I never ever talk for too long, I'm the human equivalent of a mouse. I'm small, I have a tail and I can make elephants run in the other direction.
Okay, that's about enough now. I think I can fool those who just skim across this page, those skimmer-ers, those. Let's just hope to God they don't actually read this, or they'll realize that I'm actually an idiot. Crap, let's just keep quiet and hope that no one notices this, got it? I'm serious, Bio. Squeal and I'll delete you. I don't care about you're family, they'll get used to a dead Bio. So you better pray no one reads this. - Interests
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Well, I made a to-do list and quite frankly didn't really focus on completing much of it.
But, in a way I have pretty much paved the way for all my fitness goals, now that I exercise regularly.
I wanna summarize my achievements just so I can see how they add up.
But, in a way I have pretty much paved the way for all my fitness goals, now that I exercise regularly.
I wanna summarize my achievements just so I can see how they add up.
- Running 3 times a week (7 km)
- Gym 3 times a week (with dad)
- Nike Training 3-4 Times a Week
- Maintaining mostly healthy diet
- Ability to look good in a towel
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I have a problem with the second complaint, i.e. the "assumption about the superiority of leisured pursuits is dogmatic rather than reasoned."
I advance the thesis it that it is not possible to compare the values of different kinds of pursuits on completely reasoned grounds. What we enjoy doing is deeply rooted in our personal histories – in our early childhood, in our later experiences, and – who knows – maybe in our genes as well.
Personally, I greatly enjoy intellectual intellectual activities, whether or not they bring in money or have a "practical" application: some are trivial (say, solving sudoku puzzles or playing bridge), some requiring serious study and intellectual effort (in any number of academic disciplines).
Others may prefer engaging in art, playing music, building their own furniture, maintaining the perfect garden or (to bring in classic "aristocratic" pursuits) hunting, fishing and sailing. Not because of a disdain for market activity, but because (for the practitioner) they are fun. The main point of having some money is that you can find the time to engage in such activities, since not every moment of your waking time has to be taken up by remunerative work.
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I've been called names because of some hypercritic ciritique on Katie Puckricks nasty review of Secretions Magnifique of Etat Libre D'Orange <ref: http://www.basenotes.net/threads/261510-Funniest-review-ever-Katie-Puckrik-and-Secretions-Magnifiques!>
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As You see, I've got a not so full bottle by now. When I lately sprayed it on another man he said it would smell pleasent, sexy. His mother agreed to that. Similarities to JOOP have been stated. In the end, this is the fifth out of six who didn't reject the "tear shedding penis" as horrid, repulsive or in an other way unbearable. The sixth person, a young girl got a foul note out of it. She has grown up in the city with only rarely going to the country side. Maybe that excuses her overreacting to the grain of salt within every perfume of French origin. Which herein is a nitro-something reminiscent of decomposing organic material. Hey, hays smell comes from that too!
Other, earlier reviews of European origin got it similar: not that bad, if bad at all, but strange, something to discover piece by piece.
I'm quite often at Loire Atlantique in France for vacation. St. Nazaire close to Nantes is my preferred place to go. When being there my GF and I enjoy oysters, bread, garlic, parsley and not at least the simple but terrific wine Muscadet Sevre Et Maine Sur Lie for diner. The people und us eat oysters as a snack after the farmers market - 10cc each, fresh from the region. If You as a perfume-o-holic lack that reference, chances are high that SM speaks in a foreign tounge. For instance the French at the western shoreline have a tradition to pick small snails direct from the surge for a feast. The contact to natures raise and fall may be more direct than possible in Hollywood, US not to mention NYC, where nature is smelly poisonous rot if it is present at all.
As said before my first reaction to SM was: white apple with black rotting spots on it. That and windfall, wet grass, trees bark, dewy flowers all over. In other words, that fragrance has blown me back in time. It was a complete picture, emotions of familiarity included of a lucky time of my childhood. My olfactory system couldn't get it first and had to search backward that far!
Maybe that I'm a little bit too old to jump on the bandwaggon. I'm as old as Katie and hardly resist to get my first platic surgery. Me as an experienced person of old European values and traditions think this fragrance has earned at least the merit of being once peculiar and hence a wothwhile chewing gumm for old farts who otherwise lost their impact. It is as synthetic as Beyond Paradise (which I own too) but French - consequently
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OK we get it , you love it , Katie didnt . Let it go ....
I really dont see a point here aside from you actually liking it
In other words, we Non-Europeans are simple, uneducated bufoons who are unable to appreciate some of the "finer" things in life.
Gotcha! Talk about condescending!!
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Don't get too upset over other reviewers. Wear what you like.
I don't know how many times I have disagreed strongly with Turin and Sanchez. I still like reading their guide on perfumes.
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What's up with the attitude of all the replies? This is clearly one of the more interesting and detailed first posts of the thread.
I also think, there are certain differences between european and for example american sensibilities in general. So what? He didn't say anything offending there, did he? Czeslaw Milosz's book Vision from San Francisco Bay is an excellent book about these differences - magnificent depth. It's truly intriguing subject; not something we should ban because it's offending or condescending. It's not. Talk like this is not about particular persons, but about cultural history. Understanding history and certain cultural undercurrents might help us figure out, why perfumery - or taste in fragrances - in USA for example is different to that of France or England. Ok, now this is getting off-topic, since it isn't the main point at all here.
Katie Puckrick didn't have anything even remotely interesting to say about the fragrance; not that she even tried. It was not a review, it was a performance. WildThingy's image of white apple with black spots is interesting and something new. It smelling metallic and milky isn't. I've read many times, that if someone says he likes it, he must be lying. I think attitude like this - along with some rude comments - made WildThingy open this thread.
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hmmm ... get the pun - that's a too simple thought ;-)
No, honest, the "review" by Katie was an other one in a row of uninspired bashings of the frag in question. It's o/k - no question - to dismiss the frag as unpleasent to nauseating whatever You like to think about it. To stage the disgust in public and to make up a competition on who's revolting reaction is the most entertaining isn't that polite, is it?
I'm not condescending here. I would like to remind You to respect other peoples feelings, whatever you share them or not. Maybe you miss in understanding them because of lacking experience with life, coastlines, antimatter, apples ... .
Just in case of strong dislikeing: how did the perfumer achieve that tremendous effect without reminding you of something specific? Art? One thing it is not: trivial.
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Thank you WildThingy. I like this as a fragrance review. It is observant and articulate.
I do wish you could let go of the impulse to put your view in competition with those who disagree. You write well enough, even in a second language, for your words to stand on their own. Don't waste your time attacking a puff piece like Katie's review -- you're obviously putting more thought into her video than she did. I for one would much rather hear what you have to say about perfume, not about the silly things some people say or do with them to keep each other entertained.
(I myself have only sniffed S.M. on paper in a store. I found the top notes to be very unpleasant, with a sharp metallic quality that I expect must be the "iodine" note people talk about. But I moved on to other, more interesting things, so I don't really know S.M. well enough to pass judgment on it.)
It's me to appreciate Your interest, thank You. Alas, in this case my intention is to get the SM out of the hole people on basenotes once threw it in. It is utterly o/k to dislike it, as long as You can be converted ;-)
Even disgust is of interest. You say it is the metal in it. Metal == rot == lipid per oxide (i'm not L Turin, though). I personally think that the metal is supernatural clean. Stunning. I just try to connect the "notes" to something known as with every frag. Regarding metal, what do You think about Habanita of Molinard. I found it unbearable because that was criminal dirty bloody, go figure!
I agree with Johnny here in that Katie IS indeed an actress, and in between the comments on scent (which are often thoughtful), she has to chime in with the humour and the drama.
That said, I think all critics (food, perfume, art, film, etc) should me viewed as "people with an opinion," and not sayers of the gospel truth.
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I didn't find Secretions Magnifique to be one of the best things I have ever smelled. But I certainly did not find it repulsive, nor did it make me want to vomit. However I did live and work in Angers, France for 4 years, and spent a lot of time in the Loire Atlantique region eating oysters and drinking Muscadet Sevre Et Maine Sur Lie. So maybe that affected my palette.
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I had a sample of SM and I didn't get anything like semen, blood, or any bodily fluids. That it smelled like to me is a dog that had jumped in a pool with lots of chlorine and then sat in the sun for a while. Dog Breath + Chlorine with some milky aspects. I remember one time someone had said they thought it smelled like someone had ground up a bunch of vitamins and pills, concentrated them, and then wore them as a fragrance, and that is also what I think it smells like. Anyway, I like your review! I do like Katie's review, but it was obviously just a quick, all in good fun review. I like hearing both sides to the fragrance =D
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It isn't meant as that. The insinuating hairy chin is an observation of my girl friend (I'm straight btw). She told me after posting it. I'm completely satisfied with the response to my initial post. Nobody is asked to like SM, though, a competition to show off with the most spectatcular disgust could be taken as mean.
I have to recreate my likeings while I'm wearing that famous dingy Dzing! for a while. Decomposing (!!-again-!!) paper and such ...
ps: she is fond of Encens Et Bubblegum incrementing her liking of Jasmin Et Cigarette of ELDO. An alteration in the end ...
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Glad you posted a review! Actually, I don't think there's a need for this to be in reference to Katie's - it's perfectly fine to post reviews all your own here, in fact it's encouraged. I think mentioning Katie's only resurfaces unnecessary drama from that thread.
Secretions still strikes me as foul on re-testing, but I don't mind Charogne, which if anything, has an even fouler association. For some reason indole strikes horror into many folks but it doesn't do that to me, so it's not so strange that reactions to Secretions are variable.
Ahhh! I was so excited to try Charogne and boy...I sure was not prepared for that one. Smells like someone melted a big pot of cheese and put some bubblegum and jasmine in it. Blech.
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Katies would have been o/k if it was the first one of that peticular kind, But it was the third, so it became a bit unpleasent lately.
I did a review of that review. Tried to correct an issue or two. That's all. Cry out, shedd Your tears, express yourself, but don't do it for a competition of disgust. Because of that would be self referential. Thank You!
I'm just happy that the users of this fragrance are accross the ocean, so the chances that i found someone here wearing are minimal. I don't dare to even call this nonsense a fragrance, it's so nasty, nauseating, that i don't think it deserve to be called a fragrance. I'd vomit if i were forced to be at the same place with a person that wears this horrible thing. I had a mini of this one, and i had to keep it isolated of my wardrobe, because the smell was contaminating my other fragrances. Close to the bottle like the pic, the scent could cause me nauseas. The worst aroma that i have ever smelled on my life. Nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty!
Last edited by WildThingy; 12th October 2010 at 12:14 AM.
So i'll not have a chance to even catch a light smell of this one. I leaved my mini edp to a encounter that we made here, to test it on other skins to see if it could work in someone - and it didn't worked in no one. And it's a scent that refuses to go away, and one of my friend dab it liberally at his wrist. Everytime that he moved his arm i was able to detect the aroma, and always wanted to vomit. It's one of that smells that is hard to control what you feel - it's like concentrated sweat of someone that it didn't took a shower for months. It's not similar to sweat, but it causes the same reaction, that makes you run for fresh air. SM has to me dog's vomit and egg aroma. I tried that thing on skin, and had to wash it, it made me feel very bad.
I'm sorry for that. Here in Europe the fragrance fits (some kind of) into the assemblage of all day odors. As said, the response of all day people wasn't bad at all. To the opposite the scent was described as being sexy, whatever that is (if You could please pardon my age).
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SM is proof that bad press is better than no press. How many of us would've even bothered to try it, let alone seek it out, if not for its infamy? KP did SM the biggest favor of all.
I wonder if Katie Puckrick had called her video, "Secretions Magnifique live sampling" it would have changed things. If we knew she wasn't even trying to review it, and was more or less a reaction video akin to those of the 2 girls one cup reaction videos.
I would have tried it for being an Etat Libre D'Orange. I like the art concept. Even price wise they try to bring perfume back to wider interest. Some hyperbole is allowed with that. The kernel seems to have playfull fun, which has been missing due to the overload of erotism (sic!) that common perfumery has to bear. Got the twist? It has begun with the kitsch of Guerlains Mitsouko/Jicky/Shalimar - the love stories behind the names - to evolve fragrance into the overt sex up my body utility of today, iconographic advertising included.
With SM the punch line is in the fragrance as to speak with L Turin. 'Think Encens Et Bubblegum is the next unavoidable purchase. But it could be Arabie instead or Habit Rouge.
Last edited by WildThingy; 12th October 2010 at 08:28 AM. Reason: words fail me
I've not tested SM, but on your opinion of enjoying 'natural' smells more than Americans, I'll say this: I'm almost 40, born and raised in Southern California, lived here all my life. I've spent three weeks of my life in France, out of 40 years. The 3 worst experiences I've ever had in my life, in terms of being in the same room as someone with repulsive, terrible body odor all occurred in France (at the Louvre, at a trade show, and in a restaurant). Maybe I just had bad luck. Maybe you're more 'attuned' and 'accepting' of 'natural' body odors than those of us in Southern California (Hollywood), with our smog, sagebrush tumbleweeds, oak trees, licorice, deodorant, daily bathing and desert underbrush 'natural rot'. Me, I'm not so much a fan of the smell of people who haven't showered in two weeks.
The bottle has a penis with sprinkling semen - it's supposed to be jarring and unconventional, yes?
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I think it's fair to say that most people would find applying a semen smell to their body as less attractive than, well, just about anything else. If that makes me unrefined and incapable of accepting 'natural' smells, then so be it. With the hundreds of colognes out there, I'll pass on the 'blood, metal and semen' arrangements. To each their own. I appreciated the video review, and I appreciate yours.
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I lived in Europe for 3 years, I never came across anyone that smelled or would want to smell like S.M. It is false to claim Europeans as liberated souls that are in more "in tune" with bodily odours and hence accepting of S.M. The people I met there would gag on the c^%p.
I can deal with niche releases that are so avant garde that they become borderline unwearable but S.M is plain revolting. It contradicts what a perfume is meant to be.
For the very life of me, I cannot make heads or tails out of these remarks. All I know is that SM sucks the big wazoo.
Thanks WildThingy for your thoughtful review. I acquired the Coffret of ELdO 16 scents, and this one was interesting. It actually reminded me of egg-whites, before being made into meringue, nothing sulfuric, just something I had not expected to smell. It was the main note, and I felt there was something really pleasantly floral being restrained underneath. This one is not for me, but then, neither was Je Suis Un Homme, which was the first aromatic fougére I've experienced.
Agree. Being of European decent myself, and having lived there as well, I've had to do what typical kids of Italian rural families do, namely be involved and assist with the slaughtering and butchering of assorted animals - cows, pigs, sheep, chickens. I found the smell of their hot internal organs somewhat unpleasant. But in comparison to SM, they smell like roses.
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I am European, I love the concept of SM, but find it unquestionably abominable, unless of course a person is anosmic to certain rotten nitriles (according to some recent research, pretty much for any molecule, there's somebody who's anosmic).
But he bottle in the pic seems a store tester, so is wildthingy serious, or did he just take a pic in a store and pretend he's been using it? (and, for all we know, he could have simply decanted it for other people).
If not, more importantly, where can one buy the bottle with the whimsical label? I wanted to buy SM soon, but this side of the ocean I only see the 50ml bottle, which regrettably has only a generic label.
You know, strange you should say that about the French vis-à-vis body odour. (Which, by the way, always seems to be the typical ubiquitous insulting Yank viewpoint regarding the "great unwashed French"). I, on the other hand, knew someone with the absolute worst body odour I'd yet come across (& who refused point blank to use deodorant/perfume of any kind, to help soften the blow). And he, believe it or not, was actually a fellow Californian. ~ So, point being, I'll wager you find "rank body odour" pretty much in any corner of the globe ! ...
Besides, don't we have "body odour" to thank for the probable primary reason perfumery was even first developed in the first place ?!? ~ (And the subsequent glorious reasoning behind a pinch of castoreum/civit/indole/musk et al ....... ).
And regarding SM, I'd suggest you really shouldn't take all the "blood spit and spunk" marketing crap as gospel criteria for judging a scent which has yet to pass your nose. I mean, I can fully understand how a male (especially a full-on hetero' one ;o) might immediately shy-away/feel threatened(?)/revolted by a fragrance with purported spunk notes and a spouting penis on the bottle. But you could very well find, like I did (and everyone else I asked), that the actual fragrance as a whole doesn't actually smell anything like the purported bodily notes. Or rather that it's outcome is greater than the sum of it's parts. (Or you might find vague references, but only if you convince your mind to find them ;o) If on the other hand you ignore all the very clever marketing "mumbo-jumbo", you might even find you might even enjoy the fragrance after all !?? (As I've certainly been surprised to enjoy many a fragrance which actually contain notes which in isolation I dislike). ...
Just a suggestion. You might even surprise yourself ? And if not, and you still find it disagreeable. At least then you can do so from an actual informed basis. And not just on the basis of a racy bottle/pic alone. Which is rather unfair, not !?
And by the by, ... I may be alone here, ... but I certainly do NOT enjoy the smell of my own farts. )
@ WildThingy : ... I totally agree that SM has been very unfairly demonised. And it's certainly nowhere near as disagreeable as it's been made out to be. I think most of the revolt is really due to the power of suggestion, and distorted associations. ~ I guarantee that if people first smelled the fragrance knowing nothing about it or it's contained notes/ad-copy/image, their reactions would be very different and waaaay more agreeable. ...
I find it especially interesting for the fact the every time I go back to it, it manages to smell completely different from what I remembered it. And I smell some further new facet each time. It also manages to smell very different on all the people I've tried it on, (markedly so, more so than other fragrances, almost like a completely different fragrance altogether. ~No mean feat !)
And I totally agree that if I had to associate it to any other fragrance, (something I've never been able to do before due to it's singular character). I must say, I think Beyond Paradise is actually pretty much spot-on ! ~ (Although I actually dislike Beyond Paradise immensely. Probably as much as most people dislike SM (LOL) ~ I think SM a far superior fragrance to BP in every possible way !
There is however one very minor thing you mentioned that I just do NOT agree with at all. I find absolutely NO resemblance whatsoever, not even in the slightest, between SM and JOOP ! (WTF ??? I don't know where you coming from there ???) ~ To me, if anything, they are more like polar opposites really ! ~ (Sorry ! )
(Oh, unless you meant : a scent that greatly divided opinion ??)
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^^^ I just skimmed... but, really, you don't like the smell of your own farts?! come on! it's ok to admit it.. really... ;-)
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Yep, I can seriously say in this case, I much prefer the smell of SM (or on reflection, perhaps my own spunk ? ;o) more so than the smell of my own farts. NO contest, SM wins hands down !
And though I admire it, find it interesting, and therefore defend it. Unfortunately still not quite enough to find it FBW. (A mediumish decant has been more than enough, thankyou )
Me either, the bottle actually is a shops tester, that I bought. They thought it would be o/k to let it go, now that the negative hype is over. ELdO itself states that Jasmine Et Cigarettes and SM (!!) are their bestsellers.
To clearify things, I would not tell anybody is lacking something if not likeing SM. Most recently I tried it again, and there it was, that metallic smell and nothing else. It lasted one or two hours and was overwhelmingly strong! But then in a sudden, may be by fatigue it was blown away.
What SM reminded me after that was what it says. But, stay tuned, it was great, had the same power as the topnote(s): chestnut, slightly roasted, the variant You can buy in Western Europe on Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Fair). And, the reference was the female who occasionally - You know, it happens even to a prim scholar as me sometimes that he falls in love, I had to sniff all over her ... . There is definitely a common demominator of these three smells ... . And know what, I like particularly that smell. It reminds me of good times I had and will hopefully have on and on. It is not the smell of decomposing stuff, but - people are rather bigot sometimes.
Perfume is since Guerlain a matter of erotic engagement - Jicky, Mitsouko, Shalimar, all about love stories. By that time 1900+ a rather new idea it was to connect perfume mentaly to erotics by a "story", the so called scoop. ELdO and esp. with SM mimicks that as a hyperbole. Well done IMHO.
As far as people like Katie, who is "of otherwise indenyable interlectual credit" go silly about words and the idea that human semen has some kind of a smell, o/k. She describes herself as a former groupy. What then was that?! Do people think that mankind proliferates by offshoots?
Btw: SM is NOT suposed to smell of spunk, but JICKY stinks of cat's number two!
An other thought, technically: What pulled me in in the first place was the gap between the metallic overly fresh "nitrile" and the floral components. That gap is what reminded me of the partly rotting white/green apples, windfall of my youth. There is no ongoing foul around. Nitril-ic smell signals totally rotten, decomposed proteine. Nitril is the afterglow of foul. In SM the intermediate states are missing. SM is high contrast.
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Tried this about a half an hour ago. Don't believe the hype because it's not that scary. I was prepared after reading many reviews and seeing Katie's, to smell something absolutely horrible, instead I got salty ocean water with soft florals and musk and like Fred360 said: egg whites. Yep folks, that's as scary as it gets. Now excuse me while I go layer it with a bit of MKK to really take myself over the top.
Neither the "good" nor "bad" reviews of SM led me to think that I'd like it. I am surprised that so many people feel the need to sample certain frags when there is no reason to believe that they would like the frag. Is this the olfactory equivalent of "rubber necking" at the scene of a car accident?
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Had never seen any of the reviews prior to trying this a while back. I just didn't care that much for it when I tried it.
I tested this twice and have a decant. I will own it one day out of principle because I love ELdO. I just think that some noses are immune to whatever "disgusting" note is in there. I almost threw up twice and I have a VERY strong stomach. SM is the only frag I've reviewed on here. It smells (more than anything IMO) to the smell of a wound that has stopped bleeding and is trying to heal. I do think it is artistic though...like modern art.
In defense of Katie, I don't think she was "performing" per se, she was testing it live (as someone said earlier) and was just displaying her visceral reaction. I thought it was particularly funny, because everything she said about it, I could totally see where she was coming from.
We all know that frags are elusive.....we all have to just like what we like and leave the rest, I think.
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Yes, but how do you really know until you've tried it yourself, with your own nose and on your own skin ??? When it comes to other people's take (reviews) on a scent, I've more often than not found that my own personal experience of a scent is actually miles removed from other's reviews. ...
And besides, there is also such a thing as "curiosity", (which, it seems by your comment, you don't seem to possess much of). ) ... After all the hype there is no way I wouldn't want to experience it for myself (mostly to find out if it was warranted ??). And personally I found that it didn't. It's been totally blown out of proportion IMO. I don't find SM offensive in the least !
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Yeah, and that hype was propelled mostly by demure US-Americans who took the picture and the name (after not so accurate translation) literally. They - reiterated - not even got the story behind the composition: it is meant to be an abstract analogue to s.e.x.ual suspense. Hence it is first of all not clean, conventional, muted. While depending on well known ingredients it still is different. Now as it is the time for it, autumn, try to have a bite of an uncooked chestnut. It is quite sour, isn't it? When cooked it develops some sweet aspects that may become stuffy. Compare that to the development of SM!
On the other hand, if someone really is that anxious about his smell of her, SM won't do the trick. So SM won't do it for the most of us. I wonder how someone could possibly pile up a severe amount of whatever is considered to be "perfume", but miss any experimental stuff which may bear a challenge. To me that looks like a marionette hanging in the threads of commerce. The new "pure malt", U kno ... and not to forget about CREED, Amen


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