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I believe there is also a Neiman Marcus at the Fashion Show Mall (Sunday).
Well it's almost FRIDAY so we wanted to list the Final Itinerary for Friday, Saturday & Sunday. You will notice I modified the times at the Guerlain boutique on Saturday (half an hour is just **not enough**) and we changed Sunday's destinations also.
I'm very excited about meeting all of you participants, in person for the first time!!
So here's it is:
Friday 10/5
6:00pm- 8:00pm - Skins 6 | 2 - Cosmopolitan
Skins 6 | 2 is located at The Cosmopolitan Hotel, 3708 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109 - here is a link to Map/Directions: http://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com/...-location.aspx
Here is an email that I received from Skins 6 | 2, about the lines that they feature:
From: Isabella Iordache [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 9:02 PM
To: Mike Perez
Subject: Skins 6|2 Frangrances
Hi Mike, here's a list of the fragrances we carry at Skins 6|2:
-By Kilian
-Atelier Cologne
-Maison Francis Kurkdjian
-Juliette Has a Gun
-Comptoir Sud Pacifique
-Hanae Mori
-Costume National
-Serge Lutens
If you have any other questions just let me know.
Isabella Iordache
Saturday 10/6
10:00-12:00 - Barneys - Palazzo Shoppes
12:00-1:30 - Lunch - Palazzo Shoppes
1:30-2:30 - Guerlain - Palazzo Shoppes
2:30-3:30 - Dior - Palazzo Shoppes
Saturday is our busiest day and so if you are considering joining us and can only fit in one day, I would go with Saturday, for sure.
The Shoppes at The Palazzo are located at 3325 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV, link to Map/Directions here: http://www.theshoppesatthepalazzo.com/ (scroll down to the very bottom of the page & click the 'Get Directions' button.
Barney's sent us this email, letting us know that they'll have coffee and goodies for all attendees...cool, huh!?:
After that we will have lunch (either together as a group, or separate, let's leave that up to whatever you want, from Noon - 1:30, then back to The Shoppes for the Guerlain boutique. Guerlain sent us this email, in anticipation of our arrival:-----Original Message-----
From: Delgado, Raul [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:38 PM
To: Mike Perez
Subject: Fragrance at Barneys in Las Vegas
Dear Mike,
I hope this finds you well. I just wanted to confirm that you and your friends will be here at Barneys this Saturday October 6th at 10:00am. As I mentioned when we spoke, I want to make this fragrance experience something memorable for all of you. We will serve coffee, tea and pastries.
Also, I contacted Editions de Parfums by Frederic Malle and they will send a guest speaker from Chicago. She is a very knowledgeable person. I tried to get Mr Malle to come to Las Vegas that day and talk to all of us about his fragrances but he had a prior commitment.
Please let me know about how many people will be here that day and if you have any ideas or special requests for that day. We will have our get together at a private mezzanine here in the store
Kind Regards,
Raul Delgado
Editions De Parfums Frederic Malle
Apothecary Business Manager
Barneys New York
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119
3327 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Phone: (702)629-4308
Fax: (702)629-4383
Finally, after that we will head over to the Christian Dior boutique, for our final destination of the day and even more fragrances / refreshments. Dior will have sample bags for all attendees, as well as wine (red/white & champagne) and chocolates to munch on while we shop. Here's the email from our Host, Massiel Cofino (a Basenotes member also - her screen name is massy03):From: Guerlain Palazzo STORE [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:25 PM
To: Mike Perez
Subject: Re: Basenotes - Guerlain
Hello Mr Perez,
Everyone here at Guerlain is anxiously awaiting you and the rest of the Basenotes guests to arrive. There are some noteworthy pieces available here at the Palazzo that I think the Basenote members would be excited to know about.
For those that are excited for the latest offerings from Guerlain:
1. Shanghai
2. La Petite Robe Noire - You will also be able preview the exclusive size available later this year at the event.
3. The Desert D'Orient Collection- Songe D'Un Bois D'Ete, Rose Nacree Du Desert, and Encens Mythique D'Orient
4. Shalimar Ode a la Vanille- A new addition to the Shalimar legend.
For those that are interested in some limited edition or numbered pieces:
1. View the "Guerlain Heritage Case," a coffret celebrating 180 years of fragrance making history.
2. View the "Giant" (2000ML) Shalimar Parfum Initial
3. Preview the scent for "L'Abeille Aux Ailes Argent Reve De Lune" or "The Bee with the Silver Wings Moon Dream".
We look forward to welcoming you and your group of fellow fragrance lovers into the House of Guerlain. I've also attached some photos and information about the pieces you'll be viewing. See you soon!
Johnathan Nieto
Fragrance Ambassador
Guerlain The Shoppes at the Palazzo
702.732.7008 Toll Free 866-409-6110
[email protected]
From: Dior Palazzo STORE [mailto[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 7:30 PM
To: Mike Perez
Subject: Re: Basenotes at Dior boutique confirmation
Hi Mike!
It was great finally getting the chance to chat with you. We're excited to host this for your group in our store.
Yes, we have the entire collection, all 13 of the La Collection, so you'll have the experience to see them all at once. And yes, we also carry the Eau Sauvage Parfum as well as the Dior Homme Intense that is limited distribution.
If you have any questions before then, give me a call or shoot me an email! If not, I will see you guys in October.
Kind Regards,
Massiel Cofino
The Shoppes at the Palazzo
3327 Las Vegas Blvd S Ste:2953
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Main: (702) 734 - 1102
Fax: (702) 734 - 1247
Sunday 10/7
Morning - free time
12:00 (noon) - 1:30 pm Lunch and Sample Swap at The Food Court @ The Fashion Show Mall
1:30 - 3:30 - Saks Fifth Avenue & Nordstroms
Afternoon - Free time
The Food Court (located in Level 3) in The Fashion Show Mall is located at 3200 Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV - link to Map/Directions here: http://www.thefashionshow.com/ (Just click the link and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click 'Get Directions'). The Sample Swap is very simple and it was a lot of fun last year at the Basenotes Meetup in New Orleans - just bring all of the fragrance samples that you do not want anymore and feel free to swap them with your fellow Basenoters.
Saks Fifth Avenue and/or Nordstrom's will be the only pre-arranged shopping destinations this day (although anyone is more than welcome to explore the other stores on their own). There is no pre-arranged meeting with these stores, but the Basenotes group is planning on shopping/browsing together and we will allow this day to be less planned out and more flexible/casual.
The End!
A handy map, of ALL of the locations mentioned above, can be viewed here: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...72da825b&msa=0
Please let me know if you have any questions, by posting in this thread.
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
I believe there is also a Neiman Marcus at the Fashion Show Mall (Sunday).
The Vegas trip sound like a great time! Have fun and good luck to all those who will be going!
wow. wow. sounds amazing! mike, let me know your impressions of Shanghai, will you? My dad's hometown and I have such romantic notions of it...curious about Guerlain's interpretation.
godspeed, all! lots of photos, please.
"Like a lobster with a pearl in its claw, the beet held the jasmine firmly without crushing or obscuring it. Beet lifted jasmine, the way a bullnecked partner lifts a ballerina, and the pair came on stage on citron's fluty cue. As if jasmine were a collection of beautiful paintings, beet hung it in the galleries of the nose, insured it against fire or theft, threw a party to celebrate it. Citron mailed the invitations." Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins p. 189
What I am loving right now: Shalimar vintage extrait, Chanel Bois des Iles, Chanel no. 22, Le Labo Iris 39, Guerlain Iris Ganache
In a world where 6 million people are added each month, every landscape matters.
That's a lot of work and emailed proof, MP. Thanks for everything you are doing here for our people.
i'm practically hyperventilating from excitement....aieeeee. Mike and matildaben, you have outdone yourselves!
Sync'in and Think'in in 2015!
I really hope y'all have a fantastic meetup. If I could have made things work out with my directing and teaching duties I would be joining you. But have fun, and I look forward to reading about your adventures soon.
Feel free to bring any samples that you want to swap/give away. We will be having the sample swap on Sunday.
Wishing you all a wonderful time, safe journey, and happy sniffing! Looking forward to reading all about it and seeing the pics.
We'll miss all of you NOLA-gals & guys.
I'm getting ready to go to bed since I have an early a.m. flight to Vegas tomorrow morning, so I will check in here once I'm in Sin City!
And I promise I will take a lot of photos ((note to self: charge my iPhone!!))
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Very excited! We have dual back-ups on the cameras, too - both my wife and I will be taking pictures.
I am also looking forward to sniffing the new Shanghai. I thought that London was very well-done, so I'm expecting good things.
Samples!!! OMG - I've got 'em. I'll bring 'em. I'm also bringing a bunch of empty vials and atomizers, so people can make up samples to share from any new acquisitions.
PS to Auntie Knit - Big K is on the way!
Safe travels to all ... and have a GREAT time!
I've trademarked the color bleu
Thanks, shades!!! And we started off with a bang. I won't spoil Mike's write-up, but let me just post a couple of teaser pictures from our first store, Skins 6|2.
Here is one RP, googl.plex1, one Mrs. RP, and googl.plex's gram, hanging out with the niche!
(Guess which one of the four is the high-rollin' gambler..... )
Here is one Mike Perez (and I'm saving the *great* picture that came after this!!!)....
Plenty on the agenda tomorrow. Gotta get some sleep!
Those are great, Red! I'm looking forward to the rest. Enjoy, everyone!
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
"Like a lobster with a pearl in its claw, the beet held the jasmine firmly without crushing or obscuring it. Beet lifted jasmine, the way a bullnecked partner lifts a ballerina, and the pair came on stage on citron's fluty cue. As if jasmine were a collection of beautiful paintings, beet hung it in the galleries of the nose, insured it against fire or theft, threw a party to celebrate it. Citron mailed the invitations." Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins p. 189
What I am loving right now: Shalimar vintage extrait, Chanel Bois des Iles, Chanel no. 22, Le Labo Iris 39, Guerlain Iris Ganache
OMG - I was thinking exactly the same thing as Mike when I looked at those. LOL!
Thanks, lily and Renee! Here are some more teasers....
My wife and Raul at Barney's....
....and all my buddies on the C.B. Untitled thread - O.M.G. - you will *never* believe what fragrance my wife discovered out of all the niche here that she loved, and actually dragged me over to smell (and which she had never paid any attention to at home, due to ignoring me the last month.....)
I was, like, - "Ahem, you aren't gonna believe this......"
A then a wild-and-crazy BN lunch!!!
...and just a hint of the great time we had at Guerlain (you will have to wait for the fragrance report!!!)....
OK. I will admit it. We had some champagne!
...and that's not to mention Dior!
Very nice to see familiar faces -- Warum, Hi! Hi, Matts!
Who is attending?
Group shots?
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Argh! Oh, you're just killing me here! Craving me some Basenoters big time! You honeys have any idea how much I luvs yous?
(BTW, I like googl.plex's gram's dress with the trendy variations on b&w patterns.)
In a world where 6 million people are added each month, every landscape matters.
oh boy oh boy, just look at those smiles - they are the real deal - so great to see, I can feel the happy, fragrant energy from here! Thanks for taking the time out in the midst of your agenda to post these teasers. Everyone looks beautiful - special hi to knit, daahh - link! you look divine!
"Like a lobster with a pearl in its claw, the beet held the jasmine firmly without crushing or obscuring it. Beet lifted jasmine, the way a bullnecked partner lifts a ballerina, and the pair came on stage on citron's fluty cue. As if jasmine were a collection of beautiful paintings, beet hung it in the galleries of the nose, insured it against fire or theft, threw a party to celebrate it. Citron mailed the invitations." Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins p. 189
What I am loving right now: Shalimar vintage extrait, Chanel Bois des Iles, Chanel no. 22, Le Labo Iris 39, Guerlain Iris Ganache
More, more!! ♥
(please forgive me if I forgot anybody...)
Friday night:
Redneck Perfumisto
Shiny Beast
Al Gae
Redneck Perfumisto
A lot of us have had our spouses there, too.
They tend to float in and out of the fragrance feeding frenzy. Wimps!
Today is our big sample swap! Should be a good time. Gotta get ready to roll.....
Wish you were here, too. Don't worry, Quarry. I swear that I've already heard some Paris talk!
Loving the photos, RP! As rtamara already said, you can feel the love and excitement in each frame! Glad everyone is having a fabulous time together.
Ah mes amis, what a good time at the meet-up! I left Warum, mike, matildaben & Al Gae still sniffing at Neiman Marcus around 3:15 pm and just arrived home after my 5.5 hour drive. I do have tomorrow off work for Columbus Day so will hopefully write up some impressions of some of the new things I sniffed (and bought- at retail- which is soooo unusual for me, so you know the scent souvenirs were special to me).
wish you all could have been there!!!
Sync'in and Think'in in 2015!
Can't wait to read all about it and see the pics, Knit. I'm glad you arrived home safely after your drive. xo
Thoroughly enjoying your trip guys! You all look glowing with excitment! Looking forward to hearing more.
Just got home myself - and that "red eye" flight is *so* appropriately named!
We had an awesome time at the sample swap, and all sorts of unloved samples got rescued by new owners! We got to share some very cool sniffs, too. Wish I could have stayed for the final shopping spree, but my wife wanted to see Red Rocks again, although this time the hiking was much less intense than the last time.
I'm still a bit blown away by the whole thing. It has really changed my view of fragrance. In a good way. But I feel like I want to be more of a participant - more of a "perfume lover", as the book is called - and less of a critic and an observer. I have things I want to say - things that are struggling to make their way out - and now I have to say them. I want to *feel* fragrance - not just think about it.
I bought some new scents, and I want to get into them deeply. REALLY deeply. TOO deeply. I just feel like my view of fragrance has changed somehow, and I need to understand it. I can't wait to get started on this new chapter of my fragrant life, that somehow happened because of this get-together.
Great photos! I'm posting on mobile so can't type a lot. I will report more and post photos from the sample swap when I get home.
Glad all who are home got home safe!
rubbing hands together with gleeful anticipation
"Like a lobster with a pearl in its claw, the beet held the jasmine firmly without crushing or obscuring it. Beet lifted jasmine, the way a bullnecked partner lifts a ballerina, and the pair came on stage on citron's fluty cue. As if jasmine were a collection of beautiful paintings, beet hung it in the galleries of the nose, insured it against fire or theft, threw a party to celebrate it. Citron mailed the invitations." Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins p. 189
What I am loving right now: Shalimar vintage extrait, Chanel Bois des Iles, Chanel no. 22, Le Labo Iris 39, Guerlain Iris Ganache
I made it back safe and sound myself last night. Had a great time and it was a pleasure to meet all the basenoters who were able to attend. It's funny how excited we all were to meet each other - it's clear that we're a rare breed and it's hard to find others in real life who we can totally geek out about fragrances with.
I was showing my haul to my room-mate, when she asked me "When are you going to wear all that stuff?" My response was "Well, this Santal 33 I'll wear on a nice fall day...", she says, "No - don't you have enough bottles? You'll never finish it all!" Some people just don't get it...
Redneck, Lilybelle -- I feel ya ... (figuratively, of course ... darn).
I have always had a deep appreciation for the way you express yourself, Redneck.
In a world where 6 million people are added each month, every landscape matters.
All of the fragrances I bought were ones that really jumped out at me. They're things that clearly captured me on the spot. I didn't pick up anything that wasn't terribly impressive to either me or my wife, or both. I feel like I almost *owe* it to them to really spend time with them, and get to know every single facet.
But the real thing that changed me was meeting the largest group of non-industry fragrance people I ever met in a single place. We had to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to get together. It was immediately apparent that we're a product of the internet. And while we make perfect sense to each other, we make almost no sense outside of our own little world. We make some kind of sense to the industry, and probably have - as a class of customers - since time immemorial. But we've never had any large-scale structure otherwise. I feel like something interesting and powerful emerges here, and I want to not just understand it - I want to feel it.
Awesome to hear that you're loving that GHI! There are days when I smell that stuff, and I just want to buy Thierry Wasser the biggest, coldest, and most expensive beer that money can buy!
Anyway - more coming. Lots more. There is so much to talk about. I'm just going to touch on some of it, to keep the fires warm for Mike's trip report.
I was glad I was able to hangout and meet everybody on Saturday, had a good time. It was cool to see that sort of enthusiasm in action and put some faces to names. Just out of curiosity, how would y'all rate the shopping in Vegas on a scale of 1 to 10?
Thanks for sharing your revelations with us, folks. Please show/tell us what you all have got.
MP, have you made it home all right?
RP, I have always thought it was an undercurrent going on here on the Ladies' forum -- just read our SotD threads! We DO, as a smaller tighter group, being different in our fragrance perceptions, share love and appreciation and respect to one another with no shame or explanation needed. .
Me too, me too.
Made it home today after a late evening flight and then a drive home punctuated by a hotel room on campus. Mr W stays there for a two-day work meeting (argh) and I made it home to plunge myself into work I skipped on Friday and Monday (no Columbus day for me!).
Sadly, I took no pictures of people, stores or perfume -- but I hope to be able to make and post some pics of the Vegas fume haul.
Is this our talk about the trip thread? Or should I go some place else for that?
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It would be a little difficult to rate because in some cases I could feel the hospitality, which was amazing, but the place itself did not work for me because of size, layout, etc. I will try to post more details tomorrow, but if I go for rating it would be up there in As and A+s.
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Thank you all for sharing your meetup! I've enjoyed this vicarious experience & know that I have to join in with everyone on a meetup next year. I can only imagine the thrill of sniffing, chatting & splurging on scents with companions who understand!!
Redneck Perfumisto, Thank you for sharing your personal experience. As a novice, I can't wait for my own journey to unfold. BTW,you look just like the wonderful veterinarian that takes care of my crew.
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Great, can't wait, do please!
If I had to reserve 10 for Paris, I would call both New York City and Las Vegas a 9 or 9+. New York wins on more niche and old-school, ritzy department-store presentation, but Las Vegas has the advantage on proximity, oozing luxury, and carnival atmosphere. I mean, the whole thing had the feel of a launch party.
And one more thing - please thank Ray for not just letting you go, but for coming along. That's a heck of a long trip, but I think he must have sensed how important this was - not just for you, but for all of us. My wife was also very appreciative of your efforts, and she admired your leadership, too!
Us all want a big (crossed out and changed into HUGE) picture, Mikie. With your husband and all the wonderfull smellies, please?
Perhaps we should start at the beginning...
Flight into LAV from MIA went smoothly, taxi over to The Venetian was quick, we checked into our off-da-hook Suite at around a little after 9:00 am and proceeded to act like little kids, jumping all over the bed, laying all over the sofa and drooling over the incredibly stocked mini bar and huge bathroom. I mean, who doesn't want to be all pimped-out in Vegas, right?
Breakfast was delicious at Bouchon (Thomas Keller's new place) and expensive (!) I took the rest of the afternoon to indulge myself at the Canyon Ranch Spa (which was just downstairs), took a gondola ride inside the Palazzo Shoppes and then took a nice long nap and a quick bite to eat because then it was time to head over to The Cosmpolitan! Ray decided to stay in for the evening so I took a taxi myself and got there a little early.
I met matildaben and mr. matildaben at amazing bar, with an immense chandelier atop it - drinks were had and we chatted a bit before we headed to Skins...
Skins is BEAUTIFUL!! Bright, modern, not too cramped and plenty of room to mingle, move around and not feel like the SA's are on top of you - a Basenoter's niche store's dream! Of course, there are not as many brands as other stores in other cities, but there was enough to make us all happy - most everyone was drawn towards the Maison Francis Kurkdjian line, the Creeds (they only have a few) and the By Kilian's.
The first Basenoters to get there were Redneck Perfumisto and Ms. RP - I recognized him before he recognized me so I gave both of them a big ol' hug. Warum and Mr. Warum were there, TJMAC showed up also with his wife. The Diva a.k.a. Knit at Nite showed up fashionably late, which was totally okay since it was HER BIRTHDAY!!! Then Googl.plex1 showed up with his very-cool grandmother. We walked around getting to know each other, sniffing when we could (the new Amyris Femme is WONDERFUL!), snapping pictures and just you know...talking.
The Skins Girls!
Mr. warum, matildaben and Mr. matildaben
Someone hiding (?), Grandma Googl.plex1 and Redneck Perfumisto and half of Googl,plex1
knit at nite, Mrs. TJMAC, TJMAC and Warum - bowing down to the By Kilian display
We spent about 1.5 hours in total in the store, I think I smelled several scents that I'd never smelled before (the new Juliette Has A Gun...Romantina, the new Water and Bamboo ones from By Kilian, the new Maison Francis Kurkdjian Amyris duo) and ended up walking out with some Claus Porto bath salts that I have an incredibly hard time finding in Miami (lovely almond scented - they remind me of Apres l'Ondee if Guerlain made bath salts of the scent). Some of the lines did not have the newest scents (they didn't have the newest Diptyque or Atelier Colognes, even though they had those lines). The rest of store is devoted to luxury skin care lines, makeup, masks, aromatherapy products, etc.
At the end of the evening I made sure everyone knew the schedule for Saturday, and headed out into the Friday night (note: The Cosmopolitan was on-and-popping - young, hip, fashionably dressed people everywhere!! I felt like I was in SoBe in Miami) for dinner with Ray and a bit of Vegas fun (no...I'm NOT going into details here wink, wink) before I think I crashed back at the hotel a bit before 1:00 am (when in actuality, with the jet lag, my body felt like it was 4 am - ack!).
p.s. - Redneck - I can't seem to find out how to post your pictures here, that you sent me the link for. Help!
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Mike, your trip reports are great. I love reading them. And it was Knit's birthday!!!??? How did we miss that here? Happy belated, Knit. I know you had a good one.
More photos! Taken by Redneck...
me, TJMAC, Googl.plex1 and matildaben
me - high on Ginestra excitement (you had to be there...)
The Warums and the matildaben's - West Side REPRESENT!!!
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
Thanks for the report, Mike!
Friday night was great. I got a serious case of "objects are much farther then they appear" issue in Vegas -- everything is much further away than you think (this was my first time in Vegas, so now I know. When I visit there in 10 years after my credit recovers from the Vegas blows I will be more prepared). So I thought I was getting very late to Skins (I probably was 10 minutes late or so). But finally I found the place and made a bee-line to my familiar people in the store -- Matildaben and Misterben. They both looked fabulous and were having a great time. It was time for me to meet Mike and I just noticed that when I talked to him I underestimated his BN posts number in more than a half! 10,000 was old old news. Whoops.
As far as the lines were concerned, I made a bee-line for By Kilian to try Amber Oud. Nah, was not there. And when I sprayed Sweet Redemption on the card it was not at all what I thought it would be. I will know to approach it later. I already did smell the two Asian tale perfumes and we talked with TJMACs about the brand.
Then I planted myself near the Atelier soaps. I knew I wanted some, just was not sure which one I will go for -- my favorite, Grand Neroli, or something else. I was considering Rose Anonyme soap, but the two newest Ateliers, the Rose and the Vetiver, were not there yet, as Mike already mentioned. I finally decided on the Vanille Insensee for the Fall. I will get Grand Neroli in Spring, I am sure. Misterben was holding on to Orange Sanguine soap and Matildaben and I were exchanging the names of Ateliers that do not work for us (aptly, it was Orange Sanguine for me and Vanille Insensee for her!).
I tried Lumiere Noir by MFK. I've already tried it from a dab but wanted to spray it on and see. Ended up scrubbing it. I am sure that Lumiere Noir will find voices that will sing praises to it here though because... but I will stop right here so that I am not getting too much ahead in time
I did not have time to look at make up. But Mats, Knit and I took a look at Deborah Lippmann nail polishes and yes! found a clone for the one I was wearing on this trip -- Peridot -- in her line. It looked just like it in the box and later on Knit's nails.
I guess I needed to try Amyris on the skin because its magic was lost on paper for me. Instead, I decided to try on Acqua Universalis Forte and Costume National 21. For some reason it seems to me that the bottle was brown. When I came over to Mike to tell that we were leaving he complimented on the good smell, we both agreed it was the Costume National rather than Acqua Universalis. And with that said, we left with The Bens for dinner and a Cirque de Soleil Ka show...
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I had a great time that first night, too! My wife was about to lose it before it even started! She thought that the whole thing was just a scam, when we got there a few minutes early, and nobody was there. She was, like "How can you trust people on the internet? See? They don't even come to the store!!!" But then I saw Mike, and I was like - "WOO-HOO!" That was it! After that it was just like time flew by in an instant.
We got to sniff a lot of stuff - great discussions of Creed, Diptyque, and SMN. We were sniffing so many things - it was great. Our group never made it over to the Kilians, sorry to say.
I ended up getting Diptyque's Oyedo, which my wife *really* liked, and which I am fascinated with for historical reasons. It is one of the few works by Akiko Kamei, who did Caron's 3me Homme.
My wife and I spent a lot of time talking with TJMAC and his wife, and googl.plex1 and his gram, but then my wife got itchy to go, and we checked out with Oyedo.
But one last stop before the night was over - to see if I could shop at my no. 1 boutique of the trip.
Sadly, they were closed. But I still got pictures!
Now - wait until you see Saturday's pictures!!!
You are great, guys, all came together and posted about Friday. Thanks bunches: very realistic, with small off-trips (LOL @ RP's No.1 destination!), and feelings and sentiments. Thank you!
Thanks, Wolfie.
Funny, Red -- I was also almost ready to lose it before it even started over getting late to the place!
~***~January Blind Sniff ~***~February Blind Sniff~***~March Blind Sniff~***~April Blind Sniff~***~July Blind Sniff~***~September Blind Sniff Acquired Tastes~***~October Blind Sniff Unpresentables~***~
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
-- Eckhart Tolle
LOL!!!!! Those "internet people"!!!!!!! Classic.
Great writeups everyone! I've been waiting all week for these to start!
Thanks for the writeups, folks!
Jonathan and Georgeanne from the Guerlain boutique in the Palazzo were very hospitable to us, including a sign reading "Bienvenue Basenotes", champagne, and chocolate bonbons. The Basenoters spent far longer there than we had planned on the schedule (note to future organizers: always schedule a couple hours when the House of Guerlain is involved), and there was much sniffing and purchasing. Highlights included the only U.S. outlet for the Desert Collection, and the new edition of Shalimar Ode a la Vanille, Sur la Route du Madagascar. Knit and I tried some of the holiday makeup collection, including having Liu-scented glitter sprayed on our hair (much more mature and elegant than it sounds).
From Guerlain, we went to the Dior boutique, also in the Palazzo, where we were greeted by Massiel, and got to sniff the Collection Privee, of which many were well-loved, although our noses were a bit exhausted. They also provided goodie bags and yummy treats.
Misterben and I spent most of our free time with the Warums (West Coast Cascadia in da house!), including lots of fine foodie grazing, including Julian Serrano for tapas, Craftsteak for steak and scallops and farmer's market veggies, and Border Grill for yummy Mexican eats. We also went to the aquarium at the Mandalay Bay, which was approved of by Mr. Warum, a professional aquarium-dude.
My haul:
2 bottles Ode a la Vanille
1 bottle Lumiere Noire Pour Femme
1 bottle Chanel Egoiste
a busload of samples
1 Guerlain eyeshadow quad (Winter limited edition)
1 Guerlain eyeshadow single
1 Guerlain gift wish purchase bag with some awesome skincare potions
1 Dior eyeshadow quint (Winter limited edition)
1 Dior Addict lipstick
1 Atelier Cologne soap (Orange Sanguine)
1 Ellis Faas concealer from Skins
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Oops, totally forgot to mention the bottle of Santal 33 laundry detergent I acquired from Barneys, and Misterben's bottle of Nasomatto Absinth (which is his SOTD today).
I can't wait to do my next laundry!
In case any of you participants want to write 'Thank You' notes to the SA's from Saturday's meet up (I already did) here they are below:
Skins 6 | 2
3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Johnathan Nieto
Guerlain - The Shoppes at the Palazzo
3327 Las Vegas Blvd. S - Suite #2848
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Raul Delgado
Barney's - The Shoppes at the Palazzo
3327 Las Vegas Blvd. S
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Massiel Cofino
Dior - The Shoppes at the Palazzo
3327 Las Vegas Blvd. S - Suite #2953
Las Vegas, NV 89109
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I didn't realize you'd gone so *huge* on cosmetics! Wow! I do think that Guerlain cosmetics are quite awesome. My wife loves their lipsticks.
I just got my box from Karina at the Dior Boutique - very happy they all made it here undamaged! I'm almost embarrassed to list them all in one spot, so I'll just let the bottles dribble out over the rest of my write-ups. I'll try to talk about Barney's next.
In the meanwhile, here's a picture from Tournament of Kings. Sorry for the poor quality - I left my camera back at the hotel because it was a "no camera" event, but then afterwards they let us take pictures with the actors. Obviously this isn't my wife, but my wife was already done with her turn by the time I got in position for a picture, and my wife thinks this is the best picture of the guy ("King of Hungary") who she thought was super-dreamy!
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Here are some more pictures to make you droooooooooooool!
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I loved those big Frederic Malle blotters, but I also loved the gazillion Le Labo thin blotters they had in that can. It was like "Go ahead - use as many as you want! Test everything!" I felt like such a picky rascal for sniffing so many things and only leaving with two bottles between me and my wife.
OH - must mention - they had great coffee and pastries for us, too. Snacked, we did! LOVED it! That little area there is a *great* place to get together.
I really hoped that the TDC jasmine scent would be there, but no dice. That's OK - my wife got me Coco Noir for my birthday, and I am in heaven with the stuff. I was sort of surprised to see the bottle in there at Barney's with all the niche. I guess it's a hot seller right now. It was kinda like the way they'll add hamburger at the end of the fancy menu - it may be great, but it just sticks out like a sore thumb. But I'm glad they had it there - my wife wanted to buy me something, and - voila! - there it was, the fragrance I wanted so badly for her to get me.
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We saw Coco Noir later, while window-shopping at the Chanel Boutique in the Wynn - here it is....
My wife saw some nail-polish that she liked and we went in. I got to sniff a bunch of Exclusifs. I really liked Jersey - probably my favorite of all that I smelled. I guess that goes to show you that I'm some kind of slave to contemporary fashion! C'est la vie!
Red, I love that adorable, beautiful, giant Chanel Matryoshka (sp?) doll in the case with the Coco Noir! I'd be more interested in that than the fragrance. I can't help it. I am truly a child. I am so much enjoying this thread. It is lovely.
thoroughly enjoying this thread, reading through it as I luxuriate in a small decant of Iris Ganache that came in the post today. I can pretend I was at Guerlain with y'all! Redneck, I chuckled at your wife's pre meetup skepticism. It reminds me of my chat with the taxi driver as I was heading into New Orleans last November: driver: you mean you've never met ANY of these people? me: um, no, we've been online together a lot though. driver: so, it's kind of like a blind date with a dozen other people, right? amazing how we all really liked each other! I can see from the photos, Vegas was like that too!
matildaben, love that list, so great to see you and hubby in the photos. Please let us know how the Santal 33 comes out in the wash, I am loving my Iris 39 massage oil and found the idea of the laundry detergent very intriguing.
Warum, you are beautiful! I love seeing everyone's smiles.
Knit - happy belated birthday! hugs and kisses!
"Like a lobster with a pearl in its claw, the beet held the jasmine firmly without crushing or obscuring it. Beet lifted jasmine, the way a bullnecked partner lifts a ballerina, and the pair came on stage on citron's fluty cue. As if jasmine were a collection of beautiful paintings, beet hung it in the galleries of the nose, insured it against fire or theft, threw a party to celebrate it. Citron mailed the invitations." Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins p. 189
What I am loving right now: Shalimar vintage extrait, Chanel Bois des Iles, Chanel no. 22, Le Labo Iris 39, Guerlain Iris Ganache
Well, dealing with the jet lag (at around 6 am Vegas time, my body felt like it was 9 am - ack!) made it easy to get out of bed, to the gym, then go downstairs for breakfast and then head down to The Shoppes and Barney's, the 1st destination that day.
I got there almost exactly at 10 am, and headed straight to the very top 4th floor, mistakenly thinking that's where we were going to meet (Raul said in his email we'd be in the 'mezzanine'). The 4th floor is the Men's department and I saw a bunch of fragrances and two female SA's nearby and NO Basenoters. I wandered around for about 10 minutes and didn't see anyone. WTH? I headed down to the 1st floor (down this very huge & Guggenheim-inspired circular staircase) and just as I headed over to the fragrance department I looked up and saw Mrs. Redneck Perfumisto waving at me..oh that mezzanine, I thought. Duh.
Headed up, coffee, pastries, muffins, fragrances, Basenoters - yay!!
Raul, at Barney's, totally hooked us up. The mezzanine was all ours, and it was not only spacious and comfortable, he'd also stocked it with tons of niche fragrances so we didn't have to go downstairs to the normal fragrance department. It felt very VIP, if you will. There was another SA there to help him (gosh, I can't remember her name). He apologized that the Frederic Malle SA was not able to make it, but we helped ourselves to the entire line, which included the very-rare Carnal Flower Hair Lotion (apparently a big deal in the Far East).
Saturday, we had Al Gae and Shiny Beast join us who weren't there on Friday, so it was awesome getting the opportunity to meet them in person and chat about fragrances.
I again tested Geranium Pour Monsieur and once again reminded myself that I absolutely detest this fragrance. It is a big FAIL for me. I love mint. I love geranium. I love Frederic Malle. But I sort of hate GPM. What's up with that? I also skin tested the new L'Artisan Seville L' Aube which I have been anticipating smelling for quite some time. I liked it (didn't LOVE it) and found it similar in my mind to Kobe by Xerjoff, although Al Gae (pronounced, 'algae') said he owns Kobe and he found them different. Perhaps the Xerjoff is juicier? The L'Artisan is very striking, but I must admit it didn't push all of my buttons. I circled among the selection, trying not to occupy too much arm real estate in the process (!), and was tempted by the new Play Series, the Heeley's, the Nasomatto's, the Malles that I have never tried (only a few actually), the Le Labo's (ditto) and the retail Tom Fords. I just **had** to sample Noir by Tom Ford, since I hadn't smelled it yet and I wanted to see if in fact it did smell like Habit Rouge and Jicky (it sort of does) and if I liked it (not sure yet...it left me a bit underwhelmed). The one fragrance that totally wowed me (and everyone who smelled it on me - and believe me I walked around and made EVERYONE smell my arm) was Anima Dulcis by Arquiste. I knew absolutely nothing about the line, although I do remember Octavian from the 1000 Fragrances blog going a bit gaga over them and that the guy behind the line, is Nate Berkus' boyfriend, but I was not prepared for the Love At First Sniff that I experienced with AD. I am half Mexican and I have this olfactory / associative memory of this smell: Chocolate, cinnamon and chili. The scent captures it perfectly, with a wonderfully vibrant vanilla note that sort of makes the composition smell a bit floral upon first sniff and then caramelic, salty and comforting in the dry down. It was my first purchase of the day. When I asked Raul if it was okay if we decanted some samples for ourselves (I brought 2.5 ml plastic atomizers with me!) he said okay, so we all ran around like crazy atomizing into those little plastic atomizers (I grabbed samples of the Play Black and Play Red by CdG, Bigarade Concentree by Malle (which has been on my radar for eons), Seville L'Aube, Spirit of The Tiger and Hindu Grass by Nasomatto (OMG, this stuff rocks!).
I had to stop myself from getting nose fatigue so ever so often I would turn my shoulder and take a big whiff of my shirt sleeve (which of course made me look very silly - 'what the hell is Mike doing over there!?').
The 2 hours we apportioned to be there zoomed by - all of a sudden it was 12:00 noon and we needed to eat. Oh yes, food. I was hungry. Funny how you forget about things like food when you're all 'in the thick of things' with your Basenotes peeps, no? We all decided it was going to be easier to get a table for 10 at the Grand Lux Cafe downstairs in The Venetian (where coincidentally, I'd had breakfast that very morning), so we headed over there.
One more thing: Before lunch I headed over to the restroom. I needed to SCRUB ALL OF THESE FRAGRANCES OFF. Really, how the hell was I going to smell anything at Guerlain if I didn't get all of these scents OFF of me? So there I am at this massive mens room, right off this ginormous casino, there are literally like 12 sinks - I felt like I was at a luxurious baseball stadium mens room. Both the water faucets and the soap dispensers are automated - motion detected, but the sinks themselves are tiny. I needed to not just wash my hands I needed to wash MY ARMS, and my UPPER ARMS and MY SHOULDERS (when I ran out of arm space, obviously!), so there I am bending down trying to fit my whole two arms into this tiny, gold-chrome encrusted sink and the soap dispenser keeps automatically squirting soap even when I don't need any more soap - the water and the soap are just running off my arms in gobs. I'm giggling at this point and I raise my arms up (COVERED in soap, dripping water) and guys are just looking at me like 'What the hell'. Which made me giggle even more. Casino restrooms are already a bit surreal, and I just added to the overall crunked-out-vibe. I kept lowering my soap covered arm into the sink, and more soap would squirt out. OMG, it took me about a few minutes to manuever all of the soap off my shoulder, arms and hands. The whole time I kept thinking, another Basenoter would totally understand what I am doing, and everyone else must think I'm cRaZy!!!
Kodak moments (compliments of Redneck since, for some reason, I personally took NO photos of Barney's on my camera...I was so 'in the moment'):
knit at nite (obviously 'in the moment' herself), googl.plex1 and Al Gae in front of the buffet of fragrances
Googl.plex1 getting close & intimate with his scented finger, Al Gae and Shiny Beast (probably posting some cool music to the Album of the Day Thread on BN )
matildaben, knit at nite (both clearly distracted by something scented), mr. matildaben & Mrs. Redneck Perfumisto (both clearly posing for the camera like the good-sports that they are)
Mrs. Redneck Perfumisto - the thought bubble might go something like this, 'Screw this joint, I want to know when the Chippendales show is playing next damnit!'
The whole gang (except for me, I suppose I was off in some corner with my eyes rolled back in my head, stuck to my arm scented with Anima Dulcis while Mrs. Redneck Perfumisto gawked at me).
Googl.plex1 in full-on Decant Mode (spray, spray, spray)
Lunch! I'm sure the waiter was wondering why we smelled so good. That's my husband, Ray, in front of me in this photo - he joined us for lunch.
The Beast & Plex, in pre-cocktail mode
Warum and Redneck Perfumisto clearly both under the influence of Too Many Fragrances, look at those smiles! Or maybe it was Warum's recent purchase of Nuda (and Redneck's L'Etrog) that put them in a 'pink cloud' at that side of the table.
After this it was off to the Motherland a.k.a. The Guerlain Boutique...(soon to be continued)
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Mixed-handedness (Score:5, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:28PM (#43252453)
I am apparently "mixed-handed", according to Wikipedia. I can only write left-handed, and I prefer to use a fork left-handed, but for everything else I'm right-handed.
This is funny. I have been doing what you describe for years, yet never wanted to designate myself as "ambidextrous", although I can even ( after some adjustment time in the order of magnitude of ten seconds ) shoot a rifle and a pistol left-handed. Now you gave me the word for it: "mixed-handed". Hah !
Why do I find it somewhat telling but sad that I have read three posts so far that define their "handedness" by how they shoot a gun?
Then again, I suppose it does actually test muscle memory and arm strength, hand-eye coordination, as well as eye dominance... I have done some target shooting and am very left handed in that regard. As fucked up as it seems it may just be one of the better determinants of handedness... (after "DO YA LIKE GREEN SCISSORS?" of course).
Generally, whether you shoot left-handed or right-handed should depend on which is your dominant eye. So sometimes you actually end up with right-handed, left-eye dominant people shooting left-handed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance [wikipedia.org]
http://www.huntersfriend.com/eye-dominance-issues.htm [huntersfriend.com]
After I watched "Silverado", I started training on my two-handed pistol shooting. I practiced using my left eye to aim my left hand, and got pretty darn good at it.
Drinking kinda messed up my steadiness, I should have stuck to the herb.
Drinking kinda messed up my steadiness, I should have stuck to the herb.
I don't know what is scarier. A drunk person with a gun, a stoned person with a gun or a person who owns a gun who does both.
I adhere strictly to protocol. Safety takes care of itself. Plenty of sober idiots out there making statistics, nobody's paying me enough to hurt myself.
Sorry if I'm misjudging you, but you come across as very similar to those people who claim to "drive better when drunk."
left/right eye dominate, right/left handed people make the best archers.
Re:Mixed-handedness (Score:4, Interesting)by hardburlyboogerman (161244) <firstname.lastname@example.com> on Saturday March 23, 2013 @09:33AM (#43256315) Homepage Journal
I trained as a sniper long ago.I can shoot equally well either way.I can put a bullet where I want is up to a mile range without a scope.Any longer range using a scope,I'm definitely right handed.
I learned how to write left handed when I was in the first grade after my right hand was crushed by a home delivery milk truck in the early 1960s.Took forever to heal and I've kept it up.Drives the banks crazy because I sign the checks I write with either hand.Love messing with their heads.
My late Mother was left handed but was retrained to write right handed.My sister Terry is definitely a lefty.
Handedness may be hard wired but can be modified.I'm a prime example.
Let me chime in as another who was "cured" of being left handed in grade school. Sister Mary Pat had some very definite, if old-fashioned, ideas. To this day, my handwriting is barely legible.
Good, question, why do you find it sad? Shooting is a great sport, it's fun to do and contrary to hoplophobic claims it is quite safe to do, you just have to ensure that you always follow the three rules of safe firearm handling. Most firearm owners can and do go their life shooting frequently and never know anyone who has been shot, let alone shoot anyone accidentally.
But it's also a key factor to this question as shooting involves not only which hand is dominant but also which eye, and they can be th
Good, question, why do you find it sad? Shooting is a great sport, it's fun to do and contrary to hoplophobic claims it is quite safe to do, you just have to ensure that you always follow the three rules of safe firearm handling. Most firearm owners can and do go their life shooting frequently and never know anyone who has been shot, let alone shoot anyone accidentally.
OK, I admit it - I had to look up 'hoplophobic' (though I knew it's meaning from context). I also think it's sad. Why? When a gun/rifle is part of your life it becomes an option for everything. Should
Re:Mixed-handedness (Score:4, Informative)
. I also think it's sad. Why? When a gun/rifle is part of your life it becomes an option for everything.
Really? I have three guns, and I only use them for punching holes in paper from extended ranges, which I find relaxing. And truth be told, the only other option I can think of for them, is hunting, which I don't do. But, thanks for telling me how I should behave and think in order to fit your prejudices.
Good, question, why do you find it sad? Shooting is a great sport, it's fun to do and contrary to hoplophobic claims it is quite safe to do, you just have to ensure that you always follow the three rules of safe firearm handling. Most firearm owners can and do go their life shooting frequently and never know anyone who has been shot, let alone shoot anyone accidentally.
Yes, I already said I go target shooting once in a while (in fact, last time was in Vegas with an MP5 and a P90
That doesn't mean I can't still think it's somewhat telling in our society that so many people would define their handedness with the hand they use to shoot with instead of the hand they use to write with.
Re:Mixed-handedness (Score:5, Funny)I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
I'm strongly left-handed and left eye dominant for most things, but I simply can't use a computer mouse with the left hand -- using it with the right hand is "just the way it's done".
When it comes to shooting, I prefer shooting left-handed and with my left eye but can swap shoulders and which eye I use for aiming reasonably well.
Mixed-handed indeed.
Yeah - I'm in the same boat - strong lefty, but mouse right, play right handed instruments, etc. The instrument thing was no big deal as my first instrument was piano (a very ambi-leaning instrument), so picking up other righty instrument never felt unnatural. I couldn't bat right or throw right if I tried, but I can throw a frisbee and toss a basketball fairly competently right handed because I practiced them a lot. In Ultimate, you are a lot harder to defend if you can throw both, and in basketball being
Many, if not most, left handed people end up doing some tasks right-handed. These are the tasks that require a piece of equipment that's made for use with the right hand.
For example, I'm left-handed but I use right-handed scissors with my right hand, operate the mouse that's provided at the right side of the computer with my right hand, and play a right-handed bass guitar.
After years of tensing up my right arm and shoulder from right mousing, I moved to left handed mousing.
It was awkward for about 3 or four days work, and now feels much more comfortable. I can and do mouse equally as well regardless of hand (alhtough button configurations can be an issue)
I always referred to it as "Ambidextrous, Right hand dominant" I can't write left handed, but I use the left hand for my fork when eating, I and prefer left-handed tape measures, and can operate a hammer left or right handed equally well. My mom tells me that when i was little, I was almost uniformly ambidextrous, but due to simple habit obtained through practice, I've become the way I am. I think part of my left hand skill lies in the fact that, while I am right hand dominant, I am left eyed, which makes s
Drat! You'e right, that would have been a good option in there.
I wonder how many people who think of themselves as ambidextrous are more properly mixed-handed -- probably a great many.
You're joking, right?
If there's a missing option, it's ambilevous or ambisinister - equally clumsy with both hands.
Re:Mixed-handedness (Score:5, Funny)
Boom. That is some motherfucking vocabulary; grandiloquent as a steatopygic bitch. Seriously if you knew those words off the top of your head I salute you.
Yes, he is dextrous and right.
You are sinister, gauche and cack handed.
(Actually that does bring up a question. If someone is ambidextrous which hand do they wipe their arse with?)
That is a matter of religion, not science...
I suspect it's also a bit of necessity being the mother of "coordinated with both hands". As an extreme example, I remember photos of a woman with no arms answering a phone with one foot while standing on the other. Performing tasks with the least favored flipper is clumsy, and who wants to be clumsy when one has a much more coordinated appendage right there, um, handy. I lost the temporary use of my "usual hand" during a bookcase move for a family member...yeah, brother-in-lawed was I, and still rememb
Yes. I had surgery on my strong arm, and had it in a sling for several weeks, and the learning curve can be quick, but nasty. On the other hand, I can now shoot sporting clays, and pool, left handed, if I want to. The hard part of doing things left handed is that I am right eye dominant, so I have to think about things instead of just doing.
So do you think there are a finite number of tasks your brain can do on autopilot? If the brain is merely an organic computer, there must be a limit to it's storage capacity... I've wondered to myself on occasion whether or not I have to forget things I haven't used recently to install new things that come along.
Your brain can do most things on autopilot if you do them enough. The trick is preventing your brain from doing that in most cases. If the behavior is desirable, then it's probably tolerable, otherwise it can take a long time to fix automatic behavior.
But, as a general rule, if you're not doing something automatically, it's usually because you're not doing it the same way each time.
I put ambidextrous, though mixed-handed would probably be a better choice, because I can't write well with my right hand (though I can do basically everything else with it). I was originally strongly left-handed, and still default to using my left hand. I think what helped me develop my right hand was the martial arts and my determination not to be deficient on one side.
Since it's popular to say...I shoot left-handed by default, but am right-eyed! It took some adjusting to shoot with my left eye, and my acc
I can only write left-handed, and I prefer to use a fork left-handed, but for everything else I'm right-handed.
The hand you use your fork in depends on table manners not just handed-ness. In Europe a right-handed person holds their knife in their right hand and their fork in their left hand.
Table manners, indeed. I use my fork in my right hand, and if some bit of food truly refuses to go onto the fork, I push it on with a finger. On the rare instance that I need a steak knife (steak too big to lift with fork and bite chunks off), then the fork goes over to the left, and I grab the knife with the right. Suddenly, I'm the image of good table manners! (apparently)
When you say you use a fork left-handed, do you mean you hold the fork in your right hand, or that you use it properly?
Writing shouldn't really count, because languages are typically right to left or left to right, if you wish to write with the other hand, it involves more than just coordinating the motions, it means that you're having to learn a whole new skill.
Which is probably easier for somebody that's left handed as writing left handed is far more difficult than writing right handed.
It's mostly a matter of development, if you don't use both hands, the brain doesn't really get a chance to adjust to the other hand being
It's funny that you should mention playing table tennis left-handed. I tried learning to do that in college. I was one of the stronger players in my social circle, playing right-handed but I wanted to be able to switch. Unfortunately, the weaker players in the circle got offended that I was "handicapping" myself by playing left-handed against them, so I had to quit. (The difference between my right-handed and left-handed play was great enough that it was hard for me to actually learn playing that way a
The easiest way to learn is to play with people that don't know you, or really when you first start learning to play. That way, you don't have to worry about that. By the time I left China, I had gotten rather good with either hand, but I can't play an entire match with one hand or the other, after a few rounds I lose focus and my play deteriorates.
In practice, I don't think it really takes that much time to develop, I think it's mainly the eyes that need to adjust rather than the arm.
When I play badminton I found I was switching hands rather than playing backhand. There probably isn't enough time to do this with ping pong.
Same Here.I write right handed but learned to drive left handed.Might be where I learned to drive on an old 1964 Ford Pickup with 3 on the Tree(3 Speed Column shift - Remember those?)When hardware hacking and typing,I use both hands equally well.Go Figure
I'm definitely right-handed (my attempts to write with my left hand are damn near illegible), but there are certain tasks that - for various reasons - I routinely do with my left hand instead. Americans think I eat "left-handed" because I keep my fork in my left hand, but that's just something I picked up when I went to school in Europe, and found it practical. In drawing classes I got in the habit of making marks with my right hand and erasing with my left, or making one kind of mark with one hand (e.g.
I can do virtually everything more or less equally well with either hand, except write. My school insisted that I write with my right hand, and consequently I now can't do this at all; I think I am naturally ambidextrous but in practice describe myself as left handed because of writing.
Apropos my
I'm strongly right handed in almost everything.
And yet, I shuffle and deal cards left handed. I tie knots left handed. When riding a bike one-handed, I use my left hand. There's probably a half dozen other things that I could add to that list.
As near as I can figure, it's only by chance. I learned to tie my shoes left handed, and never went back. I've done it so long that way that I'm more comfortable using my left than my right.
Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)by Capt.DrumkenBum (1173011) on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:32PM (#43252497)Strongly right handed, but force myself to use my left hand.
I have found it smart to work on making my left hand more useful. I spend a lot of my free time working on old cars, and motorcycles. Sometimes you just can't reach with your right hand, and it is very "handy" to have developed a reasonable amount of dexterity in your non-dominant hand.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)I have the same opinion. My trick is to focus on my left hand thumb before I try doing anything detail specific with my left hand. In focusing on the thumb, I find it easier to wrap my mind around using it like my right hand. Generally it works pretty well.
I agree - working on cars and motorcycles makes it necessary to be ambidextrous. I still prefer the right hand, but the left is almost as good for most of those tasks.
by VinylRecords (1292374) on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:35PM (#43252537)
I would say that I'm ambidextrous, because I use my left hand for lots of tasks (mouse, forks, spoons, toothbrush, pool cue), but then I use my right hand for lots of similar tasks (IBM trackpoint, tv remote, video games). I play almost all sports right-handed especially when equipment is a factor (golf clubs, baseball glove, etc.). Yet I write and eat with my left hand always.
I've always heard the argument. "You are probably left-handed but learned lots of tasks from right-handed people which is why you use both hands". But I can clearly feel a mental difference with certain tasks when using the right side of my body versus using the left.
It seems to me that whatever hand I learn something with first I end up using permanently. It seems like whenever a new task is introduced to me I subconsciously try the task out with one hand and then go with that for the rest of my life. I first used a mouse on a PC with my left hand and never looked back. But for console video games I never change the layout to a left-handed layout.
Studies say that left-handed people live around a year less than right-handed people. Maybe it's all that stress from having to use so many right-handed things like almost every door having its handle on the right side. I can't count the number of times I've swiped my subway card on the left side (the wrong side) without even thinking about it.
By the way this poll is the typical Slashdot poll where it is missing an option. Ambidextrous literally means "uses two right hands". Dexter is Latin for right. Sinister is Latin for left. So someone who is ambisinistrous is someone who has "two left hands" and is likely highly uncoordinated. Where is the ambisinistrous option for all of the people who have zero dexterity?
by vikingpower (768921) <.exercitussolus. .at. .gmail.com.> on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:40PM (#43252563) Homepage Journal
. Maybe it's all that stress from having to use so many right-handed things like almost every door having its handle on the right side.
Dude. Go through door. Turn 180 degrees. Door handle is now on the opposite side. Ain't this universe a weird place ?
I read a fascinating book about the concepts of left/right and asymmetry some years ago called Right Hand Left Hand. [amazon.com] It explores asymmetry at all levels, from the molecular to the galactic, including human anatomy, evolution, protein folding, DNA... tons of interesting characters and anecdotes. There is also a website which has some book notes, reviews and questionnaires. http://www.righthandlefthand.com/ [righthandlefthand.com]
Dude. Go through door. Turn 180 degrees. Door handle is now on the opposite side. Ain't this universe a weird place ?
Pull vs push.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:22PM (#43252971)
(Uncertainty about handedness)
Which hand do you masturbate with?
If it's always the right hand, you're strongly right-handed.
If it's most often the right hand, you're weakly right-handed.
If it's most often the left hand, you're weakly left-handed.
If it's always the left hand, you're strongly left-handed.
If you always use both hands, you're well hung.
But I use the mouse right handed... It only makes sense to use the left.
by johnlcallaway (165670) on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:40PM (#43252561)I shoot billiards, guns, and arrows left handed, I think because that's my dominate eye and has better acuity according to eye tests. I see 20-10 out of my left eye, and 'only' 20-15 out of my right (far-sightedness corrected with glasses). My eye doctor says I have really good visual acuity, but my eyes are football shaped and I can't focus on things at a distance. In fact, I take my glasses off to do up-close work.
I tune my guitar with my left ear, it seems to be better at discerning sounds. At least it seems to, audio tests suggest I hear equally well out of both ears, but if I really want to listen to something, I always turn my left ear towards the sound.
Writing, tool usage, throwing and such are all right handed.
Re:Right handed, but left eyed and eared (Score:5, Interesting)by vikingpower (768921) <.exercitussolus. .at. .gmail.com.> on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:55PM (#43252719) Homepage JournalYour comment makes me think. Only after my right ear became half-deaf ( "noise-deaf" ) in the French Foreign Legion, from shooting rifles and rocket-launchers without ear protection, the left-handed side of my body gradually became more skilled, as if by compensation. I had never before thought on the possible link between hearing acuity and handedness. This is the most thought-provoking Slashdot poll I ever read
Generally, the right side of the brain deals with the left side of the body and vice versa. This is not true of eyes and ears, which are located so close to the brain that they're directly wired in to their respective sides.
Dominance isn't due to "better", except, maybe, in extreme cases.
Hold your thumb out at arms length and "cover" some object on an opposing wall. Close each eye, in turn, to see which is really covering the object.
Although my right eye has consistently had slightly better vision, I have always been left-eye dominant (cross-dominant); there have been some suggestions of associated co-"illnesses", like ADD, but I don't know if the evidence is strong enough for any solid correlation.
BTW, an AR-15/M-16 ejects s
Many auto-loading weapons are a problem for left-handers. The British Army's LA-85 bullpup rifle has a cocking handle that will remove teeth if mounted on the left shoulder. They now train everyone to shoot off the right shoulder. When I was shooting self-loading pistols left-handed I'd occasionally get a hot case flung into my face which made me more religious about wearing my polycarbonate safety glasses.
I'm left-handed and never had issues with brass from M16/AR-15 pattern rifles when I was in the army (or with my personally-owned ones) -- maybe they've improved the brass deflectors? The hot gas and oil that gets forced from the ejection port, on the other hand...
I once fired a
Clothing and hot brass...
Back when I was shooting regularly on an open line I tended to stand on the right of someone shooting the same calibre as I was and made sure he wasn't using Blazer. Free reloading supplies, yay!
I was on the fence (Score:5, Interesting)It's kind of tricky because I tended to be ambidextrous at a young age and would switch hands when writing. The teachers forced me to use my right hand, grew up in the 60s. I'm naturally left handed and have all the left handed traits. I can sculpt equally well with both hands, I often work both sides of a large sculpture at the same time, and use tools with both. I fence and both shoot pistols and bow equally well right and left handed. What I find is everyone is born with a dominate hand but left handed people are often forced to use their right hand and tend to be ambidextrous more often than right handed people. It makes a straight answer difficult but since I can do most things equally well with either hand I had to answer ambidextrous. It comes in handy because when one hand gets tired I can switch without breaking stride. It's upsetting teachers especially in the past tend to pressure kids to be right handed.
My two youngest kids are both left handed. One of them would default to using her left hand for writing but could switch hands without breaking stride when prompted. When she broke her left arm she switched to using her right hand and I figured it would stick and I was somewhat relieved as being left handed does put you at a mechanical disadvantage in a right handed world. Once her arm was healed though she went right on back to being left handed. She was 4 or 5 at the time.
he teachers forced me to use my right hand, grew up in the 60s.
And they were wise to do so, even though it's supposedly mean, cruel and horrible.
I was born lame in my right arm, so must write with my left hand. Starting in approx 7th grade in the mid 1970s I'd come home every school day having a long blue stain on the outside of my left palm from where my hand dragged through the not yet fully dry ink from the Bic pens we all used. The papers I turned in and the notes I took were always smeared. Even pencil graphite smudged.
(My son also writes left-handed, but he ei
Beats me how you can justify a teacher forcing a child to switch hands. When my mother was a child (yes, in a one-room schoolhouse), she was forced to switch and become right handed. I asked her why she didn't simply switch back, and she said she'd been writing so long with her right hand that she really couldn't. She always struggled to write neatly.
When I entered first grade Mom told me that if the teacher tried to make me use my right hand, to tell the teacher she'd be having a conversation with my mo
I was switched... (Score:4, Interesting)by theshibboleth (968645) on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:31PM (#43253067)I was switched by a stupid teacher from left-handed to right-handed... I blame some of my coordination issues on this. I assume this poll is asking about current usage as opposed to biological predisposition; if the former I'm moderately right-handed; if the latter I'm left-handed. Interestingly even so there are still certain things I do instinctively with my left hand like holding objects, etc. I write with my right hand, but in general I feel almost like I'm doing the equivalent of brute-force attacks when I use my right hand.
Adding to this, this poll caught me into my habitual learn-to-do-things-left-handed-again phase... I'm faster than most of my peers at typing and I credit this to having some skill in both hands; even so I do strange things like stretching with my left hand to hit the h, so in typing I'm almost more left-handed (although I realize in a sense I'm just not typing correctly).
I.e.: clumsy with both hands. At least where writing is cioncerned. I can manage finely controlled manual tasks just fine, though. I suspect I also was "switched" from left handed to right handed by a sequence of stupid teachers, because some tell me I used to write with my left hand when I was a kid. On the other hand (no pun intended), while I write horribly with my right hand, I can draw relatively well with it, and it takes me some effort to draw left-handed. I guess that the brain can adapt, within lim
I once heard this described as antiambidextrous, not adept with either hand.
Ahh, the leftorium. [leftorium.com] I voted right-handed but not strongly. That was a missing obligatory geek plug.
I am sure my son was forced to switch hands by a preschool teacher, and that was in 1989. We didn't realize what was going on at first, because we could not believe that this kind of crap was still going on. So, I am curious, how many people think they were switched, and when did they start school?
I'm a musician and I'm a mess: guitar right hand, pool both, drum dominent left hand open style, bass drum right, double bass drum left.
I had pressure to go right in 1-2 grade. Never took.
I am sure my son was forced to switch hands by a preschool teacher, and that was in 1989. We didn't realize what was going on at first, because we could not believe that this kind of crap was still going on. So, I am curious, how many people think they were switched, and when did they start school?
My two youngest kids are lower primary school age and are both left handed. We lightly encouraged them both to use their right hand when they were first learning to write but they are both very definitely left handed. The older of the two could happily switch hands for a few years but always went back to using her left, even after a number of weeks with her left arm in a cast when she broke it.
Their teachers never did anything more than a bit of mild encouragement either, as far as I know. And like our at
strongly right-handed, but I can write left-handed from right to left....
I've also discovered the ability to write backwards with my left hand and wonder how common it is.
I can also start in the center of the page with a pencil in each hand and write almost perfect mirror images.
I wouldn't consider myself strongly right handed though as I play pool left handed and bowl equally good
with either hand (but I do notice in bowling that the ball curves in opposite directions as well).
Same, except I don't think that my right-handedness is particularly strong. The fact is that a left-handed person writing with his left hand is not equivalent to a right-handed person writing with his right hand. One is pushing the pen while the other is pulling it - a completely different type of action. I find that writing backwards (unfamiliar) with my off hand (also unfamiliar) is much easier than writing forwards with my off hand or writing backwards with my strong hand.
Handedness and (language related) profession (Score:3, Interesting)I'm left-handed and have noticed that a lot of other people in the English education field here in Japan are also left-handed. At one school 9 out of 10 of the teachers were left-handed and I went to a seminar recently where all 6 attendees were left-handed. Are there any other language teachers here? Have you noticed anything similar?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous!
(old joke, someone had to say it)
That's a good one, I wonder where I read it first ? http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3573767&cid=43255717 [slashdot.org]
Someone DID...
My Great Gandfather was a lefty and couldn't afford a left handed set clubs. He would play left handers and bet them one club if they switched bags for a round. He got a whole bag full of clubs that way.
My parents meant well, but it's probably why I'm bloody uncoordinated...
I'm mostly left-handed, with one exception. A couple of years ago I went to a shooting range for the first time, and when I shouldered a shotgun, the instructor noticed my hesitation whether to place the stock on my left or right shoulder. I told him I'm left-handed, but he said, "No, you're not". Shooting from the right shoulder went fine.
My father is right-handed, but shoots (handguns and longarms both) lefty.
I've never seen or heard of an ambidextrous pitcher. Can you imagine the benefit, though? Switch-hitters are prized for the ability to adapt to a pitcher, but if the pitcher could adapt to the hitter? It'd be amazing.
Now, it might be impossible -- that competitive pitching requires you to make your body significantly asymmetrical -- perhaps the extra mass of the muscles on the other side would slow you down.
I mean, we've had an All-Star pitcher with just one arm! And he pitched a no-hitter in the bigs!
Oh, my information was, sadly, out-of-date. [wikipedia.org] Sorry about that.
I mostly do everything right-handed, except my left hand has more "balance." I can driver better with my left hand only compared with my right hand. In fact, I drive better with my left hand only than with both hands. On a motorcycle (and bicycle) you have to use two hands of course, but I can balance the bike better with left hand only than with right hand only.
by spaceyhackerlady (462530) on Saturday March 23, 2013 @06:24PM (#43259677)
I'm nominally right-handed but can do most tasks (except for writing) left-handed.
I currently have two vehicles, one left-hand drive, one right-hand drive. So I'm used to shifting gears both ways.
I recently had my first experience flying an airplane from the right seat and working controls (throttle, prop, mixture, etc.) with my left hand. In this case it was a regulatory thing, a tourist who didn't have time to do the paperwork with the local aviation authorities. Advanced student flight training involves a lot of right seat flying, because one's first job is almost certainly going to be a co-pilot or a flight instructor in the right seat. You need to get used to it.
Since we're discussing where left-handers differs, I thought those 2 up:
- How do you handle double-doors, do you use the right hand to pull/push when going through?
I push on either door, always with my main hand.
I always pull the same door as my main hand.
- How do you unlock/open the car's door, do you use the key's hand to open?
Since I leave the key in the lock until I'm done, I never have this problem be it on the driver's or passenger's side.
I'd be strongly right-handed but somebody placed the most frequently used characters on the left side of the keyboard for maybe no particularly good reasons [wikipedia.org], so I'm mostly left handed when I type.
I do some things (like write) left handed, but use my right hand for other things (e.g. I bat right handed). For years I searched for the factors that made any given activity a left- or right-handed one, until a few years ago when I finally noticed the pattern.
I do single-handed activities left handed, and two-handed things the way a typical right-handed person would. Tennis is a left-handed thing, but a two-handed bat (or golf club) grip makes me a righty, there. A fork goes in the left hand (which make


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