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Help me identify this perfume!

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  • gunsandbanjos
    gunsandbanjos Posts: 12,246 Forumite
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    It wasn't flowerbomb was it? That smells really fruity to me.
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  • fairy_lights
    fairy_lights Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    It could be literally anything!
    I think you need to give up on finding it because even if you did unwittingly spritz it on yourself in a shop it wouldn't smell the same, because perfumes react differently with everyone's skin.
    It might not even have been perfume - it could have been a scented body lotion or the fabric softener on her clothes.
  • fairy_lights
    fairy_lights Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    Babbawah wrote: »
    From your post I can instantly recognise "Pomme de Frottage". Last time I came across it was in John Lewis exclusively.

    Sorry if this is out of your price range.
    How can you instantly recognise a specific perfume from a description as vague as "summary, maybe fruity"?
  • sweaty_betty
    sweaty_betty Posts: 1,337 Forumite
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    Thanks all - I'm going to go and sniff out all the suggestions and will report back :)
  • Former_MSE_Andrea
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    Hi sweaty betty, we'll be tweeting this later today so hopefully you may get some more help, especially from twitter #bbloggers this evening.
    Could you do with a Money Makeover?


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  • *max*
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    Babbawah wrote: »
    From your post I can instantly recognise "Pomme de Frottage". Last time I came across it was in John Lewis exclusively.

    Sorry if this is out of your price range.

    I'm hoping this is a bizarre joke, or a massive spelling mistake, because if true, that's a horrible, HORRIBLE name! :eek:

    Google "frottage" if you're curious! _pale_
  • fairy_lights
    fairy_lights Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    *max* wrote: »
    I'm hoping this is a bizarre joke, or a massive spelling mistake, because if true, that's a horrible, HORRIBLE name! :eek:

    Google "frottage" if you're curious! _pale_
    frot·tage

    (frô-täzh′)n.1. The act of rubbing against the body of another person, as in a crowd, to attain sexual gratification.
    :eek:
  • j.e.j.
    j.e.j. Posts: 9,672 Forumite
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    fairy_lights wrote: »
    How can you instantly recognise a specific perfume from a description as vague as "summary, maybe fruity"?

    He's trolling ;) Frottage is a rude word.


    ETA I dread to think the responses this'll get on Twitter :rotfl:
  • sweaty_betty
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    fairy_lights wrote: »
    frot·tage

    (frô-täzh′)n.1. The act of rubbing against the body of another person, as in a crowd, to attain sexual gratification.
    :eek:

    I did raise an eyebrow when I googled it! :rotfl:

    So far ruled out Nina ricci...
  • donnac2558
    donnac2558 Posts: 3,649 Forumite
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    Okay had a thought last night when in a store with a friend. She stopped at the Clinique counter and there was Calyx which used to be Prescriptives but now with Clinique.

    Its suppose to smell like a fruit salad, I don't do fruity but others who do love it.
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