The Candy Perfume Boy March 17, 2012 The Saturday Poll

Saturday Poll: Which Perfume Concentration Do You Prefer?

I enjoyed last week’s Saturday Poll so much I have made the decision to make it a weekly feature. The reason I had originally intended to hold the poll on a monthly basis was simply because the WordPress poll client (Polldaddy) only allows a certain number of responses per month before requiring a rather pricey upgrade. But it seems that I should be able to run the poll comfortably within the monthly response limit, yay!

Anyway, enough of the boring stuff and on to the results of last Saturday’s poll. I asked you to pick your favourite fragrance from Mona di Orio’s Les Nombres d’Or collection. Vanille rained supreme with 29% of the vote an Oud wasn’t too far behind with 27%.

On to this week’s poll…

The Poll

This week’s poll focuses on perfume concentration. Which do you usually go for; Eau de Cologne, Eau de Toilette, Eau de Parfum or Parfum? OR does it entirely depend on the fragrance and or/house?

Please feel free to leave a comment explaining your answer in the comments box.

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Eva S on March 17, 2012 at 10:12 am
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I usually prefer EDP over EDT, but I must admit I haven’t much experience of parfum/extrait concentrations. Then again I prefer spraying over dabbing…
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 17, 2012 at 7:58 pm
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  I’m with you on the spraying v dabbing!
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Ines on March 17, 2012 at 5:03 pm
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If I had to choose, I’d go with edp (which was my poll choice) but some perfumes I have in other concentration work great without being an edp, so I really just follow my nose most of the time. 🙂
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 17, 2012 at 8:01 pm
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  Following your nose is always a good option 😀
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Tara on March 17, 2012 at 5:55 pm
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Well, I voted for parfum because I love the richness and lasting power. It’s great to be able to notice it through the day. I love wearing Puredistance 1 for that reason. Guerlains are something else in parfum concentration too. During summer I can see parfum might be a bit much but we don’t get much of that, do we?
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 17, 2012 at 8:02 pm
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  Parfum also makes you feel rather fabulous doesn’t it?
  
  I’m hoping Puredistance I will be awesome in the summer.
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The Candy Perfume Boy on March 17, 2012 at 8:04 pm
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I voted for “It depends on the scent” simply because it really does depend on the perfume. I usually go for EDP’s, especially with Guerlain but if I go for Chanel then it has to be EDT or Parfum. Everything else tends to be EDP.

As Ines says – follow your nose!
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flittersniffer on March 18, 2012 at 11:25 pm
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I voted for EDP, because it is a good, middle-of-the-road all rounder!
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 19, 2012 at 8:56 am
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  Good choice!
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James Dennard on March 19, 2012 at 12:35 am
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I have only owned fragrances in edc and edt forms. So I recorded the lone vote for edt. But it does depend on the scent in some cases. Tabac Original, for instance, smells better to me in the edc concentration.
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 19, 2012 at 9:08 am
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  I agree, different scents smell better in different concentrations.
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Undina on March 19, 2012 at 1:22 am
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You shouldn’t have included “It Depends on the Scent” option: of course, it does! For everybody. 🙂

I chose EdP for the same reasons Vanessa did. But there are perfumes for which I prefer parfum concentration (for example, Rubj – I just cannot wear EdP, it smells awful on my skin) and there are those I woulldn’t want in higher concentration (for example, most Jo Malone’s colognes).
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 19, 2012 at 9:09 am
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  “It Depends on the Scent” is definitely the easy option isn’t it?
  
  I’m totally with you on Rubj EDP, it is very different from the extrait, less floral and FULL of cumin.
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malsnano86 on March 20, 2012 at 1:44 pm
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TOTALLY depends on the scent, babe. Waitaminnit here, lookatmyface: puzzled. confused. completely bamboozled. How could it NOT depend on the scent?

I mean, the largest percentage of my personally-owned bottles are probably EdP, but most of them are only produced in EdP. There are, of course, notable exceptions: I only like No. 5 in parfum. For No. 19 my favorite version is vintage EdT, but if I am limited to modern then I prefer the EdP, and I didn’t really get on with the parfum. I prefer Teo Cabanel Alahine in the EdP, which is plenty rich enough and has a cheerful lightness the parfum doesn’t. Similarly, when I managed to get my greedy hands on a small decant of discontinued and extremely-hard-to-find Parfum Sacre extrait, I was expecting Nirvana – but it was so similar to the modern EdP that I was disappointed, and found a new home for the decant. With *classic* Guerlains I nearly always prefer the parfum and find the EdT nearly unwearable, except for Apres l’Ondee EdT which is magic.

I’m still trying to wrap my head around choosing an across-the-board preferred concentration. Maybe if – nope. My head just exploded.
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  malsnano86 on March 20, 2012 at 1:48 pm
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  I should maybe also mention that I LIKE dabbing. It feels elegant and ties back into my early childhood reminiscences of watching my mom get ready to go out, dabbing her No. 5 behind each ear and on each wrist.
  
  And I still shudder with horror at the memory of theaters and auditoriums in the late 70s being completely permeated by the smell of Opium, so I’m not a big-sillage gal, either. Which probably plays into my enjoyment of dabbing, to be honest, though there are definitely many scents which I think need to be sprayed, and some that really need to be sprayed heavily (Annick Goutal florals come to mind here).
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    The Candy Perfume Boy on March 21, 2012 at 8:43 pm
    
    Opium has been the main cause for the anti-big perfume movement so I totally get what you mean.
    
    I’m not a fan of dabbing, simply because it’s a bit of a faff and I like big sillage. I do totally agree that there are some perfumes that have to be heavily sprayed, Alien springs to mind!
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 21, 2012 at 8:39 pm
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  Sorry for making your head explode!
  
  You have very specific tastes in terms of concentration – I find it interesting because other than a few exceptions I tend to head straight for EDP as a general rule of thumb 🙂
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deeHowe on March 21, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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Totally depends on the scent!

Like Mals, my preferences are all over the board: no. 5 in parfum or EDT, but NOT EDP; no. 19 in EDP, Shalimar in parfum, Vol de Nuit in Parfum, Alahine in EDP, Unspoken in EDP… And so on.

I love the projection that I get with EDP or EDT, though for some scents, only the extrait will do 😉
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  The Candy Perfume Boy on March 21, 2012 at 8:44 pm
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  Very interesting indeed!
  
  I do enjoy the extrait in some perfumes but only really go for them if I can get them in a spray (thank god for Puredistance :P).