Women with Grapefruit scents seem 7 years younger....

[Phoenix]

Hello all!
I found this thread at basenotes’ temporary forum. it’s of interest to women for sure…

Hehe the women will enjoy this..

Any really nice grapefruit scents? - Basenotes Community

Here’s an extract.

*Last year various stories sprung out of some scent and attractiveness studies conducted at the Scent and Taste Treatment Center and Institute in Chicago. Its lead researcher, Dr. Alan Hirsch, began to pursue this research area after noticing that nearely 1/5th of his patients who had lost their senses of smell experienced sexual dysfunction. He theorized, like others, that there must be a sex-scent link. So what scents? *Is it all about undetectable pheremones? *If there are sexy scents that we can smell, what are they? *(see my thread on the male forum “The ultimate chic magnet” for a good laugh ) And what other ways do scents affect our attraction to others or our very own attractiveness?

*One of the more interesting findings to me as a woman approaching 40, was that when women of a certain age (as the diplomatic French are wont to say) wore a grapefruit scent, that men consistently rated their age as being approximately six years younger. *30 scents were used and the women encountered many men while wearing different scents.

**A brief and somewhat accurate AP tidbit from 2005 about the grapefruit angle and age perception.

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiol…rapefruit.html

Perfumes which have a highlighted Grapefruit note but are still unique / elegant :

Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Pamplelune
This grapefruit note is sharp, sulphurous like the fresh zest of a bitter grapefruit but the whole is a wonderful summer scent with some depth.

Caron Alpona
A growing lemming of mine. Caron say it is ‘Hesperide cyprus’ or lemon / grapefruit floral chypre and that the grapefruit is a balance between gourmand and resinous crystallised fruit. All on a fresh floral chypre base. mmmmm :drool:

Police Eyes for you
I think this is unfortunately discontinued but still available on line. This is a gorgeous modern scent with fresh mouthwatering pink grapefruit over a soft floral vanilla musk base. What makes this unusual / unique is the distinct ‘hazelnut’ accord that emerges and compliments the grapefruit. Though gourmand it is not foody and is actually quite chic. :love:

Christian Lacroix Bazar
I have heard that this too is discontinued but I am sure it can still be found on line. This is a wonderfully fresh grapefruit scent over white light florals ending in a vanilla musk base.
A very close alternative is Dior Addict 2.

Other perfumes with a strong grapefruit note I haven’t tried but you may enjoy are:

D&G Light Blue
Dior Baby Doll
Moschino I Love Love
Czech & Speake Citrus Paradisi (a long time lemming of mine)

and judging from the traffic this thread is getting (very low), grapefruit will remain a secret weapon for all those of us over 34 who bothered to read this!

I want to invite Godzilla, the only male responding, to come over while I am wearing AG or the others and tell me I look 29!