Some years ago, during a period of intense dating activity, I haphazardly selected a first-date perfume that, to use common idiom, drove men wild, turned men on, made men mad with desire. I was never one to deliberate over a perfume choice, other than to question whether the strength of something was appropriate for close quarters, so my choice of a date perfume was a random, last-minute one.
I will have to string you along a bit longer, while I take an excursus into the topic of what perfume do men like and what perfume do women like and what is the sexiest fragrance. It should work to enhance your personality, rather than to drag it down.
I will warn you that my use of heavy Orientals seemed to send out a vampy message that, along with my tendency to observe rather than to act, caused men to circle around me and go talk to the girl with the big smile and the flowery, feminine perfume. Compliments came my way from white florals, in particular jasmine, and not just on dates. Breezy jasmine is a smell people seem to respond to with enthusiasm.
Amber can be smooth and seductive by nature, especially when leaning towards the gourmand. As for the fragrances that make me to swoon on men, I will give you two notes: cedar and musk. Nowhere do these come together as happilyβfor meβas in Serge Lutens Bois et Musc. The smoothness of the lightly animalic musk over the warm, pungent cedar is olfactory bliss for me. Years ago an assistant of mine answered as many questions from women about his fragrance Joop! As polarizing as a note can be, herbal and earthy patchouli can always turn my head, especially when worn by an artistic type.
A good example of this type of fragrance would be Reminiscence Elixir Patchouli , which has all of my favorite notes patchouli, cedar, sandalwood, musk rolled into one. Such light modern musks are to me the equivalent of a lack of feature or personality, a white wall.
