Thanks for all the advice ladies....your comments are wonderfully helpful. I'll try stay with tutti frutti scents, honeys and resins.
I dont have LP red on the way unfortunately -no that is on my next to order when I have "le fric" (the cash)- although Mara did mention she would include a few samples :-) hoping it may somehow find its way in there in sample form.
So I'm limited right now to what I currently own to cover the cops. I recently got a present of DKNY delicious which smells fruity like green apples, maybe that kind of fruity will do the trick?? Will have to put my cops on, on my little balcony outside, as per your advice, air it for 10 mins then DKNY it. I live in a small apartment -on the 20th floor, that still amazes me, I just moved from Europe and the most floors we have in our houses there is 5.
On the other hand I'm hoping some of my own blends might marry well with cops- the key word is hoping as I am a total neophyte.
I am a bit of a sorceress and do so love to mix up my own concoctions and make a lot of my own cosmetics such as body butters and shampoo, which is what prompted me to try pheros as it sounds like a lot of frolics can be had blending and experimenting with them... oh I cannot wait until my package arrives....
At the moment I own the following ingredients which I mix into various scents:
-vanilla
-patchouli
-rose
-sugared rose
-candied rose
-jasmin
-musk
-frankincense
-nag champa (sandalwood)
I also own raw cocoa butter which lends a choco smell to everything...
wondering whether to buy ylang ylang or orange as those are both fruity....
also thinking about heating up almond oil with honey in it to see whether it retains the scent of honey and whether it is sticky and unpleasant to wear.
Until I have more dinero to spend on LP red and LP samplers, my own concoctions will have to do.
I do have a nice collection of the above scents though, where I am from, in Paris, I would go to a closeby area where people are from the Maghreb (Morocca, Tunisia, Algeria etc) and they sell a lot of pure musk, rose and other oils very cheaply in little roll on bottles as that is what women use in those countries. Now I moved to Toronto I miss my excursions to those exotic shops that also stocked all sorts of goodies like real eye kajal (kohl), cheap pure argan oil etc....
But one door closes and another opens...In my crystal ball I see many happy shopping trips on the LP site...