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Like DustB, for me it was also Lagerfeld Classic. It was circa 1986 and while shopping at Filenes with some college friends I picked up a bottle , instantly fell in love and bought it on the spot. Quite an investment for a poor college student, I might add. I didn't care if I had to eat Top Ramen for the next 2 months. I had to have it. I'd been wearing fragrance since the age of 12 or so...but none prior to this had ignited my passion in the way LC did. And so it began....

My tastes have changed a bit since then....but Lagerfeld Classic will always hold a special place in my heart. I know it gets a lot of bad press around here, but I believe it is an original, well crafted, beauty.

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A little over a year ago I picked up a bottle of Cumming by Alan Cumming. I got it mainly as a joke because I saw it on "The Daily Show". John Stewart had Alan Cumming as a guest talking about it. In my search to find out more about it in ran across Basenotes. Before I got Cumming I really didn't use much in the way of fragrance, now I'm a few hundred dollars poorer and use fragrance almost every day.

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I was looking for a scent for a friend. I loved Lagerfeld Jako, I thought it was different from everything else, plus the brand was not so well known as others. I liked it so much that later had to buy it for myself. But while looking ffor a gift I got a chance to try so manym that I could not get them out of my head and had to have more than one scent. I also got me Paco, and Xerius Rouge, and Gurilain Vetiver. Then started reading rviews in the Internet, and sniffing at every corner.

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Herrera for Men. It's still a favorite after all these years.

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Alain Delon Iquitos. At the peaceful revolution from communism to the free world in 1989 it was MY true sign of something totally new.

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High school period : Polo Green,

then I laid off perfumes for a while, and just when I thought I was out

Basenotes era: Millesime Imperial drew me in.

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Green Irish Tweed

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Mine was Bvlgari pour Homme (Bvlgari). I remember exactly the first time I smelled it (and bought it instantly - 35 € for 30ml was expensive back then). I thought: Yes, that's one Mercedes of a fragrance. Sophistication, class, elitism. Two years have passed, and although my wardrobe has grown into a considerable size I always get a bit of "Mercedes-feeling" when sniffing Bvlgari after a long period of putting on niches or other crazy unwearable stuff. Ahoi!

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For me, Mugler Cologne was the spark that ignited the fragrant fire (thanks to the recommendations of several Basenoters).
I remember getting that first bottle back in 2004. I had just graduated from high school in Valparaiso, so we drove down to Merrillville, where I told my dad to wait inside Waldenbooks so I could do some sniffing over at the L.S. Ayres at Southlake Mall (which, not surprisingly, is now Macy's). I tested countless smellies, and chose that one. About 30 minutes after I told him to wait, I went back home with my new smelly friend.
I still love the stuff to this day, and as long as it's produced, I will always have a bottle of it in my collection.

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First Burberry Brit. Liked it at the airport store, but too expensive. Found it on ebay, and in the process, found BN. Got interested in other frags. Bought Royal English Leather. It went downhill from there .