Question:
In the style of all those email/message board surveys...I thought I'd make one for basenoters to take! Copy and paste the questions, and answer away!
1. How did you find basenotes?
2. What are your three favorite scents?
3. What was your very first scent?
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
5. What are your favorite notes?
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
10. Have you met another basenoter?
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
17. Do you have a current rotation?
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey

Answer:
Wow! This is a great thread, since I love surveys.
1. How did you find basenotes?
Now I can't really remember...I think I was looking up fragrance notes online, and then I found this place.
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Musc Ravageur, Chergui, Ambre Sultan
3. What was your very first scent?
I think it was "Beautiful" by Estee Lauder that my pa got me at a duty-free shop.
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Muscs Koublai Khan
5. What are your favorite notes?
Musk, honey, chocolate, caramel, vetiver, amber, jasmine, coriander, cardamom, tonka, lavender, bergamot, tobacco, leather, ambergris.
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Hmm... probably women's fragrance
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
The fragrance directory and reviews
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
I check it at least several times a day
10. Have you met another basenoter?
Hopefully I'll meet one in particular this summer! *wink wink*
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
CologneJunkie
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
Hmm... probably too many to list...
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
I think that there are some Basenoters that live in Alaska... flathorn is one, but I"m not sure of any others.
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
The look of rapture on my ex-boyfriend's face as he deeply inhaled the scent from my neck...I was wearing Angel. He also adored A La Nuit because it reminded him of our posh hotel in Vegas.
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
One of my friends came into my office and said, "It smells like patchouli". He said it very neutrally, but I immediately took it the wrong way. I don't want to intentionally smell like patchouli because a lot of people have negative connotations with it. I was wearing Timbuktu at the time.
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
Seventeen, plus probably about a dozen decants and samples.
17. Do you have a current rotation?
Musc Ravageur, Muscs Koublai Khan, Chergui, Ambre Sultan, A La Nuit, Timbuktu
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
I'm trying to lay off the fragrance for a while, as I have at least 1,050mL of perfume. At my current rate of consumption that would last me almost three years of daily use. However, I REALLY like Miel du Bois. *sigh*
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
The "Take Your Pick" thread, my thread about my most hated dry/metallic note (Calone 1951, certain white florals, and certain marine notes seem to be the culprit!)
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
CJ! She's gotta fill it out...

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes?
Searching for Angel as a Christmas present

2. What are your three favorite scents?
Tam Dao, Santos de Cartier, Tauer Orris

3. What was your very first scent?
Blue Stratos at the tender age of 13 (to impress the chicks!)

4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Opium PH (very guilty when the women wear the femme version as well!)

5. What are your favorite notes?
Woods, Leather, Vanilla, and Tauer (Tar) (in no particular order)

6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental

7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Men's and off-topic

8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
Wardrobe (and PM )

9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
At least once per day

10. Have you met another basenoter?
Not in person, but I feel like I know a couple.... not telling!

11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
Shadesofbleu (long walks, deep talks, and art museums), CJ (Hanging out and flat-out partying), and Rtamara41 (art museums and poetry readings) for ladies, Rach2jlc (turning Japanese), ifconfig (shop-talk and drinking beer), and Trebor (my UK brother) for men...

12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
ifconfig and (maybe) Ziffy321

13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
ifconfig

14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
A female fellow juror said I, "smelled good enough to eat", while wearing Tauer Orris. (She was also very "handsy" that day!)

15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing? New Year's Eve, when I spritzed some Knize Ten on a very-manly-man poker buddy. He was allergic, I think!

16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
40+

17. Do you have a current rotation?
Tam Dao, Terre D'Hermes, and Egoiste Platinum get prominent play

18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
SL Un Bois Vanille or Daim Blond, CdG Kyoto is on my list as well....

19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
Take your pick has been very enlightening regarding character, and similar tastes.

20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
Hmmmmm.... I pick Shadesofbleu! (but second CJ - She started this madness, and should at least contribute!)

Paul

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes? I have not the faintest idea anymore.

2. What are your three favorite scents? Chene, Obsession, L'Homme Sage

3. What was your very first scent? Lucky You, I think.

4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent? Not sure if I have any of those.

5. What are your favorite notes? Honey, almond, hazelnut, chocolate, vanilla, rose, berries, amber.

6. What is your favorite scent classification? Heavy orientals.

7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most? Mens discussion, swap/sell boards.

8. What is your favorite basenotes feature? The community.

9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes? When I come home from work I log in and keep it logged in until I go to sleep.

10. Have you met another basenoter? Nope, talked to the on the phone though.

11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be? Col, we've been buddies for a long time just never got the chance to meet him face to face. Would'nt mind meeting Coconut though Even if in a dream...

12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself? Ziffy321, Lightninrod, Marczilla

13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?rach2jlc

14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing? "I'm going to rape you." (followed by a dead stare) Dolce and Gabbana Pour Homme.

15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing? "You smell like dirty sex." Kingdom

16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe? 65

17. Do you have a current rotation? Nope, just crimes of opportunity.

18. What are your next fragrance purchases? Blue Sugar

19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in? "our combined ounces of juice" Any thread ever made by Serpant, or Griff.

20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey The force is strong in me, but not quite that strong. Teach me master![/quote]

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes?
I think I was looking for reviews on a few different scents, and basenotes kept popping up. I thought it was pretty cool, so I used the search function in the directory, and I was hooked.
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Dzing!, Brit, and Chanel pour Monsieur Concentree
3. What was your very first scent?
Bod for Man Blue Musk (body spray), cologne was Abercrombie and Fitch Original.
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Any of my Iris scents, as I can't go out smelling that feminine, but I can't stop sniffing it. I may yet have found a compromise, but more testing is required.
5. What are your favorite notes?
Rose (now), sandalwood (rare)... that's it.
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Woods probably, then oriental.
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Men's fragrance discussion.
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
The directory.
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
At least five times a day.
10. Have you met another basenoter?
No, but I met someone who should be one, he had about 150 bottles when I talked to him.
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
Hmmm... probably Supermarky. I don't know why, he just seems like a cool guy. And almost the opposite of me. (I'm skinny, he is RIPPED, most people think I'm gay, he looks straight, I have fabulous if time consuming (three minutes everymorning) hair, he has none...)
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
I would say CJ, but see likes G2, and I'm not a fan.
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
Probably CJ.
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
"OH MY GOSH YOU SMELL SOOOO GOOD. IF I DIDN'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND, I WOULD SO JUMP YOUR BONES! You know what, I think I'll jump your bones anyways." - It was about Silver Mountain Water.
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
"Who's wearing perfume?" - The girls sitting next to me while I was eating. I had on four different samples, so I'm not sure which one it was. They told me I should get a bottle of Domain by Mary Kay, 'cause that's the only cologne their boyfriend wears, and he smells amazing. The worst decision I've ever made, to get that bottle.
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
32 bottles/large decants, and about 60 samples.
17. Do you have a current rotation?
No.
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
Maybe Susanne Lang Tambotti Wood, Egoiste, L'Homme Sage (maybe), and Basala.
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
Oh, I don't know... I liked the members pictures thread, gave me a chance to see what yall look like. I also liked the sexual orientation thread.
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
Grant?
- Rich

Answer:
CologneJunkie, thanks for organising this:
1. How did you find basenotes?
By accident when I was searching for compositions and comments on Dzing!
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Fracas, Floret by Antonia's Flowers, Chergui
3. What was your very first scent?
Anais Anais, mum and dad bought it for me when I was 15.
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Kingdom... this thing is sinful!
5. What are your favorite notes?
tuberose, orange blossoms, incense, amber, sandalwood, musk...
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Female forum, Off-Topics
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
Wardrobe
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
On a daily basis
10. Have you met another basenoter?
Not yet in person, but would love to!
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
(Strictly confidential)
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
Riannon and rtamara and I think there are a few others, but I just can't pinpoint from the top of my head.
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
I think there is a guy who lives in Taiwan and another in Singapore...
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
Fracas... too embarrassed to reveal it here.
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum - it was from a cab driver. He said my perfume stunk and opened all the windows and speeding like 160km/h and deliver me to the destination.
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
More than 140
17. Do you have a current rotation?
I am quite random... at the moment, I enjoying Musc Ravageur, Hypnotic Poison a lot.
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
Black Orchid OR Vol de Nuit Parfum
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
The Serge Lutens' feast as well as the SotD, it is a very good diary in my humble opinion.
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
Another vote for CJ since she started this!

Answer:
I had every intention of filling this out . I was just on my way out & I posted this right before I left.
1. How did you find basenotes?
I was on a board about pheromones, and I saw basenotes mentioned. I checked it out, and fell in love.
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Bvlgari Black, Gaultier2, and CK be
3. What was your very first scent?
Sweet Honesty by Avon
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Kenneth Cole Reaction
5. What are your favorite notes?
musk, sandalwood, vanilla, neroli, anise, and many more
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental (and gourmand and citrus)
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Men's frags and Off Topic
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
Sell/Swap and directory
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
Several times a day
10. Have you met another basenoter?
Not YET! *winks back at linnea*
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
linnea (duh), and I think it would be AWESOME to go to a Chiefs game w/ shadesofbleu!!! Hanging out w/ Scentsibility, Indie_Guy, and Thrax would be pretty damn fun, as well.
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
Thrax
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
smndrummer, aka _R$_. Shadesofbleu is a close second.
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
About 10 people did a toast to me & how good I smelled. I was wearing Lolita Lempicka au masculin
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
This past December, my bro & his girlfriend were hanging out at my apartment. They were about to leave, and I was about to meet up with some friends. I sprayed some Gaultier2 on, and my bro's gf started wheezing and had me open the door to my balcony. It wasn't that she disliked the scent, she is just really allergic to frags. I didn't know!!
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
Around 30
17. Do you have a current rotation?
Bvlgari Black, Gaultier2, CK be, CK one, Burberry Touch, L'eau D'Issey, Lolita Lempicka au Masculin, Tomorrow by Avon
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
I'm going to give Blue Sugar a second try...I didn't really like it the first time I tried it, but lately I've been craving it, and when I start craving a scent, it's usually a sign.
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
I LOVED the "Wore _____ and got bitten" threads!!! Those were always so funny. The Member Pics is also a great one, I love putting faces to names!!! The wardrobe pic threads are wonderfull too. I also love the "most meaningless topic" thread. The "pick one" thread is also pretty inspired. OK so there are a lot of threads I love here, otherwise I wouldn't keep coming back!!!
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
I'm hoping shadesofbleu will fill this out!!!

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes?
One of my friends from another perfume board told me about BN, I like it better than the old board.
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Angel, Dior Addict, Serge Lutens (is that cheating?)
3. What was your very first scent?
I remember having Sweet Honesty, Heaven Sent, Love's Baby Soft
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
hmmm Pink Sugar?
5. What are your favorite notes?
vanilla, amber, leather, heliotrope
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
oriental
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
the boy's and girl's forums and the off-topic
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
tie between the wardrobe and the directory (and yes, the PMs too )
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
several times/day
10. Have you met another basenoter?
not in real life, but I've talked to a few on the phone ...
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
don't get me in trouble here ... just say that there are a few
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
Scentsibility, Docluv45, paintrman, Lightninrod of the guys; tdem1961 of the girls
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
CJ and _R$_
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
too many to pick out just one, I really DO get tons of compliments
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
One time a patient told me that he didn't like any perfumes and I was wearing Angel, which he said was his "least favorite."
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
I have 69 listed in my wardrobe, that's probably close ...
17. Do you have a current rotation?
not a formal rotation
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
maybe: Musc Ravaguer, Montale Blue Amber, Douce Amere ... many more on the lust-list
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
love the pick one game, the week of Serge feast, member's pics ...
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
Riannon or Lightninrod ...

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes?
Did a search for a scent (don't remember which) and ended up on the BN directory. Joined almost immediately!
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Impossible to say, even TOP 10 changes all the time.
3. What was your very first scent?
Anaïs Anaïs and Rive Gauche
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Got to be Pink Sugar!
5. What are your favorite notes?
Sandalwood, vanilla, amber, musk, bergamot, lavender, patchouli, vetiver, leather, tobacco, incense...
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
FFD
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
Wardrobe
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
Daily
10. Have you met another basenoter?
Two: GGA and Safran
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
That's a secret.
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
Concord, Donna, Paul G and Shifts come quite close.
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
GGA, probably.
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
"Who is wearing a divine fragrance? It's YOU! What is it?" It was Yohji.
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
Nothing bad really.
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
More than 100, less than 200.
17. Do you have a current rotation?
I wear what I fancy but keep stats and scents rotate surprisingly well.
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
Will see, there's nothing urgent on my wishlist.
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
Soulmate scents.
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
No idea.

Answer:
1. How did you find basenotes?
I was googling some scent, stumbled upon it, and registered as a member after five minutes.
2. What are your three favorite scents?
Fracas, Mitsouko, Je Reviens.
3. What was your very first scent?
Hypnotique by Max Factor, Rive Gauche.
4. What is your favorite "guilty pleasure" scent?
Ode a l´Amour (Yves Rocher).
5. What are your favorite notes?
Vanilla, heliotrope, tuberose, orange blossom, incense, almond, amber, bergamot.
6. What is your favorite scent classification?
Oriental/floriental.
7. What basenotes forum(s) do you visit the most?
Female Fragrance Discussion, Off Topic.
8. What is your favorite basenotes feature?
Wardrobe, sell/swap board.
9. How many times a day/week/month do you check basenotes?
Usually several times a day.
10. Have you met another basenoter?
No.
11. If you could spend the day with another basenoter, who would it be?
Tough one, but probably Vinterdroppe, so that I can speak Swedish instead of my lousy English.
12. What basenoters share the same tastes as yourself?
I´m really not sure that anyone does...
13. What basenoter lives geographically closest to yourself?
Probably Vinterdroppe, though she lives in another country...
14. What's the best compliment you've ever received and what were you wearing?
I got one from my doctor (on whom I have a crush ) last week. He said "Ah, you smell really nice..well, you always do!" Was wearing Iris Poudre.
15. What was the worst reaction you've ever received and what were you wearing?
A lady at the grocery store said "Can´t you stop that heavy smoking of yours, so that you don´t have to cover up the smell with that horrible perfume?!" Was wearing Tocade.
16. How many scents do you have in your wardrobe?
Less than fifty, decants and minis included.
17. Do you have a current rotation?
No, I´m all over the place.
18. What are your next fragrance purchases?
A decant of Black Orchid, plus I´m saving to buy bottles of Iris Poudre and Bois de Violette.
19. What are some memorable basenotes threads that you enjoyed reading and/or participating in?
Member pictures!
20. Who will be the next one to fill out this survey
Yes, that will be fun to see!