CRAZYLIBELLULE AND THE POPPIES! HOMMAGE A GABRIELLE! CRAZY STICKS SOLID PERFUME!

The packaging looks so cute, and that really is a great price for a perfume!  I've never really used solid perfumes before, but i would certainly give it a try!  Hm, I can't really think of any good exotic finds, does getting my eyebrows threaded count? haha!

That is definetly cute packaging!! Very glamorous, I have not had good experience with solid perfumes however this one sounds "neater" hopefully it has nice staying power too. Great review :)

that looks so cool. I have been guilty of buying a perfume that smells like cats pee on me just because it looks amazing on my shelf.
My neighbour has a palm tree in her garden and i live in the north east of england. Thats pretty exotic to me.

That IS a good price--think of how long it would last! Amazing.My most exotic find would probably be (I see we have an Asian theme here!) Shark Fin dumplings from a now-defunct (SAD!) dim sum place I used to love. I only tried them once and they were weird. Who knows if that's actually what was in them!

Cute packaging!  Best exotic find would be a chinese hat I found in West Virginia.  My friend and I were the only two northerners in this little college with one stop light.  Apparently we were not liked at first, and some girls followed us into the elevator and started to make fun of us.  Forever the lover of Kung Fu, I told them those that wear straw hats in the rain do not get wet. 

I'm not a big perfume person, mostly because the bottles are so big and they charge so much for them!  I have been given perfumes as gifts and they all are like 90% full.  This sounds like something that would be up my alley...I don't know how exotic it is, but my best find is chocolate from the island of Grenada where I go to school.  I know, you're thinking "chocolate is chocolate" right?  Well the chocolate they make on the island (and can only be purchased on the island) is dark, creamy, and any chocoholics dream!  Makes the best brownies you will ever eat.  Once you try Grenada chocolate, you will not want anything else! 

Oh these look fantastic!  What a great idea, a solid perfume in a stick.  These sound delectable.  I'll have to keep an eye out for any other fragrances they release!My 'exotic find' was also found in Vietnam - bluedevilkitty has the right idea!  ; ]I had been searching for a Melbourne Cup frock for what felt like forever and a day and was starting to become more than a little frustrated.  I headed overseas with my then partner, and decided I would push all thoughts of this elusive perfect party frock to the back of my mind only to discover the most amazing, funky, stylish and ever-so-unique dress in the back alley of Ho Chi Minh city!  Imagine my surprise as I lay eyes on the dress, sitting beautifully on a mannequin in some dirty back alley-way.  I dragged the boy inside and oohed and aahed at the beauty of the dress for a good 10 minutes before the lovely assistant approached me.  She asked me in her broken English if I would like to try it on.  I must have looked like I had just won the lottery, the size of my grin was absolutely insane.  I nodded and took it into the tiny fitting room.I emerged with the gown on but the zip un-done.  My 'Western' chest was just too big for the petite Vietnamese size gown.  In a flash the lady whipped the dress off me and said, "Five minute!"I stood in the stifling heat of the store directly under a decrepit fan for 10 minutes.  The other beautiful assistants bought me ice water and a plastic child's seat to sit on under the fan, as the head assistant worked on the dress.Another 10 minutes later and I was whisked into the change-room with the dress flung over the curtain.  "Try this!" the lady said proudly.I lifted the dress over my head and reached behind to pull the zip up.  Amazingly, it fit perfectly!  The lady hadn't even measured me!  She had managed to alter the dress in less than 20 minutes from site alone!I thanked her profusely and admired myself in the mirror.  "How much?" I asked.  She took a calculator off the desk and showed me a figure - US$40.  I was aghast - so cheap!  And it was made from fine Vietnamese silk!I immediately decided against bartering, as this lady and her team had been so very helpful - above and beyond the call of duty.  I paid and walked out the happiest I think I had ever been!That year at the races I had literally swarms of people asking me where on Earth I had found my dress!  I even had someone asking me if they could buy it!!  I answered all with a wry smile, saying I had been overseas and the gorgeous people of Vietnam had provided me with my dream dress.  :D

My most exotic or very lucky find happened in Lisbon Portugal in 1999. My husband, son and I were wandering all the back alleys and had no idea of where we were. Our goal was to find Port from some year that was suppose to really good.  So good in fact that they didn't ship hardly any to the US.  We found this really old deli with chickens and baby pigs hanging from the ceiling, dust over everything and an old man running the store who had to be a 100 years old.  We didn't understand each other, but managed to get Port and the year to him and he came back with a bottle.  We asked how much, $7 US, so we asked for 9 more and bought them.  Back on the cruise we met a couple that owned an exclusive wine shop in Boston and they offered to buy our Port for $1000 a bottle.  We were tempted, but we wanted to taste what a thousand dollar port tasted like.  It was amazing.  That was a once in a lifetime find.  We enjoyed every bottle with friends over wonderful deserts.

Sounds, looks, and i'm sure smells amazing!My most exotic find came from La Alhambra in Granada Spain, which is a Moorish citadel dated back to the 9th century.There several onsite shops and I found one that made wooden boxes with very detailed/intricate designs that represent the architecture of the fortress and the rich Arabian history. This is where I found my most beloved jewelry box, a hexagonal shaped cedar box that's about 8 in by 8 in, maybe, with red/white/green designed carved into the topside of the lid and a mirror on the underside. This is where I keep all my treasured jewelry. It's gorgeous and handmade, I wouldnt trade it for anything!

I love solid perfumes, and am a sucker for nice packaging. No coughing because you have to breathe the thing in, and no worrying about the bottle breaking and drenching your things (been there, done that).Anyhow, my best exotic find...Me and my family was on vacation down in Serbia one of those summers when whole of Europe was just one massive oven. We had headed out early in the morning, with the air conditioning in the car turned to full, and a good amount of water in the cooler box, to go see a monastery up in the mountains that our interpretor had been talking about for days. It was supposed to be a rather short drive, less than an hour. It took us nearly four. The reason? We decided to take a short cut, down what we thought was a gravel road but that turned out to be a road non existent and with no place to turn around on.I can't begin to tell you, the horror of driving an ordinary car, down a mountainside, with a several metres drop on one side of you and only more rocks in front of you, standing on the brakes and still going down too fast for your liking.Anyhow, after what felt like days of feeling sick to the very core of my being, we finally rolled out onto the real road again and shortly thereafter we arrived at the so much talked about monastery.It was a small, white thing on the mountainside with a black, wrought iron gate and a bell to ring in. My brother happily rushed to grab it, but before he had reached it the gates swung open and a small man, in a black robe, came to greet us. There was some talking between our interpretor and the monk, and we were allowed to go inside.We had the traditional tour of the place. And talk about holy bones and whatnot, as the monk lead us to their chapel. A chapel lighted by many coloured lamps. Ok, thought I. We are in Serbia and it is pretty. Then I happened to look out the window, the laundry hanging on lines outside. Underwear in an assortment of shapes and colours flapping in the wind, some of them definitely belonging in x-rated movies. Ok, thought I.Then, as the tour ended, after having heard a lot about how the monks lived on their prayers alone, we were showed into a common room to have some tea. And to be offered to buy vegetables, crosses and beeswax candles that the monks claimed they grew and made themselves.My father was about to buy some candles, but my brother stopped him by hissing: "Dad, dad! You can get the same candles at the market in town, for half the price!" And true enough, you could. Along with the crosses and vegetables. But my father did buy a couple from the monks, who smiled and poured more tea for us and thanked us.Those beeswax candles really are the best and most exotic find I've ever made. They smell deliciously of honey when burnt. They keep a steady flame and don't drip like ordinary candles do. And they are handmade and natural. Can you have any better candles than that?

I don't usually go for the flowery smells in perfume. Actually, I was reading my cosmo magazine recently and rubbed one of those perfume page strips on my arm and LOVED it...until I realized that I had put on the man's version. I smelled the ladies version and I hated it because it was so flowery.I have been dying to try a solid perfume though...it's such a great idea. (and there's no glass jar to break). As soon as I see this in store, I will be all over it.

Ooh, I love that it comes in a stick instead of a pot. I've owned several solid perfumes and I've always wanted to love them, but the fact that I get the stuff all over my fingers while applying turns me off a little. It takes away from the convenience of having a solid. I've even melted down a few of them and transferred them to lip balm-style twist-up containers to make them a little easier to use.

Cute outer packaging and great price but does it smell good to my nose and does it work well with my body chemistry, is the question....?

I have never used a solid perfume, but I love the idea of it. Sounds much easier to toss in your bag and take with you and easier to reapply throughout the day.As far as exotic finds....does my Patrick(sponge bob's bff) beanie baby I found at a yard sale last week count??

nice package, never seen solid perfume

love the packaging vintage inspired...cute

I love the idea of solid perfume, I haven't tried it yet - I always spray.  I will check these out next time at Sephora.From all of the exotic stories everyone wrote, I think I need to get out more!

I've never tried a perfume stick, but this looks fantastic. I am learning so much from this site, haha

bring them down under to Australia!!!

I love perfume sticks - so easy to travel with!  I just came back from a 2 week trip to Spain and the only fragrance I carried with me was my Pacifica Tuscan Orange.  It was fresh, took up no space at all - and didn't have to be placed in the 1 quart liquids bag for the TSA.  Agnes - I was delighted to see your story about being in Serbia.  I've been there several times and love the country.My exotic story probably isn't all THAT exotic now, but at the time I felt like I'd wandered into a romantic film.  It was in Paris many years ago.  I'd read about a parfumery Annick Goutal.  Now many of her fragrances are available in the US, but at the time very hard to find.  I'd never experienced them but I just got it into my head that I had to find the shop and buy some.  There was a beautiful little Annick Goutal shop in Rue Castiglione, just off the Rue de Rivoli.  It was just a jewel box of a shop, incredibly lovely and elegant - all glass and gold.  The wonderful sales lady helped me to find just the right fragrance for me, which was called Passion.  It's still my favorite and I buy it every time I'm in Paris.  Everything is wrapped up beautifully.  You can feel good even giving one of their soaps as a gift - it is SO elegant.  AND, when you're ready to leave the shop, they always ask if you want them to spray you.  You can choose whatever scent you want, and the lady will envelop you in fabulous fragrance.  When I left that store, I felt taller and fabulous.  And very French!  This is why every trip to Paris includes a visit to this parfum store.  Alas, Annick died a few years ago, but the business is still going strong.  This was my quintessential Parisian experience! 

All of these perfume reviews makes me wish I could wear perfume. Blah, stupid allergies! But the packing is adorable and who doesn't love Coco Chanel?

perfume sticks, they sound so wonderful! but I'm not too big on perfume :( just like jewelry I always forget to put them on.

b-glowing is probably my favorite find so far on megsmakup.  The reason is they carry the "niche" perfumes, stuff that is not available at your everyday Macys.  I am a perfume nut, I sample and research perfumes constantly, reading Basenotes reviews before I but. I own strictly dept. store perfume so far, still looking for my "signature".  I found it on b-glowing, after ordering a lovely solid perfume, recieved a sample of a perfume calles Filles des Isles (Island Girls) in a scent  called Floral Sensuel.   Its so gorgeous and sexy, different than anything out there, stays on all day and night and still smells exotic. It fits all the qualifications on Basenotes of a superiour perfume, has striking top note, sophisticated middle notes, warm sexy basenote and long lasting dry down.  I am so thrilled with b-glowing.com.  Perfume makes me happy. thanks, meg!

I love trying out new perfumes that don't break the bank. Like Mark.'s Earth which is in the last chance section right now.