What Would You Want?

Yes . Actually, me too. But friends and relatives insist to name something we want. So we tell what we want and they bring it when they come home.

A bit of it is also troubling another person. Most of the things we want are available across the world these days. So it kind of seems to be something of a botheration. Asking another person seems to be a good policy though.

That is very true.

Yes.me too. But this sister-in law always asks what we want as pasalubong or token. It's perfume she gives eaxh of us aside.from.other token. So she always ask for what perfume shall.it be.

@SIMPLYD That is important as perfumes are all different. There are very few I like.

@SIMPLYD I understand this too while a gift is nice ,the giver also wants to get it right. I also ask for what colours a person prefers if I am buying clothes

Really! My hubby likes perfume. He would always buy the eau de parfum that are versions of branded perfumes.that are long lasting also and as fragrant as the original. We both are fond of perfumes.

@LadyDuck In winter,I use a bit face cream in case have chapped skin.

@changjiangzhibin89 Same here, men use beauty products, after shave, but not perfume.

I am not interested in those though. I always wpuld ask for those perfumes which are my favoritea because they are expensive. What I buy for my everyday use are the versions of those brands that are really smelling like them and they last long on my blouses. Others would admire the scent when I walk by. I like perfumes.

@LadyDuck Wow, that is so costly! Is that a strong scent or mild scent, Anna? Is it really fragtant tat it has a very expensive price?

@SIMPLYD There is only one perfume that I really like and wear since I was very yount, it is "Chamade" (Etrait Pefume) by Guerlain. I buy it, because I would never dare to ask to someone to buy for me a perfume that costs 400$.

So, it's chocolates for you. We don't ask for chocolates anymore because she always send us those even when they last came here . Along with those, when she came home many years before, she has perfumes for each of us in addition to those chocoates and others like towels.

@SIMPLYD because the towels are used to pad the balikbayan box

@SIMPLYD Chocolates are the usual items that people from abroad give as "pasalubong" but mostly (like you), people are already fed up with chocolates.

@sunrisefan I agree. That's how I am too, I ask what more or less would the recipient want that is somehow not so draining to my budget.

That is true. Though most of my friends will bring me a perfume and they really.give a very fragrant perfume. But for this particular sister-in -law really asks what we each want.

@SIMPLYD Perhaps she wants to make sure that you'll really like what she'll give.

@SIMPLYD Pringles is a US brand. I forgot the potato chip that's only available in Australia.

@toniganzon I know. It's what she told me that she had purchased.

Potato chips. What in particular is the name of that, since she said she will be bringing Pringles and the like.

So, it's perfume for you too. What perfumes in particular? We, ladies are more into perfumes. We like wearing mildy scented perfumes, that can stay fragrant the whole day.

@LovingMyBabies

@SIMPLYD I'm really not too picky but I like love spell perfume, tattooed, and cool water for women.

Really, that is your tradition. Here, we ask what the recipient would want, so as to be sure that our gift is well appreciated.

@sofssu Yes, that is so true.

@SIMPLYD yeah it is .. no joking.. we always say.. its fine thanks you ..i don't really need anything even though there maybe something we need.

Yes, that would be nice too - Locals from Australia. What perfumes do you usually buy? I know you are into perfumes.

@DianneN Wow, those are expensive! Are they light smelling?

@SIMPLYD My favorites are Courtesan by Worth, which I was only able to purchase in London, and here, I only buy scents from Bond New York #9 which sells a variety of "New York" scents. My two favorites are Riverside Drive and New York City. I have a couple of others I also use, but at almost $400 a bottle, I make them last.

So you like Bvlgari too? What particular Bvlgari perfume are for men? I was actually gifted with Bvlgari last 2016 by my batchmate who came from Canada. It actually has Bvlgari and in white bottle. I didn't know its particular name. It was so fragrant. Then the other month i was enticed by a salesgirl in the lobby of the mall to test their Perfume versions of branded ones. So, i asked do you yave Bvlgari? Yes, Amethyst she said. So, i tested it in my pulse and wow, it was the scent of the Bvlgari given to me. It is long lasting also and so fragrant. In fact, a salesgirl in SM when i bought a lipstick, said " i love your perfume mam. And she said Bvlgari Amethyst. I just smiled and said thank you because it's Ian Darcy's version of that. But it was mistaken for the original.

So, what perfumes in particular would one give to you?

@responsiveme Those are nice. I like light scents.

@SIMPLYD I would like light floral perfumes or sandalwood ones

What particular perfume do you want to be gifted by those coming from abroad ?

@SIMPLYD anything perfume important is they give it with with open hearth.

@resukill22 Yes that is true. But actually, it's hard to give perfume as a gift because the scent.might ne.not to the liking of the recipient. 8

So,you are just like my daughter, she likes $$$ too. That way, she is sure she can buy something she really likes. Then, she takes a picture of it and show it to the giver to thank. Smart!

@Janet357

@SIMPLYD absolutely! Practical thing to do on their part:)

@SIMPLYD yeah love eating, although tshirts can do but I appreciate foods the most.

@rsa101

Hmm, should I say, it's obvious, on how healthy you are.

Yes, there are duty shops indeed in the airport. Though, when they buy it from there they're cheaper, she said even if here it is in duty free.

@SIMPLYD My dad said that was customary for people here too when they go back to Japan. My dad hadn't gone for decades . . . and when we did go, he brought all the stuff he used to take (Hershey's chocolates, coffee, etc) but the most recent trip he realized Japan already has that stuff .

@much2say Japan has lots of chocolates indeed. When my niece came from a vacation in Japan, she gave us a huge Hershey chocolate.

Food gifts are usually the ones she send from Australia in the box she would send every six months, to us here in the Philippines. But now that she will be coming in person, she wants to give something that each of us would want for ourselves. ,

I think it is up for the recipient to choose a gift she likes but see to it that it is something affordable more or less to the giver.

Financial support?

Wow, we really have the same taste, because I would also like for those 3 also. But, she still have to give the others too. I have to consider that. Hmm, I haven't smelled nor seen Lanvin Eclat. I guess, that one is mildly scented too, since we have the same taste.

@SIMPLYD You should try it, ma'am.