Chanel no.5 - can't go wrong.
You really should listen more. She will have told you what she wants.![]()

The handbag is probably the safer option if you don't know what perfume she wants, have a nosy at her existing bags to get an idea of style and colours she likes and don't get a £15 special off the market![]()

You can, if someone bought me Chanel No5 I would very miffed, can't stand the stuff![]()
I stand corrected.
I've never met a woman who didn't love it.
Maybe it's the smell, and the stubble, and the soup stains down my string vest.![]()

£15! You've got expensive tastes![]()
A string vest... oh boy pass me a fan![]()
I will, from now on, only ever picture Simon looking like Onslow![]()
I will, from now on, only ever picture Simon looking like Onslow![]()

I will, from now on, only ever picture Simon looking like Onslow![]()
You can, if someone bought me Chanel No5 I would very miffed, can't stand the stuff![]()
I love how you're delighted, every birthday and every Christmas, with the 20 Marlboro and half bottle of cheap scotch I buy you![]()
Sorry this is completely OT, but this might be my chance to find the answer to a question I've had for years.
When I was a kid, so late 60s, a friend of my Mum used to wear a perfume that smelled like vanilla, but very subtle. It was wonderful.
Knowing the lady in question, it would have been very expensive.
Any ideas?
Sorry this is completely OT, but this might be my chance to find the answer to a question I've had for years.
When I was a kid, so late 60s, a friend of my Mum used to wear a perfume that smelled like vanilla, but very subtle. It was wonderful.
Knowing the lady in question, it would have been very expensive.
Any ideas?
You wish!!![]()
FFS! It makes up for those five years when every birthday and Xmas present you DEMANDED was some sort of BIG lump of Nikon!!!![]()
FFS! It makes up for those five years when every birthday and Xmas present you DEMANDED was some sort of BIG lump of Nikon!!!![]()
......and the problem is?

The clue is in the......and the problem is?
The problem wasn't that Yv demanded them; the problem was that Yv got them!
... Sometimes even before I knew a new, big lump of Nikon was what I had bought her for her birthday! :banghead:![]()
Might be a stupid idea, or a ball ache, but why not offer to take her out birthday shopping followed by a nice meal...seems a pretty easy solution

...ehemI didn't say cheap solution![]()
'Cheap' misses the point entirely Matthew - allow me to educate you... your idea shows absolutely no thought, or love, or effort on behalf of the husband and can quickly lead to many weeks of the silent treatment, and trust me, women are far better at this than men.
Which reminds me of a joke I heard today. I had a guy round to clean our oven and he was telling me about the lady he had visited last week. Whilst there, her husband came home, saw a man in the kitchen and asked what was going on? She replied she was having the oven cleaned. Why, came back the reply, you never use it, I even store your christmas present in it. Quick as a flash, the lady retorted "thats ok, I keep yours in the condom drawer"![]()
"Bachelor's" of the world unite... I absolutely hate shopping with a passion, and the personal sacrifice that it would be to enter a shop where there was nothing I could possibly want to buy would be a special kind of purgatory
That said your above explanation also likely goes a long way towards explaining my perpetual bachelor state![]()
"Bachelor's" of the world unite
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a place where fellow brothers of the bachelorhood can kick back and relax in a pleasant clubhouse Maybe, though I am one of those women that HATES shopping too, so as you can imagine, it really wouldn't suit me - frankly I would rather buy my own than be dragged around a shopping centre. I can do dinner out though![]()
OP...ASK her about the perfume.
And the bag? Well budget aside...Mulberry. or a Russell& Bromley