Today's subject is Becca (a different Becca than the Becca who appeared here in January). This Becca is in her early 30s and recently married. She comments here as Bethy40. Here are a few other personal details:

Becca finished her Masters degree in Literature and Theology and is working as a bookseller in Glasgow, Scotland while she looks for her first “grown up real job”.

Becca loves books, cooking, theatre and art.

Her current job requires that she spend most of her days in t-shirts and jeans.

She rarely wears makeup but she loves shoes.

She is “just starting to really get into perfumes” although she wore scent casually for years…

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This is an open thread for participants in the Monday Mail articles to share their experiences, and hopefully let us know if they found what they were looking for (or went bankrupt trying). I've sent out emails requesting feedback from everyone who took part between September and December of last year, so check back over the next few days to see what we can find out.

Here are links to the articles for each participant…

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Mandy is a “huge perfume junkie” from Canada. She already owns a number of perfumes she likes, but she feels like she gravitates towards the same sort of perfumes over and over, and she'd love to find something different. She wants her new perfume to make her feel “pretty and special”, and to “fit like a comfortable pair of shoes”. She can pay up to $200. Here is what we know about Mandy:

Mandy is in her mid-30s but looks younger, and she works in a corporate environment.

She describes herself as “silly and sometimes immature” but also responsible.

She's nostalgic about her childhood, and a “fan of anything from the 1980s”.

She loves pink and purple.

Mandy's favorite flower is lilac, but she can't get past the idea that lilac perfumes are too mature…

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Today's subject is Anya, who is in her late 20s and happily married. Anya is looking for a new comforting perfume. She loves good food: pudding, gelato, desserts, cooking and baking (especially the smell of freshly baked goodies), and she likewise enjoys gourmand perfumes: airy, creamy, softly sweet, delicious fragrances, with notes of vanilla, cereals grains, coconut, cream, vanilla frosting, marshmallow, lemon, cookies or pudding. However, she suffers from frequent allergies & mild headaches and has a hard time finding scents that aren't overly cloying and perfume-y. She'd also like her new scent to cost no more than $50, although she'd go as high as $80 for the perfect fragrance. Anya lives in Indonesia, and has access to major department store brands and online stores…

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Aleta has been “obsessing” over violets recently, and she'd like to find her perfect everyday spring/summer violet fragrance. The violet is Aleta's birth flower, and when she was growing up in Oregon, she picked violet bouquets from her lawn almost every day. She'd like to find the scent that does for violets what Marc Jacobs did for gardenias: something “true to the fresh gardeny scent of the flower without a lot of overinterpretation”. She'd also like her new fragrance to have “medium sillage” and good lasting power, and ideally, she'd like something that comes in a travel size so she could reapply during the day.

Aleta has access to Sephora, Belk, and Nordstrom's, although she'd be willing to buy online if something sounded perfect. She'd also be willing to buy samples. She'd prefer her new perfume cost around $50-80, but she'd go as high as $100 for something really special….

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