/fa/ - Fashion

SOTD: 2023 Art & Olfaction Awards Independent Category winner: Quartana Ierofante. Accords: Suede, Gasoline Accord, Nutmeg, Styrax Pyrogene, Smoky Leather, Golden Amber, Cashmeran, Vetiver. I expected it to be much more experimental after reading all the hype about it being a futuristic fragrance smelling of rocket fuel.
>>17721391
Thanks anon for posting these. Imo City on Fire is the fragrance that put them on the indie perfume world and for some reason they have stayed there since then despite no as spectacular releases. However, I would like to test their discontinued "Mosaic" at some point.
>>17721811
This anon knows what he is talking about.
>>17721784
Budget? Have you looked at the charts? It's hard to give you an reccs without you giving us more to work with. Any notes/accords/style?
>>17721778
>They looked at me with the grayest eyes when they open the presents
Shit, that sucks.
>>17721878
>Red pill me on Loui Vuitton fragrances
Yet another bigcorp trying to monetize on the fact that "niche" means nothing. But that's not really a redpill about LV but about masstige fragrances in general.
>>17721894
>when they aren't even known for frags
That's completely inline with how 90% of masstige and "niche" brands work. I've been to this hobby for many years and met many people irl who were connected professionally to different stages of fragrance manufacturing. Those brands don't care about scents at all. The process is more or less as follows
>their marketing team together with some execs come up with briefs and ideas for fragrances that can bring them the most money
>they are opening a call for fragrances in a way fitting those descriptions
>professional perfumers working for ingredient/perfume big corps like Givaudan/Fermenich/Robertet are sendng them their ideas
>they select some
>the same company starts mass-producing them
>they just slap their logo on the bottles and boxes
Modern "niche"/masstige perfumery is more about Excel spreadsheets than fragrances.