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What are the most common frags you smell in your area? What screams normie or plebbitor in your area?

Are big cities full of people doused in Sauvage/Blue Frags, BR540 and Aventus?

>>17552529
What does that even mean? It's just a fragrance. You put in on and you go. It's not big red super mario boots.

The more frags I explore the less I like my Sauvage. Used to be my absolute favorite.

>>17552575
I don't know because I can't recognize any of them, but what I know for a fact is that people spray way too much.

>>17552575
Aventus and Dylan Blue. My roommate and someone I work with douses themselves in the latter, while the former Ive smelled from time to time when dealing with some of the most insufferable people, only to finally try it and made the connection.

Have got BR540 on the way so wonder if I'll recognize it

>>17552575
I smell dumb bitches wearing BR540 every time I go on the train. shit is disgusting. for men it’s mostly just sauvage esque frags and a lot of ombre nomade which I fucking hate. also le labo santal and the noir, but I like those so don’t mind

Post /frag/ approved lectures, talks, documentaries...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ihLGkhB-ZU

>>17552575
honestly I think where I live most people either don't use frags or don't spray them heavily
I'm also not good at distinguishing generic designerblobs from eachother

these any good? was considering picking up play red for the summer

>>17552575
eros, sauvage, chanel allure homme sport, some foids smell of b540

>>17552656
green and black are good. do not remember anything about red

>>17552644
good stuff, thank you

>>17552575
Pretty much the normal stuff here. But admitedly my nose isn't that trained yet.

I had a conversation with some international friends recently tho and they were very against frags. Saying that it all smells disgusting, gives them migraines and that you're better off not using any. Also that it's uncommon to use them in their coutry or state.
These people are from Australia, NA, Britain.

>>17552732
>These people are from Australia, NA, Britain
makes sense, anglos hate perfume. they prefer their natural scent of cheap lager and fish and chips

Ok Tauer 2 might be legit. Some bitch at the store was lurking around me. She was probably trying to enjoy the scent. Not sure if I wanna drop 130 though. I think I'd prefer to buy Rien instead. They give me a similar vibe, although Rien I think is better.

>Drakkar Noire, Bon Monsieur, Dakar Al Rehab
The DN scent DNA is literally the most based ever created. Love that stuff.
Only Aventus somehow can fulfill my love of this DNA in modern scents. Somehow it's similar, but with added fruits.

>>17552575
sauvage, I smell it every time I'm out in public. Just proves the general population does not think for themselves and are willing sheep

>>17552591
the more I explore the more I appreciate bleu de Chanel unironically

>>17552780
>bleu de Chanel
I'm not familiar. I'm still pretty new to the scene, but seems pretty interesting.

>>17552773
Wasn't there some copy pasta about this image talking about this dude's smirk and how he knows that we know that he knows that we know he's gonna be motor boating those amazon titties later and we wish we were him? Or something of the sort.

>>17552755
Retard

>>17552787
It's a very generic "nice" fragrance. I'd avoid if you ever hope to become a true perfume connoisseur.

Instead start by reading every entry in the Luca Turin guide and buying according to that.

>>17552780
I've also started to like it more recently. Used to think it smelled basic, but now I think it was pretty novel and clever when it came out. And the incense is a nice twist. Maybe I'll get a bottle at some point.

>>17552795
This. Ambrox-pepper-citrus combos are tiresome.
But i like pepper heavy fragrances, especially pink pepper/black pepper focused fragrances. Must be the ambrox-citrus combination that ruines the overall concoction.

>>17552795
Luca Turin liked BdC though

Bleu de Chanel eau de parfum (Chanel) citrus fougère
Chanel’s greatest achievement is perhaps their miraculous ability to live
two separated-at-birth lives that do not intersect: one spent lounging in the
back of a long-wheelbase Bentley, the other hanging on to a ceiling strap in
the evening commute. Bleu de Chanel brings them perilously close
together, with a composition that borrows shamelessly from Cool Water and
Light Blue, yet manages to wrap all these bad-boy clichés in a disarming
cloud of refinement. If there is a masculine perfume that embodies the
symmetric aspirations of the poor and the spoiled, this is it. LT

>>17552792
Moron

I see this nigga on every fragrantica review section kek. always giving out woofs

>>17552806
Yes, but I am able to think independently about perfume, thanks in part to having read and smelled extensively. I'm trying to encourage a deeper interest in fragrance in the above poster.

i tried garage by CdG. smells like a toxic plastic garbage cloud

>>17552806
Nice poetric lyric, doesn't change the fact that it doesn't smell unique, while Cool Water is a green-fougere aquatic scent.

>>17552575
I work near a very touristy part of my city, and the fucking arab tourists always wear some sweet-woody frag which I really dont like. They most likely spray like 10x too.

>age range/climate/setting
eastern yuropoor early 30s marketing/office rat
>ideal price range
$150-200ish

Newfag here, last autumn I bought some frags as per the general's tips, really likedterre d'hermes; Dior homo got me the most head turns and compliments by zoomettes. Not looking for chick-magnet memes but I did enjoy the attention. Note that I live in a village-tier "town" and men here unironically wear axe body spray at most. Local frag stores don't exist. I need to order samples from westoid sites and delivery takes about a month so feel free to spoonfeed me a bunch of shit to put on the list again.

>>17552939
Just blind buy oud for glory. It's superb.
Also Hawas.

>>17552939
dior balade sauvage

>>17552939
could try Grey Vetiver if you liked Terre d'Hermes

Should I blind buy paco rabanne pure XS? It's on offer. Anyone have it?

>>17552939
chopard oud malaki

>>17552807
It's not a chick magnet, stop wearing fragrances for that you are disgusting and idiotic

The opening on Guerlain Vetiver is amazing, but I don't like the spicy flowery dry down. Is there anything similar that I should try?

Fougere bengale vs Cuir cuba intense
I can get 50ml of fougere bengale for 70€ or cuir cuba intense 100ml for 100€, blind buy since no samples for either of those here. Looking for an intresting spring / summer scent.
I could also get Corsica Furiosa, Eau De Gloire, Mal-Aime instead, similiar price to fougere bengale, but based purely on note breakdown I feel like I would enjoy fougere bengale the most.
Does anybody have any reference points for those frags?

>>17552985
LMAO
>NOOO DO NOT WEAR PERFUMES THAT CHICKS ENJOY
>YOU NEED TO SMELL LIKE FECES

>>17552995
you were happy that a girl was "lurking you" , thats the way you have to review a perfume?

by the way, girls dont like particular perfumes retard,

>>17552535
Guys give me some spring/summer designer suggestions that you have been enjoying lately.

My good stash is mostly winter/night appropriate so im looking for some fresh shit that is not super expensive (50 to 100ish bucks).

>>17553002
voyage d'hermes parfum
terre d'hermes
un jardin sur le nil
encre noire sport
neroli intense
cerruti 1881

>>17553002
caron yatagan and issey pour homme
all you need

>>17552992
The fragrance I dislike the most from Parfum D'Empire is likely Fougere Bengale and while Mal-Aime is not as egregious, it is not far behind. Both have this incredibly herbaceous and aromatic profile that resembles curry/curry leaves, I don't know exactly what it is, I find that Maruyama has it too (and is the worst fragrance out of the three), perhaps Angelica or Camphor (what Parfum D'Empire have in their Hay accord perhaps?). I would personally avoid those two at all costs. Its a shame because in the deep drydown (only on a tester strip like a day later) you find that there's a beautiful fougere core to FB but the fragrance is ruined by this borderline comically stereotypical interpretation of "bengale" that is tacked on top, smells astringent, salty and like an indian restaurant, just terrible. If you do like all of this then good for you but personally I would never wear this or could see this worn by anyone at anytime. I find the positive reviews for it headscratching, I cannot imagine anyone having that shit as their signature/daily warm weather frag.

>>17553002
bois imperial, kenzo homme edp, light blue forever, the musc, kiehl's musk, Colonia Club Acqua di Parma

>>17552985
I never said that was my goal cretin. Pay attention to the threads before shitposting. I got a sample a while ago and said it was good but not that great. The other day I listed some frags and asked people what to wear. People liked Tauer 2 but I was edgy and said fuck that. I wore it today and that's just what happened at the store so I wanted to give Tauer fans some props. Other than that I wear encre noire, terror & magnificence and a city on fire. No bitch has ever went crazy over those and I don't care. Bitches only like basicass famous fragrances they see shilled in magazines or social media.

Also no fragrance is a chick magnet. If you're ugly no fragrance would change that.

>>17552656
The original play with the red heart but in a different position mogs all the later play releases.
It smells like lime and bitter orange and then it smells like the inside of a freshly opened pice of old stero equipment. Has this amazing electronics smell.

>>17553011
I've seen people saying that fougere bengale smells like curry to them, I have heard that it reminds them of lovage. But never seen anybody talking that way about mal-aime

>>17552644
Anyone got the deleted Luca Turin videos?

>>17553029
I tried all 4 again. Fougere Bengale I stand by what I said 100%. Mal-Aime I take back what I said entirely, this is legitimately great and I don't know why I disliked it the first time I tried it (and hence never came back to it). All I remember is that it reminded me of Maruyama and I despise that fragrance so the aromatic face of Mal-Aime must have induced a PTSD flashback or some shit. Eau de Gloire I think is fantastic, incredibly rich and sophisticated but also light, a mix of bright and dark tones with a great anise and immortelle duality at its heart. Corsica Furiosa is not my speed, better than Fouger Bengale but it is incredibly earthy and dirty in the literal sense, behind that when you smell it more is a fantastic greenness but whenever I come back to it after giving it some time I get a facefull of dirt.

Went to a Saks Fifth Ave to sample bourgie scents. Sampled this and other creed frags for the first time. I do not comprehend the hype

Aventus, I guess, is only good enough IMO to buy a clone of. GIT is just cool water. The others were kinda bland.

>>17553084
> GIT is just cool water

pleb thinking

aventus changed the fragrance game

lurk more

>>17553053
would you say that mal-aime is reminiscent of synthetic jungle or fathom v?

>>17553084
2023 aventus is a pale shadow of what it was a decade ago

>>17553107
there were some really good batches recently, supposedly

I need musk scents that aren't rose heavy, I'm fine with almost every other note but rose is a nightmare on my skin.
Examples of what I've tried and liked
Kouros
Kiehls
Ambilux
YSL M7
Musc Ravageur (not that musky)
Obsession
Bortnikoff Musk Cologne
Vintage Eau Sauvage
The drydown of old Creed frags, I know that's more ambergris than musk but I still like it.


I'd like a musk fragrance for spring weather, something that's got a mix of woods and musk if possible
Budget I'd like to keep under $300 per bottle so I can grab more than 1

>>17553102
Different anon but no, Mal Aime is a fragrance that proves smelling photorealistic and natural doesn't mean good. It smells like jamming your face in clippings from a weed eater.

I don't know how the fuck the company that churned out god tier frags like Azemour Les Oranges also made this shit.

im a female would like a recommendation that smells like this picture looks like

>>17553102
Sadly haven't had a chance to check out BeauFort or the new malle. I'm smelling the mal-aime and I can understand the prior impression I had of what might be angelica/camphor/curry leaves but I think its very subdued and just a texture to add depth in the background to the main nettle idea. I have a more positive impression of it now but still think I would not wear it.

>>17553136
Ic, and I assume you have not tried cuir cuba intense either right? As for both fantom V and synthetic jungle they both have very vegetal green thing going on, along with pungent white flowers drowned in stagnant water. Both are quintesential florist smells. I have seen some people comparing mal-aime to those, and if thats how it smells I wouldn't be really intrested in a full bottle since I already have fahtom v.
Eitherway, thanks for help. appreciate it.
>>17553132
any opinions on other frags from the house anon?

>>17553134
rope.

>>17553111
>there were some really good batches recently, supposedly
That's just bagholding reseller cope
I wouldn't touch creed since they got bought out by black rock, the doubled the prices and halved the formula budget

>>17553144
Haven't gotten around to trying more of Nicolais stuff apart from NYI. You sure you can't order any samples? You wrote the cost in euros so I'm assuming you're somewhere in europe right? I got all the parfum d'empire samples from their website for fairly cheap. I checked their website and you can get a custom sample set with the 4 you're interested in (plus a random 5th) for 20 euros shipping. They seem to ship to all of europe. You can also get all 22 for 60 euros.

>>17553128
Dig into vintage 80s rose frags, lots of gems you can still find on ebay for $40-$50 a bottle

>>17553176
I absolutely can get samples outside of my country, but usually tanking the shipping will make the samples cost half of what I would pay for the frag, and I am unable to acquire all of those samples localy.

>>17553134
maybe Dior Poison?

>>17553128
how can you have a lost that long and not have jovan?

>>17553181
and also, every once in a while you just want to buy a full bottle, even if you are going in somewhat blind, its the thrill of the consoomer hunt.

>>17552966
grey vetiver tingles my nose in the worst way

>>17553034
you can get them on vimeo but you have to subscribe

If you could wear fragrances from just one house which one would you choose?

I'd go with Malle; lys mediterranee, portrait of a lady and Carnal flower are masterpieces, and the rest of them I've tried from them Is also high quality.
Not related to the question, but I'm wearing lair du desert Moroccain to sleep and it feels like a hug, I just wish that Tauer had more fragrances of this quality, buy so far the rest I tried are decent or straight terrible

>>17553309
tauer because id be content wearing only lddm forever.
caron a super close second. lapidus a more distant third

holy shit the fresh poal bottles are DILUTED garbage
i have a bottle from 50ml which stinks for days, but the 100ml i bought lasts for 2 hours max
thanks malle and FUCK you

does anyone have a good replacement?

Give me one good reason not to buy Dior Homme 2020, Sport 2021 AND Cologne 2022 right now

>>17553412
they have homo in their name.

DS&Durga Amber Kiso... is very good

I like it bros

>>17553412
Homme 2020 is fantasic if a but safe, sport is meh generic, cologne smells great for 15 minutes i would rather get Eau de Cologne Imperiale from Guerlain if i was going to get a classic citrus cologne, you can also find good prices for bottles on ebay

>>17553443
Whoops i mean Eau de Guerlain

>>17553309
Beaufort London because I'm goth.

>Provide your age range.
early 20´s

>Provide the season or climate you intend to wear the fragrance in.
light jacket if you go outside

>Provide your ideal price range for buying a recommended frag.
3rd world poorfag

>Provide some details on what type of scent you are looking for (favorite notes and accords, hated notes and accords, etc.)
absolute fragancelet, I would not be able to know nor tell what my favorite "note" or accord" is

>Provide some details on your intended aesthetic and setting for wearing a scent (frag for school, the office, dates, casual daily wear, etc.)
very casual, for college and maybe office (IT so very casual office)
late noon/night

I just can't stand the smell of human anymore, not even the women wear any perfume in compsci so best casenario I have to smell stale human + a bit of sweat + someone else's lunch all day

>>17553368
i just got a decant, so not sure if it's a recent batch, but it smells very sweet to me. the rose and berries take charge and I almost get no patchouli. it is potent so maybe not the same batch as yours. I kinda like it but feel that this isn't what it's supposed to smell like

>>17553440
discontinued.

>>17553456
still for sale on the official site
https://www.dsanddurga.com/products/amber-kiso

>>17553451
bois imperial
kenzo homme edp
acqua di gio profumo / profondo
kiehl's musk
lndl bleu electrique
dior homme 2020
dior homme intense
bleu de chanel edp
cedrat boise
terre d'hermes
fahrenheit
platinum egoiste
eau sauvage dior
beau de jour
costa azzurra
individuel montblanc
rochas moustache EDP
le male le parfum
And a guide for you anon:
1. tester strips fucking lie, skin is king.
2. moisture and skin PH is what makes the fragrance last longer and project more.
3. you can test 4 frags at a time if you properly space them on your arms.
4. do not feel awkard about testing designer frags at perfumeries, they exist for a reason and going in without buying anything just to spray shit on your arms to test it is absolutely fine.
now fuck off and go test some shit out

>>17553467
oh also
loewe esencia
loewe 7
loewe solo
are also worth a sniff

>>17553467
>>17553469
>now fuck off and go test some shit out
will do
thanks anon

I'm meeting my new boss on thursday. Should I wear my le labo tonka 25?

Its all I have and wear. or is it too sexual and musky

mummy got me this for christmas... i've had all the meme fragrances.. never so many compliments. i dont care for it much, surprising longevity

>>17553519
It's actually great and the people hating on it are either crying over the bottle or trying to be elitist and act like they are too cool for mass pleasing fragrances

>>17553514
jesus fucking christ absolutely not. that shit is a musk bomb exclusively used for seduction

>>17553514
go for it, do not listen to retards talking about proper presentation n shit. Just be confident and have good genetics.

>>17553002
Nautica Voyage

>>17553134
Black Perfecto

>>17552575
I smell cotton candy off of girls sometimes. I assume it's Ariana Grande, not MFK

Your best signature fragances?

always crack up when this lil nigga shows up on fragantica

>>17553612
some people enjoy civet, others not so much

>>17553609

gonna go to the frederic malle store tomorrow. what should I try out? also bergdorf goodman perfume store looks cool and has niche offerings

>>17553612
I like this nigga

Azzaro Chrome Sport. Thoughts?

>>17553612
>>17553617
based hednic enjoyers

I love love love Musc Ravageur, jot so much the opening, but drydown is intoxicating and addictive.
However, I fucking hate Kiehls original musk, smells like a dirty beach public bathroom. I also fucking hated Kouros.
Does each different musky fragrance react to skin differently, or does my skin just not react well with musk in general??

What is your favorite fragrance under $30?

>>17553662
I just imagine him scurrying into the fragrance lab then the perfumer looks at him and he quickly moves his head up and makes this face before spraying diarrhea shit all over the frag in process

If Molecule 01 just amplifies fragrance, would spraying it on myself just amplify my natural scent?

Does this actually smell comparable to Pure Havane? People swear it does.
Even if it doesn't smell very similar, does it smell good?

>>17553728
Reminds me of that south park episode where everyones getting high from inhaling cat piss spray

>>17552535
what do people on this board wear when its hot as shit and you're sweating on and off?

another question: does anyone have any experience with le labo's "another 13?" is it actually good? i haven't dabbled in fragrances for enough time to know if its good or bad but its been shilled to me constantly on social media.

>>17553657
Try at least one of these:
Promise
PoaL
Monsieur
L'Eau D'Hiver

>>17553755
I sprayed Another 13 on my wrist last week. I did not like it at all. Upon drying it started smelling like salty metallic sweat. Buy a sample if youre really curious

>>17553755
if it’s really hot, another 13 is pretty nice. it’s crisp and cooling. i’d recommend trying mugler cologne and dior homme sport too.

I know nothing about fragrance and I don't intend to learn. That being said, I wanna smell good. Any recommendations for a mid 20s blue collar guy? Doesn't need to be anything crazy, specific, or expensive, just something simple you like. Thanks /fa/

>>17553732
no, not unless you have iso e super coming out of your pores

>>17552967
Yes

>>17553002
Versace Man eau Fraiche

>>17553309
Dolce Gabbana, I love the light blue line and also the one line.

>>17553467
>tester strips fucking lie, skin is king
can confirm. maybe if a store has so many things you want to try, use tester strips to eliminate until you're down to 4
I would then add that after you've tried some on skin, next time you're at the store spray only that one on both wrists and maybe the back of your neck. walk outside, let it bloom off your skin and take a whiff

>>17552575
Santal 33. It's a unique scent, but somehow quite common along with the usual obnoxious loud Versace Eros

>>17552795
>It's a very generic "nice" fragrance. I'd avoid if you ever hope to become a true perfume connoisseur.
Yeah, if you want to be a true fragrance connoisseur you have to exclusively like fragrances that smell kind of bad or smell good but last like 3 hours max, you arent allowed to like fragrances that are extremely good smelling, artistic and last a long time because they are mainstream.

>>17552575
Acqua di Gio Profumo. Has been the one in this city for a long time. Other than that, I smelled a lot of blue frags at a trade fair, but not in the city. Some zoomer was wearing Y EdP and it was obvious.

>>17552829
For me, it's pic related. And he reminds me of a lot of people I know who all "dress" like that.

>>17552939
Everything from Chanel, Dior and Guerlain. Egoiste, Platinum Egoiste, Antaeus, Pour Monsieur, Homme Intense, Homme Parfum, Sauvage Elixir, Jules, Dune, Heritage, Habit Rouge, Vetiver, L'Instant pour Homme (Bleu de Chanel, Sauvage, Allure Homme Sport and flankers, newer Guerlains are also viable options). There's everything in there, from barbershop to sandalwood over florals to chypres and modern fougeres.

>>17553002
Montblanc Legend Eau de Parfum. I'm that basic at the moment, not feeling adventurous at all.

>>17553309
I'll stay with Dior.

>>17553451
Pastebin in the OP general for snice cheapies, I guess. Flowchart and Chart for more expensive stuff.

>>17553739
It's similar enough, with a slightly different opening. The drydown is there, performance is acceptable. I get more out of Pure Havane, but with that stuff in my collection I'll probably just keep PH for 10 years and then sell it for a million bucks.

Received a 10 ml decant of armaf untold, and this shit made Baccarat rouge 540 even more irrelevant

>>17553967
just the amount of clones popping up makes br540 one of the most important somewhat recent releases. created with materials widely available to everyone, appealing to the masses, yet "new" in a way despite being sweet as fuck, with insane performance. what stopped other perfumers from making this?

>>17553846
Youth dew, kouros, antaeus, yatagan, knowing, tea rose, azuree, aramis all completely disprove the drivel you just spouted. Get a nose and then start posting again.

>>17553974
No idea but also the fact that one of the appeals of br540 is how synthetic it smells it makes it extremely easy to replicate with success

It might be overplayed but kurkdjian really made a masterpiece there

Its also almost non perfumistic in a way also if you take the sweet sugary note , so it was a pretty bold move that a designer house would not take

>>17554029
I've never smelled it but imagining something like angel but with the subversive patchouli note removed?

>>17554031
It's quite a unique smell.

Imagine iodine, bandages and cotton Candy, that's what it is for me.

>>17554042
it had a literal poop note to me

white musk skeleton far away tahitian vanilla jar candle from target.
like if in the sunlight outside you could smell the bones on a angry skeleton shaking a pewter sword at you, and you could smell the sword too. and like if deep in a dry cave behind it someone was burning a bunch of tahitian vanilla jar candles from target. like if books were for girls
>what the fuck did he mean by this

>>17553134
Ted Lapidus Pour Homme

>>17552992
bumping the question, does anybody have experience with parfum d'empire offering or cuir cuba intense?

Tauer 02 has poor performance.

>>17554150
You're going noseblind.

what frag was she wearing?

>>17554025
>yatagan, antaeus
Some of my favorites, yatagan projects for 30 minutes at best, antaeus for an hour, maybe hour and a half.

>>17554155

>>17554151
Not at all.

>>17554159
You're going noseblind. They sit close to the skin but last much longer than the times you've said. Subtlety is a virtue.

>>17554172
tu ne seras jamais un homme

thoughts on floris 89?

>>17554196
>They sit close to the skin
Exactly as in they don't project, do try to keep up

thoughts on ck eternity?

>>17553002
Dior Homme Sport (2021). Amazing warm weather fragrance. Its not one of those simple linear freshies though, it has some character and depth to it.

>>17552575
Any Polo, CK One, CDNIM, One Million, Bleu and Le Shemale clones.
Oldfags use Polo Green and patchouli bombs, also Perry Ellis 360 like Red and the original one aka ADGs. You can get away with Sauvage and BR540 but the sun heat won't let you and the prices are similar to a video game console, an used bike or 2 months of rent.

>>17554327
whoops sorry i meant eternity air

>>17554150
Lol, what a dumb statement

Why is it so fucking good?

>>17553905
>It's similar enough
really all I can ask for when it comes to a $20 bottle

>>17553084
>bourgie scents
The most dirty commie words i've seen in these threads since a long time ago
>>17553098
>pleb thinking
He's right tho, GIT is just an incomplete Cool Water but made with good ingredients and a bit more violet rather than the iris in the calone opening. Aventus Vintage had a masterpiece note of ambergris that was sadly chopped down every year until nothing was left.
>>17553974
Kurk has this notion to make something "unique" out of shit that was already common and available, even tried before. Narciso Rodriguez EDT has all its ingredients already available in stuff like Grey Flannel and girl musks yet it seems he was the only guy to try and mimic an artificial but strong wet earth scent with the ozonic violet and a earthy patchouli. Sounds so obvious but it is there.
Maybe his thing is not so much being original but being able to try and do it, kinda how the legend goes Fahrenheit was an accident despite its notes being an obvious concept (leather jacket, gasolinesque note, generic manly freshie profile = biker dude)
>>17554327
Vintage was a very nice scent.

>>17554321
Yeah and since we aren't low IQ Morons, wanting everyone in a 50 ft radius to smell our (admittedly challenging to some) perfumes is beneath us.

>>17554363
>Coty font letters
It isn't, try this

Anyone have any summer recs besides Philosykos, Beach Hut Man and whatever else has been generally recommended here? Not picky or specific about notes but would like to try something that's fairly durable and something other than the commonly recommended names

>>17554419
timbuktu

>>17554419
Fathom V.

>>17554419
cool water

>>17554396
Huh?

>>17554419
You Or Someone Like You

>>17553774
PoaL was pretty crazy. maybe a bit too mature old arab woman for me but very nice. carnal flower is too boring for me but lys mediternee was sweet

>>17553618
i find this unwearable. please dont tell me you wear this day to day. and if you do, whats your profession/social life like? not trying to hate btw, would just like to know

This one is so nice.

>>17554419
I love light blue eau intense.
Prob gets recommended but it smells so fucking good.

my package has been shipped :)

>>17554514
what did you buy?

>>17554516
two discovery sets, and a few samples.

>>17554514
used kappa gym socks and kenzo homme edp

>>17554514
Mine too. Got 2 duas. Are they hated here?

Best place to order a ton of samples of niche fragrances in Europe? Lucky Scent doesn’t have the variety that I want.

I don’t care about how much juice is in the samples as long as it’s the real thing.

>>17554570
Secretdumarais

Got an ADG Profumo sample and really liked it.
Need to decide if i should get a 2.5 or 4.2 oz

>>17554570
Where in Europe? DACH = parfumo is king

>>17554419
eau d'issey

Should a man wear light blue for women, I really like the smell

>>17554419
Houbigant Fougere Royale

>>17554419

Light Blue Intense, Cerruti 1881, and Missoni Wave.

>>17554596
From what I understand D&G Light Blue for women smells like Versace Man Eau Fraiche.

>>17554581
smells like macys

>>17554596
no bro that's hella gay
jk wear whatever you want

>>17552995
>that image
>that greentext
So is that the opinion of tranny Jews or something?

>>17554596
i do wear light blue forever for women and you know what, it smells completely different on a man

>$86 for Creed Aventus 3.3oz
>https://www.walmart.com/ip/Aventus-by-CREED-for-Men-Eau-de-Parfum-3-3-fl-oz-EN/1115838824?gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqM9Bh0MY-GDdS6h40yhz-Fm&wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=12491&&adid=222222222281115838824_12491_147373999638_18612778532&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=649573174944&wl4=pla-1963829537682&wl5=9030933&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117437452&wl11=online&wl12=1115838824_12491&veh=sem&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqM9Bh0MY-GDdS6h40yhz-Fm&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn6ySloCC_gIVrmxvBB0eUAErEAQYAyABEgK5o_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
So what’s the deal with Walmart frags?

>>17554657
Anon you aren’t this dumb right?

>>17554657
>Sold and shipped by buymart inc
3rd party seller, it's fake

>>17554596
I wear women fragrances all the time and none even told me they smelled girly. There is a lot of conditioning from the packaging to advertising, but on the air, no one can really tell "damn, this guy is wearing a women fragrance"

Is just scented water

>>17552656
be so fucking fr

>>17554681
like which ones?

>>17554681
>but on the air, no one can really tell "damn, this guy is wearing a women fragrance"
Dior "Homme"
Any white florals with sweet on it
One Million
Half the "Male" flankers
So no, you are wrong.

>>17554731
Moon bloom by Hiram green
Compliment by Maison violet
Samsara by guerlain

Those three are in my current rotation now along with tons of unisex fragrances.

>>17554759
Maybe people think that you are wearing girl fragrances because you look girly anon

>>17554763
>Maybe people think that you are wearing girl fragrances because you look girly anon
this. Chad hits up the club in his One Million or Ultramale and gets all the girls, while some guys ITT have to compensate for their lack of masculinity with old man scents

>>17553612
Based Coffee

>>17554581
Dont buy batch after 2019

fuckign malle ruined POAL KYS
going to switch over to tobacco rose as signature from papillon perfumes until i find a better replacement

>>17554596
I'm a male and i wear picrel

Highly underrated fragrances?

>>17554150
No

>>17554930
I didn't find poker face very impressive. Not bad just weak and boring.

>>17554763
>you look girly anon
I don't think looking like the manliest of men can balance the fact you are wearing Dior Poison
Perhaps a comment like "your girl left some scent in you" but that's about it, faggot

>>17554938
Yes

>>17554332
I have a bottle on the way, got a sample before and liked it, and my gf REALLY liked it, but it’s definitely not what I expected
It shouldn’t be advertised as a freshie imo and I’d hesitate to call it a warm weather scent, feels like perfectly suited to early spring/mid-fall, but I’ll definitely be using it in the heat in coming months so we’ll see how it goes

>>17552575
I have never smelled Aventus on someone in the wild, but my mom says she smells it on businessman quite often. I smell BR540 all the damn time. bars, malls, work, restaurants, and even grocery stores.

>>17552591
my entire collection could be replaced by BDC. It's not my favorite fragrance by any means, and I don't own a bottle, but it's absolutely perfect for what it is.

What city do you guys live in to be smelling fragrances out in the wild so often? I live in a decently sized city and rarely catch whiffs of fragrances on men.

>>17555237
I would only smell sauvage or cheapies on young college students or bizness men.

>>17555237
I live in Southern California and I smell fragrances on a decent amount of dudes maybe 1/6 and lots of women, can’t tell you what Cologne I’m smelling though smelling.

>>17555237
I move in high society circles and regularly smell perfume on the older women.

getting a colonoscopy, what frag do i wear to it?

>>17555237
The German fashion capital (not Berlin), but I smell most of them in business settings. Work has a few people wearing something. Trade fairs are basically guaranteed to be suit and possibly tie and everybody wears fragrances (unironically the only place where I've ever smelled someone wear L'Air du Desert Marocain and it was a woman). When visiting other companies, the bigger the company is the more likely it is that someone will be wearing something. Other than that, usually when I go shopping at the better places, although not always. All this combined has just shown me how unlikely it is that someone actually wears Sauvage - I've only smelled it once.

>>17555303

>>17553178
>Specifically asked not to have rose in it
>Told not just to look into rose frags, but to look into 80s rose frags aka rose powerhouses

I'd openly mock you for this but the rose frags I actually liked were from the 80s like VCA, Iquitos, Acteur, etc so in some weird way you've given me some decent advice.

>>17555003
You can, what's so girly about Dior poison anyways? That it's sweet and fruity?

If it was marketed towards men and was called Dior Radioactive Man, lot of guys would cream over it.

Dior Homme intense is mocked about being too feminine because "it smells like lipstick or make up" and I get it, those are beauty products used by women, so the association is clear. But fruits? Flowers? More and more male oriented fragrances are using rose or white florals as heart notes anyways these days. It's 99% marketing. Like yeah, wood and incense and strong base notes are traditionally considered masculine , but thats changing

It's 100% marketing

>>17555499
Im not going to delete and rewrite this, yeah, I said 99% and then 100% , the point is the same

>>17555499
Call it Pegasus, triple the price and sell it to men. Also works.

>>17555514
Ah nevermind, wrong Poison. Doesn't matter, though, the idea is the same.

Is this legit or am I tripping and baiting myself into throwing money away? I want some more d'Orange samples before I decide if I should also buy Rien or something else from the house too. A City on Fire got me curious on the other fragrances from the house, and some of them having bad reviews especially peeks my curiosity.

>>17555522
Why would it not be legit? Buy whatever you like, sample whatever you want.

>>17555527
300 bucks is an amount.

put on $10 Walmart clone of YSL L'Homme
smelled good for 2 minutes
now smells bad but its very weak so idc

>>17555531
but there are a lot of things on the pic
these can cost 300, yes, it's an okay price

>>17555531
Doesn't sound too excessive for two full bottles of niche stuff and a bunch of samples to be honest.

>>17555538
>>17555540
Anything you guys would recommend I throw in there as a sample? Now also if I could find some discount code that would be cool. You'd think some jewtuber would have an affiliate code but I cant find any.

>>17555560
I'm wearing entirely different things so my recommendations wouldn't be of any use. Maybe Knize Ten?
SOTD Voyage d'Hermes Parfum to summon the summer.

am i doing this right?

>>17555607
A strong "maybe"? If you want the miniatures for testing, you should get the 5 vial sample kit instead. "Tauer's Marvels II" would have Sundowner, L'Air des Alpes Suisses and ACDD (as well as two other frags) for a fraction of the price. In the past, it was also possible to ship the customized discovery set into other countries, but that seems to have stopped. Otherwise, the miniatures are mostly for collecting.

>>17555533
>$10 Walmart clone of YSL L'Homme
Name?

>>17555617
thanks for the feedback
the miniatures are not (strictly) for testing, i am a sucker for small bottles like these desu senpai (even if they cost more for a ml - i don't need/can't really justify 4 full bottles of Tauer)
please also note that LDDM is a full bottle
my question is more like: did i choose the right frags?

>>17553669
i bought it for like 18 dollars on clearance. i posted pics a few weeks back.

i'd say its worth it at that price. the smell is amazing ,but you have to overspray and the duration is shit.

>>17555646
LADDM, ACDD and Sundowner are certainly worth it. Haven't tested LADAS yet.

>>17555237
Non-anglo area
>>17555499
>what's so girly about Dior poison anyways?
White florals/tuborose that gives a bitter very powdery scent akin to 60's/70's women makeup and talcums, incense and anise (or some other oriental thing in it) gives it another strong aromatic note that smells like old ladies' closet drawers or niche altar, some people call it "church" smell.
Then you have the fruits which are pungent due to being in between a funky cinnamon and an oily vanilla, along with a stale rose. It smells like a fine grandma.
>Radioactive Man
Why is that? because you got your sex change via chemo?
>That it's sweet and fruity?
Maybe Poison Girl but def not the real Poison, it's Opium but with white florals rather than spices.

>because "it smells like lipstick or make up"
>and I get it
You certainly don't get it because you insist upon making men wear it, they technically can but the classic western culture very closely associates it with THE makeup note, only shameless faggots would use it as a sign of pride
>More and more male oriented fragrances are using rose or white florals
More and more males are faggots, and faggots buy frags more often than normal men, what's your point? that penis is feminine because more city slicking males like it?
>It's 99% marketing
It is association via smell, if beer smelled like iris then for sure it would be a manly scent, but it isn't. Mind you i never said iris or white florals are bad (although i dislike the latter) but the brain works via past experiences and almost everyone has smelled their mom or their mother figure's bag and clothes, it smells like iris, some dude smelling like your mom's purse is bad news. Like a frag smelling like an indole bomb, it might be well blended but you think of shit.

>>17555695
Habit Rouge is even more makeuppy and powdery than modern iris frags. in fact, lots of the old school fragrances you guys push can be interpreted this way, Pour un Homme de Caron is baby powder and makeup, anything with musk smells like an old lady etc.
stop being an insecure little bitch, wear what you like

Convince me not to buy Xerjoff Naxos, I had the sampler and it was god tier

>>17555705
don't buy it, it's too good for you
buy some stuff at your local walmart, it won't be as good but at least it will be cheap

you are welcome.

>>17555629
PB ParfumsBelcam Classic Match Homme version of L'Homme Yves Saint Laurent* Eau de Toilette, Cologne for Men, 3.4 oz

>>17555683
Thanks senpai, I just want a straightforward citrus/ginger/cedar for summer and this sounds like it
Seeing around $30 on eBay, I’ll keep an eye out for discounts

>>17555705
Buy or sample Eau des bavx first, same profile and arguably better

>>17555695
Exactly is a matter of association and I wouldn't like to be associated with an old man as much as with an old woman .

In any case I I'll keep using Eau rose by diptique and after a few years your kids will want to use rose based colognes since they will want to look like the manly guys from the 20s that were attractive as fuck and fucking their mothers and aunts

>>17555607
What store is this? I asked the one I usually use for a discount code over IG DMs and they spat in my mouth so I'm considering a different store now.

>>17555741
yeah you might be fine, idk, i'd say it's a clear buy at 20 bucks, like i said smells great. i'm fearful of overspraying so duration may be fine if you spray an adequate amount

>>17555785
screenshot is from the Tauer online store (https://www.tauerperfumes.com/))

>>17555793
Oh ok. Fuck tauer.

Thoughts on Floris of London? Any favorites? Worth the price?

Damn this was quick. Only shipped yesterday!

>>17555646
LDAS smells like a point in between le male and reflection man, it's good but nothing mind-blowing.

Sundowner is an attempt on Naxos with the signature tauer base. Laddm and Coeur are basically the same fragrance but one is slightly sweeter (almost imperceptible) , but both are masterpieces

I've spent around 600 on fragrances in 2023.

Bvlgari Tygar

proof that fragrance retards mostly care about status and image. Imagine paying $370 for something a clone house can shit out in seconds. 4.47 rating

>>17555816
sounds just what i'm after, thank you

I really like picrelated, but i want a better version of it. So, what would be the white men's boss bottled?

>>17555805
good picks but you should have went for montabaco intensivo, it's the best of the flankers. which memo frags does that set contain?

>>17555864
pdm fragrance I tried was similar to this
but I cant remember name

>>17555870
related to this actually: the new OJ seems good, cant wait to try it (https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Ormonde-Jayne/Fearless-79658.html))

>>17555818
It‘s march. Anon, I …

>>17553368
Porpora by Terenzi for clone or Sideris by Maria Candida Gentile for something similar

Oud 24 Hours smells so fucking good holy shit.

>>17553368
i have a sample from a recent batch and it last for a whole day, so its weird that you had that experience.

>>17555870
The Verano, Air de Suisse, and levant were all complimentary!

I wear all my fragrances on clothes instead of skin because of the endocrine disrupting chemicals and I feel like I’m missing out, at least it lasts longer on clothes.

>>17555864
>>17555872
Layton, but it's less apple and more vanilla and spices. The Detour Noir clone of Layton has more apple now, I'd recommend that.

>>17553128
see if you can find Nasomatto China White, that has been very recently discontinued

>>17553128
>>17555969
Nasomatto also has Silver Musk if you are after a musk scent, there is also Etro Musk (EDT) if you want something inoffensive

>>17555938
Same, but you still get some of the endocrine disrupting effects just from inhaling.
I'm currently trying to sample some "clean" fragrance brands that are free of things like pthalates.
I'm looking at Dossier (clone house), Henry Rose, Ellis Brooklyn, Thorn & Bloom, and Atelier Cologne. All of these are apparently pthalate and paraben free, henry rose claims to not use any known endocrine disruptors.
Anyone have any thoughts on any of these?

>>17555938
>>17555996

what are you guys talking about

Mandarino di Amalfi vs Neroli Portofino
I really like them both, which one should i get for spring?

>>17556007
For that price? 4 liters of Jeanne en Provence's neroli intense

>>17555996
I have looked into natural fragrances too but haven’t bought any yet.
Empower Pour Le Monde, The Scent Of Peace Natural Bond No 9, Juniper Ridge, Resort ROEMY.

>>17555996
Forgot Bourbon Cedar Cologne Olivina Men

>>17556000
It’s a big rabbit hole, https://youtu.be/O1B44VmZFiI

>>17555996
endocrine disrupting effects?

Guys I‘m looking to buy my first proper fragrance. Up to 100 dollars. I like lighter smells with lime. Any recs?

Noooois.

>>17556000
Holy shit, nice trips
But almost all fragrances have chemicals in them, most notably pthalates, which are endocrine disruptors, they fuck with your testosterone.
In the last 50 years men's testosterone levels have dropped 50%, 1% a year. This is largely due to people using things with BPA plastics, things like non-stick cookware, and cosmetics with pthalates.
The research is pretty interesting. If you stop using pthalates, your T levels will rise, but if you have a kid while your T levels are low due to endocrine disruptors, your child will have a permanently lower testosterone.
It's thought that this could be a contributing factor to the rise of the alphabet people.
I'm switching. It's okay if I can't get all the niche kino shit, there's still great smelling frags that don't make me into a low test bitch, or I guess in my case turn me from a high T gentleman into a average T dude

>>17556033
l'eau d'issey pour homme

>>17556032
See >>17556045
There's a lot more, like>>17556031
It's a whole rabbit hole. I haven't seen that particular video, but yeah

>>17556045
I mean it's fine to go all in and I can absolutely respect the choice, however shit like non-stick cookware, receipts (NEVER TOUCH THOSE, NEVER TOUCH THOSE, NEVER TOUCH THOSE, THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE SCAN YOUR RECEIPT AT SELF CHECK OUTS FOR A FUCKING REASON DO NOT FALL FOR IT.), and water are all much higher on the contributing factor list given how perfumes have been with us for a very long time. Sure it would be nice to have full lists of chemicals used, but that is not going to happen

>>17556061
oh and quite obviously having a kid ain't a single player affair, and the player you are co-oping with is almost sure to have done much more severe and retarded stuff than smelly water.

>natty perfumes
>no mention of lush
baka my head

>>17555864
Layton

>>17555864
Also Bottled EDP

>>17554570
I ordered from some Polish site called mood scent bar or whatever

Hope you endocrine disruption boys don't wipe your asses with tp because they found a lot of forever plastics in that stuff recently. Bidet time.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00094

>>17556101
Is it India where the wipe their asses with their hand? Maybe they were onto something ....

>>17556101
I mean why would you ever use toilet paper when you can get a bidet installed for cheap

>>17555910
But to be fair I'm not buying anything else for a long time now. Maybe one Rien or something, but just one.

Single but may be going on a date sometime in the next month. I own a tiny little bottle of this "Jazz Club" by Replica that was recommended to me by a friend, but I'm not quite sure it suits me. I like it well enough but it smells a bit 'sharp' if that makes sense. I would love something that smelled like stone/rain. I know nothing about fragrances and I'm a complete dumbfuck with this stuff.

>>17555996
The exposure you get from perfume is miniscule compared to car exhaust, cookware, other forms of pollution etc etc.

>>17556130
Buy some samples of popular date night fragrances.

>>17555780
>your kids
Whoa buddy let's not jump to conclusions here, first wish me a girl then we'll talk

>>17555703
>lots of the old school fragrances you guys push
Proofs? i've never pushed rose, maybe geranium and jasmine but under a ton of woods and/or spices, but not purely those things.
>anything with musk smells like an old lady
Wrong, king, learn what musk is first
>wear what you like
More like wear what you are, in your case a fruitcake L O L

>>17553309
I too love Malle and others could be Chanel Dior and Guerlain

A new house I discovered that I really like thus far is Stephane Humbert Lucas

>>17556130
Just get Bleu De Chanel EDP if you don't really want to do a deep dive and just want something good and attractive

>>17555540
>two full bottles
It's only 50ml bro

>>17556031
>Joe Rogan
Care to post a non-nigger cattle version of said info?
>>17556045
>>17556061
Nevermind, thanks for the info
>receipts
You are scaring me, i guess i will not touch them

>>17556120
Poo chunks that water cannot get rid of

>>17556061
I fucking hate receipts so much.

>>17556212
Is that not a full bottle?

>>17556234
a full, but smaller bottle

lads my bottle is running out and it's discontinued.

what smells most like this?
wouldn't mind better performance either.

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Montblanc/Legend-Special-Edition-2014-24972.html

Why does Macy's ship with that service where it transfers from UPS to USPS before delivery. All it does is add a day to the arrival time. it's fucking retarded

>>17556216
https://youtu.be/uLxFazLK2Mg

Fucking sauvage on my wrist ate the finish off my guitar LOL

>>17556246
What's the smallest "full bottle" then? Is there a larger full bottle of those two fragrances?

>>17556169
Source?? I would love that to be true

>>17556101
Does the stufy mention anything specifically about endocrine disrupting plastics? Not all plastics are made equal in the non-existent eyes of my testicles

>>17556259
Never seen that one, haven't smelled it so cannot say The apple is what makes it tricky because lime-mint-violet is pretty common as it is GIT/Cool Water territory.
By note count maybe, just maybe you can get by with Azzaro Chrome Aqua and Lagerfeld Paradise Bay, and just maybe because the lime/lemon got replaced with bergamot/grapefruit. The other options are Le Penguin Premium Blend but that replaces your apple with grapefruit, and Bentley Silverlake but that replaces the second fruit (apple/grapefruit) with pepper. YSL Y also supposedly has all your notes but also lots of other shit, so perhaps that can float your boat.
>better performance
From those i think only the Bentley one can do the job as Azzaro bottles are neutered, Lagerfeld stuff is gelded discounter box filler (sadly) and Ebin Penguino sacrifices performance for price.

As a side note seems like that grapefruit-apple-mint-violet is in several Jean-Claude Herault compositions which spikes my interests, seeing that he is the supposed successor of Pierre Bourdon.

>>17556287
Thanks bro
>>17556303
Bottles are 100ml, anything less is just fun pocket-size vials to cope with not buying the whole thing
>Only size available
Brands coping with the fact their full bottle might be worth too much. A 700+ bottle of Tom Ford now sounds even more egregious but a 350 one is cool enough for some reason.
Anything less than 75ml does not have the chance to integrate/mature well in constant use, by the time it reaches the best smell you are left with 10ml.

>>17556360
lots of words to say you're a tard

>>17556360
citrus based fragrances, or those with high amounts of natural components, do not get better with age. preservatives help, but id rather have a smaller cuter bottle than one that wastes space and is potentially going to get worse

nobody tell him that bottles can macerate without being 80% empty

My mate wants to wear allure sport to his own wedding. I think this is a mistake. what can I recommend that's similar but better?

>>17556061
>THEY HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE SCAN YOUR RECEIPT AT SELF CHECK OUTS FOR A FUCKING REASON DO NOT FALL FOR IT
what is the reason? the jews want you to touch receipts so that you grow tits?
glad you wrote that because I was about to take the rest of your post seriously

>>17556487
no you well poisoning retard, they want to mess with your epigenetics so you or your kid ends up infertile and subservient

>>17555320
>everybody wears fragrances
>Sauvage - I've only smelled it once.
Huh? So what are ppl wearing?

Is anything from YSL besides Tuxedo worth testing out?

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>>17556505
>>17556505
>>17556505

>>17556402
Lots of effort to cope with your bottlelet

>>17556416
>high amounts of natural components
Wrong except the citrus oils and that just depends on the part and maceration at the factory, for example lemon rind oil is very long lasting, same with bergamot, but oil based on macerated lime flesh then yeah that's going to turn in 10 years.
I have a "freshie" bottle that used oil of cilantro stems and it's performing as great after 14 years. Oakmoss also rarely turns unless exposed to retarded high temps and fluctuations.
>wastes space
It's a 100ml bottle dude, be real and accept your bottlelet. At least that other anon explained he just likes miniatures a lot.
>potentially going to get worse
Put your bottles in a box, a drawer, a cupboard. Place the damn thing inside a dry dark area, grab the frag and store it properly you silly willy.

>>17555629
Thoughts on this? I tried a cheap clone and it was almost good.

>>17556503
YSL Y EDP

>>17556194
>>17556202
I don't think I saw that one while I was out yesterday, but I did smell this 'Dolce&Gabbana Light Blue" one that I really liked. I didn't pull the trigger but I may go back. Again, I know literally nothing about fragrances but I smelled almost everything there that caught my eye and that one stood out to me.

>>17556503
Y le parfum
m7
jazz

Is Angels Share any good?

>>17557498
It's ok. Not worth the price.