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What's the most art deco fragrance?

>>17571544
Kouros, or some fresh flanker of it

Just blind bought pic related. Did I get memed?

In theory i should like chypres because i love the notes they attempt, in concept, but i didn't really like any references out there:
Eau Sauvage, the citrus reference, smells like the synthetic lemon candies or something like an artificial bottled mineral lemonade rather than a real citrusy sparkling lime/lemon, no moss to be smelled. The flankers all smell different and nothing like their descriptions.
Pour Monsieur smelled stale and the moss seemed dry and overly bitter, nothing green aromatic ozonic out of it. Egoiste seemed better and Platinum cleaned the floor with both of them.
Mitsuoko is sold at a store 2000km away from me and the samplers cost the same as a bottle of something else so haven't tried it or anything by Guerlain for that matter. Shame because their quality and fame are well regarded by every side i have read or heard.
Also some frags from the charts have been discontinued, Mugler Cologne and Pure Havane for instance.

>>17571556
>Bischfrag
You have

>>17571561
If you want a very heady green fragrance and can get ahold of it, aromatics elixir might be what you are looking for.

>>17571548
Hmm neo-art deco maybe, I associate orientals like shalimar with art deco

>>17571535
Blindly bought this at a mall, didn’t care about fragrances but I’m kind of entering the rabbit hole now. Was looking for something vanilla this was the closest. Smells like vanilla, whisky and a bit tobacco like, super nice.

>>17571570
You might like Bentley for men, despite its branding it's a very good woody spicy boozy leather thing.

>>17571567
I jumped into the wrong question, i meant as in bottle design rather than scents themselves. OP's image conditioned me.
Yeah i agree, very early fougeres for women and orientals are analog to the art deco days. For men it was spicy booze and tobacco.

>>17571570
I suppose that's Privee, i hated the shit out of it.
>Was looking for something vanilla this was the closest
Rochas Mustache EDP might be up your alley but it isn't as liquor-like. Cartier Pasha Parfum is also often compared to it.

Can you imagine getting blown the fuck out so hard the only retort is "Im gonna le shitpost"

>>17571686
What a fag lol

>>17571686
Bet he got molested AND didnt have a dad

>>17571686
Probably was a star in a film on Epstein island or something

>>17571588
Old guerlain stuff in general, but as far as stuff you can easily find these days; Rogue perfumery, Oriza L Legrand is more art nouveau but still cool. Both make good perfumes in general, Mousse illuminee is great.

>>17571556
It has some sweetish soft leather added to the pickled gherkins scent DNA. Kenzo Intense is pickled gherkins but in fresh, Lattafa Wajood takes the sour green cucumber aspect and amp up the bitter freshness even more to a point were it's piercing and addictive. Smells hyper masculin. Love that shit.

>>17571588
I'd say the 20s leather like cuir de russie and knize ten are pretty art deco too, play nicely into the androgyny of it too

>>17571686
>>17571687
>>17571690
>>17571691
I was wondering when my psychoanalyst was gonna show up, I need your help, I think I have this brain problem where I don't want to smell like a bakery boy, can you help me?

>>17571570
it's pretty good, could have done a lot worse

>>17571744
In all seriousness this has obviously seriously disturbed you, (why else would you hold this bizarre grudge and very obviously samefag like this?) So in the spirit of magnanimity, with it being Easter and all, I'll go into town next week, find spicebomb, smell it again and re-evaluate.

Let's bury the hatchet bro, it was funny at first but honestly this is getting a bit sad and isn't making for great content for the thread.

>>17571556
No. You've gotten yourself a mineral-guaiac wood hitter suited for all kinds of weather.

>>17571570
it's a good blind buy, but it has homo-iris notes in it, maybe they are not prominent on your skin or maybe you are nose-blind to them, ask a friend if he can smell it.

I want pure sex in a bottle for date nights ( havent talked with a female for a year now). I tried TF Noire parfum which I liked a lot but the performance and projection is a joke. I need something stronger but nothing too extreme. Im a young fit good looking guy who dresses a bit formal.
Budget max 200euro. I dont want anything too expensive

Post your fav fragrance for warm season & cold season

>>17571827
Musc Ravageur Frederic Malle
Grand Soir Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Opus V Amouage
Sex & Cognac BORNTOSTANDOUT
Montecristo Masque Milano
Trimerous Jorum Studio
Carnicure Marlou
Ambilux Marlou
Corpalium Marlou (just recently gotten my samples of marlou, and Jesus, I thought francesca was doing dirty sensual perfumes, this shit is on another level)
Sticky Fingers Francesca Bianchi
The Dark Side Francesca Bianchi
The Lover's Tale Francesca Bianchi
Under My Skin Francesca Bianchi
Salome Papillon
Musc Tonkin Parfum d'Empire
Cuir Ottoman Parfum d'Empire
Black Orchid Tom Ford
Black Phantom By Kilian
Dark Lord By Kilian
Lune Feline Atelier des Ors
dior homo parfum

>>17571827
Cigar by Remy Latour

>>17571827
Chanel anteaus

>>17571893
This, got mine a few months back and bitches have been eye fucking me ever since.
It is the perfect blend between the smell of a sophisticated gentleman and a playful douchebag. It's quite sadistic, even compared to other orientals.
Extremely cheap for the quality it offers.

>>17571858
>$150
Are these Arabs producing clones high or something? Why would I pay for a tacky arab clone mixed in a basement as much as for the OG fragrance?

I bought Creed Silver Mountain Water 100ml for 160 euro. CheckFresh doesn't read the batch code (F000###), there's no foldout paper, but the cap is weighty and smell is just as weak and great, as in the store where I tested it. I bought a quality fake or what?

>>17571928
Is this a clone of Nicolai nyi or the fragrance du bois one?

>>17571840
Warm: 4711 or Neroli intense
Cold: yatagan or shalimar

>>17571948
The guy claims that it's supposed to be a clone of Nicolai's NYI (and that's what got me interested) but Fragrantica suggests that it's more like Polo Green.

>>17571954
That's a shame but still, 150 bucks for a dupe of nyi (never mind polo green) isn't exactly stupendous value

>>17571938
I've never been able to get my head around the batch code autism with creed. Is it because of the (relatively) high proportion of naturals causing variance in the frag or what?

>>17571956
That's my point exactly. I typically get NYI itself for that much on a promo every year. I don't get why so many shitty Arab brands that used to go for $20-$30 charge $150+ for their clones. I've never had a single one that I would be really glad about purchasing after wearing it 5-10 times. I always just stop reaching out for them and they start gathering dust as you find out that even if the opening is somewhat similar (but typically much, much more syntehtic) then the fragrance is just shit after 1h of development.

>>17571972
I think it's just them following the designer and nich houses which charge outrageous prices for juice these days. I mean look at Chanel, 300 bucks at least for a bottle of sycomore. I know cedar and vetiver oil isn't that expensive lol. They are learning to take the same liberties.

>>17571893
Whats the longevity?

>>17571977
*Cypress

Anyone smelled grey flannel recently? How is it holding up?

>>17571977
But why would a brand called "Al Habibi Hafnan Aleikum" producing clone juice called "Luxury Prestige Alladin" and bottling it in some tacky bottles taken straight from 1001 Arabian Nights think that they're in the same position as Chanel and others to charge that? Their stuff belongs to cheap incense stick Arab stands in malls. It's beyond me what an appeal such a shit clone can have to Westerners now that they cost even more than the OGs.

>>17571999
It is ridiculous, I think the general rise on perfume prices just allows for it. Tbh my sole experience with Arab dupes is Dakar I can't imagine spending more than 10 dollars on something sold on a website with broken English.

Went through a bottle of this at the beginning of my fragrance journey (6 years ago now) and just bought another. After going down the niche and vintage rabbit hole and spending thousands on fragrances (and selling almost all I had) this feels like coming home. This is exactly the way I want to smell.

Who else /profumo/ pilled here.

>>17572015
I'm getting deja vu

>>17571999
ALLAH AKBAR

>>17571588
Sung Homme

>>17571556
do you need more of an answer than >>17571710

>>17571561
If you don't like chypres, don't force yourself to like them. It happened to me with vetiver - it just sucks, I would never wear anything with it as a major note.

>>17571985
7-8 hours

>>17572105
Yeah this is good advice, ultimately we all have our own idiosyncratic tastes. If you dislike a dry, green, somewhat powdery drydown you just won't like chypres. Maybe try fougeres or aromatic green perfumes, of which there are plenty.

Best fragrance for celebrating Easter?

>>17572411

>>17572425
Incredibly apt, since when they opened the tomb they found no one there. The absence was profound.

>>17572411
One of the incense heavy tauer frags probably

>>17571992
Yeah, it smelled a bit harsh to me, more than I remember.

I need a summer frag for my office job.

>>17572582
Aqua Di gio
Jeanne en Provence Neroli Intense (apply on moisturised skin to make it last a bit longer)
Jeanne en Provence Aqcua
Cool water

>>17571992
it has that animal note to it, that smells almost like shit

>>17572622
Civet? I didn't really pick that up. It's more that the violet and iris smelt a bit "off" to me idk

Wow, my bottle of CREED came with a detailed history of their prestigious fragrance house.

>>17571739
>20s leather like cuir de russie and knize ten are pretty art deco too
Not as far as i know, those were considered risque and avant garde even for their day as women did not use leather as it was seen as old world/old-fashioned.
Supposedly the very best leather frags were from that era, like Spanish Leather, but in the old books they refer to them (because they were famous) as too rural and not city-like.
>androgyny of it
That's jewish 30's, late 10's and 20's metropolitan art deco days were still white in nature although with heavy orientalism influence, when oriental meant Japan and China stuff rather than pajeets. Also some native american trends but mostly with visual arts.

>>17571840
Cool: Fahrenheit
Warm: Cool Water vintage profile

>>17571963
>high proportion of naturals causing variance in the frag
This along with inadequate quality control due to the boss there still being a novice kid, and also they got bought by jews and you can expect the worse from that ordeal especially when Olivier was already a very sketchy businessman.
Women frag scene also has very strong batch autism but mostly with Guerlain, Estee Lauder and YSL. That's when i learned i need to check vintage Opium.

>>17571999
Sounds more like a cope and you problem than arabs falling into their french semite cousins' tricks. And honestly people are retarded, if you prove you can deliver 90% of the quality for 10% of the price they will shun you but if you rise to 50% of the price they will start believing it is legit.

>>17572015
>the way I want to smell
Learned the hard way perfumery is about what you like and not what's the classiest or most audience approved, sad you had to learn your lesson after spending a collection's worth.

Am I retarded or is Eau Sauvage Parfum discontinued?

>>17572105
>don't force yourself to like them
It's just odd, i should love them but nothing i've tried smells like what it should be: Stong oakmoss base with another green in it to add a touch, subtle floral and woody heart and leafy citrus opening.
If anything i've tried some but without the oakmoss, being replaced either with vetiver or patchouli and the woods/florals take a position higher than the citruses which can only be found decently in sweet shit or freshies.
Perhaps IFRA really did kill the classic Chypre, that or half the chypres are classified as fougeres despite few having woods and/or dark greens to begin with to be classified as fuchairs.
>It happened to me with vetiver
I like vetiver but i discovered it recently, it feels foreign to what i wear but i can appreciate. I do not appreciate faggot houses replacing patchouli with it and pretend the formula is the same.

>>17572866
>Olivier Creed
>Perfumer who composes fragrances
Pick one, he's a blatant fraudster but with a master nose to be fair

I was there, like most of you. Oh my gosh, niche perfumes smell so different, and definitely higher quality than what I can smell in Sephora/Ulta! What if I told you there were perfumes that were higher quality than niche? This is one of them, but there are many others. I strongly suggest to everyone in this thread to try some vintage perfumes in their vintage formulations.

>>17573021
>vintage perfumes
Finite and pretty expensive if sough on eBay or some other places.
My journey with this started when i had to search for something as high quality as before, honestly i don't think this general would be as successful if we could find stuff as good as vintage at retail.
Perfumery is in a sad state and i can't see it recovering aside from crazy rich arabs finally knowing how to make the aperture notes right and local niche houses, except the latter want to charge vintage/collector prices.

>>17571570
If you want a vanilla cheaply you could try Mercedes club black

Fall: Ralph Lauren Ralph's Club / Perfume De Marly Herod
Winter: Mancera Cedrat Boise Intense
Spring: Givenchy Gentleman Boisee
Summer: Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Airlines / Prada Luna Rossa Ocean

Special Occasion Variant: Amouage Reflection
Chillin' Variant: Rochas Moustache
Business Variant: Aqua di Gio Profumo
Datenight Variant: Emperio Armani Stronger With You Intensely Oud / Perfume De Marly Carlisle
Beach Variant: Montblanc Legend Spirit / Ralph Lauren Red

Why are there two fragrance generals?

I've only ever bought and used ysl l'homme and Dior Sauvage.

Anybody that can recommend anything else in that sub species? That's not to say I'm tired of those scents, I love them both but I do want something new.

>>17573120
Sauvage Elixir
La Nuit De L'Homme EDP

Talked to two retailers recently and both told me in relation to our discontinuation discussion that ADG Profumo is no longer available through their distributors, aka not out of stock but downright cannot be selected despite being well sold.
Either it will be sold only through website and select countries, or it's ogre.

>>17571535
for me it's Dior Sauvage

>>17573134
I bought a bottle through Jomashop last week and it still hasn't shipped. Do you think they Gyped me?

>>17573120
Prada L'Homme, Prada Luna Rossa Carbon Prada, Chanel Allure Homme Sport, Armani ADG Profumo

>>17573153
>rotting fruit
yep, that's sauvage

>>17573091
Spicebomb problems

>>17573200
Probably looking for a bottle where they can, or they got out for Easter vacations. Usually a store will phase out a fragrance even if they have boxes of them to avoid such issue, those units will get shafted to discounters or directly at exhibition for liquidation.
It would be very risky to sell widely with only a few units on their inventory, in my case Bvlgari Aqua flankers were discontinued time ago but i saw boxes of Atlantique and that brown one in stores for a while, last time they only had one bottle left tho.

>>17573237
t. never seen rotting fruit

Just copped, opinions?

>>17573301
More money than sense (or nose)

>>17573301
Get CDNIM EDP or special edition for 1/5 the price.

>>17572955
Flappers enjoyed androgyny.

Did you learn everything you know about art deco from a Murdoch Murdoch video or something? What the hell is the matter with you?

>>17573322
>>17573332
I mean like opinion on the actual scent

>>17572984
There is some hope, I believe they can remove the partof oakmoss that people are photosensitive to now.

But yes without heavy doses of oakmoss chypres arent what they used to be.

Finally bought the very last bottle of Narciso Rodriguez For Him EDT in the entire region, it is now no more and no clone of it exist that i know of either.

Found it changes considerably after two months of being pumped air inside the bottle and shaken, comparing both tester bottles the musk became much brighter and the patchouli/violet combo blended better which smells more quality but loses some of that SUPPOSED petrichore notes which are merely a reminder more than an actual attempt at replicating it.

Perhaps someday a mainstream designer will attempt to actually replicate it but otherwise supposedly some australian niche house did manage to do it, Petrichore Plains i think was called. Now i need to buy Grey Flannel because in theory it should smell similar as they share many notes and allegedly have the same note effect, that is a damp violet with another dark green and musk. I believe Kurk and NR were inspired by it due to the note breakdown, the concept behind it ("tribute to the great fougeres of the late 70's/early 80's") and the colour itself, a grey box and bottle.

>>17573336
Sorry, i learned from actual arts school and relayed historical books, not your woke shit you faggot
But you can now laugh at my misery in terms of job offers and wages.

>>17573337
sir please do the needful sir and deliver pineapple top note chypre that will be 500 lakhs of rupees sir

It's fine, it's safe, it's competently put together, it won't upset or offend anyone, you'll enjoy it, why do you need people on 4chan to tell you this?

>>17573348
You went to art school? Are you sure it wasn't clown college?

>>17573345
I recently got grey flannel and I was a bit disappointed. The violet smelled very harsh. It may improve with maceration though.

>>17573343
>I believe they can remove the partof oakmoss that people are photosensitive to now
I believe we should remove oakmoss sensitive people from the market to begin with, no one allergic to oakmoss should buy oakmoss-rich perfumes like chypres.

>>17573349
>it won't upset or offend anyone
Smoked pineapple with ambergris doesn't sound very good on paper, and CDNIM doesn't smell like that at all other than a sweet pineapple thing with some lemon in it.
Creed doesn't hand testers either so it's always a blind buy for something that goes away after 2 hours.

>>17573373
Depends if the ambergris is aged or not, but even the marine fecal aspects mixed with pineapple sound interesting to me

>>17573370
Yeah it should be buyers beware, but what can you do. I heard bijan for men might not be ifra compliant and contain loads of oakmoss.

>>17573337
Absolutely revolutionary and breathtaking when it was first released. There's a reason it's the king. Now, with the amount of good clones and variations, it's still very good, but just a little overdone. In another 10 years, it might be talked about the same way Acqua di Gio or Drakkar Noir are, legendary but old and overplayed.

>>17573383
We are already there. We are long overdue some new ideas in men's perfumery.

>>17573091
There is a battle on for the soul of the fragrance general

>>17573370
Good idea. Can we remove plebeian Top10 influencer enjoyer, ambrox-citrus praiser and paid shills from this hobby too?

>>17573411

>>17573383
It's a slightly more niche BdC-esque thing. Breathtaking and revolutionary? You must be very easily impressed.

>>17573091
Someone made a non-ital babylon imposter thread.

Speaking of, what's the most Rastafarian fragrance?

>>17573120
You would probably like Versace Eros. You shouldn't and I wish you and everyone else wouldn't, but you probably will.

>>17573439
>what's the most Rastafarian fragrance?
Black Afghano
Or not bathing + burning your hair + negroe moldy BO due to highly alkaline pH

>>17573481
>Black Afghano
wearing this right now.

>>17573481
Trust me, it smells like smoking tires with herbs rubbing in
>which i enjoy

>>17573439

>>17573481
Trust me pic related is disgusting for most people, just read fragranticas ambrox-ctirus toddlers losing they mind. It smells like smoking tires with herbs rubbing in
>which i enjoy

I'm tall, autistic, and preppy
Which Paco Rabanne fragrance should I wear?

Cool Water macho buddies, just discovered this one, Al Haramain's "Amber Oud" Carbon from their oddly named line of "fancier" clones.
A supposed GIT clone BUT do the note changes sound familiar?
Iris exchanged for rosemary and lavender, sandalwood exchanged for cedar and oakmoss, calone added with geranium.

>>17573508
Smells like the pale brother of Cool Water, it lacks the oomph.

>>17573502
>tall
Pour Homme
>autistic
Phantom
>preppy
One Million

>>17573502
Pour homme I would think

>>17573510
Damn, but what clone has the oomph? only GIT has it but costs a lot and performs badly in high heat. Not including vintage of course.

>>17572975
I'm gonna assume it's just supply being kept low, like with Dior Homme Parfum, which is once again available from the Dior website if you are in Europe. Same with ESP, which can also still be bought from their website.

>>17572984
You're overthinking it. An oakmoss base and citrus opening is in many fragrances and doesn't necessarily mean it will smell like a chypre. Lots of stuff can be inserted inbetween to make it smell different. It's better to go by that accord than by the fake notes the houses add onto their bottles. I usually get some hints from the "reminds me of" section of fragrantica/parfumo. If it has TdH and/or Encre Noire in it, I know it will be full of vetiveryl acetate, which is the smell I don't like. I like Eau Sauvage Parfum, which supposedly has "Haitian Vetiver" as heart note (same as Molecule 03 and Encre Noire, where it really is just vetiveryl acetate). Since I didn't find any frags I don't like in the "reminds me of" section, I tested it anyway. Turns out it has nothing to do with TdH/EN.

>>17573120
Sounds like you need a run to the store to sniff stuff.

>>17573134
It's currently on/off with that stuff here in Europe. Sometimes it's widely available, then it's gone, then it's only available on the Armani website (which now lists it as an Eau de Cologne).

>>17573349
Because that anon FOMO'd into a full bottle despite being unsure if he likes it. Now we need to tell him he will pull it off (he won't, since he's insecure about it already). Another victim of the frag industry who should have gone to the store first.

>>17573439
>what's the most Rastafarian fragrance?
Something like Patchouli Elixir, I'd say. Anything tobacco/weed/etc. is too obvious. A dirty patchouli sounds more rasta to me.

>>17573508
Ignore it. It used to be cheap, has now risen in price to ridiculous levels, has slightly dropped because nobody got FOMO'd into buying it yet and is waiting for another YTer to shill it. Al Haramain had a GIT clone before (L'Aventure Knight) and that wasn't it, so maybe they refined the formula and now try to mark it up heavily and release it under their Amber Oud line, which is well regarded (and has more than doubled in price since its gain in popularity). I had a price alert set for 60€/100 mL, and it was reached but then I decided not to buy it blind despite liking every frag it's associated with. I will no longer blindbuy arab clones at such prices. They either drop their prices again or they can fuck off. Reminder that I bought my first bottle of Detour Noir original formulation for 14€. It's also more than twice that now.

>>17573535
I can agree, the prices i see locally are ridiculous, but most of the low-level but consistent reviewers claim it's a very shitty GIT clone that just smells like Cool Water, that to me is the key of this whole puzzle.
GITfags always get gaslit to buy their niche shit but ignore vintage Cool Water cleaned the floor with their bottles that nobody knew before the Creed marketing machine happened around the late 90's.
>It used to be cheap
It was released not long ago, bet it was risen due to the Ruby/Baccarat and that Layton bottle got attention. Shame really, Tres Nuit seems to have been reformulated which boggles my mind, arabs reformulating something already quite synthetic after 3 years.
I just want Cool Water with performance, oakmoss, woods and perhaps a bit more green. I want my old bottles, buddy.

>>17573540
>arabs reformulating something
First thing that happened to Detour Noir after it gained popularity, by the way. I don't know if it was reformulated to follow the Layton reformulation, but they changed it. The box used to be silver/black, they changed it to full silver and with it came a reformulation. It used to smell the same as the Layton sample I got (and how Layton smelled at a store), and now it has more of a Boss Bottled vibe in the opening, way more apple and less spices. Arab houses aren't above reformulations.

What kind of perfume does your mom like? I'm thinking of getting mine some.

Jo Malone?

Got midnight oud for 20 euros, I just want something that scratches the itch of interlude, which is pretty much the only amouage o like.
What am in for?

>>17573373
Club de Nuit le is not only a good clone is actually better than fucking aventus nowadays.

Like, the actual scent on the air is the same and lasts way longer. If you get your nose close to the skin yes, aventus smells better, but it's fainter and goes away in half an hour.

Unless you have too much money in your hands, buying aventus is dumb

>>17573153
Is it a POWERHOUSE panty dropper?

>>17573153

>>17573577
My mom has been wearing Armani Code for 10+ years. It's an amazing frag and it sucks I can't have my girlfriend wear it because it'd feel weird.

>>17573577
my mom wears some super earthy stuff i don't like at all. never bothered finding out what it is. it's a simple designer, though, that much i know, and not a chypre. i suspect something with patchouli.

>>17573693
That sounds pretty good to me, it's not aromatics elixir?

>>17573696
in all honesty, i have skipped the clinique section at the store, as it was overrun by women at my last visit and i didn't want to be the weirdo barging in and grabbing the aromatics elixir bottle. whatever my mom wears doesn't smell like a chypre, it smells like wet earth with some patchouli in it.

>>17573698
Aromatics is very patchouli forward, quite hippyish. Getting stuck in and making the countergirl spray you down is well worth it.

That's a nice smell for a mom, solid, dependable. Thanks

>>17573439
try Prin's Ganja Kasturi if you want to smell like actual weed

>>17574086
Prin is one of the most idiotic frag brands. All they fragrances smell the same, similar animalic basenotes.
Never tried scents like Ensar, Xerjoff, Roja, Areej Le Doré, because they shills purposefully describe those scent as mystical, fairytale, absolute based concoctions. Once somebody tested them they get blown the fuck out how ridiculous the shills are.

>>17573153
Dylan Blue is basically Sausage but cheaper and better

Bros, i just need a Fragrance that women love. Google says bleau de chanel, sauvage dior ,Chanel Allure Homme but i think they may be overused. Should i just buy one of them anyway ? Any tips on what type women enjoy ?

>>17574171
What kind of woman? If you asked you're average "fragcom" puddinghead they'd say women don't like 70s-80s powerhouse fougeres and green aromatics but my old woman loves that stuff on me.

>>17574171
> Bros, i just need a Fragrance that women love
Essential Parfums Bois Imperial. Trust me on this one.

I blind bought pic rel for 25 europoor coins, what awaits me?

>>17574171
Before I got married I wouldn’t use frags. I never had a problem picking up girls. Now I wear Guerlain vetiver. The patricians choice.

>>17574171
Eros Eau de Parfum

>>17574212
Dissapointment and then, buyers remorse

>>17571535
can anyone recommend some fresh fragrances? frags that arent sharp or overwhelming

>>17574212
Do you like vetiveryl acetate and iso-e super? If yes, greatness. If no, disappointment.

>>17574233
Voyage d'Hermes Parfum

>>17574186
>What kind of woman
average 16-40 Easter European middleclass women
>>17574207
>>17574224
Noted, ty sirs
>>17574216
>Before I got married I wouldn’t use frags. I never had a problem picking up girls
I dont want to use them necessarily for picking up girs, i just for them to say'' hey, that guy smells good'', something that would make them want to take a second whiff

>>17574242
Then just wear what you like, nobody smells the frag more than the wearer. Also not everyone likes vanilla ice cream. But when I think of what women like, I picture something floral and masculine. In that regard, I recommend
Caron pour un homme
Caron le3
Guerlain habit rouge
Guerlain Jicky
Dior Fahrenheit

>>17574171
>>17574242
Sauvage is totally overused but that's because it's a crowd pleaser. If you want that response, have the money, and aren't around many other people wearing perfume I say just go for it

>>17574239
will this make me smell like i came off a boat in the middle of summer?

>>17574257
he said 16-40 and not gilfhunting

>>17574276
Just the name should tell you enough. Here's the copypaste from their website:

“An invitation to discover, meet and share.” - Jean-Claude Ellena

A novel that feeds on the imagination, Voyage d’Hermès expresses the long-standing and unusual relationship between the house and travel. An interplay of paradoxes, complements and unexpected alliances support the premise of woody notes that are fresh yet musky, familiar yet surprising, hovering between impulsive and comforting, equally at ease with men as with women. Hermès designer Philippe Mouquet created a travel object bottle for Voyage d’Hermès, designed for journeys and symbolic of movement.

>>17574291
Not him, but last time I wore Guerlain habit rouge to a whore she said I smelled nice. She was 22

>>17574276
No, more like you were just having green tea with cardamom on a forest meadow

>>17574311
Whore as in prostitute? If so, I bet you also believe them when they tell you you're great at sex too lmao

>>17574350
Whore as in a tinder “date”. She didn’t compliment my sex unfortunately. It was good for me at least.

>>17574239
any other suggestions?

>>17574377
H24

>>17574234
I mean I checked out fragrantica beforehand on the profile. Vetiver? Absolutely. Iso e super? Heard of it, but never tried it, that is if we are not talking about what makes Dior Sauvage smell so fresh?

>>17574171
Seconding Bois Imperial. Never in my life I got so many compliments for a fragrance before (I'm average looking guy).

>>17574379
Iso e super can smell of graphite (pencil shavings), cedar, or if you happen to be anosmic to it, nothing at all.

>>17574233
Jeanne en Provence Acqua. It's a nice cheap soapy rose with a cedar woody marine thing too. Pretty nice and since it's cheap you can spray it a bunch (most fresh fragrances lack longevity due to inherent characteristics of the ingredients they are made with).

Similarly Jeanne En Provence Neroli intense is a nice neroli citrus thing, very similar to 4711. The acqua Di Parmas are all generally pretty good too if you feel like splashing some more cash

>>17574379
It smells piercingly sharp. Very synthetic. A woody version of calone, if you can imagine that.

>>17574171
>Bros, i just need a Fragrance that women love.
His highness Green

>>17574379
To me, it's pencil shavings all the way. It's overwhelmingly dosed in ENAL.

>>17574152
if it was better it would sell better

>>17574402
Thank you, iam very curious now. If I dont like it, at least the price wasnt high.

Yesterday
>Mother in law: someone smells really good in here
Today
>Mother in law: someone smells really good again

Guess the frag

>>17574482
Bois Imperial

>>17574482
snicebomb

Based or Cringe?

>>17574118
i tried reading your message about three times but it was impossible to understand what you were trying to say. anyway, i don't like prin - i just think ganja kasturi is the best interpretation of a "weed" perfume

>>17574482
bois imperial and ganymede fit the bill for milfs, but we talking gilf here, something really oldschool then with real civet?

>>17574486
>>17574497
>>17574509
It’s Guerlain vetiver

>>17574486
>>17574497
>>17574509
It was Creed Aventus
>>17574533 isn’t me

>>17574533
Speaking of vetiver, I think that Nicolai's Vetyver is heavily overlooked in this too crowded genre where it's really hard to innovate. It's fresh in a pleasant spicy way, giving it more depth (think about the coriander fresh punch in Tauer's LDDM) and one of the rare examples of florals (ylang-ylang, jasmine) that are without any doubt masculine. Excellent stuff imo.

>>17574486
>>17574497
>>17574509
it was dior homme intense
>>17574533
>>17574537
not me btw

>>17574552
Yes we know you’re an intense homo anon.

>>17573577
White floral bombs with zero sweetness, the ones that smell like carrion.
Vintage Dior Poison with some even more floral flanker and Eau de Issey Florale.
Going to buy her Gucci Bloom Ambrosia di Fiori or Dior J'Adore Infissime, the one i hate the most because i will know she will like it

>>17573698
>overrun by women at my last visit and i didn't want to be the weirdo barging in
Seems to me you need a set of balls to do whatever you want, partner

>>17574448
That's not how it works for the cattle, you need a heckin wholesome figure like Johnny Deep and influencers talking about it constantly.
But Sausage is better in my nose than DB, seems more complex if a bit headache inducing in the EDT and EDP.

>>17574384
>Iso e super can smell of graphite (pencil shavings)
Wrong, pencil shavings smell of sandalwood, graphite smells of something else you dummy, have you ever used a pencil?

>>17574550
Is it sweet like NYI?

>>17574598
Smells nothing like NYI. The common denominator is the Nicolai's hand and her soft touch, making both Vetyver and NYI very balanced and feeling like a second skin.

>>17574605
I would be interested in trying it, but I like guerlain heritage more than nyi, and Guerlain vetiver is one of my favorites. Does it have an old school vibe like nyi?

>>17574591
Pencil shavings do not smell like sandalwood. Sandalwood is a rare expensive wood, pencils are made from cedar.

Is there something that's good all around ?

>>17574612
Heritage was too dark and heavy for my likings, and I personally prefer NYI. The way Nicolai has done the spicy-fresh accord in Vetyver is reminiscent of 70/80s frags (think vintage Eau Sauvage for example).

>>17574647
Unironically Bois Imperial: I can wear it for dates, to work, after gym and in every season.

>>17574650
Very cool, I’ll give vetyver a try. I guess that’s why I like heritage, and if I want something similar but lighter I reach for Zino. I would like a bottle of nyi but would have to get it on discount.

>>17574616
I did word it retardedly, it smells similar in that it is very slightly spicy with some creaminess to it. Normal school pencils do have that same profile without the overt creaminess, it is there but nothing like a cream with sandal oil would.
Cedar smells to me sharper, at least when i screwed cabinets in small bathrooms, and i suppose the oil would be like that but not as much as pine which is aromatic sharp and not creamy at all.

>>17571556
Can't you smell it for yourself and determine that? I am the EDP poster and it's the best thing I've smelled in the last 5 years. Maybe next to Sauvage Elixir.

>>17571710
the fact that you call them gherkins means that you're a fag

Summer gourmands that are office safe? I was leaning towards l'homme ideal edp. I used to have ultra zest and liked the summer gourmand vibe, but since it's discounted it's difficult to find now.

Also thoughts on creeds millmillesime imperial, silver mountain water, and virgin island water for an office summer frag.

>>17574695
>virgin island water for an office summer frag
Lasts 1 (one) hour and smells like you put lime in the coconut, so very idiosyncratic to the point of getting into trouble due to the booze.
>gourmands for office
I wouldn't do it

>>17574698
A lot of reviews say L'homme ideal edp is office safe because it doesn't project too far and is light, has a gourmand vibe and is wearable in the summer. I want to find more of these summer office safe (enough) frags that lean gourmand. There clearly are some out there.

>>17574736
I mean sure you can use Kublai Khan as an office scent because some perv faggot in Seattle or San Francisco can but doesn't mean you should, a sweet boozy scent for office might confuse people if you are too close to them.
If you mean office as in every dude in his own cubicle with controlled AC far away from another then sure you can, but if you work in a sweatshop with computers working engineering jobs for minimum wage like i do then it's game over sooner or later.

>>17574758
I'm in an office, there are other offices around and AC is on, which is a normal office environment. I asked specifically for a frag for the office, not a sweatshop computer hotbox that you work in. Thanks for contributing to nothing.

>>17574776
Yeah just wanted to inquire to pinpoint your frag, good luck you fake gourmand homo

>>17574791
Enjoy your "office" sweatshop slave labor you lesser than nerd faggot. Again kys for contributing nothing.

>>17574800
>muh nerds
Buddy you are the one asking for a food fragrance in a specialized thread, get out of here

>>17574676
Indian or Australian sandalwood?

>>17574695
Try Paco Rabanne one million Lucky

What kind of fragrance will transmit such an intoxicating scent across miles and miles and perhaps even telepathically and will convince a man to bring me ice tea and fall in love wit me

>>17574695
If I smelled some "yummy cherry gourmand" on my subordinate at work I'd fire them immediately.

Also creed is is faux-aspirational overpriced trash for Indian people. You're better than that, get habit rouge or one of the royall lymes.

>>17574923
I would do that for a woman wearing Giorgio

>>17574931
I’m a man faggot

>>17574935
I would do that for a man wearing Giorgio for men

>>17574939
Noted Thankyou anon

>>17574482
Tactical soap, that's most definitely what's up

>>17574939
Trusting you anon
I already have about a dozen fragrances most of which I hardly use but I will use this and test your theory

>>17574946
Well I hope he's he loves vintage men's fragrances that punch above their price and harken back to better times.

>>17574954
If not I have a ton of other stuff
Actually this is someone I’m probably never going to get the balls to actually meet up with so I was quite serious about telepathically attracting them to come to me lmao

>>17574956
Best of luck and jah bless

>>17574919
I suppose australian, i don't think i've ever smelled indian sandalwood, wasn't that banned decades ago because pajeets almost deforested the entire species after they knew they could sell the oil from the roots to europe for much more than the arabs paid the twigs for their holidays?

>>17574963
Yeah it was but if you had old bottles you might have smelled it.

I'm about to cop pic related

Any alternatives that are similar before I pull the trigger?

>>17572866
There is zero evidence of any creed fragrances before the 60s.

>>17573091
This one wasn't announced in the old thread.

>>17574736
Try Ferragamo Uomo Casual Life

>>17575009
This one whispers, it doesn't shout.

>>17574695
You can wear anything you want. Really doesn't matter, speaking from personal experience. Trust me, the other people also just wear what they always wear, even if it's 40 sprays of Baccarat Rouge or whatever. But yeah, L'Homme Ideal EdP is a skin scent from the get-go. Can't go wrong.

>>17574929
You'd have to be the boss to do that and if you would fire someone over that it says a lot about your qualifications to actually be the boss. Long way to go, my friend.

>>17574946
>>17574956
There's one thing for certain when it comes to Giorgio For Men: it is strong enough to make you think it was telepathy and not just you projecting across the street. Also I paid 15€ for it, feels like you're getting ripped off considering it's technically a US frag house. Nice barbershop scent of the oldschool variant, though.

>>17572866
a very detailed history, all of it made up

>>17575026
Well I do work at the gay sex factory so we get to take some liberties.

Goodies arrived

The 5ml decants are:

Ganymede
Tobacolor
Jazz club
Whispers in the library

The 1ml+- samples are:
Khamrah
Amethyst (by lataffa I'm guessing)
Optus vii (opus vii clone , no idea)
Ana abiyedh rouge (br540 clone)
Midnight oud
Raghba wood intense (no idea what is supposed to be cloning)
Mohra by lataffa (again no idea)
If anyone wants me to post my impressions of any of them, let me know. I'm not really interested in clones but I have tried most of the fragrances they are attempting to clone.

>>17575036
Yeah I wouldn't mind hearing what you think about any of them.

>>17575026
>if you would fire someone over that it says a lot about your qualifications to actually be the boss. Long way to go, my friend.
NGMI if you think bosses aren't like that. Long way from the top, clerk

>>17575036
>>17575038

I just tried midnight oud and the opening is 95% interlude, just a tad sweeter and feels more humid, less dense and less potent, but that might even be a good thing.

Will see after a few hours but considering you can get midnight oud for 20 bucks , the performance or the dry down will have to be abysmal to justify a purchase of a full interlude bottle. And I love interlude and I have a decant both of the normal and the 53 versions.

>>17575056
I don't work at a small company. If either my boss or me were like that the union would kick our asses.

>>17575064
>union
Sorry mate, i thought we were speaking about office jobs, not mafia joints
I do respect that from you underground warriors, you eat the chief if he crosses a line

How many frags do you think is too many frags?
I have 8 that arent fully used, and have phased out 5 of them due to change in taste.

>>17575118
I have 7 full bottles and I'm not really planning on getting more right now. Maybe one more freshie at some point. I think anything more than 10 is too much if you're actually planning on using them up and not just "collecting"

>>17575118
I take the "Saudi oligarch" approach (but with fragrances instead of cars). As long as I have room to store them, all is well.

>>17575120
i have around 25 full bottles (with ~10 (more) expensive niche frags), some small bottles (5-10ml) and around 50 small (~2ml) niche samples - i am planning on rotating most of these and also planning on getting more
i have a few redundant frags but most of them are unique enough for me
>the ride never ends

>>17575123
meant to reply to >>17575118

>>17575118
I see it more as scent profiles than frags, you can have 10 bottles of the same scent profile and they count as backups so no problems, never enough backups.
I would say more than 12 scent profiles is too much, that's 3 for each season. Maybe 15 is okay if you have 2 for each season and a bunch of special ones, but more than that is just reference bottles for your own store or collecting autism.

>>17575118
I think about it more in terms of cost. I don't mind having a few hundred bucks worth of food cheapies, which could be 15-25 bottles worth. I kind of just like collecting this remnants of the past that inexplicably still get produced.

But for the expensive stuff I'm more discriminating and have only a few bottles.

>>17575118
I got 11 and Bianchi’s Etruscan Water on its way.

>>17575168
>inb4 all these 30mls
Yeah, it's not the most optimal option price-wise, but I travel quite a lot, and it's handy for me to throw a 30ml or two into my luggage. Also, taking only 1 or 2 scents with you that you have to wear daily for a couple of weeks is great when you suffer from having too many fragrances to choose from. Last time I took only Patchouli Intense for a 2 weeks long business trip, and it was really illuminating. I've worn it quite a lot in the past, but by constant daily exposition I started picking up nuances and details I've never picked before (for example the incredibly cosy and warm vanilla drydown).

>>17575168
oh, you still lurk here. did which OJ is that? did you go through your or du serail already?

>>17575168
Where's the kouros?

>>17575173
I'm only worried about that bottle of MEM and how much of its content are missing.

>>17575168
Those bottles are well used. How much do you usually spray?
t. having trouble to go through more than one 100ml bottle a year

>>17575179
First time here in a year or so. I just got really busy with life. Glad to see that the thread is still going strong and soon to reach #1000. What have I missed? This is OJ Black Gold. I'm almost finished with it and will likely replace it with Nawab of Oudh next autumn. Yeah, I've finished Or du Serail. It's a great fragrance but at some point coconut started irritating me slightly so not looking into rebuying it (also apparently there was some batch-fuckery recently).
>>17575183
I have gone through 2 bottles of Kouros in the past. Not looking to rebuy it any time soon. Bogue MEM is kind of giving me a fix of that skankiness while being a much more refined perfume overall.
>>17575185
MEM is 10/10. AG comes close, but I've sold it together with a bunch of other limited edition releases to raise money for a charity.
>>17575186
Around 5-10 sprays. However, I often wear two fragrances a day: one in the morning and then I apply something else for the evening after taking a post-gym shower.

>>17575192
>10 sprays of bois imperial or kaszebsczi mech
sounds like chemical warfare, those are quite strong

>>17575194
With BI I limit myself to 5 sprays as it's indeed really strong. I think that Kaszebszczi Mech is not that powerful, but maybe I have been unconsciously gassing out people with oakmoss lol

>>17575118
I bought almost every Guerlain and Caron masculine. They’re breddy gud. Today I’m wearing Lancaster cool water

>>17575192
This bogue mem sounds intriguing, daddy might have to get himself a little sample...

>>17575026
I’m paying Aussie dollars so it’s about 15 or so US. Bargain here, assuming it’s as good as y’all say

>>17575057
Hmm that's interesting. I've been looking at some amouage scents, might look at these too.

>>17571537
Someone needs to make a new one of these, at least a few are out of production and difficult to find.

>>17575168
A fabled connoisseur, nice to see you posting again
Humbled to see i only know two of those bottles there, heard a lot about Bois Belize

>>17574677
I'm still waiting for the package to arrive

>>17575192
>What have I missed?
not too much, the general has gone much worse ever since
>This is OJ Black Gold
nice choice, I'm working through my montabaco intensivo currently. their newest release looks very good

>>17575192
> Bogue MEM is kind of giving me a fix of that skankiness while being a much more refined perfume overall.
Two of the notes that stick out to me are lavender and civet. This makes me think of Jicky. Have you tried Jicky? If so how do they compare?

will people think i am gay if I wear bois imperial? I hate dealing with twinks at work

>>17575339
it's very unisex and on parfumo the community ownership suggests a high amount of female owners compared to classic masculines, but it doesn't suggest a gender or a gender preference with its smell, so you might be able to pull it off.

>>17575339
no. It's vetiver, iso-e super and gauaiac wood.

>>17575255
Its really damn similar to interlude but less potent and a bit less rounded, test both. But unless you love interludes profile soooo much, I would save the money for a different niche perfume that is more unique. This clone is really good and it's rarely the case

>>17575364
That doesn't seem very imperial, i thought Bisch had done something nice there like Atlas cedar or some pine stuff with sandalwood and rare resins, even myrrh.
Guess i will put it down in the pecking order of decants to order.

>>17575364
I thought it was akigalawood and ambroxan?

>>17575293
>A fabled connoisseur
Who the fuck is he?

>>17575173
How the fuck you do not get habituated to stuff you wear for weeks? I rotate like 30+ different scents and usually have at least 3 weeks in between and still the ones which really last and project decrease a little in time I can sense them, beastmode stuff I wore for days in a row, in the past, like Toy boy I can't now sense for longer than 2h no matter how long the break from it was and I used to sense it for a a whole day.
Some stuff even on the first try I cannot sense without burring my nose in skin after 20 minutes like bleu de chanel.

>>17573301
>>17573332
Esencia Loewe (EDP)

>>17575405
ambroxan, akigalawood, georgywood, but there's certainly also a little vetiveryl acetate in it

>>17575405
I do not detect any ambroxan in bois imperial.
>>17575389
it's not imperial at all. No regal satins there, just tweed, linen and wool, if you are looking for a more apt adjective neo-rustic would be fitting. Its a daily driver done really well, very orginal, and unmistakanably BISCH with how the guaiac wood plays out in the drydown, thats his signature and what ties together the heavy hitters he made.

>>17575389
> Atlas cedar or some pine stuff with sandalwood and rare resins, even myrrh
Sounds nice. What are you thinking? The best wood frag I’ve found is vintage Guerlain heritage. That Mysore sandalwood is hard to beat. I had hopes for tam dao but it seems more synthetic than natural. Not saying it isn’t very nice, just isn’t the best.

>>17575173
>business travel
Had that same experience with Guerlain habit rouge vintage edt. Wore it for a week straight and learned to appreciate it even more. Beast of a frag.

>>17575389
i detect no guaiac wood in it at all, by the way. no clue what the other posters are on about.

Looking for something green for my spring/summer rotation that I can wear on daytime dates year round.
Leaning towards Eau Sauvage Cologne but am welcome to suggestions

Any neroli heavy scents out there with good projection?
Bonus with some fougere elements.

>>17575546
Dunhill Icon maybe? or just buy Neroli Intense and use 20 sprays

>>17575364
>>17575496
>>17575519
They’re mixing up guaiac wood for akigalawood

>>17574929
>>17575056

If you're boss fires you because of the frag you wear then you probably don't have a high quality skillset to begin with. Executives aren't dumb. If you're a valuable high quality employee that's hard to replace, you can do whatever the fuck you want.

Go pound sand faggot.

>>17575293
>just a random NPC who jumped on the Bois Imperial bandwagon
>connoisseur

hmm

>>17575610
Unironically I am firing your faggot ass for wearing Dior homo again. Don’t bother coming in tomorrow.

>>17575626
it's actually the fella who (unfortunately) brought the fragrance in here

>>17575546
Guerlain Coriolan

>>17575539
>green for spring/summer
Guerlain vetiver
Guerlain eau de Guerlain (most like eau sausage)
Guerlain Coriolan
Guerlain homme leau boisse
Hattric classic aftershave

>>17575539
>>17575672
Also forgot givenchy vetyver. Very nice for spring and summer. Green vetyver and sandalwood. Very clean and fresh.

>>17571938
>weak and great
that is the definition of Silver Mountain Water
I will probably buy it at some point, but it's very low priority

>>17575225
It's a great masculine fougere and an essay on the complexity of lavender at the same time. I can highly recommend sampling all Bogues you can put your hands on. Gardoni is one of very few people who are still crating truly niche fragrances, i.e. just as they used to be before all masstige brands started appropriating the term.
>>17575272
As a matter of fact, I'm the anon who created the flowchart (and also curated the selection of fragrances for the other chart). I should have the Photoshop files somewhere on my old drive. I might try to at least get rid of all the discontinued stuff.
>>17575293
>>17575314
BBI is great (and nuclear). One of the best Nicolai releases.
>Montabaco
I remember liking one of the versions of it a lot. Probably will get a bottle as my all-around modern, woody crowd-pleaser to replace Bois Imperial.
>>17575329
>Have you tried Jicky? If so how do they compare?
I have revisited Jicky recently on the Charles de Gaulle airport, and I was blown away. It is a blueprint for the entire genre of fragrances, sitting somewhere between fougere and chypre (with a softer ambery/vanillic touch to them) like Nicolai's NYI, Le Gallion Special for Gentlemen but also e.g. Bogue MEM to some extent. I can only imagine how opulent it had to smell for everyone when it was released. I am heavily considering getting a vintage bottle of Jicky to be fair. The only thing I'd change it is how quickly the vanillic Guerlainade accord is taking over the entire composition. However, I would say that Jicky is much closer to NYI than MEM. Imagine tweaking the lavender and civet in NYI to 10/10, and you'll get some approximation of what MEM is like.
>>17575339
I don't think so. I got a lot (and I mean A LOT) of female attention for wearing it. From art-hoes to WASP type of girls. It's probably my most complimented scent.

>>17575364
>iso-e super
I don't think it has a lot of it. Akigalawood gives the synthetic woody note you might be referring to here.
>>17575427
>>17575654
Yeah, I am surprised how much of a revolution BI caused in this thread. I was indeed the first person who mentioned it here, and initialy just thought of it as an affordable, niche dumb-reach masculine crowd-pleaser. Kind of a fragrance that is a few steps above Sauvage/BdC and other heavily shilled crowd-pleasing designers that is more interesting at the same time. A fragrance that can be recommended to anyone coming here who just wants to smell nice and non-controversial and won't make you smell like every other dude in the club. But it seems that BI kind of started living a life of its own in this thread after I had posted about it a few times. I got kind of bored with it after a few months to be fair. These days, I only wear it for dates with gen-Z girls and won't be rebuying a new bottle afterwards as it doesn't fit my vibe entirely. I prefer more classic masculine fragrances, even if they don't bring me as many compliments as BI.
>>17575501
> Guerlain habit rouge vintage edt
I'm waiting for my 40s to finally properly pull off Habit Rouge.
>>17575539
>Eau Sauvage Cologne
Great classic but sadly very short lasting. I'd go for the EdT version instead, or perhaps consider Ideo Parfums London to Mumbai that you should be able to get for the same budget if summers don't get too hot wherever you live.
>>17575546
Budget? The best performing (and stunning) Neroli fragrance I know are either Bortnikoff's Neroli or Opalon from Bulgari's niche line. If you want something cheaper than you'll need to compromise parameters and for example go for JEP Neroli Intense as >>17575549 suggests. I'm glad to see that this recommendation stuck in this thread, as it's a great dirty cheap freshie for the summers when you want to wear unbuttoned white linen shirts.

>>17575444
Well at some point you just accept it and are happy about all those moments when you can get a random whiff of it at some point or smell it on your shirt in the morning. Spraying at the back of your neck, behind ears and wrists also help with the olfactory fatigue.
Also check'd.
>>17575643
Tonnerre is great, and the gunpowder note executed very well. However, it is a predominantly aquatic fragrance. Beaufort London is such a great brand. I can get a bottle of Fathom V for 90EUR, and I am really tempted, as it would fill the niche of some edgier fresh scent in my rotation perfectly

>>17575036
Just tried Ganymede and this is like 100 times better than Bois imperial. Why shill the later if this one exists, I dont get it

>>17575684
You make mem very tempting. Next time I’m somewhere that has niche frags I’ll sample it.
>>17575700
I don’t think habit rouge is hard to pull off as a young confident male. Edp feels younger than the edt. It’s also worth trying habit rouge leau if you want a fresher very modern version. But to me if feels like a lot of missing from it.

>>17575721
Ganymede is great, I still haven’t tried Bois imperial but am tempted to just because how good ganymede is. I think the 3x price over Bois imperial is what detours people from it.

>>17574984
If I didn't own PoaL before sampling Papillon's Tobacco Rose, I'd have bought Tobacco Rose.

I also haven't been here in absolutely ages. Remembering the good old days of talking with the Polish Brit and various others that were anonymous, but you could tell it was them.

Pity to see my John Waters image not in use, but it's nice to see people enjoying Bianchi perfumes still.

>>17575733
> Bianchi
>Dutch
Into the trash it goes. Another retarded opinion by a boomer.

>>17575757
She isn't Dutch, you ignorant cunt.

>>17575546
ADP Colonia Essenza

>>17575653
You're an absolute spray nozzle. I banged your wife raw while you were posting here like a fake executive faggot. She loved the frag btw.

>>17575760
Fake
>>17575776
And gay
You fags need a reality check. Nobody likes your Dutch frags nor your lipstick frags.

Considering YSL Y EDP as my next purchase for a year-round (in a place with mostly warm weather) all-purpose frag.
Is the longevity and projection still as good as when it first came out?
What about the flankers, are any worth trying?

>>17575733
What's the John waters pic.

>>17575784
Let me take you on a journey, friend. You’re on vacation in San Francisco, you return to your hotel but have forgotten your room number. You walk into the room of another guest by mistake. Immediately upon entering, you notice that a bunch of sweaty men are fucking on a bed shaped like a giant martini glass covered with sequins. YMCA is playing on a loop on the room’s sound system, a disco ball hangs from the ceiling, a large TV displays episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race. John Waters is sitting on a chair in the corner sipping a cosmopolitan.

Ultra Male is gayer than that room.

>>17575786
Kek I love it

>>17575792
Thank you. It got posted a decent amount when I first took it. Just checked and I can't believe I took it two years ago. I went out and bought the ingredients to make the Cosmopolitan and was glad to finally do something useful with my bottle of Ultra Male (since sold).

>>17575757
>Bianchi
>bad
how filtered can you get?

>>17575724
Yeah I get it but it's noticeably better and less annoying. I'll get 30 ml of Ganymede over 100 of Bois imperial any day

>>17575653
For some reason I now feel like wearing Dior Homme Intense tomorrow.

>>17575723
MEM was horrible. I expected to like it, but I just didn't. It's a "challenging" fragrance for sure. Going through a full bottle is still a cause of concern for me.

>>17575786
Let me take you on a journey, friend. You’re on vacation in San Francisco, you return to your hotel but have forgotten your room number. You walk into the room of another guest by mistake. Immediately upon entering, you notice that a bunch of sweaty men are fucking on a bed shaped like a giant martini glass covered with sequins. YMCA is playing on a loop on the room’s sound system, a disco ball hangs from the ceiling, a large TV displays episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race. John Waters is sitting on a chair in the corner sipping a cosmopolitan.

Dior homo intense is gayer than that room

>>17575951
I tried only parfam and liked it. Which one is more gay?
Dunno if I should try intense

>>17575958
I’ve only tried the original. I got suckered by hype and blind bought a full bottle. think they all share the lipstick accord, so they’re all probably pretty gay.

>>17575958
The Parfum is more masculine / less gay. Intense is good too but I prefer Parfum a bit

>>17575966
Are you talking Intense 2011 or 2007 version? Has somebody try Delicious Closet Queen Etat Libre d'Orange?

>>17575958
Try all three. Dior Homme Intense has won the "Best Men's Fragrance of all Time" category of the Fragrantica Reader Awards every year since their inception and is the highest rated male designer fragrance on parfumo. Better find out why yourself.
Also don't be like >>17575964, just go to a store and test them. DHI should be easy enough to find.

Thoughts?

>>17575978
The 2011
It's a good frag. The Parfum tones down the iris, has less vanilla sweetness and adds a lot of leather + some rose and our. Feels like it has more sandalwood too, more of an evolving experience

Oh whoops forgot to post image. Thoughts?

>>17575983
Thinking about another sampling round. You?

>>17575988
I also want to add that I felt like a flaming homosexual when seeing the bottle and the box it came in

>>17575988
It ain't DHI level, but it ain't bad. Certainly sweeter than DHI with a noticeable leather note, but it's not the leather note that's in DHP (more the one that is in 1 Million). The reviews greatly overstate the similarities between DHI and VUI, but noselets get one hit of the iris and then they can only think of one other frag. I prefer DHI, but I got a bottle of that stuff, too. Performance is great.

>>17572015
>>17571840
WHY IS IT BEING DISCONTINUED???
WHYYYYYY

>>17575991
A gay guy I know said it smells better than sex. Sadly, I hate 99% male frags and for me it is a typical designer gas chamber I want to wash off T_T

>why yes, my fav Dior Homme has leather in it

>>17575979
Majority of fragrantica users are fags. Just like you. I can’t imagine a note more gay than lipstick. Like nigga, it’s lipstick. Even roses smell more masculine.

I just sprayed this and my coworker (woman) said it smelled fem. Did I get scammed?

>>17576044
No she’s fucking with you

>>17576049
She was dead serious. They cant keep getting away with this...

>>17576044
>does a fragrance made by a fag make me smell feminine
obviously

What is the real life equivalent?

>>17576027
I don't know. My girlfriend has vanilla & strawberry lipstick. The only thing that smells like iris in this household is me.

>>17576044
The opening is leather the drydown is flowery

It's really feminine, it smells like an old lady's purse.

NÜ THREAD
>>17576064
>>17576064
>>17576064

>>17576059
Your girl friend doesn’t supersede generations of association.

>>17574591
versacetranny seething about big dimes dior getting all the sales

> use Google to obtain max discount code

I mean it's not like you can't spoon feed me on a general, what does this mean?

>>17575706
I was really pleasantly surprised by beaufort, the presentation leaves alot to be desired but the frags are pretty fantastic.

>>17575684
Man I'm still mad they discontinued Dzing, it's impossible to find now.

>>17573577
my mum only wears chanel