/fa/ - Fashion

Fragrance Groups 101 + Beginners Flowchart

best frags to get my bussy ate?

>>17705878
>why is bois imperial a meme frag
At least where I live it's constantly discussed/being split on every single fragrance group I'm in, and it's a bestseller in like 3/5 main niche fragrance shops in the country. I have smelled it in the wild couple of times as well. /frag/ has really outdone itself with finding out about it when it was still flying under the radar.

>>17705868
Keep them separate

>>17705888
Dior Sauvage
Ion do allat doe

>this is your brain on faggy toxic masculinity

>>17705899
This. Bois Imperial is the best woody niche fragrance on the market. It's a photorealistic depiction of a fresh cut plank of wood.

Bros, Dior Homme 2020 or Dior Homme Sport 2021?
they say (the voices in my head and fragrantica) that smells similar

OP kill yourself.

rent free

>>17705959
I own em both and I wouldn’t say they’re redundant at all, they’re like built the same way from different notes if that makes sense
Sport is super incensey on my skin at least so be prepared for that

>>17705899
I've never smelled it and the comments in groups when somebody posts a good deal for it are very negative. Ganymede does a lot better.

>>17706133
Never smelled it *in the wild

>>17705719
I think with my dick, feel with my penis, and smell with my wiener. I appreciate the life advice bitch ass nigga but stop talking about my genitals on a blue board
>>17705721
Appreciate the suggestions but those seem a bit feminine, maybe ill pick up a bottle of white coco for my stepmom and then dive into that ass like a public pool

>>17706081

It gets a lot of hate, but the Chanel Allure Blanche EDP is so nice for an Italian Shower in the summer.

>>17706090
I’ll try both then. that incensey vibe sounds interesting, I guess its the elemi note

>>17706150
For a shower literally, because otherwise it doesn't smell.

>>17706147
post collection

>>17706156
P sure it’s the frankincense (olibanum)
It’s nuclear and lasts all day btw
2020 has decent longevity but I wish it lasted like sport

>>17706158
I have two more (Invictus and Sauvage) but I only use this one actually

>>17705868
fuck your reddit charts since why is everyone defending these stupid charts

>>17706164
you are right, I just saw in fragrantica that has frankincense. Surely I will like it then.
do you find it versatile?

NCNY

Can anyone recommend something similar?

anyone have a long lasting fragrance that smells like baby powder?

There’s been Israeli spammers on a lot of boards posting soulless garbage merely because they cannot survive in a world that isn’t soulless garbage

Root them out

Trust your feelings

The bad vibes are because of real badness.

VIVE la France
VIVE Canaan
VIVE American boarders


Destroy all invaders
Destroy all subversives

Thrive the soul of beauty
Etc

https://on.soundcloud.com/2UHEfvjhVe8CHyft9

Sieg Europe
Sieg America

>>17706143
brain damaged by porn

>>17706356
fuck off fat ruraltard

Can someone confirm did MFK raise their price? I vaguely remember a 200ml Grand Soir was around US$300 before covid, now it's US$360. I heard somewhere that this price increase is everywhere but Europe?
I just got a hefty bonus and wanted to pull the trigger on Grand Soir but I'm still torn on it

>>17706545
lol your bonus might not be as hefty as you think if $60 gives you pause

>>17706324
Lorenzo Villoresi Teint de Neige, longevity is bombastic

>>17706551
I'm just a thrifty person who hates price increases and likes to save money whenever possible from the retailers, for example, I stopped coming to my regular noodle store because they increased their price last year and I went to their competitor instead.
I withheld buying CAHSEE from local stores for almost a year because I know I'll be getting them 30 bucks cheaper in duty free airport when I travel.
It's not a matter of being able to pull the trigger on grand soir now, it's a matter of not getting the best deal around.

>>17706602
and all this over fucking MFK of all things, what a fucking loser lol holy shit

SOTD: Bergamask
Been blasting fat loads recently. Sign that I should buy Seminalis?

Looking for something similar to Fox in the Flowerbed by Imaginary Authors but with a stronger sillage and higher quality, do you guys have any recommendations? Relatively new to fragrances so any help is appreciated, this is all a bit hard to navigate.

>>17706621
Interesting. It seems to be powdery and musky, similar to Aventus?

>>17705866
The fragrance flowchart for beginners

>>17705866
The fragrance groups 101 chart

>>17706636
lol, it's nothing like Aventus but test it for yourself

my samples package got lost, so i contacted the seller and theyre sending me another one for free. now that original package is back in transit. hell yea bro

>>17706649
I adore the Aventus drydown. Would be neat if the musk would smell similar.

>>17706652
yeah, the Aventus drydown is nice but this is not it
this is a way dirtier and more naturalistic citrus and musk scent

the three fragrances i tried so far from carner. Botafumeiro, Tardes and Cuirs, are all really damn amazing, i will report back once i tested them all but this brand seems fucking legit, and the fragrances are quite cheap.

>>17706642
garbage as always

>>17706176
Because they are decidedly not reddit and it's absolutely pointless to get upset about them. People without autism just ignore them (or even hide the post).

>>17706723
stop arguing with the mental case, just ignore him

>>17706636
It's not. Test on skin at the store.

>>17706730
there are no stores in the third world shithole that his mulatto ass lives in.

>>17706675
It is. But performance is not good.
I tried all their perfumes at their store and bought Tardes.

>>17706758
lol this nigga bought tards

>>17706736
>world shithole that his mulatto ass lives in
I'm in the middle of europe, you? Always the third worlders who behave like the common proletariat.

>>17705866
What’s the scent that those hairy middle easterners always wear
it’s loud, chocolatey, real musky,
trying to find the frag of my first crush (high school teacher)

>>17706792
Pardon by nasomatto

>>17706758
Tardes is amazing and from the notes I thought I would hate it, because I don't like vanilla+ almond combo , but somehow it's not overtly sweet or gourmandish, pretty balanced

>>17706765
you and your kind are the reason europe is a third world shithole now

>sprayed too much of one of my favourites and apparently I'm getting an allergic reaction from it now: throat tightens
fuck

Does anyone else want to poop after they spray fragrances on themselves?

>>17706792
idk maybe try choco musk my al rehab. i have a weird arab frag that is kind of unbranded that fits the bill, got it from some store in the UK

>>17706796
>>17706828
thanks for the recommendations
from what I remember, the scent is like a slightly weaker muscs koublai khan
are there any cheaper frags that a man can spray liberally? he wasn’t one to be into fragrances

I’m the guy who posted the question above about fox in the flowerbed. I really enjoyed that fragrance but I’m looking to expand my horizons while still keeping in line with what I enjoy. So I’ve done a bit of looking at the flow charts, do you guys think that this will be a good small collection for me to try out new things without going in a completely different direction than what I’m used to?

>>17706841
the flowcharts are a retarded scam, but there is exactly 1 (one) good perfume in your image. can you guess which one it is?

>>17706859
Caron? It’s the one I look forward to the most. Beau de Jour is easily accessible and YLS 41 is just to explore white florals more.

>>17706868
clever boy. screw accessibility, tom ford and pretentious hipster shit like le labo is not worth your time. you’d have better luck with classic feminines if you’re dying to explore the realm of white florals.

SOTD- This is a banging combo. The M01 + Mandarin really compliments Le eau d'Issey. It's like the quintessential citrus summer frag. Seems to be going strong over the last 2 hours. We'll see how well it performs over the day.

>>17706877
banger slap bop fire no cap fr fr bruh W rizz

Any fragrance that would match this fit ?

>>17706884
Something with watermelon.

frag reccs similar to bogart furyo or any castoreum civet smoky scent

>>17706884
>high rise chinos
>untucked shirt
lmfao

>>17706884
I have only ever seen third worlders and socially awkward people dress like that
polos stretched flat, sausage-casing chinos
what gives

>>17706884
actual sane take

tuck your polo in, and then go to dyptique and buy tam dao. that outfit looks like it smells like powdery wood chippings, in a good way

>>17706868
caron smells like a grandpa to me and the lavender/vanilla combo makes me sick

i don't know, maybe i am just not old enough for it

>>17706900
>>17706906
lol if this is the same anon, shilling for dipdick and shitting on caron in adjacent breaths

>>17706906
That’s actually why I love fox in the flowerbed, very reminiscent of childhood smells growing up with my great grandparents, this just boosts my confidence in it

>>17706907
based on anon's outfit, dipdick seems quite fitting

what would you recommend? some autistic simone andreoli frag?

also, yes, samefag. i am absolutely not shitting on caron, i think it's a very respectable house but it's just the lavender/vanilla combo that makes me sick in Pour Un Homme. to my nose, it is a very, very mature scent. never said it's a bad scent

>>17706910
in that case, go for it
i could see how it can bring back those memories

my grandpa used to smoke pipe tobacco so i have a frag that smells like damp tobacco leaves just because of that. other people would probably hate it

>>17706911
imagine shilling for the fragrance equivalent of vegan faggotry while being unable to handle one of the most basic fougeres still in modern production.

>>17706884
Ralph's Club Parfum by Ralph Lauren, unironically.

>>17706841
please buy samples first. in fact dont buy bdj but instead davidoff zino. never touch le labo. pour un homme is superb.
fox in the flowerbed seema to be dominant on jasmine, go to parfumo or basenotes and looks for frags with that note in them and sample what looks nice.

>>17706915
i do not give a flying fuck about dipdick, anon's outfit literally is as bland as oatmeal

at this point I think you're just a massive faggot who likes the scent because it came out in 1934,

>>17706918
dipdick isn’t as bland as oatmeal, it’s repulsive in a specific way that screams malnourished vegan hipster faggot. i’d sooner recommend sauvage or even some shitty ralph lauren scent like the guy above suggested (which are legitimately blander than oatmeal) than some niche hipster shit.
i like pour un homme because it’s the greatest lavender scent ever made, fougere or otherwise. don’t need any further justification than that.

>>17706884
how big is your dick? don't lie

I'm tired of pretending that Zino is somehow a good substitute for Beau de Jour, or the other way around. The slightly sweetened rosemary note in BdJ catapults it into the modern times, while Zino stays straight in the 80s, with smoking indoors, wooden walls and proper misogyny. The main issue with BdJ is the price, but it is definitely made for another era.

SOTD Versace The Dreamer
Got a full day of work planned then gonna hop in the pool cause it’s 89 degrees out in Cali

>>17706921
lol show me where dipdick touched you
why do you care so much about the brand? i just like the scent of tam dao but would never buy into the brand

pour un homme's lavender is great, the vanilla is what ruins it for me

>>17706927
you’re right, zino isn’t just a substitute for BdJ, it’s outright better.
>>17706935
i like shitting on insufferable pseudo-niche brands that pride themselves on supposed claims of artistry and a minimal, hip brand image while also being readily available in most upscale malls. dipdick is just one of many. tam dao is garbage btw.
if the vanilla in pour un homme is somehow enough to turn you away, pray you never smell jicky, or worse, shalimar. they might kill you, not that it would be a particularly tragic outcome.

>>17706940
i don't understand your obsession with shitting over dipdick. i would ask what you think about le labo but i dont want you to die of a heart attack. FYI i fucking hate both brands but dyptique has nice illustrations. Le Labo is insufferable and I hate every rich faggot that wears it, I especially hate their LARP stores

tam dao still smells nice

it's the combination of vanilla and lavender in PuH. i love both jicky and shalimar

>>17706927
Fundamentally incomplete.

>>17706878
Banging is 90's era slang zoomie. Just because your favorite tik-tok star used it doesn't mean it zoomiespeak.

>>17706950
sheeeeeeeeesh huge cap

>31 celcius outside

Yep, it's Rien time.

>>17706945
le labo, dipdick, byredo, same shit, different name. who cares? they all suck ass.
>tam dao still smells nice
as a base like persicol or as a room fragrance? sure. as perfume? roflmao, scented deodorant has more depth.
>it’s the combination of vanilla and lavender in PuH
it’s one of the greatest executions of lavender and vanilla (not just coumarin but real, actual vanilla) in a lavender forward fragrance. the blending is absolutely masterful and possibly the only surviving remnant of ernest daltroff’s genius after caron butchered tabac blond and the like. must suck not being able to appreciate one of the greatest masterworks of classical perfumery.

>>17706953
unironically i think tam dao is a great scent but yes, it might feel more fitting as a room fragrance

must suck not being able to comprehend that perfumes are extremely personal and you can change someone's mind but not someone's nose.
i will give this a try when i am older and maybe i'll appreciate it, until then PuH will remain the ultimate grandpa scent to me

Just got my sample collection of IA frags and figured I'd go through them as I wear them and give y'all my impressions since it seems like some of these get no love.
Firstly, we have Sundrunk, a pleasant summer scent which goes hard on the citrus. It's like an orange sherbet which melts away into a soft floral arrangement. Couldn't tell you what kind of flower, but the website says honeysuckle and rhubarb and I'm inclined to believe them. It's a bit sweet for me but not excessively feminine or cloying. I've had this on about 4 hours today, 3 sprays, and I'm still getting decent performance. Coworker said I smell like an orange grove, which I suppose is appropriate since I live in FL.
Overall pretty good, something I'd wear to the office again or during a day trip, not really appropriate for dates or a night on the town though. I recommend it if you like citrus.

>>17706956
how can it be a great scent if it’s so shallow that even pure iso e super has a more legible form? that’s like saying a 30 second ringtone is a great song, or worse, a great symphony. enjoying it for what it is is one thing, but proclaiming it to be greater than it actually manages to be is just rubbish.
>perfumes are extremely personal
preference is personal, greatness is objective. pour un homme is objectively a work of genius, the likes of which is scarcely seen today, if ever. you’re free to dislike it, but denying it as anything short of a masterwork over personal preference is frivolous.

>>17706964
a 30 second ringtone can be a nice tune, did you ever think of that? not everything has to be appreciated to the extreme

if no one could perceive the alleged greatness of caron's PuH due to their personal preferences, then would it still be great? I am just asking you to be a bit more rational on this mongolian forum

also, I agree that it is one of the greatest perfumes ever made, just definitely not for me to wear

is this shit ok in really hot temperatures?

>>17706969
a nice tune, yes. but the olfactory equivalent of a simple melody is a perfumery base. bases are not real perfumes, like how one melody is not a whole song. so tam dao literally speaking does not have enough substance to be a great fragrance, it can be a pleasant scent and in the hands of someone far more competent could be used as part of a legitimate great fragrance, but nothing more.
>if no one could perceive the alleged greatness of caron's PuH due to their personal preferences, then would it still be great
you may as well be arguing that beethoven’s 5th sucks because you don’t like the sound of trombones. you’re really just wasting your own time and no one else’s.

Thoughts on Gris Charnel?

Moving to Texas in September, recommend me a Fall/Winter fragrance for a place where it’s still 60 degrees in winter

SOTD (Song of the day) Nokia Espionage 10 hours

>>17706971
CdG 2? Absolutely. Or do you mean CdG 2 Man, the smoky-woody one? The answer would still be yes, but I'm just making sure you don't confuse the two.

>>17706991
Lalique Equus

whose clone is this?

Best unisex/masculine iris frags aside from the DH line and The Dreamer?
Something classy and expensive smelling

For the first couple days this smelled amazing, I would occasionally just spray on my skin while at home to experience it in my room. After a couple of days, I can no longer smell it even after immediately spraying it… did I break my nose or something?

>>17707009
Creed Aventus

>>17707017
really, that's how aventus smells? damn

>>17707009
Aventus for poor arabs.
>>17707016
Aventus for middle income arabs.
>>17707020
Not really but it's the closest poor arabs can get.

>>17707014
honestly, Shalimar is the best one and it's unisex enough

>>17707024
shalimar? iris? did you mean apres l’ondee or something?

>>17706957
City on fire is the best. Not sure if it's FL weather passable though. Slow explosions is also decent, although to be honest there's many more better leatehr frags. And reminder that you're supporting the downfall of western civilization by purchasing IA.

My order from Secretdumarais arrived.

Quite excited to try vetiver extraordinare

>>17706927
you make zino sound even better

>>17707074
Let me know which one is the most gothrock.

>>17707074
I have to give a point to xerjoff for their packaging

>>17707074
>>17707082
lol jerkoff

>>17707054
I did a tester spray of city on fire since it's the most hyped on here by far, and first impressions were very good. I'm also interested to see how it goes in the FL summer though since we've been seeing pretty regular 95F days and it was a very heavy scent. Western civ looks fucked anyway no matter what I do, may as well be a liberal and smell nice at least. Don't worry too much about the politics of corporations or you'll always end up disappointed eventually.

imaginary authors desperately want to be in league with le labo and diptyque, and quite frankly i wish them all the best in their goal so i have reason to shit on them even harder for how phoned in their image is. oh yeah, and their fragrances suck ass too.

>>17707074
By the way, after seven orders, they stopped giving me free samples of any kind. Kind of rude.

>>17707105
they know they’ve already fleeced you for all your worth, little need to continue leading you on.

>>17707109
They already know I'm addicted at this point, now it's only time until they start packing my orders poorly or they give me used bottles

>>17707131
personally if i were them i’d just send you packages with filled rocks and ghost you. it’s what you deserve.

>>17707140
As if that would stop me from ordering

>>17707014

>>17707149
well hey, not all of us can be winners. some of us have to be suckers too, and who better than you?

>>17706798
>you and your kind are the reason europe is a third world shithole now
Wrong, i'm whiter than the whitest central european. Movements like Q, underground right wing/left wing extremist cells, alternative media are the reason why my country slowly change from good to worse.
Slowly more and more europeans change from mostly intellects to retards who believe everything from alternative media and automatically disbelieve mainstream media. Literally people without common sense.
You can see it on the streets how people drive tjey cars nowadays in central europe. Ignoring rules, driving like retards(lacking common sense) and more. Sure muslims are included, but wtf underclass whites are able to hold a candle against uneducated muslims.
Probably stop wearing Sauvage or Bleu de Chanel, Aventus is patrician tier.

>>17707160
i didn’t read a single word of this and you’re still a porn addicted mulatto invader.

>>17707153
What did I do to you anon

>>17707166
whoever said you did anything to me?

>>17707171
So you are a jerk randomly to people here?

>>17707173
randomly? not at all.

>>17707163
Implying you can read, absolute genius

>>17707180
if only this was enough to goad me into wasting my time on your drivel. tough luck.

>>17707094
>it's the most hyped on here by far

Literally all me. And the anon that suggested it back when I was asking. God bless him. Out of all the trash people talk about itt, he blessed me with the one good rec. It literally smells like a burnt match. I have no idea how they did it.

>>17707102
>imaginary authors desperately want to be in league with le labo and diptyque

I'm literally not seeing it, but yeah a lot of their fragrances are kind of mid and a bit synthetic. Except for a couple of them and A City on Fire, unless you find me a fragrance that fills in that niche. I've also been wanting to get some Le Labo but it's so overpriced man. 90 bucks for their sample set and a 50ml bottle is almost 200. Is it really that good? Sounds like a meme to me.

>>17707191
>Is it really that good?
i smelled a good chunk of them at a shop, free of charge. it’s not, they’re all incredibly vapid and uninteresting, and most don’t even pass the simple guy robert test of simply smelling good.

>>17707191
The fact that le labo play these silly games where they sell particular perfumes only at particular stores and so on should give you an idea of what the company is about: marketing exclusivity as the product. It's similar somewhat to Tom ford's whole approach, and frankly I don't want to support this model of perfume as a status symbol, especially when the perfume itself is so often derivative or lackluster. Or at the very least not worth the ludicrous price tag that's being asked. Compare this with Estée Lauders approach of making good perfume as an everyday luxury for women to enjoy (as she did with youth dew etc), a far more democratic approach that lets the perfume take centre stage.

There are too many truly excellent true niche perfumers who are doing good and not obscenely priced work, not to mention the league's of great perfumes you can get cheaply because they have fallen out of style, to justify acquiescing to predatory pricing and marketing.

This all goes doubly for creed, trading on its dubious history and playing silly batchcode games, only to make frankly some of the least interesting male perfumes ever commited to the bottle.

>>17707195
I can't tell if you're being ironic or if you're not talking about La Labo.

>>17707209
yeah this makes sense.

>>17707209
perfume as a status symbol is a really silly concept when you realize that perfumes themselves aren’t nearly as transmissible as ideas compared to something visual like a watch on a man’s wrist or a handbag on a woman’s shoulder. you can’t exactly smell aventus through your screen and identify someone wearing it from across a room (unless they comically overspray it, of course) the same way you can spot someone with a birkin or a royal oak. the people who fall for this stupid shit just end up falling back to visual cues anyways and flexing the bottles (or in the case of le labo using generic bottles, the labels) on instagram and looking like idiots. pretty funny stuff if it wasn’t so sad.

>>17707228
i’m talking about le labo. they fucking suck. the ones that are unusual are unusual for the wrong reasons, and the ones that aren’t unusual smell dull or bad all the same.

>>17707235
Damn that sucks. At this rate I'll never find MY house. The one that was made just for me and speaks to my soul the most.

>>17707239
sucks to be you.

>>17706808
>spray kouros
>have allergic reaction
>asshole tightens
>I can attract men but not get bottomed

>>17707231
perfume is also not a good status symbol because it's simply too cheap. it can never match a luxury car or a luxury watch in price. a poorfag can still afford Le Labo or whatever if he's dumb enough to prioritize it over actually important stuff.

>>17707244
It does. High IQ people like me tend to be lonely and have superior tastes they can't share with many others.

That's it, I'm done. I don't need anything else.

>>17707256
there are brands desperately attempting to change this, but for as long as a bottle of cool water is $40 and none of them can offer something that’s even half as iconic or compelling, it’ll never happen.
>>17707258
enjoy your pity party buddy.

>>17707259
you’d think the goal of purchasing perfume would be to buy good ones, but i guess you didn’t think that was necessary.

>>17706950
gen x nostalgia? bussin

>>17707256
>perfume is also not a good status symbol because it's simply too cheap

This reminded me of a conversation I had with one of my fake friends the other day. I hadn't seen him in a while and we were catching up. He's a massive western yurop cock sucker and always likes to suck this muslim guy's dick he's acuqntances with because he has money and owns an apartment in Amsterdam or some shit. He wont stop talking about this dude and how he did this and that and it's so much to the point where I get annoyed so I go ok but at the end of the day he's still a raghead. He got mad and his counter argument was that he owns some fragrance that cost 2k and I don't. And I'm like uhh ok? Why would I ever buy a literal fragrance that's 2k? Literally for what? I could buy it if I wanted to, but why? I could buy like 10 different fragrances for that much. Like it's supposed to be a status symbol, but literally nobody would be able to tell it's a 2k fragrance unless he were to tell them, and at that point he'd appear like a bragging sack of shit either way,

>>17707087
jerxoff

>>17707265
I thought the point was to buy the ones that I like.

>>17707272
why would you even bother entertaining a retard of that calibre, you know he gets off on having an outlet to yap on and on to.

>>17707279
well, i guess in order for good taste to exist, someone’s gotta have absolute dogshit for preference. thanks for stepping up to the plate bro.

>>17707258
>High IQ people like me tend
Bad excuse to not train your social skills. You're not special. Go to a crowded place and talk with some people, you insufferable BdC enjoyer.

>>17707280
Well I don't wanna be an asshole and just leave him hanging when he wants to go out I guess. When he starts talking about stupid shit I have to tell him to shut the fuck up though.

>>17707283
No I will not do that and I would never get normalfag shit like bdc. If someone were to gift it to me I'd just re-gift it to someone else. Just like how I did with the Joop my aunt got me. Literal trash.

>>17707288
refusing to entertain retards isn’t being an asshole, it’s for their own good so that you don’t reinforce their destructive moronic behavior.

>>17707258
You are not the real high IQ poster, don't play.

>>17707301
I literally am him. 147 IQ reporting in.

>>17707014
Please give me some recs

>>17707023
I never understood why people say Aventus smells like Cedrat Boisee Intense, the pineapple note stands in pretty stark contrast to the citrus of Cedrat Boisee Intense. The CBI is also more creamy than Aventus.

>so earthy, green, fresh, it mogs your whole collection

>>17707310
If you are the high IQ poster tell me his greatest posting nemesis and favourite perfume.

>>17707408
>reddit font on the label

Pass.

>>17707414
Gay OP with his early NSFW gay threads with gay reddit charts and my favorite is T&M.

>>17707009
The clone is yours

>>17706940
BdJ >>>> Zino
It’s a fact

>>17706927
>while Zino stays straight in the 80s, with smoking indoors, wooden walls and proper misogyny.
That's exactly the point of Zino, and that's why its better.

>>17706884
Yo yo yo, where’d you get such high rise pants? Tired of this mid-low ride shit

Silver mountain water btw

>>17707463
You forget the part where it just outright smells like synthetic mess out of an Arab kiosk in a mall. You really get what you pay for with this one.

>>17707016
>did I break my nose or something?
Yeah, you went nose blind, just stop spraying for a bit.

>>17707504
>You forget the part where it just outright smells like synthetic mess out of an Arab kiosk in a mall.
nah, you are just american or british, you guys have zero taste in perfumes.

Are they legit?

>>17707528
Yeah

>>17707388
I mean it's very obvious that Pierre Montale tried to clone Aventus using only bathroom cleaner chemicals, and he certainly succeeded.

>>17707520
You're factually wrong on all accounts. Zino is just a poorfag cope. I would not wear it even if someone paid it me to. The harsh, synthetic opening is disgusting.

>>17707082
>packaging
New money as fuck

>>17707259
>Layton Exclusif
Overpriced clone for cryptogays
>Arab Oud Wood clone
You're not even trying
>Creed Aventus
You're 10 years too late for it
>Masculin Pluriel
Good but more money than taste
>The other MFK
Probably shit
>another Arab clone
Do I have to comment?
>Guerlain L'Homme Ideal Cologne
If you were just to have this one, it would at least give you some plausible deniability for not being a total pleb.

>>17706884
You look somewhat athletic and as if you'd have your shit together. Get Essential Parfums Bois Imperial and swarm in white pussy.

unironically, what kinds of fragrance should i wear as a gay bottom that’s attractive to guys but also smells good enough in public to others around me.

>>17707627
Le Male I guess?

>>17707627
Eros or some other passing vanilla "masculine" scent

>>17707627
layer something floral/fruity over a heavy oudy castoreum musc

>>17707645
>>17707646
>>17707659
thank you

>>17707646
>vanilla

If I was gay and a bottom was wearing a vanilla scent I'm not giving him any d. Not even letting him suck me off.

>>17707670
going to be honest as the op for that post i hate vanilla scents, i like citrusy ones though.

>>17707677
Citrus is the next offender. First one above vanilla though are pure leather fragrances like ombre leather. Literal TRASH.

>>17707705
ok so do you have any recs for me then

>>17707768
No I'm not gay so I wouldn't know. I can recommend killing yourself or changing your degenerate ways. Fragrances aren't related to sexuality either. The only rule is to wear what you like and to not care about nobody else.

>>17707829
>americanesque hyper-individualist brain rot

Is there a good reason to not buy all three Encre Noires at the same time?

>>17707829
ok so no actual recommendations then, youre probably a shitskin who smells like curry and old pennies. have a nice night.

Ambre nuit vs xerjoff 40 knots?

>>17707454
if you’re retarded, maybe

>>17707670
>>17707705
sometimes, gothrock homosexual, you make it too easy for me to call you a fag

>>17707866
lol jerkoff

>>17707859
perhaps the fact that it would be a violation of basic decency and a total waste of money.

What is a must have summer frag

>>17707968
there are no must have fragrances, they’re all affordable luxuries

>>17707968
don't listen to this nigger>>17707968 look for tropical colognes with notes of coconut

How do I filter the 33y/o normie masculine male aesthetic out of my search of fragrance?

I just got into fragrances but I still find most of the them smell like “that uncle when you were little” perfumey old guy smell, especially the designer ones.
According to their description and reviews, and by trying out some of them myself, brands like Diptqyque, Maison Margiela, Le Labo seems to match my aesthetic more. I apologize if that sounds too entry-level faggy.

Where do I do from here? And if possible I don’t want the very expensive ones from the start

>>17707983
lol, lmao, rofl even
>>17707988
yeah, you sound like the exact kind of zoomer faggot to fall for maison margiela

my most complimented fragrance is THIS that I bought over a decade ago when I was a kid in high school. What gives?

>>17707988
go to the mall and smell some stuff

>>17707988
just get Cumming

>>17707997
who coulda guessed that normalfags have little to no standards and compliments are meaningless?

>>17707988
I also experienced "this smells like grandpa" with some stuff - just keep sniffing, it will change.

I've ended up with Hermes and Penhaligons as my go to masculine but bit different frags right now.

t. 34yo who wore Acqua di Gio for 10 years. I'm horribly ashamed about it now.

>>17708093
>penhaligons
there’s such a thing as overcompensating so hard that you end up in a worse spot than where you originally were

>>17708100
It's been a journey, and I largely enjoy a couple of the masculine leaning ones from portraits. As with wine, I feel my preferences change the more I smell, and that's fine. I likes it - I wears it.

But of course there is. I was a bitter cunt contrarian for a solid decade, or more. Wore suit shirts and ties in high school. Never the popular thing for me, thank you
God, I was such a twat.
>was

>>17708010
sad state of affairs, really. Although I have gotten a few compliments on drakkar noir and quorum, lol.

>have sampled 300-400 fragrances
>still just want to wear bdc when im going out
why is my nose so normie? I enjoy smelling different frags and get the artistry, but I dont really want to wear something interesting

>>17708191
bdc is well made, good in every situation, timeless really. even /frag/ cant hate it

>>17707988
Try wearing some old school feminines like mitsuoko.

>>17708192
Wrong. We don't want it, the fragrance worse doesn't need it, and you would be doing a favour to true perfume art if you didn't buy it. It's a boring eau de daily commute.

I have consistently argued this over months in these threads and you clearly need to lurk more as you are EMBARRASSING yourself with your ignorance.

Anybody try this? In the market for a green frag as a birthday gift

>>17707988
>Diptyque, Maison Margiela, Le Labo
>entry-level faggy
that's pretty advanced level faggotry (especially Maison Margiela)

>TODO:
sniff around in a mall frag store to find out what you (don't) like
order samples from local niche store(s) or from le secret du marais, Ecuación Natural, etc. maybe following the guides at the top of the thread

SOTD hyacinthe and a mechanic. a normie told me it smelled like molecule 01 the other day. not sure if i'll recover
>>17707988
you are the normie. maybe bait. where is the masstige schizo when we need him?
>>17707990
do you really think that MM is the most offensive thing in that list?

>>17707074
All the samples I ordered are shit:

Vetiver extraordinare: like any other vetiver
Reflection 45: what the original reflection used to be but for 500 bucks, no way I'm spending money in this scam
Virgin island water: quality but boring and uninteresting
Oud mfk: I had good memories about this scent but now I cannot stand it, metallic saffron and a faint oud.
Grand soir: best amber I've ever tried but shit performance , bought the sample to test a current batch.
Baccarat rouge extrait: extremely similar to the original , I have to compare them back to back to tell the differences. Masterpiece but we all know that already

>>17707627
How has nobody said Aventus yet? 100% positive reactions from men, guaranteed, and a crowdpleaser as well.

>>17707677
Le Male and Eros are popular with zoomers and might get you your dick sucked by girls (female), but they won't be useful for your task.

>>17707627
gays love Acqua Di Gio Profumo

>>17707968
4711, obviously. The only must-have. A 5 liter jug of Turkish Kolonya will achieve the same thing, or a bottle of Jeanne en Provence Neroli Intense. And even then it's more of a "must have smelled" than a "must have". 4711 is the reference citrus-neroli that has been copied into a million products and should be absolutely something everybody has held their nose to.

>>17707988
Find the nearest Dior store and test the Privee line, obviously.

>>17707997
My most complimented fragrance in high school was Mexx Man, followed by Le Male, which I used less often. After high school, it was Axe Dark Temptation EdT for a while. Turns out it was never about the fragrance, I could have worn whatever as long as it smells nice. That's why I now wear whatever and still get compliments from the same girls.

>>17708249
Grand Soir has now shit performance? Damn. Like with BR540E, I could smell the single spray from under sleeve for hours, but that was a while ago. Why would FK fuck it up?

>>17708275
>Grand Soir has now shit performance? Damn. Like with BR540E, I could smell the single spray from under sleeve for hours, but that was a while ago. Why would FK fuck it up

They raised the price of grand soir a while ago after a huge discount, and now the performance is not what It use to be. I'm not one of those reformulation fags, but I don't want to support these practices, even if sometimes the brand cannot do shit because ifra bans some ingredients. But at that point If they were honest they should either discontinue the fragrance or rename it.

It's a shame because grand soir is extremely beautiful scent, probably the best thing Kurkdjian has ever done, but yeah. In any case I will give it a proper wear and see how it performs

>>17708152
i hope you weren’t the type of faggot to wear a tie without a jacket

>>17708249
lol, lmao, rofl even

>>17708282
>lol, lmao, rofl even
thanks for contributing to the thread

>>17708283
glad i could help

>>17708277
There certainly have been a couple of new IFRA restrictions in June. Guess one of them fucked up Grand Soir. Good job, IFRA.

>>17708275
>Turns out it was never about the fragrance, I could have worn whatever as long as it smells nice. That's why I now wear whatever and still get compliments from the same girls.
yeah, that's pretty much it. compliments are the dumbest meme in the """online fragrance community"""

>>17707968
Drakkar Noir, vintage, or
when your Test levels are this high Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, vintage, in the absolute high heat.

>>17708286
and nothing of value was lost

>>17708302
braindead coomer shilling for mediocre aromatic fougeres he’s never even smelled in the forms he claims to espouse

>>17708308
You say that about Grand Soir, but you will probably soon find out that your favorite fragrance was affected as well and is now fucking DEAD.

>>17708321
my favorite fragrance has died more than once, it’ll come back again because it’s worth preserving unlike MFK.

>>17708278
It was 2008, man. Of course I was. Or I would wear a shitty blazer with worn elbows with a black v-neck t-shirt. Carried a fucking briefcase. And I am 6ft 4, so stuck out like a motherfucker.

What else can we do with out past but cringe. If you cringe, at least you're not there anymore.

>>17708329
>blazer with a V neck
oof, that’s rough alright. you technically had the components to make things sort of work but apparently you never saw it fit to put them together properly.

>>17708329
If I wanted to smell like this guy looked in 2008 what should I wear?

Inb4 body odour and mustard stains

>>17708332
according to him, acqua di gio

>>17708332
>>17708336
Yep, that'll do. I did wash, so wasn't sweat or anything - I "think". I was also a bit of a chunk - went even chunkier in uni. Down 36 kilos from my peak right now.

But key is to be kind of bitter, kind of superior to hide your crippling lack of self-esteem. That will guide you just fine.

>apart from one random occasion no girls got kissed. Weird.

wearing cool water always gives me a little chuckle inside, knowing that i technically smell like every other jackass over 30, but i also smell great because cool water is simply great. sometimes the best answer is the simplest one.

>>17708341
I forgot to add, but adg gives me Nam PTSD at this point, of a life I hated. Smell memories are fun.

>>17708345
>adg gives me Nam PTSD at this point, of a life I hated
Acqua Di Gio is in this weird place where it's been around since the 90s, but hasn't really gone anywhere
I think many people have got to have some weird associations with that DNA at this point. dated "uncle" smell? check. smells like the 90s? check. smells like an ex-bf? check. smells modern and still popular? also check. smells like a period of your life you left behind? check.

>>17708352
there’s also the fact that acqua di gio is good enough to not offend, but not good enough to be a true classic of masculine perfumery, and all the flankers aren’t helping either.

>>17707844
>communist faggot

>>17707861
Nice brojection but you still have aids so ok.

>>17707955
Post collection.

>>17708358
i bet you wish i would

>>17708355
I mean, I'm sure many people consider it a true classic, even people whose opinion I respect
but for me ADG and other similar aquatics will always smell like "generic men's cologne" because of how ubiquitous the DNA was when I was growing up, in the 90s and 2000s
it doesn't help that so many room sprays, toilet sprays and other such products adopted the aquatic scent

NCNY

>>17708360
eau sauvage, azzaro pour homme and cool water have all gone through a similar phase of being the “generic men’s cologne” of the decade, and came out the other side as a part of the established perfumery canon. acqua di gio simply didn’t make the cut compared to the rest. i doubt this outlook will change with the passage of time either.

>>17708361
if it helps you sleep at night, my homosexual acquaintance

dakar broskis i don't feel so fruity...

>>17708367
wonder if we’ll ever hear about the sickening scent of sauvage referenced in film or literature

>>17708367
American psycho?

>>17708372
i wonder...
>>17708376
yes

>>17708367
>the sickening scent of Drakkar Noir mingling with the scent of onions, male sweat, hair wax and Old spice Captain
Literally me.
>>17708309
>mediocre fougere
DN is literally the best fougere ever created. Recent formulation suck, but Dakar literally will grow your patchy beard into a full covered deep beard.

>>17708410
retarded coomer thinks that his shitty arab knockoffs are somehow a substitute for the vintage original, despite never having smelled it

>>17708410
incredible video

>>17708432
incredibly homoerotic, yeah

>>17708425

>>17708435
was i supposed to be impressed? i can buy the exact same bottle for less than $100 from a discounter too buddy.

>>17708435
that looks identical to my current formulation bottle

>>17708352
This is very well put. I also recently realized 4711 smells like something else my granddad wore. So sort of nice, but also gramps.

>>17708473
expecting the mulatto coomer to be able to differentiate between current and vintage is a tall order

What is the best Arabic fragrance ever made?

>>17708495
probably one of the classic amouages, but does it really count if all of them were composed by french perfumers?

I'm looking for a scent reminiscent of walking into an old bookstore or library. I saw "Ink" by Perfumer H online and that seems to fit the bill, but I was wondering if anyone here can give some advice before I pull the trigger on anything, especially since this shit is so expensive.

>>17708495
Interlude.

>>17708501
Try Encre Noire, maybe the inky and humid smell match your expectations. If you want something that smells like an old yellowish book, try Carner Barcelona El Born.

>>17707988
heres a local company that sells fairly genderless scents for not a lot of money. the critters collection has a nice range without any being stereotypically manly or girly.

https://nuicobaltdesigns.com/

>>17708523
local to who, you retarded shill

>>17708523
>Handcrafted Magickal perfume oils, natural wax candles, bath spells, and sundries for the Magickally-minded. Each is carefully charged under optimal astrological conditions.
Okay who here's doing perfume magic, you can come out now

>>17708531
me, obviously.

>>17708495

>>17708533
>Forest Nui Cobalt, founder and Creative Director of NCD, has been a practicing Pagan for 32 years. Her grandmother was an accomplished Astrologer and Tarot reader. Forest currently lives in Columbus, OH with her son, husband, and cats.
aside from the obvious LOL, now we know you live in a shithole

>>17708535
The only thing I'd personally care about is whether or not Pagans believe in the IFRA.

>>17708523
Cultural appropriation!

>t. Actual Balt

>>17708551
who is more retarded, bureaucratic european coddlers or “accomplished tarot readers”? hard to say honestly.

>>17708554
its a fragrance store anon. im not sure what kinds of rhetoric you're expecting.

>>17708561
It's a simple joke about Cobalt/Balt, man. Baltic languages can do like three puns, I'm really trying here.

>>17708564
oh sorry i read that as 'actual bait' lol

Why does Glossier You smell like I can’t breathe

Alright lads my bottle of Bois Imperial showed up and I’m wearing it to work for the first time. How many sprays??

>>17708579
2-3 sprays should be enough

>>17708579
ideally none, but it’s probably too late for that.

>>17708579
usually you should wait a day to let it settle.

>>17708579
1 spray, onto your skin beneath your clothes, wear it like a second skin and keep it close to you.

What does a Bruce Weber model smell like? Polo Blue?

>>17708584
maceration only works AFTER you use the bottle a little and there’s some air let into it
>>17708588
what relation does a guy at a dock have with a banal citrus amber-woody?

>>17708579
50

>>17708589
>maceration only works AFTER you use the bottle a little and there’s some air let into it

orly

>>17708579
two or three should be enough, it's strong

>>17708595
how exactly do you presume the physics of maceration work? it’s not like the bottle is instantly brewed fresh from the factory the second you buy it; the liquid itself has probably been stewing for a while in a temperature controlled container before being bottled, packaged, and transported to who knows what warehouse under who knows what conditions and then shipped globally to yet another warehouse before being transported yet again and stocked at a retailer. that’s weeks, if not months or even years of the just oils sitting around, yet maceration only kicks in AFTER it’s been opened and used over the span of days or sometimes weeks.

>>17708501
Beaufort Couer De Noir smells like ink, and the whole discovery set is worth buying anyways. Immortal Perfumes have some offerings of that nature, but I haven't tried them yet. Alkemia have the Dark Academe set. Haven't tried that either. Could be a meme, could be godlike.

>>17708535
Lmao. This sounds goth but in a bad way.

>>17708581
>>17708587
>>17708596
Thanks lads, going 2 behind the neck and one to the chest

>>17708584
>>17708595
I got a ~90% bottle secondhand so that’s taken care of by now

>>17708599
i would probably wager that a perfume collection named after a fucking tumblr/youtube fashion trend is probably garbage.

>>17708605
High chance, but buying samples is fun.

>>17708601
What % of alcohol does it have? The old batch was 73% and the newer ones are 80%

>>17708599
I'm a sucker for sample sets too, I never have to commit and I get so much variety. Thanks for the recs, I'll pick them up next paycheck.

>>17708605
Sometimes you gotta buy the garbage to know what works. I mean come on, "an olfactory meditation on dust" from this Alkemia set? No way that's enjoyable, but I gotta know what these people were thinking even trying something like that, yknow?

>>17708616
Box says “93% natural”, bottle says mod 1151ex 16%, I don’t see any other percentages

>>17708619
>Sometimes you gotta buy the garbage to know what works.
i’ve never been compelled to eat shit in order to understand why a nice steak tastes good, so probably not.

>>17708616
>>17708624
Nvm, found it. 80%

>>17708625
Yeah but plain shit would be like $5 Walmart perfume, this is pretentious experimental shit. That makes it evocative and artistic, even if it's not enjoyable. Like a Jackson Pollock painting, or vegetable foam at a fancy restaurant.

>>17708631
if you’re young and naive enough to believe that pretentious experimental shit is actually artistic and not just a bunch of fucking idiots with no idea what they’re doing dicking around, i envy you. never lose your innocence by stepping foot into an art school.

>>17708501
Replica whispers in the library comes close imo. The opening is more like vanilla, but the dry down definitely gives me a book/old paper sort of vibe. Unfortunately it doesn't last that long, but I've heard the dupe "Alt. Novel" supposedly performs better at a lower price.

>>17708646
lol, lmao, rofl even

SOTD Bois Imperial, 20 sprays

>>17708650
>replica bad
Ok kevin

>>17708646
Looks like it's discontinued, at least the 30mL is. I've been burned by dupes before so I'm not too interested, but if I catch it on eBay or something I'll pick it up.

>>17708676
replica? bad? not quite, utter dogshit would be the more accurate descriptor.

>>17708681
Not him, bad performance, smells like shit(they forest frag doesn't smell like forest), expensive

>>17708627
Still beast mode fragrance, the other day I wore it to work and could smell it on my hand faintly 24+ hours later .

I cannot imagine how strong was before

>>17708687
Whispers in the library lasts me a whole eight hour shift

>>17708681
Contrarian faggot, enjoy your musty "sigma male" fragrances fucking zoomer retard

>>17708687
all of their labels are total bullshit and hilariously unevocative of whatever they were supposedly inspired by. it’s just a big name designer trying to latch onto a pseudo-niche trend and succeeding because people are total suckers for a good image.

>>17708691
so much rage, and all this for subpar mallshit that you can find at any sephora.

>>17708616
>>17708624
>>17708627
have you tards never heard of checkfresh?

>>17708701
I was just answering the man’s question, anon

nautica voyage

>>17708668
you're mentally ill

>>17708701
Try to find essential parfums on checkfresh and see what happens you fucking smartass

>>17708495
Anything Russian Adam has made

>>17706971
cdg2 is ok any temp any time. masterful fragrance

>>17708719
beyond paradise men but worse

>>17708745
hehe

NEW THREAD
>>17708791
>>17708791
>>17708791

>>17708691
I like normie shit. replicas are all ass

>>17705942
>fresh cut plank of wood
QTs go crazy with this, right? RIGHT?

>>17706884
This one has pungent animalic notes.

>>17706884

>>17708294
guy who mentioned compliments to begin with here
I don't wear anything for compliments but it's nice, I guess. But mainly I just find it interesting to see which things people will compliment.