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The Fragrance Groups 101 chart

>>18054481
Glorioud OP. Drakkar Noir and Amoogus. Do you need more?

DRAKKAR

The Fragance Flowchart for Beginners

>>18054485
yes, you do

>>18054485
I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA
I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA
I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA AAAAAAAAAAAA

SOTD: Ghost in The Shell

>>18054511
based

Got L’Instant de Guerlain EDT today, it’s really growing on me despite the initial experience differing from expectations. The beginning of it is kind of a mess with citrus and anise bitterness, but I like how it develops into tea / patchouli / subtle cocoa later on while having a classical-style French edge yet still feeling modern enough. EDP is apparently the one everyone praises, but got EDT because it shouls be more season-versatile and I already have my share of winter scents.

Also, everyone obviously knows how testing strips don’t tell the whole truth, but holy fuck does thst apply to LIDG. On paper, it never properly develops but instead remains a strange pissy scent that I certaintly wouldn’t use, but thank god it is so very different on skin.

>>18054485
Sauvage Elixir is like Drakkar-N but better

>>18054481
Blessed drakkar noir thread. Christ is king.

>>18054559
stop this faggotry in my Drakkar Noir thread
thanks

>>18054520
I so fucking hate Dior’s naming policy on DH line. I’d rather have Chanel-style flanker of flanker of flanker names than have to try to remember which yearly edition is like what.

>>18054559
Christ is king, preach. Sotd Amongus
>>18054493
Maybe something sweet, powdery, woody, creamy. Maybe something like Bleu Noir Parfum.

>>18054481
is this the reddit of fragrance

I just ordered samples of
Liquides Imaginaires - Sancti
Byredo - 1996
Le labo - Patchuli 24

What am I in for?

Anyone know how to get in touch with The Perfumed Court? I wanted to add another sample to my order

>>18054585
Based Jeremy. Fuck 'em all

SOTD: montblanc presence

>>18054531
>EDP is apparently the one everyone praises, but got EDT because it shouls be more season-versatile and I already have my share of winter scents.

I think people reflextively praise the EdP because they haven't tried both and just assume "EdP = performance". The EdP doesn't actually last much longer than the EdT.
The EdT is also the much more balanced of the two. The EdP turns kind of syrupy after the opening. And the lemon in the opening makes the EdT much brighter.

Alright mf's, which Cool Water version to get. Regular, intense, parfum, street fighter, wave, reborn?

>>18054732
SOTD, Le Male Le Pafum

>>18054760
the og

>>18054760
Intense

>>18054760
This smells like Sauvage, avoid

>>18054776
Okay, thanks

Why is fragrance youtube all
>this is the panty dropper fragrance
>this fragrance will get you the most complements
>women love this fragrance

Do people not wear perfume just because it smells good?

>>18054485
>Mr.Sam
>Bad
>Most of the bottle gone

Sounds more like cope to me

>>18054809
Learn how the internet works boomer retard

>>18054809
Totally agree. Like Idk if anyone remembers Axe/Lynx as a kid but sometimes I just liked smelling nice for myself because it calmed me down and boosted my confidence. If youre wearing cologne solely to attract the opposite sex, theres probably a lot of other things wrong with you.

>>18054809
>>18054816
>Do people not wear perfume just because it smells good?
people do
sex sells, those videos sell, simple
also this >>18054815

>>18054809
All male fashion influencers prey on insecurity to shill their products. Almost nobody is interested in perfume (or clothing, or watches) as an art form.

>>18054809
those vids are the reason I bought sauvage as my first frag when I got started...
Now I just buy shit for the sake of it making me feel good smelling it during the day.
I didnt get pussy before I got into fragrances and smell alone is not going to change that

>>18054776
>Sauvage bad

>>18054826
I'd buy that largely for perfume, and probably clothing as well (for men.), but for watches I feel like there is a decent amount of people who just like watch itself for the intricacies of it as well as the looks.

>>18054809
They're for common men, not aesthetes like us.

>>18054834
80% of males that wear fragrance are wearing sauvage. Nothing wrong with it, and it's popular for a reason, but you are lumping yourself in with the average

>>18054861
thats what happend to me, I still think it smells great (though it sucks i go noseblind to it fairly quickly)
but im not wearing it to work anymore since i know 2 coworkers also wear it. And their both good guys but i dont want to be lumped in with them

>>18054861
that's why i kind of wish it was a thousand dollars a bottle for 6.8fl so these brokies couldn't buy it

>>18054863
>their both good
and your bad at grammer

>>18054873
well I bought sauvage because of a yt shill, youre expecting too much from me

>>18054809
She's a cool chick with great boobs, a hot accent and great taste. What's not to love?

>>18054885
Today's purchases. I'm thinking Stronger With You on special occasions and Continuum for everyday. That tobacco woody smell with Contibuum reminds me of a fresh morning camping trip with a slight tinge of bug spray...but in a good way. Very nostalgic.

>>18054818
Sex does sell, but sometimes you just wanna feel sexy and not have to fuck.

i hate the fragrance community and everyone who made a double stripe bottle of kouros cost $500 on ebay

>>18054900
should've just been born in th 60's so you would've been able to buy many bottles of all the old frags

>>18054904
if i was born in the 60s i wouldnt be buying perfume id be buying fucking houses

>>18054905
houses full of kouros bottles
Imagine the smell

>>18054892
Wtf is this?

>>18054930
nondescript mall garbage

>>18054760
I'm getting my cool water from aliexpress lol, I also got bleu, aqua di gio and sauvage too they smell good so I have high hopes for cw

>>18054962
I hope this is bait

>>18054955
>nondescript
Let me guess, you enjoy IPAs?
>mall garbage
High end malls curate what they think will draw patrons with big wallets. If you want Sauvage or Hugo Boss like every other mouth breathing retard they sell that too. But knocking lesser known brands only outs you as a trend follower.

>>18054970
nta but this is some heavy copium

>>18054970
embarrassing stuff

So I recently got back into fragrances and so far have picked up Le Male Le Parfum, Le Male Le Beau, and Bleu De Chanel EDP. I like them all and they are different enough to let me feel like I have good options. Anyone have some recommendations for another scent to look at? Ideally I would like it to smell noticeably different than the 3 I currently have. Maybe there is a leathery tobacco scent?

>>18054988
nigga you’re gay as fuck

>>18054988
maybe you should get some taste

>>18054993
>>18054995
Jeremy Fragrance likes them all. Plus they are Fraunch so they are classy.

>>18055006
>>18054585

>>18055006
>>18055014
unbelievably humiliating

>>18054661
I finished my sample of Sancti yesterday. Citruses and incense really go well together.
I want to get a full botlle but is church really the only thing normal people think about when they smell incense ? My family was not religious so I never went to a mass or whatever

ITS FUCKING HAPPENING

I FINALLY GOT THIS THING. BEST ARAB PERFUME IN A WHILE

kys

>>18055059
I think incense/smoke notes have become a bit of a generic staple of a lot of modern deodorants so if it's not done well or it doesn't pair with some some additional spices most people will just associate it with the "warm" element of a masculine cologne.

>>18054988
first thing I think of for "leathery tobacco" is Guerlain Cuir Intense. you'll probably like it if you enjoy other modern very leather heavy fragrances like Tuscan Leather
for more mainstream smelling stuff that still has some leather and tobacco among other notes, try Chopard Oud Malaki or Burberry London

Wtf? Finally a trailer of Alien Romulus released, waited for an new Alien movie for ages. What is Eidley thinking?
https://youtu.be/GTNMt84KT0k?si=a0oJiYk9AbSthsh4

Wtf? Finally a trailer of Alien Romulus released, waited for an new Alien movie for ages. What is this asshole Ridley thinking?
https://youtu.be/GTNMt84KT0k?si=a0oJiYk9AbSthsh4

Smells like an old man. The Drakkar Noir boomer will definitely like it. For me its not good

>>18055142
>What is Eidley thinking?
>>18055150
>What is this asshole Ridley thinking?

what did he mean by this?
also, fragrance?

>*a butthurt geeky dutch accent appears*
kill yourself, end your miserable nolifer existence

Okay, so here's all the steps you should take if you're new to Fragcom and are considering Aventus
>Buy CDNI
>Buy Cedrat Boise
>Buy Montblanc Explorer
>Buy Pineapple Vintage
>Buy another bottle of CDNI because you didn't like it the first time but realized there are different kinds
>Buy a lipstick atomizer filled with Aventus from Fragrancenet
>Spray Aventus and its clones on different spots on your arm and smell them all to see if they're close enough
>Realize you don't really like Aventus that much
>Buy other niche fragrances that are more interesting
>Have a nagging feeling in the back of your mind every six months that you're missing out because you still don't have Aventus
>Go to fragrencenet and put a tester bottle in your cart
>Proceed to check out
>Realize that even at the discounted price it's still a lot of money to be spending on a fragrance that you have 72 clones of
>Spray all the clones on again and obsessively compare them all to your lipstick atomizer to see if they're close enough
>You don't really know. They kind of all smell different
>Say fuck it and buy another Creed instead
>Repeat this process once every six months until you own all the Creeds except Aventus
>Start stressing out because you can't feel complete until you own Aventus
>Say fuck it and buy Aventus
>Be disappointed because, unlike your lipstick atomizer which evidently came from some special snowflake batch, the full bottle you bought smells just like the clones
>Wonder if you got a fake
>Start researching Aventus batches
>Nagging feeling that even though you finally bought Aventus, you still don't own the REAL Aventus because you got a shitty batch
>Continue this cycle for the rest of your life. You are in Hell and you need to accept it

>>18055142
>>18055150
I saw that.

>>18055164
Has Creed changed since they sold the company? I haven't been following fragcom for a while

>>18055100
Box: looks dumb as fuck
Cap: Cheap plasticy piece of shit
Bottle: okay but why did they etch the volume on the site where you can see it
Frag: Very nice

Arabs invented architecture and interior design yet can't make a bottle look good to save their life. The juice inside is good tho but falls into the same issue as every other clone: the opening smells rough and chemical-y.

>>18055177
not really, just price increases and worse batch consistency. they've always been a lying company with fake history and a fake perfumer

>>18055180
>worse batch consistency.
That's surprising to be honest. I thought for sure the buyout would at least solve the batch consistency issue. Everyone was convinced the new owners would come in and start streamlining everything and using cheaper ingredients. I expected the overall quality to go down but the consistency to go up.

And I still would love to know why the fuck Aventus is so inconsistent to begin with. It makes no sense. None of the clones have that problem, and neither do the other Creeds for the most part. CDNI has the silver cap and black cap thing, but those are made in two different countries and are likely slightly different formulations based on the needs of the individual markets. They're different when compared to each other, but they're consistent in and of themselves. And I've seen people complain about a little bit about performance decreasing over time with other Creeds, but people say that about everything. You never really hear people talking about different batches of Silver Mountain Water smelling like an altogether different fragrance. And you'd think that Aventus is the brand's most popular fragrance by leaps and bounds, they would have figured out a way to keep it consistent. It's all very weird.

>>18055191
I feel like Olivier Creed is probably some kind of schizo. The jig is up, everybody knows the brand history is a lie and that he used other perfumers to come up with pretty much everything. If you're already lying, why not just drop the pretense of the whole "muh secret maceration method is why Aventus smells different every time" and just start using the same ingredients as the clones while still telling everyone it's magical whale jizz and 50 tons of the finest pineapples in Hawaii?

If you're gonna lie then go all out. But he doesn't do that. Instead he does something much more stupid and pointless and I bet it's because he's a crazy person.

>>18055195
It irks me how shitty Creed is as a company, because I genuinely love Green Irish Tweed and Aventus (yeah, yeah, it has been overused and cloned to hell and back, it’s still great), but all those straight up lies, bad consistency especially considering the schizo pricing etc. make it so that it feels bad to give any money to them.

And yeah, I know that big luxury brands aren’t exactly ethical companies either, but at least they just peddle images of luxury in their ads instead of straight up lying.

Thoughts?

I`m thinking to buy my first perfume (not too expensive) and this was first thing i found on amazon

>>18055211
go into a dept store and test frags

>>18055211
buy legend spirit or versace dylan blue instead. i can't stand this one

Yeah, I am thinking pic related is very based. One of the recent decants I've bought that I really enjoy. Very good

>>18055211
The edt is sweeter, youthful. Edp more mature and leathery. Both are versatile and not really pure summer or winter perfumes.

Do whatever you want.

>>18054988
Everything you have is designer and if you’d like to keep it that way but want something different, try Fahrenheit. If you’re open to dipping your toe into the niche pool, try Iron Duke.

>>18055211
Look at the two guide pictures in the top couple posts.
Read the descriptions and pick out a few things you think you might enjoy, probably try and stick to brands you’ve heard before as they’re (much) easier to find for a newbie.
Go to your local mall/big fragrance chain and sniff stuff for free.
THEN consider buying stuff.

>>18055215
The edp is much better. It's what the edt should have been.

>>18055215
>>18055219
*correction: both of them are very based

>>18055219
>oakmoss
no thanks

The anon who wrote about Sauvage Elixir radiating comically far from a testing strip here, can confirm that it’s just as silly on skin. One feeble spray from a tester atomizer and it smells like I’m doused in perfume. It’s an interesting modernization of older darker fougeres, much more interesting than other Sauvages in the lineup, but realistically, I can’t see myself using this but in extremely rare cases and probably even the sample will last for a year.

A 100ml bottle of this seems like a father-to-son kind of purchase, mercy to those who blind buy this.

>>18055215
>>18055219

So a few decants I've bought - H24 EDT, PR 1 Million Parfum, Moschino Boy Toy, Hermes Terre D'Hermes, Luna Rossa Ocean EDT, Naxos

The rating goes as H24 > Naxos > Ocean EDT > 1 Million Parfum > Terre D'Hermes = Toy Boy

>>18055223
the gayest, most retarded post i've seen here this year
shame on you

>>18055226
yes, Sausage Elixir is good

>>18055229
yes and that is a good thing

>>18055230
>H24 best
based
>TDH worst along with Toy Boy
cringe

>SOTD: Tauer Golestan
i might have to get a full bottle of this

I've liked Spicebomb for a while but finally out, looking for something similar but different for winter this year, open to any recs.

>SOTD Fougere L'Aube
The sandalwood makes this smell so buttery/creamy. Not as fresh as GIT.

>>18055164
Or just transcend the rabble, and realise, as the High IQ poster has said time and time again, that Creed makes very crude perfumery and buy a bottle of some real perfume like Aromatics Elixir (PBUH)

>>18055245
Spicebomb is such an Eau de Rien. Get something like Boucheron Jaipur with some balls instead.

>>18055153
What smells like young man in your opinion?

>>18055259
Not him, something without depth. Everything with that Ambroxan bubblegum combination, Invictus, BdC etc.

>>18054760
intense

>>18055277
Don't do drugs, kids.

>>18055277
he looks like he's having fun

>>18055262
>>18055259
>>18055153
both of you have awful taste. tdh sucks donkey ass.

>>18054487
Where's Aramis? :)

>>18055215
yeah I liked both the edp and edt, waiting for my herbes vives sample. But im picking one of them up for the summer for sure

I kinda like tres nuit a tiny bit more than cool water. sucks that the bottle is fucking retarded

>>18055358
Get Jacomo Deep Blue instead

>>18055358
It’s kind of annoying how close but no cigar -tier TN is when compared to Green Irish Tweed. Obviously there’s no doubt that TN is better value, but man I still miss that last 20% of GIT that is missing there.

Still better than Cool Water and the best price-quality ratio in its genre for sure.

>>18055373
For me Fougere L'Aube was high up there quality wise

Looking to buy my gf a perfume for her bday. When I asked her what scents she likes, she said strawberries, sweets (candy), floral scents and fresh scents.

I want to get her a bunch of samples so she can pick from there, any ideas based on these notes?

>>18054481
>Guerlain L'homme Ideal EDP
Whoever recommended me this over Tom Ford Lost Cherry.

These two are absolutely incomparable, Guerlain smells like fucking coca cola the fuck

Is sweating with perfume on good for you?

>>18055403
I tried it recently and I'm not very impressed either. Same with eros parfum, it's amazing how boring scents can be to me.

>>18055398
try Cartier La Panthere. really good fragrance IMO

>>18055398
Diptyque and MFK.

>>18055410
probably not, but using a deodorant that blocks sweat coming out is even worse

>>18055415
This looks like it could be perfect, struggling to find a site that sells a sample of it though.

>>18055428
Why though??

>>18055431
not only is sweating good for regulating bodytemperature it also helps dumping waste products your body has. preventing them from getting out is not good for you. Also constantly blocking the pores from your skin is also going to give you skin problems.
perfume probably does some of these thing too, but to a lesser extent and a smaller surface area than deodorant

>>18055249
The sandalwood disappears when it dries down and then it becomes very floral.

>>18055234
This Anon has good taste.

How would you describe Golestan?

>18055299
>I have bad taste, the post.

Should I buy Eau Sauvage for S/S?

I have to smell this

>>18055454
>How would you describe Golestan?
big, not too feminine white floral with great performance, the base is similar to some other Tauer frags

>>18055457
Do you like it? Does weak performance not bother you? Then yes. I find you can often get testers for as low as 50$, so not bad.
If you want something a bit similar but stronger and with rose, try Cerruti 1881

>>18055457
>>18055462
Nicolai Riviera Verbena is also a good alternative

I blind bought Lalique and SL La Religieuse, old man and old lady.

>>18055465
Nice. Lalique PH is one of the classiest grandpas around

>>18055464
I've been meaning to sample that one and NYI. What other Nicolais should I try? What are the essential Nicolai fragrances?

>>18055100
It's superb. My body count is 3 since I bought it as a date frag.

>>18055457
modern eau sauvage is completely unrecognizable from the original

>>18055483
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucaturin/p/nicolai

>>18055483
>essential
no such thing

>>18055503
Never smelled the original. What's better then?

>>18055483
>>18055464
If we’re talking about Nicolai, any experiences with Cuir Cuba Intense? Sounds like it would be right up to my alley, being tobacco scent *without* troves of vanilla.

>>18055534
what’s better than the original eau sauvage? probably nothing. what’s better than the current one? the original, of course.

>>18055483
my favorites (from best to 'least good'):
>Cuir Cuba Intense
>New York Intense (also New York)
>Amber Oud
>Iris Medicis Intense
>Odalisque
>Rose Oud
>Riviera Verbena
>Caravanserail Intense
>Patchouli Intense (or Incense Oud, they are very similar)
>Bois Belize Intense
>L'Eau Mixte

the essentials imo are NYI, Patchouli Intense, Odalisque and maybe Riviera Verbena
test as many as you can tho, they are all high quality frags

>>18055543
i love it (see above), probably 100ml bottle worthy (i have a small bottle atm) it's kinda sweet spicy but def not from vanilla

>>18055195
it's like pro wrestling, nobody with a brain thinks any of the fragrance shit is true, but it's part of the fun and criticizing the realism misses the point

>>18054930
It’s his today’s purchases. Are you stupid?

>>18055128
thanks for the input. The stores near me didn't have what you listed available in store for me to try out ahead of time , so I blind bought the Burberry London since that was fairly inexpensive. If it smells good great, if not I only wasted $40 bucks.

>>18055586
bottled chav spit

>>18055593
It's ok I'm American. All British come of at least somewhat sophisticated here.

>>18055551
>Cuir Cuba Intense
Is this a proper leather fragrance as the name suggests?

>>18055598
No, it's unironically extremely fucking shit. I bought it and sold it, hated it. Weird as fuck opening and meh drydown

>>18055600
>t. noselet

>>18055598
it's a sweet spicy tobacco (like a cigar) frag

>>18055595
do amerimutts actually

Thoughts on Dior Homme Cologne?

I got a bunch of Louis Vuitton decants, My takeaway is that LV does the summer/spring freshies really well. I wasn't really a fan of Imagination and Orange. I did love on the beach and pacific chill. I'm considering getting a full bottle of either

>>18055603
well somewhat true. The whole, "You wot mate?!" type don't and it is my understanding that is what chavs are like. However basically any British person will come off as about 10 IQ higher to an American than they really are. This may not apply to the Scottish.

>Fahrenheit
Why does this smell so good, bros?

>>18055621
Nice and fresh bergamot scent that doesn't last.

Yves saint Laurent has the worst perfume names, man.

>>18055627
really embarrassing

>>18055600
what are some good leather fragrances?

>>18055637
It's ok. We make up for it by being overly friendly, trusting, and loud.

>>18055638
not him but there aren't any. worst note in perfumery. if you want to smell like leather, wear a leather jacket.

>>18055641
ok, how about some that have leather as a moderate or lesser note, with say tobacco as a more prominent note, maybe something a little sweet thrown in like cherry or rose.

>>18055638
Not him, but Fahrenheit is the only leather fragrance I like.

>>18055640
totally retarded

>>18055636
what you dont like Yves Saint Lauren ysl Y EDP esl

>>18055645
being retarded doesn't preclude being friendly, trusting, or loud. Checkmate.

>>18055644
how bout some tobacco fragrances? I feel like tobacco might blend better with some sweet notes, which I tend to like at least a small amount of in scents.

>>18055657
really moronic

Can anyone let me know about the performance of NYI? 75 euro for 30ml is out of my usual fragrance budget but if it's a "two sprays and you're good for the day" type of deal then I can see the price being reasonable.

>>18055673
it's a very good performer

>>18055673
honestly, performance is rather poor

>>18055673
performance is solid, but it's not some beastmode scent. average to above average I'd say
if you want a cheaper alternative, there's always Lalique Pour Homme, a lovely scent in itself

>>18055593
Looks like the number 3 fragrance Youtuber likes Burberry London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXO7vQS1V8
Heh, nothing personnel kid.

>>18055690
Thanks, I already have LpH and really like it. Perhaps NYI is redundant, especially if the performance isn't very high.

>>18055707
test it for yourself
your mileage may vary but one spray of NYI usually lasts a whole day on my skin
also imo it's way more complex than LPH

>>18055602
>>t. noselet

Usual response of someone that got into Nicolai as a babies first niche fragrance house and think is the best thing ever.

Nicolai only has two good fragrances. Riviera verbena and nyi, the rest screeches

>>18055738
What are good fragrances?

>>18055738
>t. yes, i am a noselet, how did you know?
also post collection, i'm curious

>>18055586
Burberry London has a nice spicy tobacco scent for its price, but the performance is super bad.

>>18055698
really not the compliment you think it is

>>18055738
sadly misinformed post

>>18055738
Great, now you've triggered the dutch schizo

>>18055749
I'm not expecting much if I was able to get a 100 mL bottle for just over $40. I just wanted a different scent profile from the ones I had. I want to avoid spending $300 for 50 mL of a Tom Ford fragrance.

Why is Drakkar Noir the best scent ever created?
https://youtu.be/vuYBOIUzFV4?si=J3H13XEb6NPOY_QD

>>18055773
>i want to avoid spending $300 for 50ml of bad perfume, so i bought $40 for 100ml of an unrelated bad perfume instead
huh?

>>18055673
it lasts forever, at least on my skin

>>18055744
Invasion barbare, krissana, kouros, Dior homme intense, azzaro pour homme, derviche, mem, bel ami vetiver...

Off the top of my head, all of of those are way better than anything that Nicolai released

>>18055746
Posted it a few times here already, if you post yours I'll post mine


>>18055752
If she didn't have ties to guerlain family she would have never been successful. She is living because of new York and Luca tuein

>>18055782
bel ami vetiver smells like oyster sauce roflmao, way to swing and miss

Anyone know any fragrances that a similar scent profile to this?

>>18055785
Fierce

I got these samples and have been demoing them. So far the Ambre Sultan and Carnal Flower are the standouts.
Props to Black Afgano though, it's extremely interesting. I had two people comment on the scent. The only issue was the comments weren't necessarily positive. Both people said they couldn't identify the scent.

The rest are honestly good but don't really hold up or stand out. Jasmine Et Cigarette is excellent but fades FAST. I could be overloading myself,
but I'm mostly nose blind to Reflection man Tam Dao and Blanche.

Is buying Carnal Flower from eBay a mistake? Are knock offs of niche scents common?

What to order if I’m going to get a 5-sample kit from Montale or Mancera?

>>18055782
>Invasion barbare, krissana, kouros, Dior homme intense, azzaro pour homme, derviche, mem, bel ami vetiver
great frags indeed (altough Azzaro pour Homme is quite pedestrian compared to the rest (at least in its current formulation))
>all of of those are way better than anything that Nicolai released
>If she didn't have ties to guerlain family she would have never been successful. She is living because of new York and Luca Turin
incredibly shit takes (especially considering your otherwise good taste based on the list above), PdN is objectively one of the best niche houses around (also the most popular Nicolai scent is not even NY/NYI, it's Patchouli Intense)

>>18055831
>Dark Aoud x2
>Black Aoud Intense x3
you are welcome
also why would you do that?

>>18055774
I mean its alright

>>18055827
masstige crap

>>18055460
Me too, but I don't need another EN bottle. I fell for the meme 2 times and I know I'll never finish those two bottles. Boring and cheap.

>>18055859
you don't know what that word means, do you?

>>18055864
it means the stuff you bought

>>18055867
>you bought
I didn't buy that, thougheverbeit?

What's a nice after shave

>>18055871
buying samples still counts as buying, also you sound like a fag

>>18055873
I'm not that guy you absolute braindead moron

>>18055878
>i’m not him, i’m a different idiot batting for him because… uh…
ok

>>18055881
you are not funny

>>18055882
you are not smart

>you are not funny

>>18055837
>also why would you do that?
To test their legendary reputation. Although I’m divided on whether to try Montale or Mancera, because Mancera has Cedrat Boise and Red Tobacco, which would be really interesting to try.

>>18055891
>Montale
>Mancera
>Legendary reputation

>>18055891
>legendary reputation
lol, lmao even
jokes aside, imo those are the two Montale frags that are a bit better than crap

>>18055774
>>18055774
It makes women and trannys wet and hard respectively

convince me that vintage red planet fahrenheit isn’t worth getting over the current version that you can buy at sephora (and discounters)

What are some good Tom Ford Men's fragrances that are around or under $250 for a 100 mL bottle?

>>18055944
>What are some good Tom Ford
doesnt exist. next!

>>18055944
I personally consider Ombre Leather as Tom Ford’s biggest success. It’s a very beautiful scent and most unique of them outside the private line. Leather, with enough floweriness on top of it to give it a bit of conplexity.

Others:
>Grey Vetiver is great, but there are basically just as good vetiver frags available for cheaper
>Oud Minerale is a photorealism-style sea scent, not romanticized aqua plus citrus as usual, but salt and seaweed, very divisive
>Beau de Jour is a classic style fougere with a modern touch, great but it’s not like there aren’t other good fougeres to choose from
>Noir Extreme is like a pistachio dessert, detailed and interesting scent but also kind of hard to wear?

>>18055953
beau de jour is just zino but sharp and unpleasant

Has anybody had experience with different batches of this smelling different? I know Maai had a pretty drastic change in its formula, but I just bought a second bottle from Luckyscent that smells much different than one I bought off Ebay.
I don't doubt the one I got off Ebay is real, the musk is very good quality. But it's a musky lavender that gets really minty and green. The one from Luckyscent is an indole/musk bomb all the way through with fat doses of ylang ylang and champaca I don't get from the Ebay bottle.

>>18055881
Do we really need ID's on /fa/ of all places? I bought those samples. And I'm not the other guy.

But you know what? We both agree that you're retarded.

>>18055872
classics: anything by mäurer & wirtz. modern: barrister & mann.

>>18055961
i am glad the two imbeciles are in agreement

>>18055953
Do you like tuscan leather?

>>18055638
>>18055644
I’ve never really understood Fahrenheit as a leather frag, I like it, but it doesn’t register as leather what so ever to me.

My personal suggestion for a leather frag would be Iron Duke.

>>18055657
Don’t bother conversing with the insult chat bot. Tho nice effort.

>>18055827
Kek. Before I even finished reading your paragraph my mind jumped to
>Interesting, and having two people comment doesn’t mean it’s good.

>>18055953
>I personally consider Ombre Leather as Tom Ford’s biggest success
Isn't there both a Parfum and an Eau de Parfum version? Is there a significant difference between the two?

>>18055981
ah yes, the perfect leather of choice for gay goth guys

>>18055981
>Iron Duke
Does it just come in the 50 mL version? Also is the edp the only variety?

>>18055981
Yeah, getting a "what's that smell?" Is not a great selling point. Gonna skip it for sure.

>>18055992
Correct.

what's the best clone of bvlgari aqva marine?

>>18056069
Cool Water

>>18056071
come on, man, I used to steal my dad's cool water in the 90s. in fact, I still have his vintage bottle of farhenheit

>>18055191
>And I still would love to know why the fuck Aventus is so inconsistent to begin with.
So apparently Creed owns a captive molecule that only they can use. It's unlisted in the note breakdown, it's a specific type of musk and people seem to think it's only found in Aventus. I don't know nearly enough about chemistry to say what's actually going on, but it seems like whatever it is, it is linked to the captive molecule.

The ghost perfumer behind Aventus is, allegedly, Jean-Christophe Herault, who was a protege of Creed's longtime ghost perfumer (who they completely and predictably fucked over) Pierre Bourdon. Herault created 1934 for Canali, which has a very similar note breakdown to Aventus and the major difference is it lacks the musk compound mentioned earlier. Bourdon also seemed to have an obsession with pineapple as a note, which he amped up in a reformulation of Drakkar Noir and includes as a secret note in a lot of different compositions he's created.

The real story behind Creed is that Olivier would go around to different houses and sample rejected fragrances commissioned by these houses composed by different perfumers. The way it works in designer houses is the creative director will put out a concept for a new fragrance and individual perfumers will come up with something that fits the bill, and the house will choose which one they like best. Olivier Creed contacted perfumers who made formulas that were rejected, and he ended up working almost exclusively with Pierre Bourdon from the 80s-00s. He also paid Pierre Bourdon exactly three tailored suits for his work and promised a payout when he retired and, unsurprisingly fucked him over and never gave the man a dime.

Olivier Creed is basically the Bob Kane of perfumery. I don't particularly care about the fraudulent backstory, that's just marketing bullshit which ultimately makes no difference, but fucking over Bourdon was fucked.

>>18056091
>The real story behind Creed is that Olivier would go around to different houses and sample rejected fragrances commissioned by these houses composed by different perfumers
This is also the reason Creed has so many random fragrances that smell weirdly like other fragrances. A lot of these formulas were tweaked slightly and sold elsewhere. It's why GIT smells so much like Cool Water, Original Santal smells like Joop/Mont Blanc Individuel, etc. You can also see the concept in some of the other popular Creed entries. For instance, Silver Mountain Water was originally composed as an entry for Issey Miyake, which makes sense. It doesn't smell particularly similar to any specific Miyake fragrance, but it is a weirdly Japanese fragrance that happens to be made by a French perfumer.

>>18056098
Cool Water was actually commissioned as an affordable version of GIT, not vice-versa.

>>18056091
>He also paid Pierre Bourdon exactly three tailored suits for his work and promised a payout when he retired and, unsurprisingly fucked him over and never gave the man a dime.
that's kind of based if i'm being completely honest. makes me like creed even more.

Is Fragrancenet reliable as far as actually getting the brand scent and not a spoof?

>>18056105
>Cool Water was actually commissioned as an affordable version of GIT, not vice-versa.
It sure wasn't. It was a formulation Bourdon pitched to just about every fashion house in the world until finally landing on Davidoff, who decided to make it their first fragrance. Creed was so incredibly niche at the time of its creation that no one would have known or cared about making a cheaper alternative to Green Irish Tweed, because 99.99% of the market had no idea Creed existed. Every element of their house story is a lie.

>>18055277
>White boys aint got not moves
>White boys:

>>18056091
>>18056098
>>18056112
all this, and people still go crazy over the absolute dogshit that is the creed perfume lineup

>>18056112
>>18056112
Cool Water is an interesting story. It's one of the all time classic designer fragrances and remains pretty relevant 35 years later, but literally nobody wanted it. The fact that Davidoff, a relatively obscure Swiss cigar company happened to want to expand into fragrance at the right time is the only reason it even made it to market.

It's like the story of how Satoshi Taijiri went around to every toy shop in Japan and the US pitching Pokemon and getting rejected from all but a fledgling startup now known as Nintendo that I just made up and didn't happen. I'm just trying to follow in Creed's footsteps.

I need a concert/date frag.

>>18056147
Date for Men by Fragrance One. Just buy it right now and don't look up any reviews or ask who makes it.

>>18056145
i recall reading about bourdon shopping cool water to hermes and hermes rejecting on the grounds of it having the potential to sell too well.

Please talk me out of getting sillage, it's so cheap....

>>18056149
>>18056179
terrifyingly shameful

>>18056112
>>18056145

Just because Creed is a shit house doesn’t change the fact CW is a riff off of GIT.

>Bourdon, appointed by Davidoff to recreate a more affordable version of one of his part works, namely Green Irish Tweed (1985) by Creed…
Source: The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

>>18056147
This guy >>18056149 is kind of making a joke, but honestly Jeremy Fragrance's brand does in fact make really good smelling, strong, scents. The downside is that the bottles, cap, and packaging look really cheap, also some feel it is overpriced. But the fragrances themselves and the atomizers are all very good.

>>18056194
rather pathetic

>>18056194
>bottles
The bottles don't even look bad to me. What I don't understand is how companies can fuck up atomizers so badly. they are, at most 5cents. Just stop going for the 3cent ones and get the 5cent ones instead. Mind boggling how much companies will try to save a buck

>>18056212
>they are, at most 5cents. Just stop going for the 3cent ones and get the 5cent ones instead. Mind boggling how much companies will try to save a buck
yeah I could understand if people were selling $15, bottles, because then it is a bigger percent of the total sale, but $100 plus for a bottle, you need to sell thousands of bottles to make up for one lost sale of a person who didn't want to buy because they felt the atomizer was too cheap.

>>18056179
Just get Milestone instead

>visit tailor's workshop in an old house
>it smells exactly like penhaligon's sartorial
they did a really good job there, just from smelling it on myself it felt more like a funny gimmick

>>18056264
penhaligons sucks cock

There's something in this I find revolting and I have no idea what it is. And I don't mean it's just not my taste, there are plenty of fragrance I don't care for, but I wouldn't say they were actually off putting. This is the only time in my life where I smelled a fragrance and could not imagine how anyone could possibly like it. It's not like Joop or Sauvage or other fragrances I wouldn't buy but can understand the appeal of, it's offensive to me in the way that BO or piss is offensive.

And I'm sure it's just me. It's a very popular fragrance and if everyone was smelling what I was smelling that would be impossible. I think it's like how for a small percentage of people, cilantro tastes like soap. I feel like there's got to be something in here that I'm having some kind of reaction to.

Does this smell horrifically, unbearably bad to anyone else and if so has this ever happened to you with another fragrance? Also, if you like this frag I'm not trying to shit on your tastes. I think my brain is just broken

>>18056270
that’s every ambroxan bomb, they’re all repulsive.

>>18056272
No, it's definitely not that. Every other fragrance is an ambroxan bomb these days and I've never had this reaction to anything but this. I want to say it's the gin note, but I've smelled other gin fragrances before that were fine to me

>>18055641
anon likes to smell of cotton candy and Charmin fabric softener. Go to your nearest high-end department store and find the Kilian counter. Pick up Dark Lord and take a deep, long SNIFF, then think before you decide to insult Daddy's fragrance again.

>>18056278
i didnt think anyone took kilian fragrances seriously outside of the estee lauder companies inc

>>18056270
>>18056272
>>18056273
I hate to e ambroxan overdoses too, but for me it’s also the clary sage and apple notes
I get the same thing in like Versace PH (also smelled it in old spice krakenguard lol)

There is no such thing as a good niche brand. All of them are fraudulent and they all lie about everything always. They all use synthetic chemicals. They all cost almost nothing to produce. You just think your thousand dollar meme water smells better than the junk at TJ Maxx because you paid a lot of money for it but it's all the same.

Go watch any of those random man on the street blind battles. Nobody is ever like "this one smells like it has high quality meme ingredients", they always just pick whatever they like most and it's usually a tossup.

Just wear axe body spray. Stop giving these perverts money.

>>18056286
did you smirk to yourself while writing this?

Why is this one like $200 cheaper than everywhere else? Should I blind buy this?

>>18056320
nvm, I'm reading reviews and lots of reviews are saying it is fake.

>>18056133
fuck ya mudda, Viking is great.

So when people talk about baccarat rouge which one are they talking about?

>>18056320
>>18056323
Good call. Layton is one of the most counterfeited fragrances out there. I've had more people ask if I thought their new bottle of Layton was fake than any other fragrance combined.

>>18056339
What are trust worthy discounts sites? Fragrancenet? GiftExpress?

>>18056336
my condolences for your appalling lack of taste, ranjeet

>>18056179
Get it, but it needs a maceration of at least a month. I'm actually running low on my bottle and might need to invest in another.

>>18056341
I've never used giftexpress, but Fragrancenet and Fragrancex are both good. I've never got a fake from either of them, although I did get a bottle of Herod from fragrancex that was extremely old and clearly wasn't kept in a temperature controlled environment. But they swapped it out for a good bottle with no fuss. I told them what happened and they replaced it right away.

>>18056320
Aurafragrance

>>18056337
Extrait de parfum.

I own so many fragrances that I've never finished a bottle of anything and I get stressed out because I'm worried the will all go bad and I have buy them again

>>18056356
Unless you're improperly storing them, they'll be fine for 5+ years I'd reckon.

iron duke sucks

>>18056320
It's fake. Just get a good clone.

>>18056147
>date frag
Nashama caprice

>>18056341
>>18056320
Just buy the 75ml directly from the PdM website and pay with Klarna or afterpay. It's only $260, which honestly isn't a far cry from what you will find it for at reputable discounters. If you do the bi-weekly payment plan it comes out to about 36 dollars a week. over the course of two months. It's pretty doable.

And as someone who owns Layton, you really don't need the full sized bottle. It's not going to be something you wear every day. It smells great but it's way too loud to wear to work and you'll probably be reaching for something else in the summer time because it is very sweet. It's a bit like Eros or 1 Million. It doesn't smell anything like either of them, but it's definitely a high end entry into that genre of fragrances. It's great for going out and grabbing attention, it's one of my most complimented fragrances, but it's not versatile enough to be an all day every day scent.

Arcade Fire's Will Butler on what David Bowie smelled like
>You walk into a room, and you're like, “Something's different. I'm in a different dimension. It smells so good in here!” [And then you realize] “Oh, David Bowie's here.”
It smelled like if an ancient pine forest had a massive forest fire -- but like, a month ago. So you get the new growth of the grass and the moisture, but still there's an undercurrent of pain. But also of smoke, so kind of like marshmallows...? It's powerful.
I have been trying to figure out what this dipshit was talking about since 2016. I think about it all the time. The burned wood smoke and marshmallows makes me think it's By the Fireplace.

I have no idea what year the interview happened and I've only seen it mentioned on frag boards, but people started talking about it in 2015, which was the year BtF was released. It doesn't really feel like a Bowie kind of a fragrance, but neither does Silver Mountain Water and some other Arcade Fire douche bag said he wore that once when they went to dinner. And famous people get sent free shit all the time. I can't really picture David fucking Bowie going to Sephora to pick up a Sephora-exclusive fragrance, but maybe they sent it to him and he decided to wear it that day.

I figure the chestnuts and guiac wood is where the forest part comes from, the Juniper and orange blossom are the green notes and the vanilla is the marshmallows. But I also don't really buy that this dude would be able to give such a weirdly accurate note breakdown based on being in a room with Bowie once, so it's probably coincidence

>>18056482
Dammit, I fucked it up. Here, have another BJ
>You walk into a room, and you're like, “Something's different. I'm in a different dimension. It smells so good in here!” [And then you realize] “Oh, David Bowie's here.”
>It smelled like if an ancient pine forest had a massive forest fire -- but like, a month ago. So you get the new growth of the grass and the moisture, but still there's an undercurrent of pain. But also of smoke, so kind of like marshmallows...? It's powerful.

I have been trying to figure out what this dipshit was talking about since 2016. I think about it all the time. The burned wood smoke and marshmallows makes me think it's By the Fireplace.

I have no idea what year the interview happened and I've only seen it mentioned on frag boards, but people started talking about it in 2015, which was the year BtF was released. It doesn't really feel like a Bowie kind of a fragrance, but neither does Silver Mountain Water and some other Arcade Fire douche bag said he wore that once when they went to dinner. And famous people get sent free shit all the time. I can't really picture David fucking Bowie going to Sephora to pick up a Sephora-exclusive fragrance, but maybe they sent it to him and he decided to wear it that day.

I figure the chestnuts and guiac wood is where the forest part comes from, the Juniper and orange blossom are the green notes and the vanilla is the marshmallows. But I also don't really buy that this dude would be able to give such a weirdly accurate note breakdown based on being in a room with Bowie once, so it's probably coincidence

BASED

>>18056475
Layton owner seconding here, it’s strong as fuck, even one spray carries you far. 125ml is a overkill, you’d get mileage for years of daily use with that and you’re probably not gonna daily it realistically.

That being said, it’s an excellent fragrance in its own genre and if you like apple and vanilla, it’s an easy recommendation.

>>18056495
Also, adding to this, TRY BEFORE YOU BUY. That always applies, but especially with Layton there’s a menthol-ish note that depending on person is either a dealbreaker or nothingburger. For me, it goes away in a minute, so no problem, but some people experience it longer due to their nose/skin chemistry and dislike it. Potential Layton buyers should also probably know that it doesn’t shine if you directly sniff your skin after spraying it, it’s pretty harsh up close initially and takes some time to settle down. However, sillage is great almost instantly.

>paying in installments
>for masstige
jfc get a grip

>>18056278
That's the most homosexual post I've read this week.

>>18056345
>Get it, but it needs a maceration of at least a month. I'm actually running low on my bottle and might need to invest in another.

At least. I bought a bottle of it nearly three years ago and it was dogshit right out of the box.
>Welp, another blind buy swing-and-mis
and I put it into storage.
At the end of last summer, I pulled out because I'd forgotten about it and over that time, it got much better and smoother.

>>18056091
>He also paid Pierre Bourdon exactly three tailored suits for his work and promised a payout when he retired and, unsurprisingly fucked him over and never gave the man a dime.
Is Bourdon secretly Finnish? That's some classic Finnish business acumen.

>In 1952, following the 1952 Summer Olympics in Finland, Adidas acquired its signature three stripe branding from Karhu Sports, for two bottles of whiskey and the equivalent of €1,600.

>>18054481
What scents would anyone recommend for a sample from Etat Libre d'Orange? I loved Hermann a Mes Cotes and I'm getting a bottle of it, and I like the idea of some of their more unusual sets, so I'm going to get a sample kit with it. I'm picking up Ghost in the Shell, Spice Must Flow, and Jasmin et Cigarette which always sounded appealing to me but I had trouble finding a decant of. What should be #4?

BBC perfume documentary (part 1 of 3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annRzLYrRwM

hell yeah i want to smell like a bbc

>>18056654
fuck ELDO for not having Secretions Magnifiques as a sample option
go with YOSLY, Remarkable People or La Fin du Monde, they are fun frags but ofc ymmv

but how can i know which one is the best for attracting girls

>>18056689
Nashama caprice
Fakhar gold

>>18056689
from Jeremy ofc

i always just went with lagerfeld classic since my dad uses it

>>18056492
my Herbes Vives sample is delayed in the mail, but a h24 is definitely on my list for summer pickups

>>18056689
You know what it is

the le beau line is kinda disappointing aint it

Thoughts on Maison Crivelli?

>>18055953
Noir Extreme Parfum is a great heavy sweet scent, good for winter imo. Drydown is godly

>>18056702
I swear the tiktok scents will make you smell like an arab or paki. I see the profiles in the comments and they love any video that grants them validation

>>18056702
Cucked. Why do white American women love BBC so much?

>>18056694
we went to the hermes store to try herbes vives my girlfriend liked it so much she wanted to wear it for herself. copped a bottle.

>>18056713
I have tried 5 of their frags and each of them was fucking awful.

>>18056735
based

>>18056715
I might have to try it again, the opening was kind of different than what I expected and it might have thrown me off. Lot more complex than you’d expect from wintery vanilla and spices -style fragrances.

>>18056730
because you are addicted to pornography

>>18056661
Holy fuck, the Tommy Hilfiger marketing people were so out of touch with reality, young people, and everything. That was so cringe.

Is Guerlain still good in 2024?

>>18056757
yes

>>18056757
shadow of its former self

>>18056686
Thanks for the suggestion. I was shooting for fun/interesting mostly, that's why I went with GitS and SMF just to try something novel.

YOSLY sounds odd with how they write it up, and not quite my jam. Remarkable People sounds similar, interesting but eh. I saw LFdM before and was considering it, very interesting and I love gunpowder, but was considering something more traditional to round it out, maybe. Divin'enfant sounds interesting and I've seen it recommended before.

>>18056486
Oh, fuck, this just sent me down a rabbithole. Bowie's my greatest hero and most if my style is inspired by him, and I never deeply considered what frags he may have used. Now I'm definitely curious with such a specific example.

Looking into it, he'd have fit in here a bit, seems to have talked about experimenting with layering and switched between some fairly high-end stuff that was known of, but that specific one is still up in the air. I think the marshmallow is what's really throwing people off. Found an interesting page about it with a lot of suggestions -

http://www.katiepuckriksmells.com/2015/04/fumes-in-news-what-does-david-bowie.html?m=1

Basically, the major things I picked up from this is:
>He was a huge fan of Vetiver and stuck with/layered Guerlain Vetiver for a while (Been meaning to try it for years but had trouble getting a decant)
>Minotaure was frequent but has been reformulated
>He liked some Floris, particularly Elite which allegedly Floris has a picture of him buying

It may have been a layer. Also, I found another article about Iman releasing a fragrance, where she mentioned specifically Guerlain again (It was apparently on his main site a while ago, too, which he specifically curated), and she said his favorite by the end and daily use was Tom Ford Noir Extreme. Which was odd to me, having not loved the basic noir, but hey. It's something. Also, hers sounds interesting with notes he'd have liked, kek.

Also someone mentioned Divin'Enf. So hey, maybe?

>>18056767
No doubt about that, but I wonder if the classics like Vetiver and Heritage are still worth buying. Want to get Vetiver for summer.

i do not like it. its shit

>>18056780
Why? It smells like smoky and earthy wood to me. Pretty inoffensive yet still quite unique and interesting.

Had sex Wednesday night with a single mother while her 4 year old slept. I was wearing Sauvage Parfum

>>18056787
Nice. More details, bro.

>>18056787
Congrats for getting laid. Had a similar situation last year with a 40 year(i'm in my mid 30s) old single mom. While her autistic son played some BS mmo game, i fucked her in her bedroom. She ask to put on a condom, i refused and went in all raw.
Was wearing Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles back then, she liked it.

>>18056794
>Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles
Did they discontinue it or why is it so hard to find nowadays?

Should I get Vibrant Leather or Sunrise on the red Sand dunes from Zara?

>>18056798
Heard that a japanese company bought the brand Serge Lutens, renewed the bottle design and went up with the price. But it's very seductive in winter. The dried fruits smell like sweet wine combined with pine sap notes.

>>18056804
LMAO
your forgot (single mother) for both

>>18056804
We are gonna make it, bros

I finished a bottle of hwyl by aesop, I liked it a lot but im a bit bored and wanted a new fragrance.

bought samples of a load of stuff ended up buyng carved oud by thameen (very similar to oudwood tomford) but im allergic to it, tried oud by aqua di parma but I think im allergic to that aswell any advice on recs

>>18056757
do they still release new perfumes worth a shit? no. are the classics still legendary? yes. just avoid their private collection and their aqua allegoria line and you’ll be golden.
>>18056804
please do not entertain the coomers.

>>18056822
>please do not entertain the coomers.
Reallife situations isn't cooming, have sex anon

>>18056827
kindly stop cooming and frying your dopamine receptors

I was memed into buying some Drakkar Noir. Looking forward for it to come in.

>>18056841
Best fougere created up to date.

>>18056841
atleast its cheap, but to me its just a regular ol barbershop scent

I think one of my fragrances has gone bad even though it was stored in a bathroom cabinet which doesn't even have a shower. How is that possible?

anyone know of any discounters that carry the robert piguet stuff? not exactly keen on dropping $200 for a 100ml bottle of bandit or fracas.

>>18056775
Versace dreamer

>>18056793
>>18056794
>calls me over to her place because she wanted to see me before catching a trip the next morning to another country to visit her mother
>get in bed with her and we start cuddling and talking
>mentions I smell amazing
>notice the kid is waking up
>tells me to wait for her in the kitchen
>when she gets there she pulls down my pants and starts sucking my dick
>after a while tells me she didn't want me Cumming just yet
>bends over and I stick it in raw
>cum all over her back and floor
>she sucks all the cum off my dick and cleans floor
>she's 28
Was great bros. The other cologne that women love is carolina Herrera bad boy extreme

Fragrances for this feel?

>>18056945
Anything for inels

>>18056939
must have been hard typing that fanfiction with one hand

>>18056939
your race? hers?

i know absolutely jack shit about fragrance and have never tried one before. would going to a local department store like JC Penney to try a few samples and get a feel for what i like and don't like be acceptable instead of waiting for samples to come in mail?

>>18056955
Cope

>>18056959
I'm white she's Cuban

>>18056967
This works as long as you're able to not get influenced by the workers there and politely tell them to fuck off

>>18056945
Ultra Male

>>18056967
going to the store to smell everything on offer is very much the thing you should be doing yes

>>18056968
i didn’t even know it was legal to fuck cubans, doesn’t that count as animal abuse?

>>18056959
Not him, but the Serge Lutens fag. The milf was white german. You already know i am.

>>18056495
Is Layton worth a blind buy? You mentioned apple and vanilla as notes, is Layton overall a fresh and sweet fragrance?

>>18056983
>is (parfums de marly) worth a … buy?
why on earth would overpriced masstige shit ever be worth half of its MSRP

>>18056983
Nothing is worth a blind buy. Blind buying is for retards.

>>18056976
>You already know i am.
am what?

>>18056983
Get a clone

>>18056993
…all of me.

>>18057004
HERE WE GO BUDDY

>>18056983
>>18056994
Get Amber Oud Exclusif Bleu.
Make sure it has the "Exclusif" in the title or your getting a shitty BdC clone. Retarded naming convention, I know.

>>18056654
>>18056775
If you just want interesting buy their full sample set, and if there’s anything you didn’t get that you still want, pick it up in a 4 pack.

The bulk of their products are very mid anyway, so you’re not really missing out as far as great frags, but most of it is in fact very interesting and worth the sample.

>>18056780
>i do not like it.
That’s fine fren, you don’t have to like everything. People have different tastes.
>its shit
Ya dun goofed.

That feel when terre dhermes with ultra male layered on top

>>18056661
This is a well crafted documentary and a good watch so far. I'm about halfway through. At about 24 minutes in they cut to a Tommy Hilfiger exec in NY, and they mention that now they have created a bottle for their fragrance it is now time to find a fragrance. What an ass-backward way of doing things. This was juxtaposed with just earlier a bit on House Guerlain and their storied history, talking about how It had been passed down from Master Perfumer to Master Perfumer all in family until just recently the next baton-holder would be an outsider. But even this outsider still felt like the individual he was inheriting it from, Jean Paul Guerlain was a fatherly figure to him. It shows the two ends of the spectrum; one focused on marketing and the other on tradition and the fragrance experience itself. It is ironic too, because earlier in the documentary the same Tommy Hilfiger executive talks about how their company wants to attract Generation Y, which she says describe themselves as creative., and seeking something that is created. But rather than go for the approach similar to House Guerlain, they start with essentially marketing by getting the bottle and the packaging first and then try to find a scent to fill it.

>>18057004
does that mean blcak

>>18057068
The documentary is great and highly recommended. My fav part is how blind sided I was when Jean-Paul Guerlain drops an unfathomably based Nbomb on television. There are probably only 10 people in the world that can say they did that.

>>18056661
Oh shit, when Tommy Hilfiger sees the bottle they are thinking of and he remarks it looks similar to a CD case, they all nod positively as if this is a great thing. How fucking ephemeral.

>>18054809
>Do people not wear perfume just because it smells good?
people have no opinions of their own so they expect others to make it for them. instead of developing their own taste and personality, they follow some sort preprogrammed cheat sheet where if they get A, they'll get B in return

>>18056402
fuck you

fuck

When perfumes are described as Oriental what do they mean? I'm not just talking about the scent profile but also which Oriental. in American parlance, Oriental means Far East, so China, Japan, Korea, perhaps bits of SE Asia as well. Does Oriental mean that or is it south Asia or just the Middle East? The Orient Express ran from Paris to Istanbul after all.

>>18057074
>My fav part is how blind sided I was when Jean-Paul Guerlain drops an unfathomably based Nbomb on television
Is that in this part 1 or a later part? I must have missed it, if it is in the first 50 minutes of part 1.

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>>18057152
Oh nevermind I got to that part.

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>>18057156
Yeah, it's at about 54mins in the first part

>>18057148
it means the middle east

Had a coupon and bought Prada Luna Rosa Black cause the tester was good and lasted well... sprayed to work and it's gone after like 2 hours wtf

>>18057227
1. you went noseblind
2. spray more
3. profit

where new bread

>>18057275
make one

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>>18057016
>Amber Oud Exclusif Bleu
Too expensive.
I got Loyal Agar. It's superb.
Detour noir is also one of the best.

>>18054966
it's not