/frag/ - Fragrance General #1052

[Anonymous No.18082314]

Previous thread: >>18080231

NEW Luca Turin reviews on Substack: https://lucaturin.substack.com/

Informative Videos for newfags to Fragrance General
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions for newfags
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W2C bottles
(USA-Canada)
http://www.fragrancenet.com
http://www.fragrancebuy.ca
http://www.luckyscent.com
https://www.fragrancex.com

Use Google to obtain the maximum discount code at fragrancenet (35%).

(Europe)
http://www.notino.com (see directory at bottom for your country)
https://www.jovoyparis.uk/
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General info
http://perfumesociety.org/discover-perfume/an-introduction/
https://nstperfume.com/2008/11/14/new-to-perfume-and-want-to-learn-more/
https://www.basenotes.net/features/3243-the-top-ten-niche-fragrances-every-beginner-should-sample
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Various fragrance communities/review sites/blogs
http://www.fragrantica.com/
http://www.basenotes.net/
http://www.parfumo.net/
http://www.nstperfume.com/
http://www.boisdejasmin.com/
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W2C samples
http://www.luckyscent.com/
http://www.theperfumedcourt.com/
https://www.fragrantworldshop.com/
http://www.surrendertochance.com/
http://www.perfumista.co.uk/
http://www.ausliebezumduft.de/fragrances.html
https://www.jovoyparis.uk/
https://www.lessenteurs.com/
https://bloomperfume.co.uk/
https://lulua.pl/en/
https://moodscentbar.com/en/
https://ecuacionnatural.com/
https://essenza-nobile.de/
https://www.lesecretdumarais.com/en/
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On DIY fragrances
http://www.perfumersapprentice.com/
https://pellwall.com/
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Affordable nice scents
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For /ourguy/ Luca Turin's books look up Library Genesis
https://scentertainer.net/en/top-10-best-perfumes-luca-turin

[Anonymous No.18082315]

The Fragrance Groups 101 chart

[Anonymous No.18082319]

The Fragance Flowchart for Beginners

[Anonymous No.18082325]

>>18082319
garbage as always

[Anonymous No.18082327]

No no no... Theres definitely something wrong here with the thread... But I'm willing to be brave about things and post through it for all the loyal fans...

[Anonymous No.18082329]

I'm about to.... SNOOOF

[Anonymous No.18082335]

Literally all you need

[Anonymous No.18082336]

>>18082335
Or you could get Eros and save $200

[Anonymous No.18082337]

>>18082335
Very apt given the deficiencys already baked into the thread. Continue.

[Anonymous No.18082340]

>>18082309
Well aware of how expensive it is, but I can't stop sniffing the card I was given by the rep. Thankfully my tax refund covers it

[Anonymous No.18082341]

>>18082335
complete garbage

[Anonymous No.18082345]

sotd dua hades elixir. the discrepancies between his good scents and his bad scents is incredible, but the few that are good are real hits
>>18082282
based avestan enjoyer. few... i should put it on again soon

[Anonymous No.18082348]

For me this is like a 10/10 blockbuster
https://youtu.be/s-Sg81EIKVQ?si=UFjmVvEPb26OWTQo

[Anonymous No.18082349]

thanks for the recs guys

>>18078582

I tried Santal Royal, it was good. Got a chance to try out Tobacco Honey as well which I hadn't realized was released outside the US now. Also found Fumerie Turque by Serge Lutens which was a comfortable departure from my usual frags

>>18078596

Agree but I love that apple pie smell. I've got Lost Cherry too as you could tell, so I don't mind the silly. Lost Cherry doesn't last at all though, so I only put it on when I have someone coming over very soon. I've gotten a lot of compliments with Angel's Share with girls I'm with. Not as much as Exquisite Embroidery which I was approached on the street about 3 times and complimented on, the projection is fantastic on it

Honestly not too fond of the Acqua Di Parma and their usual lineup is never near what I like, but it smells good after a swim. I got the Lune Feline as a replacement vanilla

>>18078660
Perfect, thanks, next on my list to find

>>18078856
TF for sure yeah, I've gone off them (this is my third bottle). I tried their Electric Cherry and Smokey Cherry variants and they were just generally shit. Nowhere as interesting as Latte di Cherry by New Notes.

I don't mind Killian's lineup. I have the bottle of Apple Brandy as a gift (it was supposed to be Angel's Share lmao)

I'll add Hyrax to the list, the notes look fun, thanks

[Anonymous No.18082351]

I'd like you to all join me in a land acknowledgement. You are currently posting in ancestral perfumed fancy lad land, the traditional name of this territory is the perfume general. I think it's important to acknowledge this as most posters won't be aware of this traditional name. Perfume posters are talked about in the past tense, as if their struggle has already been and gone. It is easier to dismiss the wrongdoings visited upon perfumed fancy lads by aventus coomers, masstige slop enjoyers and overly aggressive lower case posters if we historicize their struggles and simply paper over them with hastily arranged thread titles. As an activist, I would like to take this opportunity to commit myself to the struggle against the systems of oppression that have dispossessed perfumed fancy lads of their threads and denied their rights to self-determination, work that is essential to perfumed dandy rights work across the board.

[Anonymous No.18082352]

For me this is like a 10/10 blockbuster
https://youtu.be/s-Sg81EIKVQ?si=UFjmVvEPb26OWTQo

[Anonymous No.18082358]

>>18082348
>>18082352
nigga no 1 cares

[Anonymous No.18082379]

opinions?

[Anonymous No.18082388]

>>18082379
reminds me of your mom

[Anonymous No.18082389]

>>18082379
>the tacky name
>youtuber fragrance
>the godawful "logo"
>the clearly printed out amateur label

[Anonymous No.18082441]

Going to a college party tonight. These zoomettes won't know what hit em. Went with the EDP

[Anonymous No.18082444]

>>18082379
Name ruins it for me. It is worse than Jeremey's cheapo bottles for his $250 fragrances.

[Anonymous No.18082448]

>>18082441
no one is going to notice or care about a citrus chypre in a sea of norlimbanol bombs lol

[Anonymous No.18082454]

Is aventus worth it if you can afford it? I tried montblanc explorer but it's not even close. I'm also aware of the club de nuit limited edition but I read a lot of bad reviews about it.

[Anonymous No.18082455]

>>18082454
aventus fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.18082456]

>>18082379
get onyx instead

[Anonymous No.18082463]

>>18082454
It may be worth it if money is no object to you, otherwise meh. It's so overpriced for what it really is

[Anonymous No.18082472]

I've never smelled the fecal note until now

Jesus christ, how horrible

[Anonymous No.18082477]

>>18082454
Honestly it is, all the clones have something off and abrasive about them and aventus can be had for $200 on discounters everywhere. No one's paying the $500 full retail for it.

[Anonymous No.18082478]

>>18082477
aventus isnt worth $10

[Anonymous No.18082485]

>>18082454
CDN Limited Edition unironically has better performance but it dries into mostly woods and loses its fruity opening a little too quick. Cedrat Boise is another alternative, and it keeps its fruit notes, but lacks pineapple altogether. I wouldn't suggest Aventus to anyone now. When it first released, it was genuinely remarkable. A completely new DNA that felt truly unique and redirected the industry from the Blue EDT dominance of the previous ten years. Then every house on the planet realized that they also had the ability to smash wood, moss, ambroxan, and fruit into a bottle, and that it DIDN'T cost so much to make that they would have to charge a meme price for it. So now you can just buy random arab bottles and get essentially the exact same thing AND it doesn't fizzle out in a few hours like all Creed frags do.

If you want to spend the money though, go for it. Ultimately it's your decision and you should purchase what YOU want. Just realize that owning a bottle of a frag that is well passed its prime doesn't give you clout, even if it is more expensive than the Dior or AdG most people are wearing.

[Anonymous No.18082487]

>>18082478
That's still $10 more than what your opinions worth

[Anonymous No.18082489]

>>18082487
i bet you wish that were true

[Anonymous No.18082497]

>>18082444
>Name ruins it for me.
If the name ruins it for you, it probably wasn't your kind of fragrance to begin with. It's for loose homosexuals on designer drugs. The working title was "Wreck My Fuckhole, Daddy. Fill Me Up With Paki Cock", but he couldn't get anyone to distribute it under that name.

[Anonymous No.18082500]

>>18082340
Did you try any other of the top line guerlains?

[Anonymous No.18082506]

ATH's perfumes are unironically really good. Guy's a madlad.

[Anonymous No.18082513]

>>18082485
>Cedrat Boise is another alternative, and it keeps its fruit notes, but lacks pineapple altogether
Cedrat Boise is my favorite of the Aventus style fragrances, including Aventus. And honestly, while the pineapple note in the opening of Aventus is my favorite aspect of that fragrance, for me it goes away in like less than ten minutes. People here like to pretend that Aventus smells bad, but that opening blast is really, really fucking good. If it stayed that good throughout the life of the fragrance, I would almost say it's worth the money. But it doesn't. The dry down is fine, but there are much better options.

That being said, while Cedrat Boise never quite reaches the same heights as that first five minutes of Aventus, to my nose it is pretty close And it stays that way for nearly the entire life of the fragrance. It's also probably the best performing fresh fragrance I own. I wear it pretty often and I'm not even halfway through the bottle that I bought in 2021. The cost-value proposition blows Aventus out of the water.

[Anonymous No.18082515]

Been culling my collection and I have come to realize that when you are buying perfume you should ask yourself 2 questions:
1. Is the perfume redundant? If so, do not buy it unless it is an upgrade for what you have in your current collection. Like you should buy Allure Homme Sport if you have Versace Pour Homme, but not vice-versa.
2. Does the perfume improve or reduce the quality or your collection? If you have high end designer and niche it makes no sense to buy cheapies, even if they are cheap. The bottles will just pile up, and every time you wear one you take away from a time you could have worn something better.

[Anonymous No.18082519]

>>18082515
I like owning a big collection. I've never thrown a fragrance out even if I hate it. Sometimes I'll give them away if it's something that I never wear but I know someone else will enjoy, but fragrance collecting is my autism hobby and I don't mind if it's redundant

[Anonymous No.18082523]

I got a compliment today

[Anonymous No.18082524]

>>18082515
>If you have high end designer and niche it makes no sense to buy cheapies, even if they are cheap
Grey Flannel disagrees

[Anonymous No.18082526]

>>18082523
Nice. What were you wearing

[Anonymous No.18082528]

>>18082485
>If you want to spend the money though, go for it. Ultimately it's your decision and you should purchase what YOU want.
It's starting to change now that The Ghost Perfumer, BlackRock acquisition and continual pointless price hikes have all finally begun to knock Creed off their (unearned) high horse in the eyes of even the fragbros, but for a solid 10 years Aventus was something of a rite of passage for people getting into fragrance. It was mythologized so heavily that even if you knew the basic scent profile wasn't something that interested you, and even if you bought a clone and were relatively happy with it, it was just going to keep gnawing at you until you finally bought a bottle. Honestly, I probably would have saved myself a lot of money if I just bought it in that first six months of collecting so I could just move on with my life and start exploring more unique scents that I actually enjoyed instead of trying to find that one magical grail that would be le ebin best thing ever.

[Anonymous No.18082530]

>>18082526
Oh, I wasn't wearing a fragrance. Someone just said I have strong shoulders

[Anonymous No.18082531]

>>18082513
Cedrat Boise manages to maintain its complexity and that's why it's my personal favorite Aventus DNA too. I love CDN and I've been wearing it a lot recently for some reason, but if I was forced to pick it would be Cedrat Boise. To me, a fresh frag is all about how it fades and Mancera has that part down. That being said, longevity and scent progression is Creed's weakest trait by a severe margin so Aventus' struggles are to be expected.

Honestly every popular Aventus DNA is worth buying, from L'Aventure to Aventus itself, what matters is what the person wearing it is looking for. Ultimate cost value? To me, that's CDN. The best all around? Cedrat Boise. Winning arguments on 4chan? Spend half of your McDonald's paycheck on Aventus.

>>18082515
Culling as in reselling? Never really, but I get the reasoning. As in just throwing away? Of course not.
I like having all my bottles lined up. Sure, I own basically ever blue Versace bottle, or like a dozen Aventus DNAs, but it's fun. I like mixing it up. I feel a little different every day, so why not pick a different frag every day? Even if it's essentially the exact same thing as what I wore yesterday.

>>18082519
same

>>18082523
That's hot. Peep the frag

>>18082524
You know, some days ARE Grey Flannel days. Other days are Drakkar Noir days. Most days are AdG or Cedrat days, but sometimes it's a S33 day. I like having all of the choices.

>>18082528
You're right, now that the bankers are in on it, it's even worse. The Creed family have always been grifters anyway. Can't say they didn't get me once or twice though. If you're gonna put the name of a nu-metal band on your shelf, you're better off get SMW honestly.

>>18082530
:/

[Anonymous No.18082532]

>>18082526
a cheap clone of bvlgari aqva, aquilo by maison alhambra

[Anonymous No.18082544]

>>18082531
>Cedrat Boise
Have you tried intense yet?

>>18082532
Very based, brother

[Anonymous No.18082546]

>>18082532
really foul stuff

[Anonymous No.18082558]

>>18082544
I haven't yet, I've managed to convince myself that it's probably a bit of a sham. As someone that usually falls for flankers, I've tried to stop buying every variation of frags I like just because they're new. Apparently it is actually pretty good though.

[Anonymous No.18082568]

>>18082546
all you do is insult everyone and never contribute, get a life

[Anonymous No.18082577]

>>18082515
i dont have a "collection", i'm just stocking up on perfume because i wanna smell nice during ww3

[Anonymous No.18082581]

>>18082568
all you do is cry and sob and moan, keep weeping for me

[Anonymous No.18082583]

>>18082558
>Apparently it is actually pretty good though
This is what I keep hearing as well, but it's got that oud note and I've never cared for Mancera's "oud" scents. Plus, I just don't see how adding oud to Cedrat Boise would improve that particular DNA even if it wasn't Pierre Montale's hyper-synthetic oud. Cedrat Boise is one of the only fragrances from the house that really doesn't need improvement, in my opinion

[Anonymous No.18082585]

Post your first frag.

I saved up for this when I was 12. Shit quality, but surprising taste for a kid.

[Anonymous No.18082590]

>>18082585
This bad bitch. I was 11 years old and we were going to a wedding and my mom had me pick out a fragrance to go with my fancy wedding clothes. I picked it because the bottle was red and I thought it looked cool. I picked up a bottle at TJ Maxx for $20 last year to see if it brought back scent memories, and it sure fucking did. Also, it's really gross stuff and gives me an instant headache, but it was nostalgic none the less.

No idea how I didn't die as a kid though. I used to use it in lieu of showering in middle school after gym class. I would use like 10 sprays. I should have been expelled.

[Anonymous No.18082595]

>>18082590
I mean it is a 4.05 on Fragrantica lol

[Anonymous No.18082597]

>>18082590
>10 sprays of Dunhill Desire
You just described the experience of wearing one spray of Lafayette Street by Bond no. 9

[Anonymous No.18082605]

>>18082500
Not then, but since I've got the day off tomorrow I'll go peruse and decide whether I want to make that commitment to a bottle .

[Anonymous No.18082611]

>>18082595
>4.05 on Fragrantica
>Yeah, 4 out of 10 is about what I'd expect
>WAIT... Fragrantica scores out of 5!
kek, that's actually kind of shocking. In fairness, it's not the worst thing in the world, but it's got that late 90s/early 00s screechy synthetic thing going on, and if you have any kind of sensitivity to fragrances whatsoever, this is almost certainly going to be unbearable.

But it's also over 20 years old and pretty cheap so I guess that's to be expected. If you were to take this DNA and build the same scent profile around higher quality raw materials, this would probably be pretty decent.

>>18082597
I'm assuming that what I just described is exactly what Bond was attempting to do.

[Anonymous No.18082616]

>>18082611
>I'm assuming that what I just described is exactly what Bond was attempting to do.
It definitely is. I don't remember what it's called, but Xerjoff has one that does something similar. GentScents also said Althair by PdM reminded him of desire in a first impressions video, but kind of walked it back in the full review. I haven't smelled Althair though, so I don't know how accurate that is or isn't.

[Anonymous No.18082644]

I’m addicted to fragrances. I think I have an olfactory-related mental disorder…my current collection is as follows (in no particular order):
Acqua di Gio EDT
Acqua di Gio Absolu
Acqua di Gio Profumo
Armani Code Parfum
Armani Code Absolu
D&G Light Blue Pour Homme
Z Zegna EDT
PDM Layton
Guerlain Vetiver
Tom Ford Grey Vetiver
Western Valley London N300
Givenchy Gentlemen Only Intense
Filthy Rich Signature II EDP
Filthy Rich King EDP
Filthy Rich Date Night Blue EDP
Parfum de Dubai Executive Extrait
Merve Red Royal Flush EDP
JPG Ultra Male
John Varvatos Artisan Pure
Invictus EDT
Mont Blanc Individuel
Drakkar Noir
Viktor Rolf Spice Bomb
Jimmy Choo for Men Intense

[Anonymous No.18082646]

>>18082644
if you’re addict to perfume, why cant you at least be addicted to good ones?

[Anonymous No.18082648]

>>18082646
such as?

[Anonymous No.18082650]

>>18082648
i’m sure you can figure it out buddy

[Anonymous No.18082658]

>>18082585
got this as a christmas gift when I was 12, it sparked my enjoyment of fragrances even though it lasts for 15 minutes maximum

[Anonymous No.18082659]

It's okay

[Anonymous No.18082668]

>>18082448
>>18082441
to be fair Boucheron PH is pretty strong for a fresh citrus chypre

[Anonymous No.18082677]

My go-to scent is Montblanc but I got cucked by contracts and I don't want to pay $60 - $100 on it anymore

Is Club de Nuit Intense Men a good replacement?

[Anonymous No.18082678]

>>18082677
Montblanc explorer*

[Anonymous No.18082687]

>>18082515
>If you have high end designer and niche it makes no sense to buy cheapies
Personally, I disagree. Price does not always equal enjoyment when it comes to fragrances. As long as you buy a cheapie because you really like it and not just because it's cheap, it's a good buy. There are some absolute classics in the cheaper price tiers too, especially if you like older styles.

[Anonymous No.18082690]

SOTD: Chanel Allure Homme

[Anonymous No.18082702]

I only buy decants because I like smelling new stuff and get bored wearing perfumes often. I’ve been thinking about getting into vintage perfume bottles though because that actually feels like collecting and having a piece of a time gone by. Not sure if it’s worth the money or obsessing over though because I go way too hard when I’m into somethjng

[Anonymous No.18082711]

>>18082702
the historical angle is fun for sure, but the often delusional vintage fragrance community kind of puts me off. too many people obsessing over formulations while ignoring blatantly gone off top notes and too much hype for things just because they're rare

[Anonymous No.18082721]

>>18082711
Yeah I always wonder if some reviewers just prefer/think they prefer a vintage fragrance because it’s gone bad as opposed to it being an old formulation. That’s a reason I’m afraid to buy vintage because I don’t know if I’m actually smelling what the creator intended or if it’ll even be wearable. I guess I should start by buying vintage decants because I’d like to try an old Kouros and some feminine chypres to see if they’re really all they’re cracked up to be. Because some people describe some of them as being 3 dimensional but I feel like they’re just being hyperbolic

[Anonymous No.18082725]

LOVE THE LIPSTICKY SMELL OF DHI PLEASE RECOMMEND SOMETHING LIPSTICKIER !!!!

[Anonymous No.18082739]

>>18082721
It's impossible to know if what you are buying has been stored properly and in most cases it hasn't. Formulation queens are all smelling fried juice and caught up in trying to stop the world from spinning. All life is impermanence and change, it's when we becomes attached to ephemeral things that we suffer.

Not to mention quite a few old school feminine chypres are in reasonable shape nowadays so scrounging around like a pig in the dirt for old bottles is quite unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.18082753]

>>18082690
Smells nice, based

[Anonymous No.18082755]

Do you need more?

[Anonymous No.18082757]

Favorite summer scents for warm weather?Think Italy in Summer.

[Anonymous No.18082758]

>>18082755
Yeah today I'm thinking I'd like kofte durum, extra salad, garlic mayonnaise and a Fanta ok chief?

[Anonymous No.18082760]

>>18082758
Sounds tasty, lel

[Anonymous No.18082763]

>>18082755
yeah, you need a good taste

[Anonymous No.18082764]

It's fragrant Friday guys what are we spraying?

For me it has to be Aramis, it's going to be a herculean day.

[Anonymous No.18082769]

>>18082755
I need less (Dakar)

[Anonymous No.18082773]

SOTD: JPG Ultra Male

[Anonymous No.18082805]

>>18082757
how about the Italian classics? Acqua di Parma Colonia, Pino Silvestre etc.

[Anonymous No.18082806]

>>18082314
Hey guys, what fragrance do I need to smell like /pol/?

[Anonymous No.18082807]

I wanted to buy Cape Heartache but realistically Im not going to use more than maybe 10-15ml a year. Is it true that IA bottles evaporate that much in a year?

[Anonymous No.18082809]

>>18082807
Don't. 10 min. pine, than you get only synthetic strawberry juice.

[Anonymous No.18082812]

>>18082806
>Hey guys, what fragrance do I need to smell like /pol/?

[Anonymous No.18082816]

>>18082806
Zeig, zeig die Titten, Baby. Mmmh! Zum Rhythmus, ja!
Beug dich nach vorne und mach uns deinen Hintern klar
Gynäkologe, Tempeltown, Bass Allstars
Meine Bässe sind hart und mein Rap kommt vom Mars
Mein Schwanz kann rappen, meine Eier produzieren Bass
Du willst mich battlen. Du kannst nicht, weil du schwul bist (Ha!)
Frauenarzt. Digital
Produziere meine Beats im Hospital
https://youtu.be/PEuHTF9TMYU?si=B2yIC_N6Qvja57oc

[Anonymous No.18082820]

SOTD: my own home made iso-e super perfume, turns out I'm not anosmic.

In a couple years I wouldn't be surprised if you see my name up there with the Aaron Terence hughes of this world.

[Anonymous No.18082824]

>>18082812
It's so funny that he ripped the Lauder for men bottle off and just added a gold cap

[Anonymous No.18082837]

>>18082807
I have a small decant of this and when i spray my chest and just sit at my desk that's true but when I'm moving around and actually do stuff I get a lot of pine and dark forest throughout the whole day.

[Anonymous No.18082838]

>>18082837
Shit, meant to reply to this >>18082809

[Anonymous No.18082906]

Remember what they took from us.

[Anonymous No.18082924]

Collection so far, part 1

From top left
Nishane Colognise
Guerlain Epices Exquises
Parfums D'Empire Azemour Les Oranges
Chanel Paris Edinburgh
Thomas Kosmala Desir du Couer
Bois 1920 Sushi Imperiale
Nasomatto Duro
Ramon Montegal Agar Musk
Francesca Bianchi Libertine Neroli
Mancera Aoud Violet
Bois 1920 Vento Nel Vento
Jul et Mad Aqua Sextius
Mancera Aoud Lemon Mint
Acqua del Lario Lago de Como
Nishane Hacivat
Tiziana Terenzi Foconero

Top 5: Nishane Colognise, Thomas Kosmala Desir, Parfums D'Empire Azemour, Bois 1920 Vento, Ramon Montegal Agar Musk

[Anonymous No.18082931]

>>18082924
Part 2

From top left
Polo Cologne Intense
Dior Sauvage EDP
Dior Sauvage EDT
Dior Sauvage Parfum
Dior Homme new version
Kiehls Musk
Lalique Homme EDP
Polo Cologne Intense
Lalique Black in White
Acqua Di Parma Ambra
Terre D'Hermes Parfum
Escentric Molecules 02
Caron Pour un Homme
Burberry Hero EDP
Lalique Equus Homme EDP
Aqua Di Gio Profumo
Loewe 7 Plata
Boss Bottled Elixir
Versace Dylan Blue
Hermes H24 EDP
Polo Cosmair version

Top 5: Original Polo, AdG Profumo, Dior Sauvage EDP, Loewe 7 Plata, Kiehls Musk

[Anonymous No.18082930]

Are there any shops in europe to sample niche fragrances?

[Anonymous No.18082949]

So latest fragrance releases are just lame as fuck? https://youtu.be/-lqmBj6GYVs?si=mT9eGN20KrHn0vYP

[Anonymous No.18082954]

>>18082949
Yeah, pretty much. H24 Herbes Vives is not bad though, probably my favourite from the line.

[Anonymous No.18082959]

>>18082924
How’s your experience with Hacivat? It’s on my decant sample queue for weekend, and it’s so intense even when sniffing the atomizer that I’m kind of excited to try it and see how it evolves.

[Anonymous No.18082962]

>>18082949
just two bros hanging out and talking fumes

[Anonymous No.18082968]

>>18082959
It's ok but over rated. It's not a clone of Aventus and I think anyone claiming that is insane. To me it dries down too mossy and doesn't work that well in warm weather, it's a dense fragrance. I'm about to buy another bottle of Cedrat Boise, I finished mine a couple months ago. I much prefer that to Hacivat.

[Anonymous No.18082980]

>>18082485
>loses its fruity opening a little too quick
I'm trying to find a write up on fragrantica I saw where someone explained how to layer CDNIMLE with a pineapple based parfum to get the fruitiness all the way though. I wish I could remember the name of the pineapple parfum

[Anonymous No.18082982]

>>18082924
>>18082931
it fucking sucks dude

[Anonymous No.18082984]

>>18082982
And your collection includes?

[Anonymous No.18082998]

>>18082984
wouldnt you like to know weather boy

[Anonymous No.18083003]

>>18082984
he’s got nothing but spare time

[Anonymous No.18083008]

>>18083003
i bet you (and i) wish that were true

[Anonymous No.18083010]

>>18083003
I guarantee it's nothing but camel slop arab clones from a TikTok, but be tells people he owns the originals because the clones are "just as good."

[Anonymous No.18083019]

What is the consensus on this one? It is office safe?

[Anonymous No.18083020]

>>18083019
Yeah make sure to spray heavily though

[Anonymous No.18083021]

>>18083019
Office safe if your office is a gay bathhouse.

[Anonymous No.18083023]

>>18083020
Like how many sprays

[Anonymous No.18083025]

>>18083023
20-40

[Anonymous No.18083026]

could anyone kindly explain the appeal of nerve gasses such as but not limited to Club de Nuit Intense Man Armaf? from my understanding this is some kind of poor mans macho shit that is heavily shilled on the internet

[Anonymous No.18083030]

>>18083019
I get it from my grandma on xmas.

[Anonymous No.18083035]

>>18083026
unironically this fragrance is an insane compliment getter

[Anonymous No.18083040]

>>18083035
do you even know why?
a) nerve gas smells strongly to other troglodytes and to them STRONG = GOOD
b) nerve gas cannot be ignored and they do not want to offend you by saying that you wear a nerve gas so they say, yea it smells nice bro

[Anonymous No.18083044]

You know what's also an insane compliment getter? Being polite and doing some volunteering.

[Anonymous No.18083052]

>>18083044
You're absolutely right, your mom gave me a ton of compliments when I volunteered to let her sit her fat ass down on my cock.
Faggot.

[Anonymous No.18083056]

Club de Nuit Intense Man Armaf shills are 80 IQ poorfag shit-skins with Your mom jokes....
woah

[Anonymous No.18083059]

>>18083056
Woah woah woah. I may have fucked your mom but I do not wear CDNIM, smells like lemon Pledge being sprayed in a forest fire. And I'm (((white))) not a pajeet.

[Anonymous No.18083062]

>>18083059
uum, sure thing, you are... um.. white.. haha...
HAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.18083064]

>>18082980
CDINM Limited edition is the best version, not that woody like the anon above described, but very musky, fruity. Smells like pineapple juice with musk.

[Anonymous No.18083068]

>>18083064 GOOD SIRS CLUB DE NUIT IS REAL WHITE MAN PARFUME JUST LIKE INDIANS ARE REAL ARIAN RACE PLEASE GOD SIRS PERFUME BUY NOW AMARF SIRS PLEASE!

[Anonymous No.18083077]

SOTD: Dylan Blue

Safe choice for the office, but it's Friday so I wanted some sex appeal.

[кaни No.18083081]

for me,
it is a bath with goat milk soap,
a Babycat Yves Saint Laurent for public sex or Vanilla Barka Amouage if going to church followed up by having espresso and croissant in the morning,
and,
if at home,
i prefer Encens et Lavande Serge Lutens,
all of them can be applied on a little girls hot body to have hot sex with,
and,
if with men in company,
ill just have a bath and clean shave,
mayhap old Gucci will do,
i love being white

[Anonymous No.18083097]

SOTD: Guerlain Vetiver
wanted something invigorating and seasonally appropriate

[Anonymous No.18083120]

>>18083026
CDNIM is a budget Aventus clone. People buy it trying to emulate the OG and fail spectacularly.

[Anonymous No.18083144]

>>18083019
Not bad but old school loud obnoxious frag, smells like cherry robitussin to some people. Try it in small amounts first.

T. Tried every joop (that I know of) except nightflight

[Anonymous No.18083158]

>>18082980
I've heard people say they layer it with Demeter's pineapple fragrance. I don't know how well that actually works out, but it's on amazon for $20 so you might as well just buy it and find out

[Anonymous No.18083159]

>>18083120
but why try and emulate something? like what is the point? is this just brown peoples thing i dont understand
are shills THAT good?

[Anonymous No.18083164]

What's a good ePub reader? Sumatra PDF displays special characters like stars incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.18083165]

>>18083159
Because Aventus is the most famous men's luxury fragrance by a huge margin and costs $500, and CDNI is supposed to smell similar but costs ~$30? It's not that difficult to understand.

[Anonymous No.18083185]

>>18083165
yeah most overhyped shit since blackrock jews took control of marketing it
also 100ml is just under 300 euro
which is not even that luxurious price
unless you are an inbred monkey that uses perfume like it is deodorant
making a hype of a copy that is not even that impressive in a first place is borderline retardation

[Anonymous No.18083186]

>eat a vanilla pudding
>while looking at pictures of pale nordic girls
Taste fucking good. Can't decide between Cedrat Boise/Cdnim Limited edition/Drakkar Noir for Sotd.

[Anonymous No.18083191]

>>18083186
>armaf shill is unironic indian
yeah checks out

[Anonymous No.18083192]

A friend of mine used a fragrance that projects a lot, I could still smell it 1-2 hours after he left. All I could smell is raspberry. Which might be the fragrance /fa/?

[Anonymous No.18083194]

>>18083185
>yeah most overhyped shit since blackrock jews took control of marketing it
kek, yeah, no, you're right. Aventus wasn't an overhyped fragrance until 2021. Absolutely. You fucking nailed it, bro. Prior to that, no one in the whole world talked about it. It was really obsucre.

[Anonymous No.18083196]

>>18083159
The vast majority of people aren't comfortable spending $500 on a bottle of fragrance. So another company comes along and decides to make something similar to sell for much less and the people who can't afford the real thing buy the clone to try and be like the real deal.

I'm convinced that the vast majority of people who hate on Aventus, for reasons aside from the price, smelled one of the knock offs and based their opinions on that. CDNIM and MB Explorer smell like a chemical factory.

[Anonymous No.18083198]

>>18083191
Lmao, what makes you think that? Indians post too autistic.

[Anonymous No.18083204]

>>18083185
Blackrock bought Creed at a good price and flipped it three years later to Kering. Aventus has been hyped since it came out over a decade ago. It's arguably the best overall mens frag and holds reverence everywhere but online incels forums.

[Anonymous No.18083207]

>>18082690
How is that? What does it smell like initially and then on the dry down? How is the longevity?

[Anonymous No.18083215]

>>18083204
>It's arguably the best overall mens frag
I wouldn't go that far, but it is without a doubt the most popular luxury fragrance of all time and it's not even remotely close.

[Anonymous No.18083216]

>>18083191
Lmao, what makes you think that? Indians post too autistic.

[Anonymous No.18083219]

>>18083196
Yeah, it’s not even funny how much Aventus has going on when compared to the clones that pick couple of notes of Aventus and then go ham on highlighting them. One can call Creed a shitty company, Aventus overpriced, whatever, but every time I reach for my sample of Aventus, it’s much more of a ride than the clones.

In general, it feels that the fragrance community is full of people who are ready declare any clone a success if it even remotely captures the vibe of the original. And while having a clone that does it for 1/8th of the price is obviously attractive, it’a not even remotely the same as the clone being a perfect clone.

[кaни No.18083220]

>>18083196 i personally do not hate it, for every different nose there is different preference, i simply hate how overblown it is by Jews, that is it
and,
while i understand that,
at the same time 100ml ( 295euro ) will last You years,
unless You are a retard that is
>>18083204 have You ever considered that it holds reverence because it is getting shilled to the point its copies are getting their own shills?
>>18083194 i rarely ever get into these discussions and it has been a decade since i last checked online discussions on perfumes, i can comfortably tell that pretty much everything posted and shared is shilling or after effect of shilling, i had no idea it was this bad, as if posters are asking of approval what to like, Jews are right about goyim

[Anonymous No.18083221]

>>18083216
why did you delete this and then post the exact same thing?

[Anonymous No.18083231]

>>18083220
>i rarely ever get into these discussions and it has been a decade since i last checked online discussions on perfumes, i can comfortably tell that pretty much everything posted and shared is shilling or after effect of shilling
Well, if you're going to say remarkably stupid shit like this, it's probably best you go with your gut and stay out of the discussion. Whether or not it was "shilled" is completely irrelevant. My point is that Aventus has been massively overhyped since goddamn 2010. Is it hyped because of effective "shilling"? Could be. Does that have any effect on the veracity of what I said? Nope. The post I responded to said that Aventus was not hyped until Blackrock owned the company. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted in the general, and that is a pretty big achievement.

[кaни No.18083242]

>>18083231 do they not have a money to pay shills that have reading comprehension or are simply just white?
i never even said what You quote me on
few English classes could help You before getting mad like low IQ gorilla because i have offended Your favorite nerve gas spray

[Anonymous No.18083246]

>>18083207
It smells like teenage sex

[Anonymous No.18083247]

>>18083220
>hate how overblown it is by Jews
But jews are white, anon

[Anonymous No.18083250]

>>18083247
Just Aventuschad things

[Anonymous No.18083251]

>>18083242
Buddy, you don't need to be talking about other people's reading comprehension when you have none. The text I quoted is yours. Did I say that YOU said Aventus wasn't shilled prior to the Blackrock acquisition? No I did not. That is what the post I replied to said. The post that you chimed in to defend. And you are very clearly ESL and your grammar is very much lacking, so you might want to invest in those English classes yourself.

[Anonymous No.18083254]

>>18083251
please stop replying to the russian pedophile
why can't this thread just ignore obvious retards / trolls?

[Anonymous No.18083259]

>>18083254
>why can't this thread just ignore obvious retards / trolls?
Kinda hard to ignore you when you make up 75% of all the posts here.

[кaни No.18083263]

>>18083251 except the fact that i did not say that no matter how much You repeat the lie it does not become truth as opposed to what ever You believe,
but ,
sure ,
ill copy-paste it just for You again ,
assuming You allude to this ;
-most overhyped shit since blackrock jews took control of marketing it
which it is,
if You had any reading comprehension or knew how to use internet You would see the that what i allude as overhyped went ballistic at that period,
surely after reading this Your ego will deflate and You will check it Yourself, right??
btw barely anyone gave a fuck about Aventus even year afters its release so it is pretty telling that You have no fucking idea what You are talking about,
go ahead and throw more tantrum ,
i did not even say it is bad,
i just said it was over-hyped by Jews
what now comes to question is;
are You mad that i have accused Jews of something
or
are You mad that i dare say Creed is over-hyped?

[Anonymous No.18083266]

>Sauvage edp
>cdnim limited edition
>cedrat boise
Creamy chads can't stop winning

[Anonymous No.18083268]

>Sauvage edp
>cdnim limited edition/Aventus
>cedrat boise
Creamy chads can't stop winning

[Anonymous No.18083269]

>>18083259
okay anon, go ahead, keep feeding schizo #3. I can already see he'll be a fine addition to the thread, maybe do some fun riffing with the trannyfucker and the bitter massreply sassy faggot

[Anonymous No.18083280]

good sirs
anyone disagreeing with us is a schizoid and they are trolling
buying aventus creed and its indian knock off will make white women look at you i promise sir!

[Anonymous No.18083285]

>>18083246
Oh, well that's the best kind.

[Anonymous No.18083289]

What a good perfume for people with narcissistic personality disorder?

[Anonymous No.18083293]

>>18083289
Sauvage Elixir

[Anonymous No.18083296]

>>18083289
Anything sickeningly sweet

[Anonymous No.18083299]

As we have had an issue with this obvious bad actor for a while now, I think it's important to go out my way to help remind people about how to deal with these guys. First, ignore them. As soon as you realize that they are here to misguide the thread, cause toxic discourse, or just argue for attention, just stop replying. Their goal is engagement, their reason is irrelevant. They just want you to reply. They don't care unreasonable or out of line they need to be, they just want replies. They are not concerned with reason in any way, they're going to do whatever they can to collect replies. So just stop replying. As soon as they believe that we are not a good source for whatever it is they want, they will move on.

Also, I noticed how he's started to fall back on typical fringe debate tactics. Please check out this wikipedia page about his newest strategy and how he will intentionally throw the discussion into the mud the moment he realizes he cannot stand on whatever entry level knowledge he has on these topics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad-jacketing

He's arguing about one of the most popular frags on the market and its most recognizable clones. Do you think he has ANY idea what he's talking about? Of course not. He has just enough entry-level knowledge to troll you and rope you along to get his rocks off, though. So stop rewarding his poor behavior and let him get bored.

[Anonymous No.18083314]

>>18083296
How bout dis?

[Anonymous No.18083324]

>>18083219
>In general, it feels that the fragrance community is full of people who are ready declare any clone a success if it even remotely captures the vibe of the original. And while having a clone that does it for 1/8th of the price is obviously attractive, it’a not even remotely the same as the clone being a perfect clone.
It really depends on what you're asking for the clone to do. Aventus is a much better fragrance overall and has something that none of the clones can really capture perfectly, but it's also ridiculously overpriced for what it is. For the vast majority of people, I think CDNI or Explorer will be just fine. If you're particularly autistic or just want it for the sake of having it in the collection, then go ahead and buy the Creed. But most people who consider Aventus are doing so because they heard it was some kind of semi-mystical compliment getter and crowd pleaser, and if that's what you're looking for there are better options out there for cheaper. Sauvage and Acqua di Gio (and pretty much all of the flankers from each) will garner the same amount of compliments as Aventus if that's all you're looking for out of a fragrance.

[Anonymous No.18083328]

still looking for fougere/aromatic WITH minty/rose undertone notes recommendations. what i by this is fragrances like eau de minthe, geranium pour monsieur and rose de jamal. what i don't mean this is fougeres like drakkar noir or citruces like pour monsieur

[Anonymous No.18083334]

>>18083324
Based

[кaни No.18083337]

imagine taking a time to write an essay but not to disprove any of my points or prove me being wrong in general
reddit.com weeps for You

[Anonymous No.18083338]

>>18083334
>Cedrat Boise
Based. Best of the three tee bee haytch

[Anonymous No.18083343]

>>18083328
maybe Aramis 900?

[Anonymous No.18083350]

>>18083196
>I'm convinced that the vast majority of people who hate on Aventus, for reasons aside from the price, smelled one of the knock offs and based their opinions on that.
This is true in a hilarious number of cases. Sometimes they will admit it, too. I've seen essay-length posts on various forums decrying Aventus written by people who have admittedly only smelled CDNI.

[Anonymous No.18083359]

>>18083343
seems ok but a little too dense for wearing in the summer, i'll sample it. thanks

[Anonymous No.18083363]

>>18083192
Help this disabled guy, fragheads

[Anonymous No.18083373]

I DID IT I FINALLY HAVE IT !

[Anonymous No.18083375]

>>18083373
it sucks brother

[Anonymous No.18083381]

>>18083192
Hard to say based on that description alone. Pls answer the following
>Did it smell cheap or expensive
>Does he wear fragrances often or was this some kind of odd occurrence
>Is he the kind of guy who would pay a lot of money for a fragrance
>Is he more of a dudebro or is he an effay /fa/ggot

[кaни No.18083384]

>>18083334
>>18083324
based, brown skinned, nerve gas enjoyers,
i bet if You locked up Jew in a room and threw this on a floor it would pass out

[Anonymous No.18083385]

>>18083373
Why does it look like it's made of crumply licorice?

[Anonymous No.18083389]

>>18083185
Creed was widely considered to be very crude by those whose opinions matter since it's inception.

[Anonymous No.18083390]

>>18083019
>It is office safe?
one hundo p, but it's not as strong as it used to be so wear no fewer that 20 sprays so people will be able to smell it

[Anonymous No.18083392]

>>18083324
I agree that Club de Nuit or Explorer are better purchases for the average Joe, no denying that. Club de Nuit can get a bit harsh, but at least I find Explorer pretty damn solid for its price as a general use fragrance, although again, it’s not Aventus.

Also, one more thing that could explain strange comparisons came to mind. Because if you spray Aventus and Explorer on strips, after the initial opening they dry down to pretty similar citrusy state, but the drydown is completely different on skin. Explorer dries past the state that strip time-capsules pretty fast and loses most of its fruitiness, while Aventus keeps its fruitiness and opens up on skin a way that it doesn’t do on paper strip with the birch, moss and musk in its base.

Testing strip comparisons are pretty dubious any time you want to do a serious, analytical comparison, because they tend to ”freeze” the scent progression that might be unrealistically flattering or harsh to some fragrances, but Explorer vs Aventus setup in particular is very misleading there.

[Anonymous No.18083396]

>thread gets renamed to the fragrance general
>level of discourse easily halves
>number of nonwhites who got the internet in the last ten years doubles

[Anonymous No.18083399]

>>18083384
>>18083396
Jews are white, anon

[Anonymous No.18083423]

>>18083392
Yeah, I generally recommend Explorer to people over CDNI. I would say CDNI is "closer" to Aventus in the sense that it is a direct clone aiming for the exact same note breakdown, and it also lasts a bit longer than Explorer, but it's a lot more harsh, especially in the opening. It gets closest to Aventus in the drydown, and that's generally where Aventus and Explorer are most different than one another.

On my skin, Aventus and Explorer smell very similar in the mid, but the opening and drydown are noticeably different. The opening of Aventus is my favorite part of that scent, and it's extremely juicy and a bit sweet, but also has a tartness from the citruses. Explorer has a similar tartness, but it's very dry and almost a bit salty like the opening of Sauvage. In the drydown I get almost nothing but a vaguely leathery salty accord. It's pleasant enough, but it's mostly just a salty ambroxan.

In the drydown of Aventus I get a much smoother woodsy smell with a very nice sweetness from the vanilla and a very light smokiness from the birch. It's almost like a campfire that went out a few hours ago and left behind a very light and pleasant smoky smell.

But I do think for the average person that just wants to smell clean and fresh, Explorer is probably a better option than CDNI. It's not nearly as complex, but it's also not hyper-synthetic and potentially off-putting the way CDNI can be.

[Anonymous No.18083430]

The aventus marketing intern is talking to himself again

[Anonymous No.18083431]

>>18083423
CdNIM limited edition is an upgraded version of CdNIM edt, it beats Explorer on every category.

[Anonymous No.18083480]

>>18083392
>>18083423
take this embarrassing faggot shit out of here retards

>>18083396
most of the faggots here like the two I referred to above should be banned

[Anonymous No.18083481]

>>18083431
It's definitely a huge upgrade from than the EDT and smells much closer to Aventus than Explorer, but in terms of what the average consumer who wears Light Blue and CK One is going to prefer, I feel way more comfortable recommending Explorer. Explorer is boring and much less complex, but that's kind of what most normies are into. The thing about the LE parfum is that it's VERY strong. Much stronger than Aventus itself. If you wear more than two sprays, people will die. It's overwhelming if you're not really used to strong fragrances.

[Anonymous No.18083483]

>>18083480
No one asked, now go kys

[Anonymous No.18083512]

>>18083481
>unironically doing in-depth analysis on fucking clones
>calls other people normies

[Anonymous No.18083529]

>>18083480
All I'm saying is that some apologies are going to be in order once we sort out this nuisance.

[Anonymous No.18083536]

>>18082585
>Post your first frag
Pic related
My second was the og CDG Play!

[Anonymous No.18083563]

>>18082824
>It's so funny that he ripped the Lauder for men bottle off and just added a gold cap
The older batches of lauder for men had a gold cap

[Anonymous No.18083580]

>>18082585
I literally don’t know what my first frag was. It was a very light green square bottle. Fresh and aromatic. I stole it from my dad as a kid.

I used to think maybe it was polo but I haven’t found anything in the polo range that matches. It had a logo reminiscent of polo though, I think

[Anonymous No.18083589]

favorite fougere without patchouli?

[Anonymous No.18083590]

>>18082585
adidas ice dive from my mom
>>18083207
its a classy gentleman tonka bean juice, dont remember the parameters but tonka was there all the way

[Anonymous No.18083594]

>>18082984
lol, someone’s upset that his collection doesn’t fit into a single photo and sucks dog dicks all the same
>>18083010
that sounds exactly like the coomer mutt and his drakkar noir/aventus clone obsession. i’ll let him keep all the dune coon shite to himself
>>18083186
no one asked, coomer mutt
>>18083196
it’s really not hard to smell aventus without paying a single dime if you live near a luxury department store. i’ve smelled aventus multiple times in different countries thanks to them, and spoiler: it sucked every single time.
>>18083314
gay guys tend to have higher rates of NPD so that seems about right.

[кaни No.18083597]

>>18083430
how do i apply to be creed shill?
do i have to grind reputation first by shilling its nerve gas copies?

[Anonymous No.18083599]

>>18083563
Couldn't even be original in his tackiness

[Anonymous No.18083605]

i feel bad for kering’s marketing interns if shilling for creed is what they’re being (un)paid to do, i bet the LVMH interns are having a way better time at their gig.

[Anonymous No.18083606]

>>18083314
Pussy magnet 101

[Anonymous No.18083607]

>>18083606
if you’re trying to attract neovaginas, yes

[Anonymous No.18083608]

>>18083589
Cumming for men

[Anonymous No.18083613]

>>18083512
Cdinm limited edition is better than Aventus, though

[Anonymous No.18083615]

Althair is better than your favorite fragrance. By a lot

[Anonymous No.18083617]

>>18083615
>parfums de marly
roflmao

[Anonymous No.18083618]

>>18083589

[Anonymous No.18083621]

Better than Angels Share. Better than Ambre Narguile. Worn by men who are better than (You)

[Anonymous No.18083622]

>>18083618
i wonder if anyone would give a single flying fuck about viking if aventus wasn’t there to somewhat prop its frail decaying frame up by association.

[Anonymous No.18083625]

>>18083622
People hated Viking because it wasn't Aventus. You couldn't be more off in your assessment if you wanted to be.

[Anonymous No.18083632]

>>18083621
i didnt know anyone gave a shit about kilians or hermessences.
>>18083625
if nothing else, it appears that the creed fans have the right sentiment, just for the wrong reasons i suppose.

[Anonymous No.18083633]

>>18083622
No one would care about creed if it weren't for aventus, its (unfortunately) saved the house

[Anonymous No.18083637]

>>18083632
>i didnt know anyone gave a shit about extremely hyped fragrance lines
Yes, I am well aware that your ignorance knows no bounds. You prove it multiple times per thread.

[Anonymous No.18083638]

>>18083633
i mean, to be fair, there were still creed cultists back in the days before aventus, they just drooled over green irish tweed, silver mountain water, and a slurry of other bourdon rejects and not just the blood of christ bottled into a fragrance. one wonders where they are today and if they converted to the cult of aventus or stayed true to whatever olfactory b-side they chose to worship way back when.

[Anonymous No.18083642]

>>18083638
You can't really keep a largish perfume company running based on appealing to a handful of guys

[Anonymous No.18083646]

>>18083637
Have you just learned to read English or something? Or is it autism stopping you from getting subtext?

[Anonymous No.18083660]

>>18083637
lol who is hyping hermessence shit? it’s like the least popular of the high end designer lines from the big designers, which is slightly sad because some of them are not terrible (but most are kinda nothing). still a better batting average than dior’s private line.
as for kilian – ah yes, estee lauder’s thir- wait no, fourth most popular masstige brand. glad we found the time to discuss something of such importance.
>>18083642
creed wasn’t a large-ish perfume company before aventus, which is my point. the growth from small former-tailor-turned-scam-artist to juggernaut traded by blackrock and kering would have been impossible without it.

[Anonymous No.18083664]

>>18083638
It's unfashionable to be a Creed fan in 2024. The brand is currently still coasting on the insane amount of hype that Aventus had in 2010s, but even fragbro YouTubers won't outright praise anything they've released in the last five years without attaching a shitload of qualifiers.

[Anonymous No.18083667]

>>18083594
You're an annoying cunt and I can only imagine the whatever-jacketing post earlier this thread was referring to you. Fuck off, incel loser.

[Anonymous No.18083671]

>>18083664
better question is, what even has creed released in the last 5 years that isnt a): an aventus flanker or b): a feminine and therefore of no interest to fragbro closeted homosexuals? keep in mind, in the year of our lord 2024, this means the last 5 years dates back to 2019, which gives us:
>a trio of eau de colognes (ROFLMAO)
>a viking flanker, perfect for a perfume no one cared about in the first place
>millesime 1849, did anyone even notice this when it came out last year?
and uh, that's it. i guess if we count feminines we can include
>carmina which is universally agreed upon to be shit
>queen of silk which is universally agreed upon to be shit
if i were blackrock i'd drop this dogshit too and let kering catch the falling knife rofl
>>18083667
so much impotent rage

[Anonymous No.18083672]

Creed haters can't afford to buy it, full stop. When you can afford the best, you buy the best. Maybe you dweebs could ask your mom to increase your allowance.

[Anonymous No.18083675]

>>18083671
You must be a miserable person to be around.

[Anonymous No.18083677]

>>18083672
you cant afford to buy creed either, that's why blackrock pumped it and dumped it to silver medalists kering to clean up after their mess, and last time i checked, you aren't larry fink.
>>18083675
you must be a miserable person to be, rofl

[Anonymous No.18083678]

>>18082513
This made me wear my sample of Center Boise I had laying in my closet for years. It’s pretty nice at the opening. I’ll report back later
t Guerlain shill

[Anonymous No.18083680]

>>18083677
>you cant afford to buy creed either

That's what I figured. Don't hate because you can't afford it. If you worked to better your position in life, maybe one day you could have nicer things.

[Anonymous No.18083681]

>>18083680
ok, keep worshipping blackrock's sloppy seconds, wannabe larry.

[Anonymous No.18083683]

>>18083681
I'm not sure who Larry is but it's kind of sad how bitter you are. You're responsible for where you're at in life.

[Anonymous No.18083685]

>>18083672
im p sure the only person who cannot afford it is the german sandnigger who spends his kebab shop salary to fuck prostitutes and eat fast food. that being said, i dont understand why every single thread is full of creed and aventus discussion when it is nothing interesting to begin with

[Anonymous No.18083689]

>>18083683
>doesnt know the (former) owner of the cock he's been sucking
very sad, couldnt be me

[Anonymous No.18083693]

>>18083671
>if i were blackrock i'd drop this dogshit too and let kering catch the falling knife rofl
If I were blackrock I'd drop all pretenses of Creed being an exclusive luxury brand and go the masstige route (by which I mean downward brand extension, and not "mass appealing but also expensive" like this board is utterly convinced it means), reformulate everything using cheaper but more stable synthetics with a few token naturals thrown in so it smells somewhat expensive, slash the price of everything by 50% and start selling it at Sephora. The "passed down from father to son since blah blah we was kangz times" ship has sailed and everyone knows it was a lie. The company can still be profitable, but it's never going to last in its current state. The ultra-premium pricing can work when you trick people into believing you're something more than you really are, but the market sees through that now.

[Anonymous No.18083694]

Is NYI similar to Heritage?

[Anonymous No.18083697]

>>18083693
I'm not convinced they could make the formulations any cheaper to begin with

[Anonymous No.18083706]

>>18083693
>The ultra-premium pricing can work when you trick people into believing you're something more than you really are, but the market sees through that now.
that's the thing, how many people have actually read the ghost perfumer, or even care? how many consumers in the market are just mindless golems buying aventus on name recognition alone? in other words, does it really matter if creed keeps the facade up if the vast majority of people never really gave a shit about it to begin with?
that's the tricky part
>>18083694
vaguely, but new york intense is far more bitter and spicy, not as much tonka bean or sandalwood.

speaking of nicolai, just got an email about a new limited edition fragrance being released, it's a lily of the valley soliflore. might buy it for my girlfriend if it looks attractive to her.

[Anonymous No.18083707]

>>18083697
They absolutely could. One of the things that came out in The Ghost Perfumer is that Olivier would take Bourdon's formulations and swap every ingredient out for the most expensive version of said ingredient he could find. It is a crude and utterly ridiculous method of going about perfumery, but it is what it is. This is why Creed fragrances are notoriously weak while Creed clones tend to lack that problem.

[кaни No.18083711]

after few hours here i have noticed that creed shills are literally the same as apple shills, i guess outsourced same Indian shill company to shill their shit?

[Anonymous No.18083716]

>>18083706
>speaking of nicolai, just got an email about a new limited edition fragrance being released
probably gonna be dogshit like 95% of her lineup

[Anonymous No.18083721]

>>18083716
patricia di nicolai is a better perfumer than your favorite perfumer.

[Anonymous No.18083724]

>>18083706
>that's the thing, how many people have actually read the ghost perfumer, or even care? how many consumers in the market are just mindless golems buying aventus on name recognition alone? in other words, does it really matter if creed keeps the facade up if the vast majority of people never really gave a shit about it to begin with?
It's a bit more complicated than that. You are 100% correct that most people haven't read the book and never will, but a huge part of Aventus's success over the last 14 years has come from how hyped it was in fragcom. If you were someone just getting into fragrance in the 2010s, Aventus was the first niche/luxury scent you heard about, largely because for a good 10 years straight, it was at the top of every fragbro youtuber's list. It was at the top of Fragrantica for years, it was the best selling fragrance at discounters for years. Every time a clone would come out, there were 20 million blogs and videos dissecting it and talking about how everybody loved Aventus. Now the credibility of these """""""tastemakers""""""" is not something anyone SHOULD be taking seriously, but the fact is a lot of people, particularly new fragrance enthusiasts who don't yet know better, do. And those influencers have all read the book and are slowly but surely losing their enthusiasm for the brand.

It's not something that is going to happen overnight, but when all those reviewers stop talking about Aventus, eventually so will a significant portion of the overall market. You can already see the change. I don't even know where Aventus is on Fragrantica at this point, but last time I looked it was shockingly far down the list compared to where it was four years ago.

[Anonymous No.18083726]

>>18082314
So other than PVI of course, does parfums vintage have anything else worth checking out? I remember they had some oud scent a while ago i liked but haven't kept up with them since

[Anonymous No.18083728]

>>18083721
i wish this was reflected in her work

[Anonymous No.18083729]

>>18083724
>And those influencers have all read the book and are slowly but surely losing their enthusiasm for the brand.
that would imply that said tastemakers and influencers have a moral compass in order to realize that plagiarism and con artistry are a bad thing, and i'm not wholly convinced this is the case. of course, time will tell if you are right and these people actually have ethics, but i would not be remotely surprised if any of them read the book and continued to treat creed as if nothing happened.

[Anonymous No.18083732]

>>18083707
Lol I haven't gotten round to reading it but that's hilarious

[Anonymous No.18083734]

>>18083728
i wish you had the nose to discern a good perfumer from a shitty one, but not everything we want comes true in the end.

[Anonymous No.18083742]

>>18083729
Oh, I don't even think it's a matter of ethics so much as they themselves feel like they were conned and are now embarrassed.

[Anonymous No.18083763]

>>18083613
>Arab cancer chemicals being good whatsoever

[Anonymous No.18083766]

>>18083726
>So other than PVI of course, does parfums vintage have anything else worth checking out?
kek, I'm not sure the have anything worth checking out UNCLUDING PVI. I ordered a sample set from them back in 2017 that had PV, PVI and then one which I don't remember the name of but it was meant to resemble a smokier batch. The first two smelled like pineapples and woodchips and the third smelled like pineapple and some kind of cured meat. It was very strange. I thought maybe it was just a bad batch, but they sent one to my former home address (at my mom's house out of state) because I still used it on my debit card, then a few weeks later they fixed the issue and sent one to my apartment in NYC. Both had the same smell. It was very fucking strange

[Anonymous No.18083768]

>>18083728
Me too. She only gets recognition because feminism.
>Guerlain passed off le best nose ever because muh sexism!
What a joke

[Anonymous No.18083769]

>>18083766
are you that geeky jap from youtube

[Anonymous No.18083770]

>>18083768
Honestly, it was the right thing to do. Women shouldn't have jobs, and they certainly can't be trusted to handle volatile chemicals. I'm sure she has some kind of handler to make sure she doesn't set the lab on fire, but it's only a matter of time

[Anonymous No.18083773]

>>18083769
No, but which person are you talking about? Imagine Scent? Did he died?

[Anonymous No.18083774]

>>18083768
>actually batting for thierry wasser and delphine jelk (a woman too btw) just because you hate women
very sad, this thread has done much better trolling before.

[Anonymous No.18083780]

>>18083164
calibre
>>18082585
l'eau d'issey pour homme
>>18083773
maybe urban dweller

[Anonymous No.18083781]

im in love

[Anonymous No.18083784]

>>18083781
my condolences

[Anonymous No.18083786]

>>18083781
Febreeze sells this same scent for $4.49

[Anonymous No.18083787]

>>18083766
I have a bottle of PVI. It's pretty good. I threw some money at their samples and the "aventus inspired" collection for kicks and shits. We'll see how it goes

[Anonymous No.18083801]

>>18083706
>far more bitter and spicy
I wish it is, all i get i cloying sweet animalics.

[Anonymous No.18083804]

>>18083787
Yeah, I feel like I had to have gotten a dud.

[Anonymous No.18083814]

Zoomie twinks love this bottle. They fucking love it. They all have it. Every single one.

[Anonymous No.18083816]

Cedrat Boise Intense vs the original? Is the original closer to Amogus?

[Anonymous No.18083817]

>>18083801
sounds like something the coomer mutt would say.

[Anonymous No.18083837]

sotd xpec original
they simply dont make em like that anymore

[Anonymous No.18083854]

>>18083774
Not really a fair comparison because both Delphine and Thierry have actual talent and unlike Patricia, each of them has more than just one decent perfume to show for in their catalogue.

[Anonymous No.18083859]

>>18082315
>>18082319
fantastic as always
>>18083164
calibre

[Anonymous No.18083860]

Ordered a nice big juicy bottle of Xerjoff Fiero. God it's gonna be so good.

[Anonymous No.18083862]

>>18083854
LMFAO, no one believes this, not even you.
>>18083860
good at grifting retards like you, yes.

[Anonymous No.18083870]

>>18083862
>grifting retards like you
It's like Eau Sauvage but lasts more than 5 minutes. Your loss

[Anonymous No.18083872]

>>18083862
Whatever, retard.

[Anonymous No.18083875]

>>18083870
if it's anything like the current version of eau sauvage, that is not even close to the brag that you think it is.
>>18083872
lol, mad

[Anonymous No.18083880]

>>18083875
>the current version of eau sauvage
Uh ok then. Smells good to me

[Anonymous No.18083884]

>>18083880
sucks to be you.

[Anonymous No.18083889]

>>18083884
Very hostile. Kinda sad bro

[Anonymous No.18083891]

>>18083889
never as sad as getting scammed by jerkoff.

[Anonymous No.18083894]

>>18083891
$129 grey market, 100 ml, I'm thinking it was based actually

[Anonymous No.18083898]

>>18083894
a colossal waste of money when involving subpar wop sweat.

[Anonymous No.18083899]

>>18083898
I am a wop and I am sweaty. It was meant to be

[Anonymous No.18083900]

>>18083899
then you're used to getting scammed by your fellow countrymen on a daily basis then. carry on.

[Anonymous No.18083905]

>>18082524
>>18082531
I don't know how you can enjoy grey flannel when the smell of baby powder mogs every other note

[Anonymous No.18083906]

>>18083905
it's called having an IQ high enough to not create ridiculous comparisons between individual notes in perfume and random scented products you've smelled before.

[Anonymous No.18083907]

State of the collection

[Anonymous No.18083909]

>>18083907
quite the car crash

[Anonymous No.18083914]

>>18083907
3/6
both the grade and the amount of good frags

[Anonymous No.18083916]

>>18083914
What are the good ones?

[Anonymous No.18083927]

>>18083907
You’ve got Guerlain vetiver 10/10, don’t really need anything more than that. What’s the bottom center? Also zino is pretty good but j like guerlain heritage more
>>18083774
I won’t defend them either. But Guerlain family is a legend

[Anonymous No.18083935]

i've honestly got way too many frags. I don't know why I did this

[Anonymous No.18083936]

>>18083927
>What’s the bottom center?
Avon Occur. The scent of Karen Carpenter

[Anonymous No.18083940]

>>18083927
a legend in what way? that it’s fictitious or that their perfumery skill is legendary?

[Anonymous No.18083947]

>wear Platinum Egoiste
>get a massive, nauseating headache because of unrelated reasons
>now the subconscious parts of my brain associate the scent with the headache even though I know that PE was not guilty
I hope that this association fades away with time.

[Anonymous No.18083958]

>>18083916
zino boucheron guerlain

[Anonymous No.18083959]

>>18083947
you’d be surprised, platinum egoiste is in fact nauseatingly bad

[Anonymous No.18083970]

Is there anything that has the oakmoss of Mousse Illuminée, but freshens it up a little more with bergamot/lemon/vetiver?

[Anonymous No.18083972]

>>18083970
there was two decades of this zoomer fuck you

>>18083935
same we are definitely mentally ill

[Anonymous No.18083973]

>>18083905
Grey Flannel has a very strong floral note, that is honestly what I like the most about it.

[Anonymous No.18083975]

>>18083973
that fucking idiot probably thinks every floral powdery note smells like baby powder.

[Anonymous No.18083976]

>>18083907
This is not my entire collection, mind you. But I have hand selected those which fit in with the theme of "Perfection"

[Anonymous No.18083979]

>>18083976
archangel michael with the broken sword really epitomizes this photo.

[Anonymous No.18083981]

>>18083976
Why is your Buddha adorned with a hate symbol?

[Anonymous No.18083982]

>>18083976
>awful frags by a window no less
/responses

do not respond more to this post for the love of god

[Anonymous No.18083984]

>>18083979
kek, what's funny is that's not even my only statue of Archangel Michael with a broken sword. I have a larger one with the exact same defect. I think they started making them with a spear now because the sword always breaks in the same place

[Anonymous No.18083986]

>>18083984
i think it's because God is telling you that you are an impotent buffoon and a fucking clutz.

[Anonymous No.18083987]

>>18083982
>by a window no less
that's not where they live. I just took these ones out for the picture because I knew they would be really popular here.

[Anonymous No.18083989]

>>18083986
Nah, they both arrived broken

[Anonymous No.18083991]

>>18083989
once is incidental, twice is a sign from God. stop being an overcompensating cuckold.

[Anonymous No.18083992]

>>18083970
Guerlain vetiver

[Anonymous No.18084001]

Rate my collection

[Anonymous No.18084002]

>>18084001

[Anonymous No.18084004]

>>18084001
>>18084002
lmfao where are you getting these from

[Anonymous No.18084005]

>>18084001
11/10 for the Batman lamp

[Anonymous No.18084008]

>>18084004
Most are from Barrett fragrances

[Anonymous No.18084009]

>>18084004
The department store he stole them from, I'd imagine

[Anonymous No.18084010]

>>18084008
kek

[Anonymous No.18084011]

>>18084008
very funny

[Anonymous No.18084018]

The next time I consider buying a clone fragrance I will think it through more thouroughly considering I'd be associated with people like these

[Anonymous No.18084023]

>>18084018
What you don't want to be associated with a guy that enjoys BEAST MODE fragrances?

[Anonymous No.18084029]

>>18084023
who wears clone fragrances other than beastmode fragbro faggots anyways?

[Anonymous No.18084032]

>>18084001
>>18084002
>look up Barrett fragrances
>it’s a clone shop
Oh nonononono

[Anonymous No.18084033]

>>18084029
Indians and tiktok teens

[Anonymous No.18084035]

The only clone frag i own is a 40 year old bottle that smells like a mix of polo green and lauder for men

[Anonymous No.18084037]

>>18084033
i already said fragbro faggots

[Anonymous No.18084044]

>>18084023
I do enjoy "beast mode" frags but ones that are actually good

[Anonymous No.18084045]

>>18084044
>beast mode
>good
roflmao

[Anonymous No.18084049]

>>18084045
>he is unaware

[Anonymous No.18084050]

>>18084029
There are entire shops all along 8th Avenue in the Garment District in NYC that sell nothing but clones. There's like five or six I've been to. Some of them sell the sort of cheap/old garbage you always see at Marshall's and TJ Maxx, but mostly it's all shit like Armaf and al Haramain. And you never see anybody inside them, either. Considering Hell's Kitchen is some of the most expensive real estate on Earth and these shops are not small, I assume it's all some kind of human trafficking front. I think all these Middle Eastern brands also sell sex slaves and black market arms.

[Anonymous No.18084051]

>>18084050
that would not be surprising

[Anonymous No.18084053]

>>18084049
indeed, you seem very unaware of the utter dogshit you're wearing
>>18084050
that sounds like exactly what you would expect from new york arabs.

[Anonymous No.18084055]

>>18084053
>utter dogshit you're wearing
I didn't ask about your frags thougheverbeit

[Anonymous No.18084057]

>>18084055
no one asked about yours either, and yet here we are talking about your "beast mode" clone garbage

[Anonymous No.18084061]

>>18084057
>"beast mode" clone garbage
I don't have ONE fragarance like that

[Anonymous No.18084063]

>>18084061
correction: your "beast mode" garbage

[Anonymous No.18084065]

>>18084063
Had I used a different adjective you wouldn't be complaining

[Anonymous No.18084066]

>>18084065
the fact that you used it at all speaks for itself.

[Anonymous No.18084067]

>>18084066
seeing that synonyms can be used at times, no it doesn't

[Anonymous No.18084068]

>>18084067
considering that beast mode is synonymous with loud, screechy, and bad, yes it does.

[Anonymous No.18084069]

>>18082930
look for country specific ones

[Anonymous No.18084071]

>>18084068
no, it's synonymous with very high performance, it's just that certain people use it to describe loud, screechy, and bad scents which makes you associate the word with them

[Anonymous No.18084073]

Anyone else just make a fragrance purchase direct from the creator? I picked this up for Nephew's upcoming graduation. I chose a couple samples for my niece so she could play around with an grown-up scent. She recently has gotten very much into bath bombs and the like.

[Anonymous No.18084074]

It is sometimes a real shame that one cannot chose their family

[Anonymous No.18084077]

>>18084071
high performance is synonymous with high performance. beast mode is synonymous with loud, screechy, and bad. get with the lingo.

[Anonymous No.18084078]

>>18084073
it's not very nice for you to out your nephew as gay like that.

[Anonymous No.18084081]

>>18084071
not the other anon, but I always thought of Beast Mode as more projection, sillage, and more broadly speaking how easy it is for other people near you to notice your fragrance. Just because something is described as Beast Mode I would not assume that it has good longevity.

[Anonymous No.18084085]

>>18084078
Well he's not gay, but he does like good fragrances. The next runner up for a fragrance he liked was Bleu de Chanel. And this is him having no real knowledge of different fragrance brand names or what is popular or trendy.

[Anonymous No.18084086]

>>18084077
so what would you call a fragrance that lasts and projects a lot
>>18084081
for me it's both

again, the fact that most fragrances that get called beast mode being bad does not change the meaning of it into only meaning those frags

[Anonymous No.18084088]

>>18084081
>Just because something is described as Beast Mode I would not assume that it has good longevity.
I've always heard it used to describe a fragrance that checks all the bases. Over the top longevity, projection and sillage. Occasionally you'll hear people talk about a particular fragrance having "beastmode x" but not y and z, like maybe something has beastmode projection but fizzles out after an hour or two, but if someone just says something is "beastmode", I would take it to mean all three.

[Anonymous No.18084090]

>>18084085
well, he's about to learn that his uncle basically turned his graduation into a coming out party.
>>18084086
a fragrance that lasts long and projects a lot, obviously. why would i cal it anything else?

[Anonymous No.18084091]

>>18084090
because it's faster, more convenient and you could use thematically apropriate lingo

[Anonymous No.18084093]

>>18084091
>faster, more convenient
it's also faster and more convenient to start talking like u taek him 2 da bar but i dont see anyone in this dogshit thread stooping to even that level.
>thematically appropriate
if the theme is bad screeching chemical bombs, sure.

[Anonymous No.18084096]

>>18084093
it is clear you are not capable of actual discussion thus I recommend you kill yourself after you get banned again

[Anonymous No.18084099]

>>18084096
says the guy insisting over and over that beastmode totally just means that it smells strongly and claims it has no cultural connotations with olfactory nuclear weapons and fragbro culture.

[Anonymous No.18084119]

>>18083976
what's the black one to the right of Silver Mountain Water? Looks like a fucking banger

[Anonymous No.18084171]

>>18082924

Based and Édimbourg-pilled

[Anonymous No.18084186]

>>18084073
Lucky nephew this fragrance as absolutely amazing

[Anonymous No.18084188]

>>18084186
please stay away from kids, homo

[Anonymous No.18084190]

>>18084188
Oh look, the closeted schizo with homosexuality on his mind 24/7 is sperging out again

[Anonymous No.18084191]

>>18084190
hey gay guy, try to go 5 minutes without grooming an underage boy, thanks

[Anonymous No.18084210]

>>18083976
>Glockshit
>Parfums d'marly
>Creed

How to tell me you have more money than taste or sense of adventure without telling me directly.

[Anonymous No.18084211]

>>18083860
Good news bad news. Fiero is good, it's like an amped up version on modern Eau Sauvage. Same with Roja Reckless. Bad news is you can still get vintage Eau Sauvage with the original formula on eBay for less than the other two and it smells a little better IMHO. I'm glad Fiero and Reckless are being made so that when the old bottles of Eau Sauvage run out I'll be fine wearing them instead, but there's a reason they're copying Eau Sauvage. It just works.

If you want to try something with a similar vibe that's still unique, pick up Azemour Les Oranges by Parfums D'Empire. Basically a combo of Eau Sauvage with the orange from Hermes D'orange Vert Concentree, really great in the summer.

[Anonymous No.18084218]

>>18084211
modern eau sauvage fucking sucks, and so do jerkoff and roja dumbass

[Anonymous No.18084235]

>>18084119
Kek

[Anonymous No.18084236]

What fragrance says "I'm an intellectual"

[Anonymous No.18084245]

>>18084236
any Parfums de Marly

[Anonymous No.18084249]

>>18084245
more like i am a redditor

[Anonymous No.18084251]

>>18084249
redditors ARE intellectuals, friend

[Anonymous No.18084253]

>>18084251
le tip

[Anonymous No.18084267]

*sniff*
Smells like fresh bread baking…

[Anonymous No.18084271]

>>18083638
green irish tweed is more unique than aventus, though I love aventus

[Anonymous No.18084273]

>>18084271
is it really though, when one of the most popular men's perfumes of all time is just green irish tweed but cheaper and better?

[Anonymous No.18084277]

>>18084273
are you talking about Grey Flannel?

[Anonymous No.18084284]

Showered, moisturized, and just applied my evening fragrance of Burberry London. I'm ready for bed.

[Anonymous No.18084301]

>>18084236
montale hands down

[Anonymous No.18084310]

Take me down to paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty

[Anonymous No.18084311]

>>18084277
No... He's talking about cool water. Read the Ghost Perfumer

[Anonymous No.18084317]

New thread:


>>18084316
>>18084316
>>18084316

[Anonymous No.18084360]

>>18083860
One of the few good xerjoff fragrances. I've always thought of it as a cross between eau sauvage and habit rouge.