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The Fragrance Flowchart for Beginners

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>>18640756
>signature/year round: H24 EDT/EDP
>spring: Nicolai Angelys Pear
>summer: PdE Un Bel Amour D’été
>fall: Sartorial
>winter: ELDO Rien

at München Airport rn
they stock both Antaeus and Paris-Edimbourg.
I don't wanna go home.

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https://www.allure.com/story/francis-kurkdjian-dior-interview
>Kurkdjian admit that he doesn't wear his HRT-MtF scents
>Kurkdjian says "in 10 years we will have chips in the brain and we will buy memberchips of digital slop scents"
Giga j*wry in the making. The reason why everything smells the same today

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MASSIVE HAPPENING

PRADA LUNA ROSSA CARBON EDP COMING

>>18640904
>not l'elixir absolu concentrée
lol, lmao even

>>18640904
Boring. Better release some groundbreaking fougeres or something like that.

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Should I buy a 100 ml bottle of NYI for 120 euros?

>>18640933
yes, it's a great frag

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Bleu de chanel smells like absolute shit, why does it get shilled so hard?

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>>18640950
Zoomie and TikTok-NPC taste. Rather wear Neroli Canvas instead.

>>18640800
You're lucky, I'm very peculiar and selective and I still find an infinite number of fragrances I want to try. It never ends.

>>18640902
Damn, those Arab Baccarat dupes broke him. He’s going to donate to the IDF.

>>18640950
Reason why I’m scared to buy Dior Homme, even just a decant. It smells too close to BdC.

But ive been rocking DHS these winter days.

>>18640933
Way too much for that.

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>>18640902
>It’s not Kurkdjian’s first time working with Dior: He created three now-discontinued fragrances in 2004, and before that worked closely with perfumer Calice Becker at Givaudan in 1999 as she created the original J’Adore.
Taking Bois d'Argent from Annick Menardo, again, and they aren't discontinued. Also turns out Kurkdijan was actually at Givaudan in 1999 and co-created J'Adore with Calice Becker all along, totally. Fucking LMAO
>gourmand is already, to me, outdated in a way
He says while pumping them out like candy.

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>>18641003
>My reaction to that:

>>18640891
>PdE Un Bel Amour D’été
tell me about this one. it looks like a great summer pick

>>18641021
It’s great

>>18641021
It's shit.

>>18640950
it doesnt, youre just being contrarian

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There's this reputable website that sells tester perfumes with the original box and everything at a discount, so it's like 20-30% off the original price, is it worth it? Anybody here that has some experience in buying testers? They're selling D&G Light Blue Intense + Mercedez Benz Air new for like $100, pretty decent price in my country accounting the import tax...

>SOTD Merced Benz Sea

>>18640950
Why is she so cringe and vulgar? She's too ugly and old for her online personality.

>>18640877
Should I buy the complete Parfum d'Empire Discovery Set? How many good fragrances does that have? I have only tried Azemour.

>>18641060
>Should I buy the complete Parfum d'Empire Discovery Set?
nobody cares
>How many good fragrances does that have
0
>I have only tried Azemour.
your problem

>>18641065
Rude

>>18640979
Why? What's an appropriate price?

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SOTD: Zoologist Moth

>>18641060
Is it the sample pack? More companies should do this as it is a cheap way to try them all. Idk though, I prefer trying stuff in the mall but it's kind of a hassle to deal with salespeople but if the collection has 2-3 frags you're interested then maybe go for it, don't do it blindly though

>>18641065
Retard

Is mixing batches a bad idea? I got some miniatures of frags I already own and thought about just pouring them into the bottle instead. I wouldn't mind leaving them as is, if they weren't in tiny bottles without an atomizer

>>18641095
Parfum d'Empire isn't a mall brand tho and SAs hate people who want to try fragrances. Chanel SAs are the worst.

>>18641102
If they’re not wildly far apart it shouldn’t be an issue.

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SOTD Diadora Green Energy EDT

I made 600 euros profit in 5 days selling decants

>>18641050
Testers are fine, and cheap, you just have to make sure you're getting a good discount. 20-30% is a regular discount when you buy from discounters and grey market, you can usually get bigger discounts for testers. Also some testers don't come with caps, just make sure you're ok with that.

>>18640895
antaeus is stocked at every european department store i've been too
paris-edimbourg i've seen at multiple department stores and airports (even on mallorca)

>>18641102
I wouldn't do that just because I have found samples to be different from full bottles. Just save them for traveling or gifting.

>>18641124
That's pretty good, I wish I could do that but I could never decant my good stuff. It's a nice hustle especially with how many people can't afford perfumes.

Thank you to ted lapidus spammer. This stuff is nice lavender and musk. Tamer then some of the other musk scents ive been getting e.g. jōvan sex appeal.

It mustve been great when fragrances could be more powerful using crazy ingredients back in the day. Delightful to overspray then be room-safe rather quickly.

>>18641124
what's a decant?
t. ESL newfag (not a jeet i swear)

>>18640978
They don’t smell anything alike, retard

>>18641175
when you take the juice from a full bottle and put it in a smaller container. for some reason people buy them instead of just smelling the fragrance for literally 0 dollars at dept stores

>>18641195
thanks

>>18640904
New slop coming out just like every other year, what else is new you dumbfuck?

Friend gave me a 10ml bottle of Beach Walk by Margiela. While very feminine, I really do love sunscreen scents, so its nice

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Had the opportunity to sample a vintage Habit Rouge, the eau de cologne version, from the late 1960's.
It's much less candy-dandy than the modern formulation, being a soft, powdery, but spicy citrus laden against a deep earthy patchouli. Really incredible. I know citruses tend not to survive the passage of time very well, so maybe it was meant to be a much sharper citrus than I'm currently experiencing.

Either way, glad I got to try it. No idea how long it'll last, but I'm a good hour into it so far with no loss of strength.

>>18640877
TF lost cherry or bitter peach for a guy? or both? I'm talking about clones if that matters

I can't come to terms with the fact that I will never be Demi Rawling's boyfriend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZw4Q2vRPPw
Pierre Bourdon, most based perfumer, a short documentary.
SOTD Montale Sandflower

>>18641523
gigabased
>4.4K views
>Apr 11, 2025
fucking grim

Is there an upscale version of Pour un Homme? Something with a similar lavender note?

>>18641546
>lavander
>upscale
pick one and only one

>>18641378
Lost cherry is a bit more masculine if I remember. But smells like a morgue

>>18641195
I only order a decant if I wanted to smell something but I don't want to come back to the Sephora section with the same employee thinking I'm severely autistic

>>18641131
probably new development, even the sales rep told me that the Les Eaux series is (was) usually not in their stock, only in the Chanel boutique.

good for me, not so good for my wallet

>>18641583
the sephoria employees dont make enough to care what you do

>>18641581
is cherry smoke better?

Best frag to cover a 9-day, no shower goon session?

>>18641739
Something with a lot of cumin.
Just pretend the stench comes from the frag.

>>18641615
The cherry feels more candied and syrupy and the whole thing is a tad smoky, but imo Lost Cherry is better.
Cherry Smoke is also comically overpriced even if you consider how much the usual TF private blend frag costs.

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What's a good, thick winter frag?
Something like the thick tuberose in Cocaïne but with more of a contour, or something like the thick palo santo and myrrh in Ébène Fumé but less green and dry.
Best if it's not ambery thick like Grand Soir.

>>18641546
Beau De Jour

>>18641765
Egoiste
Chergui
Ambre Sultan
Heritage EDT

>>18641765
umbro action

>>18641065
Fougere Bengal is literally one of the worst things Ive ever smelled. Its like the taint of a businessman from Mumbai.

The Russian Amber is the only good one

>>18641832
>Fougere Bengal is literally one of the worst things Ive ever smelled
skill issue
>The Russian Amber is the only good one
yeah, that's great

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Any experience with this one or with this brand? Apparently it's a Good Girl dupe, I wanna get it for my gf and if she enjoys it I'll get her Good Girl next. I know she enjoys white florals so not much of a chance for it to be a wrong choice but I'm not familiar with arab clones

(I posted this in the 'attractive frag' thread by accident)
I want to get Terre D'Hermes parfum as a blind buy.
Is Terre D'Hermes common? Smelled it out in the wild? Or just very unoriginal.

>>18641933
>Is Terre D'Hermes common? Smelled it out in the wild? Or just very unoriginal.
It's all of the above.

>>18641765
If you want to smell like you were sitting by a campfire all night try D&G Velvet Desert Oud.

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These threads are shithouse. Archives are meh.

Make an account on basenotes and use the search function.

Sotd: Castle Forbes Neroli Reseve

>basenotes
Might as well walk away from perfume entirely.

>>18641961
Basenotes is pretty cool if you want to make a perfume, they can be helpful but for anything else is useless. Just a bunch of boomers using their collections as a substitute for dick measuring. They're not helpful, and compulsively post the most banal and trite shit.

>>18641743
Cumin to hid the cum in my pants. Hmmm theres a thought.

>>18641985
As opposed to the noslet poorfag freaks in these threads? Honestly i've been browsing here for ages now and gleamed little to no insight except from an extreme minority of posters. Surprisingly those boomers can give you a list of Vetiver fragrances and tell you distinctly the differences between them.

>>18642063
>and tell you distinctly the differences between them.
and it's all made up!

I live in Japan, outside of Tokyo, so in-person fragrance shopping is actually a bit of a challenge. There's one (1) "specialty" fragrance store in my city and they mostly stock bottom shelf Sephora stuff. Other than that you kind of have to hope one of the big department stores has a men's fragrance section or that Donki might have something (hit or miss in my experience).

I have spring and summer locked down, but I've really struggled with finding a good fall and winter frag to wear here. Mainly because anything too sweet and/or smoky would annoy the coworkers more than it already does, but at the same time I still want something with reasonable sillage and projection that I can wear when going out, whether it be a day trip or a night out - just a real one-and-done that I can spray on in the morning and not have to worry too much about what I smell like.

I wonder is it even worth it to keep searching for a cold weather frag with February almost here? After March we usually just get a lot of rain but it's not particularly cold, hell, you might even get away with short sleeves in the early evening. I might just call off the search and wait until September.

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>>18642065
It’s not made up, because I’ve also tried them and can discern different degrees of accuracy.

Anyway fuck this captcha bullshit.

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>>18642069
cool water

>>18642074
the power of suggestion makes people believe the wackiest things

>>18642069
https://www.youtube.com/@CurtisNose

This fag lives in japan. His tastes are centered around whats acceptable in the culture. He has some informative videos around it, including where he fucked up one time by spraying Sultan Vetiver before a work meeting and everyone pulled out their masks.

>>18642075
No, synthetic trash. Do better i.e GIT.

Anyone sampled Etro Palais Jamais?

>>18642078
I believe you're a fucking faggot with no friends and nothing to contribute, hows that?

>>18642084
quite rich coming from a literal furtranny

>package was supposed to arrive today "by the end of the day"
>it never did and there was never any update from fedex
christ, fedex sucks. i get theres a winter storm but maybe just fucking tell me thats the reason so im not left wondering?

>>18641941
Fuck I hope it stays uncommon. The reason why I made it my signature scent is because of the grandpa vibes that turns off normies.

>>18642093
Fedex driver took it and sprayed it before having a date with your wife

>>18642095
>it was antaeus
that absolute bastard

H24 Herbes Vives is such a let down
It just smells like a Acqua Di Gio dupe.

How factual is "noseblindness" really?
If i spray a fragrance too much, is it more likely to make it harder for me to smell it than if I had only sprayed three or four times?

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>>18640879
I never wear cologne, but someone got me a bottle of BVLGARI Man Wood Essence. It makes me want to gag, and it smells awful to me. What would be the spiritual opposite of this based on the chart?

>>18642151
It depends on the notes, for me at least. I used to be anosmic to BR 540 but I learned how to identify saffron in the air. Currently my noseblindness is Aventus Absolu, but mostly because of the low temperature

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>>18641779
>>18641789
>>18641950
Thanks.
>>18642065
>I've never smelled the frags they're talking about, nor even know what frags they're talking about, but my intuition tells me they're making everything up
Your intuition is entirely based on contrarianism.
>>18642151
>how factual is something I can look up anywhere reputable and also unreputable really?
Habituation to static sensory stimuli makes you less sensitive to them, same as the pink dots disappearing if you look at the cross in the center for a few seconds.

>>18642151
Spray something and leave it outside or near a heat source to simulate body heat (but not too close to start a fire). Come back after like 2 days and sniff it again. You'll still smell the frag.
People who overspray are genuinely retarded and think "hurr durr me no smell after 20 mins, maybe me spray more"

>>18642094
what a socially crippled shut-in incel

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Which version do I get? Parfum or Intense?

>>18642209
>I've never smelled the frags they're talking about
In fact, I have that's why I know they're full of shit. Enjoy your constant stream of false information, though.

>>18642063
This place sucks but saying Basenotes is better is plain wrong. This place is way more beginner friendly and schizos just get ignored while in Basenotes there is a cult where the people who spam unhelpful shit every single thread are treated like gods. On average there are more expensive collections here but there is no need to brag because you don't get brownie points for your fancy collection. Their DIY forum is occasionally useful but outside of that it's just senile boomers who treat their opinions as fact, and the parasites who can't disagree.

>>18642151
There are three kinds of noseblindness, the first is quite easy to understand, you wear a perfume all day but you don't smell it all day. It comes and goes because your nose is not going to remind you of your fragrance every second. It identified the smell and it's ready to identify other smells, when it forgets about your fragrance it brings it up to your attention again later on. You know your fragrance didn't go away because other people smell it and you don't until they remind you. That brings me to the second type, what some people call anosmic. It's when you don't smell an entire fragrance or it's really muted. You keep spraying and other people tell you they smell it or it's really strong and you barely detect it. This might come and go but for some fragrances and notes it can be permanent. The third and final type is habitual exposure, it happens when you wear the same fragrance and over time you stop smelling most or all of it. It happens too when people grow used to the smell of their house or car and it bothers other people but they don't notice it themselves. With fragrances you can end up noticing only the alcohol or a single note. It can usually be reversed by not using the same fragrance repetitively.

tldr: It's real but every nose is different so it's hard for people to agree. If you're concerned, rotate your fragrance so your nose gets a break.

Is there a dupe or similar profile to Dior Homme Sport?

>>18642311
yes, L’Eau d’Issey pour Homme Vetiver

>>18642275
>there is no difference between these frags, whatever they are
the power of suggestion makes people believe the wackiest things

>>18642262
I went and sprayed some on my wrist at the store just now, and I seriously have no idea how to feel about the iris lipstick scent.
It's like a chalky frangipane, and even now after two hours it's all I can smell.

Not even sure if it's a masculine scent at all.

>>18642262
Intense
I say this as someone who compulsivly bought the parfum 2 weeks ago and have never smelled the intense.

Demachy > Kurkdjian

>>18642345
I sprayed some Intense on my wrist two hours ago, see >>18642342

Not sure how to feel about it.

>>18642346
To me the parfum is pure heavy amber for hours then drys to a saltier iris, but that is all it is I can't pick up anything else or much nuance at all.
The iris is definitely girly, not 'salty' like Born in Roma dry down.

I bought it based on the rep not knowing about the reformulation hence recommending intense, just because it's the original demachy (re)reformulation.

Honestly just buy Fahrenheit parfum instead before Kurkdjian fucks that up aswell

>>18642351
>The iris is definitely girly
I saw the reviews and recommendations everywhere, but when I read about the lipstick iris I just couldn't fathom it being a manly smell.
I was completely open to it though, and went out to try it fully expecting to love it.
But it turns out my instincts were right the first time; it really does smell like a ladies' beauty case from the 80s or some shit.

Maybe I just don't get it.

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There's something about the drydown on this that drives me absolutely wild, both on the skin and on clothes.
Supposedly it's a fougère, but no other fougère does anything like this.

Too bad it doesn't really have anything else going on.

>>18642353
>Maybe I just don't get it.
It had a fairly decisive reputation in the past tbf and became known as the OG iris scent for men, but now iris is everywhere. Valentino do the male iris scent better imo and even their stuff is very fem

Iris smells like chocolate to me. Also I find patchouli feminine

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>>18642396
>Iris smells like chocolate to me

wat

>>18641021
It's good and really easy to wear. The quality is great as always with the brand. I find it lacking boldness and you may want to try the rest of the line up before deciding. I suggest you Eau de Gloire Cologne as a summer scent. The performance is pretty nice for a cologne.

>>18642342
If you believe scents can be gendered, then it’s definitely not masculine, Dior has just been marketing it as such for so long people have come to accept it as true.

If you need more evidence, just look at Dior’s history, they have always tried to push edgy/“different” fragrances, Fahrenheit is the easiest example but there are many more. Putting iris in men’s stuff is just the biggest example, to the point where many people don’t even recognize it.

>playful
>for a zoomer
>masculine enough
>good performance
>for summer
Which Hawas checks all these boxes?

>Fougere Royale
>Sartorial
These any good?

>>18642449
2/10 both

>>18642358
For me its BOSS NO 1
I wish it was only the drydown, everything else is not that good.

Tomorrow my blind bought Gucci Guilty Absolute and Hermes Eau D'Hermes are arriving, wish me luck.

>>18642596
nice haul, good luck
btw GGA is exactly as advertised and if Eau D'Hermes is any similar to Azemour or Nicolai's Vetyver then it's also a great frag

>>18642184
>>18642209
>>18642292
I see. Thanks anons.
Most fragrances seem to disappear quickly on me, I thought it was because they were weak but maybe my nose just gets used too quickly to them then especially since I tend to overspray a bit.

>>18642231
>Spray something and leave it outside or near a heat source to simulate body heat
What do you recommend to test it on?

>>18642602
I just leave it on my home server rack but if you don't have one of those, maybe a fridge that has a warm spot on the outside would work. Literally anything that gets warm but not hot
>>18642358
>mexican man
>fresh spicy
Kekky

>Bogart making a womxn's fragrance
It's over.

i feel like blind buying a dirty animalic.
i have these options:
>Cuoium
>Bogue MEM
>Salome
what should i go with?

PRADA L'HOMME 10 ml decant worth blind buying? Or should I go smaller?

Plan to use it once the summer hits.

>>18642640
Burning your money would be less of a waste than spending it on any of these.

>>18641933
>Is Terre D'Hermes common? Smelled it out in the wild?
I don't smell it often, but it's unmistakeable when I do. I find the orange/flint note offensively bitter.

>>18642644
they're not really that expensive to me so i don't really care

>>18642094
It's quite common to want to smell unique but so few people wear any fragrance that wearing anything at all is already a novelty. Even popular stuff like BR540, Delina and their clones are annoying but it's just like one person in a crowd. If you want to be different from the small percentage of people that wear fragrance just wear anything other than a freshie, aquatic, or sweet goop.

>>18642634
>people spouting random bullshit
Just another day on the internet.

>>18642640
If you’re getting a dirty animalic just go for a Prin.

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My bottle fell off and broke just as I was leaving for work. A blessing in disguise? I'll clean it up tomorrow.

Le Labo discovery set: Another 13, The Noir 29, Santal 33, The Matcha 26, Rose 31

each 1.5ml

Worth it for ~$40 after shipping? not particularly interested in Matcha 26 and Rose 31 but I know the other three are hyped. though I've heard Le Labo is fundamentally pretty straightforward and simple, and the projection very heavily depends on skin chemistry. i don't really have an easy place to go sample them.

thawlts?

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>>18642777
>$40 for 7.5ml

>>18642777
>Worth it for ~$40 after shipping
no. just drive to a dept store and save yourself 40 dollars

>>18642640
MEM is an awesome frag, buy that
Prin frags are also good (>>18642770)

>>18642644
>t. retard

>>18642777
meh

>>18642452
Holy noselet

>>18642640
diy slop

Is Prada L’Homme blind buy safe?

For reference I liked YSL Y EDP. You think its along the same vibe?

Why are Greeks so tasteless with their frags? Secondly, why do they dress so gay? I'm beginning to think they might all be homosexuals by default.
SOTD: Chanel Bleu

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>>18642944

>>18642770
>>18642841
MEM then. I will look into Prin as it's come up a few times. woudl you have any to recommend?
i'll look into how i can get my hands on them

>>18642944
Not at all. Bleu de Chanel is similar to YSL Y.

obvious samefag is obvious once more

>>18642967
Bleu de Chanel is nice but I do not like the ISO E super in it, feels out of place, not unlike Terre D’Hermes and Dior Homme

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>>18640877
Dior Homme Intense
>hear and read a lot about it
>decide to try a test spray on hand
>initially dont like it
>10 mins pass
>it is actually the greatest thing I ever smelled
>3-5 hours later still catch random glimpses of it
>still smell it at the end of the day
>a kind of ecstatic deep floral sweetness that never feels cheap or tacky, but more like a warm embrace by a pretty woman with long and curly hair
there is no particular image when I smell it, it is just a heavenly smell. but when asked I would say: Grand Budapest hotel, red scarf romance and home-made jam

>>18640461
It arrived. It's LV Imagination with a tiny bit of creamy almond thrown in. Mildly disappointed in it.

>>18642634
does Bogart make anything that's not dated drugstore slop

>>18643057
>Grand Budapest hotel, red scarf romance and home-made jam
that sounds extra gay. thanks, I'll pass

>>18643123
>t. 1million by paco rabbane wearer

>>18643109
Oof. Well good thing I only ordered a decant. I don't think the LHI line is that good but I like the original.

>>18642775
that thing smells like Drakkar Noir on steroids.

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>>18643173
>also Sauvage Elixir smells like Drakkar Noir

>>18641743
Unironically, does anyone know a frag with cumin and/or musk that smells like sex without smelling straight up like jeet BO?

>>18643173
Isn't that an Aventus Absolu copy?
What does it have to do with Drakkar Noir?

>>18643199
Gourmand scents melted his brain

is 9pm rebel actually good? thinking of blind buying it.

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Been wearing this for a month now
It mogs.

>>18643123
you know what, don't let my gay description dissuade you. instead listen to this beautiful woman doing a much better job than me at describing it as the 10/10 scent that it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT5hsI3I0H4

>>18642944
It reminded me of Le Male edt, purple lavendery scent, it's not an unsafe buy like something harsh or loud but it's more of a L'Hommo than L'Homme. Less homo than jpg though

Copped Sauvage Elixir for around $170 converted, could have been a little lower but the store jewed out on the discount. Saw 50 ml of Creed Viking for $190 but it sold out very fast. It's a good one but I just got TdH for a fraction of it's price and it fills the orange slot in my lineup.

sotd Dsquared2 Green Wood

>>18642785
even travel sizes at usually $30 or so for $10-15ml

>>18643057
>Dior shill hears of thread correctly identifying iris as gay/feminine
>Grand Budapest hotel, red scarf romance and home-made jam

>>18641933
it's not that common, Sauvage is really common but Terre you can smell occasionally

>>18643214
too bad it's fleeting, at least that's what i read

>>18643273
true but you can just respray since its cheap

>>18643267
>hurrr
i never heard of anything, i just bought a frag i like and wanted to share it.
and my description is corny, so what?

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kek

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This hobby is dangerously addictive. This is what ive bought so far during the fall and winter alone and im still trying to get more

>>18643351
That's just a starter set, your path hasn't even started yet.

>>18643351
Turn back now. I've probably spent over 10k and have 100+ bottles easy. And like 400 samples. This shit is a moneypit and you WILL lose interest

>>18643397
>you WILL lose interest
sucks to be you

>>18643397
If you had bought drugstore and cheap arab slop instead, you could have 1000+ bottles.

>>18643400
it's not too late to make that happen

>>18643400
I have a healthy mix of cheap drugstore slop, higher end niche, and about a dozen or so vintages

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any recommendations for something that's mainly musk and woods and aromachems like iso e, ambroxan, javanol etc? besides DH2020 or Ranger Station's 2 Trick Pony.

>>18643423
Reserve Privee and Gentleman Boisee

>>18643351
Stop browsing reddit bro

>>18643363
im not even showing my spring/summer collection. i could probably wear a different fragrance every day for a month in the summer

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>>18643351
>>18643397
I spent the equal of $3400 on samples and a good few frags, in a country where my monthly wage is $1000, in 3 months. Basically a years savings gone on funky water.
I don't know what to make of this honestly, I'm having a manic episode again this week, barely sleeping. It doesn't help realizing how better that money could have been spent. My car was 6k for reference.
I might be going legitimately schizophrenic, got to lock my money down at the bank or something or I'll dry it all up eventually.

sotd Philipp Plein No Limit$

>>18643057
>initially dont like it
>10 mins pass
>it is actually the greatest thing I ever smelled

My experience was that it smelled exactly the same the first second as it did after 10 minutes, after 2 hours, even the next morning before my shower: it smells like a rich woman's purse from the 80s.
To my nose it's so inappropriate for a man to wear.

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>>18643202
It smells like Qaed Al-Fursan. However, the pineapple smell isn't that strong.

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>>18643351
Nice collection
>JPG
Nevermind.....

>>18642947
based

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>>18643173
This is bait, right?

>>18642358
I've been doing some research, and apparently this lingering ecstatic scent may be the ambroxan?
Weird that I've never experienced it in any other scent.

Is this thread nothing but Indians and Nafris who act like guidos?

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It's already confirmed. 1 month without fragrances and I no longer experience sneezing, itchy eyes and itchy mouth roof. What ingredients in perfumes could be causing this? Any workarounds?

>>18643460
>$3400 on samples
>going legitimately schizophrenic
That's quite normal for people who buy samples.

>It doesn't help realizing how better that money could have been spent.
You could have a collection of bottles that you could sell and get some of your money back.

>>18643497
>What ingredients in perfumes could be causing this?
All of them.
>Any workarounds?
Buy perfumers alcohol and ingredients and try them one by one. You can also try single ingredient attars or just get a comprehensive allergy test, maybe one that focuses on cosmetic/perfume ingredients.

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Which one of these? It's all I can afford right now.

>>18643460
Me but watches.

>>18643523
You can get a tiny bottle of Terre d'Hermes, or you can ask your mom for $5 and get a 10ml of Bois Imperial.

>>18643520
Does anyone get these symptoms? >>18643497
besides me

I have like 30 perfumes now and do not know what to do

Is cucumber a known 'note' in fragrances? Because I got some Eternity Aqua and it really reminds me of cucumber.

>>18643547
Yes:
https://par.fm/SRHOb

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So I didn't like the Dior Homme Intense, see >>18642342 >>18642353 >>18643461
for my scathing review.

Today though I went and tried Dior Homme Parfum (on a paper strip this time though), and it is MILES better.
There are more other notes coming through instead of it being all lipstick. Honestly I can't even really make out the lipstick in the Parfum, meaning the iris is adding value to the mix instead of overpowering the whole thing like in the Intense.
If this is a winter scent, then there's a relative sharpness in here that's fantastic at keeping the entirety light-ish, despite the leather and shit.

I also tried Prada l'Homme on a paper strip, and while there's definitely something in there that stimulates my primal brain, it's also sugary sweet. Does skin reduce that?

>>18643497
where do you spray? i used to sneeze a lot spraying my chest but moving to spraying my stomach and inner forearms fixed it for me

do i need to let a fragrance reach room temperature before i spray it or is that just a meme? got a package today and the bottle is a bit cold

>>18643675
Think it might warm up pretty quickly when you spray it on your skin.

>>18643675
Never even heard that as a meme, heat is bad for fragrances, keep them cool and away from light.

>>18643519
samples were 1k at max, rest is bottles. Samples are harder to sell yeah but each is one blind buy I did not fall for.
I guess this is still better than losing it on e whores or gambling.

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>>18643423
Her body and tits are 10/10, but her face is mid at best.

>SOTD CDG Black EDT

>>18643423
Narciso Rodrigues for Him and flankers.

>>18643711
Same difference, have you recently came of Ozempic?

Serious question, the compulsions don't leave they just find different outlets, hence the huge trend toward gourmands being inflated by fatties in ozempic disguise but still needing to fulfill their urge to consume sweet things

>>18643523
Don't listen to the shill. Nautica Voyage is fine for highschoolers or even college students.
Nobody in the real world will go "huh I recognize that smell, it's Voyage, this guy is so poor lolol!!!"

>>18643675
In the time it took you to type that post and wait for replies, you could have held the bottle in your hands and already warmed it up. What a pointless question

>>18643675
yeah its a bit cold these days. when my frags arrive to the parcel locker machine thingy outside, it stays there throughout the night. then i pick it up, unbox and put it in a warm water (but not too warm, 70-80°C should be just right so it does not go bad in boiling water). after an hour its ready to be used and enjoyed. i did this with 50+ bottles and an hour in this exact temperature is ideal, top notes seem more prominent

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>TL;DR average fit joe testing a bunch of what the thread comments/recommends
Last time I was looking for a summer one and now I wanted to look into some summer/autumn ones + one for my gf

>Light Blue Intense
Still have it on my arm and keep smelling it every 15 mins. After trying Light Blue and Summer Vibes, I found the perfect middle ground of citrus/salty and aromatic, drydown is perfect in my skin keeping the citrus while also being soft for the office, but not as soft and silent as OG Light Blue. Postponing my purchase of Legend Spirit to get a tester of this one immediately. 100% recommend blind buying.

>Gentleman Society EDP Ambreé
A nice find, lovely woody/cinnamon profile with amber notes, too bad my lady finds it to be an "old guy smell" because I enjoy it and will be filling the divorce papers soon. Sweet but masculine with a leather base note, a strong frag.

>Dior Homme/Homme Intense
I tried them both in succession so Idk which is which, but one of them smelled too feminine and the other a bit more spicy, like >>18643570 said. Not my vibe at all, would not get.

>Eros Najim
Very good spicy and my reference of spicy sweet from now on. Not my type of frag but definitely enjoyable. Funny that Eros Energy is also my reference for the "how citrus can we get" scale.

>Armani Stronger with You
Very powdery but a bit feminine I think. My lady agreed so I will try to test SWY Intensely next. Would just get Le Male Le Parfum instead.

>Terre Dhermes Parfum/Intense
It's kinda distinct and something I'm not used to, so idk what I think of it yet, but definitely not common so there ya go >>18641933. One of them was a bit more spicy, enjoyed that one more but both are fresh.

>Le Male Le Parfum
Kino scent, I had tried Ultra Male before and this is a better all-rounder for autumn/nights, and not as sweet as Le Beau. Will consider buying.

>Good Girl/GG Blush
The pink one is more enjoyable, the og is a bit too "Im a woman take me seriously" and not fun

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>>18643772
Never used ozempic, don't need to i'm not american. The compulsions are there indeed but it usually covered less expensive interests.

Got Sauvage Elixir in the mail, strangely it had a faint smell even when the box was closed, it had the foil and stamp though. It doesn't smell as amazing as the sample, apparently this is a fall 2025 batch. It's fucking over lads

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>>18643833
>doesn't smell as amazing as the sample
many such cases

>>18643556
Wow, no shit! And Aqua is actually on there. I was actually right about something. Cool.
Thanks.

>>18643777
I know. I don't care about what people think so much. And for $19 I could get all three of those over a few months. I'm sure they're pretty generic and pleasant smelling. Stuff at that price point isn't going to be weird 'Sex Panther', acquired taste stuff anyway. I'll try the Nautica first, thanks.

>>18643778
There are no pointless questions. Even if he did that he wouldn't actually know the answer.

>>18643840
>jews

Kill yourself.

>>18643429
>iris slop
too reddit
>>18643745
Musc Santal looks like exactly what I'm looking for thanks

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This has my interest. It somehow smells good and bad at the same time.

What are some extremely masculine fragrances for a man with nothing to lose?

What are some extremely masculine fragrances for a man forced to wear adult diapers?

>>18643959
You aren't interested in something that smells even remotely bad though. So why bring it up?

>>18643959
the pimento is way too prominent

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SOTD Al-Rehab Lord

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>>18643959
>Tom Ford
Slop

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>>18643733
>he thinks Sydney Sweeney is sexy
Brown hands typed this

>>18642777
Another 13 smells like vagina and Santal 33 like cum. There, saved you the money.

>>18644093
>Another 13 smells like vagina
um, based?

>>18643987
Sauvage has degenerate gambler written all over it.
>>18644002
Karl Lagerfeld. You should fit right in with the other geriatrics.

I want to buy some vanilla tobacco frag for winter daily wear but I am a poorfag. Any recommendations under or around 60 bucks?

>>18644119
Spicebomb/Spicebomb Extreme maybe?

As garbage the longevity is I still like LNDH.
Just had the idea to maybe mix some ISO E Super with it in an atomizer to make it last a bit longer. Does anyone reckon it's worth a try?

>>18644242
No, get a travel spray.

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Damn, this stuff is nasty.
The meme is not worth it.

>>18644242
From my understanding it is basically a myth that iso e super will make your fragrances project.
I'd suggest spraying a lot more like 12 sprays at least and also a travel spray like the other anon said.

am i weird if i wear zoologist snowy owl? i just like it.

>>18642345
>Demachy > Kurkdjian
I find it interesting that Demachy was tarred and feathered when he started at Dior, then when his work spoke for itself he was ignored. At the end of his tenure he was dragged through the mud and attacked. The same people who once demonized him idolize him now that he's gone. I suspect the same will happen Kurkdjian. It's so easy that it becomes the default to hate the current thing and prefer the previous thing. I'm certainly guilty of that myself but at least I try to be consistent and not flip-flop as time goes on. Demachy can't be dethroned in my book but I don't think Kurkdjian is bad and he's definitely being overhated now. When he gets a big hit for Dior everyone will get real quiet.

>>18644269
>When he gets a big hit for Dior
he won't
>everyone will get real quiet.
nobody under 40 cares and oldheads who do will complain anyay

>>18644274
That's probably what they said about his predecessor before being disproved. Hits aren't made by the perfumer alone, if they throw enough money at a new name and campaign they can manufacture a new hit. I think he need to revisit his unsung early work. If he brings back Armani Mania or Miracle Homme and gives it the typical modern performance I think people would be blown away.

Fuck, I love how humble Delphine Jelk is even when talking with someone who is not very knowledgeable. I take back what I said about her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VncngvmbA

>>18644318
>Delphine Jelk
yes, i would have sex with her
how did you know?

>>18644318
>>18644319
on a related note, pls let someone make a proper interview with Pierre Bourdon where no bs questions are asked and he can simply talk about whatever (the Cool Water vid is a good start but i need more)

>>18644321
why don't you do it yourself asshole?

>>18644321
He took over the interview in the Malle channel with all the perfumers. He's very opinionated and blunt. He was big mad.

>>18644323
good stuff, thanks
watching it now

>>18644269
>becomes the default to hate the current thing
That is fair and dhp is suffering with that and in all honesty it's really nice on its own merits, I just felt a bit jebaited when I got home and realised I didn't get the iconic dhp, that's a marketing issue with the entire homme line not fk's fault I guess

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I’m looking for a good “clean” fragrance to wear to work and running errands. Right now I’m between one from the YSL Y line (maybe elixir?), and Endymion from Penhaligons. What do you guys recommend?

>>18642069
Teriaq intense if you like gourmand.. it's supposed to be plum liquor oriented but I get more of a chai latte vibe. It's perfumed by quentin bisch. I don't know how easy it is to get lattafa in japan though.

>>18644488
Colonia and its flankers
Prada L'Homme

but at the same time, you'll never go wring with Y EDP or BdC

>>18642183
dior homme cologne
versace man eau fraiche
ck one
all inoffensive and fresh.
if you don't like that bulgari, definitely avoid the encre noire line and don't blind buy anything with strong vetiver/cypress
>>18642435
probably ice
>>18642777
if you have to ask then it isn't worth buying a full bottle anyways. i've worn another 13 a few times now and it's very overpriced for what it is
>>18643844
kike
>>18644002
sauvage elixir

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What can I wear to pull this off as a guy? I really just like the cardamom but the mimosa note is like a more zesty iris lol

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This shit is more wearable in the heat than Prada L’Homme

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SOTD

>>18644588
I got the blue version of this

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SOTD Montale Sandflowers

>>18644501
>prada l’homme
It’s weird but every Prada I’ve worn comes across as extremely sweet to my nose. Paradigm and the Luna Rosa’s are supposedly these “clean” “fresh” scents… but I get much more sweetness for sure. Is Lhomme like that?

>>18644501
>BdC
Generally doesn’t blow me away, I think I prefer the Y line a little better… but I’ve heard the Parfum is very good and a lot more woody/creamy than the original if anyone has thoughts. I’m just not a big citrus fan, that’s actually why I like the Y line, I smell way more apple than citrus. Maybe I’ll stop at Sephora and smell BdC parfum and decide there. Hate to pay the department store prices but it’s worth it if they offer good sampling

>>18644574
its also basic af fuck

>Bvlgari Tygar
I can’t smell this one. Up close, its very gingery fresh, but there’s no sillage at all. Could this be one of those only-best-in-high-heat fragrances?

currently eyeing the loewe elixirs
how does the solo elixir hold up? the escensia seems like the most commonly available, but I'm wondering about the other entries too

>>18644269
>>18642345
>>18644468
In my experience, Dior Homme Intense is a ladies' perfume, end of story.
I tried it a few days ago and can still smell it on the cuff of my sweater.
I never tried the pre-2025 Dior Homme Parfum, but if that had the same iris dominance, then it was a ladies' perfume as well.

I did try the 2025 DHP, and that had the same vibe as the DHI, but without the lipstick dominating everything from start to finish.
I mean, who in their right mind would think the scent of lipstick makes a good fragrance for a man? It works when used as a secondary supporting note (see Prada l'Homme, DHP 2025), not as the main one.

>>18644665
I think what they’re trying to go for is the European traditional cologne infusion, which uses the bearded iris species. Think of it as the aromatic fougere before lavender was cultivated. It’s the same reason why makeups are scented that way, they just used orris roots to fragrant it, and we assumed association with it.

Nonetheless, I prefer Dior Homme Original, it’s just right blend of woodiness and herbalic iris variant, Intense is way too gourmand for my taste. Givenchy Gentleman blends iris with booze, which is too odd for me. I grew out of Prada L’Homme, it’s a good starter iris but it is too bright and ends up smelling like baby wipes.

>Italian lemon
>Nigerian ginger
>Australian sandalwood
>Brazilian rosewood
>Chinese deer pussy

do all these locations matter, or is it just part of the marketing

>>18644662
>citrus
>musky
Yeah they’re basically dead in winter air

>>18644675
Yes,
The location is a way of finding out what the ingredient actually is. The chemistry into making a refined perfume oil will make it bring out the unique natural characteristics of what specific species the plant used is. Gives you an idea of how upper-shelf the perfume actually is and lets you figure out what ur smelling.

>>18644667
>I prefer Dior Homme Original
How "original" is it?
Anyway, I do like the 2025 DHP. There's a fresh sharpness to it. It's also powdery, but without the lipstick dominance.
I've heard good things about Dior Homme Sport too, for summer.

>Prada L’Homme
>too bright
>ends up smelling like baby wipes.
Not my experience at all, for me it's definitely less bright than DHP 2025.
And to me it ends up smelling somewhat sweet, but still very much like a high end fragrance. Overall it gives me that primal reptile brain bliss even when I still smell it on clothes after a few days.

>>18644695
I tested Dior Homme Sport, surprisingly I liked it. Bot a fan of soapy freshies but that one scratches an itch. I think its the ISO E that does it

Does anyone know if there are copies of acca kappa white moss? (either edt or edp is fine) I used to be able to get it for around 60 bucks and now it's practically gone from all local stores I know.

>>18644708
i have a bottle of Etro Musk and it's a good frag on its own right, according to fr*grantica it's pretty similar to the EDT

>>18644708
>>18644723
also it's still very much available at Euro discounters

>>18644624
i haven't tried much from Prada. To me, l'Homme is more powedery and soapy than sweet. to me it smells like clean laundry and soap.

>>18644630
BdC is the perfume that created the blue frag genre. it's safe, mass appealing and at this point, basic. but you'll never have an occasion where you can't wear it and everyone will think it's nice. but if you don't like citruses, that limits more in terms of the "fresh" scents. it's usually a top note but disappears quickly.
i'd recommend the Y flankers like the EDT or Eau Fraiche, or even Acqua di Gio, but they're all citruses.

Perhaps a Dior Homme or Givenchy Gentleman flanker might be up your alley. or just something woody like Bois Imperial and Santal 33. i actually recall purchasing Santal Volcanique because it smelled so fresh and clean it reminded me of a spa.

>>18644708
>>18644723
>>18644724
Tell me about Acca Kappa White Moss.
I remember trying it once and liking it, but I don't remember it smelling like a unisex fragrance, as Fragrantica states.

>>18644675
No, it's just marketing and it works very well. It makes midwits think each region has a different species, that quality is based on region, and that you can tell the difference. A lemon is a lemon regardless of where it's from. Does sandalwood smell different depending on where it's from? Yes. Can a trained perfumer with decades of experience and daily practice tell them apart? Yes. Can you? No. Can you tell them apart in the small concentrations of a finished perfume? Hell no!

>>18644794
i think what you're saying is true for the most part. the only one i think i can notice the difference is when it comes to oud and rose. the types are quite different from one another.

>>18644799
Perfume ingredients are sorted by quality, you can have a huge range in grades from a single region. You can't put that in the notes because the consumer doesn't understand the difference in grades. Unless you know the grade of the ingredient the region is meaningless, it's just marketing. Comparing low grade Lao Oud with Chinese Oud, doesn't make much sense, or high grade Bulgarian Damask with low grade French Damask. You can probably differentiate centifolia rose from Damask rose but they are different roses. Again I think all this talk is meaningless when it comes to the end result of a perfume, and only matters when the ingredient is in isolation.

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Ralph Lauren Safari, vintage today

For an oldschool men's barbershop le epic powerhouse, this is more on the tame side. Fresh lavender against muted woods, with some rose and bergamot. Nothing super special, in fact, I might even prefer the modern formulation.

I will admit that it's very well blended, I had to really try to discern some of the notes

>>18644834
Fuck you it's 3 AM HERE
SOTD: Bvlgari Tygar

>>18644247
>body spray deodorant
?????
Just get the edt?

I lost interest in perfumes in 2021. What the fuck happened? Why are the communities everywhere overflowing with jeets and fucking arab clones??

>>18644908
It’s all over dude. The jeetpocalypse has consumed the entire internet, which is now also all of real life thanks to covid, and now every website, market and commodity is ruined

there's no stopping the anti-fragrance movement. your time is running out fragtards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8rRvGCM1wE

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>>18644908
I'm new here, noticed that there's a lot of difference in my local frag community and here since it's more international. We don't have jeets but arab clones are very popular, almost as if they are a norm because of the lower prices.

>>18644924
I will always enjoy fragrances for myself, don't care if no one else gets it

sotd drakkar noir
it's so good bros

>>18644928
Garbage plastic mills like Temu and the like are popular because of their low prices too, people care absolutely nothing about quality, they just want to have the thing for cheap even if it’s shit

I just mogged some fragchud with Jaguar Classic Gold. The guy was wearing some Adi vim Ali shit or whatever it’s called. Nuclear performance.

>clarysage
>citrus
>rosemary
yeah dawg, get the fuck outta here with that toilet cleaner shit

>>18644917
>>18644928
I noticed it when I decided to sell a few of the perfumes I really don't use, nor do I see myself using them in the future. I get lowballed by a Pajeet or worse, asked to if I want to trade. No dude, I don't want your fucking arabian clone of a clone

>>18644834
what the fuck is that picture from? I tried reverse searching it on like 6 different engines and came back with nothing

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This is quite good. Thanks for reading.

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>>18645007
How "intense" is it?
And can u smell the raspberry?

>>18645015
It's of a mild intensity in terms of projection, but it does last for many hours on skin. It's not lacking in longevity.

It has a deep raspberry smell. Like a smokey, dark raspberry.

>>18645018
Ahh, I really have to try it out now, the raspberry Note made me really curios.
I hope my local douglas has it.

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I posted a while ago that I had bought some stuff from Fraterworks including two of their fragrance compounds (Brut and Aventus) that you mix with alcohol and macerate for a month. I bought some empty spray bottles and using the 0.01 gram accurate scale I use for espresso (mistake #1), a small funnel, and a way too smell pipette (mistake #2) I got to work.

The dilutions they call for are on their website, but you have to kind of dig for them. I didn't notice them originally so I did some faulty math deciding how much perfumers alcohol to buy (mistake 3 but it kind of worked out). The Brut used way more alcohol than first figured, and the Aventus used less. Turns out the 15ml bottles I bought weren't big enough for either to use up all of the 5g compound in one go. Luckily I had some 30ml bottles laying around that I was able to use.

Not having a big pipette was a bigger issue. I had to choose between sitting there for at least an hour squirting liquid little by little into bottles, or start pouring ( which was mistake 4). A very small amount of Aventus base dripped on my scale, hand, and desk, but it is fucking so strong. 24 hours after and it smells like an anosmic finance bro moved in to my spare bedroom. I also had a lot more of the Brut spill on my desk only, but that barely lingered after cleaning.

cont...

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As far as smell, the Aventus is dead on to my nose. The real Creed has a musk note that is never done right in clones, and the bergamot/pineapple is done well and isn't as horribly harsh as say CDNIM is. I haven't worn it yet, but if the tenacity off of furniture is any indication, it is very powerful. The website says the extrait strength dillution of 30% is what the original uses, and 20% is IFRA compliant which I found interesting.

The Brut is really quite nice if you like that older style of men's perfumery. It has a heavy dose of the now banned musk ambrette and a fair dollop of oakmoss. They're both considered toxic, so you know they're good. Big hit of slightly powdery musk backed up by what smells like a good dose of real oakmoss. The rest isn't discernible to my nose, but it smells great, smelling a modern Brut side by side is like comparing a small piece of celery to a steak.

I also got some real deal oakmoss that I'm slowly dripping in to some modern Azzaro Homme and after 2 drops I can already tell it's improved. I have a bunch of vintage men's stuff from before the oakmoss ban and it is so distinctive of a note. I haven't tried the sandalwood yet.

All in all, it was a fun little project and not terribly expensive. I will definitely wear the Aventus from time to time, and the oakmoss was well worth it as well. I've spent $120 USD in much dumber ways lol

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>>18645045
she's like 60 lmao

>>18645045
she big

Apparently Lost Cherry has the same molecule produced by rotting body, that’s what makes me gag from it

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Oud freshies recommendations?

>>18644665
Iris doesn't smell like lipstick, your opinions are based on memes.

>>18645134
Truthnvke, iris is closer to leather than anything else to my nose

>>18645134
>>18645135
You've never smelled actual lipstick.

>>18645137
I did, I literally ate my mom’s lipstick back then. Lipstick smells like a faint cherry, iris smells like those parma violet candies

>>18645139
Iris smells exactly like lipstick, because iris used to be an essential ingredient of lipstick (and other female cosmetics).
Basically if you ever smelled the inside of a ladies purse in the 80s and 90s, you've gotten a facefull of iris.

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Wore this bad boy today.

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How would I go about trying the individual notes so I get more familiar with what to expect from a fragrance? I can identify patchouli now because of a few fragrances that I've tried that were heavy on it, woody and spicy are easy to identify, salt notes from aquatics and citrics are also a no-brainer, but a lot of other stuff just gets bunched up together.

>>18645153
Tried a tobacco/amber scent a few days ago but didn't register as tobacco for me at all, just smelled like cinnamon. Think I should be able to identify it because I actually smoke pipe tobacco. After drydown it began to smell like tobacco but just because there was someone smoking next to me

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>>18645181
I think there are two types of tobacco in fragrances. The first ones is dry,greener (like in Cool Water) and the most common is the smoky, sweet tobacco note. I prefer the second one. The first one is good just on its own.

>>18645181
>after drydown it began to smell like tobacco but just because there was someone smoking next to me
Did your mother also smoke during pregnancy

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Had the opportunity to try Aramis Havana last night. Pretty good, I'm surprised it would have gotten discontinued. Basically pipe tobacco, woods, and some cloves laid over the top. Classic stinky men's mossy drydown. Chergui does the pipe tobacco accord better imo but Havana is much more well rounded and has more character.

>>18645181
Perfumer's Apprentice makes a sample kit with individual notes to help people train themselves on recognition. Demeter also makes mono-note fragrances.

Anyone else prefer no fragrance on women? Like just a natural clean soapy scent.

New and poorfag here. Rate my collection:
>CK One (gifted)
>Zara Lisboa (gifted)
>Bleu De Chanel EDT (gifted)
>total spent: Zero (0)
Was thinking of buying a Rayhaan Lion or Lataffa Khamrah Qawah. Thoughts?

>>18645310
I prefer no scent over the typical sweet vanilla shit they wear but I like when they wear nice sophisticated scents like Rose de Kandahar, or vintage chypres. I smelled a wonderful fragrance on a girl in the train, it was potent and opulent but I couldn't figure out what it was. I would have asked her but she was fat.

>>18645141
>used to be an essential ingredient of lipstick
So it doesn’t smell like lipstick NOW so your point is moot since no one cares what old people that were alive and conscious in the 80s and 90s think.