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The Fragrance Groups 101 Chart

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The Fragrance Flowchart for Beginners

Loewe Esencia Elixir. What do we think?

>>18711256
is the Le Male any good? i also like the box/bottle desu (yes, it's gay, i don't care), Keith Haring was good (either his art or clearly inspired by)

>>18711288
Day Three Fragrances La Tacita de Café

>>18710715
TdH or its flankers

>SOTD: Lush Dirty
huge mint, then tarragon and sandalwood in the drydown, this is great actually

How's the performance on Le Male nowadays?

i like the lush karma solid perfume tbqhwy

>>18711338
>is the Le Male any good?
Yes. It's got a billion flankers because it's the only thing anyone gives a shit about with JPG.
>>18711340
Couldn't tell you, the bottle I bought is from 2022. Or so they claim, I should check the batch #.

>Hit up the mall to do some frag hunting
>Meet a cool bro and suggest some frags to check out while shitting on sauvage together
>Check out another place on the way home. Cute sales girl is nice and has decent frags to try.
Not a bad weekend lads hbu?

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>>18711357

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>>18711357
>Meet a cool bro

>>18711357
It looks like you'll go from shitting on sauvage to shitting on each other's sausàge real quick.

>>18711338
>TdH
Anon, you can't just say TdH for every frag request.

>>18711363
kek

>>18711364
i can and i will (if it fits the bill like in this case)

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Pleasant whiffs of vanilla and spice by cremo.

Not the best performance but comforting.

surely one of you autists can make a newer/better chart and flowchart for the generals... perfume has progressed since 2014, half the shit on there arent even accessible anymore

>>18711380
you can do it
it will surely stick if it's good enough
gl;hf

>>18711380
We've been through this before, most of the things on that Anons chart are still available. A couple of the major standouts that people recognize aren't, admittedly.

He won't update the chart because in his words, if you pay him to buy frags, he'll review them and decide if he wants to add them to chart. You're right, but like >>18711381 mentioned, making a new chart is expensive and time consuming and no one else appears to want to do it. There are a few Anons here with very big collections (or cumulatively have had very large collections but purge them regularly except for the most expensive/hard to get shit) but they don't appear to want to make a new graph. The guy who made the first graph (might) be the Nicolai shill but I doubt it since there's like 2 Nicolai frags on there. Also, he's posted his current collection many times and it doesn't match the graph.

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Trying to decide what to take with me on a trip to Spain in the next weeks.

I have it narrowed to one of these things + like 12ml ADG parfum.

They're YSL L'homme, Eros Energy, Platine Blanc, Boucheron Pour Homme, Rare Reef, Estee Lauder Pleasures for men, Hawas tropical, Theoreme Rue Borca, Rayhaan Aquatics, Hermes Orange Verte, Al Haramain Portfolio Neroli Canvas, Zimaya Itqan Noir.

>>18711392
Oh and Supremacy Collectors Edition too.

>>18711392
orange verte for me

>>18711394
I would probably do that without much thinking if it lasted, but it doesn't.

>>18711392
eros energy for sure

>>18711392
I should note that my personal favorites are
Boucheron, Pleasures and Orange Verte, but they're not the most pleasant to others and most performant (I want to feel not too disgusting after walking all day).

>>18711338
You bought the pride edition? Nigga u gay.

>>18711401
nope, just asking if it's any good

>>18711392
boucheron

>>18711364
I will tho

>>18711392
orange verte and just reapply throughout the day like crazy

>>18711392
>>18711415
+1 for Eau d'Orange Verte

>>18711363
Lol

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Part of me feels insane for thinking about shelling out a pretty fortune to smell like clean clothes with a bit of laundry detergent. I have the niche itch, since I've never gone past designer, and that supposed je ne sais quoi that makes it smell like it depends from the heavens is too alluring to shrug off. My cope is that its price occupies a higher tier than designer but still not the highest among niche, so it feels budget friendly in comparison. Even if I get it and feel ripped off, maybe that's part of the journey too.

>>18711438
margiela lazy sunday morning

>>18711438
>MFKslop
or maybe you are just retarded
i guess we'll never know

>>18711363
pure ownage

>>18711438
this sounds like a dupe of something from a 70s Avon catalog

>>18711438
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BUY THE $500 FRAG, MFK NEEDS YOU

>>18711438
There is a lattafa clone of this if you are autistic it's on you

>>18711505
You know 98% anons on /frag/ don't like Arab clones

>>18711510
I don't care that you guys are retarded, it's fine. I will still speak the truth. The same people that wear Vietnam made t shirts and would consider paying 600 for a LV t-shirt think that you should only spend 300 on LV smelly water and never buy the clone,.lmao.

>>18711513
>everyone's as poor as me
projection

>>18711516
I would bet I make more than you.

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>>18711380
>perfume has progressed since 2014

>>18711513
>The same people that wear Vietnam made t shirts and would consider paying 600 for a LV t-shirt think that you should only spend 300 on LV smelly water and never buy the clone,.lmao.
Fresh new Al-Mohamed clone cope just dropped.

>>18711505
>Lattafa
Listen, I buy clones sometimes. With frags, I am retarded only to a degree but Lattafa is terrible. It's like the reps I post in the watch threads to make them seethe. Do I buy the really shitty Ali clone, or a super rep that cost 500-700 dollars of a $10-250,000 watch? I do the latter, obviously.

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>>18711513

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It has arrived, lads

>>18711519
>Sauvage
>BR540
>Angel's Share
>Les Vestiaire des Parfums
>Ambre Nuit and most other Dior Privé frags
>Ganymede and the heaps of Bischslop that followed
>the oud craze
>Rogue
>Pineward
>arabs cloning everything under the sun
These are just off the top of my head.

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>>18711529
Came with a couple of 7.5ml miniatures too

>>18711529
very nice
is it any good?

>>18711537
the miniatures look cheap and plasticky af

>>18711530
>BR540
>Ganymede+bischslop
>oud craze
imo these can be considered as 'advancement'
i lol'd at all the rest ngl

>>18711530
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to prove me right or wrong.

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Help me replace my now discontinued tried and true
Looking for a nice grapefruit/bergamont and clary sage up front that fades to something warm and lightly woody
It had a fresh "soft spice" to it idk how else to describe

>>18711544
TdH+flankers
you are welcome

based TdH poster

SOTD: Antaeus

>>18711340
It’s good. I am able to get solid day out of it, even in high heat and activity. >>18711364
If the shoe fits….
>>18711438
Have you at least finished a 5ml?

>>18711544
I'm positive there's a Light Blue flanker for this but I don't remember which.
It might be Italian Love or Summer Vibes.
It fits the bill for the opening but it doesn't dry down very woody; if you want something that goes more in that direction there's Costa Azzurra EDP, which doesn't open citrusy but has the drydown you're looking for.

>>18711539
I'll preface this by mentioning I've got 6 other tobaccy frags already and it's a note I really enjoy in all of its facets.
Went through a 2ml sample with some full wears, and I would even go as far as to say it's my favourite tobacco fragrance now.

There's a richness here that develops with a few hours of wear and has a beautiful smoky-sweet dry down. Also relatively dry as far as sweetness is concerned, which I appreciate a lot, as it's accurate to how a good quality natural pipe tobacco, or cigar smells. The mixture of other herbs, resins and incense all help to give it this refreshingly pungent and warm spicy aspect too.

Overall very well put together, and easily a favourite of mine in the Amouage lineup. Looking forward to using it now that the cold is starting to set in.

>>18711539
Also yeah the caps are cheap plastic, but the bottles themselves are glass and look a bit nicer in person. Extra 15mls of juice was a nice bonus in any case

>>18711556
not sure what they are thinking desu
you pay 300-400 bucks for an exclusive frag and they send you some plastic shit, not good

Think I'm gonna get memed and unironically send it on a TdH EDT

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>>18711557
It's also a dabber, no atomiser, so kind of useless as a travel spray on its own. Not a major issue, as I've got plenty of pipettes and atomiser bottles to decant into, but it would've been a nice touch imo for the price you pay for their frags.

Cannot stop sniffing my arm though with the Royal Tobacco, it's heavenly m8

>>18711559
If ur a retarded zoomer who still sucks on mommas titties you're not gonna like it

>>18711565
I'm 35 nigga and I'm blind buying 6.7 oz of that shit

>>18711559
TdH EdT is unironically an absolute banger. Lasts a good while for me and it's a nice and 'put-together' scent for being at work. No brainer frag if you like vetiver

>>18711570
I prefer eau givree but it doesn't last

>>18711570
At least half the comments on fragrantica for black linen are references to TdH so that should be a good sign
Full send blind buying a fat bottle

>>18711575
cheers, anon
it is indeed a good frag (which you can buy for pebbles at discounters)

>>18711559
If you like it, pick up the parfum as well. The EDT is peak, but if you want to push it to the max in terms of richness and depth, the parfum is exceptional.

>>18711564
Have you tried Interlude Black Iris?

>>18711380
someone pay jeremy fragrance to do it

>>18711596
If I say "Fresh, long-lasting, compliment getter" you probably read it in his voice. Jeremy is a washed up shill now sadly.

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I am putting forth that this should be added to the cheap frags list. It's fucking great, and costs $20-25 bucks.

>>18711370
it's my home scent during early winter

Looking for a lavender/vanilla frag: Le Male or Caron PUH?
the jPG bottle seriously throws me off, but the Caron's performance isn't great so im not sure

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>>18711637
Le Male (EDT) is a modern(ish) interpretation of the PUH DNA (lavender+vanilla), nowadays it's a good all-rounder frag
>the JPG bottle seriously throws me off
you are a homo for wearing perfume anyway, why worry about minor shit like the bottle?

For all the time and money you niggas put into smells I better not catch yall using scented antiperspirant, body wash, or shampoo

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>>18711654
>mfw when i use Nicolai's Fleur d'Oranger soap as shampoo and body wash

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>>18711357
Don't mind the others anon I actually think it's nice that we get to talk to other people about frags on a whim like this. There's a social aspect to the hobby that is never commented about here and it's cool to see other people interested in what we're interested.

>>18711529
>>18711537
I have never tried an Amouage frag but it seems to be one of the most consistently liked niche houses here
What should I check out that is absolutely worth trying? I tend to like oriental fougeres and gourmands, generally speaking I like sweet frags

>>18711654
>antiperspirant, body wash, or shampoo
I don't use any of those, just a bar of soap. My laundry detergent has minimal fragrance.

>>18711652
good argument. plus i already own Toy Boy so my fate was already sealed

>>18711637
PUH smells old and powdery. The lavender and vanilla in Le Male is sharper and more distinct. If you want to smell like an old french man get PUH, otherwise forget about it.

>>18711670
Amouage tends to be drier and heavier. Not as much sweet. I have tried
>Gold Man
>Interlude
>Interlude Black Iris
>Royal Tobacco
>Silver Oud
>Reflection
>Beach Hut Man
and liked all of them. Interlude is the best intro to the house. I also want to try Journey and Memoir

>>18711396
Solid, it's very med summer, took it last year on vacation to Santorini. Performance is underwhelming though and I thought to maybe do something different this year.

>>18711415
>>18711417

Bottle is small enough to carry around, thought of that actually.

>>18711407
Everyone around me except my gf has hated it (found it dated, more like). I still never feel cleaner than when wearing Boucheron.

>>18711654
this shit doesnt matter. those things becomes a skin scent after an hour after you apply them at best and anything you spray on is going to completely overpower them

>>18711735
>these chemicals i put on my skin certainly don't interact with the other chemicals i put on my skin
kek

>>18711712
>drier and heavier. Not as much sweet
I'll try a few samples anyway but are there any niche houses that have really good gourmands or excel at sweeter scent profiles?

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Added a couple things.
On an somewhat related note, I got a new job; how do I throw away my money to celebrate?
The following are currently under consideration but feel free to suggest anything else:
>Sartorial or Moonstone Bleu 100ml
>Winter Palace 75ml
>L'Attesa 35ml
>Costa Azzurra EDP 100ml

>>18711782
The new Serge Lutens, La Nuit Tombée

>>18711740
>blud thinks random yahoos can discern the coconut scented shampoo and lavender antiperspirant buried under the nuclear by comparison scent bubble of whatever fragrance he sprayed that day

>>18711782
thanks for the update, saved

>SOTD Sedley
Using a decant, kinda mid

I never apply perfume directly to my skin but instead spray my clothes before I put them on. I don't think it's healthy to put that shit directly on your skin day after day after day for years or even decades.
Anyone else here who doesn't spray on skin?

>SOTN: JPG Le Male
still the best Kurkdjian frag

>>18711837
you're a moron

SOTD: 10 spray of a Creed of your choice then 180 walking away

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I really like the drydown of Nautica Voyage, and especially I get this clean florally smell with it after I've already washed it once and it's deep in to the dry down. What could that smell be? After all the green notes have gone. Is there a fragrance that has that smell?

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went fragless today but sampled picrel
the iris is very well done, I would even call it impressive, but not sure if it's worth a cop just yet
will sample again in a week or two

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If any of you were just wearing gucci guilty absolute at the local Kroger just know that I wear it better than you and you look like shit

after trying many gay ass niche scents with tea and shit i wore drakkar noir today and WOW, it mogs like 95% of niche garbage out there

>>18712005
Correct. Get a bottle of Bon Monsieur. Drakkar is 480p, Bon Monsieur is 4k.

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>>18711837
I use vintage perfumes full of oakmoss, civet, castoreum, and clove. My health has noticeably improved.

>SOTD: Black Salt
Man, I really love a lot of Heretic's stuff that I've tried, but they don't wear for shit especially for the price.

I usually put their stuff on right after I lotion post-shower & it still is like 2 hours max.

>>18712009
thx for rec

Fougère or Chypre, you can only choose one, which and why?
>Hard Mode: No masculine vs feminine marketing.

>>18712119
chypres because they have more variety

>>18712119
I wear fougeres more often but chypres are peak. I'd pick chypres, easy to replace my fougere rotation with other clean smelling stuff

>>18712010
>that pic
The time just flew by.

>spray bed with frags so I can get comfy and smell something nice when I go to sleep
>dog goes ape shit and immediately rolls around in, huffing it in and doing that animal sneezing reaction thing that horses, dogs, and cats do so they can get the smell deeper in their nose

Is this self-inflicted animal cruelty? I know everyone throws a fit at the idea of spraying your animal, but she literally just rolls around all over my pillows and blanket before I can even get into the bed. Or is she just into /frags/?

>>18712159
Ebola is back on the menu.

>>18712160
>letting dog roll around in bed
Americans sure do some crazy shit like that and wearing shoes indoors/in bed.

But that aside, I do let my dog sniff my arm when ive sprayed a frag sometimes and his reactions are gold.
You know it's a banger if he sniffs, does a double take, sniffs again and then violently sneezes like a mf

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>>18711837
you might have a point

>>18712198
yeah bro it was the fragrance and not the cocaine

>>18712201
very clever anon, you cracked the joke

>>18712160
>spraying bed with frag(S)
>letting dog into bed
>dog sneezes on bed
scent profile for this feel?
>musky animalic

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Are fragrances really locked up like this in variety stores in the US? Holy low trust society

>>18712222
In shittier stores, yes. Poor people go to shittier stores and they steal. People steal everything, including toilet paper.

>>18712026
Does Poltergeist really smell like smoked ham?

>>18711669
Ya it was cool to talk to people out in public about it, I wont let those bitter niggers get to me bro.

>>18712222
>nautica in plastic box
lol
culturally enriched area

>>18712222
Brother, they will lock up our deodorant in some areas

Alright, how many of you are got onto GLP-1's and then got into this hobby

>>18712222
"first world country" btw

>>18712222
Same shit in Australia, everything is pretty much behind glass under lock and key in chemist warehouses or department stores (targets, kmarts, etc) for example. You gotta ask the workers to unlock em and spray sample strips for you, pain in the ass. Myer and David Jones youve got testers out in the open, but in the shittier areas the attendants are honed in on you when youre in their zone, because cunts steal testers all the time. Cunts be slipping a couple of tom ford frags into their trackie dacks and then pissing off

What’s a good fragrance for summer in countries in south east asia that would pair up well with Aether by French Avenue. Preferably low cost.

>>18712302
Any generic freshie from Mykonos

Either I go anosmic real fast or most frags other than amouage and ironically some cheap dupes/al-rehab have really, really poor longevity. Montale projects for a couple hours at most, then stops, on me and on my wife. TDH/yatagan/moustache, fougere royal, profumum tundra, heroique - same. Aramis is kinda in between but it's crap.

Al-rehab, proraso wood & spice, ambre russe (especially ambre russe) - stay for 5+ hours.

Amouage, on the contrary, lasts forever - caught wafts of silver oud from 1 spray on each wrist, after 2 days and 3 showers. But I am not a fan of Amouage - I don't want a perfume that's more complex than me.

>>18712316
longevity is a result of ingredients, not quality. Some notes/aromachems simply can't last a long time.
However most designerslop doesnt last because you're meant to get scammed into buying it after smelling the top notes in store.

>>18712317
Well what do I buy then. I like my tdh and yatagan a lot, but reapplying every hour is lame.

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>>18712196
I love my dog, and she is comfy and enjoys falling asleep on my chest, it's cute. She is also based.

>>18712301
The shittier areas in the US don't even carry that. The most you'll find is cheap shit like in the OP pic. Tom Ford, PdM, Jimmy, Chanel, etc. isn't stocked because it just gets grabbed.

>>18712319
You may be going asnomic to some scents to be honest. You can try applying an unscented moisturiser before you apply, it can hold on to fragrance for longer than bare skin.
Unfortunately you need to seperate longevity from the scent and just accept that certain frags will not last as long without modification/addition of different ingredients. I've noticed social media the last few years putting a massive emphasis on longevity and sillage as if theyre aspects of a scent to be judged rather than the result of the composition.

>>18712280
What would the correlation be? That feels more like a regular clothing /fa/ move not a frag one.

>>18712322
Understood, thanks.

>>18712322
Not him but I've also noticed that I go easily anosmic. Right now the only frag I have that I don't go noseblind to and manage to pick up throughout the day is Le Male Elixir, but even some beastmode stuff like Sauvage Elixir I stop smelling after an hour (this used to lead to me using like eight to ten sprays of Sauvage Elixir or Bois Imperial lmao)
That being said I do think longevity and projection are important factors in a fragrance, and I struggle to find houses that consistently make well performing fragrances that also smell good. Crivelli is one but I don't like their scent profiles at all, the only decent one is Oud Cadenza and it's mediocre

>>18712320
nice, definitely a good girl

>>18712323
binge eaters needed something to replace their binge eating habit with and a lot of them defaulted to fragrances

>>18712330
...did they? I'd say Pokemon cards and Gacha games hit that way harder.

>>18712330
>binge eaters needed something to replace their binge eating habit with and a lot of them defaulted to gourmand fragrances
ftfy but even that statement might not be factually correct

have any of you guys bought candles from fragrance brands? any recs?

>>18712278
>>18712288
>>18712229
What about sunscreen?
>>18712301
What's the demographic breakdown of such areas?

>>18712349
Well, to not put too fine of a point on it, any mixture of the following:
>druggos
>derros
>abos
>lebos
>various other shades of browns that usually roam in groups

Asians are generally speaking pretty lawful I've noticed, not much crime even in their majority areas, even the poorer ones. They have a sense of pride and sense of honour that probably prevents them from stealing en masse. Goes without saying majority of decent Aussie/European areas (i.e. not drugged out on boatloads of ice), also lack these problems.

>SOTD Amouage Royal Tobacco
Very cosy, chums, was about 10C or so today. Can still clearly catch whiffs of it 12hrs later, incredible fragrance

>>18712353
I've literally never seen fragrance locked up except at chemist warehouse, that seems to be a company wide thing (they mainly sell cheap shit which is not locked up and has testers). Mecca, sophora, Myers etc it's all out for testing

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>Tobacco Honey
>Naxos
>Althair
>Angel's Share
>Spiritueuse Double Vanille
>Layton
Which others should I try in the same vein? Gourmand or sweet but with a more complex scent profile than the typical JPG or rabanne stuff

>>18712316
>>18712327
I'm always curious about people who go anosmic and their habits:
>How many sprays?
>Where do you spray?
>How often do you rotate your fragrance?

>>18712367
>How many sprays
I start cautiously but when I start going noseblind I'll just go with 10-12 by default
>Where
Back of ears, back of neck, sometimes forearms
>rotate
Admittedly not much right now because I only have 3 fragrances and a bunch of samples

>>18712369
>10-12
jesus christ anon

>>18712370
>jesus christ anon
yeah, stop with the sissyspraying

if you ain't glistening, they ain't listening

>>18712370
Today I'm wearing LBLP and I don't know if I got bamboozled but it honestly seems to turn into a skin scent pretty quickly so I did 10 sprays. Which is weird because I get 8-10 hours of longevity from LM Elixir but LBLP is very weak in comparison

>>18712373
can't be sure but it sure sounds like you're just going noseblind to it. idk the frag so maybe it's loaded with some of those synthetics w huge molecules that are hard to detect from close up

>>18712370
>>18712371
>>18712372
https://youtube.com/shorts/k9OdRgEcbrU

>>18712366
Angelique Noire, Babycat, Vanilla Diorama.

>>18712378
>the brown guy at my gym 5 minutes before he uses the bench next to mine

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Which one from my collection should I wear in graduation?

>>18712416
DHI

>>18711782
Buy a Lutens bell jar.

>>18712234
It smells more like you started a campfire with some pieces of sandalwood & sat near it for too long. I oddly enough don't hate it but it's absolutely not for every day or every weather. Smudge is the more wearable smoke-centric scent

>>18712420
Thanks, was thinking Grand Soir too but it’s a morning session and GS is more of a night fragrance

>>18712416
wearing tuscan leather around all those people would be a warcrime

go with dhi youre young

>>18712494
good
(on a related note GS is imo one of the most overrated frags in existence)

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I wanted to try some kilian stuff because I remembered smelling them at a mall and thinking some of them were pretty nice
But what the fuck are these names

>>18712562
Cringetopia brand gimmick

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Has anyone bought this?

>>18712344
I got a candle from Nicolaï that was pretty nice. Katmandou, IIRC. It smelled great, but I would never pay 70 dollars for a fucking candle.

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rate my collection /fa/
what type of fragrance should I go for next? any genre that is underrepresented?
33yo male, senior office job, continental EU climate

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>>18712666
fucking hell my phone takes shit pictures, here's a better one

>>18712562
>I wanted to try some kilian stuff
ew, why would anyone do that

I’m getting the itch to buy something. I’m thinking to get samples of Amouage Memoir and Journey, or Roja Oceania. I don’t really have a use case for the Amouages though. I want a complex and rich summer scent with great longevity. I wore Beach Hut Man today and I love it but the aromatic greens kind of remind me of Bon Monsieur which I already have. It’s not in the notes but I swear there’s some kind of musk in the base of BHM that really feels similar.

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Picked this up. Thoughts?

>>18711522
Oud Najdia is pretty great from them imo. Great performance, I love smelling like a nice woody soap all day long

>>18712416
TV

>>18712753
Not bad, but too much cedar for me. Better than the recent L'Eau D'issey EdP.

>>18712366
People will shit on me for saying it, but there’s nothing complex about Spiritueuse Double Vanille. It’s was just Guerlain’s way to hop on the sweet gourmand bandwagon and retain an air of refinement.

>>18712666
>33yo male, senior office job
How do you feel about TdH, Mr. Satan?

>>18712759
Dont recommend him another mass appealing all-arounder. This man needs a dusty as fuck old chypre or some fucked up nasomatto.

>>18712344
my friend bought MFK Oud Satin Mood Candle. it was really nice.

>>18712756
I have both hehe

>>18712682
Did you also bust out some lights for this photo

>>18712759
based TdH (EdT) poster

>>18712666
We need some classics.
Pour Monsieur EdT or Habit Rouge (EdT is the classic but I prefer the EdP. Other flankers are okay-ish except for Instinct which is trash.)

>>18712761
any specific recommendations? I quite liked Baraonda in the store, but I would guess that is the most normie of Nasomatto's lineup

but what can I do if I have basic taste? the most polarizing fragrance that I like is Fahrenheit, maybe The Moon but that's getting quite niche

>>18712769
>Pour Monsieur EdT or Habit Rouge
thanks anon, I'll try these out

>>18712767
it's just some desk light with a directed beam that I had on the side, original shit phone pic had the same lighting setup
I'm not gonna get the fucking profoto out for a 4chan post lmao

How do I train my nose to mature and appreciate more scents? TdH eau givree smells like a compost heap with mulch and mind games were all forgettable.

>>18712813
>mind games were all forgettable
Your nose seems fine. It's literally a scam brand.

>>18712813
>TdH eau givree smells like a compost heap with mulch

How? It smells like a rindy grapefruit and minerals in the opening and the drydown smells faint bug spray.

>>18712666
you're missing vetiver, something green, something musky (clean or dirty) and a leather-forward frag

>>18712813
>Comparing a TdH flanker and masstige slop
You need to go farther back in regard to training

But also what >>18712827 said, you literally are so far away…

>>18712813
smell more perfumes. the earlier the better.

>>18712816
kek mind games has a fragrance everyone rants and raves about but its just drakkar noir for 10x the price

>>18712940
this thread has gotten too comfortable using niche when it should be saying masstige aint seen that used in a min

are zoomers unable to smell vetiver without crine?

>want to buy something
>all samples are ticked out
>see nothing new
>dont want to blind buy
i guess its that time again
[spoiler] building it up until I do blind buy then regret it, 75%+ chance [/spoiler]

>>18713029
Yes my little zoomzoom nose only like mass appealing safeslop like the new paradigme and Y iced
>>18713040
Haha nice spoilers retard also dont blind buy

>>18712813
>TdH eau givree smells like a compost heap
just sniff more frags and you will get there (also vetiver kinda does smell like a compost heap)
>mind games were all forgettable.
nevermind, your nose works just as God intended

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I like it when a fragrance is a little zesty
Yeah I wanna smell like a make up or lipstick bring it on
Recommend me some good zesty stuff

>>18713050
>I want my fragrance to smell like [other product with fragrance added]

>>18713050
Zesty like gay or zesty like citrus
>lipstick
I just learned that Iris is largely the reason why lipstick smells like that

>>18712813
Getting blasted by orange in the opening > another generic blast of lemon tbqh

SOTD: TdH EdT

>>18713084
Lemon is good if it’s Mediterranean DNA desu

>>18712593
>aquatic fragrance
You just know Indians gonna love this

>>18713100
I hate aquatics, the only somewhat decent ones are Bisch's Kenzo line and even then they're not that good

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>SOTD: Eau de Guerlain
good stuff

>>18712562
Arabs would never

>>18712732
Sacred Wood is a really nice scent

>>18713105
Based

>>18713050
Ive worn Portrait of a Lady sometimes, really makes you feel like a gay vampire

I can't wear my gourmands in the summer heat, is the rabanne phantom line good? I like lavender

>>18713132
>phantom
The vanilla note fucked up the smell

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Guys, I think I can't watch Curly's videos anymore. She swears a lot lately.

>>18713142
Vanilla and lavender is a classic combo though, what makes it not work in this case?
What else could I check out that isn't a freshie (I dislike sharp citruses and aquatics) but is not too heavy for summer?

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>>18712222
>>18712288
Welcome to Amerikkka

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>>18713147
The vanilla smell is too sweet for me. Maybe it's just my nose.

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I wonder what happened to coomer mutt. Never see him post on /frag/ these days.

>>18713159
The gorillamindset guy with the disgusting black dude? He posts in other threads now because no one took his bait.

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>>18713177
Is he still posting gay porn?

>>18713145
You ever watch gints scints? I like that southerners videos from time to time. Seems like a good dude

>>18713187
Haven't seen it. I think he's also the guy who spams cringe Asian threads because it fits his MO of shitting up threads and the log.

>>18713191
Why would a brown mystery meat like him pretending to be East Asian incel on the Internet?

>mfw I have ascended past the point of caring about using dupes and buy any sandnigger frag I want

>>18713159
I was avoiding bringing this up because I didnt want to tempt fate and bring him back here. Thanks dickhead

>>18713050
Fille de Berlin

>>18713207
I don't give a shit and will often get a dupe depending on context (price disparity, usage cases, realistic quality differential, etc). But I absolutely cannot stand some of the hideous bottle designs and no matter how much the frag is talked up, i refuse to have that shit loitering on my shelf.

>a fucking oldschool radio on a dumb white bottle

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>>18713236
I bet you like JPG

I will never buy dupes because I'm not a poorfag. I also hate cover bands.

>>18713258
Yes, good goy, you are not poor, make sure to spend and consume, and thus stimulate our business

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>>18713241
I refuse to even smell them, on the off chance that I might end up liking one of them and having to commit sudoku.

>>18713267
Lmao bro, fragrance is a luxury item whether you're buying poorfag arab clones or designer or niche. You're not sticking it to anyone buying crap.

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>>18713273
You make a reasonable argument, and yet

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>>18713272

i dont buy dupes because they are ugly and have stupid names. Towelheads really had you niggas spraying Liquid Brown

>>18713105
Nice, I was literally just looking into this.

>>18713284
Most do indeed look like complete ass. However, some are relatively decent, like the prereformulation Maison Alhambras that are completely unashamed near 1:1 copies, from bottle design, name, colour, everything.

>>18713284
Also
>Liking Althair to begin with

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Okay actually I like the dupe more. However it also doesn't last for shit, probably even worse than the original. Fuck.

>>18713303
blow suck rat?

>>18713303
I probs wouldnt have bothered with an adg dupe tbqh m8

Like a cl*ve christian dupe i understand
Or a m*mo paris

But adg? Nah

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>>18713303
>worse than the original. Fuck.
...and the biggest dupe of the thread award goes to this anon

>>18713114
I don't get gay or vampire from Portrait of a Lady, to me it's zesty in a flamboyant sort of way.

>>18713305
That will be rs800 saar

>>18713308
>Zesty in a flamboyant sort of way
So... In a gay vampire way?

>>18713310
No, I don't see vampires as colorful, loud, or elaborate, I see them as monochromatic and sleek.

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>>18713318
Speaking of which, what scents are they wearin, boys?

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>>18713321
they wear gothrock frags like ELDO Tom Of Finland
>t. knower

>>18713308
>>18713114
Regarding Frederic Malle I have also tried Carnal Flower in store and was mind-blown by how unique it was. I think its a bit unwearable in high humidity because of the amount of jasmine in it although its a perfect unisex fragrance for me. It has a slight Aventus vibe.

Another one is Musc Ravageur which is nice but all I smell is vanilla and musk with a hint of a brown dude’s armpit.

>>18713105
Still based. But people use to rip on this here a few years ago. Funny how quickly what’s in changes. I have two 500ml bottle I bought on eBay for $20 each. Sealed and sitting in storage for probably 60 years

>>18713267
Nothing wrong with clones but no matter how much of a hissy fit you throw the only objection you have with the original is the price since you are literally defending a cheaper imitation. There is no other nuance.

>>18713325
well, most people are retarded

>>18713307
Worse performance, better scent, mongoloid.

>>18713306
It's 110 euro here, and it's a basic blue scent that you need to spray 30 times to get any performance with. I'm certainly not paying 8 times the price of this dupe for ADG so that L'Oreal can pay tens of thousands of middle managers (I worked in the building of the local L'Oreal headquarters, hundreds of useless people doing literally nothing, but they run bazaars where you could buy their products for like 1/10th the normal cost) - the factory robots and the brown people making the perfume with the same ingredients is the only constant.

>>18713326
Well, yes and no. Whether someone can afford the original or not aside. It's also to do with how much of a brandfag you are and if you would be willing to pay an exponential amount more for ostensibly the same item, but [Brand].

Not counting houses like Amouage where the quality you are paying for is tangible - the majority of designerslop (and a lot of nicheslop) is quite literally a more or less decipherable mix of
>Chemical formula
>Chemical formula
>Chemical formula
>et al

Scent molecules of the same formula, regardless of being naturally derived or not, will be perceived identically to the human nose.

The question becomes how many of those natural ingredients already have known formulas that can be readily synthesized. How easily a fragrance can be duped directly relates to whether a known base is used, and how many unique scent molecules have to be replicated. That's partly why I've yet to smell a single good Amouage dupe for example. But Tom Ford? Fucking endless good dupes.

>>18713331
A fair point, chum, I too hate L'Oreal

>>18713340
Their 4711 dupe is shameless, literal scam

>>18713324
Musc Ravageur doesn't smell like a brown dude, it smells like an apartment where an indoor dog lives.
Kouros is the closest I've smelled to the changing room at the ghetto community center

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>>18713340
Fragrance World apparently made some good Amouage dupes, but then they all just disappeared overnight. Me and another Anon have talked about it before, and we think it is because Amouage threatened to sue them into the ground and take the reputation. You can find very few reviews on them since they were available for such a short period of time that it does make this lean a decent bit towards credible since it doesn't make sense Fragrance World would make a bunch of dupes, a small number of people who actually got their hands on them said they were good, and then FW suddenly liquidated the entire line in at most a few months.

>>18713369
reputation loss*

>>18713369
Fragrance world is too retarded lol, why would you even copy the bottle design? And it’s like 90% of their products. You have more balls than a Chinese counterfeiter at this point.

Been wearing Mandarino di Sicilia more often now that the hotter days are here. While I like it, I don't love it, it has a fuzzy sort of dry down that just feels artificial to me in some way.

I want something maybe woodier, and subtle idk

>>18713376
The most shameless one, IMO, is "Barakkat Rouge 540". Just a truly insane move.

>>18713381
So that’s why Kurkdjian seethed at the dupes

>>18713369
Very interesting, I hadn't heard of these. With this amount of money involved, it's absolutely no surprise if Amouage used all of Oman's resources to shut it down immediately or suffer a huge blow to both reputation and profits.

>>18713397
>Oman
Bet that’s also what Fragrance World said when they read the lawsuit

>>18713258
'ate cover bands, 'ate musical comedy and 'ate dupes. simple as

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>>18713398

>>18713400
Luv me Jay Pee Djee
Luv me 600 pound Tuscan Leavah
Simple as

>>18713410
Tuscan Leather reminds me of my black coworker who molested me when I was drunk.

>>18713050
iris is the straight man's note

>>18713426
My dad said it smells gay
But he’s the one who worked in military for 20 years so idc

>>18713105
white and based

>>18713430
iris smells good, though. if your sexuality is questioned by a flower then you might actually be a faglord. no disrespect to pops

>>18713410
I got TL at 40% and its real. Have worn it...thrice

>>18713446
It’s too raspberry-centric for me
I wear it at night outs. Smells good with beer breath

I've tried a lot of niche houses, and although the scents are undoubtedly complex and much more interesting than the average stuff you find at Sephora, as far as actually wearing fragrances go, I prefer "mass pleasing" scents simply because they're just more enjoyable to catch whiffs of throughout the day.
But is it possible to find a compromise? Are there houses that consistently put out attractive, pleasant fragrances while still having complex and interesting scent profiles?

Tauer's Sundowner is beautiful

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Coming up on the end of my run. Going to get a few Amouages and a Serge, but the rest of the collection I am going to get in my life is currently in (all likelihood) in the mail.

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>>18713476
Still picked up a few decants though because I liked the way House of Cosmo was marketed, and Nishane Wulong Cha X seemed nice to test.

>>18713478
>I can’t afford the real thing
Thanks for playing.

>>18713483
I have no idea what you're referring to.

>>18712366
>Tobacco Honey
Insane sweetness just like Tobacco Vanille
>Naxos
boring soapy tobacco
>Althair
floral caramel syrup
>Angel's Share
Nice but very expensive
>Spiritueuse Double Vanille
very nice but very expensive
>Layton
nice but wayyy too expensive for what it is.

1) Bleu Lazuli
2) Bleu Turquoise
3) 1725 Casanova
4) 1978 Les bains douches
5) Vinegia 21
6) Wild Leather - YSL private
7) Bengal - Vertus
8) Baraonda
9) Vanille Havane (discontinued)
10) Patchouli Paris
11) Tobacolor

>>18713340
Many words to say that if it was cheaper you would buy the original, everything else is cognitive dissonance. Perfumers use natural ingredients to make it harder and more cost prohibitive to dupe. They actually use more natural ingredients today than before.

>>18713478
Actually... Some of these House of Cosmo's are pretty good. This might be a problem. I am going to have to test them some more, but so far the only one I set aside (Element Delta) was tooth achingly sweet, which is odd because Crimson Aura should be even sweeter based off the profile but it isn't. I am guessing that the red wine (that's pretty neat as a scent, desu) is muting some of the sweetness. I am very tempted to grab a Dark Matter decant after seeing its profile.

>>18713457
Xerjoff, PDM, BDK

>>18713514
Lmao some of you guys are retarded. You think that when Arab houses can build a statuette bottle and a 90% close clone and sell it in Dubai for 10 euro INCLUDING a healthy profit margin, what is stopping them from using whatever natural ingredient goes into any fucking basic ass designer or mall available niche is the pennies it would cost to use some other ingredient?

You are literally retarded and never worked any meaningful job in your life because realizing things like this is like a basic competence for bottom tier office jobs.

>>18713516
Lmao

>>18712753
I smelled this at the airport: I personally think the EdP is much better than the EdT.

>frags that cost $3,000-15,000
Is the point of these just to flex and be brown?

Give me your top 5 notes and 1 note you dislike:
>Iso E super
>Iris
>Neroli
>Oud
>Amber (balsam, benzoin,vanilla etc)
Dislike:
>Anise

>>18713527
Read the post I'm replying to

Which brands' sample sets are worth trying out? Looking mostly for actually wearable stuff, not weird scents

>>18713533
> Light lemon
> Cypress
> Incense
> Cyclamen
> Sandalwood
Dislike: cashmeran, that shit is vile on the drydown

>>18713528
I'm kind of interested in the EdP, I like the marine/incense idea.

>>18713538
Just save yourself a lot of pain and get PdE's. .

I'm too lazy and tired and retarded to look up some shit, give me some of your favorite summer colognes. I'm thinking AdG. Too bad aqva amara is gone

>>18713460
It's great but I would only wear it if it wasn't so sweet. I'm very sensitive to sweet scents.

>>18713476
based and bianchi pilled

>>18713457
"Niche", "complex", and "interesting" are truly meaningless terms. There are plenty of complex designer scents and mass appealing "niche" scents. I like Frederic Malle but I stick to their vintage stuff because their acquisition has been sketchy, same with L'Artisan Parfumeur. Tauer also has some good stuff but it's easier to test than to own. This are just the ones I have experience with, there are probably many more interesting ones but they are just brands. The categorization is useless.

>>18713517
Unlike you I'm not making shit up, I'm only saying what the top perfumers have said. Go cry about it.

>>18713573
Rare Reef

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>>18713460
so much this, my full bottle arrives tomorrow

>>18713516
slop (lol jerkoff), slop, slop

>>18713533
love
>neroli
>oakmoss
>mint
>vetiver
>lavender
not love
>cashmeran

>>18713538
eldo, parfum d'empire, nicolai, tauer

>>18713573
eau de guerlain
eau d'hermes
chanel pour monsieur edt
pde azemour

>SOTD: Tauer LADAS

>>18713583
>I'm only saying what the top perfumers have said.


Imagine not knowing the quote


"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair, 1934

>>18713573
Eau Basilic Poupre

>>18713594
based

>>18713589
LADAS is great. I'm still trying to decide whether to splurge on LADAS, Reflection, or InvBarb.

>>18713601
Invasion Barbare > LADAS >>>>> Reflection (Man)

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>>18713573
You or Someone Like You
Dune Pour Homme