/fa/ - Fashion

>>15575364
*this chart is outdated*
Current new chart WIP:
https://pastebin.com/2T6HuQgj

>>15575334
i think it's a bit too early to answer that but so far i'm liking it. seems like it would fit spring weather very well. not sure about summer though, the sweet notes might be a bit cloying when you start sweating

it's definitely a great cheapie. this reminds me of guerlain vetiver since both have sharp vetiver notes, although this one is a lot more fresh

>>15575364
Black Orchid edt, edp or parfum?

Aventus A4219S41
Is it fake?

frag btfo

>>15575385
yes you fucking faggot how often do you have to be told

>>15575387
"yes" is all your evidence for fake?

>>15575394
Fuck off igor. It doesn't even matter what you're told because in your tiny shizo brain you'll find a way to manufacture your own truth anyways

>>15575387
You sound mad. I would like to see evidence of your claims that my Aventus A4219S41 is fake. Else, you are subhuman faggot.

>>15575343
Not really, I'm pretty new to attars. The only ones i tried were some oud attars from fueguia 1833 (they only sell them in milan and argentina, i think)

>>15575401
every single word you utter is moot gay aids faggot

Aventus A4219S41
I want too see evidence that it's not authentic. :)

>>15575409
if the flacon wasnt inside of a plastic bag inside the carton its fake

I honestly wanna see proof that my Aventus A4219S41 is fake. Let's see it.

ok GITfags -- is GIT really worth buying or is cool water cool enough

>>15575385
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/4/d/1NoPpK1UBVzc6phitle3eFAEOOSkjqMysfHYWzl3kbKg/htmlview?pli=1#gid=2117459015
See it there? No? It is because it is fake.

apologize

>>15575420
No. Cool Water is unironically better.

>>15575409
>>15575415
>>15575440

go
>>15575439


it is fake

let's find out what Reddit says about my Aventus A4219S41

>>15575466
never come back homo

>>15575469
nigger lol I'm straighter than you

>>15575466
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=Aventus+%22A4219S41%22+reddit
I think you can assume what those search results mean.

>>15575471

>>15575276
I'm not going to pretend like Sauvage, Bleu de Chanel, or La Nuit de l'Homme is some god amazing juice. I use it just to get pussy wet that's it. I'm not some Aventus wearer who unironically thinks Aventus is an amazing fragrance to justify their purchase/continued dive into the rabbit hole.

>>15575289
You jealous that you don't have the knowledge to actually know what is in the fragrance? You just rely on "notes" the marketing team gives you and you think that's what in the juice.

>>15575310
You sound like a little bitch who can't name molecules in a fragrance.

>>15575357
Be careful if you admit to this opinion, you'll get crucified for this here.

Why do people sperg over Aventus this hard?
Bullshit marketing and company history.
Reformulation spergs that argue over x ingredient being banned (that wasn't actually in there in the first place).
"Batch variations" coming from Creed making it inconsistent to try and market it as "muh natural fragrance variations" at best and at worst downright rubbish QC.
"Muh Ambergris base!" Yeah fool the other one.
The best quality synthetic in there is velvione.
This is what happens when hype beasts with no idea about actual perfumery hail mediocre stuff as #THEKING

good aqua di parma for fall/winter?? or is it just for hot times

>>15575517
Reminds me of someone who likes Common Projects...they rely on an internet echo chamber for their decisions

>>15575508
The annoying thing about him is that he just lists them off as if he is trying to prove something.
He can easily guess them too as most of what he lists are very commonly used.

Its clear that he barely knows about the actual history of perfumery, what new material created trends throughout the decades, and he outright has not smelled frags that most people into this sort of thing would have smelled within a couple of years.

He had two previous businesses that flopped, and one where he quotes himself as a master perfumer.

He is a joke.

>>15575517
Most (real) aventus batches are pretty good, though. Creed is a shit company but they managed to create something interesting with aventus that shook up the market somewhat. I would pay €100 for a bottle if I didn’t care about the ethics easily.
Also, they “may” have used more naturals early on go make the fragrance popular and once it was was popular and shifted to synthetics once it was stabilished. I do not have the technical knowledge to know, but this makes perfect comercial sense.
So far it is the only good creed I have come across. GIT is sort of trash and MI smells like sweat. Maybe I would like SMW or BdP like the other anon mentioned, idk.

I hate cinnamon, is it very obvious in Egoiste?

I bought my Aventus when it was still a family business.
Very interestingly, Creed company was sold just weeks after I bought my Aventus in February 2020.
Think about it... Creed was a family business for over 100 years. https://www.basenotes.net/threads/474448-As-of-today-Creed-is-no-longer-a-family-owned-brand

>>15575556
you got the fake leftovers

>>15575569
My Creed Aventus is A4219S41. That's not fake, fag. For refference, see reddit and basenotes

>>15575556
That batch code checks out at checkcosmetic.net

>>15575537
I'm not really making an argument of naturals vs synthetics, but when people say shit like "oh the oakmoss regulations affected Aventus since batch blah blah" its bullcrap. Evernyl which provides an oakmoss-like impression has been in fashion since the 70's. The "natural birch tar" has been substituted for a few decades too. The only changes have been Creed cheapening out, not a reduction of naturals because of regulations.

Surprise! A "luxe" brand is driven by profit. Aventus never really reinvented the wheel, it was just marketed very well and driven by hype, since the beginning, and Creed just wanted to increase profit over the years. People are only crying foul now because Creed has been sold.

>>15575578
>>15575582
god you're fucking retarded

you realize you can just print whatever batch number right?

your shit is fake nig

>>15575591
It would be a lot of extra effort to print the corresponding batch code on the individual bottles. Googling A4219S41 doesn't show up as fake. Why are you mad?

>>15575466
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/iv89iu/creed_aventus_a4219s41_legit_or_fake/

>>15575534
>Its clear that he barely knows about the actual history of perfumery, what new material created trends throughout the decades, and he outright has not smelled frags that most people into this sort of thing would have smelled within a couple of years.
I'm not sure what being a perfumer has to do with smelling internet hyped fragrances. I've seen this used to somehow discredit him, but it is pretty weak. There are better things to say to discredit him than just that he hasn't bothered sniffing what you dweebs have smelled. Why does he need to know about trends if he is never going to be good enough to be hired by companies that care about trends.

>Lists them out as if he is trying to prove something.
LOL, you must prefer reviewers who read the notes that the marketing team says are in the fragrance when discussing it then.

>>15575611
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6aVn5-Foog

>>15575537
>Falling for the more naturals in niche fragrances meme

frag fags eternally btfo
based Igor

>>15575623

>>15575582
That website doesn’t actually check for its authenticity. It just tries to parse the code in order to get a year of fabrication out of it. I just made up the batch GA5218Y69 and it gave “year of fabrication:2018”.
The killer point as to why his aventus is fake is the plastic bottle cap (should be mother o pearl), the weird defect on the label and the fact that all mentions of this batch on google are either of extremely shady sites or people trying to sell or trade their “99% full bottle of aventus”, as you can see here >>15575474
At first I will say that I did this mostly
to shitpost and piss Igor off, but this batch code revelation makes me 100% sure that it is fake.
>>15575556
>Creed was a family business for over 100 years
Lol.

>>15575630

NICE! >>15575611

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>>15575618
That is not the discussion, though. There are niche houses that employ mostly naturals, those that employ more naturals than average and those who employ mostly/exclusively synthetics and do so masterfully, like Xerjoff and ELDO.
>>15575586
Yeah, natural oakmoss isn’t that big of a deal, honestly, as it is one of the cheapest members of the realm of natural components, opposed to ambergris and flower absolutes. But they certainly could have cheapened our and the batch variation is evidence that they just get whatever is cheap at the time to make the frag, adhering to some minimal formula they have.

>>15575634
Sure thing. And Creed Viking was used by Ragnar Lodbrok on his raids on England.

>>15575653
They have"real" oakmoss, with the offending 3 molecules or whatever taken out.

Only 4 left.

EN is a skin scent after 30 mins

All these fragrances I love and the only one that's gotten me compliments is Gucci Guilty Black that I got as a present when I was 18

Why didn't you wankers tell me I could get away with just this for the rest of my life.
Why aren't don't you have a bottle of this? Don't you want to smell snice?

are there any shops in the UK where I can walk in and smell a load of shit

>>15575816
boots?

Because L'Homme or Cargo de Nuit are better

>>15575849
>>15575812

LDDM has really grown on me. Its what I always wished TdH smelled like

>>15575420
Cool Water is excellent and definitely enough if you just want something in that vein. They smell really, really similar.

I still think GIT is 100 percent worth it seperately though, it's got this intoxicating depth CW doesn't quite achieve. It's the most addictive scent I've experienced, huffing my arm like a retard the whole day

>>15575517
It smells really nice and it's great for work if you take meetings/ meet clients often

>>15575789
Replacing a finished bottle of Gucci guilty black was what got me into this whole thing. It may not have artistic merit as people say but it does smell really nice

>>15575833
do they actually sell snice shit there?

>>15575724
Looking pretty nice
Have you thought about changing the fonts on the arrows to something narrower and thinner?

post signature scents

>>15575816
Boots and other pharmacies for lower shelf designer stuff. John Lewis for more fancy stuff. And obviously you got Selfridges, Harrods, FortnumnMason for niche and luxury

Is there a fragrance that smells like cocoa butter lip balm?

>>15575879
>>15575420
It's wild that you can get 125ml of Cool Water for $25

>>15575812
Because that's not Dylan Blue the compliment King.

>>15575872
I don’t see resmeblance

>>15575385
Go away, fake GORsWIPE.

>>15575949
>fake
cope

Just a friendly reminder :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/iv89iu/creed_aventus_a4219s41_legit_or_fake/

>>15575961
lol watch SEETHING frag fags downvote everyone in that thread lmao

I dab on you

>>15575938
They're like 70% the same once the top notes are gone. LDDM is deeper and has that dusty background that's very nice

>>15575596
No it wouldn’t, you absolute mong. It would take a few minutes of googling and a decent printer.

Grey Vetiver edt or edp?

Is Igor literally autistic? Like, he seems to 100% believe anything he reads on the internet. Trust pilot (which is infamous for paid reviews, shills and bots) says my site is ok? Well gee golly, I believe ‘em! Creed claims to have been making frags for royalty for hundreds of years, despite no bottles predating the 1970s existing? Sounds legit to me. Reddit tells him his bottle is fine? LOL FRAG BTFO.

Like, legitimately, being extremely gullible is a classic sign of autism. Or, is he just literally retarded? Like, is he a legit slow-in-the-mind? What is his deal? He can’t honestly think posting screenshots from google definitively proves his case, can he?

oh my god encre noire a la extreme does smell like peanuts

Anyone else think Igor has extremely expressive eyes? Like a simpleton, I mean. You can see the gentleness but also lack of comprehension. If I was making a movie of “Of Mice and Men”, I’d hire him to play Lennie in a heartbeat.

>>15575959
Ok. Go away, real GORsWIPE.

Your Aventus is fake, though.

>>15575991
>Your Aventus is fake
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/iv89iu/creed_aventus_a4219s41_legit_or_fake/

>>15575993
>I’ll link to a reddit post on 4chan! That’ll definitely convince them!
You are literally too stupid to insult.

>>15575987
Gutman kinda looks like malkovich from Being John Malkovich

>>15576000
Malkovich also played Lennie, coincidentally enough. I wonder if Igor has any of those idiot savant powers. Like maybe he can talk to mice or something?

>>15575977
EdT is discontinued. Far better scent (lighter, fresher, less harsh) but 1/3 of the longevity of the EdP

i know aaron terrence hughes is a meme, but has anyone here actually tried any of his fragrances? are they any good?

>>15576027
Do you think we're stupid, Aaron? I'm not giving you my address. My nipples will stay safe.

>completes your summer afternoon

>>15576063
Eau de Cologne Imperiale for me

>>15576027
> buying perfumes from a hairdresser pretending to be a perfumer

>>15576152
Good way to get your nipples harvested, innit?

>>15575983
It may not even be that the site scammed him. At this point I’m even considering that some Russian dude ordered legit aventus, swapped it for some fake CDNIM shit on that bottle and returned it. Literally no one of repute has ever gotten that batch.

>>15575914
It really is

>>15575985
Smells like pencil parings to me

>>15575999
>my forum is better than your forum!

Not that guy but it's all just a bunch of people saying shit on the internet who really gives a fuck where the words are

All right, guys. I might have a weird one for you. I visited my mom yesterday and found pic rel in a dresser drawer. I searched for Hommage de Firmenich but didn't find much besides a blank parfumo entry. Back in the eighties and nineties, my mom worked at a fairly successful international bank where she handled the accounts of corporations: credits lines, investments, loans, etc. Was Firmenich one of her clients and they gave this to her as a gift? The bottles all say 'not for resale,' and she says she doesn't remember getting them and didn't even know they were in there. I didn't even know Firmenich made any perfumes themselves. What the fuck do I have?

>>15575520
AdP Leather

I think it's safe to say that after that last video wafts has gone full shill. I mean, what the fuck is that meme moneygrab garbage?

>>15576063
Based
I have Teaazzura and Pamplelune and want to cop more

>>15575724
Looks great! Thank you for your hard work, anon

>>15576264
what do they smell like? interesting

>>15575724
Good job and interesting, but why would you lure people away from Egoiste, Eau Savage EdT or Original Musk.

I definitely see them as an end in themselves - and I’m a niche fag.

>>15576264
Are you a Swissie? Your mom a ubs or cs fag?

I just tried Encre Noire and this thing smells like depression, It´s not a bad smell but it´s way too somber for me to get any enjoyment out of it.

>>15576711
sport version is fantastic

>>15576711
dubs checked, fuck off i hate this meme, as someone who chases depression smelling perfumes. it literally smelled like ink or a damp wet forest. what a let down this was, hardly dark smelling at all.

>>15576711
>>15576721
i agree, try the sport version. it smells less depressing to me. it's like a morning walk through a forest after it rained last night. holy shit that sounds pretentious

My collection is currently sitting at 23 bottles.

Should I offload some of the stuff I don't regularly use to recoup some money and buy higher quality juice, or continue the collection for completionist sake?

>inb4 consoomer

>>15577227
probs sell. i've been selling off a lot of my bottles and i feel better that i've sold them. for the few things i still sort of wanted but never wore i made 5ml decants so i wouldn't feel bad. except all the money from the stuff i sold went into other 5ml decants.

Can anyone recommend a similar?

>>15577227
Only you know the answer to that. I have 30-35 bottles. It’s completely unnecessary and will last me forever. That said, I enjoy every one of them. There are some I haven’t used for a year but started using all the time recently and I found new love for them. I could sell half of them and still have a solid collection but I like them so I keep them.

>>15575401
Gross. Namefags get the rope.

Why do you think you're more important than anyone else here?

Why is your comment, your opinion.. better than anyone elses.. so much so that you need to be permanently identifiable on an anonymous image board?

Why is your ego so out of whack? You are literally the cancer that makes anonymity pointless.. you remove every reason for the site to exist.

If you need persistent acknowledgement, namefag, I suggest you go karma whore on Reddit.

You are an enormous faggot. Extremely low IQ. Egotistical. Boring. Sad and pathetic.

Namefags.get.the.rope

Just got
>Rochas Moustache Edp
>Eau de Baux
>Mercedes Benz Club Black
for coming fall and winter.
Maybe i'll finelly get a gf before turning 30 next year...

>>15577365
haha yeah nah, but here its getting into the warmer months and i realise i dont have anything for spring and summer. I had Aqva Amara which was based but it gave me a really runny nose for some reason. i need some violet and apple and mint summer stuff. You or someone like you?

>>15577479
>violet and apple and mint
All at once?

>>15577230
Agreed. This was the way to go for me as well. Reduced 30+ bottles to 6 and kept decants. Also a 10ml decant of Interlude will last forever.

>>15577526
Also it feels amazing to only have bottles of stuff you love.

>>15575883
Yes, I will experiment a bit with fonts once I'll be done with all frags and writing up the middle sectionn.
>>15576587
Thanks for kind words, hopefully it'll be useful for all confused souls coming to this thread for the first time
>>15576680
>I definitely see them as an end in themselves
Me too, the intention wasn't the further down = the better but rather giving different options to explore your fragrance preferences based on some similarities with the preceding frags. I can totally imagine someone rounding up his fragrance collection only with stuff from the central circle.

Here's another pic.

>>15576639
Honestly really fucking good. I wish girls would wear shit like this again. I'd describe all of them as having the same floral-aldehyde core, but after smelling again I can say they are all different.
>left
this is the hardest to pick out individual notes, so I'll skip it for now
>middle
this is right up my alley. Smells like a richer version of CDG2 once the ink notes calms down: a sweet floral-aldehyde with a balsam-nitromusk undercurrent (similar to what I've smelled in Youth Dew or CP)
>right
This is the standard French floral perfume of the time, something I've definitely smelled from a Chanel or Boucheron: lemongrass, carnation, peony, jasmine. I'm getting scent memories of what the ladies would wear to church in the spring when I was a kid.

>>15576687
Nah, American. The bank is/was in New Jersey, which has a lot of offices for pharma and chemical companies, another reason I made the connection.

>>15576950
so uh, what are some of your favorite depression frags?

>>15577779
Not him but Fathom V and De Profundis are quite depression smelling.

>>15577243
S A N T A L N O B L E

>>15576264
hommage = gift
they gave her 3 gift boxes

Anyone know of a fig frag that lasts on your skin.
I love pic related but it turns to a skin scent on me within 30 mins and vanishes shortly after.


help me out

Does anyone have recs for brands of quality aftershave?

I think I'm done with the chart. I just need to do the write up for the middle section of the infographic. Pretty satisfied with the result: 56/83 fragrances here are designer and quality stuff, so the infographic should be really helpful for people who are just starting out with exploring their fragrance preferences. Let me know your thoughts; I'm gonna experiment a bit with changing the fonts for sure but apart from that I think it's quite alright for a non-vector infographic. The bummer is that I need to use JPG file (but with minimal compression) to bring the file under 4MB, so it can be posted here.

>>15578434
fine accoutrements, Barrister and mann, Arianna and evans, Noble otter, declaration grooming, chiseled face,
There's a whole cotage industry of high-quality american aftershaves and soaps being produced

>>15578449
Only changes I would make is taking out Dior Homme Cologne 2013 as the summer version for Dior Homme Original lovers. The only viable choice is Dior Homme Cologne 2007 version (but virtually unattainable). That is the summery version for Dior Homme Cologne original. Also, there is no presence of Maurice Roucel's musk masterpiece.

>>15578413
Diptique Philosykos edp
Parfums de nikolai fig and tea

really is a shame that fico di amalfi only lasts 20 min cause its such a beauitful scent

>>15578449
good stuff

>>15578413
L'artisan Parfumeur Premier Figuier
made by the same perfumer who created philosykos
but it's better

>>15578481
Yeah I might delete the 'Hot weather' arrow.

>>15578546
I agree with that decision. DHC deserves to be on there, but it is misleading to attach it to DH.

>>15578546
kekeke

>“There sometimes is a misconception that Frederic Malle Musc Ravageur is my “musk” fragrance. This is not true; there is no musk in it at all, it is an animalic oriental. Helmut Lang Eau de Cologne is one of the muskiest perfumes on the market and is my musk masterpiece.....”

https://www.cafleurebon.com/cafleurebon-behind-the-bottle-interview-with-maurice-roucel-helmut-lang-eau-de-cologne-helmut-lang-eau-de-parfum-draw/

>>15578546
>“......I met Frederic Malle in the 90s, in NYC. He was sent to me by Pierre Bourdon, because at that time Frederic wanted to be an editor of perfume. I told him I had something in my drawer, it was a finalist for Fragile by Jean Paul Gaultier. I gave it to Frederic, and we added a little fresh on the top, and it became Musc Ravageur..."

https://www.cafleurebon.com/interview-with-master-perfumer-maurice-roucel-last-tango-in-n-y-c-le-labo-draw/

Wearing straight to heaven to celebrate the old commie like going to hell. Demonigger libshits absolutely seething on tv

>>15578619
Yeah, I was thinking of putting Helmut Lang EdC there but haven't seen it available anywhere in real life but at one department store. Idk if you had a chance to smell it but it's musky on the clean side of things, so not really a replacement for FMMR.
>>15578631
Interesting

>>15578632
Lol, I got all excited that Bernie Sanders finally died but it's someone else you're talking about

>>15578632
roase mundi

When I put my nose to Kouros for the first time I didn’t get the piss. It smells fresh and clean in a kind of dirty way, but not like piss.

Today I tried early ‘90s Kouros. It smells like piss. But I adore it. I don’t adore the smell of piss, but it offers so much for a designer scent. Even though it’s been sitting around for 30 years it’s still enormous. It’s almost inconceivable that, if we go by designers today, that this really is a designer scent. Can you imagine the board room at YSL or Dior or Chanel if somebody suggested this scent if it never existed?

>>15578651
>"[Helmut Lang] wanted the scent of his lover's sweat …erotic, musk, skin. It took a year and half working, traveling and about ten revisions. Helmut Lang was very involved as a creative director. He had a clear vision; a good brief and he used his minimalist design and aesthetics for both the marketing and the bottle."

>According to the creator of this perfume, Maurice Rousel, he states Mr. Lang wanted a scent that smelled of his boyfriend's semen that had landed on clean sheets.

I think Helmut Lang's fragrance really is only suitable for those who are interested in his aesthetic. The minimalism of the late 90s and turn of the millennium.

wearing Layton today :^)

>>15578669
Yeah I know the story of creation of EdC.

>>15578672
so that makes you the top today?

>>15578674
Quite interesting how a name of a fragrance can drastically alter a community's perception of what it contains. Musc Ravageur immediately implants the idea that it is some ravaging musky scent just based on the name of it. People post their misconceptions on the internet and one after another people start repeating it ad nauseam. I wonder how the community would react to this fragrance if it was in a Jean Paul Gaultier bottle and called Fragile. I guess at the end of the day the "truth" doesn't matter. Our subjective perceptions of scent is the "truth".

OUD SUCKS

>>15578703
woah junior, thats a spicy opinion you have there;
have you tried tobacco oud by Tom Ford and red oud by Montale? You really don't know how good aoud wood can smell until after sampling these highly praised creations.

>>15578692
I mean, it might be spices but there's definitely a noticeable animalic aspect to Musc Ravageur. But overall I agree with your post - Secretions Magnifique being a perfect example of group thinking influencing their perception. People have massive prior before testing it after reading dozens of comments claiming how disgusting smell it is but in reality it's just a metallic, a bit musky smell that at worse smells like a dog that got slightly wet. Nothing inherently outworldly disgusting about.

>>15578713
NONE OF THOSE SOUND VERY AQUATIC TO ME

>>15578672
Bad shitposting
>>15578703
>>15578719
Good shitposting

>>15578659
Times have changed.

>In 1998 while working with Master perfumer Maurice Roucel to recreate “the scent of his lover's sweat …erotic, musk, skin”, the designer fell in love with the musky floralcy of Givaudan's Velvione©, that was profusely poured into the base of Helmut Lang eau de parfum and cologne, both launched in 2000.

> But how does Velviona smell? A macrocyclic musk developed in the Givaudan labs, velvione© is inexpensive, alluring and above all musky in the best possible way. Think of that addictive baby skin scent everybody loves. Moreover velvione© is only barely animalic and favors a petal velvetiness that blends well in floral bouquets adding a captivating glow, so it perfectly fits the ‘90s cerebral clean vibe in fragrance. The prominent powdery radiance has a vintage connection, close to the retro elegance of nitromusks like must ketone (think of vintage a sheer Chanel No. 5 muskiness) which is an extension of Lang’s sober palette.

Wearing Helmut Lang Eau de Cologne now and it does have an addictive quality to it.

>>15578732
you had me at "semen on clean sheets"
does vintage matter?

>>15578679
no it means i smell nice :^)
>>15578724
no shitposting, just Layton

>>15578672
>>15578765
Tell me one thing my dude, this guy >>15578449 did some top work to put all of these together anonymously while you just post your overpriced horse water every thread with a trip on. Maybe you should just go to reddit if you want to be identifiable and some sort of an internet personality?

>>15578713
Neither of the perfumes you just mentioned have oud in them dummy

>>15578732
>addictive baby skin scent
nonce detected

>>15578787
no i like frag

>stock photo

>>15578796
Don't worry, it's not meant for you. It is only for those in the know.

>moggs all of your patchouli perfumes

jerememe's born again parts of his new videos are so funny. he saw some retarded thai guy in a youtube interview talk about stretching your penis so now he shills it on his fragrance channels, along with saying he doesn't use women for sexual pleasure anymore cause it's a sin

>>15578877
Where did this born again shit come from? Something happen behind the scenes? His frags aren’t selling well? Just more performative bullshit? It’s such an odd turn.

Since when Jeremy is recording videos about nofap?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhxEectgow

>>15578929
Jeremy is a vapid pseudointellectual who blindly follows whatever Instagram tells him to do. Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long for him to latch onto nofap.

>>15578449
You're absolutely based for putting bright neroli in there.

>>15577243
Because, you don’t respect therapy. Because, You're a scientist. Because, you invent, transform, create and destroy for a living. And when you don’t like something about the world, you change it. And you don’t think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything. You think it’s helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind you value in the animals you eat, but it’s not something you want for yourself. You're not a cow. You're a pickle. When you feel like it. Santal 33 by Le Labo.

>>15578991
Do this analysis for other fragrances too.

I'm trying to piss off and mog everyone no matter what when I have to leave to do shopping because I'm an obnoxious /b/tard faggot.
Should I cop 212 VIP and overspray to compensate for mask wearing?

>>15579049
/b/tards haven’t existed for over a decade, m8.

I just tried a sample of this and I'm blown away. I know it's quite popular but it's a really great fall/winter fragrance imo. What do you guys think?

>>15578895
i think it's along the lines of this

>>15578937

he latches on to any meme lifestyle change. wim hof/ice cold shower memes, carnivore/keto/paleo memes, making matcha with the dumb whisk memes, nofap and jelquing memes, now being a born again christian. pretty sure he's polish though so maybe catholic. idk

also, remember he got metoo'd with the snapchat screenshots of him telling that girl to give him head in the bathroom or whatever, so now this is like his repentance in his mind, and also like giving him insurance in case shit comes up in the future like "i'm not like that anymore, it can't be true, see"

I got a Sauvage EDT batch 2019 as a gift, in the past I vaguely smelled the frag and I never got a bottle because of how mainstream it is so I never experienced it. But this thing is has crazy projection and sillage I can´t imagine what the original batches where like.

>>15579403
the original came out in 2015 and it's so synthetic (not necessarily in a bad way) i doubt they've had to change much, or anything at all. it might be the same exact thing in a 2020 bottle and an original 2015 bottle. that hasn't stopped jews from going on ebay and marking up the price on a "VINTAGE 2015 SAUVAGE SEALED" to like $180+ in the past year though, i've seen it

>>15579410
If anything, I think I read that people feel like they toned down the peppery/slightly challenging aspect of it and kept the more accessible parts of it. This is precisely why I'm going to be buying a 100 mL bottle of Dior Homme 2020 soon as well. It is inevitable that fragrances get reformulated and the first formulation is always going to be the truest to the perfumer's vision.

I still have the dry down of 2009 La Nuit de l'Homme on me, and the woody dry down is very present still and intoxicating. I might like this phase the best out of the entire progression of the fragrance. The bulk of the fragrance carries a slight androgynous tone. It has feminine lipsticky/makeup bag powdery elements reminiscent of Dior Homme Original, but this is apparently what gets the pussy wet. Girls love it when there is something "feminine" mixed into the masculine fragrance. I guess it adds a "mysterious" element to the scent.

>2020
>not smelling like a wet civil war medical poultice

You guys are fucking chumps with the guido tier recommendations in this thread

>>15579428
imagine wearing anything from this faggy lib hipster brand

the worst fragrances are the middlebrow ones. either go all the way and get something truly high class or buy designer shit that's for the working class

>>15579415
most fan boys got pissed at the 2020 Homme. Is it a good gateway to the Homme line?

>>15579393

Ice cold showers feel amazing though

>>15579432
>ds & durga
>middlebrow

>>15579425
girls do not give a fuck what you smell like as long as you’re clean. pussy is not the puzzle box from hellraiser

I can't tell if I like or dislike Maai. Maybe I just need to wear it more, but to be honest I don't think it's a complex perfume. I am a noselet though.

>>15579440
It smells nothing like the original homme line. It's a modern masculine cash grab.

>>15579432
I dunno man yeah they're faggy but Amber Kiso is great

>>15579440
If you're looking for a nicely constructed modern stereotypically masculine scent then yes. If not, then Dior Homme 2020 is not for you.

>>15579517
You're not wrong, it is designed to make bank. Francois Demachy has turned into a money printing machine for Dior.

>>15579481
zoologist, ds & durga, slumberhouse, le labo, all middlebrow craft beer DSA soiboi ironyboy fragrances

>>15579432
I know they upset /pol/‘s feew-feews, but they legit make good scents. Letting a brand’s politics influence your decision to buy their product is a low-IQ move. They either make good shit or they don’t. Who the guy in charge voted for is irrelevant.

>>15579481
Case in point, that's way the top sellers are all "shower gel" fragrances. A lot of girls love it when a guy smells clean and stereotypically masculine. It is what it is. Any arguments against this is futile.

>>15579554
>Slumberhouse
You are just wrong on this one. Have you ever smelled Sova or Norne?

>>15579554
Oh, it’s you again. The “Slumberhouse is le axe-throwing IPA brand” faggot. Neat. Inb4 soijack with -erino talked onto the end of a word.

Crazy that Josh pays a Slumberhouse defense force to protect his Portland hip hop-inspired fragrances on a Zimbabwean basket weaving forum.

Oh wait...they do it for free.

>>15579559
He has not. He’s a shitposter looking to stir up drama. He tried this shit a couple months back, too. Might even be the same 19 year old autistic Persian with a CONFIRMED IQ OF 175. Just hide his posts. Don’t give him (you)s.

Inb4 he throws out the ol’ MUH SAFESPACE strawman.

>>15579554
you forgot eldo

>>15579578
>ELDO
Tom of Finland and Fat Electrician are based

>>15577523
if i could but i'd take it one at a time as well.
>>15577526
h-haha well umm i agree but its more like i bought blind buys, didnt like them then sold them. i have a lot of frags that are presents too and i havent sold any cause i would feel bad about it. >>15577527 but yeah that feels good cause every now and then i want to wear something i love but i dont cause i feel bad that im not wearing something i havent worn in a while. i need to sell more shit.
>>15577779
Narciso Rodriguez for Him for gloomy, Dali Pour Homme for dark, gloomy and mysterious, Ungaro III for straight up depressing darkness. Passage d'enfer and amouage figment man do a good job too. Here's the thing though, probably don't listen to me cause everyones got a different thing for whats depressing. A lot of people find roses gloomy for example V&C Pour Homme, Black aoud and a bunch others come up as depressing suggestions but rose doesn't do it for me. Other people say white lily, patchouli, but it comes down to you. Cold, medicinal stuff as well like Burning Barbershop, SL l'Orpheline, Humus (forgot the designer) and Lush's Breath of God could be depressing but i find them cold, numbing and apathetic.
>>15577780
God I want to try De Profundis but its impossible to find here.
>>15578449
nice
>>15578659
imagine a designer coming out with Fahrenheit today man. Am I hipster for having a thing for 80s and 90s frags over todays frags or what.
>>15579556
somone in an fb group was pissed about Lush supporting police in britain or something ffs. this shits just retarded either way.

>>15578413
Python Uomo Trussardi

>>15579076
I like it a lot. I don’t own it because I have enough functionally similar fragrances but it’s a good one.

Does Prada still
make the best clean soap scent? What's the point of going niche for soap-like?

>>15579925
lmao nigga what do you need soap scented perfume for just take a bath like nigga grab a bar of Dove

>>15579925
In my opinion no, but that’s not to say it’s bad. Far from it.

I think Colonia Essenza is the best. Mugler Cologne is the best value for money soap scent however.

>>15579393
>pretty sure he's polish though
There's this video where he awkwardly tries to speak in Polish but at the end he manages to do that quite well. It's super cringy, so don't watch if you're not ready for it.
https://youtu.be/HuRXRxgkUj0?t=158

>>15579440
Not a gateway in any sense. This should be released under a new name but Dior probably realized that the market for fresh-spicy synthetic woody smells is quite crowded with every designer having one including their very own Sauvage so they used the recognizability of the Homme line to jump the sales up without putting too much effort into marketing a new product. If you judge it on its own it's not necessarily bad and I'm saying it as a niche fag. I prefer it over BdC/Sauvage/Versaces but at the end of the day you get another generic 'modern' masculine scent.

>>15579517
>>15579551

> stereotypical modern masculine
I’d say it is a classical masculine frag since it built on a 50s citrus chypre blueprint without oakmoss. The perception and goal are the same: manly, fresh, clean, safe, inoffensive scent. And it is good, not a masterpiece but Demachy should receive something like an Engine and Propulsion System 2020 award for it. I am a moody and toxic person, nobody ever sit next to me willingly since 6th grade but I always get stupid fucking compliments how fresh the smell is.

>>15579440
> fan boys
Fucking stillborns with the baby duck syndrome, what’s the big news the 2020 iteration smells differently from the 2005 version? Where have they been last eight years? Demachy moved to the 2020 iteration in 2012 with a Sport version, continued with Eau for Men and almost finalized it with Sport 2017. It is virtually impossible to discriminate DH2020 from DHS2017 from an arm’s length distance.

>>15579558
Eh you got it backwards. It is rather the flavor of the decade. All the money put forward marketing the OG Sauvage and BdC conditioned the whole generation to believe that this is how you want to smell. Move back 30 years back and you have clean-dirty Kouros and huge leather-orientals as bestsellers. Move a decade/two back and you have 80s powerhouses in favor. You're overthinking it with the 'girls love it when a guy smells clean and stereotypically masculine' as the shower gel fragrances are very metrosexual (at the very least) in comparison to masculines of the past. If someone wants to ride the hype wave to the end then fine but I think shower gel fragrances have their best year behind them already - they became slowly 'cool' divorced dad's fragrances and every girl and guy in the age bracket 15-30 had some exposition to Sauvage. It's nothing new and exciting anymore, hence probably the Dior 2020 release to monetize the DNA a bit more, I've met girls who actually frown upon smelling like Sauvage.

>>15575883
>Have you thought about changing the fonts on the arrows to something narrower and thinner?
What about Arial? I think I like it better this way. See screenshot for a comparison.

>>15580154
What about Calibri?

>>15580024
I think the backlash mostly comes from those worried that the OG Homme and flankers will be discontinued in favour of the much safer, uninteresting 2020. Anyone into fragrances realises that it's marketing bullshit to name it Dior Homme.

>>15580154
>>15580165
It looks better with thinner font because in the first image it blends too much with the lines and makes it look busy because of the lack of contrast.

>>15578929
those fucking pupils

>>15578824

>>15576711
i dont know man, i think you got memed into thinking its dark
its my date scent when im going for a walk in the forest in the evening

Anyone got their l'artisan perfumeur samples yet?

>>15580301
I haven't. How long it's been? A month?

>>15580301
I bet it'll come quicker than our CDG samples last year kek

I think I'm done. Please feel to repost it, especially for newcomers here.

>>15575364
Is it Floraiku or Auphorie that gives YouTubers prompts for their reviews? I heard that one of them did it and for some reason I associate the brands together. I want to know which one to boycott and which one to maybe try eventually.

>>15580388
Floraiku if any. Auphorie is way too niche and low scale for that.

>>15580380
Great work, mate. You should be proud.

>>15580380
Couple things:
>Bulgari Au The Rouge intersects the arrow
>No capital letter in EN description "to it. it will"
>I'd move 'I love sandalwood' away from the arrow a tiny bit.
>Maybe change all arrowheads to the small ones
Apart from these it looks good. I like the new thinner font choice too. Good job. I think we can start reposting it every new thread along with the fragrance families chart. It's actually a more useful resource for newbies than the chart.

>>15580380
>>15580518
Agree with everything this anon said.

Rainy Florida morning trip to the grocery store, wore encre noir sport, first time in a while. It’s pretty cheap and bland so I rarely reach for it but holy shit. Sublime rainy day frag. Guerlain teazurra is my usual rainy day frag

>>15580033
Fragrances are like music. Each generation has what they think as sexy songs. Is it money put forward marketing the songs as sexy? Perhaps. Is it a backlash from wanting to be different than their previous generation? Perhaps. Will Sauvage and Bleu de Chanel eventually be out for the majority of girls? Definitely. Saying girls love it when a guy smells clean and stereotypically masculine is more of a simplification than anything else. It is a good question trying to figure out the longevity of certain scents as sexy or not. Is it realistic to think Sauvage and Bleu de Chanel will appeal to every single girl you meet? Definitely not. Anyone who is serious about getting pussy wet will have a couple of scents to cast a wider net. Here's my current line up:

- Sauvage
- Bleu de Chanel
- La Nuit de l'Homme
- Molecule 01

I'm missing the fresh and sweet category, but I'm at peace with it. I just don't like smelling Invictus, Eros or Ultra Male on me no matter how effective it can be. I don't like projecting that playful mood personally.

I think within 5 - 10 years Sauvage and Bleu de Chanel might go out of style. Until then, I'm milking it for as much as it has got. I'm not interested in being on the cutting edge. I rather go with the tried and true.

>>15580281
>walk in the forest in the evening
>date scent

Stalking and raping your victims is not considered dating, anon

>>15580536
For me when I was working bar/night staff at a gothic themed hotel I wore Cool Water on rainy and stormy nights

>>15580539
I don't necessarily agree with what you're saying but can have your own opinions. Just don't try to aggressively impose it on others, some people only seek compliments, some want to add another layer of their presence by a deliberate and thoughtful choice of a fragrance and others appreciate the artistic qualities in fragrances (and others are here for a mix of these three).

>>15580539
>Will Sauvage and Bleu de Chanel eventually be out for the majority of girls?
Already happened in the NY-LA axis. I wouldn’t buy them right now for that purpose.

>>15580557
>>Will Sauvage and Bleu de Chanel eventually be out for the majority of girls?
Same really for metropolitan London. At least among early 20s students.

>>15580380
You made me seriously consider trying Pacific Rock Moss. I was initially thinking it was just Demi spewing bullshit since the community wasn't impressed. I'm also curious about Kiehl's Original Musk now. Interesting how my tastes are all over the place compared to the infographic.

I like Bvlgari Black and I am interested in trying Au Thé Vert. I like Eau Sauvage's top notes, and now I want something similar but less serious, so now I'm curious about Pacific Rock Moss. I like Dior Homme Original, but I'm not sure how it translates into my love for Colognes. It feels like it is more similar to my like of Eau Sauvage that lead me to wanting Eau de Cologne Imperiale. I will revisit my feelings towards Molecule 01 soon. There is a smoothness when I smell it. Reminds me of the idea of musk.

>>15580550
>I don't necessarily agree with what you're saying but can have your own opinions. Just don't try to aggressively impose it on others, some people only seek compliments, some want to add another layer of their presence by a deliberate and thoughtful choice of a fragrance and others appreciate the artistic qualities in fragrances (and others are here for a mix of these three).

If anything, I think more people are trying to impose their opinions very strongly that it is wrong to wear fragrances for compliments. Ironically they try to paint people who do that as single minded, but I have other fragrances in my wardrobe that I wear strictly for myself, or strictly as an accessory to match my clothing for harmony. I don't think there is only 1 way that fragrances can be worn and appreciated. I think having multiple views on fragrances enriches more than detracts from the community. But I sense a lot of people who become unnecessarily butt hurt by differing viewpoints here.

>>15580557
>>15580562

What's the next hot thing? In order for something to be out, there must be something competing with it to try to dethrone it.

>>15580413
Thanks mate, hopefully it'll be useful and help people asking the same questions where to start over and over again
>>15580518
>>15580535
Agreed. Will correct these.
>>15580566
>Pacific Rock Moss
Demi was probably onto the brand since they're one of very few Australian houses. It's really a great summer fragrance that smells just like it's name. Wet, mossy pebbles under feet of someone chilling drinking lemonade.
>Kiehl's
I personally didn't love it (it smells laundry clean on my skin) but it's an interesting one because many others report that it smells on the dirty side of musks on their skin. Also cheap and really easy to find in any city, so a good starting point.
>Dior Homme
It's quite unique, so the arrows are defiitely not exploring all of the possibilities. I was thinking of including SL Iris Silver Mist (surprisingly masculine iris solifore) and Prada Infusion d'Homme but Lipstick Rose nicely fit for exploring the lipstickinness quality of Dior Homme. I'd suggest trying these.
>Eau de Cologne
All of classic Guerlain colognes are mindblowingly good. I went through my bottle of Imperial in no time. It was just so pleasant to spray it now and then throughout a day to refresh yourself, even if it lasted 30 minutes.

>>15580380
I really appreciate the effort you went into making this, anon. A lot of new frags for me to try it seems.
Speaking of Declaration given its on the list and all, is it a risky blind buy? I can cop a 50ml and 100ml shower gel set for £35 on a discount site.
But the BO like comments I get off fragrantica make me wary.

>>15580570
>If anything, I think more people are trying to impose their opinions very strongly that it is wrong to wear fragrances for compliments. Ironically they try to paint people who do that as single minded
Get real, we had 2 weeks straight shitposting of some coomer. What reactions do you really expect? Your compliments seeking mindset is also frankly a boring one and you can just go to youtube/reddit to find like minded people. Do you want these threads to look like comments sections under Jeremy top panty-droppers videos?

I'm kinda confused about how people say that Rochas Moustache EDP is a clone of Tuxedo. I've never smelled Tuxedo but I don't get any violet leaf in Moustache.

>>15580589
Notes are partly listed on fragrances there for marketing reasons and doesn't equal used ingredients in any sense. Then they get perpetuated by public on fragrantica in a form of a positive feedback loop. They're note identical or super similar but if you'd blind test both you'd get a very similar vibe (that is probably achieved using different ingredients etc). I was thinking about this long time ago when I tested Moustache for the first time. Interesting how much our mind influence what we think we smell.

>>15580581
>All of classic Guerlain colognes are mindblowingly good. I went through my bottle of Imperial in no time. It was just so pleasant to spray it now and then throughout a day to refresh yourself, even if it lasted 30 minutes.

Ahh I can't agree more with this idea. So many people will only buy and use fragrances that are "beast mode", but I find true beauty in fragrances that sometimes don't necessarily last that long. I just don't mind spraying it over and over again.

>>15580599
don't*
not identical*
Soz, I'm phoneposting.

>>15580586
>Get real, we had 2 weeks straight shitposting of some coomer. What reactions do you really expect? Your compliments seeking mindset is also frankly a boring one and you can just go to youtube/reddit to find like minded people. Do you want these threads to look like comments sections under Jeremy top panty-droppers videos?

Again, good job at trying to impose your opinions aggressively that people who seek compliments aren't appreciating fragrances the "right way".

>>15580604
No really, it'll be just more helpful for you to go to youtube/reddit. There's also not much to discuss if you want to frame the discussion around compliments. 300 posts of people saying 'I sprayed BdC/Sauvage/LNDH today and this broad at my work got all flirty over the lunch'? I've read too many posts like that in my life.

>>15580614
>Just don't try to aggressively impose it on others

So we down to go back to aggressively forcing our own opinions down other people's throats? I don't mind returning back to the /frag/ of the past 2 weeks *wink* *wink*

>>15580550
>>15580586
>>15580614
Don't try to reason with coomers. We've been there before and it's not like they have any interesting points to bring.
>>15580625
> I don't mind returning back to the /frag/ of the past 2 weeks *wink* *wink*
Lmao, fuck off coomer. It's you wasting your time and putting effort in posting some cringey wannabe Chad posts whereas it's completely clear that you're just a socially maladjusted weirdo. We're just laughing.

smelt some tom ford memes the other day
holy fuck it's all super fresh garbage, why would anyone buy that shite

retard here
why do I only enjoy TDH EDT and is there anything similar at all? nothing I come across has the same bitter orange vetiver mix

>>15580651
Vetiver Extraordinaire by Frederic Malle is literally a bitter oranges vetiver fragrance.

>>15580599
>a*men
>smells closer to Fahrenheit parfum than Fahrenheit
>eau du missions, benzoin is identical, plummy vibe with more orange and rose
>ch men prive
>smooth orange and vanilla
>bentley intense
>tangerine, oily leather
>midnight in paris
>ysl lhomme
>natural tangerine scent
>straight to heaven
>1881 bella norte
>lui
all used to describe moustache, it is interesting how perceptions influence

>>15580599
Agree 100%, but most people will just blindly believe in notes and actually think they know what the fuck they're talking about.

>>15580674
most people will just blindly believe what others tell them it smells like in the exact same way they believe note marketing, but that concept is lost on some it seems

>>15580662
it sounds very interesting actually but I bet it's super hard to get a sample of

>>15580604
They aren’t.
>>15580625
You are cancer.
>>15580639
Truth. Coomers are maladjusted dorks who watch too much PUA/MGTOW/Incel shit. They have nothing of value to offer. Literally every time a coomer posts here, it’s “hey virgins, what frag can I use to get bitches to hop on my HUGE Chad cock?” followed by days of shitposting (which all sexually successful Chads totally do) about how we’re all virgins, dorks, dilettantes (they sure do like that word), etc.

Coomers are literally subhuman. If that offends you, reevaluate your life choices.

>>15580583
I don't get any BO smell of it. Used to have a sample that I was wearing others and my ex-gf commented that it smells nice. But in this case try it/sample it first. Even if there's none BO facet on your skin either your mind we'll seek for it constantly, so don't blind buy it. It's also easily available in stores, so go to your local department or drug stores.

>>15580742
around others*

>>15580708
>reads notes once and thinks they smell it in the fragrance
>doesn't think they're a dilettante

How does it feel that I'm in your head rent free you little bitch?

>>15580742
Thanks for the tip anon, I got a sampleof polo green coming so will give that a whirl first before deciding on my next bottle.
I would sample it in store but parking is daylight robbery where I live, literally cheaper to buy a 5ml and wait than it is to drive 10 miles, park for an hour and smell on skin (since the place I go to are tight cunts with a "we have no samples" policy)

>>15580751
Not him but I even don't know how did you make up this notes thing. Are you literally throwing your
projections waiting to see what sticks? Lol

Kek, based Arabs poking fun at Creed's ,,,,,,''''''''history''''''''''''''

>>15580765
English must not be your first language, I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that we're wrong when we say that notes are marketing and that if they write jasmine, they actually have jasmine oil in the fragrance or the perfumer literally thinks I should add some jasmine when constructing a scent?

>>15579496
Personally i think its a masterpiece and one of the few scents I bought a backup bottle of.

>>15580380
Nice!

Two days and showers later my hand still smells feebly of Chopard Oud Malaki. It doesn't seem to project like Interlude does but longevity is crazy.

Fucking Frederic Malle fucked up and somehow lost my order. Has anybody else ordered through their site? How do you miss an order? A day of waiting wasted.

>>15580778
I love that even their graphic designer didn't care to center the bottles out in the circles.

how do other people just smell good all the time? do they just spray expensive every single day before they leave the house? i shower every morning and still never smell as good as other people

how do other people just smell good all the time? do they just spray expensive perfume every single day before they leave the house? i shower every morning and still never smell as good as other people

>>15577227
keep it, better to have a variety of mid tier than the continuing disappointment of a few high tier

>>15580862
>pepe.jpg
newfag pls go

>>15580862
>do they just spray expensive perfume every single day before they leave the house?
Sometimes I spray expensive perfume when I’m around the house too.

>>15580765
Don’t give the incel (you)s. That’s what he wants. You’re not gonna hurt him by insulting him. If you want to hurt him, simply disregard his existence.

>>15575547
Yes. People always tell me i smell like cinnamon. Still my fav frag

>>15580572
Last time I checked it was some stuff from the Luna Rossa line, Allure Homme line and Armani Code line seemed to be more hip than bdc/chanel/invictus.

>>15580862
Think about it

Say you spend 200 bucks on 100ml of some Amouage and wear 2 sprays a day. You get roughly ten sprays per ml so each wear is costing you 40 cents

Even if you want to choke out every room you're in it's under or around a buck a day

>>15580380
Dior Fahrenheit doesn't smell like gasoline at this point. Maybe it did once but the current formulation is pure purple. I like the smell of gasoline, my 2020 bottle of Fahrenheit doesn't smell like that

>>15580380
this is all shit that traumatizes my wallet, right?

how many rupee for smelling good? i am look to be attract ladies

Talk me out of getting a full bottle of Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Man. It's so good HOOOOHHH

>>15580947
ONCE AGAIN PRADA IS KING

Anyone else struggle to not buy the biggest bottle even when you don't need it? The value is so much better. I want to buy a bottle of Monsieur and I can get a 50ml for about 170 and a 100ml for about 250. It's a strong perfume and I've got a bunch of others so it would take me years to even get through the 50ml. This is why I really appreciate the few brands that have about the same price per ml no matter what size you choose, like Parfums de Nicolai. That's actually the only one I know about.

>>15581147
I regret not buying big bottles of my absolute favourites, but I do have big bottles of lighter scents like Eau Sauvage and DHC. That’s a slight fallacy about it being better to buy bigger. Sure, it’s better value, but you don’t save money by spending more money.

Vaguely related, but what do you like about Monsieur? It’s one of theirs I’ve not tried.

Do you prefer Luna Rossa, LR sport, LR black, or LR carbon?

>>15580954
> current formulation Fahrenheit
It does smell like gasoline on me for good 15 minutes, the formulation is 12948/A.

>>15581173
I hate all of them.

>>15581089
> HOOOH
Smells like smelly socks. Now you know, try to live with it.

>>15580947
The only thing on my radar from Prada is Luna Rossa Black. I'm curious of sampling that again.

I wanted to like Allure Homme Eau Extreme, but I just can't stand how boringly sweet it is without any edgy twist. I don't want to just smell fresh, sweet, and clean. A lot of the Armani Code flankers have such an annoying base note that makes me unable to tolerate wearing them myself. I might consider revisiting Armani Code again, but it didn't seem interesting enough to replace my La Nuit the last time I sampled it.

I'm a bit biased, but I've bought into the perfumers behind the scents. I like the fact that Bleu de Chanel was done by Jacques Polge, and that Sauvage was done by Francois Demachy. I can't deny that knowing this has impacted my judgement of the scents.

Any good frags out there with coffee as the main note?

>>15581173
All Pradas are Italian communist mediocrity.

>>15580954
100% agree. The current formulation just smells like a leather fragrance to me on paper. I haven't tested it on skin, so maybe it somehow drastically changes into gasoline. Gasoline is pretty off-putting anyways.

>>15581192
I’ve not tried it but heard good things about SM Cafe by Strangers Parfumerie.

>>15581192
Halloween Man-X

>>15580949
>The average number of sprays in a 50 ml bottle is 735 (double that figure for a 100 ml bottle of fragrance).

https://nstperfume.com/2008/08/19/perfume-for-life-how-long-will-your-fragrance-collection-last/

>>15581147
>>15581163
Buy big bottles of scents that you:
1. will go through a lot of
2. don't want to deal with reformulations down the road
3. like the look of the bottle

Only buy small bottles of things that:
1. want to spend less money
2. don't mind reformulations if you need to re-buy it
3. won't be using it up in your life

Regarding reformulations, I recognize that I'm a bit of an extremist. If I can't get the original formulation of a scent, then I don't care about owning any of then it won't bother me to own any of the reformulated versions. They're all going to miss the mark and just merely have the same vibe as what the perfumer originally intended, so they're all just as good as each other.

>>15581163
I really like the patchouli in it, it's probably the best I've smelled. It kind of reminds me of Incident Diplomatique but they are definitely different enough to own both. It also has a really nice tangerine note.

>>15581212
I'm the same way. The perfume that really switched me over to not fucking around with reformulations was Muscs Koublai Khan. The new version is good, but after smelling the original it's pitiful by comparison. When perfume houses do shit like that it's immoral and dishonest. There should be regulations against it.

Anybody here try scentbird out? The idea seems cool, a frag sampling service would be cool to have before I commit to buying it, but I was wondering if it was generally trustworthy and if they have a wide array of drags to choose from.

>>15581192
Intense cafe and ristretto intense cafe. Ristretto costs twice as much for like 5-10% more coffee note

>>15581293
Scentbird is good for getting a variety of niche perfumes without having to pay for full bottles. They have some Amouage, Roja, etc.

What brands should i avoid if ii want to avoid smelling like an arab/paki immigrant?

>>15581309
Any popular designer

I know it's a summer scent, but is versace pour homme supposed to be essentially gone within an hour?

>>15581189
Except it doesn’t but nice try

>>15581192
ALAF Mukhallat Corleone is the only convincing (espresso) coffee scent I tried. Most others were strange mixes of tonka and vanilla

>>15581147
When people you will learn about your local Facebook groups? You can get as little as 2-5ml at the price of a full bottle.

>>15580954
Idk about vintage stuff but it still has a gasoline leather vibe about it. At least to my nose

>>15581279
I think they at least need to have a certain way to track that it is a different formula, so consumers know it is different. I understand that sometimes a product cannot be made the same way again, but the company can still sell a similar version of it and consumers are still happy to buy the "bootleg" version. I just want people to be informed and make informed decisions. I like how Dior has the formula code listed so that people know when it is a different formula. I do understand the counter argument that if people didn't like the scent from tester, they wouldn't have bought it anyways so why do we need to tell people we reformulated it? The one issue I'm 100% sold on is that it is wrong for the tester to be a different formula compared to what the store is selling. That's some bait-and-switch bullshit.

>>15581369
>Believes Musc Ravageur has musk in it

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>>15581466
>>15581466
>>15581466

>>15581192
Kilian’s Black Phantom.

>>15580604
Go away. There's nothing to be said about compliment getting fragrances other than they get compliments.

>>15581309
Any that you see rappers wearing that happen to have fragrance lines.