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>>18089159I always thought "cedrat" meant cedar. Don't know why. No idea what Cedrat Boise has to do with cedar and I never questioned it until this very moment when OP posted a big old lemon behind Cedrat Intense
>>18089162garbage as always
If you want your dick to smell of pussy and saliva, you need to buy this.
>>18089170real men don’t have to wear faggot shit like that to have sex
>>18089170I could just spray Secretions Magnifique on my penis and not have to subject myself to the horrific and disgusting female anatomy or the horrific and disgusting female personality
>>18089166you are welcome>>18089169no u
>smells kino>lasts 2 daysMeanwhile your Sneed Assventus struggles to last for 6 hours
how's Eau de Rochas Homme? good alternative to Eau Sauvage?
i can't tell anymore if the fags who talk about oud are just trolling or are genuinely clueless>>18088730heh>>18088763it's splendid>>18088864>>18088878i've got a pretty old vintage miniature and its pretty weak>>18088880who's moot>>18088976bogart signature, dali poir homme, mdci invasion barbare, houbigant fougere royale, kouros, quorum, nicolai new sork intense (some might say its more of an iris chypre), grauton pour homme
>>18089178That's why you go with CDNIM Limited EditionAlso Captain is better
>>18089196>i've got a pretty old vintage miniature and its pretty weakHow does it compare to other vetiver fragrances like Guerlain Vetiver and Vetiver Extraordinaire if you are familiar with them?
>>18089249it doesn't compare because it's a different fragrance
>Day frag: Papyrus Moleculaire by Maison Crivelli>Evening frag: Noble Wood by Hugo Boss Collectionsmy fragrance desires are only increasing and I've already spent 400 bongbucks on smelly spray. when does it end.
>>18089187Why would you need an alternative to Eau Sauvage? Just get Eau Sauvage.
Cedrat Boise smells as wrong on skin as it does on paper. Thank God I was only memed to buy 2ml of it.
>>18089266Just as a switch up. Plus it is 3x cheaper.
>>18089269It's genuinely one of my least favourite fragrances I've ever smelled. I have no idea why it's so popular, it somehow smells cheaper than CDNIM.
>>18089291Yeah, it’s genuinely one of the worst disappointments I’ve seen. Normally even though I certainly don’t love every fragrance around, I can still admit that most of the fragrances I’ve tried or smelled on someone else are at least ”pleasant” if nothing else, and downright negative reactions are pretty rare. So, normally when I call a fragrance ”bad”, it doesn’t mean that I hate it, it’s just something that is completely forgettable or meh.But this one is actually so bad that I actively dislike it. The initial fruitiness is too synthetic, and the leathery-musky drydown doesn’t mesh with it at all, rather it reminds me of a smoker. Not tobacco in a good way, but smoker in the way of nast residual smell of cigarette smoke.
>>18089300To me it smells like Skittles and liquid smoke. Really awful. I've never smelled Amogus, but that Loewe fragrance that supposedly smells like it was much better.
>>18089178>I share board with people who use phrases such as ' smells kino'Grim
Based Pierre Bourdon
>>18089306It has nothing to do with Amogus except for little fruitiness at start and some drydown smokiness. Yeah, it sounds similar when put like this, but ultimately I can’t see how anyone could seriously compare them as similar fragrances because the experience is completely different, CB basically takes couple of notes from Amogus and then amplifies them into super strong synthy forms. Something like MB Explorer or CDNIM are actually similar, but Cedrat Boise hell no
>Dior Eau Sauvage EDT>Dior Fahrenheit EDT>Dior Homme Intense>Dior Homme 2020>Encre Noire>Azzaro pour HommeThis is all you need.
>>18089376>DH2020>Encre NoirRedundantOtherwise, based
>misspelt name>recently mentioned frags>typical bait fragsKILL YOURSELF
>>18089376I own 4/6. I don't own any of the newer Dior Hommes, but have DHO.Eau Sauvage is a top 2-3 fragrance of all time.
https://www.cosme.net/categories/item/1027/ranking/What do you think of Japan's top men's perfumes?
>>18089397jo malone/10
>>18089397>Lazy Sunday MorningPeak twinkcore
>>18089356It’s the shadow of popular fragrances, people start doing inane comparisons based on a note or two. What can you expect when people are seriously praising Coty Avatar after its discontinuation because it had pineapple, and we all know what associations pineapple brings up?
Todays challenge for /frag/Name one fragrance in your collection that isn't manufactured by a multinational corporation.
>>18089412Define multinational?As in they serve multiple countries, or the parent company is a large conglomerate?Because most niche will fit your question.
>>18089412Prissana Haxan
>>18089396>Eau Sauvage is a top 2-3 fragrance of all time.any thoughts on current formulation vs vintage?
>>18089412Kaszebsczi Mech
>>18089397makes sense for Japs to prefer light fresh scents like Jo Malone, considering their distaste for strong fragrances and lack of tradition of personal fragrance
>>18089416I think it's pretty straight forward, anon. Many niche frags are manufactured, or at handled, by much larger corporations. They're not automatically exempt.
>>18089421current formulation is unrecognizable from vintage. smells more like limes and lemongrass than anything remotely sauvage. sample the vintage via a $20 miniature on ebay or something.
Are there any good simple Vanilla/Oud frags that are cheap?
>>18089473Shaghaf Oud?
>>18089476I haven't tried that one yet but I don't think I would like the praline and rose notes. I want like a Cartier Oud Vanille clone.
>>18089433You’ll have to tell me if these fit. Pineward and Bianchi prob do, but Pineward also sells stuff on Ecuacion so not sure if that excludes him. Beaufort prob fits, but not sure. Dunno about DS&D. G&B and IA may be a stretch, not sure about them. Beaufort London Iron Duke, Acrasia, and TonnerrePineward Sturbridge and GreymistBianchi Etruscan WaterDS&Durga Burning BarbershopGoldfield & Banks Desert Rosewood and Bohemian LimeImaginary Authors A Whiff of Waffle Cone
went into the fragrance shop today and they had absolutely no acqua di gio. Tried a bunch of other ocean scents and they just smelled the same, kinda cheap, syntheticy and musky. not at all summery or citrusy. Just gonna get a sample bottle desu.
>>18089483>Tried a bunch of other ocean scents and they just smelled the same, kinda cheap, syntheticy and muskyThat's aquatics for you. Acqua Di Gio is also honestly kind of boring.
>>18089485do they really all smell like that? the ones she gave me test strips off didn't smell summery at all desu.
>>18089489which ones did you test?most aquatics do smell summery, they just suck
>>18089497I forgor
Thoughs on this one guys?
>>18089514ahh the coke sniffing milionare
How can Lattafa Ameer Al Oud Intense Oud cost so little compared to other vanilla/oud frags? Is it not good?
SOTD, Bleu de Chanel. This is two days in a row anons.
>>18089159What do we think of L'Homme Ideal?
>>18089530I have tried it (the EDT) and I am a fan, I like to use it as a base and layer on zest and green notes
>>18089530unimpressive and not worth getting over any number of classic guerlains
what do you guys think of this one
>>18089397Bunch of low testosterone shit. I finna mog them with 5 sprays of Sauvage elixir
>>18089568Based and putting-weaker-fragrances-in-their-place-pilled.
>>18089333Locked. Yawn.
SOTD 95 Percent - Brunswick House. dark and heavy leather and woods, removed from any kind of positivity. probably the most serious (but not formal) fragrance i've smelled. the leather is perfectly blended, not too new/synthetic but also not warm like the skin of a live animal.>>18089249they're not similar at all>>18089348i've been looking at it yesterday, too bad it's discontinued>>18089412my sotd
>>18089590and they didn't list leather as one of the notes?could labdanum and guaiac wood be responsible for the smell?
>>18089564I prefer un jardin sur le nil
>>18089593maybe, but their listed notes are not that good anyway. in their pyramid they don't list oud but in the description they say there's oud. who knows
>>18089564not terribly interesting
squad assembled
>>18089606should have gotten a sample of that too>>18089629yeah so far its just kinda figgy/faggy
What happened with Guerlain distribution in the US? You used to be able to buy Habit Rouge and Vetiver at Walgreens, now they don't even sell it in most department stores. What happened?
>>18089269>>18089300Just adding to this that now I have sat through the entire scent all way to the subtle skin scent, and I goddamn still don’t understand what people see in this. Usually I give scents second chances, but this one is a direct disqualification.Are all Mancera / Montale fragrances like this in spirit?
>>18089677I still see L'Homme Ideal every now and then. The old school fragrances probably just don't sell well enough anymore to justify the sort of mass distribution you used to see. Plus, I really don't see many Walgreens that carry real fragrance these days. Most shit at Walgreens is free if you're a minority. Why would you stock expensive shit if it's just going to be shoplifted anyway?
>>18089682>Are all Mancera / Montale fragrances like this in spirit?yes they are both all synthetic slop and you should've known (almost like this general has been rightfully shitting on them since forever)
>>18089677The target audience has died off. Attempting to sell it to brown twinks on 4chan is not a winning strategy
>>18089696Habit Rouge is a perfectly valid clubbing fragrance
is it true that this is AMARF SIR thread?
>>18089699>You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'>Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs>I'm into havin' sex, I ain't into makin' love>So come give me a hug if you into gettin' rubbed
>>18089677they’re tightening distribution to reposition themselves as a luxury brand. typical LVMH tactic.
>>18089696>>18089705thank you florida schizo
whats with the habit rouge shilling lately? has LVMH been hiring marketing trolls in india lately or what the fuck
>>18089530At least the EDP was merely alright. Cherries, vanilla and bit of incense, sweet but not in a typical designer fragrance sugar water way, but in a bit deeper way, like dried fruits are sweet. Very linear for a Guerlain scent, stays close to skin but is more persistent than it initially seems (easy to overspray and feel bad about it later), nowhere near as good as user reviews on popular fragrance sites say.
>>18089568Anon sauvage is #6 on the list...
>>18089716It punches above it's weight class in terms of quality compared to similarly priced fragrances. I understand why people like that one
>>18089714no, just a mentally ill floridian who’s obsessed with old people.
>>18089719Yeah, don’t get me wrong, I’d much rather wear it than most designer sweet gourmands, but it still doesn’t really have anything I’d love and the Guerlain name in it kind of works against it due to expectations. It kind of feels less like a Guerlain fragrance, but more like a clubbing fragrance that has grown up, works as a white collar office drone and lives a boring family life with wife, couple of kids and a golden retriever. Which *is* better than being like Eros or 1 Million, but not particularly interesting in artistic sense.
>>18089711Yep, Guerlain prices have been skyrocketing recently.
>>18089714no shilling, I just really like it as a caucasian male in his early 30s> t. not that mentally ill Floridan
>>18089728they did the same thing with rimowa and loro piana, to name 2 recent examples. frankly, it’s amazing they took 20 years to implement these distribution strategies.
>>18089733okay i see. good luck with your future endeavorssotd encre noire 20 sprays
>>18089738>sotd encre noire 20 spraysno it's not plus quit what you're trying to do with this now
>>18089738dare I say... based?
>>18089745nah I basically soak my tshirt in it, thank you for asking. also 2-3 sprays goes on my crotch>>18089751thank you
>>18089733>just really like it as a caucasian male in his early 30shaha, gross
>>18089714>has LVMH been hiring marketing trolls in india lately or what the fuckIt's possible. The Turincuck that calls everything garbage and only likes Nicolai and Guerlain doxxed himself in a collection post a while back and he literally looks like Mowgli from the Jungle Book.
>>18089778I don't think that's all one guy
>>18089779Correct. It's all one stinky adolescent
>>18089781the two/one word response faggot is a different guy from the nicolai guy from that indian kid from last thread
>>18089783No, I think you're both the same stinky twinky
>>18089646nice
>>18089784why does everyone say I'm one of the schizo faggotscan't post shit in this thread
>>18089786He also doesn't use capitalization. I remain unconvinced that you are not he
>>18089787*not himand that fag would've already started his typical shitflinging
few kno dis but izza inpossibruh 2 chabge ur post style
>>18089778>>18089781>>18089784>>18089799Thank you, Florida schizo
now that i think about it, it's kind of curious that the two word insult replies ceased at the same time the florida schizo accuser popped up. makes one ponder. what could the agenda be?
>>18089835look, the schizo is seeing a pattern in the numbers!
>>18089838Thank you, Florida schizo
>>18089835maybe cuz it's the same niggerfaggot?
7:00, almost my bedtime, but I look forward to insulting some of your fragrance choices before 7:30 rolls around. SOTD: Habit Rouge
>>18089839quite nonsensical
SOTD: Creed Aventus. Again.
>>18089847absolutely retarded, again
>>18089851>absolutely retarded, again
>>18089854nice selfie, but maybe try WAYWT instead?
>>18089269Funny you mention that. I wore it the other day since my uncle gave it to my father as a gift. I smelled my skin and it smelled like those tiki torch fuels with the strong citronella oil. I hated it. As I was getting off the car there was this lady in her 30's handing out Easter invitations for a church, and as she hands me one she says " I love that perfume you're wearing, as soon as you opened the car door I could smell it from here". I guess it smells better in the air as I went nose blind to it but I'm surprised it projects that much.
>>18089855Now, I'm the king of the fragrance threads Oh, the effay VIPI'm sick of all the masstige slop Fuck PDM and Creed If you wanna smell good and high-classAnd make the ladies fawnJust do what Luca Turin saysAnd pick up some Guerlain Oobie-doo, I'm sprayin' Habit Rou-ou-ouge!
>>18089861would have been much funnier in 2016
Shitposter aside, is nicolai perfume actually good?
>>18089868Some are better than others, but overall yes. They are quite good.
>>18089868not all of them are amazing, but the best ones are really excellent.
>>18089861>He doxxed himself in a bottle of Bvlgari Aqva This is the funniest part of the whole situation
>>18089868some good ones, none outstanding. many duds with the "oud" line being the worst. also, not a hugely original house in general.
>>18089872complaining that nicolai lacks originality is like complaining that shalimar is a ripoff of emeraude, the correct answer to which is “who cares?”
so basically the only fragrances left on my wishlist are long discontinued, and theres nothing available locallythere are bottles i see for sale in japan, but the usual proxy sites wont send perfume because its flammableis there a way around this?
>>18089868A lot of them lean very heavily feminine to me, but everything I have tried has been good. NYI is massively superior to the other fragrances I've sampled from them though, so they're disappointing in that sense.
>>18089162That's confusing, I'm just going to buy the one with the picture of a sailboat on it again.
>>18089871Nah I’m the one who posted my collection and this is my first time posting in this thread. It is funny that you still seeth about it and think that you can make out my build and ethnicity from a metal reflection.
>>18089922No cap frfr
>>18089923on god?
I'll be honest the la nuit de l'homme longevity is not as bad as the internet claims
>>18089928Most reformulation complaints are largely bullshit. As air gets in the bottle, the fragrance begins to oxidize and will get slightly stronger for a few years before it begins to degrade. If you go through the bottle relatively quickly and open a new one, you will perceive it as weaker then the bottle you just went through, because technically it will be. What is true about the newer bottles of La Nuit is that the cardamom is less prominent.
>when you're smelling things at Sephora and the sales rep asks if you need help with anything
Do you guys spray different fragrances on your dick/ass if you think you'll have sex? I spray ultra male on my balls and ass when I want my ass eaten
>>18089935reformulation neurosis is real as fuck among fragbros, they all want to think that their bottle of whatever l’orealslop is just as special as vintage mitsouko or something.
>>18089945Life Hack: go buy ten bottles of YSL: Myslf and throw them in the back of your closet. In a few years you can sell them on ebay to fragbros for 10x what you paid. YSL Myslf is going to be the one they all throw a shitfit over being nerfed in a few years. I can feel it in my bones.
>wear my dior homo intense to party>Nobody says anything >Faggot wearing Sauvage elixir comes up to group>Girls start commenting that he smells so good and even start smelling his fucking neck >Feel mogged
>>18089949I think about doing this every time a new meme fragrance gets released and youtubers start shilling it. I never actually do it, but I think about it all the time.
>>18089951>dior homo intensebro I love dhi but it aint no houseparty/going out scent
>>18089949>YSL: Myslfis it that loved? personally it was just very sweet to me. not bad but nothing special
>>1808952This can be done with every single batch of Aventus given enough time. I bought my dad a 50 ml bottle in 2018 for father's day and remember people bitching about how it was a terrible batch. Last time I visited him I checked the batch code for shits and it's now being sold for a thousand sheckiedoos.
>>18089956From what I hear it's one a major seller. I've never actually smelled it to be honest with you, but it's being touted as an enormous compliment monster by YouTuber's whose opinions I do not value. Those are usually the frags that do really well with the fragbros
>>18089960This will probably always be the case, but it really shouldn't anymore. People never believe me when I say this, but BlackRock "fixed" Aventus. Pretty much every batch since 2022/early 2023 has been stable. Whether or not it smells like it did in 2010, I have no idea, but I smell it every time I go to Neimen Marcus just to see and it smells the same as the f-batch bottle I own every time now. You get Pineapple/vanilla/musk-ambroxan/birch consistently.
>>18089956nothing YSL has made in the last 20 years has been special. that doesn’t stop fragbros from hyping it up though.
>>18089966The batch variations were never as insane as people said they were. There was a definite difference batch-to-batch, but it was always recognizably the same fragrance.
>>18089966>This will probably always be the caseI don't know, you're already seeing the consequences of Creed's fall from grace in fragcom. Normies never card about batches and that hasn't changed, but it used to be if you had a special meme batch for sale in the facebook/telegram groups, you would get snapped up almost immediately regardless of price. These days bottles will for months unless you are selling under retail
thoughts on le beau edp?
>>18089976I will not even consider purchasing until JPG removes the fig leaf from the bottle's penis. Fucking puritan bullshit
>>18089976fantastic for gay guys
>>18089976kinda boring for coconut, I'd rather pick virgin island water or Malibu Party In The Bay
>>18089976If you want a JPG sweetslop just get Elixir. They are all fairly similar but elixir is the best and most versatile. The only two different from the gay bust line are the OG and the parfum but they are just kinda boring and not worth picking up
>>18089940I kek’d because it reminded me of the time I was in a Macy’s looking to get a sample of Fahrenheit (I was new) and this 70+ year old woman was talking to me about how men back in her day loved it when it was first released, and when I proceeded to talk about the EdP version she had no idea it existed, and when I asked about Eau Sauvage she also had no idea what it was.
>>18089976It's good but I'd only wear it to go to the beach. The best JPG is Le Parfum and unless you live in a cold climate don't bother.
the best JPG is the one that gets your ass pounded the hardest
What's he wearing?
>>18090030fougere gothique
>>18090030With one picture, Aleister Crowley singlehandedly invented myspace angles (ask your parents). He has literally one single picture where he looks like who he is reputed to be, which is to say some kind of real-life Voldemort, whilst in every other picture he looks like a pudgy doofus like Steven Fry. Every time you turn up for a date from tindr or something and the person looks like a completely different person, you can thank Aleister Crowley. It had never happened prior to this image.
>>18090016>unless you live in a cold climate don't bother.Why's that?
Redpill me brosIs there anything actually worth trying from>Le Labo>Byredo>Diptyque>Aesop>Serge Lutens>Frederic Malle?
>>18090061Carnal Flower from Frederic Malle was one of the first perfumes I tried and I still love it even now. Definitely not worth retail, but you can get their stuff second hand for around $130.
>>18090061Le Labo, Byredo, and Aesop is shit.
>>18090071this. Aesop Hwyl is nice but greatly overpriced.
>>18089949
>>18089966WTF I love BlackRock now
>>18090061serge lutens and frederic malle used to be great, and thankfully most if not all of the classics from their respective back catalogs are still kicking.
>>18090007the OG is way better than the Elixir. elixir is just the same boring vanilla caramelslop every other "sexy" fragrance is now
>>18090061Serge Lutens has many good releases that are worth tryingFrederic Malle too, but their pricepoints are prohibitive
>>18090145I find it funny how little OG is talked about today despite the fact that it’a the most flexible scent in the line, and I personally have a hard time seeing it as ”dated” despite the fact youngshits online seem to think so.
Aside from club nuit, is there anything else worthwhile from armaf?
>>18090155too old for fragbros and shills, not old enough for vintage elitists
>>18089847The only right answer
This is so good
Blind bought it just what in the goodness-gracious am I in for?
>>18089785thanks :]
>>18090192Terre d'Hermes style modern transparent mineralic vetiver patchouli spicy fragrance, except with no citrus, a different patchouli molecule and different spicesit's pretty good, I understand why it's the bestseller for the brand. I like it more than Ganymede, it's more "wearable"
>>18090192>>18090195He forgot to mention the wild longevity and projection. Easily a 12+ hour frag with skin scent lasting even longer. Projections and hangs in the air as well, had my gf talk about smelling me across an aisle away. I like it, but I’ll admit the basil note gives it a sour tang that I’m starting to dislike. Also the performance is so good it can be prohibitive for office use.
>>18090204true, it's a very strong performer. for me it's not necessarily a good thing considering it's a fairly linear scent, I get tired of it easilyit's actually become the equivalent to Santal 33 where I live. the niche fragrance that made it big and is worn by every hip alt kid on the block
>>18090155>I find it funny how little OG is talked about todayYou find funny that people aren't talking about a 30 year old fragrance?The OG is only better than the elixir to fragcels, to 99% of people the OG just smells like old people and recommending it over Elixir just shows how disconnected from reality you are or that you are just stuck in your 'MY TASTE IS HECKLIN SUPERIOR' phase feeling some weird satisfaction by hating on popular things
>>18090251eh, the OG Le Male is still pretty modern smelling with that sweet base. you've got stuff like Beau de Jour and At the Barber's coming out, both of those smell more retro than Le Maleit's normal for people who are into a hobby to have different tastes from casuals and it's good to have some different opinions to all the paid shills trying to hype up new releases just because it's their job. it's good to show people that the "brand new thing" isn't the only option
>>18090212Where is that?
>>18090302Warsaw
None of the other spicebombs do it for me after trying this one. Even intense is but a mere shadow of this intoxicating brew.
Does anyone else get an almost cheese-scent out of Grey Flannel? It works great on clothes, but if I put it on skin it smells a bit like cheese. I assume it's from something that's intended to give an animalic note, but it just comes out kind of like dairy.
>>18090156Apparently people really like their BR540 clone
what could be in here?
>>180903323 bottles of Montale’s nuclear oud fragrances?
>>18090332Dragon dildos
>>18090332Jaipur Homme and Boucheron Pour Homme gift sets
>>18090332shit, fart and cum
>>18090260Yeah, if you didn’t know that it was 30 years old, you probably wouldn’t be able to guess it. I fully get it why younger people don’t want to smell like Guerlain’s vision of fragrances etc., but Le Male OG is nothing like that, it’s basically just a less overly sweet and brighter version of the stuffy Parfum or Elixir, notes may differ but the DNA is similar.
Can anyone here confirm if Percival actually smells like A&F Fierce, or is that just Fragrantica tards being tarded as usual?
>>18090332Drakkar Noir, Cosmair formulation
>>18090192just wood
>>18090192total and utter mediocrity. one of the least interesting things i have ever smelled.
Can I get a run down on Equipage?
>>18090422dry, herbal, woody, and a little smoky with some carnation up top for a slight dandy flair. very very beautiful.
Are “travel sized/ sample sized” companies like Scent Bird worth it for colognes (like to try out expensive colognes. For me expensive is anything above $50) I just want something I can spray 4 times a day; and will make my gf wet.
>>18090449>and will make my gf wet.have you tried having sex with her? far more effective than any perfume.
>>18090457No its long distance we haven’t met yet but we send sort core nudes
>>18090469Soft*
>>18090469either a sextortionist scam or a cheap emotional fling and she has no intention of ever meeting you. give up.
>>18090438Can you compare it to any other fragrances?
>>18090481the closest comparison is guerlain’s derby, which is a lot more bitter and leathery in a chypre powerhouse style, but chances are you haven’t smelled it either.
SOTD pic rel>>18090334not quite>>18090336thats in the other package>>18090343nope, honestly don't like it>>18090352close, but no cigar>>18090356i wish
>>18090305>cwele noszą perfumy dla cwelinie dziwi mnie to>>18090326I get no such thing>>18090489nice
>>18090489>i wishMaybe next time, but damn Jules is a very good purchase
Is curly still alive or did the Dubai storm take her?
>>18090507she's a tough kid, she's gonna be fine.
what would he wear?
sup? i am back. missed me?Also SOTD: Chanel Allure Homme
>>18090514Eau de Fishheads
>>18090517no 1 cares
>>18090355Percival smells like Fierce in the way that Dylan Blue smells like Bleu de Chanel. Which is to say, they are not really the same fragrance at all. There are similar notes and I can definitely understand how the comparison gets made, but I don't really see how you would mistake one for the other. Maybe they smell similar in the air, but I've never encountered someone wearing Percival in the wild. I never wore Fierce, but I was around during its heyday and remember exactly what that one smells like. You'd see it everywhere and the store used diffusers which literally pumped it in through the vents. If you ever bought something at A&F, it smelled like Fierce until you washed it.
SOTD
>>18090583Turin called it a sad fougere
>>18090583>Turin called>Turin
>>18090603is picrel you cause you can't even quote a post properly?
>>18090597i call turin a sad old twat
Expected SOTD after I finish some early chores.
>>18090614he’s married to his chinky wife, has 2 kids and fat academia paycheck holed up in his bank account alongside monthly substack paypig bucks. i’d say he’s doing pretty well himself.
>BRAAAAAAAP
What is a fragrance that say "be not afraid" while simultaneously communicating that you should be very afraid?
>>18090661Antaeus
Why is this fragrance suddenly so shilled? Is it that good
>>18090355percival smells like generic blue shower gel cologne only a little bit richer and creamier. pretty redundant and overpriced if you already have bleu de chanel or sauvage.
>>18090355stupid cunt nigger whore fragrance and house, i threw mine in the trashcan after buying it for 10 euros. just buy room 1015 yesterday instead or get some proper aromatic
>>18090661Rien Intense Incense, Gucci Guilty Absolute
which one would you recommend for spring/summer? it seems that they all say that Sauvage and Encre Noir are more prominent for dark wintery cold days
>>18090687Encre Noire Sport is a nice fresher version if EN. Quite nice in the summer.
>>18090661cartier l’heure xiii>>18090679quite foul
>>18090687Guerlain VetiverEau SauvageEau de Guerlain
>>18090487Fragrantica says Derby smells like "harsh animalic leather". Yikes, I guess Equipage is not for me then.
>>18090700did you read my post at all or did you skip to the part where i said derby? i specifically said that it was like derby without the leathery animalic facets.
>>18090702I missed that part, tbqh.
>>18090697Dior Homme Cologne
>>18090687The lighter side of Sauvage lineup is not bad for summer or especially spring. Elixir is the best of the line (and it’s honestly so different that it’s part of the line by name only), but that one I would leave out of summer use. Parfum is also perhaps too sweet for summer.
>>18090687Gutteridge edp
Guerlain Vetiver gave me a zoomer check, first sample I genuinely disliked. Maybe I should try agian in 5-10 years
>>18090728It's ok to not like things.
>>18090733agreed, not everyone can be expected to have taste.
>>18090728the secret to enjoying it is it has to mix with the scent of your adult diaper. this provides the animalic base necessary to truly enjoy traditional french perfumery in the age of IFRA regulationsin the absence of an adult diaper, living in India will suffice to provide the necessary fecal base notes
>>18090736Thank you, Florida schizo
>>18089646Post hand
>>18090744whiter than you
>>18090738There is no such thing as Florida schizo, dear Guerlain Mowgli.
>>18090728I don't dislike it, in fact I kind of love it, but the amount of people in this general who ride or die for oldschool Guerlain is quite grim. It is not a daily driver for someone in their 20s. It is very dressy and best suited to formal occasions. It can work as a signature, but only if your daily wardrobe consists of a nicely fitted suit and tie. If you're wearing this with jeans and a t-shirt you're going to look like a kid who decided to wear his dad's cologne to school. I do not trust for a moment that the people who recommend it here are actually pulling it off.
>>18090753Sounds like something the Florida schizo would say.>>18090758>vetiver>dressyit’s literally a perfume that was sold to the working class mexican market in the 60s, what in the goddamn are you yapping about.
>>18090759I didn't mean you specifically, bud. No fragrance is going to pair well with a bright orange loincloth, so you may as well wear what you like.
>>18090763Thank you, Florida schizo.
SOTD Geo F Trumper Sandalwood Cologne>>18090744>>18090752Based white hand shower. All browns are required by law to come forward
>>18090778>Based white hand shower.you too and I've done it before, have to maintain supremacy over the indians baiting and shilling slop
>>18090758who gives a shit
SOTD: Chergui
>>18090778post dick, fag haha you won't haha
>>18090822Still good? How do you like it?
>>18090829I like it. It's not a massive projector, but with this kind of sharp/spicy scent you don't want it to be. Very cozy and sweet without being obnoxious.
>>18090808race obsessed incels always give a shit
how do I smell like an oceanographer?
>>18090872don't wear fragrance
>>18090872Zoologist Squid
Bros. This is fucking terrible. I hate it so much. Fuck Killian. I wish he woul Killian himself if you know what I mean. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (you can't see it but I'm doing Joker face)
>>18090879>This is fucking terribleit's a fine scent but way too overused clones or not
Musk is by far the worst base.
>>18090879lol, it smells really good.
>>18090888Bergamot is by far the worst top note
>>18090897Bergamot and musk are a match made in stinking like shit heaven.
>>18090888>>18090897>>18090915with posts like these, it’s no wonder there are people here who like shit like dior hommo and cedrat boise.
Frédéric Malle to step away from his own eponymous brand in June. Have we seen the last of EdFM releases for the foreseeable future
>>18090927is he being upgraded in the estee lauder foodchain after the lauder legacy releases?
>>18090927bitch who care no one wear fredrick mall
>>18090930It seems he's just retiring
>>18090822>>18090829What year did SL get bought out/reformulated? I have an older bottle of Chergui but I don't know if it's pre-reformulation
>>18090938It's been reformulated a couple times, but I think the biggest change people complain about is when it went from being 50ml bottles with a white label to 50/100ml bottles with the black labels. I have a black label bottle from 2018 that smells great though. Maybe the old formulation was stronger, but for me this seems like the kind of fragrances that works better softer. If it was louder it would come across as aggressive, especially in the opening. There's something I don't care for in the opening, it's almost like a potpourri thing, but when it dries down it becomes one of the best tobacco fragrances I've ever smelled.
God Damn this guy makes a good fragrance
>>18090945Has he released anything new with Dior yet?
>>18090945Are his things worth the price tag?
>>18090957In my opinion, absolutely. Grand Soir is the absolute best thing I've ever smelled.
>>18090945really foul>>18090957absolutely not>>18090961my condolences
>>18090888And you have, by far, the worst opinion.>>18090897Better.>>18090879I think it's great, but it's more fall/wintery.
>>18090966Fake opinion
>>18090977i bet you wish that were true
>>18090978Yeah, for your sake
>>18090979how fortunate that it isnt, a world where MFK was a benchmark for anything other than bad and overpriced would be a sad one indeed
>>18090980Ok so you're just poor? Is that what it is?
>>18090983behold, the most pathetic of excuses
ah shit, here we go again
>>18090998Naxos Iommi because he's a cheeky old bugger
>>18090999>Naxos Iommi...Is this a Naxos flanker?
I just bought Bleu de Chanel Parfum. What are your thoughts on the Parfum version?I’m thinking about getting Chanel Pour Monsieur next. Been wanting to explore more chypre fragrances.
>>18091007KEK, no, I'm just retarded. I meant Xerjoff Iommi. Also, for the sake of specificity, the full name of the fragrance is Tony Iommi Monkey Special for reasons I do not understand.
>>18091008i’d call BdC the most inconsequential line of perfumes chanel has ever made, but that wouldn’t be fair to the allure series.
>>18090998No. 88 by Czech & Speake London. It's something they actually brag about for some reason
>>18091008Never smelled it personally. I've watched reviews and they say it smells very similarly to the EdP, which I have and I like. Have you smelled both the Parfum and the EdP?
Redpill me bros, is there anything worth trying from>DS&Durga>Ormonde Jayne>Loewe
>>18091060>no>yes, depending on your tastes>no
>>18091023I have and the Parfum smells smoother than the edt for sure. It gives off a refined vibe. Doesn’t have the projection of the edp but when you do smell it, it’s clearly present.
>>18091100If it tones down the ambroxan a bit that might be good. But I like the (grapefruit?) Citrus bit up front.
>>18090946Some women’s frags and the new New Look, but nothing that would rock the world. I’m interested in seeing what he will cook up as the new male/unisex pillar fragrance, though.
>>18090016>>18090007>>18090005>>18089990>>18089979Thanks frens, picked up le beau 125ml at 95 bucks. It was sold out everywhere.
>>18091133congratulations on coming out of the closet.
What smells like adventure?
>>18091146CDNIM Limited Edition
>>18090305+1 lol, I felt almost schizophrenic to see a /frag/ inside joke become so popular that I have been smelling it basically everywhere in real life. This general might be more influential than we think.
>>18091008I kind of prefer the EDTPour Monsieur is a must-try. good reference for the fresher, masculine chypres
>>18091175I think it's more that /frag/ discovered it because it was getting a bit of buzz in some regions, note that the main guy forcing it lives in Germany. maybe it's just a big hit in central-eastern Europe and nowhere else
>>18090192Pickled sawdust
>>18090332Aaron Terrance Hughes’ Slut?
>>18090664If it was good it wouldn;t have to be shilled
>>18090957Masculin Pluriel and Amyris Homme are fantastic.
Best frag for western/cowboy wear? I was thinking something dark/tobacco/leather/coffee but maybe that's too obvious. Any suggestions?
>>18091254Fahrenheit
>>18091254Lonestar Memories
>>18090872Sel Marin, Bvlgari Aqva, TF Oud Minerale, or Aqua Motu. There's many different options for that.
NEW THREAD>>18091278>>18091278>>18091278
>>18089967can't keep my wife off of me when I wear Y
Has anyone here tried Acqua di Parma Colonia C.L.U.B? Notes seem to be exactly what I'm looking for, something citrusy and spicy.
