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Friendly reminder, especially for newfriends: if someone posts about or recommends>to wear more (classic) fougeres>montale sandflowers>9pm and flankers>bruno banani energy>aigner statement>bugatti gold iconiq>interracial relationships>fucking their german/white/aryan gf>redheads>Mila KunisOr they make lengthy posts completely unrelated to fragrances and add "SOTD: [one of the frags above]", their posts (see pic related) are spam and you shouldn't take their opinions seriously.Ignore them and/or report them for off topic posting, spamming/flooding, avatar/signature use or ban evading (he's been banned countless times already).
I never see anyone talk about Imaginary Authors. Why is that? They fall off? Get out done? Not worth the price compared to newer frags?
A clone of DHI, old DHP and new DHP. Interesting how close but different all these are, you can tell it's a family but still you can tell they're distinct.I can also tell that this isn't universally likeable, but I really like it, although it wouldn't be in my collection if I only had 10 perfumes to keep.
>>18680275Anyone here tried Zagorsk? Seems really cosy in that doomed dostoyevsky shut-in winter kind of way. Don't feel like blind buying but i can cop cheap so i might
Sampled Dries van Noten Mystic Moss today and got a small decant. It's insanely refreshing, quite a sharply dry and almost garden weed citrus at first. Then dries down with this somewhat marine aquatic moss. Basically 0 sweetness too. Digging it a lot
>>18680280>I never see anyone talk about Imaginary Authors. Why is that?gimmicky and (mostly) subpar frags, their bottles are also uglyELDO is just way better in this category>>18680325>i can cop cheap so i mightdo it, keep us updated
>>18680325i blind bought Avignon the other day. very, very pleased with it. Apparently, Zagorsk is another top on from the line so i can't imagine it's bad by any means
does anyone here wear opium pour home? what is your opinion of it?
>>18680325Its more foresty and piney than just straight up incense like Avignon. I find it much more grounding overall.
>Azemours les Orangers and Basilico & Fellini on the way pretty pumped. the Vilhem one i thoroughly enjoyed everytime i got the chance to try it so im happy i finally pulled the trigger on it.as for Azemour, it'll be my third from the house (CO and AR), so im happy that i will have a summer frag from them
do i blind buy liquid brun theres no stores anywhere near me with althair or liquid brun to try and Ive had the itch for a while is it a good blind buy
>>18680396it's literally called liquid brown, anonwhy would it be any good?
SOTD L'Enfant Terrible Givenchy
Has anyone tried Atkinsons - English Lavender?
What are you monkeys using this summer?
>>18680420Basic lavender scent, like some old stuff we had in supermarkets here. Nothing offensive or very "chemical" smelling, performance is meh but you can splash a lot, I found it very cheap and I assume it's common.
>>18680435cool wateradg profondomissoni wave
>>18680325I've tried it, it feels very cold and austere, mainly smells like fir and cypress with a bit of unburnt frankincense.>>18680327Most of Dries' frags are pretty good and the same goes for their bottles, but imo none is worth the price it goes for.>>18680396>there's no store anywhere near meGo far, take a day trip, sightsee in a city, and since you're already there try a few frags that aren't available nearby.
>>18680280>Imaginary AuthorsI bought the discovery set and it's hands down the worst brand I have ever tried. It had a lot of reviews so I thought I would at least like one but they were all terribly synthetic and cheap smelling. Watch out for shills, it's a jewish brand, just avoid.
>>18680435From most to least:Coastal Salty ForestTeas MeLight Blue Discover VulcanoVikingMachrie
>>18680435ADP Fico, Intensa, EssenzaBleu TurquoiseGreen CrushAzemoursBasilico & Fellini
>>18680435Dior Dune pour HommeChanel Paris-Edimbourg
Thoughts?
>>18680482is good
>>18680482spend it on something else
>>18680482GitS smells like generic public bathroom handsoap
>>18680280they changed some formulae and hasn't been the same since.>>18680325Could never find it, I really like Kyoto and Avignon, iirc Morrissey wears Avignon. I also never tried Jaisalmer or Ourzazate.
>>18680275Got scared for a second and thought Kyoto was being discontinued, I have been wearing CDG series 3 for nearly 20 years now I would cry if it was over.
What the fuck are you? I am thinking about buying it at some point just to peep what the hell is making this so different, and yet the people who have bought it all seem to like it. Only downside seems to be that it becomes a skin scent after an hour or two.
>>18680451Nice graphic, helps to picture the relationship between them all. That cold piney/firry smell is definitely something that draws me to Zagorsk on paper. Might go fk it soon and blind buy. If I do, I'll report back in some other frag gen.And yeah in Aussie like almost 400 bucks for a 200ml of Dries EdT is pretty steep. Could be worth copping if longevity is decent, you'd get some years out of it.Must say though, I've sampled New Look quite a few times and it's so offputting to me, just smells dead. Maybe aldehydes aren't my thing but not sure what Kurkdjian was going for with that one
>>18680275Wut dis smell like
>>18680638Read the Fragrantica or Parfumo pages. I have a sample somewhere I could check as well, but those autists will do a better job than me.
>>18680280I tried them when I first started getting into fragrances. I thought the sample set I got was fun but gimmicky. I think it's a good marketing pitch but the fragrances smell kind of amateurish to me. I think he uses a lot of premade bases that I can recognize because I have also tried some amateur perfumery. I don't think it is wrong to ever use these bases, but I feel like most of the fragrances need to be developed more to be something I would want to buy.
>>18680638Sort of like someone burning incense in the forest. I mostly get hinoki wood. It's hard to describe what that smells like if you don't know. Maybe a more green/herbal cedar. Dry and a little smoky. Similar to Aesop Hwyl.
>>18680505your backup bottles?
>>18680377I own a bottle was wearing it more in end of 2024. Its very mature and woody and smells incredibly like Axe Java.
>SOTD: PdE Mal-Aimethe scent of sitting in the middle of a field on a hot summer day, i love it
When does Luckyscent stock up samples? I'm trying to buy my ass Naxos and Avignon but I've been waiting for months.
Hello I bought myself a rose fragrance. It’s coming end of this week. I tried it Saturday and despite shower daily I can still smell it on my wrist. It’s banger scent. Rose heavy and with patchouli it give earthy smell which I love. It’s like walking in a garden full of roses. I’m a floral guy but wasn’t much into roses (besides Dior homme parfum)until I tried mfk oud satin mood few months ago. It was lovely. I also tried cuir gatamale of parfum mdci which was really nice too. Do you guys like roses/florals?
>>18680804I was reading about this and so tempted to cop. How is it relative to other scents? Is the green weedy note sharp or rather natural and mellow? No idea where to sample it in Australia and couldnt find any vials on fragrancenet either, but it sounds really fkn good
>>18680814Luckyscent is about the only place you'll find samples of PdE with decent reliability. Also, they might even have their Disco kit up for sale but if you want to go down that route eventually: buy direct. They give you a discount on your first purchase (using a code that comes with the kit) and do free worldwide shipping iirc. Except America because we got cucked due to tariffs but that's been fixed now.
>>18680814very green and natural smelling, imo on the mellow side but ymmvthey do offer free worldwide delivery and yes, buy their full discovery set as they have some top-notch frags in there and even their less shilled frags are pretty good
>>18680811Should've bought Antaeus instead.
>>18680823Ill check it out when I’m in mall. DESU I already have +20 bottles enough to last lifetime. Only fragrance Im thinking about buying is The black knight from Francesca bianchi. That’s a killer sweet leather fragrance it’s so sexy and raw
>>18680839>20+ bottles>enough to last lifetimelol, lmao evensissyspraying should be a bannable offense desu
>>18680840This you, blud?
>>18680840Besides my enre noire and prada lhomme I don’t own any EDT. 2-5 sprays depending on bottle last me 8-12 hours enough for work. I smell it whole day why do more?
>>18680811Good on you.Differences between that and the EauDP?
>>18680823antaeus isnt really a rose fragrance. sure, it has rose in it but thats like saying viking is a rose fragrance
>>18680852I didn’t spray EDP on my wrist sadly. On paper it was more spicy and less earthy. Extrait is more simple than other rose fragrances since it’s mostly rose/oud combo yk. Which I don’t mind but personally I find it a bit too much. Radical rose has slight sweetness from labdanum ,heavy dose of rose,earthiness of patchouli. I don’t really get saffron not so much as the edp. This is unisex maybe slight masculine leaning. Mfk satin oud mood gave me vibes of classy 50 year rich businesswoman nice scent just not something I think I would want to wear a lot. Idk I tried this,Atomic rose from initio and No man’s rose of byredo. I liked byredo the most but longevity was joke. RR extrait is lovely rose scent uni sex nothing too loud and lasts for days
Beau de JourFougere RoyaleSartorialWhich one is the best of these them?
>>18680928horses for courses, these frags are not similar at all
>>18680713does it smell nice?
retard heredo i spray it on my skin or on my clothes?
>>18680981>read the op>lurk more>skinin this order
>>18680983>ok its just the arab was spraying it on his clothes
>>18680713How is it different from CDG Hinoki then? Kyoto, Hinoki, and Hwyl sound like the same scent.
>>18680928Sartorial is best with Fougere Royal second
>>18680993Hinoki is quite woody and dry, no smoke, somewhat green.Kyoto is woody and airy, sandalwood, a hint of smoke and flowers, calming.Hwyl is woody and green, more aromatic, more fir, feels somewhat colder and slightly bitter.Hwyl is closer to Zagorsk than Kyoto imo, as far as both scent and feel go.
>>18680811>Do you guys like roses/florals?hell yeah. Radical Rose is amazing, but i already had Tabac Rose so it made RR a bit redundant. but rose is one of my favorite notes. got a couple of florals too
club de nuit, yay or nay ? also which one ? I've seen EDP has a nicer initial smell than the EDT version.This is a blind buy, so there's that. the frags I wear atm>prada black>azzaro most wanted
Anybody tried this yet? I love the OG Light Blue EDT and Intense, saw a video of some blonde bimbo reviewing it and since she also enjoys Intense I somewhat trust that it's good, but dunno if it's blind buy good and don't trust youtubers.>>18681048Club de Nuit Intense Man is cheap enough that I'm considering blind buying it but it's so tacky, and the constant hype about it makes me cringe. I can respect a dupe that is very good as a stand alone product, but I still feel some repulse
>>18681048Completely different family of scent than either. What else have you tried? CDN is unmistakably masculine.
whats the prada one i liked? im out of it now. I have the bottle still.
>>18681056I'll get a small tester of CDN. I'm not pajeet enough to get an aventus lmao>>18681057>What else have you tried?hmm costa azzure and Bal d'Afrique, and Versace Pour Homme
>>18681073Still nothing similar to CDN. It's a very pleasant and safe but still very masculine scent, not something you would find as a shower gel.
>>18680981Fragrance lasts longer on clothes which is great for fleeting colognes but can be a bit much for long lasting scents.
>>18681056I saw you asking before, it was discounted on Joma two nights back when they were discounting a bunch of shit all at once for reason. I almost bought it, but I literally just bought >Immortelle Corse Extrait>Acqua Di Scandola>Le Cri>Yuzu Fu>Mal-aime>Eau SauveI know Eau Sauve is a woman's frag, but it leans pretty masculine. Especially once it dries down. It's something a woman would find nice on a guy, but maybe not "attractive" in the same way Stronger With You or Tuscan Leather or any of the other go-to's do. Also, it was dirt fuckin' cheap for a full bottle. My only regret is that it's going to be 2-4 weeks before this shit ships.
>>18680981i do both
>>18680928Beau de Jour is a light airy lavender with a tiny touch of sweetness.Fougere Royale, I think, smells a big synthetic, but is a crystaline floral bouquet with no sweetness at allSartorial is a honeyed earthy metallic lavender All three of these smell very different, and they are all too expensive to blind buy. In fact, Beau de Jour has exploded in price since being discontinued, and is not at all worth the price. It's currently at the same price as the actual masterpiece fougere from Tom Ford: Fougere d' Argant. I think Royale is not worth it in terms of quality - It is a worse version of Reflection Man, which is also very expensive.
>>18681211>I think Royale is not worth it in terms of quality - It is a worse version of Reflection Man, which is also very expensive.I dont know how you draw that comparison at all. I get zero Reflection Man from Fougere Royal.And i would hardly call the lavender in BdJ light and airy; it's such a lavendernuke that its dripping with a candy-like, floral sweetness
>>18681063We're not psychic you fucking retard. Post a picture or learn to read the bottle by your goddamn self
>>18681230I still have a little left. The concave bottle? Ill look tomorrow. I got the dossier the LV l'imensity clone, im enjoying it very much.
>>18681073>I'm not so Indian that I would buy an original frag instead of a copy largely worn by people who can't afford the originalHuh.
QuALiTy is a meme - an hour after you spray something unless you douse yourself in it, you or anyone else smelling you at a normal distance won't be able to tell anything besides the actual scent profile and how it makes you feel.
>>18681310Try basically any Amouage frag. They all hit all day long, and longer if you spray your clothes instead. Even their weakest scents don't turn into skin scents for solid 5 hours or more. The reason why people walk around them as a brand (knowing they are good, but not wanting to say it out loud) is because they're Muslims. Which, fair play, most squiggly line brands are awful clone warehouses. Amouage? Not so much. They actually make originals, and they make certain they're strong as fuck without being synthetic garbage compared to their cousins also in Oman. That is one of the reasons why they can command such a high price. Although, Amouage was also in London at one point, IIRC but nothing has changed about their batches. Now that I think about it, I don't even think they've reformulated a single thing in their line up and some of them are closing in on 20 years now. Interlude 53 is an EDP, technically, but it's so concentrated that it flies right by what classifies as an EDP (what do you think the 53 stands for?) And even though EDPs classically have worse projection, this shit can still kick down a front door and let everyone know someone is wearing something in their area like it's a battle shonen.
>>18681316I didn't feel Amouage frags I've tried were exceptionally strong. My gf wears guidance and I barely notice it if I'm not licking her neck.I don't think the hype can be traced back to performance.
>>18681316>That is one of the reasons why they can command such a high price.Juice is the cheapest part of a fragrance package and Amouage like every single other brand spends money on the rest of the package. The creative guy was asked multiple times in an interview why he spent all that money in the package that has no effect on the smell and he just said because he wanted to. Nice try Shill-al-Mahmood.
>>18681310>quality=performanceI hate my inferiors so much it's unreal.
I got French Avenue Zenith Tobacco delivered. This is the Tobaccolor clone I asked about in another thread without having tried the original. I find something green and sharp there, which I don't know what it could be but it's making this less cozy than I imagined.However I'd say this is quite a banger overall and I'm happy I have it, I'll definitely enjoy occasionally wearing.Damn I fucking love smelling new things.
>>18681395Where did I say that you fucking mentally challenged dysgenic fuck?
>>18681285It was lhomme
>>18681406>an hour after you sprayYou're literally talking about how fragrances perform. I don't know why the hissy fit.
really want old school fougeres and chypres to become super trendy with tiktok indians and reddit soys, just to see what the autistic contrarians here shill instead
anything like mm by the fireplace but not sweet? or jazz club but more smoky?
>>18681306>implying I am poor too I'm just not a pajeet. Sorry it offended you rapesh
What are the best Parfum d'Empire fragrances? Does it have enough good fragrances to justify the 20 sample full line discovery set?
>>18681310quality is definitely a factor when it comes to certain notes. poor quality citrus can smell like floor cleaner, leather can smell like the tire section of an auto shop, etc
i fucking followed up the dossier purchase with a purchase from oakcha and then i followed that up buy buying Voyage fuck me fuck me fuck me i need to stop
aventus was never that good. it was just the first fruity chypre that millennials ever smelled in an era of aquatics
>>18681470are these "autistic contrarians" in the room with us right now?
These are the best cold weather fragrances I've ever tried, for me, after thousands.I recognize why other people like other scents and even wear them myself but nothing else compares to these.
>>18681510>What are the best Parfum d'Empire fragrances?my current top5: Azemour, Ambre Russe, Le Cri, Un Bel Amour d'Ete, Eau de Gloire>Does it have enough good fragrances to justify the 20 sample full line discovery set?yes by all means
>>18680437Thanks. I asked because Luca Turin said on his Substack it's hit favorite lavender fragrance and his "signature" fragrance atm.
>>18681525>leather can smell like the tire section of an auto shop, etcUnironically this is what most "high-end" leathers smell like to me. Anything that isn't gucci guilty absolute just ends up smelling like I just walked into Autozone
>>18681470The only Indian guy I ever talked to about perfume said Héritage was his signature. His BO was much stronger.
>>18681540yes, they're the ones shilling Drakkar Noir, Brut, Cool Water erc
>>18681573I don't get the obsession with Luca Turin, he's just a shitty reviewer and a dirty jew.
i saw indian people for the first time today at my local grocery store and they didnt smell like anything
>>18681574I need to get some GUCCI
>>18681390Juice can be the cheapest part, but sometimes isn't. I'll bring up a brand I found to be extremely disappointing: Les Indemodables. No more complicated than Frederic Malle in terms of packaging, but if you bother to read about all the autistic, "first in the industry", "only ones to do it" crap they use to explain the process of how each frag is made, you can tell like Green, they probably spend a disproportionate amount of money on the shit in the bottle. The problem with Les Indemodables, is that for all their talk of being purists and doing things the most effective way possible their frags still suck balls. I'd take Green, Malle, and Amouage over any of their frags any day of the week. The juice being cheap does have a limit though. Shittier ingredients leads to obvious pitfalls. If it didn't, then clones wouldn't be so terrible most of the time. Even the ones where the process is well known, and the stuff in the bottle is simple, it is not unusual for the squiggly line guys to make bad versions. This is why people like Amouage, they spend an appropriate amount of money on their packaging for what you get, and what you get is very good because practically everyone in this thread will say they like at least one of the following: Beach Hut, Gold, Reflection, Jubilation, one of the Interludes, Journey, Royal Tobacco, I've even seen mother fuckers say they like their women's frags before. Do you now how rare that is in a thread full of extremely insecure people? Very few people will say that they'd wear a female frag despite it being impossible to actually meaningfully embarrass them on an Anonymous Basketweaving Forum.
>>18681510Yes. I did a review on the discovery kit last month. It's shitty and primitive because I am shitty and primitive, but their stuff is excellent. Out of the 20 in there, I found myself only openly disliking 4 of the frags and that's because 2 of them were animalic musks and I fucking hate animalic musks. I like musk, but it's got to be sourced from vegetation (they have a few of these in their line up as well).
>>18681574Sweet leathers are what you want. If you're the anon from a few threads back, I told you that. You want fruit or sweetness or vanilla in there. Something that isn't just amber and leather.
>>18681581you're probably french
>>18681585>Very few people will say that they'd wear a female fragBut Mr. Shill-Abdull, PoaL, all the original Exclusifs de Chanel like Coromandel (before they were re-labeled unisex), Jicky etc.., are all women's fragrances people here have posted about wearing as men. You can like Amouage all you want but you don't need to make shit up. It gets occasionally posted here but it's not even top 10 most shilled brands here and that's being generous, but you might change that, keep it up. The reason nobody talks about Amouage is not because they're Ayyrabs, the OG shills had a falling out with the brand when they got rid of the guy directing all their good fragrances, increased prices to even more ridiculous levels, discontinuing beloved fragrances, and introducing disappointing fragrances. And no, the price is not justified, it never is, don't be dumb. Most brands keep positioning fragrances as a luxury good while costing pennies to make. All the money goes into convincing idiots that they're not getting scammed.
>>18681591i dont get it
>>18681621french people smell worse than indians so you didnt register the scent
>>18681621the french are foul and stinky, that's why they invented modern perfume
>>18681623>>18681625thats only because at the time they believed bathing opened your pores for infections. you cant just pretend people today still practice this belief. meanwhile indians literally roll around in shit to this day
>>18681627No, they lived in literal filth, it was vile. Leather manufacturing stunk up Grasse so bad they had perfumers to gloss over the stink. Paris has historically been a city of filth, both figuratively and literally. Even today the stink of Paris (and their worse inhabitants) continue to traumatized tourists. You hear it from everyone who visits, just how stinky and gross it is.
>>18681630new york stinks too, but that doesnt mean every mutt inherently smells bad. besides, paris and france as a whole has been overrun by browns for decades
Currently on a search for a lavender fragrance. Something light that reminds you of a clothesline on a summer day.
>>18681633WTF are you talking about? The US is the size of 15 Frances and has over 4 times its population. The French are as notoriously smelly and disgusting as Americans are fat and murderous. Everyone has agreed on this, it can't be changed.
>>18681635Caron Pour du Homme Caron is a GOATed lavender frag, but it's more like laundry fresh out of the dryer. Less effervescent, more sweet.
>>18681640>Everyone has agreed on thisit just sounds like you hate frogs, bud
>>18681647>it just sounds like you hate frogs, budThat's not relevant to you not knowing a universally accepted ethnic stereotype of the French, that being that they're stinky and have poor hygiene.
