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>>18713936Vintage Cool Water Nr.1 choice for Gorillamaxxer
Can someone recommend a good frag for me?I'm looking for a daily scent that's refined and high quality. Whether it fits all seasons is kinda irrelevant to me because I have no problem wearing heavy stuff in hot weather, but I do want something that won't turn sour or unpleasant in the sun. Performance is really important to me and I refuse to spend money on something that doesn't last or projectAmong the scents I've tried and liked, in no particular order I enjoy the following notes>vanilla, tobacco, amber, sandalwood, iris, tonka, lavender, cedar, mint, cinnamonResins are hit or miss, they can be great but when they give the scent a syrupy "sticky" or medicinal quality I get tired of them quickly. Oud is not my thing except in frags that can barely be called real oud in the first place (like Oud Wood)I don't like calone/calypsone, immortelle, tuberose, saffron-centric profiles, heavy lemon and bergamot, iso E centric "airy" bullshit. Overall I would like something that still smells somewhat masculine and attractive and isn't completely asexual Max price is around 500 but if it's that expensive I'm expecting truly exceptional quality and stellar longevity and projection.
why does no one ever talk about chanel allure homme the OG? i just got a decant and for me its clearly the best, the peach, vanilla, woods, its incredible. edition blance right after. the sport flankers can kill themselves
Jesus Christ what a pathetic, lame, useless and retarded general.No one wants to smell your flowery and sugary liquid shit, bro. People like you should be publicly executed.
>>18713956That's why you spritzz blue aquatics like Cool Water. Raises your test and evolve you into a Gorilla.
>>18713944u should stop liking vanilla tobacco amber sandalwood tonka instead
>>18713972No
>>18713956Then fuck off, noselet. Simple as.>>18713972Go on mate, just recommend him JPG le male, we know you want to
>>18713944Dior Homme 2011, Amouage Black Iris, Naxos if you want something pleasant but boring>>18713950Its alright. It reminds me of a more polished Lalique PH.
>SOTD Mousse IllumineeLads, even after a while of not wearing it, always incredible how clean this feels. Dry, naturalistic, foamy, mossy scent. Pure class
Al-Rehab Lord is pure aids. I have no idea why reviewers, including gay dragon, nuthug it, it smells like detergent or something, just very sharp very chemical very shitty citrus.
>>18713993I have the oil version and I layer it with YSL Y EDP
>>18713746Except that’s what I smelled in the store.
This shit has staying power. I sprayed a patch on my arm yesterday from the decant, and it's still there. Granted, I wasn't sweating like a pig. It starts out really sweet for the first few hours before eventually drying down and the red wine really comes out. It doesn't smell like you're a wineo, but the dryness and richness from wine hits fairly hard as it mixed with the other notes. The sweet fruit remains, yet it's not overpowering.
>>18713983Is Naxos similar to Le Male Elixir? Honey and tobacco is a nice combo but I'm afraid of it getting sour in the heat (maybe I'm wrong)Never tried Interlude Black Iris, any other Amouages I should check out? People say Outlands is excellent apparently, alongside the rest of that collection, Lustre, etcAs far as iris goes I liked DHI but got tired of it quickly, the old DHP was alright but I find that when a frag's main note is iris, it's too powdery or too light (didn't like Prada l'Homme or DHO at all).
>>18713983lalique ph? you sure you thinking of the right fragrance? chanel allure homme smells like a softer more masculine mfk amyris homme
Haiii /fa/ Is my collection cool?YSL is sooo fucking good bros
>>18714063We've seen this before.
>>18714063eau d'issey is ok the rest is kinda meh
>>18714063Si (intense) is my favorite female designer fragrance
SOTD: Eau Grey Vetiver because it was warm outside and I wanted to see if the longevity was better in summer temperatures.It really wasnt.Regretted not just wearing Eau Basilic Poupre and reapplying throughout the day.
Very interested in copping a 10ml of this when it's back in stock. Poms are one of my favorite fruits but I don't think I've seen it much as a note in fragrance
M01+Black Tea sample arrived. Very picturesque and raw black tea, exactly as I'd hoped. Just need to feel out the longevity before committing to a full bottle.
Is Serge Lutens the best bang for your buck there is in perfumery? Literally top tier niche quality at pretty much a sephora designer price point
>>18714002Naxos is not similar to Le Male Elixir. Naxos is a tobacco and vanilla backbone with medium sweetness and floral accents for a bit of complexity. All I got from Le Male Elixir was syrupy cupcakes. As for Amouage, I have only tried a few. Royal Tobacco, Silver Oud, Gold, and Interlude are some other ones I like. Royal Tobacco is the most accessible. Silver Oud is dry and oudy, and Gold is a next level civet that I think most people couldn’t pull off outside very formal events. I havent tried outlands or anything from the line of beige bottles. >>18714043Yes, I’m sure. I’m not saying they’re extremely similar, and I’ll admit my experience with Allure Homme was limited to a blotter test at an airport. But that was the impression it gave me. I havent tried Amyris Homme. >>18714100It’s pretty close. In terms of uniqueness, quality, performance, and price, it’s hard to think of a brand that beats Uncle Serge. I would say Amouage is pretty close but in a higher price bracket.
>>18714108Amouage, Lutens and arguably Frederic Malle are the only popular niche brands that still do genuinely complex and high quality perfumery. All the rest (MFK, PDM, whatever) are not worth it
>>18714100Byredo is up there
>>18714100ELDO also has designer price points
>>18714087Some of those Hermes EDCs are so good
>>18713944Get Jaipur Homme EDP and save the other 470$, because it's more refined and you'll probably like it more than most of the luxuryslop nowadays
>>18714100objectively it's some arab dupe factory like Lattafa or French Avenue>dupes highly similar to the original at 10% of the price>original pieces by famous euro perfumers for like $30 that no one seems to notice because they came from an arab slop house
>sotd: Eau Sauvage ParfumGreat drydown that lasts forever, but I think the base spices/resins override the opening. I'm interested to check out a few more in this 'genre' like 3eme, Bel Ami, maybe Eau de Gloire.
honestly i dont care what you retards say, ex nihilo is pure class
>>18714100yeah I'd say they're the best thing you can get for the price>>18714226lol
>>18713944>masculine daily refined high qualityYou sound basic, I recommend Viking, Born in Roma Intense and Pour Monsieur (Chanel).If you're not as basic as you sound, also consider Special For Gentlemen (Le Galion), Spice Blend and Outlands, maybe even 5 (Rosendo Mateu).>>18713993It's a less pissy, more flowery and honey-like Kouros.This type of scent didn't age well but it smells perfectly fine.>>18714100No it's not, and it's definitely not top tier niche quality, I've tried three or four frags from them and they all had the same thick syrupy elemi base, for the same prices you can find many Robert Piguet bottles at discounters, then there are Franck Boclet, ELDO, and surely more that I can't readily think of.They make interesting and unusual frags but I definitely wouldn't call them the best bang for your buck.
>>18714303What is top tier niche quality in your mind?
>>18714303viking is bussin, thoughever
I ordered the Tauer sample set and while I found LADAS underwhelming, all the others (Sundowner, Lonestar Memories, LADDM and ACDD) were amazing, especially the last two which are simply masterpieces.However I'm not sure if I should order a full bottle of either LADDM or ACDD because I still can't decide on their daily wearability
Just got my bottle of pic-related today. It was a blind buy and so far a stunning success, but I’ll keep testing.>bibliothequeI bought it to put on my “books/paper/library” themed shelf, but was a bit worried because lots of reviews described it as a fruity scent… but I don’t get that at all. Sure, there’s a sweetness there, but I think the perfumer did a good job of making sure the musky/leathery smell was at the forefront and the sweetness is there in the side. Like a stack of old books that have aged and turned yellow, but with no musty-ness. Just the good without the bad of that smell.. so def not photorealistic.. but it conjures the image while remaining pleasant as a perfume.
>>18714282I've been eyeing their discovery set to try Speed Legends, seems right up my alley
>>18714318wear both on one hand and see how you feel about throughout the day i personally wished i liked them but they remind me too much of an Arab spice market.
>>18714343>they remind me too much of an Arab spice market.Yeah it's probably something like that. They smell great but I don't know if I want to smell like this, I don't mind amber and spices but the Tauers feel like landscape/ambiance scents more than personal scents if that makes sense
>>18714282no one was even talking about that brand
wearing amouage gold man today, holy shit this stuff is good. definitely in the kouros category, but way smoother and more nicely blended. very no 5ish opening then a dry down in the spicy, soapy vein of prph or quorum, with a really nice musky animalic drydown, probably some of the nicest civet I've smelled in men's fragrance.
>>18714359Does amouage do stuff that doesn't have an animalic backbone or is that like their signature
>>18714360I haven't tried all of their stuff but reflection doesn't have any animalic notes and is pretty snice
>>18714092Fugggg:Dzzi
>>18714306Super hard to pick a brand here because everyone makes more and less interesting, higher and lower quality frags.On second thought, the reason I wrote SL is def not at the highest level of niche perfumery is that I find their offerings aren't very varied, so their frags feels unimaginative after trying just a few, but there are some brands I would consider at or near the top, like Filippo Sorcinelli, that sport a somewhat monotonous catalogue too.So after careful consideration I'd say Masque, Profumum Roma, Nishane, maybe Killian, maybe Jovoy, MFK used to be there but not really anymore.It certainly depends on what you consider to be the hallmark of niche - high quality ingredients, imaginative and unusual scents, a complex progression or what have you; to me niche is, first and foremost, something different from the usual, so brands like Le Galion aren't up there because they make very high quality frags that feel classic rather than distinctive, and MFK used to be there because BR540 is a masterpiece in quality and innovation, Grand Soir was the first big amber only frag like that, but nowadays it's all so safe that it feels like a parody.On a related note, I liked FK a lot more before smelling the new extraits he put together for Dior.>>18714308I too enjoy and wear Viking, but I hope you'll agree it's a very very safe frag.
>>18714366I thought Kilian was a memeAnd why didn't you mention houses like FM, Amouage and PdE?
>>18714360Most of their stuff isn't animali, their signature is rather their thick dry amber base, and even that isn't in all of their frags.I think it works well with Interlude Man, questionably with Memoir Man and very badly with Enclave, so look at them on a case to case basis and just try out what seems interesting.
>>18714367Kilian is a meme here because it's popular and comically overpriced and their marketing is funny, though every frag of theirs I've tried was so very high quality.They're leaning heavily into this gimmick of making frags based on spirits and even those are great, albeit comically overpriced, I especially liked On The Rocks.I didn't mention FM because I don't think their catalogue is interesting enough, they do make good frags and if you wait a few hours someone will come up saying French Lover is in the top 10 best frags ever, but I simply find them mostly uninteresting, from their most popular bottles to their hundredpercentrealhighconcentrationsupergoodstinkyanimalicbutstillrefined ouds collection.Amouage makes high quality stuff and that's it, they either feel basic, like Reflection Man, or flankers of Interlude Man where their noses did their best to only change a few blocks and make sure the core Amouage whatever was still clearly present.I've never tried a PdE frag, my usual niche frag stores don't carry them.
>>18714378I agree, all Kilian stuff I've tried has been really good and definitely very high quality. Some of their stuff is generic but they also have the best Fierce clone so the generic-ness has its perksI thought FM's ouds were the real deal honestly, I haven't tried one that hasn't been beautiful albeit unwearable for me personallyAs for Amouage have you tried the latest beige bottle collection?Anyway as far as popular/luxury niche (as opposed to avant garde) goes there probably aren't more names to mention, and frankly I don't care much for the more experimental stuff, I think it's mostly overrated, people cream themselves over Gualtieri for example but I find his fragrances somewhat interesting but also pretty simplistic considering their hype
>>18714360Their major claim to fame is their exclusive incense resin farms and their infusion process (ie soaking oud or sandalwood chips in perfumers alcohol and using that alcohol to dilute the perfume oil). They don’t really do many proper animalics. I can only really think of Gold.
Who's that Pokemon?
>>18714389noir extreme parfum
>>18714389This is a blue board Anon, don’t be showing Jynx naked like that.
>>18714303>viking>pour monsieurYou faggots need to stop recommending juices that will never let you see a pussy irl. I like both those scents btw.>>18713944Get Aventus Absolu. It won't scare the hoes.
>>18714449https://youtu.be/N3dh5EyRivo?t=619&si=LcxLk4YelizcaSSvHere's proof.
>>18714449Ok what frags to wear if I WANT to scare the hoes?
Am I allowed to participate in fragrances if I can't stand anything except for light, minimalist fragrances?
>>18714464Yes
>>18714449>he cant pull wearing vikingkwab
>>18714464Sure why not, whatever floats your nose
>>18714464desu I wear adp edc, guerlain edc, l'orpheline, bois d'argent more than all the heavy stuff I own and love. Light stuff is goated, don't listen to longevityfags and sillagecels
>>18714461Something by Toskovat probably.
>>18714526Bois dargent is some real gangster shit, man. Very ethereal feeling. Calm, focused scent. Incredibly classy
>>18714461Reliqvia by Sorcinelli
>found old bottle of beckham signature for him>atomizer is broken and missing half of the thingwhat do?
>>18714464>light, minimalist fragranceslike what? My most minimal and light fragrance is Armani Mania, just a cedar with a bit of saffron.
>>18714555buy a bottle and atomizer and dump it in
I miss nice things :, [
>Iris scent comes from the flowers’ root, not the petalsThen what’s the point of old makeup and lipstick being soaked in iris petals? Was that bs or something
>>18714571Iris petals are different from orris, the former is airy clean and minimal while the latter is more dense and earthy. You dont want those women tasting earth every time they apply it on their lips
>>18714318nice, i think they are wearable, just test them as >>18714343 suggestedwhat's wrong with LADAS?>>18714389a small dragon dildo?>>18714449lol, lmao, roflmao even>>18714555turn 360 and walk away
What does he wear, /frag/?
>>18714063Please tell me you are a woman. I tried Libre before and it sucked. I was expecting a unisex fragrance.
>>18713993That's what fougere smells liket. Lord owner
>>18714624he famously wore bal a versailles
>>18714461Here's a decent list, I like and own most of these btw.AntaeusGuerlain Vetiver pour monsieurEau SauvageBRUTPolo GreenTDHAnything at smells old or even "dated" don't ever fucking wear when there's attractive women around. And for all you nerds in the back who think "oh I can pull it off" you're not pulling off shit, unless you're a gigawealthy chad that's over 6"2 don't even think about it.
Where can I find deodorants with no aluminium? I used to wear deodorants with aluminium when I was a teenager and I didn't know that thing is causing cancer back then. Now I'm using a body spray.
>>18714630>check out this frag on Fragrantica>it's real
>>18713942>>18713959Welcome back, anon.
