This is a thread about perfumes and colognes in general. I want to know your favorites and your least favorites. I want to know your thoughts about various perfumes, houses, perfumers. At the airport in the duty-free shop tonight I smelled YSL Kouros for the first time and felt myself sweat a little. Are the accords and notes listed on Fragrantica bs? How do you train your nose? What is your favorite ingredient? What are you wearing this summer?
I favor Tauer's L'air du desert marocain (a amber/oriental mix from a small-volume manufacturer), Guerlain Vetiver (classic), Chanel no. 19 (arch) and no. 5 (as magical as ever). I am not particularly a fan of Kouros on me as it smells too masculine and 'animalic' (this is the actual term used in the perfume world), but I can see how others would like it.
The notes on Fragrantica/Basenotes are reasonable but be careful to use them as advice rather than as a handbook. All notes are are, in the end, someone else's impressions. Like other industries, there is hype in the perfume world and sometimes, after a decade, I look back and think: how could that ever sell so much? it was so awful. Luca Turin's reviews are not bad; he published them in book form.
You can tell this is a male-heavy board by the lack of replies
Anonymous :
95 days ago :
No.5029
>>5448
>>5029
Idk who SJP is, but I think there is definitely a pheromone-esque phenomenon occurring with BO, especially wrt romantic/sexual pursuits. The smell of someone's sweat is way different if it's a sexual interest, it simply just tickles some sort of lizard receptors in the "right" way. Whereas, say, locker room sweat smell or even the smell of foreign things creates an entirely different response.
Yay thank you for the Luca Turin rec. I just read one of Chandler Burr's books and love getting to reference his takes when I have tghe opportunity to test one he talks about.
He says the "clean fresh" smell is a deeply American thing and he and Jean Claude Ellena look down on it. Also SJP said we all secretly love the smell of B.O. Idk I am doubtful that theres a way to romanticize the smell of sweaty feet. And my "chosen perfume" for so many years has simply been Pantene shampoo and conditioner. Would be nice though to get over my human smell aversion for a quickly approaching swampy New York summer.
Anonymous :
83 days ago :
No.5420
>>5429
>>5420
You are likely already aware, but there's CdG Avignon in the incense group
>>5978>>5420
you should also consider rein edp
I wear Aesop Tacit occasionally; it was given to me. I like it. In the future, I'd like some more tobacco forward scents. Unfortunately, I don't really spend a lot of time fragrance shopping.
If this thread's focus can be expanded to all things smellable, I have been really into incense lately. I've been into Shoyedio Morning Zen. It's very churchly, but lighter than, say, Orthodox incense.
>>5420
I wear Aesop Tacit occasionally; it was given to me. I like it. In the future, I'd like some more tobacco forward scents. Unfortunately, I don't really spend a lot of time fragrance shopping.
If this thread's focus can be expanded to all things smellable, I have been really into incense lately. I've been into Shoyedio Morning Zen. It's very churchly, but lighter than, say, Orthodox incense.
You are likely already aware, but there's CdG Avignon in the incense group
>>5429
>>5420
You are likely already aware, but there's CdG Avignon in the incense group
No, I didn't know about that. Looks interesting, thanks.
>>5435I just rub my hands in rosemary whenever I meet a bush.
semi related, but at my job yesterday, I had to deleave a lot of mint and I enjoyed having minty fresh hands afterwards.
>>5029
Yay thank you for the Luca Turin rec. I just read one of Chandler Burr's books and love getting to reference his takes when I have tghe opportunity to test one he talks about.
He says the "clean fresh" smell is a deeply American thing and he and Jean Claude Ellena look down on it. Also SJP said we all secretly love the smell of B.O. Idk I am doubtful that theres a way to romanticize the smell of sweaty feet. And my "chosen perfume" for so many years has simply been Pantene shampoo and conditioner. Would be nice though to get over my human smell aversion for a quickly approaching swampy New York summer.
Idk who SJP is, but I think there is definitely a pheromone-esque phenomenon occurring with BO, especially wrt romantic/sexual pursuits. The smell of someone's sweat is way different if it's a sexual interest, it simply just tickles some sort of lizard receptors in the "right" way. Whereas, say, locker room sweat smell or even the smell of foreign things creates an entirely different response.
Anonymous :
61 days ago :
No.5978
>>5989
>>5978
I was actually going to get someone "You or Someone Like You" for a birthday, but ended up going with a different present instead. Haven't actually smelled them in person, they seem interesting though.
>>5420
I wear Aesop Tacit occasionally; it was given to me. I like it. In the future, I'd like some more tobacco forward scents. Unfortunately, I don't really spend a lot of time fragrance shopping.
If this thread's focus can be expanded to all things smellable, I have been really into incense lately. I've been into Shoyedio Morning Zen. It's very churchly, but lighter than, say, Orthodox incense.
you should also consider rein edp
Anonymous :
61 days ago :
No.5991
>>5992
>>5991
I live in an area with a lot of ponderosa pines, and they are a beautiful scent. Deep vanilla, like natural butterscotch.
There was a pine tree near my highschool classroom, I used to take some leaves from it, crush them and put them close to my nose. That's the only fragrance that has leave an impression on me, so I guess is my favorite
>>5991
There was a pine tree near my highschool classroom, I used to take some leaves from it, crush them and put them close to my nose. That's the only fragrance that has leave an impression on me, so I guess is my favorite
I live in an area with a lot of ponderosa pines, and they are a beautiful scent. Deep vanilla, like natural butterscotch.
What about lily of the valley perfumes?
Only got into fragrances recently, tried the montagne dupes of creed aventus and margiela jazz club. really didn't like the former, love the latter. thought it smelled too strongly of cigarettes to begin with but it died down after a few days, either went nose blind or it marinated long enough lol. love the rum in it.
ordered their dupes of by the fireplace and lv imagination a few days ago.
want to get tom ford leather ombre at some point, it sounds good.
Tom Ford neroli
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> Are the accords and notes listed on Fragrantica bs?
a little bit, but they're a good guideline on what you should generally expect before you smell a frag for the first time
> How do you train your nose?
wdym by this
> What is your favorite ingredient?
like, chemical...? or notes?
> What are you wearing this summer?
JHAG pear inc, glossier you, & gucci memoire d'une odeur
What's the best way to buy cologne on a budget, I don't have the three figures to drop on nice smellz.
Indie brand called Pineward. Kinda rips off another niche (and now defunct) brand called Slumberhouse but they make some insane woody fragrances that actually smell like what they advertise. And some are really bad (Borealis)
Philosykos by diptyque is the next bottle I’m going to buy. It smells identical to dried apricots to me, which happens to be a very nostalgic scent. The dry down is a sweet creamy coconut but its a very green scent so the coconut doesn’t feel nauseatingly sweet
Philosykos used to be one of my favs until my friend said it smelled like a balloon, can't unassociate it
versace eros its normie but whatever i get hella compliments on it
oud minerale