Perfume / Cologne

same <3

oh boy just got a bunch of luckyscent samples oh boy

So far:

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 EDP. “Oriental Floral.” Pure cotton candy. Goes on like cotton candy, dries down like cotton candy, poor longevity and sillage, like cotton candy. I can’t detect any other notes beyond synthetic sugar. Just candy. Wouldn’t buy for five bucks from the clearance bin at CVS, much less 300 bucks at Saks.

By (k*l*an) Good Girl Gone Bad. “Fruity Floral.” Ripe fruit in an offputting way. Think Bath and Body Works peach/melon shower gel or a peach Snapple, with only the barest sumthin sumthin of interest underneath. A bit of butter reminiscent of the crappy Chardonnay you overdrank at your cousin’s wedding. Poor longevity and sillage, which is good because I don’t care for it. Better than Baccarat Rouge 540, but that’s not saying much. 275 bucks? Oh hell no.

anyone rate byredo?
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Congratulations to Maison Naomi Goodsir for having absolutely nailed the stench of death with their Iris Cendre (£125 for 50ml). It's meant to be a rich tobacco / leather reminiscent of Chesterfield sofas in smoking rooms but comes down somewhere between 'wet saddle' and 'mouse carcass discovered behind the fridge'.

Having showered, scrubbed and, damn it, exfoliated my neck i can still smell it 36 hours later and assume that i will have to carry it with me for the rest of my life as a memento mori.

byredo frags sounds intriguing but those prices are far beyond my reach

xp wow that sounds like a powerfully bad smelling fragrance

verticals, do you own any byredo and which ones? or are you just asking? pulp and baudelaire seem intersting.

i got philosykos! for birthday presents! i'm all set to be superior to other people not wearing philosykos. it's straight up gangster green, snap a fig twig in half green. fresh! natural as f! with no disrespect to kermit, it IS easy being green! i also picked up ferragamo pour homme from marshalls; it's dry fig leaf and cloves, with attendant fresh fruit and florals. this is some wiseguy shit, real uptown, classes up the joint, maybe a case fell off the back of a truck and you can get it for cheap but you didn't hear it from me, okay? just in case tony asks.

i also picked up a 2 oz. bottle of bvlgari man extreme from marshalls for 18 bucks us. i see it everywhere in malls and such so i assume it sells ok but i never see it talked about online so i figure there's no regard. it's astringent cactus juice riding atop a celery-crisp vetiver, with a peppery freesia undercurrent, not really a standard fresh aquatic or whatnot. it's pretty butch, like terre d'hermes. it's not the most of anything but it's different enough from the usual to be exceptional in instances where you'd defer to the usual. like that brady bunch episode where greg asks why he was picked to be the new johnny bravo, and the answer was he firs the suit, this fits the suit.

i figure if you get a 4 dollar sample of a 300 dollar thing and and you aren't trying to hear that, that's 296 dollars in your pocket, plus 20 dollars worth of knowledge, so you're up 16 bucks.

I hace a bottle of bal d'afrique; my partner has oud immortel. both gifts. I love both. I've smelled most of their range and these are my two favourites.

I love philosykos too. I just wish its fragrance didn't disperse so quickly.

have been wearing guerlain l'instant edp (almost edible patchouli and cacao and anise liqueur) and varvatos dark rebel rider (leather, elemi and incense smoke)

I’ve been wearing a bunch of cheap Caron fragrances recently (Yatagan, Le 3eme Homme, Pour Un Homme) and they’re probably a pale imitation of their eighties peak and not particularly long-lasting but all smell very pleasant - classic, simple masculines.

I’m wearing Le Mat by Mendittorosa today and it’s absolutely wonderful - a warm rose with the sweetness of patchouli and spice of immortelle. It’s €250 a bottle though so I may have to make the 10ml sample I have last.

yatagan is brilliant but yeah it is not long-lasting

Currently wearing Bat by Zoologist. The whole range is influenced by animals but that is often in a semi-abstract way - Rhinoceros, for example, smells more like bay rum than anything. Bat smells like bat, or rather bat caves. It’s one of the only fragrances in the world to use a recently-discovered chemical compound indistinguishable from petrichor - the smell of bacteria in dry soil breaking down after rain. It’s ‘earthy’ in the most literal sense.

It’s overlaid with decomposing banana, fig and tropical fruit with a hint of musk and leather in the background. I’ve never been anywhere more tropical than the faux-jungle bit of Singapore Zoo but it’s evocative of rainforests and life / death supercharged by warmth, damp and richness.

Opinion is split on whether it’s something you could wear out of the house in good conscience but, applied with a light enough hand, I’d say so.

is it how you'd imagine batman would smell?

I want to believe Bruce Wayne will be undone one day by the pervasive dank / rotten fruit aroma that surrounds him when he is out of character, yes.

I have been wearing my own concoction. I put allspice and clove in a bottle with rubbing alcohol for a week and now I smell like a fresh, cocky sailer!

I was just fine with Drakkar Noir, despite its reputation as the scent of latent nazis. When a small bottle of that ran out after 2 years, I went on www.fragrantica.com looking for other inexpensive colognes with few detractors, to expand my range a bit. Wound up with Antonio Puig Quorum Silver (cedar + nutmeg), Perry Ellis M (cinnamon + vanilla), and Mr. Blass (leather + church incense). I use them in moderation (one spray), they're all fine, but I haven't been complemented on them either.

Still much prefer the scent that lingers after sitting downwind of some middling Indonesian aloeswood (oud) incense.

even the slightest whiff of drakkar noir triggers every bad feeling i have
i congratulate you for moving on

From the Fragrantica, ‘people who like Drakkar Noir also like...’ thing, Encre Noir by Lalique is quite good. It’s a dark, inky vetiver.

drakkar noir smells like bullying, prepubescent shadow mustaches, and awkward boners to me

terrible

I've recently rediscovered Cool Water, which has a lot of the same negative eighties connotations, and it's pretty great imo.

omg cool water is another bad one
add fahrenheit and you will have the unholy trinity of triggering scents

YES

:(

I have never consciously smelled fahrenheit (a generational thing, maybe) but it is worryingly similar from the notes listed to a lot of leather scents I like/wear

this is the peril of wearing scents i guess
i smelled most of these in the early 90s fwiw

it's also possible my taste just sucks (the big one, generationally, is that I love Poison -- the first fragrance I really, truly loved, as opposed to just found OK -- but realize that anyone alive during the '80s despises it)

i remember when i was wearing chanel #5 in hs and someone complained that i smelled like old people
i was mortified!

still, smelling like old people >>>>>>>>> smelling like a sexual predator
at least old people are friendly and cool sometimes

it's a classic, might not even make me *scrolls up thread to figure out what emotion I associated with it* angry anymore!

teens can't tell the difference between "old" and "cultured" anyway

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also xxp -- I have a luckyscent order coming in and a byredo sample is in it -- it's Bullion, which I kind of suspect is going to be near identical to eau de velours and/or cuir amethyste (which are already pretty similar) and I have a large bottle of the former already, but we'll see

Which of the review sites do you all like best? Luckyscent, fragrantica, basenotes? Like, if you had to choose one, which one?

normally I go by fragrantica -- I only really use luckyscent to buy stuff and basenotes is just there

also I just realized yesterday why I like poison so much despite an entire generation of people hating it, it's the ladytron of perfumes

Basenotes probably has the highest percentage of dorks who post about fragrance as though they're on the Steve Hoffman forums but that can be kind of useful sometimes.

Fragrantica wins for me because of the crowd-sourced notes / longevity / sillage voting, though. People ranking which elements predominate (1000 people say iris is prominent, 210 say they can smell tuberose strongly, etc) is much more useful than knowing that the fragrance contains 23 notes, including iris and tuberose - which you could find out from the marketing materials.

Given the tendency to reformulate and water down classic fragrances, it's also great to be able to see what proportion of people felt the scent was weak / middling / strong / huge.

speaking of tuberose, I keep meaning to try Adjatay, given my last analogy I am expecting it to be more like the Client of perfumes

Have you tried Fracas? Possibly the Eartha Kitt...

I haven't -- I'm not a huge fan of just straight-up florals

oh man i love fracas
one of my all time favorites

i really want a bottle of arpege

going through aforementioned samples; frapin 1270 is a remarkably accurate recreation of the experience of taking a bath in a bulk-food bin, mostly candied pineapples

Someone gave me Burberry Brit for a late Christmas present. I hate it. It has a long-lasting fake vanilla note that makes me feel nauseated.

I still have a a bottle of Burning Leaves and an Earl Grey Lavender water based scent from I Hate Perfume. It's so hard to find scents that aren't cloying or make you want to die if you are trapped with a heavily scented person in a small space.

I see on this thread that I was wearing Annick Goutal's Petite Cherie 13 years ago. Ha, so weird!

not to be gross but why is there no deodorant stick for ass cracks?

not to be gross but what's stopping you rubbing a deodorant stick into your asscrack?

it's legal, dude, go to town on yourself in the comfort of your own home

Couldn't you just use a regular one kept especially for that purpose?