y2k edish
Layton or Pegasus?
>>18788855why those two? have you tried them? I'd sample both and choose which one you like more. I'd pick Layton though.
Got my sample of this and damn it's good...I also got interlude black iris which I think smells like shit
>>18788857Yea I tried many but not all PdMs. I think my top 5 are Althair, Layton, Pegasus, Oajan and Herod.Herod is great smelling but the performance isn't that good rather get TF TV.I feel Oajan isn't as versatile, you could probably wear Layton and Pegasus in the spring and fall too not just winter, and I already got a bottle of Althair, wanna get my second PdM bottle.
Just blind bought this for less than 80 dollars. Thoughts?
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>>18788895Very good indeed. Just bought the EDT version myself since I prefer the EDT versions of Guerlain fragrances.
I need pretty boy metro sexual scents. In the same vibe as br540 and another 13. Stuff that you could see a clean straight twink wearing
>>18788895definitely did the right choice by going with the edp
>>18788818I find Le 3e Homme far less distinctive with its lemon-candy opening quickly revealing the same tired carnation-and-rose heart that defined countless generic 70s masculines rather than elevating them. That so-called “manly dirtiness” from the carnation reads more like a musty, slightly soapy floral that feels dated and off-putting instead of cooling or balanced. The citrus vibe is ordinary at best and vanishes too fast to leave any lasting impression of uniqueness. It also lacks projection and longevity and then dries down into a bland musk that feels flat and uninspired rather than clean or easy to wear. It comes across as a forgettable office scent that modern noses will find more old-fashioned than charming.
>>18788855layton is just apple-lavender-vanilla spice, al haramain detour noir does it for like $25-35 and lasts forever, maison alhambra leyden or woods collection dusk if you want something a bit smootheroajan is that cinnamon-honey-vanilla gourmand shit, montagne wajan or lattafa raghba wood intense get you 80% of the way without paying $300 for a bottle of dessertif you're not a broke anon hermes ambre narguile or kilian angels share are actually better versions of the same warm spicy sweet vibe anywaystop coping with full bottles of pdm when the clones exist, your wallet will thank you
>>18788954>arab clonesI don't think I will
>>18788956your money broski
Notino is having a 15% sale, what should I cop?
What do you think of this?
>>18788963what brand are they carrying these days anyway?
>>18788972brands
>>18788971Honestly not sure what to make of the whole “melancholia” branding here. I get that they’re going for some nostalgic, reflective purple vibe with the bottle and the name, but then the main notes are cardamom, lavender, and a creamy coconut accord? Coconut feels like the complete opposite of melancholy to me, more like beach days, piña coladas, or sunscreen than sitting alone in a dimly lit Roman palace feeling contemplative.
>>18788977great point
>>18788954I tried angels share and I like the PdMs more, plus you can find PdM in discounters for like half off.My experience with arab frags had been bad, 95% of what I tried so far didn't smell good.
I sincerely hope all of you who suggest or even talk about middle eastern dupes kill yourselves. Life must suck being brown and poor
>>18788999Nice trips. What about Australian dupes?
>>18789004They get a pass because white
how shoiud i react when i get a compliment for wearing a cheapie? i don't want to be known as the cheap cologne guy at work
>>18789009For work, get an upscale but not luxurious signature frag, e.g. Diptyque
>>18789009what were you wearing? some dupe?
>>18789014the dreamer
>>18789009Say thanks and move on. If they insist on knowing what it is, just lie.
>>18789018Interesting. I've never smelled this one. How would you describe it? Just tell them you've forgotten the name or that you would to keep it a secret.
>>18789022to me it smells like clean laundry and light tobacco, really pleasant and inoffensive. but it seems like cheaping out on frags is a negative signal in a professional environment.
Today I bought:Issey Miyake pour homme EDPArmaf Dubai nights midnightLattafa JasoorThey're all very nice. Don't think I'm ever buying anything other than clones again tbqh
>>18789024>Don't think I'm ever buying anything other than clones again tbqhwhy though?
>>18789026Price basically and because my taste and sense of smell isn't that refined. I've smelled very expensive niche stuff at airports and whatnot and while they're nice, they don't smell so much better to me that I'm willing to pay 5-10x the price of an Arab fragrance. Same goes for designers. Jasoor smells very close to coral fantasy to me, why would I pay 3 times the price for Valentino then?
>>18789027Whenever I think of dupes I think of fragrances worth couple hundred dollars. I never consider that people might be trying to save $50 bucks. There is no correlation between price and ingredient quality but hypothetically speaking if cheap fragrances had cheaper ingredients that were easy to replicate it would make more sense to get clones of those fragrances. Clone houses probably already have this information but it would be cool if this information was public. Imagine if there was a factual report, not anecdotal, that said fragrance A has cheap and readily available ingredients so it's easy to find a good clone vs fragrance B has expensive natural and synthetic ingredients which would be hard to find a good clone of it. It would be very helpful.
Guys how do I get my office scent off my skin I want to wear my leisure frag
>>18789058I agree that 50 bucks isnt much but I'm frugal in general and it irks me to spend 100 on something when I could get basically the same thing for 50. >but it would be cool if this information was public.The mass spectrometer or whatever techniques they use for deducing the ingredients and ratios is probably a big part of their R&D cost so I doubt this is possible. >>18789061Ever heard of a shower?
>>18788971It’s my favorite out of the line and the only one I think is any good. The others simply don’t appeal to me but I can understand why people like them.
>>18789064The GC-MS are not cheap but you can even send stuff to a lab, the real cost is in deciphering what the machine spits out. It's not like the machine tells you it has rose, it tells you all the components of a rose garbled with everything else in the fragrance. Maybe with AI these things are easier but it's still a huge task to get it right. I think it's easier just to replicate the smell by someone who is trained and maybe they use the spectrometer to compare and pinpoint differences.
>>18789070Yeah pretty much this. I’ve sent a couple of bottles to a lab before and the PDF you get back is just a wall of 150+ peaks with names like “trans-β-ocimene 0.37%” and “unknown sesquiterpene 1.2%”. Zero “this is the rose note” labels. Turning that into an actual formula still takes someone who already knows what rose absolute, damascones, PEA, etc. are supposed to look like and how they behave in a blend. AI tools are getting better at suggesting matches, but they’re still only as good as the training data and they hallucinate accords all the time. Most of the serious DIY reverse-engineering I see still starts with a trained nose (or at least a very experienced hobbyist) building a rough skeleton by smell, then using the GC-MS just to hunt for the weird trace materials or exact ratios that the nose can’t quite lock in. Smell first, machine second is still the faster path for most of us.
>>18788971it's alright, bought it when it came out but barely wear it. reminds me of Le Beau Le Parfum, but not as good.
>>18789061shower, but in a pickle i rub my skin with some soap and towel it off
I LOVE this one but it smells nothing like any of these notes. Just straight up 100% cherry coke like I want to straight up drink it. Am I nose blind?
>>18789147Maybe you got the edp or some flanker i remember a few of those had cherry
>>18789148Yeah this is the EDP
>>18789147is it still new? my first impressions of a frag can be very different from the experience i get from repeated use.
Do you guys wear a fragrance when you're hanging with the boys? Feel like I'll get called gay
>>18789153yes I just bought it today
>>18789155how old are you?
>>1878915830. inb4 busting your friends balls is juvenile and for retards or w/e
>>18789155Depends on the socioeconomic status of 'your boys'
>>18789155>hanging with the boysalready sounds gay as fuck, wear whatever you want.
>>18789162Hanging out with your friends is gay?
>>18789164if they're dudes
>>18789166My gf is enough female company for me I don't need other bitches in my orbit
Was 2016 the best year for new fragrances?
>>18789169name 3 goats from 2016
>>18789172donald j trump, nicholas fuentes and grand soir
>>18789147parfumo.com isn't listing the cherry, I guess fragrantica is better...
>>18789172terre, prada l'homme, guerlain l'homme, layton
>>18789174how does lost cherry compare?
>>18789175>terrehuh
oud is so fucking vile
>>18788954I like clones too but you need to start using punctuation.>>18788999Life must suck even more being a seething boomer seeing everything around you go against your wishes and knowing that in a few more decades you'll be too dead to do anything about it
>>18789166Having female friends is infinitely more gay than having dude friends. Women are for sex, not hanging out with
New Caron dropped
>>18788847I just blind bought Amouage Guidance. What am I in for?
>>18789391bisch on pervitin
>>18789391lol good luck manyou just bought a bottle of creamy pear + hazelnut with some frankincense funk that turns into soft rose/jasmine and sandalwood vanilla later. it’s sweet, a little nutty, and has that classic amouage “expensive and kinda weird” DNA.projects like crazy for the first couple hours and lasts forever. some people love the pear-incense thing, i think it smells like weird dessert. if you’re into richer/sweeter stuff you’ll probably be fine, if you hate gourmands or creamy florals you might be side-eyeing the bottle in a week.
Rate/review Pour un Homme Le Matin?
My fragfu just postedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_aTMhKeDco
>>18789382>female perfumerpass
What kind of deodorant do you wear I'm looking for something completely neutral
>>18789432I don't wear deodorant, but when I feel I'll need it I put a little bit of baking soda. I used to use arm and hammer deodorant.
>>18789434>I don't wear deodorantnigga please. nothing worse than wearing a nice frag and you stink of sweat
>>18789396Doesn’t really smell like the original Pour un Homme at all if that’s what you’re hoping for. This one is way brighter and less sweet/powdery. More like a modern barbershop fougère.If you like clean aromatic stuff with real lavender and a bit of ginger spice, it’s pretty solid. Nothing crazy unique but it smells decent.
>>18789434Baking soda smells on me, I don't like it. >>18789432I mostly use completely neutral mineral deo. They work pretty well, but there's a slight learning curve to the application process. Before I was ever into frags, I used alcohol-based old man deodorants like Brut and Old Spice. These actually worked to prevent smell, but I can't imagine it's good to slather alcohol on your pits every day.
what are your thoughts on the boys imperial extrait?
tis over
>>18789441bump. im actually curious to know about the extraits as a whole. i was slightly disappointed to find out that BI is not as strong as i was led to believe. plus they upped their prices too which is kind of disappointing.
>>18789456I wanted to buy another bottle of BI in my fragrance store but they only had the Extrait. I have the test strip here.
>>18789451>Cologne>middle easternRetard alert
>>18789456I thought it was decently strong?
>>18789456what's the strongest fragrance you know
How similar is Tygar to Sospiro Vibrato? I only tried the latter and loved it
>>18789469>>18789468i got it last year ftr. while still decent lasting, it was presented as a room filler that lasted the whole day. good performance but not like i had expected. strongest frags i own are Interlude and Sauvage Elixir.
>>18789456>they upped their prices tooHoly shit lmao! No way I would recommend it now. I never liked the smell of BI but it was easy for me to recommend because it was so cheap and long lasting fresh scents are hard to find. I will look for some other long lasting fresh scents to recommend.
This is my costume. My fragrance is Purple Oud.
>>18789456>>18789477They didnt up their prices I think
What cologne would a dog like? I plan on going to the shelter to maybe adopt one.>don’t wear cologne near a dogI want to make a good first impression
>>18789507probably some gourmand stuff i would say
>>18789507whatever white women wear
>>18789507They eat poop so anything with oud and castorum
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BdC EdP is all you need
y2k ish but the early 2000s this is what i think of this will probably get hate
>>18789554polo blue was the last good polo
What's a good cheapo fragrance you can just spray on each day and forget?
>>18789560The Body Shop musk fragrances )black & white my fav, they also have blue) especially since the whole store is 40% off perennially or something from D&G or aqua di gio or even ck one
>>18789470Tygar is slightly more musky, Vibrato is slightly more floral. I prefer Tygar, I think it's one of the greatest frags ever made, the OG just has something that every other "Tygar DNA" frag is missing.
>>18789456I have the sample strip (2 sprays) 9 hours ago lying 2 meters away from me and it's filling the room. That's how strong it is. Extrait Extreme. Will keep you updated in the morning.
>>18789564What about The Hedonist EDP/Extrait and L'Immensite?
>>18789504They used to go for $100, now they go for $130.
>>18789565nice. how different is it from the regular BI?
Contralto is pretty damn solid, people are saying it is similar to Bal d'Afrique but I didn't try that one since the performance is ass
I wish Azzaro offered this 30ml bottle option for the rest of the Wanted lineup. Not only is the size preferable, I think the design is far less gaudy than the revolver bottle. Too bad it's only for the original.
>>18789586Is it a magnum cartridge?
>>18789568Hedonist extrait smells really close to Tygar on opening, dry down is more sweet. probably better to wear in the winter and slightly longer lasting than Tygar, 10+ hours compared to 8+ of Tygar. L'Immensite is so different from the other Tygar frags that you could own it and Tygar/Vibrato/Hedonist and it wouldn't be redundant.
what's a frag that's gonna make black women go oooooh massa you makin me squirt
>>18789607I was told African Leather Memo Paris
