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>>18713936
Vintage 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 project
Among 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, cinnamon
Resins 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.

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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.

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>>18713956
That's why you spritzz blue aquatics like Cool Water. Raises your test and evolve you into a Gorilla.

>>18713944
u should stop liking vanilla tobacco amber sandalwood tonka instead

>>18713972
No

>>18713956
Then fuck off, noselet. Simple as.
>>18713972
Go on mate, just recommend him JPG le male, we know you want to

>>18713944
Dior Homme 2011, Amouage Black Iris, Naxos if you want something pleasant but boring
>>18713950
Its alright. It reminds me of a more polished Lalique PH.

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>SOTD Mousse Illuminee

Lads, 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.

>>18713993
I have the oil version and I layer it with YSL Y EDP

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>>18713746
Except that’s what I smelled in the store.

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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.

>>18713983
Is 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, etc
As 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).

>>18713983
lalique ph? you sure you thinking of the right fragrance? chanel allure homme smells like a softer more masculine mfk amyris homme

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Haiii /fa/
Is my collection cool?
YSL is sooo fucking good bros

>>18714063
We've seen this before.

>>18714063
eau d'issey is ok the rest is kinda meh

>>18714063
Si (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.

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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

>>18714002
Naxos 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.
>>18714043
Yes, 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. >>18714100
It’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.

>>18714108
Amouage, 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

>>18714100
Byredo is up there

>>18714100
ELDO also has designer price points

>>18714087
Some of those Hermes EDCs are so good

>>18713944
Get 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

>>18714100
objectively 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 Parfum
Great 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

>>18714100
yeah I'd say they're the best thing you can get for the price
>>18714226
lol

>>18713944
>masculine daily refined high quality
You 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).
>>18713993
It's a less pissy, more flowery and honey-like Kouros.
This type of scent didn't age well but it smells perfectly fine.
>>18714100
No 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.

>>18714303
What is top tier niche quality in your mind?

>>18714303
viking 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

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Just got my bottle of pic-related today. It was a blind buy and so far a stunning success, but I’ll keep testing.
>bibliotheque
I 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.

>>18714282
I've been eyeing their discovery set to try Speed Legends, seems right up my alley

>>18714318
wear 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

>>18714282
no 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.

>>18714359
Does amouage do stuff that doesn't have an animalic backbone or is that like their signature

>>18714360
I haven't tried all of their stuff but reflection doesn't have any animalic notes and is pretty snice

>>18714092
Fugggg:Dzzi

>>18714306
Super 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.
>>18714308
I too enjoy and wear Viking, but I hope you'll agree it's a very very safe frag.

>>18714366
I thought Kilian was a meme
And why didn't you mention houses like FM, Amouage and PdE?

>>18714360
Most 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.

>>18714367
Kilian 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.

>>18714378
I 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 perks
I thought FM's ouds were the real deal honestly, I haven't tried one that hasn't been beautiful albeit unwearable for me personally
As 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

>>18714360
Their 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.

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Who's that Pokemon?

>>18714389
noir extreme parfum

>>18714389
This is a blue board Anon, don’t be showing Jynx naked like that.

>>18714303
>viking
>pour monsieur

You faggots need to stop recommending juices that will never let you see a pussy irl. I like both those scents btw.

>>18713944
Get Aventus Absolu. It won't scare the hoes.

>>18714449
https://youtu.be/N3dh5EyRivo?t=619&si=LcxLk4YelizcaSSv

Here's proof.

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>>18714449
Ok 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?

>>18714464
Yes

>>18714449
>he cant pull wearing viking
kwab

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>>18714464
Sure why not, whatever floats your nose

>>18714464
desu 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

>>18714461
Something by Toskovat probably.

>>18714526
Bois dargent is some real gangster shit, man. Very ethereal feeling. Calm, focused scent. Incredibly classy

>>18714461
Reliqvia by Sorcinelli

>found old bottle of beckham signature for him
>atomizer is broken and missing half of the thing
what do?

>>18714464
>light, minimalist fragrances
like what? My most minimal and light fragrance is Armani Mania, just a cedar with a bit of saffron.

>>18714555
buy a bottle and atomizer and dump it in

I miss nice things :, [

>Iris scent comes from the flowers’ root, not the petals

Then what’s the point of old makeup and lipstick being soaked in iris petals? Was that bs or something

>>18714571
Iris 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

>>18714318
nice, i think they are wearable, just test them as >>18714343 suggested
what's wrong with LADAS?

>>18714389
a small dragon dildo?

>>18714449
lol, lmao, roflmao even

>>18714555
turn 360 and walk away

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What does he wear, /frag/?

>>18714063
Please tell me you are a woman. I tried Libre before and it sucked. I was expecting a unisex fragrance.

>>18713993
That's what fougere smells like
t. Lord owner

>>18714624
he famously wore bal a versailles

>>18714461
Here's a decent list, I like and own most of these btw.
Antaeus
Guerlain Vetiver
pour monsieur
Eau Sauvage
BRUT
Polo Green
TDH

Anything 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.

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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

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>>18713942
>>18713959
Welcome back, anon.

>>18714631
my wife loves most of these, excluding tdh
current anteus kinda sucks

>>18714582
>what's wrong with LADAS?
Nothing, it's a good scent, just not my thing personally.

>>18714632
Aluminium causes cancer if it gets into your blood, which is why in papers you see a higher prevalence of aluminium induced cancer in women (they shave their armpits more than men and give themselves microcuts)

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Fragrance with this smell?

>>18714691
Rose Tonnerre has a weird grape juice drydown to me

>>18714701
I heard Dunhill Icon smells like grape soda too.

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>This smells like exactly like the liquid detergent Mexicans use and it’s $300

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any anons tried l'eau bleue d'issey? I recently got a sample and tested it today. I wasn't really sure about it at first, but in the dry down it takes on a very cooling hypnotic tone.

>>18714702
That’s grape soda from opening to the drydown. Very intriguing.

>>18714691
you'd probably be able to find a cheapie in a local pharmacy or smthing.

>>18714707
I've got a bottle, I like the rosemary, its an interesting aromatic. Nice work frag

Phew just talked myself out of buying frags on ebay. The prices are so tempting but the photos are always stock and I read way too many stories about getting fakes.

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>>18714389
>>18714418
>>18714448
>>18714582

Some impressions from what I recently tried on my skin.
Nishane Ani: A nice vanilla-centric fragrance. It is potent but not overpowering, with no disgusting sweetness. It stays on clothes for days. Liked it.
Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan: A very nice, pleasant smell with cinnamon and other comfy spices. I've seen full bottles in several collection photos posted in this thread; now I know why. This is the second time I considered buying a full bottle (the first was Vertus Narcosis).
Serge Lutens L'Orpheline: A weird one. At first, it reminded me of something like an abandoned altar in a herbalist hut—interesting and somewhat pleasant. But the drydown is kind of dirty, like there was a demon's ass at the said altar. Not sure how I feel about it.
Les Exclusifs de Chanel Sycomore: Very pleasant and high quality, but for me, it's too "perfume-y." I strongly associate its smell with perfume in general. I guess it could be good for some occasions, but not for general use for me.
Byredo Mojave Ghost: Starts as a soap/shampoo kind of smell; pleasant but a bit boring. The drydown is more interesting with some sweetness, but at that point, it has become a skin smell, which is a shame.

>>18714735
bald post

>>18714737
I tried L’orpheline and I swear the perfumer has to have a deal with the devil. How do you make a fragrance perfectly capture the vibe of a funeral ?

I'm wearing it right now and it smells like those musk candy cigarettes, wtf is with people saying all this shit about it being muh heckin funeral goth shit

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>HIGH
>QUALITY

>>18714760
brandfags are retarded

>>18714714
yeah its quite nice, probably my second favourite out of the samples I got, behind terre d'hermes. the orange in terre d'hermes is incredible.

>>18714760
Noselet
>>18714769
Noselet
>>18714771
Noselet

>>18714778
it's literally musk and patchouli lil bro you fell for tiktok hype or something

what are /fa/s options on classic mens aftershave colognes? old spice, aramis, brun, paul sebastian, tabac, etc

>>18714780
Is orpheline really a tik tok fragrance? I dont follow any of that stuff. I figured tik tok was mostly on stuff like vibrato and ingenious ginger rn.

>>18714784
Tiktok is currently in its "fragrances that smell like the backrooms" ultra niche weirdcore phase

>>18714784
Idk to be honest just guessing where the marketing blurb is coming from

>>18714784
top 10 fragrances that a detroit crackhouse

>>18714342
Speed legends is so good. If you like gentle fluidity silver you will like speed legends

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Any anons here tried Andrea Maack's frags?

I can get a ridiculously discounted price on Birch, curious on the offchance anyone here has tried it or others of theirs

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>>18714643
Based South east asian bro, what's your Sotd?
Mine Sandflowers and Cool Water for half a year now.

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>>18714749
Well i mean to be fair, the mf does look like Dracula

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>>18714808
He is definitely on some devil shit. His frags are simply too fire

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>SOTD: Tauer L’Air du Désert Marocain Noir
nice frag with great performance but totally redundant if you own either the OG LADDM or ACDD

>>18714813
If you didn't own any, which would you buy?

>>18714817
it's a tossup between ACDD and LADDM
i like ACDD a bit more but LADDM is very close with a better price (i have a full bottle of the latter)

>>18714649
chanel does reformulations quite well so its still pretty good. its just a fresher version for the most part

>>18714631
My gf doesn't mind most of these. Honestly if you look well dressed and clean and good no one will judge you for wearing something vintage.

>>18714735
Based TdH EdT poster

>>18714631
I like all of these out of the ones I've tried (missing Brut and Polo Green)
is it joever?

SOTD: TdH EdT

>>18714735
based

>>18714382
It might well have been real oud, I was rather making fun of how they were marketed when they came out.
Or at least how I thought that they were marketed based on what I was reading on /frag/...
I've tried Outlands and I like it because it's got a bit of everything, but I also somehow dislike it because it's got a bit of everything; the rest I haven't found a reason to try yet.
Well as far as niche brands with luxury marketing go there are also Byredo, House of Oud, Borntostandout, Le Labo, Bond n.9, Roja Dove, Clive Christian, Initio, OmanLuxury, and surely more I can't readily think of.
Going towards this category but not all the way there are also D.S. & Durga and Min NY, which I think deserve better because they make much more interesting stuff than the above.

>>18714881
>is it joever?
no, this is just the beginning
>TdH EDT
based

Apparently I hate "amberwoods"...
It's the sickeningly sweet stuff in Baccarat
But I like it when paired with cloves for some reason like in Dior Leather Oud

>>18714895
>roger bird
just no

>>18714731
There are two categories of real sellers on there: guys who deal in bulk, old ass eBay account, price is realistic, reviews are realistic (search by negative reviews and look for reviews with photos), also see if the seller has a webstore or uses the fragrance subreddits to sell bottles.

Guy who is dumping a random bottle he has. This is shakier. Check the batch number, having a decant of the frag doesn't hurt, avoid anything that is commonly faked (TF, Chanel, LV, Paco, PdM, Creed, etc). This can useful to find niche frags that are hard to source, discontinued frags, old bottles, etc. Mercari is another place to look. Facebook groups, and subreddits are a better spot to pull from resellers though DESU since they'll blacklist, name and shame, and usually have pretty strict standards.

And as always, use a credit card.

>>18714895
I've tried a few from Byredo, seems like a classic case of massively overpriced decent scent profiles with poor performance, much like Creed
Is Le Labo good? I've been wanting to check out Santal 33 and the tea one. Clive Christian seems genuinely good but fuck those prices
>D.S. & Durga
Have you tried Steamed Rainbow?

>>18714898
It’s just a fancy term for ambroxan variant. Brands use it to hide chemical sounding names.

>try out enclave by amouage
>smells like toothpaste
why do people glaze this house so much? am i missing something?

>>18715011
Better question is Amouage an arabslop or not?

>>18714962
I’ve tried Another 13, Santal 33, and Tabac 28. Another and Santal are really solid, Tabac is okay. I want to try Baie 19 and I’m curious about Aldehyde 44.
>>18715011
Did you read any reviews before trying Enclave? Every house has some misses. Try to start with the established and most highly regarded from Amouage if you want to explore it. Their best stuff is rich, dynamic, harmonious, and complex. I would suggest starting with Interlude as it’s the best example of the house DNA.

>>18715026
>Tabac is okay
Just ok? I'm looking for a really good tobacco fragrance where tobacco isn't just an afterthought

>>18715038
It could just be my tastes. I have been growing less and less interested in tobacco notes lately, other than Tobacco Vanille. As far as tobacco notes go, Tabac is very realistic and full-spectrum. When we had perfumer anon in the thread he said it was one of the best tobacco fragrances available. Given what you’re looking for it will probably be a hit for you, but for me it was just confirmation that I’m not the tobacco chad I thought I was.

>>18715059
>Tobacco Vanille
I have actually never tried this. Is it that good?

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Why did /fa/ turn against it?

>>18715011
>Try one frag from a house that has like 100 frags
Come on, man. You're lucky if a house has even a 50% pass rate with what you like/don't like from them.
>>18715024
They're one of the few non-Arabslop houses, presumably because they started from the ground up as being an enterprise that was able to make good things, and they've been around since forever to the point that Arabslop houses try to dupe them.

>>18714100
I think Lalique deserves that title, but Serge is a close 2nd

>>18714461
Iron Duke

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I am Guerlainmaxxing

>>18714691
Lattafa Sublime

>>18714100
Most of the classics people used to talk about are now in the giga expensive bell jars though.

>>18713950
How does the OG compare to the flankers? Which are the best in the line? What are worth trying?

>>18714366
>Profumum Roma
What do you recommend from PR?

>>18714366
If ever caught anyone trying to convince someone to blind buy a Masque frag, I'd call them a faggot and tell the other person to never listen to that faggot's "advice."

>>18715102
That's a great fragrance. Currently in my summer rotation along with Loewe Esencia EDP.

>>18714639
bal a versailles is very well known. this is like being surprised quelques fleurs l'original by houbigant is real. that's dita von teese's signature.

Someone help me out. A while back an anon dropped a factoid about some socialite who used to spray the curtains in his home with a specific perfume to make the place feel more majestic or some shit. I thought that was a novel idea, and I meant to look up the frag (because it was being discussed) but I forgot. It's very old.

>>18715111
you can still get decants or older samples. the perfumed court had a few, as did scent split, surrended to chance, and the serge lutens site iteself. on the actual site the discovery set is only $80 for la fille de berlin, l'orpheline, ambre sultan, feminite du bois, nuit de cellophane, santal majuscule, la religieuse, and fleurs d'oranger. something like de profundis would be more difficult, yeah.

not sure why anyone even blind buys at all unless whatever they're buying is <$15 for a full bottle. decants, samples, and discovery sets are better from an economic angle when trying to have a scent library. even when searching for a signature scent i would imagine this would be a better way first, as is utilizing the second hand market through trades or sales on centralized locations like perfume forums or dedicated subreddits. safer than buying off unverified storefronts though not as likely to get you something fun on an off chance as an estate sale or a thrift store, assuming the vendor has no idea what they're selling. besides, this is often the only way to purchase vintage scents prior to reformulations from dwindled resources and ifra compliance bans.

>>18715140
Karl Lagerfeld sprayed Mitsouko on his curtains
yw

What notes are responsible for smelling like a bookstore or old book

>>18715140
that's a common trick for housewarming, same as having a baking pan of cookies or a fresh coat of paint to make things seem homier. it doesn't really matter what the scent itself is as long as it's something you like, but whatever you use you need to be careful with the fabric, as certain ingredients can stain. lush's lust on white curtains, for instance, would be a complete disaster.

an anon in january mentioned doing this with guerlain's mitsuoko.

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>>18715143
Most of the Paris collection and other older ones are private now, you can only get them from his stores in Paris. You're rattling off the random shit he kept around and still sells. In theory though, you can get anything you want in the bell jars.

>>18715146
That's who it was. Thanks.

>>18715148
biblichor is a newer term meant to piggback off of petrichor for the this, as the latter is the scent after it rains. what you're smelling is the breakdown is the support tissue of the cellular wall of plants, something called lignin. it smells like a form of vanilla as it breaks down. paper is organic plant matter and the degradation of it when combined with the rotting of the glue, natural musty odor of dust, and the scent of ink has a notably natural woody soil-type scent with a sweetness that lingers between marzipan (almond, so cherry-like) and vanilla.

>>18715153
yeah, that's why i mentioned the discovery sets and his specific website and contrasted it with something like de profundis outright while recommending decants and splits from third party vendors that specialize in that and vintage formulations. i don't know why you would purchase something that specific that you presumably haven't smelled online anyway. if you're going to drop several hundred dollars, it would make more sense to either do so in person or purchase a sample of it first to see if you even like it. a better counter would have been that scents change and degrade over time as the components break down and/or intensify, and that samples can be oddly misleading especially if batch consistency is low.

i've made this mistake before with the original eldo don't get me wrong baby. the sample smelled entirely different from the full bottle. it would be as stupid as buying something like not a perfume superdose without smelling it first, on the assumption that if you liked cetalox/ambroxan the first time, more of it would only be better. god no. superdose is repulsive.

>>18715065
>You're lucky if a house has even a 50% pass rate with what you like/don't like from them.

Frankly, having a higher failure rate should be a point in their favor. Unless you have a particularly exotic nose, you shouldn't be fond of everything you try. It either means you have no discernment in your palate or they don't take any risks. A proper house should explore as many concepts as it is inspired by and inspire others in return. If everything smells the same or even has the same underlying note, they're just cycling through minor variations in profiles, not actually experimenting artistically.

>>18714749
>How do you make a fragrance perfectly capture the vibe of a funeral ?
white florals, dust, and incense. then either soil or smoke. add the salt from tears, a hint of strong alcohol from hard liquor, and desperation. substitute the vice of your choice: smothering and comforting like a gourmand for food (and one form of sex, must be milky and fatty if so), animalic and musks for the other kind of "i'm alive, i'm alive, i must prove i am alive" sex - salty, bleach-like, marine semen non-negotiable here, or hypnotic oblivion, possibly with patchouli and cannabis flower. you should feel suffocated and numb, but trying not to be. frederic malle does this well.

>>18715148
Gucci Pour Homme (2003) has a bit of a library smell because of the papyrus and cedar.

>>18715063
I find it very pleasant and it’s arguably one of the most popular from TF. It depends what you consider good, though. It lasts a very long time but the scent remains the exact same from start to finish. It’s also very heavy on iso-e. By artistic standards its not particularly creative or daring, but my god does it smell nice.
>>18715140
Diaghilev or someone like that would spray the curtains of his theatre with Mitsouko. That is why Roja’s Mitsouko clone is called Diaghilev.

>>18715181
I'll have to try it out
>>18715157
Way more detailed of a breakdown than I was expecting but very informative. Thank you anon

>>18715163
The issue with something like De Profundis (or maybe just De Profundis specifically in the case of Serge) is that the decant places know how in demand it is, but also know you have a very low chance of buying it, and that person who would buy it is just going to fly to Paris and blind buy. Or, alternatively, the decant might completely put them off from buying a bottle despite the near legendary status the thing has because "it smells like a funeral" and "it reminds me of depression" aren't people pleasers or things you'd wear all the time. Then the decant price on De Profundis tends to be really fucking high even for a 1ml. I have never even seen a single person in these threads report back on a decant, probably because of a mix of all the above. Why spend the money on the tiny ass decant when you are never going to buy the bottle even if you do think the frag is well made? The cheapest I can find is over $20 bucks for a blotter (without S&H), or take a chance on some rando's Etsy to save a few dollars.

I am the Anon who said he was going to have his relative buy a few bell jar bottles and ship them over. I still intend to do that, but it's an imposition and my relative who lives in Paris is an attache who works for the UN so they're not even in France atm. I got not idea when they'll be back, and when they are I have to have them find out the price first so I can send them the money as I am guessing the bell jars are probably 300ish euro each if the markup by that guy on eBay who may or may not be scamming is within the ballpark of the real figure. Especially since the regular bottles are still selling for over $300 USD.

>>18715185
Someone here recommended me a frag called Tome by Pineward. The entire idea is that it smells like old books, and it has relatively good reviews so I am guessing it succeeds at what it set out to do.

>>18714962
I don't think Le Labo is particularly good, and I definitely don't think their frags are worth the asking price.
If you like the idea of frags named with a note that hardly smell like that note, try Franck Boclet, and if you like the idea of more abstract frags there's plenty of offerings from Escentric, MFK, Marc Antoine Barrois and so on and so forth.
Clive Christian's frags I tried were good quality but the scents I didn't like, they're often odd spins on more acceptable frags, like if you took Grand Soir and made it dusty and acrid and generally off putting you'd get Blond Amber.
Even if you like them, they too aren' t worth the price.
I haven't tried Steamed Rainbow, sorry.
>>18715011
They make high quality, slightly unusual but generally appealing frags.
>>18715024
Yes (because they're Arab and everything that comes from that region is arabslop even if it smells good).

>>18715121
Acqua di Sale is the obvious first choice and their claim to fame, it smells like Sardinia and it has nuclear performance; on the flip side, the opening is quite sharp and the progression is quite linear, though that's often the case with such highly concentrated juice in my experience.
Then Ichnusa for photorealistic, green and grassy fig leaf, Arso for the smokiest cedar you'll ever smell (Amouage wished they could add a heavy dose of amber xtreme and sell the juice for €599/bottle), and Tundra for balsamic patchouli like a forest out of a pipe dream.
They're also famous for their more recent sweeter frags like Confetto and Dulcis in Fundo, but I don't think the quality of the ingredients makes such a difference there compared to the other frags I mentioned them, they're still great but not worth as much imo.
>>18715125
Did anyone try convincing anyone to blind buy anything itt?

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Anyone here have fragrances that activate your neurons and link up with/remind you of certain music?
Wearing Mousse Illuminee on a colder day again, and it's got this raw, grounded earthiness that takes me back to the woods, listening to something like this:
https://youtu.be/R8m0fmRp6Yo

macerate deez nuts

>>18714735
A modern classic (even if it’s 20 years old at this point), good choice Anon.

>>18714898
>>18714984
Yes and no.
First of all, the sickeningly sweet stuff in BR540 is ethyl maltol. Don’t get that confused with anything else.
Second, while yes, amberwoods and ambroxan fulfill the same goal scent wise, they are two different chemicals structure wise.

>>18715188
Not him but I buy samples of shit I know I'm never going to wear just to experience new stuff

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>>18715203
Diesel's only for the brave reminds me of when I was a junior in high school (2012), because it was basically the first fragrance my parents ever bought for me as a birthday gift.

That year I was heeeeaaavvyyy into the SoCal garage/surf rock revival that was happening, and it just reminds me of summers for those next two years going to shows all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLunfUt3ynM&list=RDKLunfUt3ynM&start_radio=1

I still have a bottle but it's looooooong since expired, still smells kinda nice. Maybe I'll refresh it

>>18714962
Steamed Rainbow is a greeny citrus scent first and petrichor second. More bow than rain

>>18715230
>Diesel
holy shit i had a buddy with a bottle of that shit in his car in hs back in like 2009

>>18715252
It was a good fragrance back then!!!! I would take it to school in my cheap tote bag for after gym class. After like 4-5 months it broke one period, so I just carried it around that soaked tote for the rest of the school year like a Catholic censer.

>>18715189
That was me, I was just going to suggest the same to >>18715148

And as a follow up to >>18715148 if you’re genuinely curious enough to put in the work, look up an article titled “Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books” published in Anal. Chem. 2009

>>18715276
You’re a treasure anon, this is the kind of nerd shit I want to read so I can have a deeper understanding

>>18713936
I have always found opus 14 to be somewhat unimaginative. Despite of the formula, which boasts over 80+ materials, most of which are relatively generic, with the sotolone, although quite modestly dosed at 0.1% percent doing most of the work. I have always found the style of Zarokian somewhat unusual, as some of the best fragrances have very brief formulas, with perfumers like Ellena restricting themselves to about 200 materials. More recently, the darling child of this chatroom, Quentin Bisch, has also declared his intent to remain below 30 materials when Perfuming. Despite usually finding myself drawn to the upper brackets of this range, I find that restricting your organ can yield incredible results if done well

>>18715305
People here like Quentin Bisch?

>>18715306
He rightfully gets shit on for overdosing akigalawood but he does have genuinely good ones too
>Hermann
>Marquis de Sade
>Ganymede & B683
>Le Sel d'Issey
>Decision
>Kenzo Homme
>Purpose
>Marseille
>Iris de Gris
He will never be one of the greats but he has made one of my favorites (Hermann) so he deserves a least a little recognition

>>18715230
My grandfather is almost 90 and still wears Diesel. I literally bought a new bottle for him a month and a half ago.

more like queefin' bitch kek

>>18715295
Thank you Anon. While I thoroughly enjoy the good smells aspect of all this, the chemistry is what pushes it over the edge into really interesting for me.

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>wearing Zoologist fragrances in public

They only work when you know what animal they're trying to capture the essence of. You are literally better off wearing a basic bitch fresh mall frag than any Zoologist offering.

>>18715360
I don't think they actually try to align the profile of the frag with the animal about 80% of the time. There's exceptions, but most just seem to be whatever animal name they hit on a dart board.

>>18715360
lol fuck off imma blast normies with trex all day long

>muh niche but inspired by and named after zoo animals
childish and artistically bankrupt

>>18715360
>wearing fragrances for others
ngmi

>>18715325
Are his Kenzo flankers not akigalabombs?

>>18715394
Yeah but his EdP rendition is not, which is the one most often praised from that line
The guy can blend, someone just has to shake him like a baby and tell him his best frags don't have akigalawood

So… how many of you own a bottle of SECRETIONS MAGNIFIQUES

>>18713959
meme isn't going to catch on, very low izzat meme

just blind ordered l’orpheline. was it a mistake? not too expensive, i found a 50 ml tester

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SOTD: Al-Rehab Lord

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>>18713942
>>18713959
You know who else love aquatics? Indians.

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>>18715230
That is one of the ugliest bottles I've ever seen

>>18715325
>no mention of imperial boys
ngmi
also the main issue with him is that he is a whore who puts out 9001 frags a year (just like Morillas desu)

>>18715360
>t. noselet

can you recommend some perfumes with proeminent vetiver notes. other than the well known ones like guerlain or grey vetiver

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>>18715577
PdE Vetiver Bourbon

>>18715577
Sultan Vetiver (very naturalistic)
Vetiver Java (naturalistic)
Vetiver Extraordinaire (mineral)
Vetiver Moloko (soft and somewhat creamy)
Original Vetiver (citrusy and zingy)
Sycomore EDP (clean and flowery)
Encre Noire (clean and woody)

>>18715508
Al-Rehab more like Al-Retard.

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Evening lads, favourite Meo Fusciuni fragrances?

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>SOTD: Terre d’Hermes Pure Parfum
I daresay it’s better than the original. Just

This weeks rotation
>L’eau D’issey Pour Homme Intense
>Beach Hut Man
>Oud Ispahan
>some blend of designers some seller gave me with an order, worst thing I have ever smelled in my life.
>Another 13

>>18715453
Imagine smelling like cum

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What is the worst citrus note and why is it grapefruit?

>>18715612
Passionfruit is right there

>>18715612
imagine having an olfactory system this shit

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>>18715594
You better take that back

>>18715611
Secretions smells like clean pretty girl spit
>>18715613
Passionfruit is a citrus?

>>18715613
Passionfruit is a citrus fruit?

>>18715616
>Secretions smells like clean pretty girl spit
based

>>18715612
all citrus scents are goated so this is just a silly question

>>18715606
Who is Meo Fuscini anyway? I Googled the name once to see what the guy looked like and it just showed me pictures of Giuseppe.

What's that note that you find in a lot of niche houses that makes a frag smell really luxurious and refined? Basically the "expensive" smell
I know this is a retard-tier question but I have literally no other way of describing it. Might be sandalwood or maybe some very clean oud-like note but I'm not sure

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>>18715619
I tried Bleu de Chanel before and the smell was terrible. The grapefruit note made it smell too sweet for me. That's why I'm an oud guy.

>>18715628
it's cope

>>18715628
What are some examples of fragrances youve smelled that had that note? Might be able to pin point it better.

Off the top of my head, Ambergris usually gives a lot of depth and a velvety kind of scent profile to a frag. It compliments other notes well, without normally being an extremely standout note

>>18715635
this

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>>18715626
Meo Fusciuni is the Italian niche house created by Giuseppe.

I've only tried a few, they're really quite unique, especially the woody ones mixed with green notes, leather, etc (luce, odor 93 and sogni) . Got a sample of Spirito also, which is really well made but not my cup of tea personally (almost a menthol-y kind of sharp freshness).

Curious about Varanasi in particular too, which is apparently incredibly pungent, animalic, etc.

>>18715637
I think it might've been sandalwood because I think I got it from TF Santal Blush, Creed Royal Oud, and from most of the SHL frags

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Fragrance with this smell?

>>18715628
Probably the musk

>>18715628
for chanel it's probably (synthetic) civet and/or aldehydes
depends on the frags ofc

>>18715655
TF Mandarino di Amalfi reminds me of mint toothpaste

>>18715628
ambergris 100%
It’s unlisted for some reason

>>18715577
TdH EdT

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>sotd: Franck Boclet Geranium
airy, powdery geranium, perfect for cooler summer days

Wearing something underneath the clothes, does it make any difference? I have an oud vanilla fragrance but I find it way too strong on exposed skin and I don’t want to bother others but im not waiting for winter to wear it…

>>18715655
see>>18715011

>>18715827
vanilla is usually pretty safe, just go easy on the sprays

>>18715658
Is MFK musk well done?

>>18715856
I only detect clean musks from that house. 724 is great, smells like a fresh laundry being ironed in a white marble room

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Another arrival. This completes my order from PdE (thanks Joma, it only took like 8 God damn weeks).

Are there gourmands or just heavy projecting frags that are good for summer?

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SOTD
Love this fragrantica feature

>>18715890
I really like Oud Wood but the performance is just not justifiable at that price point

>>18715897
True. I bought mine in 2019 and I still have 25% left. It’s 30ml. Tbh i only like the spicy cardamom oud combo opening, it’s soothing to me so I use it as night fragrance since I don’t go out that much at night nor go to dates.

>>18715628
I think it's more of a combination of different things rather than a single note.
>>18715827
Try smelling something, then put a shirt over it and then smell it again.
That's the difference, give or take.

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Can a dude rock this without seeming weird?
like Shalimar or something

>>18715979
You can wear it but I would look at other alternatives first. There are many powdery iris or heliotrope fragrances that might be a bit more masculine. I wear Dans Tre Bras and it's awesome. If you don't find anything that makes it redundant, I say go for it.

>>18715988
Thanks, Dans Tre Bras is what i'm looking for. I smelled Omnia in a mall and although it's feminine I think I could get a sample to lightly freshen up my undershirt in the closet.I love some clean soapy stuff.

>>18715883
gigabased

>>18715577
Cowboy Grass by DS & Durga

>>18715888
I think the popular LV fragrances are known for their strong performance and heat suitability. Imagination, Afternoon Swim, Pacific Chill, stuff like that. The less ambery/warm spicy Amouages would be good as well. Reflection, Beach Hut, Sunshine, Bracken. Idk anything about gourmands.

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>purchase a chanel product
>they send me a sample of sycamore
>still no way to buy samples from them for anything despite them clearly making them
fuck you chanel i know youre holding out on me

>>18715888
I got Jungle Vibes by Rayhaan and that thing is a beast even if you sweat it still lingers and smells really nice, kind of like a green Fico Di Amalfi.

>>18716004
Do your best to test Dans Tre Bras fully. It's a love it or hate it thing and while I do love it I think some people might not handle it. The composition is based on overdosing ingredients which makes it quite deceptive. Every time I wear it I get a different facet of it based on how I wear it. Just sprayed a little on my arm and it's been too long, good stuff.

I think serge lutens fleur d'oranger might be my endgame floral. I always thought I wanted more jasmine but when the orange blossom is this buttery I'm happy with it.

Day five of wearing Avignon. I have started to notice that my sweat is turning into wine.

>>18715368
people overstate how weird T-Rex is, how much of its weirdness projects out to others, and how much anybody else can notice it
go nuts. you're deluding yourself more if you think you're going to offend anybody

>>18716142
yep, just another retard falling for marketing

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All you faggots need to get on you're knees.

That includes the bitch boy kouros in the back too.

Noselets can't fathom. Keep recommending slop.

>>18716142
>>18716144
I had always thought of T-Rex as just another loud, bombastic fragrance like Tonnerre, not weird.

>>18716168
I’m disappointed. I was expecting Most Masculine by Fragrance One.

>>18716168
>he does it for free

Are the scents Imaginary Authors makes good?
I'm probably gonna get their complete works sample set but I figure some of you would have thoughts on whether they're just clever branding or actually good fragrances.

>>18716174
maybe he does, maybe i don't
i guess we'll never know

>>18716176
probably not, imo they are a cringe version of ELDO and MM memory in a fragrance

>SOTD: Parfum d'Empire Vetiver Bourbon
it's great, you should buy it

>>18716176
They get shit on a lot here. I agree there are definitely better brands out there, but they don't completely deserve the hate they get here. Unfortunately they’ve recently discontinued a couple of their more unconventional fragrances that were unique/interesting. (e.g. The Cobra and the Canary)

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>>18716174
Not an Ad, just an appreciation for true perfumery.

>>18716177
I already bought it but its been in transit for 1 whole fucking month. I'm thinking of cop'ing Cuir Ottoman next. Wouldn't bother with the rest except possibly Yuzu for the summer.

Azemour is an old man frag, would probably rock it when i'm 50+

>>18715979
>Iris
Yuck

>>18715890
>synthetic oud
Shiggy diggy

SOTD: Al-Haramain Amber Oud White Edition

Why are you fags not just using AI to develop your own one-of-a-kind TRULY signature scents?

>>18716255
Cuz i did mine when I was 6
Sucks to be a genius with supportive parents

What are the absolute most nuclear fragrances that are still wearable and not weird?

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Boys, it has arrived.

>>18716271
tf does that mean nigga
you want to smell like fission products or some shit tf

>>18716274
nice
how is it?

>>18716176
>>18716178
It's just me, I was disappointed in the complete works. If you're hellbent on throwing you money in the trash at least order samples for their most popular scents, not the complete works. They have a lot of duds. Very few people own them, most of the reviews come from influencers who got the samples for free. The owner and perfumer is a dirty jew. I wasted $120 that I could have spent on literally anything else thinking I would at least like one of them. I hate jews.

>>18716274
The name alone makes me want to blind buy it
Is it animalic like the other Bianchi frags or is it really amber-centric? I like really like amber in frags like ACDD

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>>18714735
some comments after wearing for a few days:
GOATED
it's actually insane how close my previous (now discontinued) frag (picrel) was to this, which has been all i've worn for the past 6-7 years
top notes of my old trusty Black Linen was a bit more "fresh, crispy grapefruit/bergamot" compared to TdH's more "dusky orange" but the dry down was basically exactly the same, like fully indistinguishable to my nose
based TdH poster for recommending a perfect replacement
TdH also lasts way longer (due to a combination of my last bottle of Black Linen being several years old and the fact that one spray of TdH feels like 1.5-2x the amount)
a single spritz on the chest or neck lasts all day

>>18716274
Are you Russian?

>>18716285
cheers, fren
glad we could help

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>>18716286
Дa
>>18716276
Incredible -- went through my sample and ended up ordering a full bottle. It has that enveloping, rich balsamic amber at the forefront. Think a more pungent Chanel Le Lion.
>>18716282
The ambergris definitely gives it that animalic kind of depth, but otherwise it's amber forward. It feels like a rich, basal, and naturalistic amber. Like the kind you'd find in a fragrant oil from 600AD. I've got Ambre Sultan and enjoy it too, but it's dryer, more lowkey and nowhere near as potent as Bianchis

>>18716294
I see, thanks. I think I'll order the essentials sample set.

>>18716271
>le nuclear fragrances
Go back to whatever swarthy hole you crawled out of

>SOTD MFK Oud Extrait
This has been growing on me a lot. Its smooth and rich but not heavy. It has a chocolately patchouli which works beautifully with the oud and vanilla. Very versatile and unlikely to go sour in high heat. Obviously will excel in cooler weather but very suitable for mild summer weather or nights. I am really starting to appreciate this Kurkdjian nigga

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Blind bought this. Only ever worn EdT but trying EdP now. Did I fuck up?

>>18716359
Nope. The Intense is fantastic and if you like the EDT you’ll be reaching for the intense a lot.

>>18716271
>nuclear fragrances
bro wants to smell like elephant toes and exposed graphite

>>18716271
Kerosene Followed
Orto Parisi frags especially Megamare and Bergamask
Bois Imperial Extrait
The MFK extraits especially BR540 and Oud Satin Mood
Arabians Tonka
Red Tobacco
Most of the LV ouds and Ambre Levant
As far as designers go the strongest frags I've tried so far (10+ hours of longevity and decent to excellent projection) have been Le Male Elixir and Sauvage Elixir. Paradise Garden is also up there

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>>18716357
>mild summer weather or nights
The biggest tragedy in perfumery is that thicker, deeper scent profiles (ouds, ambers, sandalwood, warm spicy, boozy or gourmand fragrances) are objectively much more interesting and pleasant than any "freshie" yet they are unwearable above 25°C.

>>18716388
>they are unwearable above 25°C.
skill issue

>>18716388
The problem isn't the nature of fragrance but the market itself. When you make a heavy winter fragrance you can be specific and focused. Freshies have to be mass appealing, lasting, and suitable for all occasions. There are freshies that are quite interesting, Mugler Cologne, cologne Bigarade, Gucci PH2. I could keep going but most are discontinued.

>>18716394
What do you mean?
>>18716395
Even then I have never found a fresh fragrance (citrus-focused or marine, or just a "light" scent profile) that I would prefer wearing to something more heavy.

Does a good summer fragrance exist with sandalwood? Those I find are more for autumn/winter. I really enjoy the smell.

>>18716396
>What do you mean?
you can wear most of those in high heat if you're not a retard about it
except for gourmand frags, you should never wear those

>>18716403
jazz club, vanille havane, tobacco honey, sundowner, vanilla diorama, tobacolor and many others are objectively excellent
hating on gourmands to fit in is the mark of a noselet midwit

>>18716388
Gourmands and sweet scents maybe, but resins and ouds can be fine in the heat. Wide spectrum resin extracts are naturally very airy (think amouage frankincense or the frankincense in New Look) and expand in heat rather than getting heavy. Certain woods especially conifers behave similarly. Cheaper materials like synthetic superamber ouds and amber woods will get sour, and ethyl maltol will also get heavy. Get your pockets up and buy better fragrances if you want to wear those profiles in the summer.
Also there are lots of interesting and pleasing fresh scents for summer. Beach Hut, Oceania, Ege, Search, and even some designers like AdG EDP and AHS (EE, superleggera) are good too. >>18716397
Santal 33 is fine in the summer but its greener than the typical sandalwoods you’d find in something like samsara or egoiste. Also the pickle thing.

>>18716388
I stopped caring about wearing by seasons after I encountered an Italian gent wearing a loud tobacco fragrance in a hot summer night

>>18716409
>resins and ouds
Are you including ambery labdanum scent profiles in this, like Grand Soir for example?
>Get your pockets up and buy better fragrances
Any suggestions on places to start and branch out? Once I find the perfect ambery, oud or tobacco frag I can wear year-round, my search will be over
>there are lots of interesting and pleasing fresh scents for summer
I didn't say they were bad, just that I'd rather wear something else 100% of the time if possible. Only fresh scent profile I genuinely enjoy is Green Irish Tweed but it performs like ass

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Holy shit

>>18716413
I haven't tried grand soir but going by the name it’s probably better suited for mild heat ie nights.
I would suggest sampling Amouage or other high end middle eastern brands. Widian, Arabian Oud, Omanluxury, and Ajmal would be where I would start. Ormonde Jayne also has some stuff like Montabaco which might be up your alley. I have only personally tried Amouage out of all of those. I haven’t looked for an all season bottle from them but I do have samples of Memoir and Journey en route which seem to be more seasonally versatile. I’ll post reviews here once they arrive.

>>18716423
Montabaco Intensivo is really nice actually, too fresh for me but I appreciate the quality.

Would you wear ACDD in the blistering summer heat
I'm thinking of saying fuck it, it has desert in the name after all

>>18716406
>noselet midwit
no u
also Sundowner is great but not a gourmand

>>18716420
>shit
yes
>holy
lol, lmao even

>>18716434
yes

>>18716423
Grand Soir is nice but you can’t pull it off while having active 4chan tab in your browser

>>18716420
>Company doesn't have a website and it's a Arabslop
How did you even find this.

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>arab slop
>no website
>how did you even find this?

>>18716439
>Grand Soir
i don't get the hype - i gave it multiple wears and to my nose it's the most boring amber vanilla frag ever
>you can’t pull it off while having active 4chan tab in your browser
kek but this is probably not it

>>18716448
I am genuinely curious how he found it. There's a billion Arab slop designers, but most of them have the good sense to have a site. These guys have a grand total of eight frags, no website, no social media, they don't sell directly from what I can tell. So, how?

>>18716452
he is probably an arab and saw it a local slop store

>>18716453
Probably, but given the fairly low price point I would be interested in testing it. It seems like it would suck ass in heat, but it also has a lot of fresh, citrus and aquatic notes in it. This could be surprise (relative) cheapie. I'd be suspect of what's in the bottle, but still.

Anyone ever tried anything from Phronema perfumes?

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Which notes usually create an experience of cosiness and enveloping warmth? Which notes do you personally find comforting

>>18716470
Vanilla, Iris, Cashmere, Suede, Labdanum, Sandalwood, Cinnamon