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This thread is about how you're smelling. Perfume or cologne. Sorry if there's already a scent thread, I couldn't find it.
Here's my main rotation, I've got Valentino, D&G, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Dsquared2 Wood, Guerlain.
Smaller ones are Comptoir sud pacifique (rum & tobacco), alkemia (honey & smoke), Angel men (tonka bean), Olympic orchids(cut wood), Burberry, Kenzo, goldfield&banks (desert rosewood)
Etc...
What scents fit your aesthetic?
Statistics: Posted by soundclip989 — Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:22 pm
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it's stupid good, i think i'm going to pick it up as a winter scent when it releases. it has a pleasant hinoki/japanese cypress base with frankincense + vetiver notes. it has weak sillage like most of aesops other fragrances, which i personally like.
even compared to the monocle 01 i think i prefer this, as far as woody/earthy scents go. it's has less of that "synthy" aroma that monocle 01 has
Statistics: Posted by fun_yunchables — Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:30 pm
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the smell of oud has been hot lately (oud + rose in particular is a v popular combo).
when beetles and mould invade the outer wood of the trunks of aquilaria trees, they produce a thick dark resin in response. the wood of the infected area becomes saturated with this fragrant resin; as the tree grows older, the wood becomes darker, denser, more bitter and more resinous. the best oud comes from trees over a hundred years old, but not all old trees produce oud wood, and an entire tree may only produce a little oud wood.
in this video, al-Woozain explores oud's journey from infected tree to incense censer. he visits the storeroom of an oud seller in qatar, a perfume maker in a french town famous for flower fields, a man who travels the world to find the finest oud, an agarwood plantation in thailand, a temple with a 200 year old tree, the funeral of a ranger killed by oud smugglers, an orang asli man in a malaysian forest.
this video well worth watching! i really enjoyed it
most commercial perfumes use synthetic oud-ish blends or oud from aquilaria plantations. proper old oud is vvvvvv rare and vvvvvvv expensive.
i think uses oud from SE asian agarwood plantations. it's been a while since i've smelt it but from what i remember wonderoud is very much like wonderwood, a little more bitter and smooth but I can't really remember more. both start as peppery spare woods with a little green; they're dry and clear without being harsh.
i really enjoyed tom ford's . I managed to get a free 4ml sample that I haven't used much of. at the beginning, a rich thick rose on the edge of rotting. it overflows with a sort of resinous sweetness and quiets down to a warm amber-ish wood with a little bitterness. it's lovely but not really a scent for me so i'd be happy to send/trade(!!) the sample if anyone would like it. tom ford uses synthetic ouds. some other ouds he's done are and but i wasn't concentrating when i smelt them so i can't remember much about them. mad expensive all of them.
some other rose+oud i have smelt:
diptyque - pei described it above!
armani prive - there's a rich and thick vanilla/amber element; the vanilla/amber/oud current is stronger than the rose i feel. a very dense sort of scent
juliette has a gun- i don't really remember anything specific about this. i think it was quite pleasant in a tame sort of way
some other ouds
le labo - a musky earthy kind of oud that opens with a sour sharpness. a wood wrapped in latex and sweat.
byredo - a cold oud with a lemonade-y opening. what the fuck?? (i really do not like citrus smells). have not generally been keen on byredo's perfumes.
- a sweetish powdery iris, young green berries and oud of a sort. can get cloying. not really my taste.
Statistics: Posted by blanket — Sat Aug 26, 2017 7:00 am
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It's supposed to smell like a garden in the city. I get a generic green scent at the opening, but I also get walloped by a wave of wet concrete. A lot of summer scent smell clean. Well this has an astringent note, but less like hand soap and more like petrochemicals. I tend to dislike a lot of the fresh, beachy, or floral scents that are popular during warm weather and this is an interesting twist on the typical summer scent. I get the mixed reviews on this one, I'd recommend trying before you buy. I liked it well enough to buy a full bottle.
I've also enjoyed
This one is a dry rose scent. It's fairly linear but puts on a solid performance. I definitely pick up the almond notes, as well as the patchouli and vanilla. It feels light but full-bodied without becoming cloying, which I've found is the downfall of many rose scents. This has the same dusty note I pick up in every Tauer scent. Not sure I'd buy a bottle of it, but I've enjoyed my sample this summer.
Last one I'm going to talk about is
I was recommended this fragrance when I was trying to find a scent that smells like petrichor, and the opening note is perfect. The first whiff of this smells exactly like wet earth and decaying plant matter. This very quickly becomes a soft, earthy aquatic scent. I wouldn't typically think of it as a summer scent, but it's such a light scent that it kind of works. I wish more of the earthy funk from the opening lasted longer, but this is still a good one. Not sure if I'd a buy a bottle of it, not sure I'd wear it often enough to make sense.
Statistics: Posted by dakaf_fal — Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:52 pm
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anyhoo,
this summer is the summer of me playing around with woody and resinous scents also they're super fucking hot i wish i hadn't slept on them earlier!!!!!!!!
i've been a loyal fan of spritzing ever since it got released like late 2014 on warmer days. it surprisingly holds up pretty well in the cold too depending on how cute i feel.
however, i've been finding myself to spray more on me on hotter days and nights? strangely enough it works super duper well (at least on me), and it gives off this very sexy mysterious aura and jizz (that i need to supplement my lack of va-va-voom for). i feel fragrantica does a p nice job of describing the notes, plus a various amount of reviews from more-trained noses than mine, but i'd say that it goes on the reeeeeaaaal 'animalistic' side of things. i guess it's very adventurous and borderline voyeuristic to wear this at day in the summer :^)
overall like tbh i feel very powerful and attractive while wearing this, this is the kind of scent that if you go on a date with someone wearing this, you'd probably want to see more of them or something. it's dirty, it's flirty, it's to the point, it's mysterious, it's a god damn aphrodisiac and
i'm also sad about not seeing in stores/in stock -- i'm guessing they're discontinuing/have discontinued it? i've been using this a fair bunch for a minute until i realized i can't get more of it so i just went full 'fuck it' mode and switched to oud palao. it feels very cute, sweet, a bit lighter, and despite the verdict on fragrantica i think it's a perfect year-long scent. i got this in the EDP version and want to pick this up in the EDT one cause i heard it's more potent n i want longevity, if i ever do come across it again (and got the $$$ for it).
Statistics: Posted by shar pei — Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:56 am
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this is one of the juiciest scents i've ever smelled. it smells exactly like a freshly picked rhubarb stalk that you've taken and cracked and twisted between your hands and stuffed into a bag. it's so crisp and tart. it doesn't have a ton of longevity which I honestly don't mind. scents that last a while kind of exhaust me. good for daily wear at work imo.
another scent that I've been very into is mancera lemon line
this starts off with a huge kapow of lemon and citrus that is sooo intoxicating. mellows out to a very pleasant lavender and kind of musky. my coworker smelled this on me (woops, shouldn't have worn this to work) and demanded to know what I was wearing and then went and immediately ordered a sample. more appropriate for going out / dates, I suppose. It also lasts FOREVER. I'll still be able to smell it after I wake up the next day and a tshirt that I sprayed directly still smells like the base notes after washing it twice. wearing this makes me feel so confident. B)
Statistics: Posted by jrisk — Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:42 am
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i would recommend the room spray, but emphasize trying to get it at japan msrp or a secondhand price. probably not worth any markup or the proxy price, but n.b. i may also not place as much value into these type of things as others. i have seen them occasionally available on grailed/ebay so hopefully that option is there.
no. 1 is the best. it's been years since i tried them all but i remember thinking it was the runaway favorite.
Statistics: Posted by tttigre — Thu May 11, 2017 11:47 am
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Would you recommend the Visvim room spray? I've heard that No. 1 is considered the best, but I've never seen it in store to test it and I hate to blind buy fragrances. On the other hand, I like all things Visvim and niche fragrances and bougie home goods, so I feel like I'm the target audience for this.
Statistics: Posted by dakaf_fal — Wed May 10, 2017 6:46 pm
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aesop spray deodorant
recently i've reached peak booj and now i'm a big aesop fan. hand soap, lotion, conditioner, body wash, deodorant. it's a whole thing. it all smells really good.
this deodorant initially surprised me because it isn't also an antiperspirant, which is something i should have realized. in my opinion, that makes it a little more like your run of the mill cologne, because it's essentially spray-on fragrance. the fragrance itself is also fairly complex and does not have that chemical-freshness smell that most deodorants have, but smells quite organic and natural. i think the one i've got is coriander seed and vetiver root, so you smell like that. to me, it's a quite unobtrusive and emotional scent, which is not necessarily evocative of typical 'freshness' or 'cleanliness' but rather of nature, or being outside in general. it reminds me of that interesting earthiness of the visvim room spray i had (no. 1, FIL). i would consider it unisex.
anyway, i've never been a cologne guy at all but i quite like this stuff, and i see it thusly as "cologne-sort-of-thing-for-people-who-don't-want-cologne". to me, it helps me smell not like typical deodorant, but also doesn't make me smell too much like anything else. make sure to pair it with fragrance-less antiperspirant.
@Ques i also initially thought that but i turned out to be misguided. maybe i'm just a sweatier than average fellow but it turned out sweat can definitely pierce deodorant
Statistics: Posted by tttigre — Wed May 10, 2017 3:02 pm
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The opening makes me gag, it's an overpoweringly powdery lavender. It smells very traditional and very feminine, like something your grandmother might wear. There's also an underlying 'fresh' scent which smells sort of like dryer sheets. Or maybe a Yankee Candle Co. candle with a name like mountain breeze or fresh linen or cool water.
Things begin to get a little more interesting in the drydown. The lavender is still there, but there's also a distinct odor of ozone and burning electrical components. I've never smelled burning dryer sheets, but this is how I'd imagine they would smell. This makes me very uneasy, I keep catching whiffs of it throughout the day and have to repeatedly remind myself that nothing is on fire. I also think the fresh lavender opening has much more projection than the burning smell, which is pretty interesting. I like the idea that other people smell flowers while I'm smelling melting fuses.
Eventually the burning smell subsides. There's still hints of the fresh scent from the opening, but it's a sterile cleanliness. It smells ashen and cold, like a fire that's long since gone out.
While this is a truly impressive fragrance, I don't find it very wearable. It is in no way soothing, rather it's exhausting to wear since it demands your attention. I might use it again on occasion because I enjoy smelling weird, but this could never be a daily scent. Still, I would recommend it to anyone who likes experimental scents or wants some serious lifestyle synergy with their cyberpunk fits.
Statistics: Posted by dakaf_fal — Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:40 pm
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