i found an al haramain la'venture fragrance behind the counter at CVS of all places. they are infiltrating your local drugstore

Where’s a good site to order some fragrances? I’ve looked at FragranceX and purchased before but the one I want is out of stock. Any hidden gems yall for REAL fragrances?

I am not knowledgeable at all when it comes to fragrances and cosmetics but I know there’s a huge chunk of people on the internet who are like walking encyclopedias when it comes to this stuff so I decided to check here. I own a candle and a lotion that are pear scented and I absolutely love them. I’m looking for something that is airy, warm, fruity and not too potent. Any and all recommendations are appreciated<3

Azzaro The Most Wanted Parfum

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The reviews are bad. Most likely fake but do people actually buy it?

what to expect? blind bought , love vanilla fragrances, not a huge fan of lemon though

Good day next month me and my family will be going to Manila. I would like to know if you have any good perfume shops in mind? Also it would be nice to know the location. Thank you in advance! 😄

I recently bought a blue de chanel parfum from a pretty well known discount fragrance store in my area for about $160 CAD. Everything checks out, from the bottle, the smell and magnetic cap. The barcode on it is 0301, checking the "checkfresh.ca" website, the production date was 2016. But BDC parfum wasn't launched till 2018?. Could they have sold me a dud? it's also a tester bottle.

This is my collection as of today. I’ve got 2 bottles on the way, Nasomatto Baraonda and Gleam London Espresso Please so they are not pictured. Feel free to ask me anything.

https://imgur.com/a/SyFu9SZ

I went shopping with my wife today to get some ideas for Christmas presents. In a few clothing stores I noticed that a lot of the men's clothes had a very retro 1950s look. Lots of wool, retro designs, earth tones and powder blue, hounds tooth and herringbone patterns, and long jackets. I kinda dig it because I think men's fashion over the last few years has been super sloppy and young men look like 12 year olds.

This made me wonder\hope that some old school fragrances might make a comeback. The obsession with blue "freshie" colognes is worn out IMO, and again, a little immature. Aramis, Dunhill for Men, Fougere Royale, Guerlain Vetiver, Floris No 89, Caron Pour Un Homme, Acque Di Parma, and classic Eau Sauvage would go wonderfully with a some of the styles I saw today. Maybe it's my age showing, but I would like to encourage young men to think more about mature masculine fragrances and styles than club lurker styles and colognes.

Thoughts?

I had one for $20 off $250 that they emailed me, and used it but had to cancel the order because I retried a decant and decided against it. I tried to replace the order, but it wouldn’t let me reuse the coupon. Does anyone have an extra one that they’re not going to use to spare? Please DM it to me if so! Thank you sooo much in advance.

Hi I am 19 and i always wanted to have a great collection and also smell the nicest living man in the world. I dont have that much knowledge about fragrances yet. But I am kind a poor at the moment so having a good collecting had to wait. Name me just one , there should be a one, one king, that smells nicest, and last longest. Thanks.

I’m trading my amber our gold for afnan 9 pm, my bottle is 2.0 is and is 40% full, the afnan is 3.4 oz and is around 80% full. I’m not a fan of my amber oud, it’s too sweet and feminine but the afnan is a bit better in my opinion. Let me know if this is a good trade

I tried on ADG Parfum in-store and it had awesome performance. I don't know if it was the 2023 or 2024 version, but it lasted on my skin for at least 10 hours and I was getting whiffs of it regularly all day.

I picked up my own bottle about a week ago and it's really just terrible performance-wise. Right from the start, it won't last longer than maybe an hour or 2 on my skin and has literally 0 projection. Even immediately after spraying it on, I can't smell it unless I put my nose directly up to where I sprayed it. After the couple hours, I can't find a trace of it on my skin whatsoever. My shirt will retain just a hint of it, though.

I'm not someone who has a whole collection of fragrances or anything and am not willing to let this sit and check back months from now just to see if MAYBE it's better. However, I'm willing to give it a couple weeks if that might give it a chance.

I was under the impression that "higher end" fragrances are good to go out of the box, but maybe I was wrong? Does ADG Parfum usually need to macerate?

For reference, I have the 2024 version with the magnetic cap and its batch is 38XD02L from December, 2023 (I believe).

Hi friends!

I’ll be heading to NYC in a month and I’m definitely going to be getting a full bottle of La Cautiva (currently have a discovery set of this one, Thays, New York (Gabriella Hearst), and Muskara Rosa). Rose is obviously my favorite note lol.

However, I do need something for colder weather, so I’ve narrowed down the following based on the notes:

La Tierra Del Royo

La Patagonia

Los Humos Sagrados

Malabrigo

Halo Lunar

Don Giovanni

Darwin

Chamber

Anyone have these? I need something woody/earthy/mossy - I want to smell like a wet old growth forest lol

LL was my signature for a long time. I still have bottles but it won't last forever. So I'm looking for something else. So far my favorite is Serge Lutens fils de Joie. Penhaligon's Bewitching yasmine is nice too but not for everyday. I've bought a few samples of things that look interesting,but I'm curious what others gravitated too.

I’m curious about these lines but never tried anything from them.

I tend to like woody/smoke/incense/fresh/ dry / citrus /green and aromatic fragrances . Some of my favorite fragrances are LV L’Immensite , ELDO Hermann, CDG Black and Floriental and Kyoto , MAB Ganymede, Diptyque Tempo, Baie 19 and Aventus .

Based on what I like , what would be some good stuff to try from these lines ? Thanks

One would say that is makes the scent last longer, others would say it makes it last less and makes the smell worse. I have been storing my fragrances in my mini fridge for a short while, but took them out a weekish ago. Does it really impact the scent? And the longevity and what not?

just recently I've bought my first niche Frangrance and it was naxos my friend had it and said it was really good so i blind bought and xeroff made me realize the true difference between a genuinely niche fragance and not just some dupe clone.

for example i have kismet magic and its pretty similar to angel share although iv never smelled it but it gives me an idea of what angel share would be like.

ig the point im trying make is i just want a cologne that has that quality as naxos but is a more summer fresh maybe something like pdm greenly ive heard is good but i just might buy Torino 21 atp i just want something sexy daily niche basically if yall know any lmk

Hi ! My mom told me about Dior poison and today I brought her a paper on which I sprayed the dark green bottle called Dior Poison. She got emotional because it was the smell she remembered from the time she met my dad. BUT she swears the bottle was kind of a prune color. I want to surprise her with a bottle but tell me, what’s the original ? Which one is the true poison by Dior from her days ?

Mine are Le Male Elixir, Spicebomb Extreme and SWY Intensely. (Pretty mainstream IK, but sooo good)

When I first started getting into fragrances, my first instinctual reaction was:

Who in their right mind would ever spend more than $200 on a fragrance??? And definitely not $400+ like on Creed - it must be the ultra rich or people stupid with their money!

Then I read a lot of reviews, watched a lot of videos, and kept looking - and everyone continued to say things that affirmed my belief here: Creed is overpriced and overrated, the performance sucks, it's been reformulated, etc. I collected others, and as my interests grew, I started to get into niche... and started to spend more money. But only on the big performers - the Xerjoffs, the Nishanes.

But then I walked into a Saks one day and tried the Creed fragrances. And my god, were they nice on my skin. Aventus Cologne and Virgin Island Water in particular... the effervescent quality, the sparkle that they have. They were so smoothly blended, appealing, and incredible. And the performance? Pretty damn good! 8-10 hours easily, of which ~3 are projecting. Is that amazing? It's good enough for me - sometimes I don't want to be filling an entire room.

I've purchased bottles of those two now, and I guess my only piece of advice for this group is: try things out! Don't just listen to reviews online or buy into the groupthink. Try things out yourself.

EDIT: YES I MEAN 180 ON CREED

Heard a lot of good stuff about it. Can anyone tell me about the longevity? I heard it’s somewhere in between Dior sauvage elixir and Dior Homme intense? I’m not able to test it rn please tell me all you know.

I received my bottle from The Perfume Spot, and it has a white atomizer nozzle (which at least on the earliest release bottles was dark blue) and a sticker batch code (which on the earliest release bottles was built into the bottle). Anyone else have this newer bottle and know if the scent is different than the earliest release bottles from ~2020?

They have some decent sales right now and I just wanted to know if they're authentic or.... Too good to be true. Cheers y'all.

Anyone try em? I see ads all the time but a single review on Youtube.

I just got a little sample size of Bull's Blood from Imaginary Authors, and I find myself weirdly in love with it. Like, the day after I tried it, I noticed the smell lingered on my coat and I had a craving to go put it on again so I could smell it.

It is, however, a very controversial fragrance. One of my friends expressed an explicit dislike for it, saying that the sweetness of it was cloying. One teeny tiny little spray is enough for a strong smell, and it has a pretty big sillage and lasts a very long time. It also seems to disperse in the air, so the scent lingers in my bathroom and even in my living room where I was sitting on the couch right after putting it on.

Curious how other people think about scents they like vs. what other people like. For some reason having an unlikeable scent seems extra stigmatized as a man, maybe because it's less common for us to wear any scent at all. I want a scent I love, but I also don't want people to be wrinkling their noses as I walk by.

I've noticed that on IG especially, there are several brands like Borntostandout, Bohoboco, and Thomas Kosmala get way more traction than other brands that are of similar or even superior quality. What do you think makes certain brands more prone to virality?

Hi All! I recently purchased Commodity's Exploration Kit, where they provide samples of every perfume they sell for $46 USD. You get 18 2ml sample sizes, featuring all six scents and all three strength variations offered. The strength variations have different notes from each other as well! Here are my thoughts (of course, very heavily opinion based) after only blotting the perfume on paper so you can get my initial thoughts and scent notes!

Paper:

• Expressive: Androgynous, clean, fresh out of the shower and soapy.
• Personal: Clean skin and soap, but less androgynous and more peppery notes. This feels like Glossier You's cool older sister.
• Bold: Fresh washed blankets on a cold day, something nostalgic and milky without being truly sweet. Warmer than expressive and personal.

Milk

• Expressive: Clean vanilla. Milky, warm, and sultry without being sugary. Think Billie Eilish No. 1 without such a heavy buttercream note.
• Personal: Very similar to expressive, but with musk and skin notes that make the perfume more subtle overall.
• Bold: To me, this is just a VERY strong version of expressive. Same notes, if there was any difference I may say that it pulls slightly sweeter.

Gold

• Expressive: This is the warm, sugary vanilla perfume that Milk is not. Less creamy notes and more of a traditional vanilla. It is still less in your face and overpowering than something like Warm Vanilla Sugar at Bath and Body Works.
• Personal: Still vanilla based, but with a focus on a powdery note instead of being so sweet. Less interesting and complex than some of their other scents.
• Bold: This does not smell at all like its two counterparts. Gold Bold is sharp, artificial, and reminds me of something clinical. This is the only perfume out of the entire set that I feel does not accompany the counterparts well.

Juice:

• Expressive: This is the summer perfume of my dreams! Strawberry focused, mango notes. Very fruit focused versus sweet focused, reminds me of passing fruit at a farmer's market on a warm day instead of focusing on sugar and sweet notes. Super fresh as well.
• Personal: Personal is fairly similar to expressive, but with a less intense scent and added light floral notes.
• Bold: Overripe fruit at the end of a season, strawberries that have turned dark red and are juicy. Light floral notes mixed with a fruity bubble gum that reminds you of the end of summer. Bold is like a blend of expressive and personal.

Moss:

• Expressive: Aquatic, cool, refreshing, masculine. Smells earthy, peppery, and like rain followed by sunshine.
• Personal: Citrus, clean, aquatic. A more toned down reminder of Dolce and Gabanna's Light Blue Italian Love.
• Bold: Rainforest, heavily floral, smells a lot like typical "spring" air fresheners. This doesn't make it entirely unpleasant, but it does remind me more of a candle.

Book:

• Expressive: Woody, old, nostalgic library and something almost sharp and peppery. It also reminds me of the scent of most yoga studios I have been in, and I mean that as a positive. There's something grounding about this scent.
• Personal: A softer version of expressive with an addition of warm, cozy notes like reading a book during an evening in.
• Bold: This is most similar to expressive, but with the addition of a rain and dirt note, almost like something aquatic without stepping on the toes of the old and woody notes.

I hope this is helpful to someone as Commodity makes wonderful scents and I don't seem them talked about a ton! If there is interest in a review of how they wear on the skin I can post that as well!

Anyone know any fragrances that smell exactly like this hand wash? Cheap or expensive, doesn't matter!

t’s a perfume that has received many compliments, and I would like to get another one, but I can’t find it.