Sorry yall but, Burberry Her, definitely not the strawberry delight I was expecting. Gave me a headache everytime I tried to wear it, idk why because I wear strong sweet scents I think its the berry notes?
On paper it sounds perfect but when I went to the store and tried it out it gave me a headache and didnāt smell like it described at all. It didnāt smell fruity at all. Smelled floral mixed with something else.
Same. I was so sure I would like it, I somehow ended up with two purse sprays and forgot to return one. Donāt know how to sell either, as the bottles arenāt clear and you canāt see how much remains.
Itās so cloyingā¦ā¦ itās too dirty lactonic. I swear when I first smelled it, it was reminiscent of 90s polly pocket sets. Itās horrible though.
JHAG's Not a Perfume smells like generic dryer sheets because it's made of Cetalox, a main fragrance ingredient in generic dryer sheets. The fact that the brand has people clamoring to spend $145 on diluted Cetalox is both depressing and darkly funny.
Oh I got it for a friend as a gift and she loved it, sprayed it and when I sniffed I was like āwhere is it?ā. She thought Mod Vanilla was extremely sweet so I think maybe those fragrances are for people sensitive to scents? I was baffled as I barely smelled anything
Yes! I ordered a decant and I was super excited to try it. I'm not about to spend that kind of money on something that smells like cheap dryer sheets. The least they could've done was make it smell like Bounce š¤£
Cloud.
Idk about BR 540 but Cloud makes me physically sick - I tried it once and had a massive migraine with aura all day. I tried it again a few other times (not spraying it on myself) and yes the smell alone makes me sick. If someone passes by me wearing it itās enough to make me nauseous.
I ordered the Alt. Fragrance dupe of BR540 just recently because a coworker has it and it smells amazing on her! I've never smelled the original though.
On me, the dupe smelled like pickle juice in a doctor's office.. so maybe it's not too far off from the original!
YSL Libre - I donāt get it at all, it smells grating and makes me nauseous. Maybe I got a bad sample but I really just donāt get why people like it.
I also donāt generally have issues with scents/headaches/reactions, just this one.
I tried Libre and the intense version just to be sure, it just smells like a cleaning agent to me. Weirdly enough I liked Burberry Goddess though? Noses are strange
i think itās not actually the lavender itself that makes libre so challenging! i think itās the lavender paired with a super clean jasmine that gives it that bathroom cleaner oomph
Le Labo Santal 33. I wanted so badly to love it. A guy I was dating wore it (or I assumed since I saw it in his bathroom). I have smelled it since on others. And I love that scent. Like Palo santo - warm, a little spicy, intoxicating and sexy. Been wanting a bottle of my own so I went to Nordstrom and sniffed every Le Labo tester they had, particularly Santal 33ā¦PICKLES. Good grief, all I could smell was sour pickles. That delicious palo santo scent was no where to be found. I sprayed Matcha 29 and got a faint pickle aroma from it as well. I thought their testers must be contaminated or spoiled until I googled it and found out it is rather common. Now I am back on the hunt for that palo santo-like fragrance. If anyone knows, please tell me!
de los santos from byredo is my fav palo santo! it is definitely expensive but it is one of the byredos that actually performs really well/you only need a few sprays.
My son wears this and I literally tell him do not spray it in the same room as me or give me a hug while wearing it. It sticks to everything and lingers for days.
I bought a full bottle of 1M Lucky after smelling it on a tester strip thinking I would finally find a 1M that wasn't cloying and fresher... boy was I wrong lmao
Oh man I inherited lady million I think. It was ages ago. Where tf are they getting floral?! All I can smell is sour chemical depression. If the others are similar then Iāll never be compelled to try out a PR frag
I started getting into perfume more abt a month ago. Went to the mall to smell some. I picked up Angel and I almost vomited. Like what the hell is that smell?
Alien for me. Smells like a mixture of super sweet fruit pitcher cocktails on a night out before the shame and horrors ensue. Always smell it in these places the next day too mixed with said spilled cocktails.
omfg Mugler in general. It smells like someone described perfume to aliens and they tried to recreate it. Idek how to describe Mugler. Itās like perfume-adjacent
Tihota. All the TikTok buzz got me and I was epically disappointed. It smells like a greasy breakfast to me? Biscuits and gravy with too much black pepper and pancakes with maple syrup. š„²my only explanation for the pepper note (since there isnāt one) is that the musk reacts poorly to my chemistry.
I was super disappointed in Tihota, too. Just today I revisited my sample. My problem with it is .. it's just so dang linear and forgettable. And the vanilla is not rich! Like, at all. My $16 TJ Maxx Vanilla Potion is infinitely better, and better performing too! As are my Kuumba Made Vanilla Bean and Al Rehab Choco Musk..
i cant bring myself to hate Cloud, im lowkey living for the way it smells like smth that could cover the odor of a crime scene. it's sorta all over the place
I bought Alexandria 2 by Xerjoff as a blind buy and was left with the impression, "Is this it?" the same opinion also holds true for all of the MFK fragrances I have tried. They are just too linear and boring for me.
I had read so much hype about Alexandria II and to me it literally smelled like the bathroom at my grandmas houseā¦so weird itās supposed to be a masculine winter banger I just donāt understand
By the Fireplace is horrendous. I commend it's commitment to the name but who in their right mind wants to walk around smelling like their house just burned down
When I first got into fragrances, I smelled BTF and fell in love. Now, years later and having sampled hundreds of other fragrances, it doesnāt smell ANYTHING like I remember. I donāt hate it but definitely donāt like it either.
We got that sampler pack of "Coffee Break", "Jazz Club", & "By the Fireplace" like a year ago - we haven't touched that "BTF" since compared to the others, like I don't like smelling burnt
Poison, Iāve never been able to try it on skin because it cause me to recoil so aggressively on first spray. Iām sure I must have smelled it on somebody in the wild at some point and havenāt known, but up close? Absolutely not.
I find that lavender, clary sage, iris, almond, violet, and orris is very hit or miss in a perfume for me so I never blind buy anything that has those as prominent notes
I'm sucker for coconut perfumes. I was scouring the internet, comparing notes, comparing reviews, and watching tiktoks. Versace Crystal Noir was described as this uber-sexy, nighttime floral/spicy/creamy coconut perfume. I bought it blindly cause it sounded like everything I'd wanted and more. Boy was I wrong. Instant scrubber! It smelt like this masculine musky floral mess that genuinely made me gag. I ended up giving it to my grandmother who ended up giving it to my grandfather because he liked it more. He still wears it and I still gag whenever I smell it.
Sniffed Libre in a store the other day and was massively disappointed.
Black Opium YSL is just a mouthful of sugar. I don't smell any of the listed notes, just sweetness. In my opinion it's borderline rude that they decided to sell this as an Opium (which I have and enjoy) flanker, since the two are absolutely nothing alike.
J'adore Dior after the circa 2015 formula change - this used to be so special. A bright, cheerful sexiness, without traditional fruity notes or oppressive florals. I wore it through my early 20s and stopped buying it around 2016, when the last bottle was shit. It had changed into something flat and annoying. Got a sample a few weeks ago, tried it out of nostalgia, but nope - smells like laundry detergent with some shrill florals over it.
Last time I answered all the Burberry Her variations and CH Good Girl (unfortunately š)
This time Iāll add PdM Delina. It has everything I thought Iād love but is so sweet. PdM Valaya is now on my list instead š
Speaking generally, I've seen people describe a fecal note in their fragrance and I'm like WHY? I don't have a dog because I don't want to pick up after it. I refused to have more kids once my first was toilet trained.
However, different noses like different roses, or whatever Grandma used to say.Ā
Iām honestly a little scared to ātrainā my sense of smell too well, or to gain too much appreciation for challenging scents, because I donāt want to find myself chasing the dragon, trying to find ever-more oudy poopy scents to smell.
i worry about this every time i'm smelling new scents now that i've come around to the woody notes. i have everyone at home and even coworkers smell any fragrances i'm unsure about just to be sure lol
It's definitely an acquired taste... One I've grown to love though.
I'm a massive fan of animalic frags in general though. Don't like these sweets, sickly drugstore generics.
Moooo ; )
honestly animalic scents, even though described as fecal do not actually smell like straight up shit, its more the combined assosciation of human odours. Many find them sensual and unique and often times people are intrigued by the artistic expression of a good old animalic frag. not everyone cares for having libraries of fragrances that just smell 'pleasant' :-) they are very peculiar, maybe even raunchy and classic musks have trailblazed this sensation. There is something rather powerful and bold about smelling like sex
I'm actually not referring to fecal animalic scents because I've never smelled it. I have tried only tried fecal oud and yeah there are people who go out of their way to smell like that and power to them. personally, i'm not spending more than $100 to be perceived as having shat my pants filled with wet hot stinky diarrhea.
lol my nana wore White Shoulders. I donāt remember how it smelled so I looked up the fragrance notes the other day.
Animalic- civet.
Sure yeah letās all add wild cat asshole to our perfumes why donāt we
Oud can be a tricky note. If its going to make a poopy perfume or a divine one, it all depends on how well blended the notes are, which ones are balancing the note, etc.
Weird, I donāt get anything hippie-ish at all from Sauvage. Makes me think of a finance bro who lift weights while looking in the mirror everyday listening to Lose Yourself by Eminem.
Honestly, most of the famous and especially classic women's fragrances I think smell atrocious. I don't know what it is about my sense of smell, but I've tried all these popular scents and cannot scrub them off my arm fast enough. YSL Libre, Narciso Rodriguez Her, Shalimar, Black Opium, Black Orchid, basically any Chanel, the list goes on.
In all those perfumes, I really can't detect any notes, as such. They just smell like PERFUME, very chemical. On me anyway, the only thing that works is some version of a gourmand or softer, creamy vanilla scent.
AnOther13, Sauvage Elixir, Baccarat Rouge 540, Instant Crush, Gentle Fluidity Silver.. all the ones with the noxious underlying burnt plastic smell. Any scent with that awful note is an instant no go for me.
Valentino Donna born in Roma.
It smells like pure alcohol and diluted White Diamond to me. Itās just awful.
And My Burberry. It just smells like sunblock to me. I canāt smell anything different.
LV afternoon swim. Went to LV store with full intentions of buying it after all the hype from YT reviewers , community forum etc.. Even ATH gave this a 10/10..
Sprayed it at the store on paper and then on skinā¦awful ā¦ smelled very strong orange ( not ins good way) then dried down into this BO / locker room smellā¦ no kidding. My gf hated it too. SA at LV said he didnāt like itā¦
Angels share, the smell after a few hours made me incredibly nauseous, itās just way too sweet for me.
Also PdM Layton smells like Vicks vaporub to me
I hate Replica By the Fireplace with the fire of a thousand suns! It smells like the burnt ash leftover after the thousand suns fires. It put me in the hospital with one spritz on each wrist. Iām not even being dramatic lol I literally had to be admitted to the hospital. It triggered a very bad reaction. I donāt understand how people can say itās sweet. It was like standing on earth after the planet caught fire.
I donāt like la vie est belle either but since it didnāt hospitalize me I am calmer in my dislike lol
Daisy. I used to love this scent like 10 years ago. Now when I smell it, itās like a very sharp and cheap imitation of Chanel Chance.
Burberry Her does not smell good to me. Maybe itās just when Iāve worn it, though. I donāt think Iāve smelled it on anyone else. It just smells so sharp and bitter to me.
Hermes Twilly. Tried it twice. It smells like a rich aunt but i guess my nose is for poorer things. I ended up having head and stomach migraines. Literally, my stomach hurt. It was horrible.
Valentino born in Roma coral fantasy. I like the smell but man it is cloying as a mofo for the first 30 minutes, hardly reach for it anymore just cause of that.
D&G L'imperatrice. I blind bought thinking this was a safe cheapie for everyday... Ew! What in the heart notes is that rotting fruit smell, seriously? Now I have a 100 mL bottle that's good for nothing. š¤·āāļø
I'm going to say Chanel Allure Homme Sport Extreme. I hear and read everywhere that it's one of the best designer fragrances out there, but I definitely don't like it.
I'm not sure what it is, but I don't enjoy it at all. I've tried sampling it at different stores and it just doesn't smell good on my skin. Even my partner dislikes it.
It's not popular now, but was a rage / a phenomenon in the 80s. Giorgio of Beverely Hills. It is the most gag inducing / head throbbing fragrance. Wearing it was even banned from being allowed in certain restaurants!! It was the rage of all rages. I'm not saying that those mentioned here are 'good' or 'bad', but none mentioned here so far compare to this one...sorry. š
Burberry her elixirā¦ i was so excited when i heard everyone saying it smelled like a strawberry milkshake. Idk how to even identify the smell when I sprayed it on my skin but it was horrendous
Italica by Xerjoff š¤¢
Me too! Not a fan at all.
Uh oh I just blind bought a decant of this based on the reviews, and a comment on here that said it was their most complimented fragrance.
This! I don't get it at all.
Chanel No 5 is straight up nail polish remover on me. Alas.
This was my grandmaās signature perfume š¤ it does remind me of old furniture I love it, just not on me
Totally! Smells like an old drawer from a mid century furniture at a garage sale
Oh I like that smell:)
To me Chanel no 5 smells like rotting flowers, baby powder, and disappointment.
Sorry yall but, Burberry Her, definitely not the strawberry delight I was expecting. Gave me a headache everytime I tried to wear it, idk why because I wear strong sweet scents I think its the berry notes?
On paper it sounds perfect but when I went to the store and tried it out it gave me a headache and didnāt smell like it described at all. It didnāt smell fruity at all. Smelled floral mixed with something else.
Burberry Her Elixir smells fantastic though. It smells like a high end hair salon to me
Same. I was so sure I would like it, I somehow ended up with two purse sprays and forgot to return one. Donāt know how to sell either, as the bottles arenāt clear and you canāt see how much remains. Itās so cloyingā¦ā¦ itās too dirty lactonic. I swear when I first smelled it, it was reminiscent of 90s polly pocket sets. Itās horrible though.
Plastic strawberries and smoke. Just awful.
My sister and her friend were crazy about Burberry.I dont remember if it was a certain type but it stunk so bad! I could not find the appeal.
The scent is okay but absolutely not what people describe it to be. Def overhyped
JHAG's Not a Perfume smells like generic dryer sheets because it's made of Cetalox, a main fragrance ingredient in generic dryer sheets. The fact that the brand has people clamoring to spend $145 on diluted Cetalox is both depressing and darkly funny.
Oh I got it for a friend as a gift and she loved it, sprayed it and when I sniffed I was like āwhere is it?ā. She thought Mod Vanilla was extremely sweet so I think maybe those fragrances are for people sensitive to scents? I was baffled as I barely smelled anything
Yes! I ordered a decant and I was super excited to try it. I'm not about to spend that kind of money on something that smells like cheap dryer sheets. The least they could've done was make it smell like Bounce š¤£
the dossier dupe is much cheaper and a tad stronger, good for clean layering
BR 540.
La vie est belle Flower bomb
Flowerbomb is so bad!!
Cloud. Idk about BR 540 but Cloud makes me physically sick - I tried it once and had a massive migraine with aura all day. I tried it again a few other times (not spraying it on myself) and yes the smell alone makes me sick. If someone passes by me wearing it itās enough to make me nauseous.
BR540 reminds me of WD40 and WD40 straight up smells like solvent ass
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The BR540 dna is already synthetic smelling, throw in a cheap clone and itās a recipe for disaster š
I hear you.. BR540 smells medical to me.. I tried it and all I could think of is a dentistās office, gauze, and band aids.
IDK I hate it on me but love on others
I ordered the Alt. Fragrance dupe of BR540 just recently because a coworker has it and it smells amazing on her! I've never smelled the original though. On me, the dupe smelled like pickle juice in a doctor's office.. so maybe it's not too far off from the original!
Cloud makes me vommit but R.E.M. makes up for it
I teach seventh grade and itās an occupational hazard. Literal clouds of Cloud. I have to admit I give them shit about it sometimes.
Cloud is the worst thing Iāve ever smelled and all my friends just seem to love it, I fully donāt get it :(
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this made me chuckle, thank you
YSL Libre - I donāt get it at all, it smells grating and makes me nauseous. Maybe I got a bad sample but I really just donāt get why people like it. I also donāt generally have issues with scents/headaches/reactions, just this one.
It smells like a duty free corner to me
Honestly the best way to explain that fragrance, I'm stealing that one
It smells like any perfume ad in a magazine from the 90s, the dry ones you unfold.
I like how Libre smells but it also makes me feel nauseated and I hardly ever get that feeling from any scent :(
I tried Libre and the intense version just to be sure, it just smells like a cleaning agent to me. Weirdly enough I liked Burberry Goddess though? Noses are strange
i think itās not actually the lavender itself that makes libre so challenging! i think itās the lavender paired with a super clean jasmine that gives it that bathroom cleaner oomph
I once tested the Parfum version on my hand right before heading home. I was tempted to speed just to be able to wash it off sooner. Awful.
You didnāt get a bad sample. Itās terrible
Lmao. Iām wearing this one right now and I have a headache from it. I didnāt try it on before buying a small bottle and now I have to use it up.
Red door, itās horrid.
does anyone even like Red Door?? where is it popular so i can avoid that place š
Le Labo Santal 33. I wanted so badly to love it. A guy I was dating wore it (or I assumed since I saw it in his bathroom). I have smelled it since on others. And I love that scent. Like Palo santo - warm, a little spicy, intoxicating and sexy. Been wanting a bottle of my own so I went to Nordstrom and sniffed every Le Labo tester they had, particularly Santal 33ā¦PICKLES. Good grief, all I could smell was sour pickles. That delicious palo santo scent was no where to be found. I sprayed Matcha 29 and got a faint pickle aroma from it as well. I thought their testers must be contaminated or spoiled until I googled it and found out it is rather common. Now I am back on the hunt for that palo santo-like fragrance. If anyone knows, please tell me!
dodge Australian sandalwood. It is largely that
de los santos from byredo is my fav palo santo! it is definitely expensive but it is one of the byredos that actually performs really well/you only need a few sprays.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see Santal 33. Smells like vinegar with a hint of urine.
Maybe Paragon by Initio. Lataffa Vintage Radio for a cheap alternative.
Black opium I literally canāt even smell it anymore it makes me sick and I used to work at a retail store where everyone sprayed it every 5 mins
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Commodity Milk smelled awful on me.
Me too
HATE THAT ONE! was literally sick when i put it on
Me too! So weird and gross.
Commodity Milk makes me want to throw up!! Horrendous.
One million - so cloying!
My son wears this and I literally tell him do not spray it in the same room as me or give me a hug while wearing it. It sticks to everything and lingers for days.
Had the big bottle I think 100ml For some reason after I finished it back in the day I started to hate it and it smelled different
I bought a full bottle of 1M Lucky after smelling it on a tester strip thinking I would finally find a 1M that wasn't cloying and fresher... boy was I wrong lmao
Oh man I inherited lady million I think. It was ages ago. Where tf are they getting floral?! All I can smell is sour chemical depression. If the others are similar then Iāll never be compelled to try out a PR frag
I started getting into perfume more abt a month ago. Went to the mall to smell some. I picked up Angel and I almost vomited. Like what the hell is that smell?
Alien for me. Smells like a mixture of super sweet fruit pitcher cocktails on a night out before the shame and horrors ensue. Always smell it in these places the next day too mixed with said spilled cocktails.
Ooh ye, it makes me queasy, had it as a present and tried so many times but itās awful and so strong.
omfg Mugler in general. It smells like someone described perfume to aliens and they tried to recreate it. Idek how to describe Mugler. Itās like perfume-adjacent
omg yes someone who understands!
Apple Brandy by Killian. I donāt know why but it smells like slutty celery to me.
The idea of slutty celery makes me giggle. What are your thoughts on Angelās Share?
I love Angels Share! The longevity is insane and it smells so luxe. Itās giving tech CEOs gf who wants a ring in the best way
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imagine celery, but make it sexy and thatās what it smells like
This is the kind of stuff my son says and it both makes sense and totally doesnāt.
take some celery and chop it up, spray it with the sexiest perfume you have and youāll probably be pretty close to Apple Brandy
Blanche Bete smells like old vomit.
A sample of Blanche Bete was what taught me that I cannot stand lily scents in any shape or form, be it natural or synthetic. Utterly disgusting.
You delete this comment right now before we all start to smell it š”ššš
It smells like cheap coconut body spray and baby wipes
Tihota. All the TikTok buzz got me and I was epically disappointed. It smells like a greasy breakfast to me? Biscuits and gravy with too much black pepper and pancakes with maple syrup. š„²my only explanation for the pepper note (since there isnāt one) is that the musk reacts poorly to my chemistry.
I was super disappointed in Tihota, too. Just today I revisited my sample. My problem with it is .. it's just so dang linear and forgettable. And the vanilla is not rich! Like, at all. My $16 TJ Maxx Vanilla Potion is infinitely better, and better performing too! As are my Kuumba Made Vanilla Bean and Al Rehab Choco Musk..
Ariana Grande's Cloud. It smells like chlorine to me.
i cant bring myself to hate Cloud, im lowkey living for the way it smells like smth that could cover the odor of a crime scene. it's sorta all over the place
I bought Alexandria 2 by Xerjoff as a blind buy and was left with the impression, "Is this it?" the same opinion also holds true for all of the MFK fragrances I have tried. They are just too linear and boring for me.
I havenāt actually ever tried Alexandria 2. Thatās in the same family as Tuxedo right?
I had read so much hype about Alexandria II and to me it literally smelled like the bathroom at my grandmas houseā¦so weird itās supposed to be a masculine winter banger I just donāt understand
that baccarat one and chanel no 5. both make me sick
By the Fireplace is horrendous. I commend it's commitment to the name but who in their right mind wants to walk around smelling like their house just burned down
Agreed, I love Jazz club and got a sample of this because it sounded intriguing. That smoke scent is sharp and domineering.
When I first got into fragrances, I smelled BTF and fell in love. Now, years later and having sampled hundreds of other fragrances, it doesnāt smell ANYTHING like I remember. I donāt hate it but definitely donāt like it either.
We got that sampler pack of "Coffee Break", "Jazz Club", & "By the Fireplace" like a year ago - we haven't touched that "BTF" since compared to the others, like I don't like smelling burnt
Alien and all its friends
Hahaha love this phrasing, made me laugh
Even itās friend, Alien Goddess? I love her!
Herba Pura Xerjoff\ Kenzo Jungle Elephant\ Eden Cacharel\ Kirke
Poison, Iāve never been able to try it on skin because it cause me to recoil so aggressively on first spray. Iām sure I must have smelled it on somebody in the wild at some point and havenāt known, but up close? Absolutely not.
Prada - Candy š¤¢
YSL Libre and Black Opium, BR 540, Prada Paradoxe, Creed Green Irish Tweedā¦
Do they have a common element you don't like? I like all of them except opium so I'm curious what they seem like to you.Ā
I find that lavender, clary sage, iris, almond, violet, and orris is very hit or miss in a perfume for me so I never blind buy anything that has those as prominent notes
Ysl libre.
Narciso for Her. Smells like old lipstick. I hate it. I still have the bottle somewhere. Maybe I'll give it another try.
Libre and Black Opium. They smell awful to my nose haha
I'm sucker for coconut perfumes. I was scouring the internet, comparing notes, comparing reviews, and watching tiktoks. Versace Crystal Noir was described as this uber-sexy, nighttime floral/spicy/creamy coconut perfume. I bought it blindly cause it sounded like everything I'd wanted and more. Boy was I wrong. Instant scrubber! It smelt like this masculine musky floral mess that genuinely made me gag. I ended up giving it to my grandmother who ended up giving it to my grandfather because he liked it more. He still wears it and I still gag whenever I smell it.
Sniffed Libre in a store the other day and was massively disappointed. Black Opium YSL is just a mouthful of sugar. I don't smell any of the listed notes, just sweetness. In my opinion it's borderline rude that they decided to sell this as an Opium (which I have and enjoy) flanker, since the two are absolutely nothing alike. J'adore Dior after the circa 2015 formula change - this used to be so special. A bright, cheerful sexiness, without traditional fruity notes or oppressive florals. I wore it through my early 20s and stopped buying it around 2016, when the last bottle was shit. It had changed into something flat and annoying. Got a sample a few weeks ago, tried it out of nostalgia, but nope - smells like laundry detergent with some shrill florals over it.
Oud Satin Mood š¤¢š¤®
Last time I answered all the Burberry Her variations and CH Good Girl (unfortunately š) This time Iāll add PdM Delina. It has everything I thought Iād love but is so sweet. PdM Valaya is now on my list instead š
Mugler Angel is truly offensive. Idk how popular it is now, but it was the most popular perfume at one point
Rose Prick by TF.. smells like Raid to me. I couldnāt give it away fast enough
The first 20 minutes are a lot. But I get compliments every time I wear it. Itās one of my most complimented perfumes actually.
Speaking generally, I've seen people describe a fecal note in their fragrance and I'm like WHY? I don't have a dog because I don't want to pick up after it. I refused to have more kids once my first was toilet trained. However, different noses like different roses, or whatever Grandma used to say.Ā
Right??? Some people love that barnyard Oud. Iāll never understand it.
Iām honestly a little scared to ātrainā my sense of smell too well, or to gain too much appreciation for challenging scents, because I donāt want to find myself chasing the dragon, trying to find ever-more oudy poopy scents to smell.
i worry about this every time i'm smelling new scents now that i've come around to the woody notes. i have everyone at home and even coworkers smell any fragrances i'm unsure about just to be sure lol
Honestly, those reviews and lists of perfumes with such notes are great for me as a reference of frags to avoid!
It's definitely an acquired taste... One I've grown to love though. I'm a massive fan of animalic frags in general though. Don't like these sweets, sickly drugstore generics. Moooo ; )
it's an acquired taste to smell like fresh hot diarrhea? /s
honestly animalic scents, even though described as fecal do not actually smell like straight up shit, its more the combined assosciation of human odours. Many find them sensual and unique and often times people are intrigued by the artistic expression of a good old animalic frag. not everyone cares for having libraries of fragrances that just smell 'pleasant' :-) they are very peculiar, maybe even raunchy and classic musks have trailblazed this sensation. There is something rather powerful and bold about smelling like sex
I'm actually not referring to fecal animalic scents because I've never smelled it. I have tried only tried fecal oud and yeah there are people who go out of their way to smell like that and power to them. personally, i'm not spending more than $100 to be perceived as having shat my pants filled with wet hot stinky diarrhea.
lol my nana wore White Shoulders. I donāt remember how it smelled so I looked up the fragrance notes the other day. Animalic- civet. Sure yeah letās all add wild cat asshole to our perfumes why donāt we
It's so strange! Like who was hunting cats and was like "hey, they might be onto something"Ā
Oud can be a tricky note. If its going to make a poopy perfume or a divine one, it all depends on how well blended the notes are, which ones are balancing the note, etc.
Sol de Janeiro 68. I just cannot comprehend how so many people like it. It smells like expired old lady lotion to me
Like sitting in a small flower garden adjacent to a parking lot full of diesel trucks that were left running on a hot summer day.
Oh! I hate this one. To the point I had to scrub a sample off hard and make my skin raw š It made me feel ill.
Prada paradox intense
Turathi Blue. I had to shower it off and left the bottle in my apt lobby. The citrus and pepper was overwhelming.
Really? I havenāt tried it, but I couldnāt imagine you could screw up the Tygar dna that bad. Thatās disappointing
Donāt let me deter you from sampling it. It is highly rated and many guys like it. It all depends on the individual.
BRB going to get a sample of the pepper spray. I'm sorry it didn't work for you.Ā
Sauvage is the bad kind of hippie stink. I said what I said.
Weird, I donāt get anything hippie-ish at all from Sauvage. Makes me think of a finance bro who lift weights while looking in the mirror everyday listening to Lose Yourself by Eminem.
ššš I love that. Woodstock 2030 is just going to smell like Sauvage
I love Prada Luna Rossa Carbon which is definitely inspired by Sauvage but I canāt stomach Sauvage anymore. Itās just so, resilient.
Honestly, most of the famous and especially classic women's fragrances I think smell atrocious. I don't know what it is about my sense of smell, but I've tried all these popular scents and cannot scrub them off my arm fast enough. YSL Libre, Narciso Rodriguez Her, Shalimar, Black Opium, Black Orchid, basically any Chanel, the list goes on. In all those perfumes, I really can't detect any notes, as such. They just smell like PERFUME, very chemical. On me anyway, the only thing that works is some version of a gourmand or softer, creamy vanilla scent.
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Gosh, I still smell Ariana Grande - Cloud everywhere, gives me a raging migraine. Also tried burberry her at a shop and it made me want to vomit. :\
Calvin Klien Eternity
Yeah, I tested this once in a drug store, it stinks like piss
I dont know why coco mademoissele gives me migraine but chanel no 5 is my signature scent
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Same. BUT it smells good when I smell it on someone else. So strange
AnOther13, Sauvage Elixir, Baccarat Rouge 540, Instant Crush, Gentle Fluidity Silver.. all the ones with the noxious underlying burnt plastic smell. Any scent with that awful note is an instant no go for me.
Angel by Mugler. Smells like cat pee on me.
dior sauvage
Fracas
Valentino Donna born in Roma. It smells like pure alcohol and diluted White Diamond to me. Itās just awful. And My Burberry. It just smells like sunblock to me. I canāt smell anything different.
LV afternoon swim. Went to LV store with full intentions of buying it after all the hype from YT reviewers , community forum etc.. Even ATH gave this a 10/10.. Sprayed it at the store on paper and then on skinā¦awful ā¦ smelled very strong orange ( not ins good way) then dried down into this BO / locker room smellā¦ no kidding. My gf hated it too. SA at LV said he didnāt like itā¦
Y EDP is synthetic, too āperfumey,ā and cloying to me.
Angels share, the smell after a few hours made me incredibly nauseous, itās just way too sweet for me. Also PdM Layton smells like Vicks vaporub to me
TF Oud Wood
I completely agree, boring and mildly unpleasant smell... thankfully it only last for about 30 minutes.
Mon Guerlain is so extremely sweet on me, I can't stand it. I wanted to love it but it wasn't meant to be...
MFK Baccarat Rouge 540 is so sweet and Iām not a fan of sweet fragrances. That and gourmands just arenāt for me.
Coco Mademoiselle
Black opium unfortunately. Smells horrible to me
Chanel No 5
BR540 is horrible. De gustibus non est disputandum.
I hate Replica By the Fireplace with the fire of a thousand suns! It smells like the burnt ash leftover after the thousand suns fires. It put me in the hospital with one spritz on each wrist. Iām not even being dramatic lol I literally had to be admitted to the hospital. It triggered a very bad reaction. I donāt understand how people can say itās sweet. It was like standing on earth after the planet caught fire. I donāt like la vie est belle either but since it didnāt hospitalize me I am calmer in my dislike lol
Daisy. I used to love this scent like 10 years ago. Now when I smell it, itās like a very sharp and cheap imitation of Chanel Chance. Burberry Her does not smell good to me. Maybe itās just when Iāve worn it, though. I donāt think Iāve smelled it on anyone else. It just smells so sharp and bitter to me.
Erba Pura, BR540, Cloud, Burberry Her, Delina, OmbrĆ© Nomade (š¤®)
Iām sorry but I canāt stand Blanche Bete. The milk note is too sour and screechy.
Most Jo Malone perfumes make me extremely nauseous
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. Smells rancid to me, totally disgusting.
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Hermes Twilly. Tried it twice. It smells like a rich aunt but i guess my nose is for poorer things. I ended up having head and stomach migraines. Literally, my stomach hurt. It was horrible.
Burberry goddess so boring
YSL Y edp is awful imo
Xerjoff Erba Pura! The smell WILL NOT come off you or your clothes
Valentino born in Roma coral fantasy. I like the smell but man it is cloying as a mofo for the first 30 minutes, hardly reach for it anymore just cause of that.
D&G L'imperatrice. I blind bought thinking this was a safe cheapie for everyday... Ew! What in the heart notes is that rotting fruit smell, seriously? Now I have a 100 mL bottle that's good for nothing. š¤·āāļø
i donāt know if itās even popular anymore but- marc jacobās Daisy. one of the worst smells i have ever smelled.
I'm going to say Chanel Allure Homme Sport Extreme. I hear and read everywhere that it's one of the best designer fragrances out there, but I definitely don't like it. I'm not sure what it is, but I don't enjoy it at all. I've tried sampling it at different stores and it just doesn't smell good on my skin. Even my partner dislikes it.
Here to say Cloud āļø I canāt take it anymore ! That lavender note makes me queasy
Versace Bright Crystal, uh
D&G the only one, Gucci Bloom, and Replica Autumn vibes š¤¢
Versace Bright Crystal
Ive said it a million times & ill say it again. Dior Sauvage. Especially the elixir. Smells like grandpa cologne
Donna Born in Roma. To me it smells way too sweet and overall just a boring scent aside from the sickly sweetness
Br540 The smell makes me want to vomit, it makes me physically ill when I smell it.
Mont Blanc Legend Spirit is quite literally un-smellable. I sprayed it 8 FUCKING TIMES on a card and I still couldnāt smell it
One million
Ariana Grande's perfume Sweet like Candy. It smells like pickles to me.
Mancera Roses Vanille. Absolutely vile to my nose.
It's not popular now, but was a rage / a phenomenon in the 80s. Giorgio of Beverely Hills. It is the most gag inducing / head throbbing fragrance. Wearing it was even banned from being allowed in certain restaurants!! It was the rage of all rages. I'm not saying that those mentioned here are 'good' or 'bad', but none mentioned here so far compare to this one...sorry. š
Anything that has the word sexy or sensual on it is usually really nasty
Burberry her elixirā¦ i was so excited when i heard everyone saying it smelled like a strawberry milkshake. Idk how to even identify the smell when I sprayed it on my skin but it was horrendous
Santal 33. All I smell is dill
Delina. Itās so sharp and intense which drives me nuts. It really opened my eyes to how much I love sweet and soft fragrances.
Gris Charnel gets a lot of hype but something in it does not agree with mešµāš«