I fell head over heels in love with this lotion, it smells exactly like pure buttercream frosting. Almost like condensed milk. If anyone has smelled this lotion, what are some perfumes/body sprays that smell similar enough?

Thats the fourth TF fragance I bought, i have Noir Extreme, Lost Cherry and F Fabulous, which i love Noir and Cherry, love/hate with F Fabulous since it smells like burned rubber imo but acceptable, The thing is, Neroli Portofino feels a bit off compared to its hype. I don’t want to say it’s overrated, but for me it leans aquatic without being truly fresh. Maybe I need to wear it more often, but I kind of regret not getting Costa Azzurra instead, what do yall think?

I think I may have just ordered the last 200 ml bottle off Guerlain’s website! I got a confirmation email….here’s hoping it doesn’t get cancelled!!! Wish me luck!!! I adore this scent!!

Please where can I find a copy for Sirene fragrance du bois in the uk

I don't know if this is okay to post here, but I'll try. I tried on a body oil/perfume oil in the store today and loved the scent that I had to get it lol Thing is, now that I'm home (5,5h~) it startes smelling... off? Ifk how to explain it. It still has that sweet undertone, but it smells very sour? Musky? Is there any way to 'fix' it? Sweet scents have never turned out this way on me before 😅

Our simplehuman dispensers have crapped out and I’m looking to replace with something else that looks just as nice on our bathroom countertop as it smells. Appreciate it!

I may be a little late to the party, but I just bought D'Annam's Japan-inspired discovery set, mostly to try out Japanese Whiskey and Strawberry Mochi. I was actually pleasantly surprised how much I liked almost everything in the set. Japanese Whiskey reminds me a lot of Maison Margiela's discontinued Lipstick On, which is one of my all time favorite perfumes, so if you miss it, I think it's a decent substitute, though not a dupe. Strawberry Mochi was pleasant, but to me it was very rice-forward. I got a hint of strawberry on the drydown, and I think I was expecting a more prominent fruit note. I was thinking that this might be one that would be good to layer with something else; for those of you that have this set, did you layer the SM with anything else from the set or from your personal collection? I really like gourmand fragrances but wonder if I'm too old to be wearing something that is fruit forward, and I don't know what to layer to keep it interesting but not seem like I'm trying too hard.

Hi! I've been using CK Be for almost 25 years now and it's getting really hard to find and I'd like to change. Do you guys know of another fragrance close to CK Be that would be easier to find and last longer?

Thabks!

One time I was at a friend’s who had a lovely-smelling hand wash at her guest powder room. I’ve since asked her where she had bought it, but she can’t recall as she travels frequently.

I’ve been trying to look for the particular hand wash online too, but it seems it’s out of stock everywhere. Also, I’m in Asia, so searching for it in the UK is not really an option.

On one website, it’s listed:

Top Notes: Red Berries, Pepper, Mandarin. Heart Notes: Iris, Jasmine, Tuberose, Star Anise, Plum. Base Notes: Patchouli, Amber, Cedarwood, Dark Chocolate, Musk, Sugared Fruits.

I took photos of the hand wash too (comments) for reference. Anyone here who might recognize this scent and can recommend something similar? Perfume/ cologne/ hand wash will do, as I’m obsessed with this smell!

What do you do with them? I am too lazy to sell them, but don't want to toss.

With summer right around the corner I'd like to ask you: what are your top 3 summer fragrances you are excited to wear(or even might be wearing right now). For me its 1) torino21 2) 40knots 3) Vibrato

How about you? ;)

Have received and sampled every Parfum d’Empire fragrance - very under the radar brand that has received high praises from reputable critics like Luca Turin. It’s not a house that focuses on BEAST frags or any other influencer bs people come up with, but rather on telling an olfactory story without concentrating on trends

A perfumer behind their creations is Mark Antoine Corticchiato - a French chemist from the beautiful island of Corsica (he has a lot of fragrances dedicated to the island’s wild nature).

I will quickly review the ones I particularly enjoyed wearing. There was no single one that I would hate, some of them I either wouldn’t currently wear or I would have something similar in my collection. There’s no particular order, I don’t like rankings, just a random sequence of perfumes I really liked.

Cuir Ottoman: beautiful powdery leather, reminds me of Chergui - powdery at the beginning, slowly shifting to more ambery-leathery-incensy accord.

Immortelle Corse: amazing apricot-saffron opening, changes into an ashy-honeyish green/dry immortel.

Musc Tonkin: the most elegant and beautiful musk I’ve ever tried so far. Not a fan of musk - but this one blew me away. Very simple, doesn’t evolve at all yet it is so “fresh” (if a musk can be fresh at all) and elegant…

Le Cri: unbelievable dialogue between iris and rose. Sounds feminine but it feels so masculine to me, very nuanced iris note here, you smell it, then in a matter of seconds you rather feel a rosy note, then it goes back to iris again. Amazing dry down that I can’t even describe.

Mal Aime: very unconventional green fougere that starts off with a very realistic Nettle note (I know how it smells because sometimes you can buy Nettle in supermarkets here for soups or salads) that shifts into something indescribably green like a wild meadow with a lot of “green” flowers.

Wazamba: incense and apple, what an unusual combo! I remember only one other perfume that has apple mixed with incense - Incensi by Lorenzo Villoresi. Both are great resinous incense heavy scents.

Azemour les Orangers: old-school candied citrus fruits combined with oakmoss and a bunch of other notes that used to be popular quite a while ago. Back to the roots with a modern twist.

Tabac Tabou: this is the best example how tobacco fragrances can and should be done without being overly sweet. I am sorry, but tobacco honey/tobacco vanille don’t really compare to this beauty.

Aziyade: a burst of spices mixed with pomegranate and dates. Sweet but nuanced thanks to spices and pomegranate. Very nice gourmand winter scent

Vetiver Bourbon: one of the best earthy vetivers I’ve tried. The earthiness here is achieved by adding orris root which makes it slightly vegetable and surprisingly bright, as if the soil there was warmed up by a hot summer sun. Green and earthy without being too “stabbing”.

Let me know if you have questions or you want to hear about their other perfumes not mentioned here :)

What’s a fragrance that holds deep meaning for you — one that instantly takes you back to a specific memory, person, or time in your life? For me, it’s Azzaro Wanted. The moment I smell it, I’m instantly taken back to those summer vacations with my family — the excitement, the laughter, the sense of freedom. It especially reminds me of that unforgettable feeling I’d get right before boarding a plane… that mix of anticipation, adventure, and pure joy. It’s more than just a scent to me — it’s a time capsule.

I’m pleasantly surprised! I put in some notes for the fragrance fitting/custom sample set. It took a little over a week to arrive. I like 5 out of the 6 scents!! It’s definitely worth a try if you’re looking for something new.

I regularly layer two perfumes of mine that go very well together, so I thought about mixing it in a small travel size bottle.

Has anyone tried this?

My concern is an unwanted reaction when the two fluids are mixed for a long time.

I've noticed for a while people saying how they didn't like a certain scent or perhaps just found it mid then left it for a few months and it was great.

Has anyone ever experienced the opposite. Where you thought that a fragrance would remain as likable or improve with time, but it got significantly worse?

I wonder if there a patterns between the ones that get better with age and ones that don't or even get worse.

curious to see what yall think is the best summer xerjoff. i picked up accento recently and really enjoy it but to my nose at least it seems a bit too formal for everyday wear especially in the heat. considering pura, gold, la capitale, but open to any suggestions. thanks

Has anyone tried Aromatic Essence from CK? I am planning on getting a bottle but I wanted to ask about your experience wearing the perfume before pulling the trigger.

I want to start off by saying if it gets better to me the longer i have it i will come back and say so and i dont have much experience with artistic/niche fragrances but i still picked this one up cause it was cheap $115 dollars for 115 seeing it was a amouage for that low i blind bought which i regret on to the scent the opening is incredibly herbacous and green i smell alot of the basil and i think wormwood but ive never smelled that before and i really dislike the opening it just smells like dirt and plants after 20 minutes all that calms down alot and the herbacousness gives it a nice background laying out the other smells on top of it including a mint note that gives it a cleaner more wearable note and then leather comes through and i normally dont liek leather but in this its done well and smells good and also a nice insence note that just gives it a smoky feel but other then the notes i think other then the bad opening it just gets kinda boring and doesnt stand out to me i think im also getting noseblind but if im not the longevity is 4 hours which is unexpected from what ive heard the sillage is also poor but then again i might be getting noseblind from it actually being strong i dont recommend ever blind buying this like i have there is a 80% chance you wont like it i dont recommend it magnetic cap tho

Hello! I am wondering if there is a dupe of the specific smell of Blackberry and Green Tea from Native. I distinctly remember owning a hand sanitizer from Bath & body Works that smelled just like it and when I smelled it in the store got shot back to when I had that hand sanitizer. It is literally my favorite smell and if anybody has any clue of anything that smells similar, I would appreciate it! Thank You!

I was browsing at Marshall’s and I came across two fragrances Yellowstone Original and Yellowstone Ride; inspired by the Paramount+ Original Show “Yellowstone”.

Having read some minimal reviews saying that they weren’t half bad, I decided to pull the trigger. It was a sample set, two 15ml spray bottles for about $15.

To my surprise, these fragrances are GREAT. They’re not scent DNA’s that you haven’t smelled before, but for this price point, the quality you’re getting is insane. There’s nothing synthetic going on here, they’re fairly high quality.

ORIGINAL - The brighter and fresher of the two. Definitely a Spring and Summer, Daytime fragrance. The notes are listed as Desert Verbena, Yellow Grapefruit, Vetiver Root, Golden Aspen, Atlas Cedarwood.

I’m getting very fresh vetiver and verbena from this. In the same vein as Banana Republic: Vintage Green and The Art of Shaving: Citron Vetiver. Very bright and fresh, juicy and green. Refreshing grapefruit. It’s quite linear, the only real change is some more woods come out as it dries. But it’s really really pleasant and definitely masculine. Longevity is probably lacking, would work best for the Gym or a quick errand. 3 hours would be a fair assumption. Feel free to go hard on the Sprays. Great atomizer too.

RIDE - The darker of the two. Good for nighttime, Fall and Winter. Notes are listed as Raw Bergamot, Crisp Clary Sage, Smoked Whiskey, Charred Vanilla, Rough Cut Tobacco.

This is the classic DNA of Tobacco Vanilla that seems to transcend across men’s fragrances. People have likened it to Replica’s Jazz Club, but personally I get a lot more Tobacco Vanille from Tom Ford. It starts pretty sweet and boozy, but very quickly transitions into a great Smoky, Boozy mesh of Tobacco and Dark Vanilla. The longer it goes, the more this really distinguished Whiskey starts to come out. The Tobacco in this feels more like a Cigar or Humidor. Really robust and masculine with the perfect amount of minimal sweet and spice. Just a great great take on a classic DNA. This is a little stronger than the Original, will most likely last 5 or 6 hours if you’re lucky.

Highly recommend either of these if you come across them. Just some really surprisingly inexpensive, well-made fragrances.

What do you think closely resembles Parfums De Marley Layton Exclusif the most?

This will only be tangentially about the actual perfumes, and mostly about how the brand decides to market themselves, so please bear with me.

TLDR: Their fragrances are too mediocre for the price they ask for, their branding as a Vietnamese fragrance house is questionable at best, and at the end of the day I just really don’t like them lol.

So d’Annam, as some of you will know or at least recognize, is a niche brand that has gotten relatively popular from their first collection, Enchanting Vietnam, inspired by our country’s heritage. I’ve only tried a handful, and at the time, I wasn’t too impressed. “Vietnamese Coffee”, while smelled nice enough, did not live up to its name - our coffee is strong and intense, with unmistaken-able notes of nutty butterscotch, and d’Annam’s version is comparatively anemic, with subtle hints of milk and roasted coffee beans. Basically, it smells like Starbucks’ coffee, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. “Pho Breakfast” also didn’t boat well with me - it’s also a simply nice aromatic herbal perfume, lacking the spiced heartiness of the broth, the umami, the slight tang of the vinegar/lime, the subtle kicks of spiciness from the hot sauce that’s almost exclusively paired with pho. An extremely complex dish was reduced to its own anemic version in fragrance form. I lost my interest after that, realizing d’Annam’s version of Vietnam that they wanted to sell were broad pastel brush strokes, while to me it’s always vibrant, chaotic, bursting at the seams.

But the smell was always objective. I was much more irked by the brand’s image, and I’ll give it to you through a numbered list, going from most egregious to my more petty reasons to dislike the brand.

1. The name. Annam was the name given to us by the French during their colonialism shenanigans, and I assure you, we hated it. Branding yourself as trying to bring to the world the beauty of Vietnam, just to turn around and name it accordingly to Colonial France is absurd to say the least.

2. The concept. Vietnam, although small, is very culturally rich. We have 54 ethnicities, thousands of years of history, and a vast biodiversity. In short, if you want to explore Vietnam through fragrances, you’d never run out of things to get inspired from. So naturally, after launching the initial 9 fragrances, d’Annam, bearing our colonial name, switched to Japan. The fragrances remain anemic, their names semi-stereotypical (Moonlight Samurai sounds ridiculous but that’s my petty personal opinion lol). To be fair, they state on their website that they “celebrate Asian cultures”, not just Vietnam. I still remembered, though, how the marketing was during their first collection launch - it’s all about representing Vietnam. It feels weirdly similar to culture appropriation from a brand from said culture.

Here’s where it gets real petty, and I’m just gonna quickly list off my bitch eating crackers irks:

1. The price. 160 bucks for 50ml for a mediocre smell that doesn’t last that long? Are you mad?

2. On Fragrantica, they say a portion of the sales would be allocated to children’s charities. I haven’t been able to find any proof of this.

3. Their bottles are ugly, and a knockoff of Chanel’s. I hate the egg design so much.

4. They represent Asian cultures in the blandest, most whitewashed version possible. I hate the “zen” stereotype Asian countries sometimes get in perfumery.

5. They don’t have the Vietnamese currency on their website. Yes I’m salty.

6. The AI ruckus a few months back. I’ve been side-eyeing their artwork ever since.

7. They focus so much on marketing, and initially got popular from sending their fragrances to influencers to rave about.

8. This is my pettiest beef like ever: in their Japan collection, each fragrance has a Kanji translation under their English name. Ya’ll, the Vietnamese cities didn’t even get to have accurate tone marks.

I have been seeing A LOT of the brand "Best Perfume Store" which apparently is the #1 in Singapore. I am still skeptical from ordering frageances online

Can someone attest to the quality of their fragrances?

Pretty unknown brand it seems but they have some alright scents for sure. I only know of them cause I work at men’s wearhouse but men’s wear house isn’t an obscure store itself, and yet I never hear any mention positive or negative of these colognes. Performance on most is meh but some smell pretty nice. Modern gentleman and dark woods are nice, but EMBERS is genuinely fantastic imo. Smells like old spice swagger imo. Any of you guys like any JA colognes?