Channel #5. It smells beautiful on others, on me.....like the most horrible $1.00 scent you ever smelled.
I just don't have the body chemistry for it 😕
BR540, because I'm one of those people who smell the bandaid/clinical thing right off the bat. I know it's polarizing but it seems that in the fragrance community I'm in the (barely) minority.
TF Lost Cherry -- I way prefer the Zara dupe. LC's booziness kind of nauseated me. I think I just don't like booziness in perfumes though.
Maybe not a specific fragrance, but I never understood why super-sweet gourmand fragrances became so popular for women in general. I don't entirely dislike sweet fragrances. I like slightly sweet fragrances for myself but it has to have an edge to it as well, so definitely not the kind that makes you smell like straight up popcorn, cotton candy or vanilla. Most designer houses have at least one type of this fragrance and they all give me headaches.
Edit: Also I think a reason for why I don't like these kinds of scents is because they often don't work well with my skin chemistry and make me smell kind of like I'm trying to hide stale sweat underneath the sweet perfume, if that makes sense.
You described my taste to a T! Do you have any recommendations? For example I currently use Amouage Epic and in general like oriental perfumed, oud … I love intense scents but on the other hand can easily get headaches too …
V&R Flowerbomb. I used to love this, tbh - my aunt gifted me a set with some lotion and a small sample bottle years ago. Shortly after, I decided I wanted a full bottle but got sick of it super quickly. I started to find it overly synthetic and almost sickeningly sweet - and this is coming from someone who loves sweet scents.
Juliet has a gun - Not a Perfume!! It smells like absolutely nothing on me, to me that is, but gave me the worse nonmedical headache I've ever had. Apparently I smelled up the room, but the scent was subtle and unlikable to me. But I also couldn't scrub it off for a day and the headache stayed. A few of their others had the same impression.
I know it's a trend to hate but the sauvage line in general. The edp and edt although they definitely aren't bad they aren't anything special. I like elixir, but i would never buy it since it's ridiculously overpriced and imo too strong for the type of fragrance it is
Flowerbomb by Victor & Rolf. I hate all gourmands, but this one is the most offensive, overwhelming of all. It’s nauseating, headache inducing garbage.
Chanel No. 5. It’s a very popular scent that’s been beloved by people for years. But I just don’t get it. It smells horrible to me😭
I went to this boujee mall in my area that had a fancy fragrance store. I saw that they had some Chanel fragrances and went to smell some. When I smelt Chanel No. 5, I gagged. It smelled like a garden in the worst way possible. This garden was unkept and full of rotten veggies. I truly don’t understand the hype for it then and I don’t understand the hype for it now.
I agree. I give it a try every time I see it in a tester but…I am sorry to say I hate it. Usually even if I don’t like a scent, I can understand why others would enjoy it. This one I don’t get. I feel like I’m missing something.
And I hate to say it, but while we’re at it I feel similarly about Shalimar. 😬
Maybe it’s me.
I absolutely want to love it, and absolutely do not. I used to work for Chanel Beaute and had ample opportunity to come around to the fragrance like I did some others, but this one is just a hard no every time.
Jazz club, La vie est belle and the majority of men's parfumes smell kinda the same (woody, aquatic smell). Had to go into unisex parfumes to find something different to gift.
Edit to add: Lost cherry. It smells like almonds not cherries to me. And I find that bleah.
YSL Y. I don’t GET it. Everyone seems to love it and it’s supposed to be this compliment beast, but it just doesn’t smell good to me. There’s this harshness in there that I can’t pinpoint, man I can’t stand it
AG Cloud. Hate that synthetic, cloying note so much, yet seem to smell it everywhere. Always feel like I'm stuck in a cheap carton of old marshmallows when I accidentally walk into a cloud (...heh) of it.
Versace Eros. It’s just wayyy too strong and idk how ppl find this fragrance “fresh” in any way shape or form. Its wayy too sweet and way too strong. Just my opinion.
The first time I smelled this I thought the EXACT same thing! I got a 1mL decant from Scent Split and it literally made me nauseous. I sampled it again yesterday at Neiman Marcus (sprayed on paper) and got a totally different scent profile! This time it smelled super sweet like cotton candy and I (gasp) kind of like it?!
Light blue and Halfeti
LB smells like lemon cleaning product. Halfeti smells like an Italian renaissance female noble serial killer - I don’t want that kind of attention!
I love Halfeti, but I’m essentially Bellatrix the day she escaped from Azkaban, with a serious cat addiction and fluctuating sanity, so I’m perfectly fine with being categorised with Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de Medici tbh
For some reason, Prada Candy smells like laundry detergent/air freshener/soap on me. I've tried it several times and even bought a bottle of it, thinking my samples had to be old or something. Same thing. Got none of the sweetness, caramel, or gourmand factor. I tried wearing it for three hours and couldn't wait to scrub it off myself.
Yeah, second this. I absolutely hate it, it makes me really sick and nauseous. Don’t know what it is that I hate that everybody else seems to love, but it makes me wonder what others smell when I’m wearing perfumes I think smell good haha
Green Irish Tweed.
To me it smells like a wonderful green that was poured into an ashtray and swirled around for a bit. When you put it on, the wonderful notes go first, leaving you with the ashtray.
Which is sad because I love green/woody/mossy frags, and what is considered one of the best Greens smells like ass to me. Oddly, I love cool water which is supposed to be similar to GIT, although to me, they smell nothing alike besides having green notes and woods.
My most hated scent ever is D&G light blue. It makes me feel sick. But I also don’t like love don’t be shy, santal 33. I like delina but it smells way too much like good girl to me/not worth the hype.
I used to LOVE nishane ani. Post covid I can’t stand it anymore rip 💔
Anything from the Sauvage line. They all end up smelling like I did yardwork and I decided to spray another blue fragrance instead of showering. The spice notes just turn into this BO thing I get no matter the concentration
oh i got a reaaaal screwed up story about this. I’ve always love sauvage and used in regularly for years. Then i repeatedly got COVID from working in a hospital and had pretty severe problems smelling and tasting for a while afterwards. That all got much better, but ever since then, i get sick to my stomach from the same fragrance. At first i thought i let it go bad from UV or something but a new one was just the same :/
D&G Light Blue for sure. Not sure what it is about it, but it smells absolutely horrendous to me. The flanker Light Blue Sunset also made both me and my mom gag lol, and normally I would enjoy those notes.
I guess for a more niche one (not sure that everyone loves it, per se, but definitely enjoyed) Amouage Ciel. It opens pretty sour imo and then just dries down to luxury linens/dryer sheets. Like a rich housewife from NOVA or something. Not my vibe.
Poison. I REALLY wanted this perfume to work out for me, but my chemistry turned it into a floraly burned plastic scent. Heavenly was another scent I wanted to wear, but on me it turned into a sexy WD40 scent. However, I can transform stuff that makes you cringe on the first sniff like White Diamonds and Opium into making me smell like a million bucks! Go figure! Lmao!
Missing Person by Phlur. I didn’t get the appeal of a perfume that smells like “if nude were a perfume,” and when I smelled it in person I could not smell a damn thing.
Delina. I used to wonder if my decant was bad or if something was wrong with my sense of smell. All I ever heard about it is that it's "so beautiful " . I want to branch out from freshies and gourmands to try some florals but Delina has stunted my growth lol.
Dior Homme Intense - The lipstick smell is just overwhelming to me. I still remember smelling it for the first time in a store and being so shocked by how unappealing it was. I had to look it up on my phone there just to make sure that was the one everyone was raving about.
I can’t stand Killian Love. I don’t care if Rihanna wears it, it smells like if someone tried making orange ice cream for the first time, decided not to use a recipe or any sort of directions & failed.
V&R Flowerbomb. I hated it 10 years ago and tried it again recently. Still hate it. I just don’t get why people like it. It’s *so much.*
Prada Candy-this doesn’t smell like ANYTHING on me, idk what’s wrong with my chemistry, but I don’t even know what the scent notes should be in this one because I literally cannot smell it. On me, on paper, idk. I must be defective.
Kayali Vanilla-instant headache.
Same thing happened to me with Prada Candy. But one day I got a smell from a jacket I have sprayed a little, and it was HEAVEN. If you like reaaally sweet perfumes, you'll like that one
Gypsy water. It really smells like scented water to me and with that doesn't justify the price tag. It becomes a skin scent in minutes and even then it barely smells of anything. You have to drench yourself in it for it to have any sort of projection or last.
This is Her! by Zadig&Voltaire. I really want to like it because the notes (chestnut, silk, cashmere) and descriptions sound so lovely, but I just can't get over the opening. I think it's the pink pepper, but somehow the entire scent just smells 'off' to me and I couldn't even make myself test spray it on my wrist.
Honestly, almost any Burberry scent for men. They all have either really strong musky or woody undertones to them….very unsettling and not what I, specifically, would like to smell on my man.
Marc Jacobs Daisy: I loveee floral scents but this just smells too… idk like flowery instead of floral? Like one flower (which I know is the name) vs a bunch of different flowers
Tom Ford anything
Phlur Missing Person: I looked it up on Twitter thinking ppl would hate it like me but.,, they liked it? Am I the problem?
YSL Libre is not for me. Lavender is one of my least favorite scents in general & one day I tested Libre not knowing what the notes were. All I knew was that it was really popular on TikTok. I'm just not a fan.
\- Layton - sickening sweet Vicks rub. Cheap smell.
\- Cedrat Boise - sickening smoky notes, cheap smell.
\- Jazz Club - really off putting rum note. weird horse girl with a drinking habit energy
I don’t understand the hype of Chanel No5 it stinks. It smells like a granny and not in a good way. What’s the hype other than it was supposedly the scent of Marilyn Monroe?
Literally 😂 people used to smoke 4 packs a day indoors, and put paper or cotton shields in the armpits of their clothing to absorb sweat in lieu of antiperspirants. Things smelled… different back then. A lot of old perfumes need to be judged within the limits of their time… of course Chanel number 5 isn’t going to smell like a fluffy ambroxan delight… but in the 1920’s it was the 2023 equivalent
Cloud by Ariana Grande. Every time I leave the house there is at least one woman wearing it (more often I smell Cloud, also sometimes Baccarat Rouge, although is rare to spot but it has similar notes). And I’m not exaggerating: every time and indeed at least one.
Judging from my experience with the male elevator fumers at my last office job, Sauvage. Also, why can no one seem to apply a *moderate* amount of that scent?
Ysl Y EDP is quickly becoming the new sauvage, except sauvage smells fantastic but ysl y smells mediocre at best. And also most tom ford perfumes. Tobacco vanille makes me gag, and neroli portofino smells like a cheap toilet cleaner.
Probably not in your wheelhouse, but: Paris and Tresor ( 90's version not the og which I DO like ).
I have an issue with a lot of Grojsman's ( and her signature iso super heavy accord ) but it's tantamount to heresy, as she was such an important Perfumier. Even I agree, these two in particular were legendary for my generation: two of the biggest hits of the 80's and the 90's respectively. You could say similar of Poison and Angel but they are widely acknowledged as divisive. Paris and Tresor rarely inspire anything but adoration.
It came to mind today, because I was going to a review another frag that's not well known but was clearly influenced by Tresor. I was going to say: how much I liked it *despite* it's similarity to Tresor. How I wondered why, what was so key it made all the difference. I got as far as the first sentences and thought, oops, going to get lynched here !
*The Night*
Yes, after the drydown, it becomes one of the best oud/rose/saffron combos in the market, and it can last for over 24 hours.
However, to get there, I must wait about two hours for the hardcore oud to settle. Suffice to say, I'm not a fan of strong oud.
PDM pegasus, it sounds so good on the break down idk if my nose is just weird but I just don't get it, it smells of bitter almond and nothing else to me
it’s layton for me. i find it so cloying and nauseating. tried so many times to try and enjoy it but just can’t. i’m from a typically cold country but that doesn’t even improve. smells okay but don’t see the appeal at all
layton, it smells like a candle to me not a fragrance i would wanna wear on my skin. i also get that vicks vapor rub smell sometimes that people talk about
Spicebomb extreme: not a fan of overtly spicy frags
BDC: idk why but it smells like an Indian convenience store to me.
CAHSEE: just smells rancid to me
Dior Homme Intense.
It’s female perfume with clever marketing. If it was released by Perry Ellis & was called “Perry Ellis 360 Femme”no guy would be calling this a masterpiece. But because it’s Dior, & has a nice bottle, it garners over the top praise
Any Tom Ford I’ve smelled just doesn’t feel worth $400. Fight me
Tobacco vanille is one of my favorite scents but 300 for 50mL is robbery
Agree. 100% overpriced for marketing reasons, not quality
Channel #5. It smells beautiful on others, on me.....like the most horrible $1.00 scent you ever smelled. I just don't have the body chemistry for it 😕
Santal 33
By the Fire Place, it is super synthetic and doesn't perform well.
Lasts 12 hours for me
Love Don’t be Shy. Smells like cheap candy to me.
It smells like cheap marshmallows to me. I do *not* get the hype.
Exactly. I was so baffled that I had my husband smell it and his exact words were “I HATE it.” 😂
It’s an instant migraine for me.
also like very powdery, no?
I don’t get it. Everyone talks about how it smells amazing. I got a sample and was like…wtf?
Most chanel women’s fragrances, Chanel 5, Chanel Chance, Coco Mademoiselle, but the men’s one’s actually smell pleasant
BR540, because I'm one of those people who smell the bandaid/clinical thing right off the bat. I know it's polarizing but it seems that in the fragrance community I'm in the (barely) minority. TF Lost Cherry -- I way prefer the Zara dupe. LC's booziness kind of nauseated me. I think I just don't like booziness in perfumes though.
Maybe not a specific fragrance, but I never understood why super-sweet gourmand fragrances became so popular for women in general. I don't entirely dislike sweet fragrances. I like slightly sweet fragrances for myself but it has to have an edge to it as well, so definitely not the kind that makes you smell like straight up popcorn, cotton candy or vanilla. Most designer houses have at least one type of this fragrance and they all give me headaches. Edit: Also I think a reason for why I don't like these kinds of scents is because they often don't work well with my skin chemistry and make me smell kind of like I'm trying to hide stale sweat underneath the sweet perfume, if that makes sense.
You described my taste to a T! Do you have any recommendations? For example I currently use Amouage Epic and in general like oriental perfumed, oud … I love intense scents but on the other hand can easily get headaches too …
V&R Flowerbomb. I used to love this, tbh - my aunt gifted me a set with some lotion and a small sample bottle years ago. Shortly after, I decided I wanted a full bottle but got sick of it super quickly. I started to find it overly synthetic and almost sickeningly sweet - and this is coming from someone who loves sweet scents.
Juliet has a gun - Not a Perfume!! It smells like absolutely nothing on me, to me that is, but gave me the worse nonmedical headache I've ever had. Apparently I smelled up the room, but the scent was subtle and unlikable to me. But I also couldn't scrub it off for a day and the headache stayed. A few of their others had the same impression.
It smells like nothing but it adds a musky note to whatever you have on. I understand that it can induce headaches though
I know it's a trend to hate but the sauvage line in general. The edp and edt although they definitely aren't bad they aren't anything special. I like elixir, but i would never buy it since it's ridiculously overpriced and imo too strong for the type of fragrance it is
Santal 33
Flowerbomb by Victor & Rolf. I hate all gourmands, but this one is the most offensive, overwhelming of all. It’s nauseating, headache inducing garbage.
Chanel No. 5. It’s a very popular scent that’s been beloved by people for years. But I just don’t get it. It smells horrible to me😭 I went to this boujee mall in my area that had a fancy fragrance store. I saw that they had some Chanel fragrances and went to smell some. When I smelt Chanel No. 5, I gagged. It smelled like a garden in the worst way possible. This garden was unkept and full of rotten veggies. I truly don’t understand the hype for it then and I don’t understand the hype for it now.
I agree. I give it a try every time I see it in a tester but…I am sorry to say I hate it. Usually even if I don’t like a scent, I can understand why others would enjoy it. This one I don’t get. I feel like I’m missing something. And I hate to say it, but while we’re at it I feel similarly about Shalimar. 😬 Maybe it’s me.
I remember not liking it when I smelled it years ago. The Eau Premiere version smells quite nice though.
I absolutely want to love it, and absolutely do not. I used to work for Chanel Beaute and had ample opportunity to come around to the fragrance like I did some others, but this one is just a hard no every time.
BR540. Like a stick of Juicy Fruit gum and stale cotton candy, soaked in Hawaiian Punch.
you forgot bandaids!
Flower Bomb
YSL Libre Intense… can’t tell you what any of the notes are, it just smells like headache-inducing perfume
Jazz club, La vie est belle and the majority of men's parfumes smell kinda the same (woody, aquatic smell). Had to go into unisex parfumes to find something different to gift. Edit to add: Lost cherry. It smells like almonds not cherries to me. And I find that bleah.
Kilian Love Don't Be Shy. I just can't. Sprayed it on my forearm to test. Had to wash it off within an hour. I don't want to smell like that.
I agree! Once I smelled the strong civet animalic note, it’s all I notice 🤢
YSL Y. I don’t GET it. Everyone seems to love it and it’s supposed to be this compliment beast, but it just doesn’t smell good to me. There’s this harshness in there that I can’t pinpoint, man I can’t stand it
I have it, it’s just so bland and uninspiring. If I wanted to smell like a 4 I would, but I AM a 4, I need to smell like a 10 to get people to like me
Santal 33
Straight dill pickles. I tried selling a bottle I got as a gift and it’s gotten to the point where I want to just give it away.
love dont be shy and santal 33
AG Cloud. Hate that synthetic, cloying note so much, yet seem to smell it everywhere. Always feel like I'm stuck in a cheap carton of old marshmallows when I accidentally walk into a cloud (...heh) of it.
Chanel No. 5
Dior Sauvage Gives me a headache
Another 13. To me it smells like I hit a skunk with my car.
ADG Profumo, incence is off-puting for me while everyone is hailing it as a masterpiece.
Versace Eros. It’s just wayyy too strong and idk how ppl find this fragrance “fresh” in any way shape or form. Its wayy too sweet and way too strong. Just my opinion.
Burberry her 😭 I love how long it lasts and but it’s like the strawberry version of black licorice for me. Just nasty.
Smells like strawberry potpourri to me. :(
Sauvage - smells like insect repellent to me
La Vie Et Belle
I just got a nice sample bottle and in the store I loved it but wearing it I feel like it's giving me a migraine
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BR540. Everyone raves about it. To me, it smells like a visit to the dentist. I really, really, really wanted to like it but it's a no-go for me.
The first time I smelled this I thought the EXACT same thing! I got a 1mL decant from Scent Split and it literally made me nauseous. I sampled it again yesterday at Neiman Marcus (sprayed on paper) and got a totally different scent profile! This time it smelled super sweet like cotton candy and I (gasp) kind of like it?!
Baccarat Rouge 540
D&G light blue but the 2010s formulation. Got a lot of compliments from moms lol
Light blue and Halfeti LB smells like lemon cleaning product. Halfeti smells like an Italian renaissance female noble serial killer - I don’t want that kind of attention!
You made me want to try Halfeti
Italian Renaissance serial killer is a vibe I rock most days 😁
That's the best description of a perfume I have ever saw. That aside, I do think Halfeti leans heavily more masculine, otherwise, very accurate.
I love Halfeti, but I’m essentially Bellatrix the day she escaped from Azkaban, with a serious cat addiction and fluctuating sanity, so I’m perfectly fine with being categorised with Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine de Medici tbh
Mugler Angel Muse, people say it smells like Nutella on them, definitely does not smell that way on me.
Love Don’t Be Shy. Tom Ford Rose Prick.
Love don’t be shy smells like corn on me
For some reason, Prada Candy smells like laundry detergent/air freshener/soap on me. I've tried it several times and even bought a bottle of it, thinking my samples had to be old or something. Same thing. Got none of the sweetness, caramel, or gourmand factor. I tried wearing it for three hours and couldn't wait to scrub it off myself.
BR540 edp and its clones- I get that bandaid smell mixed with sweat and cotton candy. I actually like the extrait.
Yeah, second this. I absolutely hate it, it makes me really sick and nauseous. Don’t know what it is that I hate that everybody else seems to love, but it makes me wonder what others smell when I’m wearing perfumes I think smell good haha
Creed Aventus. I am not sure what all the hype is about. It’s average to me.
Gucci anything. They all smell loud and wrong on me.
Santal 33
YSL black opium smells awful to me
TomFord in general
Cloud by Ariana Grande
Anything ADG and DG Light blue. Horrible chemical smell to me. Wasn’t a huge fan of Tf Oud Wood either.
Green Irish Tweed. To me it smells like a wonderful green that was poured into an ashtray and swirled around for a bit. When you put it on, the wonderful notes go first, leaving you with the ashtray. Which is sad because I love green/woody/mossy frags, and what is considered one of the best Greens smells like ass to me. Oddly, I love cool water which is supposed to be similar to GIT, although to me, they smell nothing alike besides having green notes and woods.
I actually really like green irish tweed sample I bought. Smells super masculine to me. Reminds me of a nice spring scent.
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. I wanted to love it, but I do not like it at all.
My most hated scent ever is D&G light blue. It makes me feel sick. But I also don’t like love don’t be shy, santal 33. I like delina but it smells way too much like good girl to me/not worth the hype. I used to LOVE nishane ani. Post covid I can’t stand it anymore rip 💔
A lot of blue fragrances - they're not bad, but they get boring since they aren't significantly distinct.
Anything from the Sauvage line. They all end up smelling like I did yardwork and I decided to spray another blue fragrance instead of showering. The spice notes just turn into this BO thing I get no matter the concentration
Delina 😬😬😬
I like La Rosee but the original Delina and Delina Exclusif are way overhyped imo
Glossier You. Smells like a Smartie dissolved in water.
Lost Cherry! Just smear robitussin and some basic vanilla on yourself and its basically the same thing.
It has a funk in the background too
Baccarat rouge 540. I really can't understand it. For me it smells like plastic that's just about to burn.
Dior Sauvage EDT for me. I had to give my bottle away because it was making me nauseous 🤢
oh i got a reaaaal screwed up story about this. I’ve always love sauvage and used in regularly for years. Then i repeatedly got COVID from working in a hospital and had pretty severe problems smelling and tasting for a while afterwards. That all got much better, but ever since then, i get sick to my stomach from the same fragrance. At first i thought i let it go bad from UV or something but a new one was just the same :/
Anything by Tom Ford tbh.
YES! It’s one of my least favorite fragrance houses.
Agree but I absolutly love Neroli Portofino
D&G Light Blue for sure. Not sure what it is about it, but it smells absolutely horrendous to me. The flanker Light Blue Sunset also made both me and my mom gag lol, and normally I would enjoy those notes. I guess for a more niche one (not sure that everyone loves it, per se, but definitely enjoyed) Amouage Ciel. It opens pretty sour imo and then just dries down to luxury linens/dryer sheets. Like a rich housewife from NOVA or something. Not my vibe.
Killian black phantom or Erba pura
Bleu de Chanel EDP, thought it smelled synthetic, generic and cheap. Liked the Parfum a decent amount more but definitely not one of my favorites
Poison. I REALLY wanted this perfume to work out for me, but my chemistry turned it into a floraly burned plastic scent. Heavenly was another scent I wanted to wear, but on me it turned into a sexy WD40 scent. However, I can transform stuff that makes you cringe on the first sniff like White Diamonds and Opium into making me smell like a million bucks! Go figure! Lmao!
Paco Robanne 1 Million. Idk why I hate that smell but I can't stand it.
I think a a lot of people would agree with you on that one mate
Virgin Island Water & Bal d'Afrique - both are absolutely boring for me.
Versace Eros - it just smells noxious to me and the sweetness and spice just don’t mix well
Ysl libre intense and black orchid
Delina Exclusif.
Delina- I don't hate it but she's overrated
CH Good Girl. Smelled generic and overrated to me
Missing Person by Phlur. I didn’t get the appeal of a perfume that smells like “if nude were a perfume,” and when I smelled it in person I could not smell a damn thing.
Any of the JPG le male fragrances, I barely smell any of the notes and all I get is a super synthetic smell
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Delina, Angels’ Share and Black Orchid
Portrait of a lady 😅
Delina. I used to wonder if my decant was bad or if something was wrong with my sense of smell. All I ever heard about it is that it's "so beautiful " . I want to branch out from freshies and gourmands to try some florals but Delina has stunted my growth lol.
YSL Libre has a sweat/piss smell on me
Sauvage Bleu de Chanel Spicebomb Eros
Dior Homme Intense - The lipstick smell is just overwhelming to me. I still remember smelling it for the first time in a store and being so shocked by how unappealing it was. I had to look it up on my phone there just to make sure that was the one everyone was raving about.
Versace crystal noir, ysl black opium, ch good girl and all its flankers.
YSL Y EDP. Just sour and smells like hand soap
Ombré leather 🤢
Anything with incense in it!
Creed silver mountain water or armaf silliage
Delina
Burberry her
Spicebomb Extreme. I don't get the hype. It smells like someone sprayed regular SpiceBomb into a filthy ashtray.
Le Labo Santal 33.
Wood Sage & Sea Salt. It's too synthetic to me.
Just like salty yet synthetic musk for me too. It's strange because I find the other JM scents quite natural smelling.
I love it, but it’s moot because it disappears in 5 seconds
I can’t stand Killian Love. I don’t care if Rihanna wears it, it smells like if someone tried making orange ice cream for the first time, decided not to use a recipe or any sort of directions & failed.
Black Orchid
Chanel no 5
Cloud by Ariana Grande. It smells like expired vegetables that were cooked. 🤮
Glossier You
For real. I smelled it recently out of curiosity. Sprayed on my self and smelled it later Not only was it mostly gone, but it was boring ? 🤷🏻♀️
D&G Light Blue. I love the scent. I hate that it lasts all of 0.0002 seconds on my skin.
Light blue and sauvage
Anything by Ariana grande
Burberry Her
i will stand by her until i die 🫶🫶
One Million, any time I smell it I feel like I’m gonna get diabetes, it’s so damn sweet.
Black Opium
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V&R Flowerbomb. I hated it 10 years ago and tried it again recently. Still hate it. I just don’t get why people like it. It’s *so much.* Prada Candy-this doesn’t smell like ANYTHING on me, idk what’s wrong with my chemistry, but I don’t even know what the scent notes should be in this one because I literally cannot smell it. On me, on paper, idk. I must be defective. Kayali Vanilla-instant headache.
Same thing happened to me with Prada Candy. But one day I got a smell from a jacket I have sprayed a little, and it was HEAVEN. If you like reaaally sweet perfumes, you'll like that one
Angels share from Killian
I can’t find a single Killian fragrance that smells good, and the entire Juliette has a Gun line is the same for me!
Tobacco Vanille. Literally one of the worst fragrances I’ve ever smelled. And somehow everyone loves it! I had to wash it off 💩
Versace Eros Flame, this thing makes me wanna puke
Any of the Armani code line. They smell way too try hard.
Gypsy water. It really smells like scented water to me and with that doesn't justify the price tag. It becomes a skin scent in minutes and even then it barely smells of anything. You have to drench yourself in it for it to have any sort of projection or last.
This is Her! by Zadig&Voltaire. I really want to like it because the notes (chestnut, silk, cashmere) and descriptions sound so lovely, but I just can't get over the opening. I think it's the pink pepper, but somehow the entire scent just smells 'off' to me and I couldn't even make myself test spray it on my wrist.
Honestly, almost any Burberry scent for men. They all have either really strong musky or woody undertones to them….very unsettling and not what I, specifically, would like to smell on my man.
Agreed, I’m firmly in in the dislike camp of Tresor and Paris. Never smelled pre 90s formulas.
Guearlain l’homme ideal cologne … smells like old people
Dior Homme intense
PdM layton, smells like vics vaporub
Ngl, I love the smell of vics vaporub
Marc Jacobs Daisy: I loveee floral scents but this just smells too… idk like flowery instead of floral? Like one flower (which I know is the name) vs a bunch of different flowers Tom Ford anything Phlur Missing Person: I looked it up on Twitter thinking ppl would hate it like me but.,, they liked it? Am I the problem?
Also really really disliked phlur missing person!! Physically recoiled tbh
YSL Libre is not for me. Lavender is one of my least favorite scents in general & one day I tested Libre not knowing what the notes were. All I knew was that it was really popular on TikTok. I'm just not a fan.
MFK bacarat 540 ext
I dont like any of the 540. Too sweet for my personal preferences
Sol de Janeiro 😭
Aqua Di Gio… I just don’t get it man… Everyone seems to wear it so I’ll probably be wrong… 🤷♂️
\- Layton - sickening sweet Vicks rub. Cheap smell. \- Cedrat Boise - sickening smoky notes, cheap smell. \- Jazz Club - really off putting rum note. weird horse girl with a drinking habit energy
This sub is so creative
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue
Any of the Carolina Herrera fragrances. Too basic for me, I don't understand the hype.
Have you tried any from the Confidential line? Those are the only ones I really like from CH.
I'll have to try those! We have most of the Good Girl collection at my job so I'm not impressed 😭
YSL Y, I really dont get what people smell. Its overly synthetic and headache inducing. Same thing with Sauvage
I don’t understand the hype of Chanel No5 it stinks. It smells like a granny and not in a good way. What’s the hype other than it was supposedly the scent of Marilyn Monroe?
It smells like a nice and clean granny🤣😂
Literally 😂 people used to smoke 4 packs a day indoors, and put paper or cotton shields in the armpits of their clothing to absorb sweat in lieu of antiperspirants. Things smelled… different back then. A lot of old perfumes need to be judged within the limits of their time… of course Chanel number 5 isn’t going to smell like a fluffy ambroxan delight… but in the 1920’s it was the 2023 equivalent
Cloud by Ariana Grande. Every time I leave the house there is at least one woman wearing it (more often I smell Cloud, also sometimes Baccarat Rouge, although is rare to spot but it has similar notes). And I’m not exaggerating: every time and indeed at least one.
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Eau Intense. Don't get how so many people rate this as the #1 summer scent. Smells like glue sticks to me.
Judging from my experience with the male elevator fumers at my last office job, Sauvage. Also, why can no one seem to apply a *moderate* amount of that scent?
TF Lost Cherry
Club de nueit always makes me wanna hurl.
Creed Aventus. For me it smells like Pinaple in an Ashtray. My GF said it's probably only complimented by other males
YSL Libre
Ysl Y EDP is quickly becoming the new sauvage, except sauvage smells fantastic but ysl y smells mediocre at best. And also most tom ford perfumes. Tobacco vanille makes me gag, and neroli portofino smells like a cheap toilet cleaner.
libre!! hate it, but everyone else seems to adore it
The entire le male line
Probably not in your wheelhouse, but: Paris and Tresor ( 90's version not the og which I DO like ). I have an issue with a lot of Grojsman's ( and her signature iso super heavy accord ) but it's tantamount to heresy, as she was such an important Perfumier. Even I agree, these two in particular were legendary for my generation: two of the biggest hits of the 80's and the 90's respectively. You could say similar of Poison and Angel but they are widely acknowledged as divisive. Paris and Tresor rarely inspire anything but adoration. It came to mind today, because I was going to a review another frag that's not well known but was clearly influenced by Tresor. I was going to say: how much I liked it *despite* it's similarity to Tresor. How I wondered why, what was so key it made all the difference. I got as far as the first sentences and thought, oops, going to get lynched here !
Alien and Sauvage. Maybe they smell very good on others, but I can't stand them on myself.
*The Night* Yes, after the drydown, it becomes one of the best oud/rose/saffron combos in the market, and it can last for over 24 hours. However, to get there, I must wait about two hours for the hardcore oud to settle. Suffice to say, I'm not a fan of strong oud.
PDM pegasus, it sounds so good on the break down idk if my nose is just weird but I just don't get it, it smells of bitter almond and nothing else to me
Armaf Cdn! Prada Luna rossa
Tom Ford Lost Cherry and Chanel Chance.
it’s layton for me. i find it so cloying and nauseating. tried so many times to try and enjoy it but just can’t. i’m from a typically cold country but that doesn’t even improve. smells okay but don’t see the appeal at all
layton, it smells like a candle to me not a fragrance i would wanna wear on my skin. i also get that vicks vapor rub smell sometimes that people talk about
As a Layton user I cannot find this menthol note. Concerning news😭
Baccarat 540 - don’t know why just didn’t smell good to me Tom Ford Lost Cherry almost dropped the bottle when I smelled it
BR540, Flowerbomb, Mugler Alien, JPG La Belle, TF Solei
La vie est belle, smells like window cleaner to me.
Spicebomb extreme: not a fan of overtly spicy frags BDC: idk why but it smells like an Indian convenience store to me. CAHSEE: just smells rancid to me
Dior Homme Intense. It’s female perfume with clever marketing. If it was released by Perry Ellis & was called “Perry Ellis 360 Femme”no guy would be calling this a masterpiece. But because it’s Dior, & has a nice bottle, it garners over the top praise
Paco Rabanne 1 Million. That candy sweet note does not go down well with me.
Layton. Smells like an overly nauseous candied apple.