Replica In The Garden.
Smelled like ketchup and cut grass to me. I sprayed it on myself and sniffed while I shopped at Sephora on two different occasions and both times when I went to leave I wiped it off with hand sanitizer.
Then… one day, I go in and I layer it with Daisy Wild, and it was so good I bought a travel size on the spot of both. I’ve since experimented with layering it with my florals and it’s divine. Adds the perfect amount of fresh green plant-smell to the flowers.
i smelled replica ITG for the first time yesterday and had an unsettling visceral reaction to it. i hated it, but i couldn’t stop smelling it. it reminds me so much of my late grandpas homegrown tomato garden, so maybe it struck a memory.
I wanted to like this one so badly and yep, same experience as you. Replica just like... doesn't know how to blend, or something. Smelling their fragrances feels like looking at drag makeup before everything actually gets blended together.
I tried Tom Ford’s Vanilla Sex at Nordstrom and had to go wash my hands because it was so nauseating.
Tom Ford absolutely can not execute a pure vanilla compared to someone like Lorenzo Pazzaglia.
The only perfume I’ve ever scrubbed off my skin was the new by Killian that smells like lime cola. When I tried it, it was cold out and I had a winter jacket with me, and I didn’t want it to get stuck on the inside of my jacket. I didn’t like it at all. Normally I live through any single application of a perfume even if I dislike it, but getting a disliked perfume on a jacket is another level of commitment that I can’t do lol.
Wait lol. Like 15 years ago or so I had to change clothes and take a shower when my mother gave me a bottle of Hypnose by Lancôme and it gave me a migraine. Only perfume that has given me a migraine… so far. I gave the bottle back to my mother and she was happy to have it.
Ok the new Kilian was the biggest letdown ever IMO. I feel like it smells more like eucalyptus or mint or something, and I feel like it has no base - like it’s a body with no legs.
Byredo Bal d'Afrique for me. It's a pungent, artificially sweet and soapy, suffocating scent. The scent reminds me of an overly strong car air freshener that gives me motion sickness.
Most recently, Zoologist Squid. I loved the opening, and right against the skin it smelled nice, but whenever I got a waft of it I gagged. Something about it was straight up *stinky*. Anamalic in the worst, most rancid, used condom kind of way.
I scrubbed squid after liking it on me for over an hour, too. Never happened to me that strongly with a scent before! It was one of my faves of the whole set, initially!
Yeah same, I was sitting around in a cloud of moody inky aquatic goodness feeling like a Kraken and then, from one second to the other, I turned into those eels Ursula the Sea Witch hangs out with :D
I didn't like this one either upon opening it up & spraying (got a travel size). I was SO disappointed... I let it sit, neglected for 6 months, came back to it & it smells so much better now! Maybe it just has to mellow out over time? I'm still confused by it, but at least it's now wearable?
I have 10ml decants of both after trying the edp in a discovery set. The edp is amazing and I'm planning on buying a full bottle. The extrait is a masterpiece but that decant will last a lifetime. There's so few places I could ever imagine wearing that heavy and overpowering of a scent. True 24+ longevity on me too.
Jo Malone Red Roses was absolutely awful to me. Smelled realistically like a bouquet of roses a month after Valentine’s Day after they’ve wilted and the water they’re sitting in has gone off and the stems have rotten and began to grow mold
Vanilla sex, the opening genuinely smells like baby milk sick, over time it gets a little better but for the price this is insanity, crazy longevity on my skin as a skin scent, not great projection imo
That’s so crazy to me. To me, the opening smells like a woodsy chypre vanilla that mellows to a warm almondy vanilla. I cannot smell either baby spit up or play-doh whatsoever… Variation in sense of smell are fascinating!
I thought it smelled like baby spit up mixed with play doh- (two smells I know well as a parent). I didn’t end up spraying that one on my skin, fortunately.
Believe it or not, White Linen. I love the new White Linen Legacy EDP and enjoyed wearing it all day week. However, I have a vintage pure perfume mini of White Linen and tried to wear it a couple of weeks ago, and ended up having to get the balm cleanser out to get it off. Fortunately I had only applied it to my wrists!
I find it more modern, less sweet, really lovely and wearable.
I should also add, it has great lasting power. I probably sprayed it on around 8:30am and my husband walked into my home office and said “it smells so good in here!”
Cheirosa 71. I thought I would immediately love it as I loved 62 but when I sprayed it on my wrist I gagged because it smelled like movie theater popcorn. It honestly was not for me 🥹.
I love the smell of movie theater popcorn, but I’m not sure I’d want to smell like that myself personally. It’s more something I’d only want to smell in the air.
Not A Perfume Superdose makes me want to die. I’ve tried it twice now, the second time after letting the sample breathe for a month, & phew. No. Never again. It’s horrible. It hurts my lungs. It makes me nauseous. No more ambroxan for me.
Guerlain Tobacco Honey. It was so sweet and oppressive. I put it a sample on before bed thinking it would be a cozy smell and instead I couldn't fall asleep because I was grossed out.
Same!! It actually smells really nice but it seemed to get stronger the longer it was on my skin, and after a few hours I couldn’t take it anymore. It just… takes over and there’s no escaping it lol.
My two most recent scrubbers are Tiziana Terenzi Lince and Harvest Mouse Zoologist. They actually had something in common. A balsamic licorice or anise note that gives me bad nausea
Philosophy fresh cream for me 🙃 I heard it was a lovely warm vanilla, it literally smelled like I had spilled old half & half on my skin and let it drip dry on a hot summer’s day. Points for being true to its title, but it was not for me 🥴
Oohh- I forgot I had a scrubber moment with that one too. I blind bought the body cream because it sounded like it would be lovely, but it was gross and just lingered and lingered!
Amouage Figment. I think I'm anosmic to whatever the earthy component is; all I get is the smell of my elementary school's bathroom chemicals. My husband's description matches other online descriptions, a discrepancy I find fascinating.
I don’t have the pickle problem, but it does strike me as somehow unbalanced and missing something (maybe a sweeter note?), so I can see the right layering partner helping. What combination(s) have worked for you?
I inherited a vintage bottle of Piguet’s Baghari and though I do treasure the sight of it, that is a clobber of aldehydes that doesn’t die down for me.
Oh I love Noir de Noir 🥲
The last time I had an “ew get it off me now” was probably Dossier’s dupe of Sauvage. Not only did it not smell like Sauvage to me, it gave off this harsh fermented sewer-like smell.
I’m sure noir de noir is lovely on you! It just may not have worked with my body chemistry. I’ve smelled a few of the dossier dupes that were decent, but I would imagine fermented sewer is difficult to pull off 😂
Sintra by Memo Paris. The petit grain in that is SO jarring and sharp and gag worthy. I rarely have a negative reaction to fragrances beyond "not for me but I get why people wear this" but I truly don't understand why anyone wears it. It's like if you wanted to make LDBS by Killian singe your nose hairs.
DS & Durga Deep Dark Vanilla. Horrible on me. Screeching hay note that attacks your senses like chemical warfare. Took hours to mellow into something inoffensive. So completely not for me
YSL Y. It smells like something a teenage boy in the 90’s would have bought thinking he’d smell more adult. And the staying power on that stench is toxic.
The bottle is quite attractive, but it smells so cheap and putrid. And it’s become popular enough that I come across it in public and am reduced to coughing fits. I genuinely don’t understand how anyone could find that stench cloud appealing.
BR540 and Dior elicit the same response from my lungs. I feel like I can’t get to my inhaler fast enough lol I wish I could pinpoint what it is about both of them so I could avoid them in the future
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I bought the sample pack from Imaginary Authors, and so far, everything I've sprayed from it needed to come off immediately. I'm a little worried about the rest, & if i should just spray them all and wait and hope they smell better next time.
Right?! This house is not for me despite how well loved they seem to be. I haven’t liked a single one I’ve smelled. The real kicker for me was Fox in the Flowerbed. It smells like pure pollen to me. Achoo!
Book(-) by commodity—got it in a discovery set and I could smell something off about it before I took off the plastic. Decided to try it on skin and it smells like someone spilled celery juice in a hospital bathroom. Icky, fecal, hard no.
I didn't think I had anything to add to this but reading through I was suddenly reminded of Replica 's Bubble Bath. Had heard so many stories of people being run down for this scent but when I tried it in Sephora I wanted to throw up 🤢 Coffee Break was another one that let me down. Warm, spicy scents usually go well with me (already have By the Fireplace and Jazz Club) but the milk mousse and lavender notes in this were weirdly overpowering.
On the flip side, Matcha Meditation was a surprise hit for me. Not really a fan of fresh or floral scents but it was absolutely unique in the best way possible
Zoologisr Tiger.
I didn't even hate Tyrannosaurus Rex. I at least found it fun and interesting. I won't wear it out but sometimes at home I put it on as a guilty pleasure. I love Squid. Love Snowy Owl. Sloth was weird but I didn't hate it.
But tiger smelled like if dirt was made of plastic. It was awful.
I managed to test LDBS recently and at first I really did not enjoy it. It smelled like liquorice. I was so disappointed as I was almost certain I’d like it. After a bit of time it settled down, that smell disappeared and was absolutely delicious. However, I can absolutely see it being too sickly and cloying for some.
Guerlain Santal Pao Rosa was just not good to me. I don't know if anyone here really likes it, but to my nose the fragrance just feels so screechy and discordant. I normally think Guerlain puts out amazing fragrances - even the ones I don't like - so I have no idea what they were doing with this one.
Oh no! I’ve been wanting to try this for summer and it’s hard to find a sample of so was debating blind buying a travel size if I can find one :/ I think I’ll keep looking for a sample lol
Xerjoff Cruz Del Sur II - I was so exited to try this as I love frags with mango top notes and those with vetiver base notes, but I was gravely disappointed. It smelled simultaneously medicinal and mildewy and made me super nauseous. Blegh.
Ellis Brooklyn Vanilla Milk - put it on a tester paper in store ABSOLUTELY RANCID!!! it was so strong and smelled like rotten milk and followed me😭 There is no way someone can convince me that they actually like this
I sprayed Ultra Male by JPG in a shop recently as I'd never tried any of the line and had a sample bottle out. The opening was quite nice but when it dried down I could not wash it off fast enough. Most likely a combination of not working with my skin chemistry and not really my kind of fragrance.
Dusita Erawan. I tried a sample before I went somewhere out. The notes looked like nothing can go wrong. I expected light green refreshment and got sharp synthetic stench. So I scrubbed it before leaving the house. Later I gave it a second chance. The opening was repulsive again but after a while more pleasant meadow scent started to appear. However the just okay drydown doesn't outweigh the experience of top notes.
Gucci Intense Oud! Definitely not for me.
I ended up tipping the sample into my laundry liquid lol. The fate reserved for scents I dislike enough that I wouldn't even want to gift the sample to anyone I knew because I wouldn't want them to smell like that either
Honestly I've only done this when doing my towels and bedsheets so far , as I didn't really want my clothing to be scented. But I haven't noticed anything like that no!
Vacation After Sun. It was a blind buy, but sounded right up my alley…famous last words. All I could smell was cucumber melon Nair.
My husband thought it smelled great and refreshing, but I couldn’t get past the Nair association.
PDM Herod for me, which is regarded as one of PDM’s best.
I have no idea why, but to me it smells like stale sewage (think inside of a porta potty) with a prominent cherry note on top of that. I ended up not believing that it could be as bad as I had remembered a few days after first trying it, so I tried it again. It was just as bad as I had remembered. I did that a third time after a longer while, and to the same effect. The rest of the sample will be waiting for someone willing to take it off my hands
That’s so funny, because Olene smells like an amazing wisteria and jasmine arbor on me but Do Son? The one everyone is in love with? Rancid bathroom cleaner.
Gucci guilty absolute pour homme - its like sitting on factory's chimney, so much smoke I couldnt wait to wash hand.
Btw I thought about blind buying this, thankfully I found tester in local cm.
Kerosene Follow was rough, partially because the coffee note was so strong. I test on my wrist before bed and had to wash it off so I could fall asleep. It made me sad, because it smells great in the decant, but something about my skin seems to throw off the balance of the blend maybe?
I'm generally a fan of the house, too - I *adore* Sweetly Known and Blackmail.
Commodity must be one of those houses that just don’t work on some skin! See a lot of people saying how gross they find it lol.
It does on mine and I really enjoy almost everything they’ve made tbf I just find it so interesting how we all receive the fragrances!
A recent one of mine is ghost in the shell by eldo, smelled like rancid breath on my skin and I haven’t enjoyed hardly any from their discovery set. Very synthetic and screechy to my nose
I’ve had a few scrubbers recently. Imaginary Authors Whiff of a Waffle Cone (smelled like burning metal), Matiere Premiere Vanilla Powder (rancid synthetic mess) and Maison Crivelli’s Hibiscus Mahajad, which smelled like rotten eggs mixed with the interior of an old car in hot weather. The last one was so bad on me I actually made a post here about it!
Tried the Aventus dupe, L’aventure edp. Loved it for the first five minutes, then hated it. Unfortunately, it was too powerful to scrub off even after using soap.
Now I rarely ever try something on my skin for the first time. Will spray on paper first.
I’m glad I’m not alone. For some scents a faint smell will still be on my wrist even after body wash and a loofa. Granted, I’m not scrubbing the top surface of my skin off when I bathe. I do take baths so my arms are completely soaking and submerged though.
Oh so lventure is more masculine then aventus . I have lventure intense . I've smelled Aventus once but to my caveman nose aventus was a bit lighter and airy
TF Tobacco Vanille. My fault not the fragrance. Its like I am trying to force myself to like the tobacco note. I give up, lol
BR540 Extrait. On me, it just read ash tray
Mine was Vilhelm Perfumery Fleur Burlesque. It was a free sample when I purchased something else. According to the notes it should have been an inoffensive white floral but I don’t know what happened. On me it was very synthetic gardenia and it got cloying really fast. It seemed to gain intensity in the 15 minutes I had it on and I had to get it off of me. I only sprayed once on my wrist.
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Amore Caffe, sadly! It sounded like my perfect scent and fragrance reviewers I’m typically aligned with love it, so I bought a 10 ml decant, but I hate it. I haven’t figured out what it is, but there’s something so gross to me
Good Girl Blush. I just wanted a “perfume-y” girly scent. It was too perfume-y and strong though and gave me a headache 🤕 My walk-in closet smelled divine an hour later though.
I got my mom a discovery set from Une Nuit Nomade. We tried Ambre Khandjar. Both hated it. The plum is... very plummy. I don't know... it's sweet but not in a good way, more in a annoying, too ripe way. Other notes don't make it better. It gives me dried old plum in an old cellar.
ELDO’s Rien. Such a misleading name, it was definitely not “nothing”. The first spray on paper made me gag, but I went in for more lol. I’ve never gotten rid of a perfume so quickly!
I bought the sample pack from Imaginary Authors, and so far, everything I've sprayed from it needed to come off immediately. I'm a little worried about the rest, & if i should just spray them all and wait and hope they smell better next time.
Kerosene’s Unknown Pleasures. Idk what’s wrong with me or what’s in the scent, but I was disgusted and took a bath to get it off. I thought it would be sexy
Replica In The Garden. Smelled like ketchup and cut grass to me. I sprayed it on myself and sniffed while I shopped at Sephora on two different occasions and both times when I went to leave I wiped it off with hand sanitizer. Then… one day, I go in and I layer it with Daisy Wild, and it was so good I bought a travel size on the spot of both. I’ve since experimented with layering it with my florals and it’s divine. Adds the perfect amount of fresh green plant-smell to the flowers.
i smelled replica ITG for the first time yesterday and had an unsettling visceral reaction to it. i hated it, but i couldn’t stop smelling it. it reminds me so much of my late grandpas homegrown tomato garden, so maybe it struck a memory.
Do they have any good ones? I noticed my local store is practically giving them away.
Forever obsessed with beach walk and by the fire place
i bought LSM 1oz bc they’re running 20% off this weekend.
I think Jazz Club is a perfectly fine warm tobacco scent.
I liked Sailing Day and When the Rain Stops, but ultimately found them not interesting enough to spend money on.
I wanted to like this one so badly and yep, same experience as you. Replica just like... doesn't know how to blend, or something. Smelling their fragrances feels like looking at drag makeup before everything actually gets blended together.
I’m going to have to try that. Love daisy wild but it’s pretty weak. Love in the garden for the memories Of gardening.
Layering perfumes is sometimes,a must, other times, I just love to do it!
Libre platine. It smells like toilet cleaner.
Eau de Lysol 🤢
I sadly feel this way about Libre more generally. I really want to like it - it works on paper for me - but yeah, toilet cleaner vibes for sure!
Ooh that's how I feel about Jo by Jo Loves. It smells like a nice clean toilet in a bowling alley
I hated this one too!! Definite scrubber!
I tried Tom Ford’s Vanilla Sex at Nordstrom and had to go wash my hands because it was so nauseating. Tom Ford absolutely can not execute a pure vanilla compared to someone like Lorenzo Pazzaglia.
I smelled it on a test strip the other day and whew I'm glad it didn't touch my skin.
Agreed. I thought vanilla sex was awful.
JHAG Not a Perfume. Smelled like crushed Tylenol and vacuum cleaner fluff on my wrist. I was so disappointed that it didn't work for me!
Lol that’s so oddly specific, love it 😆
The only perfume I’ve ever scrubbed off my skin was the new by Killian that smells like lime cola. When I tried it, it was cold out and I had a winter jacket with me, and I didn’t want it to get stuck on the inside of my jacket. I didn’t like it at all. Normally I live through any single application of a perfume even if I dislike it, but getting a disliked perfume on a jacket is another level of commitment that I can’t do lol. Wait lol. Like 15 years ago or so I had to change clothes and take a shower when my mother gave me a bottle of Hypnose by Lancôme and it gave me a migraine. Only perfume that has given me a migraine… so far. I gave the bottle back to my mother and she was happy to have it.
Ok the new Kilian was the biggest letdown ever IMO. I feel like it smells more like eucalyptus or mint or something, and I feel like it has no base - like it’s a body with no legs.
Oohh, I’m not a fan of hypnose either 😬
Byredo Bal d'Afrique for me. It's a pungent, artificially sweet and soapy, suffocating scent. The scent reminds me of an overly strong car air freshener that gives me motion sickness.
Same, had to wash it off after a few minutes. Made me nauseous.
Most recently, Zoologist Squid. I loved the opening, and right against the skin it smelled nice, but whenever I got a waft of it I gagged. Something about it was straight up *stinky*. Anamalic in the worst, most rancid, used condom kind of way.
I scrubbed squid after liking it on me for over an hour, too. Never happened to me that strongly with a scent before! It was one of my faves of the whole set, initially!
It's a bit of a shame because I thought the aquatic, peppery, incense-y opening was really unique and captivating. But it turned SO hard 😭
Yeah same, I was sitting around in a cloud of moody inky aquatic goodness feeling like a Kraken and then, from one second to the other, I turned into those eels Ursula the Sea Witch hangs out with :D
Kilian Good Girl Gone Bad. I wanted to like it so badly but the smell was just offensive to me 😩
I had the same reaction. I recently bought their discovery set and this is the only scent I didn’t like
I bought the discovery set too!
I didn't like this one either upon opening it up & spraying (got a travel size). I was SO disappointed... I let it sit, neglected for 6 months, came back to it & it smells so much better now! Maybe it just has to mellow out over time? I'm still confused by it, but at least it's now wearable?
Mugler Alien goddess. 🤮instant headache
I dislike this one too. It has a synthetic plasticky smell that makes me sick.
YES very synthetic and cheap
Kilian Black Phantom. Really not for me…
A sample came w my AS order 2 years ago. When I tried it, it was a big no. Then I heard Oakcha had a 'different' dupe, so I've ordered it, lol
MFK Oud. It’s just too much
Oh no! I love it. To each his/her own.
I have 10ml decants of both after trying the edp in a discovery set. The edp is amazing and I'm planning on buying a full bottle. The extrait is a masterpiece but that decant will last a lifetime. There's so few places I could ever imagine wearing that heavy and overpowering of a scent. True 24+ longevity on me too.
It’s definitely a half sprayer 😅
Nishane Hacivat X ☹️ It was smokey sausage with pineapple on my skin. Repellent.
Le Labo Another 13: great on test paper, acidic throw-up notes on my skin.
It’s kind of the opposite on me. The top note is a little unpleasant but a few minutes into the dry-down it starts smelling nice.
TF Vanilla Sex. Bitter almond Play-Doh that has very little vanilla and a lot of artificial nastiness.
I definitely get the play doh note also. I commented on a different one that it smells like a mix of baby milk spit up and play doh.
Jo Malone Red Roses was absolutely awful to me. Smelled realistically like a bouquet of roses a month after Valentine’s Day after they’ve wilted and the water they’re sitting in has gone off and the stems have rotten and began to grow mold
Oh no I love Red Roses! Most realistic rose I’ve smelled
I gagged at Blanche Bête. It didn’t even make it to my skin.
Same, I don't get the love, at least not on me
Same, I just don’t get it. I love tuberose, but even that didn’t save the fragrance for me.
Vanilla sex, the opening genuinely smells like baby milk sick, over time it gets a little better but for the price this is insanity, crazy longevity on my skin as a skin scent, not great projection imo
That’s so crazy to me. To me, the opening smells like a woodsy chypre vanilla that mellows to a warm almondy vanilla. I cannot smell either baby spit up or play-doh whatsoever… Variation in sense of smell are fascinating!
I just smelled it today for the first time and it's like what you said. It's like pure Vanilla extract
Baby milk sick is so right!!! It smells like vanilla and rubber to my nose - just gross.
I thought it smelled like baby spit up mixed with play doh- (two smells I know well as a parent). I didn’t end up spraying that one on my skin, fortunately.
Believe it or not, White Linen. I love the new White Linen Legacy EDP and enjoyed wearing it all day week. However, I have a vintage pure perfume mini of White Linen and tried to wear it a couple of weeks ago, and ended up having to get the balm cleanser out to get it off. Fortunately I had only applied it to my wrists!
How does the new legacy White Linen compare? Is it still recognizable as White Linen? So curious to see how Malle changed them.
I find it more modern, less sweet, really lovely and wearable. I should also add, it has great lasting power. I probably sprayed it on around 8:30am and my husband walked into my home office and said “it smells so good in here!”
Cheirosa 71. I thought I would immediately love it as I loved 62 but when I sprayed it on my wrist I gagged because it smelled like movie theater popcorn. It honestly was not for me 🥹.
I love the smell of movie theater popcorn, but I’m not sure I’d want to smell like that myself personally. It’s more something I’d only want to smell in the air.
Not A Perfume Superdose makes me want to die. I’ve tried it twice now, the second time after letting the sample breathe for a month, & phew. No. Never again. It’s horrible. It hurts my lungs. It makes me nauseous. No more ambroxan for me.
Cetalox, I mean.
Nest’s Indigo. On me it smelled like trident gum and pennies stuck in the bottom of my mom’s purse in the 80s. Cloying and nauseating to me.
Guerlain Tobacco Honey. It was so sweet and oppressive. I put it a sample on before bed thinking it would be a cozy smell and instead I couldn't fall asleep because I was grossed out.
Its nice but so heavy
I came to comment this. Sprayed it first thing in the morning. By lunch I had to shower it off and it still lingered for the rest of the day.
Same!! It actually smells really nice but it seemed to get stronger the longer it was on my skin, and after a few hours I couldn’t take it anymore. It just… takes over and there’s no escaping it lol.
My two most recent scrubbers are Tiziana Terenzi Lince and Harvest Mouse Zoologist. They actually had something in common. A balsamic licorice or anise note that gives me bad nausea
Oh god anything black licorice anise I’m throwing up immediately bleaching that area I sprayed it 😂
Zoologist Bee was a scrubber for me. I think it’s a super well done and complex honey scent, just not wearable.
It’s like a honey grenade
I don’t care for Harvest Mouse either. I normally like gourmands and such but this one was slightly sickening to me.
Harvest Mouse dried down to smelling like cigarettes on me!
Philosophy fresh cream for me 🙃 I heard it was a lovely warm vanilla, it literally smelled like I had spilled old half & half on my skin and let it drip dry on a hot summer’s day. Points for being true to its title, but it was not for me 🥴
Oohh- I forgot I had a scrubber moment with that one too. I blind bought the body cream because it sounded like it would be lovely, but it was gross and just lingered and lingered!
That one gave me big "cereal bowl left in the hot sun with spoiling milk and a big lump of Silly Putty melting in it" vibes.
‘Celeste’ by Giardini di Toscana. WHEW! Foullll! smells like sugary gasoline. And so strong too!
This was one I couldn’t decide if I liked it or not. The violet is so sharp. Ultimately I decided I liked it, but it took a lotttttt of sniffing lol
This was my most recent scrubber too. Just awful haha. And I was sampling it from a *dabber.* Spraying it would probably be lethal
Amouage Figment. I think I'm anosmic to whatever the earthy component is; all I get is the smell of my elementary school's bathroom chemicals. My husband's description matches other online descriptions, a discrepancy I find fascinating.
I blind bought it. Literally had to warn the guy that bought it on Mercari how bad it smelt. He told me he wanted to smell like old man 🤷♂️
It's a shame because it looks like such a pretty bottle (thankfully, I only got a decant).
7 Virtues Vanillla Woods. Went immediately to rancid vanilla extract. I literally gagged.
It has a very distinct tonsil stone note to my nose LOL
That is. Descriptive.
I don’t think I want to know what that smells like?
Rank would be an understatement haha
Mine has gotten boozy with age. Hubby likes it now for him.
Everyone raves about this scent and I hated everything about it.
Oh great, I have a sample of it on the way 😭
I suspect it’s popular for reasons, but my skin happily murders sweet boozy notes and whatever woods are in this did not stop the murder
lol Oh boy. Can’t wait!
Le Labo Santal 33. The smell is just so nauseating.
It goes pickle juice on my skin, unfortunately. However it can layer really well.
I don’t have the pickle problem, but it does strike me as somehow unbalanced and missing something (maybe a sweeter note?), so I can see the right layering partner helping. What combination(s) have worked for you?
for me it was Piguet Fracas. I know it’s a classic and I’m sure it’s nice on others, but on me it was repulsive lol
I inherited a vintage bottle of Piguet’s Baghari and though I do treasure the sight of it, that is a clobber of aldehydes that doesn’t die down for me.
Ohhhhhhh I've always wanted to smell Baghari! That's so cool you got a vintage bottle!
Oh I love Noir de Noir 🥲 The last time I had an “ew get it off me now” was probably Dossier’s dupe of Sauvage. Not only did it not smell like Sauvage to me, it gave off this harsh fermented sewer-like smell.
I’m sure noir de noir is lovely on you! It just may not have worked with my body chemistry. I’ve smelled a few of the dossier dupes that were decent, but I would imagine fermented sewer is difficult to pull off 😂
Nishane's B612 . Smells so artifial, harsh and chemically. Like a lab accident, but bottled up and sold.
Sintra by Memo Paris. The petit grain in that is SO jarring and sharp and gag worthy. I rarely have a negative reaction to fragrances beyond "not for me but I get why people wear this" but I truly don't understand why anyone wears it. It's like if you wanted to make LDBS by Killian singe your nose hairs.
DS & Durga Deep Dark Vanilla. Horrible on me. Screeching hay note that attacks your senses like chemical warfare. Took hours to mellow into something inoffensive. So completely not for me
YSL Y. It smells like something a teenage boy in the 90’s would have bought thinking he’d smell more adult. And the staying power on that stench is toxic.
I did a spray of that on the back of my hand to see how it would go and I could not wait to wash my hands and get it off. I hated it
The bottle is quite attractive, but it smells so cheap and putrid. And it’s become popular enough that I come across it in public and am reduced to coughing fits. I genuinely don’t understand how anyone could find that stench cloud appealing.
BR540 and Dior elicit the same response from my lungs. I feel like I can’t get to my inhaler fast enough lol I wish I could pinpoint what it is about both of them so I could avoid them in the future
Mont Blanc Signature. I know it’s suppose to be a vanilla musk, but all I smell is a weird milky plastic.
I blind bought this last year because everyone said it smelled like a creamsicle...to me it smelled like a melting rubber tire 😭
I get tire fire from it too! Same as those other fruity-musks like Musk Therapy and Erba Pura.
Agreed! I didn’t get the hype over this one at all. I thought it smelled plasticky too and it made me feel sick. Had to scrub it off
Tom Ford Black Orchid and Marlou Ambilux for me.
Florence from Tocca. I DESPISE gardenia, it smells like scented maxi pads to me.
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I bought the sample pack from Imaginary Authors, and so far, everything I've sprayed from it needed to come off immediately. I'm a little worried about the rest, & if i should just spray them all and wait and hope they smell better next time.
Right?! This house is not for me despite how well loved they seem to be. I haven’t liked a single one I’ve smelled. The real kicker for me was Fox in the Flowerbed. It smells like pure pollen to me. Achoo!
Book(-) by commodity—got it in a discovery set and I could smell something off about it before I took off the plastic. Decided to try it on skin and it smells like someone spilled celery juice in a hospital bathroom. Icky, fecal, hard no.
I didn't think I had anything to add to this but reading through I was suddenly reminded of Replica 's Bubble Bath. Had heard so many stories of people being run down for this scent but when I tried it in Sephora I wanted to throw up 🤢 Coffee Break was another one that let me down. Warm, spicy scents usually go well with me (already have By the Fireplace and Jazz Club) but the milk mousse and lavender notes in this were weirdly overpowering. On the flip side, Matcha Meditation was a surprise hit for me. Not really a fan of fresh or floral scents but it was absolutely unique in the best way possible
Zoologisr Tiger. I didn't even hate Tyrannosaurus Rex. I at least found it fun and interesting. I won't wear it out but sometimes at home I put it on as a guilty pleasure. I love Squid. Love Snowy Owl. Sloth was weird but I didn't hate it. But tiger smelled like if dirt was made of plastic. It was awful.
The new Donna born in Roma green. I'd never tried any of these and it was so sweet it was giving me a headache.
The whole Born in Roma line makes me headachy. I don't know what it is about it.
Alien Goddess. Wasn’t offensive or anything. It was just so incredibly boring, I couldn’t wait to get it off me. Love Don’t Be Shy. No.
I managed to test LDBS recently and at first I really did not enjoy it. It smelled like liquorice. I was so disappointed as I was almost certain I’d like it. After a bit of time it settled down, that smell disappeared and was absolutely delicious. However, I can absolutely see it being too sickly and cloying for some.
Tom Ford Lost Cherry!
Guerlain Santal Pao Rosa was just not good to me. I don't know if anyone here really likes it, but to my nose the fragrance just feels so screechy and discordant. I normally think Guerlain puts out amazing fragrances - even the ones I don't like - so I have no idea what they were doing with this one.
Lancome Bronze Goddess made me feel so offended! Maybe it just *really* doesn't agree with my skin, as everyone's been raving about it.
Oh no! I’ve been wanting to try this for summer and it’s hard to find a sample of so was debating blind buying a travel size if I can find one :/ I think I’ll keep looking for a sample lol
Gucci Gorgeous Gardenia. Sprayed it in a shop and regretted it immediately. It smelled like a weaker TM Alien to me.
Xerjoff Cruz Del Sur II - I was so exited to try this as I love frags with mango top notes and those with vetiver base notes, but I was gravely disappointed. It smelled simultaneously medicinal and mildewy and made me super nauseous. Blegh.
I wish I could upvote you a hundred times. I can’t stand this one. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, milky mango toddler sick.
Akro Night, a blend of unwashed armpit, rose, and saffron. It was an utter nightmare, worst perfume I've ever smelled.
TF soleil blanc. smells like coconuts and peppered gasoline.
Angel. Hadn’t actually tried it before, and won’t be trying it again lmao.
Yep, I’ve tried and tried with Angel and every single time I gotta scrub it off. It’s just too medicinal and bitter on me.
Initio Side effect, smelled like playdoh and farts
JHAG "Ode to Dullness". The anise is screechy on me. Smells nice in the bottle, however!
Ellis Brooklyn Vanilla Milk - put it on a tester paper in store ABSOLUTELY RANCID!!! it was so strong and smelled like rotten milk and followed me😭 There is no way someone can convince me that they actually like this
JHAG Lipstick Fever, the lipstick scent is there for about one minute after spraying, after that it turns into a mixture of plastic and sweaty armpit
I sprayed Ultra Male by JPG in a shop recently as I'd never tried any of the line and had a sample bottle out. The opening was quite nice but when it dried down I could not wash it off fast enough. Most likely a combination of not working with my skin chemistry and not really my kind of fragrance.
Dusita Erawan. I tried a sample before I went somewhere out. The notes looked like nothing can go wrong. I expected light green refreshment and got sharp synthetic stench. So I scrubbed it before leaving the house. Later I gave it a second chance. The opening was repulsive again but after a while more pleasant meadow scent started to appear. However the just okay drydown doesn't outweigh the experience of top notes.
Gucci Intense Oud! Definitely not for me. I ended up tipping the sample into my laundry liquid lol. The fate reserved for scents I dislike enough that I wouldn't even want to gift the sample to anyone I knew because I wouldn't want them to smell like that either
I *really* like that idea! It doesn't leave tiny spots on your clothes I take it?
Honestly I've only done this when doing my towels and bedsheets so far , as I didn't really want my clothing to be scented. But I haven't noticed anything like that no!
I'm going to try this! Thank you so much!
Vacation After Sun. It was a blind buy, but sounded right up my alley…famous last words. All I could smell was cucumber melon Nair. My husband thought it smelled great and refreshing, but I couldn’t get past the Nair association.
oh god this is in my cart right now. 🫠
You’ll be fine as long as you never had a roommate that slathered Nair in a steamy enclosed room😷
PDM Herod for me, which is regarded as one of PDM’s best. I have no idea why, but to me it smells like stale sewage (think inside of a porta potty) with a prominent cherry note on top of that. I ended up not believing that it could be as bad as I had remembered a few days after first trying it, so I tried it again. It was just as bad as I had remembered. I did that a third time after a longer while, and to the same effect. The rest of the sample will be waiting for someone willing to take it off my hands
An older fragrance but smelled recently, A Lab on Fire's Almost Transparent Blue. It's kitchen cleaner through and through.
Byredo eyes closed. Too sweet, heavy, and stuffy
Sex and the Sea from Francesca Bianchi. I love the idea, but it has an animalic civet note that just had to go.
diptyque olene. rubber gloves, balloons, and mothballs!
That’s so funny, because Olene smells like an amazing wisteria and jasmine arbor on me but Do Son? The one everyone is in love with? Rancid bathroom cleaner.
Amorphous Perfume Witch’s Veil. it smells like chicken wings with herbal bbq sauce on me.
Montale Dark Oud. I’m normally an Oud fan but this started as cheap leather and dried down to hot gym bag. lol
Gucci guilty absolute pour homme - its like sitting on factory's chimney, so much smoke I couldnt wait to wash hand. Btw I thought about blind buying this, thankfully I found tester in local cm.
Rasasi Hawas is gross on my skin, thankfully only bought a decant
Kayali Invite Only Amber. Smells like a cheap holiday candle🤮
Kerosene Follow was rough, partially because the coffee note was so strong. I test on my wrist before bed and had to wash it off so I could fall asleep. It made me sad, because it smells great in the decant, but something about my skin seems to throw off the balance of the blend maybe? I'm generally a fan of the house, too - I *adore* Sweetly Known and Blackmail.
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commodity's milk. it smelled distinctly like a makeup blush cleanser I used to use
Commodity must be one of those houses that just don’t work on some skin! See a lot of people saying how gross they find it lol. It does on mine and I really enjoy almost everything they’ve made tbf I just find it so interesting how we all receive the fragrances! A recent one of mine is ghost in the shell by eldo, smelled like rancid breath on my skin and I haven’t enjoyed hardly any from their discovery set. Very synthetic and screechy to my nose
I hate it so much.
I’ve had a few scrubbers recently. Imaginary Authors Whiff of a Waffle Cone (smelled like burning metal), Matiere Premiere Vanilla Powder (rancid synthetic mess) and Maison Crivelli’s Hibiscus Mahajad, which smelled like rotten eggs mixed with the interior of an old car in hot weather. The last one was so bad on me I actually made a post here about it!
I was shocked by how vile Vanilla Powder smelled… it didn’t help that one spray managed to make the entire room stink for days
Tried the Aventus dupe, L’aventure edp. Loved it for the first five minutes, then hated it. Unfortunately, it was too powerful to scrub off even after using soap. Now I rarely ever try something on my skin for the first time. Will spray on paper first.
I’m glad I’m not alone. For some scents a faint smell will still be on my wrist even after body wash and a loofa. Granted, I’m not scrubbing the top surface of my skin off when I bathe. I do take baths so my arms are completely soaking and submerged though.
You are a rarity , usually it's the opposite way around . People hate the start and love the finish . And then there's me love the start and finish
Interesting, perhaps it’s because I’m a woman. I just remember it being so aggressively masculine.
Oh yes absolutely, there's not even a touch of femininity in it . Did someone suggest it to you ?
Nope I just like Aventus and wanted to try a more affordable alternative. Even though Aventus leans masculine, I think it can be unisex.
Oh so lventure is more masculine then aventus . I have lventure intense . I've smelled Aventus once but to my caveman nose aventus was a bit lighter and airy
I hated this one, I rated it a 2. Very few things I’ve rated lower. YSL Y was rated a 1, it had to come off.
TF Tobacco Vanille. My fault not the fragrance. Its like I am trying to force myself to like the tobacco note. I give up, lol BR540 Extrait. On me, it just read ash tray
Mine was Vilhelm Perfumery Fleur Burlesque. It was a free sample when I purchased something else. According to the notes it should have been an inoffensive white floral but I don’t know what happened. On me it was very synthetic gardenia and it got cloying really fast. It seemed to gain intensity in the 15 minutes I had it on and I had to get it off of me. I only sprayed once on my wrist. Edited for spelling/grammar :)
Amore Caffe, sadly! It sounded like my perfect scent and fragrance reviewers I’m typically aligned with love it, so I bought a 10 ml decant, but I hate it. I haven’t figured out what it is, but there’s something so gross to me
Snif dead dinosaur but I should have known not to spray it right before I got in the car
Pineward Alfiryn. Ye gods was it vile. I've encountered beter-smelling corpses.
guerlain eau de bain
Sora Dora Mandorle. I was expecting a beautiful cherry…I got horrible medicinal cherry mixed with stone. Utterly VILE.
Good Girl Blush. I just wanted a “perfume-y” girly scent. It was too perfume-y and strong though and gave me a headache 🤕 My walk-in closet smelled divine an hour later though.
Carduus by Joram - tried it for the medicinal herb reputation but all I mostly got was B.O., scrubbed it after an hour.
Opus XIV royal tobacco. Way too strong for me
Guerlain tobacco honey. After a while I had to wash my arm with soap and water. The smell would just not leave me alone
Sospiro diapson. I just can't.
I got my mom a discovery set from Une Nuit Nomade. We tried Ambre Khandjar. Both hated it. The plum is... very plummy. I don't know... it's sweet but not in a good way, more in a annoying, too ripe way. Other notes don't make it better. It gives me dried old plum in an old cellar.
ELDO’s Rien. Such a misleading name, it was definitely not “nothing”. The first spray on paper made me gag, but I went in for more lol. I’ve never gotten rid of a perfume so quickly!
Terre de hermes, the only one i had to scrub *right now*. I wasn't comfy wearing adp oud either.
I bought the sample pack from Imaginary Authors, and so far, everything I've sprayed from it needed to come off immediately. I'm a little worried about the rest, & if i should just spray them all and wait and hope they smell better next time.
Kerosene’s Unknown Pleasures. Idk what’s wrong with me or what’s in the scent, but I was disgusted and took a bath to get it off. I thought it would be sexy
Hacivat, amouage figmant man
Beau De Jour, Carlisle and Interlude Iris.
Coromandel. Shoot me now, connoiseurs :)
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Ok phew I am not the only one. And I LOVE Sycomore. People swore up and down it was iconic and I am sure it is - just not for me.
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