Preferred Stock (1990)
by Coty

A top of citrus and spicy wood, evolving into a pleasantly sweet smoky base. This seems to be a bit of a controversial cheapy, but like NaturalBornThrilla I enjoy it and take it very seriously among them. It's somewhere in the space between orange peels, incense, cigars, and a roaring campfire, and it conveys a smoky intrigue that I like a lot, with less sweetness than actual incense. You can get surprisingly lost in it if you breathe deeply; it's maybe a little like Drakkar Noir with less sour fruit and a purer honey-like sweetness, and to me brings about images of slightly crass middle-aged executives smoking in a wood-panelled board room. Rather than getting a BO quality as some do, I find mostly cigarettes and burnt firewood in the base. I agree that too much of this would asphyxiate everyone around you, though. And props to them for the financial double-entendre name.

i like this frag a lot, very aromatic, wonderfully made,i loved it while i got it, but i can´t see it anywhere anymore!

Oh man I remember this stuff. God it was bad, real bad. To this day I still have never known anyone who has actually bought Preferred Stock, it was always a gift from an aunt or grandma.

Truly a vile abomination. I was given the bottle as an act of Christian charity by the boyfriend of a co-worker (I am the resident fragrance 'nut'), who had advanced to Cool Water. My initial sniff was skewered by the transient orders of someone having an unspeakably odoriferous lunch. Much later, in the privacy of my domicile, while enjoying my Guerlein Vetiver, I decided to sniff the Preferred Stock and give it an olfactory spin around the block, so to speak.

The top notes are listed as Citrus. Perhaps these are citrus from some genetic experiment gone horribly wrong (combining lemon with a platypus). Unfortunately, I could not in good conscience wait for the heart notes. I had to wash away the evidence of evil from my skin. On the whole, I didn't like it.

Cheap! A leathery fougere with a huge patchouli note.

Just sniffing the bottle I can tell this was/is going to be a nauseating scent. It is! It dries down to a dirty powder smell.........kind of like death, dirty, stinky sweat. Yuck, yuck, yuck! There are better Coty choices....Aspen, Gravity. This is a barf chunk inducer. Seriously, it's on my barf list.