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Sounds like you're taking Jeremy a little seriously. While I'm not a huge "fan" of the guy, I respect that he's put his sh*t out there for anyone to take shots at. If he wants to make some money...

Dude should get his teeth cleaned if he's going to be on camera.

Just sayin'.

I don't believe there's any heliotrope accord in Individuel.

I have some on now and personally I find it to be rather meh. Yes, there's a gasoline smell... actually more like spilled diesel fuel to me. But is it a good thing? Do I really want to smell like...

The OP makes it seem like this is common occurrence. However, I can count on two fingers the number of fragrances I've smelled on strangers in the past six months. The odds of him smelling...

So I went into Nordstrom about a week ago and sprayed some of a decant of CDNI on one hand and some of a tester of Aventus on the other and sniffed both and had my girlfriend sniff both. While we...

Never. Not once from anyone but my girlfriend.

And frankly, I don't think that compliments from people who already know you and like you (wives, girlfriends, moms, close co-workers) "count." ...

Excellent, OMSOE will likely be my next purchase. Thanks very much.

$120 :(

Blind bought it based on recommendations here and I'm glad I did.

At first I thought it was just like Kouros but it's not, really. It's close, for sure, along the same lines but has replaced the...

Axe lovers need love too!

O yes, Sauvage was at first heavily criticized for stealing Ann Gottlieb's Phoenix formulation. If you have Sauvage, buy a can of Phoenix and see yourself. 90% the same; normal people can't tell...

Everyone knows that the 2012 batch of Axe Phoenix was far, far better than all other Axe Phoenixes to follow. See here:

http://www.thetoptens.com/best-axe-sprays/
(search for "2012 edition"...

My 80s powerhouses like:
1) Giorgio Beverly Hills
2) Kouros (vintage)
3) Bijan for Men

I may smell like a Turkish bath house but that's one of the joys of spending the occasional time by...

That's wonderful, though I hope when people say they get "great longevity," they're not pressing their noses against their flesh to judge.

If you can't smell it from arm's length away, what's the...

It seems that performance has nothing to do with price these days (eg., my $14 bottle of Bijan for Men outlasts stuff ten times its price), why would anybody bother to buy anything other than cheap...

Just wanted to update this. I got OMS Gold which, to me, is very similar to Kouros, maybe a touch less animalic but with the same strong incense. Very strong, will fit right into my 80s collection....

I have some recently purchased Joop Homme on one arm and some Individuel on the other, right now, and to my nose there are almost no similarities. Please do the same and report back.

I think the problem with buying vintage is... ok so it's better and I like it, what happens when I use it up? Do I continue to try to find vintage versions which are harder and harder to locate and...

Thank you for the suggestions, I will look into them all.

Average at best for me, though most fragrances don't last long on skin in my area (very dry air).

Rather average scent, too. Nothing very memorable, although the base notes are the best with this...

How many times have you actually smelled that on another person? I live in a large California city and can count on two fingers the number of times I'm smelled fragrances on strangers in the past 6...

You'll smell better than all of Nicaragua.

You should see his thread on why Canoe will never sell another bottle now that they dropped the umlaut!

Two in a row for Caron

I lurrrrrve lavender-based scents. Looking for some cheap, mass-market ones. Any ideas?

Ooo,what were some of your most memorable compliments wearing this fragrance?

Uh oh, this thread was moved into the actual subforum which it discusses.

I have to say though, based upon a cursory search, the Aventus subforum has some of the most hilarious and entertaining threads I've read here, such as this one:
...

I do not like lotion on my skin so for me the best way to do it is thoroughly exfoliate in the shower to remove dead skin cells which would otherwise absorb the fragrance.

Then when I apply the...

There's no getting rid of the mites on eyelashes, eyebrows, scalp, etc. At least not for long. They've been on humans for millions of years and will continue to be, as long as we're humans.
...

Generally the ones coupled with retinol are lightweight and non-comedogenic.

The only ingredient PROVEN to reduce wrinkles is tretinoin AKA retinoic acid AKA Retin-A.

Start now and use the 0.25% concentration until your skin adjusts to it. Then go to 0.50% You either...

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. I've never really understood the "fanboy" mindset because, after all, almost always it's regarding a product manufactured by a big corporation in another...

Yeah. I don't have the patience for chatter with the sales person who's immediately and always angling for his own interest. His agenda never coincides with mine. He's there to make a highly...

This is why I layer a pure musk under all my freshies. Gives them a nice base and doesn't interfere with the top notes.

Yikes!

Jovan Musk for Men under pretty much every light summery scent. Gives it depth, performance and masculinity.

What changed? What did you dislike at first and now like about it? Do others you know like it on you?

Oh that's interesting, do you remember when that was?

As someone fairly new to fragrances (though I'm in my mid-40s), I'm a bit perplexed by Aventus. I've smelled it; it's ok. Nothing I'd pay more than $40 or so per bottle for but it's not bad. There...

I find it rather boring but it's a high quality scent and hard to go wrong with. Plus Cartier is a good name for when people ask you what you're wearing. ;)

Axe body spray!







Juuust kidding. Haven't gone there yet. How about Bijan for Men.

D&G The One.

Thought it was a boring vanilla/tobacco gourmand. Not a bad scent by any means but there are a dozen cheaper that smell exactly like it, namely:

1) Perry Ellis 360 White
2)...

I actually like the modern version better. It's (slightly) more wearable whereas the vintage makes it seem like you dipped yourself in dead animal.

Let me ask you this, do you like Polo, Grey Flannel and/or Brut?

Thanks I'll check those out.

When it's really hot I'll wear freshies to actually make myself feel a little cooler. But otherwise I agree, I shower and use deodorant to smell "fresh" so I don't need it in a fragrance except on...

Ehhhh... I'm about 2 hours into a second wearing after revisiting Ulta and, while I really really wanted to like the fragrance, I just can't get into it. It's too strange. Now that the overwhelming...

So when a guy retires he no longer has to smell good?

:tongue:

Try Arial Narrow font and yes, put as much info on the label as possible.

I'm gonna head back to Ulta today and try it again, it's certainly one of the most interesting scents I've smelled in a while. You're right there's nothing quite like it. I just don't know if I...

Ok so I went into Ulta and tried the newest iteration of Fahrenheit today, about 30 minutes ago. I can smell the gasoline and no vanilla to speak of.

The scent is really an odd one. My...

I don't get urine or feces from civet, I just get something that is animalic but foreign to the human nose. Something that clearly has an important function to some creature but which is alien to...

I generally don't go for "vintage" fragrances because I figure if I end up liking them then I'm screwed because they'll be harder and harder to find.

I've always wanted to try Fahrenheit but,...

Yeah, maybe I should get my Tourette's -- which prompts me to shout "I'm gonna kill you!!!!" every 15 seconds -- under control.


Can't say I would have blamed him, given the Hep-A scare we had in...

Curious to see new votes to this

Two cheap blind-buys:

- Jacques Bogart One Man Show Gold
- Jovan Sex Appeal

:laugh:

Certainly connotes boring in every dimension. Flannel: a boring fabric. Grey: a boring color.

'Course it was named because Beene created his fortune marketing grey flannel suits which were...

Thanks, I will check those out as well!

EDIT:

Yikes, well, Citytower is almost impossible to find and Furyo is $100 a bottle :O

So far gonna have to stick with $12 OMSs.

I wanted to try a JB fragrance but can't find any to try near me so it looks like it's going to be a blind-buy.

I was thinking of the original One Man Show but I don't like 60s-70s citrus/pine...

Thanks for the stories, they make me feel a little better.

It seems that compliments usually come from people you're already interacting with in some way, not from complete strangers stopping you...

I've been wearing fragrances for the last several months. I'm in my mid-40s and in decent shape with average looks. I read about all these compliments that guys get wearing fragrances. I have...

Yeah but what fragrance should one choose for the car ride over to the gym?

How about the fragrance of choice for when I tell myself I should go to the gym and then don't and instead drink 4 beers?

Oh I see, that makes sense.

They may not but lots of people can identify things like ambroxan and calone, sometimes timbersilk etc

If what came after that were super-awesome, then maybe I could deal with it. But it just ends up as a mild, soapy floral scent that seems more suited to an elderly woman than anything.

I've read...

Thanks guys I appreciate the sophisticated analysis. I'm not criticizing the fragrances -- I know tons of people dig 'em -- I'm just wondering if they share a chemical (or note) that causes that...

Thanks, will check it out.

Neither is a kick to the groin but that's not enough to recommend it.

Grey Flannel is the olfactory equivalent to the above.

I would be really surprised by this because honestly, once the fragrance is developed and licensed, it's the cheapest thing in the fragrance package. The box it comes in costs more to manufacture...

Or you could just go whole-hog on all four types you mentioned and layer Cool Water with Bijan for Men.

I'll venture to say that would be a scent no human has ever experienced before.

None of my fragrances give me a "kick like cocaine." What have I been doing wrong?

At first I thought it was oakmoss as well. However, there are other men's fragrances which I enjoy greatly that also have oakmoss. Unless it's just super amped-up in these and less-so in the others....

Don't worry, we weren't looting the place or anything. :p He was tasked with looking over the situation and had determined it was safe (enough) to bring his kid on-site. Maybe to impress upon me not...

Most men's fragrances I like. Some I love. Three I hate (so far.) They all have an odd smell to me and it seems, to my nose, to be the same smell. I can't for the life of me find what it could be...

I've taken to layering my simple summer aquatics and freshies with Jovan Musk for Men because it adds a nice base to modern one-dimensional, top-note-dominated men's fragrances. 4 sprays of musk...

The prior reply wasn't very helpful because it ignored all your specifics.

Are you looking to make labels to put on bottles to sell? Or just for your personal collection? Because if you're...

Yeah, I can't imagine why someone would use Scentbird at all. You can get 10ml decants from eBay for less money than Scentbird's 8ml decants, and you can get them within a few days after ordering...

Nah, I don't know you, couldn't care less what you buy, was just a little surprised when you said you "blind bought" a $400 fragrance. And besides, I'm predicting that you'll like it. Who cares...

You WILL like it simply because you spent so much on it. It's called "cognitive dissonance." You're not just going to get it and say, "Damn, this sucks," and put it in the back of a drawer like you...

Hate to say it, but that's how it's supposed to smell.




See?

I personally find the pineapple + forest fire smoke smell to be absolutely disgusting. But lots of people for some reason...

:cry:

Yeah, I wish I could keep some decants in my car because often I'm away from home and would like some sort of selection for when I go out with friends or whatever. I really need something like this....

Well, it happened. Far faster than I thought it would. I left a 3ml glass decant of some fragrance of mine (can't remember which one) in my car for about 3 weeks. It wasn't even that hot out but...

Because I have a short attention span, I usually have anywhere from 4-8 different fragrances on various parts of my body at any one time. Funny thing is, I usually get compliments that way... moreso...

Sadly it seems almost all scents developed in the last couple of DECADES are bad performers. I think the days of 2 sprays, one on each wrist, are long over. I only get compliments when I use what I...

Personally I think that anyone who has strong emotions about anyone they see on a screen (Youtube, TV, movies, whatever) has far too much time on their hands. But anyway...

One thing I'd like to...

I think the OP was slightly kidding, which flew over most peoples' heads, leading me to side with the person who said there are likely lots of aspies here...

However, I agree that the study should...

Pretty much any Creed works great as a litter box deodorizer.

Burberry London

If trading or selling fragrances were banned today and all you could ever use was what you now own (plus anything that's currently in the mail to you), how long would your stash last? Assume that you...

40 sprays every two hours should do it.


Sadly it seems that pretty much every modern cologne only lasts a couple of hours these days.

The only two I have that last a long time are Bijan for...

Where I'm from that will get you on a sex-offender list pretty fast.

I've been into fragrances for the past few months, watching Youtube vids and reading here and elsewhere about them. Before then I wasn't all that into them, maybe I'd throw on a cologne once every...

Remember that everyone says "don't blind-buy" but everyone blind-buys :D

Exactly. It's true, there is a fine line between being an enthusiast and being a bore. However, if you want to share with others, think about them and what might interest them in your hobby rather...

Sounds like you folks care a little too much about what others think of you.

I'm a man in his mid-40s who just got into fragrances and I tell all my friends and family about my new hobby. A lot...

I don't mean buying a fragrance that you didn't end up liking, I mean purchasing the completely wrong fragrance.

Two of mine:

Bought Mercedes-Benz for Men thinking it was Mercedes-Benz Cologne....