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What is the fragance that you hate?

post #1 of 69
Thread Starter 
Chic - Carolina Herrera
Old Spice
Eau Savage - CD
Agua de Sandalo - Adolfo Dominguez
post #2 of 69
Joop! Homme

This is the first fragrance that jumps to mind, it is shocking, ville, pungent & smacks of bad taste.

Magnnum
post #3 of 69
I know a lot of people are going to say Kouros, all though is might smell bad to me, it doesn't really bother me. The one that gives me a headache is L'artisan Passage D'enter.
post #4 of 69
THE fragrance I hate is Grey Flannel.
Others that I come close to hating are:
Fahrenheit
Black Code
anything with that anise/licorice note----yuck
I strongly dislike Allure homme
I could go on and on but there are too many nice people here that may like some of them.
post #5 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitofox

Eau Savage - CD

Gasp! Not to fear! Not all fragrances are for everyone.

But there is still hope for you yet. [smiley=grin.gif]

As for me:
L'Autre
The Dreamer
post #6 of 69
L'Autre (L'Armpit)
Polo everything, except Safari is OK and I don't have an opinion either way on Romance
Pasha by Cartier
Grey Flannel
post #7 of 69
Lagerfeld men
Kouros
Givenchy ultra marine
post #8 of 69
Caron PuH
post #9 of 69
cumming -- thats stuff made me dizzy. its like rubber and cellophane but its not good, like a CDG Odeur
post #10 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by magnnum

Joop! Homme

This is the first fragrance that jumps to mind, it is shocking, ville, pungent & smacks of bad taste.

Magnnum

So if I were to spray Joop on my shirt, it would smack and reek of bad taste simultaneously! Â*And that's a lot of bad taste!

And as for me, I'll just say that Yves Saint Laurent has cranked out a lot of frags that suck to me. I don't know if I "hate" them, but... lord, they aren't good! (Except for PH & PH HC.)
post #11 of 69
Xeryus Rouge

LeMale

Any Boss

Pi

Fahrenheit

Of course there are more, but these are so vile to me, they just immediately spring to mind.
post #12 of 69
*Eau Sauvage Extreme* is horrible [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif]
post #13 of 69
Voleur des Roses, A* Men, Coriolan, MKK and Daim Blond are all thoroughly disgusting.
post #14 of 69
I will preface with the disclaimer,"on my skin"....................
Body Kouros
LeMale
Fragonard's Suivez Moi
Cool Water
Eternity
Truth
Aqua di Gio
Be Delicious
and the various watery,aqua clones of today.
Remember, I said "on my skin". Everyone's mileage may vary and of course, I reserve the right to change my mind as time goes by......
No disrespect is meant toward anybody else's taste!
Eric
post #15 of 69
1) Grey Flannel
2) Lacoste - Style in Play or whatever that vile garbage in the red bottle is called!

Jeff
post #16 of 69
I've never smelled a fragrance that I hated.

There are some that I don't particularly like - Farenheit, Joop and Dreamer come to mind. I actually purchased them in the past and wore them for a while and wonder now why. But I can never say I hated tham.
post #17 of 69
When it cones to department store frags, Joop! and Kenneth Cole anything come to mind.

But I'm awfully surprised that nobody has mentioned Chaps Ralph Lauren. Maybe because this drugstore swill is so horrid that nobody wants to talk about it? [smiley=undecided.gif]
post #18 of 69
Iceberg Fluid Man.

The first and only time I spritzed it, I had to pop a couple of Dramamine to get rid of my nausea.
post #19 of 69
I don't hate any scent. But I do dislike Quorum and What about Adam.
Renato
post #20 of 69
I don't exactly hate a lot of scents...but these come awfully close to disgusting!

Le Male - I've smelled a small amount of people wearing this well, but the ones who baste it on made me think YUCK on this one!

Pi - Ugghhh...NEXT!!!!!!!!!

Coriolan - Smells like poultry stuffing...NEXT!!!!!

4711 - This (two centuries old) clasic struck a bad chord with me and probably won't ever be received well by my nose. Smells (to me) like some spilled a spice rack all over the floor and covered the mess with citrus fruit peels! Pass.....!

Regarding Kouros: I don't exactly HATE this scent, but it does not wear well on me. I first tried it 16 years ago and the only thing I got out of it was wood and honey! A few years after that, I tried it again. Same thing! Oh well. At least YSL got a hit with me out of M7!
post #21 of 69
Kouros
Xeryus Rouge
post #22 of 69
Nasty--YSL Rive Gauche pour Homme
Nastier--Givenchy Pi
Nastiest--Comme des Garcons Odeur 53

I don't think it's possible to get any worse than Odeur 53!
I'll gladly wear Aspen over that stank any day!
post #23 of 69
I don't like the following:

Grey Flannel

Eau Sauvage

Chanel Pour Monsieur Concentree

Habit Rouge

Xeryus
post #24 of 69
Boss in Motion. Gives you a sweaty stench. Very cloying.
post #25 of 69
Ha, I actually like Odeur 53 quite a bit.

Pi makes me gag though. Even in the most minute quantities, it just becomes a cloying vanilla nightmare on me.

Senior Slim
post #26 of 69
Dune pour homme... eugh!

I have relegated my bottle of Dune to the "NO MORE BODY CONTACT... EVER" category.

My shoes smelt a little pungent the other day, so I (foolishly) sprayed some Dune in there and put them outside to air. They smell even worse now
post #27 of 69
Fresh maybe, but to my nose in a an unpleasant, pungent way:

bad = Drakkar Noir, Azzaro Vetiver
worse = Delon, Shogun and Best of Chevignon
worst = Lancome, Miracle :exclamation

They all have a common denominator - some undefined peppery spice I thoroughly dislike, or is it the vetiver? For me they smell like 4711 without citrus and lasting too long. Generally quite popular scents as the downtown tramway in the morning reveals.
Maybe a Kouros lover like me is barred from the better things in life [smiley=embarassed.gif]
post #28 of 69
Trying to find the best parfum, I learned to see beauty in every frag I met.
So all my hates disappeared.
Kouros, Joop!, Le Male and Jicky NOW are my special-day-fragrances
post #29 of 69
echo and kenzo pour homme. they are very bad in my opinion
ciao
post #30 of 69
Kouros, Kouros, Kouros......
post #31 of 69
Kouros is deffinately the worst.
post #32 of 69
well, there are quite a few that I could mention but let me lay down a few:


Old Spice, anything kenneth cole, anything polo, anything givenchy, miracle, joop, le male, etc etc.
post #33 of 69
This thread would be incomplete without a mention of A*Men.

But in the category of truly repugnant, there are only two entries I've found:

1) The aforementione L'Autre, which has to be somebody's idea of a cruel joke

2) Crown Town and Country - as close to a litterbox as anything I've sampled.

Relative to these two, A*Men is downright alluring

Cheers,
Jim
post #34 of 69
Joop! Homme and Cool Water. I feel sick just thinking about them.
post #35 of 69
Thread Starter 
Any scent, if overdosed, can make me feel nauseous, but even a drop of Kouros is too much for me to stand!

-T-
post #36 of 69
Hi, I´m probably going to upset a lot of people, but here goes.
What I really detest:
All the Calvin Klein Crap. The whole lot, but especially Eternity For Men - (instant headache !)
Cool Water - (smells like those things you stick down the toilet !)
All the Aqua type ones.
YSL Paris.
All the Boss ones.
All the Beverly Hills .
Bijan.
All the Joop rubbish.
L´Air du Temps.
All the Biagiotti ones.
Lagerfeld /Gai Mattiolo/ Molto Smalto/Aramis/Xeryus Rouge - (all very sickly !)
Opium pour Homme
Drakkar Noir
(that will do for now.................)
post #37 of 69
Joop! [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif]
post #38 of 69
Now that my memory's been triggered by some others, here are some more I hate!

Chaps - indeed drugstore smelling.
Boss In Motion - hideous. Terrible. Cloying. Gives me a headache. Overly sweet.
Kenneth Cole Reaction - smells like Chaps after 2 hours, when the fruit wears off.
post #39 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ren

Boss In Motion - hideous. Terrible. Cloying. Gives me a headache. Overly sweet.

Absolutely agree with that.
Coolwater
Calvin Klein Crave and Eternity
Drakkar Noir
Allure Homme(sry fans but this one's too intoxicating and synthetic to me)
post #40 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by david

Hi, I´m probably going to upset a lot of people, but here goes. What I really detest:
All the Calvin Klein Crap. The whole lot,...Drakkar Noir

Not upset, rather amused! Quite a sober taste you have, David. I must except Kouros,of course, and Boss #1 maybe, but can join you on the other male scents from the bottom of my heart! Concernig YSL Paris and L'Air du Temps: You do not wish to wear them, or you do not like them on girls either? Curious on what a person might appreciate who shares your dislikes, I went thru your earlier postings - and discover items I hardly ever heard about. Sounds interesting, will try and check those, if I can. Needless to say, I fully second your view on Azzaro vetiver.
post #41 of 69
Cool Water is terrible
post #42 of 69
I can't stand Diavollo by Antonio Banderas.
And I don't like Romance Silver by Ralph Lauren
post #43 of 69
I can't stand RL - polo (green).

I'll happily swap my bottle of Polo for Kouros (or any other hated fragrance) if anyone wants to :P pm me
post #44 of 69
Angel Men
Allure Homme Sport
Au Masculin Lolita Lempika
Azzaro pour Homme
Kenneth Cole New York
Kouros
L'isntant de Guerlain Pour Homme
Le Male
M7
Obsession
Polo
Romance
Vetiver Guerlain
post #45 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by m_uberaba

Angel Men
Allure Homme Sport
Au Masculin Lolita Lempika
Azzaro pour Homme
Kenneth Cole New York
Kouros
L'isntant de Guerlain Pour Homme
Le Male
M7
Obsession
Polo
Romance
Vetiver Guerlain

7 of the fragrances you hate I absolutely adore

Allure Homme Sport
Kouros
Le Male
M7
Obsession
Polo
Romance
post #46 of 69
I agree with stra6ko, I love some of that list too. Makes me wonder m_uberaba, which ones do you love then?
post #47 of 69
I love...
Acqua di Gio
Aqva pour Homme
Aqua di Parma
Black Code
Chic for Men
Brit for Men
Herrera Aqua
Incanto pour Homme
John Varvatos
L'eau Bleue D'issey
Polo Blue
post #48 of 69
Mugler anything by him

Cant stand the style at all


laurent
post #49 of 69
A*Men
AdG
post #50 of 69
grey flannel. a girlfriend bought it for me once. so I had to wear it a few times with her since she claimed it drove her crazy with lust. well, it ended up driving me crazy crazy. disgusting. makes me want to vomit.
post #51 of 69
M7 (but not M7 Fresh which I own and I like)
Insense (the original,not Ultramarine,it smells very feminine for my taste)
Pasha, L' Instant de Guerlain (this is how and old, lazy, rich man should smell -no offence here please for their admirers [smiley=wink.gif] )
Declaration (just weird).
post #52 of 69
Quote:
Originally Posted by magnnum

Joop! Homme

This is the first fragrance that jumps to mind, it is shocking, ville, pungent & smacks of bad taste.

Magnnum

You would not like to be in my company of bad taste! Joop! [smiley=tekst-toppie.gif]

The worst is anything by Creed! Its so over priced that I actually feel empathy for the person wearing it for they are trying so hard it sad. [smiley=rolleyes.gif]
post #53 of 69
Kouros smells of urine to me. I don't mean it just smells bad. I'm not using hyperbole, here: I mean it smells exactly like pee.

M7 makes me think of roadkill. (Okay, here I'm exaggerating a little.) But, seriously, I can't imagine why anyone would smell like M7 voluntarily.

I dislike a lot of scents - Polo Original, Pur Vetiver, Oxygène Homme, cK One, Calvin Klein Truth (gee, I dislike a lot of Klein's output) - but the first two are just nasty. I really loathe them.
post #54 of 69
Hilfiger Athletics
Perry Ellis America

Off the top of my head, these are the only 2 scents that really repulse me. I can see some merit in the other scents that I dislike, but these two are baffling. I can't even understand why they were created in the 1st place.
post #55 of 69
In my book "hate" is too strong of a word to be used loosely, particularly with respect to fragrance. That said, I strongly dislike the following when I wear them:

Fahrenheit
CDG2 Man
Fracas for Men
Cabochard
L' Eau par Kenzo
Bulgari Aqua
Versace Dreamer
M7

Jeff
post #56 of 69
Joop! Homme

Farenheit ...Anything with LEATHER accord!! -_- Why would you want to smell like leather?

Kourous isn't so amazing either...

Polo ..the original green one smells horrible..like something a 50 yr old + would use...
post #57 of 69
Rochas MAn !!!!

make me sick !!! [smiley=sad.gif] i cant smell it,...
post #58 of 69
Michael Kors... so much, I can't even think of it without feeling nausea.
post #59 of 69
Dito on Michael - truly nauseating!

MMM
post #60 of 69
Joop, Obsession, Mary Kay Velocity Homme, Aramis

On my skin: Hugo Boss. I wish HB smelled better on me 'cause I LOVE it in the bottle!
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