Need help with layering 2

I guess this is tremedously difficult, perhaps even impossible! I guess it´s much easier to mix fragances that works well together, so all the notes are free to breathe.

I don't know that layering would work to hide a bum note. The bum notes always scream to me.

To the extent I layer, which is not much, it's usually to make something simple and linear more interesting. My most successful combination was CSP Kumquat and William Owen's Gardenia, but in the end I couldn't be bothered and swapped both away.

I agree with Magareta and Grau. This layering topic comes up frequently and I've pretty much stopped responding because I simply sound like a broken record, always saying the same thing: I don't layer unless it's matching products sold with the fragrance. I do enjoy reading the success stories of others, however. I've had to overspray to "kill" a fragrance or try to cover it up. Most of the time it works but sometimes it doesn't. Spellbound is a fragrance that I love to smell but one I simply can't wear successfully. One day I craved Spellbound so I applied lavishly. About 30 minutes into it, I realized that I had to do something and I didn't have time for a shower, so I oversprayed with Estee. Spellbound fought back, however, overpowering poor Estee. Recently I had applied La Nuit but about an hour later I decided I wanted to wear White Linen EdT, so I oversprayed. Then I began to get whiffs of Aromatics Elixir, which is another fragrance that I love to smell but don't enjoy wearing. So there I was, wearing my own accidental blend of Aromatics Elixir.

A fragrance either works for me or it doesn't. I just don't spend time trying to reformulate it or improve it and if I'm not satisfied with it... I don't wear it.

I've seen people mention layering scented lotions with fragrances, so you might try that approach if you're really wanting to wear L'Amour. Perhaps someone will know of a lotion that would help smooth out "the balsamic stuff" that you think is causing you the problem. Good luck!