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post #1 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:56am
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Burberry Brit.

I used to adore this stuff. It was my go to scent. it was always one of my top 1-5 favorite fragrance ever

and then

poof.

I cant stand it at the moment. i get sick when i smell it. i have no idea wat has happened. maybe its just a phase?

has this happened to u guys with fragrances u used to love but at the moment cannot tolerate
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post #2 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:08am
Your tastes will change, they'll develop and they will get more mature.

My first buys (eau d'issey, euphoria, hugo...)... i can't stand them nowadays. Others that i thought they were perfect (la nuit de l'homme, armani code,...) now seem more "average". Frags that i couldn't stand because i felt they were some old school, some too strong, others too weird... are now my favourites: antaeus, habit rouge, Pure Malt, Opium EDP, M7...

With time you'll realise this and if you keep trying frags, your nose will become more demanding.
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post #3 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:10am
It happened with Bvlgari Aqva. I wore it half year every day, now I cant stand it on me as well as anything without atleast semi-sweet base except of Encre Noire and I will probably sell it and buy Bleu De Chanel/AHS/Versace PH instead.

Also I am really suprised how different fragrances work in each season. Some things that were unwearable during summer are actually very nice atm.

BTW I am waiting for my Le Male decant atm .

Also, did you trie Le Male Terrible Jonny19?
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post #4 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:13am
We all have change in tastes. Serge Lutens struck me as "too much" at the beginning, now it's my favorite house.

Though from your posts here Jonny, I don't think anybody has as much taste changes as you do
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post #5 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:15am
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Originally Posted by dreamer81 View Post

It happened with Bvlgari Aqva. I wore it half year every day, now I cant stand it on me as well as anything without atleast semi-sweet base except of Encre Noire and I will probably sell it and buy Bleu De Chanel/AHS/Versace PH instead.

Also I am really suprised how different fragrances work in each season. Some things that were unwearable during summer are actually very nice atm.

BTW I am waiting for my Le Male decant atm .

Also, did you trie Le Male Terrible Jonny19?

no i havent tried Le Male Terrible yet! i really really want to tho!
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post #6 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:31am
jejeje... Me in a Bottle, the new fragance from (insert whatever house) for man...

Sorry jonny but loved that sentence from your signature.
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post #7 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:36am
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Originally Posted by jonny19 View Post

Burberry Brit.

I used to adore this stuff. It was my go to scent. it was always one of my top 1-5 favorite fragrance ever

and then

poof.

I cant stand it at the moment. i get sick when i smell it. i have no idea wat has happened. maybe its just a phase?

has this happened to u guys with fragrances u used to love but at the moment cannot tolerate

BINGO - almost a same thought struck me yesterday about Brit. I really liked the stuff, then all of a sudden that thick powderiness started to bother me a lot! I'm thinking about getting rid of it.
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post #8 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:51am
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lol come on guys i dont hop as much u guuys think i do. i might get really excited about a certain fragrance, but when the excitement settles down, if at any point someone told me to through away all my bottle and keep one, it would be Le Male. I dont care if its a cold weather scent. ill go one spray under the shirt in the winter
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post #9 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:57am
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Originally Posted by jonny19 View Post

lol come on guys i dont hop as much u guuys think i do. i might get really excited about a certain fragrance, but when the excitement settles down, if at any point someone told me to through away all my bottle and keep one, it would be Le Male. I dont care if its a cold weather scent. ill go one spray under the shirt in the winter

You've been sniffing too much perfume Johnny!
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post #10 of 29
10/18/10 at 2:24am
Totally agreed with Postumo. I have the same experience, and I`m quite sure you will also. Your taste will go more in a mature direction.
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post #11 of 29
10/18/10 at 2:56am
Your nose has become more refined, and Brit is a synthetic horror. It's one of the few fragrances that shouldn't even be worn at all, it doesn't even smell like a fragrance. Smells like Pledge mixed with a sh!tload of baby powder. I stand by this.
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post #12 of 29
10/18/10 at 3:13am
Bought Pure Malt. Loved it, now bored with it.
Now I'm starting to love the original A*Men more than Pure Malt. Funny thing I use to detest the stuff! lol
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post #13 of 29
10/18/10 at 3:41am
I love pure malt, i have 100ml but i've used it few times. I have 30ml of A*Men too (no need for more) and i love it too (i hated it at first sniff, and at second... but it kept haunting me)
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post #14 of 29
10/18/10 at 4:13am
I loved extremely "dark" and edgy frags like Drakkar Noir, but every time I sniff Drakkar right now, I cannot help asking myself "OMG, what was I thinking?"
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post #15 of 29
10/18/10 at 8:30am
I think this is a very common phenomenon. The broader my experience with fragrance becomes, the more open I find myself to the novel and challenging, and the less patience I have for the redundant - except of course, where a conventional idea is executed with particular finesse, nuance, or obviously superior quality. Some call it snobbery, some call it discrimination. All I know is that some scents I once enjoyed (Armani Code, Bulgari Blu) now smell banal to me, and some I once found repulsive (Amouage Gold Men, Muscs Koublaï Khän) have become favorites.
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post #16 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:06pm
When i tried some complex fragrances, i thought i don't wear something like AdG anymore. It's not true. Sometime i need to wear simple fragrances. Now i respect all type of fragrances.

Just one exception! Dunhill(2003)
It was one of my favourites, and like it yet, but not too much like first time that i saw it.
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post #17 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:12pm
Yes, it's happened to me twice. Once with Bvilgaris White Tea and then with D'Orsay Tilleul. I used to love them and they both literally make me sick now and I have no idea why.
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post #18 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by Off-Scenter View Post

All I know is that some scents I once enjoyed (Armani Code, Bulgari Blu) now smell banal to me, and some I once found repulsive (Amouage Gold Men, Muscs Koublaï Khän) have become favorites.

Yes, I have that too and I wonder if I'm starting to use perfumes that 90% of all people find offensive...
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post #19 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:21pm
There is a learning curve involved with this hobby. Fragrances that I used to dislike immensely, Aromatics Elixir for example, now smell like works of absolute genius to me. I have to say that the classic chypre genre took the longest for me to come around to. I've always loved orientals and continue to. However, I still dislike violet notes and heavy doses of birch tar.
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post #20 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by Klute View Post

Yes, I have that too and I wonder if I'm starting to use perfumes that 90% of all people find offensive...

I know exactly what you mean but I prefer to repress that thought. *LALALALA*
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post #21 of 29
10/18/10 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

what was I thinking?"

You were thinking true! It's a masterpiece
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post #22 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:19pm
I tried to PM you jonny but your box is full. Swap your reviled and hated Brit for something? LOL
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post #23 of 29
10/18/10 at 1:25pm
I have been more the other way: ones I didn't like, that grew on me. Chanel Antaeus and Creed SMW are two examples.

There have been others that I have tired of, but to say I hated them would be a little extreme (Eternity, Le Male)
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post #24 of 29
10/18/10 at 4:57pm
I used to really like both of these in Junior High & HS,
now I can't stand either:




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post #25 of 29
10/18/10 at 7:25pm
Applied Herrera for Men and picked up some odd notes I didn't like and it has changed my perception of it compared to 13 years ago. I will have to experiment more on clean, neutrally scented skin.
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post #26 of 29
10/18/10 at 7:35pm
It's even more amazing that this hobby thought me how to move my nostrils voluntarily. lol. But yeah, it's crazy how your taste can change.
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post #27 of 29
10/18/10 at 7:38pm
Look at my avatar. My own biggest 180 is with this Lilac Vegetal cologne by Pinaud. When I bought a bottle the first time about a year and a half ago, I think I described it in the forum here as the smell of an old toilet with encrusted piss in an abandoned gas station.

After reading some positive reviews of Lilac Vegetal, I bought anoter bottle this weekend, and bingo, I really like it now!

Sometimes positive reviews can allow you to open your mind to certain facets of a scent that you didn't notice before.
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post #28 of 29
10/18/10 at 8:40pm
I thought that it's a olive oil bottle.
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post #29 of 29
10/18/10 at 9:13pm
No doubt about it. Also, you learn something new with each wearing (at least I do, now that I have a large number of bottles and rotate them about equally).
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