It pains me to give this frag a bad rating because I really wanted to like it, and it does smell nice, but it simply does not last. I tried it three times, the last time I used several sprays and...
I gave it 3 stars just for longevity and projection (which is amazing), this thing lasts forever.. Sprayed it a few times/several days and just couldn't understand the hype behind it. I like...
Sel de Vetiver opens with a grapefruit note that is sweet, watery, and marked by an odd salty quality that makes it completely unique. If that's all the scent did, and it just lasted like that...
I was pleasantly surprised with the fragrance when I compared it to Allure Homme Sport. I think it beat AHS by a lot and was an easy purchase at the mall. I'm a big fan of tonka bean though so...
It's not leathery like Knize Ten, Cuirnde Russe and Bandit. It's a sweet'ish violets, cardamom & leather with a subtle myrrh & sandalwood dry down.
I enjoyed the opening & dry down more than the...
Basenotes is driving me crazy today. Extremely limited access to the forums, and verrrrry slow.
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Basenotes is driving me crazy today. Extremely limited access to the forums, and verrrrry slow.
edit: ^ lol, oh the irony.
I gotcha beat! I have experienced the dreaded Triple ""- - - Updated - - -" on many occasions. Sometimes I just have to copy the text to memory and sign off Basenotes, then sign back on again to be able to edit a post which seems to just sit there and think about it but not do it, only to find out that it indeed did it--three times!
OK, I don't complain b/c I don't pay for it, and it is by far the best site to talk fragrance...I tolerate the slowness, but wanted to make sure it wasn't something unique to my PC.
Must be Basenotes' New Year's resolution! Performance has greatly deteriorated so far this year.
The site has been almost unusable for me for the past several days. I get failures to load pages well over 50% of the time, and most of the time I am forced to give up and try again later.
Terrible time this morning getting on basenotes. It wouldn't load properly, just showed the bar at the top and that was it. Tried on and off for 3 hours. Pretty frustrating and the problems seem to be getting worse.
It's been going on for quite a while that lagging and connection drop outs and been unable to connect to the site is becoming the normal state of play.
Not only has the site been slow, but I'm also getting Nordstrom's fragrance section opening in another tab at random when I'm browsing Basenotes. Is anyone else getting this?? It's bizarre.
Really getting sick of the constant inaccessibility. Why does this happen all the time - I mean many times a week? No other site I frequent has this much trouble being up for any length of time. Any time of the day, it's a toss-up.
Please explain why. Is the site hosted on a home PC? Is the site so flawed in its back-end that it warrants a complete-from-scratch redesign? This has been going on for YEARS.
Along with the incredible delay in posting reviews, I'm very ready to just fully jump ship to Fragrantica.com. Only once or twice have I ever had an issue with them.
It's worse today. Although the site and the links are accessible, each forum home page is not updating, Activity stream not streaming, and database errors are all over when trying to post.
Really getting sick of the constant inaccessibility. Why does this happen all the time - I mean many times a week? No other site I frequent has this much trouble being up for any length of time. Any time of the day, it's a toss-up.
Please explain why. Is the site hosted on a home PC? Is the site so flawed in its back-end that it warrants a complete-from-scratch redesign? This has been going on for YEARS.
Along with the incredible delay in posting reviews, I'm very ready to just fully jump ship to Fragrantica.com. Only once or twice have I ever had an issue with them.
Could be hosted on a home pc. I'm not too sure. Lately its been slow and lots of database errors.
I'm sure the admins are on to it - let's hope it's resolved soon.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. I've been a member of Basenotes for six years and we have suffered with these performance issues for the entire time. Even at its best the site has been frustratingly slow.
I don't get what the issue is. Do the servers just suck? There are some members that pay to support the site, so you'd think with ads and that money it would be able to handle the load. I work for a few larger forums and they all manage to load perfectly with the same ad/premium style system.
I love the site, don't get me wrong, but it is definitely annoying more times than not. Also the whole posts not being bumped thing...
I don't get what the issue is. Do the servers just suck? There are some members that pay to support the site, so you'd think with ads and that money it would be able to handle the load. I work for a few larger forums and they all manage to load perfectly with the same ad/premium style system.
I love the site, don't get me wrong, but it is definitely annoying more times than not. Also the whole posts not being bumped thing...