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Your favorite "underrated/ under the radar" house?

post #1 of 24
10/22/12 at 11:30am
Thread Starter 
There will be no shortage of redundant Creed, Guerlain, Tom Ford, Amourage and what not posts.

So, let's take a look into the lesser known houses.

What is your favorite underrated house? The house you feel is under the radar.

For me, it is Divine (http://www.fragrantica.com/designers/Divine.html)

The L'Homme Sage is one of my favorite scents ever!

How about for you?
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post #2 of 24
10/22/12 at 11:44am
Divine is a good call. A lot of great fragrances (both the maculines and the feminines). I'll add Parfums De Nicolai. With the exception of New York which is still pretty popular, most of the offering from this house seem to have fallen into oblivion. Such a pity.

There are are a lot more "underrated" brands hiding true gems within their ranges.
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post #3 of 24
10/22/12 at 11:49am
Parfumerie Générale
Miller Harris
Ormonde Jayne
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post #4 of 24
10/22/12 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by Hellhound View Post

Parfumerie Générale
Ormonde Jayne

Two more to add to the list of the overlooked stuff...
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post #5 of 24
10/22/12 at 11:52am
Galimard,of course.
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post #6 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:33pm
Capucci, Maurer&Wirtz, Ungaro, Rocco Barocco, Jaguar, Caron
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post #7 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:41pm
Miller Harris
Diptyque - other than the popular 3 or 4.
Etro
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post #8 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:41pm
Slumberhouse, the past 3 I've bought have been some of my best purchases so far.
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post #9 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:46pm
Aftelier without a doubt - hardly spoke about - some of the most beautiful fragrances created
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post #10 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:47pm
Satellite, Micallef and Aftelier are a few of my favorites.

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Aftelier without a doubt - hardly spoke about - some of the most beautiful fragrances created

Beat me to it by a minute. :-)
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post #11 of 24
10/22/12 at 12:59pm
LM Parfums
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post #12 of 24
10/22/12 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by drseid View Post

Satellite, Micallef and Aftelier are a few of my favorites.

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Beat me to it by a minute. :-)

I'm always desperate to talk about the Aftelier line with people but no one is interested! Haha. Thrilled to see some more appreciation.
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post #13 of 24
10/22/12 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by starshipvelcro View Post

Slumberhouse.

This ^^^^^^^^^.
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post #14 of 24
10/22/12 at 2:41pm
Thread Starter 
I made this post because I love these kind of posts. I always discover something new.

I am going to write some of these houses and see if I can get a few samples!
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post #15 of 24
10/22/12 at 2:46pm
Lush I never here talked about , but I used to own breath of God and I enjoyed it
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post #16 of 24
10/22/12 at 3:39pm
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Originally Posted by starshipvelcro View Post

Slumberhouse, the past 3 I've bought have been some of my best purchases so far.

Absolutely agree. I've bought four this year: Jeke, Norne, Baque, and Sova. Great stuff.
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post #17 of 24
10/22/12 at 4:40pm
I'm with the OP on Divine - haven't met one I didn't like, even the women's. Another I would mention would be Ineke
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post #18 of 24
10/22/12 at 5:18pm
+1 on Ormonde Jayne & Divine


Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Profumi del Forte
Vero Profumo
Nasomatto
The Different Company
Andy tauer
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post #19 of 24
10/22/12 at 5:26pm
Roger & Gallet. Nice fragrances, wonderful soaps. As usual, vintage is better.
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post #20 of 24
10/22/12 at 5:41pm
Agree with Divine
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post #21 of 24
10/22/12 at 7:02pm
I would say:

Atelier (Vetiver Fatal and Rose Anonyme are some of their best offerings, but there are other very nice ones as well)
The Different Company
Tauer (LDDM gets plenty of love, but don't really hear much about the others)
Byredo
Lubin
Salvatore Ferragamo
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post #22 of 24
10/22/12 at 9:58pm
Divine. The feminines from this line are fantastic; I prefer them to the masculines by quite a bit. Divine and L'Ame Soeur are especially good, IMO, but L'Inspiratrice is also very nice.
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post #23 of 24
10/22/12 at 10:26pm
YOSH, just based on their groundbreaking "Sombre Negra" - others in this line are pretty average!.
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post #24 of 24
10/22/12 at 10:39pm
Sardinian Scent Lab!
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