and fake creeds smell worse than real ones. prob is many here got bogus creeds online and are whining that they have no strength/sillage or smell bad. still with legit vendors people!
Today I took the time to smell the twix bar I was eating. I actually put it up to my nose and smelled it like it was a fragrance, and it blew away any chocolate gourmand you can think of. A simple 99 cent twix bar.
Peel an orange and you'll get a citrus that destroys the best citrus frag.
Smell an actual flower and it'll blow away any flower centered frag.
Of course Creeds due to their superior quality and unparalleled attention to nuance come close, but even they can't beat the real thing. Forget about the other brands.
P.S. That's what people mean by "synthetic." It's not the chemicals you use; it's how close you get to the real thing.
and fake creeds smell worse than real ones. prob is many here got bogus creeds online and are whining that they have no strength/sillage or smell bad. still with legit vendors people!
Exactly.
Last edited by Cerel9; 9th December 2012 at 01:33 AM.
If you want to rub a twix bar all over your wrists and neck, be my guest. I'll continue to buy wonderful fragrances![]()
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I am now in a stay-away-from-gourmand phase lately. They are my favorite frag genre but I find that they make me feel hunry and with all the xmas candy out there I want some non-gourmand scents to wear.
I do realize gourmands are best worn in winter...but anyway...
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That's the strangest Creed plug I've seen for a while![]()
Those smells don't have sillage and/or longevity, and if they did they might become cloying quickly.
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The problem with "real smells" is that I don't have blackcurrant, bergamot, apple, pineapple, rose, birch, jasmine, patchouli, musk, oak moss, ambergris, and vanilla laying around my dorm room. That makes up one "fake smell". I don't have the time or money to get quality ingredients and rub them on my body. And some "real smells" would probably suck to put on your skin anyway.
Makes sense. If you think about it, a twix bar is already layered for you and everything...
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Last edited by fredricktoo; 9th December 2012 at 04:49 AM.
Am I the only one that finds it strange that the OP considers a Twix Bar natural?
I do appreciate the sentiment but agree with Awakening that a Twix Bar is about as fake as you can get.
Let me get this straight. Creed, the brand that is notorious for its inability to produce 2 batches that smell the same, is the one that comes closest to accurately reproducing real smells?
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Even perfumes that are made from natural ingredients are probably not going to smell as authentic the plant they were derived from. But if it's the best that can be done with all our human ingenuity, then there's probably still some happiness in that.
Add to that the fact that many good perfumes aren't really supposed to smell like things we are familiar with, and that's the realm in which much of the magic of the perfumer's art takes place.
What do you mean by YOU people?!
I don't have a signature fragrance. My signature changes a little bit every day, why shouldn't my fragrance?
Was I the only one who thought of GIT and then mental pictures of someone impersonating a dog doing that funny twisty rub on grass and moss?
Well, not all perfumes are trying to imitate exactly the smell of "natural" things (or Twix bars). Just like not all painting is trying to be a photorealistic representation of the subject it portrays (especially since the invention of photography).
Also, we can appreciate smells that we don't necessarily want to wear as perfume. I love the smell of an orange peel, but don't want to wear it. Same with gasoline, pastry, libraries, ozone, and Twix bars.