Fragrance with the most beautiful smell

[Sol invictus]

Which fragrance do you believe, and these are personal opinions of course, has the most beautiful smell?

Please don't factor in a frags longevity, sillage, or originality in your decisions, this is purely about smell.

[döfä91]

Vintage Macassar by Rochas.

[Jack Hunter]

There are two fragrances that totally WOWED me in been for me especially beautiful and to contain that magic when you just smell them and go "ahhhhhh now that is good" and they are:

Vintage Amouage Homage
Creed Jardin d' Amalfi

[colognejunkie2000]

Dior Homme Intense

[nfn1983]

Givenchy Xeryus Rouge
Dior Homme Intense

[hednic]

Balafre

[JON RODGERS]

Guerlain L'Heure Bleue.

[limaaa]

DHI
Ambre 114

[Awakening950]

Millesime Imperial

[Cylob]

Bois des Iles

[senore01]

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[sjg3839]

That's what I'm talking about!

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[promqueen]

Robe D'Un soir (original) by Carven -women
Tsar by Van Cleef & Arpels (original)-men

...and as always, don't overdo it

[Primrose]

I could never choose just one.

I would start with Chanel Cuir de Russie parfum, Vol de Nuit and Cuir de Lancome.

Then I would add others.

[Avecesar]

FURYO by Jacques Bogart

[Kybid]

I love FM's Bigarade Concentree...every time I smell it I think I love it a little more.

- - - Updated - - -

I love FM's Bigarade Concentree...every time I smell it I think I love it a little more.

[HORNS]

I find that the new Jour d'Hermes to be a beautiful perfume.
Vol de Nuit is another one.

[Wheatstraw2]

Beautiful? I seek beauty, I seek to be surrounded by it. I wonder how you're using the word. If I stand in front of Water Lillies at the MOMA, I see beauty. Intense beauty. I love most Picassos, but I find them to be less "beautiful" than the water lillies. So maybe my feelings about beauty have kind of this Japanese lilt to them where I think about stuff like harmony, peace, balance, proportion and nuanced pleasure. I can appreciate and respect some the more hard-edged male fragrances out there, the ones that seem to extend from the Guinness Stout/horseshit cohiba/rotten whiskey model of demonstrating one's virility, but for me "beauty" has a somewhat softer, milder, more comforting feeling to it than that. So, with that disclaimer in mind, I think that the most beautiful fragrances are -

Bulgari Eau Parfumee Au The Vert
Cartier L'Essence de Must Pour Homme
Cartier Must Pour Homme
Gaultier 2
Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille
Gucci Pour Homme 2003
Jo Malone Red Roses (imo dudes cannot wear this, but can park bars of the soap in strategic locations in the bathroom).

Maybe Halston Z-14, which in some ways is the magnum opus of male perfumery, is beautiful. The old, original, long-gone Quorum was kind of beautiful.

I could probably be convinced that an old skool test-fest powerhouse like Santos is beautiful - I wear it a lot - but my definition of beauty is probably narrower than yours. Anyway, that's my best thinking on the subject. It's all terribly subjective, isn't it?

[Miket]

Is beautiful here being used as a synonym for good? Some fragrances I find very good arn't really beautiful.

I'll pick five: Nina Ricci's Fille d'Eve (vintage parfum), Worth's Je Reviens (vintage parfum) Opulent Shaik no.33 (EDP), Love Chloe (EDP) and Annick Goutal's Rose Absolu (EDP)

Note that I don't add certain things I'm apt to rave wildly about such as Annick Goutal's vanilla because I find it more delicously sensual than beautiful, and say Tabac Blonde which is more femme fatale sexy than beautiful, and I don't add any of my favourite masculines because except for The Third Man (vintage, which still doesn't quite make the cut) I wouldn't call most of them beautiful.

[inc0gnito]

For some strange reason YSL L'homme was the first thing that popped up in my head when I think "beautiful"

[KidAlpha]

For some strange reason YSL L'homme was the first thing that popped up in my head when I think "beautiful"

That's because it is! I also thought of Gucci Pour Homme II ....the violet top note always smells beautiful to me

[fit&frag'd]

Gucci Pour Homme II
Creed Silver Mountain Water
Creed Green Irish Tweed
Ambre 114
LIDGE
Tom Ford Neroli Portofino
Prada Amber pour Homme

[SneezeFreeze]

Creed Aventus
Creed BdP

[change1]

Homage
Egoiste

[hlatif33]

Jubilation XXV

[Diamondflame]

Can only think of 2 right now that qualify. There's a purity or innocence about them that I find truly beautiful.

Sonoma Scent Studio's Jour Ensoleille
Cartier Les Heures Fougueuse

[Riley]

Black Aoud for its lush, fresh, wet, red roses

[cameron]

Creed Windsor

[joe mcclaine]

Beautiful?

Chanel Cuir De Russie is probably the most 'beautiful' one I own.

[cannotavoidtrite]

Vol de Nuit vintage pure parfum.