3 ingredients/notes/essences you LOVE & 3 you HATE

[walkdogg]

What 3 Ingredients, essences, or notes do you
LOVE so much you would buy blindly based on their reported primary presence
& what 3 do you HATE or despise so immensely you'll them avoid at irrational measures?

LOVE:
1. Licorice/Anise - (the notes that first seduced me!)
2. Vetiver
3. OUD/agarwood

Hate:
1. Coffee
2. Gardenia
3. Cherry

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[hednic]

I like all ingredients and hate none.

[Norstrøm]

I have yet to find an ingredient that I dislike. I think it is more how the note is used(amount, balance, interplay with other notes), rather than the note itself.

[easyfish]

I love all notes except for immortelle.

[dougczar]

Love:
Lemon
Cedar
Vetiver


Hate:
Civet
Origano
Castoreum

[Ken_Russell]

Love: any form of citrus, leathery notes, chypre notes

Hate: maybe cumin, excessive amounts of cinnamon (both of these spicy notes being still OK for my nose in small quantities), apple (apart from, again moderate, apple notes occasionally and subtly sensed among many other notes of a scent).

[morrison74]

Hate:
Leather
Tomato leaf
Bright florals

Love:
Rose
Tobacco
Vanilla

[Jack Hunter]

Love

Jasmine
Tea
Neroli

Dislike

Origano (It ruined Interlude Man for me)
Tar
Tomato Leaf

[dreamer81]

Love:

vanilla
incense
vetiver



Hate:

aldehydes
aldehydes
aldehydes

[Hayven]

Love: orange blossom, vanilla, sandalwood
Hate: Patchouli, oakmoss, anise

[sjg3839]

Love: Vanilla, Sandlewood and Patchoulli Hate: Civet, Licorice and Iris (except Iris note in DHI).

[Kielecki]

Love
Incense
Pepper
Iris

Hate
Rose
Civet
Leather

[Johnny_Ludlow]

I love basically all notes when used well. Usually I dislike non-citrus fruit notes and aldehydes.

[indianwells]

Love- Patchouli, Amber, Tobacco.

Hate- Tuberose, civet, rose.

[trex57]

Love

rum
cloves
amber

Dislike

rose
tomato leaf(good call James)
oud

[dudelove]

Love:
Tea
Violet leaf
Rose

Hate:
Anise
Cardomom
Rosemary

[drseid]

Love:

Rose
Vetiver
Cedar

Dislike:

Cumin
Celery Seed
Fecal Notes

[Granola]

Love: Amber, Oud, Vanilla

Hate: Immortelle, Musk, Fecal notes

[BrianH1016]

Love--
Tobacco flower/blossom
Birch
Mint (especially sweet spearmint)

Hate--
Ambergris (yuck, sweaty & sour to me).
Animalic notes like civet

[Partario]

Love:
Almost any boozy note
Rose (if it's rich and not the candy-sweet type)
Incense

Hate:
Tuberose
Orange
Vetiver (but only if it's mixed funny or overtly prominent)

[Tony T]

love cardamon-orange blossom-cedar hate civet-tuberose-all the made up notes in antidote. lol

[lanky]

i dislike rose, vanilla and straight lemon.

love cinnamon, mint, and oud

[Gamma]

Love
All citrus
Boozy notes
Mildew/Musty notes

Hate
Tomato Leaf
Cherry
Tar

[ElVee]

Love:
Vanilla
Incense
Tobacco

Hate:
Absinth/Licorice

Pretty much if I see that in the notes or many descriptions, there's no way I'll like the frag. With most other notes, my opinions may shift based on the composition.

[jbthorpe]

I'm at work so I can't take the time to list 3 love/ 3 hate, but I will say that cumin in a fragrance smells like 40 year-old fat man armpits. I loathe it. I don't put the stuff in my food, why would I want to smell like it?