I like all ingredients and hate none.
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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I like all ingredients and hate none.
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.
“To defeat an enemy you must know them. Not simply their battle tactics, but their history, philosophy, art.”
Grand Admiral Thrawn
I love all notes except for immortelle.
Love:
Lemon
Cedar
Vetiver
Hate:
Civet
Origano
Castoreum
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).
Hate:
Leather
Tomato leaf
Bright florals
Love:
Rose
Tobacco
Vanilla
Love
Jasmine
Tea
Neroli
Dislike
Origano (It ruined Interlude Man for me)
Tar
Tomato Leaf
Love:
vanilla
incense
vetiver
Hate:
aldehydes
aldehydes
aldehydes
Love: orange blossom, vanilla, sandalwood
Hate: Patchouli, oakmoss, anise
Love: Vanilla, Sandlewood and Patchoulli Hate: Civet, Licorice and Iris (except Iris note in DHI).
Love
Incense
Pepper
Iris
Hate
Rose
Civet
Leather
I love basically all notes when used well. Usually I dislike non-citrus fruit notes and aldehydes.
Love- Patchouli, Amber, Tobacco.
Hate- Tuberose, civet, rose.
Hard work never killed anyone, but why risk it?
Love
rum
cloves
amber
Dislike
rose
tomato leaf(good call James)
oud
I've just been on Trip Advisor. There was no information on a cut knee.
Luke Graves
Love:
Tea
Violet leaf
Rose
Hate:
Anise
Cardomom
Rosemary
Love:
Rose
Vetiver
Cedar
Dislike:
Cumin
Celery Seed
Fecal Notes
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady original formula (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) Polo vintage (Ralph Lauren) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
Love: Amber, Oud, Vanilla
Hate: Immortelle, Musk, Fecal notes
Love--
Tobacco flower/blossom
Birch
Mint (especially sweet spearmint)
Hate--
Ambergris (yuck, sweaty & sour to me).
Animalic notes like civet
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)
love cardamon-orange blossom-cedar hate civet-tuberose-all the made up notes in antidote. lol
i dislike rose, vanilla and straight lemon.
love cinnamon, mint, and oud
14 sprays of DRAKKAR NOIR should do it
Love
All citrus
Boozy notes
Mildew/Musty notes
Hate
Tomato Leaf
Cherry
Tar
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.
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?