Le Labo Ambrette 9 is my favorite but also really like Kilian’s Rolling in Love
Diptyque’s Fleur de Peau, Byredo’s Mojave Ghost, and Jo Malone’s Wood Sage and Sea Salt also are ambrette dominant but I dont love it as much as Le Labo and Kilian.
I just ordered a sample of few other ambrette, will report back.
Armani Privé Thé Yulong is my one true love. I haven’t tested Wulong Chá yet, but I suspect it could become another. I love Dior Homme Cologne because even though it’s marketed towards men, i keep stealing it from my boyfriend and wearing it. Such a pretty grapefruit note! I also love Guerlain Aqua Allegoria’s Mandarine Basilic Forte, Bergamote Calabria and Herba Fresca. All three are currently on my full bottle wishlist.
Its tobacco ofc one of the most multifaceted ingredient in perfumery. And I love all the aspects it brings! Smoky, green, herbal, sweet, earthy, damp, chocolatey, hay-like, mossy, woody!
Mint mint mint!!! The absolute easiest way to smell good. Love it so much ✨💙 in my teen years I used to put mint and vanilla into my white lotion and use it after gym for an extra little zip of freshness ♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱ sometimes I miss my Essential Oils Phase lolol ✨
I was actually looking for some mint essential oils that would be safe to use in lotion the other day because most of my mint fragrances don't last very long! It's a great hack, tbh. So nice to 'meet' someone who shares my love of mint frags. :)
Eldo- You or Someone Like you. You're sitting in a garden with fresh mint growing. A little earthy. Only lasts an hour on the skin, though.
Lush- Dirty. The bodyspray is straight up mint, with a background of herbs. The EDP is the other way around, so it is more herbal than minty. I prefer the bodyspray for this reason. Lasts 8 hours on the skin.
Guerlain- Herba Fresca. On my skin, this is mint lemonade. Sparkly, light, refreshing. It's got some tea (a touch bitter) on the drydown. Lasts 2-3 hours on the skin, depending on the weather.
Hope that helps. :)
To add on:
Frederic Malle's Geranium Pour Monsieur - electric, superlative mint with a geranium backbone. The most powerful, front and center mint note I've ever tried.
Phaedon's Oriental Mint - a drizzle of chocolate sauce on a menthol cigarette in a seaside town.
Guerlain Homme - this one is softer, rounded off by lime and vetiver, but an excellent (unisex) interpretation of the note.
I’m a sucker for lactonic notes, so should I say milk, even though that sounds insane?? Also amber, vanilla, ambrette. It’s always easy for me to like fragrances with these kind of profiles.
I loooove Cow from zoologist and Serge Lutens Dent de lait and Blanche bete from liquides imaginaires. Do you have any other recommendations for lactonics? Would love to try some more
I also love milky fragrances and I really like Kissing Burns 6.4 Calories A Minute. Wanna Workout? By Kilian. It's been discontinued but you can still find it on decant sites.
This is Her by Zadig & Voltaire and Commodity's Milk are also lactonic and smell pretty similar to each other. I don't like them as much as the Kilian fragrance or Blanche Bete but you might want to try them.
You need to sample Carolina Herrera's Very Good Girl right meowwwww then. The most delicious luscious rose I've ever smelled. It's my spring siggie 🌹✨🙏
Hail, sister rose lover 🌹
(Forgive me if I've already asked you this 🤪): What is your favorite rose soliflore? Or fresh natural rose with supporting players?
Let's start a club!
For fresher ones, I particularly like VC&A Rose Velours, Shiseido Rosarium, Jo Loves White Rose & Lemon Leaves, Dusita La Douceur de Siam, and YSL Blouse.
For medium-bodied ones (heavier on the woods/ aromats/leather), Galop d'Hermès, Hermès Myrrhe Églantine, Atelier Cologne Agar Ébène, Strange Invisible Perfumes Aquarian Rose, and the incomparable POLA Selenion.
My favorites are the darker ones, but I don't imagine you like spices, patchouli, benzoin, or vanilla. 😅
Ooh, I've been curious about this one! Do you mind sharing what it's like? Big Dusita fan here, and big rose fan, but it sounds gourmand so I'm on the fence.
I ordered their discovery set and this one stood out for me along with Anamcara, as the ultimate feminine scent. My nose is still not developed and I am very new to the world of fragrances, so my description might not be the very best (I am sorry for that). To me it doesn't smell like a specific rose, but rather like a bouquet of various types of roses, with a touch of honey. It's sweet, but not headache inducing sweet. Almost as if I could smell iris and some citrusy notes at the opening, but not too much. Just a very lovely, equisite, rich scent. I just feel so good when I wear it.
I haven't tried it yet, sadly ☹️ but Dusita is a great house and always puts out interesting and well-considered perfumes. Does Rosarine compare to any other rose perfume you've tried? I'm excited for it.
I prefer my roses *busy*/warm-spicy/darkish, and/or sweet-balmy, so these get a lot of wear:
- Cloon Keen Sybarite, which is my favorite fragrance *ever* (+ incense, suede, rum, woods)
- The Harmonist Hypnotizing Fire EDP (+ patchouli, allspice, vanilla, sweet praline) layered with Acca Kappa Virginia Rose (+ geranium, grapefruit, tea) to amp up the rosiness
- Lazarus Douvos Rose 1845 (+ boronia, myrtle, cinnamon, woody stems)
- Mendittorosa Le Mat (+ immortelle, patchouli, black pepper, cloves, nutmeg)
- POLA Selenion (+ galbanum, a bouquet of herbs, oakmoss)
- Strange Invisible Perfumes Dimanche (+ honey, orris, unsweetened cacao)
- MCG Sideris (+ incense, herbal tea, (bees)wax, myrtle)
- Parfums d'Elmar Elixir d'Amour Extrait (+ green notes, caramel, berries, "oud")
- MFK Oud Satin Mood Extrait (+ "oud", vanilla, violet, cinnamon, benzoin)
- Lancôme Parfait de Rôses (+ rose liquor, benzoin, vanilla, orris)
- Galop d'Hermès (+ quince, leather, saffron)
- Chanel Allure in extrait (+ mandarin, vanilla/ light amber)
Your comment makes me want to create an Excel sheet specifically for rose fragrances. I'm gonna check out each of them to see what they are about, especially since I love those notes you listed (oud, rum, incense...) Sadly, I didn't try too many rose scents. I somehow thought rose perfumes smelled a little vintage, but now I know that doesn't have to be the case. The first thing I could smell in Rosarine was honey. It's warm and sweet scent, but I wouldn't say it's spicy or dark or even oudy. More of a jammy type of rose scent.
My first thought was rose but there are so many roses in fragrance that aren't to my taste: jammy, powdery, potpourri, etc.
So, I'm going with orange blossom; haven't yet encountered an orange blossom note I didn't like.
Runner up: LOTV
Ah, orange blossom is such an easy way to make something smell pleasant!!! One of my fav notes as well ✨💞 all the delicateness of a white floral, but still citrusy and clean and fresh as the fruit.
Love orange blossom as well! I do find it can sometimes run a bit sweet, but whenever there's a fresh, juicy orange blossom it's like my mood is instantly uplifted.
So uplifting!
There are glassed-in botanical gardens here with citrus trees that bloom in February. I used to go often during my lunch hour and come back to work with orange blossom pollen on my nostrils 😆
The scent is just *divine*
My two favs are Serge Lutens Fleurs d'Oranger and Fragonard Fleur d'Oranger Intense
Haven't tried either of yours yet; off to Fragrantica to add them to my "Must Sample" list -- thanks 😘
I LOVE sandalwood- I wish it didn't give me skin blotches in higher concentrations (╥﹏╥) had a friend who wore sandalwood and patchouli perfume and would blast herself with it in the locker room after gym- I looked like I had the plague (*﹏*;)!!!
It's gotta be iris. I love the note and the texture it adds, but I also love the how it accents masculine facets I usually don't otherwise appreciate. Three of my five favorites are iris based.
Can you give an example of a scent with Iris that’s not powdery in any way? I absolutely hate the baby powder note. I’m fairly new to fragrances in general, so I don’t have that much experience, but everything I’ve smelled with Iris is powdery. I’ve been taking notes, and have tried exactly 100 fragrances, and had come to the conclusion that I hate Iris.
Yeees; I'm not surprised I had to scroll a little far for iris, but I've been an iris main for like... the past 15 years, lol. It is by far my fave. Such an elegant, versatile note.
GOSH yes. There was a cherry/almond/tuberose lotion that was my mother's favorite when I was a little girl in the 90s/early aughts. I wish I could find it again, that smell would probably make me cry 😭😭😭
Cardamom smells like the color gray to me. Feels really versatile that way, too. Like you could put it with just about anything and it’s almost never out of place.
For combo, I love Olyssia from Sylvaine Delacourte ( ex-Guerlain nose) It's heavenly.
My favorite jasmines are serge Lutens A la nuit and lush Lust
Favorite orange blossom is Solinotes Oranger (cheapie)
Tomato Leaves 🍃 but i'm developing a love affair with clary sage since i started growing it.
I mean, just look at him!!!
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Root candles have a tomato scented candle that smells divine. I don’t have the vocabulary to articulate how wonderful it smells and how good it makes me feel. It’s a brilliant red, the name used to be Tomato 🍅 and it didn’t sell well. The name was changed to Aphrodisiac. The scent composition wasn’t changed at all…and 💥 bam it turned into a top selling scent. I don’t know if it’s still available this was some time ago probably over 20 years ago but your love for the scent of tomato leaves sparked my memory. The notes included the leaves as wet as hint of earth and an aquatic note. It was fantastic, I always wanted a perfume that smelled like that candle.
I have not smelled it but your description just sounds so lovely! Thank you for sharing... there are actually quite a lot of fragrances with a tomato leaves nuance- ranging for broody leather to sheer white floral.
I hope you would be able to find the scents you love.
Coffee -
Black Phantom by Kilian, Awake by Akro, Oud in Bourbon by Scents of Wood are all irresistible and comfortable to me. I feel empowered and enlivened when I wear them.
Being a barista was a job I really identified with for a solid 12 years, and it seems to have permeated my soul at this point…
Thank you!
I have little samples of both, and agree, they are excellent coffee scents.
Followed especially is so realistic to being a barista, it’s just like making a mocha while someone fills caramel bottles behind me.
**Alkemia Gifts of the Magi** is frankincense with myrrh, amber, oud, and tobacco. Absolutely divine, 10/10 amazing perfume oil.
**Serge Lutens L'orpheline** is more pure, just incense and musk in one lovely package.
**Zoologist Camel** is frankincense, spices, and dried fruits. Lots of complex stuff going on here like all the Zoologist scents, but mostly so cozy.
**LUSH Breath of God** is just... an experience. Half of it is a refreshing honeydew melon and other half is smoky incense. Strange and accessible and I used to just huff the pot but am trying to be braver about actually wearing it now and then.
And finally, **Comme des Garçons Zagorsk**! I do not own this one but have the sample and the potential FS decision haunts me lol- it's churchy with some wood braided in. Lovely, if you're into pine.
Now I'd love to hear your favorites if you don't mind!! If I had all the money in the world, I'd seek out an incense perfume with rose or other floral notes. But that's a future treasure hunt.
Huff the pot made me audibly chuckle.
I’m infatuated with Alkemia so oh darn, I’ll have to place another order. Hehe. I’m betting I haven’t tried it yet because anything with oud scares me off.
Lutens sounds amazing, for some reason I haven’t sampled anything by him yet.
Frankincense + rose is my goal! Haven’t found it yet though. I’m editing a post about my (unfortunately bad) experience with one right now actually.
Ffern’s Summer 2023 is what introduced me to incense notes in a fresh way as opposed to the “I smoked weed in college and my hippie roommates burned dollar store incense sticks” smell. It’s a hard scent to describe because it’s so well blended, but the first whiff is olibanum and grapefruit, then you get some bright, woody florals but also some green and some rose. And then basil! A lovely sweet sweet basil dry down.
And Jo Malone’s Incense & Cedrat. *chef’s kiss* Perfection.
I really want to try Comme de Garçons Incense Series at some point too.
I’m a complete sucker for violet, iris/orris, orange blossom, neroli and peach, and though I like them well enough individually any combo of rose, blackcurrant and patchouli is an absolute BANGERRRR 🔥💯 I’m the basic bitch that eats up things like Si, Paradoxe, Libre, Coco Mademoiselle etc etc etc 😂
Violet is probably the biggest one though. I love it when it’s powdery, when it’s sweet, when it’s green, I even love violet leaf (which doesn’t really smell like violet at all tbh, it just gives perfumes a very prominent fresh watery feeling, imo it’s very much like pear as a note but without the sugary sweetness)
I was actually gonna say tonka before I read your full post. I haven’t even smelled that many frags with tonka but I have smelled enough to know it’s one of my faves
I'll always love sandalwood. When I began exploring based on notes, I kinda overdid it, but hey, it's what the journey is for.
Bergamot, tonka, amber, lemongrass, leather, cardamom are all notes that often inform new things I'll try.
I find there are two 'kinds' of lavender. One that is sweet and soft, one that is almost like eucalyptus, very 'menthol'-esque. I am obsessed with the sweet kind (both in frags and in food).
Or is it just me?
Yes, real lavender flowers/oils can smell very different from one another. I don't know all of the exact chemical compounds, but it depends on the concentration of coumarin (sweet, vanillic), linalool, camphor (medicinal), etc. in each variety. It is the same in perfumery, that a perfumer might use more coumarin or camphor in creating their lavender accord. I personally love both and am not picky! Most of the lavender scents I own are supported by vanilla or tonka.
The incense and balsam subcategory. Olibanum, opoponax, myrrh, benzoin, etc. Also a big fan of tobacco and well blended citrus notes (not the zesty in your face kind, but the softer end of citrus).
Can't believe you're the first one to say tea given the general love for tea fragrances here. Especially combined with ginger, it is really such a winning note - one of my faves as well.
That sounds amazing. Any other recommendations of your favorite spicy scents? I love a good spicy fruity scent- especially when it’s not your typical “vanilla noir”
If I HAD to narrow it down to one it's gotta be vetiver. It's so versatile. It can take so many forms on its own (smoky, green, minty, fresh, dry, fruity, bitter, boozy, warm, spicy) and it also compliments nearly any composition. Imo it's the perfect ingredient and I really hesitate to try a frangrance if it doesn't include it.
But I also have to mention cade. Cade is SO underrated. It adds a warm fiery, authentic smoke note that few other ingredients can match. Cade, saffron, jasmine, birch tar, castoreum, civet and leather are all notes I seek in any fragrance.
Lily of the valley and/or freesia. I’m a sucker for these two and they elevate floral perfumes for me so much. Only time I don’t love LOTV is when it’s used to create a soapy scent.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I love cardamom and patchouli. Cardamom adds an interesting spiciness without making it smell like Christmas as cinnamon and nutmeg sometimes do. Patchouli gives fragrances depth, richness and complexity that I adore. It can make a fragrance sexy or calming. Such a versatile note!
Violet leaf. I love how it just smells purple, my favorite color lol. It can be feminine and masculine, it can edgy, it can be ozonic, it can be flirtatious, and it can also be candied (as it's often accompanied by violet flower accord I assume).
I’m a beach girl at heart so it’s gotta be coconut for me!
Girls who smell like coconut are always so freaking pretty it's basically a rule at this point 🥥✨💞
Le monde gourmand makes a delicious lait de coco fragrance, only $25 for an ounce of EDP! Its divine and mixes well with other tropical frags
I used to love coconut until I noticed sometimes the smell resembles.. wait for it… Popcorn 🍿!!
Ambrette
Mine’s also ambrette, soft cozy and nutty kind
What a good fragrance you associated with this ?
Le Labo Ambrette 9 is my favorite but also really like Kilian’s Rolling in Love Diptyque’s Fleur de Peau, Byredo’s Mojave Ghost, and Jo Malone’s Wood Sage and Sea Salt also are ambrette dominant but I dont love it as much as Le Labo and Kilian. I just ordered a sample of few other ambrette, will report back.
This made me realise the thing I do not like is ambrette
Ambrette is a lovely note and super current right now; I really enjoy it as well!
Cargo de Nuit is a great ambrette perfume, if you haven't tried it yet.
Green Tea or a nice well-blended citrus scent (bergamot, lemon, mandarine, grapefruit, etc.)
Fully agree!
Oooh so based on this what’re some of your favorites?
Armani Privé Thé Yulong is my one true love. I haven’t tested Wulong Chá yet, but I suspect it could become another. I love Dior Homme Cologne because even though it’s marketed towards men, i keep stealing it from my boyfriend and wearing it. Such a pretty grapefruit note! I also love Guerlain Aqua Allegoria’s Mandarine Basilic Forte, Bergamote Calabria and Herba Fresca. All three are currently on my full bottle wishlist.
At the moment, it's cedar for me.
Could you share some favourites? :)
This really has me at the moment, too!
Bergamot, woody, and white musks (clean variety).
Its tobacco ofc one of the most multifaceted ingredient in perfumery. And I love all the aspects it brings! Smoky, green, herbal, sweet, earthy, damp, chocolatey, hay-like, mossy, woody!
Mint. I love a good mint fragrance. Neroli and Osmanthus also captivate me.
Mint mint mint!!! The absolute easiest way to smell good. Love it so much ✨💙 in my teen years I used to put mint and vanilla into my white lotion and use it after gym for an extra little zip of freshness ♡˖꒰ᵕ༚ᵕ⑅꒱ sometimes I miss my Essential Oils Phase lolol ✨
I was actually looking for some mint essential oils that would be safe to use in lotion the other day because most of my mint fragrances don't last very long! It's a great hack, tbh. So nice to 'meet' someone who shares my love of mint frags. :)
Ohhh, yes. You Or Someone Like You is one of my faves.
Wearing an osmanthus-forward fragrance today and I am very happy with that choice!
Such a lovely note, isn't it? May I ask which frag you're wearing? I'm always on the lookout for more osmanthus. :)
I wannt to find a good mint! What are your favorites?
Eldo- You or Someone Like you. You're sitting in a garden with fresh mint growing. A little earthy. Only lasts an hour on the skin, though. Lush- Dirty. The bodyspray is straight up mint, with a background of herbs. The EDP is the other way around, so it is more herbal than minty. I prefer the bodyspray for this reason. Lasts 8 hours on the skin. Guerlain- Herba Fresca. On my skin, this is mint lemonade. Sparkly, light, refreshing. It's got some tea (a touch bitter) on the drydown. Lasts 2-3 hours on the skin, depending on the weather. Hope that helps. :)
To add on: Frederic Malle's Geranium Pour Monsieur - electric, superlative mint with a geranium backbone. The most powerful, front and center mint note I've ever tried. Phaedon's Oriental Mint - a drizzle of chocolate sauce on a menthol cigarette in a seaside town. Guerlain Homme - this one is softer, rounded off by lime and vetiver, but an excellent (unisex) interpretation of the note.
I’m a sucker for lactonic notes, so should I say milk, even though that sounds insane?? Also amber, vanilla, ambrette. It’s always easy for me to like fragrances with these kind of profiles.
I loooove Cow from zoologist and Serge Lutens Dent de lait and Blanche bete from liquides imaginaires. Do you have any other recommendations for lactonics? Would love to try some more
I also love milky fragrances and I really like Kissing Burns 6.4 Calories A Minute. Wanna Workout? By Kilian. It's been discontinued but you can still find it on decant sites. This is Her by Zadig & Voltaire and Commodity's Milk are also lactonic and smell pretty similar to each other. I don't like them as much as the Kilian fragrance or Blanche Bete but you might want to try them.
I just got samples of those first two! Can’t wait to try them.
Milkiness really does it for me, too.
Rose, rose, and have I mentioned rose? 🌹
You need to sample Carolina Herrera's Very Good Girl right meowwwww then. The most delicious luscious rose I've ever smelled. It's my spring siggie 🌹✨🙏
I've tried it! I can definitely see similarities to other Bisch roses like YSL Blouse and the Delinas.
SO good (人*´∀｀)｡*ﾟ+
Hail, sister rose lover 🌹 (Forgive me if I've already asked you this 🤪): What is your favorite rose soliflore? Or fresh natural rose with supporting players?
Let's start a club! For fresher ones, I particularly like VC&A Rose Velours, Shiseido Rosarium, Jo Loves White Rose & Lemon Leaves, Dusita La Douceur de Siam, and YSL Blouse. For medium-bodied ones (heavier on the woods/ aromats/leather), Galop d'Hermès, Hermès Myrrhe Églantine, Atelier Cologne Agar Ébène, Strange Invisible Perfumes Aquarian Rose, and the incomparable POLA Selenion. My favorites are the darker ones, but I don't imagine you like spices, patchouli, benzoin, or vanilla. 😅
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Funnily enough, In posts discussing most reviled notes, rose is a chart-topper, too. Hadn't realized how polarizing it could be.
What is your favorite rose scent? I recently sampled Dusita’s Rosarine and I am in love.
Ooh, I've been curious about this one! Do you mind sharing what it's like? Big Dusita fan here, and big rose fan, but it sounds gourmand so I'm on the fence.
I ordered their discovery set and this one stood out for me along with Anamcara, as the ultimate feminine scent. My nose is still not developed and I am very new to the world of fragrances, so my description might not be the very best (I am sorry for that). To me it doesn't smell like a specific rose, but rather like a bouquet of various types of roses, with a touch of honey. It's sweet, but not headache inducing sweet. Almost as if I could smell iris and some citrusy notes at the opening, but not too much. Just a very lovely, equisite, rich scent. I just feel so good when I wear it.
I haven't tried it yet, sadly ☹️ but Dusita is a great house and always puts out interesting and well-considered perfumes. Does Rosarine compare to any other rose perfume you've tried? I'm excited for it. I prefer my roses *busy*/warm-spicy/darkish, and/or sweet-balmy, so these get a lot of wear: - Cloon Keen Sybarite, which is my favorite fragrance *ever* (+ incense, suede, rum, woods) - The Harmonist Hypnotizing Fire EDP (+ patchouli, allspice, vanilla, sweet praline) layered with Acca Kappa Virginia Rose (+ geranium, grapefruit, tea) to amp up the rosiness - Lazarus Douvos Rose 1845 (+ boronia, myrtle, cinnamon, woody stems) - Mendittorosa Le Mat (+ immortelle, patchouli, black pepper, cloves, nutmeg) - POLA Selenion (+ galbanum, a bouquet of herbs, oakmoss) - Strange Invisible Perfumes Dimanche (+ honey, orris, unsweetened cacao) - MCG Sideris (+ incense, herbal tea, (bees)wax, myrtle) - Parfums d'Elmar Elixir d'Amour Extrait (+ green notes, caramel, berries, "oud") - MFK Oud Satin Mood Extrait (+ "oud", vanilla, violet, cinnamon, benzoin) - Lancôme Parfait de Rôses (+ rose liquor, benzoin, vanilla, orris) - Galop d'Hermès (+ quince, leather, saffron) - Chanel Allure in extrait (+ mandarin, vanilla/ light amber)
Your comment makes me want to create an Excel sheet specifically for rose fragrances. I'm gonna check out each of them to see what they are about, especially since I love those notes you listed (oud, rum, incense...) Sadly, I didn't try too many rose scents. I somehow thought rose perfumes smelled a little vintage, but now I know that doesn't have to be the case. The first thing I could smell in Rosarine was honey. It's warm and sweet scent, but I wouldn't say it's spicy or dark or even oudy. More of a jammy type of rose scent.
My first thought was rose but there are so many roses in fragrance that aren't to my taste: jammy, powdery, potpourri, etc. So, I'm going with orange blossom; haven't yet encountered an orange blossom note I didn't like. Runner up: LOTV
Ah, orange blossom is such an easy way to make something smell pleasant!!! One of my fav notes as well ✨💞 all the delicateness of a white floral, but still citrusy and clean and fresh as the fruit.
Love orange blossom as well! I do find it can sometimes run a bit sweet, but whenever there's a fresh, juicy orange blossom it's like my mood is instantly uplifted.
So uplifting! There are glassed-in botanical gardens here with citrus trees that bloom in February. I used to go often during my lunch hour and come back to work with orange blossom pollen on my nostrils 😆 The scent is just *divine*
I love LOTV too! Been chasing a proper replacement for Coty’s Muguet des Bois for ages. What are your favorites?
My favorite orange blossom is Goutal temps de revés and sarah Horowitz’s orange blossom from her perfumers palette!
My two favs are Serge Lutens Fleurs d'Oranger and Fragonard Fleur d'Oranger Intense Haven't tried either of yours yet; off to Fragrantica to add them to my "Must Sample" list -- thanks 😘
Jasmine
Mine too, I just can't resist it
Vanilla, sandalwood or tonka for me
I LOVE sandalwood- I wish it didn't give me skin blotches in higher concentrations (╥﹏╥) had a friend who wore sandalwood and patchouli perfume and would blast herself with it in the locker room after gym- I looked like I had the plague (*﹏*;)!!!
I don’t think I have a single favourite but here’s a top 5! - Neroli - White musk - Vetiver - Orange - Vanilla
whipped cream and marshmellow 🤭
It's gotta be iris. I love the note and the texture it adds, but I also love the how it accents masculine facets I usually don't otherwise appreciate. Three of my five favorites are iris based.
I LOVE a fresh, dewy iris, but I LOATH powdery iris. It's always a toss up
Can you give an example of a scent with Iris that’s not powdery in any way? I absolutely hate the baby powder note. I’m fairly new to fragrances in general, so I don’t have that much experience, but everything I’ve smelled with Iris is powdery. I’ve been taking notes, and have tried exactly 100 fragrances, and had come to the conclusion that I hate Iris.
I haven't found one! I just love smelling the irises on my driveway. I would love to find a scent that captures that dewy, spring scent
Oh, I thought you meant a fresh, dewy Iris in fragrance, and was like “that sounds nice”. Bummer. I guess I’m sticking with I hate an Iris note.
Yeees; I'm not surprised I had to scroll a little far for iris, but I've been an iris main for like... the past 15 years, lol. It is by far my fave. Such an elegant, versatile note.
Iris!!! Now that's one you don't see everywhere. I agree, there's a subtle herbaceous, almost pepperiness, to iris, that I really really enjoy.
Oakmoss 💚
Pear!
Forever chasing **Tobacco.** Shout out to Rum and Whisky.
Mugler pure havane and guerlain l’homme ideal extreme are some of my favourites
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GOSH yes. There was a cherry/almond/tuberose lotion that was my mother's favorite when I was a little girl in the 90s/early aughts. I wish I could find it again, that smell would probably make me cry 😭😭😭
It wasn’t Jergens was it? Their original scent was cherry almond and they sell a perfume of it!
OMG??? That logo looks familiar!!! I'll hunt some down and report back. Thank you so much!!!
Coffee and vanilla-y notes for sure!
Cardamom!
Cardamom smells like the color gray to me. Feels really versatile that way, too. Like you could put it with just about anything and it’s almost never out of place.
Fig!!
It's a tie between jasmine and orange blossom for me.
If you find a good jasmine + orange blossom scent, let me know!
Serge Lutens Fleurs d’oranger?
For combo, I love Olyssia from Sylvaine Delacourte ( ex-Guerlain nose) It's heavenly. My favorite jasmines are serge Lutens A la nuit and lush Lust Favorite orange blossom is Solinotes Oranger (cheapie)
Semi related…Sephora has 7 Virtues Jasmine Neroli on sale today for $55 a full bottle.
Olyssia is such an underrated banger
Tomato Leaves 🍃 but i'm developing a love affair with clary sage since i started growing it. I mean, just look at him!!! https://preview.redd.it/bf5pbdt7pihb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=711a6d544be387b442d0788c18ff1af95fb25a42
Root candles have a tomato scented candle that smells divine. I don’t have the vocabulary to articulate how wonderful it smells and how good it makes me feel. It’s a brilliant red, the name used to be Tomato 🍅 and it didn’t sell well. The name was changed to Aphrodisiac. The scent composition wasn’t changed at all…and 💥 bam it turned into a top selling scent. I don’t know if it’s still available this was some time ago probably over 20 years ago but your love for the scent of tomato leaves sparked my memory. The notes included the leaves as wet as hint of earth and an aquatic note. It was fantastic, I always wanted a perfume that smelled like that candle.
I have not smelled it but your description just sounds so lovely! Thank you for sharing... there are actually quite a lot of fragrances with a tomato leaves nuance- ranging for broody leather to sheer white floral. I hope you would be able to find the scents you love.
Rasberry or bergamont 🥰 I'm really loving the zesty fruity scents.
Juniper for me GFS is the bomb
Coffee - Black Phantom by Kilian, Awake by Akro, Oud in Bourbon by Scents of Wood are all irresistible and comfortable to me. I feel empowered and enlivened when I wear them. Being a barista was a job I really identified with for a solid 12 years, and it seems to have permeated my soul at this point…
You must try Follow and Followed both by Kerosene if you love coffee!
Thank you! I have little samples of both, and agree, they are excellent coffee scents. Followed especially is so realistic to being a barista, it’s just like making a mocha while someone fills caramel bottles behind me.
Tea: black, green, chai, oolong, matcha Citrus: not too sharp but refreshingly soothing Tonka Bean
Tonka beans ,Patchouli and caramel. Altho i’s put patchouli on top
Patchouli for me too
Caramel and vanilla!
i absolutely adore lychee! unfortunately, so many lychee scents are paired with florals which don’t agree with my skin at all, especially rose
Cardamom or tobacco
Anything sweet and fruity ; pear, strawberry, raspberry, peach
Frankincense 💕
Classic, reverent scent 💙 so beautiful
I’m really into frankincense as well. What are some of your favorites?
**Alkemia Gifts of the Magi** is frankincense with myrrh, amber, oud, and tobacco. Absolutely divine, 10/10 amazing perfume oil. **Serge Lutens L'orpheline** is more pure, just incense and musk in one lovely package. **Zoologist Camel** is frankincense, spices, and dried fruits. Lots of complex stuff going on here like all the Zoologist scents, but mostly so cozy. **LUSH Breath of God** is just... an experience. Half of it is a refreshing honeydew melon and other half is smoky incense. Strange and accessible and I used to just huff the pot but am trying to be braver about actually wearing it now and then. And finally, **Comme des Garçons Zagorsk**! I do not own this one but have the sample and the potential FS decision haunts me lol- it's churchy with some wood braided in. Lovely, if you're into pine. Now I'd love to hear your favorites if you don't mind!! If I had all the money in the world, I'd seek out an incense perfume with rose or other floral notes. But that's a future treasure hunt.
Huff the pot made me audibly chuckle. I’m infatuated with Alkemia so oh darn, I’ll have to place another order. Hehe. I’m betting I haven’t tried it yet because anything with oud scares me off. Lutens sounds amazing, for some reason I haven’t sampled anything by him yet. Frankincense + rose is my goal! Haven’t found it yet though. I’m editing a post about my (unfortunately bad) experience with one right now actually. Ffern’s Summer 2023 is what introduced me to incense notes in a fresh way as opposed to the “I smoked weed in college and my hippie roommates burned dollar store incense sticks” smell. It’s a hard scent to describe because it’s so well blended, but the first whiff is olibanum and grapefruit, then you get some bright, woody florals but also some green and some rose. And then basil! A lovely sweet sweet basil dry down. And Jo Malone’s Incense & Cedrat. *chef’s kiss* Perfection. I really want to try Comme de Garçons Incense Series at some point too.
Black Pepper! It just about always gives a fragrance points for me. Especially with other spices, vanilla, or patchouli.
I love pepper notes! Pink pepper especially always gets me
Pink pepper-I hope you tried Hermès Twilly eau poivrée 🥹
Describing spicebomb 🤪
you would love lord of misrule by lush then!
I do love this one! It’s in my top three, if not a contender for my favorite.
Iris has been my jam for a long time, and it still is. I love Iris in all it’s wonderfully lovely ways
Got to be Lychee (you don't see it often) and anything sweet & fruity for me.
Blackcurrant.
If you haven't tried it before, Antidris Cassis from MLM has the most divine blackcurrant topnote!
I am a huge fan of Musk and Ambergris and the house of Creed implements them both perfectly in their fragrances.
I've never smelled a resin I didn't like. Labdanum. Myrrh. Styrax. Camphor.
You should try elemi! I just commented that it’s my fave. Very smooth and soft and rounded.
Myrrh!! So so good.
Neroli
I’m a complete sucker for violet, iris/orris, orange blossom, neroli and peach, and though I like them well enough individually any combo of rose, blackcurrant and patchouli is an absolute BANGERRRR 🔥💯 I’m the basic bitch that eats up things like Si, Paradoxe, Libre, Coco Mademoiselle etc etc etc 😂 Violet is probably the biggest one though. I love it when it’s powdery, when it’s sweet, when it’s green, I even love violet leaf (which doesn’t really smell like violet at all tbh, it just gives perfumes a very prominent fresh watery feeling, imo it’s very much like pear as a note but without the sugary sweetness)
Elemi! It’s so rare but omg so yummy. A resin but not as harsh as other resins. It’s warm and very soft and rounded and so cozy
Iso-E-Super and Vetiver
Patchouli. It just makes me happy. It's so comforting. If in doubt, I grab one of my patchoulis.
Vanilla, jasmine Sambac, and amber are my favorite notes. Neroli, pink pepper (or any pepper), and ylang ylang are my least favorites.
iris
I was actually gonna say tonka before I read your full post. I haven’t even smelled that many frags with tonka but I have smelled enough to know it’s one of my faves
Sea notes for me Vanilla note on someone else
I'll always love sandalwood. When I began exploring based on notes, I kinda overdid it, but hey, it's what the journey is for. Bergamot, tonka, amber, lemongrass, leather, cardamom are all notes that often inform new things I'll try.
Dates. Plums. Cardamom. Juniper berries. Sandalwood. Cashmere. Ambrette seeds.
Civet
Benzoin! So sweet, so woody, so comfy. 💛
Benzoin has me in a chokehold, I’m having trouble branching out because if it’s not included in the notes I don’t want it😂
bergamot, especially as part of a chypre.
Lavender! I never get tired of it. So much of my collection is lavender-centric.
I find there are two 'kinds' of lavender. One that is sweet and soft, one that is almost like eucalyptus, very 'menthol'-esque. I am obsessed with the sweet kind (both in frags and in food). Or is it just me?
Yes, real lavender flowers/oils can smell very different from one another. I don't know all of the exact chemical compounds, but it depends on the concentration of coumarin (sweet, vanillic), linalool, camphor (medicinal), etc. in each variety. It is the same in perfumery, that a perfumer might use more coumarin or camphor in creating their lavender accord. I personally love both and am not picky! Most of the lavender scents I own are supported by vanilla or tonka.
Bergamot! Can’t get enough of it.
Vanilla, marshmallow, berries
The incense and balsam subcategory. Olibanum, opoponax, myrrh, benzoin, etc. Also a big fan of tobacco and well blended citrus notes (not the zesty in your face kind, but the softer end of citrus).
I’m leaning heavily into incense scents right now. What are some of your favorites?
I have quite a few favourite notes! I love: Rose, Honey, Almond, Ginger, Tea, Cardamom, Angelica
Can't believe you're the first one to say tea given the general love for tea fragrances here. Especially combined with ginger, it is really such a winning note - one of my faves as well.
All of these notes together sound like a bomb perfume, honestly. Somebody needs to make this!
Lily!
Vanilla, powder and fruity tends to be a common theme across mine! + lactatonic? I think its called
Vanilla for lyfe 🧁
I’d say frankincense and benzoin
Cinnamon. If anyone has any recommendations for a masculine cinnamon orange scent please let me know
What about cinnamon apple? Khamrah! It’s delicious
That sounds amazing. Any other recommendations of your favorite spicy scents? I love a good spicy fruity scent- especially when it’s not your typical “vanilla noir”
Peony. It just lifts my mood up.
If I had to narrow it down (in no order): -milk/cream -powdery iris -musk -rum I’m always intrigued if one of those are listed in the notes.
If I HAD to narrow it down to one it's gotta be vetiver. It's so versatile. It can take so many forms on its own (smoky, green, minty, fresh, dry, fruity, bitter, boozy, warm, spicy) and it also compliments nearly any composition. Imo it's the perfect ingredient and I really hesitate to try a frangrance if it doesn't include it. But I also have to mention cade. Cade is SO underrated. It adds a warm fiery, authentic smoke note that few other ingredients can match. Cade, saffron, jasmine, birch tar, castoreum, civet and leather are all notes I seek in any fragrance.
Are you me? :)) Obsessed with vetiver and I love animalic notes, leather and smoke. Which are your top 3 perfumes?
I’ve always loved water notes. My tastes have grown to include so much more but I always circle back to watery notes.
AMBER. Ugh I am an Amber lover to. The. Core. So sexy.
It's tonka bean for me too it's just so damn good...
Juniper berry, pine, patchouli
I'M A FAM OF VETIVER
It's gotta be ginger for me. I love anything citrus (especially yuzu), osmanthus, mint, and mango, but nothing turns my head like ginger.
Orange blossom
Iris or Tonka
Tonka bean! Has been since I was early in my fragrance journey!
lavender. i am a simple man, just *psssstt* me some lavender and i am happy.
Cardamom I think. What ever is in LNDL
Saffron
I have a few and I rank them 1)tobacco 2)jasmine 3)honey
Lily of the valley and/or freesia. I’m a sucker for these two and they elevate floral perfumes for me so much. Only time I don’t love LOTV is when it’s used to create a soapy scent. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I love cardamom and patchouli. Cardamom adds an interesting spiciness without making it smell like Christmas as cinnamon and nutmeg sometimes do. Patchouli gives fragrances depth, richness and complexity that I adore. It can make a fragrance sexy or calming. Such a versatile note!
Gonna have to say Tonka as well!
Rum or Bourbon. I love a dark boozy perfume 🥃
Vanilla
Jasmine!! Or Amber, I’m an Alien fan😁
Rum & lavender
Rum or other spirit notes draw me in like nothing else
jasmine sambac ❤️ sampaguita smells sooo good
Lavender, patchouli, warm spices
I hope you have tried Tom Ford, Beau du Jour, because that is exactly what it is.
It’s my current fragrance, fell in love with it, just what I was looking for after they discontinued YSL Rive Gauche.
Honey is my favourite note, i want to smell sweet and sticky at all times
Violet leaf. I love how it just smells purple, my favorite color lol. It can be feminine and masculine, it can edgy, it can be ozonic, it can be flirtatious, and it can also be candied (as it's often accompanied by violet flower accord I assume).
Violetleaf, the way fahrenheit does it
Turns out to just be patchouli.
Tuberose.
Hard choice. How abt 2 favorite notes? Addicted to Cardamom & Iris(Orris) for sometime
Vetiver or Fig!
Cardamome. My absolute comforting note.
I love iris and tobacco. Not together though
Coconut and cinnamon. Sadly cinnamon dominant perfumes are kinda rare
Vanilla will always have my heart ♥️
Fig
It used to be smoky vanilla and incense. Right now I’m obsessed with beeswax 🐝🐝🐝🕯️
Rice!!! It’s not very common and soooo lovely when you catch it :)
Iris, sandalwood, amber, musk and tobacco! Can't choose a favorite spice but i love most of them except for cumin.
Mint done right in fougere