Can we have a perfume / cologne thread?
 

What is everyone wearing?

I want to know your secrets.

Tell me about your history of scent.

About 11 months ago I bought a bottle of Chanel Antaeus on my birthday and it propelled an addiction into the history of fragrance.

I've since accumulated about a dozen bottles of various moods.

I love sweet perfumes and own a ton of cheap ones. Cotton candy, vanilla, cherry, stuff like that. Most of them are pink and brandless. They still smell really good, though.

tell me all the makes and models

do you have pink sugar?

do you have angel?

there's nothing wrong with "cheap perfume"

i've been blasting this the past few days https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/...s-900-116.html

it really grows with the summer heat! the rose note is really nuts in high temps. I bought it during the fall thinking it was for that.

usually in the summer i go with straight Guerlain Vetiver but it fades so fast or my nose just ignores it.

this rose note is really long lasting

I do have Pink Sugar, actually. I even have the sparkly mists but I exhibit some restraint and don't use it much. I favor summery fragrances and rarely deviate seasonally, but in fall I will get fragrances with apple and brown sugar notes. And I double down with complimentary scented lotions and body butters. I like to smell like a cupcake shop with smooth skin.

I absolutely love this to death. Amazing!

Have you fucked with Angel by Thierry Mugler?

spray it heavy and use it up!

i do like ten sprays on bare skin each morning of whatever my mood is

smells like brittney and christina + rotten fruit

I've never seen (or noticed?) Angel, but now that it's on my radar I'll try it. Reading the description it seems like something I would like, depending on how strong the floral notes are. I'm all about some subtle blossom-y goodness but if it gets too much like a straight bouquet I'll get a headache.

its not very floral. smells more like rotting fruit. it's amazing.

i wear both the guys and girls versions

(gender distinctions of perfume didn't exist until like 1960 - total marketing scam)

guys' is like coffee and rotten bananas - girls' is more like rotten bananas and cotton candy

the girls version is much more iconic imo

the guys version just got discontinued anyway

if you like pink sugar you deserve to upgrade to angel. you'll love yourself for it. you can get bottles for like $50.

I like the sound of both, for sure. I can't stand the overly musty kind of cologne that's so popular.

ama perfume lol

angel is a fougere (tends to smell like food)

i tend to dislike florals too (personally - but i like smelling them)

i like chypres that are deep and heavy in the oak moss territory and smell like wet forest floors

from 2016-2020 alcohol

2021 i bought a taylor swift perfume cause i figured it'd make me feel things and stuff

2022 Armani acqua di gio

Yeah, I used to exclusively wear that sort of stuff. Inexpensive, fruity, feminine body mists from Bath & Body Works.

Inexpensive, fruity, and feminine are my defining features

Every dude I know just douses themselves in Axe, Old Spice, or crappy aftershave. You guys are a cut above.

i mainly stink, though

i had a bottle of carolina herrera cologne that my parents got me when i was 19, and it lasted me over a decade because i hardly wore it. when i went to replace it and saw the price i said forget it and got something from target instead

one of the best aquatics

i don't know this one! also an aquatic

can you describe this? what did you replace it with?

In high school I had a bottle of KISS (the band) cologne that everyone swore they loved but it's gotta be a cheap dupe of something better.

guys gotta get past the aquatic phase that infiltrated the late 90s

aquatic cologne from the 90s is an infiltration of that porn-becoming-mainstream ideology of like naked shaved twinks smelling clean and smooth-bodied.

On the other hand you have pubes and chest hair and oil and forest floors. Maximalism.