Can we have a perfume / cologne thread?

[slunken]

What is everyone wearing?

I want to know your secrets.

Tell me about your history of scent.

[slunken]

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.

[ilikeplanets]

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.

[slunken]

tell me all the makes and models

[slunken]

do you have pink sugar?

do you have angel?

[slunken]

there's nothing wrong with "cheap perfume"

[slunken]

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

[ilikeplanets]

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.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

I do have Pink Sugar, actually.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?

[slunken]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

but I exhibit some restraint and don't use it much.

spray it heavy and use it up!

[slunken]

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

[slunken]

smells like brittney and christina + rotten fruit

[ilikeplanets]

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.

[slunken]

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

[slunken]

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

[slunken]

the girls version is much more iconic imo

the guys version just got discontinued anyway

[slunken]

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

[ilikeplanets]

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

[slunken]

ama perfume lol

[slunken]

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

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by slunken

What is everyone wearing?

I want to know your secrets.

Tell me about your history of scent.

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

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

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.

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

[ilikeplanets]

Inexpensive, fruity, and feminine are my defining features

[ilikeplanets]

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

[Cool As Ice Cream]

[Cool As Ice Cream]

i mainly stink, though

[mxzombie]

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

[slunken]

Originally Posted by Ram27

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2022 Armani acqua di gio

one of the best aquatics

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

i don't know this one! also an aquatic

Originally Posted by mxzombie

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

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.

[slunken]

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

[slunken]

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.