Can we have a perfume / cologne thread?

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by slunken

lol i know it was. it was probably santal 33 too lmao. white women who love spending money pretend like they love that shit.



word on the street is that estee lauder went downhill lately and will keep declining. if you have any classic vintage frags you love i would stock up now. might be a rumor tho



do you realize that most perfumes are just combinations of essential oils? like the majority of the perfume world just layers on musk, patchouli, or whatever however they see fit?

lol

[slunken]

Originally Posted by slunken

got a couple cheapies in the mail today. one rules and the other i bought because it was in the movie blade runner. it kind of smells like puke.

maybe i'll warm up to it.

i think the non-blade runner one is easily going to become a staple for me. on day 2 i got compliments on it (i never get compliments - i am a pariah). also the sillage lingers like a ghost and that's my favorite part of fragrance.

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by slunken

If I remember right the original from the mid 90s kind of smells like plastic, pepper, and metal

sounds weird but it's a masterpiece

Originally Posted by slunken

i think the non-blade runner one is easily going to become a staple for me. on day 2 i got compliments on it (i never get compliments - i am a pariah). also the sillage lingers like a ghost and that's my favorite part of fragrance.

both these posts made me think of Farenheit right away

[teh b0lly!!1]

'sillage' is a great word holy shit

[teh b0lly!!1]

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by slunken

sorry disco but that's a shit take - perfume is literally making suicides

Like Prometheus, you are encouraging humans to toy with things meant for divine hands only. Tread carefully. Like Prometheus, you will be punished.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

both these posts made me think of Farenheit right away

nope but kind of close - think lower tier around the $20 mark.

you'll never guess it. it's the weirdest shit i ever smelled.

haven't gone back to it since the day i first tried it.

no clue how this stuff still exists in fresh-made batches.

[slunken]

lol idk why i'm pretending this is some big secret



this is true insane

[slunken]

also this is just a rumor based on bottle design

[slunken]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

'sillage' is a great word holy shit

like imagine people smelling you after you've already left.

[slunken]

i want everyone to spray 6-7 times MINIMUM! EACH DAY!

it's a new age. no more of this "i'll only put on a spritz or two when its a special occassion my bed bath and beyond cucumber melon (god love it) will do the trick until then"

[SuckSuckStyle]

From about 19-25, i wore ‘Lacoste pour femme’. I had a nearly new bottle on a shelf in my bathroom, and my brother accidentally knocked it off the shelf and it shattered on the floor. It made my bathroom smell (strongly) of perfume for like a year. By the time it had faded enough for me to consider wearing it again, i had begun to transition and was stoked to use men’s body spray. LIKE A MAN!

Now I just wear bergamot deodorant that is often mistaken for cologne. Or old spice. My life isn’t fancy enough for delicate glass bottles of fragrance. But a guy can dream.

Sometimes i’ll get a whiff of pour femme somewhere and get nostalgic for my early 20’s. Some of my friends will say the same…”i always think of you when i smell that”

[slunken]

Originally Posted by SuckSuckStyle

From about 19-25, i wore ‘Lacoste pour femme’. I had a nearly new bottle on a shelf in my bathroom, and my brother accidentally knocked it off the shelf and it shattered on the floor. It made my bathroom smell (strongly) of perfume for like a year. By the time it had faded enough for me to consider wearing it again, i had begun to transition and was stoked to use men’s body spray. LIKE A MAN!

Now I just wear bergamot deodorant that is often mistaken for cologne. Or old spice. My life isn’t fancy enough for delicate glass bottles of fragrance. But a guy can dream.

Sometimes i’ll get a whiff of pour femme somewhere and get nostalgic for my early 20’s. Some of my friends will say the same…”i always think of you when i smell that”

amazing story. love it.

[slunken]

also why not just buy lacoste por femme again if you like it?

seems to be the obvious question

[slunken]

so sick of this bullshit about how perfumes are "gendered"

it was a marketing trick, you idiots

[slunken]

here's how sick i am: so sick

[ilikeplanets]

I'd much rather smell "feminine " perfumes than axe body spray on any guy

[SuckSuckStyle]

Originally Posted by slunken

also why not just buy lacoste por femme again if you like it?

seems to be the obvious question

Ive actually considered it. Just too cheap these days.

[SuckSuckStyle]

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

I'd much rather smell "feminine " perfumes than axe body spray on any guy

Who wouldn’t?

But a 25 year old baby trans guy would much rather have the ease and perceived ruggedness of an aerosol ‘ice crush musk’.
These days I’m just happy if I don’t smell bad.

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by slunken

so sick of this bullshit about how perfumes are "gendered"

it was a marketing trick, you idiots

is this where you're just getting on your journey of discovering manufactured scent?

pretty much you're just sick of marketing in general because it's all targeted around class aspirations and gender. the least we can do is mute commercials and never click ads on the computi.

[ilikeplanets]

A New Fragrance For Introverts

LEAVE ME
The Fa-Cologne

[mxzombie]

now that's comedy

[slunken]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

is this where you're just getting on your journey of discovering manufactured scent?

pretty much you're just sick of marketing in general because it's all targeted around class aspirations and gender. the least we can do is mute commercials and never click ads on the computi.

No this isn't a new thing to me - but I kind of think that perfume was the first thing to have split gender marketing in order to sell more prodcut.

edit: okay maybe not THE first thing but one of the first things

Originally Posted by ilikeplanets

A New Fragrance For Introverts

LEAVE ME
The Fa-Cologne

perfume is armor

not a seduction tool

[slunken]

today was the first day of fall so I hosed myself down with Yatagan

very mint
very sage
very pepper
very celery
very chicken soup

[slunken]

i get sad sometimes because i really want a bottle of Guerlain Mitsouko. From 1919. It smells like old books and piss-stained wooden floorboards.

Heaven.

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by slunken

No this isn't a new thing to me - but I kind of think that perfume was the first thing to have split gender marketing in order to sell more prodcut.

p sure clothing and household products/appliances were some of the first things to be marketed toward gender.

perfumes were initially sold to the rich, men and women, when baths didn't exist yet and all scents were "unisex". more of a class thing

[slunken]

ok let's pretend sinks and washers were unisex

okay they made washers and dryers for both men and women

but all perfume used to be perfume until they invented it for men

[slunken]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

perfumes were initially sold to the rich, men and women, when baths didn't exist yet and all scents were "unisex". more of a class thing

this is a shit take too, sorry.

as if oil never existed in BC

[slunken]

if you think patchouli or musk or frankincense was a rare oil you're very mistaken, miss

[slunken]

missy!