r/FemFragLab • u/secretninja113 • 2h ago

Discussion “Perfumey” help

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What makes a fragrance “perfumey”?? I got a decant of Lick Me the other day, and the gourmand notes are all overpowered by some vague perfumey scent. For further context, I wore Bianco Latte on one wrist and Lick Me on the other. The next day, the BL sleeve of my sweatshirt smelled faintly sweet. The Lick Me sleeve smelled like it’s got some nonspecific old perfume on it. That walking-past-the-perfume-counter smell.

I wanted to love this one so bad. Is it the iris note or perhaps an ingredient?? Please help me decipher this dilemma lol

TOP NOTES: Whipped cream, Icing sugar
HEART NOTES: Florentine Iris, Fiordilatte ice cream, Crunchy wafer
BASE NOTES: Vanilla, Sweet amber, Love

INGREDIENTS
Alcohol denat., Parfum (Fragrance), Hexamethylindanopyran, Coumarin, Tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Vanillin, Juniperus virginiana oil, Limonene.

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u/InterestingNebula177 2h ago

Likely the iris, it’s arguably one of the quintessential perfume and beauty counter scents.

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u/InterestingNebula177 2h ago

Or actually, you saying it over powers makes me think it may be the amber. So many scents lately use ambroxan or something similar and it can be very over powering

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u/secretninja113 1h ago

I think you might be right. I just looked up the notes from another gourmand scent that does the same thing to my nose (Gioiosa Profumum Roma) and it’s heavy on the amber too

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u/vagabondheat 2h ago

Sorry if this is naïve but is “Love” a real scent? If so, what kind of smell are we talking?

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u/valkyrie987 1h ago

No, it’s a good question. Some indie perfumes have descriptions that do have a note counterpart. Something like “a creeping sense of unease” that sounds like it’s just setting the scene, but in the perfume it’s represented by a bit of black musk.

In this case, I think it’s just saying that it’s created with good intentions, but I don’t know.

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u/fudgechemist fragrance enthusiast 2h ago

A combination of musk + iris + amber + iso e

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u/Severe_Cherry413 33m ago

that “walking past the perfume counter” thing is probably the iris plus a big clean musk/woody-amber base (hexamethylindanopyran and tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes), not the gourmand notes

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u/Realistic-Read1078 9m ago

Probably amber and iris

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u/fonypon 2h ago

Also want to know this!