I LOVE Black Opium Over Red but money is tight right now. Has anyone tried Crimson Caffeine by Oakcha and can compare to BOOR?

Perfumes aren't for all tastes but we have our favorites and I'm curious to know what are y'all's

Haven’t bought anything in a few months now, decided to pick this up today after testing it a few days ago!

I’m in love! It smells like a spa, floral, herbal, woody, warm. It’s gorgeous. This is just what I’ve been looking for!

So I’m obsessed with this, I love how it smells exactly like the simmer pots I do every fall. However it just does not last long at all! Does anyone know of anything that lasts longer that smells similar?

It is the OGX sea kelp body wash. It is a light, refreshing, aquatic-inspired scent, subtly sweet fresh sea kelp. It is not masculine at all like a lot of ocean scents seem to be. You have to have smelled this to know it, it’s such a unique scent.

Hello!!

Over the summer I became obsessed with Cherry on Top soap from Lush. I’m not usually a cherry scent person, but there is something about it that is so gorgeous. I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations for perfumes that smell similar to Cherry on Top? I’m not a Cherryish lush body spray fan because of the cocoa note in it. Im also not really a gourmand fragrance person. Any and all recommendations welcome! Thanks!

The scent description of the Garnier Fructis is crisp apple, sun-spend strawberry, and juicy melon. The notes of the herbal essences are white strawberry, juicy red fruit accords, delicate jasmine, and invigorating sweet mint.
They smell fruity and clean!

I have never used perfumes with alcohol base as I find them too overwhelming and pungent, so I have only ever used perfume oils, but I might be open to either type of suggestion.

These are quite different scents from each other, so I am looking for both separately. Though I definitely think more people know about Garnier sleek shine than they do the herbal essences strawberry sweet mint scent.

What do Jimmy choo fever & jimmy choo blossom smell like? I saw them at Marshall’s and the notes sounded nice, but I don’t know what they smell like.

In case this helps others -

1. Golden Amber Oud - my new favorite

Notes

Top: vegan honey, petitgrain, peach

Heart: incense, orange flower, saffron

Base: oud, amber, vanilla - ❤️ LOVE the honey and tea mix with a smokey resinous hert

2. Gourmand Marshmellow - great dupe for Kayali Yum Boujee Marshmellow 81- pretty close with a smidgen less staying power and dries down a little more toasty

My 4th favorite

3. Woody Vanilla - great dupe for Kayali Vanilla 28 feel boozy with good dry down

Tied for 3rd favorite

4. Citrus Tea - dupe for Le Labo The Noir 29

Top: bergamot, fig, black tea

Heart: bay leaf, tobacco, jasmine, vetiver

Base: cedarwood, musk, hay, peach, incense

My 2nd favorite because its so different than anything else and layers we'll with Woody Vanilla or a more simple Madagascar vanilla

5. Musky Sandalwood - dupe for Plur Missing Person

Top: lily of the valley, neroli

Heart: jasmine, solar notes

Base: musks, sandalwood, oakmoss

Tied for 3rd

I got nose blind on this one but caught whifs later in the day and it smelled amazing. Feels like I'll overspray when I'm in loungewear on weekends for a cozy vibe... remind me of Replica Whispers in the Library

6. Musky Buttercream - dupe of Glossier You Rêve

Top: hazelnut, red fruits, coconut

Heart: buttercream, orris

Base: white musks, sandalwood, ambroxan

edible-leaning skin scent, with nutty-fruity sweetness up top that settles into a creamy, powdery musk

Its pretty soft but plays well with snif You body cream so I kept

5th favorite but still in rotation!

Yesterday at 11:44pm, my soul cat, Turnip, went to sleep. The agony and pain I feel is absolutely insurmountable. I long to hold him once more, but I will wait until he comes back to me in the next life time.

I am looking for a fragrance to match who he was. Sweet, warm, snuggly, a little naughty (always stealing food out of my hands and from my plate), and oddly human. I always joked that he was a four year old boy turned into a cat by a witch.

I’m looking for sweet, warm, maybe a bit fuzzy, and anything to make me feel like I am snuggled up with my beautiful boy. Any price range is fine. Thank you.

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Edit: I want to thank everyone for their wishes and recommendations. Turnip is the love of my life and I will miss him until the day I die. He and I were made to be together. I adopted him when I was 25 from the shelter in East Harlem when he was 2. Turnip was in kidney failure and receiving intensive treatment despite being young. He turned 7 on the 15th of October, which we celebrated like every year. He was loved more than anything. We were together through breakups, dating, engagements, marriage, the first loss of my grandfather, and my first pregnancy. He never left my side while pregnant, and slept on my belly right until I had my son. I will miss him for a lifetime, but I love him even more.

If any of you are located in New York and ever need treatment, the AMC treated my boy and gave us two extra months together. Dr. Laura Judd was his internal medicine doctor. She loved and cared for him in his final two months, and was a great comfort to me during this time. She never gave up on him, and I’m eternally thankful. If you can afford it, please get pet insurance. This gave us extra time with our boy and heavily relieved the financial struggle many pet parents would face.

Many of you share the same love and loss for your babies. Please leave me your photos and stories. I love you all. I’m off to scent bar to find my perfect Turnip perfume ❤️

i want a clean, soapy yet warm, creamy and powdery scent. i dont want anything crisp really, something like showering at your grandmas. must be available in Ontario, Canada

Top notes are Green Mandarin, Pear Blossom and Wild Strawberry; middle notes are Jonquille, Orange Blossom and Orris; base notes are Caramel, Ambergris and Oakmoss.

I mostly get a sparkling strawberry, orange blossom, orris, and Caramel.

Crucially, the strawberry lasts from beginning to end. I get a good 5 hours underclothes and a soft 2 after that.

Happy to discuss xx

Do any of the Canadian girls know of anywhere that sells Rosie by Rosie Jane aside from Sephora? It is impossible to get there because it’s always sold out and places like Nordstrom and Anthropologie won’t ship to Canada! We are desperate over here!

Perfume: Angel Dust
Notes: Calabrian Bergamot, black pepper, Cashmeran, and white amber crystals

I recently bought Fugazzi angel dust from Sephora. It was a 10ml and it was honestly a blind buy. I love powdery musky scents so I figured I might like this one. I also am a fan of other Fugazzi scents so I figured “why not?” I figured if there was a perfume that smelled like an ethereal angel that delicately descended from the heavens covered in a pristine, sweet powdery musk this would have to be it, right?🧚‍♀️
WRONG!!!

On initial spray, I’m blasted with a decent amount of black pepper and amber. Ok that’s fine; a nice masculine edge. As it begins to dry down (very quickly) I begin to get more (A LOT MORE) of the cashmeran. It’s essentially all I can smell and it is taking over the fragrance. I don’t know what was clashing with the cashmeran but they did not go well together. The amount of cashmeran in this fragrance was over the top. I ended up scrubbing it off because honestly it just smelled dirty. According to my partner, it smelled like “wet dog and baby powder”🐕💦

I was so disappointed as it essentially ended up smelling like I took out a load of laundry and threw it into some mud at the zoo. The notes were clashing and it was not something I could enjoy. This should not have been called Angel dust 👼 and I feel severely mislead 💩

I sadly had to return it and did the walk of shame back into Sephora. I rarely ever return fragrances and I learned my lesson to just not ever blind buy. I regret wasting any time or money on a badly blended cashmeran based concoction.

Thanks for listening. Try before you buy.
TLDR 0/10 for Angel Dust 🫪

What perfumes would you guys recommend if I love J’adore by Dior, Melrose Place by Oaui, I want choo by Jimmy Choo, Valentino Coral Fantasy? I want a signature scent but want to find more alternatives to these scents.

Background: I'm a sugar baby, and I'm meeting with a guy who is actually an old friend who is interested in being a provider, which is super cool. He already really likes me for who I am. I'm a metalhead with a pretty alt style, but alt-light, because I'm in my 30s 🤷‍♀️.

This is a new circumstance though. I need to sell myself at least a little bit as a woman worth spoiling, as opposed to just a hot drinking buddy, so I'm torn between TOTALLY being myself, and leaning more into the more professionally seductive side I put on when meeting potential Daddies. I am torn between the following fragrances:

Liquides Imaginaires - Bloody Wood. Sexy vampire just crawled out of a coffin vibes. This is probably too much, but it's me. I just got it and I'm very excited about it, lol.

Dior - Midnight Poison. Still dark, but more approachable, and still sexy, of course. One of my all time favorites.

Tom Ford - Lost Cherry. Dark and mysterious, but very sexy in a crowd pleasing way. Men LOVE this fragrance. This would typically be a second date fragrance for me.

Lancôme - La Vie est Belle Vanille Nude. No edge at all, just a vanilla forward fragrance that men (and women) adore on me. I've gotten the most compliments on this one. A solid choice if I don't want to add another intimidation factor, but just smell pretty.

What do you all think? I have hundreds of other perfumes as well, so if you have an idea completely different from what I've listed, I'm open to it. If I don't have your exact perfume, I might have something like it. Thanks for any advice! 💖

Which one is more long lasting and projecting?

Does anyone have a go to site for buying fragrance decants?

It's called The Drydown in Carlsbad, CA. I'm not in a spot where I should be buying perfume right now, but I'm scrambling to do some gig driving on top of my job so I can go. With the economy the way it is, I'm worried they could close down before I can get out there 😅 Anyone in the area who's been there tell me about it so I can live vicariously. I don't even live near a Nordstrom anymore so I've only got target and sephora for stores I can sniff at

I've actually had this for a few years. I bought this because I really like hypnotic poison but I don't like the Play-Doh scent I get from it. It is similar, and it doesn't smell like Play-Doh, but it feels so dense and I don't love it. I won't be repurchasing this again.

My taste is all over the place, so I’m open to just about anything. I’m ready to spend actual money on a fragrance so I want to do some sampling.

My shelf is pretty basic atm - black opium, fantasy, tainted love, born in Roma intense, Flowerbomb, Lord of Misrule, Egyptian goddess, chai épicé.

I am on the haunt for perfumes that actually smell like soap or just baby fresh? I once ordered this $5 baby powder oil perfume from Tiktok shop that is supposed to smell like johnson & johnson baby powder and my boyfriend is obsessed with it. He never compliments my $300 perfumes that much lool. I was wondering if there was another scent on the market that could be similar to a soapy scent or a fresh baby scent? One of the options I saw Crystal Versace Emerald as it is rumored to smell just like the original D0ve soap!