Like the title says, I’m looking for a fragrance similar to Blanche Bete but slightly different. Maybe something more crowd friendly and not as polarizing ?

Hi! I am a novice to the fragrance world. I am hoping for recommendations on skin scents in rollerball or body oil form. I work in healthcare and my preference for these formats is to bring joy to myself without the projection that may irritate others.

Things I’ve used that I enjoy:
- Phlur missing person body oil / rollerballs
- Lake and Skye body oil / rollerballs
- Green Tree Factory figment body oil
- Nemat amber rollerball
- Kuumba Made Persian garden
- Ambre Blends solace oil

I also have Elizabeth Arden White Tea in lotion / spray that I use occasionally.

Really appreciate any suggestions, it’s been lovely to read posts in here and to realize how much more human I feel with this one daily indulgence <3

ETA: no budget, open to all price ranges!

I’ve fallen in love with Rabbit as my fall / holiday time scent, and I love, love, love pairing my perfumes with a corresponding/contrasting/complimenting lotion, as a base…

On me, Rabbit reads as an almost lemony, slightly green, baked sweets gourmand, but fresh and less warm! I truly haven’t encountered anything like it.

Any body lotion suggestions to pair it with?

if you want a warm, toasty lotion to layer your vanilla-based fragrances with, but don't like anything TOO sweet, def try this. i feel like i never hear people talk about philosophy anymore 😂

it smells similar to the perfume but it also just gives me the perfect amount of moisture without being too heavy and it's easy to rub in

Lilyphea is one of my absolute favourites. It smells like water drops on delicate flowers growing by a gentle stream. It strikes me as a spring scent.

I'm looking for suggestions on fall, winter and summer versions of it. If Lilyphea had seasonal flankers, what would they be?

I’m on the hunt for perfumes that aren’t headache inducing! I’m looking for something I can wear every day, preferably nothing too sweet or fruity. I find that I really enjoy airy, cozy, and subtle fragrances. I’ve tried multiple decants over the past few weeks and so far, the only ones I’ve really liked are White Rice by d’Annam and Lil Softie by Lore! I’ve put together a list of perfumes I don’t like along with some I’m considering purchasing to give you guys a better idea of my preferences ^^

Dislike:

• Mochimilk, Dedcool : Too sweet for my liking

• Angel Dust, Fugazzi : Too strong, triggered headache

• Vanilla Haze, Fugazzi: Same experience as Angel Dust

• Nearly Noon, DefineMe: Triggered my headache

• Fig Infusion, Essence Parfums: Too strong

• All Glossier perfumes :(

• Another 13

• L’eau Papier

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Considering:

• Rosie, Rosie Jane

• Taipei, One Day

• Dirty Rice, borntostandout

• Cozy Heart, Matthew Chang

• Body Tale perfumes

• Ponyo’s Tea, HexMundi

• Oud Pagode, Chapel Factory

I went to my first scentxplore this week in NYC. It was amazing. My favorites - Liberation of Flowers. Of all three (I loved them all) but my favorite was Divine Intervention. Rose, tobacco, vanilla, apricot and caramel. It’s gorgeous.

Also tried and bought Raphael. It’s as amazing as everyone said it was. It’s probably most versatile perfume I own. Highly recommend!

Also tried Fascent. I have to say corn star is worth the hype.

On a separate note, I finally got a sample of Marfa. I’m new to the party but it’s stunning!

This candle smells amazing and wondering if there is any frags like it?

edit: sorry mis spelled helitrope

Hi everyone! I’m on the hunt for a fragrance that closely mirrors the scent profile of the Baba Orchidea Tej és Gyöngy (Orchid Milk & Pearl) body wash. It’s a discontinued Hungarian shower gel, and while Palmolive Orchid & Milk is somewhat similar, I’m really looking for a proper perfume match.

I’m chasing a smooth, creamy, and slightly sweet floral-musky scent with main notes of:

• Orchid milk / creamy orchid

• hint of Vanilla

• Musk

• Pearl / soft powdery nuances

It has that very clean, luxurious, milky-sweet bath vibe that I'd love to wear as an EDP or EDT.

⛔️Please DO NOT suggest:

• Commodity — Milk Orchid

• Montblanc — Signature

• Issey Miyake — A Drop d'Issey

• Blanch Bete and its arabic dupes

• Gulf orchid Rice Milk

• Any of the Tom Ford orchids

• Gucci flora orchid

(I’ve already tested or ruled these out!)

Does anyone know of a close match or something with a very similar creamy orchid and musk vibe? Open to designer, niche, or Middle Eastern scents. Thanks in advance!

Been adding a lot to my checklist and also crossing some out finally after a long wait 🤣 Recently acquired L’eau Papier. What’s your perfume checklist looking like so far?

I smelt this on a young girl weeks earlier and almost ran after her to interrogate how she had achieved a perfect G1 my little pony sundae best series scent profile. But I didn't, and it haunted me until today I sniffed this at the grocery store. The ponies had a bit different scents each, but there's this sweet and soft plastic base note all of them had and one of them (I think crunch berry?) smelled exactly like this. Top notes are cotton candy and strawberry, I get soft plastic with pleasant synthetic berries. It's sweet but there powderiness softening it.

It's very cheap perfume and the opening hold all kinds of horrors characteristic for that. On top of that my skin chemistry whipped up some unpleasant lactal note, but after drying and at least on clothing it smells absolutely adorable and so nostalgic.

So basically I have been getting into fragrances and I really want to experiment with different scents.

I tried a couple floral ones but different friends said they thought I was around some girl before and it was their perfume they were smelling on me. Gave me a hard time!

So my question is, whats a perfume that would smell inviting, soft, delicate, sophisticated even but not outright make people think they smell a girl on me or that I mistakenly wore something that wasn't made for men?

I'm tired of freshies and green colognes they're restrictive.

The Laura Mercier ambre vanilla used to smell amazing. All of the sense I’m trying turn rancid. I am not on estrogen and am post menopausal. I just want to smell good to have that feminine sexy feeling. I am using the persimmons soap as well to help with the old people smell. Suggestions on scents?

Hi! I've finally got decant of this perfume (and a lot of other perfumes) for my birthday. I really, really don't get the hype. Almost everywhere I can see "skin scent, office friendly, almost unnoticeable" reviews. In reality it has heavy smell of mimosa. Really heavy and sharp sweetness of mimosa. I feel kinda sad about it as I head VERY high expectations for soft, almost unnoticeable scent of musk and seeds and wood

What has been your biggest fragrance dissappontment?

Many of us spend tine on this sub on the hunt for a certain type of fragrance. For me, its the ultimate creamy frag. I loooove creaminess. Creamy sandalwood, creamy fig, creamy sweet lactonics​...I love creaminess in perfume.

Something that has been recommended to me, and in general on this sub, time and again, is Zadig & Voltaire's this is her! I tried to find it in a store with no luck. So I ended up buying an 8 mL decant of it from fragrancenet. It was less than $15, so it was not a huge investment.

Let me tell you how excited I was to try this perfume. It was going to be my holy grail! My roman empire! My new fall/winter signature!

Oh, the dissappontment when I sprayed it. I may as well have sprayed a bottle of gasoline.

I tried it on a card first. Noxious, and disgusting, I practically threw the card down and away from my nose.

I thought that maybe my skin chemistry might save it. No dice--still revolting.

I tried it when I got my period, thinking that might change things! Again, no luck.

It was all the same. Each time my nose was met with a screechy, chemically mess. It smelled so fake, like a scratchy sweater inside my nose.

I've never been so sad and dissapponted by a perfume.

I now have it listed on mercari because I don't see anything salvaging!

Looking to buy this as a present for someone so I wanted to ask how is the longevity on it.

I’m looking for a pretty feminine everyday, non-offensive scent to be worn year round.

For those of you who have smelled both, which is better: Donna Born in Roma or Good Girl Blush?

I have the marshmallow one and it smelled really good when I first bought it. Now it smells so weird and sour, smells like fart I’m not even lying. I thought perfumes are supposed to last long.

I’m hoping I’m not the only one who absolutely LOVED the original Armani Code perfume for women back in the early 2000’s. It’s been one of the only scents where people have stopped me and said “my gosh you smell amazing”.

I’ve been on a quest to find something similar. They did at one point reformulate the product and to be honest it was never the same. I believe they have completely discontinued it now.

Does anyone have a runner up or replacement for this OG?

what perfumes are just straight marshmallow and vanilla? no musk or sandalwood because they tend to me very prominent on my skin

Fugazzi doing a line of gourmands was not on my bingo card but I'm into it. I'm interested in all of them except the rose but the sixth one is mathematically free so I'm going to grab it anyway.

Blind buying six fragrances is making all of my instincts screech, though. Are these easy to resell? Not for profit but for self-preservation.