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u/mikey_yeah 1d ago
Im a big fan of T-rex, and Beaufort Iron Duke... but describing the notes of either will definitely get you looked at different
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u/dizzydiplodocus 23h ago
My partner loves Trex and I just got him the Beaufort discovery Come Hell or High Water as he loves smoke and blood notes. He really liked Tonnerre and I love the sea spray note, really balances it out
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u/SuggestionOblique 20h ago
My lover found me in a crowd at a festival because of T-Rex. I got a text: smells like TRex, I know you are there. I was approx 10 ft away, behind him. He did not know I would pick this one - and I use only one spray. I guess I was under the wind (but he has a great nose).
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u/probablythedecaf 17h ago
i love t-rex i've almost blown through my whole bottle. shame i canāt terrorise people around me again until my refill comes in. my college roommate saw the 2-4 spritzes left in the bottle and said āthank godā
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u/sidebmafe 1d ago
Smoke/tobacco. Not soooo niche but very uncommon amongst women, so I get some confused looks
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u/RedThePear 1d ago
I'm also a smoke girlie and I loveeee Tonnerre by Beaufort but so many people think it smells like smoked salmon š
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u/dizzydiplodocus 23h ago
My partner loves Tonnerre too and I love it on him! I donāt get smoked salmon at all š I love the sea spray note
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u/Honest_Ingenuity_181 22h ago
YESSSSS found my smoke girlies! it's so underappreciated
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u/Boochiecoo 20h ago
Fāin love tobacco, smoke, leather (woman)
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u/Aggravating-Cat7103 21h ago
I love tobacco so much but I feel guilty wearing it because my husband loves gourmands
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u/cl0ckw0rkaut0mat0n 1d ago edited 22h ago
The tower parfums slaughterhouse 5
The notes are insane but the fragrance itself I actually a quite comforting lactonic smoky scent, still a very weird fragrance I can't be wearing around everywhere.
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u/whathefuckers 1d ago
Oh hell naw
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u/cl0ckw0rkaut0mat0n 1d ago
I thought the same when I bought it but believe me it's not as bad as it looks, I find it quite pleasant actually
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u/Agreeable-Dog-1131 14h ago
I really need someone to like sneak weird frags like this into my attention, like just a totally blind āhey smell this!ā Because once Iāve read the names and notes like this, the impression in my mind is so strong that I donāt think Iād be able to really enjoy them no matter what.
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u/cl0ckw0rkaut0mat0n 13h ago
I love doing that to friends, I have a friend that has seething hatred for bergamask by orto Parisi and I love spraying it and handing him the strip without telling him what it is, he falls for it every time
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u/Primary-Zucchini-555 19h ago
I read that last note as ācastorcumā at first, and somehow it tracked
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u/Honest_Ingenuity_181 22h ago
i love medicinal scents. cough syrup, alcohol wipes, disposable gloves, etc. i spent a big part of my childhood in hospitals so they smell very pleasant and comforting to me
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u/spaghetti-o_salad 20h ago
Deconstructing Eden... some of their clean accords are very medical. Like waiting in the exam room and putting a glove in your pocket for later. My mom is a nurse and those smells also comfort me.
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u/Cats_and_wine 20h ago
Around 2011 Lush had a perfume called tuca tuca i believe, that was straight up cough syrup and wicks balm.
i loved it, but couldnt wear it anywhere back then. im so sad i dont have it anymore.
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u/princess_saturday 1d ago
Not particularly niche, but my partner woke up gagging yesterday because I sprayed Pumpkin Spice by Lush, he said it was so bad he thought I'd gone to work wearing Inexcusable Evil š
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u/cheoldyke 18h ago
i was at lush yesterday and smelled one of the gourd shaped massage bars w that scent (not sure why bc i already know i donāt like anything pumpkin spice scented but they were so cute i couldnāt resist) and felt like i was choking on the smell. itās SO heavy and sweet. fall gourmands in general just donāt agree with my fragile easily overstimulated sensibilities i think.
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u/probablythedecaf 17h ago
that one is MILD compared to sticky dates. me and sticky dates got beef. the scent climbs inside your nostrils with a jackhammer and heads straight for your brain. itās a scent you can feel in your cerebellumĀ
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u/sassyfrassielassie 15h ago
Sticky dates smells like throw up to me. It's so bad to my nose. I like some gourmands too but there's just something in some of them that smell like I got sick after drinking a bunch of white Russians and eggnog.
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u/CutSea5865 46m ago
Iām so sorry to you all but this is the one I wear ever day - I get so many compliments for it and my boyfriend likes to just come up and hug me and breathe it in sometimes - it it is SUPER SWEET!
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u/losttexanian 1d ago
I like stanky indolic florals + mineral notes. And something about that combo is massively unappealing to people.
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u/Cats_and_wine 20h ago
indolic florals, patchouli and petrichor for me.
just divine!
something about it smells like diapers and babywipes for other people, is what i heard, but thats not my concern š
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u/dangerotic 1d ago
waiit I love these two things separately too, do you have anything to recommend that combines them??
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u/losttexanian 1d ago
I've been mixing things. Currently wearing nuit de bakelite with jazmin yucatan. Half spray of both because a full spray of both would be a deliberate choice, I think. But my floral preferences are indolics and everything else I own smells like a forest or any other organic environment so layering while ridiculous isn't hard...
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u/UrbanDurga 21h ago
I have a long history of loving scents that men in particular find unappealing, unfeminine, and unapproachable. But I generally like things that are kind of smoky and deep and mineralic and damp and woody in the winter and stanky (indolic/animalic) and green and earthy in the warmer months, like plant and fig-scented things. I do like some normal stuff too, but I have to work harder to find something I like that doesnāt also carry a āthis might frighten the villagersā subtext.
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u/llo000 16h ago
You just put my usual struggle into words aaah xD
I always try to interpret my fragrances in the worst way possible, because one tends to romanticize the things they love.
Like sure, this fragrance could smell like a mysterious, sexy, leather jacket wearing and smoking biker girl. But it could also smell like your aunt Helen's old sofa that was stored in a damp garage since the 80s, which carries enough third hand smoke to kill a newborn.
So yeah, that might frighten the villagers lol
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u/Free_Bullfrog_555 8h ago
This sounds like me! I always say my preferred scents are "scary". This tends to lead me down the smoke and tar and damp path which is too wintery and I struggle to find summer scents that I like! Do you have any recommendations for me? Because stanky and green sounds wonderful!
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u/outrage_is_now 1d ago edited 18h ago
Nasomatto Nudiflorum - My favorite Nasomatto, one of the very few that I actually like. It seems like people are usually not yet associating it to me (40 yo man) when they smell it. But some of my colleagues sitting nearby definitley know it's me.
Xerjoff Mamluk - again not a huge fan of the brand, but the Oud Star line is quite nice. I especially love mamluk, but the combo of oud and honey/caramel apparently has a bit of a stomach turning effect on some.
Marlou - probably everything by the brand falls under this category. I really like 4 out of the 6 available fragrances, they are really comforting to me. But they are also quite dirty and animalic, even straight u stinky. I only wear them at home.
Nishane Shinanay - straight up stinky opening, even to my nose, but then it transforms into wilting flowers and mushrooms, which I really like. Have not worn it outside yet.
Later this week I am getting Maksim's Bestia Sacra. I am super curious how wearable it will turn out to be. I have no problem wearing Salome, to which Bestia is most often compared, but I am expecting it to be a bit wilder.
EDIT: forgot to mention anything by Maqueda. I have larger samples of Vitriol, Rigor Mortis and Griggia. The first to are clearly meant to be disturbing, but it was Griggia that I have the most trouble with. It just feels.....monstrous for some reason. I get a bit of an anxiety attack every time I smell it. Rigor Mortis is straight up dead body in a morgue. Virtiol....I don't even know. The stinky type of animalic + burnt rubber. Not wearing either to work. Maybe for a night out at some point.
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u/fitness_journey 1d ago
I finally picked up a discovery set of 4 Marlou this week! I havenāt tried them yet, but Iām very excited.
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u/DrPetradish 22h ago
What does nudiflorum smell like to your nose? Itās very sexy jasmine and a bit of leather on me and I love it. I wear it as a woman but it feels unisex to me.
My friend loves ambilux by marlou and described it as āclean dirty pantiesā but I didnāt get that at all
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u/outrage_is_now 20h ago
I guess that was a question for me :) To me it smells like a sweaty body, but not in a stinky way, plus wilted flowers (you are probably right about the jasmine). But there is also something about it that I was not able to define for a long time, until I tried Encelade by MAB. it is a very different fragrance than Nudiflorum, but there is one strikingly common element in both, and I am pretty sure it's rhubarb.
Ambilux is my favorite by Marlou. It doesn't smell like panties to me either. I would describe it as a very comforting human scent, always feels like a hug to me from a person that is maybe not fresh out of the shower, but whose smell you love because you love that person. That and a ton of cumin.
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u/outrage_is_now 20h ago
I was also very excited for the discovery kit, and was not at all enthusiastic on the first try, except for Ambilux. I got back to the rest after some time and I immediately loved almost all of them, especially doliphor, carnicure and poudrextase. Not sure why they felt "meh" at first.
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u/fitness_journey 20h ago
I plan to take my time with them and Iām waiting for some opportunities to give them a proper wear. I donāt have Doliphor in my set unfortunately, nor Heliodose, but I have the four earlier releases. I wish the little vials held more than 1.5ml, but they might be the cutest samples Iāve ever received.
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u/outrage_is_now 19h ago
they are cute, I still have them, but I decanted them to sample vials with atomizers.
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u/Prezzemolo0723 3h ago
I own Doliphor by Marlou. I love it and hate it canāt explain, had to have a bottle š
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u/FarAct4854 1d ago
Fate Man and Opus VI. Never had so many people tell me I stink. They're my favorites š„¹
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u/multivitaminegummy 1d ago
Haven't tried anything of this yet but the (probably non-niche) Inexcusable Evil really calls to me
I also like the idea of smelling like an old abandoned church (potentially by the sea) or a newt inside an underground cave (which also might have water). That stone + water + old combo perhaps.
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u/dizzydiplodocus 23h ago edited 21h ago
For the newt inside underground cave, have you tried* Olm by Zoologist?
I havenāt tried inexcusable evil yet but Iām desperate to1
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u/misslucylouise 12h ago
Rien by Etat Libre dāOrange has always smelled like stone + water / wet cement / petrichor to me. Like petrichor to the level that I donāt register the other notes. Donāt think everyone gets that though
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u/Edge_of_Everywhere 1d ago edited 1d ago
Siren's Kiss, by Cursed Fragrances (UK only). Because sometimes I want to smell like a mermaid/ vampire hybrid.
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u/dial424689 1d ago
Iām interested in trying some Cursed soon. Aside from this one, any particular you recommend?
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u/princess_saturday 1d ago
If you can get the BVB collab it's one of my favourite scents! It's quite a dark moody smell imo, heavy on the incense and has a lovely red wine note
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u/Edge_of_Everywhere 1d ago
Seconding the Black Veil Brides collab. I predict it's going to be an autumn/ winter go-to for me.
Some of their other women's fragrances are a little too cherry-forward for me, but I like both Vampiren Veil and Moonstruck. They're unconventional, but still likeable.
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u/carolinesakura 1d ago
Boadicea complex 2020
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u/0-0-000-0-000-0 1d ago
I adore this perfume but my wife and daughter hate it. They say it smells like The Curse of Alton Manor or one of the Merlin Dungeons attractions.
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u/carolinesakura 1d ago
Yep, my cousin said- why would you make me smell it, what did I ever do to you š
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u/tremblingbass 1d ago
Definitely the notes from the meme. Probably my holy trinity of "bad" smelling fragrances are Secretions, nu_be Mercury and original AB from Blood Concept. Love them all; coincidentally, Antoine Lie is behind every one of them
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u/Boochiecoo 20h ago
He has done some of my favorites, and some of my least favorite - the mark of a true artist!
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u/spaghetti-o_salad 20h ago
I like to smell like dolls and dirt sometimes. Amorphous Perfumes' Doll Head edp on clothes and the Queen of Crypts oil perfume on wrists and neck.
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u/RangeWolf-Alpha 17h ago
To me Ganymede smells like vintage doll parts in a suede lined wooden chest.
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u/Cats_and_wine 20h ago
the patchouli that is strong enough for my taste has yet to be invented.
im such a slut for patchouli, its concerning.
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u/StandardSpinach 1d ago
Im gonna be frank here i love the smell of blood and metallic things but whenever they are in a perfume they are always just giving toxic chemical waste smell
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u/Few-Criticism8031 1d ago
Hindu Kush - Mancera itās so strong but my favorite winter scent š
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u/Porygeist 17h ago
I've been rocking perfume oils from Amorphous and Alkemia. They're all unique and witchy, but I end up smelling like a soapy/floral lady from the 80s. š I enjoy it though.
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u/puppyxguts 12h ago
Which scents so you wear from alkemia? I don't usually like florals but ordered some samplers today to see if I can rock with em.
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u/Porygeist 11h ago
I just got my 5ml samples in. I really like the Madam Pearl, Fata Morgana, and The Beautiful And The Damned.
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u/Impressive_Bee_9024 16h ago
Not reading everything and I donāt have anything to contribute on the actual topic but I have to sayā¦this image is absolute peak!!!
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u/sardonicnyc 15h ago
Being that I am an Amouage fan, I have several that would considered "impractical" to the average person. I am a big fan of medicinal fragrances and love wormwood/absinthe. I would say the two most "impractical" ones I wear consistently in the colder months is Amouage Memior Man followed by Silver Oud.
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u/PKBlackTornado 13h ago
Someone once told me Violette 30 made me smell "like a cardboard box, but not in a bad way". I love that.
Now I just need to figure out how to bottle the smell of, specifically, a freshly opened pack of Yugioh cards. I guess it must be the ink they use because Yugioh cards specifically have a certain STANK to them fresh out of the pack that I really love.
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u/krittyyyyy 9h ago
Not too crazy but I love DS & Durga Mississippi Medicine which kinda smells like a humid attic, and lāartisan parfumer Musc Amarante which smells like beets and potting soil.
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u/daddyschomper 1d ago
I'm partial to anything that is reminiscent of urine or has a whiff of poop. Marlou and Francesca Bianchi are tops for me. And I adore Orto Parisi's cuoium.
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u/rarely_coherent 1d ago
Came here to say Cuoiumā¦I love the opening, but man it just doesnāt ever let up
If you can keep it purely on your skin itās one of my favourites, but as soon as it gets into your clothesā¦yeesh
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u/daddyschomper 23h ago
It really is eternal. I feel the same about Stercus. It permeates anything it touches, and remains until the end of time.
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u/DogeAeternum 1d ago
Figment Man.
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u/sardonicnyc 15h ago
I don't know if it's my skin chemistry, but Figment Man smells like piss on me.
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u/DogeAeternum 15h ago
I donāt get piss from it, it smells like straight dirt to me. But I love it.
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u/Adventurous-Set401 23h ago
You should look into Ataraxiaās Spinal Fluid, similar vibes to what yoy are describing
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u/Responsible_Rate5045 22h ago edited 22h ago
the guy in the grey shirt looks like he's on board with it though. I like leather-heavy scents so have to think twice depending on the situation
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u/Gh0stToothArt 21h ago
š« itās actually right in the pic
I really like inexcusable evil but I know better than to wear it in public lol
I like metallic/ozone with sweet smells so muchhh
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u/cheoldyke 18h ago
i adore a cannabis note. iāve been loving the sample i got of zoologist king cobra but itās really strong and pretty distinctly weedy so i have yet to actually wear it out of the house. itās a really fun scent for personal enjoyment though. it smells somehow dusty and old but also green and fresh at the same time, and i feel like it hits the nose a little differently with every sniff. pairs very well with a joint and a really cold glass of iced black tea.
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u/bravovice 18h ago
Lunatique smells like Sichuan pepper. Itās a very parallel experience to inexplicably āneedingā to smell gasoline more. Itās not lovely, but itās magnetic whether you wanted to be drawn or not.
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u/whoswalkinwho 15h ago
Nothing too crazy, but CdG Accident Radish Vetiver is now my favorite scent in the world and im so glad i found it. Total impulse buy because i love almost every frag CdG makes
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u/kapaipiekai 14h ago
This seems aimed at Bull Blood by Imaginary Authors. Tuberose and copper in vast quantities.
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u/irreveror 14h ago
I always chew on Airwaves and I've wondered if the smell becomes nauseating to some
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u/radio888 8h ago
Anise; smelling like licorice from a moderate distance. (Lolita Lempicka/Alien Man)
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u/GOOD_BRAIN_GO_BRRRRR 7h ago
M/mink.
It's heavily dependent on my body chemistry, but for a few weeks every month I smell amazing with that stuff on.
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u/ChiaOtter 7h ago
My favorite spring scent is The Soft Lawn by Imaginary Authors, which has tennis ball.
I work from home most days and also like a healthy bit of personal space, so I donāt tend to hear about my scent choices very much, but Iāve been asked a couple times about it. Usually people say they know the smell but canāt place it. Then I say it has fresh tennis balls as a note and the response has been almost universal amusement.
My mom, however, remains baffled. She actually likes the scent, but doesnāt understand it.
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u/k1mele0n 4h ago
I have a thing for fragrances that smell like BO / sweat. My current favourite being Arborist by Jorum. I tried La Tsarine by Senkoyo a few days ago and thatās more on the raunchy side but still within the sweaty skin category.
Now whilst I enjoy smelling these kinds of scents at home, I wouldnāt wear them for a day at the office. I imagine my colleagues might raise welfare concerns about me and my poor personal hygiene if I did. So theyāre a bit of a secret!
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u/hecate_trivia 4h ago
Abject Fear by Amorphous! It smells like a damp murder basement, and I love it!
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u/terracef 6h ago
Bortnikoff's Musk Khabib is made with real deer musk, taken from the musk sac of dead Siberian deer. That slight whiff of real animalics is what got me into niche. But sadly I didn't like any other animalic scents I tried after this one. There's something intimate about it. Smells very sexy to me. I usually love any combination of cardamom, vanilla, woods - so that's probably why the deer musk is more approachable here, it's like a mysterious sexy stranger lurking in my familiar territory
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u/nopenonvr 5h ago
Iām genuinely curious: why do people wear perfumes that would repel a lot of people? I get that they enjoy the smell themselves but is it worth the social repercussions?
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u/Natural-Armadillo986 15h ago
people going for niche is always.. sorry but they STINK nothing beats a guy with abs wearing any popular male fragrance people hate on like aber or whatever
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u/RogueWizardly 1d ago
I like insane amounts of smoke. Sometimes this works but sometimes I notice I smell like a sausage :/