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This video and scent of the day.is definitely a HELL YES ...🎉

Amazing points brought up in the video Alex. I deffo think its super important to "de-influence" oneself and only use the influencers are recommendations and not "must get" when it comes to anything they're pushing or denouncing. Biggest thing im doing differently is ebay buying or going to the stores and getting a few sample vials and doing just that: sampling the fragrance. As common sense as it sounds its really kept the fragrance hoarding at bay, saving me money and space not having all these bottles. Esp with frags that are adjacent duplicates. The influencers are fickle. In 6 months they love a fragrance and then, 6 months later they're slagging it off and pushing the new alternative du jour.

It’s refreshing to find individuals with independent thoughts. I love Davidoff Cool Water too, as it holds a sentimental value for me. It’s the first perfume gift I ever received. Although it’s been 15 years now, I still remind and thank my friend till this day 😂. It’s why I absolutely adore Green Irish Tweed and always have a bottle. You have to discover what you truly love and enjoy, not what others say they enjoy. TBH, self-discovery and developing your unique tastes, without needing external validation, does take time. It’s even more difficult to express your unique identity as we’re mostly social beings (desire to be liked and respected, wanting to be in the in-group, etc). I thinks it’s hard to get it wrong with perfumes, so I tell folks “go out there and find the stuff that blows YOU away.” I’m wearing one of my comfort scents today: MM’s Whispers in the library.

I love your videos, it’s what the community needs right now ❤ one additional mistake I might include is: not considering whether this new potential purchase is duplicative in your collection. I love a certain profile of Iris/vanillas and there are so many options in the category. I’ve stopped myself from buying many beautiful scents because I already have a couple in that profile that I adore, and the new one would steal their limelight. If you have a collection, avoid devaluing it with overcrowding.

The whole fragrance community needs to watch this!

I really think its great, that more people start talking about it! I rarely hear these types of coments or thoughts from the "influencers" that talk about fragrances. There are some videos out there, but there are many unique angles to this problem and I think you did really well on your angle. I do sometimes think and reflect, whether I myself have a problem with "collecting" frangraces. But the conclusion to this point and time is still, that its all fun and games. I am really into art and standing in front of paintings or poems and what not and really enjoy intepreting and thinking about the artistic aspects, like "did the artist want to encorporate a message, or a feeling, or is it just showing off his technique or how did he manage to convey a certain vibe, ... you get the point. And this "intepreting" is to a large degree the thing, that i myself enjoy in fragrances. Exactly the point you were uncomfortable with, the standing in Front of the collection and really thinking about it, about what suits the situation the most, that is something that gives me a lot of enjoyment. Adding to that, I enjoy frangrances so much, that on stressful days, or any other day really, it gives me somewhat of a pause or a relaxation, to sometimes just sit and smell the frangraces, get some enjoyment out of it and continue on with the day. Its somewhat like taking a break and listening to good music for me. But not like snorting cocaine, that keeps you on taking it in situations and otherwise you cant live without it. I can definetly live without frangraces, but it gives me and my live personally a certian "pep" to wear them. So curating what I want to wear in a day really adds a lot of fun to me and my live and greatly increses my enjoyment of the day to day life. Especially as a university student, many days are plain the same, and changing them up with the wear of different frangrances does wonder. But I sure do think a lot about keeping my passion in boundaries, since it is soooooo fricking easy to just buy and get a random bottle of something, that some people think of as the greatest piece of scented liquid ever to have existed. Fragrance addiction IS real and a concern for a lot of people. A user here commented, that hes passionate about perfumery and that its all okay, as long as hes able to balance it. Thats exactly the way I feel about it aswell. To everyone that might not understand my view on this industry and think about it as sheer materialism: I get it. It is biologically chained to our DNA to like collecting thinks. To deny that would be ignorant. It is to some degree really just humans liking shiny little objects. But getting enjoyment out of it, as long as it doesnt corrupt your personality, is in my opinion fine. But you really need to hold yourself accountable at all times, its just to easy to someday wake up and realize your money is all gone. Lastly: I do realize, that it is just scented liquid at the end of the day. But so might a paiting just be splashed minerals on things. Art can come in many forms, and the way Roja Oceania conveys the feeling of vacation and beach and summersun, is a similar type of art to for example "The Scream" by Munch, that conveys a type of feeling aswell (dread, panic, adrenaline..). Aventus just makes me feel great, Tobacco Vanille is just so special to me and my enjoyment of a winter season and I enjoy the meditative feeling of tea perfumes. So yes, for me perfume is not just consumerism but art aswell. I might add, that my collection only has about 15 pieces or so, collected over nearly 3 1/2 years. And I have been managing my money well, to afford them. Advice that i might give concerning someones personal collection is finding a way to keep track of the amount of time you wear a frangrance. I myself made a list thats stored in my frangrance drawer, where I can see what i have worn over the times and that buying Erba Pura was a mistake and i should sell it :D Biggest advice: Compliments are nice, compliments brighten your day and its fine if you decide to wear something in certain situations, thats more probable to receive compliments than other scents. But solely liking fragrances only for their compliment factor shouldnt be the only thing to justify owning more than two or three fragrances (2-3 because of "winter", "summer", "switch up"). Starting with fragrances SHOULD NOT mean just buying a whole lot of random shit. Tests fragrances, buy ONE fragrance, test a few more without buying, train your nose to smell deeper into a fragrance than just the ambroxin layer and maybe after 2-3 months you can think about buying something that you have tested before. Sorry for this extensive essay of a comment, you just triggered some thoughts I carried around with me for a while now ;) Let me know what you think

I discovered your channel yesterday and I can’t stop watching your videos. Very dog quality

The “price per mil” thing is crucial. I’ve heard so many people say that you should always buy the larger size, or even blind buy fragrances that are on the cheaper side simply because it’s more “bang for your buck”. Hell, I’ve sampled fragrances that are only $30-40 and it turned out that I found them only OK. By sampling and spending more per mil, I saved myself money, space, and regret from wasting money on something I will not use. I also saved time from not having to declutter in the future! Buying samples is the way to go for discovering fragrances imo

Gris Charnel Extrait smells similar to xerjoffs starlight. I think both of them are absolute trash.

I love AHS but could never pull the trigger on Eau Ext

Damn good video! Bravo! Excellent points, all frag heads should watch this wether you’ve been collecting for a while or are just getting started 🎉

I understand all too well the feeling of loving something in the store and being disappointed at home. The soft light of the boutique convinces us that buying the fragrance will tinge our everyday life with that same feeling of luxury. Sometimes though, after being disappointed, I keep wearing it and remember why I loved it in store and enjoy it anew. Also, a fragrance that smells like a candle on me is Dior Sauvage Parfum!

Refreshingly honest and brave. Would love a little better mic (or more furniture) for less reverb.

The best way is buying miniatures bc they’re much cuter and don’t last forever and ever giving you buyers regret.

Thanks for your video and your perspective! I especially like the suggestion of rotating through your collection. My father has over 100 bottles and, seeing that, I’ve resolved to keep my collection small (even though we still enjoy the best of his collection). I have fifteen or so bottles with me at my master’s program and, while not all of my fragrances are tens out of ten, they do still all get used. Even so, I could stand to downsize a bit. One other point I’ll add to your video is the exhaustion of wondering whether your fragrance will offend anybody at work. I like mass-appealing fragrances by and large, and only spray them 3-6 times, but even so, I often wonder whether I’m the conspicuous “cologne guy,” something which really hampers my enjoyment of the hobby.

There are really incisive points on the thought processes behind fragrance collecting as a hobby / addiction. It gives insight into where it will take you, so you can find your answers to these questions before spending £000s! I hope anyone getting serious about building a fragrance collection finds this channel, appreciate you man! It can be super overwhelming getting into fragrances at first with so many designers and niche houses, with several collections in each house, so many notes, scent profiles and so many things getting hyped in top 10s that you can lose sight of why you’re doing it at all. My main reasons for collecting have always been to find fragrances that I personally love the smell of, to explore and appreciate the artistic side of perfumery (while keeping it wearable) and enhance whatever my mood of the moment is.

If you have 10 50ml and if you have more than 15 then 30ml

I definitely enjoy Allure Homme Sport EE more. The original is great but I like the amped up tonka in EE. I ended up buying both and selling sport. I wish I had sampled first. They really are not so different but those little differences make people favor one over the other. Once that choice is made, the other bottle can become redundant. So many great points in this video.

really great video, especially the stronger point you made.... the other day I walked past some guy stinking of aftershave, I used to thought stronger the better but I then internally realized that it kinda smelled annoying lol... Sutle is always best. Also I DO want to get a fragrance collection, but my question is if I do this will the smell and performance begin to decline?? I want to have a collection that I can witch around for around 3 years..

send me your bottle of ahs eau extreme....finished mine lol

I totally agree with allure homme sport, never understand why influencers hyped extreme version

I started out buying old style colognes like Paco Rabanne Pour Homme - collecting various vintages. I ‘graduated’ rapidly to more modern offerings, more expensive designers, clones of niche perfumes, and a few niche samples. Just the other day I revisited Paco Rabanne Pour Homme and it smelled so good - it smelled quite niche actually! It may be all I really need.

Straight facts! Definitely came to that realization with the big bottles as well. If it’s something I know I’m going to wear heavily and I know I love them I’ll definitely get the bigger bottles. But when I’m just looking to try something new for fun I’ve started to get smaller sizes and a lot of travel sprays. You can actually get a decent amount of wears out of those and you’ll save yourself a lot of money and space if you end up not loving the fragrance. And like you said you’re only saving money on the bigger bottles if you actually use whole thing. You can always go buy a bigger bottle if you run through the travel spray/small bottle if you really love it

First one applies to me big time. The others - not at all. My other big mistake was blind buying buying lots of cheap fragrances.

i also prefer Allure Homme Sport over any Allure from that line .... simply smells the best! Eau Extreme is overrated - just vanilla and muted aldehydes from Homme Sport scent

where did you get that henley shirt from?

You shitting on fragrances, your absolute hatred of them and your descriptions of how they smell is hilarious!! Please do more of these 😂

What do you think of your xerjoff tony iommi monkey special bro ?

Keeping it real on the last point my man! It is a luxury, and easy to fall into the mistake of spending thousands of $ on fragrances.

Thank you Alex for another thoughtful video. I started collecting fragrance way before there was UA-cam & influencers aka salesman. I always ignored the hype from the sales assistant because they are not exactly honest. Most of them don't even know the scent notes when you asked them. I like to rotate my fragrance based on my mood & sometimes I layer 2 fragrances to experiment aswell as surprise myself with different combinations. I respect the craftsmanship & bottle design so I tend to buy 100ml bottles because they look better than 50ml bottles. I don't think I would buy decant because it looks generic. You make some great points regarding enjoyment and loving the fragrance instead of buying it for compliments. There's just so so many fragrances these days. Flankers after flankers. I do like watching fragrance videos more for the education and knowledge instead of wanting to buy the next hype beasts. I am lucky that I have a few 100ml bottles that are discontinued which I really enjoy.

I feel like fragrance "influencers" are very predatory towards loneliness, because they market these fragrances as "sex bombs" or whatever. Cant stand their phrases, it is so embarrassing and they say it with no shame. Also your point on being discovered and not announced is so true, I hate to be that one guy that walks in a room and have people think "oh jeez, someone has cologne on". I own oud wood and a get a solid 3-4 hours on skin alone (8 hours on both skin and clothes), and its my favorite. I love "weak" fragrances because I feel like im in complete control of the performance, just spray more but don't go blind.

I feel this way about Rochas man edt, Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir EDP and Dior Homme Original. While not being the strongest or longest lasting fragrances., they smell amazing to me and I can still smell it around myself even if others can't/dont

Especially our integrity........one of the most important aspects of who and what we should aspire to be..

Great set of videos Alex. When I see something heavily shilled especially by Brocolli hair zoomers / influencer / content types in those condescending talking down to videos it loses its potential value very quickly. That’s why I’ll never touch Bujairami, most JPGs, Club De Nuits and the usual blue suspects. That’s why I’ll never take a hustlers ecom or drop shipping course and that’s why I’ll never need a life coach lmao. As soon as those types hit your niche, consider it saturated and subverted. On the subject of influencers it really is a case of knowing the niche, having an idea of what you’re wanting and being able to discern salesman from the genuine guides who also happen to be entertainers. Society unfortunately isn’t well educated on that as we’re preyed upon by financial vultures every day even in the comfort of our own homes. This goes with the territory of the internet of value in a hyper commodified online world.. I’ve confidently bought a few fragrances blindly because I know what scents I like and I can trust the nose online, I was only disappointed with one out of the fifty or so due to a certain ingredient causing a headache. Some made it into the keep list, others I liked but not enough to keep. There’s also a common theme with blind buys, most were cheap. It should be approached like gambling. Because, sometimes the odds are in your favour. Some successful blind buys over the last year for me I’ll share are • Lataffa Emeer - I laughed when someone said it was Clive Christian Town & Country for $69AUD. I was gobsmacked at how close this stuff comes to Town & Country. • Maison Al Hambras Black Origami. I disliked this DNA at first, revisited months later and now I own two bottles of Black Origami and the original TF Black Orchid it was cloning. • Maison Alhambra Exclusif Tabac. $30AUD for something in the same ballpark as Mancera Red Tobacco, honestly wish I bought a backup bottle while it was still $30 but will happily pay the retail its worth as the tobacco note is divine. • Franck Oliviers Pure Addiction which is a great BR540 style with an orange twist. Great for a dumb reach, $40AUD. • S.T Dupont Oriental line. It might not be my favourite or easiest scent profile but the bottles I got from this line take me to a place I’ve never been and I love oriental scents and for $80AUD each I am more than content. • Swiss Arabian Tobacco 01 - I saw ‘three units left’ and FOMO’d in. I wasn’t too sure based off of the notes list, first spray was ‘eh wtf is going on here’, got to the dry down and quickly found its way into my heart. $130 well gambled.

Buying 10mL decants is kinda the way to go really especially for a “special occasion” fragrance. For example, I have a full bottle of Dior Homme Intense but I’m on the verge of getting rid of it because i also have a 10mL decant of Dior Homme Parfum 2014 and I love that wayyy more than the intense that I really don’t wear anyway.

Hey Alex, another great vid! I hope it’s not too early to put in video requests :) but It would be cool if you could cover these topics sometime in the future as I’d like to hear them from you: - your top fall/winter & spring/summer fragrances - fragrance wars series , where you pair fragrances against each other and why you would choose one over the other and it would consist of 1v1 battles, designer vs niche, seasonal fragrances, occasion-based battles, and even Viewer’s choice battles - best fragrances for each scenario (date nights, everyday, etc. all though you kind of did do something of the sort your ‘top 10 fragrances for life vid’ you could expand on that concept and give a extended list of fragrances for each scenario) - fragrances you feel are underrated and fragrances you feel are overrated and not worth the price point As always keep up the great quality content and good job being consistent, till next time my friend

Thank you for the advice on not buying the bigger bottles, makes total sense!! Also I prefer Mon Guerlain over Mon Guerlain intense.. I should have just gotten the original as my second bottle!! I actually gave the intense one away LOL keep these coming great videos and points! SOTD yum bougie marshmallow kayali

when my collection hit 40 bottles, full of blind buys, it kinda hit me how ridiculous amount of money i spent on fragrance, despite each of them bought at very good price. I realize its my shopping addiction and the need to buy something at a good deal, while i still like sampling and buying fragrances as I like the idea of having a scent library, i go for decants or smaller sizes and set a rule for myself, if I want to buy a fragrance of a given value, i have to sell fragrances from my collection at a given value, selling decants also helps, this make me think twice when buying and make me discover which fragrance I dont really need it. For example, I went to a boutique counter and love Van Cleef and Arpels Neroli Amara, I go thru my Excel of my collection pull out a couple fragrance that I identified that I didnt wear and decided I am going to sell off Mancera Intense Cedrat Boise and Lattafas that I dont need to pay for it. Those fragrance smells nice, but its no where VCA Neroli Amara nice and I would wear Neroli Amara over them at any situation.

i agree with your point about collecting smaller bottles, but the strength of a fragrance really matters to me personally. i wanna smell it! baccarat is unique in the way it disappears and re-appears and plays games with you :)

Great points here, fella. I really wish more companies did smaller sizes. The problem is that 100ml of product costs them VERY little more than 30ml. So although they're getting more money per ml selling you a small bottle, they are still losing out considerably. Tying self worth to frags is like tying it to clothes or any other material objects. It won't give you genuine self worth but it will, sadly, affect your worth in other people's eyes, to a greater or lesser extent. People (I'm talking mainly about women here) do judge men a lot on their initial impressions, and a well dressed and nice smelling guy will seem of higher value/worth than a 'basic' man. Expensive equals better is another great call. A smell is just a smell. The same smell will really appeal to some and not to others, regardless of price (some extremely cheap frags, though, do just smell cheap and synthetic to most people). Stronger is better has some validity imho. Unless you are someone who just wants to 'privately' enjoy frags, then you want others to at least appreciate your style if not actually compliment you. And as the old adage goes "If people can't smell you they won't compliment you" (and we can add "or simply appreciate your complete style). The exception, as you mentioned, is when you want a more intimate scent eg for close encounters - WOOF! YES to don't be a collector! When you view yourself as a collector you necessarily have to collect more. I enjoy fragrances but only ever buy a new one if I find one I really like. So you could say I have a collection of frags, but I'm not a collector. I've simply bought frags I enjoy and they've become a collection. As you asked, I'd like a video exploring the whole 'compliments' angle. Whether you should or shouldn't be bothered about them. How realistic social media compliment tally claims might or might not be. How likely it is that influencers who tell you that a frag projects about 3 meters for the first hour, then 1.5mtrs up to 4 hours, then an arms length for another 2 hrs, actually have some way of measuring this lol Do they stand people at those distances at the respective time intervals and ask if they can still smell them, or what??? Sorry for the mammoth comment, but the vid was stimulating. Cheers!

Smaller bottles are the way to go if you have big collection. I never buy bigger than 50ml and wish more houses offered 30ml. Good stuff and info here.

You should add a good background music track to your videos! I know a lot of fragrance youtubers that I associate with a certain music track - almost like a signature scent :)

Great info and yes it is overwhelming choosing a fragrance to wear when you have a large collection

I’ve been collecting for around 4 years and I have nearly 100 fragrances by now and I absolutely relate to everything you say especially the “buy the 100ml to get better value” thing

Hi, I would like to ask if there is any fragrance that is particularly special for a woman? all fragrances quickly bore me and I sell. I like very much like you woody, fresh fragrances. I personally use Tom Ford Black Orchid, Tom Ford Mandarino di Amalfi and Hermes Sur le Nil. Please recommend something special and greetings from Poland.

For those who want to start a fragrance collection (or even started collecting), the #1 point that you brought up is very relevant. Unless you gift some friends with decants of your fragrances, there is no need to build up a collection based on full size bottles (e.g., 100ml or even more). Probably the collector will not be able to finish all the bottles of the collection during his lifespan. I tend to grab small sized bottles and/or splits in order to build up the collection with more efficiency (?). All in all, great insights within the video. Keep up with the good work!

Allure Homme Sport 100% smells better than Eau Extreme. I fell for this trap. Luckily I traded away Eau Extreme. What a refreshing video, you make some absolutely great points. The $/ML was hard for me to get over due to my upbringing. My mother always bought in bulk to cut unit cost down. But damn I got tired of eating chicken breast 😂 I’ve now got a collection of 80~ bottles, and I hunt for 30/50ML if I can. If it’s $10 difference, sure I’ll get the bigger bottle, but if I can spend $50 less for half the juice I will. Good video 🤝

Thank you for your video. I agree with everything you said in your video. I wanted to write whole story as how i got into fragrances but i wanna make it short. I had like 10 full bottles from which i wore maybe 2 of them rest just sittin on shelf. After some time of realizing that i dont wear them often i sold them and now i just sample. I buy couple of samples from time to time and i have just 1 full bottle. It is Allure Homme Sport(150ml). I almost bought AHSEEE but i bought 2 samples AHS and AHSEE and compared them, i really liked AHS more. Went to chanel site and thats it. Now i know what style of fragrances i like and in the future i know what to buy/not to buy. My next purchase will be Bleu de Chanel but of course i have to compare EDTvsEDPvsP to see which i like the most:)