Somebody should start a magazine subscription comparable to how Ulta or Sephora have the fragrance section in their catalogs where you can smell perfumes on the Pages. Except in this case, it would be all fragrances that most people don’t have access to catch a scent of in stores, all Niche. Because where I live there is literally no where to smell anything that isn’t mainstream designer. Would be a game changer.😢😊
They already have those. I've gotten a book from a designer that did that that I can't remember the name of & I got a sample box from Serge Lutins once that was small amounts of solid cologne for free
Secretions Magnifiques… the lady at the store convinced me to try it on skin and “give it time”.. omg I have never felt so self conscious in public on my way home🙈🙈
I can’t think of any notes I don’t like. Ambroxan in high concentrations does give me a headache if I’m exposed for long periods. And I do agree on Followed, that stuff is nuclear!!
Please do a list of on Pierre Guillaume. I purchased both Coze and Animal Mondain per your suggestions and both are amazing. Strangely, I have most of the fragrances this list. I love Hindu Kush, my favorite Mancera as well.
I like a lot of these! Ha. I like it when my nose is challenged by strong and strange smells. When I went to buy Followed I asked Ministry of Scent about the reformulation rumor and they pointed me to a post by John where he says it is not and never will be reformulated. I bought the bottle and it’s plenty strong and smells like my first batch sample. The overspray finally came off my coat sleeve sometime over the summer lol definitely need to be careful applying.
I have real trouble with Ambroxan. It is so dry and bitter to me. I feel like my nose is bleeding. 😢 I know it’s supposed to be similar to ambergris, but I prefer resinous ambers like myrrh.
you are right!!! Leatherize is the closest to real leather!!! and ganymede is wonderful from the second hour onwards. patchouli magnetik should be here! The worst patchouli ever
Blind bought patchouli magnetic to see what patchouli was all about, this fragrance turned me off patchouli for life. It made my nostrils flinch in horror that anyone could put this in a bottle and sell it. Ganymede original is such an intriguing magical scent.
Maybe I'd be overwhelmed with the full bottle, but I absolutely love the sample of Italica I have. It smells absolutely delicious, I was shocked. One of the best gourmand I've ever smelled, and I thought it was probably full-bottle worthy and one of the best winter/Christmas scents you could put on. 🍪🥛
for me Ganymede is masterpiece!!! Love it so much ❤❤❤ For me in general There are no nots that I dislike if they’re in moderate, but cannot stand too much oud, wood, leader, saffron or osmantus. That why I think that a perfumery is like a Symphony where all musical notes sounds in harmony….
I'm not big on jasmine or ylang-ylang when it's just straight up. I want to smell them wafting from afar, I don't want my nose directly in those flowers. Oddly, I think I'm a bit of a calone-lover LOL But GANYMEDE? it's fantastic!!! they know not of what they speak!
I’m constantly chasing frags when if I’m being honest, I’ll always and forever just be looking for the best patch. I’m a patch ho, through & through! 🤷🏻♀️
Trying to figure out if the note Heliotrope is what my nose perceives as sharp and not good to me. I love almond note but fragrances with heliotrope I seem to not like 🤷🏻♀️ (whispers of admiration, dolce Acqua by Profumum Roma, Lilac Love, Lancôme Tresor 🤢…) I LOVE Italica and am so glad my nose can appreciate it!
Yes, I get a makeup vibe from Oud Satin Mood, which would be fine if it wasn’t combined with an (almost rancid) oiliness. To me that one is an absolute mess, powdery, oily, violet and vanilla. I get no oud, no rose, and I really don’t see what the hype is about at all. It’s actually kind of yucky.
Leatherize is so bad lol. I couldnt believe it when I smelled it at the DS store. Literally smells like old leather car seats, cant ossibly see how that could be an actual scent to WEAR. Followed is nauseating, so glad that Kerosene has much better offerings.
Cocaine by Frank Boclet might be my biggest nightmare of a perfume. In terms of notes I hate jasmine, vetiver, and most green or sharp notes. …but of course, jasmine is almost in everything (I do tolerate it in very small amounts though).
Yeah..Mancera Red Tobacco's opening is absolutely the worst and I simply do not understand how anyone can endure the opening. This video was fun and I hope you can do more of these types of videos, Sebastian!
Worst fragrance for me is Espresso Royale by Sebastiane. Anyone that considers Espresso Royale a real perfume doesn't even know know what real perfume is. It's godawful, coffee, oil and alcohol and nothing else.
The worst fragrance I’ve smelled to this day is « The other side of oud » by Atkinsons. Smells like a mix between an anti-mosquito spray and a taxidermy office. This smell is very aggressive and almost stingy to my nose
Worst fragrance ever is a tie for me, both frags from the same house. Both Fiona and Vicki Lin from TSVGA just smell like nasty swamp water. I swear that brand's fans are almost cult-like - pretentious and think that others just don't get it. Na, we get it, you smell like sewage. lol. My least favorite note is dimethyl sulfide. It's used to make citruses pop and can also be blended with other notes to create marine accords. It's pretty apparent in scents like D&G Light Blue and Versace Pour Homme,. It just smells like eggs on me and I can't stand it. (Ambroxan is another I don't care for, but for a completely different reason. It makes me go noseblind in certain combinations, thus ruining my experience.)
My least favorite perfume is one of the most popular… Baccarat Rouge 540. I don’t dislike it as much as I used to, but I still do not enjoy that perfume. I have to go along with you on Calone, a note which I cannot tolerate either. Interesting video Sebastian.
Isn't that funny......love Italica. The almonds,vanilla, toffee etc....hubby loves this cozy gourmand. :) LOVE Ani.....just wore it yesterday. You are right....we cannot love every fragrance....every nose is different...that's what we love about the fragrance world. Ani is a classic for me. :)
Patchouli is problematic for me as well..I start to tolerate it better, but it depends on the perfume. In many perfumes I tried, it comes across like decaying wood chips and dirt..
It's so entertaining to hear you point of view and see what triggers everyone, haha. We all have different connections to scent. I've tried time and time again to love T-Rex from Zoologist and I can't get rid of that pastrami vibe I get from it! And, patchouli is such a weird note. I can like it when it's well used and creates a creamy, chocolatey vibe but when it gets into that moldy, hippie vibe, I just can't.
not a fan of lactonic and also gourmand, especially chocolate, cotton candy, caramel, sugar. Those notes make me nauseous. Not a fan of sickly sweet scents in general.
I love Ganymede, Hindu Kush, and Noir Anthracite...I wish that Noir was still in production. I think a lot people say they hate patchouli because they are thinking about the hippie/head shop variety, which I don't like either, but it smells sooooo good in many perfumes. Someone below wrote of their dislike for camphor. I couldn't agree more...I don't enjoy anything camphoric. Cypriol/papyrus can be challenging to me at times. Thanks Perfume Guy!!
i've received a sample from Kilian like 5 years ago, containing Dark Lord (and it was Black Phantom too, a duo pack), and HOLY GOD... worst smell i smelled! :D it LITERALLY smelled for like this: you blend 5 leather jackets, make a reduction from them, then put in a parfume vial... disgustingly overwhelming and powerful leather note, bloah :D
LOVE Leatherize, Red Tobacco, Ganymede, Hindu Kush, Satin Mood, Noir Anthracite, Followed, Tuscan Leather, those people need to get their nose fixed!!! 😬kidding, everyone is different, entitled to like whatever they want and that's the beauty of it, in fact ANI doesn't work for me 🤷♂ Still have to try Coze, don't care for Mindgames, sorry not sorry. Thanks for the video Sebastian!!!
Ganymede Extrait, just smells like birch tar. Just smoke. Its linear. I thought it was gonna be different and mineral and unique. Its just plain birch tar and that sucks.
I can’t fathom how anyone hates these fragrances. I understand how calone is just not for everyone. Definitely needs to be a hot summer day near an aquatic setting so that it mixes with the sea salty air and your own sweat, maybe with a little sunscreen mixed in. But… Leatherize is such a olfactive snapshot of a tannery. Italica is blind voted by me as the number one fragrance every single time. Ganymede is so sexy. I’ve already sent decants out to a friend twice because he is in love with it and can’t afford a full bottle. Red tobacco is just the screamer version of Carlisle by PDM or Triumph of Bacchus by Argos. Followed is one of my favorites. I put on a shirt I wore 3 weeks ago, and I can still smell it. Yeah. It smells like breakfast but I love that. Ani. That vanilla is coupled with that sort of grandma’s attic must it dust but it’s amazing and creates such a unique vanilla sillage that leans more masculine. Tuscan Leather I kind of get. A little scratchy but the raspberry note makes it bearable. Similar also to Baccio Immortelle by Argos. Hindu Kush is my least worn and I think it’s okay, but I don’t think it matches with my skin chemistry like it obviously does yours so I get why this isn’t liked much. I’ve never tried anything from Mind Games. And haven’t smelled Oud Satin Mood, or Coze either sadly. So let me guess. Everyone hates leather. Mind blowing. When I got my letterman’s jacket in high school it had leather sleeves and it made the entire family coat closet smell so good. Every time I opened the closet doors I would smell that leather wafting out and it smelled so good and I just loved putting it on in the morning before going to school. Maybe that’s the scent memory that makes me love the smell of leather so much, especially Ganymede. Chef’s Kiss to that perfection.
Parchouli?!? Gonna have to edit that and reupload. Patchouli Magnetik I still can acclimate to. That and Unspoken Musk still has me gagging if I smell it directly sprayed on my skin. I’m gonna have to really practice to like that one. Dial the sprays to one or 2, and let it sit an hour before I can enjoy it.
I know fragrance is subjective but if you dislike Hindu Kush you better get back to your Dior Sauvage (or any designer really) Hindu Kush is unusual yes but it's sweet and very pleasing
FOLLOWD is a beast but problem is the person who spray it only will enjoy it and will smell the caramel-chocolate-coffee.. but most of people around will smell the curry or kitchen spices or fundageek.. but i love it 🔥
I struggle with overly lactonic (for example, Blanche Bête), nutty (Girl of now comes to mind) and tobacco notes (pretty much all tobacco-heavy scents I tried).
Great video as usual! I personally dislike the maple syrup note in perfumes, it just makes me feel like I smell like pancakes with syrup. I don't enjoy it. I also don't like a strong Iris note (maybe violet too?) as to me a strong iris note smells like leather. I don't mind a subtle leather scent or a subtle iris/violet scent but if either are too strong it's very unlikeable for me.
I also was very disappointed in Nishane's Ani. I got zero vanilla, which was a bummer. So many ppl say it is a vanilla fragrance with zing and spice, but I only got the zing and spice and I didn't like th smell. It just did nothing for me and after hearing so many rave reviews, I thought I would love it. Boy was I mistaken. too bad!! I love Hindu Kush though!! thanks to Sebastian
I absolutely LOVE Followed - I am sorry…..😊 it has something that I really enjoy and so of course I also love it when my apartment smells like it for days - oh and yes, it is a beast!!! I believe that we link all smells with a memory so I, for example, despise super sweet fragrances on a man (like Ani or Le Male) and so any fragrance that goes in that direction reminds me of a terrible and mean boyfriend (just to mention some nice words about him 😉) and I will not like it. Oh and btw, I also think Hindu Kush is stunning.
Once I see vanilla I’m out. But in other news I think I’m going to get leatherize 😂😂 I’ve been searching for a perfume that smells like brown leather that isn’t heavy on that saffron.
Ganymede. Hate the name. I can't get by the Zeus Ganymede story. I am also avoiding tobacco,coffee, black tea liquors, and hemp notes. Cuts down a lot on the buying temptations.
WHO voted for Ganymede??? 😡🤬omg i'm furious right now. It's one of my top 3 all time favorite perfumes along with Dior Homme Parfum and Penhaligon's Halfeti! 100% agree with Oud Satin Mood tho... i hate it😅
My first experience in fragrance was patchouli; when I was just a kid I got a whiff of it from some adult and I asked them what it was. That person gave a small roll-on for me as a gift, and I loved it! It's warm and earthy and a bit spicy and as I got older I discovered it was some perfume but I forgot what the name was. The closest I ever got to that kind of smell was Calvin Klein Obsession. After patchouli, musk was a very close favorite, followed by leather and sandalwood.
I fuggin hate the smell of spicy black licorice. I'm not sure what's responsible for this note, but man, it's bad. I want to like Sauvage Elixir and 85% of the elements in it I do actually like, but that licorice note is nauseating. It'll get me sweating and my head thumping. It's like being in the back of grandmas hot ass Buick with the velvety-ish seats on a super hot day in July and burning yourself on the seatbelt. Now you've been told you have to wear your seatbelt in an already claustrophobic environment. The crazy part is, I'm not even sure that Licorice is listed in Sauvage Elixir, but I certainly smell it... 🤨
Baby Cat is gawd awful. Makes me want to vomit 🤢 it smells like rancid vanilla mixed with gasoline 🤮 The other fragrance I hate is BDK Gris Charnel. It gives me nausea and a migraine. I had to wash it off my skin multiple times to get the scent off. I have read on other UA-camrs comments the same thing I’m saying about this regarding it inducing migraine headaches. Notes I don’t like are fig, strong rose, fecal smelling Ouds, grass notes, aquatic sea notes, industrial notes etc
Seb what a great fantastic and fun review. Patchouli and vetiver are absolute garbage. Also, how come Tom Ford F***ing Fabulous is not on this list? I recently started using it as bug repellent. Works great. Need to find out if it could be used to exterminate bed bugs too.
I absolutely cannot wear anything with patchouli. It always ends in a body odour scent. Like Angel when everyone was wearing it. Just awful! I am a fan of mildly spicy or musky ambery scents, sweet gourmands, warm woody jasminey florals. And right now, although overplayed, I cannot get enough of Baccarat Rouge 540, edp and extrait. Love it!!
Blanche from Byredo smells HORRIBLE. I am obsessed with the house Mojave Ghost, Bal D'afrique are AMAZING. BUT! Blanche smells like a public bathroom after someone just took a 💩 and then washed their hands. Like cheap soap and poopie funk. I just can't believe someone would wear it.
Vibes of Bazooka bubble gum. Yuck. Not "horrible" in the sense of gag-inducing, of course. Bubble gum can't do that to you. But it's just so, so.... well, yes, exactly like a fifty-cent kiddie "perfume" you'd get for a six-year-old girl back in the 1960s. Any fragrance that even remotely suggests bubble gum to me, instant no! And it's surprising how often one gets that impression from fragrances.
I'm not a huge fan of calone as a note either. I don't do well with a lot of musk, jasmine or incense but in moderation, I can handle them okay. I can't handle any of the Marc-Antoine Barrois fragrances, so whoever voted for those, I second it. Just not for me. I have to disagree about Mancera's Red Tobacco, for me, it's a amazing. Personally, I love patchouli as a note but not in every fragrance. Some fragrances, like Patchouli Magnetik from Maison Crivelli, I can't stand but Jovoy's Psychedelique is a masterpiece.
Easily the WORST fragrance I have ever smelled is Kilian Paris' Apple Brandy On The Rocks. It's a shame, because the original version is stunning. ABOTR smells like an industrial window cleaning product. You couldn't pay me to wear it.
I don't want to hate on anybody's tastes..But, some of these 'most hated' are the absolute best that the world of perfumery has to offer! LoL ..I have noticed leather comes up a lot and I tend to agree- leather can be very challenging. Also a skanky oud, skanky jasmine and cumin or sweaty, b.o. reminiscent smells..But, I mean- I prefer a challenging fragrance over the same old, boring, done-to-death perfumes. Like fruity-florals or tame white florals etc. Like, some of these folks need to stick to crowd pleasing designer fragrances... Niche and Indy obviously isn't for everyone! 😂
OUD SATIN MOOD: Where is the oud, please?? A sugary rose parfum, and if you like to smell like a rose-flavored middle eastern delight, then you are at the right place. A rose water. What a waste of money!!!
yes i LOATHE Ani....I smell maybe 10% Vanilla and 90% random spices that have no cohesiveness to them. I VERY much prefer Lune Feline as a spicy vanilla as it makes much more sense to my nose. Ani makes me wanna throw my wrist across the room with the bottle.
I agree with your mimic about Cruz del Sur II: first it is the most realistic mango smell. Then sour milk as if someone threw up their mango ice cream🤢
Grey Flannel and Giorgio Beverly Hills were both disgusting! I bought each of them sight unseen (=smell unsmelled) because they were supposed to be important classic fragrances from their era. Yuck!
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I watched the tea video. Love T42 L'Artisan Parfumeur.
Somebody should start a magazine subscription comparable to how Ulta or Sephora have the fragrance section in their catalogs where you can smell perfumes on the Pages. Except in this case, it would be all fragrances that most people don’t have access to catch a scent of in stores, all Niche. Because where I live there is literally no where to smell anything that isn’t mainstream designer. Would be a game changer.😢😊
Start the business. And it would be those stores, because they carry east access designers anyway.
They already have those. I've gotten a book from a designer that did that that I can't remember the name of & I got a sample box from Serge Lutins once that was small amounts of solid cologne for free
That's an awesome idea
Hence the blind buy gambling.
Sebastian literally has a product made for that! Scent Club
Secretions Magnifiques… the lady at the store convinced me to try it on skin and “give it time”.. omg I have never felt so self conscious in public on my way home🙈🙈
This made me laugh out loud. Thank you! Hahaha. I bought it because everyone said it was so bad.
I have to agree on Ani. The green note is what gets me. I much prefer Ani X which doesn't have those green notes.
I can’t think of any notes I don’t like. Ambroxan in high concentrations does give me a headache if I’m exposed for long periods.
And I do agree on Followed, that stuff is nuclear!!
Red Tobacco will always be my love..♥️♥️💞💞. out of 100 bottles
Please do a list of on Pierre Guillaume. I purchased both Coze and Animal Mondain per your suggestions and both are amazing.
Strangely, I have most of the fragrances this list. I love Hindu Kush, my favorite Mancera as well.
I like a lot of these! Ha. I like it when my nose is challenged by strong and strange smells. When I went to buy Followed I asked Ministry of Scent about the reformulation rumor and they pointed me to a post by John where he says it is not and never will be reformulated. I bought the bottle and it’s plenty strong and smells like my first batch sample. The overspray finally came off my coat sleeve sometime over the summer lol definitely need to be careful applying.
I have real trouble with Ambroxan. It is so dry and bitter to me. I feel like my nose is bleeding. 😢 I know it’s supposed to be similar to ambergris, but I prefer resinous ambers like myrrh.
you are right!!! Leatherize is the closest to real leather!!! and ganymede is wonderful from the second hour onwards. patchouli magnetik should be here! The worst patchouli ever
Blind bought patchouli magnetic to see what patchouli was all about, this fragrance turned me off patchouli for life. It made my nostrils flinch in horror that anyone could put this in a bottle and sell it. Ganymede original is such an intriguing magical scent.
Maybe I'd be overwhelmed with the full bottle, but I absolutely love the sample of Italica I have. It smells absolutely delicious, I was shocked. One of the best gourmand I've ever smelled, and I thought it was probably full-bottle worthy and one of the best winter/Christmas scents you could put on. 🍪🥛
Worst note for me is Tuberose. Worst fragrance i smelled is La Haine from Moth & Rabbit
So many awesome fragrances in this list. But I get it. I hate Creed Green Irish Tweed and it’s popular
I hate Bond No. 9 Coney Island. Barf in a bottle. Thank God it's discontinued.
for me Ganymede is masterpiece!!! Love it so much ❤❤❤ For me in general There are no nots that I dislike if they’re in moderate, but cannot stand too much oud, wood, leader, saffron or osmantus. That why I think that a perfumery is like a Symphony where all musical notes sounds in harmony….
I'm not big on jasmine or ylang-ylang when it's just straight up. I want to smell them wafting from afar, I don't want my nose directly in those flowers. Oddly, I think I'm a bit of a calone-lover LOL But GANYMEDE? it's fantastic!!! they know not of what they speak!
I love ❤ Mancera Red Tabaco❤
For me is Drakkar Noir.
I love Ani from Nishane! ❤ It's not for everyone but it's a definite YES for me. 😂❤😊
Hi there Sebastian
great content! hard to keep up, smelling gooood
gabriel
I’m constantly chasing frags when if I’m being honest, I’ll always and forever just be looking for the best patch. I’m a patch ho, through & through! 🤷🏻♀️
#patchho
Trying to figure out if the note Heliotrope is what my nose perceives as sharp and not good to me. I love almond note but fragrances with heliotrope I seem to not like 🤷🏻♀️ (whispers of admiration, dolce Acqua by Profumum Roma, Lilac Love, Lancôme Tresor 🤢…)
I LOVE Italica and am so glad my nose can appreciate it!
Yes, I get a makeup vibe from Oud Satin Mood, which would be fine if it wasn’t combined with an (almost rancid) oiliness. To me that one is an absolute mess, powdery, oily, violet and vanilla. I get no oud, no rose, and I really don’t see what the hype is about at all. It’s actually kind of yucky.
I despise Oud Satin Mood- cannot stomach it. I hate the violet and rose combination…yuck
❤❤ I love MFK Oud Satin ❤️❤️😂😂
Me too ❤
Leatherize is so bad lol. I couldnt believe it when I smelled it at the DS store. Literally smells like old leather car seats, cant ossibly see how that could be an actual scent to WEAR. Followed is nauseating, so glad that Kerosene has much better offerings.
Cocaine by Frank Boclet might be my biggest nightmare of a perfume. In terms of notes I hate jasmine, vetiver, and most green or sharp notes. …but of course, jasmine is almost in everything (I do tolerate it in very small amounts though).
Yeah..Mancera Red Tobacco's opening is absolutely the worst and I simply do not understand how anyone can endure the opening. This video was fun and I hope you can do more of these types of videos, Sebastian!
I love checkmate! 😊
Tuscan leather is the sexiest fragrance there is. Especially on a woman’s body..😉
Mont blac explorer has a sharp smell, legend is the same.😝
I HATE Tuscon Leather & LOVEE Ombre Leather...yes, I think tuscon leather STINKS!
Great content. I personally do not like the sent of Cumin. Thank you for the amazing content🙏🏽
I'm sorry but I can't stand leather notes!🤢
Vanilla.
Worst fragrance for me is Espresso Royale by Sebastiane. Anyone that considers Espresso Royale a real perfume doesn't even know know what real perfume is. It's godawful, coffee, oil and alcohol and nothing else.
I don’t agree with xerjoff italica , ANI 😒
The worst fragrance I’ve smelled to this day is « The other side of oud » by Atkinsons.
Smells like a mix between an anti-mosquito spray and a taxidermy office. This smell is very aggressive and almost stingy to my nose
Worst fragrance ever is a tie for me, both frags from the same house. Both Fiona and Vicki Lin from TSVGA just smell like nasty swamp water. I swear that brand's fans are almost cult-like - pretentious and think that others just don't get it. Na, we get it, you smell like sewage. lol. My least favorite note is dimethyl sulfide. It's used to make citruses pop and can also be blended with other notes to create marine accords. It's pretty apparent in scents like D&G Light Blue and Versace Pour Homme,. It just smells like eggs on me and I can't stand it. (Ambroxan is another I don't care for, but for a completely different reason. It makes me go noseblind in certain combinations, thus ruining my experience.)
The way you describe Rich Warm & Addictive 😅😅😅. Paraffin 🤧🙊
On the other hand i dislike Oud for Greatnes. When i got a sample i almost had to vomit.
No way for ITALICA?
Ha yes!!
My least favorite perfume is one of the most popular… Baccarat Rouge 540. I don’t dislike it as much as I used to, but I still do not enjoy that perfume. I have to go along with you on Calone, a note which I cannot tolerate either. Interesting video Sebastian.
Love Ani. I have about 60 scents, niche and designers but Ani is in my top 3. How can you not like it??
Isn't that funny......love Italica. The almonds,vanilla, toffee etc....hubby loves this cozy gourmand. :) LOVE Ani.....just wore it yesterday. You are right....we cannot love every fragrance....every nose is different...that's what we love about the fragrance world. Ani is a classic for me. :)
Patchouli is problematic for me as well..I start to tolerate it better, but it depends on the perfume. In many perfumes I tried, it comes across like decaying wood chips and dirt..
It's so entertaining to hear you point of view and see what triggers everyone, haha. We all have different connections to scent. I've tried time and time again to love T-Rex from Zoologist and I can't get rid of that pastrami vibe I get from it! And, patchouli is such a weird note. I can like it when it's well used and creates a creamy, chocolatey vibe but when it gets into that moldy, hippie vibe, I just can't.
not a fan of lactonic and also gourmand, especially chocolate, cotton candy, caramel, sugar. Those notes make me nauseous. Not a fan of sickly sweet scents in general.
I love Ganymede, Hindu Kush, and Noir Anthracite...I wish that Noir was still in production. I think a lot people say they hate patchouli because they are thinking about the hippie/head shop variety, which I don't like either, but it smells sooooo good in many perfumes. Someone below wrote of their dislike for camphor. I couldn't agree more...I don't enjoy anything camphoric. Cypriol/papyrus can be challenging to me at times. Thanks Perfume Guy!!
Anthracite is supposed to be relaunching according to Sabi...
I got my fingers crossed...Thanks!!@@osmathgreenle8986
Love Patchouli so much, I can't imagine my life without Patchouli. Most of the mentioned in this video fragrances my favorites 😊
Try Indonesian patchouli laundry sauce, ZUM patchouli laundry soap. 😀
Baccarat Rouge 540 smells like my car caught fire on the interstate.
i've received a sample from Kilian like 5 years ago, containing Dark Lord (and it was Black Phantom too, a duo pack), and HOLY GOD... worst smell i smelled! :D
it LITERALLY smelled for like this: you blend 5 leather jackets, make a reduction from them, then put in a parfume vial... disgustingly overwhelming and powerful leather note, bloah :D
These are two of my favorite perfumes.
LOVE Leatherize, Red Tobacco, Ganymede, Hindu Kush, Satin Mood, Noir Anthracite, Followed, Tuscan Leather, those people need to get their nose fixed!!! 😬kidding, everyone is different, entitled to like whatever they want and that's the beauty of it, in fact ANI doesn't work for me 🤷♂ Still have to try Coze, don't care for Mindgames, sorry not sorry. Thanks for the video Sebastian!!!
Ganymede Extrait, just smells like birch tar. Just smoke. Its linear. I thought it was gonna be different and mineral and unique. Its just plain birch tar and that sucks.
I can’t fathom how anyone hates these fragrances. I understand how calone is just not for everyone. Definitely needs to be a hot summer day near an aquatic setting so that it mixes with the sea salty air and your own sweat, maybe with a little sunscreen mixed in. But…
Leatherize is such a olfactive snapshot of a tannery.
Italica is blind voted by me as the number one fragrance every single time.
Ganymede is so sexy. I’ve already sent decants out to a friend twice because he is in love with it and can’t afford a full bottle.
Red tobacco is just the screamer version of Carlisle by PDM or Triumph of Bacchus by Argos.
Followed is one of my favorites. I put on a shirt I wore 3 weeks ago, and I can still smell it. Yeah. It smells like breakfast but I love that.
Ani. That vanilla is coupled with that sort of grandma’s attic must it dust but it’s amazing and creates such a unique vanilla sillage that leans more masculine.
Tuscan Leather I kind of get. A little scratchy but the raspberry note makes it bearable. Similar also to Baccio Immortelle by Argos.
Hindu Kush is my least worn and I think it’s okay, but I don’t think it matches with my skin chemistry like it obviously does yours so I get why this isn’t liked much.
I’ve never tried anything from Mind Games. And haven’t smelled Oud Satin Mood, or Coze either sadly.
So let me guess. Everyone hates leather. Mind blowing. When I got my letterman’s jacket in high school it had leather sleeves and it made the entire family coat closet smell so good. Every time I opened the closet doors I would smell that leather wafting out and it smelled so good and I just loved putting it on in the morning before going to school. Maybe that’s the scent memory that makes me love the smell of leather so much, especially Ganymede. Chef’s Kiss to that perfection.
Parchouli?!? Gonna have to edit that and reupload.
Patchouli Magnetik I still can acclimate to. That and Unspoken Musk still has me gagging if I smell it directly sprayed on my skin. I’m gonna have to really practice to like that one. Dial the sprays to one or 2, and let it sit an hour before I can enjoy it.
Tuscan leather smells like real leather its good!
Satin Mood? Are you serious? I like the Extract one better, lasts ALL day, the Oud one I am not a massive fan of, its oK, but Satin Oud is great
Neroli never fails to make me nauseous. Probably a negative association from being choked out by someones neroli perfume as a kid
I know fragrance is subjective but if you dislike Hindu Kush you better get back to your Dior Sauvage (or any designer really) Hindu Kush is unusual yes but it's sweet and very pleasing
two worst fragrances I smelt are Dior Poison (great name for it) and and the Mugler that smells sickly sweet
Would love a Pierre guillaume house overview/ top 10! Will buy Myrrhiade next week and I own animal mondain and liqueur charnelle love them both!
FOLLOWD is a beast but problem is the person who spray it only will enjoy it and will smell the caramel-chocolate-coffee.. but most of people around will smell the curry or kitchen spices or fundageek.. but i love it 🔥
I can't stand majority of aldehydes. Gives me old sweaty Bo and they always smell so dated.
JOOP HOMME one of the worst fragrance I’ve ever smelled
I don’t like fecal Oud or whatever gives fecal notes. 😂
Some people need to get their noses fixed. Most of these frags are super nice......😂
I struggle with overly lactonic (for example, Blanche Bête), nutty (Girl of now comes to mind) and tobacco notes (pretty much all tobacco-heavy scents I tried).
Great video as usual! I personally dislike the maple syrup note in perfumes, it just makes me feel like I smell like pancakes with syrup. I don't enjoy it. I also don't like a strong Iris note (maybe violet too?) as to me a strong iris note smells like leather. I don't mind a subtle leather scent or a subtle iris/violet scent but if either are too strong it's very unlikeable for me.
I also was very disappointed in Nishane's Ani. I got zero vanilla, which was a bummer. So many ppl say it is a vanilla fragrance with zing and spice, but I only got the zing and spice and I didn't like th smell. It just did nothing for me and after hearing so many rave reviews, I thought I would love it. Boy was I mistaken. too bad!! I love Hindu Kush though!! thanks to Sebastian
Have you smelled Ani X?
Ani didn’t impress me either. Because of the hype, I’d expected more I guess. It smelled a bit generic to me.
I was not impressed by Ani. It smells like tiger balm ointment……
Ani is a great parfum
I swear , I threw away my KEROSENE’ FOLLOWED’ bottle because it was unbearable and the sad part I had swapped it with PDM HEROD .
Tried to throw it away but the scent kept "following" me. Couldn't get it out no matter what I did. I learned to live with it. 😂😂
To me Tom Ford's Bitter Peach can smell like pee. It's the combination of the patchouli and the peach that reacts weirdly on my skin.
The worst fragrance I’ve smelled is Tempel by Terenzi. Sheer horror. Wear it for Halloween if you want to scare people with your stench.
I absolutely LOVE Followed - I am sorry…..😊 it has something that I really enjoy and so of course I also love it when my apartment smells like it for days - oh and yes, it is a beast!!! I believe that we link all smells with a memory so I, for example, despise super sweet fragrances on a man (like Ani or Le Male) and so any fragrance that goes in that direction reminds me of a terrible and mean boyfriend (just to mention some nice words about him 😉) and I will not like it.
Oh and btw, I also think Hindu Kush is stunning.
Zara Rich Warm Addictive (the older bottle, at least ) is one of the BEST SMELLS ever, with one of the WORST PERFORMANCES ever!... For me.
Once I see vanilla I’m out. But in other news I think I’m going to get leatherize 😂😂 I’ve been searching for a perfume that smells like brown leather that isn’t heavy on that saffron.
Zoologist seahorse made me sick. Rotten creamy dough vibe. Horrific.
Oh no!
Ganymede. Hate the name. I can't get by the Zeus Ganymede story. I am also avoiding tobacco,coffee, black tea liquors, and hemp notes. Cuts down a lot on the buying temptations.
WHO voted for Ganymede??? 😡🤬omg i'm furious right now.
It's one of my top 3 all time favorite perfumes along with Dior Homme Parfum and Penhaligon's Halfeti!
100% agree with Oud Satin Mood tho... i hate it😅
My first experience in fragrance was patchouli; when I was just a kid I got a whiff of it from some adult and I asked them what it was. That person gave a small roll-on for me as a gift, and I loved it! It's warm and earthy and a bit spicy and as I got older I discovered it was some perfume but I forgot what the name was. The closest I ever got to that kind of smell was Calvin Klein Obsession. After patchouli, musk was a very close favorite, followed by leather and sandalwood.
I hate notes of leather, never understood why some people want to smell like a shoe.
Ugh you forgot Chanel N⁰5. 👎🤮
Will never agree with the Ganymede. It's great, especially the opening. The drydown might have some vegetable-like note, but overall it's 9.5/10.
I don’t really understand the hype with this one.
I fuggin hate the smell of spicy black licorice. I'm not sure what's responsible for this note, but man, it's bad. I want to like Sauvage Elixir and 85% of the elements in it I do actually like, but that licorice note is nauseating. It'll get me sweating and my head thumping. It's like being in the back of grandmas hot ass Buick with the velvety-ish seats on a super hot day in July and burning yourself on the seatbelt. Now you've been told you have to wear your seatbelt in an already claustrophobic environment.
The crazy part is, I'm not even sure that Licorice is listed in Sauvage Elixir, but I certainly smell it... 🤨
D.S Durga is one of my least favorite brands
Baby Cat is gawd awful. Makes me want to vomit 🤢 it smells like rancid vanilla mixed with gasoline 🤮
The other fragrance I hate is BDK Gris Charnel. It gives me nausea and a migraine. I had to wash it off my skin multiple times to get the scent off. I have read on other UA-camrs comments the same thing I’m saying about this regarding it inducing migraine headaches.
Notes I don’t like are fig, strong rose, fecal smelling Ouds, grass notes, aquatic sea notes, industrial notes etc
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Eau
Intense Pour Homme Edp - It smells like snot mixed with their standard light blue scent. 👃😩
Please ask the person who don’t like the Mind Game Checkmate to send it to me. By far one of my favorites
Seb what a great fantastic and fun review. Patchouli and vetiver are absolute garbage. Also, how come Tom Ford F***ing Fabulous is not on this list? I recently started using it as bug repellent. Works great. Need to find out if it could be used to exterminate bed bugs too.
I absolutely cannot wear anything with patchouli. It always ends in a body odour scent. Like Angel when everyone was wearing it. Just awful! I am a fan of mildly spicy or musky ambery scents, sweet gourmands, warm woody jasminey florals. And right now, although overplayed, I cannot get enough of Baccarat Rouge 540, edp and extrait. Love it!!
Blanche from Byredo smells HORRIBLE. I am obsessed with the house Mojave Ghost, Bal D'afrique are AMAZING. BUT! Blanche smells like a public bathroom after someone just took a 💩 and then washed their hands. Like cheap soap and poopie funk.
I just can't believe someone would wear it.
Vibes of Bazooka bubble gum. Yuck. Not "horrible" in the sense of gag-inducing, of course. Bubble gum can't do that to you. But it's just so, so.... well, yes, exactly like a fifty-cent kiddie "perfume" you'd get for a six-year-old girl back in the 1960s. Any fragrance that even remotely suggests bubble gum to me, instant no! And it's surprising how often one gets that impression from fragrances.
I'm not a huge fan of calone as a note either.
I don't do well with a lot of musk, jasmine or incense but in moderation, I can handle them okay.
I can't handle any of the Marc-Antoine Barrois fragrances, so whoever voted for those, I second it. Just not for me.
I have to disagree about Mancera's Red Tobacco, for me, it's a amazing.
Personally, I love patchouli as a note but not in every fragrance. Some fragrances, like Patchouli Magnetik from Maison Crivelli, I can't stand but Jovoy's Psychedelique is a masterpiece.
Ganymede is the best I follow few times buy woman asking what am wearing
Easily the WORST fragrance I have ever smelled is Kilian Paris' Apple Brandy On The Rocks. It's a shame, because the original version is stunning. ABOTR smells like an industrial window cleaning product. You couldn't pay me to wear it.
I don't want to hate on anybody's tastes..But, some of these 'most hated' are the absolute best that the world of perfumery has to offer! LoL ..I have noticed leather comes up a lot and I tend to agree- leather can be very challenging. Also a skanky oud, skanky jasmine and cumin or sweaty, b.o. reminiscent smells..But, I mean- I prefer a challenging fragrance over the same old, boring, done-to-death perfumes. Like fruity-florals or tame white florals etc. Like, some of these folks need to stick to crowd pleasing designer fragrances... Niche and Indy obviously isn't for everyone! 😂
OUD SATIN MOOD: Where is the oud, please?? A sugary rose parfum, and if you like to smell like a rose-flavored middle eastern delight, then you are at the right place. A rose water. What a waste of money!!!
yes i LOATHE Ani....I smell maybe 10% Vanilla and 90% random spices that have no cohesiveness to them. I VERY much prefer Lune Feline as a spicy vanilla as it makes much more sense to my nose. Ani makes me wanna throw my wrist across the room with the bottle.
I agree with your mimic about Cruz del Sur II: first it is the most realistic mango smell. Then sour milk as if someone threw up their mango ice cream🤢
Grey Flannel and Giorgio Beverly Hills were both disgusting! I bought each of them sight unseen (=smell unsmelled) because they were supposed to be important classic fragrances from their era. Yuck!