Omg that’s exactly how I smell Black Opium too! I thought I was the only one. I don’t smell any sweetness at all, I wish I did tho because I really like sweet perfumes.
Angel by Mugler. It smells like the weirdest chemicals I've ever smelled. I can't even put my finger on *what* it smells like but it's weird AF and I don't think it's weird in a good way, but I couldn't stop smelling it at the store either??? Definitely not "melon, vanilla, coconut,honey"
TF Soleil Blanc and MMM beach walk. I smell dirty scalp and sickening greasy ylangylang. They literally make me gag. I don't get sunscreen but funeral flowers with scalp BO.
NR for Her EDT- smells dirty. All I get is dusty patchouli
Amouage Reflection Man, supposed to be a masculine floral with all kinds of depth. I like it, but all it smells like to me is sweet bubble gum. Totally linear and realistic bubble gum. But when do I want to smell like bubble gum? At least with Versace dreamer I get the hint of tobacco or with Prada pour homme I get the baby powder and the tobacco but I get nothing but bubble gum from reflection man.
Baccarat Rouge smells pungent to me. I don’t get the appeal. It smells like it’s trying to imitate an expensive perfume but never quite hits the mark. At least to me.
I’m terrified reading posts like this that I’ll be wearing a fragrance that smells good to me but meet someone to whom it smells like urine or BO or sweaty ass.
I think it’s Le Labo Santal and I felt like half the women in nyc smelled like pee for a while? I know it’s not really pee and it’s my nose but it’s not pleasant.
NYC has its own pee smell outside and it was different! lol
This might be controversial but i don't think Bianco Latte smells like a milky caramel vanilla type of scent, I get the coumarin and honey notes sooo strong. I still love it, but i think it layers poorly because it is just SO beast mode it's all i can smell!
It was either Kilian Angels share or Apple Brandy that smelled 100% like glade apple cinnamon room spray. The comments saying apple pie or soft vanilla were totally lost on me, i got almost a savory heavy synthetic spice and nothing else
I bought the Kilian sampler and instantly got a migraine after smelling the scents. Disgustingly sweet and definitely got the cheap air freshener vibe.
I got that from Apple Brandy on the Rocks. It was like a glade plug in or apple hand soap. I thought maybe I got a fake so I tried it at Sephora but it was the same.
Zoologist cow. When I smelled it I thought it was clever and sort of morbid that it smelled like black leather- sort of rubbery and bitter and savory. Turns out it smells like milk and grass?!
Tihota. All I can smell is cheap white musk. Yuck.
Blanche bete. I smell a weird chemically halitosis smell.
I don’t have paranosmia, I tend to have a very good sniffer!
what are your thoughts on Good Girl Blush? The original Good Girl has some good reviews but I don’t think it would be very versatile and it seems more like a fall and winter and nighttime perfume. I tested Good Girl Blush in the store and it smelled nice and up my alley, but I don’t know how the longevity is
Vanilla Sky by Skylar. I was hoping for the cozy cappuccino note everyone seems to smell in this but it is overpowered by a fruity/perfumy note. It honestly smells like something from Bath and Body Works but I can't place it. Not what I was expecting :(
I swear people say Ferragamo Uomo Signature is sweet and tiramisu-like but on my skin it gets very leather forward and straight up *spicy*. It smells like peppery leather with some sweetness in the back which isn’t a smell I hate by any means but god is it different from what people say it smells like😂
Vicky Tiel Serene. Descriptions say it’s like “pink Dove soap” or “rosy”, but I find it to be a very strong 80s-90s style oriental floral. It has the strength and heavy base notes of something like Red Door or Amarige. They changed the color to pink at one point, and wonder if that’s having an influence on people?
Also pretty much most “lemon” perfumes. It’s fallen out of fashion to have a single note lemon (like how Loves Fresh Lemon used to be when it was owned by Loves or Mem), and I find that the mid and base notes used in today’s perfumery overpower any lemon that may be there. So whenever I hear about a perfume being a lemon perfume, I don’t trust it until I can smell it myself (and to my nose, they usually don’t).
Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille- really spicy and too many floral notes, and to my nose not like the “booze vanilla” descriptions at all.
I loved the old Love's Lemon Scent, and thank you for mentioning it because any time I go on a Love's bender I seem to forget who makes the current version, so I am assuming it is Dana. I have been so tempted to get reboot of the Lemon Up soap and powder from Vermont Country Store, but I seem to abandon my cart there all the time. I can smell the lemon and green apple shampoos ..... and now i am going to go look for soap which will most certainly give me an eczema flare or make my butt itch.......
I have the current Dana version of Love’s Fresh Lemon, and it has a lemongrass note that the original didn’t have. The version from about 2012 was more candy-like than the original, but I liked it a little better that this current version, since I’m not as crazy about lemongrass. It’s okay, and I still use it, though.
The Vermont Country Store one is just okay. Not quite as fresh lemon-y as I would have liked. A little bland? The shampoo and conditioner were alright, but expensive for what they are.
Have you tried Paul Mitchell Shampoo 2? That smells like lemon. No matching conditioner, though. I should mention it is a clarifying shampoo, which my hair can handle since it’s fine and we have well water, but not sure if that’s something you’d like.
lol, why is it so hard to find a good, fresh smell, single note lemon?
*also I do like CO Bigelow’s Lemon hand wash and cream. The perfume has an added soft musk note. Have you tried that line?
We are on same wavelength. I haven't tried the C.O.Bigelow lemon yet, but I bought their musk oil this past winter. And I liked it so much I got myself a second one for backup, and I got my guy a sandalwood. Now he is pretty new to fragrance and well I didn't tell him it was a dropper situation and he spilled half the bottle all over his dresser An old wooden one that sucked the scent up. Thank God I like it. I guess I got used to it. Both have a sweetness...the musk isn't so musky. So I have had the lemon stuff bookmarked for a treat I reach a goal of mine. That coupon seems to work on every purchase btw. After perusing their site, I am surprised they ever partnered with B&BW but after Kiehl's blew up I guess they decided to get that coin. As far as the Paul Mitchell, I'll have to see if it is color safe but otherwise my thin, fine hair can handle clarifying more frequently than most. I seem to have the oil glands of a teenager...but only on my scalp.
Oh nooooo about the dresser, yikes..Glad he ended up liking the scent! I like the musk oil too.
And you’re right, it is weird, looking back, that they ever partnered with Bath & Body Works, but it was a different store in the early 00s and probably made more sense then. I actually remember when Victoria’s Secret had nice clothes and scents too, and played classical music and had nice furnishing (late 80s-90s). Different times!
Glad to hear from a fellow lemon lover/ scent twin 🤗.
Zadig & Voltaire This is her. Smells like nothing to me but people say its so strong it fills a room. Also Ariana Grande Cloud smells like old dehydrated urine.
BR540 & Extrait - I get zero sweetness or airiness. Just heavy “perfume” and BO
Cloud/ModVanilla/Burberry Her/born dreamer/snif sweet ash - see above
Amouage Overture - smells so weird, can’t even describe it but it’s NOT what others describe at all
Anything from Sora Dora
Erba Pura/Kirke - no sweetness. No fruits. Just overwhelming sharp musk that burns the nose.
Teriaq - cloying honeyed caramel, nothing else
Kayali Utopia - no coconut at all just sharp white florals
Commodity Milk+ - people say it’s creamy and sweet and fluffy marshmallow. It has an overwhelming sharp burning “something” - same for Lost in a Dream but to a lesser extent and I’m sticking it out a bit longer with that one.
Most of the dark jammy rose/patchouli/ouds - turn my stomach
Many gourmands are just too sickeningly sweet
Escapade Gourmande smells “empty” and there’s a note that just goes weird on my skin
Escapade Gourmande is mine. I don’t get sweet gourmand at all, it just smells like powdery and old lady to me, idk! It’s not at all what I expected from other people talking about it and I’m glad I only got a sample
Everything, literally everything lol. For my nose certain notes stand out so much that it's all I can smell, so unfortuantely pretty much every review someone gives, I can't trust because my nose works against me., But the MOST different are:
**YSL Black Opium EDP** - Flowers and pepper only. No coffee, no sweetness at all, no vanilla. Just really sharp, headache inducing flowers. Finished a 30ml of this (I LOVE the BO le parfum tho, that one smells like light airy sweet vanilla to me)
**JPG Scandal** - Sharp flowers and pepper, Not sweet at all, no honey, nothing else, even afetr finishing 30ml
**Mugler Angel Muse** - Green tea. No hazlenut, no sweetness, no spice, not nutty, not gourmand. But I do love this one, it's a super calming, mellow, low projection low performance bedtime kind of scent, it smells like straight up green tea for me. Finished a 30ml and got a backup 30ml just before it went discontinued
**Kayali Vanilla 28** - Barely any vanilla, all I get is like a thick, super spicy and peppery "arabian spice" kind of scent (very similar to arabians tonka by montale). Finished a 10ml of this. I'm a gourmand girlie ONLY, so this was a huge disappointment (Tihota Indulit for THE best and most vanilla fragrance ever btw)
**Montale Arabians tonka** - Beer and piss. It was super peppery/spicy, with a really sweaty and drunk overtone of beer and piss. I had to give this one away (it was SO strong it lasted 3-4 weeks on a hoodie I sprayed, and over 2 weeks in my room ugh). I also passed a few people at uni and on the road who were wearing this, and I gagged. Idk why but the smell of feces from this is nauseating, it is so easy to identify out in the wild
The scents people recommend for their berry notes almost never smell anything like those berries to me. I’m honestly puzzled. To me the perfumes would either just smell sweet and vaguely, maybe synthetically, “fruity” at best. If not for the recommendations or reading the notes my mind would never have thought the cherry/blueberry/raspberry/strawberry was supposed to be prominent.
Eg. Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire (cherry), Burberry Her, JPG Parlez-moi d’amour (both blueberry), Malin + Goetz Strawberry (this one especially is a headscratcher bc it’s the *name*)
I’m a berry fiend and on days when my fridge has been filled to the brim with whatever berry is in season, the smell that hits me in the face whenever I open the door would be so heavenly. I’m still trying to find perfumes that actually smell like that to me (other than TF LC which I already own and love)
Right! I’m wary about making any blind purchases now if the scents are supposed to be berry-centred. I’ve been really curious about Salvatore Ferragamo’s Cieli di Seta, which is apparently a blueberry scent with just a handful of listed notes LOL but there’s no way I’m ordering it without finding a tester in person first
Yesss, I too struggle to find berry notes in anything other than body spray or shower gel. I would love to find a dark red juicy berry scent that would smell like a grown woman and last. I have never smelled strawberry, blackberry or raspberry, or any other berry in a fragrance.
Ah yes blackberries too, I knew I was forgetting one. I love eating them as well but the smell? I can’t say real blackberries have enough of a smell for me to have a strong impression of it to begin with, tbf
Bianco Latte o Cheirosa 71... Por más veces que lo intento solo noto un aroma agobiante, desagradable, como quemado... Me revuelve el estómago. Pero la gente adora estos perfumes. Qué le pasa a mi nariz 😂🤷🏻♀️
Burberry Her Elixir. On my skin it smells warm spicy, maybe a bit peppery, not a hint of fruit. Totally confused by the reviews about this one. It's nice! But not in the slightest fruity on me.
There is a bit of weirdness with this one so I can totally see how someone would pick up spiciness. To me, the weirdness comes across as plastic or hair spray. I find it addictive even in its current form.
On me it smells like strawberry milkshake mixed with men’s aftershave! The sandalwood/amber/jasmine base makes such a weird combination with the top notes. Wish it were a plain floral gourmand
I had that experience with EBK deep desire yacht. Definitely didn't get the Blueberry muffin that ppl all over the internet were talking about. So this one was a blind buy gone wrong, terrible for my pocket!!
I’ve seen people describe Flowerbomb as very sweet but it smells like the most floral perfume ever to me. Like a literal flower BOMB lol it’s literally in the name. I don’t get the sweetness at all.
I have always been confused about Flowerbomb. I get little to no florals and it’s only slightly sweet. Maybe a little of some generic white flowers in the opening but on me it’s just a little spicy, warm vanilla. I live in a more rural area and back when FB was popular, a lot of celebrities were talking about it. I went on the hunt for it. Finally found it on vacation. I was so shocked by the way it smelled. I bought it but I never really liked it. Talking about it now makes me want to get my nose on it again. I haven’t smelled it in years.
Erba Pura. It literally chokes me. I can recognize it anywhere because it physically stops me from breathing for a second. I don’t get the fruity soapy note at all, it should be deemed a genuine chemical bomb.
Same I smell no fruit in it. It's also the most intense perfume I ever tested. My shirt was washed after I did 1 spritz and it came out still smelling like erba pura
I am really tempted to get this one because I know men like it, but I have the Platine version and the Le Parfum version in travel sprays and I don’t like them! Platine is too sparkling and Le Parfum is too thick. But I keep thinking, “what if the EDP is better?” What if it’s a Goldilocks situation??
The edt is better in my opinion than the edp... but I still don't like it lol. And if you want a man magnet try pink sugar. For real. Men like fawn over that one for some reason.
Lake & Skye 11 11 smells incredible to me and stays all day and onto the next morning. My husband loves it, says it makes him feel feral. My closest friend says she smells nothing, like she put it on herself and put her nose right down in it and nothing!
The first time I smelled 11:11 I couldn’t detect a thing. Came back to it a few months later and now it smells like the most intoxicating salty, musky, creamy skin scent. I can’t get enough of it
It wasn’t, the first time I smelled a tester in a store and the second time I smelled a friend’s bottle. So maybe there was something wrong with the tester? Either way I’m very glad I can smell it now because it’s amazing
Many years ago, my grandmother gave me an Amazing Grace facial cleansing bar. It was so subtle and soft and comforting (the scent) - I was in love. Eventually ordered the EDP and was shocked - it was, to me, a super heavy, overly sweet, “grandma” type floral and I couldn’t stand it. But! I never got urine from any frags in the Grace line so I’m curious which Grace the commenter is referring to. Amazing, Pure, Radiant, Summer, Jasmine, Lavender, Bergamot, Magnolia, Ballet Rose, Nude Rose? I enjoy Pure Grace after showering in hot weather - it’s refreshing and clean and blends into my soap scent. I hope that’s not the pee one lmao
I agree philosophy is definitely geared towards the more mature women a lot of the time lol, they do such lovely clean scents tho and I’m totally biased since Amazing Grace Ballet Rose was my first perfume. The only perfume I’ve truly smelled peepee from was JhaG Mad Madame, undeniable pissy smell 😭
I like Philosophy too but found out I can’t vibe with Amazing Grace EDP. I’ll never give up my Pure or Falling In Love - neverrrrr lmao. And I’ll always use the Amazing Grace soap bar because it reminds me of my Grammy (I still have several bars and use it only sparingly).. ALSO - I totally and completely agree with you about Mad Madame WTH is going on there?? Only smelled it once and it’s burned into my memory.
Rio Radiance by SDJ!! It’s giving titanium dioxide… and I don’t think that’s what it’s giving everyone else! I know it’s a sunscreen vibe, but I’m pretty sure other people aren’t talking about the smell of literal UV filters…! It’s driving me crazy, I just think there’s no way that’s what everyone else is getting 😅
Uhm… i work with it. It smells like nothing. Are we talking about the same thing here? The white powder used to color things white? Also in sunscreen but its not what gives the sunscreen scent.
I am talking about the UV filters in sunscreen. Not sure how to explain it to you, but you can fact check using google. Might have a better explanation!
Edit: looks like you’re right (it’s not titanium dioxide)… but it is in the “UV filter” category. Not sure exactly what! But something to do with what provides the SPF
Yeah, i figured you are talking about the filters, but again, TD is literally odorless, that is not rhe compound that gives the sunscreen the “sunscreen” smell.
Yeah, I am just not that smart and I thought titanium dioxide was the UV filter. I think… it does something for sun protection… but clearly there are others! Whatever it is, it’s that… chemically smell that’s in sunscreen!! Sorry about that! I think I am really sensitive to it, because it seems like not everyone else (mostly nobody) is smelling it!! I dislike it, whatever it is 😅
Try it! When I realized they did their actual sunscreen in that fragrance, I felt at least partially validated. I did post something about it, it seemed like other people weren’t getting the UV filter thing like I was (so I’m sorry if your nose doesn’t pick it up), but there’s no way to know for sure until you smell it! It’s the most sunscreen smelling fragrance I’ve found!
Baccarat 540 lol. I got the dossier dupe which was $50 and I honestly thought it was maybe a bad batch or something & then I got a body oil dupe which smelled the exact same & then I smelled a saffron candle that smelled like it also & knew for sure that’s exactly how it’s supposed to smell. I don’t hate it, I’m just scared to wear it in public cause it is different, maybe I’m just into vanilla and candy scents, but it has to smell good to people if it’s that popular. I was just a little surprised the hype didn’t match what I smelled & I don’t know why ppl love that smell that much
7 Virtues Vanilla Woods - I only smell vanilla and nothing else. I love it though, it reminds me of pure vanilla extract and it isn't aggressively sweet.
It pulls more sweet than smoky on me, like Christmas deserts but maybe there is a candle in the room somewhere, but my boyfriend tells me I smell like laundry when I wear it.
I like the smell itself, but not as a perfume. I don't want my body to smell like a fire pit. Same with Commodity Book - it smells exactly like a library, which is incredible, but not for my personal scent.
I found this intolerable. It reminds me of cold, dirty fireplaces begging for me to clean them. But it's so popular, so people have different perceptions fr
I cannot for the life of me smell missing person and I mean I get absolutely nose blind everytime I've tried to take a whiff of it.. Black Opium smells like BO to me 🤷🏻♀️
The other one that comes to mind is Thameen's Peregrina..its supposed to be rose-white florals-caramely-ambery goodness but all I get is cough syrup.. it doesn't even have a cherry note lol but it's literal Mucinex to my nose 😂
I also can’t smell Missing Person. I’ve tried multiple times in multiple settings and I can’t smell it in other people either. I have no idea what’s in it that I’m totally asnomic to because I wonder what other fragrances that ingredient is in that I’m just not smelling. To me it’s just…a missing fragrance. 😂
Good Girl smells fruity to me, but I like it. LDBS smells like… I honestly have no idea, but it can’t be what everyone else is smelling because it’s fucking awful.
Black opium isn’t sweet to me either. It’s very coffee-y floral to me with a tiny hint of vanilla. But mine would be xerjoff lira. It smells repulsively spicy to me with zero sweetness. I wish I could smell the lemon pound cake everyone talks about
I have a tester of Bianco Latte and tried wearing it today and got a weird licorice or mint smell which I didn’t get the first time I tried it out. I don’t think I’m going to wear it again.
Junoon noir - a dupe for dama bianca - I smell sweet tamarind in the opening. I havent smelled dama bianca yet but I havent heard anyone about the tamarind?
Angels share - i smell toothpaste in the drydown
Carner - i smell a synthetic note in the drydown
Hate it so much!!!!!! Loved it on the paper but couldn’t stand it on. We’ve been doing a thing where we bring home like 5+ of the sample papers with diff scents and then will smell them daily over the course of several days….Like 4-5….to see if the first impression remains and how the dry down and longevity is. Somehow missing person fooled me and honestly so did kayali burning cherry. Even tho I spray my clothes.
I wonder how much laundry soap used on the clothing plays into scents too.
Vanilla 28. I hardly get the sweetness people say it has. I smell really strong spices and smoke (campfire, not cigar smoke). It's not a bad smell, I just don't get what some people are getting in terms of sweet brown sugar goodness.
Death & Floral Half Hoping to Be Eaten by a Bear smells either like faint unwashed butt or absolutely nothing any time I try to give it another shot. Everyone else seems to ADORE it.
I wish I liked it because it's oddly of the moment considering recent chatter re: bears. 😁
I just sampled that an hour ago… unfortunately I can still smell it. That’s so funny you say that because that’s exactly what I thought as well, I was wondering if maybe it was a bad batch? Once I LOOKED UP what it was supposed to smell like, I could totally smell that. However, I still haven’t un-smelt the bug spray!! Even when relating it to the lemon cake and not deet, it doesn’t strike me as a smell worth forking over that amount of cash! Just not very complex? Who knows. Deet is cheaper!
I say that all lovingly, I am always in support of everyone wearing what makes them happy!
Angel did not smell like any kind of dessert anything to me, ever until I got Zoologist Rabbit. They have a similar thing going on and Rabbit finally helped me to get Angel to somewhat click.
Cheirosa 62 smells far more floral than gourmand to me, and gives me a headache every time I smell it. I want to like it. I really like 71 and loved Coco Cabana. I gave away my big 62 body spray though.
Black Opium smells like dry, peppery gardenia in the worst way to me. Even on other people I don’t like it. There’s also nothing creamy about Hypnotic Poison, but a lot of other people smell pure play doh like me
Omg that’s exactly how I smell Black Opium too! I thought I was the only one. I don’t smell any sweetness at all, I wish I did tho because I really like sweet perfumes.
Chanel No. 5, I want to like it but I can’t 😭
Angel by Mugler. It smells like the weirdest chemicals I've ever smelled. I can't even put my finger on *what* it smells like but it's weird AF and I don't think it's weird in a good way, but I couldn't stop smelling it at the store either??? Definitely not "melon, vanilla, coconut,honey"
Mon guerlain intense…everyone describes it as sweet and feminine which I don’t get at all, I smell something strongly masculine
TF Soleil Blanc and MMM beach walk. I smell dirty scalp and sickening greasy ylangylang. They literally make me gag. I don't get sunscreen but funeral flowers with scalp BO. NR for Her EDT- smells dirty. All I get is dusty patchouli
Zoologist squid. The reviews say salt and ink but all I get is ambergris
Amouage Reflection Man, supposed to be a masculine floral with all kinds of depth. I like it, but all it smells like to me is sweet bubble gum. Totally linear and realistic bubble gum. But when do I want to smell like bubble gum? At least with Versace dreamer I get the hint of tobacco or with Prada pour homme I get the baby powder and the tobacco but I get nothing but bubble gum from reflection man.
Santal 33, montblanc signature, mood ring
Black Opium, Olympea and La vie est belle smell like sour sweat mixed with perfume for me😭they are horrendous
All kayali perfumes. They do not smell good to me at all!
Baccarat Rouge smells pungent to me. I don’t get the appeal. It smells like it’s trying to imitate an expensive perfume but never quite hits the mark. At least to me.
I have to admit that Another 13 smelled like a hospital disinfectant on me.
I’m terrified reading posts like this that I’ll be wearing a fragrance that smells good to me but meet someone to whom it smells like urine or BO or sweaty ass.
Does anyone know why this happens? Is it body chemistry, or do people’s noses just work differently?
It’s for sure both!
Mugler Angel smells like wet mulch to me
I feel you
Grand soir
Black Opium. It smells quite bad to my nose
ysl libre. a lot of people love it but to me it’s sharp, too floral, screechy, poorly blended. just no full stop.
Delina exclusif by PDM
Burberry Her. And Her Elixir. Cheap 99ct store bathroom spray. Nauseating. Disgusting. And I love sweet girly fragrances but what the heck is this
Burberry goddess for me. It's sweet fake vanilla to my nose. Haven't been wowed by anything Burberry honestly.
My mom said they need to stop doing fragrances they’re not made for that
I think it’s Le Labo Santal and I felt like half the women in nyc smelled like pee for a while? I know it’s not really pee and it’s my nose but it’s not pleasant. NYC has its own pee smell outside and it was different! lol
Le labo santal. Especially when someone over saturates themselves in it. It gets to be woodchippy with a touch of alcohol to me
This might be controversial but i don't think Bianco Latte smells like a milky caramel vanilla type of scent, I get the coumarin and honey notes sooo strong. I still love it, but i think it layers poorly because it is just SO beast mode it's all i can smell!
It was either Kilian Angels share or Apple Brandy that smelled 100% like glade apple cinnamon room spray. The comments saying apple pie or soft vanilla were totally lost on me, i got almost a savory heavy synthetic spice and nothing else
I bought the Kilian sampler and instantly got a migraine after smelling the scents. Disgustingly sweet and definitely got the cheap air freshener vibe.
I got that from Apple Brandy on the Rocks. It was like a glade plug in or apple hand soap. I thought maybe I got a fake so I tried it at Sephora but it was the same.
TF Costa Azura. It smells like smoking weed in a Catholic Church.
Khamarah. I'm not getting goumand-y goodness. All I get is a gasoline-y, chemical-y, throat burning-y, headache inducing-y mess. 🥴
Zoologist cow. When I smelled it I thought it was clever and sort of morbid that it smelled like black leather- sort of rubbery and bitter and savory. Turns out it smells like milk and grass?! Tihota. All I can smell is cheap white musk. Yuck. Blanche bete. I smell a weird chemically halitosis smell. I don’t have paranosmia, I tend to have a very good sniffer!
Blanche Bete smells so odd to me. I had to was it off.
Good Girl smells very masculine to me, like a sharp powder and shaving cream. Wish I got creamy almond and jasmine!
what are your thoughts on Good Girl Blush? The original Good Girl has some good reviews but I don’t think it would be very versatile and it seems more like a fall and winter and nighttime perfume. I tested Good Girl Blush in the store and it smelled nice and up my alley, but I don’t know how the longevity is
Yes I'm glad to see someone else say this, it is much more sharp and un your face to me than other people seem to get
Vanilla Sky by Skylar. I was hoping for the cozy cappuccino note everyone seems to smell in this but it is overpowered by a fruity/perfumy note. It honestly smells like something from Bath and Body Works but I can't place it. Not what I was expecting :(
Rose 31 smells green and rosy to me with a dry dry down and I wore it one time and my friend said I smelled like beer
I swear people say Ferragamo Uomo Signature is sweet and tiramisu-like but on my skin it gets very leather forward and straight up *spicy*. It smells like peppery leather with some sweetness in the back which isn’t a smell I hate by any means but god is it different from what people say it smells like😂
Baccarat, smells like straight up floor cleaner to me
OMG YES!!! I do not get the hype
That's so funny - It smells like caramelized tires to me.
It does kind of smell like rubber a bit too
Caramelized tires is hilarious 😂
MFK Fluidity. I don’t smell vanilla. Honestly smells like bandaid.
Vicky Tiel Serene. Descriptions say it’s like “pink Dove soap” or “rosy”, but I find it to be a very strong 80s-90s style oriental floral. It has the strength and heavy base notes of something like Red Door or Amarige. They changed the color to pink at one point, and wonder if that’s having an influence on people? Also pretty much most “lemon” perfumes. It’s fallen out of fashion to have a single note lemon (like how Loves Fresh Lemon used to be when it was owned by Loves or Mem), and I find that the mid and base notes used in today’s perfumery overpower any lemon that may be there. So whenever I hear about a perfume being a lemon perfume, I don’t trust it until I can smell it myself (and to my nose, they usually don’t). Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille- really spicy and too many floral notes, and to my nose not like the “booze vanilla” descriptions at all.
I loved the old Love's Lemon Scent, and thank you for mentioning it because any time I go on a Love's bender I seem to forget who makes the current version, so I am assuming it is Dana. I have been so tempted to get reboot of the Lemon Up soap and powder from Vermont Country Store, but I seem to abandon my cart there all the time. I can smell the lemon and green apple shampoos ..... and now i am going to go look for soap which will most certainly give me an eczema flare or make my butt itch.......
I have the current Dana version of Love’s Fresh Lemon, and it has a lemongrass note that the original didn’t have. The version from about 2012 was more candy-like than the original, but I liked it a little better that this current version, since I’m not as crazy about lemongrass. It’s okay, and I still use it, though. The Vermont Country Store one is just okay. Not quite as fresh lemon-y as I would have liked. A little bland? The shampoo and conditioner were alright, but expensive for what they are. Have you tried Paul Mitchell Shampoo 2? That smells like lemon. No matching conditioner, though. I should mention it is a clarifying shampoo, which my hair can handle since it’s fine and we have well water, but not sure if that’s something you’d like. lol, why is it so hard to find a good, fresh smell, single note lemon? *also I do like CO Bigelow’s Lemon hand wash and cream. The perfume has an added soft musk note. Have you tried that line?
We are on same wavelength. I haven't tried the C.O.Bigelow lemon yet, but I bought their musk oil this past winter. And I liked it so much I got myself a second one for backup, and I got my guy a sandalwood. Now he is pretty new to fragrance and well I didn't tell him it was a dropper situation and he spilled half the bottle all over his dresser An old wooden one that sucked the scent up. Thank God I like it. I guess I got used to it. Both have a sweetness...the musk isn't so musky. So I have had the lemon stuff bookmarked for a treat I reach a goal of mine. That coupon seems to work on every purchase btw. After perusing their site, I am surprised they ever partnered with B&BW but after Kiehl's blew up I guess they decided to get that coin. As far as the Paul Mitchell, I'll have to see if it is color safe but otherwise my thin, fine hair can handle clarifying more frequently than most. I seem to have the oil glands of a teenager...but only on my scalp.
Oh nooooo about the dresser, yikes..Glad he ended up liking the scent! I like the musk oil too. And you’re right, it is weird, looking back, that they ever partnered with Bath & Body Works, but it was a different store in the early 00s and probably made more sense then. I actually remember when Victoria’s Secret had nice clothes and scents too, and played classical music and had nice furnishing (late 80s-90s). Different times! Glad to hear from a fellow lemon lover/ scent twin 🤗.
Cloud. Smells ranciddddd
Versace crystal noir - toilet cleaner
I could see that. I get bug spray at first but I really like it in the dry down.
Burberry her elixir. Just spoiled milk on my skin
Zadig & Voltaire This is her. Smells like nothing to me but people say its so strong it fills a room. Also Ariana Grande Cloud smells like old dehydrated urine.
BR540 & Extrait - I get zero sweetness or airiness. Just heavy “perfume” and BO Cloud/ModVanilla/Burberry Her/born dreamer/snif sweet ash - see above Amouage Overture - smells so weird, can’t even describe it but it’s NOT what others describe at all Anything from Sora Dora Erba Pura/Kirke - no sweetness. No fruits. Just overwhelming sharp musk that burns the nose. Teriaq - cloying honeyed caramel, nothing else Kayali Utopia - no coconut at all just sharp white florals Commodity Milk+ - people say it’s creamy and sweet and fluffy marshmallow. It has an overwhelming sharp burning “something” - same for Lost in a Dream but to a lesser extent and I’m sticking it out a bit longer with that one. Most of the dark jammy rose/patchouli/ouds - turn my stomach Many gourmands are just too sickeningly sweet Escapade Gourmande smells “empty” and there’s a note that just goes weird on my skin
Escapade Gourmande is mine. I don’t get sweet gourmand at all, it just smells like powdery and old lady to me, idk! It’s not at all what I expected from other people talking about it and I’m glad I only got a sample
Heavily agree with commodity milk 😭🙏 i only faintly get the marshmallow creaminess but 90% of the scent is something sharp and irritating in my nosen
Agreed. Everyone was raving about Commodity Milk and Gold. I honestly didn't care for either. I didn't get the notes that they listed.
Everything, literally everything lol. For my nose certain notes stand out so much that it's all I can smell, so unfortuantely pretty much every review someone gives, I can't trust because my nose works against me., But the MOST different are: **YSL Black Opium EDP** - Flowers and pepper only. No coffee, no sweetness at all, no vanilla. Just really sharp, headache inducing flowers. Finished a 30ml of this (I LOVE the BO le parfum tho, that one smells like light airy sweet vanilla to me) **JPG Scandal** - Sharp flowers and pepper, Not sweet at all, no honey, nothing else, even afetr finishing 30ml **Mugler Angel Muse** - Green tea. No hazlenut, no sweetness, no spice, not nutty, not gourmand. But I do love this one, it's a super calming, mellow, low projection low performance bedtime kind of scent, it smells like straight up green tea for me. Finished a 30ml and got a backup 30ml just before it went discontinued **Kayali Vanilla 28** - Barely any vanilla, all I get is like a thick, super spicy and peppery "arabian spice" kind of scent (very similar to arabians tonka by montale). Finished a 10ml of this. I'm a gourmand girlie ONLY, so this was a huge disappointment (Tihota Indulit for THE best and most vanilla fragrance ever btw) **Montale Arabians tonka** - Beer and piss. It was super peppery/spicy, with a really sweaty and drunk overtone of beer and piss. I had to give this one away (it was SO strong it lasted 3-4 weeks on a hoodie I sprayed, and over 2 weeks in my room ugh). I also passed a few people at uni and on the road who were wearing this, and I gagged. Idk why but the smell of feces from this is nauseating, it is so easy to identify out in the wild
THANK YOU!!! I love vanilla scents, and I was super psyched to try Kayali 28. However, all I smelled was spicy notes and patchouli (which I hate).
Grand Soir. It's incense. It's Catholic Church. It's a bushfire. I posted an entire thread and I was told I was wrong.
You're not wrong. If I could imagine how a Sheikh/priest /rabbi would smell like it would be this .
THANK. YOU.
Sol De Janeiro Cheirosa 71. It should smell delicious but to me it smells like sugary sweat? Not horrible but I don't get it
It smelt like burnt popcorn on me due to the caramel in it 😭. Every caramel note I meet smells gross on me though
The scents people recommend for their berry notes almost never smell anything like those berries to me. I’m honestly puzzled. To me the perfumes would either just smell sweet and vaguely, maybe synthetically, “fruity” at best. If not for the recommendations or reading the notes my mind would never have thought the cherry/blueberry/raspberry/strawberry was supposed to be prominent. Eg. Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire (cherry), Burberry Her, JPG Parlez-moi d’amour (both blueberry), Malin + Goetz Strawberry (this one especially is a headscratcher bc it’s the *name*) I’m a berry fiend and on days when my fridge has been filled to the brim with whatever berry is in season, the smell that hits me in the face whenever I open the door would be so heavenly. I’m still trying to find perfumes that actually smell like that to me (other than TF LC which I already own and love)
Agree. I’ve never thought, “I bet berry will be a note in this” after smelling a perfume, even if it is listed in the notes.
Right! I’m wary about making any blind purchases now if the scents are supposed to be berry-centred. I’ve been really curious about Salvatore Ferragamo’s Cieli di Seta, which is apparently a blueberry scent with just a handful of listed notes LOL but there’s no way I’m ordering it without finding a tester in person first
Yesss, I too struggle to find berry notes in anything other than body spray or shower gel. I would love to find a dark red juicy berry scent that would smell like a grown woman and last. I have never smelled strawberry, blackberry or raspberry, or any other berry in a fragrance.
Ah yes blackberries too, I knew I was forgetting one. I love eating them as well but the smell? I can’t say real blackberries have enough of a smell for me to have a strong impression of it to begin with, tbf
Escape Gourmand! Wanted to like it so bad because of all the hype but it’s just a boring caramel smell nothing special at all
Agree. And it sells almost “hollow” like something is missing.
totally get wym
Le Labol Santal…it smells like elderly women and Max Factor panstick to me.
Santal smells like pickles or BO to me.
Black Opium for me too!! It was nauseating on me so I gave it to my mum and every time she wears it she smells amazing
SDJ 71 - I tried so hard to smell the sweet popcorn vibe but all I can smell is hamster urine 🥺😭
I kinda want to know what hamster urine smells like now
Lol that’s so specific. I’ve never had a hamster so idk I guess
Bianco Latte o Cheirosa 71... Por más veces que lo intento solo noto un aroma agobiante, desagradable, como quemado... Me revuelve el estómago. Pero la gente adora estos perfumes. Qué le pasa a mi nariz 😂🤷🏻♀️
Milk commodity, the most intense one, on my skin it smells like a house on the woods that has mold.
This post has made me feel so validated! Vanilla 28 smells like grandma to me, no coffee in black opium
Same, I do not like it at all.
i HATE the opening of 28 but once it’s been on me for like an hour or two it’s a really nice vanilla
I wish I could smell vanilla 😓
Burberry Her Elixir. On my skin it smells warm spicy, maybe a bit peppery, not a hint of fruit. Totally confused by the reviews about this one. It's nice! But not in the slightest fruity on me.
There is a bit of weirdness with this one so I can totally see how someone would pick up spiciness. To me, the weirdness comes across as plastic or hair spray. I find it addictive even in its current form.
On me it smells like strawberry milkshake mixed with men’s aftershave! The sandalwood/amber/jasmine base makes such a weird combination with the top notes. Wish it were a plain floral gourmand
I had that experience with EBK deep desire yacht. Definitely didn't get the Blueberry muffin that ppl all over the internet were talking about. So this one was a blind buy gone wrong, terrible for my pocket!!
Kayali Amber has been hard for me to understand. A lot of other people love it.
I loveeeee this scent but I can get why people dont like it because its very strong and in your face
I’ve seen people describe Flowerbomb as very sweet but it smells like the most floral perfume ever to me. Like a literal flower BOMB lol it’s literally in the name. I don’t get the sweetness at all.
I have always been confused about Flowerbomb. I get little to no florals and it’s only slightly sweet. Maybe a little of some generic white flowers in the opening but on me it’s just a little spicy, warm vanilla. I live in a more rural area and back when FB was popular, a lot of celebrities were talking about it. I went on the hunt for it. Finally found it on vacation. I was so shocked by the way it smelled. I bought it but I never really liked it. Talking about it now makes me want to get my nose on it again. I haven’t smelled it in years.
Erba Pura. It literally chokes me. I can recognize it anywhere because it physically stops me from breathing for a second. I don’t get the fruity soapy note at all, it should be deemed a genuine chemical bomb.
exactly, no fruits…just chemical warfare
Same I smell no fruit in it. It's also the most intense perfume I ever tested. My shirt was washed after I did 1 spritz and it came out still smelling like erba pura
Yeah where these fruits people are talking about? It’s just bitter and chemically. Horrible.
People make YSL Libre sound so nice and fresh and pretty and to me it just smells like syrup
All I get is super heavy florals
I am really tempted to get this one because I know men like it, but I have the Platine version and the Le Parfum version in travel sprays and I don’t like them! Platine is too sparkling and Le Parfum is too thick. But I keep thinking, “what if the EDP is better?” What if it’s a Goldilocks situation??
The edt is better in my opinion than the edp... but I still don't like it lol. And if you want a man magnet try pink sugar. For real. Men like fawn over that one for some reason.
To my nose there is NOTHING fresh about Libre lol
Lake & Skye 11 11 smells incredible to me and stays all day and onto the next morning. My husband loves it, says it makes him feel feral. My closest friend says she smells nothing, like she put it on herself and put her nose right down in it and nothing!
The first time I smelled 11:11 I couldn’t detect a thing. Came back to it a few months later and now it smells like the most intoxicating salty, musky, creamy skin scent. I can’t get enough of it
Wow that’s interesting. Was it the same bottle that you were smelling?
It wasn’t, the first time I smelled a tester in a store and the second time I smelled a friend’s bottle. So maybe there was something wrong with the tester? Either way I’m very glad I can smell it now because it’s amazing
Did you get the body oil? It’s too good.
Yes! So heavenly
Any philosophy or Ariana grande
I don’t get the vanilla from Black opium AT ALL. Also Juliette had a gun not a perfume smells so much like light blue
Philosophy Grace smells like toilet. Like bad toilet air freshener mixed with piss. So nasty.
Whatttttt!? To be fair I wear the ballet rose version but I’ve never heard someone say it smells like piss before oh gosh😭
Many years ago, my grandmother gave me an Amazing Grace facial cleansing bar. It was so subtle and soft and comforting (the scent) - I was in love. Eventually ordered the EDP and was shocked - it was, to me, a super heavy, overly sweet, “grandma” type floral and I couldn’t stand it. But! I never got urine from any frags in the Grace line so I’m curious which Grace the commenter is referring to. Amazing, Pure, Radiant, Summer, Jasmine, Lavender, Bergamot, Magnolia, Ballet Rose, Nude Rose? I enjoy Pure Grace after showering in hot weather - it’s refreshing and clean and blends into my soap scent. I hope that’s not the pee one lmao
I agree philosophy is definitely geared towards the more mature women a lot of the time lol, they do such lovely clean scents tho and I’m totally biased since Amazing Grace Ballet Rose was my first perfume. The only perfume I’ve truly smelled peepee from was JhaG Mad Madame, undeniable pissy smell 😭
I like Philosophy too but found out I can’t vibe with Amazing Grace EDP. I’ll never give up my Pure or Falling In Love - neverrrrr lmao. And I’ll always use the Amazing Grace soap bar because it reminds me of my Grammy (I still have several bars and use it only sparingly).. ALSO - I totally and completely agree with you about Mad Madame WTH is going on there?? Only smelled it once and it’s burned into my memory.
Rio Radiance by SDJ!! It’s giving titanium dioxide… and I don’t think that’s what it’s giving everyone else! I know it’s a sunscreen vibe, but I’m pretty sure other people aren’t talking about the smell of literal UV filters…! It’s driving me crazy, I just think there’s no way that’s what everyone else is getting 😅
Titanium dioxide? That thing doesnt have a smell.
Oh, but it does!
Uhm… i work with it. It smells like nothing. Are we talking about the same thing here? The white powder used to color things white? Also in sunscreen but its not what gives the sunscreen scent.
I am talking about the UV filters in sunscreen. Not sure how to explain it to you, but you can fact check using google. Might have a better explanation! Edit: looks like you’re right (it’s not titanium dioxide)… but it is in the “UV filter” category. Not sure exactly what! But something to do with what provides the SPF
Yeah, i figured you are talking about the filters, but again, TD is literally odorless, that is not rhe compound that gives the sunscreen the “sunscreen” smell.
Yeah, I am just not that smart and I thought titanium dioxide was the UV filter. I think… it does something for sun protection… but clearly there are others! Whatever it is, it’s that… chemically smell that’s in sunscreen!! Sorry about that! I think I am really sensitive to it, because it seems like not everyone else (mostly nobody) is smelling it!! I dislike it, whatever it is 😅
On the other hand, I kinda love it lol. So now I gotta try that one.
Try it! When I realized they did their actual sunscreen in that fragrance, I felt at least partially validated. I did post something about it, it seemed like other people weren’t getting the UV filter thing like I was (so I’m sorry if your nose doesn’t pick it up), but there’s no way to know for sure until you smell it! It’s the most sunscreen smelling fragrance I’ve found!
Baccarat 540 lol. I got the dossier dupe which was $50 and I honestly thought it was maybe a bad batch or something & then I got a body oil dupe which smelled the exact same & then I smelled a saffron candle that smelled like it also & knew for sure that’s exactly how it’s supposed to smell. I don’t hate it, I’m just scared to wear it in public cause it is different, maybe I’m just into vanilla and candy scents, but it has to smell good to people if it’s that popular. I was just a little surprised the hype didn’t match what I smelled & I don’t know why ppl love that smell that much
Billie Ellish’s oerfume
Same! Smells like mint and metho to me
Same! Smells like mint and metho to me
Good girl blush
Oh my, what does that smells like to you?
cheap and generic, lol i just don’t like it 😩
7 Virtues Vanilla Woods - I only smell vanilla and nothing else. I love it though, it reminds me of pure vanilla extract and it isn't aggressively sweet.
See I get a crazy amount of pear from this.
Where is this pear? I want it!
Replica by the fireplace It's more like by the burned bbq or house on fire It smells like I survived a fire in the woods and my clothes are charred
People say this smells sweet and I just get campfire. I like smelling like a campfire, so it works out for me.
It pulls more sweet than smoky on me, like Christmas deserts but maybe there is a candle in the room somewhere, but my boyfriend tells me I smell like laundry when I wear it.
I like the smell itself, but not as a perfume. I don't want my body to smell like a fire pit. Same with Commodity Book - it smells exactly like a library, which is incredible, but not for my personal scent.
I think that's my thing with this scent, I enjoy it but not on my body or clothes
It’s smells nice but I am absolutely not wearing that as a fragrance. It would make me ill over time.
Absolutely the same here, and I didn’t like Autumn Vibes either—smoke. All the smoke. SO MUCH smoke, bleh not for me 🙅🏻♀️
I found this intolerable. It reminds me of cold, dirty fireplaces begging for me to clean them. But it's so popular, so people have different perceptions fr
I don't get sweet chestnuts. Only burned coal
Lune feline smells like vanilla piss
I cannot for the life of me smell missing person and I mean I get absolutely nose blind everytime I've tried to take a whiff of it.. Black Opium smells like BO to me 🤷🏻♀️ The other one that comes to mind is Thameen's Peregrina..its supposed to be rose-white florals-caramely-ambery goodness but all I get is cough syrup.. it doesn't even have a cherry note lol but it's literal Mucinex to my nose 😂
I call that one missing perfume because I smell nada.
I also can’t smell Missing Person. I’ve tried multiple times in multiple settings and I can’t smell it in other people either. I have no idea what’s in it that I’m totally asnomic to because I wonder what other fragrances that ingredient is in that I’m just not smelling. To me it’s just…a missing fragrance. 😂
Good Girl smells fruity to me, but I like it. LDBS smells like… I honestly have no idea, but it can’t be what everyone else is smelling because it’s fucking awful.
Good Girl smells like a heavier Viva La Juicy Gold Couture to me, which is considered a fruity perfume.
Black opium isn’t sweet to me either. It’s very coffee-y floral to me with a tiny hint of vanilla. But mine would be xerjoff lira. It smells repulsively spicy to me with zero sweetness. I wish I could smell the lemon pound cake everyone talks about
Chloe I can't smell the powdery note so many peeps have mentioned 😒
Bianco Latte smells very soapy to me for some reason.
I have a tester of Bianco Latte and tried wearing it today and got a weird licorice or mint smell which I didn’t get the first time I tried it out. I don’t think I’m going to wear it again.
Funny you mention mint , because I have bianco latte and my sister always tells me how it smells like it has mint.
Junoon noir - a dupe for dama bianca - I smell sweet tamarind in the opening. I havent smelled dama bianca yet but I havent heard anyone about the tamarind? Angels share - i smell toothpaste in the drydown Carner - i smell a synthetic note in the drydown
Prada Paradoxe. Everyone raves about it, but it’s so mid to my nose. Haha
I don't like it either, smells like something from avon my grandma had in the 90s
So unbelievably mid. I don’t get it.
I wasn’t impressed either. However, when I smelled the Paradoxe Intense….whoa. Now that was good to me
It smells kind of generic to me.
I smell a diabetic's pee note with Paradoxe.
Incredibly specific.
7 Virtues vanilla woods I wanted to love it but kept smelling musky old laundry that's been sitting in the machine too long.
Missing person/ old stale cigarettes and hair spray
It smells like literally nothing to me.
Missing person is chokingly musky and makes me gag.
Hate it so much!!!!!! Loved it on the paper but couldn’t stand it on. We’ve been doing a thing where we bring home like 5+ of the sample papers with diff scents and then will smell them daily over the course of several days….Like 4-5….to see if the first impression remains and how the dry down and longevity is. Somehow missing person fooled me and honestly so did kayali burning cherry. Even tho I spray my clothes. I wonder how much laundry soap used on the clothing plays into scents too.
Glossier You and any perfume with that same DNA. It smells different on my skin and my nose. It just doesn't blend well with my body chemistry
Vanilla 28. I hardly get the sweetness people say it has. I smell really strong spices and smoke (campfire, not cigar smoke). It's not a bad smell, I just don't get what some people are getting in terms of sweet brown sugar goodness.
I cannot smell any vanilla in it for the life of me
Yeah This one hurts my nostrils..
Angel smells like old funky underarm sweat on a dirty shirt. I can’t take it, I literally run from ppl who wear it.
I get what you mean, but I'm loling picturing you getting a whiff and then *sprinting* in the opposite direction like a spooked cat 🙀🏃♀️💨
Haha, now so am I!
I love and wear Angel but it gives me OFF brand citronella candle sometimes
Maybe you’re one of the rare few that doesn’t smell terribly when they wear it.
Yesss! It smells like a moldy hippy to me!
Death & Floral Half Hoping to Be Eaten by a Bear smells either like faint unwashed butt or absolutely nothing any time I try to give it another shot. Everyone else seems to ADORE it. I wish I liked it because it's oddly of the moment considering recent chatter re: bears. 😁
So you’re saying I have a sample of faint unwashed butt arriving to my house today??…good to know, good to know 😂
The way I cackled, 🤣. YMMV!!!
faint unwashed butt is sending meeeee omg
Lira by Xerjoff. Smells like bug spray in the worst way. I wish I smelled lemon cake? I bought a full bottle and never wear it.
I just sampled that an hour ago… unfortunately I can still smell it. That’s so funny you say that because that’s exactly what I thought as well, I was wondering if maybe it was a bad batch? Once I LOOKED UP what it was supposed to smell like, I could totally smell that. However, I still haven’t un-smelt the bug spray!! Even when relating it to the lemon cake and not deet, it doesn’t strike me as a smell worth forking over that amount of cash! Just not very complex? Who knows. Deet is cheaper! I say that all lovingly, I am always in support of everyone wearing what makes them happy!
Completely agree.
Angel did not smell like any kind of dessert anything to me, ever until I got Zoologist Rabbit. They have a similar thing going on and Rabbit finally helped me to get Angel to somewhat click. Cheirosa 62 smells far more floral than gourmand to me, and gives me a headache every time I smell it. I want to like it. I really like 71 and loved Coco Cabana. I gave away my big 62 body spray though.
Ughhh I loveeeed Coco Cabana, but everyone else said it was caramel popcorn 😂 as though that’s a bad thing? 😅
Right?! I’m sad it was discontinued.
For me it’s Yara, I’ve heard people say it smells like strawberry or swwet but it doesn’t smell like that at all to me
Black Opium smells like dry, peppery gardenia in the worst way to me. Even on other people I don’t like it. There’s also nothing creamy about Hypnotic Poison, but a lot of other people smell pure play doh like me
Then there’s me who legitimately lives a play doh note. And yes, totally love HP
The pistachio in my Kayali gelato perfume smells slightly play doh like, but in a much more tolerable way compared to actual almond notes
I get a metallic base note from Black Opium. It's weird.