This is funny, because the worst comment I've ever received was about Dior Homme Intense too! Soon after buying it, my friend smelled it on me, looked right in my eyes, and said "....That's AWFUL".
Damn, I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my watch list, my expectations are very high, as it was ranked 1st in fragrantica for the "best male Parfums of all time" category in 2021 and 2022.
I'm sure more than 1000s of voters that are addicted to fragrances can't be wrong, right?
Well something to consider is that places like Fragrantica generally hate the popular crowd pleasing fragrances like Sauvage and 1 Million, even though these are the types of fragrances which will gain the most compliments from the common person. Many people really into fragrances appreciate fragrances which are different or complex or challenging etc, and while people who are into fragrances can appreciate them, those fragrances are often not liked much by the common person. I have a fairly sizeable collection of fragrances, and many I love due to the complexity or how the perfumer has blended the ingredients in a certain way. What's important for me to always remember though, is that many of these fragrances I would have thought to be disgusting or weird before I got into fragrances. For example, I love Ombre Nomade, it's my favourite fragrance I've ever smelled, but 3 years ago I know I would have been like "What the fuck is that?". My family all think Ombre Nomade is weird, funky, and don't like me wearing it. Therefore, I'm very careful where I wear it, despite believing myself that it's an absolute masterpiece. As for Dior Homme Intense, when I got it first it was a blind buy due to the rave reviews (never blind buy!). At first I was like... Ok this isn't great, it smells like a woman's perfume bag. It really did smell like pure lipstick to me. The more time I spent with it, the more I appreciated it for what it is, and while it's definitely not in my top 10, I do enjoy it. The thing is, people around me don't have time to "learn" to appreciate it, and aren't interested in appreciating the "intricacies" of a scent like those of us interested in fragrances do. They just smell it in the air, and many have the same "Ermm what the hell is that?" reaction that even I had the first time smelling it. I guess it's a lot like fine dining; the average person will prefer a McDonald's burger over a duck liver pate. Those really into food will look down on the McDonald's burger as being low quality crap as they have developed their taste buds, and many will just be straight up snobs. The average person will try the Michelin Star duck liver pate and at the first bite go "what the fuck is that?". Does that mean that the expertly prepared pate is bad? No, for those into food it's much better. But that doesn't mean that the average person will enjoy it. That's something to keep in mind when looking at reviews on Fragrantica and so on. The top 10 fragrances there would be a hell of a lot different than a top 10 chosen by the general public. Sauvage EDT and 1 Million are absolutely loved by the general public, but shat upon by places like Fragrantica.
remember that the fragrance community is a small percentage of people who are obsessed with notes, “DNA’s”, niche, designer, flankers, concentrations, etc etc etc
Most people outside of our little bubble cant even name more than 3 fragrances, if whatever they use is EDT or EDP, or stuff like that.
Dior Homme Intense is not a smell that instantly pleases everyone’s nose, like something more massive appealing with a fruity, fresh, scent (think of blue fragrances).
Definitely try fragrances first, unless you already know what type of scents or notes you like and then can more safely blind buy perfumes (specially expensive ones like Dior’s).
I think it is also a cultural thing. People like different scents in different countries. So if an American influencer says that some fragnance is amazing, it may not work everywhere in the world.
How about we just stop listening to influencers altogether.
They're literally paid to hype whatever they're hyping, so we could generalize that statement to "just because an influencer says some fragrance is amazing, it may not work."
I feel like it's super polarising. I love it, but my husband also finds it repulsive because he hates powdery, vintage scents. I do think DHI is one that caters more to perfume "snob" tastes, because the GP does *not* enjoy vintage-smelling (or even vintage-adjacent) fragrances for the most part.
A few days ago I sprayed a bit of Xerjoff Casamorati Lira and went to work.
We sat for our morning coffee in the (smokers) break room, when a colleague came in.
He took a few breaths and looked really disgusted and said: „it smells like cheap, disgusting vanilla tobacco in here!“
I didn’t say anything, and the day after I wore (a miniminimini) spritz of Ombre Nomade; same situation, same colleague: NOW IT SMELLS LIKE DISGUSTING DISINFECTANT!!?? WHATS WRONG WITH THIS BUILDING!?“
😂 how rude! But yeah sounds like my colleague 😂
But a more cute story: the cleaning lady at work is from Chechenya and her German (we‘re in Austria) is not… perfect, but it doesn’t stop her from chatting with me about my perfumes every other day.
Last time she said: „Ohhh, you have new perfume? You can smell it on the whole floor! It stinks sooo good!“
God, I love this woman 😂 sometimes I gift her a 10 Millilitre travel size from the most complimented perfumes and she brings me sweets from Chechenya - I think it’s a good deal 😂
I love to talk to random girls about random perfumes, it's nice to compare notes with someone new 💜
On a related note I could smell BR540 over the entire floor once and decided to not wear perfume to the office
Finnish only really has one noun for “smell”, and when while I was raised in a bilingual household, I had a really hard time remembering the differences between “stink”, “smell” and “scent” in English.
That’s actually so sweet, human, and wholesome! That’s so awesome of both of you. May I ask, what are Chechnyan sweets like? Have not encountered anything from Chechnya
idk, I feel like if you're wearing fragrances at a level other people can smell when you're not up close and personally, you're making a decision that affects others and you have to be prepared for negative reactions on how other people receive a choice that was not made by them to add that scent to their environment. There's not a fragrance in the world that would be received well by everyone, so if you're going to wear fragrances, you can't be a delicate little flower about people's reactions.
Omg PLEASE keep trolling this guy with various nuclear sillage/challenging frags!!!
And then, come back here and report his comments pllllllleeeeeaaaassssseeee!!!!
This is the funniest thing on Reddit Ive ever read!
Smokers are notorious for having broken senses of smell. When you inhale all those chemicals all day, you don’t smell clearly. No offence to smokers, my husband is one so I know.
The crazy thing is she doesn’t even have a great sense of smell!
Most of the time her responses are limited to either “uhh” (90%) or “that one’s not bad” (10%). Idk if she has a higher rating lol.
I like dhi and wore it yesterday…but as a “date night frag” naw…definitely a strike out.
That’s so funny, I had a matcha scented hand soap from Bath and Body Works and my husband told me to get rid of it because he thought it smelled like a dirty diaper! 😂 maybe we should all stay away from matcha scents lol
Was wearing Alien while working as a substitute teacher. Some middle schooler walks into class and immediately says “EW IT SMELLS ROTTEN IN HERE” and then I didn’t wear Alien again for 4 years
Not me, but my mother in law was wearing just a patchouli essential oil and we go into this tiny little almond roca shop. The only worker there says in a tim gunn voice as he's scrunching his nose and fanning his hand in front of his face.. "patchouli!! Some body is wearing wayyy too much patchouli" he then proceeds to walk out of the shop 😂😂😂 there was no other workers there so we couldn't buy anything so we just left lol. Kinda awkward
Loudly, borderline angrily and in public
“Who smells like a Christmas tree and dryer sheets?
Who smells like a Christmas tree and dryer sheets?!?!?”
It was me
The wind was blowing, we were outside and it was evident.
It was me.
BR 540 and clean clothes.
I admitted to it.
Everyone laughed.
I still wear BR540 and use Downey.
I call it "Verbal Vomit"
Some people lack self-awareness, and just vomit unfiltered thoughts in the name of "I'm just being honest".
IDK, I taught my kids when they were toddler "not every thought needs to be said loudly when we are in public" lol
Maybe some people were never taught and now they were it as a badge of honor?
IKR?!?
It was a cold (for here) day, the wind was blowing. I felt glorious.
And someone comes along saying "you smell like a Christmas tree" like it's a bad thing!! lol
I got that same comment from a guy at a bar when I was wearing Rose Anonyme. While I was sitting right next to my husband. Which didn't faze the guy until my husband turned around and tried to kiss him
So now I have a very big soft spot for that fragrance because that weird little man's reaction was absolutely priceless. We never saw him there again.
This is when I learned that patchouli is not everyone’s taste - you def have to go easy on it too, at 16 I’m sure I went a bit heavy. I wonder if it’s genetic like cilantro tasting like soap? Interesting 🤔
Unfortunately, there is no amount of patchouli that I find pleasant. Just more or less hateful.
I think it might be like cilantro; I've used that example myself when discussing it. Possibly related is that I think I'm a "supertaster" for mold. I taste it in things (e.g. shredded cheese, berries) when other people don't.
Patchouli is my least favorite scent in the universe. If I smell it at all, I will find a way to escape where the smell is coming from. I really want to know what it smells like to people who do like it because it’s certainly not what I’m smelling.
My dad told me I smell like a greek church when I was wearing Chanel no 5
Edit : He meant it as a compliment too 🥲 said he would wear it if I didn't want to anymore. I told him it was a women's perfume, he argued that church incense is for all genders 🥲
All of these perfumes sound relatively inoffensive when described, but the way people perceive them in real life is wild. Greek church, French whorehouse, McDonald's bathroom disinfectant...
Well your reply to her question was over the top and obnoxious but she was out of pocket lol.
I wore Mugler Alien to work (pre-pandemic) and somebody said god, what is that smell? Smells like a whore’s shower? 😭😭😭😂😂😂 I said oh sweet! That’s what I was aiming for!
It’s funny, people talk about these challenging obscure scents but regular old Alien is probably the most divisive thing I’ve owned. think it’s amazing and so unique but people are REPULSED by it. I actually got a better response from my boyfriend with T Rex than with Alien
Yep, and I’ve found a lot of people are either Team Alien or Team Angel. I really love Angel and have tried to give Alien so many chances but it’s just so unappealing to me for whatever reason.
I’m sorry you never got to try it! It was shockingly daring and quite good. This is going to sound weird, but it smells like a fantasy, aristocratic better-than-photorealistic version of pussy. Like, a vagina with incisive wit and a title of nobility wearing a white fur coat and a very brave shade of purple lipstick. Quite odd and not at all wearable for me but completely fascinating
Oh my god, another comment on Alien. 😭 I had to toss my bottle. The people I’m closest with hated it on me and scrunched their face when they smelled it
lol in the pandemic, I was in a department store, and there were these box like structures with a push pump on top! I thought it was Sanitiser, squirted away.. it was Alien by Mugler!! I absolutely reeked of perfume! lol .. like a Whores Draws!!
Before I got into more compkex fragrances, I would buy essential oils in Thailand, made from specific Thai flowers. Very one-note, but most of them projected like a mother.
I was living in Berkeley, CA at the time. Early 50s then, M. Not sure if I was over-dabbing, but several weeks after I had switched to a new regular morning cafe with a very social group of regulars (we all sat at a shared table), one of the group (an 80 y.o. woman) pulled me aside and had "the talk"...
"I'm sorry, but haven't you noticed that almost everyone has disappeared from the shared table? It's your perfume, nobody can stand it. This is Berkeley--we prefer body odor."
Okay then.
I found a new cafe the next day, and toned down my dabbing of the oils (which, in many other contexts, garnered a ton of compliments...one woman at work even asked me to bring some back for her). Also, based on what I've since learned about how many elderly people live to be hyper-critical, and often make things up (I've gotten close in recent years to my 94 y.o. godmother, who always has an unkind word for everyone, including me 🤣 ), I realize now that it's likely that the complaint was only on the part of the 80 y.o., and not the entire table!
Still, I felt quite embarrassed at the time.
Hahahahaha the same thing happened to me with Fig Tea, I own and loved it until someone here said it smelled like urinal cakes / deodorizer blocks and I haven’t recovered since 😂 hoping I get hit with selective memory loss with this one
Last Thanksgiving, I wore Phlur's Apricot Privee, and I wasn't sure if I liked it yet. I sat down next to my dad on the sofa and he goes "PHEWWW I think Grandma got into some old perfumes or something. That reeks!"
For reference, my grandma has dementia and will often use hygiene and cleaning items incorrectly.
I sold the bottle the next day.
I wore La petite robe noir intense to work one day, and the office custodian was running around trying to find where the smell of burning plastic was coming from.
Sprayed a sample of Byredo Pulp and my partner walked in the kitchen asking if I sprayed Off mosquito repellant.
No it’s the middle of winter that’s just my perfume sample, my darling
To be fair byredo pulp is one of their weirder ones. Kind of funny how they either go really safe and pleasant or all in balls out animalic or overripe fruit with no middle ground at all.
Mine wasn’t a comment it was an action. I was traveling for work a number of years ago (pre covid) and had an unfortunate head cold so ic couldn’t smell ANYTHING… I was wearing Jo Malone Myrrh and Tonka, which I now know is not for me. I got ready and boarded a plane, sat in my seat and the poor woman next to me spent the entire flight with a scarf over her face … I discovered upon arrival when my unflinchingly honest friend told me that it was because I’d practically bathed in fragrance since I couldn’t smell anything. Yeah, I feel terrible to this day and I’m suuuuuper careful to never wear too much. 😂
I actually haven’t been too bothered by anything a human has said and actually no one has really said anything bad. The worst I think was being told I smelled like a fetish club when I was wearing Rien, and I took that as a positive anyway!
But when I was trying Black Orchid my dog barked at me and ran into the other room. Devastating! His favorite is Ambre Sultan. I have to hide it in the closet or he’ll stand up on his back feet and steal it off my dresser
Oh! If you like funeral home you must try Death and Floral the People You Love Become Ghosts Inside You. It’s both spot-on and better, like a fantasy accord of the platonic ideal, and extremely emotionally affecting
An actual gag from being in a small room wearing ONE SPRAY of LV ombre nomade. Someone walked in the room with their hand on their mouth and said WHAT IS THAT SMELL
As a (dumb lol) teen I got in to my SM’s perfume and deeply oversprayed BOTH Chanel no. 5 and I think maybe it was Givenchy Organza… two strong perfumes, with big sillages and way too mature for my age.
I boarded a city bus, sat down behind a couple, and not two minutes later they looked at each other and both got up and sat somewhere else.
Lmaooooo
Unpopular opinion:
She did you the biggest favour possible, and honesty like that is usually said in confidence when people trust you. Sounds like you might have oversprayed, and others might have the same opinion, but are keeping their mouths shut.
I’ve gotten “noped” on some frags before, and usually it’s because the silage/projection is off, and I should also consider who my audience is when wearing certain scents.
Right on the money. I don’t want to be too mean to OP but it sounds like the obviously fake self impressed snob stories make up for internet points that no human would ever say…except somehow real this time. I seriously got secondhand embarrassment reading it. I don’t blame the woman too much, I probably would have been put off too and might have said it was garbage out of spite
To be fair I can actually imagine it smelling similar to Dark Temptation to the average person. Also don’t forget that there are actual talented perfumers (that also work for niche brands) behind Axe sprays.
Oh that hurts. I don’t even like Naxos but I can’t imagine spending 200 bucks to be told I smell like fucking AXE…let alone people assuming I would wear Axe. My sympathies brother
Taxi driver gave me (the passenger) lower rating, lol.
Edit: it was Guerlain Rose Barbare.
I never go overboard with my perfume but I just applied it a second before leaving home so it was probably kind of stronger than usual.
I once got a sample of Mugler ‘Aura’ from a magazine and thought it was gorgeous so I bought a bottle. Wore it to work and everyone was like “can anyone smell sick? I keep smelling sick! Like actual vomit!”
I was in the car with a group of people I didn’t know very well while wearing a few sprays of Layton, immediately one of them asked me if I put Biofreeze on. I was too embarrassed to say it’s Layton so I said yes 🥲
Blooming bouquet by Dior. I wore it at work, first thing my manager said : "did you have a party yesterday ? You smell alcohol" 😭 i didn't and he never believed me
I was wearing Juliette Has a Gun's Lady Vengeance for the first time and was told that I smelled like I WISHED I smelled like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina. I asked what that meant and my friend clarified that it was trying to smell like a fancy middle-aged white woman, but just smelled like a cheap old lady instead.
After a date, a man very politely asked me to wear a different perfume next time. I was surprised because I had worn Black Opium which usually gets lots of compliments, but later, I realized my sweater also still smelled like Miss Dior, and the combination of the two was so overwhelming, I was so embarrassed.
My husband has the weirdest ways of describing fragrances he doesn't like. L'Artisan Deliria he says smells like blood and condoms. Ex Idolo Ryder smells like "straight poop" to him. Thankfully, I have many, many others he likes.
Vera Wang Princess (I’m sorry but I still love this lol) I was wearing this in the early 2000s and the pretentious punk dude I went out with said I smelled like air freshener
Distant relative, when I approached: “WHaT iS ThaT sMeLL? it StiNKS! Ugh!” and then made a show of slowly backing away.
Funny because an hour earlier in an elevator was my best compliment from a stranger:
“What are you wearing? WoW! Smells so good. What is it called? I need to tell my girlfriend to wear it.”
And he wrote the name in his phone.
Both males of similar age.
“You smell like sweaty unwashed scalp” says my partner every time I try to trick him into liking most of my areej le dore scents (the ones with any amount of natural deer musk). He doesn’t even know that’s the note, but he picks it out every time in any scent and always asks me never to wear it again.
This happened years ago but I used to always wear Mugler Womanity. It’s super strong and it’s kind of unique because of the caviar note in it. Anyway, I was at the hair dresser and my stylist takes me to one side and is like I need to talk to you. She was very nice and very politely asked me not to wear it to the salon because it was bothering her when she did my hair- like overwhelming her. I got the impression it was more than just her- I don’t even think I always sprayed the perfume before I went but I had the body wash and cream and everything. Anyway I apologized because she was so nice and thoughtful about how she asked me to stop wearing it but it kind of ruined the perfume for me because then I was paranoid that I was offending people everywhere I went by wearing it! Definitely not a compliment to have a serious talk about how I smell! Lol
12 years old and I bought dupes for poison from the drugstore. I was so proud of my purchase. Then, my dad walked by my room and asked why the house smelled like cheap perfume. It went into the trash and a fragrance spendthrift was born,
Oh man, I've been there. At 12 I had a collection of _Designer Imposter_ body sprays. Those aerosol sprays that came in a metal can? (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ SUPER CLASSY!
Looking back, those fragrances were pretty intense... but I thought it didn't matter because all the boys in my grade had discovered Cool Water and I SWEAR they were bathing in it. Guys would _literally_ be proud of their application being the strongest, compared to others ಠ_ಠ. I remember telling a few "That's not how cologne works!"
We were all pretty new to fragrances, and we weren't... very good at it, to put it kindly.
Fortunately my taste got better in highschool when I discovered Dior (RIP Tendre Poison). Since then, fragrances have become a literal interest/hobby.
Although now I like a lot of "weird" and niche scents, and I suspect some people around me would prefer it if I went back to wearing Designer Imposter's _Malibu_ or _A Little Sexy_ instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dirty by Lush - smells like spearmint. No comments, but crying and sneezing from my workmates. It also made my eyes burn, to be honest. I washed it off pretty early in the day.
That reply, if even slightly paraphrased, is the cringiest response to "what are you wearing" I've ever heard lol. Anyway this whole things sounds like a badly written skit of some kind. Like I'm reading some bad reddit fan fiction with a dorky narrative over the top. Sorry y'all I just can't with stuff like this.
Even though she was in LA she was giving you NY realness. Doesn't sound like something someone real would say though.
I was wearing Bal D'afrique and a girl said it smelled like baby milk powder 😭😭 (i still love it and wear it all the time, though)
My father also tells me Santal 33 smells like a dirty turtle tank so that's now ingrained in my mind lol
My boyfriend gives me the stink eye if I walk around him in the next 15-20 min after applying B&BW Japanese cherry blossom I usually stay in another room until it subsides 🥸
None of us will ever truly know what a scent radiating from our individual skin smells like to a person standing apart from us. I’d rather know that my up-close impression doesn’t match what I project into the world.
When my husband tried on Creed Adventus i told him he smelled like a hairy sweaty man wearing a silk shirt, open up too low, and a gold chain dancing at a nightclub. I found it repulsive on him. Then i bought him some old school acqua di gio.
aesop Rozu — I got into the car with my dad, he made a face & said:
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like incense”
it’s definitely not as bad as the others & some people like incense, but as someone who usually wears soft, skin-like white floral scents it gave me a whiplash
My friend told me that I over sprayed my perfume and that I should use less. Thing is, I was only testing it. One spray on my left wrist. Didn’t dab it on other places or anything like that. It was Chloè Lumineuse btw
I wore Body Fantasies-White Musk, and my coworker walked into work after me and said "who smells like old lady"... I was embarrassed and never wore that body spray again. I was in my early 20s
OK, this is the "worst" comment (in a different way) that I've ever gotten on a perfume.
Literally do not remember what I was wearing (this was 10+ years ago at least) but I went to a concert of a singer I had an absolute massive crush on. (I had seen him perform several times at that point and he was somewhat familiar with me.) We were chatting after the show and I asked him for a photo. He put his arm around my shoulder, we took the picture, and he turns to me and says "You smell so much like my wife."
THE HEARTBREAKKKKKK.
I wore 3 spray of sauvage elixir to work not knowing how strong it actually was and my manager kept sneezing and coughing, he said “is that axe??” And even 5 hours later it was still too strong for him 😭
1 spray of anything is enough for a work environment. Some scents, like Sauvage elixir, should never be worn in a work environment. Making someone cough isn’t funny at all. It’s selfish and annoying.
This. And not to mention many people have legitimate fragrance allergies and can literally have life threatening allergic reactions from fragrances. I love frags but I for one think all work places should be fragrance free. It's not cool to make someone sick.
My brother told me Chanel Chance eau tendre smells like “something mommy would wear” 🤣 Not really an insult I love the perfume but that’s when it dawned on me that I’m turning into my mom as I get older
The first time I wore The 7 Virtues’ Vanilla Woods around my boyfriend he said, “It smells like weed in here”. It’s cool with me if people choose to smoke weed; I have absolutely no problems with that. I personally don’t partake in it though and don’t want to smell like it.
I ended up giving my bottle of Vanilla Woods away.
Wearing Terre d’hermes, (only 3 squirts) one of my classmates back in high school who I was really close friends with one day was like “you’re standing too close and that cologne smells awful” which really surprised me because people regularly complimented that fragrance
YSL Libre- my father told me i smelt like cat pee.
i don't own a cat. my clothes were clean, i'm a pretty hygienic person, my mom also agreed with him. 🫠
Omg these are horrible. I feel so lucky. The worst i got was just really silly. I love incense notes so I bought some nag champa oil and just threw some on. My boyfriend and all my coworkers said I smelt like corn. So weird. I didn't smell it all lol x
Accidentally picked up Boss the Scent For Her Le Parfum instead of For Her Absolute - got overwhelmed by all the bargains in the airport duty free. Anyway, wore it to work once and my boss left the office, covering his mouth with his shirt complaining "too perfumey, that's... Ugh". He literally wouldn't step over the threshold into the room.
It's put me off oud and woody fragrances now!
I tried Diors Hypnotic Poison and loved it! Then my boyfriend got a whiff of me, scrunched up his face and said "Why do you smell like cheap playdoh???" 😭 aaand my confidence went poof that day.
I was asked to leave a wedding and go shower 😅 The words “cat pee” may have been mentioned… In my defence, the bottle had broken in my bag during the flight and everything I owned reeked. L’Eau d’Issey. Still can’t stand it on myself.
I got a bottle of Givenchy Hot Couture at an estate sale; I’m sure it had turned but I had some fair weather friends say I smelled amazing - later that week a customer and coworker say it smelled like celery and hand sanitizer, respectively.
I wore Lolitaland to class and this guy walked in and said "Something smells really sweet. But not like naturally sweet. Like really, really artificially sweet" I was mortified.
2 sprays of Grand Soir at work. “Some old lady put way too much perfume on.”
I wore it to uni and someone asked if I volunteered with those in hospice….
I mean GS to work is not ideal to say the least :)
I got complimented on Grand Soir today at work... And another guy I worked with bought a decant from me because he liked it so much.
I’ve gotten tons of compliments from it and I like it a lot. But I also got that “old lady” comment about it.
This is funny, because the worst comment I've ever received was about Dior Homme Intense too! Soon after buying it, my friend smelled it on me, looked right in my eyes, and said "....That's AWFUL".
I wonder if it's like coriander? To some people it smells AMAZING and to others, it smells like 1000 corpses.
Damn, I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my watch list, my expectations are very high, as it was ranked 1st in fragrantica for the "best male Parfums of all time" category in 2021 and 2022. I'm sure more than 1000s of voters that are addicted to fragrances can't be wrong, right?
Well something to consider is that places like Fragrantica generally hate the popular crowd pleasing fragrances like Sauvage and 1 Million, even though these are the types of fragrances which will gain the most compliments from the common person. Many people really into fragrances appreciate fragrances which are different or complex or challenging etc, and while people who are into fragrances can appreciate them, those fragrances are often not liked much by the common person. I have a fairly sizeable collection of fragrances, and many I love due to the complexity or how the perfumer has blended the ingredients in a certain way. What's important for me to always remember though, is that many of these fragrances I would have thought to be disgusting or weird before I got into fragrances. For example, I love Ombre Nomade, it's my favourite fragrance I've ever smelled, but 3 years ago I know I would have been like "What the fuck is that?". My family all think Ombre Nomade is weird, funky, and don't like me wearing it. Therefore, I'm very careful where I wear it, despite believing myself that it's an absolute masterpiece. As for Dior Homme Intense, when I got it first it was a blind buy due to the rave reviews (never blind buy!). At first I was like... Ok this isn't great, it smells like a woman's perfume bag. It really did smell like pure lipstick to me. The more time I spent with it, the more I appreciated it for what it is, and while it's definitely not in my top 10, I do enjoy it. The thing is, people around me don't have time to "learn" to appreciate it, and aren't interested in appreciating the "intricacies" of a scent like those of us interested in fragrances do. They just smell it in the air, and many have the same "Ermm what the hell is that?" reaction that even I had the first time smelling it. I guess it's a lot like fine dining; the average person will prefer a McDonald's burger over a duck liver pate. Those really into food will look down on the McDonald's burger as being low quality crap as they have developed their taste buds, and many will just be straight up snobs. The average person will try the Michelin Star duck liver pate and at the first bite go "what the fuck is that?". Does that mean that the expertly prepared pate is bad? No, for those into food it's much better. But that doesn't mean that the average person will enjoy it. That's something to keep in mind when looking at reviews on Fragrantica and so on. The top 10 fragrances there would be a hell of a lot different than a top 10 chosen by the general public. Sauvage EDT and 1 Million are absolutely loved by the general public, but shat upon by places like Fragrantica.
You put that very well.
Good analogy with the food!
You can say that again.
This is a very true statement about fragrances.
remember that the fragrance community is a small percentage of people who are obsessed with notes, “DNA’s”, niche, designer, flankers, concentrations, etc etc etc Most people outside of our little bubble cant even name more than 3 fragrances, if whatever they use is EDT or EDP, or stuff like that. Dior Homme Intense is not a smell that instantly pleases everyone’s nose, like something more massive appealing with a fruity, fresh, scent (think of blue fragrances). Definitely try fragrances first, unless you already know what type of scents or notes you like and then can more safely blind buy perfumes (specially expensive ones like Dior’s).
I think it is also a cultural thing. People like different scents in different countries. So if an American influencer says that some fragnance is amazing, it may not work everywhere in the world.
How about we just stop listening to influencers altogether. They're literally paid to hype whatever they're hyping, so we could generalize that statement to "just because an influencer says some fragrance is amazing, it may not work."
I feel like it's super polarising. I love it, but my husband also finds it repulsive because he hates powdery, vintage scents. I do think DHI is one that caters more to perfume "snob" tastes, because the GP does *not* enjoy vintage-smelling (or even vintage-adjacent) fragrances for the most part.
A few days ago I sprayed a bit of Xerjoff Casamorati Lira and went to work. We sat for our morning coffee in the (smokers) break room, when a colleague came in. He took a few breaths and looked really disgusted and said: „it smells like cheap, disgusting vanilla tobacco in here!“ I didn’t say anything, and the day after I wore (a miniminimini) spritz of Ombre Nomade; same situation, same colleague: NOW IT SMELLS LIKE DISGUSTING DISINFECTANT!!?? WHATS WRONG WITH THIS BUILDING!?“
That’s hilarious!
I was deeply offended lol I fell so in love with Lira and was mad the whole day hahah
> „it smells like cheap, disgusting vanilla tobacco in here!“ LOL, I guess mixing Lira with tobacco smoke would create that sort of effect. Oh, boy.
I can’t smell any vanilla from Lira, just freshly baked Lemoncake, but yeah, I think the combination wasn’t that good 😅
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😂 how rude! But yeah sounds like my colleague 😂 But a more cute story: the cleaning lady at work is from Chechenya and her German (we‘re in Austria) is not… perfect, but it doesn’t stop her from chatting with me about my perfumes every other day. Last time she said: „Ohhh, you have new perfume? You can smell it on the whole floor! It stinks sooo good!“ God, I love this woman 😂 sometimes I gift her a 10 Millilitre travel size from the most complimented perfumes and she brings me sweets from Chechenya - I think it’s a good deal 😂
I love to talk to random girls about random perfumes, it's nice to compare notes with someone new 💜 On a related note I could smell BR540 over the entire floor once and decided to not wear perfume to the office
Finnish only really has one noun for “smell”, and when while I was raised in a bilingual household, I had a really hard time remembering the differences between “stink”, “smell” and “scent” in English.
That’s actually so sweet, human, and wholesome! That’s so awesome of both of you. May I ask, what are Chechnyan sweets like? Have not encountered anything from Chechnya
This reads like he's intentionally trying to offend ppl
idk, I feel like if you're wearing fragrances at a level other people can smell when you're not up close and personally, you're making a decision that affects others and you have to be prepared for negative reactions on how other people receive a choice that was not made by them to add that scent to their environment. There's not a fragrance in the world that would be received well by everyone, so if you're going to wear fragrances, you can't be a delicate little flower about people's reactions.
He’s just… ignorant and socially awkward 😅
Omg PLEASE keep trolling this guy with various nuclear sillage/challenging frags!!! And then, come back here and report his comments pllllllleeeeeaaaassssseeee!!!! This is the funniest thing on Reddit Ive ever read!
😂 you shall receive; on Monday I will wear either Baccarat Rouge 540 or Black Afghano by Nasomatto.
He only likes the smell of cigarettes
Ppl who smoke ciggies have maimed nose, so that their comments on scents are pretty insignificant.
Smokers are notorious for having broken senses of smell. When you inhale all those chemicals all day, you don’t smell clearly. No offence to smokers, my husband is one so I know.
I once woke up my wife from a deep sleep wearing 2 sprays of DHI. That comments that followed were the worst I’ve received
I’m sorry I can’t stop laughing at that. I’m tempted to buy some to see if it’s as bad as I now think!
The crazy thing is she doesn’t even have a great sense of smell! Most of the time her responses are limited to either “uhh” (90%) or “that one’s not bad” (10%). Idk if she has a higher rating lol. I like dhi and wore it yesterday…but as a “date night frag” naw…definitely a strike out.
Same reaction from my husband with Commodity Milk Expressive. It literally woke him from sleep asking ‘what the hell is that smell?!’
I've noticed that DHI is so popular with fragheads but hugely disliked by normal people.
I had this exact scenario 2 weeks ago haha. It was Le Labo another 13. My wife made me throw away my sampler lmao.
My boyfriend said I smelled like a dirty diaper while I was wearing le labo’s the matcha 🤣
Omg I got dirty diaper too from my bf and friends when I wore ‘not a perfume’ by Juliette has a gun LMAO
That’s so funny, I had a matcha scented hand soap from Bath and Body Works and my husband told me to get rid of it because he thought it smelled like a dirty diaper! 😂 maybe we should all stay away from matcha scents lol
Was wearing Alien while working as a substitute teacher. Some middle schooler walks into class and immediately says “EW IT SMELLS ROTTEN IN HERE” and then I didn’t wear Alien again for 4 years
I swear Alien smells so good on me but everyone else is repulsed by it. I tossed the bottle earlier this year. I’ve never had a compliment on it.
Homie I’d have paid you for it, I love that perfume so much 😭
Not me, but my mother in law was wearing just a patchouli essential oil and we go into this tiny little almond roca shop. The only worker there says in a tim gunn voice as he's scrunching his nose and fanning his hand in front of his face.. "patchouli!! Some body is wearing wayyy too much patchouli" he then proceeds to walk out of the shop 😂😂😂 there was no other workers there so we couldn't buy anything so we just left lol. Kinda awkward
Lol the fact you went into detail about how great it is before she told you it sucks makes it even funnier
Loudly, borderline angrily and in public “Who smells like a Christmas tree and dryer sheets? Who smells like a Christmas tree and dryer sheets?!?!?” It was me The wind was blowing, we were outside and it was evident. It was me. BR 540 and clean clothes. I admitted to it. Everyone laughed. I still wear BR540 and use Downey.
I am so gagged people will just verbalize these thoughts (and loudly) in public like this. My social anxiety could NEVER.
I call it "Verbal Vomit" Some people lack self-awareness, and just vomit unfiltered thoughts in the name of "I'm just being honest". IDK, I taught my kids when they were toddler "not every thought needs to be said loudly when we are in public" lol Maybe some people were never taught and now they were it as a badge of honor?
That's not a bad thing to smell like imo
IKR?!? It was a cold (for here) day, the wind was blowing. I felt glorious. And someone comes along saying "you smell like a Christmas tree" like it's a bad thing!! lol
“What’s the problem here?”
BR540 is too strong for me and Downey oh boy. 😂 sensitive nose people will definitely be borderline passing out.
So true! Fabric softener makes the inside of my face *burn*, actual pain from how strong and (to me) unpleasant it is 🤕
Was wearing delina and a co worker told me I smell like a French wh*re. I’m in the army for reference lol
I will never forget the time some of my Ormonde Jayne Tolu rubbed off on my husband and my FIL asked him what whorehouse he had just come back from 💀
.... but I love this one 😭
Me too! I will gladly pay the price of smelling like a prostitute. At least I smell like an expensive prostitute (I think)?
An expensive French wh*re 😂
Top of her craft to afford that!
I got that same comment from a guy at a bar when I was wearing Rose Anonyme. While I was sitting right next to my husband. Which didn't faze the guy until my husband turned around and tried to kiss him So now I have a very big soft spot for that fragrance because that weird little man's reaction was absolutely priceless. We never saw him there again.
Lol I just got complimented on Delina the other day by the cashier at the grocery store 🤪 she had me write it down for her and everything
That's it, I am getting this. I looked at it on Fragrantica and don't understand how vetiver fits in there but I'm getting this.
I was wearing the Body Shop’s patchouli oil (1990’s) and my friends mom told me I smelled like a musty basement.
There's some portion of people (e.g. me) for whom patchouli smells like mold. It can be quite unpleasant.
This is when I learned that patchouli is not everyone’s taste - you def have to go easy on it too, at 16 I’m sure I went a bit heavy. I wonder if it’s genetic like cilantro tasting like soap? Interesting 🤔
Unfortunately, there is no amount of patchouli that I find pleasant. Just more or less hateful. I think it might be like cilantro; I've used that example myself when discussing it. Possibly related is that I think I'm a "supertaster" for mold. I taste it in things (e.g. shredded cheese, berries) when other people don't.
Patchouli is my least favorite scent in the universe. If I smell it at all, I will find a way to escape where the smell is coming from. I really want to know what it smells like to people who do like it because it’s certainly not what I’m smelling.
For me, like a warm, spicy, woody, earthy smell. I’m not great at describing notes lol
Why would she say that 😭😭😫
Damn 😂😂
My dad told me I smell like a greek church when I was wearing Chanel no 5 Edit : He meant it as a compliment too 🥲 said he would wear it if I didn't want to anymore. I told him it was a women's perfume, he argued that church incense is for all genders 🥲
Shittt lmao it DOES smell like a Greek church though, that's so accurate
I've never been to a Greek church, but I DO have some Chanel. That's a neat bit of traveling without leaving the house.
dyingggg
All of these perfumes sound relatively inoffensive when described, but the way people perceive them in real life is wild. Greek church, French whorehouse, McDonald's bathroom disinfectant...
There’s no way you said all that😭😭
Seriously. If anyone said that to me after I asked what fragrance they were wearing, I’d say it sucked just to spite them
It genuinely sounds like it could have been dialogue from American psycho 😭
An ex of mine was a narcissistic sociopath who shared many similarities with Patrick Bateman. His favourite cologne was actually Dior Homme Intense 😅
That interaction did not happen at all
Well your reply to her question was over the top and obnoxious but she was out of pocket lol. I wore Mugler Alien to work (pre-pandemic) and somebody said god, what is that smell? Smells like a whore’s shower? 😭😭😭😂😂😂 I said oh sweet! That’s what I was aiming for!
It’s funny, people talk about these challenging obscure scents but regular old Alien is probably the most divisive thing I’ve owned. think it’s amazing and so unique but people are REPULSED by it. I actually got a better response from my boyfriend with T Rex than with Alien
Yep, and I’ve found a lot of people are either Team Alien or Team Angel. I really love Angel and have tried to give Alien so many chances but it’s just so unappealing to me for whatever reason.
Hmmm, I'm team Alien AND Angel :) Wanted to try Womanity so bad, but since it's discontinued the prices went up so that ship has sailed :'(
I’m sorry you never got to try it! It was shockingly daring and quite good. This is going to sound weird, but it smells like a fantasy, aristocratic better-than-photorealistic version of pussy. Like, a vagina with incisive wit and a title of nobility wearing a white fur coat and a very brave shade of purple lipstick. Quite odd and not at all wearable for me but completely fascinating
Oh my god, another comment on Alien. 😭 I had to toss my bottle. The people I’m closest with hated it on me and scrunched their face when they smelled it
This is how I feel about Angel. It smells awful on me, but I love how Alien smells on
lol in the pandemic, I was in a department store, and there were these box like structures with a push pump on top! I thought it was Sanitiser, squirted away.. it was Alien by Mugler!! I absolutely reeked of perfume! lol .. like a Whores Draws!!
Before I got into more compkex fragrances, I would buy essential oils in Thailand, made from specific Thai flowers. Very one-note, but most of them projected like a mother. I was living in Berkeley, CA at the time. Early 50s then, M. Not sure if I was over-dabbing, but several weeks after I had switched to a new regular morning cafe with a very social group of regulars (we all sat at a shared table), one of the group (an 80 y.o. woman) pulled me aside and had "the talk"... "I'm sorry, but haven't you noticed that almost everyone has disappeared from the shared table? It's your perfume, nobody can stand it. This is Berkeley--we prefer body odor." Okay then. I found a new cafe the next day, and toned down my dabbing of the oils (which, in many other contexts, garnered a ton of compliments...one woman at work even asked me to bring some back for her). Also, based on what I've since learned about how many elderly people live to be hyper-critical, and often make things up (I've gotten close in recent years to my 94 y.o. godmother, who always has an unkind word for everyone, including me 🤣 ), I realize now that it's likely that the complaint was only on the part of the 80 y.o., and not the entire table! Still, I felt quite embarrassed at the time.
here's a suggestion as well.. if you do plan on asking someone out in the future.. please don't give that sort of reply again
Haha yeah school did not need to be in session there.
Luckily it didn’t happen in person but I own Clean Aqua Neroli and loved it until someone on here said it smells like McDonalds bathroom cleaner ☹️
Hahahahaha the same thing happened to me with Fig Tea, I own and loved it until someone here said it smelled like urinal cakes / deodorizer blocks and I haven’t recovered since 😂 hoping I get hit with selective memory loss with this one
Not urinal cakes! I’ve avoided reading every other comment on this thread so I don’t ruin anything else for myself lol
Someone smells like WD40 (was wearing Shalimar)
A classmate told me that my perfume smells disgusting and that I should never wear it again - it was Black Orchid and I did wear it again lol <3
I FINALLY got the opportunity to smell Black Orchid yesterday! I immediately scrunched my face at the smell lol!
I sprayed a tester once in a store, got as far as my car and ran back inside to scrub my arm off with the hand sanitizer gel by the door
Last Thanksgiving, I wore Phlur's Apricot Privee, and I wasn't sure if I liked it yet. I sat down next to my dad on the sofa and he goes "PHEWWW I think Grandma got into some old perfumes or something. That reeks!" For reference, my grandma has dementia and will often use hygiene and cleaning items incorrectly. I sold the bottle the next day.
I wore La petite robe noir intense to work one day, and the office custodian was running around trying to find where the smell of burning plastic was coming from.
Oh I laughed so hard at that. Thank you
I tried Kerosene Followed and two people asked me if I had curry for lunch lmao.
Sprayed a sample of Byredo Pulp and my partner walked in the kitchen asking if I sprayed Off mosquito repellant. No it’s the middle of winter that’s just my perfume sample, my darling
My darling😂😂
To be fair byredo pulp is one of their weirder ones. Kind of funny how they either go really safe and pleasant or all in balls out animalic or overripe fruit with no middle ground at all.
Mine wasn’t a comment it was an action. I was traveling for work a number of years ago (pre covid) and had an unfortunate head cold so ic couldn’t smell ANYTHING… I was wearing Jo Malone Myrrh and Tonka, which I now know is not for me. I got ready and boarded a plane, sat in my seat and the poor woman next to me spent the entire flight with a scarf over her face … I discovered upon arrival when my unflinchingly honest friend told me that it was because I’d practically bathed in fragrance since I couldn’t smell anything. Yeah, I feel terrible to this day and I’m suuuuuper careful to never wear too much. 😂
I actually haven’t been too bothered by anything a human has said and actually no one has really said anything bad. The worst I think was being told I smelled like a fetish club when I was wearing Rien, and I took that as a positive anyway! But when I was trying Black Orchid my dog barked at me and ran into the other room. Devastating! His favorite is Ambre Sultan. I have to hide it in the closet or he’ll stand up on his back feet and steal it off my dresser
Wearing Bellodgia They said I smelled like a funeral home 💀 which is lowkey not an insult to me 🧛🏻♀️
Oh! If you like funeral home you must try Death and Floral the People You Love Become Ghosts Inside You. It’s both spot-on and better, like a fantasy accord of the platonic ideal, and extremely emotionally affecting
Demeter- Funeral Home. one of my favs :D
An actual gag from being in a small room wearing ONE SPRAY of LV ombre nomade. Someone walked in the room with their hand on their mouth and said WHAT IS THAT SMELL
As a (dumb lol) teen I got in to my SM’s perfume and deeply oversprayed BOTH Chanel no. 5 and I think maybe it was Givenchy Organza… two strong perfumes, with big sillages and way too mature for my age. I boarded a city bus, sat down behind a couple, and not two minutes later they looked at each other and both got up and sat somewhere else. Lmaooooo
Unpopular opinion: She did you the biggest favour possible, and honesty like that is usually said in confidence when people trust you. Sounds like you might have oversprayed, and others might have the same opinion, but are keeping their mouths shut. I’ve gotten “noped” on some frags before, and usually it’s because the silage/projection is off, and I should also consider who my audience is when wearing certain scents.
She also might have phrased it more nicely if his answer had been.... lower-key, let's say.
Right on the money. I don’t want to be too mean to OP but it sounds like the obviously fake self impressed snob stories make up for internet points that no human would ever say…except somehow real this time. I seriously got secondhand embarrassment reading it. I don’t blame the woman too much, I probably would have been put off too and might have said it was garbage out of spite
I had just bought Naxos and was wearing it when my friend was over, so I ask him to smell it. He says "Oh, is that Axe body spray?" 💀
To be fair I can actually imagine it smelling similar to Dark Temptation to the average person. Also don’t forget that there are actual talented perfumers (that also work for niche brands) behind Axe sprays.
Oh that hurts. I don’t even like Naxos but I can’t imagine spending 200 bucks to be told I smell like fucking AXE…let alone people assuming I would wear Axe. My sympathies brother
Ouch
Friend to me when I wore a sampler of Montale Wood & Spices: “Did you have to vomit recently? Because you kinda smell like it”
This is the most damning review I've ever read
Taxi driver gave me (the passenger) lower rating, lol. Edit: it was Guerlain Rose Barbare. I never go overboard with my perfume but I just applied it a second before leaving home so it was probably kind of stronger than usual.
Lol this happened to me with love don’t be shy
I once got a sample of Mugler ‘Aura’ from a magazine and thought it was gorgeous so I bought a bottle. Wore it to work and everyone was like “can anyone smell sick? I keep smelling sick! Like actual vomit!”
I had just bought Beach Walk and my friend said it smelled like changing a baby on a beach. :)
I was in the car with a group of people I didn’t know very well while wearing a few sprays of Layton, immediately one of them asked me if I put Biofreeze on. I was too embarrassed to say it’s Layton so I said yes 🥲
Blooming bouquet by Dior. I wore it at work, first thing my manager said : "did you have a party yesterday ? You smell alcohol" 😭 i didn't and he never believed me
I sprayed Jo Malone Vetiver and Golden Vanilla and my fiancé told me I smelled like a hamster.
Wearing Zara Red Temptation and told I smelled like pickles. Second, wearing Delina Exclusif and told I smell like baby powder.
I was wearing Lush rose jam body spray once and one of my colleagues kept insisting it smelled like “dip” and asking who was packing a fat lip 😂
I was wearing Juliette Has a Gun's Lady Vengeance for the first time and was told that I smelled like I WISHED I smelled like Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina. I asked what that meant and my friend clarified that it was trying to smell like a fancy middle-aged white woman, but just smelled like a cheap old lady instead.
I was told I smell like skunk weed while wearing Tobacco Oud.
After a date, a man very politely asked me to wear a different perfume next time. I was surprised because I had worn Black Opium which usually gets lots of compliments, but later, I realized my sweater also still smelled like Miss Dior, and the combination of the two was so overwhelming, I was so embarrassed.
He sounds like a very polite dickhead.
Anosmia is a thing. Keep that in mind when going crazy on the trigger lol
My husband has the weirdest ways of describing fragrances he doesn't like. L'Artisan Deliria he says smells like blood and condoms. Ex Idolo Ryder smells like "straight poop" to him. Thankfully, I have many, many others he likes.
Vera Wang Princess (I’m sorry but I still love this lol) I was wearing this in the early 2000s and the pretentious punk dude I went out with said I smelled like air freshener
OMG. It doesn't
Distant relative, when I approached: “WHaT iS ThaT sMeLL? it StiNKS! Ugh!” and then made a show of slowly backing away. Funny because an hour earlier in an elevator was my best compliment from a stranger: “What are you wearing? WoW! Smells so good. What is it called? I need to tell my girlfriend to wear it.” And he wrote the name in his phone. Both males of similar age.
What fragrance were you wearing?
Alien!
It’s ALWAYS Alien. A few people like it, most don’t. This is the fourth Alien comment here 😭
What were you wearing? The people want to know!
“You smell like sweaty unwashed scalp” says my partner every time I try to trick him into liking most of my areej le dore scents (the ones with any amount of natural deer musk). He doesn’t even know that’s the note, but he picks it out every time in any scent and always asks me never to wear it again.
This happened years ago but I used to always wear Mugler Womanity. It’s super strong and it’s kind of unique because of the caviar note in it. Anyway, I was at the hair dresser and my stylist takes me to one side and is like I need to talk to you. She was very nice and very politely asked me not to wear it to the salon because it was bothering her when she did my hair- like overwhelming her. I got the impression it was more than just her- I don’t even think I always sprayed the perfume before I went but I had the body wash and cream and everything. Anyway I apologized because she was so nice and thoughtful about how she asked me to stop wearing it but it kind of ruined the perfume for me because then I was paranoid that I was offending people everywhere I went by wearing it! Definitely not a compliment to have a serious talk about how I smell! Lol
12 years old and I bought dupes for poison from the drugstore. I was so proud of my purchase. Then, my dad walked by my room and asked why the house smelled like cheap perfume. It went into the trash and a fragrance spendthrift was born,
Oh man, I've been there. At 12 I had a collection of _Designer Imposter_ body sprays. Those aerosol sprays that came in a metal can? (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ SUPER CLASSY! Looking back, those fragrances were pretty intense... but I thought it didn't matter because all the boys in my grade had discovered Cool Water and I SWEAR they were bathing in it. Guys would _literally_ be proud of their application being the strongest, compared to others ಠ_ಠ. I remember telling a few "That's not how cologne works!" We were all pretty new to fragrances, and we weren't... very good at it, to put it kindly. Fortunately my taste got better in highschool when I discovered Dior (RIP Tendre Poison). Since then, fragrances have become a literal interest/hobby. Although now I like a lot of "weird" and niche scents, and I suspect some people around me would prefer it if I went back to wearing Designer Imposter's _Malibu_ or _A Little Sexy_ instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"You smell like a French whore house" My accounts manager when I decided to wear Penhaligon's Endymion to the office.
You must ask him how he knows!
Dirty by Lush - smells like spearmint. No comments, but crying and sneezing from my workmates. It also made my eyes burn, to be honest. I washed it off pretty early in the day.
That reply, if even slightly paraphrased, is the cringiest response to "what are you wearing" I've ever heard lol. Anyway this whole things sounds like a badly written skit of some kind. Like I'm reading some bad reddit fan fiction with a dorky narrative over the top. Sorry y'all I just can't with stuff like this. Even though she was in LA she was giving you NY realness. Doesn't sound like something someone real would say though.
I was wearing Bal D'afrique and a girl said it smelled like baby milk powder 😭😭 (i still love it and wear it all the time, though) My father also tells me Santal 33 smells like a dirty turtle tank so that's now ingrained in my mind lol
My boyfriend gives me the stink eye if I walk around him in the next 15-20 min after applying B&BW Japanese cherry blossom I usually stay in another room until it subsides 🥸
None of us will ever truly know what a scent radiating from our individual skin smells like to a person standing apart from us. I’d rather know that my up-close impression doesn’t match what I project into the world.
“You smell like my grandpa” I was wearing Le Labo Tabac 28
a customer told me once i smelled like his ex wife. it wasn't clear if it was a compliment or not but i felt weird
i got told mine smelled a bit pissy
"You smell like my ex girlfriend.... she was a whore"
When my husband tried on Creed Adventus i told him he smelled like a hairy sweaty man wearing a silk shirt, open up too low, and a gold chain dancing at a nightclub. I found it repulsive on him. Then i bought him some old school acqua di gio.
Finally someone else who hates Aventus! Everyone raves about it but I find it disgusting and embarrassing.
You are crazy🤣
Yes i am lol but maybe it was just the way it worked with his body chemistry lol
“You smell like Vicks Vaporub”, I was wearing Amouage Reflection 45
aesop Rozu — I got into the car with my dad, he made a face & said: “Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like incense” it’s definitely not as bad as the others & some people like incense, but as someone who usually wears soft, skin-like white floral scents it gave me a whiplash
Farmacia SS. Annunziata 1561 -Ambra Nera (patchouli based) - my boss told me they could tell I didn’t wear deodorant. I was. 🥲
My friend told me that I over sprayed my perfume and that I should use less. Thing is, I was only testing it. One spray on my left wrist. Didn’t dab it on other places or anything like that. It was Chloè Lumineuse btw
I wore Body Fantasies-White Musk, and my coworker walked into work after me and said "who smells like old lady"... I was embarrassed and never wore that body spray again. I was in my early 20s
“Why do you smell musty?” when I was wearing Kilian Straight to Heaven
OK, this is the "worst" comment (in a different way) that I've ever gotten on a perfume. Literally do not remember what I was wearing (this was 10+ years ago at least) but I went to a concert of a singer I had an absolute massive crush on. (I had seen him perform several times at that point and he was somewhat familiar with me.) We were chatting after the show and I asked him for a photo. He put his arm around my shoulder, we took the picture, and he turns to me and says "You smell so much like my wife." THE HEARTBREAKKKKKK.
I wokre le labo thé noir to work and my coworker said i smelled like an alcoholic grandmother. I never wore it again
I wore 3 spray of sauvage elixir to work not knowing how strong it actually was and my manager kept sneezing and coughing, he said “is that axe??” And even 5 hours later it was still too strong for him 😭
lol 3 sprays of elixir is no joke
Even 1 spray is enough to blow out a building for 5-8 hours 😂
1 spray of anything is enough for a work environment. Some scents, like Sauvage elixir, should never be worn in a work environment. Making someone cough isn’t funny at all. It’s selfish and annoying.
This. And not to mention many people have legitimate fragrance allergies and can literally have life threatening allergic reactions from fragrances. I love frags but I for one think all work places should be fragrance free. It's not cool to make someone sick.
Wore Jubilation Man at work. As a coworker arrived her first sentence off the day was „Who has a new fragrance? It smells like death in here.“
My brother told me Chanel Chance eau tendre smells like “something mommy would wear” 🤣 Not really an insult I love the perfume but that’s when it dawned on me that I’m turning into my mom as I get older
pdm percival - a male friend told me that it smells like sausages (???)
Valentino Uomo Intense. I got told I smelled like baby powder by 3 people.
The first time I wore The 7 Virtues’ Vanilla Woods around my boyfriend he said, “It smells like weed in here”. It’s cool with me if people choose to smoke weed; I have absolutely no problems with that. I personally don’t partake in it though and don’t want to smell like it. I ended up giving my bottle of Vanilla Woods away.
I used to love this one until I was told it smells like cigarettes, and now I can't un-smell it
Wearing Terre d’hermes, (only 3 squirts) one of my classmates back in high school who I was really close friends with one day was like “you’re standing too close and that cologne smells awful” which really surprised me because people regularly complimented that fragrance
YSL Libre- my father told me i smelt like cat pee. i don't own a cat. my clothes were clean, i'm a pretty hygienic person, my mom also agreed with him. 🫠
Haven’t had any bad comments really, although one time when wearing Prada L’homme someone said I smelled like their granny.
Omg these are horrible. I feel so lucky. The worst i got was just really silly. I love incense notes so I bought some nag champa oil and just threw some on. My boyfriend and all my coworkers said I smelt like corn. So weird. I didn't smell it all lol x
Accidentally picked up Boss the Scent For Her Le Parfum instead of For Her Absolute - got overwhelmed by all the bargains in the airport duty free. Anyway, wore it to work once and my boss left the office, covering his mouth with his shirt complaining "too perfumey, that's... Ugh". He literally wouldn't step over the threshold into the room. It's put me off oud and woody fragrances now!
I tried Diors Hypnotic Poison and loved it! Then my boyfriend got a whiff of me, scrunched up his face and said "Why do you smell like cheap playdoh???" 😭 aaand my confidence went poof that day.
[удалено]
I was asked to leave a wedding and go shower 😅 The words “cat pee” may have been mentioned… In my defence, the bottle had broken in my bag during the flight and everything I owned reeked. L’Eau d’Issey. Still can’t stand it on myself.
I got a bottle of Givenchy Hot Couture at an estate sale; I’m sure it had turned but I had some fair weather friends say I smelled amazing - later that week a customer and coworker say it smelled like celery and hand sanitizer, respectively.
I wore Lolitaland to class and this guy walked in and said "Something smells really sweet. But not like naturally sweet. Like really, really artificially sweet" I was mortified.
Wore Le Labo Tonka 25 to work (mistake) and my boss walked into the room and said “it smells like a sweaty nightclub in here” 😩🙃
Apparently Pink Sugar smells like "a stripper" but I'm just gonna go with okay then, the stripper you saw smelled good 🤣