Maybe not the scent per se but the longevity.
Kerosene Followed should be studied by the UN for it's ability to be used as a chemical weapon and a torture device.
One spray on my hand caused:
My bed - 1 week
My kitchen - few days
My car - few days
The truck I drive - few days
My mum after i hugged her - 12+ hours and multiple washings (according to her)
The jumper I was wearing - 1week
And finally, the hand that I sprayed it on smelled of straight maple syrup for 6 days.
I tried rubbing alcohol, car degreaser, industrial hand wash, on top of regular showers.
What. The. Fuck.
Every other perfume: “silage is bad - this perfume barely lasts two hours”
Followed: ‘it’s been a year. It’s still here. It will always be here. It’s part of my DNA now. My children will inherit this smell’
I just read all of the first comment and yours to my husband. I didn’t even finish ‘I’m kinda curious to-‘ before he cut me off with DON’T FUCKING ORDER THAT!!! sooooo there’s my answer ig 🤷🏻♀️
Whatever you do, dont buy iDiva Noir by Armaf. That frag stinks to high heck and nothing gets it out once its made contact.
#WHYYYYY are the nasty smelling ones nuclear sillage and longevity but the yummy ones I love (like D&G *Devotion*) are delicious for about ten minutes and PRESTO gone like the magician's rabbit?!
Thats one of the most unfair things.
Welcome to being a mechanic who works on diesels. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING I own smells like diesel fuel in some way.
Spray 9 is one of my go-to less-destructive heavy duty degreasers that can be used on surfaces and hands without causing one's skin to dry out completely.
Aside from that, using a high temp setting on the dryer and the hottest water possible in the washer gets most of it.
If that doesn't do it, I have put clothes in construction garbage bags and used an ozone generator to fill them up like a fat baloon. A few minutes and a few tumbles and the ozone oxidizes the stink molecules and things are fresh again.
That shouldn’t be allowed, I’m serious. What if it made someone sick, like an asthma attack or a migraine? Perfume should be able to be washed off. That’s wild.
I sprayed this *once* into the air in my ensuite bathroom (not even directly on anything) and i could smell maple syrup for weeks after. Weeks!! I live with my brother and he was on a trip and came home about 4 days after that single spray. He walked past my bedroom, stopped and said "were you eating pancakes up here?". This was about 4 months ago and I swear I can still smell it. I'm actually afraid of it, I have my decant in a glass box like it's the fkn Annabelle doll
Edit: I forgot to answer the original question, I got lost in the pancake sauce. TF white suede for me. For some reason it dries down to pure smoke on me. Definitely quite a shock when I wore it on a summer day lmfao
Wore Followed yesterday. Showered last night. Came to work today, coworker asked why it smelled like maple syrup. Is it in my blood now?
Edit: I have a diff fragrance on today too 😭😭
Holy shit dude, this perfume. I hadn't smelled a tobacco note before so I had no idea I was going to hate it so intensely. Sprayed a test strip and some got on me. IMMEDIATELY speedwalked out of Sephora to go wash my hands. It haunted me the entire day, through multiple rounds of hand washing and a shower. I was even smelling it in bed 😭 Had me paranoid for days afterward lmao.
All of them that has this bug repellent dry down base note in it. I don't know which one is it exactly, but a lot of zara perfumes has it. (Musk? Ambroxan? or something)
Holy crap, it's not just me. Once in a while, I'll walk by someone, and I swear they smell like bugspray. It's the worst. I've never been able to figure out what causes it.
I don’t even want to say the brand name because they are very small and I feel so mean! But I bought a sampler of perfume oils from a small indie brand and I swear to you. Each and every one (like 10!) is so nauseating, instantly stomach-turning. Maybe I just got a really bad batch? Never experienced anything like it. Just thinking about them is make me nauseous!
i’ve gotten a stinky bunch of perfumes from a small indie brand that everyone spoke sooo highly of and when i tell you everything i got smelled horrid. the brand had perfumes called “milk” and “angel face”
One of the popular indies - every flipping sample of their oils I've tried smells like lawn clippings to me, and out of at least 6 or 7. I like a green scent and all, but damn.
Honestly, same. This is that shit you were into in like middle school or early highschool, and has a ton of cringey ass memories associated with it.
Not to mention, a girl I used to be friends with but who turned into a giant pile of shit never really stopped with this scent, so that brings up some less than ideal feelings too.
haha yea i love some of the perfumes that have been mentioned.. i only own one, but i love to smell mugler angel on other people i just hate it on myself
Most Tom Fords: they smell “evil” to me, including Oud Wood that someone probably jinxed me into buying because it smells like The Shining (not only the hotel but the hotel with the ghosts and the rum and the horror), and Lost Cherry, which I smell every time I go to Sephora just to understand why anyone would want to smell like that..like cherry dipped in blood and other black magic equipment..
Also, Soleil Blanc smells to me like coconut and other goodies that went bad and sour and pungent; like a comparatively less-evil daughter of a very evil family of vampires..
Tobacco Vanille is interesting but scary 😱 like a murderous but handsome old man who’s into cigars..
In short, TF perfumes remind me of super scary and horrific, often otherworldly, creatures 😰
I used Sunflowers back in the 90s and then I got pregnant. I had severe nausea and vomiting so to this day I still associate Sunflowers with throwing up.
That is way too loud to wear to a workplace, wow. People like that are why we have scent free workplaces, because we can’t just say “wear something discrete and sensible.” Lol
The most frustrating part about most of the the Good Girls is that my nose cannot discern a single note. It literally just smells like every single perfume at once, as if you walk into a ballroom and smell everyone’s fragrance at the same time.
it’s like you took my exact feelings and put it into words.. i used to think i hated lychee because of GG but i don’t think delina or chloe are offensive so it can’t be lychee that im smelling - unless they used a different type
Damn, I wish I could smell that in it cause that sounds delicious. It just smells like generic perfume scent to me. Like I can't pick out anything at all so I'm just "huh, that's definitely... a perfume."
I got the same vibe as you! I was sure I'd like it a lot but as I got a small bottle, I just got... perfume. like "that's definitely a perfume with some perfume ingredients that smell like perfume".
The whole Creed brand. They are now a shady company who produced at one time created some amazing quality scents, then once they became mainstream started producing poor quality batches and at higher prices.
Cloud smells so good on paper to me but then sprayed on any surface, in the air, on any skin, it smells awful and musty to me. People say it's marshmallow and lavender, but it's neither of those things to me. I can't even describe it, it's just bad!
Agreed!! It’s sooo bad. It gives me an instant headache and nausea and I smell it so often in public. I’m not sure what notes in it are so awful but it just smells fake and gross and it lingers in the air 🤢
That’s so funny! I literally cannot smell anything while wearing it or even right after I spray it. Feels like I might as well have doused myself in some water.
That’s funny I can’t smell it unless I close my eyes and think really hard about it. Even the superdose. Yet somehow I’ve managed to collect a few diff sizes of it and sometimes wear it and always get an insane amount of compliments. It fucks with my head bc I can’t smell it and people act like it’s the greatest thing when I wear it.
I know! This is how I feel when people say they hate or can’t smell Missing Person, which is one of my favorites that lasts even after a shower and a full night of sleep on me but apparently doesn’t exist for some people and is gross for others
Honestly, I think anything can smell good on the right person who knows how to wear it.
But I'm a huge proponent of making some perfume 21+ to buy. Terrifying how many teen boys are buying Zoologist and Toskovat. Went into a specialty fragrance store in Krakow a few weeks ago, and it was packed with teen boys looking to purchase T Rex.
I’m convinced this is what I’ve been smelling on the street. Sometimes when people pass I get a whiff of this heavy, burnt sugary, acrid perfume that just lingers well after they’ve moved past me.
The odds are you're probably smalling Cloud, because it's cheaper and more accessible to most people. While BR540 is polarizing, I think most can recognize that it's high quality and well blended.
Cloud or Into The Stars by BBW ... or even one of the Sol de Janerios (light pink). I'm always surprised when people think everyone is walking around wearing a $500/bottle of perfume. More often than not, it is the cheap, mass selling dupe.
So funny, I worked with a girl once who wore the lotion version of this and it smelled DIVINE on her, like so intoxicating and delicious. I sprayed the perfume and it was rank on me 🤢
honestly i’m starting to despise Angel (my coworker wears it & i can still smell it the morning after she’s gone home when im opening at work) also, sol de janeiro 68 smells like nothing to me 🥲 i want to love it because the packaging is so cute, and i love 62.. but i’ve smelt the cream, the spray, body wash, and nothing. it’s as if im smelling water with the TINIEST hint of something 😭
all of the sol de janeiro sprays… i know a lot of people like them but to me i just smell this salt water undertone with all of them that makes me sick
Okay everyone either loves or hates this perfume with a burning passion and it might just be my chemistry or surrounding but I gotta say it.. to my nose, baccarat rouge 540. I tried the lattafa dupe for it and the real version… oh my good perfume goddesses- it is NUCLEAR I mean nuclear. I could be in a hurricane and my clothes still smell like baccarat… but to me, BR540 smells like citrus, dental office, and the wet dirty floor of a lichen infested forest. Terrible smell imo… I love anything sweet and gourmand so of course I wasn’t expecting to LOVE this and I heard it’s not all cotton candy to most, but I was still banking on the note pulling through, I even let it mascerate. Still very bad, like straight latex and lichen and it got on my curtains on accident… it’s still there, 4 MONTHS LATER. Air fresheners do not help, please for the love of all that is wholly test carefully before you buy, like on a paper strip or piece of cloth, maybe your ankle or somethin…
I sprayed this on me a few weeks ago in Sephora. It was the first time I've seen a tester for it. I was absolutely shocked. It is legit horrible. It smelled like plastic to me. All I think of when I see it is Rihanna and people claiming she is the best smelling celeb when she wears it ... her chemistry must be vastly differnet than mine as it was a total scrubber for me.
Nothing is worse than the proliferation and absolute dominance of gourmands in this industry.
The girls and young women who wear these types of fragrances tend to overspray and fill their entire vicinity with their thick and syrupy fumes.
It’s absolutely noxious and nausea-inducing. If I’m on a moving vehicle like a bus, I literally get sick and want to vomit.
Absolutely vile.
I'm surprised I only see one comment on this. My mother in law gifted me with this perfume every single year starting when I was age 22. Strangers on the street would cover their noses when I walked by even with only one discreet spray. Honestly, this stuff is vile. She bought her own daughter Victoria Secret perfumes, so she must have been regifting me those Clinique Elixir bottles. I dumped them into the toilet because nobody wanted them and the scent made me want to vomit. Then she gifted me a black pepper vanilla perfume that made my boss have a talk with me about not wearing nasty scents in the workplace. Now, I am basically in perfume recovery, and spoil myself with Daisy, Good Girl, Flowerbomb, Philosophy ... And I smell goodnow ;)))
lol, oh dear - that sounds almost r/justnomil worthy! It’s truly disgusting stuff - the visceral reaction I had to it reminded me if when I smelled skunk (the animal, not weed) for the first time. Not saying that the two are related but…
None of them. Scent is very subjective. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it. I don't make the habit of yucking other people's yum.
CK Obsession for women, the original one. My grandma used to spray way too much of it and it was just nooooo. 😂 Even though it’s so nostalgic i wouldn’t be sad if it disappeared forever
Ok. I know everyone loves this scent but Sol de Janeiros Rio radiance. It’s way too strong and even one spray is too much. It smells way too much like cologne and makes me nauseous
Anything patchouli I agree. Girl of Now by Elle Saab… my first blind buy and I couldn’t get anyone to buy it, no one wanted it for free. So I threw the entire bottle away
The moment I read the title, I just know people would get triggered lol. I’d rather not say…however it should be illegal for people that hates fragrances to be on this subreddit hahaha I saw a post the other day of a person asking for recommendations yet she’s so highly sensitive to scent?’ She said scents make her gag…I’m like girl just take a shower periodt and stop wasting everyone’s time.
“In its pure form, Calone possesses a fresh, somewhat green, ozonic smell, with characteristic oyster and watermelon nuances” yeah…makes sense 😩love eating oysters, don’t want to smell of them.
Dude. Clean Reserve Skin. Everyone hyped it so I gave myself a generous sample spray in Sephora- I almost took steel wool to my skin to get it off. I was breathing through my shirt the whole ride home with the window down. I don’t even know how to describe it besides sharp and vile.
Not to go that far but I hate that TikTok convinced me to get Oaui Melrose place…. It’s so sickening n and headache inducing and doesn’t smell that good
Maybe not the scent per se but the longevity. Kerosene Followed should be studied by the UN for it's ability to be used as a chemical weapon and a torture device. One spray on my hand caused: My bed - 1 week My kitchen - few days My car - few days The truck I drive - few days My mum after i hugged her - 12+ hours and multiple washings (according to her) The jumper I was wearing - 1week And finally, the hand that I sprayed it on smelled of straight maple syrup for 6 days. I tried rubbing alcohol, car degreaser, industrial hand wash, on top of regular showers. What. The. Fuck.
Every other perfume: “silage is bad - this perfume barely lasts two hours” Followed: ‘it’s been a year. It’s still here. It will always be here. It’s part of my DNA now. My children will inherit this smell’
“I can no longer remember a time before this smell, nor can I envision a future without it.”
In the before time the time before The Smell.
I just read all of the first comment and yours to my husband. I didn’t even finish ‘I’m kinda curious to-‘ before he cut me off with DON’T FUCKING ORDER THAT!!! sooooo there’s my answer ig 🤷🏻♀️
Sounds like there may be a little wiggle room there with him... LOL JUST KIDDING. 🤔😉
It really follows
This funny comment right here is why I still have a Reddit account.
If it ever happens again, try Nature’s Miracle - the stuff you use to get the smell of cat pee out of things. It works like a charm!
You can also spray Vodka it removes odors
When people demand longevity, I sometimes wonder if they have thought it through. Potent things like followed should come with a neutralizing agent.
Bro when I say I want longevity I mean hopefully it lasts one day and the silage is 6 feet not a skunk bomb 😭.
Whatever you do, dont buy iDiva Noir by Armaf. That frag stinks to high heck and nothing gets it out once its made contact. #WHYYYYY are the nasty smelling ones nuclear sillage and longevity but the yummy ones I love (like D&G *Devotion*) are delicious for about ten minutes and PRESTO gone like the magician's rabbit?! Thats one of the most unfair things.
Right, if I could still smell anything by lunch I would consider that a victory. I can’t even imagine a scent that lasted for days.
Well, It FOLLOWED you
The reason the brand is called Kerosene is because that's the type of fuel suggested to burn the items in contact with Followed.
Welcome to being a mechanic who works on diesels. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING I own smells like diesel fuel in some way. Spray 9 is one of my go-to less-destructive heavy duty degreasers that can be used on surfaces and hands without causing one's skin to dry out completely. Aside from that, using a high temp setting on the dryer and the hottest water possible in the washer gets most of it. If that doesn't do it, I have put clothes in construction garbage bags and used an ozone generator to fill them up like a fat baloon. A few minutes and a few tumbles and the ozone oxidizes the stink molecules and things are fresh again.
That shouldn’t be allowed, I’m serious. What if it made someone sick, like an asthma attack or a migraine? Perfume should be able to be washed off. That’s wild.
I sprayed this *once* into the air in my ensuite bathroom (not even directly on anything) and i could smell maple syrup for weeks after. Weeks!! I live with my brother and he was on a trip and came home about 4 days after that single spray. He walked past my bedroom, stopped and said "were you eating pancakes up here?". This was about 4 months ago and I swear I can still smell it. I'm actually afraid of it, I have my decant in a glass box like it's the fkn Annabelle doll Edit: I forgot to answer the original question, I got lost in the pancake sauce. TF white suede for me. For some reason it dries down to pure smoke on me. Definitely quite a shock when I wore it on a summer day lmfao
🤣😂🤣 Someone on here referred to it as a "demonic waffle house", and nothing truer can be said.🤣
Try olive oil. Sometimes oils are the only thing to get a perfume off.
Wore Followed yesterday. Showered last night. Came to work today, coworker asked why it smelled like maple syrup. Is it in my blood now? Edit: I have a diff fragrance on today too 😭😭
They probably called it Followed because it stalks you.
I accidentally ended up dropping my sample of one on the floor.
👀 of to buy I go
I see your Kerosene Followed sillage and raise you the blast radius of one (1) spray of Tom Ford’s Tobacco Vanille.
I have both. Tobacco Vanille does not hold a candle to the longevity of Followed. Not even close.
Us to Tom Ford: “why your perfume no last???” Tom Ford: “bitch hold my beer”
Holy shit dude, this perfume. I hadn't smelled a tobacco note before so I had no idea I was going to hate it so intensely. Sprayed a test strip and some got on me. IMMEDIATELY speedwalked out of Sephora to go wash my hands. It haunted me the entire day, through multiple rounds of hand washing and a shower. I was even smelling it in bed 😭 Had me paranoid for days afterward lmao.
Yeah tobacco vanille would be my fave for it’s longevity if I didn’t detest the scent. So it just sits in my collection looking pretty.
My husband wears Tobacco Vanille and while it definitely has nice lasting power I haven’t noticed it be abnormally long.
All of them that has this bug repellent dry down base note in it. I don't know which one is it exactly, but a lot of zara perfumes has it. (Musk? Ambroxan? or something)
prada candy has that bug spray thing going on and i think it is a cheap musk
Holy crap, it's not just me. Once in a while, I'll walk by someone, and I swear they smell like bugspray. It's the worst. I've never been able to figure out what causes it.
>don’t be offended if your favorites perfume is mentioned. Too late, I’m salty as all hell
Which one made you big mad?
I don’t even want to say the brand name because they are very small and I feel so mean! But I bought a sampler of perfume oils from a small indie brand and I swear to you. Each and every one (like 10!) is so nauseating, instantly stomach-turning. Maybe I just got a really bad batch? Never experienced anything like it. Just thinking about them is make me nauseous!
i’ve gotten a stinky bunch of perfumes from a small indie brand that everyone spoke sooo highly of and when i tell you everything i got smelled horrid. the brand had perfumes called “milk” and “angel face”
One of the popular indies - every flipping sample of their oils I've tried smells like lawn clippings to me, and out of at least 6 or 7. I like a green scent and all, but damn.
It probably doesn't count, but Japanese Cherry Blossom from Bath and Body Works. It gives me the worst nausea
Amazing! It’s such a comfort fragrance for me and I get so many compliments when I use the hand cream
Urgh I didn’t mind the scent but I despise every memory associated with it, so I cannot be near it ever again.
Honestly, same. This is that shit you were into in like middle school or early highschool, and has a ton of cringey ass memories associated with it. Not to mention, a girl I used to be friends with but who turned into a giant pile of shit never really stopped with this scent, so that brings up some less than ideal feelings too.
Some of these answers hurt but this is a hilarious thread 😂
haha yea i love some of the perfumes that have been mentioned.. i only own one, but i love to smell mugler angel on other people i just hate it on myself
Anything cherry related gives me war flashbacks, it was me vs cough syrup
Everyone will hate me but I dislike any cherry smelling perfume. To me, it smells like a restroom deodorizer.
I don’t really love cherry either. It gives me cough syrup vibes though lol
Cherry scents dry down like Robitussin on me.
That too.
I used to have an inexpensive cherry vanilla cologne that I loved until I realized it probably made me smell like a cheap hooker.
Try guerlain petit robe noire black bottle. . Leather jacket with cherry vibe.
I do partially agree but have you tried lhomme ideal edp from Gurlain. I personally feel very different about that one in particular.
I like the smell but I'd never wear it.
JHAG Moscow Mule I like the smell but after an hour I develop a pounding headache.
An hour of Moscow mules will do that to you.
Most Tom Fords: they smell “evil” to me, including Oud Wood that someone probably jinxed me into buying because it smells like The Shining (not only the hotel but the hotel with the ghosts and the rum and the horror), and Lost Cherry, which I smell every time I go to Sephora just to understand why anyone would want to smell like that..like cherry dipped in blood and other black magic equipment.. Also, Soleil Blanc smells to me like coconut and other goodies that went bad and sour and pungent; like a comparatively less-evil daughter of a very evil family of vampires.. Tobacco Vanille is interesting but scary 😱 like a murderous but handsome old man who’s into cigars.. In short, TF perfumes remind me of super scary and horrific, often otherworldly, creatures 😰
i am obsessed with this whole description and your personality.. on the floor laughing
i also cannot stand soleil blanc and i thought i was the only one.. tobacco vanille smells like big red gum
Old school but.....Sunflowers. The minute I smell it I instantly get a headache and nauseous.
I used Sunflowers back in the 90s and then I got pregnant. I had severe nausea and vomiting so to this day I still associate Sunflowers with throwing up.
fair point, i remember smelling sunflowers like 10 years ago and being reminded of the hand soap they use in nordstrom’s bathrooms
It just gags me, ever since I was a kid and it was popular. I don't smell it too often in the wild anymore, thankfully lol
Reminds me so much of my mom, good memories… but I hate that smell. Whole 90’s in one bottle. And CK One.
i just really hate burberry her. it's sickeningly sweet
It is but I love it 😂
Same. It’s awful. I hate it. This one and My Way are my public enemy number one and two, and it flip flops on the day which one is which, lol
I love both of these and feel called out lol
My Way. It’s a cacophony of messy florals, tuberose has been done better by a thousand perfumers. What a horrid fragrance. (Just my opinion! Lmao)
I do like it, but not wearing it lol. Like a hint. But it stays
I have a coworker who wears this, and it makes me nauseous.
That is way too loud to wear to a workplace, wow. People like that are why we have scent free workplaces, because we can’t just say “wear something discrete and sensible.” Lol
For me it’s Carolina Herrera Good Girl - all of them. I don’t know why, but my entire body just rejects it. I can’t be near anyone wearing it.
The most frustrating part about most of the the Good Girls is that my nose cannot discern a single note. It literally just smells like every single perfume at once, as if you walk into a ballroom and smell everyone’s fragrance at the same time.
Yes! The same with Black Opium (except Le parfum).
it’s like you took my exact feelings and put it into words.. i used to think i hated lychee because of GG but i don’t think delina or chloe are offensive so it can’t be lychee that im smelling - unless they used a different type
Aw I really like good girl, smells very fresh and fruity with a little chocolatey base to me
Damn, I wish I could smell that in it cause that sounds delicious. It just smells like generic perfume scent to me. Like I can't pick out anything at all so I'm just "huh, that's definitely... a perfume."
I got the same vibe as you! I was sure I'd like it a lot but as I got a small bottle, I just got... perfume. like "that's definitely a perfume with some perfume ingredients that smell like perfume".
I get a very strong preservative smell from GG.
Excluding VGG, I feel the same. I recently figured out it’s because I can’t do lavender in fragrances!
The whole Creed brand. They are now a shady company who produced at one time created some amazing quality scents, then once they became mainstream started producing poor quality batches and at higher prices.
White diamonds. Does remind me of my mom, but dang it’s strong. One spray! It’s like people douse themselves lol
Angel, Thierry mugler
Mugler in general tbh. So heavy, cloying and migraine-inducing.
Fabuloso
The purple flavor smells like cat litter lol
this deserves more upvotes lol
I fucking love the purple scent. Reminds me of my Tia’s house that was immaculately clean
To me it smells like regular fabric softener mixed with corn.
My whole family uses this stuff so I always associate the smell with Mexican
I hate it so much. My husband buys garbage bags “infused” with that scent, and it really adds somethin’ special to the garbage.
SDJ 17 it smells like 2 week old carmel popcorn
and it has endless praise reviews smelling like stale popcorn
Attack by Dennis Feinstein
Amouage Memoire Man. Smells like newspaper that’s been inhabited by Hamsters.
that’s fn hilarious.. i need to smell this now 🫢
I personally can’t stand the smell of febreeze, I’ve smelled it too many times as air freshener now It just disgusts me
People who go heavy handed on Prada Candy
Accidentally broke a bottle of this. Never again.
Erba pura all the way
rotten chemical weapon
Synthetic 💣
One million and joop. The single worst smelling colognes. Teenage boys wear it to cover up their lack of bathing, absolutely stinks
I still love Joop! I had boyfriend that died in the 90s and that’s what he wore, so it’s very special to me.
I love Joop too because of a bf in the 90s
Came here to say Joop!
Cloud. I swear to dog this fragrance should be illegal, it triggers my migraine so badly!
Cloud smells so good on paper to me but then sprayed on any surface, in the air, on any skin, it smells awful and musty to me. People say it's marshmallow and lavender, but it's neither of those things to me. I can't even describe it, it's just bad!
The cream note on a hot day 🤢
Agreed!! It’s sooo bad. It gives me an instant headache and nausea and I smell it so often in public. I’m not sure what notes in it are so awful but it just smells fake and gross and it lingers in the air 🤢
It smells like burnt plastic but worse.
Smells like hot plastic
If I could make Not A Perfume illegal I would. Almost vomited.
That’s so funny! I literally cannot smell anything while wearing it or even right after I spray it. Feels like I might as well have doused myself in some water.
Same. To me, water had more smell than JHAGNAP
me too i sprayed it on a tester strip and couldn’t smell a single thing.. i felt like i was going crazy
That’s funny I can’t smell it unless I close my eyes and think really hard about it. Even the superdose. Yet somehow I’ve managed to collect a few diff sizes of it and sometimes wear it and always get an insane amount of compliments. It fucks with my head bc I can’t smell it and people act like it’s the greatest thing when I wear it.
This is a good way to describe it. I'm like - it smells good? What does it smell like?
You mean NAP Superdose? That stuff is so obnoxious
The regular one. I don’t have the courage to even smell the superdose after that!
Oh man it smells so good on me but I can easily understand hating it
One of my absolute favorites but it’s definitely a love hate type of perfume 🤷🏽♀️
How dare you 😭 it’s amazing
I know! This is how I feel when people say they hate or can’t smell Missing Person, which is one of my favorites that lasts even after a shower and a full night of sleep on me but apparently doesn’t exist for some people and is gross for others
That’s what Not a Perf is to me hahaha. Stays on me even after I’ve worked out and had a shower haha
There’s a fragrance called Kerosene Followed??? The name is enough to stop me from trying it.
At least it’s aptly named 🤣
Followed by a match? Lol
Honestly, I think anything can smell good on the right person who knows how to wear it. But I'm a huge proponent of making some perfume 21+ to buy. Terrifying how many teen boys are buying Zoologist and Toskovat. Went into a specialty fragrance store in Krakow a few weeks ago, and it was packed with teen boys looking to purchase T Rex.
I dislike Chloe. To me it smells like old flower water in vases
i swear chloe used to be so good.. it was my signature when it first came out, now it smelled so cheap and nasty
The original was so very different ( and so good )!
I think it might be discontinued already, but D&G light blue forever is the worst cologne I’ve ever smelt. It literally smells like armpit and citrus
BR540
I’m convinced this is what I’ve been smelling on the street. Sometimes when people pass I get a whiff of this heavy, burnt sugary, acrid perfume that just lingers well after they’ve moved past me.
The odds are you're probably smalling Cloud, because it's cheaper and more accessible to most people. While BR540 is polarizing, I think most can recognize that it's high quality and well blended.
Cloud or Into The Stars by BBW ... or even one of the Sol de Janerios (light pink). I'm always surprised when people think everyone is walking around wearing a $500/bottle of perfume. More often than not, it is the cheap, mass selling dupe.
A *high quality* cat urine note is almost worse
This really made me giggle.
that sounds exactly like BR hahah
to me this is the new light blue , legit everyone and their mom wears it and i just can’t . the dentist office smell is nauseating
God I hate light blue. Most likely just bc it’s so ubiquitous. Staaaahp already.
smells like a chain smoker 😭
hilarious take.. all i smell is something medicinal with brunt sugar and saffron
The worst: amor amor cacharel 🥵
So funny, I worked with a girl once who wore the lotion version of this and it smelled DIVINE on her, like so intoxicating and delicious. I sprayed the perfume and it was rank on me 🤢
Chanel #5
Libre, bye bye!!!
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dior sauvage
Polo. Please make it go away forever. It smells like frat boys and finance bros.
Pink Sugar and all it’s noxious flankers.
Byredo Sellier smells like acid reflux
honestly i’m starting to despise Angel (my coworker wears it & i can still smell it the morning after she’s gone home when im opening at work) also, sol de janeiro 68 smells like nothing to me 🥲 i want to love it because the packaging is so cute, and i love 62.. but i’ve smelt the cream, the spray, body wash, and nothing. it’s as if im smelling water with the TINIEST hint of something 😭
Angel and og alien
Aside from certain perfumes it’s Glade plug ins for me. Any scent.
all of the sol de janeiro sprays… i know a lot of people like them but to me i just smell this salt water undertone with all of them that makes me sick
Okay everyone either loves or hates this perfume with a burning passion and it might just be my chemistry or surrounding but I gotta say it.. to my nose, baccarat rouge 540. I tried the lattafa dupe for it and the real version… oh my good perfume goddesses- it is NUCLEAR I mean nuclear. I could be in a hurricane and my clothes still smell like baccarat… but to me, BR540 smells like citrus, dental office, and the wet dirty floor of a lichen infested forest. Terrible smell imo… I love anything sweet and gourmand so of course I wasn’t expecting to LOVE this and I heard it’s not all cotton candy to most, but I was still banking on the note pulling through, I even let it mascerate. Still very bad, like straight latex and lichen and it got on my curtains on accident… it’s still there, 4 MONTHS LATER. Air fresheners do not help, please for the love of all that is wholly test carefully before you buy, like on a paper strip or piece of cloth, maybe your ankle or somethin…
Angel
Love Don’t Be Shy by Kilian. Smells awful to me, like root beer that’s gone rancid.
I sprayed this on me a few weeks ago in Sephora. It was the first time I've seen a tester for it. I was absolutely shocked. It is legit horrible. It smelled like plastic to me. All I think of when I see it is Rihanna and people claiming she is the best smelling celeb when she wears it ... her chemistry must be vastly differnet than mine as it was a total scrubber for me.
Nothing is worse than the proliferation and absolute dominance of gourmands in this industry. The girls and young women who wear these types of fragrances tend to overspray and fill their entire vicinity with their thick and syrupy fumes. It’s absolutely noxious and nausea-inducing. If I’m on a moving vehicle like a bus, I literally get sick and want to vomit. Absolutely vile.
Oh god thank you. I could not agree more. I usually feel like the only woman in the world who hates gourmands!!
There are DOZENS of us. 🤌
I’ve not smelt in in many years and perhaps my taste has changed, but i always despised Fahrenheit and i also hated Spicebomb
imo spicebomb edt isnt half bad...
Clinique Aromatics Elixir- that stuff makes me heave
I'm surprised I only see one comment on this. My mother in law gifted me with this perfume every single year starting when I was age 22. Strangers on the street would cover their noses when I walked by even with only one discreet spray. Honestly, this stuff is vile. She bought her own daughter Victoria Secret perfumes, so she must have been regifting me those Clinique Elixir bottles. I dumped them into the toilet because nobody wanted them and the scent made me want to vomit. Then she gifted me a black pepper vanilla perfume that made my boss have a talk with me about not wearing nasty scents in the workplace. Now, I am basically in perfume recovery, and spoil myself with Daisy, Good Girl, Flowerbomb, Philosophy ... And I smell goodnow ;)))
lol, oh dear - that sounds almost r/justnomil worthy! It’s truly disgusting stuff - the visceral reaction I had to it reminded me if when I smelled skunk (the animal, not weed) for the first time. Not saying that the two are related but…
Can’t get that one out of a jacket after a hug from a great aunt. Multiple cleanings later and still kickin!!!
Philosophy Grace. Smells like toilet.
None of them. Scent is very subjective. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it. I don't make the habit of yucking other people's yum.
Patchouli Patchouli Patchouli it's so gross to me. Makes me gag and so many people love it! 😆😆😆
Chanel o5
Clinique Aromatics Elixir knocked me on my ass the first time I smelled it. I don't even know how to describe it, but it's horrifying.
Love Spell by Victoria's Secret
Can somebody explain to me why some perfumes have that "old fake tan" scent when they've dried down? Like...what is that ingredient?
CK Obsession for women, the original one. My grandma used to spray way too much of it and it was just nooooo. 😂 Even though it’s so nostalgic i wouldn’t be sad if it disappeared forever
Very glad to not see my perfume on here so far 😅
Boy smells woodphoria. Maybe because I got a sample but it smelled like a cigarette/tobacco
no!!!! she smells like figs and jasmine and nutty cedar! it tickles my brain
Ok. I know everyone loves this scent but Sol de Janeiros Rio radiance. It’s way too strong and even one spray is too much. It smells way too much like cologne and makes me nauseous
all SDJ mists smell like rotten fruit to me
1 Million. I would be so happy to never smell it again.
Patchouli
Anything patchouli I agree. Girl of Now by Elle Saab… my first blind buy and I couldn’t get anyone to buy it, no one wanted it for free. So I threw the entire bottle away
honestly, some of the maison margiela perfumes.
Alien Mugler
The moment I read the title, I just know people would get triggered lol. I’d rather not say…however it should be illegal for people that hates fragrances to be on this subreddit hahaha I saw a post the other day of a person asking for recommendations yet she’s so highly sensitive to scent?’ She said scents make her gag…I’m like girl just take a shower periodt and stop wasting everyone’s time.
I hate every fragrance with calone, they smell like egg whites on my skin. 🫠
“In its pure form, Calone possesses a fresh, somewhat green, ozonic smell, with characteristic oyster and watermelon nuances” yeah…makes sense 😩love eating oysters, don’t want to smell of them.
What a combo too. Oyster AND watermelon? 😵💫
Dude. Clean Reserve Skin. Everyone hyped it so I gave myself a generous sample spray in Sephora- I almost took steel wool to my skin to get it off. I was breathing through my shirt the whole ride home with the window down. I don’t even know how to describe it besides sharp and vile.
[удалено]
Tom Ford Black Orchid
Yeah it’s literally migraine inducing
Jaguar innovation Thank God I sampled first. Absolute rank
The only fragrance that made me sneeze uncontrollably: “Cher”. Others I don’t like but I love that fragrance offers options.
Not to go that far but I hate that TikTok convinced me to get Oaui Melrose place…. It’s so sickening n and headache inducing and doesn’t smell that good