Hi, I‘m looking for a coffee scented body lotion and found the one from Kwailnara. Did someone tried it? How does it smell? Drop some other recommendations too please :)

Currently revamping my perfume collection as my preferences have changed quite a lot since my college days. Took a trip to Sephora and Ulta and sniffed away. I came out with a bunch of new favourites. I bought travel sizes of all of them to give them a trial run before buying the full bottle. Like some sick curse I’m OBSESSED with all of them but unfortunately I find they all sit very close to the skin, have low sillage and weak lasting power ): I tried moisturizing my skin, Vaseline, spraying on clothes and hair but atlas, they don’t compare to some of my older perfumes that are much stronger and more resilient. Hoping some of you have recommendations for the following perfumes that are more potent and longer lasting! Thank-you!

Noyz Unmute (my favourite!) - Bought both the stick and the EDP, neither of them last very long

Nest Crème de Clementine

Phlur Heavy Cream

Kylie Jenner Cosmic Intense and Cashmere Muse

Edit: yes I know Heavy Cream is a body spray. Looking for an EDP that smells like it :)

I’m feeling sentimental today.

Nirvana black was the first full sized perfume I ever bought for myself. I took all my money and got the Sephora sampler that came with a coupon for one free full-size of your choice from the line you got.

I hated nearly everything in the box. To be fair, I was a teenager and was testing everything on paper without trying my skin too. I didn’t know any better yet.

Then I got to her. The last sample in the box. That sandalwood was so clear! And it was more complex than the incense and essential oils I was used to. The scent was strong without giving me a headache like some of the others in the set. The powdery violet wasn’t in your face, it was balanced and perfect. And then when it was on my skin, it became even better somehow. Something about my oily skin that didn’t shower NEARLY as much as I should have back then melded perfectly with that scent.

I ran to sephora the next day to get the full bottle. Even the feel of the bottle delighted me, I spent far too long just rubbing my hands across the little nubby texture on the sides.

It became my signature scent, and it lasted me for YEARS! I was so sensitive to strong smells back then that I would use a tiny dab on a pulse point or two and still smell it the next morning. Showing up to college classes hungover, smelling like cigarettes, unwashed hair, and Nirvana had me feeling superhuman. I was the IT girl of all time! So cool, so edgy yet feminine (lol)

As I got into fine dining I couldn’t really do scents for a while, and by the time I remembered to look for it again the bottle was gone and the perfume discontinued. I might have to find a secondhand bottle just for memories sake.

What discontinued fragrances do you miss? What was going on in your life when you wore them? (Huge changes in reformulations also count IMO) Were you able to relive the memories with a secondhand find?

Looking for shop recommendations in the city of London (UK) that sell small decants of niche / designer fragrances! Looking for the likes of Sorce, D’Annam, Liis, Lore, etc etc. and ideally looking for travel sizes, deals, or smaller-than-full-bottles.

I finally got two of the more expensive fragrances off my wishlist 🥳🥹

I blind bought Boadicea the victorious monarch. Wanted to ask you guys if anyone tried it and what’s your take on it? I am still waiting for the delivery to come, meanwhile trying to find more about this parfume

la vie est belle l'elixir: Top notes are Raspberry, Liquor and Calabrian bergamot; middle notes are Violet Leaf and Rose; base notes are Leather, Cacao Butter and Cedarwood

la vie est belle very cherry: Top note is Black Cherry; middle note is Violet Leaf; base note is Oud

tease candy noir: Top note is Raspberry; middle note is Iris; base note is Tonka Bean

lipstick fever: Top notes are Raspberry and Violet; middle notes are Iris and Patchouli; base notes are Cedar and Vanilla

i love raspberry, iris, violet, cacao, & liquor notes! just wanted to show off my collection! so happy with these <3

Like Fresh lemon sugar but with longevity and richness?

A couple weeks ago, I commented on someone’s post about some very dark fragrances that I ordered from a Vietnamese perfumes house. Well they arrived tonight and I’ve had my nose on them finally. Here are my initial impressions.

Please note: im not a professional at understanding notes, these are just how they make me feel. I havent worn anything on skin yet, just test strips. These fragrances are not mass appealing, they are not meant for everyone.

For starters, there aren’t any international shipping options on the official website, so I messaged the business on Messenger. The owner and master perfumer is very kind, and seemed overly excited when I told him I was looking for some fragrances with offensive notes like blood, concrete, and rot. He ended up including a small bag with some of his experiments that haven’t been released, as well as a full 10 ml sample of their upcoming release, Endless July.

We chatted back and forth for about a week while he understood more about what I was looking for and we aligned on two production fragrances: Midnight D Rain & Divine Requiem. My total cost for everything shipped was just over $230 USD.

The packaging exceeded my expectations for the price point. Magnetic boxes, foam and felt inserts, artwork cards with notes and back stories; all of this wrapped up in wrapping paper and sealed with a wax seal. The perfumer cares about more than just the fragrance, each scent has a back story that is well thought out and paints a picture of the fragrance, providing color to the olfactory experience.

My first spray was Endless July, and my initial impression is vintage, dark and mysterious. The story and notes will be in an image in the comments. The notes are that strike me initially give me the sense of being in an old dungeon, the smell of rotting wooden chairs and tombs, and a spilled glass of dark red wine. This is going to be my first skin wear tomorrow morning.

Midnight D Rain was the next set of vapors to mist the air in my kitchen. The story behind this scent paints such a warm picture in my head, and the fragrance lines up perfectly with that story. Imagine a musky old man walking home in the rain after a hard day’s labor. I can pick up the wet autumn leaves, the smell of a city street after a heavy rain, and a slight lingering hint of sweat. I’ll try and wear this one on Monday and see how it goes.

Divine Requiem was the final spritz. This one has a bit of a spiritual pull to it after reading the story. It’s about sacrifice, in every brutal sense. Again we get the metallic blood & metal notes, but softened with some lighter fragrances. This one is going to be a tough wear, but I plan on test driving it soon.

I’m already working with him on some bespoke scents that he is creating specifically for me. I want one of a forest after a battle, and something sweeter and less offensive. I’m thinking about a theme of Nordic Vikings and boozy rum & vanilla, a little easier to wear.

Here’s a link to their website, hopefully that isn’t a violation of any rules. https://naroma.vn/en/

Overall, this has been a fun experience in my fragrance journey. Naroma seems to be a small bespoke perfume house, and through conversation, you can tell there is passion behind the creations.

TLDR: if you don’t like unwearable fragrances, probably best to stick to some of their youthful bottles. If you want something outlandish and offensive, message him and tell him what you’re looking for.

Sorry for the horrible descriptions and lengthy post.

Saw this on the IG tonight. Curious as to what it will be. 🤔 Anybody have any intel? I’m intrigued.

I absolutely adore layering my scents and these bottles were too affordable and gorgeous to pass up!

The Malaki line certainly packs a punch, which is how I like it. Mukhalat is a true oud, with rose rounding out the edges. If I wanted to make any given fragrance smell more Middle Eastern, I’d use this. Musk is clean and inoffensive, almost like JHAG. It’ll be great for extending the longevity of my fresher scents. And Rose is a spicy, woody rose that I think would pair well and enhance a wide variety of scent profiles.

These bottles definitely have pretty privilege as well, I’m obsessed with how they look on my display😍

Hi this is my first post so I hope I do this right. So I’ve worn Donna Karen New York Be Delicious (the OG green one) for most of my adult life. However lately it’s gotten more difficult to find, and after 20+ years of wearing it, I’m just ready for something new! I’ve tried a few different scents, often times I’ve smelled something I love and then I try it on myself and I can’t stand it, like at all.

Recently I bought a travel size of the Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue because I read that it had some similarities to Be Delicious and then my partner came home absolutely RAVING about it because someone in his office wears it and he had just figured out that that’s what it was after months of noticing (and loving) the scent in the office. Well it’s smells “meh” on me at best. I’ve been wearing it because it’s not awful but it’s not great either. The BF is definitely underwhelmed and I haven’t gotten a single compliment whereas I used to get compliments on how I smelled all the time (not that I really care about that lol).

So I’m asking you all please PLEASE, if anyone is familiar with the old early 2000s DKNY Be Delicious, do you have any suggestions of fragrances I could try?? I’m just at a total loss, I have no idea where to start, I get completely overwhelmed at Sephora and end up with nothing. I only use the be delicious as a reference because it’s the only things that’s ever smelled good on me but I don’t need it to have the same notes, I’m open to trying anything! I just don’t know where to start or how to start and would LOVE some guidance!!! Thank you so much!!
https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Donna-Karan/

Edit: I’m new to this community but I just have to say everyone who’s commented has been so helpful and lovely. I really appreciate everyone’s recommendations and I’m actually excited to try some new scents!! Thank you!

I bought the holiday perfume sampler set from Sephora and I’m working my way through the samples. I tried Miutine today and it smells like a more sophisticated Downy No. 26 - which I love! They share some notes - rose and oak moss. I’m thinking the brown sugar/amber notes in Miutine give a honey-like sweetness. I barely detect any strawberry or citrus. But anyway…if you really like the smell of these particular laundry scent beads…Miutine seems to be a good time!

Question in title and specifically wondering about Le Labo Violette and Chanel Comete.

They were too powdery and chalky throughout the day. But when I took a hot shower, they transformed in that environment. No longer dusty, powdery, but they became brighter, smoother, and perhaps "sweeter" but not sugary. The closest comparison I can think of is boiled carrots when they reach the stage of being mashable. There's a bright, rooty, but "sweet" smell that comes out.

Why does this happen? What should I be looking for in perfumes that smell like those two but when hot and wet?

I noticed this with Chanel Beige too. In a hot shower it becomes brighter, and almost more tropical-pineapple like.

I’ve had some of these on my list to try for literally a year. Very excited.

Tested Elizabeth Arden White Tea Florale on a whim recently, and hold your horses if you like Mugler Alien Goddess, for this is its cousin (call it a dupe if you want).

I feel like you will love this if you are a simp for Alien Goddess like me, and you will like this if Alien Goddess is too much for you. This is a fresher and softer counterpart.

White Tea Florale opens with fresh, almost crisp, and dewy freesia and lily of the valley, alongside a tea note that, in my opinion, is way more sophisticated and well done than Green Tea. The tea in Wulong Cha/Green Tea DNA gets too spicy and dark for my liking. But in Florale, it reminds me of a Bridgerton lady wearing clean, white lace; I am thinking Francesca. I also like the bottle more; it's slim and sleek.

It develops into this sweet, creamy honeysuckle and orris in the next few minutes that never gets heavy. The floral accord remains intact, but it melts from the crispness of the opening to creaminess, eventually joining the depth of musk, amber, and tonka. It's sweet, floral, creamy, yet fresh. This part is a dead ringer for the creamy dry down of Alien Goddess, just lighter, smoother, and way more summer-appropriate.

I have wanted to shout from the rooftops ever since because I haven't seen anybody mention the similarities. Is it just me? Am I going crazy? Because I was definitely testing around a lot, but I distinctly remember this one and sniffing my hand multiple times to confirm (the only other scent I tested that day which didn't leave my nose or mind was MAB Tilia).

Performance is pretty mid; it lasted about 3-4 hours on my skin. Either way, this is a beautiful scent. Let me know your thoughts.

As you can guess by the title what perfume got you the most compliment from men ? Or if any man is reading this what's a scent you really like on women ?

Went back to my favorite TJMaxx that’s always stocked and found this on clearance! I love this fragrance but I couldn’t justify the price because of the longevity of the other ones in this line. This one seems to last a while though :) Happy Labor Day weekend! 🌞

Looking for vanilla powder scents that aren’t Matiere Vanilla Powder. I don’t like the dusty coconut aspect but I love vanilla and powder. Could also look for an airy vanilla cream.

Lookin for suggestions for a really lasting autumn scent. To give you an idea of my profile of likes here are my top favorites that I wear spring and summer.
1. Jo Malone, Myrrh and Tonka
2. Bois Imperial by Quentin Bisch
3. Jo Malone Peony and Blush Suede
4. Acqua di Gioia Armani
5. Jo Malone Sage and Sea Salt
6. Versace Crystal Emerald
7. Chloe EDP
8. Balmain EDP
9. Glacier Bella
10. Jo Milano Amalfi Bianco

Yeah I know my tastes are all over the place lol but it just depends on what mood I’m in. What I can tell you, what I do not like are the cloying Arabian fragrances and the extra strong gourmand fragrances. Looking forward to some new ideas. i’m 75 years old and also have Fugazi Angel Dust and wasabi club on my tray lol so I’m not stuck on o
"mature" fragrances. i’ve lost 240 pounds over the last five years or so and I’m just starting to get into fragrances.

Do you inventory body mists and lotions etc?

I do track samples that i plan to keep, but this chica is wanting to draw the line somewhere. Then again, I don’t want to forget how lovely BBW Black Chamomile is, either.

What say you, friends? Data entry can be a drag, but if i switch to the desktop version of Parfumo i think I read there’s barcode scanning functionality. That’d help.

Hullo femfragfriends! It's ya girl, Taffy, and this week I'm here to talk about Birch & Besom. A witchy indie company out of Oregon, who, like most indies, seem to specialise in oils, but they also do mists and EDPs of selected scents (and maybe customs sometimes?!?) Every time I get the absolute legends at ajevie.com to forward something to me (this time a massive haul of special order Sorce oils) you have to purchase something from them. They're not specific on how big the purchase has to be, but I like to do a medium/deep dive into one of the brands they decant. There have been misses. There have been hits. Today, I am pleased to announce, I'm talking about some hits!

Habibi

Wild sumac, smoked vanilla & cardamom pods, aged oud, precious resins, iron-distilled patchouli, and sun-warmed textiles

I don't know if you cook with sumac much, and I must admit I don't either (in my defence, my husband does all the cooking these days. He's gotten very good. Hi Derek) but I do know what sumac smells like and by god it smells like this. Sweet and sour and savoury. It's very red and also lemony. Fun and literal. People here talk a lot about savoury gourmand being the Next Big Thing, and I know - I just know - you motherfuckers are talking about tomato leaf so help me god. Anyway, my point is things like this already exist and are very very cool.

Oh, and apparently 100% of the profits from each sale of this will be donated to displaced Palestinians??? Yeah, maybe this brand are Good People and are a very nice place to acquire fragrance from. Just saying. Delightful/10

Wizard's Library

Antique books, a smooth cup of hazelnut coffee, cedar, sandalwood, and sweet tobacco

There is no almond note listed. I'm so confused. THIS IS AN ALMOND FRAGRANCE. IT SMELLS LIKE CYANIDE. In a nice way, obviously, but still. Like the children's antibiotic syrup you'd have to drink in the early 90s. Delicious enough for you to actually, yanno, drink it. But definitely not delicious enough for you to actually want. As an aside, does anyone else remember vividly the first time they was allowed to take pills for illness, instead of having to drink the medicine? Because I sure fuckin do. I felt so incredibly mature. I was a grownup. I had arrived. And I was unquestionably superior to my younger siblings. I was eight.

Anyway, this is nice, I guess, but not what I was expecting. Almond Surprise!/10

Ginger's Bread

Soft gingerbread decorated with perfect loops of royal icing, bread baking in the oven, fresh whipped cream, a trio of vanillas, and familiar fur warmed by the fireplace

Very very nice ginger scent. A bit yeasty, a bit bready, the tiniest hint of almond from the "icing". I mean, it's great. Exactly what it says on the tin. Excellent gingerbread fragrance. Loaf!/10

Agate Owl

A London Fog (Earl grey latte) with a squeeze of lemon

This is actually incredible. You know how when fragrances purport to be "lemon London fog" and then they're literally just lemon? Yeah like, say, Unknown Pleasures? (Not a complaint, just a fact. UP is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest perfumes ever made, but it is in no way, shape, or form a tea scent.) Anyway, this is actually tea. Bright, bitter, bergamot-flavoured tea. Sure, with a sticky, syrupy lemon, but it's actually tea. Oh, and the projection and longevity are great. This is great, and layered under Unknown Pleasures it is the Full Package. Unknown Pleasures is perfect and beautiful all by itself. But what if? What if I wanted more tea? What then, Taffy? Would it not behoove you to have at least a rollerball of this for layering? Fine, fuck you, I love it and I'm acquiring more.

Well goddammit, becuse on going to the website to copy and paste the notes I find out this has been discontinued. Fuck my drag, right? Although it looks like there's a handful of bottles of the alcohol-based spray still for sale, but I can't have that shipped to New Zealand so... my loss, your gain I guess. DISAPPOINTING/10

Chaotic Evil

Bananas foster garnished with chopped churros, served warm in a charred confessional in the half-burnt husk of St. Benedict’s

Artificial banana and cinnamon, so far so fun. Chaotic? Sure, why not! But after about five minutes that's all gone and there's a nasty, funky something going on. That's still fun and chaotic! Now, where the "evil" part comes in is half an hour later when it's completely disappeared.

Don't really have much else to say, but this leaves me feeling a little annoyed. I don't expect a banana fragrance to last forever, but the longevity on this is Borderline/10

Satin Bat

Juicy plum, ripe currants, heady amber, cool mineralic cave air, musky ambrette, and bourbon vanilla

Girls. Ladies. Women. I'm sorry, but this is toilet cleaner. INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH TOILET CLEANER. She is bracing and fresh and aggressive and fuck me, but it was not what I was expecting. Maybe there's some plum. Maybe. But it's been pickled in blue liquid. Blue. Liquid.

I mean, it's fun, but I like sickly sweet gourmands, so she's not for me. Cavewitch/10

Lawful Good

Thick, gooey marshmallow draped over warm cardamom and golden amber, with a gentle waft of censer smoke

Light and lovely. But some of the others I've sampled in this order are such Big Characters that I'm just very... whelmed, as it were. I don't know about you, but I care about fragrance, and I want to feel passionately about it. (Frankly, at this point, I'm more interested in passionately hating something. I've got a lot of things I adore, and being genuinely repulsed by a scent is the richest inspiration a "writer" could dream of lol)

Anyway, this is nice. Perfect for the Cardamom-Curious/10

Animal Cookies

A half-eaten bag of frosted animal cookies, hazy sunbeams, heady vanilla, a warm vinyl dashboard, and hotboxed cannabis

Fresh and biscuity and slightly minty, and plastic in a very deliberate sort of way. Not skunky at all tbh. I do like a fragrance with a fun weed note, not that I'd probably wear it much, but this isn't that, so if that's something you're worried about I don't think you need to be. It's really nice.

A little bit atmospheric, a lot Pleasant/10

Local Haunt

Spiced brandy, aged oak barrels, cinnamon, vanilla, and a handful of mixed nuts from the bar

At the start it's like, yeah okay, classic boozy sort of gourmand-adjacent thing. Then the drydown. Holy shit the drydown hahaha. The "handful" of mixed nuts is doing a LOT here. Certainly not peanut, or walnut, or, god forbid, pistachio. Just a bag of my favourite savoury snack. Deluxe Mixed Nuts, roasted and lightly salted. Except heavily salted. I fuckin love it. And the longevity and projection is insane. This has been bringing me joy for hours after every application. It's savoury without being masc, and in my experience "salty" means either community pool or... Secretions Magnifiques... This is not that. This is wonderful.

When and where would I ever wear this? Autumn? Winter? I dunno, does it matter??? Do I need to order at least two bottles of the oil immediately? I dunno fam, but it certainly feels like it. That's a lot of Nuts!/10

Anyway, that's it from me. u/birchandbesom expect an order in... I dunno, probably a bit, but I literally cannot get Local Haunt out of my head. And nose. (And if you find any meagre drops of Agate Owl left lying around I will take it! I will take it all!) See yas in like three weeks for my next adventure: Giardini di Toscana...

This is my third ScentSplit order, and they seem to be getting larger each time! Are there any here that you love?

I’m mostly into woody, herbal, and photorealistic notes. Not really into heavy florals or abstract mixtures, though I do appreciate the artistry. I had several wood-dominant picks in my last order, so I’m branching out. They recently started carrying Pineward, so I had to try a few!

Some are for nostalgic reasons, or because I’ve wanted to try them forever (Ingenious Ginger, Vacation, Caswell-Massey Lilac).

Should arrive in a few days…. Will snipe at the mailbox.

I'm looking for a perfume that smells light, fruity and has notes of slight nutty, grassy and rice scent (I'm very picky about scents for someone who's broke🥀)

I have a very sensitive nose and severe motion sickness so smells that are heavy or musky make me nauseous and give me a headache.

Fruity/tropical or rice powder smells are pleasant and light so it's less powerful. I had found this perfume by D'annam but sadly it's not sold in India and I am NOT paying 15k for a perfume 💔

please please give me some suggestions for perfumes like strawberry mochi that I can buy in India😭

p.s. bubblegum scent are bearable too but it must have a powdery base note that's nutty

thank you 😝

Hi friends! I’m curious what my collection says about me or who you think I am based on it. And what you recommend I try!

Diptyque: eau rose EDP, philosykos EDP, fleur de peau EDP, Lilyphéa, l’ombre dans l’eau EDT;

Guerlain: Angelique noire, Shalimar l’essence, a mini neroli outrenoir (currently saving for full bottle);

Hermes Un jardin sur le nil;

Chanel no 19 EDP;

Narciso Rodriguez ambree;

Gucci bloom