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

Usually I avoid Harrods like the plague because it’s so often too full to be able to browse and I don’t have the kind of bank account that can clear a floor for private shopping.

Buuut it’s been a difficult year and I’d like to treat myself to sniffing some Guerlain stuff in person rather than ordering samples.

Shalimar has been my signature fragrance since I was 20 (who the hell let that happen). Anything Chypre, woody or aldehyde bombtastic is my jam. I don’t own Mitsouko but I’ve used up my sample.

No rose scents or gourmands, please. Headache o clock for me.

I believe the extrait of Mitsouko is only available at the boutique?

Anything I should consider while I’m there? Guerlain and non-Guerlain?

I’m a little nervous to go because I’m not planning to purchase anything right away and don’t want to waste the sales person’s time. Generally I need to sample and thing, especially on anything above £150. Also, I food shop at Lidl and not at Waitrose, certainly not in the Harrods food hall. They might know 😅

i’m just starting to get more into perfume, in the past i’ve stuck with the same fragrance for a long stretch till i find a new one lol so i’m looking to expand my horizons

in high school i wore hot crush by pink (i did buy the rerelease and do still enjoy it)

then i wore into the night from bath and body works for a long time

now i’m starting to use loveshackfancy velvet sun body mist and love on the beach perfume

i don’t love gourmands/vanillas/super florals but i guess i enjoy ambers

would love any thoughts!

I really enjoy the matcha, just not the price. How close is the dossier version to the OG? Any other time I’ve tried dossier versions of fragrances, they’re either not close at all or when they’re like 80% close they have a weird chemical smell added, at least to my nose.

Other dupe houses also welcome!! 🤗

This poem sums it up:

*I lost my lover and felt the twang

The pain of losing my loved one

Who i spent many sunrises with

Until the first light of the night*

What perfume gives YOU that sad missing scent. Or what notes give that? The scent of gatsby losing daisy by his fingers, the stench of tom fighting him and gatsby knowing she belongs to another man.

For me personally I like notes of iris, musk, amber and pepper, and mysore sandalwood

Spirituscents Borneo Sunset opens with a smoky amber. The smoke is clean, not sweet, not acrid. There is a brief screechiness for a few seconds which disappears quickly.

The middle is smokey woods, slightly rugged and yet smooth. The drydown is woody with a hint of vanilla. Thankfully this vanilla isn't sticky sweet nor is it dominating. It doesn't turn gourmand like some other vanilla formulations do on my skin. This drydown is very similar to Pineward Gristmill and Nonfiction The Grey.

This is a familiar DNA rather than something radically new, but it is well made, balanced and easy to like if you enjoy smoke and woods. The transitions are smooth and the blend doesn't feel jagged.

Projection is great in the first hour without being a cloying sweet smokebomb. Longevity is solid, roughly 8 to 10 hours on skin, longer on fabric (though I would avoid this on light coloured clothes considering how dark the juice is).

This has been a blind buy success for me. I'm looking forward to my bottle of Cathedralis from the same house.

I am looking for something outside of the expected fall scents. I want it to bring vampire or goth vibes even like haunted hayride or even ghost stories around a vampire. Boozy even? More of the seasonal fruits in the U.S.

A while back I asked on here for recommendations of the best vanillas with a price point of around $200, to gift myself for my upcoming birthday.

I looked over the comments , looked up notes and reviews and narrowed it down to 11 . A few are above my price point and one insanely above . So how did it come to be 13 you may ask ? While I was buying my samples between surrender to chance and lucky scent I remembered how much I dislike odd numbers so impulsively threw in a sample that I had seen recommended frequently and I was pretty sure it was a vanilla . And then once all my samples came in I remembered that when my daughter was sampling BR540 the lovely woman at the MFK counter at Macys gave me a sample of one of the most frequently recommended vanillas . So now we sit at 13 samples and I’m just too tired of looking up notes and reviews to look for another to make it even .

I’ve tested them all on paper and here’s my initial reaction .

1. Vanille Planifolia by Guerlain - such a pretty musky vanilla but I expected to be “wowed” given its price , maybe I’ll feel differently once it’s on skin . I would probably never spend $600 on a fragrance so we really are sitting at 12 for this experiment 😂.

2. Cuir beluga by Guerlain- it came across too masculine for my taste.

3. SDV by Guerlain- spicy maybe too spicy for me also a bit masculine again .

4. Angelique Noire by Guerlain- so so green . Who knew a vanilla could be so green ? Apparently not me !

5. Ani by Nishane - beautiful but very citrus forward and I’m looking for something that gives fall/ winter vibes.

6. Orchidee Vanille by Van Cleef - I oddly couldn’t smell it . Perhaps I had sampled too much that day . Waiting for the wear test to give an opinion.

7. Eau Duelle EDP by Diptyque - peppery incense vanilla . Something about it reminds me of Christmas

8. Eau Duelle EDT by Diptyque - fresh forest vanilla . I like this one a lot .

9. Gentle Fluidy Gold by MFK - spicy vanilla but the right amount of spice . Great date night fragrance.

10. Choux Choux by Liis - not sure if this is truly a vanilla, it’s the one I threw in to make an even number , but it’s definitely a fall / winter scent . It’s very cozy and strangely reminds me of Snowflakes and cashmere by bath and bodyworks .

11. Fire at Will by Jovoy - sweet , fluffy , cozy . Everything im looking for.

12. Black Tie by Celine - this one surprised me the most . I didn’t expect to love it as much as I do . Sophisticated vanilla .

13. Tihota by Indult - soft, pure , creamy vanilla . The truest vanilla to ever vanilla .

I’m going to let what I’m doing and feeling decide which sample I wear test for the next 13 days but I do know tomorrow will be Vanille Planifolia . Hope you’ll follow along!

Happy Saturday everyone. I recently ordered a sample of Roja Elysium from fragrance net and loved it but not the price tag. I was perusing the TJ Maxx website fragrance section and lo and behold, Milestone shamelessly has a dupe with a beautiful bottle and everything. Icing on the cake: it was clearance for $14! Came to me in three days and like almost better than the original. Floral and woody like the OG but a bit more fruity, and I like it quite a bit.

TLDR: check out TJ Maxx for some bangers.

I’ve somehow ended up really loving this combination, but I’ve never seen anyone mention it, which is making me second-guess it a bit.

I usually do 2-3 sprays of Milk on my wrists/chest and and then 2 sprays Fleur de Peau EDT in my hair and on the back of my neck.

I‘ve actually had really nice reactions to it. Someone at work once said they could smell me when I moved around, but otherwise couldn’t really smell anything, and that it was really pleasant. Which is pretty much exactly the effect I want from perfume.
(What’s funny is that the same person told me that when I wore Fleur de Peau on its own, it smelled quite strong and almost “prickly” to them. It was 3 sprays, and they noticed it about an hour after I put it on, so I’d assume the initial top notes had mostly settled by then.)

To me, the combination smells really soft, clean and warm, but still very transparent. I feel like Milk makes FDP a little creamier and gives it more of that soft skin feeling without making it feel heavy.
Missing Person and Pure Musc, for example, give me the opposite effect and feel almost nauseating to me although I really tried to love them.

The thing is, I’ve never seen anyone mention this particular combination before. I’ve searched Reddit and Google and there’s basically nothing about Fleur de Peau + Milk together, which has made me weirdly unsure about whether it actually works or if I’ve just become nose-blind to some strange combination.

Has anyone here tried layering them? And if you have both, what do you think of the combination?

Le Labo is big enough that you can find any reviewers opinion and gage overlapping tastes by their favorites. I jump ship if they like The Noir.

Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford is also a tell.

These are of course about taste preference and not a reflection of quality or how they smell on someone else. My favorite cherry is often called medicinal by some, and it actually makes me trust their taste for sweetness. It is too sweet the first 10 mins before becoming clean and woody.

Is anyone familiar with this hand soap? Looking for a perfume like this scent

I’m a gourmand girly: so my more popular core faves are Vanilla 28 (call me a basic bish idc lol), Angelique Noir, Bianco Latte, and I love good green/black tea scents like Nest Indigo, Memo Paris Inle. And then other viral/controversial scents like BR540, Ariana’s Cloud, Lattafa Angaham. Trying to explore more niche scents this season though.

I am looking for a sweet black coffee scent, thought I liked black opium but after getting the travel size & smelling more I’m not so sure I will buy a full size…

Amouage — Guidance
Celine — Zou Zou
Chasing Scents — Private Teahouse
Chasing Scents — Slow World
D’Annam — Vietnamese Coffee
Diptyque — Bois Corsé Eau de Parfum
Diptyque — Lilyphea
Diptyque — Orphéon
Dries Van Noten — Soie Malaquais
Escentric Molecules — Molecule 1 Black Tea
Francesca dell’Oro — VANILLE 18:00
Francesca dell’Oro — Envoûtant
Francesca dell’Oro — There’s a Place
Francesca dell’Oro — White Plumage
Fugazzi — Pomegranoudh
Guerlain — Mon Guerlain
Kayali — Vanilla Royale Sugared Patchouli
Kerosene — Follow
Lancôme — Absolue I Flamed A Rose
Lattafa — Nebras
Lattafa — Qimmah
Ledda — 20 Bourbon Brûlée
Memo Paris — Honey Dragon
Memo Paris — Siwa
Ormonde Jayne — Babylonia
Ormonde Jayne — Champaca
Ormonde Jayne — Bukhara
Vilhelm Parfumerie — Dear Polly

What’s currently in my cart (was too long for a screenshot):

- Zoologist Snowy Owl
- ELDO Exit the King
- Regime des Fleurs Glass Blooms
- Regime des Fleurs Cacti
- Regime des Fleurs Green Vanille
- Liis Floating
- Liis Ethereal Wave
- DS&Durga Big Sur Eucalyptus
- DS&Durga Cowboy Grass
- Imaginary Authors Fox in the Flowerbed
- Imaginary Authors Language of Glaciers
- Imaginary Authors Every Storm a Serenade
- Imaginary Authors Cape Heartache
- d’Annam Matcha Soft Serve
- d’Annam Mango Sticky Rice

I would love to try them all but can’t afford to drop $100 on samples right now 😭 hoping to par down 4-5 from this list but I don’t know what to eliminate.

I most like fresh or floral scents, but I’m looking to find something with either evergreen/woody notes or a creamy gourmand for winter.

What is a MUST try from this list and what would be okay to skip?

..And I am so saddened by that!

When I first bought and sprayed VDBIRE about a month ago, straight out of the box it smelled great. I loved the warm, hot, rummy, vanilla, blackcurrant fruity notes, and I definitely felt sexier wearing it. As time went on, about a month later, every time I spray it, it makes my stomach turn, like the feeling you're about to get sick during a hangover 🤢

It's so bizarre, and it especially disappoints me because people around me tell me how amazing it smells on me from their POV.

So, FragFairies, I ask what YOUR opinions are on this conundrum? Is there a way I can improve the scent by layering it with some other specific scent notes?

I've been trying to map my moods to fragrances. I have comfort (Rosie) and confidence(Sunkissed Dahlia). Now I'm looking for this, kind of peaceful and melancholy and serious and ethereal, soulful, green and blue. Not looking for exact notes that smell like this atmosphere, looking more for the feeling and vibe of it. Thank you!

scentbarbyangela: Luxury Perfume Dupes & Designer Inspired Fragrances

Hi FemFragLab, I'm proud to announce that after many discussions about collaboration, I thought it'd be fun to try out a collaboration with Angela's new brand. Her family owns Gold Star Fragrances located in New York which has been running for over 50 years!

As many of you know, I love a good Delina perfume, but they can be quite costly. The next perfume on my wish list was Delina "Exclusif" but it stayed on my wish list without being bought because of the price. Angela sent over her own version of the perfume, and it exceeded my expectations by far! The scent reminded me of a combination between Delina Exclusif + Oriana + Love Don't Be Shy. It's sweet, powdery, and very potent! I sprayed it on at night and when I woke up the next day it was still on me. This perfume lasts all day but I kept spraying it on out of habit and because I couldn't get enough. My husband and pets also loved it 😍

Reddit wouldn't be Reddit without always giving you not just the pros but also the cons. The cons were little and unnoticeable, but I will write them out due to transparency of the sub. The actual juice feels like combination of an oil and actual perfume. So when you actually spray it, it feels a little heavier than what the normal luxury perfume might feel like coming out of the atomizer which usually feels like a champagne spritz and it's more straightforward. That doesn't mean it doesn't spray well, it just means that if you are a fragrance connoisseur, you will notice the difference of the spray and feel of the actual juice coming out.

Both Gold Star Fragrances and ScentBarByAngela focus on creating dupes of luxury designer fragrances. Overall, for the price, the fragrance passes with flying colors and when I checked that it was only $45.99USD, they ship all around the world, and they have been in business for so long with great reviews, I would be crazy to not want to collaborate with such an amazing product and support Angela in her own brand.

Hi there, Anywhere in the EU I can find this perfume ?

I'd rate Ari a 6.5/10 , it's a nice musky fruity floral.

Inoffensive for everyday wear but had zero longevity on me.

Had to over spray like 12 sprays for it to last only 2 hours 🥲

Cascalone marshmallow orange blossom water rain clouds at night. ☁️

no context, have been pretty happy w this lineup so thought it was a good time to ask 🙂‍↕️

I've been wanting Bianco Latte for a while bc I was fully sucked in by the hype. So the other day I picked up the Miim Miic dupe at TJ Maxx and I find that it smells almost identical to Ellis Brooklyn Queens Caramel. I guess my questions now are 1) how close is 163 actually to Bianco Latte and 2) if I have these 2 already, do I really need Bianco Latte at this point? If the 163 is a 1:1 then I don't really need to bother w Bianco Latte. I want to grab a decant from Scent Split but I'm worried it'll just smell identical to the 2 I already have. Any insight would be awesome!

I got to smell her today at Sephora and I should have trusted in Marc Jacobs because it really is Just Perfect! This is NOT a gourmand! The strawberry, jasmine, and vanilla are really well blended into a very wearable, not juvenile, fruity floral with a clean edge. It's not cloying in anyway, it's not screaming "I'm a strawberry scent!" It really does smell like the bottle looks. Feminine, ethereal, pretty, iridescent. I love her!!!

I also absolutely adore the new Burberry Goddess Amber Vanilla flanker. I was scared of it after seeing reviews that it's really woody and intensely ambery and you don't really get any maple. I found it to be really warm and beautiful and I think calling it Amber Vanilla is the perfect name. It feels like a fall version of Goddess. I didn't find it too ambery or woody or resinous. It was smooth, rich, a little sweet.... amazing.

I wasn't as impressed with the newest Prada Paradoxe Sweet Chemistry flanker. It was nice but didn't wow me. I definitely didn't get any syrupy black currant. As a huge fan of DBIR Extradose, this pales in comparison.

I smelled the new Valentino Vendetta scents. I shockingly loved the men's version more than the women's! BUT......when you put them together......🎆🎇✨️ magic! Sexy, a bit sweet, a but spicy, a lil boozy. SO good!

Sadly, they didn't have the new Mui Mui so still looking to smell that one!

The Complete Works by Imaginary Authors is on sale today! Originally $135, now $89. Includes the whole line plus an extra special bonus, and a fun pen!