How Many Ways Do You Need To Smell "Good"?
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2022
- I know that toes will be stepped on in this video. But please know that I am stepping on them out of care and experience.
At one point in time, I had amassed about 100 bottles, at least 80% of which were designer blind buys based on CZcams recommendations, and I acquired them for one conspicuous purpose: to smell "good" to others, and ultimately get compliments.
While I did get some of the compliments I was looking for, I later realized that many of these fragrances smelled similar to each other and served the same purpose. Worse, they didn't even smell great to me...just, "good". They bored me.
It goes without saying that I was drowning in redundancy. And so I sold ALL of those fragrances, save for a few decent ones, and started my collection from scratch. I'm glad I did.
This video is not meant to communicate that it is bad or wrong to want to smell "good"...instead, I'd like to encourage you to ask the question: how many fragrances like this do you need? It is a bit rhetorical, but I believe that you can answer it for yourself. You don't have to answer to me.
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Got my collection down to 14 bottles. I satisfy my addiction with samples, and if I want to buy, one of the 14 has to go first.
I dig it!
Oh I like that I’m at 40 but I’m getting into the samples and decants as well
This is PRECISELY what I do. But my number is 12 I’m currently at NINE I recently gave away a fragrance I loved that didn’t perform very well on my skin. . I buy 3mL- 9mL decants and get plenty free samples at fragrance counters. I am VERY happy with my full size bottle selections. I think my next full bottle purchase may be Xerjoff Torino21 in the Spring
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It's hard not ask what your current 9 is? 😊
@@Olm9 (for me) it’s not about which scent it is. They qualify to be a full size bottle purchase. When I wear them I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE WAY THEY SMELL. I smell my arm and am glad I’m wearing this particular fragrance. I’ve gotten goose bumps they smell so good. ITS A MUST HAVE FRAGRANCE -if I don’t feel like that, I’m not getting a full size (that’s going to last me 3 or 4 years).
I got 12 starting spots on the team and they all need to be first round draft picks. I feel like I’m building an ALL STAR🤩 team of fragrances and every body is a LeBron Kobe Shaq Jordan hybrid.
It’s like an addiction sometimes and it can be crippling in ways. Always trying to find “the one” to capture a feeling I once had 10 years ago. You don’t need 20 frags…..10 at the most.
For anyone reading this, buy decants and try them out. Give it a full wear and don’t buy a bottle unless you’re gobsmacked with how you feel and can’t do without it. If you start buying bottles and fall into debit and regret, you won’t get a shred of satisfaction.
Have fell down the rabbit hole of the fragrance addiction. Started wanting to smell great and was able to succeed in that. However, you always want to find something better and continues the purchasing. After about $3k deep into these fragrances and several disappointing blind buys, I'm now getting into decants over buying full bottles.
My rule is 10 bottles for myself. I’ve collected dozens before and redundancy is a big problem for sure
As I said in DM, I think a fragrance collection should be built around fragrances genre, and not collecting all hyped scents. Doing that leads to collect fragrances having the same purpose. My husband and I did that mistake in the very beginning. Now, we curated scents we want to add in the collection. If we found a better flanker, we'll replace it when the original is finished. It's sure it's fun having a large collection, showing them, but in my point of view, I have nobody to impress with our collection. I curate fragrances I love and enjoy wearing.
I see things very much the same way. I also love how Justin focuses on avoiding redundancy-- I think that's what you and I can also both connect on. We curate our olfactory wardrobes by finding the 'best in show' for each category or fragrance profile. For example; I just bought a bottle of Hermes's discontinued 'Caleche' and it does the 'mature powdery aldehydic floral chypre chic' vibe so well that it's cancelled out my TRULY needing a bottle of Grossmith's Shem El Nessim or Phul Nana. The one fragrance type which I cannot nail at the moment is the velvety dark rose-oud-leathers. There are so many out there that I love the smell of that it's come down to the utilitarian needs of sillage and wonderfully lively and compelling longevity; which one will perform better on my skin and thus justify being singled out as 'best in show' and take that reserved place in my shopping cart. 🏆🛒🤩
Agreed, Liz!
I’ve been in this boat, had fragrances that have smelt great but for whatever reason I never reached for them. They were collecting dust and to me it was just money sitting on those shelves…luckily I was able to sell them all. Now I have about 4-5 actual bottles and tons of decants…but I don’t feel bad about having decants. I don’t blind buy bottles anymore, decants have saved my wallet lol
Sometimes you appreciate a fragrance for the art that it is…but that doesn’t mean you yourself are going to reach for it. Throughout this journey I’m now more focused on what do I want to wear? And enjoying wearing.
Thanks for letting me ramble on lol and great video.
You can actually make a pretty diverse collection just buy buying decants. If you have enough you can rotate through them for a good while.
Thank you so much.
@@EeBee97 grand soir is special 😂 I bought a 15ml decant recentt
It's like wearing a work of art to me. 99% of men don't wear a fragrance so we stand out. Out of the 99% only 1% wear expensive niche fragrances and out of the 1% here in America, only 1% of them are brave enough to venture into middle eastern fragrances. I like to be different for me and for others to experience the beautiful art of perfumery.
Middle eastern fragrances are disgusting.
I just let them collect dust , but when I have a relative stop by I do give them a fragrance I don't wear, just last week I gave my 14 year old nephew 100ml Natica voyage that I sprayed on maybe twice. It's his first fragrance I knew it would serve him well..
That's what I think I'm going to. I have around 50 bottles. Humble collection of course. I only love 10 or 15.
Juuuust said this to a co worker other day who is getting obsessed and carried away with fragrances lately. As I thought that, I knew you would cover this specific topic sooner rather than later and sure enough…BINGO! I see this notification!
Love this type of content Justin. You really are one of the few covering the dark side of this hobby. Keep it up
Oddly enough I’m browsing Maxaroma and fragrancebuy as I’m watching this 😂 🤦🏻♂️
Over the last year, I’ve sold about 60+ bottles that have been redundant or uninspiring.
I finally feel like my collection is in a healthy place of originality and inspiration.
There’s probably a few more bottles I can part ways with, but I’m more so going for quality over quantity. Thank you for always going against the grain and getting people to think for themselves. Everyone’s collection should reflect the person themselves, not the entire community. 🙏🏻
So happy to read this!
Heath, where do you sell your bottles? I would like to sell a few of mine.
One problem with a large collection I’ve noticed is categorizing frags for specific weather and or events instead of just wearing because I love it. For example I’m at the point now that I only wear Chanel sycamore in the fall for special events and perhaps if I know I’ll be outdoors when the leaves are changing I only reach for Bergamot 22 when temps reach the 90’s. I only reach for Carslile when it’s snowing. It becomes silently maddening. Maybe I should sell them all and just get bleu de Chanel because it actually works for almost everything.
I don't mind letting function dictate my collection. But you certainly don't have to! :)
Man!!! You killing these topics!! At some point we've all been there and that leads to wasted money and giving frags away. I do love some mass appealing scents but I still want that niche quality!! Love your work!!! Keep pushing these topics, we all need to hear this!!
Great video with some great choices in there and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
*This is very insightful especially for me since I've only started a fragrance collection. Thank You Justin. Love from South Africa!* 🇿🇦✌🏾
I respect your channel so much because it’s talking me out of having so many fragrances I’m going to start looking for artistic fragrances but I definitely reach for many depending on my mood.
Really appreciate it Von.
We needed this video so much.
I love niche keep up the great work on introducing me to the world of niche can’t say it enough I love it
This is pure education of owning different types of fragrances, great video Justin
I would like to say, that I really appreciate your honesty and sincerity, when you made the first video about mindless hoarding and obsessing over fragrances, it really made me rethink and revamp my interest in fragrances, I was on Instagram always posting new fragrances trying to keep up with the Joneses and really lost what I really love about fragrance is actually the smell, I got caught up in trying to show off for a bunch of people I will probably never meet in my life. Your video made me really step back and take a big look at myself and say what are you really doing here, are you in it for the love of the fragrances or are you just showing off, so I shut down my Instagram sold a lot of fragrances that I did not really even care for and kept the ones that really tugged at my heart strings, Now I am back to where I started, actually loving the fragrances for the smell of them. Thank you so much for being honest it help me out so much
Thank you so much! I'm happy you're making a change that is positive for you.
Damn Justin, you gave us the video that we didn’t necessarily want but that we definitely nEEDed🔥
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JC!! Everytime I see you now...your aura is shouting...LIFE IS GOOD!!! Keep doing your best work, it's truly appreciated!!!
Thank you Philip!
And again you made most of us hopefully think about what is right and less right about fragrances and our collections Justin.
Smelling good, or "what scent makes me feel good", is subjective. Talking in general you are spot on with your choises made in this video. But what one person sees as a "smelling good scent" by asking this question, might not even be a general scent, but a specific scentprofile someone has, or has in mind. I like to smell good by wearing classic scents, but younger people watching your channel don't gravitate for those, but more for the modern way to smell good. A classic scent can smell good and have a mass appeal, so does a modern scent. Someone could also want to smell good while wearing challeging scents, or notes within a scent like oud.
So in general the way you answered this question, I take my hat off. But without knowing what the pesonal preference is of these persons, you still won't satisfy these people who were asking you this question. So you are not to blame on that one. People who are asking you an open and subjective question without further background intel on what they are looking for, is nearly impossible to answer.
It's like going to a cardealer and asking; "I want a car that looks good". Does the person has a musle car in mind that looks good, or a family car in mind that looks good, a truck in mind that looks good... without knowing you would always reccomand the wrong car.
You’ve changed my outlook over time. My most worn are YSL Y Fraiche, Spicebomb Extreme (my wife’s favorite) PDM Herrod, Dior Homme Intense and Layton. I recently got CDNIM as I’m just not paying for Aventus except in decant form and I have Cedrat Boise. Others are Versace Man Eau Fraiche and Kenneth Cole Mankind Ultimate. I’ve committed to using frags up before getting more and I will replace it with something I want to try. I will say I use Dior Homme Eau Sparingly as it’s getting low and I love it and will miss it.
Nice yeah I have a 5 Oz. Dior Homme Eau, i always wear for special occasions!!!
Spice bomb extreme is so damn good. Def THE cologne I wear the most in the winter. It's my wife's favorite as well.
For me fragrances/perfumes bring back memories, bring me into a mood, make me feel a certain way so I have a big collection. Some I have to remember at time in my life (good memories) and so even if I don’t use them often I love having them around. Perfumes are magic to me and so I also share them with my two teenage daughters which brings me joy as well since I get to tell them the story behind the fragrance they are getting. I never thought I would have as large collection as I have but then again I prioritize and chose in my life. At this moment scents and memories are important and so I prioritize that. But I never go over the budget I have every month for that splurge. It is a luxury and I am have worked hard to be able to be able to do that.
This is so true, I’ve got a couple of full bottles that I don’t really use, probably time to let those go.
Can't agree with you more on this topic.
From CZcamsr's perspective it's a conflict, because you will always have viewers than just wants to smell good and don't care about different facets - this is where many of us started. Thank you for not making top10 lists with the same fragrances over and over. After the moment when George, The Fragrance Apprentice left YTB becasue of making his dreamed movie I must say I enjoy watching your content the most. I appreciate all the effort you put in your videos to educate people in right direction.
Don't change it, don't try to bend to please everyone - there are plenty creators on CZcams that can help people just to smell good, but you're doing much more and much better.
All the best, Justin!
Thank you so much!!!
For me as a university student there is a need for a limit. I started to collecting, but learned that you go down the rabbit hole very quickly. I selled most of them because I bought to much and just wore a few. Now I have 4 versatile fragrances I really like and 1 scent i wear everyday at the gym and it's enough for me.
Love the content. You show another perspective on fragrances than others. Gonna have to try some of your niche recommendations when I finished my bootles. Love from Germany🙏🏻
Thank you Timo.
You’ve got some great points, i have purged mine a lot of times. Currently sitting on 20 that i absolutely love, can wholeheartedly say that each one is an “extension” of me, don’t wear fragrances to garner compliments from others, i wear them solely for myself.
I think 20 is a great size for a collection of high-end and niche fragrances if they're the result of careful curation (which your olfactory wardrobe definitely is by the sound of it). I have a gorgeous box filled with samples as self-education but the full bottles I have are around 15-- I am searching for another few 'best in shows' to cover all moods and fragrance categories which I like but around 20 full bottles and a box of samples always being replaced is perfect for me too.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Thank you, yes it’s a high end designer/niche collection leaning more towards nice. Also have a shoebox with samples/decants just to expand the olfactory but i only add a new scent if it genuinely puts a smile on my face.
Nailed it once again 💯
Hi Justin. 100% true. I try to avoid redundancy, in fact I mentally label many mass appealing as characterless, I always try to select fragrances that are different. Most of my collection is anything but mass appealing. I do keep in mind the wearing occasion and have a sort of a classification matrix for that (office, romantic, friends : summer, winter:: day night) but it is not very strict. The "office" category do sometimes fall under the fresh shower gel mass appealing type, but not always. I do sometimes wear things like JV Vintage, SUNG and Euphoria Liquid Gold even to office. I have even wore things like Beau de Jour and Terre D'Hermes to business dinners.
Great video. This topic is so underrated.
Thank you.
This is pure gold right here
Great video. I'd add that not everyone collects for the same reasons. It's like having a car collection. You may not drive all the cars in your collection... But you like having them.
As for me, I mostly own decants of a few dozen fragrances... And I work from home so I'll spray one on the left arm, another on the right arm... And every day is different. I like all my fragrances and I'll continue to buy more and enjoy as many as I can... Not necessity to 'smell good' but rather to enjoy what they smell like. Cheers.
I have learnva lot with you ; and i do spend carefully in perfumes that i really love and wear every day.
I’m not gonna lie, I have about 30 fragrances mostly niche and some designers. But when Justin explain the redundancy of having fragrances that I only reach for twice a year, made me notice that I have a lot of fragrances that I don’t need. This video is very informational. Thanks
I’m glad it helps 👌🏾
Definitely makes me think about what I own and what I choose to get next. I never want to just have the same thing over and over and have to work at not owning things just to own them. I want a collection that I love and that brings me some level of joy as well. Material things will never fill the void of what we really need but they do add to our enjoyment of life for sure. Great thought provoking video as well. I just want fragrances that I love now and really want some 10/10's if possible that I love.
Well-said, Rob!! I agree.
I have a growing collection and I have to admit early on I wanted to smell good and I am now at the point where I am gonna sell 2-3 fragrances (I own about 20 fragrances). The interesting part is that I view fragrances differently now. I once applied a fragrance before going to sleep and really loved it so I tried it when my girlfriend was at my place. She was like.. Why are you wearing a fragrance when going to bed? My answer was: Because it calms me down. It was something I did for myself.. Not for anyone else.. Not even my girlfriend.
Justin I am totally on your side for this one. The point of a fragrance is to actually wear it. If you don't wear it.. Why keep it?
20 full bottles is a great size for a collection and I'm so charmed to imagine a man wearing a fragrance when at home and soon to retire for the evening. A sign of a genuine fragrance lover whose neurology concerning the sense of smell is just 'different' compared to the average human. I'd love to know what fragrances you most enjoy wearing at home or before heading to bed.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Thank you. 🙊 I love wearing Bel Ambre from Jacques Fath.
@@michaelh.266 I'm going to check it out. I'm compelled, as Jacques Fath is one of the houses who I don't really get on with.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 let me know what you think about it once you have tried it. Maybe it is included in the sample set then you would only have to pay the shipping.
@@michaelh.266 If it rocks my world I'll definitely come back to let you know-- I love it when people enthusiastically recommend things. All I will be able to envision during that first long inhalation is a happy, elegant, kind guy somewhere out there on planet Earth snuggled in his bed linen smiling to himself and over at his missus whilst smelling like heaven. 😄Charming! I can't even tell you what I envisioned when first trying 'Haxxan' by Parfums Prissana. 🐐💩🤮☣🦨😵
Hello, Justin, how are you? Great job on the video. Great wisdom from a young man who has a old soul. I understand thanks to you that this is an art form as well as a hobby and Smelling good is just a part of it. Stay safe brother and hi to Grace
Thank you Greg
Having said those, I miss Versace pour homme after gifting it to my brother .. ridiculously versatile and just a perfectly affordable dumb reach for me.
I only want the ones that smell good... to me. 😊 I will say that I also have some that smell interesting to me rather than pleasing to me, but both those categories deserve a place in my fragrance wardrobe.
Oh I love this comment: you instantly reminded me of eavesdropping on grandmother and grandson waiting alongside me at a bus stop discussing the afternoon movie they'd just been to see together. She questioned the 10 year old with, 'Did you enjoy it?' He chirped back whilst dragging a small dried twig back and forth on the ground, 'Yeah, it was really funny'. Her brows furrowed and she said, 'Well if you thought it was funny, how come I didn't hear you ever laugh?' I've never forgotten his unexpectedly self-aware and undeniably witty explanation of his own juvenile inner workings (which turned out to be surprisingly sophisticated):
"Well, because I found it too interesting to laugh."
What a smart, analytical, deep little kid, I thought. Plus he shut his grandma up and stopped her hassling him with her comparatively dumb interrogations. So I thought I'd let you know WHY a total stranger has connected with YOUR comment: "some [fragrances] smell interesting to me rather than pleasing." I actually know precisely what you mean. I have a few fragrances that fall in that category perfectly. Your comment deserves an entire video on discussing this phenomenon in which the content creator shares reviews of fragrances which are perfect examples of this. Imagine the comment section! I'd be wildly compelling.👃🧠😍
A very logical and sensible approach .
Harsh but true❤ Valuable fragrance training again.
Thank you Catherine.
Building a collection myself. I do not think they are redundant at all even though they might be similar. Quite honestly think it is part of the journey. I for one only ever went for freshies. Chrome EDT being my poison of choice but realized this after owning many of the flankers and using all up to realize they were not that special as the original. I have now graduated to darker fragrances as well. I do get decants as well but have had quite awful experiences buying them. About 50% have been watered down or gone bad. I am enjoying the different view points.
To smell good and have a basic variety I would say you should have 8 fragrances: a day and night fragrance for each season and then probably a 9th for formal occassions date, wedding, formal dinner etc.
They also do not need to be expensive designer or niche they can be clones or rack store cheapies (plenty of youtube videos for those too).
Now that said there are PLENTY of people who do not regularly wear fragrances and 1-3 work perfectly well for them. In fact for most of my life I never had more than four fragrances (now I've got 30-40).
This is hard but i do get what you mean, JC. Blue frags are the easiest to cut as they offer little uniqueness between them. Then perhaps cut it down some more with the typical function categories like clubbing, date, blacktie as well as seasonal scents for both morning and night. That should create a distinction from everyday and event specific frags which cuts down on your collection :)
Another credible reference video for recommendation. I've simply found it easier to show ppl a video such as this one rather than trying to explain everything.
Videos are just easier to digest
Thank you bro.
Great video
Great topic ❤
Thank you!!
You're spitting out facts!
Great videios and ideas. I have just 10 and I feel that I dont need any more. Well maybe one or two and that´s it.
I do have redundacy but I never reach for the same fragrance twice in a row I do my rotations every single day. I also have a seasonal mindset so I wear my freshies during summer or cozy and warm fragrances in fall and winter etc but I get where your coming from I will also add that when I do go back to a fragance I love it feels more special then using it daily and getting bored with
Thanks for sharing!!!
I was the same way just wanted something to smell good I only wanted to wear curve and cool water, but as I got exposed to different fragrances more and more my preferences started to change.
I think you've just convinced me to finally sell my bottle of Dior Homme Parfum lol. I'm not Bruce Wayne, I don't wear suits often, & I could wear Dior Homme Intense for the same situations honestly. I've kept Parfum strictly because it was hard to get & it's hyped by others but I'm not in love w/ it & there's not much I can use it for
If you don't love it, you won't wear it! That's ok.
I don't have a massive collection, but you do have a good point - when you said "you probably only reach for 2 to 4 or 5 of them" you were absolutely right. I mostly have around 4 fragrances in rotation, and my collection consists of around 30. But for me personally partly the reason is that I've done a lot of blind buying, and some of the blind bought fragrances were complete duds. :D
I can relate!
I have just over 50, I could get rid of 35-40 and not miss them, most of them are from when I started my collection and since then I've gotten others that whilst similar are better
What fascinates me is the journey.
Not necessarily having or buying every fragrance I like in one shot.
My goal is 24 Fragrances. These fragrances will belong to my collection named "THIS IS I "
6 fragrances for each season that represent me and my tastes.
Quality over quantity take advantage of samples and decants before committing to a full bottle.
If you really love a fragrance although it has the same DNA of others in your collection it's not redundant.
Rule of thumb if it is collecting dust gift it to someone you know may enjoy fragrances. Start the Fire.
You bring up an interesting philosophical difference for the reason for wearing fragrances. The average person wears a fragrance to smell “good”, whether to project an image, feel confident, or to impress others. Designer brands, or “corporate” perfumery, markets to this specific market segment, because it is the largest and most profitable. They utilize marketing teams to ascertain what will smell “good” and “appealing” then design a perfume around that. Conversely, a different approach is to wear perfume because they can be objective works of art and “beautiful”. Master perfumers are literally artists; they use a combination of advanced chemistry, skill, and creativity to create something that we can appreciate for its beauty. These tend to be niche/indie brands because they are less constrained by budget and business objectives to create what they view as art. Then people wear the fragrance because they appreciate that beauty and want to wear art. Maison Francis Kurdijan said something like “I create my fragrances to smell beautiful, not to smell good”. There isn’t anything wrong with either approach, just depends on your personal preference, appreciation for art, and what image you would like to convey.
I should note that right now, I’m a beginner in my fragrance journey and am leaning towards the “smell good” philosophy. I only have a few fragrances and am just looking to expand my wardrobe for the different seasons and different occasions. I’m also constrained by budget at the moment haha. I’ve tried a few niche houses and really like them, so in the future I’d like to expand my nose and appreciate the art more! I look forward to watching your videos to get some recommendations on these types of fragrances haha
Thanks so much, Mason. Welcome!
I gotta to agree with you 💯
..my girlfriend opened my eyes last year when she pretty much told me all your frangances almost smells the same..wow I was shocked..but she was right..I started buying less and with a purpose actually..not because everyone say this smells good..
All that to say great video Content
Thanks Mike. It's never too late to make a change.
Decants/samples. That is it!! For the most part. I can drop them in a box in a corner and not take up space. IF I see any that I like and see myself wearing often, then I'll budget towards a bottle. If its expensive af, then a bigger sample/refills.
Brass & Soul and Business Over Pleasure are so artistic and pleasing, that I wish I could do more than sampling, as they could go for dumb reach. But that's my only option. Gonna try the Zaharoff samples one day, esp Rose and Citrine. Other samples/decants in the making. But I don't foresee buying more than 10 actual full presentations this year; 5 max.
I like the way you do things. So glad you enjoy B&S and BOP!
@@stayfreshproductions thanks. Still work in progress though.
Yea, they were great. In fact, before writing this, I took up the last drop of their decants and started smelling. I could wear B&S when I wear a red shirt or some special time. Save vibes with BOP, but with a blue shirt. Gonna get bigger decants before they disappear forever, but Imma have to discipline myself into not touching them that often 😂😂😂
Dear Justin,
Thank you for the video. I ve been watching ur videos now for a while. Just wanted to share some thoughts but please see it as constructive as I come to you with good intentions.
I think u have all the ingredients to have a bigger channel than u currently have. Great looks, very charismatic voice and u come across to me as a superpleasant person. On top of that u show great discipline in ur postings so u have good work ethic. So that is already a very solid foundation to do well if u have great content.
I think in fragrance content there are two basic types (generally speaking) that tend to create the most views. A. Content for freaks/lovers/aficionados. And B. Content for the bros, how to get more women. U do neither focused which is a choice of course.
U already said in a couple videos that ur are looking for alternative content but I m afraid these “morality” type videos are not ur golden ticket.
Assuming u want to do ur own and unique I suggest u either find a totally different angle that touches on these two main viewgenerators or u do something completely different. For example u have credits in jazz music, why not find a connection contentwise there. I fear otherwise u ll remain in this 50-80k subscriber space.
Anyways just some thoughts happy to discuss. I truly think u deserve more man!
Thank you. I'm gonna ride this wave because I like the direction it's going.
@@stayfreshproductions as u should. Thanx for reply. Keep up the good work. I will support with views regardless
I agree. I do love my Scentbox Subscription for this reason. Some frags that were hyped to the moon, really didn't grab me. Hate to say it, like Percival. However I'm a big fan of Layton. That will be my first PDM full bottle purchase. How do I also know I'm over the moon about the scent? I have two clones of it in Detour Noir and Lalique White in Black. And honestly, some frags I wear at home because I just enjoy them. But I hear on you on overlap. Also took your advice on the 50ML bottles. Only ways I'm buying 100ML is if no 50ML exists or it's something I know I'll love more than most.
The problem I ran in once I began my fragrance collection is that I buy a fragrance and sooner or later they become discontinued/hard to find, reason why I stopped buying fragrances. A good amount of my collection is pretty much discontinued fragrances so I buy more fragrances that I know are easily available so I don't kill my discontinued bottles.
Great video.
Thank you.
An eye opener 😳
For some people, it's gonna be just a few, maybe even just one. You just have to think about who you are as a person, what are your values. That seems a little bit deep, but maybe one of your biggest values is practicality and that means maybe you only have one fragrance. Maybe you're someone who really likes to dive deep and you really take hobbies seriously and for someone like that you might have dozens or even hundreds. If you do that, though, I highly recommend taking it slow, stopping often to appreciate what you have and considering whether or not you actually need more, or if you're buying just to scratch the itch.
Try to always be getting something that's different from what you already have, and step outside your comfort zone. That's what my main focus has been. Maybe you can get a few fragrances that are in a similar style, but don't just get 20 blue fragrances unless you genuinely just want to collect all of them.
I totally agree, Marc.
I'm pretty moderately new to fragrances. I only started collecting about 2 and a half years ago
My biggest problem has been acquiring fragrances that have very similar scent profiles in slightly different ways, and only choose one of them
Be discerning with what you acquire...you will undoubtedly find new fragrances. But they might be more expensive. Sample first if you can.
I have a shopping list when it comes to fragrances and if something new and interesting, I’ll try it and if don’t like it, I’ll scratch it off my shopping list
I used to have over 70 fragrances. I never used half of them. So I've been "Right Sizing" my collection to ones I absolutely love. I'm down to 28. It's been difficult to get down to this level.
I understand the struggle!
When I want to do nothing else but smell good and be noticed I reach for Mancera Cedrat Boise Aoud Lemon Mint. PDM Layton and Elysium and maybe Prada black. I know that in my collection these work last long and get compliments when that is what I’m wanting. When I’m actually looking to stand apart as well as dress the part I generally go with Beau du jour invasion barbare Bulgari Onehk Chanel sycamore and incident diplomatique. I for some reason like wearing less playful almost austere frags when I’m actually in a suit and tie.
I wonder what would happen if you sprayed the most playful oddball in your collection whilst wearing a suit? I'd love to know how this juxtaposition would affect your state of mind and if it would alter your behaviour or perception at all. Fragrance really does have such power, doesn't it? There are certain fragrances I would NEVER wear when wearing shorts and t-shirt and running into the supermarket for Gochujang, y'know? And likewise, the 'oddballs' wouldn't be worn to wakes, interviews and business meetings. Isn't it strange? I think this transcends marketing conditioning and other cultural diktats and exploring all this is fascinating to me. I love reading other people's stories and ideas (and crackpot theories! 😄)
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 I’d bet money if I wore Aoud lemon mint to a funeral no one would care or pay attention they would hug me and say oh you smell nice. The large majority of people don’t care about fragrance or if they wear one or not. Only the collectors become fussy over what they will wear. Before I started collecting I literally wore dolce and gabana pour homme to every event perhaps le male here and there and it was fine. Now I wear most everything seasonally but I do enjoy having my rather vast collection however I will perhaps consider purging it as I do know which ones are the true beauty’s and which I find just okay.
@@mrrob4590 Ha! Aoud Lemon Mint to a funeral! 😂🤦♀You reminded me of JC's video where he re-animates his own corpse at an open casket funeral by spraying the burial suit's lapel with Carlyle by PdM with loving, merciful tenderness. 🤣
I know I don't need more than 5 fragrances. Actually, my scent journey is all about finding those 5 fragrances.
My collection right now is:
Prada Infusion D'homme.
Sticky Fingers by Francesca Bianchi.
Chanel Allure Homme (the classic one).
Parisian Musc by Matiere Premiere.
Renaissance by Xerjoff.
Man... You have become the little evil on my shoulder telling me how wrong I am any time I want to get a new fragrance!!
Cheers
haha!
I’m super interested in fragrances. But I’m also broke, so I HAD to start out with samples and decants, and ain’t nothing wrong with that. 😅
I completely agree!
I have 10 right now and I think I have enough. I'm gonna get CDN Milestone next. And I bought these in the span of 2 years. So, I'm not really prioritizing collecting. And I can say, Toy Boy is the bottle I don't reach for a lot. I still use it in very specific mood though haha and I use The One EDP rn a lot because I have a 150ml. I'll wear Dior Homme 2017 later to the gym because of this video 👍
I just got a chance to smell CDN Milestone just over the weekend (after the vid was posted) and it smells nicer than I thought. I am now still smelling the test strip with it. Still sublime. Had a touch on skin and it smelled ok. Gonna buy a sample and test it before I pull the trigger. Did this with Tres Nuit and love it. So before the end of the year, getting that.
I remember watching one of your videos talking about this, l knew l had to much, l started selling those that were similar to other ones that l have and also downsizing to only 6 fragrances, also started buying only 30ml or 50ml and l feel that l am enjoying perfumery more than before, also sampling more to explore new brands
I'm glad your collection is feeling better to you
My collection is: MAB Ganymede, Jeroboam Vespero, Roja Enigma Cologne, BDC Parfum, YSL Y Le Parfum, and Armani Code EDP.
Fall/Winter fragrances are much more interesting to me than summer ones, even tho I want to buy Elysium.
And Black Phantom for winter ofc :)
P.S.
Please try Jeroboam Vespero!
Much respect from Montenegro 🇲🇪
Great choices! I've tried Vespero and it's nice!
The average person that wears fragrances will often ask me to recommend a fragrance to them... I always suggest a "likeable" designer scent to get them started then to branch out into more challenging notes such as leathers, tobaccos, iris ect... the balance is recommending designers that don't hold a high price tag whilst still smelling of quality... if it snowballs from there then you have a better idea of what genres you desire within the world of luxury nichè
I couldn't agree more. I have about 450 decants so I can go and smell things when I see them featured in videos. I only have about 20 bottles and that is what I wear all year. About 12 all weather frags, plus 5 summer and 5 winter. That give me about 17 to wear in the warm weather and 17 to wear in the cold (under 70.) Why get a bottle of something you don't absolutely love. I am not a collector. I want to wear the bottles I have.
i have fragrances i dont touch because of season or occasion or maybe just cause, but i for sure hate, hate, hate, redundancy .that being said i probably have at least between 50 to 100 redundant bottles , from falling for the hype, falling for notes, blind buying, hearing reviews that dont state otherwise ect . i still keep them but im ok with using them more knowing i wont run out of that scent or profile
I started my fragrance journey in 2018 and after 4 years I finally have a pattern gotta have 5 perfumes in the collection gotta replace them every year or sometimes more than that till the time they last...
Man i have found this local generic company... They sell 30ml generics.. Most compliments i have ever gotten ever, for the price of a meal, made me realize... People don't get it, they just love a smell when its good, so thats me now
Fragraces in my opinion are like golf clubs....different ones for different shots depending on the terrain. You only need a few in the bag to stay in the game.
Having 4-6 fragrances is enough. I have over 50 fragrances in my collection and only reach for about 5 of them.. I wish I knew this before I bought them would had saved way more more. For me the ones I usually wear is bdc parfum, Adg profumo, ysl le parfum, br540, and Dylan blue everything else I don’t even pick up🤦🏾🤦🏾
I like to think this topic is N/A to me - I mostly look for stuff that smells different, i.e. standout-ish. I don't have much success with that for the summer months, but for spring/fall/winter I got a huge basket of unique profiles. For example, this spring rotation was dominated by Enclave and Gris Charnel Extrait with some wear to Ouverture. None of these smell typical.
Will note that my most often worn scents so far in 2022 are misleading in that they are dominated by scents that are at least in some way gym-safe, so PDM takes the cake here (30+ wears across Sedley, Percival, Layton). These would be the "smell good" scents. As for how many of them I need, well - I got a trash batch of Aventus that I don't wear, I got those 3 PDMs, got Apple Brandy on the Rocks, Cedrat Boise, Royal Oud, and a couple from Goldfield&Banks (Pacific Rock Moss, Bohemian Lime) - that's basically it for safe-wear smell-good scents.
Sounds like you're doing just fine...I believe that if you seek function and self-satisfaction with your fragrances above pleasing others, you're in a good place.
I have 200 bottles of fragrances and I rotate my fragrances regularly. I absolutely agree with all that you have said in this video. I purposefully make sure I wear everything as often as possible. I have created theme weeks to ensure that I wear everything. I stopped at 200 because I realized that was to much, I love everything that I have and I have enough. I don’t do it for compliments but they come anyway. I appreciate your videos and the content that you create.
Thank you Will!
I had close to 200, have/still sold a lot in thes past yrs. I’d like to get down to 10 per season but that’s STILL 40. Not counting 1/2 GOOD releases that’s comes out a year
When are we gonna get more new CustinCopeland videos? The community needs a regular dose of Custin videos!
Not sure...still contemplating if I want to continue the series.
Im happy with just 20. I have about 100 just to bounce around for swapping just to get my nose on as many scents as I can.
If I had a chance to start over. I would not shop @ rack stores. They breed redundancy. Excellent content, my Brother. Peace and Love.
I dig it, Louis.
Thank you!
Words of wisdom.
I don't understand getting all caught up in whether it's "mass appealing" or "unique" or not. If it smells good to me, I wear it. I guess I have a lot that land in the "generic mass appealing" category and I have some that end up in those "unique scent" videos, but why would I stress on what category my fragrance falls into. Do I like it? If yes, I wear it. If no, I don't buy it.
To each their own, but I think worrying too much about compliments or worrying too much about standing out and being unique are both equally ridiculous. No one out there is thinking that much about how you smell.
Sorry about that crazy tangent. I did like this video though because I do have too many fragrances and I don't know why.
(I do wear all of mine though, because I make it a rule to wear something different everyday)
What's interesting is that every time I get a compliment from a stranger on my magnificent sillage I will be wearing a 'masculine-leaning' fragrance. I'm unsure what this indicates but I'm intensely compelled to study the dynamics of the situation and my personal deportment and dress whenever it happens so I can at least try and figure it out. I'm very much like you in that I just wear what I love. The compliments become weird 'data' for yet more social anthropology and crackpot theory development 😛🤔
Only elitists fear mass appealing scents
Man o man. I am currently selling the bottles I like but don’t love or reach for. So basically I have the following
Givenchy Play intense
Oud Wood
Tobacco Vanille
Ombré Leather
Layton
Herod
Percival
BDC edp
Spice bomb
You have very, very fine taste. That Givenchy Play Intense is a nice surprise particularly. 🙌🏻
@@teenoso4069 those are the ones I have decided to keep :-). I had 54 fragrances at one point.
@@SirSillageSniffington thank you it’s harder to find now a days and the asking price is getting insane. I was able to get 4 bottles a few years back. Love that coffee note
Well I know one thing I Don't need is another Invictus smelling fragrance.
But I can say there's some fragrances I have in my collection not because I want to wear them but because I wanted to have the whole line . Kind of by collecting comic books
3-4 is the sweet spot for me
Justin is to us what Morpheus is to Neo but instead of the matrix it's fragrances.
Haha.
I've had as many as 70 odd in my collection and am in the process of working it down to around 10 - 12 favorites. I have one criterion really - does it smell good to me regardless of price. A couple I reach for a lot are Terre d'Hermes, Narciso Rodriguez For Him and Bleu Noir, Prada Carbon and Cartier Declaration d'Un Soir. One of the most inexpensive that I have - Tag Him - has literally gotten me compliments every time I've worn it. So, go figure.
Tag Him, huh? Awesome!
@@stayfreshproductions Btw, congrats on the nuptials with your lovely lady.
Hey Justin, i was wondering if you've ever tried Musc Ravageur by Frederic Malle and what do you think about it. Any opinions? Would love to know your opinion!
It is a very special and elegant scent!
Another consideration…..my guess is very few of your subscribers are building an extensive collection simply to “have”. Choosing fragrances with selected notes one really loves choosing for purpose, environment, season and climate makes perfect sense to me, and offers opportunities for a truly useful collection. That’s what I m striving to achieve. When I purchase a “miss”, I just return it. Easy.
Am not sure about YSL La Nuit D'Lhomme EAU Electrique being discontinued,
however i do know BLEU Electrique has been discontinued.
oh and i forgot to mention all the redundant fragrances collected from"CLONE CHASING" yup thats a thing , i have at least 6 clones of aventus, 5 br540 ,4 tuscan leathers, 4 silver mountain waters ect. and i think chasing flankers can be just as bad