I don’t get the hype for JPG La Belle, YSL Black Opium, and Delina Exclusif..I don’t think they smell bad at all, but they just don’t move me.. However , Florabotanica and TF Black Orchid, I actually dislike the smell most days and will never understand the hype but that’s the beauty of fragrances. They are completely subjective.
I agree, Baccarat rouge smells like hair spray, chemicals, synthetic and somehow like a dentist’s office. I don’t think it’s generic, just not a good perfume. Also it seems like Baccarat rouge is only super popular in USA and maybe in the U.K. In Italy or France, most people don’t even know what it is or that it exists.
I’ve tried 2 TF fragrances (something jasmine and something neroli) - they both literally smelled the same 🙃 hahahaha I was like - NO THANKS. However, third purchase was a charm! Lolol GREAT VIDEO!!!!
Baccarat rouge was somewhat mysterious and powerful when it came out, but it has been copied so many times that it became extremely boring. It feels like the perfume that people get to reassure themselves about their social status. A marker of superficiality and lack of personality. A little bit like a basic Louis Vuitton bag.
OMG finally someone that doesn't like BR540. I HATE it. With a passion. Literally makes me feel physically sick. I just can not stand it. I kept on thinking something was wrong with my nose but my boyfriend and his flatmate can't stand it either. I just get a sickly sweet, medicine, hospital vibe that makes me feel so queasy. PS: I'm from Switzerland too and just discovered your channel :) Love supporting a fellow Swiss, keep on going.
I hate Cloud. I've smelled testers from 3 stores, and it always smells horrible. I think my nose or brain doesn't process it like most people. It smells to me like the very cheapest men's cologne that was stored in a car and went bad. I don't smell anything like what people describe it to smell like. I laugh when people recommend it.
I love BR540 but i'm agree it's to expensive for what it IS. The dupes like Burberry her or the Cloud IS are good enought. The one i HATE IS Delina de parfum de Marly ! 🤮
Cosmopolitan eau de juice pure sugar is also similar! I personally like it more. I smelled pure sugar before mfk br40 and it reminded me of pure sugar! They sell it at Walmart now!
My husband can’t stand br540. Anytime I have worn it he complains that I am wearing “that perfume he hates,” so I will only be able to wear it if I am not going to be around him and can shower it off before I see him. I don’t need him to love every fragrance I wear, but it is such a downer to have him not even want a hug because he is repulsed by how I smell 😆
So apparently people who really know about perfume think BR540 is just bad and a total cash-grab. It's crazy how quickly people fall for the hype. At that price point it would have to be something phenomenal with high quality ingredients, which apparently BR540 is not made of 😬 pretty scandalous IMO 🙊 I can't imagine the imposter syndrome with MFK 😅
Baccarat Rouge is worth the hype my first big purchase and it was so worth it can’t see where you coming from on this one I fell in love on first sniff🤦🏽♀️
Tastes are different. Not everyone likes the same stuff. I'm also not a huge fan of BR540. It smells like a dental office to me. However, it's also completely fine that you love it
I have been LIVING for dior homme! I love it so much and I get a lot of compliments. Next time I put it on at work imma look out for the lipstick note lmao 🤣
I could not agree more about MFK BR540! At last someone said it! Same for La Belle. It feels like all the hype is generated by influencers. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon I suppose.
Hi, Julia. It's nice to see you making fragrance vids. It's so funny because I love BR540 (Extrait is better, IMO) and La Vie est Belle. I get a lot of compliments with both. I'll always have those two in my collection, but I tend to like dark and mysterious fragrances more. Hypnotic Poison is a fragrance that isn't for me but many people love it.
It is funny because BR 540 isnt that sweet to me. It always confused me when people said it was sweet. I guess it is and I just don't smell it. I like it.
Totally agree on the Baccarat Rouge & LVEB! I only have a limited edition of LVEB just so I can feel like I can wear it without blending into the crowd. I mean, they’re nice, but slightly generic yup
I'm so glad to see that someone is keeping it real about these fragrances. I appreciate that so much and glad that I didn't buy the 540. I got the Ariana Cloud because people were saying that it's a dupe and that's good enough for me. I bought 2 of those.
Thank you for such a great, informative and honest video! Ive been told I’m an odd ball when it comes to fragrances, I’ve driven myself crazy trying so hard to fall in love with these hyped up fragrances. I haven’t tried baccarat rouge 540 yet, but I do not like any Chanel fragrances, not one! I do love Dolce &Gabbana original, but the intense version smells like a porta potty to me and the list really goes on and on. I do have some I love and adore which are pure poison, Dylan blue, Tiffany & Co., and a few others. That’s why when I do find something I love I hold on to it for dear life because so many others are such a turn off to my nose.
I completely agree with you on the MFK 540! I ordered a sample from the MFK site to test the hype about it. I personally think Arianas Cloud and Burberry Her smell so much better at a fraction of the price.
I think people like the Baccarat rouge 540 because it makes them feel like they have money..My husband hates this perfume on me......also it doesn't last on my skin, is a huge pass for me..Julia you look beautiful. Glad I found your new channel.Hugs from FL.
Julia! So happy to see you again! I know it sounds odd - as we’ve never met in real life😃 but to me it feels like seeing a friend after a long long while! I have been following you along since the early “make up” channel. Recently have gotten into fragrances and I love seing you here! Subscribed 😀 for MFK - I actually love and appreciate BR540 and I know many people don’t feel the same thing in it, having become or being anosmic to the molecules. For me it is magical and nowhere near anything I had known before it. However 100% agree on La vie est belle 😄
This! I really, really hate LVEB!! Can't stand it. It's too sweet and boring. I do loke dome sweet perfums, but that I just can't get behind. Really loved this video!
This video was awesome! 🙌 I always hear people comparing BR540 to cloud or Burberry Her but I dislike both of those perfumes so I've never even had the desire to smell it. You hit the nail on the head with la vie est belle, just simply sweet and cloying. I do like JPG la bell but I think it's overpriced and it actually makes me carsick 😂 I do like olympea but to me this is such a simple, crowd pleasing scent. It doesn't smell like vanilla to me, just a musky beeswax scent, very similar to Roberto cavalli (signature), in my opinion. I still love perfumes but I've lost a lot of interest in blind buying because I end up returning/selling more than keeping. Thanks for the great video!
I love LVEB and got the 200 ml lol. I only wear it when it gets really cold because it is better worn in the winter. BR540 extrait is better than the edp imo.
Hi Julia, love this kind of videos)) it always proves that we all are so different and that's the best part of it! I hate Versace's Cristal Noir 🙈 I know it's one of your favourites but I just can't stand it))) also La Vie Est Belle is too strong in her sweetness and I feel it on too many women. Mugler's Womanity - wanted to love it because I like everything I've tried from this designer house but it results to be the only hate😄 P.S. have you tried H&M fragrances? They don't cost a lot but some their edp are very interesting (I have Black Papyrus which you should like) and long lasting Greetings from Tuscany!
We must have the same nose because I have the Baccarat 540, la vie est belle and JPG and thought there was something wrong with me when I couldn’t find the big deal about them. I just can’t like them. I bought them over the hype. You got a new subscriber.
Two of my favorites are the first 2 you don’t like! 🤣 but that’s okay! I just found your channel and am really enjoying it! Lately, I’ve become so intrigued by the world of fragrance, so I have a goal to learn as much as I can. 😊
Definitely agree on La Vie Est Belle. If I'm going to buy Lancome fragrance it's definitely Tresor Midnight Rose for me. Smells so good. Though lately I've been super obsessed with Michael Kors Wonderlust. I got it from Scentbird and I've used almost the whole vial in three weeks.
There used to be a perfume back in the 80's or early 90's called Jordache Looks I think and the Lancome one you mentioned always ALWAYS smells like it to me. In fact, there are a lot of perfumes that smell like that. In other words, if anyone remembers Jordache Looks, it was a cheap perfume, no more than a few bucks. *Looks hard at the expensive perfume makers, "This is not a compliment."* Any perfumes that have vanilla always smell the exact same, it smells like the vanilla perfume from Bath & Body Works. Again, cheap. I can douse myself in a bottle of vanilla extract and get a better response. A perfume I absolutely HATE is Obsession. The dark musky smell of it is so close to bad body odor, sweat, that it makes me gag.
@@kazzuo32 there were a few different ones. The Jordache Looks one had a bright neon pink bottle with geometric patterns, popular in the late 80s and early 90s, especially in box sets at Christmas, usually packaged with Exclamation perfume.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead ohh ok I remember only the burgundy and a blue one but that was probably in my island. Yes I think was 84 or something 😉☺
I blind bought Cloud based on the insane hype over it & BKR. It’s horrid. Like you said, insanely sweet, synthetic, and ALSO sickeningly medicinal. I also kept thinking like what am I missing?
I can’t stand Baccarat Rouge and I do not get the hype! It completely confuses me how people could love it. So - in total agreement with you. Generic, synthetic like crazy!
I am sensitive to perfume. I love it and have strong dislikes because it makes me ill at times. Love to hear what you recommend to see if I can possibly use it.
I’ve heard Glossier You & Juliette Has A Gun- This Is Not A perfume was unoffensive. But, I know for a fact that Baby Powder by Demeter’s fragrance library has never made me nauseous.
Really enjoyed this😁👍I just can’t do BR540, La vie est belle.... I blind bought La Belle after all the hype and although it’s pleasant enough, I just found the lingering sweet smell a bit much so sold it on. I use to really like Olympea but for some reason I’ve gone right off it. MJ’s Decadence/ Divine Decadence both made me feel nauseas...all I got was dem pickles!😆 Oh it’s a funny old perfume world!
Never bought into the 540 craze myself. Regretted spraying it on immediately, don’t find it remotely unisex. Kind of a sweet cotton candy type of blend you’d expect a 12 year old girl to rock. Not the impression I’m going for. ❤️❤️
THANK YOU for the support of synthetic vs. natural. No animal should be tortured or killed for luxury goods. Natural might SOUND nice, but the reality of it can be revolting.
I hate Delina. It smells like watered down version of Armani Si or Dior Joy. And Bacarrat is just bland and boring. I prefer Noir by Tom Ford (I find them quite similar).
I haven’t tried this perfume, but from what I’ve heard from others, the “eau de perfume” smells completely different from the “extrait perfume” and that’s the one people rave about
Personally I’m tired of hearing about Delina but to be fair I haven’t actually smelled it yet so I can’t say for sure. It does sound unique with the rhubarb note but it’s so overexposed, I’m over it already, haha. 😆
Honestly I thought the same (I do not like to follow trend or hype) but when I smelled Delina Exclusif It was love at first sniff. At first I was like no way I spend so much money for a perfume. But I became obsessed and the scent is really divine (refined and delicious). A beautiful rosy-vanilla scent.
Hi Julia I totally agree that for its price tag BR540 should be more complex. And la Belle is soooo so so sweet just sweet after pear goes away. I had similar opinion on LVEB however recently I bought a partial bottle and since wearing it all over I started enjoying sweetened patchouli.
THANK GOD! Somebody else who feels that way about MFK. First I couldn't even smell Baccarat Rouge. Which is normal and I felt like I was missing something. I purposely bought the oil perfumery one because it doesn't have the ambroxan in it so I figured I could at least get a hint of what others are smelling. Dude, it smelled like sugar to me. I don't like cotton candy and I don't like this. To me, I like sugar when you put it with stuff, like chocolate. Same thing going on here. Then I started smelling his other stuff. It was either boring or smelled like shit (looking at you Oud Satin Mood). I like Oud and this thing just smelled like formaldehyde dissecting animals to me! Totally agree on the La Vie Belle and these boring scents. They're like "perfume." This is a bottle of "perfume." Like, "soda." Not a brand just that thing done basically. And yes, most fragrances use synthetic notes as a lot of notes, you wouldn't even smell them if they used the real thing. I think a fragrance comes off as synthetic when the bulk of their notes are made up of those types. I hate to tell people this, but a lot of time natural and synthetic is more political vs. reality. Natural does not equal better. Like cyanide is natural, don't know that you want to use it in big quantities. Molecules don't know if they were created in a lab or in nature. Bees "manufacture" honey, doesn't mean it's not a natural process, but we consider manufacture a real industrial process. That's different. Sort of. But in the end, they're molecules. I also think labeling has a lot to do with this. 50 dollar perfume smells "synthetic" and a 400 dollar one doesn't because people perceive it that way.
I've always been an underdog lover & am turned off my most things that are very trendy & popular which now is BR540, LVEB, Black Opium but the worst is that darn Delina by Parfums de Marly
Cloud is one that I keep trying because it's so cheap and well loved, but it just disappears to me. I don't even smell it, it just tickles my nose hairs and leaves this weak lotion-y smell behind. I think I'm broken
Hi Julia, I seen several videos that say that “Red Temptation” from Zara is an almost exact dupe for Bacarat Rouge, specially after watching Tommelise‘s video about it I decided to blind bought it, even though I don’t enjoy sweet perfumes; and I must say now I really like it 😀 not so much the opening notes; but I like the fragrance after the perfume dries. I probably never buy the original bacarat perfume though 😝
I have been your subbie because I like how you present your videos but we don’t have same taste for perfumes. Except LVEB, I love all you hate and I have them all. I don’t believe in “hype” (whether under or over) because different people have different taste. What I don’t like in perfume community now is that it seems like “reviewers” are copying each others collection and just giving same opinion. So boring!
Thanks for watching :) I guess we also succumb to the hype of other reviewers and want to try fragrances others talk a lot about ;) I don't think it's necessarily done intentionally.
i hate BR540 too. thnx for being honest lol. But the OG Dior homme, that's a love but the reformed one is just boring and main DNA totally changed. the more popular though are dior homme intense(love it) and dior homme parfum(discontinued now).
Never tried BR540 but want to see what the hype is about, same with Oud Satin Mood. The popular fragrances that I loathe are Joop for Men...the pink liquid and Mugler’s Angel.
I totally agree about La vie est belle and Olympea, they're both generic boring in my opinion... I couldn't smell any salty note in the Olympea, it's just plain sweet to me. I haven't smelled the first one you were talking about and can't recall the scent of the remaining two but nevertheless I think it's a pretty cool video!
Liked it before watching! And then saw some of my favourite perfumes mentioned there 😂 La Belle is the only one that doesnt give me headaches after a full day of wear. And I'm planning to get Olympea, I like that salty vanilla. Agree with LVEB.
It's funny the Lancome was one of the first perfumes i bought. So I really like it. But it smells like chocolate on me. And it was one of the first big girl perfumes i bought. But I totally see it being very boring and generic lol especially now that I've been following your videos.
I love to watch many CZcamsrs reviews about perfumes and you are the firts one that said that BR540 smell generic or sinthetyc 😂😂😂 yeah I am totally desagree with you. I have BR540 and I did not buy it for be overhype but because I got a travel size firts and it worked amazing on me.
I tooootally agree with you on BR540, it's the note that competes with the cotton candy that I don't like. It's that one very annoying note that I don't know what it is.
It's difficult for me to understand the hype of BR540. The smokey cotton candy doesn't bother me - it's the ambergris and that bandaid note that I find unbearable. I also can't stand Good Girl and think it's heavy and cloying. There's everything but the kitchen sink in that fragrance.
I truly appreciate this video, because I thought I was the only one thinking those thoughts... Thanks ! Especially with la vie est belle .. to me I've always said I must be missing something out. I don't like it. I really really don't. And many other generic parfums. I think a perfume needs to be absolutely unique to be phenomenal.
Thanks for making this video! I took notes because a lot of the perfumes you mentioned are so hyped and I was actually thinking of blind buying BR 540. The only perfume I tried on the perfumes you mentioned is La vie est belle. I was glad I just bought a travel size one coz it was too strong for me. You know that perfume when you spray it on and then immediately want to rinse it off? yeah it's that perfume and I was actually afraid to come too close to my colleagues that they would smell me.
The perfumes from the line called Samba...!! no no no!!! it is like almost all are the same with a bit of something extra added but they don't have a story to stand out individually.......Julia I will love if you could make a video about Chanel perfumes, like from your point of view which are like the most memorable to choose from......thank you always for your opinions and guidance!!
Sometimes your nose does not smell what other people smell. Aventus make me nauseous, but my wife loves that smell.... My wife wears Portrait of a Lady .. I think that it's the worst. I hate Layton (to me it smells like Ben Gay) but people around me love it.... It all nose chemistry and genetics....
I agree with you on all, except the first one which I have never tested. Everyone smells so ordinary, boring and like an old Britney Spears perfume that very young people use.
MFK br540 - sweet cloing and sour smell La Vie Est Belle - way too sweet and burned caramel La Belle - I have not smelled it Olympea - tacky, sweet and generic
May I ask you to do a video on parfumo? There are no swiss sections and since we cannot ship fragrance abroad it is not easy for Switzerland based people to use the page. At least for me. I am very curious about your tricks and stories coming from your experience
I can’t stand B540.. took it back to Selfridges the hype was too much, it doesn’t even last on the skin.. RUBBISH.... Finally someone that spoke the truth.. it’s just not good xx
Baccarat Rouge smells... exotic. But no the good kind of exotic, more just like odd. Tries to be a lot of things at a time and it's confusing and so in your face.
I agree with La Vie To much of a melange of notes without a breakdown of notes I think it would be more appealing if there was a top, middle, base note that developed separately overtime instead of just the same scent throughout, on my skin anyway I have tried to love Chanel no5 but it just doesn’t work for me; it’s too aldehydic
@@digitallocations1423 Ricci Ricci by Nina Ricci is a great floral rhubarb scent and it's super inexpensive on fragrancenet. Another rhubarb that goes in a more unique direction is Female Christ by 19-69.
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I don’t get the hype for JPG La Belle, YSL Black Opium, and Delina Exclusif..I don’t think they smell bad at all, but they just don’t move me..
However , Florabotanica and TF Black Orchid, I actually dislike the smell most days and will never understand the hype but that’s the beauty of fragrances. They are completely subjective.
I agree, Baccarat rouge smells like hair spray, chemicals, synthetic and somehow like a dentist’s office. I don’t think it’s generic, just not a good perfume. Also it seems like Baccarat rouge is only super popular in USA and maybe in the U.K. In Italy or France, most people don’t even know what it is or that it exists.
I’ve tried 2 TF fragrances (something jasmine and something neroli) - they both literally smelled the same 🙃 hahahaha I was like - NO THANKS. However, third purchase was a charm! Lolol GREAT VIDEO!!!!
Flowerbomb 🤮
Baccarat rouge was somewhat mysterious and powerful when it came out, but it has been copied so many times that it became extremely boring. It feels like the perfume that people get to reassure themselves about their social status. A marker of superficiality and lack of personality. A little bit like a basic Louis Vuitton bag.
Ughh LUIS Vuitton bags are soooo ugly . I would never buy anything from this house. All ugly stuff
Finally someone dislike 540 ... it’s awful
OMG finally someone that doesn't like BR540. I HATE it. With a passion. Literally makes me feel physically sick. I just can not stand it. I kept on thinking something was wrong with my nose but my boyfriend and his flatmate can't stand it either. I just get a sickly sweet, medicine, hospital vibe that makes me feel so queasy.
PS: I'm from Switzerland too and just discovered your channel :) Love supporting a fellow Swiss, keep on going.
Hello from Switzerland to Switzerland 🇨🇭😂
I hate Cloud. I've smelled testers from 3 stores, and it always smells horrible. I think my nose or brain doesn't process it like most people. It smells to me like the very cheapest men's cologne that was stored in a car and went bad. I don't smell anything like what people describe it to smell like. I laugh when people recommend it.
Ha same here...I don’t understand how anyone would like to smell like that...but that’s just my little own opinion ha😉👍
I love BR540 but i'm agree it's to expensive for what it IS. The dupes like Burberry her or the Cloud IS are good enought. The one i HATE IS Delina de parfum de Marly ! 🤮
Cosmopolitan eau de juice pure sugar is also similar! I personally like it more. I smelled pure sugar before mfk br40 and it reminded me of pure sugar! They sell it at Walmart now!
This!
I have Burberry intense it smells nothing like B540 don’t smell the similarity at all🤷🏽♀️
I hate delina too 🤮
My husband can’t stand br540. Anytime I have worn it he complains that I am wearing “that perfume he hates,” so I will only be able to wear it if I am not going to be around him and can shower it off before I see him. I don’t need him to love every fragrance I wear, but it is such a downer to have him not even want a hug because he is repulsed by how I smell 😆
Yeah it's a weird one... :)
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I wonder what it smells like to him.
This is why I'm opposed to spending too much on any particular fragrance.
In my case my husband love love love BR540 on me 😍
I'm glad that I didn't buy it. 😄
So apparently people who really know about perfume think BR540 is just bad and a total cash-grab. It's crazy how quickly people fall for the hype. At that price point it would have to be something phenomenal with high quality ingredients, which apparently BR540 is not made of 😬 pretty scandalous IMO 🙊 I can't imagine the imposter syndrome with MFK 😅
Baccarat Rouge is worth the hype my first big purchase and it was so worth it can’t see where you coming from on this one I fell in love on first sniff🤦🏽♀️
Body chemistry.
Also climate. Perfumes don't bloom the same in any kind of weather.
Yeah its something about it , very Addictive
Tastes are different. Not everyone likes the same stuff. I'm also not a huge fan of BR540. It smells like a dental office to me. However, it's also completely fine that you love it
Worth the hype , yes, smells gorgeous, can’t justify that price point tho. I could never spend that much when there are so many that smell similar
@@janetn9942 you should try Mason Francis Sight I bought a small bottle for 115 last me a while a lot cheaper
I have been LIVING for dior homme! I love it so much and I get a lot of compliments. Next time I put it on at work imma look out for the lipstick note lmao 🤣
I could not agree more about MFK BR540! At last someone said it! Same for La Belle. It feels like all the hype is generated by influencers. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon I suppose.
So freaking true! I jumped on that dang train and fell off🤣 la belle made me smell like wood 🤣🤣🤣 you are so right to hyped up
Hi, Julia. It's nice to see you making fragrance vids. It's so funny because I love BR540 (Extrait is better, IMO) and La Vie est Belle. I get a lot of compliments with both. I'll always have those two in my collection, but I tend to like dark and mysterious fragrances more. Hypnotic Poison is a fragrance that isn't for me but many people love it.
It is funny because BR 540 isnt that sweet to me. It always confused me when people said it was sweet. I guess it is and I just don't smell it. I like it.
I agree. Not sweet to me either. I hate it though.
Not sweet at all to me!! At. All.
Totally agree on the Baccarat Rouge & LVEB! I only have a limited edition of LVEB just so I can feel like I can wear it without blending into the crowd. I mean, they’re nice, but slightly generic yup
Love your honesty! I tested Baccarat Rouge in store the other day and got the exact same feel as you, glad I'm not the only one lost amidst the hype.
I'm so glad to see that someone is keeping it real about these fragrances. I appreciate that so much and glad that I didn't buy the 540. I got the Ariana Cloud because people were saying that it's a dupe and that's good enough for me. I bought 2 of those.
Thank you for such a great, informative and honest video! Ive been told I’m an odd ball when it comes to fragrances, I’ve driven myself crazy trying so hard to fall in love with these hyped up fragrances. I haven’t tried baccarat rouge 540 yet, but I do not like any Chanel fragrances, not one! I do love Dolce &Gabbana original, but the intense version smells like a porta potty to me and the list really goes on and on. I do have some I love and adore which are pure poison, Dylan blue, Tiffany & Co., and a few others. That’s why when I do find something I love I hold on to it for dear life because so many others are such a turn off to my nose.
Interesting.i don't find La vie est belle eau de parfum generic at all.
I completely agree with you on the MFK 540! I ordered a sample from the MFK site to test the hype about it. I personally think Arianas Cloud and Burberry Her smell so much better at a fraction of the price.
I highly agree with you on all except olympea. It’s my favorite “generic” smelling perfume I love it 😁
I think people like the Baccarat rouge 540 because it makes them feel like they have money..My husband hates this perfume on me......also it doesn't last on my skin, is a huge pass for me..Julia you look beautiful. Glad I found your new channel.Hugs from FL.
I bought Baccarat Rouge late in the day. I was prepared to dislike it, and guess what ? I love it !!! That fir resin note is really attractive
Julia! So happy to see you again! I know it sounds odd - as we’ve never met in real life😃 but to me it feels like seeing a friend after a long long while! I have been following you along since the early “make up” channel. Recently have gotten into fragrances and I love seing you here! Subscribed 😀 for MFK - I actually love and appreciate BR540 and I know many people don’t feel the same thing in it, having become or being anosmic to the molecules. For me it is magical and nowhere near anything I had known before it. However 100% agree on La vie est belle 😄
This! I really, really hate LVEB!! Can't stand it. It's too sweet and boring. I do loke dome sweet perfums, but that I just can't get behind.
Really loved this video!
This video was awesome! 🙌
I always hear people comparing BR540 to cloud or Burberry Her but I dislike both of those perfumes so I've never even had the desire to smell it.
You hit the nail on the head with la vie est belle, just simply sweet and cloying.
I do like JPG la bell but I think it's overpriced and it actually makes me carsick 😂
I do like olympea but to me this is such a simple, crowd pleasing scent. It doesn't smell like vanilla to me, just a musky beeswax scent, very similar to Roberto cavalli (signature), in my opinion.
I still love perfumes but I've lost a lot of interest in blind buying because I end up returning/selling more than keeping.
Thanks for the great video!
I always think avoid blind buying if you can, it’s always so hit or miss
I love LVEB and got the 200 ml lol. I only wear it when it gets really cold because it is better worn in the winter. BR540 extrait is better than the edp imo.
I agree with every secnt you mention it's amazing review I can't under stand how this scent become so haighed up with this price and so senthtic nots
Hi Julia, love this kind of videos)) it always proves that we all are so different and that's the best part of it!
I hate Versace's Cristal Noir 🙈 I know it's one of your favourites but I just can't stand it))) also La Vie Est Belle is too strong in her sweetness and I feel it on too many women. Mugler's Womanity - wanted to love it because I like everything I've tried from this designer house but it results to be the only hate😄
P.S. have you tried H&M fragrances? They don't cost a lot but some their edp are very interesting (I have Black Papyrus which you should like) and long lasting
Greetings from Tuscany!
I haven’t tried the H&M perfumes I‘ve never actually seen them in my country so I think they aren’t available here.
@@juliagrafperfumes136 neither here in Italy, I find them only online so it's always a blind buy
We must have the same nose because I have the Baccarat 540, la vie est belle and JPG and thought there was something wrong with me when I couldn’t find the big deal about them. I just can’t like them. I bought them over the hype. You got a new subscriber.
Subbed to you! First video of yours I've seen. I could not agree more ! Love this!!!!
Two of my favorites are the first 2 you don’t like! 🤣 but that’s okay! I just found your channel and am really enjoying it! Lately, I’ve become so intrigued by the world of fragrance, so I have a goal to learn as much as I can. 😊
Definitely agree on La Vie Est Belle. If I'm going to buy Lancome fragrance it's definitely Tresor Midnight Rose for me. Smells so good. Though lately I've been super obsessed with Michael Kors Wonderlust. I got it from Scentbird and I've used almost the whole vial in three weeks.
Thanks for sharing!!
There used to be a perfume back in the 80's or early 90's called Jordache Looks I think and the Lancome one you mentioned always ALWAYS smells like it to me. In fact, there are a lot of perfumes that smell like that. In other words, if anyone remembers Jordache Looks, it was a cheap perfume, no more than a few bucks. *Looks hard at the expensive perfume makers, "This is not a compliment."* Any perfumes that have vanilla always smell the exact same, it smells like the vanilla perfume from Bath & Body Works. Again, cheap. I can douse myself in a bottle of vanilla extract and get a better response. A perfume I absolutely HATE is Obsession. The dark musky smell of it is so close to bad body odor, sweat, that it makes me gag.
I use to have Jordach the burgundy one, it was a gift from my older sister when I was in mid school.
@@kazzuo32 there were a few different ones. The Jordache Looks one had a bright neon pink bottle with geometric patterns, popular in the late 80s and early 90s, especially in box sets at Christmas, usually packaged with Exclamation perfume.
@@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead ohh ok I remember only the burgundy and a blue one but that was probably in my island. Yes I think was 84 or something 😉☺
I don’t like 540 or la belle. I have really tried w both. Sadly they dont work for me. I do like LVEB still. Jury is still out on olympea
Agree with a few of these. I decluttered LVEB, La Belle & Olympea Legend. All sweet nothing special.
I agree with you.
I couldn't find anything special about those fragrances at all and couldn't understand the hype about it either.
I blind bought Cloud based on the insane hype over it & BKR. It’s horrid. Like you said, insanely sweet, synthetic, and ALSO sickeningly medicinal. I also kept thinking like what am I missing?
I'm the same about BR too. it's boring, boring, boring! And seems to be like Pink Sugar although i've never smelled that one.
I can’t stand Baccarat Rouge and I do not get the hype! It completely confuses me how people could love it. So - in total agreement with you. Generic, synthetic like crazy!
I am sensitive to perfume. I love it and have strong dislikes because it makes me ill at times. Love to hear what you recommend to see if I can possibly use it.
I’ve heard Glossier You & Juliette Has A Gun- This Is Not A perfume was unoffensive. But, I know for a fact that Baby Powder by Demeter’s fragrance library has never made me nauseous.
Really enjoyed this😁👍I just can’t do BR540, La vie est belle....
I blind bought La Belle after all the hype and although it’s pleasant enough, I just found the lingering sweet smell a bit much so sold it on. I use to really like Olympea but for some reason I’ve gone right off it. MJ’s Decadence/ Divine Decadence both made me feel nauseas...all
I got was dem pickles!😆 Oh it’s a funny old perfume world!
Never bought into the 540 craze myself. Regretted spraying it on immediately, don’t find it remotely unisex. Kind of a sweet cotton candy type of blend you’d expect a 12 year old girl to rock. Not the impression I’m going for. ❤️❤️
I agree, it's not a truly unisex fragrance...
THANK YOU for the support of synthetic vs. natural.
No animal should be tortured or killed for luxury goods.
Natural might SOUND nice, but the reality of it can be revolting.
I hate Delina. It smells like watered down version of Armani Si or Dior Joy. And Bacarrat is just bland and boring. I prefer Noir by Tom Ford (I find them quite similar).
I haven’t tried this perfume, but from what I’ve heard from others, the “eau de perfume” smells completely different from the “extrait perfume” and that’s the one people rave about
I have a sample of the Bacarat Rouge extrait and I really like it. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive..
Yes based on the reviews, I got a sample of the extrait which I really really like!
Personally I’m tired of hearing about Delina but to be fair I haven’t actually smelled it yet so I can’t say for sure. It does sound unique with the rhubarb note but it’s so overexposed, I’m over it already, haha. 😆
I think it’s another overhyped one. Pleasant but not like OMG BEST EVARRRRRR 😂
Honestly I thought the same (I do not like to follow trend or hype) but when I smelled Delina Exclusif It was love at first sniff. At first I was like no way I spend so much money for a perfume. But I became obsessed and the scent is really divine (refined and delicious). A beautiful rosy-vanilla scent.
@@Afrohairlicious I have heard good things about the exclusif! I am curious to try that one.
Trust me honey,it smells like lychee flavoured candies,gave me headache,hate that!
I hate Delina, it is way too sharp, the rhubarb is sour, and it smells like BO. I don't get the hype at all.
Hi Julia I totally agree that for its price tag BR540 should be more complex. And la Belle is soooo so so sweet just sweet after pear goes away. I had similar opinion on LVEB however recently I bought a partial bottle and since wearing it all over I started enjoying sweetened patchouli.
THANK GOD! Somebody else who feels that way about MFK. First I couldn't even smell Baccarat Rouge. Which is normal and I felt like I was missing something. I purposely bought the oil perfumery one because it doesn't have the ambroxan in it so I figured I could at least get a hint of what others are smelling. Dude, it smelled like sugar to me. I don't like cotton candy and I don't like this. To me, I like sugar when you put it with stuff, like chocolate. Same thing going on here. Then I started smelling his other stuff. It was either boring or smelled like shit (looking at you Oud Satin Mood). I like Oud and this thing just smelled like formaldehyde dissecting animals to me! Totally agree on the La Vie Belle and these boring scents. They're like "perfume." This is a bottle of "perfume." Like, "soda." Not a brand just that thing done basically. And yes, most fragrances use synthetic notes as a lot of notes, you wouldn't even smell them if they used the real thing. I think a fragrance comes off as synthetic when the bulk of their notes are made up of those types. I hate to tell people this, but a lot of time natural and synthetic is more political vs. reality. Natural does not equal better. Like cyanide is natural, don't know that you want to use it in big quantities. Molecules don't know if they were created in a lab or in nature. Bees "manufacture" honey, doesn't mean it's not a natural process, but we consider manufacture a real industrial process. That's different. Sort of. But in the end, they're molecules. I also think labeling has a lot to do with this. 50 dollar perfume smells "synthetic" and a 400 dollar one doesn't because people perceive it that way.
Olympea is straight up metallic sandy salt. That’s all I get. It makes me nauseous.
I've always been an underdog lover & am turned off my most things that are very trendy & popular which now is BR540, LVEB, Black Opium but the worst is that darn Delina by Parfums de Marly
Cloud is one that I keep trying because it's so cheap and well loved, but it just disappears to me. I don't even smell it, it just tickles my nose hairs and leaves this weak lotion-y smell behind. I think I'm broken
Hi Julia, I seen several videos that say that “Red Temptation” from Zara is an almost exact dupe for Bacarat Rouge, specially after watching Tommelise‘s video about it I decided to blind bought it, even though I don’t enjoy sweet perfumes; and I must say now I really like it 😀 not so much the opening notes; but I like the fragrance after the perfume dries. I probably never buy the original bacarat perfume though 😝
I love Hermes un jardin sur le nil, sur la.lagune and monssieur li but I don't like li's initial scent but the dry down is sooooo fresh!
I have been your subbie because I like how you present your videos but we don’t have same taste for perfumes. Except LVEB, I love all you hate and I have them all. I don’t believe in “hype” (whether under or over) because different people have different taste. What I don’t like in perfume community now is that it seems like “reviewers” are copying each others collection and just giving same opinion. So boring!
Thanks for watching :) I guess we also succumb to the hype of other reviewers and want to try fragrances others talk a lot about ;) I don't think it's necessarily done intentionally.
I agree with you. And nobody talks about older parfums.
i hate BR540 too. thnx for being honest lol. But the OG Dior homme, that's a love but the reformed one is just boring and main DNA totally changed. the more popular though are dior homme intense(love it) and dior homme parfum(discontinued now).
Never tried BR540 but want to see what the hype is about, same with Oud Satin Mood. The popular fragrances that I loathe are Joop for Men...the pink liquid and Mugler’s Angel.
I totally agree about La vie est belle and Olympea, they're both generic boring in my opinion... I couldn't smell any salty note in the Olympea, it's just plain sweet to me. I haven't smelled the first one you were talking about and can't recall the scent of the remaining two but nevertheless I think it's a pretty cool video!
Liked it before watching! And then saw some of my favourite perfumes mentioned there 😂 La Belle is the only one that doesnt give me headaches after a full day of wear. And I'm planning to get Olympea, I like that salty vanilla.
Agree with LVEB.
Olympea also doesn't work for me...lol
I agree with you on Baccarat and Dior Homme …
It's funny the Lancome was one of the first perfumes i bought. So I really like it. But it smells like chocolate on me. And it was one of the first big girl perfumes i bought. But I totally see it being very boring and generic lol especially now that I've been following your videos.
I love to watch many CZcamsrs reviews about perfumes and you are the firts one that said that BR540 smell generic or sinthetyc 😂😂😂 yeah I am totally desagree with you. I have BR540 and I did not buy it for be overhype but because I got a travel size firts and it worked amazing on me.
I tooootally agree with you on BR540, it's the note that competes with the cotton candy that I don't like. It's that one very annoying note that I don't know what it is.
It's difficult for me to understand the hype of BR540. The smokey cotton candy doesn't bother me - it's the ambergris and that bandaid note that I find unbearable.
I also can't stand Good Girl and think it's heavy and cloying. There's everything but the kitchen sink in that fragrance.
Yes! MFK is overrated *to me* and all of the Parfum de Marleys. Do not get it at all. And... I gave my La Belle to my 9 year old. Yawn 🥱
I truly appreciate this video, because I thought I was the only one thinking those thoughts... Thanks ! Especially with la vie est belle .. to me I've always said I must be missing something out. I don't like it. I really really don't. And many other generic parfums. I think a perfume needs to be absolutely unique to be phenomenal.
Totally agree on La belle. Another hyped up at the moment in fragrance community that I don’t get the hype is D&G The only one intense.
I almost bought it 🤪 now I‘m sort of glad I didn’t
BR540 is not worth the price, I was expecting more from this scent. It’s not terrible and far from being the best.
I do agree with you about MFK Baccarat rought 🤮🤢. I think it too smell like metal (iron), im not enjoy at all. Why it so hype?
Thanks for making this video! I took notes because a lot of the perfumes you mentioned are so hyped and I was actually thinking of blind buying BR 540. The only perfume I tried on the perfumes you mentioned is La vie est belle. I was glad I just bought a travel size one coz it was too strong for me. You know that perfume when you spray it on and then immediately want to rinse it off? yeah it's that perfume and I was actually afraid to come too close to my colleagues that they would smell me.
Glad it was helpful!
The perfumes from the line called Samba...!! no no no!!! it is like almost all are the same with a bit of something extra added but they don't have a story to stand out individually.......Julia I will love if you could make a video about Chanel perfumes, like from your point of view which are like the most memorable to choose from......thank you always for your opinions and guidance!!
My exact thoughts on BR540, I really don't get it!
Sometimes your nose does not smell what other people smell. Aventus make me nauseous, but my wife loves that smell.... My wife wears Portrait of a Lady .. I think that it's the worst. I hate Layton (to me it smells like Ben Gay) but people around me love it.... It all nose chemistry and genetics....
I agree with you on all, except the first one which I have never tested. Everyone smells so ordinary, boring and like an old Britney Spears perfume that very young people use.
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Haven't tried La Belle ...i am not into JPG bottles
I totally agree with you about everything especially LVEB where l live in East Africa but one that l really like is black opium 😝🤦🏾♀️..
I 100% agree with all of these
I hate that they reformulated the Dior homme I’m in love with the old blue gray version I know it’s discontinued but you can still find it online
Yeah I heard they kinda butchered it 🤥
I am not drawn to LVWB and I expected more out of BR540. However, my mom really liked BR540.
Men love old makeup smell Dior Homme parfum to me is the best smell ever!
MFK br540 - sweet cloing and sour smell
La Vie Est Belle - way too sweet and burned caramel
La Belle - I have not smelled it
Olympea - tacky, sweet and generic
May I ask you to do a video on parfumo? There are no swiss sections and since we cannot ship fragrance abroad it is not easy for Switzerland based people to use the page. At least for me. I am very curious about your tricks and stories coming from your experience
I have only purchased from there, not sold...
P.s. your highlighter is gorgeous!
I can’t stand B540.. took it back to Selfridges the hype was too much, it doesn’t even last on the skin.. RUBBISH.... Finally someone that spoke the truth.. it’s just not good xx
Hope you’re doing fine. You haven’t posted for a while. Take care.
Thank God someone dislike BR 540
To me MFK BR540 smells like sprarkling water with a bit of sweet, very strange and nothing special
It smells like the doctors or dentist office . I don’t smell anything else . I don’t even smell the sweet part at all ! Barf 🤢 😂
Ughhh I really don’t get the Baccarat rouge hype either. It’s the most boring slightly sweet scent. That’s all. Ppl are idiots.
One perfume I don't like is Dior Addict, it's too strong for my nose 🐽😂
Baccarat Rouge smells... exotic. But no the good kind of exotic, more just like odd. Tries to be a lot of things at a time and it's confusing and so in your face.
I agree with La Vie
To much of a melange of notes without a breakdown of notes
I think it would be more appealing if there was a top, middle, base note that developed separately overtime instead of just the same scent throughout, on my skin anyway
I have tried to love Chanel no5 but it just doesn’t work for me; it’s too aldehydic
Try Chanel 5 Eau Premiere, this one is really beautiful.
@@elisabeth400 I will try it
Thank you
@@debpeb854 🤗
@@elisabeth400 I tried no5 Eau Premiere
Love it ! Thank you, maybe FBW
@@debpeb854 I am really happy you like No5 Eau Premiere! 🤗
I completely agree
La Vie Est Belle Intensement is great
Can’t stand pink sugar. Noooooo. Sickly. Also LVEB too sweet! Same with the Ariana Grande perfume. Just dislike them.
Delina from Parfums de Marly is another one----totally mediocre, and way over hyped!
It's just "meh" it's fine- doesn't warrant its price tag!
🤣 true!
Do you know another fragrance with rose and rhubarb?
I'd like to try that, but would never buy delina except if I got a deep discount on it.
@@digitallocations1423 Ricci Ricci by Nina Ricci is a great floral rhubarb scent and it's super inexpensive on fragrancenet. Another rhubarb that goes in a more unique direction is Female Christ by 19-69.
I love your make up...
La vie est belle smells like an old lady in her 80/90s
I’m with you 100% don’t get this sugar sweet burnt sugar ……..💁
same goes for me with 540
i mean really VLJ have more character
Agree with all !!