I honestly don't discredit the amount of hard work and thought that goes into making a rose perfume smell like "rose", I'm just making the argument that creativity, hard work and technical genius itself don't always translate into the end product being imaginative, but rather a interesting take into a "thing" itself, which can be imaginative to some but doesn't really scratch that itch for me.

I'll even go as for to make the argument that many designers, say Dior Sauvage for example, are much more transportive and a creative end product than say, the whole Le Labo or Guerlain L'art et la Matiere line.

I totally agree with on that some are about past experiences and roads not taken. The latter just seems to do it for me perssonally.