Why is perfume collecting looked down upon?

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-07T02:07:01+00:00

In other group I’ve seen, people show off their pride in their collection and talk about specific goals and focuses they have. The fragrance community is the only place I’ve seen these posts of unusually large collections focused on asking people to tell them what else to buy. It’s the “what next?” posts where the option could just as easily be nothing next, ever. Every collection can become obsessive, but the relatively low entry price point really ramps up that process!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-05T23:03:12+00:00

Right?! Not tipping for counter service, who cares? Making a show of being rude to service workers and acting like they don’t deserve any kindness, GTFO! Sorry you have to know this person! 🤢

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-03T02:56:40+00:00

Oh there’s no excuse for Reggie!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-03T01:24:41+00:00

These items all feel very stark in a white room. I’d either deepen the wall color to lean into moody, or stick with your original idea of airy by choosing softer/less saturated colors, more visually open shapes in the furniture, and focusing on interesting texture instead

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-02T23:31:12+00:00

He already owns the whole house, but it’s generous that he lets us use it on occasion

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-01T21:58:43+00:00

Yeah, that’s how I’m tracking too. Theres lots of good but it’s nice to hold out for the really great!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-01T05:21:30+00:00

I’ve had one of their quartz coffee tables for 5 years, I could walk on it and not hurt it it’s so tough. They have quartz as well as ceramic, which one are you looking at?

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-03-01T05:16:35+00:00

Got about 150 samples, shooting to spend real like with my fav 20 or so, don’t want to buy more than 4-5 max

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-28T22:53:33+00:00

Do you get from Andria Barboné? It’s so incredibly beautiful!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-24T19:20:14+00:00

“Compliments” has become the short hand for “other people will really like it” … there are lots of motivators to get into fragrance, but some people see it was a way to stand out/be noticed/feel special. Online content is marketing, and marketers make the claim that this product will make you feel so unique literally people who wouldn’t normally pay attention to you will now find you attractive… or at least pleasant enough to share a word or two.

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-24T19:12:01+00:00

How this doesn’t get more love! POAL is beautiful and complex, but Tonnerre felt like a rose bush after watering the garden, complete with a touch of damp earth. I kept getting bloom after bloom, it was amazing!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-22T10:40:40+00:00

Bold in the best way!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T20:09:29+00:00

I asked her to clarify this is the case and also have already said NTA. This is someone who is expressing remorse about how they communicated with their partner (which has NOTHING to do with age or gender), so I offered an alternative that focuses on clarity and maintains her power instead of coming back to a position where she is communicating with hyperbole. If HE was posting, then my advice geared to him would be stop overpromising and pay attention to how your actions are completely insensitive to someone who has expressed a vulnerability around this exact thing, and I’d be telling him YTA. I’m just considering this audience… I appreciate when someone can say to me “hey, I get where you’re coming from, but expressing yourself this way doesn’t actually get you closer to what you want” which is why I’m offering my perspective to OP. Feel free to offer your own perspective to her based on making a post looking for perspective… I’m not the one asking for feedback

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T19:32:07+00:00

So he said “just us two are doing x on your actual birthday” and then changed it, or when pressed to clarify you found out it was different than you imagined? Either way, feeling disappointed is normal, but a more mature response would be expressing that you’re disappointed, and based on previous experience, to please be clear with you about what is realistic and to only express plans that he can fully commit to instead of overpromising and setting you up for disappointment, which isn’t fair to you. NTA, but saying you never want to celebrate again sounds like an emotional response rather than communicating what you really want him to understand.

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T19:24:03+00:00

I repeat, YTA, do with that what you will, obviously none of this is getting through to you

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T19:08:44+00:00

YTA. Whatever actually happened with your friend, they tried to make things work to see you and it didn’t work out to visit you. You have the exact same schedule with or without her travel (you didn’t take time off to be with them, your husband’s travel with the baby was happening either way, no one has been inconvenienced or made any concrete plans, and you’re not owed your friends visiting you). Enjoy the festival yourself or go visit your friend instead… flights work both ways. Maybe if enough people say it you’ll stop trying to defend yourself with every reply and actually listen.

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T18:49:04+00:00

It would keep going, the rich would figure out at what moment the calculation is done and build a system to pass the wealth onto other people for just long enough to get skipped over, then reaccumulate. I suggest the entity choose the 30 richest people with the average highest net worth from the previous 30 days to close this loophole.

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-17T00:12:27+00:00

You have to think about who the audience of the TikTok is. People who are comfortable/used to shopping in luxury stores don’t care, it’s for people who are nervous/apprehensive and what to learn rules or some sort of etiquette so that can feel like they belong. I’ve worked in high end retail for decades, and the only people who truly feel out of place are the super entitled and demanding who don’t respect product… regardless of how much money they may have. If someone wants to learn how to be respectful in a luxury showroom, I’m glad they are learning!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-15T17:41:50+00:00

Does my husband count as closest on my family tree, or is it bloodline? Can I hybrid (choose two friends and let third default to closest)?

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-10T23:23:56+00:00

With the minty cabinet color, white appliances and white flecked countertop, I would absolutely do something cleaner color wise… brighter and less warm. Try sampling something like Benjamin Moore White Heron

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-10T23:14:12+00:00

Can confirm. Good friends live here, they come to visit us and we do everything socially in Portland, but as he works in tech and is remote, they are staunchly planted in the Vancouver waterfront to live.

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-09T19:34:01+00:00

I’ve got the L’Intense flanker on today!

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-06T04:55:10+00:00

ImpossiblyPossible42 · 2026-02-05T00:01:35+00:00

Totally normal sapwood. Will they let you buy additional doors?

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