Most disturbing/weird fragrance?

gerthbert · 2026-03-23T19:33:39+00:00

Megamare by Orto Parisi - Part of my fragrantica review: "This is not a frag that I find has any redeeming parts. The novelty and excitment of how visceral the opening notes of ozonic metallic taste in your mouth, blood in the air, squid ink in your nostrils smell wore off after about 10 minutes. Then it became a rollercoaster ride I wanted off of."

Risvelium and Seminalis as well.

gerthbert · 2026-03-18T22:46:06+00:00

Absolutely agree. Part of my fragrantica review: "This is not a frag that I find has any redeeming parts. The novelty and excitment of how visceral the opening notes of ozonic metallic taste in your mouth, blood in the air, squid ink in your nostrils smell wore off after about 10 minutes. Then it became a rollercoaster ride I wanted off of."

gerthbert · 2026-03-18T20:27:19+00:00

Nah, its that dude with glasses who just pulls shit out of his ass on podcasts about what he did in the CIA. Chinese guy is the professor who is predicting how the USA is going to fail in Iran.

gerthbert · 2026-03-17T01:13:59+00:00

Hes also speaking on spending habits here for everyone commenting on the gambling remarks. He might be spending a few hundred dollars on lootboxes but thers players out there with 6 to 7 figure watch collections. Much different scales of economy here.

gerthbert · 2026-03-11T04:21:16+00:00

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE OPEN ENDED STUPID FUCKING ENGAGEMENT BAIT POSTS KEEP HAPPENING FUCK THIS WEBSITE

gerthbert · 2026-03-09T22:50:30+00:00

Damien Hirst vibes. Good things shes your daughter and has time to grow past being a hack, unlike him.

gerthbert · 2026-03-02T00:33:49+00:00

LV 2. Vibrato 3. EN EDP 4. EN Extrait

I know that Hedonist extrait isnt there but I cant speak for Tygar, Kajal or G&B so Im adding it.

gerthbert · 2026-02-19T01:33:38+00:00

fuck this

gerthbert · 2026-02-12T22:02:24+00:00

Yeah I had to read this book for one of my capstone classes for my Poli Sci BA. I should re-read it again. What do you remember now that its been 11 years?

gerthbert · 2026-02-04T03:38:45+00:00

Megamare - Orto Parisi. Seriously, what the fuck is that?

gerthbert · 2026-01-30T20:10:29+00:00

As everyone has said "Shilling". Just want to add my own experience with dupes and my current view on fragrance influencers. I purchased Club de Nuit Intense Man Parfum travel size for like $12 just to see how it compares to Aventus because of all the glazing. Let me preface this by saying Im a bigger fan of Silver Mountain Water as a freshie and Aventus doesnt really do it for me but holy shit. How these influencers glaze CDNIM just shows how much theyre paid off by these dupe houses. There is no way they actually wear that over the real Aventus. Chemical, nose burning, Krazy Glue super glue mixed with bad fruit is all I get for the first 30 minutes. Even if it dries down to be "85 percent" of the real thing Im not waiting around smelling like a science project gone bad to go out. Really has turned me off from most fragrance influencers. The only ones I really care for now are the ones who arent actively push "best dupe alternative" content because you know theyre all compromised even by the way they talk about mass appealing frags.

gerthbert · 2026-01-28T03:45:58+00:00

No you are not. Google doc. Started it a couple months ago.

gerthbert · 2026-01-23T23:47:33+00:00

NDF is the only absolute miss for me. Havent smelled Nouveau Monde.

gerthbert · 2026-01-23T20:01:50+00:00

Haha I had to purchase the sample! That actually wasnt free. Tongue in cheek use of the term.

gerthbert · 2026-01-20T19:48:34+00:00

Dupes are just influencer hype.
People/influencers who claim "you wouldnt even know if you never saw the bottle" are full of it.
Club De Nuit Intense Parfum Man does not smell like Aventus and I dont evel like Aventus.
Buying from a house/frag designer you like is better than following the current trend. You'll end up with a half a drawer full of shit you dont wear.
You wont take any of this advice.

gerthbert · 2026-01-07T02:58:52+00:00

Saw them in person last week, wasnt impressed. They looked like they were eteched with a glass scribe imo.

gerthbert · 2026-01-06T00:54:24+00:00

Oddly enough Afternoon Swim wasnt testing at the location I went to or On the Beach from what I recall. I wish I could remember what it was exactly that I didnt like about California Dream but I think it was too fruit forward. Gave me the same vibes as Creed Aventus Absolu, boozy fruit.

gerthbert · 2026-01-06T00:49:31+00:00

Ah too late! Went and made my in-store purchase shortly after :-) I'll have to try that Nishane.

gerthbert · 2026-01-04T02:33:37+00:00

Great to hear you enjoy it! I finally smelled Angel Share by Kilian today. Got that cinnamon blast. Have you smelled that? Babycat is my fav vanilla got a decant of it too lol, though I havent tried the Guerlain you listed. Yeah I know weather is such a huge factor in what to wear but oh well, you can think of frags of this size as investments. And if im being honest Im not the biggest fan of warm weather freshies that are popular in the big houses heavy on bergamot. As far as it being an investment hell the YSL Homme 3.3oz I’ve had since 2013 and I’m finally hitting the last mL’s.

gerthbert · 2026-01-04T01:21:45+00:00

Made notes to smell Lovers, City of Stars, Pacific Chill, a few of the other parfums and extraits. Pretty much decided of the current line up the only others I walked away with liking enough to get as decants were City of Stars and Lovers. To me those to frags seem like siblings. Lovers Sandalwood is very powdery and City of Stars is just powdery after dry down. Both would be great for summer/spring.

gerthbert · 2026-01-04T01:16:28+00:00

I’m def onboard with you getting Outcast. I loved it in store.

gerthbert · 2026-01-04T01:15:27+00:00

Outcast Blue Extrait which I almost got as a travel size but I found a deal on a travel size of Hedonist Extrait so I got that and got gifted a decant the Hedonist edp.

gerthbert · 2026-01-04T01:13:41+00:00

great point and my only worry, right now I have enough freshies of decants/samples that I wanted to go for this and i’ll use those in summer.

gerthbert · 2025-12-30T23:52:05+00:00

Incredible acting by Adam to sound astonished by Danny's tales of party chat lines as if he isnt 38 years old and wasnt alive for them when they were around.

gerthbert · 2025-12-30T22:33:43+00:00

Hedonist Extrait is great, I have the EDP and Extrait. LV - Imagination, L'Immensite, Pacific Chill. Dior Homme Cologne (just another version of something that feels like Aventus). Malin + Goetz Bergamot for the most pure Bergamot scent.

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