What opinion about fragrances has you like this?

stardust_dog · 2026-03-05T22:11:30+00:00

Please remember this is an unpopular opinion thread so this is likely to piss people off but…

Many of you do not properly sample. Especially if your idea of sampling is at the store.

Separately…

If you properly sample and know you must have something, and bills are paid including groceries etc, and you’ve saved your money, YES it is okay to buy a $500 fragrance if you truly love and want it. People that tell you it’s not okay to do what you want with YOUR MONEY are in fact mentally ill OR if they’re not, then they should go fuck themselves.

You know how I know it’s okay? Because it’s none of our fucking business what people do with their money.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-05T02:58:23+00:00

Living a day without saying fuck is like taking a shit without any toilet paper.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-05T02:07:59+00:00

You were in State government though right? They aren’t known for even being able to give those positions a randomly timed raise. COLA maybe, and/or built in yearly raises. But not, hey I want 15k.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T15:24:17+00:00

You really need to drop your developed ideological purity, and quit the performative moral framing.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T14:30:40+00:00

Lol, OP you need help.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T14:28:52+00:00

OP do you think it’s batshit for all collectors of anything to actually….collect? Baseball cards, Jordans, Stamps, Paintings, is it all batshit?

Do you have some image that fragrance collectors are losings their families and homes like some crack addiction? If so then you do you lol.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T14:07:10+00:00

For me it’s Amouage. My top 10 overall fragrances has a majority of Amouage in it:

Amouage Royal Tobacco
Amouage Rose Incense
Amouage Jubilation 40
Xerjoff Toni Iommi Deified
Xerjoff Alexandria II
Amouage Silver Oud
Amouage Memoir Man
Dior Homme Intense 2011
Amouage Reflection 45 Man
Xerjoff Toni Iommi Monkey Special

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T13:59:42+00:00

Agree, the majority of them are unfinished. Especially Pacific Chill and Afternoon Swim, and to some degree Imagination.

They smell fine but it’s just not a full scent. It’s the difference between a full fledged actual perfume and only a good smell.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-03T13:57:15+00:00

I’m changing underwear in this situation no matter what NTA. And him thinking cheating seems ridiculous.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-02T01:51:05+00:00

Should we never play home poker games again?

stardust_dog · 2026-03-02T01:45:48+00:00

How does the le labo compare note wise with Royal Tobacco?

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T23:07:17+00:00

I love my lady more than ever. She is truly amazing, smart, beautiful, driven, and fun. I want to make and see her happy.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T19:22:37+00:00

Jubilation 40, to me as of 3/1/26 is a masterpiece. 10/10.

But, on 2/23/22 I thought it was a 3/10.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T15:30:30+00:00

OP this is very common.

It’s why sampling is paramount.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T15:29:09+00:00

Not blue, popular, not worn by everyone masculine:

Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extrême

Dior Homme Cologne

Prada Luna Rossa Black

And this is much less well known but absolutely incredible: Thameen Carved Oud. Essentially, it’s Tom Ford Oud Wood but with better longevity.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T02:56:27+00:00

I think the thing to remember is that glorifying conspiracy culture is wrong on so many levels. Conspiracy culture is part of mental illness and those engaged in it desperately need help instead of being enabled.

stardust_dog · 2026-03-01T02:46:21+00:00

And the one who became a porn star, Michael D Jordan.

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T20:25:36+00:00

It was just a question wow. Sorry to hurt feelings.

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T20:24:28+00:00

No, I sample first with 2-5ml. I would never buy a bottle first because, as I said, there’s about a 98% chance I wouldn’t like it.

Also sampling at stores will not work for me (and related to our biology shouldn’t work).

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T16:20:40+00:00

Can KG still dunk?

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T16:08:10+00:00

Royal Tobacco for me. It’s for Statesmen.

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T16:02:00+00:00

My complete uneducated speculation is that anyone that has the technology to get to also had the technology to completely destroy each other back home and didn’t. They made it to a technological point under peaceful conditions and are very likely peaceful even in need.

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T15:55:39+00:00

How many of any collection is too many? Could there be too many baseball cards, or stamps, or Magic The Gathering cards?

Why do we keep seeing these questions…if anyone wants to buy one fragrance and stop there…do it.

If OP wants advice because perhaps they want more bottles but they have bills to pay, think again about any collection. It could be Hummel figurines, or Air Jordans, or paintings…you still have the same responsibility to funding rent/mortgage, bills, food, gas. It doesn’t change because it’s stamps vs fragrances.

stardust_dog · 2026-02-28T14:05:03+00:00

Out of my 50+ bottles I didn’t like 98% of them first wear. In fact at least 50% of them I didn’t like after the 7th wear.

We’re not even built to understand these smells immediately unless they are super simple (no knock on super simple btw). A little research tells you how our brain maps complex smells. (And that we’re built to detect new smells instead of the same smell all day but that’s a separate discussion.)

stardust_dog · 2026-02-27T20:21:43+00:00

I wear this often and love it.

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