r/Fragrantica

Marked as a meme just because it’s funny.

My family knows that I’m a bit of a cologne snob and I request colognes all the time (celebrations/birthdays/christmas and the like) as a gift. Two past years’ Christmas I was gifted colognes on top of colognes and told I couldn’t ask for anything until I finished them all. Well last week I opened my final gift bag and beholden I’m blessed with a core men’s collection SAVAGE extrait from my mother. Not a EDP or EDT just an extract probably from TikTok’s but no I’m not ungrateful.

It smells practically the same as Sauvage Dior and granted she knows very little about these things so I love her all the more for it. I made the joke to her that it is a “odd find” and that it’s notoriously known as the man-wh*re cologne. She’d said she’d known and the fact that she tried to look into colognes when I know she doesn’t care for them or knows a lick of the lingo means all the more to me.

This bottle here will mean more to me than any cologne that’s been gifted or that I’ve bought beyond memory and preference. I’d wish it never ran out just off her sentiment.

Sorry if this is the wrong Reddit I just love how she didn’t have a clue but got me the closest thing she could find.

(For context my mother is Spanish speaking with very little English knowledge and nothing further than HS diploma but the woman tries her best in anything for me or my siblings)

I was given this perfume as a party gift from a school I attended in Florence. I assume it’s produced locally but I don’t know what it is. A man at another perfumery said it had a strong scent of chocolate.

Check his perspective about Fragrances, it made me think about the perfumes and what we called collecting is a hobby.

Pessoal, alguém aqui já teve a oportunidade de experimentar o Fire Snake, da In The Box, e o Effervescent Summer, da LAB8?
Pelas notas, achei os dois muito parecidos: manga, limão, gengibre, frutas vermelhas, cumarina, madeiras, oud, almíscar e nagarmota.
Estou com a possibilidade de ganhar um perfume da In The Box e, inicialmente, estou pensando no Fire Snake. O que mais procuro é muita projeção, boa fixação e um perfume fácil de agradar e que renda elogios, sem aquelas notas muito difíceis ou que dividem demais as opiniões.
Para quem já conhece os dois: vocês acham que são redundantes? Qual dos dois tem melhor performance e qual recebe mais elogios? E, se vocês acharem que existe outro In The Box que seja ainda melhor para esse objetivo, podem indicar também.
Queria muito ouvir a opinião de quem realmente já usou os dois na pele.

Just pulled the trigger on this one.

I have never had the opportunity to smell or test it, but some people I know really (as we already know) hype it up

Can you guys give me an honest opinion?
I would appreciate if you elaborate to the best of your degree as in if overhyped why and if the hype is justified for that matter

It’s supposed to arrive in a few days and I’m simply interested in where the community stands on this one atm

If anyone is interested in that 1907 lmk only used once 8 sprays

Hi community, I ordered this Jean Paul Gaultier Le male le parfum from myntra guys. It came through myntra noww yesterday.
this is my first expensive designer perfume. But i feel kind of disappointed with the purchase. Guys who have used this perfume pls help me out.
I feel that the perfume is very dull and narrow in performance. Today i tried it for the first time, the fragrance is okay to good level (not extraordinary manly as i was expecting). After 2-3 sprays, i feel that it is not enough even i barely smell it. Yes my nose didn't get tried, even in the beginning the smell was quite narrow or dull. I found that the performance was good, it is there 6 hours at least but the projection is not that great i felt. ALso i did not felt any difference in the opening, mid journey and dry down.
I am new to all this, i dont if i got a fake bottle or something. THis scent won some best fragnance of the year in men's segment few years back if i am not wrong. I dont know what to expect. Kind of disappointed with it. Maybe i need to give it more time.

What do you guys think

Important: The attached image is an AI-generated reconstruction based on my memory. It is not a photograph of the actual perfume bottle. The overall proportions, dark purple glass and faceted shape are approximately correct, but the cap, sprayer, neck and exact arrangement of the facets may be inaccurate.

I am trying to identify a women’s perfume that I encountered when I was a teenager, probably sometime between the late 1980s and the 1990s. The fragrance itself may have been released earlier.

What I remember about the bottle:

• It was short, wide and approximately as tall as it was wide.
• The body resembled a faceted gemstone or irregular polyhedron.
• It had several large, clearly defined facets.
• The glass itself appeared to be dark purple, plum or lilac, rather than clear glass containing purple liquid.
• The glass was transparent or semi-transparent.
• A conventional spray mechanism under a cap.
• The name may have contained something resembling “Velvet” or “Violet,” but this is a very uncertain memory.

My memory of the scent is less reliable. It did not seem very sweet, gourmand or woody. I remember it as relatively clean, soapy or shampoo-like.

The perfume was present in Russia, but I do not know whether it was officially sold there, imported privately or purchased at a market.

I have already searched Fragrantica by bottle colour and reviewed many vintage perfume databases and marketplace listings.

These are not matches:

• Elizabeth Taylor Passion
• Dior Poison
• Thierry Mugler Alien
• Chopard Casmir
• Boucheron Jaipur Saphir

Passion has a somewhat similar colour and faceted glass, but its flat, fan-like silhouette is different. Alien is too recent and has a different facet structure. Casmir uses clear glass with amber liquid.

I am looking for the exact perfume, not a modern fragrance with a similar scent. Any suggestions or photographs of possible bottles would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone know the weight of a completely full and completely empty Issey Miyake Le Sel d’Issey Eau de Parfum 150 ml refill? I’m trying to calculate how many ml are left in mine