r/NichePerfumes

Thoughts on these? La fille de Berlin, L'orpheline, Ambre sultan, Féminité du bois, Nuit de cellophane, Santal majuscule, La religieuse, Fleurs d'oranger. $80 8x4ml.

I'm a guy who likes Oud, leather, incense, Gothic, wood, amber, conifer type scents. Dislikes are dominate floral, powder.

King Blue by Amouage. A yes or no fragrance for you and why? Also, what should my next pickup from Amouage be? I'm torn between, Silver Oud, Woods Symphony, Boundless and Decision. I really need help here xD

Sorry for the parfumo screenshot, i'm not home right now and can't take an actual pic of the bottles. I didn't plan on having a niche only collection but these are the ones that spoke the most to me out of the ~200/300 i sampled so far (been looking into fragrances for the last 5-6 months) and i feel like i have most situations covered. I'm definitely into vetiver/green/incense notes. Any recommendations on stuff to try based on my taste?

They smell nearly identical to me

Sure there's some minor differences like Burlington has a cola vibe (smelling the most complex), Tygar being the freshest and sospiro having that insane projection and longevity (but also very dense)

Do you guys feel owning more than one of this dna is pointless? Am I making a mistake by selling my vibrato?

I just blind bought Frederic Malle-French Lover/Bois de Orage.

100€ was just too good to be true for about 45ml/50ml left.

The notes and reviews look like it is absolutely not blind buy save and seem to hate or love it.

I already own Musc Ravageur and Geranium pour Monsieur and I love them both.

It should arrive in the next few days.

What do you think about this scent and what is expecting me ?

Moonlight Ceremony by Mystikum! I knew as soon as I sprayed it on my skin tbh. It used to be Tyrannosaurus Rex by Zoologist but it leans super floral on me now, then A City On Fire by Imaginary Authors. I am addicted to Moonlight Ceremony though, she's absolutely beautiful.

I have been refining my collection and I recently managed to get a full bottle of Relique D'Amour. I have been gravitating towards perfumes that evoke liminal spaces, abandoned sites;

Serge Lutens - L'orphéline (limited edition); it has castoreum. It's more animalic yet still elegant. Makes me think of someone lonely yet untouchable.

Oriza L. Legrand - Relique d'amour : a strong chypre that opens with a very heavy terebinthe note that reminds me more of cedar than terebinthe. My husband, however, finds it very chemical. It evolves and changes as you wear it, going from cedar to Lillies with incense and wax. It's beautifully evocative. I like it a lot.

Alkemia - Night Sky Scattering Poems: a humid, summer night by the river at midnight. I really really like it. 40cad$+ for 5 ml makes me think about it. It's expensive but very beautiful and evocative. There's iron, petrichor, neroli, cyclamen, cement, musk and Moss.

Heretic - Nosferatu : I am seriously considering a full bottle for spring and fall. Surprisingly wearable, the dirt and petrichor blended with the violet, Iris and Lillies are very complementary and sweet. The labdanum gives it a dirty quality without being overwhelming.

What are some perfumes you think have a similar vibe?

I am very interested in the re-release of the legendary Myths Man, and just ordered a sample of the previous batch, although it hasn't arrived yet. I tend to love unique and challenging fragrances, but there are also unique and challenging fragrances that I absolutely hate.

If anyone has smelled this fragrance or owns it, what are your thoughts on it?

This is my collection.

Been looking towards either Sacred Scarab and King Cobra from Zoologist.
Do you have any other recommendations?

Las Californias by Pomare’s Stolen Perfume

Notes (from the website) : All ingredients from the land once called Las Californias (California and Mexico) to celebrate the shared history and love for the land. Borders can be drawn and erased but our shared relationship to this land is forever.

Ingrredients grown in California and Mexico:

Red Fruits: Strawberries, Vitus Vinifera, Passionfruit, Jamaica, Angeleno orange blossom, frangipani and star jasmine, Mexican tuberose and vanilla, coastal redwood, palo Santo, black copal, tonic bean

I met Rachel, the perfumer behind Pomare’s, and left with a few bottles in my bag, but this was the first one I couldn’t wait to get on skin. I put it on almost immediately just to see how it would open up, like pressing a fresh sample strip directly into warm skin and letting it bloom in real time.

The strawberry in this is really something.

On first wear, it comes through bright and juicy, more like a memory of fruit than a literal note. There’s a jammy sweetness to it, slightly tart at the edges, like a ripe strawberry split open and pressed into warm skin. It almost feels tactile, like the soft pulp giving way under pressure, releasing juice that immediately warms and spreads. Not candy like, not syrupy, just very alive and natural, with that faint green snap you get when you bite too close to the stem.

As it settles, it doesn’t fade into a quiet skin scent in the usual sense. It still has presence and projection, but it takes on this skin adjacent quality where the fruit feels like it’s melting into your body heat rather than sitting on top of it. The texture shifts from juicy and wet to something softer and more diffused, like fruit juice slowly absorbed into warm skin. It doesn’t really transform into florals or woods in a defined way for me yet, it just spreads, thins, and fuses, becoming part of the skin’s warmth while still remaining clearly strawberry, like a ghost of fruit lingering in the pores.

That’s the part I keep coming back to. It’s not shy, but it has this strawberry funk that feels fused with your natural skin smell, almost indistinguishable from it at a certain point. It’s like the scent stops being something you’re wearing and starts feeling like something your skin is producing.

The closest way I can describe the overall impression is real fruit and botanicals dissolving into warm skin. Fruity, soft, and slightly woody in feel, but very intimate in character, like the sensation of touching something fresh and organic and then realizing it’s become part of you.

Sweet, slightly tart, jammy, and smooth, all blurring together in a really natural way, with a soft, almost velvety diffusion as it sits closer and closer to the skin.

Longevity is on the lighter side for me, but it wears close to moderate and beautifully while it lasts. It feels less like a fragrance that announces itself across a room and more like one that lives in your personal space, wrapping around your skin like a thin, warm layer rather than floating away from it.

Compared to other fruit forward fragrances I’ve tried, this leans much more naturalistic and skin bound rather than perfumey or abstract. It feels closer to the sensation of actual fruit juice on warm skin than anything in the fruity gourmand category, and it avoids the synthetic brightness that strawberry scents often fall into.

Overall, it’s a very intimate, skin adjacent fragrance built around a realistic strawberry impression. Not loud or overly complex, but incredibly evocative in its simplicity, a quiet, naturalistic fruit scent that feels more like a lived sensory moment than a constructed perfume.

Photo by me 🙂
God bless yall

here's my current stack of fragrances. it's not a lot, and i'm not sure they're "niche" but they are unique to me. i've collected these over the last 2 years or so. the only one i've been familiar with for longer than that was santal 33.

i enjoy warm, woodsy, earthy tones. my friends all say it compliments my personality.

i say all of that to say, i kind of want to step out and try somewhat of a wildcard. i'm new to this sub, and one i've been interested in from a few looks is the brand "Zoologist", and it's merely off the packaging. conceptually it's pretty cool to see a brand making fragrances based off animals and the art on the bottles is pretty nice. If you're familiar with the brand, please recommend! all comments are welcome.

Have bought decants of Epic Man many times over the years, and with it feeling like the clock is ticking, I figured now is the time to pull the trig on some of the Chong era classics that I don’t own. I found a bottle from 2021 for a good price and figured “why not?”

Compared to the current decant I have, this comes across slightly darker and more animalic…with less of a green+soapy quality, and more of a warm, resinous, raunchy character that gives it more presence. Performance has been solid too. I’ve always heard talks about it being a shell of what it used to be due to reformulations, but I have no complaints.

Very happy to finally have Epic in the collection.

Smiffing discovery sets this week…not that it helped. My low/no-buy isn’t faring so well in Q3 2026. 😩😂

Was a little weary of the new drop from Treading Water the concept of love 3spc with notes of spray paint BUT it is amazing! Never had notes of spray paint but it somehow works.