r/NichePerfumes

My new obsession. Please help me feed it x

I’ve been thinking about this lately because I’ve always noticed smells more than most people around me. Not just perfume, but also food, laundry detergent, bookstores, someone walking past wearing cologne, even the way different seasons smell outside. I got into fragrances a few years ago and now I notice notes in perfumes way faster than I used to. My friend wore Oud Maracuja by Maison Crivelli the other day, which is my signature scent, and it made me realize how much attention I naturally pay to scents during the day. It was giving me a comforting vibe and I don’t even know why. Maybe we notice smells more than average people do. Do you think fragrance people are naturally more sensitive to smells, or do we just train ourselves into it over time?

Hi!
I really like my solid “Lord of Misrule” perfume from lush, but I was wondering if there was any similar smelling spray perfume out there? Any recs would be appreciated!

Looking for fragrances that smell like a real vanilla bean.

Not the sweet cloying ones but a real cured vanilla pod like what you can buy in the supermarket. They have some sweetness but they're also a bit musky, spicy, and sexy.

The closest I've found so far is initio absolute aphrodisiac and I love it but it's not quite the vanilla bean scent.

Any suggestions?

hi! my gf bought me a bottle of Ffern perfume for Christmas (Spring 2026 bottle), but the scent is a little too green for me. I want to sell on a different subreddit, but the brand is a small-batch perfumery. I'm asking for advice on whether people actually know about this brand and their general thoughts and feelings about it!

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I've always been really picky about mass market perfumes, and in the past few years have gotten into niche and started figuring out what I like. I've gotten a ton of "weird" samples over the years but have bought very few full bottles, and I think they all have in common that they smell... Kind of dirtbag in some way? Not truly *weird* but often kind of divisive. I generally like: Rose, lavender, violet magnolia, citrus, Amber, civet, gasoline, tobacco. I never want to smell like: Jasmine, vanilla. I want alluring but a little off-putting or dirty or like... The morning after when you should be wearing something lighter but you're still in last night's perfume and mascara.

The perfumes I have a full of are:

Cherry Punk, smells like eating pie in a gas station at 3am in a leather jacket while smoking a cigarette

Little Song, smells like little old lady alcoholics smoking and drinking stale coffee in the back of an AA meeting but sexy

El Cosmico, smells like rain in the Sonoran desert where I grew up but like... The specifically gasoline smell of creosote

A perfume someone made for one of my characters (I'm a romance novelist) that's rose/lavender/lemon but is best described as "Vampire Grandma."

I've got about 25 samples in carts right now and am just looking for anyone's ideas about scents that smell like bad ideas/the hot masc you shouldn't go home with but the bar bathroom light is alluring and summer nights are long and their motorcycle is fast.

BDC headache

Ysl hero headache

The one headache

Bohemian lime headache

Bdc,ysl y, angels share, most modern aquatics and on and on and on....

Most anything with "beast mode" longevity reviews= headache.

I think its maybe a combination of stronger fixatives and heavy amber in the dna.

So.... on to the things that have been enjoyable to my nose with no negative side effects

Everything rogue....i only really loved Chypre Siam, Fougère L'aube, and Bon Monsieur but nothing in the discovery triggered headaches.

I enjoy le grand chypre from b&m, blackwatch from spearhead(designed by shawn from chantillion lux and maher olfactory) burberry London and brit for men original spice bomb, don't bother me in the least.

My wife has loved and utilized some ELDO scents over years and they don't bother me, while i don't wear them i enjoy them(i am trash, balcon, above the waves)

So cutting to the chase after that long-winded intro....what would you fine people recommend i try next as far as makers/ designers/ houses that are making nice scents without crazy amounts of projection, strength, perfumers alcohol, amber, fixatives, whatever, that might sit well with sensitive scent receptors like mine. I'm fine reapplying when needed. I don't care if people smell my purchase across the room or if it has a recognizable name or fans or if it's multi dimensional.... Just enjoyable nice scents that aren't full of screech.