r/PerfumeAdviceDaily

Hey everyone,

Sooo my best friend and I recently started a perfume brand called OffNote and we wanted to get some honest opinions from strangers on the internet before we get too deep into building it 😭

The idea behind the brand is basically to “embrace your off.” We wanted the perfumes to feel more like personalities/emotions rather than just a list of notes.

We currently have 3 perfumes:

Aura  -  our “expensive hallucination” scent. It’s confident, attention-grabbing, luxurious, slightly dramatic, and made for people who want to be perceived.  Very .. like “you noticed me and yes that was the point” energy.

Unfiltrd  is softer but emotionally stronger. Feminine, composed, warm, elegant, and self-assured. It’s less loud confidence and more “I know exactly who I am.”

And 

Imprints  - clean confidence and dependable masculinity. Polished, attractive, versatile, emotionally steady. The kind of scent that feels put together without trying too hard.

We’re trying to build the brand more around feelings, identity, and vibe psychology rather than just “top notes of bergamot and vanilla” type marketing.

We have till now only Launched the Aura perfume and the samples.

Would genuinely love honest feedback around what do you like what do you diss like

a. does the concept make sense to you? 

b. Do the perfumes feel emotionally distinct?

c. Does it sound interesting or too pretentious 😭

Alsoo this is our Instagram page : (https://www.instagram.com/o.f.f.note/), would appreciate your review on this as well..

(just for an "fyi" purpose, we're both working and and like haven't gotten a lot of funds to invest, and we wanna do no face marketing, we are trying to use ai as well to make the images for marketing purposes.. but yeaa )

Be brutally honest if needed. We’d genuinely appreciate it :)

I got banned because I used the word females… because my posts pushed the boundaries of some peoples comfort levels.

With this type of moderation we ruin communities and the chance for very diverse conversation.

I think it is absolutely hilarious and congrats to the moderators for being so user friendly 🧍🏼

I really can’t, for the life of me, figure out why certain notes are delicious in one fragrance and a hard, resounding NOPE in another.

On paper, some of these should have been perfect for me. I like woods, incense, smoke, vetiver, moss, petrichor, orris, amber, tobacco, sandalwood, weird atmospherics, and dark florals. And yet. Some of these betrayed me.

Starting with the misses:

Apoteker Tepe — Kogen
Composition: Yuzu, pear, ginger root, sweet birch, hinoki, peat, vetiver, incense, smoke, hiba cedar, pine needle, green oakmoss, kuromoji/spicebush.

My opinion: This smells like straight mouthwash to me. Based on the description, I should have loved it. Yuzu? Hinoki? Peat? Vetiver? Incense? Smoke? Sounds incredible. But no. My nose said Listerine. The scent is very strong and lasts for HOURS, possibly an entire day. Thankfully, I sprayed it on paper and not on my skin.

Apoteker Tepe — Karasu
Composition: Costus root, Siam wood, hinoki, smoldering paper, cardamom.

My opinion: This smells like what I imagine a dirty crow’s nest would smell like. Just overwhelmingly animalic and nest-like to me. Another hard nope. I will say this for Apoteker Tepe: these perfumes have lasting power.

Space Fluid — Narcis Nocturne
Described as mysterious, immersive, and unconventional.

Composition: Narcissus, oakmoss, leather, styrax, raspberry, tobacco, patchouli, sandalwood, caramel, rhubarb, mandarin orange, black elder, cedar, osmanthus, vanilla.

My opinion: This was the worst one by far for me. The top notes smelled like someone pissed in a drawer full of spices. The heart notes made me imagine sitting in a Ford Pinto hotboxed with weed while someone decided to show me their cracked, dry heels. The base notes were barely there, more like vague hot skin. Also a nope.

Now for the YES, MORE, PLEASE category:

D.S. & Durga — Black Magenta
Composition: Pink pineapple, galbanum, black pepper; orris concrete, magenta dianthus, orange flower; black amber, Balkan tobacco, sandalwood.

This smells pleasantly edible to me, but not in a juvenile candy way. More like dark fruit, black amber, tobacco, sandalwood, and something velvety. It’s weird, but delicious-weird. I keep wanting to smell it.

Confessions of a Rebel — Rebel Jasmine
The brand describes it as sensual jasmine with sparkling ginger, orange blossom, velvet tuberose, and emerald moss.

This is one of my favorite jasmine scents. It is strong, but I love it. It gives me lush, humid, night-blooming jasmine rather than polite shampoo jasmine. It feels alive, warm, floral, and carnal.

I also have Heretic — Jasmine Smoke, which I do enjoy, especially layered with vanilla. But Rebel Jasmine is the one that really hits my jasmine pleasure center. To me, Rebel Jasmine is jasmine as the main event: lush, full-bodied, sensual, and blooming at full volume. Jasmine Smoke is jasmine seen through smoke: pretty, resinous, tobacco-tinged, and more atmospheric, but the jasmine feels more veiled.

So I like both, but for different reasons. Jasmine Smoke is more ritual/incense jasmine. Rebel Jasmine is more hot, living, narcotic jasmine.

Heretic — Nosferatu
Composition: Lilac, ambrette; petrichor, violet absolute, orris concrete, cypriol; vegan ambergris, oud, labdanum.

This one is gorgeous to me. Cold, damp, stony, violet, ghostly, and atmospheric. It smells like rain on old stone with a pale purple floral edge.

The magic combo for me is:

Black Magenta + Rebel Jasmine + Nosferatu

They are beautiful by themselves and somehow just as gorgeous all together. Rebel Jasmine gives the lush white floral body, Black Magenta gives dark edible amber/fruit/tobacco warmth, and Nosferatu adds rain, wet stone, violet, and atmosphere.

The only frustrating thing is that when I wear them all together, the scent doesn’t seem to last as long as I expect. Maybe I’m going nose-blind, maybe they’re diffusing differently together, or maybe the combination is just more atmospheric than forceful. Either way, I can’t stop sniffing it.

Because D.S. & Durga seems to do “weird but delicious” really well for my nose, I’m now curious about Jazmin Yucatan. I was initially nervous it might go wrong in the same way Narcis Nocturne did, but D.S. & Durga’s style seems to work better for me. Even Coriander, which I worried might be too sharp or spice-drawer-ish, ended up smelling delicious to me — only slightly less than Black Magenta.

So Jazmin Yucatan is next on my list. I’m hoping for humid jasmine, green heat, limestone, jungle air, and temple ruins rather than sweaty plant water or body-funk disaster. Anyone here have experience with it? Also let me know if your experience of any of these scents are different than mine. I'm super curious about the differences between my olfactory sensitivities and another person's. Love, hate, indifferent?

Perfume is wild. The same note can be heavenly in one bottle and an absolute biohazard in another.

Perfume for College

I’m starting college this year and I’m looking for a good everyday fragrance.

Right now I’m considering Calvin Klein CK One (200ml) or CK Be / CK Black, but I’d love some recommendations.

I already own quite a few perfumes, but I want something fresh, versatile, and easy to wear daily for college.

I’m 19M.

You can also check out my collection on my profile if that helps with recommendations.

So I'm a 17 yo guy and I've only recently started trying to look good and stuff, unlike others I've never been into all this. But now that I am into the world of dressing sense and can finally dress nicely enough to get compliments, I figured the only thing I'm lacking now is a perfume of my own that turns some heads.

As I said, I've never been into perfumes and scents so I don't have any knowledge over all this, I want ya'll to help me on this.

What I'm craving is something that-

1. Is budget friendly. As it's gonna be my first time trying stuff like this, I don't wanna just go all out. So please don't recommend me something luxury lol.

2. Is unlike other perfumes. I wish for people to be able to identify me by perfume or cologne like "oh it's his perfume". (If possible idrk 😭)

3. Must be available in India, I'm not looking for international shipping and stuff just to smell good. I live in the capital of India so pretty much everything should be available here if it's available in India

4. Should be wearable for pretty much every occasion (OR I'LL BE REALLY GLAD IF YOU RECOMMEND ME A NICE SET OF PERFUMES TOO, that I can wear accordingly to occasions)

Please do upvote the recommendations of other people in the comments that you approve of, I'll choose among the ones which have the most upvotes or sound the best.

Thanks! :>