So I’ve been lurking on this sub for a few months but thought I’d finally bite the bullet and post. I thought a nice way to start would be to share my fragrance story and
my collection that has suddenly engulfed my bedside drawers since COVID hit this year. 🤯
I’d love to hear your thoughts - tell me what you love and throw shade at some of my choices too if you like! 😏
Family and Fragrance My relationship with fragrances developed mostly through visits to perfume stores whilst on family holidays as a kid. Once a year my parents and I would make a pilgrimage find a perfume discount store in whatever town we were visiting (there was always at least one!). I would follow my parents around the fluorescent aisles as the two of them tried endless spritzes in search of a new signature (if they could get one for a bargain).
As far as I can remember most (if not all) of the choices were made by committee, it had to be solving we all liked! To be honest I can’t actively recall the smells now but some of the bottles, logos and marketing campaigns seem to be burned into my brain. Particularly my dad’s buys around this time - total classics like Givenchy Pi, CK Eternity, Cool Water. 💦
I would sniff too but for most of these trips, I was considered too young to wear a fragrance. However, it was clear I liked clean, fresh and inoffensive, and when my time came I took home... you guessed it... CK One. 🍋
The One(s)? I wore CK One for years and it seems that distant relatives were given hints so bottles came thick and fast at birthdays and Christmas. I still have a few unopened 😬
In my late teens and early twenties, I got a little less fussy and cycled through a bunch of hand-me-downs from dad as he cycled through his own signatures. At one point the gift-listed bottle actually switched to Armani Code! 💼
Fast forward to 2017 and I visited an exhibition called Perfume at Somerset House London that really opened up my eyes. They had art installations inspired by key fragrances and lots of ways to sniff and explore as you walked through. At the end they had a perfumer demonstrate the blending of notes in an interactive demo.
I came away from the whole experience in awe and was particularly intrigued by a fragrance that I’d buy later that year and that I have worn almost exclusively ever since... Molecule 1 😳
I love this fragrance and it got compliments regularly enough for me to think I had finally found THE one! One time at an art gallery someone complimented and asked what I was wearing. When I told them it was Molecule 1 they got super embarrassed, saying they had complimented someone wearing it before and that it must have implied something more since the fragrance was supposed to be quite reactionary to the individual wearer's skin! 🙈
Self-isolated Sniffing Fast forward again to March 2020. I happened to be running super low on Molecule 1 and happened to be at a big department store so I thought I’d see if they had it at a decent price. I ended up trying all the other fragrances from the brand and left with a bottle of Molecule 2 in my hand and a patch of Molecule 3 on my arm that I sniffed the whole way home. 🚗
When I got home I ordered the Escentric discovery set and ... then the UK went into lockdown.
Perhaps I was seeking a bit of socially-isolated sensation (or just continually testing my sense of smell!), but whilst working at home each day I’d apply a couple of scents from the Escentric set to different parts of my arms. I started to learn about their characteristics and read up about notes and ingredients. 🔬🎨
I felt like the fragrances from Escentric gave a great primer on some key aspects of fragrance and now I needed to expand my outlook. My inner completist had me research ‘classic’ fragrances for men and I ordered Guerlain Vetiver, Acqua Di Parma Colonia, Pour un Homme de Caron, 4711 and L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme. Once again I spent days trying them on different parts of my arms, slowly learning the smells whilst cross-referencing the notes listed online (I loved them all btw!) 💚💛💜💙🖤
The Collection Well, it all went downhill (or skyrocketed??) from there. I bought some more classics, some recent ‘hits’ and a bunch from what might be my overall favourite value brand atm, Versace.
So far since lockdown, I’ve bought around 20 bottles - some blind, nearly all ‘on sale’. 💸
The picture here shows the full collection so far. A mix of some of those hand-me-downs and gifts I mentioned earlier, some of my old favourites and some brand new faves. 🥰
I’ve laid them out here in an arrangement that kind of makes sense to me as a map of their fragrance profiles (I wonder how you might reorganise these??) 🍊🌺🌳
I don't have a nice cabinet or something so the bedsheet will have to do!
I'm still spraying different things each day while I work from home and love the interplay that sometimes occurs. For example, a sudden a vetiver kick from Encre Noir on one wrist quickly offset by a burst of fruit from Fico di Amalfi on the other.
The majority of these really do make my heart sing, though there are a few in here that I’m not really in love with, even though I don’t hate them (some of the spicy/peppery ones in the 2nd/3rd rows, guess which!). And, yes... there's one that I do occasionally find offensive. Ccan you guess which one? 🤭
Over to you! So, I’d love to hear your thoughts!!
Are any of these your favourites? 😍
Do any make you 🤮 or just 🙄?
What genres and styles am I missing out on completely? 🙈
It’s getting a little tight for space so maybe you could help point out where I could downsize? I know there are a few with a lot of overlap... 👯♂️
Full list by brand: 4711: 4711 original edc 💙
Acqua di Parma: Colonia, Fico di Amalfi 🧡
Ariana Grande: Cloud 💜
Burberry: Weekend for Men
CK: CK One, CK One Summer 2019 + 2020, Man, Eternity for Men, Contradiction for Men, Obsession
Caron: Pour un Homme 💜
1881: 1881 pour Homme
Davidoff: Cool Water
D&G: Light Blue Eau Intense (tried Pour Homme and hate it, love the F version) 💙
Dunhill: Icon Racing (blind buy from vlogger recommendation, meh)
Elizabeth Arden: Blue Grass
Escentric Molecules: Molecule 1, Molecule 2, Molecule 3 💛
Giorgio Armani: Armani Code, Diamonds Black Carat for Men, Emporio Armani He
Guerlain: Vetiver 💚
Hane Mori: HM
Hermes: Eau de Rhubarbe Ecarlate ❤️
Hugo Boss: Boss Bottled, Boss Bottled Infinite
Issey Miyake: L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme, L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Intense
Jean-Paul Gaultier: Le Male (aftershave version? Think this was from a gift set, splash bottle I can’t find online).
L’Occitane: L’Occitan EDT 💜
Lalique: Encre Noire
Montblanc: Explorer, Starwalker, Individuel
Paul Smith: Paul Smith Men
Penhaligon’s: Quercus
Salvatore Ferragamo: F pour Homme Black (another blind buy from vlogger, think this irritates my skin)
Ted Baker: Skinwear
Tom Ford: Noir Extreme 🖤
Versace: L’Homme, The Dreamer, Blue Jeans, Man Eau Fraiche 💛💙
Not pictured:
Discovery sets from
- Escentric Molecules
- Memo Paris
- Replica
- Burren (IE)
I also have some random samples from Tom Ford and Killian and really wish I had the money to buy from these brands. Very tempted by Eau de Soleil Blanc atm. 🥥
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