24 Fragrance Sample Card Test - 4 January, 2024

Samples are sprayed 3-5 times on a labeled card. Judgement begins approximately 40 minutes after they have dried.

Cards are turned with the label side facing down and arranged in lines. This is done in a dimly lit environment to avoid judgment or attempt at identification based on the spray stain.

All cards are sniffed through quickly and those in the first three disqualifier groups are decided first, then separated out. The groups being:
1.) Smells like nothing
2.) Smells like something but I’m not impressed
3.) Don’t enjoy or don’t want to smell like

The remaining cards are then shuffled and reordered. They are ranked in groups of three. The best, mid, and least favorite of each group are compared again until final card order is decided.

These are my judgement results - from being sprayed on paper *only* - for the following 24 fragrances:

Smelled like nothing:
- Commodity Paper-
- Commodity Gold-
- Blue Sugar Man (Discontinued Scent)

Smelled like something, but I wasn’t impressed:
- Commodity Velvet+
- Pineapple Musk
- White Diamonds EDP
- Habit Rouge EDT

Don’t Enjoy or Don’t want to smell Like:
- BPAL Amaxophobia 
- Thorns x BPAL Clove Cigarette
- RealOudFlex
- Skin Graft
- Soliflore Orange Flower Oil

Top 12 favorites:
#12 Decades of Fragrance 1930
#11 Commodity Gold+
#10 BPAL Love in the Asylum
#9 Decades of Fragrance 1960
#8 Decades of Fragrance 1920
#7 New Musk
#6 Decades of Fragrance 1940
#5 Chocolate Oil
#4 Decades of Fragrance 1950
#3 Mitsouko EDP
#2 Poesie Madar
#1 Eilish

Special Note: Amaxophobia is one of the worst things I have ever smelled. It makes me feel like I'm stranded on the side of a busy highway while my car is on fire.