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.
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IrinaSpalko
Yet, 40 minutes is a long time for waiting, isn’t it? Unless, I misunderstood and you meant that you smell them but you wait 40 minutes for final judgement.
You could also categorize the test according to fragrance families, so all 24 belong to the same olfactory group.
All in all, I find it great that you share your tests and the split into categories …I am looking forward for more 🤗
P.S. When I am in a shop testing perfumes, I usually like to smell the inside of the bottle cups so as to smell the base notes and the general style of a perfume.
In the future I will group themes according to category, but at the moment I am doing this with random choices to only keep the best most interesting scents. I do this to quickly eliminate anything from my collection. (I am aware that some scents don't test well on paper so don't worry! I suspect the skin performing scents based on my own experience or else what is told in the community and will hold them back to judge on my skin.)