Fed up of weak fragrances

First off I am no professional and only have a modest collection but still a collection that people say is one of too many. 

I too don’t think I need as much as I have but I have this urge to try find my next fragrance that will be one of a new experience to me.   For example when I tried my first of the fragrances that we call “Blues” and in my case was Dylan Blue from Versace my day was made, my feeling of joy from a fragrance was one I had never experienced before. I was absolutely thrilled that I had found a fragrance that could bring such wonderful emotions all from the smell that came from the press of a button and a burst of pleasure as the fragrance filled my senses. I used to buy fragrances when I was younger but never did I feel a response like I did to Dylan Blue and in doing so I now find myself striving to find the next fragrance that will illicit the same kind of response.

The fragrances I think I could be rid of are the ones that are weak and have no longevity but I know if I were to sell them I would find myself wanting to wear them the next day so end up keeping them. 

I made myself a promise recently that I would stop buying weak designer fragrances  or niche for that matter, but just this week alone I got 5 fragrances of which  4 don’t perform particularly well and I don’t know why I bought them. We’ll actually I do. They were all on really good sales and instead of thinking of quality I was thinking quantity, they have all been in a wish list at some time as well. The thing is even though they were in a sale with the price combined I could have bought myself another of my new favourite niche fragrances from the chef Lorenzo Pazzaglia who got in to creating fragrances around the year 2016 with the likes of Lorenzo Pazzaglia - PAX and his dish that he was best known which was the inspiration for the creation of Lorenzo Pazzaglia-Carbonara 

In all honesty when I get a weak fragrance my first thought is one of “what will I use that to layer with” which is ridiculous that a fragrance is reduced to a layering product. I mean I know there are people who don’t like loud fragrances that can draw attention to themselves but these are fragrances that even the wearer can’t smell without looking like a lunatic sniffing their wrist in public every few minutes bringing another kind of attention to themselves. I don’t know who these fragrances are for, oh wait yes I do, people like me who keep companies that buy up houses and weaken the brand in the name of making money. I think a great example of this is seen in the mini series by Netflix about Halston who is expertly portrayed by Ewan McGregor in which we see a very popular brand known for tailoring to the customer and their needs thereby having a reputation for quality until said house is bought by a large company in the promise of keeping that quality but of course they only care about quantity over quality by the end of the story and us the buyers only help enable this by continuing to buy their products and if we stop they pump out the next flanker and weaken the last one to drive people towards the shiny new thing in hope that it’s better. The problem there is of course that we see reviews from people who own the product from when it first came out which informs us just how great the performance is but by the time you buy it in those incredible sales it’s nothing like it used to be. Then there are some that just pump out weak fragrances on release and they don’t care as people will buy it because of the name on the bottle. 

It is refreshing to find the likes of Lorenzo Pazzaglia with his Extrait De Parfum fragrances for a good price which I believe will go up soon as he is part of Esxsense exhibition in Milan giving him more exposure as he continues to develop new fragrances. 

I have to thank a member of the community Cocopah for helping find him when I was looking for a sweet rum fragrance and she pointed me towards his Van Py Rhum fragrance which is an absolute nuclear power in longevity, protection and sillage. 

So the next time you think about buying a weak but cheap fragrance that nobody including yourself will be able to smell, think instead about how this is putting money in the banks of people who don’t actually care about the customer or they like Halston would be tailoring to us who wear it and not those who couldn’t care less about quality but rather money. Also have a look at Lorenzo’s products as he has quite a variety especially of marine fragrances lol. Seriously though they have been my best 2 purchases in quality recently. 

I should add I am not saying all designers have bad longevity and projection, some are great but one of the main offenders for me has been a house I used to truly respect but the majority of their products I have bought are gone from spray to none existent in sometimes less than an hour and with that said I think I am going to go have a shower, moisturise and spray some of Lorenzo’s PAX.