DogiCocoA question to all the former fragranticans:
Will you transfer your old reviews? I posted a few fresh ones that I had saved on my phone but never put on fragrantica, and I already had to modify them a bit because some of them contained corrections about the wrong notes lists on there 🤣 now I don't plan to dump all my 1000+ old reviews at once into Parfumo, but I'm wondering by which criteria others use to chose what to repost and what to leave in the past.
And oh man, over there I always felt like I wrote long-winded, rambling reviews and had to get to the point, but on here I feel like my reviews are almost a bit simple. It makes sense because they have almost no moderation besides the downvoted, so any pointless low quality "This is a masterpiece!!!! Bought it 10 minutes ago and already love it!!! Compliments 10/10" drivel stays up, but I still find it interesting how different I perceive my own writing in a new context. Wild.
I gotta admit that I find it a lot easier to rate on the love/like/ok/dislike/hate system than to give an exact rating for each fragrance. Do you read reviews without a numeric rating or is this weird? I've never been the type who loves to rate everything on a scale. I always feel like it boils down to too many things getting a 7/10.
And I miss the big symbols for the voted notes a little, it's easier to see what a fragrance is all about on fragrantica. Maybe parfumo could get an option to show the votes on notes in a more eye-catching, clear way someday?But... I'd rather have small symbols than wrong notes on every other fragrance 😅 (or hate speech, or a Julian Assange banner on a perfume website 🙃)
I had almost 100 reviews over there but decided to just delete them. I'm going to write completely new reviews for Parfumo, as the mood takes me. I was at the very beginning of my fragrance journey, so I don't feel those reviews reflect my thoughts much anymore anyway.
I'm trying to get used to the differences at Parfumo as well. One thing I miss are the sheer number of reviews for each fragrance but, as you said, the majority of the ones over there were pointless at best. I had to wade through all that to find the relatively few helpful ones. But I hope that all that will come to Parfumo with time - more reviews, that is, while maintaining quality. The quality of reviews here are so much better. I also like the separation between Reviews and Statements. I may end up writing Statements instead of full on Reviews, for most fragrances.
Rating by numbers instead of like/dislike etc has been taking some getting used to but, in the end, I like it better. It makes me have to give my ratings proper thought which, again, means higher quality of ratings on Parfumo. Of course it's much easier to choose like/dislike and so forth. But I found that I was just putting everything into dislike anyway if it wasn't something I liked enough to buy.
I'm not sure that note ratings over at the other place were necessarily helpful. One thing I do find that I miss is the text from fragrance press releases or whatever they're called. I quite liked those, for some reason, but I'm sure I'll get along without those since they are, after all, just the fragrance house's PR and not much more.
Other than that, I haven't found anything else that I'm missing or wish Parfumo had. Although I've only been here for almost a week, so I'm still getting to know and learn Parfumo myself. I very much appreciate the vibe here, comparatively. It's so much more safe, welcoming, and laidback.
