What Notes Are You Tired of Seeing in Perfumes?

Ethyl maltol overdoses

That lactone that smells like Teddy Grahams

I am tired of this strawberry tuberose everywhere, like L'Interdit (2018) Eau de Parfum and flankers and clones.

Rose+patchouli - I can get infinite amount of it

Honey. It doesn't work with my skin chemistry. I'm also not that fond of amber-heavy perfumes, because at this point I'm just bored of them. Same goes for gourmands.

Sick of ouds and gourmands in general. It's like there's no subtlety in so much of perfumery anymore, everything has to smack you in the face!

I am really tired of orange blossom. It’s everywhere these days - with tuberose, tonka, neroli or 1000 other combinations 🙄

I support the comments about rose-patchouli. I rarely like patchouli, especially earthy ones. More often they spoil the perfume in my perception. Also I don't like cardamom, musks and notes of cosmetic powder and ambroxan, rhubarb. I do not share the trend for vegetable flavors. If I feel like smelling like soup or salad, I'll go into the kitchen and make soup or salad 😁 In perfumes, this is already too much.

First not that comes to mind is Fig! I can't bare the smell of fig at all. 

i'm pretty tired of vanilla and coconut. two things i enjoy smelling in real life but coconut fragrance often smells off to me and vanilla is so common it seems and stands out to me a lot over the rest of the perfume blend

Nothing, really. There are infinite combinations of notes and the same notes are used differently, so I am never bored! 

Cardamom yes I'm kinda sick of it

Anything Aventus or clones of it. I am so bored to tears of smoke and one other fruit note to accompany it. Was testing Greenley today which smelled fantastic for 3 hours and then there it is. I even scrubbed my hand and i can still smell the smoke. It did have apple with it instead of pineapple which was a change i guess, but god how boring to have gone from something so fantastic to this for the entire day on my hand. I have washed my hands several times, and it is still there. I was absolutely up for buying Greenley but forget it, i am not willing to go for an entire day of dull smoke for 3 hours of something nice!

Actually I don't like anything 'distinct', so no distinct rose (rose seems to be a hype lately?), patchouli, amber, vanilla and so on, for me. I love Mimosa, but not as 'distinct' as in Belle de Grasse, but I LOVED mimosa the way it was done in Summer by Kenzo though (oh, miss that one!). Don't like too gourmand either. And I don't like leather. And in the more citrussy perfumes for summer, I don't like citrus...I prefer lemon, orange, bergamot and so on over citrus to get the fresh, 'citrussy vibe'.

I am getting a little fed up of Patchouli that smells like chocolate and actual chocolate in general.

I don’t mind gourmands that we know are fragrances that have a hint of the smell of food but fragrances that smell purely of food and cross the line from being a fragrance that reminds of us food to a fragrance that smells only of food with the likes of Vicious Cacao is a massive no to me. It’s way to sticky, chocolate drenched in some caramel sauce and I just don’t want to smell exactly like a diabetic’s nightmare.

Something like Tony Iommi Monkey Special with the rum reminds me that it is still a fragrance with a touch of gourmand, or maybe something like Pegasus Exclusif and Maverick (2023) they are examples of gourmands that while smelling reminiscent of food still tow the line between smelling of sickly sweet food and a fragrance that happens to have food aspects to them.

Another good example would be 1 Million Lucky

Litchi, coconut and ambroxan

Vanilla and fruit or fruit and patchouli. 
I wouldn't mind trying them in an interesting and unpredictable combination but so far that almost never happens.

I feel like oud had it's fifteen minutes of fame and there's nothing edgy about it anymore.

Tired of seeing "whipped cream accord" as a note. I mean, it's just a light vanilla, right?

I generally love synthetics, but having dabbled in creating perfumes, I can tell you exactly which synthetics I'm sick of smelling in commercial perfumes, and that is AmberMax /AmberXtreme (or anything similar). I unfortunately have a big bottle of one of them (don't recall which) and I can tell you it is cheap cheap cheap. The stuff smells like a labotomy!

Iris is a love-hate for me. I somehow find it addicting to smell, but at the same time for me it ruins the whole smell by making it too earthy.

I will always say that iris is a love-hate for me. It adds an extra olfactory dimension to the whole formulation, but, at the same time, do I want that extra dimension or do I think the perfume would smell better without it?

The note that I definitely can't get pass through is Leather. No chance for my nose to apreciate that note. At all.

Cassis/blackcurrant in all forms: bud, leaf, and berry.  It all either smells outright of cat piss to me, or at least tinged with cat piss.  

Oh yeah i totally agree about the leather note. It's such a screechy smell to me and I absolutely avoid it for the most part, especially in newer perfumes. It's fine in Shalimar Eau de Parfum but that's about it.

Iris is a huge love for me. However, I highly prefer it to smell prominent and rooty/carroty or lipsticky like in Iris Rebelle . If it's too light and airy it's like why is it even listed as a note?

saffron. i'm one of those people who gets a strong rubber/dentist office vibe from it and im tired of it ruining fragrances i would otherwise love lol

Musk is a bad note in perfume. It makes the perfume round, but does not smell good. There are better alternatives like sandalwood.

Cherry, because I’ve never been a fan of the note.