New Year's 2025 Perfume Resolutions

Are you making any perfume related resolutions for 2025?  

Mine can be summed up in one word: organize, but there's a few sub-resolutions included. These are:

1. Build new shelves for my collection.

2. Organize collection some how. I'll probably try by house first.

3. Declutter the stuff I really won't wear much going forward.

What are your 2025 perfume resolutions?

Tough one but here are mine 😎

1. No more blind buying bottles

2. Only buy what what i will wear (and what my wife likes too, otherwise she says that i smell bad 🫠)

3. Get more into the notes that i like/suit me more

4. Quality over quantity ✌️

best wishes for 2025 👋

Great I love this!

1. Right now I’m aware that I buy a lot of discovery sets, I want to put a brake on that a little bit but I do want to continue sampling first. It’s so so so so tempting to buy stuff blind.

2. I want to focus on what I really like. Not what’s challenging, not what everyone else thinks etc. I do enjoy some barbershop cheapies lately so I might go deepening that out.

3. Use the tracker on this site lol. Next year I want a good representation of what I wear. By the way that doesn’t mean what I love most, as there are always special ones that you only pull out for a special occasion. But fun to see anyway.

Peace.

I'm resolving to not purchase any additional bottles in 2025. I've blown through my perfume budget for 2 years running now, so I'm reeling it in and only buying decants next year.

Great thread, btw.

Build my collection to 22 full bottles and no more. I currently have 18. I’m looking forward to exploring and pondering and preparing for those 4 additional fragrances. Any new bottles after that must replace an empty.

Stick to the other guidelines that have made the process so enjoyable so far:

No blind buying.

Budget, save, and spend from a dedicated fragrance expense account. This has been key. If the money is there, it’s mine to spend on fragrance. Yay! The account eliminates any doubt about whether or not something is affordable—even if it’s expensive. I can enjoy my purchases with the full confidence that they are not adversely impacting my finances. (In fact the opposite! Fragrance purchases become a wonderful reward for managing my finances well and encourage me to save.)

Explore slowly. Use decants as a middle step between sampling and full bottles to explore a fragrance further before committing resources to a full bottle. I set the pace of my journey. Slow has its own rewards and fragrance has such a unique relationship to time. Indulge it.

Love what I love. And continue to be grateful for finding this passionate interest that brings me so much pleasure and enjoyment every day.

1: Quality over quantity.

2: Limit my purchases to one per month...(ya, right...)

1. one bottle of perfume or 100$ worth of travel size, decants and/or discovery sets per month.
2. be more mindful and strict when sampling. not everything has to make it in my collection.
3. appreciate the collection I already have.

Not necessarily a new year's resolution, but I want to reduce the size of my collection even further. The past year I have been following the "sell two, buy one" rule and the number of bottles in my collection went down from 100 to 40. I aim for a collection of 20 most precious gems by the end of the year.

I currently have 18 perfumes. Next year I want to finish at least 3 so that my collection goes back to 15. I also do not want to buy more perfume, I already have everything I need in my current collection. I regularly forget to put perfume on, so I want  to get more consistent at wearing perfume.

Hmmmm, my 2025 perfume resolutions...

I promise I'm trying to avoid the terrible mistakes that I've done in the past, so: definitely no decluttering or getting rid of perfumes that I'm thinking I'm not needing (I'm most likely going to crave them back at some point in the future anyway), and I'm hopefully not going to finish any bottles so that I wouldn't need to worry about running out of my prescious favourites (which means pretty much every single thing in my collection).

I promise to wear whatever I want whenever I want and give my wonderful bottles all the attention and care that they deserve.

Happy New Year all dear Parfumo perfumistas! 🥳💖✨

I' d like to say I'll stop blind buying, I'll set a budget, blah blah. Who am I kidding?  I won't. So my resolution is to keep indulging in my love for scents safely, sanely and consensually. Get more 9ml samples (my favorite size) rather than random full bottles and read about perfume. I went on google scholar and found a few very interesting book titles I want to explore. I ll make a list and get to it. 

Happy new year to us all. I will be welcoming the new year here in the US of A with class and style: Amouage Gold Woman and combat boots. 

Know what to wear and when is a big one. 

No more impulsive blind buys. My collection is all but complete anyway, and I want it to be small and consist of things I love. Maybe one more wouldn't hurt. 🤔

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. I've been making that resolution for 3 years now with limited success.

Hi and Happy New Year to all of you.

1° - Dry January, so no buy this month.

2° - Finish at last 3 bottles this year and not replace them.

HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone🥰❣️ and what a nice thread, thank you @Smirky!

1) Like many: No more blind buying! (I'm already getting better at that )

2) Experience scents for a longer period of time before judging them (I tend to get either too enthousiastic or too negative about perfumes too soon sometimes)

3) No more decisions about buying perfumes, based on smelling them in a perfumery where all kind of scents linger so you can't really judge a perfume (I seldom do that, but sometimes I make that mistake despite knowing it is not a wise thing to do)

4) Sample some niche perfumes to explore more scent profiles (I seldom can find anything I like in perfumeries where they only sell modern designer perfumes).

5) Bring all perfumes I don't wear to a second hand shop (I prefer to do that instead of selling them because it will make me more mindful about 'over consumption' and I like the idea of people with low budget being able to get them).

Sure, no blind buys, but further, no buying from stores in person. I know that I need several wears to know if I love something, that’s why I get 5ml samples at home to try over time. Buying after one application right at the store is asking for trouble (for my nose). 

I wrote my resolutions on my profile as a reminder for myself as well, but to expand on them:

1. Do not buy new samples until I get my untested ones down to at least 30 (and then repeat once I get a new batch). I was a bit too enthusiastic with buying them compared to the rate at which I use perfume and it got overwhelming.

2. Actually use the logging feature (both here and on BN).

3. Keep myself to no more than 1 fragrance purchase a month, within a budget.

Happy New Year to everyone (:

I sure can identify with that one. Tons of samples and sampling interferes with wearing the fragrances I do own and love.

@Smirky Exactly, I want to wear the scents I do love and have full bottles of. It's hard to find a balance.

I'm a newbie to fragrances, my other hobby is everything vintage and historical costuming. My resolution for 2025 is to revisit old classics such as the ones of Guerlain or Chanel. 

Oh for historical, you really should try Mitsouko Eau de Parfum It is so reminiscent of libraries, theater, museums etc. Very unusual but oh so beautyful!

It's definitely on my list ❤️

Nice! I am currently "working" on the same theme. As one of my resolutions for 2025 is to NOT buy in January, I am making lists.