The scent you disliked the most.

Hi, I want to do a more unserious thread lol. What are some scents (niche or designer) that you absolutely dislike? Just from a personal standpoint, people noses and taste vary a lot so I think I'll be interesting reading the choice of you people.

For me the ones I cant stand at all are

9pm . The smells is too strong and has this sort of weird note for me.

Hugo Eau de Toilette . Smells too green, almost like smelling a leaf of a tree up close.

Asad it has this sort of smell cloud that is sour to me, and the sillage is strong. More that once I had someone flood a bus with the smell

(I have no idea how to add pictures with the links for each perfume on here, so bear with me).

Oud 27 by Le Labo. I joked on Fragrantica that it smells like changing your sugar daddy’s diaper.

Age of Innocence by Toskovat. I’m not one of those people who’s obsessed with hating on gourmands, but how I felt smelling this is exactly how I imagine gourmand superhaters must feel when getting a whiff of Pink Sugar.

Bull’s Blood by Imaginary Authors. Don’t get me wrong, I knew it would be A Lot ™ going in and I respect that, but I did not expect it to smell so sweaty and … intimate? It was animalic but specifically in a very stomach churning way. I also have to add that this was the first perfume to make me actually feel physically ill. So, hats off to that!

Grey Flannel by Geoffrey Beene. This perfume is constantly referenced in Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho as one of the fragrances the finance brokers are constantly wearing. I don’t know if the intention was to convey repulsion, but that scent is unwearable to me.

Funeral Home by Demeter Fragrance Library and Chypre Mousse by Oriza L. Legrand both make me feel like I’m inhaling Flonase. Not only do I hate the smell, but I also get a stuffy nose when smelling them! 

I hate Italian Leather Eau de Parfum like by the notes you'd think it'd be interesting right but the weird ambery leather comes off weird with the tomato leaf, big no for me.

Oh, I'm a hater, it's a struggle to only choose a few, lol.

Hero Parfum Intense. Though it's hard to judge its scent given that it was so strong that I felt like being pepper sprayed while stuck inside of a burning car tire.

Boss Bottled Eau de Toilette. Horrific. Musty synthetic clothing from Temu being resold for twice the price at a shady secondhand store kind of scent. Some more personal analogies that get more and more dark and unhinged as you go kind of scent. No. Just no.

The Tragedy of Lord George. I'm tied down to a chair and a full block of soap is being forced down my throat. Please stop, I'll tell you anything!

Fresh Couture. Smells like the part of my childhood where mother kept mixing cognac with anti-depressants.

Black Muscs. Three unspayed cats walk into a bar. Each orders a shot of nail polish remover.

Wild Pears. Smells like the church ladies from my childhood who kept drenching themselves in perfume and then trying to hit on my father. They really should've paid more attention to priest jokes. The director of the local Sunday school? The leader of Church's youth group? They never stood a chance.

The whole Novellista lineup. I've tested 8 different samples. So Delicious was the worst – like someone mixed nail polish remover and hairspray and threw it right into my face. But all of them were oily, synthetic, and just overall horrible. A valuable life experience if I ever had one.

I could stand here all day talking about the things I dislike, but I think these were the worst. Maybe not by objective measures, but the hatred I felt towards these was the most visceral. But I'm sure there's plenty more childhood trauma fishers and headache inducers around waiting to be found, lol.

Maroussia Eau de Toilette

Sun Eau de Toilette

Poison Eau de Toilette and all it's flankers

Amarige Eau de Toilette

Hibiscus Mahajád

Tubéreuse Astrale

And everything gourmand or vanilla forward.

The only time I've ever felt physically sick from a fragrance was when I was messing around with a tester bottle of Candy Eau de Parfum because I thought the thing on top was a cap and not the atomizer, and I accidentally sprayed some on my hand.

I have no idea why that was the one that did it for me. Never had that reaction before or since.

@axewound
Use the hashtag # then with no space start writing the name or brand name of a fragrance and you will see them. I will add a photo to show you. Scroll to the bottom of my reply .

Versace pour Homme Dylan Blue Eau de Toilette

and as you can see I taped the option for Dylan Blue and now it is here in the post.

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Ok now for my choices

Asad is something I just can’t wear very often

Boss Man Eau de Toilette has this chemical in it that smells a bit like a kid has eaten too much orange sherbet and been sick but after a while it does vanish and starts to be alright

Lao Oud Extrait de Parfum which I smelled the other day and to me smells like this farm institution where I used to go play as a kid, and to me it smells like a mix of sheep, cow and lama poop mixed with wet hay and other unpleasant things found on a farm. I mean it would be great for nostalgia reasons but I would not spend hundreds of £ to smell like that by spraying it on me 😆

Another is Alexandria II Parfum which reminded me of a dirty nappy/diaper that had had some talcum powder thrown on it when I first smelled it. It took way too long for that smell to vanish and the dry down to come for me to enjoy it. I like Oud fragrances especially from Aaron Terrence Hughes but this was just 🤢 If the dry down came quicker I would really like this.

Photo for @axewound …..

Most of the scents I dislike fall into two categories. Either they are just really REALLY boring flankers that smell like everything else in the department store, and on top of that, are not executed well, or they smell like an old man in a bath. The "old man in a bath" image that I get in my head I think is because there is something in these fragrances that smells like how they made soap 75 years ago, and my mind can't help but associate it with geriatrics trying to get clean.

So for the first category my most hated are:
Defy Parfum
Spicebomb Night Vision Eau de Toilette
Y Le Parfum (2025)
Myslf
Valentino Uomo Born In Roma Extradose
Luna Rossa Ocean Eau de Parfum

Second category:
The Tragedy of Lord George
Pelagos
Timbuktu
Le Gemme - Malakeos
Baptême du Feu
Ambre Suprême
(last two are more grandma-potpourri kinds of scents but fit into the "can't imagine anyone under 80 wanting to smell like this" category)

Also there are just scent profiles I can't stand and make me physically gag, most notably the Babycat profile, which Eau d'Ombré Leather is just a worse version of. Sadonaso and Fucking Fabulous Eau de Parfum (also the parfum version) both just smell horrible, like diapers.

There are plenty that I dislike but only one I hate. ("Hate" is such a strong word for expensive smelly water.) 

Portola Intense Leather; not in the database here.  Found it at Marshall's and did a test spray. Made me gag and had to run to the restroom to scrub it off. I didn't succeed in getting it off completely; it's got very good longevity unfortunately. 

Spicebomb Extreme - Straight up Body Odor to me. In fact, I instinctively smelled my own armpit like I thought it was B.O.

This is the only one I hated from top to base. There are plenty of ones that I disliked but can appreciate something in them, but Spicebomb Extreme was a total and complete failure to my nose. A lot of people like it, so I am glad for that.

- A*Men

- A*Men Pure Malt

- Joop! Homme Eau de Toilette

- Alien Man

- Tobacco Vanille Eau de Parfum

- Althaïr

There is a bit of a mugler theme in my disliked perfumes, but after trying A*Men Ultra Zest I was rather optimistic in trying other scents from the brand. I feel they are an aquired taste and one that does not vibe with me. To me, they're some of the absolute worst scents I have ever smelled. Kudos if you can pull them off, but I can't stand them. Especially Pure Malt.

Joop Homme isn't that bad to me, but it should come with a hazard warning. It penetrates the nostrils and kills flies in a kilometer radius, it is super intrusive. It was one of the first fragrances in my collection and the feedback from others was not mild to say the least. Let's just say their dislike feeded my dislike of it over time to the point I stopped wearing it.

Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille is not thaaaat bad, but it smells like a million vanilla candles I've smelled before. Sure, smells good, but walking around a lit vanilla candle gives the same effect.

Lastly, I grew dislike to Althaïr mostly due to the glowing reviews and my love for vanilla, so I just had to try it. Blindbuy worthy, so to say.

but it was a massive letdown for me. Super powdery on me and I would have expected it to totally be something in my wheelhouse but it did not vibe with me at all.

I absolutely despise the smell of eucalyptus. 🤮 

I smelled some mugler/alien perfumes at Sephora and yuccckkk I didn’t like them.

I can’t stand LVEB. I recoil from it. 

Poison Esprit de Parfum and Azurēe (2015) smell like literal shit and piss to me

A City On Fire smells like barbecue

Mr. Pink my review explains why. Absolute trash!

Decadence pickle juice 🤮

Hypnotic Poison Eau de Toilette vanilla farts, sorry 🤢

Nudiflorum Extrait de Parfum gag-inducing 🥴

For whatever reason, for me, it's Kenzo Jungle.  I got a sample as part of a sample set, so I tried it.

You know how when you're about to throw up, your stomach sort of churns and your mouth floods with saliva?  That's what the the heart/base notes of this perfume did to me.  The first few minutes post-spritz were fine - nothing wildly terrible or great.  Perfectly middle of the road.  Once the top notes burnt off, though, it left me with something that literally turned my stomach.  

And what's strange is that the notes listed for this perfume are all things I've liked - or at least didn't actively hate!  I don't get any strong nostalgic punch from it.  There's just something about it that I hated.

Thank you so much! That makes so much sense now! Have a nice night!

Oh Patchouli Magnetik is absolutely the worst. I thought it’d grow on me but it just got worse.

I don't seem to enjoy synthetic perfumes, like Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum and Bloomtea. But surprisingly, the one I hate the most is Sheer Veil. That one provokes a visceral reaction, it's physically painful for me to be around that concoction. Apologies to anyone who enjoys any of these.

Some more perfumes come up while thinking about it, like:

Éclat d'Arpège Eau de Parfum

Arpège (1993) Eau de Parfum

and Lolita Lempicka (2012) Eau de Parfum

silencethesea Eau de Parfum
I'm used to the strong scents like Indian oud..., but this 😫, almost making me want to vomit, the smell of wet dog is horrible !

I'm the opposite of hater 😄 I love most perfumes that I smell and like almost everything. I don't hate any perfumes as I appreciate all of them as works of art, however there are certain personal dislikes for me. For example I would never wear Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum or Sauvage Eau de Toilette, both smell quite unpleasant to me.