help me choose my birthday perfume

help me choose my birthday perfume 0

hello! my birthday is coming up and I (fully grown adult) have been allotted one birthday present. i decided to get a bang for my buck and choose some perfumes that are out of my price range, however, i cannot for the life of me choose. obviously everyone has different tastes, and i certainly stray from what most people find agreeable (grass, gasoline, and moss are my favorite scents) but i thought it would be fun to take recommendations.

here is a list of a few I was looking at

Buen Camino Eau de Parfum

So Maek

Gay Oppa

Cape Disappointment

The Point

Murkwood

if you were me, which would you choose? i have yet to sample Cape Disappointment, Murkwood, and Buen Camino, so they will all be blind buys if chosen (the only one im iffy about is Buen Camino)

also, if you have similar taste to me (i know a few frequent posters do) which perfumes would you get instead and why?

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Really cool selection! 👀 and happy upcoming birthday! 🤍

I have tried only Murkwood from the list, and it's one of the best Pineward scents, in my opinion (and it is on my "to-buy" list), but you have to love patchouli. I love Pineward, but their scents are not a blind-buy.

I heard really good things about Clue Perfumery, so I would probably go for that one 😀 I would really stay away from blind-buys and pick one from those you already tested!

I will leave some recommendations here, just in case you ever feel like sampling some stuff 😀

If you want something with ambergris, I just tested Atlante from Sarah Baker, and that one left quite a positive impression on me!

As green, gasoline, and moss are your favorite notes, here are some scents with these notes that I found good:

Oriza L Legrand Chypre Mousse (THE green farm / forest scent)

Fischersund No_101 (really weird mean, green, and cold vanilla, the official description is like smoking a cigarette sitting on a plastic chair outdoors in Iceland) or Utilykt (I would describe it as a cold, mossy, ozonic, and grassy rhubarb, in the best way possible; not everyone agrees on the "rhubarb" part, though) - I love what Fischersund does with moss and ambergris, their No_23 is one of my two signature scents)

WienerBlut Klubwasser (my new holy grail of green scents - it smells exactly like peeling unripe green bananas or breaking off a banana leaf - and I am obsessed with it)

LVNEA Ghost Pine (really, smells like a pine tree that is also a ghost 😀 lighter and greener than Murkwood but similar vibes)

Not gasoline, but Alkemia Industrial Sabotage is a very interesting smell that is true to its name

and if you ever feel like smelling something WEIRD - Nekro Dellamorte has a fuel note

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valhelsingv

Really cool selection! 👀 and happy upcoming birthday! 🤍

I have tried only Murkwood from the list, and it's one of the best Pineward scents, in my opinion (and it is on my "to-buy" list), but you have to love patchouli. I love Pineward....

thank you for the wonderfully detailed response. i did decide to go with The Point, it's genuinely a fantastic scent. i was expecting morel map to be better, but the point is just lovely, it's hard to dislike! im on a no buy right now, but when it ends, i'll get some pineward samples... i love pine and i appreciate how committed they are to the scent, but i also could see how some of their scents would be polarizing. i've been eyeing Chypre Mousse (2013) for a while, it's been recommended to me a lot... one day i will get my hands on it. thank you!!

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