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AtlasHugged

NYC-based niche perfumeries

AtlasHugged | Perfume Recommendations

... I'll be visiting NYC next week for Pride, and I know that a TON of perfumeries have storefronts in the city, but there are way too many to make a decision on which stores to visit in my limited time outside of the Pride Festival. I was wondering if anyone on Parfumo, more familiar with the city, had any recommendations for niche perfumers I should visit, preferably around Greenwich Village

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AtlasHugged

21 days ago

AtlasHugged

Preferred decanting services?

AtlasHugged | Perfume Discussions

... As a broke grad student, I have to be very selective about which perfumes I'm willing to buy full bottles of, but I still enjoy trying on new scents and discovering niche perfumers. Unfortunately my university is in a somewhat rural area, so being able to visit a perfume store is something of a "rare treat" reserved exclusively for travel, and as such, I have to rely on online decanters for my sampling needs. A lot of decanting websites, though, have a very limited selection of fragrances, or are challenging/tedious to navigate. Currently my favorite is LuckyScent, but I was curious if anyone else has experience with some other sites that they're willing to share. Which are your favorites?

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AtlasHugged

1 month ago

AtlasHugged

TV shows you would like to see return. Discontinued or not.

AtlasHugged | Off Topic

... I wish Sense8 could have had a little more time to get a proper, well-paced conclusion. The Wachowskis were doing something really special with that show and it's a shame they had to sacrifice their artistic vision for audience closure after Netflix cancelled them.

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Mitchcraft

3 months ago

AtlasHugged

Which notes do you avoid?

AtlasHugged | Perfumes by Note, Accord, Genre

... I can't stand saffron outside of leathery contexts. Smells like burnt plastic to my nose. Vetivers often smell way too overpowering and sharp to me, so I'm usually hesitant to try a vetiver scent. Vetiver can be nice when its meant to accentuate citrusy/fruity notes, but not when it's the dominant note in the fragrance. I really just don't like sandalwoods at all. I wish it wasn't such a ubiquitous note in perfumery. I've also never smelled a fig fragrance I liked much.

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Ringtale

3 months ago

AtlasHugged

Are unisex perfumes just better?

AtlasHugged | Perfume Discussions

... Wusubi Well said. That's what I meant, modern "unisex" perfumery and marketing. You can't put a gender on a scent, but I wish either side of the perfumery spectrum was explored further instead of everything falling into the same pot full of dull, inoffensive and easy to market slop. Can I make the drydown mossier? Nah, have to think about the female audience. More pronounced florals in the opening would be great in this one? Eh, have to think about the male audience, a faint hint of rose it is. If perfumery indeed returns to the likes of Mitsuoko, I'm all for it! I don't care what gender label they put on it, as long as they compose something even remotely thought-provoking. I largely agree with this, but I think that the true "culprit" of this perfumery brain-drain is gendered marketing as a whole (The entire spectrum, masculine, feminine, AND unisex.) If you indicate a perfume as either masculine or feminine, you're inherently limiting your own creativity and selection of materials rather than exploring a "side." Limiting your options can be a useful creative exercise sometimes, but not when an entire industry is using the same limitations. Unisex perfumes try too hard to be "inbetween" because marketing agents (mostly designer fragrances imo, but there are a few niche perfumers as well of course) are considering it a third category rather than a transcendence of categories. The problems you're describing simply wouldn't exist if the marketing was never gendered to begin with. Saying unisex, specifically, is the problem is akin to saying a bruise is the cause of the broken bone underneath of the skin

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Pengola

4 months ago

Pengola

AtlasHugged

Are unisex perfumes just better?

AtlasHugged | Perfume Discussions

... Wusubi Unisex perfumes are the death of perfumery. There, I said it. Egads! A woman wearing fougeres! The horror! I think perfumery has bigger problems than divestment from overly-gendered marketing. The quarterly release of newer and lazier flanker scents has done far more damage to the artistry in perfumery than whether or not an M or an F gets stamped on the bottle.

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Pengola

4 months ago

Pengola

AtlasHugged

Dark Fantasy fragrances

AtlasHugged | Perfume Recommendations

... "Sécrétions Magnifiques | Etat Libre d'Orange" is truly the Berserk inspired fragrance lmao

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AlanM

4 months ago

AlanM

AtlasHugged

EXILED! The stories from Defected Fragrantican Members

AtlasHugged | Parfumo Community

... VieilleDame1 VieilleDame1 KathrynA66 AtlasHugged Another defector here, just recently joined. I hoped to go out with a bang, attempting to bait local homophobe FragrantGuy into appearing as a raving, spamming lunatic, but it seems content moderation literally does not exist at all on that site. So far, parfumo is leagues better in both site design and community culture Welcome! I also found FragranceGuy intolerable. I think you will like it here. Everyone is very nice! Yup, FragrantGuy is THE WORST. Parfumo is the place to be! 🩷 I totally troll FragrantGuy, just to yank his (?) chain. Personally, I think he's heavily closeted. As a queer person, please don't accuse violent homophobes of being closeted. It's a pervasive andfrequently untrue myth that, intentionally or not, saddle queer people with responsibility for our own oppression. Otherwise yeah, it was a lot of fun messing with that asshole while I could stomach being on that website :p

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Lola82

7 months ago

Lola82

AtlasHugged

Long lasting coffee notes

AtlasHugged | Perfumes by Note, Accord, Genre

... Hello everyone! I've been searching forever for a coffee fragrance, and while I've had the chance to sample many, one common theme that I'm finding is that coffee notes tend to have poor longevity. In some ways this makes sense- a lot of coffee brewing techniques are designed to trap the volatile compounds of coffee in your cup precisely because the best tasting molecules evaporate so quickly. In some ways it makes no sense at all. There's no way that the same coffee I'm smelling on my hands for several hours after handling fresh roasted beans is the same coffee in a perfume that disappears in 30 minutes after application. This forum post is intended as an open question. What are some of the best examples of a long lasting coffee note that you've encountered in perfumery? I will add that I'm talking about the coffee note specifically and not the fragrance as a whole, otherwise the only fragrance people would recommend here is Kerosene's Followed

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AtlasHugged

11 months ago

AtlasHugged

EXILED! The stories from Defected Fragrantican Members

AtlasHugged | Parfumo Community

... Another defector here, just recently joined. I hoped to go out with a bang, attempting to bait local homophobe FragrantGuy into appearing as a raving, spamming lunatic, but it seems content moderation literally does not exist at all on that site. So far, parfumo is leagues better in both site design and community culture

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Lola82

05/29/2024

Lola82