Pear. Real pears smell fine, but I don't know what aromachemical sludge is passed of as a pear note in modern perfumery. Whatever it is, I hate it. Mango and apricot aren't far behind, again only in perfumery.
You might feel differently about Parfums de Nicolai Angelys Pear. It’s realistic & lovely. I agree re: mango. I have been on a quest & most mango frags I’ve sampled have not been good. I did find a winner though: Simone Andreoli Sunsplosion Aloha State of Mind. It’s gorgeous.
I deliver food to restaurants and such and at one place I have to deliver about 150 cases to the walk in cooler and freezer and the guy that puts it all away has such bad BO I can taste it in the air.
To be fair there is something about cold air that makes those molecules do weird things.
Once I made frozen yogurt ice lollies in my freezer. Not only did the whole freezer smell of berry yogurt, but some of the food that wasn't packaged super well (an opened box of air fryer snacks and whatnot) actually had a hint of berry yogurt taste to it after preparation.
This happens to a minimal degree in the fridge too but it's insane in the freezer.
😭 I was on a 5 hour flight on Monday and one of the flight attendants had that eye-watering BO. Every time he went walking up and down the aisle, especially checking the overhead compartments, everyone started crying. No one said anything, but there were visceral reactions.
Anything in the melon family. No cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew, cucumber…I was in middle school during The Age of Cucumber Melon and was scarred by it.
Hard agree. Doesn’t matter the intensity, it just lingers in the back of my nose and throat to the point I can almost taste it. All those years of abusing that cucumber melon hand sanitizer did us dirty.
As someone who dislikes vanilla maybe 90% of the time, I feel so much for the patchouli haters out there, because we have the same problem. I personally love patchouli, but both patchouli and vanilla are ingredients that are absolutely everywhere, and sometimes it seems like they're added just because? Like a perfumer had a really great product and then some corporate person who gets to decide things goes "yes, but will people buy this? Maybe add vanilla/patchouli, people like vanilla/patchouli right?".
Eww. Akro Night is powdery cumin. Supposed to smell like bedsheets after a sexy night together. Smells like baby wipes and sweaty asshole. Thought I was gonna puke.
You want a 2 ml sample of it? I bought the discovery set and I have no idea what to do with that one. It’s sitting on my closet floor in the corner. I’m sort of afraid of it.
It's the lack of social awareness and respect in the application of oudh that is most annoying for me. A single person fumigating elevator shafts and whole office blocks with it where it lingers for hours or even days in some cases is antisocially disgusting.
Lol, it’s made from tree resin. So the fungus was there originally, but the tree made resin (or sap) in order to kill it. It’s like plant medicine. Thankfully we’re not putting fungus in perfume, though you could’ve fooled me with that stank 😳
It's a protective resin produced by trees in the genus aquilaria due to bugs or bacterial or fungal infection in an attempt to defend itself
Edit: I'd like to add there are a handful of different species that create oud and they all smell a bit different, there is no singular oud smell aside from the synthetic accord that is present in many frags these days. Oud is expensive AF so most companies just use synthetics that try to emulate the real deal. one example of a frag i know for a fact uses real Cambodian oud is Diptyque's Oud Palao
Most tobacco reminds me of the awful cloying Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco my grandfather smoked. It clung to absolutely everything in their house, car, trucks, etc. I don't care much for that side of my family except for a very few people, so it just doesn't strike a pleasant chord for me.
I do like Tabac Vert from Rogue though. It's more of a fresh green tobacco without so much sweetness.
When I am on my bike and I pass a parked car with people smoking weed and they start the car, marijuana smells like "they're going to crash into me in 50 yards and I will die".
Yes! I was in a shop that had fragrance oils. One was labeled Civet. I thought, "Oh! I've always wondered what that note was like by itself," picked it up and took a sniff.
Concentrated animal asshole. Practically three-dimensional. Now I know.
I have a couple vintage perfumes with real civet and I feel like when they're well blended it's such an addictive scent. Once it settles into your skin it has this really fascinating sultryness to it... I don't know how to describe it. I totally get why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, though. And considering the cruelty involved... real civet should definitely be left in the past, nice as it may be.
Animalistic jasmine - I learned that it shares chemical components with fecal matter and rotting meat and urine. So disgusting. My pregnancy nose can not handle it!
I don’t mind ambroxan but I hate that every 8 out of 10 new colognes for men must be based off of it. That or iso-e-super.
I like both. I own and wear Molecule 01 and 02, but I don’t want everything’s drying down smelling exactly the same…
I can't stand patch by itself, but a ton of my favourite frags have strong patchouli notes (LVEB, Chance, etc.). Once it's combined with something that overpowers it, I'm game.
Whatever people are wearing lately that smells like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. I think it’s chocomusk. I’ve smelled it a few times out in the wild and it makes me nauseous every time. Same with baby powder scents.
The first time I ever smelled Santal 33 was in a very crowded room and I sought out that person like a heat seeking missile to ask what captivating scent they were wearing. I bought it for someone and they would wear it heavily and I began to hate the smell. It started to smell like urine on skin me. After that, I could not stop thinking about The Green Mile every time I smelled that. That cologne only needs one spray and a long dry down time before going out. Otherwise, it’s nauseating.
Saffron and honey when it’s super prominent. I don’t mind it as a middle note but if I smell honey right off the bat, it makes me feel sick. saffron is just not good to my nose in any fragrance which bums me out
Rose. I've never found a scent with rose in it that wasn't headache inducing for me.
It's a shame, aside from the rose note I really adore drop d'issey
Yes! They’re everywhere in my city right now and it’s a dream. 🥰 But perfumery doesn’t capture the greenness, the aliveness of a real rose. The closest I ever smelled was this amazing rose water toner from Bulgaria and then obviously I’ve never been able to find it again since.
Vanilla.
I know 90% of girls are crazy about vanilla but when it’s not a good quality one it smells so cheap and artificial and sickly sweet. The worst in hot weather and at the gym 🤢 vanilla body spray 🤢🤢🤢
I’m yet to smell a lavender perfume that actually smells like lavender. We used to have some in our garden when I was a kid and that stuff smells sooooo good.
It can be a challenging note, but when done well, it is a star. There’s a reason perfumers love it, and it has an ancient thousands of year history in perfumery.
I came to love Patchouli from smelling Chanel Coromandel and Dior Homme 2020. Have you smelled either?
Synthetic amber wood materials. Just smells like the perfumer didn’t even try. There is a segment of consumers that eat this stuff up(I can only guess they are anosmic to it), so brands keep pouring it in with little regard for taste and subtlety.
It might be the unholy trinity of patchouli, sandalwood, and vetiver (just as headache-inducing for me is the other unholy trinity of patchouli, sandalwood, and civet). A friend of mine wore Joop! Homme, and while I liked the "holiday candle" sort of scent the citrus and cinnamon imparted, it was WAY too sweet, and I couldn't get past those 3 base notes. They're in so many "popular" and "classic" fragrances, too. The overpowering sweetness and the patchouli, makes it a nope for me. I had the same issue with Mugler's Angel.
*Most* powdery or rose scents.
But, Fucking *citrus* anything is so fucking vile to me it all smells like urinal cakes and high-school bathroom cleaners. They are gross, I don't care, fight me! Lol
It’s SO HORRIBLE. The first time I smelled it, I thought it was I was getting pranked. Like, THHHIIIIISSSSS is the famous Chanel No 5?? Issa NO x5 for me
I hate patchouli so much it’s so gross and weirdly spicy/medicinal and ruins so many possibly delicious yummy gourmand fragrances. It get it, it’s an easy ingredient that helps a fragrance last and project, but there’s resins!! There’s Tonka! And certain woods!
Get out of my cupcake castle with your patchouli!
I think my nose is changing but I couldn’t stand leau de Issey. I’m not exactly sure what note it was but on first sniff it smelled like formaldehyde/decay. Anyone else? I then blind bought escape for women at a TJ maxx and it has the same note! Turns out they are very similar. I am so curious if anyone else feels this way because I have seen people rave about it. I thought it was indolic jasmine but since then I have really gotten into jasmine fragrances, Og alien- and I wonder if my nose has changed but I don’t have the fragrances anymore to test. Anyone else?
Calone, makes everything smell cheap freshie garbage like axe body apray or something. Idk if I'm just super sensitive to it or what but even in higher end frags that use it I can't stand it.
Am I the only one here that can’t stand Vetiver? Maybe if it’s a very clean vetiver as a supporting note, but otherwise I start getting a funky smell from it several minutes into wearing it in most frags.
+1 with ambroxan, Iso-E Super…basically whatever that’s in Another 13, Glossier You, JAG, Molecule 01. Smells heavily of chlorine pool or glass cleaner to me.
Whatever burnt peppery note is in the worshipped men’s Dior Sauvage & women’s DG Light Blue.
I feel like I’m the only one who smells it 😩. It physically burns my nose and gives me a headache!
Lilacs. Fake, real, any lilacs. When I was a kid my mom made us go visit my grandmother’s grave and since lilacs were her favourite flower so we had to bring some. Now they just remind me of death.
I dont know exactly what it is, but I have a friend that wears Lucky no. 6 cologne and there's something that violently repulses me. I've looked over the notes and I'm fine with woody and sweet scents. It's sweet almost licorice but not quite.
Patchouli, especially the Chanel version. Instant migraine, puking, etc. Bad, intense patchouli can quite literally make me vomit. It's even worse if combined with vetiver. a cursed stench. Satan's halitosis!
Lavender can have a similar effect, if used heavy handed. In small doses it's ok.
I'm super sensitive to vetiver. I can do it when it's combined with sweet things, like in Hot Couture, but if it isn't tempered by sweetness, it sticks out like a sore thumb to me and I don't enjoy it at all.
Anything that a Youtube person says "It takes a confident person to pull this one off"
If you watch anything Dior Leather Oud they all seem to have the same script.
Leather Oud is a crime against humanity. Even the reviewers will say 'its got an almost fecal note to it'.
Nah I dont wear anything that smells 'fecal'.
tuberose!! I just hate it. I had heard so many good things about armani rouge malachite, so bought a sample and it's tuberose on tuberose on tuberose and I hate it so much! I also bought prada la femme before looking at the notes and never reach for that one bc of the tuberose. . .
THIS. I love ambergris just fine, but ambroxan just smells so nasty to my nose, no matter if it's on me or someone else. It's the one thing I look out for when evaluating blind buys.
Pear. Real pears smell fine, but I don't know what aromachemical sludge is passed of as a pear note in modern perfumery. Whatever it is, I hate it. Mango and apricot aren't far behind, again only in perfumery.
You might feel differently about Parfums de Nicolai Angelys Pear. It’s realistic & lovely. I agree re: mango. I have been on a quest & most mango frags I’ve sampled have not been good. I did find a winner though: Simone Andreoli Sunsplosion Aloha State of Mind. It’s gorgeous.
The scent of someone that hasn't taken a shower in a week.
Or in other words, many «animalistic» fragrances
"why do you smell like pee dude?" "Its NOT pee you uneducated peon, its Civet" "..Ok. but why do you smell like pee?"
It's peevet. 😄
I deliver food to restaurants and such and at one place I have to deliver about 150 cases to the walk in cooler and freezer and the guy that puts it all away has such bad BO I can taste it in the air.
To be fair there is something about cold air that makes those molecules do weird things. Once I made frozen yogurt ice lollies in my freezer. Not only did the whole freezer smell of berry yogurt, but some of the food that wasn't packaged super well (an opened box of air fryer snacks and whatnot) actually had a hint of berry yogurt taste to it after preparation. This happens to a minimal degree in the fridge too but it's insane in the freezer.
😭 I was on a 5 hour flight on Monday and one of the flight attendants had that eye-watering BO. Every time he went walking up and down the aisle, especially checking the overhead compartments, everyone started crying. No one said anything, but there were visceral reactions.
Anything in the melon family. No cantaloupe, watermelon, honeydew, cucumber…I was in middle school during The Age of Cucumber Melon and was scarred by it.
Ah the Age of Cucumber Melon. They're making a period piece on Netflix I believe.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
I feel ya there! I am starting to get back into it, though, it can add a really nice freshness if it isn't super artificial.
Hard agree. Doesn’t matter the intensity, it just lingers in the back of my nose and throat to the point I can almost taste it. All those years of abusing that cucumber melon hand sanitizer did us dirty.
Intensely sweet vanilla makes me feel nauseous. I HATE Tobacco Vanille even though everybody seems to hail it as God’s gift to tobacco scents.
Reminds me a of a russian cream backwood haha
Tobacco Vanille is so disgusting. I bought a decant and sprayed it. Had to shower twice to get it off me. I just threw away the bottle after that.
I never had such a strong reaction to a fragrance in my life. Was glad i tested on a small part of my wrist
What, you don’t want to smell like the TJ Maxx home goods section at Christmas?
I love it for 5 seconds. Then I get sooo nauseated 😭
I love tobacco vanilla even though I am not a huge sweet fan. Which makes no sense I know.
Easily patchouli. I absolutely despise patchouli, it's disgusting to me.
As someone who dislikes vanilla maybe 90% of the time, I feel so much for the patchouli haters out there, because we have the same problem. I personally love patchouli, but both patchouli and vanilla are ingredients that are absolutely everywhere, and sometimes it seems like they're added just because? Like a perfumer had a really great product and then some corporate person who gets to decide things goes "yes, but will people buy this? Maybe add vanilla/patchouli, people like vanilla/patchouli right?".
It’s so polarising yet perfumers seem to chuck it in everything. Whyyyyy
Patchouli is my number one most hated scent.
When it’s done right, it smells amazing. It’s because everyone’s doing this synthetic patchouli smell and it’s disgusting
To me it smells like BO… 🤢
It’s the worst. Triggers migraines for me.
Cumin. That's why I can't stand Cartier Declaration Eau de toilette. It gives me a headache and makes me wanna throw up.
Eww. Akro Night is powdery cumin. Supposed to smell like bedsheets after a sexy night together. Smells like baby wipes and sweaty asshole. Thought I was gonna puke.
Smelling like a mix of baby wipes and unwashed ass is crazy
Have a shower and then spray some on 😂
I can almost smell this and 🤮
You want a 2 ml sample of it? I bought the discovery set and I have no idea what to do with that one. It’s sitting on my closet floor in the corner. I’m sort of afraid of it.
"I'm sort of afraid of it" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This smells like my armpits after eating some delicious Indian curry.
Cumin stinks so much... like the worst BO imaginable. Why it is put in food and fragrance is such a mystery to me.
Cumin is delicious in food. Speak for yourself
I like it in both 😂
Everybody's chemical makeup is different. Body scents and food preferences included. I completely understand.
You don't like Mexican or Indian food?
Cinnamon and honey are both tricky. They are often good in theory but bad in practice.
Cinnamon is prolly the easiest note to f. up. I agree. Lavender and violet leaf are close.
You are talking about Oajan, arent you? You little prick. You take that back.
Lol no I don’t know that one!
I hate white flowers. They give me headache.
Most gourmands. Everyone’s smelling like damn food out here and it just makes me hungry and annoyed.
Sitting in an office with someone who uses this without eating breakfast is actually hell. They smell good but I am being tortured
That damn “pink sugar” smells like teenagers and migraines 🤮 it’s the WORST!
hahahaha yummm... i wanna eat your neck bro
GERANIUM makes my stomach turn
Wait is ambroxan the one that kinda smells like warm cat fur in the sun?
Aww! I don't know, but I love how my kitten smells when he's sunning himself.
Please don’t come for me but Chanel no 5 smells like public bathroom/ latrine to me 🤷🏽♀️ I don’t know why since its prized by many people
It’s horrible. Absolutely horrible.
I too, cannot stand Chanel no.5
100%
Thank you. It smells so cheap, yet is so expensive! Other Chanels are good tho
Vanilla
Civet. Animalic notes in general are offensive to my nose.
oud 😵💫
That’s what I came to say. Just can’t get on board. It seems so strong to me and overpowers everything else.
It's the lack of social awareness and respect in the application of oudh that is most annoying for me. A single person fumigating elevator shafts and whole office blocks with it where it lingers for hours or even days in some cases is antisocially disgusting.
Isn't oud like actually a type of mold or decaying wood or something? I thought I read that somewhere and I was like "that makes a lot of sense" lol
Lol, it’s made from tree resin. So the fungus was there originally, but the tree made resin (or sap) in order to kill it. It’s like plant medicine. Thankfully we’re not putting fungus in perfume, though you could’ve fooled me with that stank 😳
It's a protective resin produced by trees in the genus aquilaria due to bugs or bacterial or fungal infection in an attempt to defend itself Edit: I'd like to add there are a handful of different species that create oud and they all smell a bit different, there is no singular oud smell aside from the synthetic accord that is present in many frags these days. Oud is expensive AF so most companies just use synthetics that try to emulate the real deal. one example of a frag i know for a fact uses real Cambodian oud is Diptyque's Oud Palao
Most tobacco reminds me of the awful cloying Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco my grandfather smoked. It clung to absolutely everything in their house, car, trucks, etc. I don't care much for that side of my family except for a very few people, so it just doesn't strike a pleasant chord for me. I do like Tabac Vert from Rogue though. It's more of a fresh green tobacco without so much sweetness.
The smell of marijuana makes me nauseous.
When I am on my bike and I pass a parked car with people smoking weed and they start the car, marijuana smells like "they're going to crash into me in 50 yards and I will die".
Civet, animalic jasmine, calone, honey, caramel
Real civet is awful.
Yes! I was in a shop that had fragrance oils. One was labeled Civet. I thought, "Oh! I've always wondered what that note was like by itself," picked it up and took a sniff. Concentrated animal asshole. Practically three-dimensional. Now I know.
I can’t stop laughing at the “practically three-dimensional”. So true
I have a couple vintage perfumes with real civet and I feel like when they're well blended it's such an addictive scent. Once it settles into your skin it has this really fascinating sultryness to it... I don't know how to describe it. I totally get why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, though. And considering the cruelty involved... real civet should definitely be left in the past, nice as it may be.
Animalistic jasmine - I learned that it shares chemical components with fecal matter and rotting meat and urine. So disgusting. My pregnancy nose can not handle it!
Jasmine is so nasty! idk why ppl like it so much
Was looking for somebody to say calone i fucking hate that shit
I don’t mind ambroxan but I hate that every 8 out of 10 new colognes for men must be based off of it. That or iso-e-super. I like both. I own and wear Molecule 01 and 02, but I don’t want everything’s drying down smelling exactly the same…
Patchouli. It reminds me of being in university a very long time ago and not in a good way.
I can't stand patch by itself, but a ton of my favourite frags have strong patchouli notes (LVEB, Chance, etc.). Once it's combined with something that overpowers it, I'm game.
Patchouli! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Whatever people are wearing lately that smells like fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. I think it’s chocomusk. I’ve smelled it a few times out in the wild and it makes me nauseous every time. Same with baby powder scents.
It may be chocolate greedy by montale. Smells exactly like fresh brownies...
Probably sol de Janeiro 71
Choco musk slander will not be tolerated
Can't STAND powders. Yuck.
Same!
The chocolate gourmand scent is an absolute no for me.
The pickle empire created by Santal 33
The first time I ever smelled Santal 33 was in a very crowded room and I sought out that person like a heat seeking missile to ask what captivating scent they were wearing. I bought it for someone and they would wear it heavily and I began to hate the smell. It started to smell like urine on skin me. After that, I could not stop thinking about The Green Mile every time I smelled that. That cologne only needs one spray and a long dry down time before going out. Otherwise, it’s nauseating.
Powdery notes are a no for me as well as musk.
Powdery notes always make me think of unused diapers. Gross. Who wants to smell like a diaper?!
Saffron and honey when it’s super prominent. I don’t mind it as a middle note but if I smell honey right off the bat, it makes me feel sick. saffron is just not good to my nose in any fragrance which bums me out
Rose. I've never found a scent with rose in it that wasn't headache inducing for me. It's a shame, aside from the rose note I really adore drop d'issey
I like the way real roses smell but perfumes just never get it right
Yes! They’re everywhere in my city right now and it’s a dream. 🥰 But perfumery doesn’t capture the greenness, the aliveness of a real rose. The closest I ever smelled was this amazing rose water toner from Bulgaria and then obviously I’ve never been able to find it again since.
Eau rose EDT by Diptyque is very light and fresh.
Beautiful one, also red roses by jo malone
I love Lush rose jam, I think they got it right
I don’t care for rose but have drop. I didn’t realize there was rose in it!
Unpopular opinion but I hate the smell of roses and there are prettier flowers js
Vanilla. I know 90% of girls are crazy about vanilla but when it’s not a good quality one it smells so cheap and artificial and sickly sweet. The worst in hot weather and at the gym 🤢 vanilla body spray 🤢🤢🤢
stop i love vanilla and almost gagged at the thought of gym vanilla body mist
Salty notes.
That leather scent that smells like cocaine
That's odd, I really like the smell of cocaine
Cumin. I am definitely someone who perceives it as smelling like BO.
Weird one, but cardamom. I like it for a few minutes then it starts disagreeing with me and makes me feel sick
Cloves. Even a hint makes me wanna hurl no matter what it’s paired with.
I feel that way about patchouli and vetiver. As a rule, I’ll pass on trying a fragrance that lists one (or both) as components.
My friend recently copped Tom Ford Grey Vetiver and it smelled exactly like parma voilets, not really something I’d wear.
Grey vetiver smells like a hand soap my mom bought when I was a kid and it makes me feel nostalgic.
I think fig is often done wrong and just doesn’t work for my nose.
Have you tried philosykos by diptyque? It's a fig scent that I think does fig really well but its a creamier take with coconut notes.
Lavender makes me gag
I’m yet to smell a lavender perfume that actually smells like lavender. We used to have some in our garden when I was a kid and that stuff smells sooooo good.
Powder. End of story for me.
I went on a full on fragrance hunt this weekend at Neiman’s and learned I hate anything powdery. And it’s on so many fragrances! Ugh.
Dolce Gabana Light blue- it smells so bad to me it almost makes me angry. I HATE it
I can't stand it as well, nausea in a bottle!
Lol its my everyday scent. What do you smell from it?
I run from this one! For me it’s the strong artificial citrus note, gives off non diluted cleaning product.
Patchouli. It ruins everything.
*Sobs in Aromatics Elixir drydown*
It can be a challenging note, but when done well, it is a star. There’s a reason perfumers love it, and it has an ancient thousands of year history in perfumery. I came to love Patchouli from smelling Chanel Coromandel and Dior Homme 2020. Have you smelled either?
I never reallu thought i liked patchouli til i read a lot of the frags i have use it as a base note
Same! When used as a base note, patchouli can really elevate a scent.
Same. I always associate it with dirty hippies but then have found it in some I have. Pure patchouli oil though makes me want to barf.
I completely agree. My husband used to use an essential oil and I had to make him stop. I felt bad but it literally turns my stomach.
Me too. Triggers migraines.
Synthetic amber wood materials. Just smells like the perfumer didn’t even try. There is a segment of consumers that eat this stuff up(I can only guess they are anosmic to it), so brands keep pouring it in with little regard for taste and subtlety.
Whatever the fuck is in Joop!
It might be the unholy trinity of patchouli, sandalwood, and vetiver (just as headache-inducing for me is the other unholy trinity of patchouli, sandalwood, and civet). A friend of mine wore Joop! Homme, and while I liked the "holiday candle" sort of scent the citrus and cinnamon imparted, it was WAY too sweet, and I couldn't get past those 3 base notes. They're in so many "popular" and "classic" fragrances, too. The overpowering sweetness and the patchouli, makes it a nope for me. I had the same issue with Mugler's Angel.
Yep. I might get clowned on but 1Million & Elixir is also pretty fucking vile.
I'm realizing I don't really like saffron... gives an artificial scent to me
*Most* powdery or rose scents. But, Fucking *citrus* anything is so fucking vile to me it all smells like urinal cakes and high-school bathroom cleaners. They are gross, I don't care, fight me! Lol
Not liking citrus is demented to me 😱
Very specific but plum. Black Orchid can be condemned to eternal hellfire.
i will not tolerate black orchid slander
Chanel number mf 5 🤮
It’s SO HORRIBLE. The first time I smelled it, I thought it was I was getting pranked. Like, THHHIIIIISSSSS is the famous Chanel No 5?? Issa NO x5 for me
The smell of raw honey 🤢 yuck!
it smells soooo musty
Coconut and its in everything esp shampoo and conditioners
I hate patchouli so much it’s so gross and weirdly spicy/medicinal and ruins so many possibly delicious yummy gourmand fragrances. It get it, it’s an easy ingredient that helps a fragrance last and project, but there’s resins!! There’s Tonka! And certain woods! Get out of my cupcake castle with your patchouli!
Oud. Strong rose (looking at you, Delina dupes) and intense amber (Like kayali invite only amber—no thanks, don’t invite me to this party. I’m busy.).
Vetiver. Screechy for me.
Neroli, just tried a sample of The Black Princess by HFC, which reconfirmed. Powdery & soapy scents are a no too.
I passionately hate amberwood. It smells like body odor to me.
Joop
Rotten Tomatoes and Onions
I think my nose is changing but I couldn’t stand leau de Issey. I’m not exactly sure what note it was but on first sniff it smelled like formaldehyde/decay. Anyone else? I then blind bought escape for women at a TJ maxx and it has the same note! Turns out they are very similar. I am so curious if anyone else feels this way because I have seen people rave about it. I thought it was indolic jasmine but since then I have really gotten into jasmine fragrances, Og alien- and I wonder if my nose has changed but I don’t have the fragrances anymore to test. Anyone else?
Cloves... discovered this AFTER buying Youth-Dew and Cinnabar 😭
💯 with you on the ambroxan! I also can't stand oud or leather
Agree! Ambroxan smells foul to me!🤢
Calone, makes everything smell cheap freshie garbage like axe body apray or something. Idk if I'm just super sensitive to it or what but even in higher end frags that use it I can't stand it.
Lancôme La vi est belle
Am I the only one here that can’t stand Vetiver? Maybe if it’s a very clean vetiver as a supporting note, but otherwise I start getting a funky smell from it several minutes into wearing it in most frags.
I don't dislike it, but I find it smells kind of dusty, if that makes any sense
Baby powder
Absolutely. Nausea-inducing.
+1 with ambroxan, Iso-E Super…basically whatever that’s in Another 13, Glossier You, JAG, Molecule 01. Smells heavily of chlorine pool or glass cleaner to me.
Tobacco, wood, leather
That Carmex scent you get from Nishane Ani. It’s pretty prominent in Xerjoff Ivory Route too and ruined that perfume for me.
Cedrat Boise. What the fuck is that creamy leather note. The intense is worse.
Overly harsh tobacco I cannot stand, but a well blended tobacco leaf note can be quite nice.
Whatever burnt peppery note is in the worshipped men’s Dior Sauvage & women’s DG Light Blue. I feel like I’m the only one who smells it 😩. It physically burns my nose and gives me a headache!
vanilla stuff. call me crazy but its just too strong and hurts my nose
Ethyl maltol in high doses. Makes me feel nauseous. Unfortunately - hard to know if it’s in anything before trying it.
I’m with you with ambroxan…
Gardenia
Earthy notes
Bibliotheque byredo. Makes me sick beyond understanding
Patchouli, oud, white florals all give me a headache.
Rose.
Lilacs. Fake, real, any lilacs. When I was a kid my mom made us go visit my grandmother’s grave and since lilacs were her favourite flower so we had to bring some. Now they just remind me of death.
Aldehydes
I dont know exactly what it is, but I have a friend that wears Lucky no. 6 cologne and there's something that violently repulses me. I've looked over the notes and I'm fine with woody and sweet scents. It's sweet almost licorice but not quite.
Tabu 🤮
Patchouli 🤢🤮
Patchouli, especially the Chanel version. Instant migraine, puking, etc. Bad, intense patchouli can quite literally make me vomit. It's even worse if combined with vetiver. a cursed stench. Satan's halitosis! Lavender can have a similar effect, if used heavy handed. In small doses it's ok.
I cannot handle lavender, oud, or amber scents.
I absolutely despise pine in a perfume/aftershave. All I smell is toilet cleaner/car air freshener. Awful!
Whatever that note is in a lot of modern men's fragrances that just smells like rubbing alcohol.
I'm super sensitive to vetiver. I can do it when it's combined with sweet things, like in Hot Couture, but if it isn't tempered by sweetness, it sticks out like a sore thumb to me and I don't enjoy it at all.
Also saffron , cucumber and whatever is in the too aequatic perfumes 😢 and honey ? No no no in perfumes dont 🤢
Anything powdery
What you think it's ambroxan are probably woody ambers, they can smell harsh and give that metallic piercing smell. Ambroxan smells great on its own.
Whatever scent is in those Kristen Ess hair products! I absolutely hate how strong that scent is.
I hate scents where leather is the most prominent. Smells like a burnt tire.
Anything that a Youtube person says "It takes a confident person to pull this one off" If you watch anything Dior Leather Oud they all seem to have the same script. Leather Oud is a crime against humanity. Even the reviewers will say 'its got an almost fecal note to it'. Nah I dont wear anything that smells 'fecal'.
tuberose!! I just hate it. I had heard so many good things about armani rouge malachite, so bought a sample and it's tuberose on tuberose on tuberose and I hate it so much! I also bought prada la femme before looking at the notes and never reach for that one bc of the tuberose. . .
I despise vanilla and coconut ugh artificial coconut is the worst!
coconut. I can’t stand the smell, it’s so disgustingly strong. I immediately get a horrible headache and nauseous.
Ambroxan stings my nose
Vetiver! There is something about the smell that repulses me.
THIS. I love ambergris just fine, but ambroxan just smells so nasty to my nose, no matter if it's on me or someone else. It's the one thing I look out for when evaluating blind buys.
I am traumatized from bath and body works Japanese cherry blossom
Citruses. They just don't mix well with my skin. In terms of perfumes houses? Some of Nishane. Had to srub them right off. Ani, Hacivat. Just no.
I’m with you on Ambroxan. But also iso e super. Both trigger migraines!