Nicest fragrance

Twee. · 02-08-2011 4:09am

Paco Rabanne One Million is gorgeous, big fan. But my favourite would have to be Tom Ford, don't think it has a name other than "For Men", but my god, it is unreal. Makes a girl weak at the knees!

Snowie · 02-08-2011 4:19am

channel allure le sportiff....

DazlerDee · 05-08-2011 3:28pm

I love, and have been wearing Man by Rochas for last seven years still not sick of it, always gets great compliments its sweet smelling like candy floss its awsome.

Jason Fly · 08-08-2011 12:36am

Le Male by Jean Paul Gaultier has a name for how good it works

D'Agger · 08-08-2011 1:18am

Currently own:

D&G - The One
Paco Rabane - One Million
Armani - Diamonds
Armani - Code
Lacoste Green
Jean Paul Gaultier - Le Male

Love all of them equally, and yes I do realise that I have far too many aftershaves!!

13spanner · 17-08-2011 2:40am

Davidoff - Cool Water.
Granted it's not as popular as others, but just as nice.

Beerlao · 19-08-2011 12:03am

I can't believe how popular One Million is... I find it very cloying and sickening.
Fahrenheit by Dior is probably my favourite, and then I also wear Chanel Allure Homme, and then Burberry London is a great one for the autumn and winter months

Tefral · 19-08-2011 10:21pm

Currently have:
Hugo by Hugo Boss
Dolce and Gabbana - The one
Armani - Code
Paul Smith - Story (love this one)
Paco Rabanne - one million

WolfForager · 20-08-2011 3:51pm

Bulgari Black.

Nothing else compares (in my limited wisdom).

parker kent · 21-08-2011 12:27pm

Beerlao wrote: »

Fahrenheit by Dior is probably my favourite, and then I also wear Chanel Allure Homme, and then Burberry London is a great one for the autumn and winter months

Farenheit and Chanel Allure are my favourites along with the original Boss by Hugo Boss.

So given we seem to share fragrance tastes, I may try Burberry London :P

D'Agger · 21-08-2011 1:20pm

I haven't had Chanel Allure homme sport in some time - used to absolutely love it

Must get it now...although I already have too many at this point

prettyboy81 · 23-08-2011 7:59pm

Jean Paul Gauette - Sailor bottle
Davidoff -Coolwater
Diesel - clench fist bottle
Armani - Code Red
Abercrombie & Fitch - Cologne

El Guapo! · 23-08-2011 8:48pm

Abercrombie & Fitch---Fierce.
I'v been buying while on hols in America for the last 3 years and I love it.

Hugo Boss is nice too. Can't remember which one I wear though!

du Maurier · 23-08-2011 8:55pm

As a poster above mentioned, Creed have exceptional ranges. Really expensive, but discerning, not like many passe scents on the market today.

Dunhill Edition
Aramis Havana
A couple of YSL fragrances hit the mark, M7 and Rive Gauche.
Chanel Egoiste
Guerlain Heritage
Gucci pour Homme

Should get onto basenotes.net to have browse through reviews. Quite good advise and they know what they're talking about, but of course it's up to the person's personal choice in the end.

Some quite good efforts on the list above - I own most of the above or have at one point. Excellent in my book.

aidanmcdonnell · 29-08-2011 9:13pm

At the minute im going with 212 and Diesel only the Brave and my girlfriend loves em both

BigDuffman · 30-08-2011 3:57pm

Two on the counter at the moment Abercrombie & Fitch and Armani Code

Slattsy · 02-11-2011 4:22pm

My top 10 of all time :

Armani Code
Boss the original
Jo Malone number 154
Dior Farenheit
Issey Miyake
JPG le male
Chanel Allure Sport
Burberry Touch
Boss Selection
Dior Homme

All the above are pussy magnets

ha ha

theronankelly · 05-11-2011 1:37am

the 3 i have now

armani mania
dior sport
hugo boss bottled night

Knex* · 05-11-2011 2:29am

Slattsy wrote: »

My top 10 of all time :

Armani Code
Boss the original
Jo Malone number 154
Dior Farenheit
Issey Miyake
JPG le male
Chanel Allure Sport
Burberry Touch
Boss Selection
Dior Homme

All the above are pussy magnets ha ha

I use Armani Code and Burberry Touch. Get complemented a good bit on how nice they smell as well.

jonnny68 · 05-11-2011 7:06pm

Nothing beats the original and best of them all :cool:

phoenix833 · 05-11-2011 11:10pm

Right now I have...

Lacoste - Red
Givenchy - Play
Hugo Boss - XY
Hugo Boss - Bottled Night
Armani - Diamonds
Armani - Mania
Armani - For Him/He
CK - Crave
CK - Contradiction
Ralph Lauren - Romance(Original)
FCUK - Connect
D&G - Masculine
A tiny tiny bit of JPG Le Male

I like to have a variety so you can multiple compliments off the wimmins on your different scent when you cross paths:D I actually couldn't pick a favourite from that, different situations warrant different smells I suppose.

Favourite ones I owned but must buy again are probably

Armani - Black Code
Lacoste - Hot Play
Boss - Bottled
Diesel - Fuel For Life

Hearing good things about Issey Miyake and Tom Ford as well.

13spanner · 06-11-2011 11:31am

Just got Hugo boss as a gift, the one in the silver "ball style" container.

Boskowski · 07-11-2011 2:20am

Wouldn't be into perfums but like a few different aftershaves.

Drakkar Noir
Givenchy Play
Issey Miyake
Paco Rabanne XS

Drakkar probably being my favourite

Boskowski · 07-11-2011 2:26am

phoenix833 wrote: »

Right now I have...

Lacoste - Red
Givenchy - Play
Hugo Boss - XY
Hugo Boss - Bottled Night
Armani - Diamonds
Armani - Mania
Armani - For Him/He
CK - Crave
CK - Contradiction
Ralph Lauren - Romance(Original)
FCUK - Connect
D&G - Masculine
A tiny tiny bit of JPG Le Male

I like to have a variety so you can multiple compliments off the wimmins on your different scent when you cross paths:D I actually couldn't pick a favourite from that, different situations warrant different smells I suppose.

Favourite ones I owned but must buy again are probably

Armani - Black Code
Lacoste - Hot Play
Boss - Bottled
Diesel - Fuel For Life

Hearing good things about Issey Miyake and Tom Ford as well.

Bloody hell. Considering they are going off you must be latching it on every day?!?

foxyboxer · 07-11-2011 12:51pm

Been using Davidoff Coolwater for the past year. Love it.

That_Guy · 07-11-2011 5:24pm

Currently using 'Joop: Go'

Sister bought it for me last Christmas and it smells quite nice actually. Have a bottle of Hugo Boss: Bottled Night which also smells nice.

Captain Graphite · 08-11-2011 1:50am

Only one I've ever worn is Boss Orange for Men. Have gotten complimented on it in a club before, so it does the job I guess.

HugoBradyBrown · 08-11-2011 2:04am

There is a lot to be said for the perfumes developed by Serge Lutens, notably his Fille en Aiguilles. The SF writer and academic China Miéville is one proponent of the line: "Serge Lutens makes perfumes that unman me. (Not much to achieve, admittedly.) 'Fille En Aiguilles' is like roughhousing with an uncouth, sexy, androgynous pine spirit."

See:

http://www.panmacmillan.com/displayPage.asp?PageID=8119

Try House of Fraser for them, or buy online from their Paris HQ.

Hugo Brady Brown

Azureus · 08-11-2011 9:13pm

From a girls pov on guys fragrances...Armani Mania=weak at the knees

Buy it, buy it all of you!!

Aidric · 08-11-2011 10:43pm

I've been alternating between 'La Nuit De L'homme' by YSL & 'L'eau D'issey' by Issey Miyake for 2 years now. Both beautiful fragrances.

Otis Driftwood · 08-11-2011 11:23pm

Can anyone tell me is there anywhere around Dublin that has alot of available testers?The problem I find with trying to find a new scent is that the majority of places like pharmacies etc have only a few of the more common brands out to test smell so I generally end going for something tried and tested.

D'Agger · 08-11-2011 11:27pm

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Can anyone tell me is there anywhere around Dublin that has alot of available testers?The problem I find with trying to find a new scent is that the majority of places like pharmacies etc have only a few of the more common brands out to test smell so I generally end going for something tried and tested.

Brown Thomas always has a large amount of testers and they'll have the strips for you to test them on instead of having to put it on your wrist and causing cross contamination when you try a different one.

Otis Driftwood · 08-11-2011 11:30pm

Anywhere else?

Brown Thomas tends to bring me out in a nervous rash.

I get paranoid they can smell the commoner off of me.

:pac:

ballsacky · 09-11-2011 12:20am

Hugo Boss- Soul.

D'Agger · 09-11-2011 12:22am

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Anywhere else?

Brown Thomas tends to bring me out in a nervous rash.

I get paranoid they can smell the commoner off of me.

:pac:

lol - I don't know anywhere else that'd have that many testers tbh - I was getting my aftershave at the airport for the past year but before that BT was my go to place to check out new aftershaves.

Commoner or not if you've money they'll take it off you

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 12:41am

Out in Dundrum, House of Fraser are very free with their testers. Even better, though, is the fact that they will give out sample bottles - 5ml - if you look like a potentially genuine customer, and ask for a particular one or a particular brand (especially one of the unusual or more expensive ones) in a confident voice. And don't worry about coming across as a commoner: nobody in trade can tell any more who has money, or who once had it but lost it in Anglo and is just keeping up appearances. And your money is as good to them as anyone else's.

Look the salespeople confidently in the eye and ask for what you want. You shouldn't dream of buying any perfume product until you have had a chance to experience it for at least a couple of hours, to see how the different notes develop or fade as time goes by. Indicate, if necessary, that you are going to 'wear' it around the Centre for a while. If you seem knowledgeable like that, they will be at your feet.

Hugo Brady Brown

Otis Driftwood · 09-11-2011 12:54am

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Out in Dundrum, House of Fraser are very free with their testers. Even better, though, is the fact that they will give out sample bottles - 5ml - if you look like a potentially genuine customer, and ask for a particular one or a particular brand (especially one of the unusual or more expensive ones) in a confident voice. And don't worry about coming across as a commoner: nobody in trade can tell any more who has money, or who once had it but lost it in Anglo and is just keeping up appearances. And your money is as good to them as anyone else's.

Look the salespeople confidently in the eye and ask for what you want. You shouldn't dream of buying any perfume product until you have had a chance to experience it for at least a couple of hours, to see how the different notes develop or fade as time goes by. Indicate, if necessary, that you are going to 'wear' it around the Centre for a while. If you seem knowledgeable like that, they will be at your feet.

Hugo Brady Brown

Emmm thanks,but the commoner quip was said very much tongue in cheek.

du Maurier · 09-11-2011 1:05am

PaulieC wrote: »

lol - I don't know anywhere else that'd have that many testers tbh - I was getting my aftershave at the airport for the past year but before that BT was my go to place to check out new aftershaves.

Commoner or not if you've money they'll take it off you

Dundrum, as already mentioned. They're not really pushy there. Arnotts have an improved, more extensive fragrance department from when I was last wandering around there. Their Creed range was pretty good. Clery's too. These few would have most of what was already listed on this thread.

D'Agger · 09-11-2011 10:24am

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Emmm thanks,but the commoner quip was said very much tongue in cheek.

I call Bullshít on that :pac:

Otis Driftwood · 09-11-2011 11:40am

You are right Paulie,I actually feel like this when Im in it......

:pac:

Uncle Mclovin · 09-11-2011 12:24pm

Besides ebay what is the best online shop. When I say best I mean cheapest.

padi89 · 09-11-2011 12:34pm

L'Artisan Parfumeur Traversee Du Bosphere and Fou D'absinthe are whats floating my boat at the moment.
Have a few samples from Serge Lutens i am trying out just sampled Borneo and Vetiver Oriental the past few days, interesting fragrances.

Still been a while since i bought a full bottle of something, i prefer decants.

Seriously though forget the generic gaa dressing room smells you get in boots, they are always very synthetic and headache inducing and instantly forgettable.

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 12:52pm

padi89 wrote: »

L'Artisan Parfumeur Traversee Du Bosphere and Fou D'absinthe are whats floating my boat at the moment.
Have a few samples from Serge Lutens i am trying out just sampled Borneo and Vetiver Oriental the past few days, interesting fragrances.

Still been a while since i bought a full bottle of something, i prefer decants.

Seriously though forget the generic gaa dressing room smells you get in boots, they are always very synthetic and headache inducing and instantly forgettable.

Serge Lutens has a new one - De Profundis - in a purplish hue, and with a lot of carnation notes in it; very fine and, I think, available in Ireland. Quite dark and nocturnal, in some respects, but very sophisticated. There is also a great one - Ambre Sultan - which is definitely to be had in House of Fraser, as I got a sample there last weekend.

The fact that many of them work so well on women and on men is interesting and, as long as only one of you wears it at a time, a space-saver on the dressing-table of an evening. (Or two men. Or two women. All broadminded here, I know!)

Arnotts also stock some of their stuff, if I remember correctly.

Hugo Brady Brown

padi89 · 09-11-2011 1:01pm

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Serge Lutens has a new one - De Profundis - in a purplish hue, and with a lot of carnation notes in it; very fine and, I think, available in Ireland. Quite dark and nocturnal, in some respects, but very sophisticated. There is also a great one - Ambre Sultan - which is definitely to be had in House of Fraser, as I got a sample there last weekend.

The fact that many of them work so well on women and on men is interesting and, as long as only one of you wears it at a time, a space-saver on the dressing-table of an evening. (Or two men. Or two women. All broadminded here, I know!)

Arnotts also stock some of their stuff, if I remember correctly.

Hugo Brady Brown

I've only started out on Serge Lutens fragrances, picked up 7/8 during the week along with others, unfortunately Ambre Sultan was not in stock at the time but will get it again. I pick up my samples online as i don't live in Dublin.

HugoBradyBrown · 09-11-2011 1:15pm

padi89 wrote: »

I've only started out on Serge Lutens fragrances, picked up 7/8 during the week along with others, unfortunately Ambre Sultan was not in stock at the time but will get it again. I pick up my samples online as i don't live in Dublin.

This sounds interesting. How do you get the samples online? Do you have to pay for them?

Hugo

Sauve · 09-11-2011 3:44pm

CK Man.
Yes it's cheap, yes it's common.

But it's bloody delish.

padi89 · 09-11-2011 4:42pm

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

This sounds interesting. How do you get the samples online? Do you have to pay for them?

Hugo

Hi, yes i pay for them now. I used to email companies before and had lots of samples sent. Too many people do it now so they stopped doing it or charge but sometimes its a minimal fee.
There are a few places to get samples and decants.

Perfumedcourt is in the states does samples and decants and Luckyscent is another.
Senteurs is in the UK but has gotten expensive now
http://www.ausliebezumduft.de/ is great, samples are very generous and come in atomizers and presentation is excellent.
Haven't used these but they are recommended http://shop.essenza-nobile.de/

And you can't beat this place for decants
http://scentsplits.wikidot.com/current-splits

At least you can try these at your own pace besides going in and out of shops.

13spanner · 11-11-2011 11:04pm

I'm thinking of getting A&F Fierce after seeing the reviews it got here

would like to get a tester first though... [edit] smelt Armani Mania today and it's on the christmas list

in your face · 26-11-2011 12:31pm

Comme Des Garcons - Wonderwood & YSL - Homme Libre
have both garnered positive reaction thus far.

mcw92 · 27-11-2011 2:09am

Dancor wrote: »

My most recent one is Paco Rabane ''1 Million'' It comes in the gold bottle, very nice.

Anyone know cheap places for this? cheapest ive seen is 48€ for a 50ml bottle.

Nicest fragrance

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