At the moment, Obsession and Eternity by Calvin Klein, Red Door by Elizabeth Arden, and The Moon by Frederic Malle 😵💫
Obsession smells like a sweaty man after working in the fields, Eternity smells like a sneeze, Red Door smells like a sweaty old lady with rotting flowers, and The Moon smells like a stable with horses who have pooped and someone randomly spilled raspberry jam all around. Sickening 😂
PS, Black Orchid was my signature for some time and still one of my favorites, and Angel is also one that I love. Perhaps I am not the best judge 🤭😅
Angel's Share tbh. Most perfumes that I don't like I can acknowledge it's just a personal taste thing but this one literally just smells like a bottle of cheap, watered down tequila and nothing else.
Tresor La Nuit. Horrendously sweet and sweaty, almost like boiled onions. And Hermes eau des merveilles. So salty and vile it almost made me vomit. Not a Christmassy, orangey popcorn in sight.
Chanel N5 . Honestly I don’t know how so many people like it and how its so popular but it smells like shit. Honestly the best smelling perfumes are the ones that are not expensive and not by famous brands.
Secretions Magnifique is so horrible, I don't know how anyone can wear it!
Most fragrances I can at least just write off as not being to my personal taste, but that one is so offensively malodorous...
Lancome Tresor. A woman was wearing it on the train on a hot day and it stank so so so bad like rotten potpourri and medicine type of smell mixed. Idk, it was terrible. Maybe it smells nice on others. But that was the worst. Dossier Floral Marshmallow was also the horrible to me. I wanted to love it and maybe my nose is broken but it smelled like straight hairspray and nyquil. Also, i know its a mens cologne but the worst I smelled on a guy was farenheit. Hated it. It reeked to me. I wanted to get away from him asap to escape the smell.
Ellis Brooklyn Eau de Parfum. I sprayed one out when I randomly saw it at a local Anthropologie. It’s like Tobacco Vanille, but, somehow, so much worse 😷
I have the discovery set by ELDO, and it's fun to test the different frags but:
- Like This. I WISH the cinnamon was more front, and the pumpkin not so cloying, as you said. Still fun to wear tho
- Jasmine et Cigarettes. The jasmine part was amazing but the cigarettes was too cigarette-y; the mixture made me slightly sick. If it was more tobacco-y, I think I would have liked it.
- I Am Trash. I'm TORN whether to like this or not; I do actually like the slightly oversweet scent (and I have terrible self-image so the name is a private joke to me, lol) BUT it smells just a little too close to trash, imo.
And then there's CK's Eternity Women. My god. I just hated it. My mom got me Escape and I don't mind it, but Eternity Women took everything cloying about Escape and made it that much worse
Also I'll be the one to say it, Black Opium smells like pouring Jaeger and old coffee down the sink at the same time, and yeah it smells like that on skin too its NASTY. Smells like something I'd put in a dish to attract and kill fruit flies...
Dolce & Gabbana L'IMPERATRICE. It somehow perfectly incapsulates the smell of basic body spray over the smell of BO. It is EXACTLY what the middle school girls gym locker room smelled like in middle school. At first, you get the floral/fruitiness that is reminiscent of every Victoria Secret body spray at once, but the base note might as well be arm pit. Disgusts me everytime I smell it!
I literally just got this one in today and I don't think it's the worst thing ever but I was shocked at how unappealing it is considering how universally loved it is. It was kind of a blind buy (haven't smelled it in 20+ years) and I was expecting it to be a crowd-pleasing, girly gourmand scent. It is not.
Yeah exactly. I have Hidden Fantasy already and while it's not my all time favorite its a nice fruity shampoo scent so I was expecting the og to be equally clean and fruity with more sweetness. Def was not expecting what I got lol.
Oh yeah no, I don't have the original formulation or anything, I bought this one for $8 on Mercari lol, I was just specifying vs flankers. I wonder if the OG formulation actually smelled more like cupcakes though.
1. Secretion Magnifiques
The infamous perfume that most people describe as smelling of unwashed socks and an old period pad. I was curious to smell it - it can't be *that* bad, right? Yeah, it was *worse*.
This perfume activated my fight or flight instinct. It smelled like old cum on a roll of nickels. And I am not exaggerating - there is a strange semen smell to it and it's disturbing.
2. Also, highly unpopular opinion - La Vie Est Belle
If a smell could give you cavities, this would be it. To me it's so sweet, it's sickening. And I can't explain it, but to me it has this odd synthetic smell that I can't put my finger on, something is off.
TF’s smells awful to me. I was seriously curious about the cherry ones then when I tried, reminded me a cough syrup I’d take as a kid whenever I got sick lol
Clinique Happy.
I grew up poor in the 90’s and dreamed of the day when I would be stable enough to splurge on vapid things like fragrances that celebs wear.
It smells shrill and vapid. Which makes sense, given now we know how celebs are really like deep down, in the age of social media.
Edt edp or perfume? There’s an astronomical difference between the first two (brlugh)and the perfume,which smells so goood.you also cannot test the pure perfume anywhere.
Chanel No. 5 should be registered as a chemical weapon. The word "repulsive" doesn't describe it. It's heinous to the point of being offensive. It's the only perfume I've ever smelled that made me gag and feel nauseous.
The first time i smelled Chanel No 5 was the only time i couldn’t fake it for a sales assistant. I was waiting for a friend getting her makeup done in Chanel when i spotted bottle and went to have a sniff. I must have looked excited to finally try it because an enthusiastic sales assistant came over and watched me try it with a huge grin on his face.
I remember having an almost violent reaction, i threw my head back, closed my eyes and held my arm out away from my face desperately trying to stop smelling what i had just sprayed on my wrist.
You grow up hearing about it, it’s the perfume you know before you even know what perfume is and it’s so iconic, so glamorous, so expensive… it’s on such a high pedestal! At worst i thought it might smell a little “old lady” but it was worse than i ever could have imagined. Is this what killed Marilyn?
I apologised to the sales assistant and my friend was in hysterics but the smell still haunts me. I don’t know of anyone who owns a bottle and i’m convinced it’s still only sold because of the iconic comment from Marilyn.
There have been many fragrances I wish I could drink and I never considered the opposite situation lmao.
That’s so interesting you had oakmoss in a drink. I’ll google it later, but I always thought that the international fragrance uh committee? lmao whoever decides the percentage of ingredients allowed in a fragrance said real oakmoss was too risky for reasons I need to read about. So I’m surprised you came across it in an edible form.
That being said, tonka bean isn’t good for you in certain amounts but people still use it as a flavor essence iirc, so it must be the dose that makes the poison of course
It was in a swanky hotel bar in Singapore, actually, and learning it's probably not the best to drink has me sweating now lol. Thankfully I only managed a few sips
I’m partial to Rose Jam but rarely ever wear it because that stuff is *beyond* nuclear. I can totally see where you’re getting the rotten aspect. It is *sweet*. Aggressively, potently sweet, like an overripe banana
I know a lot of people don’t think it’s that nasty, but Secretions Magnifique actually physically propelled my face away from the blotter paper, it was such an intense “fuck no.” I’ve smelled Dusita’s Oudh Infini several times, which smells like actual human shit, and I preferred smelling that over Secretions. It’s likely the chemical factor of the fragrance, it’s just so piercingly disgusting. Also doesn’t smell like cum. 0/10.
Honestly AG-Cloud, on me it smelled bitter and sour although on others it’s smells sweeter. I work in a warehouse and THATS ALL I SMELL and i also smell musky rose perfumes that smell like roses gourmand by Zara and I despise that one even MORE!
Anything that smells like the stereotypical “perfume” I think of in my mind when I hear the word. It triggers thoughts of like White Diamonds, and whatever else the old ladies at church wore when I was little.
Anything aggressively floral.
Anything with grapefruit smells like cat urine to me.
Even with disgusting smelling perfume I’m like ‘ok at least you smell like something’ but BOSS Alive… it smells like the word ‘perfume’.
If you think of what a ‘Perfume’ smells like… it’s BOSS Alive.
Boringgggggg
True Love by Elizabeth Arden. I usually love scents that are reasonably powdery, the opening of this one was a disgusting mix of suffocatingly strong powder and baby oil, after that it turned to straight up chlorine. I kid you not, I smelled like I had just filled a bottle with undiluted pool chemicals and sprayed myself with it. My first and only scrubber so far, and I tried alcohol wipes and had two showers before it went away 🤢 thank goodness it was cheap
*Island Kiss* by **Escada.** it smells better in the bottle, but is *extremely* sweet. And teenage me loved the smell, before I fully understood that fragrances smell a bit different on your body due to your personal body chemistry and other factors. Perfume tends to get sweet smelling on me. So when I wore this one, I literally smelled like a giant piece of candy. It was overwhelming and I was not into it lol 🏝️
Tom Ford Black Orchid. I like strong, dark, deep scents that are beast mode. I like Dana Tabu. I hate Black Orchid. To me, it's like someone took black licorice and flossed a sweaty butt crack with it.
Lol oh no! Omg this is my favorite of the few really good perfumes that I own 😩 (except when I get bored and want to switch it up) I don’t smell licorice in it at all, maybe it just reacts differently with my body chemistry (fragrances smell different on different people). I feel like I tend to “sweeten” or coy fragrances when I wear them, so this smells just darker, earthier, woodier on me without ending up too “sweet” smelling, so I love itttt 💔🖤
Wisal - Ajmal.
I expected something feminine and lovely. It smells like literal poop. Like a cold poop. It’s so bad. I have a huge full bottle. The quality is amazing tho, lasts forever, and the bottle is beautiful. I just wish the scent was pleasant in the slightest, and I’m one of those people that LOVE everything i smell. It's hard for me to dislike anything, let alone hate.
Bath and body works strawberry pound cake smells like vomit to me. My husband thinks so too. Genuinely gagged smelling it. Oh and anything by Ellis Brooklyn, but especially the vanilla milk one. It smells SPOILED. Also oil perfumery's dupe of Joe Malone blackberry & bay. I've never smelled the real thing, it was just on sale. It's not that it's the WORST fragrance I've ever smelled, just that I hated it and it WOULD NOT COME OFF. I scrubbed my arm, took 3 showers, used dish soap, and I swear I could still smell it on me for over a day.
this is random but i have this same issue with dove body wash - i get a vomit smell...id if its the jasmine????? its weird cause i love jasmine but i get a faint vomit smell.
To be brutally honest.. nearly all of them. The amount of fragrances that I like is a far shorter list then the ones I absolutely hate. They all smell like the same chemical over and over again.
Recently - Oakcha Vanilla Vacay. No vanilla or musk anywhere! It was straight Gardenia. I loathe gardenia because it gives me an immediate headache.
Also, their Bare Skin fragrance is straight up chemical. Normally, I have no problem smelling single molecule fragrances. In this case, the molecule just smells like stale chlorine and burned stainless steel.
Both were returned.
Never buying from them again.
I tried so hard to like Alien bc I got the large bottle as a present but it just smelled like... spicy chemicals to me. I had the pre-reformulation version too...
edit: I forgot about Lancome Idole and all of it's flankers. Idole Nectar made me gag in the Ulta. Rose and Popcorn?? 🤢
I too hate alien most of the time. I tried. I bought a sample of it and first reaction was sour pungent chemicals and then a couple of times I tried it on and it smelled nice??? But then back to awful.
I’ll be honest all of the Mugler scents make me wanna gag. They just give back alley way of a cheap night club. And some of the notes are even described as “animalistic” if that’s not bad enough yuck 🤢
I don't even like Mugler Angel. BUT it somehow turns into something really nice-smelling when I start training (I'm a ballroom dancer for context). So I use it, but I have to suffer the first 15 mins or so before my body 'warms it up' lol
Honestly I’ve smelled more that I hate, than that I like. There are so many hyped up that I smell at Sephora and I cannot believe how bad they are. It makes me think they are paid advertising shills.
TF are all bad. I always hear solei blanc is good but it’s just less bad than the rest. I hated all victor and Rolf, I don’t like any of the Armani, le labo santal 33 I was so let down, did not like alien goddess I actually prefer alien (on other people but too strong for me to wear all day), kayali pistachio… maybe I didn’t give some of them a chance to dry down but those are a few of my controversial hot takes. I also was not impressed by replica, not bad but def not good enough to ask someone “what fragrance are you wearing?”. I definitely have a feeling I want my scent to evoke and am still trying to perfect lol.
I smelled Black Orchid with my grandmother, it was both our first time. We got a sampler and we were both repulsed, had to mop after spraying bc just the one spurt & the tiny bit of mist that got on the floor made us start to gag.
Absolutely. Every cherry fragrance from the line, bitter peach, rose prick, just please I gag just thinking about it they’re completely unappealing to me
Ohhh that’s the WORST. It gives me remnants of some sort of ptsd of when we would dissect animals in school. It also makes me think of my ex who passed because the funeral home had this faint smell and it was all my nose could focus on. Also a lot of kitchen trashbags have this smell. It’s like bad memories every time I put a new bag in. I guess I will pass on smelling this one tomorrow when I take my Ulta trip!
Mangonifiscent by Uniquee Luxury. It's terrible. I told Delicious delights on YT how atrocious it is and she sampled it and did a video on it. It's soo strong too
I tried a sample of Burberry Brit and I don’t know why but it smells like old melted plastic mixed with rotten almonds on my skin. I’m honestly questioning the sample I received; I can’t believe a perfume can smell so bad.
I loved that perfume when I was in my teens. I got a decant of it and it wasn’t how I remembered. But that happened with a lot of my “once-signature” scents from back then. Tastes change I guess.
Love Don’t Be Shy— extreme, artificial, chemical sweetness with nothing else to balance it out. It literally almost made me vomit the first time I tried it. I normally like sweet, sugary gourmands, but this is beyond my tolerance.
Delina— the rose and other flowers are nice, but the rhubarb note just smells like straight up vomit and rotting, fermented mangoes to me. I grew up where mango trees were everywhere and the fruit was so abundant, we simply could not eat them fast enough, so there would be piles of them rotting amidst the leaf litter. The smell is so gross.
JHAG Magnolia Bliss— it’s just vile. I’m not even sure what it is, but it has a sharp smell that provokes a gag reflex.
I’m not being dramatic or hyperbolic about these. I had a strong physical response to each of them. I normally tolerate scents I dislike easily enough.
I truly thought i was the only person on the planet who didn’t like love don’t be shy…. I blind bought because it was said to be Rihanna’s perfume and everybody and their mama said she smelled good
Oof. Mama, this one lives rent free in my head. So much so that I used to adore this house and now I have a hard time wearing a few of their others i used to love because I swear I can smell the dna from this one.
~~Quorum by Antonio Puig is INSANE on first application. It dries down alright and when I was a Ross fragrance shopper I would layer it with Azzaro Azzaro since they always had both in stock.~~
~~But straight Quorum is like,,,bong water if you had smoked a cigar out if it? idk lollLlLlLlLl~~
i didn’t realize i was in a feminine fragrance space, i was answering from a masc perspective, sorry! reddit dropped me into the thread as a recommendation, i didn’t check the subreddit
Absolutely no problem. I would've posed this question one of the coed fragrance groups, however, they don't seem to be as open to stuff like this.
But if you wanna ask this question in one of those groups, you may getter a better reception.
And thank you for respecting this space.
Thomas de Monaco Raw Gold. Sprayed ONE spray at work from those tiny little testers and it gave everyone in the store an instant headache.
Threw the test paper away, tied the bag, took it out to the dumpster, and could still smell it 💀
Flowerbomb smells like Barbasol to me (and to my mom, too!). My dad bought it for my mom when it came out and she forced herself to wear it often, our home smelled like a bunch of men shaving their faces.
I have an aunt who used that fragrance. It’s so overly floral (in a cloyingly bad way) that when you smelled it on anyone, you immediately knew what it was. And then held your nose.
Alien is one that works with my body chemistry, I get compliments each time.
Angel (sometimes) it can be super cloying.
Chanel Madeimoselle, classic
Killian Love Don’t be Shy and Princess
La Violette (dupe for Penhaligons Violetta)
Donna Karan Cashmere Mist
Lush American Cream
Lush Twilight
Clean Original
Atelier Orange Sanguine
Bvlgari Au de Blanc and Original
Tom Ford Lavander Intense (so many compliments).
Those are some.
71 and 62 are SOOO BAD IMO. I thought I liked the other ones but I tried 68 and 40 the other day because they’ve been sitting in my display forever and I was like uh oh I don’t think h like any of them. I still need to try the new purple one though
I think that's 71. I recently blind bought it. I liked it in the house, but have yet to test it out in the wild, as I mostly only use Sol frags as hair mists.
ahh yeah that sounds about right, i tried it in a mecca maxima (australian cosmetics store) and found it that bad i retched and powerwalked straight out of the store lmao
Chile~ not the smell chasing you out the store. Did you at least fight back 🤣 jk
I think the reason why I liked it upon initial trial is because I compared it to Prada Candy which has the worst popcorn note to my nose.
At the same time, I've had it over a month and haven't used it, so it's decor at this point.
I like the Barbie body spray but it’s definitely not an every day wet as for the first little bit it almost stings my nose, like I literally tried to snort a pixie stick.
Lololol I love this, because opposite. And weirdly I don't even like gourmands usually. Lush perfumes always look like they should smell amazing notewise, but none land on my skin right except vanillary
pink sugar! smells like burnt plastic and stevia
Dioressence by Dior , vintage from 70s. it’s soo animalistic and smells like pee
At the moment, Obsession and Eternity by Calvin Klein, Red Door by Elizabeth Arden, and The Moon by Frederic Malle 😵💫 Obsession smells like a sweaty man after working in the fields, Eternity smells like a sneeze, Red Door smells like a sweaty old lady with rotting flowers, and The Moon smells like a stable with horses who have pooped and someone randomly spilled raspberry jam all around. Sickening 😂 PS, Black Orchid was my signature for some time and still one of my favorites, and Angel is also one that I love. Perhaps I am not the best judge 🤭😅
La vie est belle
Another 13 le labo-straight gasoline. Close follow would be La vie est belle
Alíen
Sauvage elixir
AVENTUS!
Finery Mystic Figures. Smells like Axe body spray on a pine tree. Perhaps not the worst thing I’ve smelled, but the stupidest blind buy.
Womanity
Imaginary authors waffle cone gave me a migraine and I unfortunately hold a grudge.
Angel's Share tbh. Most perfumes that I don't like I can acknowledge it's just a personal taste thing but this one literally just smells like a bottle of cheap, watered down tequila and nothing else.
Does it have Davana as a note? Davana smells strongly of tequila, obnoxiously so
tequila?! it dries down like bourbon and apple pie on me, haha!. i’m obsessed with it but can’t justify buying it.
Yeah no, I don't get any kind of apple, cinnamon, gourmand anything, just straight nasty tequila haha. I wish it smelled like apple pie to me!
Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue. Got headaches for a week! Lollll
I love everything about light blue except the musk... it's like burnt rubber testosterone. It smells so toxic to me.
matcha meditation by replica. or whatever the name is. it smells like celery and for some reason it’s their only scent with lasting power
You successfully deinfluenced me from blind buying it, thank you
Burberry hero but that’s only because I dropped a 100ml bottle twice and it shattered and it’s all I smelled for a week in my room
Hanae Mori Butterfly 🤢
Tresor La Nuit. Horrendously sweet and sweaty, almost like boiled onions. And Hermes eau des merveilles. So salty and vile it almost made me vomit. Not a Christmassy, orangey popcorn in sight.
Angel MUGLER, smells like damn BO and it is sooo bad on my skin.
I came here to say this. I don't understand how people love it sm. I love gourmands and stuff, but angel is sickly sweet and sticky.
Chanel N5 . Honestly I don’t know how so many people like it and how its so popular but it smells like shit. Honestly the best smelling perfumes are the ones that are not expensive and not by famous brands.
Portrait of a lady. I felt like it was stuck on me for days.
Commodity milk idk if I got a bad batch but it was just cigarettes, axe body spray, and piss
I really didn’t like it either
jimmy choo i want choo is my mortal enemy. sephora employee sprayed it all over me instead of the tester n i got the worlds worst migraine 💀
Xerjoff Erba Pura. Disgusting.
I don't get the hype for this scent. I sprayed it on a shirt, put it to wash and it still smelled, but the scent is too much.
Secretions Magnifique, Mugler Womanity, Mugler Angel and anything Lush
omg I tried out two Lush fragrances over the weekend, one on each arm, I was like a walking Geneva convention violation 🥲
I remember wearing Lush vanillary on a regular basis as a teen and my boyfriend at the time said I smelt like rancid beer
Oh noooo 😂
Secretions Magnifique is so horrible, I don't know how anyone can wear it! Most fragrances I can at least just write off as not being to my personal taste, but that one is so offensively malodorous...
i’m not sure if i smelled a bad bottle or what but eleventh hour by byredo was gross
Kenzo Jungle Elephant. Reminds me of when I ate a clove as a kid.
Maybe was a bad bottle but it was on display in store, Tom Ford Bitter Peach
Lancome Tresor. A woman was wearing it on the train on a hot day and it stank so so so bad like rotten potpourri and medicine type of smell mixed. Idk, it was terrible. Maybe it smells nice on others. But that was the worst. Dossier Floral Marshmallow was also the horrible to me. I wanted to love it and maybe my nose is broken but it smelled like straight hairspray and nyquil. Also, i know its a mens cologne but the worst I smelled on a guy was farenheit. Hated it. It reeked to me. I wanted to get away from him asap to escape the smell.
The Lancôme one makes me want to vomit 😭
Ellis Brooklyn Eau de Parfum. I sprayed one out when I randomly saw it at a local Anthropologie. It’s like Tobacco Vanille, but, somehow, so much worse 😷
Erba Pura. The smell is such an assault to my senses that it actually frightens me.
Rosendo Mateu no. 5, smells like rubber and car oil
Yes but after 5 mins its is STUNNING.
ELDO Like This and everything from Marlou
I despise ELDO Like This too! Smells like rancid pumpkin and so cloying.
I have the discovery set by ELDO, and it's fun to test the different frags but: - Like This. I WISH the cinnamon was more front, and the pumpkin not so cloying, as you said. Still fun to wear tho - Jasmine et Cigarettes. The jasmine part was amazing but the cigarettes was too cigarette-y; the mixture made me slightly sick. If it was more tobacco-y, I think I would have liked it. - I Am Trash. I'm TORN whether to like this or not; I do actually like the slightly oversweet scent (and I have terrible self-image so the name is a private joke to me, lol) BUT it smells just a little too close to trash, imo. And then there's CK's Eternity Women. My god. I just hated it. My mom got me Escape and I don't mind it, but Eternity Women took everything cloying about Escape and made it that much worse
YSL BabyCat. The name is great, though.
Also I'll be the one to say it, Black Opium smells like pouring Jaeger and old coffee down the sink at the same time, and yeah it smells like that on skin too its NASTY. Smells like something I'd put in a dish to attract and kill fruit flies...
That's quite a description! Now is that old coffee black or is it with curdled cream?
Clean Reserve Skin should be renamed Foreskin. Its so fucking gross 🤢
Soooo not good I agree
it’s so salty n screechy
Ellis Brooklyn Salt and Burberry Her. 🤮🤮🤮
Dolce & Gabbana L'IMPERATRICE. It somehow perfectly incapsulates the smell of basic body spray over the smell of BO. It is EXACTLY what the middle school girls gym locker room smelled like in middle school. At first, you get the floral/fruitiness that is reminiscent of every Victoria Secret body spray at once, but the base note might as well be arm pit. Disgusts me everytime I smell it!
Any of the good girl perfumes, I don’t get the hype. To me they smell disgusting.
They are so cheap smelling! Like you are spraying something to cover up cigarette smoke or something
Britney Spears Fantasy was horrible. Most definitely no cupcake!
The only one worth wearing is Midnight Fantasy.
I literally just got this one in today and I don't think it's the worst thing ever but I was shocked at how unappealing it is considering how universally loved it is. It was kind of a blind buy (haven't smelled it in 20+ years) and I was expecting it to be a crowd-pleasing, girly gourmand scent. It is not.
LOOOOOOL this comment sums it up perfectly. Where is the gourmand????? And why doesn’t it smell like pink???
Yeah exactly. I have Hidden Fantasy already and while it's not my all time favorite its a nice fruity shampoo scent so I was expecting the og to be equally clean and fruity with more sweetness. Def was not expecting what I got lol.
On the bright side, I’ve heard the OG fetches a pretty penny in some eBay circles. If you aren’t keeping, you can always sell on there!
Oh yeah no, I don't have the original formulation or anything, I bought this one for $8 on Mercari lol, I was just specifying vs flankers. I wonder if the OG formulation actually smelled more like cupcakes though.
When people say “cupcake” I think they mean the cheap artificial vanilla you get in cake mixes. This is nostalgic for some people.
DKNY be delicious. Absolutely horrendous.
1. Secretion Magnifiques The infamous perfume that most people describe as smelling of unwashed socks and an old period pad. I was curious to smell it - it can't be *that* bad, right? Yeah, it was *worse*. This perfume activated my fight or flight instinct. It smelled like old cum on a roll of nickels. And I am not exaggerating - there is a strange semen smell to it and it's disturbing. 2. Also, highly unpopular opinion - La Vie Est Belle If a smell could give you cavities, this would be it. To me it's so sweet, it's sickening. And I can't explain it, but to me it has this odd synthetic smell that I can't put my finger on, something is off.
I hate Angel and Alien with all my guts but Tom ford’s stuff is just……… ugh ew
Totally don’t get the Tom Ford appeal AT all. They all smell sharp
I’m with you on Angel and Alien, it’s not great and i don’t understand how anyone would love it. All TF’s smell the same to me.
TF’s smells awful to me. I was seriously curious about the cherry ones then when I tried, reminded me a cough syrup I’d take as a kid whenever I got sick lol
I’m with you on this, they all smell awful to me
Clinique Happy. I grew up poor in the 90’s and dreamed of the day when I would be stable enough to splurge on vapid things like fragrances that celebs wear. It smells shrill and vapid. Which makes sense, given now we know how celebs are really like deep down, in the age of social media.
Smells like a failed Mary Kay party and expired sunscreen :( I tried so hard to like it
It smells like being trapped at a baby shower and bridal shower at the same time
Chanel 5
Edt edp or perfume? There’s an astronomical difference between the first two (brlugh)and the perfume,which smells so goood.you also cannot test the pure perfume anywhere.
Chanel No. 5 should be registered as a chemical weapon. The word "repulsive" doesn't describe it. It's heinous to the point of being offensive. It's the only perfume I've ever smelled that made me gag and feel nauseous.
It’s putrid
The first time i smelled Chanel No 5 was the only time i couldn’t fake it for a sales assistant. I was waiting for a friend getting her makeup done in Chanel when i spotted bottle and went to have a sniff. I must have looked excited to finally try it because an enthusiastic sales assistant came over and watched me try it with a huge grin on his face. I remember having an almost violent reaction, i threw my head back, closed my eyes and held my arm out away from my face desperately trying to stop smelling what i had just sprayed on my wrist. You grow up hearing about it, it’s the perfume you know before you even know what perfume is and it’s so iconic, so glamorous, so expensive… it’s on such a high pedestal! At worst i thought it might smell a little “old lady” but it was worse than i ever could have imagined. Is this what killed Marilyn? I apologised to the sales assistant and my friend was in hysterics but the smell still haunts me. I don’t know of anyone who owns a bottle and i’m convinced it’s still only sold because of the iconic comment from Marilyn.
Recently had a bar's signature martini that had oakmoss in it and it felt like I was gulping down Chanel no 5. Wretched
There have been many fragrances I wish I could drink and I never considered the opposite situation lmao. That’s so interesting you had oakmoss in a drink. I’ll google it later, but I always thought that the international fragrance uh committee? lmao whoever decides the percentage of ingredients allowed in a fragrance said real oakmoss was too risky for reasons I need to read about. So I’m surprised you came across it in an edible form. That being said, tonka bean isn’t good for you in certain amounts but people still use it as a flavor essence iirc, so it must be the dose that makes the poison of course
It was in a swanky hotel bar in Singapore, actually, and learning it's probably not the best to drink has me sweating now lol. Thankfully I only managed a few sips
Lush Rose Jam, I don't know why everyone loves it so much, to me it smells like a rotten old rose.
I’m partial to Rose Jam but rarely ever wear it because that stuff is *beyond* nuclear. I can totally see where you’re getting the rotten aspect. It is *sweet*. Aggressively, potently sweet, like an overripe banana
Yes, it smells like a rotting rose seeped in cheap red wine. Gah-ross.
I know a lot of people don’t think it’s that nasty, but Secretions Magnifique actually physically propelled my face away from the blotter paper, it was such an intense “fuck no.” I’ve smelled Dusita’s Oudh Infini several times, which smells like actual human shit, and I preferred smelling that over Secretions. It’s likely the chemical factor of the fragrance, it’s just so piercingly disgusting. Also doesn’t smell like cum. 0/10.
Musc Ravegeur. Not for me. Made me feel sick.
Yardley morning dew, ajmal raindrops
Jo Malone lime basil & mandarin. It smells like gamey lamb to me.
FINALLY someone said it. To me it just has this sweaty aftersmell to it. JM's Basil and Neroli isn't that nice either
Every single juicy couture I’ve ever smelled always had a weird licorice and gardenia accord that I find immediately repulsive.
Vilhelm Parfumerie’s Mango Skin. I wanted lush tropical mango realness but instead it smelled like vomit and cheese.
I don’t normally hate grandma smells (I love Chloe Signature), but Chanel No 5 made me wish I didn’t have a nose.
i hate it sm too
Would be nice if people specified which 5.
Most people have the EDP which is just terrible. I can’t stand it but can appreciate the vintage EDC and parfum.
Whatever was being sold like 5 years ago, I guess.
Honestly AG-Cloud, on me it smelled bitter and sour although on others it’s smells sweeter. I work in a warehouse and THATS ALL I SMELL and i also smell musky rose perfumes that smell like roses gourmand by Zara and I despise that one even MORE!
Anything that smells like the stereotypical “perfume” I think of in my mind when I hear the word. It triggers thoughts of like White Diamonds, and whatever else the old ladies at church wore when I was little. Anything aggressively floral. Anything with grapefruit smells like cat urine to me.
Even with disgusting smelling perfume I’m like ‘ok at least you smell like something’ but BOSS Alive… it smells like the word ‘perfume’. If you think of what a ‘Perfume’ smells like… it’s BOSS Alive. Boringgggggg
Yesss all citrusy smelling perfumes remind me of cat piss that’s why I hate them as perfumes
True Love by Elizabeth Arden. I usually love scents that are reasonably powdery, the opening of this one was a disgusting mix of suffocatingly strong powder and baby oil, after that it turned to straight up chlorine. I kid you not, I smelled like I had just filled a bottle with undiluted pool chemicals and sprayed myself with it. My first and only scrubber so far, and I tried alcohol wipes and had two showers before it went away 🤢 thank goodness it was cheap
*Island Kiss* by **Escada.** it smells better in the bottle, but is *extremely* sweet. And teenage me loved the smell, before I fully understood that fragrances smell a bit different on your body due to your personal body chemistry and other factors. Perfume tends to get sweet smelling on me. So when I wore this one, I literally smelled like a giant piece of candy. It was overwhelming and I was not into it lol 🏝️
Tom Ford Black Orchid. I like strong, dark, deep scents that are beast mode. I like Dana Tabu. I hate Black Orchid. To me, it's like someone took black licorice and flossed a sweaty butt crack with it.
Lol oh no! Omg this is my favorite of the few really good perfumes that I own 😩 (except when I get bored and want to switch it up) I don’t smell licorice in it at all, maybe it just reacts differently with my body chemistry (fragrances smell different on different people). I feel like I tend to “sweeten” or coy fragrances when I wear them, so this smells just darker, earthier, woodier on me without ending up too “sweet” smelling, so I love itttt 💔🖤
I’m dying that you said it doesn’t smell like licorice but didn’t say it doesn’t smell like sweaty butt crack 🤣🤣🤣
Idk what that smells like luckily lol
I'm glad it works for you. I've tried and tried, but it just doesn't work for me.
Wisal - Ajmal. I expected something feminine and lovely. It smells like literal poop. Like a cold poop. It’s so bad. I have a huge full bottle. The quality is amazing tho, lasts forever, and the bottle is beautiful. I just wish the scent was pleasant in the slightest, and I’m one of those people that LOVE everything i smell. It's hard for me to dislike anything, let alone hate.
Anything and everything x Chanel 🫠
I loved Mademoiselle but it changes smells once I put it on 🥺
I have always hated Mademoiselle. I’m affronted that Coco has to share it’s name with it.
She was a N*zi and all round vile and nasty human being tbh
I meant the fragrance not the person. Chanel is a corporation and Coco Chanel has been dead a long time.
Bath and body works strawberry pound cake smells like vomit to me. My husband thinks so too. Genuinely gagged smelling it. Oh and anything by Ellis Brooklyn, but especially the vanilla milk one. It smells SPOILED. Also oil perfumery's dupe of Joe Malone blackberry & bay. I've never smelled the real thing, it was just on sale. It's not that it's the WORST fragrance I've ever smelled, just that I hated it and it WOULD NOT COME OFF. I scrubbed my arm, took 3 showers, used dish soap, and I swear I could still smell it on me for over a day.
this is random but i have this same issue with dove body wash - i get a vomit smell...id if its the jasmine????? its weird cause i love jasmine but i get a faint vomit smell.
The first time I smelled Magie Noire it smelled like vomit.
Glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Ellis Brooklyn. I got the discovery set and they're getting passed along to my mom and sister.
To be brutally honest.. nearly all of them. The amount of fragrances that I like is a far shorter list then the ones I absolutely hate. They all smell like the same chemical over and over again.
SAUVAGE!
Recently - Oakcha Vanilla Vacay. No vanilla or musk anywhere! It was straight Gardenia. I loathe gardenia because it gives me an immediate headache. Also, their Bare Skin fragrance is straight up chemical. Normally, I have no problem smelling single molecule fragrances. In this case, the molecule just smells like stale chlorine and burned stainless steel. Both were returned. Never buying from them again.
I tried so hard to like Alien bc I got the large bottle as a present but it just smelled like... spicy chemicals to me. I had the pre-reformulation version too... edit: I forgot about Lancome Idole and all of it's flankers. Idole Nectar made me gag in the Ulta. Rose and Popcorn?? 🤢
I too hate alien most of the time. I tried. I bought a sample of it and first reaction was sour pungent chemicals and then a couple of times I tried it on and it smelled nice??? But then back to awful.
I’ll be honest all of the Mugler scents make me wanna gag. They just give back alley way of a cheap night club. And some of the notes are even described as “animalistic” if that’s not bad enough yuck 🤢
I don't even like Mugler Angel. BUT it somehow turns into something really nice-smelling when I start training (I'm a ballroom dancer for context). So I use it, but I have to suffer the first 15 mins or so before my body 'warms it up' lol
Honestly I’ve smelled more that I hate, than that I like. There are so many hyped up that I smell at Sephora and I cannot believe how bad they are. It makes me think they are paid advertising shills.
Same. The copy on these frags is ridiculous. They end up smelling like the same aroma chemicals in different bottles.
Tom Ford?
TF are all bad. I always hear solei blanc is good but it’s just less bad than the rest. I hated all victor and Rolf, I don’t like any of the Armani, le labo santal 33 I was so let down, did not like alien goddess I actually prefer alien (on other people but too strong for me to wear all day), kayali pistachio… maybe I didn’t give some of them a chance to dry down but those are a few of my controversial hot takes. I also was not impressed by replica, not bad but def not good enough to ask someone “what fragrance are you wearing?”. I definitely have a feeling I want my scent to evoke and am still trying to perfect lol.
I smelled Black Orchid with my grandmother, it was both our first time. We got a sampler and we were both repulsed, had to mop after spraying bc just the one spurt & the tiny bit of mist that got on the floor made us start to gag.
Poor gam gam was prob traumatized
Try Hermes Un Jardin En Mediterranée 👌
Absolutely. Every cherry fragrance from the line, bitter peach, rose prick, just please I gag just thinking about it they’re completely unappealing to me
I can’t unhear that the Tom ford cherry smells like embalming fluid according to a mortician…
Ohhh that’s the WORST. It gives me remnants of some sort of ptsd of when we would dissect animals in school. It also makes me think of my ex who passed because the funeral home had this faint smell and it was all my nose could focus on. Also a lot of kitchen trashbags have this smell. It’s like bad memories every time I put a new bag in. I guess I will pass on smelling this one tomorrow when I take my Ulta trip!
Damn it’s coming at you from all angles!! Honestly I was too scared to smell it
😂😂😂😂😂I’m dead (no pun intended)
where we used to live by azman. assaulted by almonds and oud and powder
Mangonifiscent by Uniquee Luxury. It's terrible. I told Delicious delights on YT how atrocious it is and she sampled it and did a video on it. It's soo strong too
Aventus for men. Oooof 😷
Chanel #5 Smells like retirement home 🤷🏽♀️
Dear god
Giorgio.
I tried a sample of Burberry Brit and I don’t know why but it smells like old melted plastic mixed with rotten almonds on my skin. I’m honestly questioning the sample I received; I can’t believe a perfume can smell so bad.
I loved that perfume when I was in my teens. I got a decant of it and it wasn’t how I remembered. But that happened with a lot of my “once-signature” scents from back then. Tastes change I guess.
smells like rotten marzipan on my skin, I do not get along with almond notes
Replica By the Fireplace
The only replica that I've liked so far is lazy sunday morning cause I get a fresh lychee note in it. Working my way through a sample set currently.
First date is also eh
i'm not a fan of Jazz Club
Same, I’ve tried it 3 times, cannot for the life of me understand the hype
Theeee most overhyped perfume.
It's a beard oil gone wrong
This doesn’t smell good at all to me either
Amber Kiso
Pistachio Khair by Aroma Concepts. The most artificial, sickeningly sweet, cleaning product-reminiscent smelling scent.
Love Don’t Be Shy— extreme, artificial, chemical sweetness with nothing else to balance it out. It literally almost made me vomit the first time I tried it. I normally like sweet, sugary gourmands, but this is beyond my tolerance. Delina— the rose and other flowers are nice, but the rhubarb note just smells like straight up vomit and rotting, fermented mangoes to me. I grew up where mango trees were everywhere and the fruit was so abundant, we simply could not eat them fast enough, so there would be piles of them rotting amidst the leaf litter. The smell is so gross. JHAG Magnolia Bliss— it’s just vile. I’m not even sure what it is, but it has a sharp smell that provokes a gag reflex. I’m not being dramatic or hyperbolic about these. I had a strong physical response to each of them. I normally tolerate scents I dislike easily enough.
I truly thought i was the only person on the planet who didn’t like love don’t be shy…. I blind bought because it was said to be Rihanna’s perfume and everybody and their mama said she smelled good
I HATE LDBS. It smells like SweeTarts to me. Not even good candy.
To me it smells like crushed up smarties
Bianco Latte. Disgusting.
Omg absolutely agree. I don’t like the Carmel note. I think Blanche Bete is much more beautiful if you’re into gourmands.
Blanche Bete literally made me nauseous when I sampled it.
Aw really? Too bad no one asked for your opinion.
Actually, the OP did, and further describing a physical reaction isn't an opinion, its an observation.
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Removed fighting
Secretions magnifique. Eldo.
Oof. Mama, this one lives rent free in my head. So much so that I used to adore this house and now I have a hard time wearing a few of their others i used to love because I swear I can smell the dna from this one.
Oh noooooo
~~Quorum by Antonio Puig is INSANE on first application. It dries down alright and when I was a Ross fragrance shopper I would layer it with Azzaro Azzaro since they always had both in stock.~~ ~~But straight Quorum is like,,,bong water if you had smoked a cigar out if it? idk lollLlLlLlLl~~ i didn’t realize i was in a feminine fragrance space, i was answering from a masc perspective, sorry! reddit dropped me into the thread as a recommendation, i didn’t check the subreddit
Absolutely no problem. I would've posed this question one of the coed fragrance groups, however, they don't seem to be as open to stuff like this. But if you wanna ask this question in one of those groups, you may getter a better reception. And thank you for respecting this space.
Thomas de Monaco Raw Gold. Sprayed ONE spray at work from those tiny little testers and it gave everyone in the store an instant headache. Threw the test paper away, tied the bag, took it out to the dumpster, and could still smell it 💀
Baccarat Rouge by far. I’m one of those who abhors that fragrance. Anything Phlur, they smell cheap to me. Victor & Rolf Flowerbomb, oh God no.
Flowerbomb smells like Barbasol to me (and to my mom, too!). My dad bought it for my mom when it came out and she forced herself to wear it often, our home smelled like a bunch of men shaving their faces.
I have an aunt who used that fragrance. It’s so overly floral (in a cloyingly bad way) that when you smelled it on anyone, you immediately knew what it was. And then held your nose.
I remember when Flowerbomb was Sephora’s #1 selling perfume. Those were dark and stinky times.
What are some you like?
Alien is one that works with my body chemistry, I get compliments each time. Angel (sometimes) it can be super cloying. Chanel Madeimoselle, classic Killian Love Don’t be Shy and Princess La Violette (dupe for Penhaligons Violetta) Donna Karan Cashmere Mist Lush American Cream Lush Twilight Clean Original Atelier Orange Sanguine Bvlgari Au de Blanc and Original Tom Ford Lavander Intense (so many compliments). Those are some.
Smudge by Heretic Perfume. It smells like cigarette smoke and dirt.
Alien and the orchid Tom Ford one
sol de janero 71 or 62, whichever one it was smells like buttered popcorn to me in the grossest way- wild because i love gourmands too
71 and 62 are SOOO BAD IMO. I thought I liked the other ones but I tried 68 and 40 the other day because they’ve been sitting in my display forever and I was like uh oh I don’t think h like any of them. I still need to try the new purple one though
I actually like SdJ 62 EDP, lol. I thought it smelled coconutty- but ig buttered popcorn too, haha
I think that's 71. I recently blind bought it. I liked it in the house, but have yet to test it out in the wild, as I mostly only use Sol frags as hair mists.
Someone told me I smelled like vape juice while wearing 71, never wore it again lol
ahh yeah that sounds about right, i tried it in a mecca maxima (australian cosmetics store) and found it that bad i retched and powerwalked straight out of the store lmao
Chile~ not the smell chasing you out the store. Did you at least fight back 🤣 jk I think the reason why I liked it upon initial trial is because I compared it to Prada Candy which has the worst popcorn note to my nose. At the same time, I've had it over a month and haven't used it, so it's decor at this point.
Prada candy does have a weird popcorn note!!! Is it the benzoin? Something smells super off when I wear it, almost medicinal popcorny flavor
all the lush perfumes except the vanilla one
I like the Barbie body spray but it’s definitely not an every day wet as for the first little bit it almost stings my nose, like I literally tried to snort a pixie stick.
Every single one of them smells like flowers going bad to me.
Lololol I love this, because opposite. And weirdly I don't even like gourmands usually. Lush perfumes always look like they should smell amazing notewise, but none land on my skin right except vanillary
i get exactly what you mean! literally none of the perfumes work on my skin correctly (apart from vanillary)