Fragrances I Regret Buying | Men's Cologne/Perfume Review 2023 

I love Dior Homme 2020. My fav in my collection besides my Versace Dylan blue lol

It's a popular complaint that PDM makes versions of trendy DNA instead of going more original. Think of it this way though: they zero in on a DNA that people really like and then make the best version if it with a signature twist. Thats kinda cool. If you already like something, wouldn't you like it even better if it was even better?

Dior Homme Sport 2021 might be the most underrated fragrance. It's damn good.

Darley is freaking awesome, the nixhe version of Le Male. Highly underrated.

Youve used an awful lot of that Darley, considering you dont like it🤔

My biggest regret I is Creed Aventus. Having said that, I highly appreciate Omars authentic Videos a lot - thanks for that Omar!

Eventhough it is quite cheap I regret buying a full bottle of encre noir. I was not able to sell it and now it just sits around.

performance of dior homme 2020 is way beyond the dior sport. And I think that the 2020 smells more like office than the sport

Dior Homme 2020 in my opinion is better againts Sport 2021, Sport 2021 is just too much herbal and sharp, while homme 2020 tones that down Everything else in the video is damn accurate

Heavily regret buying into Rasasi Hawas...

You contradict yourself straight of the video. You said quality over quantity. Khamra has good performance is what you say, so the quality is good, but you just dont like it.

Bro really hates dior homme 2020 edt and i think its stupid to prefer bdc over homme 2020 edt

Love Dior Homme. Just a fragrance for normal man. I don't want to smell like my 80 yo aunt with all these iris/vanilla scents.

OK this is the type of lists that we need to see more often. The regrets 😂 I’m pretty new to the fragrance ‘hobby’ so I don’t have many regrets except Versace Eros Flame EDP. Luckily i got a used small bottle for $20 from a friend. I’m really going to take into consideration what you said at the beginning about ‘quality not quantity’ because I don’t want to amass a huge collection. I already have enough to last me for yeeears 😂 I’ve been going hard on purchases lately 💸

Man I love my bottle of Chopard Oud Malaki. I even gave a bottle to a friend for his wedding day fragrance. Then Dior Homme 2020 too? Choosing violence today I see 😂

I regret my second purchase which actually arrived yesterday. Mercedes Benz Club Black, which was a blind buy. I like vanilla a ton and everywhere and everyone was saying it is one of the best vanilla fragrances on the market. It is a great fragrance, its just not for me. It reminds me of my mother and is too feminine for me. So lesson learned. No more blind buys and I need to go to a brick and mortar store and figure out what I like.

Can you review Penhaligons fragrances?

Chopard Oud Malaki is not an oud fragrance but still a great Dominique Ropion creation. DIOR Homme 2020 is very classy.

DH 2020 is an example of how subjective fragrance is. One of my favorites, others not so much.

Yes! I kept hearing how Dior Sauvage Elixir was sooo good, such an awesome fragrance for men. I see so many expert fragrance reviewers giving it a 10/10. Therefore, I decided to buy a bottle online for over 200 dollars. Big regret! I didn’t find it suited me at all…it’s a weird pungent scent that I didn’t find attractive or sexy.

hi omar love your videos , im new to fragrances and honestly a few months ago a fragrance was something i put on after showers as a habit no more , I would love if you could make a video about your top 10 beast modes (fragrances that have crazy projection for a long time ) as of 2023 since a lot of perfumes have been reformulated and got weaker now.

Ganymede, wtf was I thinking.

When I first smelled Dior Homme 2020 it immediately reminded me of Bleu de Chanel. I like both BDC and Dior Homme 2020 so I don't have a problem with it

I noticed I’ve started having far fewer regrets once I started sampling. 5ml is enough for me to know if it’s an actual love. It’s stopped me from purchasing off initial excitement and more for love and situation (plus reduced redundancy in recent profile or use case).

Darley is like jpg le male + creed original santal, i enjoy it but yes althaiir and carlisle are better. But, i still love darley ❤

I just blind bought khamrah because of your and other fragrance review youtubers and now there’s a video that you regret it which is crazy but i hope i like it

This is why buying samples are the best way. Personal preference is super subjective.

Dior 2020 is the one I use when warm seems to get attention and people like it. But I get where your coming from it’s more of a dumb reach fragrance

I regret buying l'homme ideal extreme instead of the edp

My regrets: Boss Bottled. I was a noob then. Smells very synthetic and I quickly grew tired of it. Zara fragances. Lisboa, suposed to be an AdG clone, not near; Green Savage, nice smell, no performance. Regrets I avoided: Most youtuber hyped fragances. Sweet, vanilla and aventus clones. Luckily I found soon I that, even if I like the smell, I don’t like to smell like this. Semi regret: Dunhill Agarwood, blind buy. Good smell, no projection. If I had smelled it, I would have bought la yuqawam instead.

I love your channel ❤ you got me to start my own collection. Keep this shit coming!!

I'm new to colognes/this community. But from what I've noticed, colognes are really subjective. When you're on youtube especially, you're really only hearing one person's opinion. Never forget that. I'm taking my time just trying cheap stuff and sampling for now.

Coach platinum I bought in the pineapple note, coach for men doesn’t last long at all

My biggest regret was Amraf - club de nuit. Not only did I feel like a generic Aventus dupe douche but the atomizer doesn't even work properly. I did like Mancera Cedrat Boise Intense which takes that DNA and goes in a better direction.

Agree with chopard oud malaki, i bought it and it smells old. Something an old person would wear and not special. Missoni parfum i bought and dislike. Has something in it that turns me off, not refined like bleu de chanel. Hugo by hugo boss - it is a good scent but becomes a skin scent in an hour. Lattafa Asad, smells like a heavy middle eastern thing, not like elixir at all. Dior 2020 - never bought it but what a mistake by dior removing the iris. They just should of made a new fragrance line. Also the new dior homme sport is ruined no more iris. Jpg le male le parfum - smells like heavy grandma soap to me and i almost never wear it. Givenchy gentleman edp boisee - smells good on a tester strip - but the smell gets old real quick when wearing it.

Really incredible video as always man! My thoughts as a guy who owns or is planning to own an alarming amount of the fragrances mentioned in this video: I really love Khamrah, and I think it's because I never smelled angel's share (I very rarely buy anything over $100/100ml) and just approached it as a standalone fragrance. It's surprising that I like it as much as I do, since I didn't really think I liked sweet fragrances much prior to owning Khamrah. The cinnamon and dates and just the creaminess of it are just awesome for me and even more so because I didn't expect to love it as much as I do. It's not groundbreaking or anything, but it is quite nice considering the price. I'm sure Angel's Share is awesome but it's just at a price point I don't see myself reaching any time soon. It's interesting you bring up black orchid because that's what I was planning to buy next - not the parfum, but just the regular black orchid. I've heard a lot of people saying it's very thick and a little sickly sweet, which has made me hesitate a bit but I really love dark, earthy fragrances, which I also hear this is. Plus, it's relatively cheap compared to other Tom Ford fragrances. Toy Boy, Gucci Guilty Absolute, and Encre Noire are all fragrances I love so I can see myself loving Black Orchid. I also run hot as an individual so fragrances that last are very attractive to me in general because I tend to "activate" fragrances pretty quickly and I feel like a lot of fragrances just disappear off of me quickly possibly due to that. I actually own Homme 2020 and I really do love it but it just doesn't last very long on me. Definitely basic, and I think I'd probably go for Terre D'Hermes or BDC next, but basic isn't a bad thing for me. I have a lot of stuff you can't wear to more formal occasions and Homme 2020 fills that space in my collection for me. I'd just describe it as corporate lol. Boring and mass appealing, but that's just what you need from a fragrance sometimes.

So happy to hear I'm not the only one who can't stand Santal 33, to my nose it smells exactly as you described. No idea how it's so popular!

Regretted: Sauvage Parfum, Sauvage EDP, Chopard Malaki, Profumo, Lattafa Tabac.

Saw my all-time favourite make the list (Pour Monsieur). I guess that we can't agree on everything. lol. Keep up the good work.

Nice theme , Omar! During the pandemic period , i could not try zara perfumes and i found myself having more than 30 bottles of perfumes that i did not like. With the exeption of Vibrant Leather , Vibrant Leather Oud and rich warm and addictive, all the others do not worth owning them

Mine would be Nishane Ani..just had a one month "fling" with it and never reached for it since 🤷

My biggest fragrance regrets recently have been: - Le Male Le Parfum - it’s a simple scent that lacks complexity. Overrated. - Le Male OG - it used to be great but it’s been reformulated and isn’t as good - H24 EDT - Burberry London - used to be amazing but now it is so weak.

1:12 Lattafa Khamrah 2:04 PDM Darley 3:33 TF Black Orchid Parfum 4:21 Dior Higher 5:21 Le Labo Santal 33 6:15 Chopard Oud Malaki 7:15 Jo Loves Cobalt Patchouli & Cedar 8:45 Dior Homme 2020 9:28 Chanel Pour Monsieur EDP 10:27 CD Ambre Nuit

Club de nuit intense man smells like lemon bathroom cleaner 😂

I dont see how u can regret buying khamrah for the quality , scent and strength u get for the price point and the presentation as well i like yr content tho u can be very snob sometimes

Mine definitely has to be chopard amber malaki smells like sweaty and stinky armpit, Bvlgari man in black performance is so so bad and smells like a bad version of SB extreme 😔😓

dior homme parfum, sent it back right away, it was disgusting and made me hate iris

Melissa bt fadel tuxedo mn ambre nuit fa ensa. 10:45 w baye ma 7aba ktir ensa

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Sick of internet enthusiasts who don't even have the fragrance but say DH2020 sucks, just to imitate their favorite content creator

DH 2020 and DH Sport are both good and different enough that I wear both

My man used up 80% of Darley and says he regrets buying?

I want to smell Layton layered with the original Cedrat Boise

My four regrets are Franck Olivier Oud Touch, Franck Olivier oud Vanille, Joop homme and Dolce & Gabbana K.

I regret getting drakkar noir, but also I'm allowed to just blame amazon for getting me with the "black friday deals." Not gonna touch the fragrance probably, and I don't feel too bad as I only wasted $23.

I think you mixed up Higher (2001) with Higher Energy (2003). There is no melon in Higher, but it is in Higher Energy. By the way, I love Higher Energy. But never tried Higher before.

Alexandria 2 by Xerjoff even if you like it the price is ridiculous but I disliked it severely. Urinal cakes

Nice theme , Omar! During the pandemic period , i could not try zara perfumes and i found myself having more than 30 bottles of perfumes that i did not like. With the exeption of Vibrant Leather , Vibrant Leather Oud and rich warm and addictive, all the others do not worth owning them

I regret buying jo Malone pomegranate noir

I regret buying Oajan by PDM. the dry down smells like used fabuloso mop water

Cheap Ouds have not worked out well with me. There may be a bottle of Oud Wood in my future and I hope that provides me with my Oud Fix.

I know that the bottlw for khamrah is similar to angels share but from what I hear it's actually meant to be a clone of Date delight by house of oud. The notes between khamrah and it are much closer

A couple. 1 that I regret buying because it's horrible is Amber Oud Tobacco. As a person who owns TF Tobacco Vanille, that clone is nowhere near close to it. Horrible opening drying down to a burnt rubber smell. 1 that I regret buying just because I haven't worn it a lot Rasasi Dareej. I bought, wore it around the house and it lives in my drawer. No dent.

Heh, 6 hours longevity on Chanel pour mounsieur? I tried it in store a few weeks ago and it didn’t last more than 1-2 hours and that’s just sad.

Really enjoy your videos, but I’d like to point out that maybe your experience in Indiana isn’t necessarily representative of the country as a whole

Khamra is a clone of Dates Delight, not Angel's Share. Still amazing, pick it up

I've bought 4 clones, sold them all and now done with clones. They suck.

Khamrah is a clone of Gissah Sava, NOT Angel's Share. If the main issue is it not being a good enough clone of AS... well.... it isn't.

I love Dior Higher and I can’t buy it locally, if you dislike it so much send it my way! 😅 Also I completely see your point about Khamrah.

For the price point.. khamrah for me, is an excellent choice for the gym, as long as you dont overspray and your not someone with terrible body odor when sweaty, it’s gonna be hard to find another sweet and boozy fragrance to wear while training. Side note, an excellent cheapie that’s more on the musky side that works well with the proper pheromones at the gym is Mont Blanc legend Red, mainly due to the Blood Orange note.

Bro please Google how to pronounce Monsieur. You probably know the word even

Hey bro Thanks for the another fantastic video Would you please answer this to help me ,, what would be your pick between Guerlain santal royal & Guerlain oud essential !! And would any of that a better option then diptique tam dao ?

Hey there Omar! I dont think I've ever seen you give your opinion on BTV fragrances, could I get an answer to why? And if you can, could you somehow educate us on their fragrances?

You regret spending £50 on oud Malaki? Common!

My regret is continuum by Tumi lol lived the sample then i got the full bottle with a travel size and damn idk i hate it lol smell reminds me of spiced rum or something like that. I hate it lol

My biggest regret is Armaf Milestone... Kind of. I very like it after one hour. For the first hour it smells like mushrooms rubbed on skin, and not only for me, but everyone who tries it.

I love your expressions about Santal 33. I do not like this perfume too. Very flat, simple formula, which is not worth this ridiculous price tag, in my humble opinion. I fully agree regarding Cedar raw materials in this. I can imagine some Musks there and some Salicylates, Polysantol, Iso E Super, Hedione there as well. Oh my God, I felt the pain in my heart, when I saw Pour Monsieur EDP in this list, my friend. xD I will purchase this as my life fragrance. I am thinking which one to choose, this or EAU SAUVAGE EDT will be on this place.

have you tried khamrah qahwa? just got it today and im really liking it

Biggest regret lately was a blind buy of Bentley for Men EDT. After hearing all the praise for Bentley for Men Intense with the caveat of it being so freaking strong and, well, intense...I figured I'd give the original a try. Big mistake. It is absolutely real, bought from a reputable seller, and it's so weak! It performs weaker than an after shave. I've worn it 3 times and half the 3.3 is gone. Have to reapply every 2 hours on skin, 10-15 sprays on clothing won't make it to the end of the day. Too bad, it's really is a wonderful scent but pathetically weak.

My regret, prada Black, I just don't get the hype, and it's just a rubber mess. I'm waiting to see if I change my mind before I sell it

Khamrah was very disappointing. Way too hyped

Omar, does Armaf untold and khamrah smell the same? I’m just a beginner and I got a sample bottle of those.

What do you think of aoud exclusif by Mancera? Is too tricky to wear ?

I have that bottle in my fridge now lol!

Anybody wanna buy my bottle of Carlisle? I don’t think it’s that great. I should have bought Pegasus Exclusif instead.

Wish I never bought Rasasi Hawas and Kumkat wood.

When I finally bought my first 100ml bottle from Le Labo, I chose Baie 19 instead of Another 13 and certainly regret that! I still very much love Baie 19 but about 3 months of owning it, the scent profile dramatically changed from when I first tried it. However I still had my 1.5 vial of Another 13 and it was so addictive to smell! Definitely buying a full 100ml bottle of Another 13 when I can afford it.

Omar, where did you find the smaller bottle of Ambre Nuit?

When does Mr. Majestic ship to the US I’ve been waiting for mine for a while now?

You’re correct. If you want a good Oud fragrance, save and spend a bit more. Gucci’s Intense Oud is wonderful. Masculine, woody, mysterious and masculine.

Earlyyy

Thank you!

Sick.

Please can you do a video on women’s perfumes? I would love to hear your take on some hidden gems and popular women’s perfumes.

regretted le male le parfum. i only have a small collection, but i bought a sample of it a while ago and i remember not liking it. i remember saying it smelt cheap and kind of sickly. for some reason though i kept smelling my sample and changed my mind. when i bought a full bottle, it didn't seem too similar to my sample. the drydown i really dislike, its almost old ladyish. maybe i just don't like florals at all but i really dislike them in here. i'm sure i remember my sample being sweeter. i wish i could just take out the floral notes and amp up the vanilla and spiciness.

Dior Homme 2020 is trash. I got burned because one reviewer said it’s his favorite designer fragrance. He must have meant Dior Homme Parfum because 2020 scuks. Also, can designers stop naming every flanker the same name? How am I supposed to remember the difference between a parfum, Le parfum, intense, profundo, elixir… ? Just name it something different than the original.

1. Spicebomb Extreme (last 2hr) 2. ADG Perfumo (boring, non-smokey) 3. Bentley for Men Intense (yurk) 4. Azzaro Wanted by Night (strange mix) 5. Armani Code Parfumo (boring)

Lattafa khamrah is worst ever buy... Too sweet and irritating 😤

Oh man, I sometimes feel alone in my distaste for Black Orchid. I want to like it, I can 100% appreciate the creativity, but both on strip and numerous times on skin, it actually makes me feel a little sick. 😬

Dior homme original, all I smell is make up