Perfumer Tries My '5 Fragrances For Life' | Men's Cologne/Perfume Review 2023 

@patrickpet7905 I have heard quite a few "definitions" of niche. It's more the thought that Roja is not a trained perfumer. Yet, he has one of the biggest niche brands out there.

And TF lol

A perfumer spends more time in smelling raw oils and materials and mixing them to build up a perfume. It is very rare for a perfumer to be going constantly around smelling perfumes unless the house hiring him is putting him under a market survey

@@abdlhmdx its like being a modern painter and not knowing about Michaelangelo or van goh

With your eyes closed, an infinite range of possibilities opens up

It can make a huge difference

Nice try Tom Ford 😏

100% it can make a massive difference. I didnt like ombre leather, noir extreme and i hated red tobacco on card! But as soon as i smelt them on skin i was like wow!

⁠@@mubashirkhan6881jep i tried tuscan leather on a strip and it smelled exactly like petrol. You couldn‘t tell the diffrence but on my skin it was quite nice

@@mubashirkhan6881red tobacco for some reason i already loved on the strip

Me too

Check out our previous videos with him, he has reacted to both Naxos and Black Iris I believe already (as well as other niche scents such as Layton)

@@SchoolofScent I surely will, thanks for telling me!

💯 I bought it last month and wow everything about that fragrance is amazing ... the scent , longevity (for me 10 hours) , the sillage and the leather box 🎁 I was like I bought a luxury watch !!! My best fragrance purchase in 2023 my next one will be Naxos !

40 knots is top notch in every way 👍

I could do, the issue is I'm always trialling new fragrances for future videos or for Atrium! My 'for life' scents generally apply to what I wear most frequently. (although there are more than these 5)

​​@@SchoolofScenti'm really appreciating this honesty. You just could have said "sure", do it every week and you would have easy contenct but it shows you are really into perfumes and the community of it. Amazing brother Edit: the video was great! Really liked his honesty about it too, it represents the subjectivity of any smell quite nicely. For me some 40$ lattafa smells more expensive than a 200$ amouge too

Miami blue is good too

you like Nio over Uden? genuinely curious because ive never smelled either but from the brand those are two i want to try

@@wakeinthecity9 Yeah, I mean Uden is nice, but I love Nio. In regards to Uden, I already have Edition Blanche. Not exactly the same, but close enough not to have both.

aw alright. yea i have the alexandria version of edition blanche i may stay away from uden then. thanks for the reply✌️

@@wakeinthecity9 anytime 😊

@@wakeinthecity9Uden Overdose > Uden

Oh crap I just ordered the parfum version of that tom ford.😢

@@chrisisonewithGod I still think the parfum is a decent designer scent by today's standards. It's the price tag and possibly the ostentacious bottle that don't do it justice. If you got it at a very steep discount, I think it's a solid buy. Only you can determine what you like atm; so use your best discernment when watching impressions vids with test strips. It's a different ballgame on skin and in situational contexts. 👍 Hope you enjoy it!

@@justaddlight bruh suggest some good frags

@@rapsodicreaper Unfortunately, good is always relative. For example, some artisanal perfumers like Russian Adam (Areej le Dore), Joseph DeLapp (Rising Phoenix) and Sultan Pasha use naturals, animalics and proper ouds in ways others wouldn't dream of, giving their compositions a very unique appeal to hardened critics. However, it's unlikely that the average person would be able to appreciate or understand them. Used to be that I could easily recommend the Guerlain trilogy (Heritage, Habit Rouge and Vetiver) to anyone just starting out because they were so cheap at discounters, but now that prices have skyrocketed, discernment trumps adventurousness. Nowadays, the best advice I can give is to sample sample sample. Perhaps even befriend a perfumer or two and utilize their help in learning about the craft to demystify the industry. So many things changing so quickly that I would be remiss to suggest anything to anyone anymore.

I dunno Byredo, Parfums de Marly, MFK all pretty dang good

And don't forget Ormande Jayne fragrances

@@studiodsr xerjoff amouage nishane all that

Some TF fragrances are brilliant, but most of them are just not that good... Sam is absolutely right, noir extreme smells so cheap. You can find so many well blended frags for the third of the NE price.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING

@@faroukFTTTHIS IS A 12 YEAR OLD YOU CAN TELL BY THE USE OF THE WORD HECKING

@@JustysFrank English is not my first language

@@leoskilldivision6504 apologies

Exactly.

Layton is more versatile....i recommend Percival from PDM...naxos is good but the other 2 more versatile

it was in the first video we did I believe! where he tries fragrances I insist are a 10/10

@@SchoolofScent Ohh. Will watch that video then. Thanks

Just get samples. 2ml samples aren't that expensive. a 2ml of that Noir Extreme is like 7 bucks at Scent Split. a 5ml is 17.

Never blindly buy perfume. Everybody has a different taste... Go to a store, smell it, spray it on your body, and see how it performs, especially with pricey perfumes.

I personally think it smells wonderful… it’s in the niche realm, but probably one of the easiest to like perfumes. If I had gotten noir extreme as a blind buy, I would’ve been quite happy.

Oh you must have misheard! He said that specific perfume is something a beginner could make

Sam Macer, channel linked in description 😊

@@SchoolofScent thank you! I only find 3 scents on fragrantica for lux e+ terra. Is that his own brand or is the site just outdated probably?

@@petergriffin5256he has rebranded apparently

I have tried all three of his Lux e Terra. They are quite nice in their own way considering he is a relative beginner.

@@petergriffin5256 yes that is the old name of the brand, now it is known as Zurai

Sweet bubblegummy? Interesting It’s very aquatic to me, fresh and salty

Most of these guys are in their late 20s or early 30s that got into perfumery less than 10 years ago. They are the After Aventus Hype perfumers.

Absolutely on point!

This applies to many industries. While I have confidence in my ability to identify smells, you are falsely suggesting that Sam, Aaron, and others only got into making perfumes because they bought a kit. This is disrespectful, incorrect, and misleading because you don't know them personally or professionally. They might have degrees in chemistry and are passionate about understanding chemical compounds, fragrances, and blends. They are not just giving their opinions on smells; they also have knowledge of the chemical makeup of the perfumes.

@@richards9750 Thanks for the response. All due respect, I think you've misunderstood my take on this subject. I never said that Sam, Aaron, or anyone else "got into making perfumes because they bought a kit." Rather, I am pointing out that these individuals seem to have a lack of insight into historical perfumery. Perfumery, like literature or fine art, has a long and complex narrative attached to it. If I am looking for criticisms on a given topic, I prefer to get them from individuals with some degree of experience and expertise in the particular subject. Not chemistry. Perfumery. Obviously, RU-vidrs create videos with the intention of getting as much exposure as possible. In order to do this, they often create videos like these to bait people into watching because the viewers believe they are privy to the insight of an "expert." I am critical of this (as anyone should be of mass media) and I am simply calling people to think for themselves. Also, I find your sentence syntactically strange and possibly revelatory: Why would you include yourself in this statement - as if you are part of this group of aforementioned individuals? That, in addition to your generic username, the fact that your account has zero content, and is only a few years old - makes me a bit skeptical as to what you're trying to accomplish here and why it seems personal to you? It seems like it struck a nerve. Very interesting.

I found weird at the beginning that they weren't familiar with popular fragrances as well but Omar made a great analogy about Michelin star chefs and restaurant critics/reviewers. Those high end chefs are not necesarily familiar with the other restaurants but reviewers all they do is try different stuff. Honestly I don't think someone like Alberto Morillas who has been in the industry longer than I've been alive has tried anything on the market for the past 20 years. I think ATH said that he is working on his fragrances 7 days a week so I don't think he will be at the local store smelling anything after work.

imagine buy that frag with his own money, he literally have the freedom to roast the fragrance lol, he literally 100% honest and god tastes. other youtuber just get free bottle from the brand and just live up the hype. or get basic taste

I agree with Sam. I think Tom Ford is ridiculously overpriced.

When I first smelt it I was like this just smells like an air freshener I smell in some houses

That’s the beauty of fragrances! Everyone has their own opinion. I own both and do prefer the parfum but am not as critical of the edp as you are. I enjoy both and use each for different occasions. I have no idea where he is getting strawberry from.

@@corey513 for sure!

No way, the leather stink ruined it. The EDP destroys it easily.

@@keenan13jpn interesting take!

Thats way too broad of a statement. You find so different things over different price points its all about finding what you like.

or tf noir extreme?

yeah it's good but it's so basic to him and me, you just can't accept someone rate 3/10 to frag u love. u just have basic taste nothing wrong, but you cant mad to someone who has more experience.