The most OVERLOOKED tool in Elden Ring 

Perfumes are one of the most underrated items in Elden Ring, so USE THEM. Also that varre fake voice costed me way too much lol Very excited to reach 100k soon thank you guys for that!

Perfumes are really fun, but gathering materials for them is a pain, to use them consistantly. I wish we have some material trader of sorts.

If you keep the perfumes equipped (this also applies to pots) and also use a mimic summon, the mimic will use the perfumes for free, without wasting your actual in inventory.

The problem with them is that the ingredients for most of the perfumes are really hard to come by and often really useful for other key items, too. As a result, people are afraid to use them much. Rune Arcs are kind of similar in that being unable to really farm them makes players unwilling to use them much.

Been using spark a bunch to bolster a throwing knife focused consumable build and feel like it's important to note just how nice it is to have a Dex based source of fire damage! People joke about Int being blue Dex a bunch, but in reality Dex consumables add up to a toolbox of status and damage types that rival faith casters.

The uplifting aromatic that give you the bubble is my favorite. I used it to beat the final boss on my first run through. It's pretty broken having 10 free hits on top of your flasks and physik bubble.

"Man, Tricia is a GREAT summon with her uplifting aromatic" "Oh, you can craft those yourself actually." "As I was saying, my girl Tyche is GREAT"

Eyyy, I've been using the Bubble perfume for bosses and especially when called to help. People really slept on those items, they've always been *fantastic* in their utility. Thank you for making a very informative and condensed overview about them, I didn't expect poison to be *that* good...

i personally greatly enjoy the ironjar aromatic, theres extra challenge in the slow speed and heavy rolling but u are also The Tarnished of Steel and can do all of ur heaviest attacks uninterrupted

I feel this is also a great place to mention that you can store perfumes and pots at sites of grace. Stored ones won't use up cracked pots or bottles, but they will restock when you rest. So if you only ever use Spark Armoatic, you can craft and store a ton and not have to remember to craft more. (Storing a ton can be tedious though, since you have to do it in batches of at most 10.)

I wanted to do a build that was solely using perfumes, and it was tough. Theyre def a support item. I think it would be awesome if we could do like a quick craft action to make more mid battle so that they could be a primary weapon

I absolutely love uplifting aromatic. Give it to your mimic for infinite uses

I used to use the armor tear in my mixed flask, but when I found the uplifting perfume that did essentially the same thing with an attack boost I opened up another tear slot in my mixed physic which was huge. Also using that in the seamless co-op mod led to some cool encounters where I saved my friend with the bubble shield.

Would love items you could purchase with maybe rare materials or lots of runes so that you'd never need to farm for materials again. What I mean is like a key item that makes it so whenever you're crafting it waves one of the material costs in crafting.

Used the uplifting aromatic during my first play through to help with the Elden Beast and it was pretty darn useful

Just came back to this channel after a long time, just to see you absolutely blew up in popularity. Well deserved man. Keep it up

This is easily one of my favourite, if not, my favourite Elden Ring video. As an avid Perfume art fan it's helped with farming locations and I don't find it too horribly tedious to gather the required materials for each and every Perfume recipe, I enjoy having this on in the background from time to time while doing so as well, on repeat if necessary during longer farming runs. Love your editing and narration by the by, very smooth to watch and listen to.

If you have a friend, backup your save file, give him everything, then reload the save. Repeat 4-5x to turn that 60 arteria leaves into 999.

Love the Cult of the Lamb soundtrack in the background. ❤

I use the spark aromatic in my bow build. It’s surprisingly effective, because it covers a good area in front of you, which is exactly what a ranged build needs when dealing with aggressive opponents

Incredible video btw, everything summarized about these items in 5 min - Great work!!!

IMO the uplifting aromatic is the best one because its go to use of arteria leaves. Exalted flesh and blood boil are okay but getting a defensive buff, an offensive buff, and it be on everyone in range is HUGE. This is especially true if you're helping friends get through tough bosses. I understand the arteria leaves are pretty limited but they are a reward for difficult exploration locations. You might as well use them to make some bosses/phases a little easier.

Absolutely scrumptious editing comrade, instant sub

Oh I loved the perfumes on my first playthrough, the poison one got me through my first few bellhunter encounters, and the bubble one was with me for the rest of the game, helping me and my mimic tear tank Malenia. So useful

Leviathan your videos keep getting better

great video as always. love perfumes

A guy saved me from Elden Beast's 'crucifixion' attack with a perfume once and now I always take them when called to help. They're fun to play around with, but it feels like a waste to use them on non bosses since crafting is boring. But for bosses there's a bunch to suit many playstyles.

Can confirm they're useful, (or at least the one that gives the bubble shield are). My roommate and I recently completed a coop playthrough, and during it we joked about how he uses a lot of items like firepots, while I almost never use consumables, so he ended up trying out more and more including the perfumer bottles. We were both surprised when we learned that there was one that gave that shield, so he started applying it all the time before we entered a boss room, letting us save our physic bottle or use it for other buffs.

Perfumer bolts are extremely rare and can only be farmed. Even with 99 arcane they are super rare and because of this I can only recommend using Exploding bolts instead since they according to the wiki, do only 14 less damage than the counter part. Also exploding bolts can be bought and to make it better, it does not need perfumer talisman to do good damage. But I think perfumes still are way too annoying to farm for the offensive sides of perfumes and I rather prefer using arrows/bolts. Since they can be bought and can kill any enemy in the game with just serpent arrows, bleed arrows and burred bolts. Though defensively or to buff I think perfumes are awesome and that I will agree is worth using. All in all... good video : )

I love your balance of humor and information. Please keep making videos!

Big ups for calling DSP boring lol

I use perfumes when I'm helping others out with bosses. I'm on NG+4 (haven't played for like 6 month though lol) and spent around 150-200 hours per cycle. Got so many ingredients I can make them almost infinitely. The uplifting aromatic is such a great tool to help especially newer players out. It's a shame that such an amazing mechanic is overlooked. I love perfumes

thank you very much for this video. another one to keep track of for my eventual playthrough, aiming for my first to either be a shout or Crossbow build, seeing as how consumables as a core build seem... troublesome.

I only use the uplifting one. I made a whole bunch of poison ones but haven't used them yet. Now that I know the damage is stronger than scarlet rot, I will be using them a lot more.

I used a lot of perfumes because I went for a Faith buffing allies playstyle. It was super fun in coop, but also worked well in single-player thanks to the mimic also using the buffs and perfumes to buff me.

I used spark for day 1 invasions and it just chunks people, all i had to do was get someone to a little under half health and turn and burn them, it does goofy damage and is a great finisher. Poison mist is also really good in pvp, as people don't usually bother to cure poison because they assume poison does bad damage. On an arcane build the poison mist is an absolute necessity.

1:36 “why not table the turns” 😂 great video…over 200 hours in and on NG+ and haven’t used perfumes. Very helpful

Thank you man thank so much it's hard to find relevant Elden ring vidéo on RU-vid.... The poison stuff I vs Scarlett Rott made me rewatch the whole Video ..art I was a bit sceptical at the beginning.... You rock my Elden Lord

Oh my God man. I’m so glad I found your channel. This is comedy. Gold but informative about my favorite video game series. Absolutely hilarious my friend.

ive been messing with a pvp build where i have the frenzy flame in my left hand with unescapable frenzy, the grab incantation, and unendurable frenzy, the continuous frenzy incantation, and a dagger with bloodhound step in my right. Then I pop a ironjar aromatic and bloodhound step at my opponents. I can either grab them or blast them, and the ironjar aromatic also greatly reduces my madness buildup, so I can keep going forever. I then wear heavy armor with vyke's spear as a secondary melee weapon and im basically unstoppable. the only annoying part is the living jar shard requirement for the aromatics.

Very interesting, Especially about the poison aromatic!

I used the ironjar aromatic a bunch in my first playthrough to cheese some bosses. Apply bloodflame on a weapon with the spinning strikes skill, drink the perfume, stand right next to the boss and hold L2, some like the draconic tree sentinel can be melted in 20 seconds while tanking any hits if you happened to aggro him before getting close enough

I personally don't like perfumes, because on top of having only a max total of 10 and requiring material, they also use fp and I rather want to cast my spells then that. That's why I love normal pots much more.

Man! I’ve been sleeping on perfumes. Giving good farm spots was very helpful too. Definitely crafting them more during my next playthrough

I will definitely use this video for my item only run of Elden Ring

I think its really fun to do a play through using a lot of items I like to do it with my samurai that I use a bow a lot in but all the extra items and crafting I think is pretty fun

The Spark Aromatic as a well-timed wake up is beautiful. Or as a cheap shot against aggressive gankers.

Hey my man, uplifting aromatic is straight bussin fr fr, perfect to prevent your 10 vigor homie from getting one shot while sunbroing.

Uplifting Aeromatics absolutely saved my RL1 run. So fucking clutch having 10 second chances against the endgame bosses.

whenever I do co-op, I always bring Uplifting Aromatics, and I can't count how many times I've saved the host or fellow furled fingers with it

I actually really wanted to use perfumes, but was discouraged by the materials required. Now that I know more farming spots, I'll try them out properly!

In my first run i always used perfumes and it was so fun. I also did some invasion while playing and always thought about why no one uses perfumes especially the uplifting perfume

I have a perfumer build and I love it the perfumes are so useful

"draconic tree sentinel has suffered enough" THE SPAM SENTINEL HAS NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH

Between the ps4 and ps5 versions I have about 1000 hours of gameplay and still find new stuff occasionally. Like a few days ago I found the tombsward cave never knew that was there been by that area dozens of times.

i wanted to initially use a light perfumer blood saumrai build but i kept neglecting the perfumes, i'll give them another go, add more variety to my build

I wanted to make a perfume build for pvp and since then I've been using the Spark aromatic since. If you're dex, definitely have it on your bar. It's got a deceptive hitbox where it pretty much comes out instantly- great for setting up or against aggressive opponents, also good for invasions when they're trying to blender you. The thing is, even if you're not a dex focused build, it still does fantastic damage. Good thing to try is using the spark, even for a deterent, and doing the running R2 on a heavy thrusting sword, maybe even slap an impaling thrust somewhere on there. It's a brilliant tool. I tried to use the others (not the bubble) in arena too but I couldn't get them off lol I didn't know about the insane dmg tick on the poison one though, holy. I think perfumes wouldve been cooler if they were a type of spell and you use a perfume catalyst of some kind, idk. Or even just making it so one bottle gets a couple of uses (maybe 3 considering there's 3 in the art?). I'd balance that by only allowing some of them to have that many uses though. Imagine 30 bubbles in arena 😫 I really really hope they develop more for DLC, such an underrated tool that could be made even better - just like gravity chunks and glintstone chunks, theyre amazing

I really wish consumables would reset after colloseum battles (not after every death in combat ordeal tho that'd be annoying)

Uplifting Aromatic and Bloodboil stack on top of each other so you could get a 40% phys damage increase along with the 90% damage reduction the bubble gives

I def use and love perfumes and it might be weird for people but I enjoy farming specially late game because 1. You can destroy most enemies, 2. Elden ring is beautiful and I enjoy the views and 3. You get exp and can try out builds and weapons which in turn makes you better at the game.

I used perfumes during the second part of my first play through because they're really fun to use and useful on top.

My first pvp build used perfumes, i think it caught slot of people off guard

This feels like a teleshopping ad. I love it.

There is also the Mimic tear copying your item bar. The mimic uses whatever you have on your bar without using them.

Perfumers hat is my favorite bit of headgear in the game

i didn't know the bubble gave an attack buff! that makes it a more interesting option for me, as an alternative to golden vow ash of war on low-faith characters.

Quick tip if u give the mimic the uplift perfume he will use it and u can get it too if u near him

thanks that is accually a really great idea. i never really use consumables never mind craftables but i think it might be an interesting way of playing the game.

Nice video! What outfit/armor is that? It looks cool!

Man I really only use the uplifting aromatic tbh. I’ve never been one to sit and run away from enemies while having them poisoned or rotted. I used blood boil for a bit but the extra damage u take is kind of a problem for me sometimes. Haven’t used the iron jar one but will try it out now it looks pretty cool but uplifting has always been my go to when needing to clutch out a win

99% of craftables and especially consumables are underrated! You can 100% be sure; that everything with ateria leaves in it - is a great consumable!! And many more. Great vid, thanks ✌💯👌

Very good video, for a minute there it almost made me wanna play this again.

Only ever created them for mimic to use. This game is grindy enough 😅 I really wanted to do a short bow build focusing on consumables and crafting. But the damage drop off is too much vs time investment, not to mention the stat spread for using different jars. There's a DS3 mod that made an alchemist class and that was pretty cool.

These reminds me a bit of the items from sekiro, like the item which allows you to damage the headless for a short period of time for example, except they are more optional in this game.

I like the perfumes that give you and nearby allies the 90% damage barrier without the wondrous physick

Using Cult of the Lamb music for Elden Ring video, combining two best games of 2022 together. Nice

Would like it if there were also perfumes that apply all the effects. Feel like that's a missed opportunity, instead of throwing dungpies or using seppuku, you could just spray on a perfume to apply the effect.

Op af, thank you for this tip 👍👍👍👍👍

The issue for me at least with utilizing every odd tool in the game, like the Perfumer's Talisman mid battle, I honestly think most people aren't fast enough (especially if playing with a controller) to go into their inventory, find the correct talisman, put it on JUST for a split second to use an item, then find the battle related ones they want on for the fight...all while dodging, dipping, stabbing, blocking. If the game had a macro system where you could set up armor/weapon sets that change with a single button push (actually surprised it doesn't) like many games, I'd utilize more of these items. But most the time, you just rock whatever your best battle attire is at all times, unless you're doing some pre-fight prep.

I used them!!! Barely understood them. But did dabble in due to the fact that my single favourite weapon in the game ended up being the Merias Executioner Greatsword, using the correct buffs that didn’t override each other was able to get damage up as high as 9k on a fully charged drill attack. Also had no idea there was a talisman for them...

After watching this I'm left to wonder, when it comes to the Ironjar and Bloodboil aromatics, are we ingesting them, dumping them on ourselves, or merely inhaling them when we use them as it's a bit tricky to tell for certain?

That was my first time seeing that silver and golden orb perfume I literally had no clue it was in the game

Grats on 100k!

Uplifting aromatic was the only perfume I ever used in the game lmfao and loved to us these after my wondrous physick flask gets used up

Perfumes are really cool. I myself have used maybe 2 or 3 of them, but that was more than enough to prove to me how strong they can be.

You can make the perfume that decreases your damage taken, equip it in like the 10th slot, then summon a mimic and your mimic will use it sometimes. Of course you keep yours so it’s infinite. Kinda neat.

I used Spark Aromatic for the first time on my 5th playthrough because I was a DeX Build and it's disgustingly good. It easily does 400+ damage to other players and, since it's so uncommon, no one knows how to dodge it so it hits 50% of the time. It honestly feels unfair at times.

The last play through I did at NG+1 I actually did start using perfumes. Now all I need to do is start using jars…

They should add a talisman that refreshes your perfumes at a site of grace instead of having them be consumables. Or have them take a lot of crafting items to make but thry e d up beung like old dark souls spells with refreshable limited casts.

I used uplifting aromatic a lot in my first band honestly all my runs. It was strictly good.

Put these on your mimics tear before changing up and you have the best support character as long as you have the mana to use it.

the best part about the bubble aromatic is the mimic tear uses it FOR FREE

”Everywhere i go, i see its face” *camera cuts to runescape hit marker*

Actually, I will try using perfume bottles. Looks interesting. Thanks for the info.

Slight side note, the depraved perfumers’ cape looks so cozy

I like keeping some perfumes handy just because the mimic tear will randomly use them. Free damage bubble without spending any mats.

I always keep a bubble perfume to equip when I summon mimic. Mimic can spam that sht it’s awesome

Performer Summons can use various perfumes to buff you/themselves

I love the perfumes. Surprised its not so often used.

I use the uplifting one in the beginning of a fight and when I'm in one shot range I switch to the one that ups dmg at cost of def due to it don't matter when your one hit that and I due believe they stack with other buff spells just not with each other allowing for massive dmg it's a shame ppl get really upset if your a buff heavy type even in duels but have no problem spamming AOE spells 24/7 or even getting rid of your buffs permanently with the buff stopper spell making it almost unviable except in boss fights.. oh wait that's right no one will wait even half a minute for you to apply them even if it benefits them as well they just rush in with no care