I’ve noticed that my urge to buy a new fragrance comes with boredom . Sampling is a good way to calm this need for free and include new scents in your rotation ! Sometimes we think that we need a new one but we just need to smell something different to go back to our collection and realize it was not a real need . Remember to always smell good and feel good :)
You're absolutely right. I got involved in the hobby of collecting fragrances 7 years ago, when my working career was destroyed by an event I won't describe here; and bought a lot of stuff, most of which was unnecessary. I now have 400 fragrances (80 of which are niche, and the rest are designer's, artisanal or cheapies). I bought many of them because I needed something to compensate for the mobbing I still receive at work and the impossibility to find another job. Sometimes, I find myself blind-buying a fragrance just because I am angry or let down by life. Besides, I have a lovely wife, other hobbies, do sports every day, love to cook and eat healthy (well, mostly). I am trying to sell some fragrances, but one goes and one comes. Thank for your sincerity, Dan.
I have always said there is a huge disconnect between "frag-heads" and the general public. I've had more compliments wearing stuff like Lynx Africa, Cool Water and Drakkar Noir than £200+ niche fragrances. it's not JUST because they're considered too expensive, it's that they don't have mass appear. if terrible teddy was brought out as a £20 mainstream EDT it wouldn't do well at all. most people would sooner go for and like the smell of blue stratos.
Already on the #1 truth and I TOTALLY agree with you! People around me are surprised to find how much I've already collected and tell me that it must be so expensive. But it's not! Especially when compared to other hobbies that people try to talk me into like golf, hunting, fishing, house flipping, and so on. Fragrance collecting can be as lucrative or as cheap as you want it to be. And you can smell great either way!
@@danlightened I agree that not everyone has the privilege of being able to purchase big name designer or niche brands of fragrances. That includes even me That's why I enjoy collecting inexpensive fragrances that are around $40 or under. You can still build a great collection even with no big brand names.
@@rspictures Agreed. The prices of designer perfumes these days is ridiculous! Around $100 for 100ml. The prices have risen over 50% since covid. I know there's inflation but it's not this much. You may know about India. Here there are millions of engineers and highly qualified professionals, due to the massive competition. Yet the average monthly income of a household (not an individual) is just $250. For the amount of highly skilled labour we put in, not even 7-8% of the population earn more than $5000 a year. And for brands to expect people to $100 for generic stuff is insane.
I think this was a great video and your observations very perceptive. At one stage I was adding to my fragrance collection as a way to fill a gap in my life. I gave most of those away to friends and family in the end so not in vain. I now have a nice collection of 10 or so of my favs that I do enjoy, with Mancera Hindu Kush as a signature scent.
At work today I was wearing an oud/rose oil, layered with an Aaron Terence Hughes fragrance. Just before I started my shift I sprayed a Superdrug own brand deodorant, and I got a compliment on it, and not the £30 oil and £100 fragrance... a £3 deodorant got me a compliment. It’s honestly so frustrating as an enthusiast and collector.
Hi Yana. Thanks for the comment. I hope you are doing well. I imagine it’s very common amongst RU-vidrs in general as it can be a lonely pursuit and a very competitive world with where we always feel we are not doing as well as we would like to.
Great video. Definitely some good input. This hobby sure is cheaper than collecting bass guitars!🤣 One way I've trimmed some of the spending, is by purchasing decants of niche fragrances. Most of the time, you can get 10% off. A couple of places sell 30ml bottles. (I'll snag one or two of them when there's a 20-25% off sale 😉)
Agree, shopping can be an addiction. Looking vids getting into it, researching, buying many. It might expose an underlying abundance of energy, left over from not being used on a greater purpose. The cheaper frags can be good, missoni wave, or bad cheap metallic synthetic (some other middle eastern dupes). Same goes for expensive ones i guess, good and horrible smelling ones. Everyone has their own taste of course.
In line with the Jimmy Choo Ice/Creed Himalaya/Dior Eau Sauvage Cologne recommendations, I would recommend Creed Royal Water. Regarding collector behavior and mental illness, there is a certain amount of neurosis involved, but neuroses is not necessarily mental illness. There is actual value, aesthetically and monetarily, in fragrance collection. Having 200 fragrances in ones collection is not the same as having 200 cats in your appartment.
"We humans are all the same, every last one of us. For some it’s drinking, some it’s women, some even religion, family, the king, dreams, children, power, all of us had to spend our lives drunk on something, else we’d have no cause to keep pushing on. Everyone was a slave to something." - Kenny Ackerman.
This video is probably the most spot on info I’ve come across in the fragrance community. Absolutely spot on mate. Keep up the good work. Solid advice 👌🏼
Great vid as always! 👍🏻 As a fellow cheap frag channel, I really appreciate the support you give to those who enjoy collecting lower end fragrances. You are a big inspiration, and I have enjoyed many of the ones you recommend! Thanks Dan!
Your recent "debunking myths" kind of videos have been great, and they inspired me to subscribe. In this video, my favorite truth was the idea that a cheap fragrance can be just as good as an expensive one. So true.
I swap with my friends fragrances I don't use anymore, I buy decants, samples, buy 1 perfume per month (this year mostly Arab fragrances) so these 2 years I've been reasonable 🎉🎉
picking up on a couple of points, I have found the issue of mental health to also be extremely prominent with people that obsess over exercise - particularly bodybuilders. it's riddled with drugs and early deaths as well. even women - there are tons of articles "I used to be anorexic, now I'm a bodybuilder" as if that's a good thing... it's the opposite side of the same coin. you're still obsessing over what you look like in the mirror and how much you weigh.
I'm in the gym for around three hours a day, six days a week. I wouldn't think about touching steroids. Roid rage, shrunken genitals, baldness, spotty back, heart problems.... No thank you!
@@steveparadox1 true, but on the flip side....all or little supplements you intake especially the smoothies with protein will eventually destroy your liver. Every human being will one way or another suffer the consequence of their vice 😥
@@alexg.9279 Sorry I don't get your point. I don't personally have smoothies with protein. Most days for breakfast I have kale salad, egg whites, toast and avocado. Sometimes with quinoa. I feel that's a good breakfast with nutrition.
@@steveparadox1 the point that Alex G is making is simply this- inevitably, everyone will face some kind of recompense for their vice. "I'm in the gym 3 hours day, 6 days a week." Quite frankly, That is excessive and obsessive, And you will (and us all) will pay the price.
Yeah i only need about 4 fragrances. I expect to have no more than 20. 5 i need for occasions (work, night out, high heat, etc). Then, there's 3 or 4 i want for nostalgia reasons alone. And the rest are just new ones i've smelled and am infatuated with. But i'm not interested in getting any more. In fact I've kinda picked out about 16. I'm only saying 20 cause i figure in the next 50 years of my life i'll likely smell another fragrance i'd like and want. But i'm not really looking to "collect a lot" of fragrances. I'm also lucky in that i'm pretty much the opposite of an impulse buyer.
Hello Mr. Smelly! I have a question for you. About 9 months or so ago you released a video saying that acqua di pino cologna was the best cheapie on the market right now. I was wondering since you’ve have some time with it do you still enjoy it as much as you had?
Like every addiction, fragrances (or better, buying new ones) are go-to escapism from life difficulties, bad mood, failures etc. Got fair luck, mixing my fragrance addiction with gambling and watches collecting at the same time and drown in this consumerism spiral really bad... Be careful guys with anything you do 😔
Pacing yourself is great advice: 1) Set a monthly budget 2) Look for discounts 3) Sell or trade what isn't working 4) Individual samples can be expensive, but discovery sets are usually affordable.
That's what I said to my wife... But she said, buying cars, dress or shoes have more function and uses than spending hundreds of dollars for merely water...
Tell your wife to sell all her shoes and just buy crocs cause they are more confortable, they have more "function", or sell all her purses and buy plastic bags, they fit more stuff. Sell all her dresses and buy t shirts and sweat pants, they are warmer, comfy and cheaper. See how she reacts ;) No offense ment with this comment
I got into collecting many scents during Covid pandemic. I was very depressed at the time like many others, and i haven't been able to shake the habit.
Everything you said at the beginning is true on collecting on a large scale. I’ve been accumulating fragrances for over 10+ years. I have too many on hand but I do love fragrances always have since middle school. Friends that have seen my collection say i’m crazy 🤷🏾♂️. I have slowed down some in the past months. I pretty much have every scent profile that could be used in public(some that are just for enjoyment) outings. I have given some away to friends and family also. But I enjoy the high of getting something that is different from the norm, that is always exciting when the UPS truck comes. Anything that is new for me now I go for a decant to see if it is worthy for me to buy a full bottle. Great video as always.
I love eau sauvage line I actually tried in store the cologne version the other day was very impressed with it actually lasted much longer than I anticipated and prefer it to the current formulation of the og and even the parfum but I still prefer the 2012 parfum over most mens fragrance
Great video, and love the points you talked about! Gonna grab me a sample of that jimmy choo man ice for sure, and give it a try! Thanks for the info....
This guy’s image is old fashioned and out dated. Seems the Brits are content reliving old glory days of the empire. No advancement, no progress. Just the status quo. Nothing new here.
I have 50 bottles and about $5,000 invested. Some have increased on value quite a bit though like my vintage Le Male, Versace Man Metal Jeans etc have increased their value multiple times. Versace Man is selling for $780 and they sold 200 bottles at that price. It’s not even the Giver Profumi version.
I like fragrance samples they are much cheaper than the big bottles. I sometimes get horried when i buy the expensive big botttles my bank account screams at me 😂
I have 26 different colognes at the moment, and never spent more than 65 bucks on a single one. And 65 was a victor and Rolf spice bomb. So still pretty cheap for how much they cost new. Never break your bank to get new scents.. it’s not worth it, and you can always find nice stuff for cheap at a rack store
If you're wearing Lapidus pour Homme the problem isn't that you're smelling like a cheapie. The REAL issue is that you're smelling like Lapidus pour Homme. Maybe layer it with vintage Kouros next time. That'll get 'em.
You mention health and fitness as important, but one tangent to that so many don't know. Fasting for health is the cheapest was to improve yourself, but also test and try your approach to life. Start with intermittent fasting of 1 meal a day, or try water fasting for 3 days. Weight is something everyone subconsciously is judged by because only those with too much of something and not enough fasting can be overweight. This advice is not for anorexics, but those who are overweight shouldn't pretend they might overshoot into anorexia.
Great advice. As My hobby I am very interested in lord molyneux lounged in 1988 was very famous in Saudi Arabia but still CAN outstand.please try. similar to Ted lapidus.
Hi, Mr. Smelly - I watched your channel for a while now. Some of the things you say, I agree with and others - I don't. Now if I can't speak for other people as I don't know everyone. So I can only speak for myself. If a guy wants to meet more women and get to know women, he needs to stop going down to his local pub and talking to his mates all night about football and the lady behind the bar - he's never going to get her. All any guy has to do is be clean, have clean clothes that fit and I mean fit, not skin tight. And go places where the ladies hang out. Now the biggest issue for some guys is rejection - once a guy overcomes that mindset - he can then walk up to any lady and speak to her. The fragrance thing is a personal thing as I like to smell nice and different to all the other guys in the room. If a guy looks after himself, takes pride in his appearance and is nice to people - he will find that women will start speaking to him. However, the number one rule is when speaking to women - make eye contact and do not think about what you'd like to do to them as ladies can pick up those thoughts in Milly second. Then it's game over. Fragrances are like two cars, a Rolls Royce and a mini both are cars. But one will make you feel better and get you there in a certain way where as the other - the mini will get you there. I saw a few Bentley fragrance going cheap online. So I got them and like them. Now - I've had a smell or two of Xerjoff and Nishane and PDM and MFK and I like those too. They cost a pretty penny, so rather than buy them all at once - I'll buy one here and one there, depending upon the event I'm going too.
This hit me pretty roughly but 4:20 is pretty true about me if i'm being honest. I'm 22 and i do have depression and anxiety basically getting alil bit obsessed with the fragrance collecting..but i am not a bad person or severly mentaly unstable other than that, i do consider myself mostly a calm and polite person😅
I have adhd which had me hyper fixated on certain hobbies. I collected hard from 2010-2017 then stopped for a while now I’m getting back in because coworkers are interested in my wealth of knowledge about frags. My marriage ended because I bounced from hobby to hobby and didn’t focus on buying a new home or doing things to elevate my life. Didn’t know I had adhd until she left.
Good day Mr Smelly, what's the best online store you recommend to buy a fragrance in the UK? I need to buy a birthday present for someone right away in England.
You are so right a lot of people have issues chasing that next hyped cologne my best advice is to buy what you're going to wear and not to add to your collection thanks keep up the good videos 👍
Personally I can smell my cologne all day and I just got into this hobby. Go for a run take a shower put on a nice outfit pick out a scent your feeling just gets me motivated
Being trans is a manifestation of who someone feels to be their own true gender and is not a decision that one takes lightly or something that can be done on a whim. Many trans people spend years and substantial amounts of money to go through something like this.
One of the first times I got a compliment was last night at a high school baseball game, I was walking by a coworker and when I came back by, she said I smelled great. I must have gone noseblind because I sprayed it hours before… but of course we all know Ganymede lasts forever
That's why I said to my wife... But she said, buying cars, dress or shoes have more function and uses than spending hundreds of dollars for merely water...
I think Himalaya is one of Creed's most under the radar frags. Its really good stuff imo. I've gone through a few decants and don't have a bottle yet but it might be my next creed if I actually decide one day to give creed more money lol
Very interesting, but when I get ready to go out preparing for an encounter with a bear is fairly low down on my list of priorities although I will admit I am too old and fat to successfully run away from a rampaging grizzly so a confusing cloud of Green Irish Tweed might be something I should consider.
I firmly believe part of the addiction is opening your shelf or vanity and seeing you have this collection. Most of it just sits there. Like Little Mermaid who has all her little things at the bottom of the sea.
@@Newgodofwar And if your logic tracks, that means y'all are punching down at folks whose rights are disappearing. You guys go on and on about freedom of speech and freedom of expression but that doesn't count for these people because you don't acknowledge their humanity. You are the problem with the world. Not a bunch of people who want to live their lives the way they see fit. So how about instead of pissing on "1%" of the population, you leave them be and make sure our society protects them instead of dehumanizes them? It's easy. Just leave them alone.
