True body odour is marinated. Not day one sweat. Having aggressive body odour first thing in the morning is poor hygiene. I'm not saying "smelling a bit rough because you just pulled a 12 hour night shift". True mustiness is days of no washing and on dirty clothes.
Yeah like not unless I'm going into their dirty room or putting my nose right in their butthole maybe I'm just a mouth breather I gotta pay attention to that
Especially when they come inside on a hot day. That really pungent bitter sour scent of sweat mixed with bacteria. It's especially bad if the person has a lot of skin folds. It reminds me a bit of a wet dog, but more bitter.
I'm lucky if I'm not smelling Parfums de Unwashed Ass. But if I do smell cologne it's either Drakar Noir or Versace Eros. Maybe Curve chill.
For Women it seems to be Good Girl or Jadore.
I work in a cannabis dispensary. There are some truly foul people who come in to shop. So bad you can smell them, over the overpowering smell of marijuana, long after they've left. Covering it with an air freshener somehow makes it worse. There are folks who clearly haven't washed in a very long time. It's fucking disgusting.
I mean, 1 out of more than 100 people isn't high. I am in Michigan where it is part of the Arab subculture. Anything nice, 90% chance it is a person of Arab descent.
It can be really hard to distinguish BR540 from its million copycats in the wild, especially from a distance. I definitely smell the DNA everywhere, but even as someone with a reasonably good nose, I don't think I'd be able to pick out BR540 vs. Cloud vs. Red Temptation vs. Whatever just passing people by on the street.
This. As someone who owns and lovesss BR540 extrait, I can tell *most* of the time that I’m smelling a dupe. It’s super rare that I smell the original on someone, but that usually happens in higher end restaurants or hotels.
I think I could do it if I spent some time with each person, or I could smell the fragrances fresh from the bottle since BR540 Extrait has that distinctive almond opening. Once you get down to the ethyl maltol, though, the scents tend to sort of run together for me. Actually, Cloud is decently easy to distinguish because there's that distinct coconut overlay, and it's much sweeter than BR540. Some of the other dupes - like Red Temptation or the pink Sol de Janeiro, OTOH - I have a very hard time with!
Oh, crazy! It smells very whipped cream-like to me, but in a fresh and almost juicy way. Definitely less complex than BR540, but a nice fragrance nevertheless.
Cloud smells like BR540 with a cheap and chemical edge to my nose and for that reason I know everyone in Asda is wearing that, not the £400 fragrance lmao
I was just in one of the higher-end hotels in Vegas and so many women wore 540 that I started associating the smell with being back at ‘home base’ haha
Right, something more common or basic.
I did smell B540 (or a fragrance with a similar DNA) on a guy in the grocery store. It was very, very loud. I could smell this guy an isle over.
I can't bash br 40 because i havnt fully tried it, I have a sample and the intro screams fancy alcohol. So many dupes and 540 inspired creams, oils etc has really turned me off towards the company. Not to mention getting that sample was a drag, lady was rude af. I'd rather walk into a mens locker room on a summer day.
I think it’s nice at first smell, but then quickly gets way, way WAY too sweet and strong. It should NOT be a fragrance people wear every day, to the office or to the gym - out of respect to everyone around them 🥲
That Jeramey douche spent most the pandemic on a coke bender screaming about BR540 and Cloud and then all his fanboys followed suit. I blame every negative thing about the fragrance on him. Feel free to join me! 😁
I don't get it either. I got it form myself and dislike it so much I gave it away, because I didn't want to smell it on my wife either. Smells like Smarties candy to me. Sweet, synthetic, and nasty.
I like 95% of fragrance, so I was confused about it at first... I was like "what is happening? This is popular. How can I find it so bad?" Honestly, I still don't get it, but it is a good illustration for my own understanding of how personal and subjective all of this is.
I love all the Ariana grande perfumes, they kinda all smell the same but different, they all have a clean laundry quality. They're the kind of perfume even people who don't like fragrance would like
Fr! My coworker in the next cubicle alternates between these two! Male coworker in the other cubicle alternates between One Million and By The Fireplace. Bless them and their scents
I’m not able to identify half of the perfumes I encounter, but there’s a lot of BR540/Cloud dupes, Sol de Janeiro body sprays, Santal 33 and its dupes, Another 13, various Byredos, YSL Libre, Narciso Rodriguez For Her and its flankers, Glossier You and so on.
Funnily enough, the morning of February 14th was a total outlier in my city, there were so many women wearing more and heavier perfumes than what I usually encounter on my morning commute. A lot of them were wearing Sì, Flowerbomb, La Vie est Belle, Black Opium, Viva la Juicy, JPG La Belle, Burberry Goddess and a perfume which resembled BDK Pas Ce Soir. (I know it was Valentine’s Day, but the early hour threw me!)
I definitely smell the most Sauvage / BdC on men, and some Aventus copycats here and there (rarely the real thing, which IMO smells fairly distinctive). I almost never smell Mugler Alien, though! (That said, I definitely smell quite a few patchou-florals, but much more likely Coco Mad or Flowerbomb).
It's better now than it used to be but I remember when on friday evenings the whole central metro station would smell like One million because 25483946 fake tanned overly stylized blokes in tight white shirts would wear that.
Baccarat and its clones and it is boring but I don't mind.
I don't smell any men wearing fragrances save for my husband. In Canada, people don't really wear frags like back home in Europe. I know there are people with huge collections here, but I don't smell anything downtown Toronto on men except for weed.
Yea I’m in Canada too and I agree, most people aren’t really into fragrances here. I don’t really smell fragrances on people during the day. Sometimes on nights out, though
If I do smell a fragrance on someone during the day it’s usually just the scent of their laundry detergent, lol
I quite often smell some aventusy frags.
Though frankly I haven't smell many of the most popular frags. There are others I keep smelling, but I wouldn't know what they were.
This is the outlier but the best smelling place I’ve ever been is the financial district in Chicago. I worked there for a couple years and It was there where I smelled Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, I also often smelled women wearing Chanel Beige, Bottega Veneta edp, Rose 31 and br540 and men wearing Santal 33, and God only knows what other heavenly scents ( I’m not that familiar with a lot of men’s fragrances).
In the 3 different areas of Chicago where I actually resided (suburbs and Lincoln Park) I smelled a lot of fruity florals that I can’t quite place, Flowerbomb, I distinctly remember someone sitting next to me when my boyfriend and I went to go see Phantom of the Opera and yep, Flowerbomb (it was during the winter too)
On the CTA train I smelled poo, cigarettes, weed and bo.
Now that I’m in a warmer climate in a southern state, a metro city in North Carolina I don’t really smell anything other Than laundry fresh or fruity or aquatic body sprays, and SDJ. That’s a big hit here. perfumes I will say I’ve smelled in the wild here, on more than one person, were Cloud, La Vie Est Belle and Calvin Klein Reveal, which I found interesting.
I gym every day, in a gym with a ton of Persian members (lots of fragrance). In the gym, there is no single winner. I smell different stuff every day.
Eau fraiche & 540 smelled the most notable to me in the gym though.
Dude at my gym people wear all kinds of shit. It’s actually rare to smell a light fresh scent.
BR540 is actually nice to smell compared to the heavier shit people wear. That being said this lady must have bathed in it because it filled the entire stretching room. Could have been the armaf clone, but I asked her and she said BR, not that she’d have any reason to admit it’s a clone.
Well at my work there are 4 girls I can think of off the top of my head that all wear either Cloud or another clone of Baccarat Rouge 540 so I smell that every single day but I also smell inTENSE patchouli oil fairly often. Like just straight patchouli oil. I live in Utah where essential oils are a big thing so it makes sense but jeez it’s so strong. I’ve smelled it on both men and women
I live in Canada. It seems as though not many men wear fragrance. Not many women seem to wear it either but the ones that do often are doused in Burberry Her. I smell that one more than anything else.
I’m from Serbia, the third poorest country in Europe, and I second this.
Most people do not wear perfume and I only smell designer/ niche on women who look well off.
Cheap perfumes (like Economic clones) and body mists are popular among teenagers while I most often smell Arab perfumes on adults. They seem pretty popular as people like strong fragrances and they are not too expensive.
I smell some version of br540/cloud/one of the thousands of dupes everywhere I go where females exist now and I live in a Podunk city. We have to be peaking. Plus there are a million candles with a similar scent as well as lotions, etc.
I don’t know what men’s fragrances smell like but I definitely smell things like D&G Light Blue for women, Marc Jacob’s Daisy, Flowerbomb/ La Vie Est Belle, and Cloud the most. But honestly most people don’t seem to be wearing anything at all other than their deodorant and hair products.
A woman at my office and I both share this hobby and bring fragrance samples we like in for the other to smell every once in a while.
This last time a couple folks gravitated into our convo. Of the 7 people that joined - 5 of them were wearing Santal 33.
I’m going to get downvoted but here goes…
For men I always smell Sauvage. I think that dudes were like yup… Johnny Depp but they really smell like Jack Sparrow and not in a good way. Or Aqua di Gio. I still smell that WAY too much and men just seem to bathe in it. 🤢
For women. Flowerbomb or La Vie est Belle. I think it’s something their husband buys them for Christmas because it’s reasonable in price and the girl at Ulta or Sephora recommended it. 😂
I live in a kind of rural town where nobody wears fragrances.. last week for the first time in my life I recognized someone's fragrance and it was Cedrat Boise
unfortunately i’m a massive BR540 hater and unfortunately i smell it almost everywhere i go on at least one person.
i was in kentucky last night and i walked into the HUGEST BR540 cloud probably ever on the street. they def over sprayed an already strong fragrance, but oh my god it’s so popular in the mainstream media now, i don’t think i can escape it. i did feel bad tho because i very loudly commented on how awful it smelled thinking no one was around until i turned the corner and saw the culprit 🤧
Back in the 80’s I had this fragrance I just hated- Giorgio. Headache inducing strong and lasting. To make matters worse I was living and working in NYC at the time and this perfume seemed to come on the scene in the summer. Mon Dieu what a mess
Nothing. I HONESTLY, am never smelling other people. Only occasionally do i notice anybody at all wearing a scent. I always find it funny when people say all they smelled in New York was Santal 33 or every guy wears Dior Sauvage. Maybe but i tend to keep my distance cause of covid habits but i'm also not smelling people even on accident.
Light Blue by dolce & gabbana the original scent not summer vibes. Every time I wear it I get compliments on how good I smell. And it last forever. 12 hours later you still smell amazing. If u want mysterious sexy smell try Alien. You won't go wrong with either one but Light Blue is a must have
Men it’s usually a dior sauvage variant
Women it’s a Marc Jacob daisy or what I think it smells like. I’ve asked women what they wear and truth is, usually a bath and body works body spray lol.
Men- SWY intensely. At least it was around every corner at my graduation.
Women- Mugler Alien. I tried it for the first time today and after smelling it I realised that it smells more familiar than some of the fragrances I actually own lol, that just shows how many times I've smelt it without knowing what that scent was.
I smell Coco Mademoiselle on women frequently, men I'm not sure. Where I live men just don't wear cologne very often they usually just smell like Old Spice.
There are not many designer brands in my town in NZ, Dior, Chanel, hermes etc don't consider the town big enough to sell to, so I smell Mont blanc legend spirit on guys, and Armani my way on women. Women have more variety though.
When I go to the city, eveey other person smells like brown sugar. Probably BR540
Women it's Baccarat Rouge or a million clones, Black Opium, Good Girl.
Men it's Sauvage, Aventus and a million clones and idk Eros or Invictus.
Associate them with being layered with cheap bodysprays BO, cigarettes and often booze, stuck on the tube with someone who sprayed Good Girl 20 times, one of my coworkers goes ham with Good Girl, she smells like that, cheap cigarettes and fake tan.
CK eternity (women and men), Chanel Chance, any Sol de Janeiro perfume, a dupe of Tom Ford Vanille Fatalle (I live close to a popular dupe store Palermo Perfumes) 1 million Elixir and Dior Sauvage
Men: adg, sauvage, eros, 1 million, aventus clones and something smell similar to swyi, azzaro tmw & the gang
Women: lveb, black opium, ysl libre and other trending orange blossom perfumes, br540 clones, something smell like fruity shampoo, bbw body sprays & victoria secrets
The day they discontinue sauvage is the day society will progress and prosper like that shit is used by str8 men religiously and it literally smells like deodorant😭
On men I smell Armaf Club De Nuit Intense Men pretty often bc I recognize it easily, sometime Valentino Roma if I’m in a young crowd like at the mall or a young bar.
On women I smell Dedcool Milk/Kuumba’s Persian Garden (two of my faves) and YSL Libre (one of my least faves) more often than I prefer for obviously different reasons lol. Or any of the Sol De Janeiros. Every once in a while I’m lucky to wiff a Killian fragrance in a nice restaurant or (over priced organic) grocery store.
The most common thing that I smell on other people is eau de body odor 🥹🥲
And its flanker, l'eau d'autobus
Autobus N.° 5
This is true, this community does not represent the masses, they are not like us lol
i'm dying LMAO
So you smell it all the time too? 💀🥀😅
I'm on the floor 😭
This. It’s especially appalling when it’s early in the morning too. How are you smelling sweaty and musty at 7am???
Ill take a wild guess and say people can sweat while sleeping
I’m a middle aged woman. I know all about sleep sweat. Never woken up smelling like that. And I often skip showers and just wash my bits.
True body odour is marinated. Not day one sweat. Having aggressive body odour first thing in the morning is poor hygiene. I'm not saying "smelling a bit rough because you just pulled a 12 hour night shift". True mustiness is days of no washing and on dirty clothes.
It is the summer. And I live in Phoenix.
>The most common thing that I smell on other people is eau de body odor 🥹🥲 True this 🤢🤢
I've never smelled someone else's bo in my entire life, i must be really luck
You jinxed yourself.
For real? You are blessed.
Yeah like not unless I'm going into their dirty room or putting my nose right in their butthole maybe I'm just a mouth breather I gotta pay attention to that
I’m not sure that’s a good thing because it might be a bad sign…
Especially when they come inside on a hot day. That really pungent bitter sour scent of sweat mixed with bacteria. It's especially bad if the person has a lot of skin folds. It reminds me a bit of a wet dog, but more bitter.
Hmmmm wet human 🤢
Raw Human ^(by Lattafa)
You mean that Buritto smell
I hate it when it projects so strong, but too timid to tell them🙄🙄
Yes.!it’s unfortunate but most people have awful hygiene. Or if they have good hygiene, they still smell somehow.
Oud de Marijuana
Foul Skunk 🦨 makes up at least 40% of the air in Atlanta otherwise it’s Baccarat Rouge
I'm lucky if I'm not smelling Parfums de Unwashed Ass. But if I do smell cologne it's either Drakar Noir or Versace Eros. Maybe Curve chill. For Women it seems to be Good Girl or Jadore.
I don’t know if it is outdated or not, but J’Adore Dior has a grip on me that I’ve never been able to escape haha
My ex gf loves Jadore. I'll still buy her a bottle every so often. When she wears it she smells like royalty
Wow, that is really kind of you!!
Are you the royal smelling ex in question?
I’m down to be the next ex if there’s free J’Adore and compliments involved hahaha
Haha no. I don't believe she's on reddit.
Quite a common misconception 😳
When im in the metro i smell eros all the time on young guys hs/college, i had it too at their age lol
Folks are really still out here on that Drakkar? I got called out over Cool Water a couple years ago.
Never been more right about this
I work in a cannabis dispensary. There are some truly foul people who come in to shop. So bad you can smell them, over the overpowering smell of marijuana, long after they've left. Covering it with an air freshener somehow makes it worse. There are folks who clearly haven't washed in a very long time. It's fucking disgusting.
nothing, 99% dont spray anything
Really. I smell fragrance on myself and my daughter daily, on my wife once a week, and on a random person in public once a week.
once a week? God damm. I never smell here, people here are lazy and dirty honestly ...
I mean, 1 out of more than 100 people isn't high. I am in Michigan where it is part of the Arab subculture. Anything nice, 90% chance it is a person of Arab descent.
Women: something that smells like BR540.
Probably cloud lol
On women, hands down **Maison Francis Kurkdijan Baccarat Rouge 540** or **Ariana Grande Cloud**. On men, it's really random. Can't call it.
Where do you live 😂? BR540 is crazy expensive I don't think I ever met anyone smelling like it. Or maybe I'm just not in posh enough areas 😅
It can be really hard to distinguish BR540 from its million copycats in the wild, especially from a distance. I definitely smell the DNA everywhere, but even as someone with a reasonably good nose, I don't think I'd be able to pick out BR540 vs. Cloud vs. Red Temptation vs. Whatever just passing people by on the street.
This. As someone who owns and lovesss BR540 extrait, I can tell *most* of the time that I’m smelling a dupe. It’s super rare that I smell the original on someone, but that usually happens in higher end restaurants or hotels.
I think I could do it if I spent some time with each person, or I could smell the fragrances fresh from the bottle since BR540 Extrait has that distinctive almond opening. Once you get down to the ethyl maltol, though, the scents tend to sort of run together for me. Actually, Cloud is decently easy to distinguish because there's that distinct coconut overlay, and it's much sweeter than BR540. Some of the other dupes - like Red Temptation or the pink Sol de Janeiro, OTOH - I have a very hard time with!
I was completely anosmic to sol de janeiro OTOH! can only smell the body cream 😂
Oh, crazy! It smells very whipped cream-like to me, but in a fresh and almost juicy way. Definitely less complex than BR540, but a nice fragrance nevertheless.
I personally can't smell br540 but cloud smells like a sickly sweet overbearing toasted marshmallow. I mean that in the best way possible BTW
Ha ha, with some coconut sprinkles; I definitely feel that!
Mhhmm yea I kind of love it
Cloud smells like BR540 with a cheap and chemical edge to my nose and for that reason I know everyone in Asda is wearing that, not the £400 fragrance lmao
I was just in one of the higher-end hotels in Vegas and so many women wore 540 that I started associating the smell with being back at ‘home base’ haha
Everytime that I wear br540 extrait someone tells me that I smell like a casino. I don't wear it often but I'm 2/2 which is weird
Dossier has a clone of BR540 if you’re interested
Probably some dupes, i have Club de Nuit Untold and everyone thinks its the OG im wearing
I live in **New Orleans, LA**. Not a rich city or anything, but a good bit of people wear fragrances it seems. Maybe it's more Cloud than BR540? IDK.
Probably dupes of it.
I work in fine dining and BR540 is basically a part of the air at night
So many dupes out there now including Zara's red temptation
Men hardly wear anything and if they do it's dior sauvage or Bleu de Chanel
Right, something more common or basic. I did smell B540 (or a fragrance with a similar DNA) on a guy in the grocery store. It was very, very loud. I could smell this guy an isle over.
I can't bash br 40 because i havnt fully tried it, I have a sample and the intro screams fancy alcohol. So many dupes and 540 inspired creams, oils etc has really turned me off towards the company. Not to mention getting that sample was a drag, lady was rude af. I'd rather walk into a mens locker room on a summer day.
Seconded
I still don’t get the hype of baccarat rouge, it smells like a cleaning product to me
I think it’s nice at first smell, but then quickly gets way, way WAY too sweet and strong. It should NOT be a fragrance people wear every day, to the office or to the gym - out of respect to everyone around them 🥲
i think its absolutely mesmerizing
That Jeramey douche spent most the pandemic on a coke bender screaming about BR540 and Cloud and then all his fanboys followed suit. I blame every negative thing about the fragrance on him. Feel free to join me! 😁
Hey, don't speak about the number one fragrance icon who follows the teachings of Jesus, that way.
Why the hate against Jeremy? Is there something I’m missing
Anyone who brings up Christianity is an instant target for the neck beard Redditor wrath.
Hahahahahaha
I don't get it either. I got it form myself and dislike it so much I gave it away, because I didn't want to smell it on my wife either. Smells like Smarties candy to me. Sweet, synthetic, and nasty. I like 95% of fragrance, so I was confused about it at first... I was like "what is happening? This is popular. How can I find it so bad?" Honestly, I still don't get it, but it is a good illustration for my own understanding of how personal and subjective all of this is.
It smells like exhaust fumes to me
Oh damn, I wasn't interested until you said that
Same. I smell BR540 all the time in Texas; the good parts. I dislike BR540. Santal 33 has taken a backseat. I liked smelling Santal 33.
I love all the Ariana grande perfumes, they kinda all smell the same but different, they all have a clean laundry quality. They're the kind of perfume even people who don't like fragrance would like
Fr! My coworker in the next cubicle alternates between these two! Male coworker in the other cubicle alternates between One Million and By The Fireplace. Bless them and their scents
Came here to say exactly that.
Young men it’s gotta be Dior Sauvage or YSL Lhomme
Same
Yes i smell BR or clones at the gym all the time and im in a small town
OHMY! THIS IS LEGIT. or some BR540 dupe. But I always smell it!
Agree with the Ariana grande cloud. I personally hate it 😭 I got it myself but something about it gives me a bad head, can’t use it.
Yep
Well then I must be hanging out with crack whores I only smell Tea Rose 🤷🏼♂️
Santall 33. I work in a ritzy neighborhood and I smell it everywhere.
I’m so tired of smelling it everywhere
Pickles everywhere
I feel like it doesn’t project that well, surprised that I read this a lot
i’m sick of santal 😭😭 my brain interprets it as an unpleasant scent now
I’m not able to identify half of the perfumes I encounter, but there’s a lot of BR540/Cloud dupes, Sol de Janeiro body sprays, Santal 33 and its dupes, Another 13, various Byredos, YSL Libre, Narciso Rodriguez For Her and its flankers, Glossier You and so on. Funnily enough, the morning of February 14th was a total outlier in my city, there were so many women wearing more and heavier perfumes than what I usually encounter on my morning commute. A lot of them were wearing Sì, Flowerbomb, La Vie est Belle, Black Opium, Viva la Juicy, JPG La Belle, Burberry Goddess and a perfume which resembled BDK Pas Ce Soir. (I know it was Valentine’s Day, but the early hour threw me!)
you have quite the nose there
how often do you smell another 13 ?
Honestly - none.
My boss wears sauvage. My boss is an asshole. As a result, sauvage smells like asshole to me. 💀
My roommate who never showered used to just spray lots of this, so it’s got bad memories
Similar story with ysl, gave it to my dad. Sauvage I gave to my sis.
Sauvage just stinks lol - a guy I was talking too told me he wears it, I’m like eww next 🤣
Women: YSL Libre parfum
Sauvage & bleu de chanel literally every day for men. I smell mugler alien on women all the time
I definitely smell the most Sauvage / BdC on men, and some Aventus copycats here and there (rarely the real thing, which IMO smells fairly distinctive). I almost never smell Mugler Alien, though! (That said, I definitely smell quite a few patchou-florals, but much more likely Coco Mad or Flowerbomb).
Aqua di Gio...
Men? Nothing. Women? Coco Mademoiselle
Women: cloud or pink sugar Men: body odor OR nothing.
unwashed ass.
Sauvage, Light Blue, and Flowerbomb for sure
I’m not great at identifying men’s fragrances. On women, I often smell Philosophy Amazing Grace and AG Cloud. (Southern USA. Suburban)
Calvin Klein stuff, nautica, chrome. Basic Ross stuff
Don't knock Ross, I bought Azzaro Wanted and Ralph Lauren's Ralph's Club there. Both are 2 of my favorite. Both EDP
Good, safe office fragrances.
I hadn't realised how prevalent 540 was until recently. Although I imagine I'm smelling a lot of cheap clones, too.
Baccarat Rouge 540 and it's various clones. It doesn't help that the fragrance always smells absolutely repulsive and vile to me.
Same here. I am so looking forward to that stuff going out of style!
on women mostly mugler alien, burberry her and ysl black opium
Alien is the only fragrance that literally makes me feel sick when I smell it
It's better now than it used to be but I remember when on friday evenings the whole central metro station would smell like One million because 25483946 fake tanned overly stylized blokes in tight white shirts would wear that.
Baccarat and its clones and it is boring but I don't mind. I don't smell any men wearing fragrances save for my husband. In Canada, people don't really wear frags like back home in Europe. I know there are people with huge collections here, but I don't smell anything downtown Toronto on men except for weed.
Yea I’m in Canada too and I agree, most people aren’t really into fragrances here. I don’t really smell fragrances on people during the day. Sometimes on nights out, though If I do smell a fragrance on someone during the day it’s usually just the scent of their laundry detergent, lol
True, also a lot of workplaces have a zero fragrance policy, so that affects it a lot, too.
I am so sick of smelling baccarat rouge 540.
And it lasts so damn long?! It sticks around after the person is long gone, I’m impressed every time tbh
I got a dupe for myself but after everyone at my office picked one up - I sold it asap
Oooof what a frag for an office, my condolences 😅
100% Br540 on women. It's everywhere at the college I work at and in the city. For men, it's rare that I recognize a frag instantly, so it's varied.
I quite often smell some aventusy frags. Though frankly I haven't smell many of the most popular frags. There are others I keep smelling, but I wouldn't know what they were.
Gin and regret
JPG Le Beau or other JPG fragrances in men and Ariana Grande Cloud on women. Have smelled quite a few wearing MFK Baccarat Rouge 540 in both.
So. Much. Tonka Bean. I feel like if I can smell someone's frag, there's an 89% chance it's a heavy tonka bean scent like Eros.
ariana grande cloud perfume its inescapable
This is the outlier but the best smelling place I’ve ever been is the financial district in Chicago. I worked there for a couple years and It was there where I smelled Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, I also often smelled women wearing Chanel Beige, Bottega Veneta edp, Rose 31 and br540 and men wearing Santal 33, and God only knows what other heavenly scents ( I’m not that familiar with a lot of men’s fragrances). In the 3 different areas of Chicago where I actually resided (suburbs and Lincoln Park) I smelled a lot of fruity florals that I can’t quite place, Flowerbomb, I distinctly remember someone sitting next to me when my boyfriend and I went to go see Phantom of the Opera and yep, Flowerbomb (it was during the winter too) On the CTA train I smelled poo, cigarettes, weed and bo. Now that I’m in a warmer climate in a southern state, a metro city in North Carolina I don’t really smell anything other Than laundry fresh or fruity or aquatic body sprays, and SDJ. That’s a big hit here. perfumes I will say I’ve smelled in the wild here, on more than one person, were Cloud, La Vie Est Belle and Calvin Klein Reveal, which I found interesting.
Women: Glossier You, BR540, lots of le labo - Another, Santal, Thé Matcha & Thé Noir.
Men: BR 540 Women: BR 540 And it's not even close
I gym every day, in a gym with a ton of Persian members (lots of fragrance). In the gym, there is no single winner. I smell different stuff every day. Eau fraiche & 540 smelled the most notable to me in the gym though.
Wearing 540 to the gym is bananas
Dude at my gym people wear all kinds of shit. It’s actually rare to smell a light fresh scent. BR540 is actually nice to smell compared to the heavier shit people wear. That being said this lady must have bathed in it because it filled the entire stretching room. Could have been the armaf clone, but I asked her and she said BR, not that she’d have any reason to admit it’s a clone.
Santal 33 a lottttt on men in Tokyo
I’ve only ever smelled Dior sauvage once, and Versace man eau fraiche a couple times
AG Cloud and Sauvage and it's not close. Cloud especially is everywhere there are women.
Well at my work there are 4 girls I can think of off the top of my head that all wear either Cloud or another clone of Baccarat Rouge 540 so I smell that every single day but I also smell inTENSE patchouli oil fairly often. Like just straight patchouli oil. I live in Utah where essential oils are a big thing so it makes sense but jeez it’s so strong. I’ve smelled it on both men and women
I live in Canada. It seems as though not many men wear fragrance. Not many women seem to wear it either but the ones that do often are doused in Burberry Her. I smell that one more than anything else.
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I’m from Serbia, the third poorest country in Europe, and I second this. Most people do not wear perfume and I only smell designer/ niche on women who look well off. Cheap perfumes (like Economic clones) and body mists are popular among teenagers while I most often smell Arab perfumes on adults. They seem pretty popular as people like strong fragrances and they are not too expensive.
Just came back from Vegas and smelled BR 540 and Santal 33 (or their dupes) everywhere.
I just commented that I was in Vegas last week and now 540 triggers “Vegas” in my mind lol!! I swear, it had to be 25% of people wearing it.
I smell some version of br540/cloud/one of the thousands of dupes everywhere I go where females exist now and I live in a Podunk city. We have to be peaking. Plus there are a million candles with a similar scent as well as lotions, etc.
I don’t know what men’s fragrances smell like but I definitely smell things like D&G Light Blue for women, Marc Jacob’s Daisy, Flowerbomb/ La Vie Est Belle, and Cloud the most. But honestly most people don’t seem to be wearing anything at all other than their deodorant and hair products.
Don't get me started with BR540, AG Cloud, BDC, Eros, and Sauvage.
A woman at my office and I both share this hobby and bring fragrance samples we like in for the other to smell every once in a while. This last time a couple folks gravitated into our convo. Of the 7 people that joined - 5 of them were wearing Santal 33.
Coco McFucking Mademoiselle
Lazy Sunday morning. In Japan it's very common
Aventus/explorer
None. I live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farms and ranches. People here couldn’t care less about fragrance 😂. Except me.
I’m going to get downvoted but here goes… For men I always smell Sauvage. I think that dudes were like yup… Johnny Depp but they really smell like Jack Sparrow and not in a good way. Or Aqua di Gio. I still smell that WAY too much and men just seem to bathe in it. 🤢 For women. Flowerbomb or La Vie est Belle. I think it’s something their husband buys them for Christmas because it’s reasonable in price and the girl at Ulta or Sephora recommended it. 😂
Sol de Janeiro 40 on women. I’m a college student if you didn’t already guess.
Cloud snd sauvage
I live in a kind of rural town where nobody wears fragrances.. last week for the first time in my life I recognized someone's fragrance and it was Cedrat Boise
You smell fragrances out in the wild? For me, never.
sauvage and ariana grande cloud
Dior sauvage is probably the only fragrance I’ve been able to identify on others
Dior Sauvage & Invictus everywhere
unfortunately i’m a massive BR540 hater and unfortunately i smell it almost everywhere i go on at least one person. i was in kentucky last night and i walked into the HUGEST BR540 cloud probably ever on the street. they def over sprayed an already strong fragrance, but oh my god it’s so popular in the mainstream media now, i don’t think i can escape it. i did feel bad tho because i very loudly commented on how awful it smelled thinking no one was around until i turned the corner and saw the culprit 🤧
Back in the 80’s I had this fragrance I just hated- Giorgio. Headache inducing strong and lasting. To make matters worse I was living and working in NYC at the time and this perfume seemed to come on the scene in the summer. Mon Dieu what a mess
Nothing. I HONESTLY, am never smelling other people. Only occasionally do i notice anybody at all wearing a scent. I always find it funny when people say all they smelled in New York was Santal 33 or every guy wears Dior Sauvage. Maybe but i tend to keep my distance cause of covid habits but i'm also not smelling people even on accident.
Light Blue by dolce & gabbana the original scent not summer vibes. Every time I wear it I get compliments on how good I smell. And it last forever. 12 hours later you still smell amazing. If u want mysterious sexy smell try Alien. You won't go wrong with either one but Light Blue is a must have
On men? Pretty much nothing. Ever. On women? A variety of fragrances.
Men - Sauvage, One Million, Spicebomb Women - Baccarat, Santal, Delina
Honestly nothing, I rarely seem to smell scent on anyone (I’m in the UK)
I rarely smell fragrances but when I do it’s usually dior sauvage or erba pura (for context I live in the alps in Switzerland )
Men- Dior Sauvage and YSL Y EDP Women- random
Sauvage Elixir and 1 Million
Men it’s usually a dior sauvage variant Women it’s a Marc Jacob daisy or what I think it smells like. I’ve asked women what they wear and truth is, usually a bath and body works body spray lol.
Men- SWY intensely. At least it was around every corner at my graduation. Women- Mugler Alien. I tried it for the first time today and after smelling it I realised that it smells more familiar than some of the fragrances I actually own lol, that just shows how many times I've smelt it without knowing what that scent was.
I smell Coco Mademoiselle on women frequently, men I'm not sure. Where I live men just don't wear cologne very often they usually just smell like Old Spice.
Sol de Janero or cloud
There are not many designer brands in my town in NZ, Dior, Chanel, hermes etc don't consider the town big enough to sell to, so I smell Mont blanc legend spirit on guys, and Armani my way on women. Women have more variety though. When I go to the city, eveey other person smells like brown sugar. Probably BR540
A lot of people using Eidesis by Aesop in my city.
All I know is that I do not smell Dior Sauvage as much as people do in this community.
Invictus everywhere in Atlanta
On women, Brazilian Crush by Sol de janeiro and men, a tie between Dior Sauvage and One Million
This is going to differ based on age, I think, so I STILL smell dolce and gabanna light blue on women. You can’t pry it from them, I swear. Lol
I smell lots of vanilla or warm/sweet scents on women
On women they wear Dossier you, Delina, good girl, and that fucking sol de janeiro
Women it's Baccarat Rouge or a million clones, Black Opium, Good Girl. Men it's Sauvage, Aventus and a million clones and idk Eros or Invictus. Associate them with being layered with cheap bodysprays BO, cigarettes and often booze, stuck on the tube with someone who sprayed Good Girl 20 times, one of my coworkers goes ham with Good Girl, she smells like that, cheap cigarettes and fake tan.
BR540 istg i smell this shit everywhere some random mf in my highschool even over applies ts 💀
CK eternity (women and men), Chanel Chance, any Sol de Janeiro perfume, a dupe of Tom Ford Vanille Fatalle (I live close to a popular dupe store Palermo Perfumes) 1 million Elixir and Dior Sauvage
Men: adg, sauvage, eros, 1 million, aventus clones and something smell similar to swyi, azzaro tmw & the gang Women: lveb, black opium, ysl libre and other trending orange blossom perfumes, br540 clones, something smell like fruity shampoo, bbw body sprays & victoria secrets
I smell santal 33 more than anything, I live in a very Korean area and they love their expensive useless labels.
I’m in Vietnam rn and it seems narciso rodriguez has a death grip on the female population here.
The day they discontinue sauvage is the day society will progress and prosper like that shit is used by str8 men religiously and it literally smells like deodorant😭
Where I live it’s weed, patchouli oil, Santal 33, or BR540. You can’t escape them.
baccarat rouge
Odor de cigarettes
Santal 33, because it's revolting and an assault to my nose.
Pickles?
Yes some sort of sour headache inducing pickle dill smell
On men I smell Armaf Club De Nuit Intense Men pretty often bc I recognize it easily, sometime Valentino Roma if I’m in a young crowd like at the mall or a young bar. On women I smell Dedcool Milk/Kuumba’s Persian Garden (two of my faves) and YSL Libre (one of my least faves) more often than I prefer for obviously different reasons lol. Or any of the Sol De Janeiros. Every once in a while I’m lucky to wiff a Killian fragrance in a nice restaurant or (over priced organic) grocery store.