The Olfactorist

What’s a sultry, yet sophisticated perfume for someone that’s charming and outgoing but also shy and mysterious?

can you recommend me something that smells like liturgical incense, catholic churches or dead flowers water not with halloween/autumnal vibes but more in a warm but sad and melancholic sunday walkin through the cemetery kind of way?

hi pat, hope you've been well! before i gift myself a perfume for christmas, would you give me your thoughts on l'interdit by givenchy, 212 elixir by carolina herrera and j'adore by dior? you've been my go-to for fragrance reviews for years and the only opinion i trust on this matter ♡ thanks in advance!

Á La Nuit isn’t discontinued, it’s just in the more expensive bell jar line now. It’s been out of stock a while but if they were going to discontinue it I think they would have taken it off the website at the same time Mandarine Mandarin and El Attarine disappeared a couple months ago

know of any good stormy scents? kinda like the sense of an impending storm and the scent that warns you beforehand

I hope this isn't too weird of a request, but can you recommend me a scent that replicates petrichor- earthy and fresh but not masculine ? Thanks !!

Hello! Have you tried YSl libre? Do you think it could be a all year round sent/what do you associate it with?

hi! do you have any recs for a law student in her early twenties who wants to find an elegant, yet clean and fresh scent? i like ck one and angel schlesser femme, but don't feel like they have the sophisticated air i want to project, and I've tried chanel gabrielle and 1957, which have the elegance part down, but are too heavy for me and seem age-appropriate

Hey!!! I've tried Estée Lauder Beautiful Magnolia. My first impressions of it - very feminine, a clean, fresh floral with a bit of sweetness. It feels like a blooming garden in spring. I cannot distinguish any notes, feels very blended together. I'd say it's a chic and delicate, inoffensive, office-appripriate perfume. On the downside, it also seems a bit purposefully generic to me, similar to many others of the same category but to no particular one.

Not a q, just something fun that happened to me today! I'm decluttering and found an old bottle of Chloé Narcisse stashed away that my nan gifted me as a teenager. Apparently it's discontinued now! The opening is a little acrid and strong on me but it's drying down into this beautifully subtle (but still powerful) spicy-sweet floral...

I'm very curious about Maison Margiela's Replica Scents. The aesthetic and idea behind it (connecting scents with scenery and memories) just appeals to me. I want to try out Bubble Bath, Lazy Sunday Morning and Beach Walk :) What's your opinion about them?

Hey! Do you have any perfume recommendations inspired by Cleopatra?

what perfume do you think irene adler would wear? thinking of the bbc sherlock. something musky i reckon