My 17 year old went thru CK Be 6,7 oz in about 3 months Bavard said:. This is just used as an example of high-end usage, right?
With a lighter scent, I also do 6 to 8 sprays - Chanel Edition Blanche for example, and others. With some heavier scents, it's more like 2 to 4 sprays - Dior Homme Intense for example, and others, designer, niche, etc. Apr 30, There is like 0 chance, 10 sprays from BDC are only 1ml. JTK said:. No way bro, sorry. Say the daily application is five sprays, and it's a monster sprayer 0.
That's in range. That's still over three months which is a lot of mileage. Chanel sprayers put out a tons of juice imho. Maybe the most ive seen, also are decants sprayers even higher regarding amount sprayed? Because i got 2x 10ml decants, and i can already see like 1ml missing, and afaik i never sprayed more then 6 times tops, one would guess that the pump - sprayer opening?
I am not very familiar with Chanel atomisers, but it takes more than 6 sprays from a Dior atomiser to fill a 1 ml sample vial. And Dior also Creed atomisers are very generous compared to other companies especially something like Tom Ford. Hence I would say 10 sprays per ml is more likely.
Interlude Man is your reference powerhouse? I've never tried it. Sep 13, Half an ml is about 5 sprays. You tell us. Jun 28, But Creed sprayers dispenses a lot of juice and I go heavy, around 8 sprays. Last edited: Jul 24, Haha you should buy him a nice niche fragrance and actually threaten to beat his ass if he sprays more than three! Post reply. Insert quotes…. There are a few factors that will impact the use-by date of your new scent and the main one is where you keep it.
Other aspects are the quality of the perfume and its actual use-by date. Let's explore. According to perfume. She has stunning green eyes and is a complete sweetie. Pitties don't deserve the evil rep they get. I, too, almost always buy mls. Within a few weeks, they can be down to 50ml anyway, since I'm now one of the Great Enlightened I swap, dontcha know. My mls of Parfumerie Generale l'Oiseau de Nuit has been the fastest to go so far; I'm just blasting through it.
Worth ever decant, too, since I've gotten some much-coveted stunners in exchange. Blogmistriss Robin, I remember, was thinking of running a day where we could connect with other niche-minded swapaholics.
My full bottles are in the fridge, while my hundreds of samples and decants are in drawers in my bedroom, organized in boxes of alphabetical and size groups: samples A-G, H-O, P-Z, and ditto decants, in the latter case stored upright in lidded, hinged, clear plastic boxes with round handwritten labels on the tops for easy reference. The labels are colour-coded as well: green for contemporary Euro French and Italian in the main , yellow for American, pink for classic houses Guerlain, Caron, et al.
There is a separate box for classic high-end samples as well, for speedy reference. Kevin, a super post again.. So you leave your traces with a bottle here and there. That is such a great idea! If I were a writer I would use that for a story. MW: I'd love to have a camera to see WHO takes each bottle…once I put out a bottle of CSP Vetiver Haiti in a lunch room of a building I worked in, and an elderly Japanese lady who worked there all of a sudden started smelling of Vetiver Haiti…we'd share an elevator often and it smelled better on her.
This article and these responses have been so much fun to read, thank you all! Being relatively new to my scent fanaticism, a confession: I began putting my full bottles in a drawer of my dresser out of embarrassment, to hide them, having no idea they were better off in the dark and cool, anyway.
Only months later did I learn it was a good idea, and the fridge an even better idea. Second, I would love to know the answer to the question intimated, above: if you were forced to choose but three of your most favorite fragrances, which three would they be?
Oh yes, this is very intriguiging. Maybe the Japanese lady is also a great lover of perfumes..? What if you would leave another bottle in that very same place.. It would make a good story!
Patiently building my stash…. Yea, I stick mainly to using up samples. They can be had for free, and are generally a renewable resource.
And of the scent is an edp, they last foreeever. And your friend is right, we all waste money on something…. So, these are my 3 essential fragrances : Bvlgari Blv Notte which has made me changed my affection for the other fragrances I used to wear.
It is unfortunately discontinued but I will try to find other copies I love to search for discontinued perfumes after they have been removed from sale. I love this fragrance so sophisticated! I still like Kenzo Pour Homme but too many people wear this perfume. I really think someone should start making perfume coolers — you know, like the wine fridges they make, but insted of wine racks inside, shelves for perfume bottles.
I would definitely buy one! Ha, indeed! I'm sure he's on to me, too…. OK I think most of us who read this blog on a regular basis find ourselves in this article. Kevin, thank you for the laborious research and mathematical equations. It reminded me of what I do on a regular basis with clinical trials: Extracting non-obvious data that can be used eventually for promotional materials.
A lot of work and little useful information most of the time… I wish I worked with perfume though. I use it as deodorant AND cologne during my travels. And I use a lot! I only pack one product, and I can go through a third of a bottle on a 3-day trip that way.
And then, the ultimate pleasure: Tossing that empty bottle that you no longer had the hots for anyway in the hotel bathroom trash can! What a relief that is…And practical thinking, mind you because you can rationalize that your impulsive purchase was not a total waste of money since you used it all.
Go for something more common and citrus-ey. And some of the bottles, less than half full, still smell fine after 7 years…but they are stored in pitch blackness and coolness. There are several fragrance lines that apparently do NOT last longer than one year…I shall not mention names…and they are expensive.
Never understood WHY that would be…but the world is full of mysteries I guess. Kevin — thanks for the great article! Your partner has sage advice. I used to have a shoe fetish before my current perfume addiction and then figured out it's much less expensive to buy a bottle of quality perfume than a pair of designer shoes. For the price, the perfume will give many more days wear and enjoyment and won't be out of fashion by the next season!
So… no more guilt methinks. And it's reassuring knowing that I'll never run out! And how many of us will have a pair of today's shoes going strong in 20 years?
So many comments… look fwd to reading them, Kevin. Great piece… though very sobering. I must say that your vicious cycle of perfume infatuation sounds in some ways like my distant romantic past. Would you believe I drained 50ml of Terre d'Hermes is less than two months and I was hardly wearing it every day? You're like a perfume samaritin — bequeathing gifts on the world randomly. A nice thought — and a good way to maybe get ride of my Azzaro Chrome that I'm realizing I do NOT need 50ml of a mini will suffice for many years.
I haven't popped open my somewhat new sample of Yatagan yet… after a comment like that, I can't wait. Stand back, wildlife!
Good lord, Kevin! Have there been NO special-enough occasions since ?? Life is short indeed — pop that cork! Thanks for this — I have only heard of the Bulgari one in your top three. Am curious to check it out — for I like Bulgari Femme!
In fact, in my fridge is a big ziplock freezer baggie filled with about half a dozen full bottles still in their boxes of fragrances i already own at least half a bottle of!!! Fortunately, they were all bought at fire sale prices, moslty on eBay, so that tends to assuage feelings of guilt and dysfunction to some degree.
I also spray more than a mere couple of sprtizes each time. True, the occasional person could fell a smalll army at twenty paces, but most people don't use enough. When I'm travelling in France or Italy, I find that I smell fragrance on others much more than Canada and the US, so whoever says Americans really lay it on thick compared to more refined and sophisticated Euros has had a different experience from mine. I wish we North Americans would use more!! Oh, yeah, with one caveat.
Use Good Stuff. Isn't it ironic that when people wear lovely things you can't smell them tilll your inches away, and when people wear Charlie and Giorgio you can smell them in the restaurant hours after they've finished their meal? I'm looking for a perfume which is released recently and find it only at half price. Sevenjoy, that's a good question. From my reasonably extensive experience bidding on eBay — about 60 bottles — I've only had one phoney, a Chanel, and the Seller promptly refunded my money, no questions asked.
Later, I saw that he'd had his privileges revoked and was no longer selling; clearly I wasn't the only one who smelled a rat! Otherwise, I've had very, very good luck with eBay, and have picked up some incredible deals a 1. As far as safety goes, as long as you do it by PayPal, you're good to go.
Yatagan smells like a T-shirt sprayed with the old green polo and worn for 2 days in a row while you got stuck in a non-air conditioned airport without being able to take a shower. Eric: I assume you are very familiar with that scenario and scent-sation? For all you Yatagan virgins: don't let E scare you off!
Kevin, I must say that you haven't really lived until you've experienced a flight cancellation by effing Air France at Tbillissi airport Republic of Georgia and stayed at the airport waiting for the next morning flight to Frankfurt on Air Zena Georgian Airlines.
I had sprayed Polo on my neck at the duty free shop to experiment with the Alpha-Male scent again that day why? Years later, when I first opened and sprayed my bottle of Yatagan purchased on eBay, it brought back that same exact rank scent of my own sweat mixed with Polo, a sad olfactory signal stached somewhere in my memory!. Needless to say that I incinerated my T-shirt the next day instead of sending it to be laundered. I always luved LeDe too, wonder if it will smell the same way it used too.
Well, I don't know how it used to be, as I have just discovered it, but it smells pretty all right to me — and I have knowingly bought a tester with the top missing! My biggest bargain ever on Ebay, though it has just added about a year to the life expectancy of my collection…. I can say the eastern and southern U. For me, the strength of the fragrance determines how much I spray on…no matter the season.
E: I'm sure the German laundress would have been thankful if she he? Was the tee PINK? Did a Georgian question your manhood because of the pink tee? Every once in awhile I think about this topic, and look at all the bottles I own, and all the ridiculous amount of samples I have, and KNOW that more than I will ever need, but I still get more, not often, but I do add to what I own.
In all honestly, I really think I have found my holy grail fragrance, and could get rid of all the others. But what fun would that be? And I still need to smell other smells. You have hit the nail on the head — I think a lot of us have to smell other smells. If I didn't read this blog, it would be easier, but as soon as I read that so-and-so really likes Amouage XXV, regardless of the fact that that's a masculine, I am intrigued and it goes on the list.
If other forum members were less passionate and eloquent about the ones they know and like, my collection would be a fraction of what it is, for I live in a very olfactorily deprived part of Britain…No regrets though, for as someone has observed, this habit is cheaper than a designer shoe fetish.
Hi Vanessa and all! I agree that our perfume wardrobes would be much leaner if we stayed away from the blogs. If I can't pay my bills next month, I'm placing the blame squarely where it belongs: on the eloquent writings of Robin, Angela, Kevin, and the other contributers here grin. I certainly think language leads us ALL by the nose to the fragrance counters, doesn't it?
Can't win! Huanani: I think language lures us to the counter, but fragrance really makes or breaks it. I took me about 24 hours to realize what a grave mistake I had made. I promptly went back and exchanged it, without caring a fig what a pain in the ass I looked like. I say we should always let the fragrance prevail. Hi Kevin! Question: Almost all my friends actually use and like perfume, and are very aware of what's out there, but don't bother moving past their signature scent.
One of my friends has been repurchasing and using Lancome O Oui for 6 years now, another is a dedicated Tresor user maybe years , and another has always used Calvin Klein Euphoria. Why do you think it is that even knowledgeable perfume users are convinced that a signature scent is the right way to go? Are we just lost souls here at NST while a whole hoard of other perfumistas in one way or another have settled down with The One?
Didn't realize it was this bad. I only have four bottles, true, but my favorite scent is a ml bottle, and I only use ONE spray per day… which means that it alone will last me 4 years.
Good thing I love it so much as close to a signature as I'm ever going to get. On the up side, the one I like to switch it up with is a 30 ml, which I spray twice- that'll last me only 7. That makes me feel a lot better. Being a market researcher by trade myself, but never having worked in the industry except once on the industrial side , that is my next goal, ie to combine business with pleasure in the most amazing way!
That's quite a large segment as well, would you believe! I am working really hard on the loyalists in my own town, and have enabled about of them to see the light ie a world beyond No 5 or Paris. They are surprisingly open minded once you tell them you have a collection of about they might like to dip into.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. DE Shaver. Hi All, I'm wondering how long does a bottle of aftershave ml lasts for you folks. I'm finding that a bottle lasts about 3 months for me. How about you guys?
I use a few, vary it from day to day. Also some I seem to use a bit more than others. For example, Trumpers Wild Fern, you only need a few drops, while Brut, you can use a good palmful.
Depending on the AS I would guess months, if used daily on average. I do like a good bit of AS splash or balm each day, but some are more potent than others and then I also rotate. Don't know how much you guys apply each time but ml will last me about 6 months. Boba Fett. Pretty much a lifetime. I am rotating 8 aftershaves right now, and they all get a little game time. And since I use very little, some days wearing a cologne instead of an aftershave, they tend to have a long lifespan with me, or so it seems so far.
And the amount of AV blue, musk, and green sport I have is enough to supply me through the afterlife, I think. In all honesty though, if I used one aftershave, I would say a bottle would last maybe 5 months for me, assuming daily use. Steerpike said:. Click to expand Uncle Erik.
Anywhere from six months to a year for mL. I don't use that much and I rotate six or seven fragrances.
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