Layton smells different on skin and in the air. I dont take it seriously when people testing on strips. Layton is a compliment beast.

@@maromorostar6621 Almost every fragrance does. The videos are good entertainment, though.

Layton smells absolutely disgusting. I regretted putting on a sample before work.

@@wheniztheend Then don't wear it.

I got told i smelled like “girls perfume” with Layton.

They fucking destroyed black afgano hahaha

The butthurt comment section is my favorite part about this video lmao

​@@JR0b78 I don't think people are butthurt. I think people are disappointed that the reactions don't seem realistic. There's simply no way this many popular fragrances can have this many bad reactions. 95% of fragrances I smell are reasonably pleasant and at worst "basic". It's the rare one that is offensive.

@@Fab5Hill33 Also the fact that it’s the same people each time.

@@Fab5Hill33 That's the thing, thinking they're not "realistic" for not liking a bunch of favorites among fragheads is being butthurt.

It's like asking people who don't drink wines to rate wines 😂 and they are bashing wines they know nothing about

@@KylerBorn but at the end of the day, if they don't like it; they don't like it. Things can just simply smell and taste bad to people.

@@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce I don't put much stock in their opinions and I don't think anyone in the fragrance community would, but it is entertaining. The dude with the hat was hilarious

@@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce Dude said layton smells like "grandma came to the bonfire and put on bug spray". I think theres a little more going on then "just simply smell and taste bad to people".

Yeah because they aren't pretentious and look at fragrantica before acting like they're some fragrance connaisseur

I think it’s the tester strips

@@sebastienc.2257 I wish they would come up with a different way to do the smelling.

TF tobacco vanille smells like ass on paper, but the drydown on skin is insane, gotten so many compliments

Ignorance is bliss. Don't know what you don't know

This can't be news to you. EVERY WOMAN HATES TOBACCO VANILLE. Every Jeremy has a video in which every single woman hated it.

Meh

@@dextermorgan2117 whats your favorite?

@@dextermorgan2117 you can call it meh and perhaps it's too basic for you however there's no denying that the vast majority of people like it and there's nothing wrong with preferring a mass appealing fragrance. If you enjoy wearing something that smells like a cow dung mixed with rotten apples, more power to you.

@@lettuce1305 Cow dung mixed with rotten apples 😂😂

The commonly used flowers in funeral homes are lilies! so whenever people say funeral homes I translate that to floral. Same with the term 'fresh laundry', that usually means some lavendar/powdery smell.

That's a great idea

It's why I always say "Reality" type scenarios never work out well. If you want most people to act the furthest thing from reality, put them in front of a camera. 😂

Watch them say something like sauvage 😂

I would be interested in knowing what their ages are. They seem to be in their early to mid 20's which is personally not my demographic. But I respect their opinions.

Good call Darren

I agree test strips are deceiving, often you only smell the top notes with test strips it traps the top note because the paper they use is super absorbent but in reality you aren't wearing this paper. When you spray fragrance on skin and even often clothes that top note doesn't get trapped it fades away after a short amount of time. You may think clothes are really absorbent, some clothes are but generally test strips are still more absorbent and they hold the fragrance top notes better than clothes. That's why you can't just use any type of paper for test strips, the test strips are special paper that's more absorbent

true, test stripes never do justice to niche frags. better test on the body or a cloth.

I tried Spicebomb Extreme several times on a tests stripe and just didn't get the hype-not until I tried it on skin! But if you don`t like a fragrance of a stripe you don't have the urge to try it on skin and potentially smell like something you don't like the whole day.

sadly skin chemistry would also play a factor if they go that route, which differs from person to person as well..I get why they use test strips

Absolutely! tried Allure extreme sport once on test paper and thought It was average at best. Retried it on skin and it's dry down on skin is crazy! It changes constantly and gives a very sweet vibe to it.. highly recommend trying on skin if you semi like the fragrance

Yeah like the girl that smells Tam Dao and smells peanut butter and chocolate, and Black Afgano is "almondy" 😂

When the dude grabbed the TF strip and said it smelled like menthol. I’m thinking he def had to grab Layton. Where do you get menthol at in tobacco vanille

Layton sucks

i kinda feel like the tester strip doesnt do justice to fragrances. Having it on skin is totally different, i wish everyone could understand that.

I would agree with you, but this group doesn’t even like the “mass pleasing” designer fragrances you speak of. There are some people who like the smell of different fragrances on people- and there are some people who just don’t like it at all. I believe this group is just not into fragrances, as a whole. Obviously

Technically Tom Ford is not niche but yeah

@@dextermorgan2117 his private blend line is certainly niche quality, and is geared towards niche consumers, to be a bit more technical

@@rdrive1then how does it sell like that

😅😅

Or maybe if you used your brain you would know that the average person doesn't like niche fragrances, which is why designers are made to appeal to them more

@@pedrorojas0116 maybe if you used your brain you would realise I was making a joke

@@pedrorojas0116 it's not even true, old designers perfume were much more daring than most nowaday niche perfumes.

@@pedrorojas0116 If you watch their designer video, many said they didn’t even like Bleu de Chanel, and Savauge.

The opening is *SUPER* citrusy. It’s almost too much. I do however like the dry down a lot! It’s a good fragrance, don’t get me wrong - but it’s a bit overhyped imo

@@rdrive1 fair enough. I do personally do enjoy the dry down a lot more than the opening for sure.

But at the end the brand, package, aesthetic, unboxing shouldn’t matter at the end. The smell of the fragrance does.

@@abdiahmed3465 exactly

I think its total bullshit and irrelevant becouse when you smell the fragrance and u dont like it its gonna matter 0 how fancy the packaging is or what brand it is. Even the quality is irrelevant if its not something you like

@@chilldude3333 There are many studies that show the importance of packaging, and it’s not just for fragrance. Why do you think people associate non-name brand products with lesser quality? Take cereal for example, if you seen ‘Honey Nut Cheerios’ sitting next to the great value version ‘Honey Nut O’s’ you’d automatically assume that honey nut Cheerios had a different or possibly better taste based on the packaging alone. Your perception would be different and therefor your experience throughout testing the product would be different as well. Just because you’ve never tried something in such way doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s actually the difference between knowledge vs Inference. One involves actually testing and deciding for yourself and the other is a simple assumption based off very little knowledge of what you are discussing. www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/6050 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssdj/58/5/58_5_5_11/_pdf/-char/ja ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:21b8b731-58d6-42bd-8111-f2f303ba3165/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Spence%252C%2BCJ%2Band%2BVelasco%252C%2BC%252C%2B%25282018%2529%2BFood%2BQuality%2Band%2BPreference%2BAAM.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article

These people act like they were hired to shit on Tobacco Vanille. Take this video with a grain of dirt. I smell schenanigans.

it's not great off skin or a strip.

@@derred723 Maybe your skin just isn't right for it. Because it is absolutely fantastic off my skin. I have a coup,e of freinds wear it too, and it smells great om them.

idk, if people react like this to a fragrance, I don't know if putting it on skin would save it

I don't think it was Layton.. Nobody had a Apple note or vapor rub on the opening or creamy, vanilla or Sandalwood note on the dry down... Out of 4 women 1 definitely would of said it was amazing... I've been stopped by a good amount of ppl, an asked "what are wearing"

@@leonarmand1789 Yea, I've gotten stopped wearing layton nearly every time I'm at an event/bar/house party. That and La Nuit de L'homme always get a response from the ladies.

I have gotten the most compliments overall from Layton and every compliment was a very enthusiast one!

Haha no women call it that

You sound very butt hurt about the money you spent on Layton. Pro tip: these fragrances are barely more expensive than designer in Europe. Sample for 6 months, decide on everything you want and take a trip to Paris. Then you likely won't be in so much denial one one of them turns out to be a dud, which will inevitably happen. If you had access to women, you'd get their help assessing these BEFORE you buy

Same! def my favorite and I own Cedrat Boise

Same, Layton is my fav. I also own and like Cedrat

Maybe I'm totally off base but some of these blinds seem to be done by folks who aren't exactly fans of fragrances. Quite the opposite. And I know they're going for a "Reality TV" feel, but one thing is certain- If you want someone to act the furthest thing from reality, put them in front of a camera. 😳

They for sure must have smelled something else cuz that didn’t make any sense

Except they're not wrong... Outdoorsy/Woodsy: 1. Related main accords: Green, Warm spicy, Fresh spicy, Woody. 2. Related top note of Lavender (outdoorsy). 3. Related heart notes include Geranium, Violet and Jasmine (outdoorsy). 4. Related base notes are Cardamom, Pepper, Patchouli, Sandalwood and Guaiac Wood (woodsy) Citrus: 1. Related main accords: Fruity, Fresh. 2. Related top notes include Mandarin Orange, Bergamot (citrus).

@@YourMajesty143 you really think people would think outside of fragrantica?

I just smelled that fragrance for the first time, and I also was taken aback by that description. I smelled it off of a tester strip, and I noticed that it reminded me of Halls cough drops in the opening and then it started to have a peppery smell in the early dry down. I didn't get to smell it in the full dry down because the strip got contaminated by another PDM fragrance, Pegasus. I would've asked the young lady at the counter to spray it again, but I didn't want to be a bother. Ultimately, I might go back and try it on my skin (I couldn't do so at that time because I was already wearing a good amount of Invictus Victory). That being said, I also didn't notice any "outdoorsy, woodsy, citrus" with Layton.

Someone else in the comments said it best. They say that they wear fragrances for themselves, then proceed to get mad about the video reaction.

Thank you! I'm just starting this hobby and so many reactions are turning me off from being a part of this community, but your reaction is refreshing. It seems most commenters want an echo chamber of fragheads who will reinforce their opinion, rather than take it on the chin that not everyone likes the same things. Only a small percentage of people have developed their noses to enjoy niche fragrances, so idk why it comes as a surprise that many of these colognes weren't loved. Imagine if a group of foodies, who enjoy exotic cultural dishes, got mad that blind testers of those foods were gagging since their taste buds weren't acclimated to certain flavor profiles or hot spices. Just like palates vary wildly, so do scent preferences. In fact, most of our sensory of flavor stems from smell. So it boggles my mind that despite the general sentiment that it's acceptable not to like the same foods, the reactions here can't apply that same logic to scent.

The fact that people get pissed off about the comments doesn’t even mean that they themselves like them, it means that what people in the video say is totally off, like they’re saying the notes randomly for the sake of the video. I don’t wear any of these fragrances but when I saw the video I wanted to hit my head to a wall. They don’t have to like them, I don’t even like them most of them, they can just act like their nose is not broken.

@@kleaverrou6654 One doesn't have to be a fragrance connoisseur to comprehend basic smells. Some are way off while explaining what they smell.

IMO better to be remembered as that one guy that smells weird than the 6th guy smelling of bleu de channel or sauvage for today.

I was thinking the same thing

Nah bruh..this is real Intel. It shows you the diff between what you think a frag smells like and what others think it smells like. Not all the time, but if you sample enough people you can get a good consensus of what people get on first sniff. At the same time though people's idea of a sense can change over time..and that's we don't get from these

Disagree. This is a very enlightening series. It really illustrates and celebrates just how different everyone's noses and preferences can be, and it removes all of the marketing and fragcom hype!

@@lambmaster Yep can't stress that enough, fragheads get so mad at these videos especially the niche ones, but these people are telling it how it is and niche ain't so good to them and the general public as much as fragheads thought lmao. they literally think people are thinking that they smell mesmerizing and so complex when in reality they don't like what they're wearing at all 😂

Exactly what I said! They def grabbed Layton not TF

dont know man, I've got the same reactions with TV once - so they not totally wrong

I was like 😦😲 and had to go pep talk my bottle.

It is a masterpiece…I think you have to consider the source.

Mmh no, these guys did the same with designers.

I - myself - didn't like some fragrances when I started to dive into this hobby. Now I really like them... and I grew tired of others that I enjoyed right away. It might be interesting to get them to smell some of those fragrances again, at some point in the future, to see if their tastes evolved with time.

This time though a designer "Mont blanc" cloned Creed aventus and you get mont blanc explorer. Well Mancera also did the same they cloned creed aventus and created Cedrat boise. But none of the clones are better than aventus

@@GrowingDownUnder Aventus is like Adele, OVERRATED.

@@ExecutorCR I just filmed an aventus review will be posting on my channel soon, if you wanna know my thoughts on it

Because its crazy

Simp

Idk if they're really being transparent and honest or just putting on a character to look cool Some of the descriptions were way off like Tobacco Vanille smelling like bubble gum and overly colourful

Yup idk what they're talking about

Tobacco Vanille is delicious. No idea what these freaks are talking about. Especially the last girl.

Yes exactly same here! But I love it

Same!! She seems like really really cool!

I've heard quite a few people say Black Afghano smells like wet garbage.

Hhhhhhhh i cant blv this pple

Idk why you would wanna smell like a pack of backwoods

The comment: “Don’t follow him to a second location”. 😆

@@realrareap2420 It isnt the same as tobacco you smoke lmao. Raw tobacco has a sweet scent, one that is enjoyable.

They‘re probably instructed to saying something controversial to keep the engagement high

It’s a test strip don’t be too offended. Vanilla isn’t the best on test strips.

Bought mine today and the smell makes me smile. Definitely a mood uplifting. Deserved the hype

Save yourself some money and get Montblanc Explorer. It does essentially the same thing but for way less.

@@kirkules330 yes its a very lovely fragrance. But men explorer only last like 1 hour on me. The longevity sucks. But it's definitely one of my most favorite scent.

Update: I actually got around to buying it. My quick review: The top doesn't smell like Aventus but I can see why people think it does. It actually has an opening similar to Hanae Mori HM. The drydown smells like CK Euphoria Men, I swear to god it does. It's ironic because they have the same elements, ie patchouli, cedar, leather, woodsy, etc. I still would give the nod to Mont Blanc Explorer over this. But that's just my 2 cents :D

@@Dracomies yeah i dont really get how people can compare it to aventus its a bit more smokey and citrus but i love it for Spring. I like it in summer but on really hot days its very cloying which can get overwhelming but i recommend like a warmer fall or spring its perfect

@@jacobdoria-smith2906 I know this sounds goofy but I like spraying it around my bed before I sleep. I like the way it smells when I wake up. But it's not something I would wear for myself. That said, I do spray it for myself every now and then but I still think there are other things I'd rather use instead haha. I I gotta admit I was expecting a bomb of some sort - based on the reactions. Overall it's a pleasant smell. I really love the drydown but that takes a while to kick in. I don't like the mids. Top smells like Hanae Mori. Mid smells like CK Euphoria. Drydown smells like...damn it smells good and I can't place what it smells like.

I am surprised no one picked up on the leather note. As soon as I spray it I get a bunch of fruits and leather. Later the vanilla comes into play as well, but all they could smell was the lemon.

@@PersonaPrime Now that I've had this scent for a few hours I think I can give a more thorough review. I LOVE the drydown on this thing. There's how it smells in the beginning. Then after a few hours. But when it completely dries down, it smells so great. I wish there was a cologne that smelled like the drydown only haha.

Not even remotely true. And many crowd pleasers aren't cheap either. Sauavage is 100 dollars.

I thought I was the only one to do that! Some might think it's a waste, but I enjoy it even if I'm not wearing it to go out of the house.

Not a fan of most Tom Ford or Parfums De Marly fragrances and I would have bet money that they wouldn't have liked them either.

Maybe molecule 01

@@mrtn6032 no way

That’s not realistic. It’s all subjective. You’re searching for a 🦄

Shes awful..she overly glib while still trying to use excessive sarcasm to be funny. The most annoying guest they have on here tbh

She's fine, I just feel like she is very 'aware' of the fact that she's being filmed and WANTS to be entertaining. She comes off honest BUT in search of 'clout' at the same time imo.

That's cause it's overhyped lol

Because it’s basic af

It's not a great fragrance, not worth the money

Americans and their taste in anything in a nutshell

@@eternalbattle1438 Thats exactly what I thought. The blond girl with the leather jacket is the type that would go with her shoes on your sofa or clean bed and probably don’t even own a perfume.

Haha they'll probably say it smells like a bonfire