On the topic of price, it definitely shows you can have garbage at all formula budgets and all retail prices. I think Sophia Grojsman is one of the best examples of a perfumer being able to make evocative fragrances with signature that were cheap to produce but didn't smell cheap, even to a perfumer knowing their construction. It sets her apart from everyone else. I would not wear Trésor for example but I have the utmost respect for it.

Albert Camus said life is meaningless. And instead of creating beautiful perfumes in the blank canvas of meaninglessness, companies decide to create banality in the form of a "perfume"