My perfume journey = My perfume addiction

My fleshlight collection is valued at $34,000. Just recently got it insured.

Donna always tells me “you know you’re not rich ,… right”…… I tell her “I know I’m not Rich I’m AL”😂

Love to All 🙏🏽 it’s a deep & never ending rabbit hole that’s very expensive

Just a month ago, I started my perfume collection. Currently, I have 20 bottles of perfume, with 13 of them being branded perfumes. It's kind of like an addiction because I find myself constantly ordering new perfumes online or visiting perfume stores to add to my collection after each delivery. However, I love it, as it's something I truly enjoy doing.

I started buying fragrances Late August of 2021. I stopped adding things up when I realized I brought an easy $8k…. and I have a nice little list that hasn’t been checked off. 🤩 The most expensive blind buy purchase was $1,142 for Spirit of Dubai’s Narjesi that includes tax and shipping. I don’t regret it… not one spray.

Interesting topic. The most I've ever spent in a day was a little over $1,100. Most I've spent on a bottle is $400. I'd estimate my current collection to be around $65,000

That was amazing. The bottle you held up at 13:00 was the real jewel though🍻

sampling and being extremely picky and having high standards saved me a lot of money.

I've never had a "Bucket List" in my life until now: Fly into YYZ...Crash at your place...Catch a Leafs/Habs game...Eat a couple shwarmas inside Anooj's Warehouse... (the following month I'll stay at Chu's flat).

Great collection. Great taste

Around 8-10k here for a collection of roughly 100 bottles and around 20-30 big decants. Right now I am at the point where I want to defeat this addiction and enjoy what I have and add a perfume to my collection ONLY when I consider that is something that really excites me( like 1 or 2 a year). The most that I paid was 500 dollars for a 250 ml Ebene de Balmain, vintage, absolutely stunning.

Interesting vid. I've kept a running tally since about 2009 and I've spent about $10K. However with 100 retail bottles averaging even a grey market resale value of about $150-200, and 100 10-30ml decants, it would be worth about $20K resale value. At retail values it's probably closer to $25-30K. I got a lot for free working in retail or making smart swaps over the years. Averaging about $1K per year on a hobby feels about right for me. Most expensive purchase was Mona Di Orio's Oud, original bottle. I think it was about $500-600.

Omg!! That samples bag...it's a treasure chess. It's amazing what you have gathered over the years. I will be picking up your fragrance for my birthday in November. Can't wait to smell your creation.

It’s always a pleasure to watch your collection. Have spend 70k since 2012. Most expensive was night FM, then Roja’s.

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing. Those pure Parfums 🧐. I've always admired your collection and have always thought there's a ton we're not seeing. P.S. How much for that pouch of samples you had there? 😂. Always a pleasure Eugen 🙏✌🏻

I remember how fast premier avenue shipped you those desert gem perfumes 😂 . Jesus, was that mitsouko 30ml? God, that chamade is glorious, and the vol de nuit.

Sous le Vent by Guerlain! Oh my God! So, so beautiful. Lucky you!

My other passion is jewelry...so by comparison, my perfume passion is inexpensive! The most I've ever spent was $700 for a 2012 Mitzah via eBay. The irony is that I decided I could get by with a decant and tried to sell it again, but eBay determined it "wasn't authentic" and banned it; I'd bought it 3 months prior, and there's no way to plead your case with them. I hope I can say I'm smarter now.

Heaven forbid there’s a natural disaster I’m curious if insurance would cover it all! Honestly every hobby can get expensive but if you meet all of your fiduciary obligations and it brings you joy, who cares what you spend. Enjoy life as you please. I’m not too into this hobby where I could stomach spending that much and I know I wouldn’t use all of that. But people are into cars and watches (I used to be) and will spend double that with far fewer items too 🤷🏻‍♂️ It’s all relative and perspective. You’re happy, you share your passion selflessly and that’s really all that matters so good on you.

Coleccionar aromas es como capturar trozos de vida, aspiro a convertirme en una coleccionista también. Los perfumes son el único objeto que produce cierta ansiedad en mi de poseerlos. Gracias por esta entrada👏

Guerlain do the best fragrances in my view. Stunning bottles that you have collected! ♥

Most I’ve spent in a day…..1500 euros on Ensar Qi nan & some decants and $1700 full set of Areej classic collection & Indonesian oud

Gotta love your passion and dedication ! I know that Antoine Lie used Moroccan rose in some of his fragrances, did he use that in La douleur Exquise ? By the way I'm from Morocco so i'm curious :)

Beautiful collection, mister Eugen. It would be nice to see all MDCI's fragrances with busts in that collection. The house of Amouage also has a wonderful bottles. If there's some fragrances that you wish for your collection and you can't find them, just let me know. Greetings from the city of Niš. Scent Of The Night : L'artisan - Timbuktu.

A question for the group. Do you have your perfume itemized on your homeowner/renters insurance policy? How do you track and document the contents of your collection? Excel? photos?

I think if there’s a fragrance that you really love and it’s hard to get, and you can afford it, go for it!

As I watch this , Modanna’s MATERIAL GIRL , is playing on the radio 🧐 my wife has gone through credit card 💳 bills ects and given me crap 💩 more than once over perfume purchase’s. She sum’s it up to “crazy , it’s just crazy , pure insanity” … she calls it 😂

Love it

The threshold I have set for myself is no more than 200€ for 100ml. Only exceptions are FM Dessert Gems. Also, I pretty much never buy retail. People sell off even Designer exclusives and niche on local market sites...

Knowing your test.... That one perfume I am not looking to blind buy. lol.

Omg! I didn't know you had Habit Rouge extrait...but I should have guessed. I've looked for that forever. I honestly haven't tried to add up what I've spent for fear of barfing instantly 🤣🤣 I'm at the point now where almost anything I'm interested in is automatically over 3-4-500 dollars and it adds up quickly when buying several bottles.

I spent about 2200 this past Christmas . Almost half My savings . No spending for me for a few months . Going to start school for chemistry and hopefully get through it and go to perfume school. I got DANÄE as a gift. •Triumph of Bacchus • Boss Bastard •Smoulder 2x (they’re discontinued so i have 2, to sell) • 3x 10ml HARD CANDY by ATH • 2x 40 knots by Xerjoff • 2nd Soul by Zaharoff • VANAGLORIA by Dominiq Ropion • Santal Complet by FDB • 5ml santal comolet decant •5ml Sahara by FDB •5ml Solstice by FDB •5ML ROJA PDLN 2 •Side effect by Initio •5ml Oud Symphony •5ml Pm by FDB •5ml side effect / 5ml Absolute aphrodisiac •5ml oud violet intense •5ml Minuit Et Demi •5ml New York 5th Ave Previously before Christmas . 8ml Rojas - MIDSUMMER DREAM , PDLN 2 & 3, HAUTE LUX, Oceania . Some were gifts

In your opinion, what are "pure parfum" versions of perfumes? I have never had one, but I am pretty sure I'm correct in saying they're not pure oils, like an attar. They have at least some alcohol. Are they a different formulation than the, say, EDP? Or are they in some cases just the EDP formulation with more oil and less alcohol for a 10x markup per ml?

wow so amazing and so beautiful

Amazing collection. I own maybe 15.000 Euros in fragrances but panicked after watching Sebastian after he bought a Storage Room Auction collection and many parfumes turned. My house also has kinda a humidity problem 😂 reaching 70-80% in summer. So now I think about selling off a lot.

Hello Eugen, do you know any place in YYZ/ GTA that sells Lattafa? Thank you in advance 🙏🏽

Hope you all are well 🙏🏿

My favo from this line Boy Le lion And the best of them all Coromandel my signature scent

The house I grew up in sold for $33k in 2018.. you spent three times as much as my childhood home on perfumes😂😂 And I really think of you as just a regular guy, that’s astonishing.

Did he give a grand total, or did I miss it?

How's Maria?

I don’t have a huge collection, it’s a mix of designer, vintage and niche, and I have had over a hundred bottles but sold most of them. I’m at 40 full size bottles currently and dozens of decants. I don’t like holding onto things I don’t actually wear. 1/3 of FB are discontinued, it’s harder to part with them. My husband has about 15 and together I think we spent 6 or 7k (on what we still have), but retail would be at least 10k. I’ve done pretty well getting some for deals. For example my dad picked me up a Roja Scandal Parfum Cologne for $40 at a garage sale. It was a bottle that got lost in the mail awhile when they ordered, and eventually showed up after its replacement. That’s in my husband’s collection now. One of my favorites is a pristine sealed 1/2oz 1950s No 5 extrait I got for $30. It’s lovely to wear, not a fan of the later formulations. My only Guerlain extrait is 1980s Shalimar ❤ but maybe I should hunt more down!

I have about 100 bottles and have spent about £6,000. I am still looking for my best 10

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve almost bought that propeller bottle of Vol de Nuit. F-it. I’m pulling trigger

About 100 grand?

Most I've spent in a day was $3000 to purchase five 30ml pure Parfum bottle of Ensar Oud! They are Santal Sultan, EO1 Assam, EO2 Kashmir, Black Chango and Irish Ghalia. Most expensive bottle of spray perfumes (per ml) I purchased was Purple Kinam by Ensar Oud, $750 for a 15ml bottle. Now I'm broke 😅...

Who cares if you have 20,000+ bottles? Just keep going!!

Surely most of your fragrances expire eventually

Have you counted how many perfumes you have? ☺️

15,000.00 So far for my collection and samples 😢😅❤😂😊🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Fantastic collection. I spent a big chunk of money after collecting all the Les exclusifs Chanel including 28 La Paula and a few discounted EDTs. The moon was an expensive purchase of £550

Imagine a kid wearing green polo 🤣 I did steal some ck obsession from my old man 😅

Vega Guerlain

Nice to know you pay retail just like us normies 😅

When you start hovering around 30k or more in quids. I think you have gone of the deep end 😂...i think 2015 for me was that deep end 😅

God I would sell my firstborn for that habit rouge extrait.

Your mum did spoil you as a boy 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮