I wear my fragrances for myself, but let's be honest - getting complements is really nice :)

This video is basically about teenagers who buy fragrances to please women. The average middle aged dude doesn't get "scammed" or read the cringe description of the newest release. We're men who wear Guerlain Vetiver or Beau de Jour and go to the bar and smoke a cigar and enjoy life. Cause we like smelling good for ourselves. Not for panty dropping or clubs or women. A compliment is a bonus but not even the reason frag heads wear it. This video is for children. Not men. It's for those who have zero understanding of fragrances and who have $50 allowance from their parents and wanna waste their money at the mall. No real person who is interested in smelling good goes out to buy fragrances to bring in the opposite sex nor get duped into buying pheromone gimmick fragrances.

I am a hobbyist, I collect because I enjoy. I spray colognes when I’m in the house with no one around. I enjoy compliments when they come but I don’t chase it or purchase fragrances based on whether it’s universally loved. Cologne is subjective and just an added way to show your personality.

Fragrances absolutely CAN NOT get you laid. In a social setting, the fragrance can serve as an " Ice Breaker" or "Conversation Starter". After that, it's up to you and YOUR social skills to do the rest. No matter how good the fragrance smells, it CAN NOT compensate for a man's weak game.

Jeremy was my intro to the frag industry haha. He's gotten odd over the years but I still like his channel

I wear fragrance for myself because I enjoy scents very much and like to smell good. Sure compliments are nice but I don't wear for that purpose. Great video.

Hollister and it’s perfume Is so rememberable it always hits when you smell it outside and takes you to the shop

Jeremy Fragrance is the "GOAT" If you want attention, you need to make a controversial statement. I wear fragrance for my self, but of course you also think about how other people perceived you. The highest $ I paid on a Fragrance is $241. There's a perfume that smells like poop. If Brad Pitt has a identical twin. 1. That smells great and the 2. That smells nothing. I guarantee you, the women is going to choose the one that smells good. 100 / 100.

One thing I’ve noticed a lot post-pandemic in London is the ground-floor lobbies of corporate buildings have quite strong fragrance pumped into them. Most are quite nice to be fair.

I have over 100 bottles of fragrance, so you’ll rarely find me not wearing something. Often times I’ll just wear something around my home to enjoy the scent myself, but when I’m going out into public I try to consider a few things before I select my fragrance: 1. Will I personally enjoy wearing this today (I have different moods that one fragrance might cater to better than others) 2. Does this fragrance fit the environment I’ll be in (I don’t want to wear super strong or pungent fragrances in certain scenarios) 3. If appropriate, I’ll consider what the person I’ll be spending time with or the people I’ll be interacting with would enjoy smelling on me. I try not spend more than $200 on a bottle of fragrance and if I want something above that price I just purchase a sample decant. I think I once spent around $220 on a bottle of Layton, which is the most I’ve spent on a bottle.

Check out Toskovat, fellow Romanian guy that makes weird fragrances with even weirder "notes". The plastic bag note is one of his fragrances, but he has stuff like "credit card" or "priest robe" as notes. They are pricey tho, really pricey... Apparently his fragrances evoke emotions or moments in life. His fragrances are called Born screaming, Last birthday cake, Inexcusable Evil and so forth. Weird stuff for sure.

I have 130 bottles of cologne and I have not; nor will not pay more than $80.00 for a bottle!

i hate it when the person next to me in the office is wearing engineered smells. it gives me headaches and i can not go away

As a jr perfumer i can say the cost of materials, plus bottle, alcohol, labels, are not expensive unless you are using real oud that 99.99% fragrances listed with an oud note doesnt have, or any rose or flower Eo or Absoluts. The profit is just absurd in some cases.

The lobby at the Vdara hotel in Las Vegas has a crisp, clean, metallic aroma that suits the minimalist aesthetic of the whole property.

I wear it because different fragrances are almost mood altering...some days I benefit from wearing one or another...so mostly for me beyond the decency of smelling great. Also some clones are good actually.

I´m wearing scents only for myself,to lift my mood,energize or calm myself and i`m using niche brands which are made of natural ingredients and smell very subtle.tried some fancy molecules scents but I only got nauseated from that stuff.thats how I noticed how strong the impact of scents on our limbic system is😵‍💫

I wear fragrances for myself only. The smells help me with my mental health and moods.

I wear fragrance because I like the scents I wear. I do enjoy compliments, but it’s almost just reassuring and just feels nice to hear when someone else enjoys what you chose to wear.

Stimulate the senses: well dressed+great smelling=Success

It’s not a scam because you get something for your $. Yes, scent companies milk it but that is up to the consumer.

Honestly i dont know if im wearing fragrances for myself. I dont care about compliments but care a little on if my friends can smell and thinks that my fragrance is good cuz i ask them sometimes

the weirdest thing i've encountered lately is the fact that young men and women are wearing the exact same cologne. I thought smell was supposed to be a caracteridtic of individuality but it just backs up my observation that this society has become hyper comformist.

I've learnt to wear smells that make ME feel good, and I try to wear them in a way that won't disturb other people. There's nothing worse than having your bubble popped by someone asking 'Who is it that smells like a tart's handbag?', and realising that it's you! 😬 Clones are gross to me - I was quickly done with them. My favourite smells are often the ones I associate with good times or good people, and they don't always come in a bottle!

Disneyland in CA has scents when walking down main Street. Usually baked goods or other food related items. Theyre these vents that have food scents blowing out of the vents to entice people as you're walking down the entrance

You are right. When I was younger I knew hollister and A&F by their smell. A&F being the smell of fierce. You could smell it by walking past the store in the mall.

A simple way to tell is that a very good chunk of TV ads during Christmas promote fragrances. I saw literal back to back fragrance ads last Christmas. That alone proves how insanely profitable the industry is. I stick to clones and budget perfumes :)

Do I wear fragrance for others/get compliments? Generally yes, and have no issue saying that. I’m single, going on dates and want to smell attractive. That said I wouldn’t wear something I didn’t think smelt nice or really “fitted” me. Also don’t expect to get another date or laid just because of a few sprays of Dior Sauvage. But fair enough for this guy to call it out as it may not be as obvious to some 16 who doesn’t know any better

fragrance is an amplifier, if someone is into you it only helps if you smell good too

cosmetic products are pretty well regulated.

I enjoyed this video and your level-headed response. I am 56 and started collecting fragrances 3 years ago at first for the connection it held to memories...silly things like Polo and encre noir that brought me back to care free late teen years...but I own over 100 now and wear them for me (mostly successfuly blind- purchased based on my fave frag you tubers) . Compliments are always nice, but I'm too smart to make the "compliment factor" or the sex appeal factor the reason for purchase. I subscribed and look forward to seeing more of your content 👍

I will not pay more than $300 for a fragrance. My record is $260. And I buy clones. Especially ones of niche and discontinued. And now I will only buy artisinal niche. And pare down to less than forty scents. Cheers.

in the end he is selling perfume as well lol

I actually only wear my perfumes for myself. I obviously dont want to stink to the people around me , however I try to wear my own scent bubble that doesnt reach the rest of the room. ❤

I wear cologne for myself………

I wear frags at home for my own pleasure. I also wear frags when I'm out and about because I like to smell good around others (not for sex).

only expensive bottle i ever bought was bleu de chanel. i tried it in a store when it was just released, i think it was early 2011, it was just accidental. i tried it, got blown away, and bought it. i don‘t have money, i never did and i very likely never will. but after many years my interest in fragrances is back. i‘m on the verge of finishing my second bottle of bdc edt and i probably will get myself the eau de parfum for christmas. back in the day the edt was maybe 65 €. i just love it, it blends perfectly with my natural scent and it‘s noticeable on my skin even after 24 hours or more. i got a bit bored by the top notes, that’s why i want to switch to the edp. i don‘t wear it for other people. my partner doesn’t particularly like it, but hey. i get compliments from time to time, but i don’t wear parfum for other people, but i appreciate the compliment, because it shows me that the other person likes the thing i like. i in general wear the things i like and often other people don’t like. 99% of the time i super don’t care what other people think of me. so if you want to frame it positively you could say that i‘m independent in my actions and expressions and don’t rely on pleasing people. if you want to frame it negatively you could say that i‘m not self aware. both is probably totally true. ❤

I primarily wear it for myself, at first I thought I’d say compliments because who doesn’t love compliments? But there are cologne that I don’t wear despite their track record of compliment attraction because I personally don’t love them (Burberry touch for example).

I wear cologne because Its apart of hygiene to smell nice. Its not for women , but for me its the same as taking shower and I like things that are subtle in the smell/fresh.

The mist I’ve paid for one bottle was for 100 ml bottle of kilians, Angle’s Share.

I actually feel strange when the spotlight is on me, which is a feeling I am trying to break out of. I wear scents first for me and second to attract a crush. I sleep with them on every night. The most expensive fragrance I have is Gucci Elixir until I bought a Tom Ford Leather Parfum.

I wear fragrances for myself. I have about 100 bottles. The most that I paid was $500 for Creed Original Vetiver at Nieman Marcus. That guy completely overlooked IFRA by the way.

5 years ago i wore fragrances for compliments. I just wear it as an accessory now, like putting on a watch.

I am wearing Noir De Noir by Tom Ford right now. I am having coffe by myself and will spend the day by myself. I wear it for me.

This was my reply to the original video a couple days ago.... "Yo. Dude. We had teenagers dropping hundreds on Air Jordans years ago to be more like Mike.... Several industries sell you a dream. Cosmetics can't make you more beautiful, they just mask "imperfections", much like fragrances do. Clothing companies charge high amounts for items of clothing that won't make you look more amazing but people feel more confident owning those garments. The car industry shows you that owning one of their vehicles will open the world to you, in several ways. That's marketing. As for the smelly stuff, I'll admit I own a lot of fragrances. Do I buy them because of advertising? Nope. I buy what I want because it smells nice and I enjoy smelling nice. Choosing a smelly for the day is like choosing a shirt or a pair of trousers: What's the weather, what am I doing today, what sort of mood am I in, who's going to be around me today...? Certain smells make me feel happy, some make me feel mentally stronger, some make me feel sexy, some make me feel positive when I know the day is going to be tough. It's not down to advertising, it's down to the smells and the way I perceive them. I also work in hospitality, so around a lot of people, and I like to know that I don't smell like armpits by the end of a shift. I also have several colleagues who appreciate the way I smell. And I won't lie, it's nice to have a female colleague come and give you a hug purely because she wants to smell you a bit more or one of them tells you smell amazing. Has a fragrance got me a leg over solely on its own? Nope, but a fair few of them have certainly helped over the years ;)"

I work from home, I rarely go anywhere, so I’m wearing fragrance for me 😅

I wear for myself and compliments is a bonus.

Hallo Kamil, wenn wir älter werden ist es für viele egal ob sie einen überteuerten Duft tragen oder einen preiswerten Klon. Soll jeder so machen wie er will. Ich bin mit meinen Klonen zufrieden und freue mich mit dem gesparten Geld etwas "sinnvolles" wie "charity" zu machen. Teure Parfüme sind Luxusgüter welche ich persönlich nicht brauche um einen höheren "Status" zu erreichen! So lange es Leute gibt die gerne "brands" kaufen muss sich die Luxusindutrie keine Sorgen machen. BTW ich trage Düfte nur für mich wobei nur der Duft zählt und nicht der Preis/Marke! Gutes reaction video❣Ich wünsche deiner family schöne Ostern ❣

I genuinely wear fragrances for my own amusement. I just like catching whiffs of pleasant scents throughout the day. Makes me feel good.

Would love that as a game for the phone 📱🤳🏻, I hope you and Daniel strengthen your bond again, there's nothing better than brotherhood and you all worked together to make fragrance one where it is

I wear fragrance for my own personal enjoyment. If someone complements me on my choice for the day that's nice to hear but not essential to my self-esteem. And that comment that Gay's don't wear fragrance HA! That was indeed a very silly assumption. The most I have ever paid is $350 US dollars. The least amount free, a present. So, it evens out LOL. Just found your channel and I am intrigue. Cheers!

I started wearing perfume because I wanted my boyfriend to like how I smelt, now I still feel that way but if I wanted him to like it then I’d wear a masculine cologne and not a gourmand perfume lol. I like compliments but I also really enjoy smelling perfumes on myself

I am a normal perfume wearer, not a collector. I also wear niche fragrances, but less the very expensive ones (under €200 for 100ml). And the reason I wear fragrances is not because I want to smell good for other people, but because I love the fragrance experience. Discovering the progression of the perfume over time, discovering the perfume.... It is more about the experience, especially with niche fragrances. It's not that different than choose your outfit for the day, really. I am a women, but I give a f*** about compliments. I wear perfume because it underlines or lifts my mood, because it gives me warmth and security, or simply self-confidence... And because I love wearing a new perfume and discovering new facets even after a week.

There's SO much more too. 😆 Manufacturing cost, regional regulations, chemistry, distribution, long-term health effects, pricing, superconscious perception management, corporate politics and the list goes on. Not to mention the intricacies of navigating online communities. 😉 Had to giggle at the pitch at the end. Question marks abound in all industries for sure.

Fragrance Apprentice has a similar video on it too, it's an hour long, I 100% recommend it.

The 20 minute mark was hilarious. How would he even know that? 😂 I know from personal experience I literally had a woman I didn't know sniffing me because of the cologne I wore, and she complimented me for it. Of course it takes more than that to 'get laid', but the right scent can certainly grab a person's attention and intiate things with them.

Id be willing to bet that 30% is close to accurate when it comes to how much of the population finds fragrances annoying. I'd say about 2-3 out of every ten clients I see are extremely sensitivity to fragrances as am I. A lot of times I don't have to be very close to the person wearing the fragrance for it to trigger a migraine or cause my airway to react.

He thinks it is to impress others. It's primarily a pleasure to the self. Equivalent to icecream to Biden. But he's right on one thing (at least). Easily, we forget why we started and lose control... same for cars, watches, food, drinks...

I have scents for myself and scents to smell well for my gf and ppl around

Personally, I think its ironic to claim to definitely know that fragrances don't get you sex whilst claiming to know that Evolution is proven, specifically that we are designed to smell the 'health' and status of a primeval mate. Evolution has consistently been disproven. I wear fragrance because I absolutely love the artform of it. I love the journey, its production, the packaging, the community, even making my own. The marketing on fragrances should never be taken seriously. I cringe at just how much these companies have to make in order to break even! It's marketed towards sex because sex usually sells. It wouldn't sell nearly as well if it were marketed as another art form. Fragrance has always been a status symbol historically, giving the wearer a larger-than-life impression on whomever. That could be for sex, but it could also be for dominance and control, power, or even an odd way of protection (I have often put on certain fragrances with the purpose of creating space for myself). I feel like we are in a world where we cannot help but smell like something and I like to have put thought and effort into every aspect of my life. I would rather smell like what I would want. Good video, great reaction. Thanks for the video!

That guy looks like he wears perfume and bath and bodyworks body spray what does he know about cologne? My man has colored diamond earings and whatnot smh

I started wearing fragrances for myself. I work a non-medical position at a hospital. During my shift i’m up and down the hospital, every unit. I can’t tell you how many horrid stenches I’ve come across. I thought, I’ll wear a fragrance and drown myself in a sillage cloud and hopefully that will make my day pleasant. I didn’t realize I would go noseblind. However, during that time, I’ve come to appreciate the fragrance world and it’s very much something that I indulge for my own satisfaction.

Everything is marketed with our insecurities in mind. There is always the connoisseur in every industry who is honing their craft and that's what matters. I wear fragrances for myself.

$0-200 no clone Anything over $200 id rather buy a clone. I've spent roughly $150 on one bottle and i could convince myselt to go a little higher but anyone charging 300 400 dollars for cologne is crazy

Blue Agave is way too expensive to be wearing to the gym... Terre d'Hermès Eau Givrée is my go-to gym scent.

It’s all a scam but not just colognes

I don't care about compliments. I don't care about logevity or projection. Doesn't matter if its $5 or $200. I was always a fan of good scents in any form - incense sticks, candles or whatever. And for me Davidoff cool water is better than any Dior. I own many fragrances and I just don't care!

The cologne industry is a scam, the clone industry just proved the fact that niche and designer fragrances charges too much for a bottle. No perfume should be higher than $300

It's about any and every restaurant and chain that has a specific smell. From mcdonalds to pepper lunch to bakery shops

You seem to disagree about those numbers in the stats. For me, I love perfumes etc, but I developed a condition / reaction of which is very real. I love floral smells but if. I am within a few feet like from a "flower bomb" i will get a migraine and feel unwell, or some scents that are totally chemical and smell crap but teenagers lime them, I have to take in a short time paracetamol tablets if i'm lucky. Go outside or get some distance. So yeah, they make me sick, nautious various issues. While on the other hand I can tolerate other more subdued smells or dufferent class of smells, like bay rum, most fougure and lighter ones like Green Tea or powdery like Lilac or Roses etc. Now i am in to incense, woody or moss / green and spicy. But yeah, i love plenty but need to keep my distance from some like 6 feet so they won't irritate me. Heck, i cannot even drink most soda's due to thdir additives!

Most ive ever paid was around $150.00 US.

Im happy I enjoyed Jeremy Fragrance channel. Becauase this gave me the opportunity to find a hidden gem Channel like yours. Your bro is a little crazy. But like all siblings we love them the same X).

Bread bakeries has that inviting smell

My most expensive and signature scent is Dior Fahrenheit because I layer le Perfume with Edt (ratio 1:2) so approx 250$ for both bottles. Any bottle over 150$ and especially "Niche" I gladly use/buy only the clones. But in all honesty in Sweden most Workplaces and Schools have no perfume policies or restrictions due to allergies which makes fragrances or wearing them obsolete or an uneasy and GUILTY pleasure, so the video is pretty accurate however I am, due to the hobby and collecting, scamming myself really.

I genuinely wear frags for me, but I try not to offend others, and during the day I'll often spray easy to wear, generally likeable stuff.

Depends, I have scents that I enjoy and wear knowing not many others will. And then I also have the compliment getters I only wear for going out 😅

18:04 Ah yes, the note of seaman, yup. Sécrétions Magnifiques.

I think everyone who wears fragrances enjoy compliments on them as they do the clothes they wear and the hair cut they have as well as many other things about them. You put time and money into the hobby and you wear something appropriate for the situation you will be in. Most know that you are not going to get many compliments from complete strangers any way. I do get some from like the ladies who cut my hair or maybe a waitress or cashier. I do not always wear fragrance to get compliments but I wear them because I like them and even if no one comments on them I know they smell good. Some compliments are not verbal. Sometimes you notice people leaning in closer and smelling you or you walk by and notice them look back at you and smile. I do not always wear crowd pleasers I like more oud fragrances and tobacco that sometimes also get compliments but not as much as Layton. Eros, or things such as that. One of my Tom Fords is probably the most I have spent could not say for sure what the most I have spent on one bottle is. As far as clones I think they have their place but I always like to have the original. Just my opinions.

Each of us emits pheromones and perceives pheromones. Nature has arranged it this way so that the best matches can be made. To produce strong and healthy offspring, of course. Should we interfere with this with fragrences??

Of course the $435,000 bottle was a Clive Christian 😭

Just wear something light with lavender girls are drawn to flower scents others is hit n miss

I love complements but I honestly buy colognes for me, quite a bit of my colognes smell great for me but aren't mass appealing 😅😅😅

87 Euros was my priciest parfum. It was a JPG LE beau.

When I catch a whiff of me, I prefer it to be pleasant.

I wear it for myself, how am I sure of this? cause I mostly wear Paco Rabanne Pour Homme😆 which is not considered sexy, modern or hip. I own many more modern fragrances but even with those the main factor is I have to like them. Sure compliments can be nice but I wear scents for how they make me feel

No lie. I tried Fredric Malle “The Moon” a fragrance that’s over $900. And it’s definitely not worth the price. It’s basically a raspberry/hookah smell. But not for no $900

When I was in High school I bought a pheromone fragrance that supposedly worked bc a friend of mine told me about it. Basically I remember wearing it every once in a while, and idk if it was because of the smell or the pheromones, but my female friends would jump all over me. I had much better fragrances, but they seemed to react more with the pheromones.

Most I’ve ever spend on a one bottle? 32 dollars lol. I’m definitely team dupe

I just tried on the airport a Tom Ford highly appreciated parfum can't remember the name though, it smelled like something my grandpa would use, my god, still idk maybe it's just me, highly subjective ...

Abercrombie and Fitch pump Fierce one of their most popular fragrances throughout the store

I only wear frags for myself...often 2 at a time one on each arm..sometimes a 3rd on my leg...😂

Man i love your videos but is there no way you can ship fragrances to EU, i'm located to italy but the shipping is USA only ... let me know i would love to try Unisex...

There are some valid points but at the same time the video is mostly a one sided argument. If people fall for the marketing then sure its a "scam". I never watch ADs or read write ups about fragrances. I'm more interested in the scent itself. I wear fragrances for myself as a mood booster. Compliments are a bonus.

But I do love my Layton, Naxos, and Side Effect 😊

"Frägrens" 💀

The first words my now wife then was a totally uknown was wow u smell awsome and 18 years later she still by my side so fragances works 😊

Yes, there are reviewers that can't even pronounce the word fragrance. One of them is Thomas LinScent. He says it "fre-grence". And he says it ALOT. Almost like he knows it irritates the HELL out of me. Lol. But first he has to tell you about the weather in his area😡. These are the main reasons I don't subscribe to his channel. Most reviewers know how to pronounce the word, but there are some out there that have a hard time saying it right. People with foreign accents are forgiven. Lol.

Fragrances doesn't get you laid, your personality does

The most I've paid for a fragrance was $350 - Absolu Aventus.

Never in my life of 40 years have I thought that wearing a fragrance was going to get me laid. That is a very stupid and immature idea. First off let me say that I've been married for 11 years so I'm not out there trying to get laid anymore. But I started buying fragrances when I could afford them since the late '90s. The sole purpose when I would buy them is I wanted to enhance my scent of just being clean and showered wearing nice clothes and I enjoyed the fragrance. That's it. Back then you actually just had to talk to a female and get to know her ask her out on a date and see where it goes. Sometimes they might say oh you smell great and get real close to you. That is when you have to be yourself and start being a bit charming and not get nervous and act like a dork. But you have got to be an absolute idiot if you think life is like a commercial and you're going to walk through the grocery store and women are just going to jump on top of you and start riding you in the middle of the aisle because you smell good. I personally believe that most people buy fragrances because they just like the way they smell sometimes you get compliments and you go oh thank you. Also the bottles are cool and it's fun to collect them.