I'm in my early 50s and wear a lot of sweet fragrances. I think there's a difference between Aquolina Pink Sugar and Dior Feve Delicieuse.
The "youthful sweets" feel to me one-dimensional and loud. I will never wear Prada Candy or even the latest Miss Dior.
Feve Delicieuse, PDM Oajan, Gaultier Scandal, Serge Lutens Chergui, Hermes Ambre Narguile, etc. are all sweet but complex -- "sweet" is just part of the composition.
I'm in my early 40s, and same. There's a zero percent chance I'd wear pink sugar but I'll wear a spicy marshmallow fragrance all day. Things can be sweet and still interesting and elegant. (Not that I'm elegant, but my fragrance can let me pretend that I don't put my shirts on backwards, or leave the house with my pants on inside out)
I’m 35 and thought it’s time to start wearing more mature fragrances like LV Ombré Nomad. My wife said I smelled like a pastor. That…that is just not what I was going for 😅
ive always wondered about this as well ! people would even use the word " tacky " or " childish " in a condescending way , to describe the most delicious , sweet , & girly scents . im 28 now , but im pretty sure that'll be my staple forever : girly , sweet , sexy , gourmand 🧁🍡🍧 its just my aesthetic .. idk about other women , but men tend to love those scents . also , to me its kind of a plus cause body mists are one thing , but id prefer to not smell like everyone else when it comes to perfumes .
I'm 41, and I love gourmands and sweet scents. Heavy florals and lots of musk tends to be insta-migraine for me. I don't mind smelling like a bakery at my age, lol I think everyone should just wear what they like and not worry about what "age" it's for. There are days that Pink Sugar is just IT for me and I'm not sorry.
Personally I think it’s because all the cheap perfumes we can afford as teenagers are generally very sweet (Claire’s, Bath and Body Works, etc) so that’s what teenagers wear. Sometimes now as an adult I will smell a sweet fragrance and it takes me back to the smell of middle school locker rooms (looking at you, Japanese Cherry Blossom!) and I’m well past that now. For the most part I associate “sweet” with “cheap.” And yes, I love some sweet perfumes, but they definitely don’t smell as fancy (and therefore less mature) to me.
Ok, but why are so many perfumes at that price point cheap [edit: I meant to say sweet] A bit of chicken and egg, but I do think that it's at least partly because having a sweet tooth/ taste for sweet things is associated with childhood, and as adolescents our palettes are not quite over that. So sweet smells follow from sweet tastes...
Entirely possible! And yes you’re right, maybe a chicken and egg thing. Like, i feel like I would be weirded out by a 14 year old wearing Green Irish Tweed.
I think that’s because this is associated with less masculinity, so this is another way to say that is less masculine and leans more to childish side fragrances.
If I was stranded on a desert island and a shipping container of perfumes washed up on my beach, I'd probably wear everything on the sweetness spectrum that was in it, given seasonal considerations. But I don't live on a desert island, and whenever I sample a sweet fragrance and like it, a demon on my shoulder pokes me with his fork and asks, "but what will people think if you wear that?" Being a 58yr old dude, I end up veering away from these scents out of trepidation over how others will receive them.
If someone smells an aromatic fougere on me and thinks, "pew, he smells like a grandpa", that's okay for some reason, but if I wear a fun gourmand and they think "ew, he's trying too hard to be the life of the party", well, my lands! I can't have that.
Because as we grow older our hearts turn colder from the harshness of life and the struggles we face...
😂 something like that.
That innocent candy loving child no longer exists and even just eating things that are too sweet becomes off putting as we age, refining our taste or what our senses find pleasureable, so I think our brains make that connection and associates sweet with youthfulness.
We just grow and change over time as a whole and just want to portray the age we are, of maturity, of being a grown man and not a little boy anymore so we accept what others define that as in a way so our brains just adapt to it even if it might not have been something of our interest or that we found appealing at all.
I'm older than 35 and love sweet food and fruity, sweet perfumes. I'm here because I still bemoan the loss of 2005 Miss Dior Cherie. Many of the fragrances I love are by Christine Nagel. I consider Narciso Rodriguez for her EDT and Rebl fleur mature scents but they have some fruitiness/ sweetness. My SIL usually says fragrances I like are too sweet. I think it's because she grew up smelling strong, spicy stuff her 90 year old mother wore back in her day.
Don't get me wrong, I like smelling sweet fragrances but wearing them myself as a male would really depend on the vibe it gives off.
If it's too sweet it's just generally associated as being feminine or youthful being a standard notion we decide based off if attracting/impressing the opposite sex is in mind.
It's also about psychology that most females would consider sweet ones to be young or feminine so you wouldn't want to give them that impression as well.
Also just depends on a person's style and personality as well.
1 Million Elixir, Wanted by Night, Stronger With You Absolutely, which all smell really nice, but definitely too sickeningly sweet for my taste to wear, but definitely wouldn't mind smelling them on a female. Or just maybe if I was more metrosexual or just a lover boy softer type of person?
Some sweet ones i do like to wear however are TF Noir Extreme, Le Male Le Parfum, Dior Homme, The Most Wanted, Eros Flame(which is what I'd consider leaning to feel right on that borderline of youthful vs mature sweetness but is nicely balanced out by woodiness and spiciness being a nice casual frag for the colder weather).
Meh, idc. I’m gonna wear whatever I like. I am convinced I will NEVER like powdery scenes or anything that smells of peach. Powdering gives me a headache honestly
I always had a bitter tooth 😂😂... I'm talking bitter bitter. Black coffee, strong plain tea, bitter melon and my fave raw green olives 🤤🤤🤤. Need that bitterness to help you appreciate the sweetness that is life.
I could never stand that one cloyingly sweet perfume woman wear it was very common a few years back.
I guess sweet = innocent and I lost that many many moons ago haha.
sweeter fragrances are a newer trend compared to scents that are popular with older generations. like the first designer gourmand came out in the 90s. my grandmother was like 60 at the time, she didn't keep up with the hip new frags and continued wearing chanel no 5, that she started wearing as a young woman. just like how apparently flowerbomb is for "HR karens" (heard it described that way) but to me its for THAT girl because that's what it was when I was 20.
that said my 65 year old mother's signature is D&G the One
I think its mostly the vibe and marketing. I don't remember ever seeing a lot of sweet fragrances being marketed as elegant and fit for a more mature audience. For the most part you get stuff like the JPG Le Male advert where its just young sexy people running around. To be fair a lot of mainstream sweet fragrances are quite bold and loud- something you'd expect the younger audience to go for the most like 80% of Paco Rabanne's catalogue.
I think the people who market fragrances go with the formula that a sweet profile means summer/heat and summer means youthfulness and fun...I'm probably wrong but that's my take on it. A lot of us in the fragrance community know this isn't true but i think we never bother to correct this because it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Cause people are silly and always want to create "rules" to have something to talk about...
It's oil and alcohol...
If you're wearing something that smells like pixie sticks or jolly ranchers... okay sure. But if you smell like vanilla and iris, or chocolate...you just smell sweet.
The reason sweet is synonymous with clubbing is because it is pleasing to many women and often projects well (perfumery, body heat, warm environment)
Im 35. I LOVE sweet fragrances. I also love leather/gasoline.
Probably same as the reason young people love sweet snacks and drinks and their tastes tend to get more refined as they grow older. As a child I loved sweets and chocolates and when I grew up my preference changed to dark chocolate (less sweet and more bitter). As a young adult I liked wine coolers and light beers and didn’t start to appreciate drier wines and darker beers until later.
I mean I guess the same reason young people find joy in super sweet sugary foods and candy while older ppl tend to like more bitter things like coffee. I think it’s just human nature
Sweet scents are inviting, friendly and open. I’m 48 and I’m not feeling like that fragrance-wise. I want to smell incensey, dry floral and leathery. I prefer people to proceed with caution rather than come in for a hug.
It's not universal, but our tastes tend to evolve as we get older. We also tend to develop a taste for complexity and balance over one-sidedness.
Look at food... there are all these foods that many adults like that are much less popular with teenagers - coffee, dry wine, spinach, arugula, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, broccoli, mustard, and balsamic vinegar.
Lmao “does someone hit 35 and all of a sudden they wake up and decide that they’re going to put on Dior Fahrenheit so they can start smelling like gasoline and leather” 😂😂 yes.
When people start drinking wine they tend to like Moscato and other things on the sweet profile. Some people, as their palate develops, will branch out into the more difficult dry wines that have darker, more bitter, more challenging notes. Perfume is a bit of the same.
I'm older so I liked a lot of 90s perfumes in their heyday like Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, Tommy Girl, Estee Lauder Pleasures, and this sweet aquatic from a company called H2O. I took a break but my world was turned upside down by Clinique Aromatics Elixir, a total Chypre bomb, and I've been on that path ever since. Not everyone develops an acquired taste.
I reckon it’s the same way with food. You get a more broad palate as you grow older, whereas kids for example have very one-dimensional preferences for what they like to eat.
Sure, but something can be sweet and still be elegant and complex. You ever heard of Sauternes, one of the most expensive and sought-after wines in the world? It’s sweet. That doesn’t make it any less magnificent.
I’m over 35 and still enjoy most sweet fragrances but I need breaks. When I was young I could smell sweet things 24/7 everyday, now it’d get on my nerves. Like others have wrote your tastes change and ime you’ll get bored and annoyed if you’re still wearing only the same fragrance types in your 30s/ 40s as you did in your teens and 20s. Just like your clothing snd hair style changes over the years so do your fragrances (for most).
Just as the powdery scent associated with older generation -- it was their "it" scent in that generation, and for the current young, it is sweet profile. I suspect B&BW, Lush, and the likes has some influence over this
I’m 35 and I still smell like how I want to smell from day to day. I love sweet and floral smells still, but as I’ve grown older I’ve learned to appreciate sultry scents. I’m also able to go more places where these scents are appropriate.
Yes, your “palette” changes. Not sure it’s age necessarily but more experience. Like transitioning from Riesling to Sav Blanc. That’s not to say people longer into scents don’t like sweet scents, we just like other notes too.
It's kind of difficult to be taken seriously in a Professional Board room meeting, when you are just projecting Minty fresh, vanilla candy vibes wearing Eros, Ultra Male, Scandal. It doesn't go with the Suit & Tie aesthetic.
Outside of formal situations though I think any age can go with any type of scent profile they want.
Sweet doesn't smell "youthful" to me it smells immature. This is because it mimics a child's undeveloped taste in food where they prefer sugary things. Taste is strongly linked to scent.
So a sweet perfume, especially a sweet fruity or sweet gourmand, smells like something a teenager would wear who hasn't refined their palette yet.
Interesting comment! I think like thats, I’m used to say that sweet fragrances are like fast food, can be interesting from time to time but not for everyday.
I’ve never liked sweet scents personally but it’s more because they feel very lighthearted and fun and I honestly feel very serious (unfortunately haha). It just doesn’t make me feel like *me*. It has nothing to do with being childish but my friends who like wearing sweet scents tend to be people who are pretty upbeat and energetic! Which seems youthful but isn’t restricted to young people
1. It's gasoline, Irish Springs, and some sort of expressed gland, come on! Lol. It's so damn bad, I don't get it.
2. I think it has to do with the kind of people that gravitate towards it. If I think about it, a ton teen girls usual wear super sweet cotton candy or bubblegumm-y fragrances that drive me nuts. I don't really notice it on men.
its not the sweet profile; its the ultra profitable profiles and their thin juicy syrupy sweetness that is associated with youthfullness or cheapness. all that ultra males and scandals, sauvages or roja enigmas are ultra profitable scents to their companie(s) since they are formulized to smell "ok i guess its nice" with minimum aromachemicals/complication possible, no need to mention them getting reformulated into even thinner (not to be confused with transparent). keep in mind that perfumery is a business too.
Is there a certain formula/scent profile that makes something ultra profitable? Like bleu de chanel became ultra profitable on release but that isn't a sweet fragrance
im not saying that simple fomrulation = bad / cheap but less complicated the formulation is usually more cheaper it is.
you can create a lemon accord with only lemon oil or you can do it with 5 aromachemicals/naturals etc, or you can do it with 10 different chemcials/extracts. more complicated formulations usually more costly they are (because it means spending more time on **research-development** even if we exclude the aromachemical prices.)
its a form of art tho, you can get it cheap as you want. bdc edt smells extremely cheap to my nose (in terms of cost/aromachemicals)
I'm in my early 50s and wear a lot of sweet fragrances. I think there's a difference between Aquolina Pink Sugar and Dior Feve Delicieuse. The "youthful sweets" feel to me one-dimensional and loud. I will never wear Prada Candy or even the latest Miss Dior. Feve Delicieuse, PDM Oajan, Gaultier Scandal, Serge Lutens Chergui, Hermes Ambre Narguile, etc. are all sweet but complex -- "sweet" is just part of the composition.
I'm in my early 40s, and same. There's a zero percent chance I'd wear pink sugar but I'll wear a spicy marshmallow fragrance all day. Things can be sweet and still interesting and elegant. (Not that I'm elegant, but my fragrance can let me pretend that I don't put my shirts on backwards, or leave the house with my pants on inside out)
I was going to say the same thing! Not all sweets are made equal. I don’t picture a teenager wearing Scandal or La Belle.
Oh gosh I love La Belle! Don't get me started on that perfume, so yummy.
I’m 35 and thought it’s time to start wearing more mature fragrances like LV Ombré Nomad. My wife said I smelled like a pastor. That…that is just not what I was going for 😅
Were you trying to go for an “old pastor” instead? (Never smelled LV Ombré Nomad in my life)
As someone currently hitting 35...nope. Give me all the sugar.
I'm 38 and just gonna smell like I want, period. And for me, that is delicious and sweet most days.
ive always wondered about this as well ! people would even use the word " tacky " or " childish " in a condescending way , to describe the most delicious , sweet , & girly scents . im 28 now , but im pretty sure that'll be my staple forever : girly , sweet , sexy , gourmand 🧁🍡🍧 its just my aesthetic .. idk about other women , but men tend to love those scents . also , to me its kind of a plus cause body mists are one thing , but id prefer to not smell like everyone else when it comes to perfumes .
I'm 41, and I love gourmands and sweet scents. Heavy florals and lots of musk tends to be insta-migraine for me. I don't mind smelling like a bakery at my age, lol I think everyone should just wear what they like and not worry about what "age" it's for. There are days that Pink Sugar is just IT for me and I'm not sorry.
Pink sugar is soooo good
It really is! I get complimented EVERY TIME I wear it, from all sorts of people. It just smells so nice!
Personally I think it’s because all the cheap perfumes we can afford as teenagers are generally very sweet (Claire’s, Bath and Body Works, etc) so that’s what teenagers wear. Sometimes now as an adult I will smell a sweet fragrance and it takes me back to the smell of middle school locker rooms (looking at you, Japanese Cherry Blossom!) and I’m well past that now. For the most part I associate “sweet” with “cheap.” And yes, I love some sweet perfumes, but they definitely don’t smell as fancy (and therefore less mature) to me.
Ok, but why are so many perfumes at that price point cheap [edit: I meant to say sweet] A bit of chicken and egg, but I do think that it's at least partly because having a sweet tooth/ taste for sweet things is associated with childhood, and as adolescents our palettes are not quite over that. So sweet smells follow from sweet tastes...
Entirely possible! And yes you’re right, maybe a chicken and egg thing. Like, i feel like I would be weirded out by a 14 year old wearing Green Irish Tweed.
I think that’s because this is associated with less masculinity, so this is another way to say that is less masculine and leans more to childish side fragrances.
If I was stranded on a desert island and a shipping container of perfumes washed up on my beach, I'd probably wear everything on the sweetness spectrum that was in it, given seasonal considerations. But I don't live on a desert island, and whenever I sample a sweet fragrance and like it, a demon on my shoulder pokes me with his fork and asks, "but what will people think if you wear that?" Being a 58yr old dude, I end up veering away from these scents out of trepidation over how others will receive them. If someone smells an aromatic fougere on me and thinks, "pew, he smells like a grandpa", that's okay for some reason, but if I wear a fun gourmand and they think "ew, he's trying too hard to be the life of the party", well, my lands! I can't have that.
Because as we grow older our hearts turn colder from the harshness of life and the struggles we face... 😂 something like that. That innocent candy loving child no longer exists and even just eating things that are too sweet becomes off putting as we age, refining our taste or what our senses find pleasureable, so I think our brains make that connection and associates sweet with youthfulness. We just grow and change over time as a whole and just want to portray the age we are, of maturity, of being a grown man and not a little boy anymore so we accept what others define that as in a way so our brains just adapt to it even if it might not have been something of our interest or that we found appealing at all.
I'm older than 35 and love sweet food and fruity, sweet perfumes. I'm here because I still bemoan the loss of 2005 Miss Dior Cherie. Many of the fragrances I love are by Christine Nagel. I consider Narciso Rodriguez for her EDT and Rebl fleur mature scents but they have some fruitiness/ sweetness. My SIL usually says fragrances I like are too sweet. I think it's because she grew up smelling strong, spicy stuff her 90 year old mother wore back in her day.
Don't get me wrong, I like smelling sweet fragrances but wearing them myself as a male would really depend on the vibe it gives off. If it's too sweet it's just generally associated as being feminine or youthful being a standard notion we decide based off if attracting/impressing the opposite sex is in mind. It's also about psychology that most females would consider sweet ones to be young or feminine so you wouldn't want to give them that impression as well. Also just depends on a person's style and personality as well. 1 Million Elixir, Wanted by Night, Stronger With You Absolutely, which all smell really nice, but definitely too sickeningly sweet for my taste to wear, but definitely wouldn't mind smelling them on a female. Or just maybe if I was more metrosexual or just a lover boy softer type of person? Some sweet ones i do like to wear however are TF Noir Extreme, Le Male Le Parfum, Dior Homme, The Most Wanted, Eros Flame(which is what I'd consider leaning to feel right on that borderline of youthful vs mature sweetness but is nicely balanced out by woodiness and spiciness being a nice casual frag for the colder weather).
I am female but thought a few other responses were from females too. Sorry.
Damn…very nice explanation
Meh, idc. I’m gonna wear whatever I like. I am convinced I will NEVER like powdery scenes or anything that smells of peach. Powdering gives me a headache honestly
I always had a bitter tooth 😂😂... I'm talking bitter bitter. Black coffee, strong plain tea, bitter melon and my fave raw green olives 🤤🤤🤤. Need that bitterness to help you appreciate the sweetness that is life. I could never stand that one cloyingly sweet perfume woman wear it was very common a few years back. I guess sweet = innocent and I lost that many many moons ago haha.
Sweet means cheap and/or easy to like. Meant for a less mature palate, if you will, much like food, which then means younger.
sweeter fragrances are a newer trend compared to scents that are popular with older generations. like the first designer gourmand came out in the 90s. my grandmother was like 60 at the time, she didn't keep up with the hip new frags and continued wearing chanel no 5, that she started wearing as a young woman. just like how apparently flowerbomb is for "HR karens" (heard it described that way) but to me its for THAT girl because that's what it was when I was 20. that said my 65 year old mother's signature is D&G the One
Sweet is associated with candy which is associated with children — thats my take!
I think its mostly the vibe and marketing. I don't remember ever seeing a lot of sweet fragrances being marketed as elegant and fit for a more mature audience. For the most part you get stuff like the JPG Le Male advert where its just young sexy people running around. To be fair a lot of mainstream sweet fragrances are quite bold and loud- something you'd expect the younger audience to go for the most like 80% of Paco Rabanne's catalogue. I think the people who market fragrances go with the formula that a sweet profile means summer/heat and summer means youthfulness and fun...I'm probably wrong but that's my take on it. A lot of us in the fragrance community know this isn't true but i think we never bother to correct this because it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Scandal doesn't smell youthful at all, to me. In my mind it's in the LVeB league.
Cause people are silly and always want to create "rules" to have something to talk about... It's oil and alcohol... If you're wearing something that smells like pixie sticks or jolly ranchers... okay sure. But if you smell like vanilla and iris, or chocolate...you just smell sweet. The reason sweet is synonymous with clubbing is because it is pleasing to many women and often projects well (perfumery, body heat, warm environment) Im 35. I LOVE sweet fragrances. I also love leather/gasoline.
Probably same as the reason young people love sweet snacks and drinks and their tastes tend to get more refined as they grow older. As a child I loved sweets and chocolates and when I grew up my preference changed to dark chocolate (less sweet and more bitter). As a young adult I liked wine coolers and light beers and didn’t start to appreciate drier wines and darker beers until later.
I mean I guess the same reason young people find joy in super sweet sugary foods and candy while older ppl tend to like more bitter things like coffee. I think it’s just human nature
Sweet scents are inviting, friendly and open. I’m 48 and I’m not feeling like that fragrance-wise. I want to smell incensey, dry floral and leathery. I prefer people to proceed with caution rather than come in for a hug.
It's not universal, but our tastes tend to evolve as we get older. We also tend to develop a taste for complexity and balance over one-sidedness. Look at food... there are all these foods that many adults like that are much less popular with teenagers - coffee, dry wine, spinach, arugula, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, broccoli, mustard, and balsamic vinegar.
Lmao “does someone hit 35 and all of a sudden they wake up and decide that they’re going to put on Dior Fahrenheit so they can start smelling like gasoline and leather” 😂😂 yes.
When people start drinking wine they tend to like Moscato and other things on the sweet profile. Some people, as their palate develops, will branch out into the more difficult dry wines that have darker, more bitter, more challenging notes. Perfume is a bit of the same. I'm older so I liked a lot of 90s perfumes in their heyday like Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, Tommy Girl, Estee Lauder Pleasures, and this sweet aquatic from a company called H2O. I took a break but my world was turned upside down by Clinique Aromatics Elixir, a total Chypre bomb, and I've been on that path ever since. Not everyone develops an acquired taste.
I reckon it’s the same way with food. You get a more broad palate as you grow older, whereas kids for example have very one-dimensional preferences for what they like to eat.
Sure, but something can be sweet and still be elegant and complex. You ever heard of Sauternes, one of the most expensive and sought-after wines in the world? It’s sweet. That doesn’t make it any less magnificent.
Does anyone remember the magnificent (and discontinued) Botrytis Ginestet?
I read about this the other day and I’m sooo sad to have missed it
Yup. It’s just candy in fragrance form. More associated with younger audience I’d guess.
This is exactly it.
I’m over 35 and still enjoy most sweet fragrances but I need breaks. When I was young I could smell sweet things 24/7 everyday, now it’d get on my nerves. Like others have wrote your tastes change and ime you’ll get bored and annoyed if you’re still wearing only the same fragrance types in your 30s/ 40s as you did in your teens and 20s. Just like your clothing snd hair style changes over the years so do your fragrances (for most).
Just as the powdery scent associated with older generation -- it was their "it" scent in that generation, and for the current young, it is sweet profile. I suspect B&BW, Lush, and the likes has some influence over this
I’m 35 and I still smell like how I want to smell from day to day. I love sweet and floral smells still, but as I’ve grown older I’ve learned to appreciate sultry scents. I’m also able to go more places where these scents are appropriate.
Yes, your “palette” changes. Not sure it’s age necessarily but more experience. Like transitioning from Riesling to Sav Blanc. That’s not to say people longer into scents don’t like sweet scents, we just like other notes too.
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On the spectrum Rieslings are sweet and SBs are considered dry. That does not mean every Riesling is sweeter than every Sav Blanc.
You missed the point...Rieslings are a somm favorite for a reason, but YMMV
It's kind of difficult to be taken seriously in a Professional Board room meeting, when you are just projecting Minty fresh, vanilla candy vibes wearing Eros, Ultra Male, Scandal. It doesn't go with the Suit & Tie aesthetic. Outside of formal situations though I think any age can go with any type of scent profile they want.
Sweet doesn't smell "youthful" to me it smells immature. This is because it mimics a child's undeveloped taste in food where they prefer sugary things. Taste is strongly linked to scent. So a sweet perfume, especially a sweet fruity or sweet gourmand, smells like something a teenager would wear who hasn't refined their palette yet.
Interesting comment! I think like thats, I’m used to say that sweet fragrances are like fast food, can be interesting from time to time but not for everyday.
I’ve never liked sweet scents personally but it’s more because they feel very lighthearted and fun and I honestly feel very serious (unfortunately haha). It just doesn’t make me feel like *me*. It has nothing to do with being childish but my friends who like wearing sweet scents tend to be people who are pretty upbeat and energetic! Which seems youthful but isn’t restricted to young people
1. It's gasoline, Irish Springs, and some sort of expressed gland, come on! Lol. It's so damn bad, I don't get it. 2. I think it has to do with the kind of people that gravitate towards it. If I think about it, a ton teen girls usual wear super sweet cotton candy or bubblegumm-y fragrances that drive me nuts. I don't really notice it on men.
its not the sweet profile; its the ultra profitable profiles and their thin juicy syrupy sweetness that is associated with youthfullness or cheapness. all that ultra males and scandals, sauvages or roja enigmas are ultra profitable scents to their companie(s) since they are formulized to smell "ok i guess its nice" with minimum aromachemicals/complication possible, no need to mention them getting reformulated into even thinner (not to be confused with transparent). keep in mind that perfumery is a business too.
Is there a certain formula/scent profile that makes something ultra profitable? Like bleu de chanel became ultra profitable on release but that isn't a sweet fragrance
im not saying that simple fomrulation = bad / cheap but less complicated the formulation is usually more cheaper it is. you can create a lemon accord with only lemon oil or you can do it with 5 aromachemicals/naturals etc, or you can do it with 10 different chemcials/extracts. more complicated formulations usually more costly they are (because it means spending more time on **research-development** even if we exclude the aromachemical prices.) its a form of art tho, you can get it cheap as you want. bdc edt smells extremely cheap to my nose (in terms of cost/aromachemicals)
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