I was checking out fragrancenet because I’m really wanting to add Sedley to my collection. The first thing I noticed is that the website has gotten an overhaul. Pretty cool and easier to navigate in my opinion. The second thing I noticed is that the prices seem to be higher than they were when I ordered Mancera Intense Cedrat Boise, Mancera Cosmic Pepper and Missoni Wave less than 2 weeks ago. Has anyone else noticed this?

The more I look at the fragrance market, the more I believe clones are not the only issue. People love blaming clone houses, but designer and niche brands do their own version of recycling ideas too. They just package it better, charge more, and call it luxury. Sometimes it is the same scent profile being repeated. Sometimes it is the same perfumer using a similar style for different houses. Sometimes it is a successful DNA getting copied, twisted, polished, and resold at a much higher price. Look at Baccarat Rouge 540. That airy saffron, amberwood, sweet-musky, almost cotton-candy mineral DNA became one of the most copied fragrance profiles in modern perfumery. After BR540 blew up, we started seeing that same general direction everywhere — from niche to designer to celebrity scents. Ariana Grande Cloud, Burberry Her, Zara Red Temptation, and many others get brought up because they live in that same sweet, airy amber world. Then you have the Aventus-style lane. Creed Aventus became so successful that pineapple, bergamot, smoky woods, musk, and oakmoss became its own market. After that, you had fragrances like Montblanc Explorer, Mancera Cedrat Boise, and Nishane Hacivat constantly being compared to Aventus. Some are not true clones, but they are clearly in the same successful masculine fresh-fruity-woody lane. Another example is Ganymede and Bois Impérial. Both are by Quentin Bisch, and while they are not the same fragrance, they share that modern mineral, woody, airy, slightly metallic style. Ganymede is more abstract, saffron-mineral, leathery, and niche. Bois Impérial is more affordable, fresh, woody, and aromatic. But you can smell the perfumer’s creative fingerprint. You also see it with Delina and Atomic Rose. Delina made that tart fruity rose style huge — lychee, rhubarb, rose, musk, vanilla, and woods. Atomic Rose is not the same scent, but it lives in that same loud, modern, powerful rose category. Once a DNA works, the market keeps circling around it.

Wanted to wear this for a while now. The weather is col ish today so perfect excuse. Hopefully i add it to my collection before the year ends. Top tier fragrance.

Good day gentlemen. I decided on this today. Nice easy blue fragrances. Nothing special. Out an easy wearing fragrance. Seaweed gives it something a bit different. Not a very good performer.

Yesterday was a travel day. Three hours on a plane and 4 hours in the car to get to the Grand Canyon. I wanted something light that would still hold up to travel. Dual is a light citrus woody combo. It opens with lemon and ginger for a sparkly, refreshing wake-up. It dries down into cedar wood and pink pepper with an amber backbone. It almost feels like wearing two distinct fragrances. It stays fairly close to the skin, and lasted for the best part of the day. Once we got settled in at the hotel, our family gathered for dinner. I switched over to Naxos. It’s been a while since I’ve worn this, and it was a bi reminder of why it’s so revered.