And no shade to anyone who still uses it, of course. I’m just personally going to stop using it. It’s been a tremendously helpful site that I used for a while, ever since a friend recommended it to me, and I’m glad i had it at all, i would never have mastered and memorized so many formulas and notes without it, but as of now, i’m going to be deleting my account and switching to something new. The main reasons stem from a few things, the main one being that I feel like a huge portion of the community is quite toxic, and another really kind of… unserious if you understand what i mean? There’s nothing wrong with humor and fun, perfume enthusiasts shouldn’t be a bunch of snobby stiffs 😭, but it feels like there’s more trolling and juvenile internet humor that’s taking it over. Also i don’t think the note breakdowns are all that accurate. They’re not off the walls wrong, but because the notes are voted by community and put in, without any real verification on accuracy, it can end up risking misinformation or getting the wrong thing, which I call the Wikipedia risk. If you want a good example of this, go to the note breakdown for Club de Nuit Bling. Enough said. Another reason as to why I’m not using this, and I say this carefully, and you’ll see why… is because of their stances. Now, I have no issue with people having their own political beliefs, including ones I might not align with, or ones that I do. Everyone does, we all have our own agreements and disagreements, and it’s fine. But Fragrantica, as well as their admins and users have been getting a bit politically outspoken, and those statements are mixing into the community on there. Not even just that, they’ve began to block or filter out opinions they don’t like or agree with. Now while I don’t entirely like the idea of just unchecked political opinions being strewn about, on either side, if you’re going to start suppressing one side of opinions, do so to the other side. Politics do not belong in a hobby like this. Period.

You start off with just a scent. Then you start smelling more and more and realizing how they make you feel. How long they last. What time of year or time of day you prefer a particular scent. Or simply “What am I in the mood for today?” Next thing you know you’re talking to your significant other (Wife in my case) and you start to share the passion. You shop together you buy together and next thing you know you both have a pretty nice collection. I realized a while ago that my collection is large enough that keeping all the bottles together in a place that would make it easy to test, grab and use has gotten to the point where it can’t happen easily and if you don’t wear the scent why own it? I decided about 6 months ago to make my own decants for all my scents this way they can be in my closet so when I’m dressing in the morning I don’t have to go to the basement to “Figure out” what I’m wearing. Today I decided to reorganize them into seasons to accomplish a couple of things. 1) see what seasons are lacking in the collection 2) make things a bit more organized so I don’t have to sift through winter scents trying to find the one I wanted on a warm day. This is what I came up with today The worst thing (in my opinion) is to have scents that were bottle worthy and not at least make it easy to enjoy them even if it’s just a quick spray to remember why you fell in love with it.