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April 28th: Live with James Lawley (GentZ)! šŸŽ™ļø
Get ready, gents! We have a very special guest joining us for our April 28th LIVE call. @James Lawley (GentZ) — founder of Gentlemen's Collective and a man who's built something real from the ground up — is coming on to share his story. How he got started, what he learned along the way, and how leveling up your style is really about leveling up yourself. Whether you're just starting your style journey or you've been in the game for years, this is going to be a conversation that hits. Laid-back, honest, and packed with value. šŸ“… The Details - Event: Style, Confidence & the Come-Up — Live with James Lawley - Special Guest: @James Lawley (GentZ) - When: Tuesday, April 28th - Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Central US - Meeting Link: Click here to join the call - Drop your questions in the comments below — I want to make sure we cover what matters most to YOU. Let's pack this call and show @James Lawley what this community is all about. See you Tuesday! šŸš€āœØ
April 28th: Live with James Lawley (GentZ)! šŸŽ™ļø
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Talk, talk, talk-talk-talk! (re-up'd)
Hey guys, Joe A. here with another one for ya’! Lemme ask y’all something… is ā€œFragTalkā€ helping the hobby, or is it slowly turning the whole thing into a loud, overhyped circus where everybody’s chasing the same five buzzwords? Beast mode. Compliment puller. Nuclear. Panty dropper. Blind buy worthy. Somewhere along the way, parts of this hobby started feeling less like appreciation and more like a fantasy football draft for fragrance addicts. So today, I’m throwin’ out a few hard truths that might ruffle a few atomizers! First up, the beast mode obsession is absolutely costing people money. Brands know good and well that if they slap ā€œExtraitā€ or ā€œElixirā€ on a bottle, crank up the loud woods, musks and ambroxan, folks will line up like it’s the second coming of scent. And sure, performance matters… but since when did subtlety become a crime? Not every fragrance needs to last 19 hours, kick down the door and announce itself like a pro wrestler entering WrestleMania. Sometimes the beauty is in the nuance, not in choking out your coworkers by lunch! Then there’s the paper strip nonsense. Some folks smell the opening for thirty seconds at the mall and walk out with a full bottle like they just found their signature scent. Nah, brother, that’s not the fragrance, that’s the handshake. The drydown is the real conversation. If it hasn’t sat on your skin for a few hours, gone through the heat, settled into the base and shown you what it’s really about, then all you bought was the best behavior version of that scent. That’s fragrance speed dating, not a relationship!! And while we’re here, let’s be honest about something else: buying is not the hobby. Learning, smelling, comparing, wearing, experiencing and understanding fragrance… that’s the hobby. Constantly hitting ā€œadd to cartā€ every time TikTok starts foaming at the mouth over a new release? That’s just shopping with a fancy excuse. If you’ve got enough juice on your shelf to outlive your mortgage (guilty!!), it might be time to ask whether you love fragrance… or just love the rush of the next package hitting the porch!
Talk, talk, talk-talk-talk! (re-up'd)
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šŸŽ­ Niche Royalty: Moresque, Merchant of Venice & Gritti Up to 62% Off
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Some new Pick-ups
Thanks to @Ben E and a split, I am now the owner of 10ml of the new Louis Vuitton: Ambre Levant, pretty excited to wear this. Sephora now has Borntostandout and I picked up a traveler of this sweet/musky scent. This is probably all I will need. It’s unique and weird so I will have to wear for special occasions, but it’s pretty good. I will give updates after full wears. Stay smelling good my brothers.
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Give me your BIGGEST FRAGRANCE HOT TAKES
And i don’t just mean boring generic ones like ā€œPerformance is importantā€, I mean like your smoking hot takes on this. Start off simple, and as they go on, they get progressively hotter. Be respectful, but also don’t hold back! This is a safe space, and we all respect the subjectivity of this hobby :) I’ll go first. 1- Parfums de Marly is a highly overrated house, and not worthy of the true niche title to me. I might be a bit of a Charlatan for saying this, and i’m aware that the term niche can apply to a lot of fragrance houses, but as i’ve really done my research and understood it better, i’ve realized the quality isn’t there, compared to other niche brands like Roja and Clive Christian. You’re paying absurd amounts of money for something that smells designer in quality. Theres no doubt that they’re still great scents, but to me personally, pale in comparison to brands like Diptyque and Le Labo. 2- Synthetics aren’t bad… but blending determines quality. Now, considering the knowledge and wisdom here, most of you probably already know that, but hey, i need to admit that i didn’t realize this sooner. A lot of ingredients in affordable fragrances are synthetic aromachemicals. And that’s not a bad thing. They improve performance, add room for unique notes or experimental ideas, and also cut costs. The difference between good and bad synthetics is the quality of chemicals used, and the way they’re blended. Compare Mancera to Diptyque. Mancera is a performance beast house, but to me personally, a lot of their scents, especially in the openings aren’t the best blended, especially scents like Red Tobacco. Drydowns are good on a lot of them, but the blend quality is still there. Then compare it to a house like Diptyque. They might not be as loud as Mancera, but a lot of people wouldn’t even be able to guess they use synthetics in their fragrances. It’s because of how well blended the scents and ingredients are. The key for me is, every brand uses synthetics, what separates the good from the bad is how detectable those synthetics are.
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