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Originally Posted by G.303 the one fragrance that I cannot stand is......Joop Pour Homme Ooh good one! A real stinker.

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Mine would have to be all the fragrances that have Calone/methylbenzodioxepinone (Cool Water, Acqua di Gio, etc.). I'm sure that there are other guilty compounds that are in my most hated dry/metallic note, but that's the only one I've been able to identify just yet. That note is so cloying and lacks originality. I wish that perfumers would stop using it. It's refreshing to find houses that don't use it (mainly niche from what I've found so far).

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ooooo - Calone - that might be my nemesis note too! (haven't - knowingly - smelled cool water or AdG, but there is a note i think is aquatic that is in many scents of the past decade or so that i SO can't abide...)
patchouli is another peeve note for me, unless it's extremely well done. EG, patchouli leaves is a note where it's well done. much to my frustration, fumerie turque is not.
anyway, scents that have made me cringe or quagg (FT has only annoyed me...):
a*men
anvers
l'anarchiste (which i STILL insist smells common. (in that it has notes in common with a half dozen generic functional frags that assault you as you walk down any drugstore toiletry aisle). i think it actually has calone...??? if it did smell like a dumpster of rotting orange peels, as it's been described, but which is not why i dislike it, i'm sure i'd love it)
knize ten (as much as i'd like to like it....just can't)
L'Eau de Navegateur

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Joop Jump
Habit Rouge (edc, edt)
Dior Higher
Tuscany
Gris Clair
Maroc Rose
Lonestar M
Versace (too many)
Aramis Men
Iquitos
...could go on, 10 up, must stop.

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So that's a note? I thought it was some kind of preservative or projection agent or something. Why is it listed in the ingredients rather than subsumed under "fragrance"?
Originally Posted by linnea Mine would have to be all the fragrances that have Calone/methylbenzodioxepinone (Cool Water, Acqua di Gio, etc.). I'm sure that there are other guilty compounds that are in my most hated dry/metallic note, but that's the only one I've been able to identify just yet. That note is so cloying and lacks originality. I wish that perfumers would stop using it. It's refreshing to find houses that don't use it (mainly niche from what I've found so far).

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Davidoff by Davidoff
Dali Pour (torturer un) Homme
Fahrenheit
Joop! Pour (tuer un) Homme

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Originally Posted by rach2jlc Thanks, Thrax, for a FUN thread idea. It's always neat to see how one man's Holy Grail is another man's Old Spice. OLd Spice? For some of us that smelled like the nicer side of the Iron Curtain! I still hold on to that bottle. Maybe I should renew it.
Piguet Fracas Homme (I liked it at first, but after a month or two, I can hardly stand it. I also think it's COMPLETELY mismarketed with the cheapest packaging imaginable). I fully agree on the latter part. Scentwise I consider it, not Bandit, a real masterpiece. The remake of Bandit however is a sad disasterpiece compared to the old version (or how I remember it).

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Jicky
Gaultier2
Green Irish Tweed
Habit Rouge
Allure Sensuelle
LesNez L'Antimatiere
Intuition for Men
L'Homme Yves Saint Laurent
Couldn't think of more, but these really don't do it for me.

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Jicky (icky-poo)
Gaultier2 (vanilla overdose mixed with industrial waste)
Gaultier Le Male (more vanilla and industrial muck, with extra bitterness)
Yatagan (celery soup with chunks of bloody meat)
L'Homme YSL (bathroom cleaner)
YSL Kouros (eau de urinal)
Goutal Vetiver (acrid and harsh)
Joop in any form (simply vile)
A*Men (cooking chocolate with tar and chemicals)
L'Eau Bleue D'Issey pour Homme (toxic cocktail)

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Originally Posted by narcus OLd Spice? For some of us that smelled like the nicer side of the Iron Curtain! I still hold on to that bottle. Maybe I should renew it. No offense to Old Spice; I was just looking for something to round out the metaphor (we say "one man's junk is another man's treasure" but I was just trying to connect that to fragrances.)