Versace Man Eau Fraiche

“> what makes a fragrance "good?" A combination of how good it smells, longevity, sillage, the blending of ingredients, whether it smells natural or synthetic, price. > I ask this is like, what separates the expensive stuff from the "cheap" stuff? Generally, expensive fragrances use more natural ingredients and are better blended. They also typically use more unique fragrance notes. This matters a bit less, but expensive fragrances also tend to have better atomizers and nicer looking bottles. > I recently went to Ulta and smelled Good Girl Blush by Carolina Herrera which smelled amazing to me, but what makes it worth that incredibly steep 100$ price tag? is it just the fragrance, staying power, or smthg else? The more you get into fragrances, you'll see that $100 is actually not that bad lol. Most niche fragrances are $150 minimum. A lot of the price tag comes from brand name. Fragrances are luxury items, so companies charge what they know people will pay for them. > How do you guys distinguish what the hell you're smelling? The store employees were telling me about undertone, notes, and hints, but I don't know what that means. Lol. Fragrances have top notes, middle notes, and base notes. The "opening" (when you first spray the fragrance) is the top notes. After about 5-15 minutes you'll mostly start smelling the middle notes, which fade after 2-3 hours. At that point you're just smelling the base notes. Some fragrances are more linear, meaning they smell mostly the same the entire time.. A fragrance with *only* base notes would be a linear fragrance. Cheaper fragrances tend to be easier to pick out specific notes. But with niche perfumes that are better blended, it can be hard to really tell what you're even smelling. In general that's a good thing, and can indicate a higher quality fragrance. > what's the meaning of and difference between EDPs and Elixers? Fragrances are made up of perfume oil and alcohol, with EDT, EDP, etc indicating the concentration. The most common ones (from low to high concentration) are Eau Fraiche, Eau de Cologne, Eau de Toilette, Eau de Parfum, Parfum (sometimes called Extrait or Elixir). *Typically*, higher concentration fragrances last longer, but there's exceptions to this. > also would people recommend spray or roller perfumes? Spray lol. Roller perfumes just feel like deodorant to me personally. > how much of a perfume should you get the first time you buy it? do people actually go through a whole ~3 oz? 100 mL bottles are standard, although 50 mL is plently for most fragrances (especially ones that only need like 2 sprays to fill a room). 100 mL is roughly 1,200 sprays, so it'll take you a while to go through one full bottle.”