Great video! As a teen, I liked Brut after-shave. It was my dad's go-to. When I got older, I was trying higher-tier fragrances like Drakkar Noir. For the last 7-8 years, I've settled on English Laundry's line of fragrances. They have a substantial roster that covers parfum, EDP, and EDT. They have never produced anything of lesser concentration and all of their fragrances are fairly complex but always distinctive. Great value for the price point!
Great video. I like to shop at all levels of the hierarchy except bootleg. To complete your chart, you need one more level encompassing all the Arabian fragrances that are increasingly gaining popularity. These scents are often near duplicates of artisanal and fragrance house perfumes. However, instead of costing $200 to $500+, they typically cost between $30 and $100. Lattafa, Armaf, Al Haramain, Rasasi, and Maison Alhambra are some brands that come to mind. Some of their fragrances are unique and not inspired by existing scents (so not all of these companies' products are duplicates of high-end fragrances). I don't know where to put these fragrances on the hierarchy. They cost around the same as higher-tier drugstore perfumes and lower-tier celebrity fragrances but perform (long-lasting, strong projection, excellent sillage) close to the highest-tier scents. Maybe some of the other viewers can chime in and give their thoughts...
Agreed- many are higher end dupes, but even those are likely to be interestingly varied from the original. They are a mix of Dupe and Fragrance House - and if you like fancy bottles, they excell at those.
They work by more or less contracting the same fragrance manufacturers that the niche/designer houses use and hire the same master perfumers. The DNA of a fragrance is very easy to get right and that's why they smell about 85% similar usually, but the underlying notes and unique bases are harder to copy. They are also usually manufactured for each order rather than created in bulk and macerated, therefore they can smell off for a couple weeks/months until macerated.
@@GrandDuchessKuromi America and Western Europe, to the point that popular clones, Liquid Brun for ex. has sold out multiple times. Some clone fragrances, like 9PM, even have cheaper/bootleg clones.
I just bought my first top tier fragrance, a acqua di parma Quercia. My dad used to wear that fragrance when I was younger, so it has a special place in my heart, and lots of memories tied to it
Hi. Thanks for making this video. Cheapies well done are London from Burberry, Laliqué Pour Homme EDP and Zino from Davidoff. Great sniffings, Dominik Mauer.
Sure! I'd love to see a video on the cheap stuff, especially on a historical level. I'm old enough to fondly remember men wearing Bylcreem in their hair and drug store fragrances on their bodies.
I am too but sometimes the passage of time can make things seem better than they actually were. Like, I’m sure some luxury cars from the 1980s seemed really awesome at the time but if you were to go back and drive a top end Mercedes from 1982, it would seem very basic now. People didn’t have the massive choice in products pre-1990 as they do now. I remember Polo green from the late 80’s and I remember the scent being heavenly, smelling rich and expensive. Revisiting it now…? It’s okay but synthetic. Anyway, nothing wrong with less expensive options but I do believe that time does help inflate the actual appeal of products from way back when.
Great video. Thank you. Would love to see a video on GG’s favorite drugstore fragrances. I’m an old school (and older) guy, so I use drugstore fragrances, almost exclusively. If Drugstore Fragrances were good enough for the Golden Age of Menswear - and good enough for my father and grandfather- they are good enough for many of us. I am with Preston about Aqua Velva Ice Blue. A great summer go to. Thanks again.
Years ago I once bought "Bentley for men intense", at a drugstore. Considering the name, would put it in "celebrity" fragrances because of the association with the car brand. And yet, even though it was only 30 CHF for a bottle, it is among my best performing fragrances. Thats what I like, and thats what I hate about the lower levels of that pyramid: You never know what you may get.
Big subject, have gotten into scents in the last year, mostly niche. I Like Histoires de Parfums 1899, some of the Parfums de Marly and lately the house of Amouage OMG!! top shelf!
@@gentlemansgazette 1899 Ernest Hemingway is an easy wear good for many social occasions,. Parfums de Marly vary something like Carlisle works for, say going the theatre. The Amouage ones are completely different being from mid-east Oman so complex that I wear and enjoy them at home for relaxing/contemplating they are unlike European perfumes I needed to understand them to enjoy
Ive got a few David Beckham fragrances. Yes, I can vouch fir the cheapnest of materials. But I really like tge scent profile of his first David Beckham Instinct. I just have to spray it 30 times.
I think of artisanal as being fragrance houses that especially emphasize craft, rare ingredients, and and an exceptional wearing experience. That is of course a subjective assessment, so it isn't as objective as the distinction between some of the other tiers.
Who needs a pricy celebrity-endorsed fragrance when I can use good old Brut or Old Spice and smell like my dad and grandfathers? They were/are the real gentleman influencers in my life. …although the Raphael and the guys rank high up there ;)
Any Dior is Designer. No matter what celebrities are frontmen, pitchmen, etc. for their products. And Dior is an upper-tier, highly respected designer.
@ I’m from the hood, so I only know that it smells good 🤣 I packed my Hubby’s bags for a solo weekend trip to see family and I packed his Dolce Gabbana- no Sauvage without me! 🤣🤣🤣 @JT-rx1eo thanks for the response.
I like Old Spice and I remember their slogan “If your grandfather hadn’t worn it, you wouldn’t exist” 😁. While I like it, it does smell a little synthetic which is totally okay considering its history in the market and low price point. But depending on the person, I feel like the scent tends not to last very long (I believe it is classified as cologne, so that should be partially expected due to the lower concentration of aromatics), and it can transform quite a bit (it isn’t as stable) from person to person based on body/skin chemistry. For a scent that is under $20, it smells clean, soapy, and has a lower chance of irritating others around you who don’t react well to fragrances. It’s “office safe” as they say. I wear Creed’s Viking Eau De Parfum (in the red bottle, not orange, that fragrance is a flanker and smells totally different and is a cologne). It is very much like Old Spice, but smells higher quality and lasts much longer. The best analogy for the similarity between Old Spice and Creed Viking is to compare a candy grape flavor to the actual taste of a real concord 🍇 grape. They both have their place and time, but there is a clear distinction as one is artificial and the other natural.
I replace the term "drugstore" with "toiletry". And I do not in any way consider dupes/clones drugstore/toiletry fragrances. Wrong category for me. Drugstore/toiletry for me, for example, is Old Spice Aftershave or cologne, Pinaud, Phoenix Shaving, etc. Clone or dupe houses are like Dua Fragrances, ScentualObsessions, etc. Two completely different classifications in fragrance market or type taxonomy, for me.
Creed is weak and extremely overpriced. It's like EDC now, maybe they used to be better quality before but now they are just selling based on their previous reputation. I'm surprised you put them in the top tier, if you have tried them in the last year. I went to one of their stores and sampled several, they lasted about 15 minutes and smell nice. Maybe worth $100 like a regular designer brand. But they are very weak concentration. You can buy high quality clones of them that last all day for much less money. I would recommend Parfums Vintage for around $100 for any fragrance by Creed. They are very high quality and last much longer than the real Creed at a great value. I love Diptyque too, they are very high quality, last long, and are a fair price for the quality you are getting. I would also mention Guerlain a niche house, that sells at a very affordable price but everything they make is very high quality and artistic, I own several of their scents.
Here’s the easiest way for a guy to buy any fragrance. Bring a woman to select it for you. Spray it on you. Wait a bit. Ask the woman if she likes it. Men should never buy fragrances for themselves. It is for the other person.
Skin Bracer is my go to because I enjoy the smell and also because the 'by Mennen' jingle has been living rent free in my head since I was five.
Thanks, now it's in my head... AGAIN! 😆
Great video! As a teen, I liked Brut after-shave. It was my dad's go-to. When I got older, I was trying higher-tier fragrances like Drakkar Noir. For the last 7-8 years, I've settled on English Laundry's line of fragrances. They have a substantial roster that covers parfum, EDP, and EDT. They have never produced anything of lesser concentration and all of their fragrances are fairly complex but always distinctive. Great value for the price point!
Kyle is the best!! I love his narration. And yes please to that low cost fragrance guide!
I would like to see a low cost fragrance list as well!
He's wearing a great suit too. Amazing host.
Great video. I like to shop at all levels of the hierarchy except bootleg. To complete your chart, you need one more level encompassing all the Arabian fragrances that are increasingly gaining popularity. These scents are often near duplicates of artisanal and fragrance house perfumes. However, instead of costing $200 to $500+, they typically cost between $30 and $100. Lattafa, Armaf, Al Haramain, Rasasi, and Maison Alhambra are some brands that come to mind. Some of their fragrances are unique and not inspired by existing scents (so not all of these companies' products are duplicates of high-end fragrances). I don't know where to put these fragrances on the hierarchy. They cost around the same as higher-tier drugstore perfumes and lower-tier celebrity fragrances but perform (long-lasting, strong projection, excellent sillage) close to the highest-tier scents. Maybe some of the other viewers can chime in and give their thoughts...
Agreed- many are higher end dupes, but even those are likely to be interestingly varied from the original. They are a mix of Dupe and Fragrance House - and if you like fancy bottles, they excell at those.
The Arabian fragrance are gaining popularity in which countries?
They work by more or less contracting the same fragrance manufacturers that the niche/designer houses use and hire the same master perfumers. The DNA of a fragrance is very easy to get right and that's why they smell about 85% similar usually, but the underlying notes and unique bases are harder to copy. They are also usually manufactured for each order rather than created in bulk and macerated, therefore they can smell off for a couple weeks/months until macerated.
@@GrandDuchessKuromi America and Western Europe, to the point that popular clones, Liquid Brun for ex. has sold out multiple times. Some clone fragrances, like 9PM, even have cheaper/bootleg clones.
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Thank you for your recommendation. I will try it.
I just bought my first top tier fragrance, a acqua di parma Quercia. My dad used to wear that fragrance when I was younger, so it has a special place in my heart, and lots of memories tied to it
My recent favorite is Dandy by Penhaligons. Not cheap, but long lasting and perfect to some fancy outfits.
Very nice! It's a new one for 2024?
I’m 35 and I’ve never really gotten into cologne. Maybe I should start.
Never too late to start!
Go for it!
Hi. Thanks for making this video. Cheapies well done are London from Burberry, Laliqué Pour Homme EDP and Zino from Davidoff. Great sniffings, Dominik Mauer.
Great to hear your selection, thank you!
I’ll buy some vintage scents like Brut,Old Spice and Pinaud its a trip down memory lane
Excellent point and a trip down memory lane is priceless!
Sure! I'd love to see a video on the cheap stuff, especially on a historical level. I'm old enough to fondly remember men wearing Bylcreem in their hair and drug store fragrances on their bodies.
I am too but sometimes the passage of time can make things seem better than they actually were. Like, I’m sure some luxury cars from the 1980s seemed really awesome at the time but if you were to go back and drive a top end Mercedes from 1982, it would seem very basic now. People didn’t have the massive choice in products pre-1990 as they do now. I remember Polo green from the late 80’s and I remember the scent being heavenly, smelling rich and expensive. Revisiting it now…? It’s okay but synthetic. Anyway, nothing wrong with less expensive options but I do believe that time does help inflate the actual appeal of products from way back when.
Great video. Thank you. Would love to see a video on GG’s favorite drugstore fragrances. I’m an old school (and older) guy, so I use drugstore fragrances, almost exclusively. If Drugstore Fragrances were good enough for the Golden Age of Menswear - and good enough for my father and grandfather- they are good enough for many of us. I am with Preston about Aqua Velva Ice Blue. A great summer go to. Thanks again.
That blazer is awesome!
I'm been trying niche fragrances as of later, Tom Ford and Mancera
Very nice! How are you getting on with them so far?
Years ago I once bought "Bentley for men intense", at a drugstore. Considering the name, would put it in "celebrity" fragrances because of the association with the car brand. And yet, even though it was only 30 CHF for a bottle, it is among my best performing fragrances.
Thats what I like, and thats what I hate about the lower levels of that pyramid: You never know what you may get.
Excatly! Price doesn't always equal quality when it comes to fragrances, and there's a high degree of subjectivity, too
Big subject, have gotten into scents in the last year, mostly niche. I Like Histoires de Parfums 1899, some of the Parfums de Marly and lately the house of Amouage OMG!! top shelf!
Fantastic! How do you typically like to wear each of these scents?
@@gentlemansgazette 1899 Ernest Hemingway is an easy wear good for many social occasions,. Parfums de Marly vary something like Carlisle works for, say going the theatre. The Amouage ones are completely different being from mid-east Oman so complex that I wear and enjoy them at home for relaxing/contemplating they are unlike European perfumes I needed to understand them to enjoy
One of my favorite scents is mont Blanc explorer
Blue jeans is my favourites too
Love them, also love the longevity 12+ hrs.
Ive got a few David Beckham fragrances. Yes, I can vouch fir the cheapnest of materials. But I really like tge scent profile of his first David Beckham Instinct. I just have to spray it 30 times.
Great video. I think Gentleman's Gazette should review Askokey.
Where would we place something such as dossier?
I'm still trying to understand the difference between the artisanal and fragrance house.
Are they intertwined together or separated.
I think of artisanal as being fragrance houses that especially emphasize craft, rare ingredients, and and an exceptional wearing experience. That is of course a subjective assessment, so it isn't as objective as the distinction between some of the other tiers.
@@ebdaniels8774 Wonderful explanation, thank you!
My favorite inexpensive drugstore fragrance will always be Royal Copenhagen.
I still have my 10 year old bottle of Black walnut by Banana Republic, and it still smells great. Obviously I use it sparingly.
Beautiful fragances.
Health money and love for you and family.
Great video!
I would like to see a video on how to wear classic menswear while on a boat.
They made two way back in the 90's. One was called Titanic and the other was called Goldeneye.
And I'm pretty sure nautical themed pashmina afghans are involved.
Absolutely
Hi Karate is my go to
I find that LV colognes work best with my chemistry. Not to mention that fragrance tiers should be discovered by the person.
I don't pay a lot for cologne so the drugstore fragrances are fine for me. I get my after shave at the dollar store too.
A splash of rose water or lavender water does me well.
Who needs a pricy celebrity-endorsed fragrance when I can use good old Brut or Old Spice and smell like my dad and grandfathers? They were/are the real gentleman influencers in my life.
…although the Raphael and the guys rank high up there ;)
That Dior Sauvage Parfum for men is probably more celebrity (Depp) brand, but it is 🔥🔥🔥😍
Any Dior is Designer. No matter what celebrities are frontmen, pitchmen, etc. for their products. And Dior is an upper-tier, highly respected designer.
@ I’m from the hood, so I only know that it smells good 🤣 I packed my Hubby’s bags for a solo weekend trip to see family and I packed his Dolce Gabbana- no Sauvage without me! 🤣🤣🤣
@JT-rx1eo thanks for the response.
The only fragrance a guy needs is a bottle of murray and lanman. It provides citrus scented freshness all year round at a reasonable price
Denim Original - cheap, clean, potent and I feel I smell like a real man should.
Diptyque all day long ❤
Old Spice is still OG
I like Old Spice and I remember their slogan “If your grandfather hadn’t worn it, you wouldn’t exist” 😁.
While I like it, it does smell a little synthetic which is totally okay considering its history in the market and low price point. But depending on the person, I feel like the scent tends not to last very long (I believe it is classified as cologne, so that should be partially expected due to the lower concentration of aromatics), and it can transform quite a bit (it isn’t as stable) from person to person based on body/skin chemistry. For a scent that is under $20, it smells clean, soapy, and has a lower chance of irritating others around you who don’t react well to fragrances. It’s “office safe” as they say.
I wear Creed’s Viking Eau De Parfum (in the red bottle, not orange, that fragrance is a flanker and smells totally different and is a cologne). It is very much like Old Spice, but smells higher quality and lasts much longer. The best analogy for the similarity between Old Spice and Creed Viking is to compare a candy grape flavor to the actual taste of a real concord 🍇 grape. They both have their place and time, but there is a clear distinction as one is artificial and the other natural.
Kai yay oh cho. 🤦♂️
I replace the term "drugstore" with "toiletry". And I do not in any way consider dupes/clones drugstore/toiletry fragrances. Wrong category for me. Drugstore/toiletry for me, for example, is Old Spice Aftershave or cologne, Pinaud, Phoenix Shaving, etc. Clone or dupe houses are like Dua Fragrances, ScentualObsessions, etc. Two completely different classifications in fragrance market or type taxonomy, for me.
No need for a nuanced and expanded list of the fragrance hierarchy.
Creed is weak and extremely overpriced. It's like EDC now, maybe they used to be better quality before but now they are just selling based on their previous reputation. I'm surprised you put them in the top tier, if you have tried them in the last year. I went to one of their stores and sampled several, they lasted about 15 minutes and smell nice. Maybe worth $100 like a regular designer brand. But they are very weak concentration. You can buy high quality clones of them that last all day for much less money. I would recommend Parfums Vintage for around $100 for any fragrance by Creed. They are very high quality and last much longer than the real Creed at a great value. I love Diptyque too, they are very high quality, last long, and are a fair price for the quality you are getting. I would also mention Guerlain a niche house, that sells at a very affordable price but everything they make is very high quality and artistic, I own several of their scents.
Here’s the easiest way for a guy to buy any fragrance.
Bring a woman to select it for you. Spray it on you. Wait a bit. Ask the woman if she likes it.
Men should never buy fragrances for themselves. It is for the other person.
My pet peeve is incorrect use of "liminal space." 🙄
Other than that, I enjoyed the video though. :)😊
Commercially available fragrances are just yikes. Every single one of them.
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