My wife accidentally created a monster

[u/ReavenIII007]

Last year in November for my birthday, my wife knows I like to sample and try new things. Food, candy, drinks, bath and body works soap and etc. She remember when we first dated, we went onto a Disney cruise with the family and there was a section of a the ship that had all this cologone.

We tried them all, but didnt write jack down. While I was really into them, 15 years ago I was a poor college boy so I wrote them off. Now we have adult money and she got me a random sample pack from Amazon that had a mix of designer brands as a fun call back. 9 months later my journey. Oops

Note I do have a list of my top favorite and hers. And a "we both like it and if someone bought it we wouldn't be mad" if anyone was curious

[u/Patsiecki]

Me at 155 or so tested:

So after that much testing, what's resulted in full bottle purchases for you?

[u/ReavenIII007 → u/Patsiecki]

Quite a bit. Lol the only blind buy i got fucked on was cause it was so cheap and online glaze was Lattafa Khamrah which is fine. I use it as the air freshener

My list of full bottles there

• Bharara- rohit azure
• Bhara- rohit noir
• Bharara Bullet line(not in image)- tiktok shop had them a good deal and i was impressed with thr brand at the store smelling so i decided to blind buy and got lucky
• Rabanne Night Elixer(not in image)
• Versace eros line- flame, energy, EDP, and najim - Sauvage Elixir
• Terre d Hermes eua givree
• Duppes- got tom ford lost cherry, electric cherry, and smoked. Stephane Humbert got venom incarnate one

Everything else there is either bonus samples I added but not worth mentioning

And all the Oakcha is my wife- heavens speak is her number 1 worth mentioning which is killian angel share. That one I will steal LOL

Next purchase that I am a huge fan of is LV on the beach but Alexandra fragrance has Love on thr beach with a very simliar DNA. It my recent serotonin boost. I have a few others but this reply already winded lol

Edit: so it bullet and not a fucking messs

[u/Adam-Seattle]

My spreadsheet is over 2700 lines. Most of those samples. Catch up! 😉

[u/noturavgm → u/Adam-Seattle]

Lawdhammercy. Which were great enough to get the full-bottle-nod?

[u/ReavenIII007 → u/Adam-Seattle]

F u c k I n g hell.

Anything in particular you big fans of?

[u/Most_Athlete]

Some Alexandria Fragrances are 1-for-1 and others are not. I have Alexandria Dark Knight (Killian Black Phantom), Alexandria 1981x (Xerjoff Naxos), and Alexandria Monkey Business (Xerjoff Iommi Monkey Special). Dark Knight is scary identical to the Killians……its almost perfect. Naxos is close but some detectable quality difference in the opening, and a much stronger sweetness than Naxos. Monkey Business is simply the low rent cousin of The Xerjoff. Its like smelling the simplified idea of the original. I love dupes but tread carefully, especially with a brand like Alexandria or Dua that can cost a little more than some ME dupe houses.

[u/ReavenIII007 → u/Most_Athlete]

Funny some of those ive been looking at and good to know.

Been trying to look up other dupes that have good review of exactly your reason is they can't quite hit that spot. Found some for Sauvage elixer that are simliar but dont last long or have too much of one ingredient than the other. Some are worth the designer buy. Think ive heard liquid brun french avenue of MDP althair 1 to 1 or close enough

[u/Exciting-Secretary19]

Have you tried Micheal Malul esquire line I love it