For me, it's:
Bond No. 9 Chinatown: disgustingly saccharine, makes me think of underage hookers,
Il Profumo Musc Bleue: pure laundry detergent, death by Clorox
Serge Lutens Cuir Mauresque: plastic fruit bowl and tarry leather? ick, and normally I love leathers
Lancome Tresor: my skin hates the heavy damascones, for some reason
Angel: sadly I am one of those for whom this turns to complete urine

Ralph Lauren Style - to me, fake, loud, disgusting fruit unworthy of even a shower gel

waaaay down the scale of DO NOT WANT:
modern formulation Je Reviens EDT - to me, old fust and sadness

waaaay down again:
in one lump, as that is how I react to them: Poison and derivatives / Angel / Alien - not my aesthetic or taste, a bit sick-making

a little bit down:
Jo Malone Amber Lavender - to me, where's the amber? why is the lavender so shrill?
Creed Ambre Cannelle - to me, bad combination, terribly astringent, whole worse than sum of parts

There are probably many fragrances I hate more; I flee and then erase from memory and radar screen what I hate, and there are a lot of things I just don't and wouldn't test.

Drakkar Noir...ex-husband in a bottle. Bleh!
Baghari/Ambre Gris...sweet, fruity & muddled on me
Gris Clair...all I get is AquaNet hairspray
Garcon Manque...cedar hell on my skin
Youth Dew Amber Nude...no amber there just halitosis

Really, I don't think I actually "hate" any fragrance, but here are a few that I definately don't enjoy smelling...

Miss Balmain (sour)

Arpege (sour)

AA Flora Neroli (sour)

Baryshnikov for Women

Private Collection

English Leather & Jovan Musk for Men (they remind me waaaay to much an old boyfriend that hurt me badly. )

Five, huh? Hmmm.

Michael Kors' Michael for Men - Merde! An explosion at a chemical factory and they tried to put out the fire with gardenias.

Lorenzo Villoresi's Dilmun - Mai oui! Urinal cakes that could not be washed/scrubbed/burned off. You have to live it.

Gendarme - Yep, I smell clean. For 48 sickeningly-sweet, overbearing hours or more.

Chanel Pour Homme Light Sport - Egads! Quality control was drunk and asleep at the wheel in this wreck of a scent.

Sorry. Four appears to be my limit at the moment.

1.) Lonestar Memories - Andy Tauer (burnt saddle with the horse attached to it still, BLECH!)

2.) Fuel for Life for Men - Diesel (This stuff is just vile. It's loud and just will not wash off completely after repeated washings)

3.) Clair Gris - Serge Lutens (Smells like a piece of clothing burnt with the iron still attached to it. Horrid lavender and whatever it's supposed to be scent)

4.) Aqua di Gio - Armani tied with Cool Water Davidoff (These scents are just so boring it's not funny) Honorable Mention: Green Irish Tweed Creed. Smells like Cool Water and why bother trying to pass it off as being made specifically Cary Grant when I can't see such a legendary movie icon wearing such utter boring trash!

5.) All of Vera Wang's fragrances (men's and women's) (Why bother?!)

Red Door
Red Door
Red Door
Red Door
Red Door

COOL WATER

ENGLISH LEATHER

HO HANG

CK BE

CURVE FOR MEN

I totally agree with your description, but can't decide whether I love it or loathe it.

Angel and Cuir Venenum are the only two fragrances I can think of off the top of my head that I struggle to be in the same room as.

Here are the top five I've really disliked smelling:

Norma Kamali Incense
JAR Jardenia
Lonestar Memories
Arabie
Miel de Bois

Gucci Envy really bothers me for some reason
Agree on the Norma Kamali - it nearly singed my eyebrows
Daim Blond. "Suede" notes in fragrances are really off-putting to me.
Fracas. I think I get it, but I cannot bear it on or very near my person.

Eau d'Hermes (much too much cumin)
Fleur du Male (Wow. This stuff is synthetic)
Light Blue pour Homme (Wears out its welcome quickly)
Louve by Serge Lutens (An absolute scrubber, cloying and ugly)
Anything with the words "Britney," "Sugar," or "Pink" in the title (I don't want to become diabetic)

Teddius

Top five (there ARE more *LOL*):

A La Nuit -- decay, vomit, and feces on my skin -- sorry to be so graphic, but it's bad
Mitsouko -- oddly bland, but it has the fecal thing and gives me a headache and makes me feel grouchy
Bandit -- one note is like a spike up my nose and then there's the rubber smell which finishes the experience
Kingdom -- flat, with the smell of rotting cantaloupes and faded, scented plastic roses
Cashmere Mist -- cloying, sweet, wet powder

Femme: Harshly nasty
Champs Elysees: Nausea inducing
Betsey Johnson: Pure pain


Those are the only three that leap to mind in the "hate" category. "Strongly dislike" would take too long to list.

I don't know if I hate these on others, but I haaaaate these on me and they all make me gag:

1. SL Miel de Bois
2. Agent Provocateur
3. Habanita (gag me with powder)
4. Kenzo Jungle L'Elephant
5. Casmir by Chopard (street hooker who spritzes instead of bathing)

Oh, and I thought of #6.

YSL Paris.

Someone on PerfumeCritic once described Paris as the sensation of biting into tin foil. I couldn't agree more!




"PURE PAIN" made me laugh out loud.

Youth Dew

amarige (where do i even begin... cloying to the max.)

i think this is the only perfume i truly hate.

harper

What! Nobody has mentioned Un Jardin Après la Mousson?! I thought it was widely disliked here. (Don't count on me to put it on my list, though!)

I'm sure there are some I abhorr but so far I'm having a hard time thinking of any. Maybe it's my denial mechanism kicking in to protect me from horrors more than I could bear!

Oh my:

Tabu

Poison, any of them, Hypnotic or not

Addict, any of them as well

Pink Sugar, or anything with pink in it, all food scents, can't stand them!!

Kiehl's Musk, reminds me of hiney

This is amusing....some of my BELOVEDS have been mentioned:
I love: Hypnotic poison, cashmere mist
I utterly despise:
Tabu - retchingly vile
Giorgio - retchingly sweet
Pink sugar - retchingly pink and '15 and a 1/2'
Davidoff cool water - retchingly boring and simplistic
MB

mimiboo, you are breaking my heart!

Oh! AND I LOVE Bond no 9 Chinatown AND FLEUR du MALE....as I type, DRENCHED in Cashmere Mist.
MB

The bottom line of this thread is it is pointless.................Not to be rude.........it's just that one person may LOVE one thing and hate the next. It's all personal, passion, and perception when it comes to scent!!! We may hate one thing on ourselves and love it on someone else...........
There are no absolutes!!!

Oh, I know. It's just supposed to be a fun exercise, not some definitive list, sometimes our dislikes reveal quite a lot about our personalities. That's all, nothing in the spirit of the absolute, it wasn't my intention to offend.

I have to agree with Tara on Serge Lutens Miel de Bois. Blech. And I remember really disliking Donna Karan's Fuel when I had the opportunity to test it out. CdG Hinoki will always have a special place in hell, as far as I'm concerned.

Beyond those, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything. I'm no fan of Nasomatto Duro, but I'm sure there are others here on the board that could pull it off quite nicely, so I'm fine with its presence in the world.

I think if you look up the "Shoot your most hated Scent into the Sun" thread (initiated by our resident thread genius, AltoDiva), you'll find that we've already covered quite a bit of ground in this territory, and with much amusement for everyone involved!

http://perfumeoflife.com/index.php?showtop...ost+hated\

Nathan, perhaps we're now dealing with the residual interceptions remaining on Earth!

Curiously, it is difficult for me to remember individual fragrances I dislike, though Giorgio comes to mind.

I generally dislike anything with a melon or cucumber note.

Fracas
Joy
Giorgio
L'Heure Bleu
Covet

Great thread! It's always interesting to read about the much hated scents as well as the much loved ones.

Covet , the chocolate swamp , oh yes , thanks for reminding me Aromatique
Gucci Envy is a proper swamp with no chocolate
Aliage
Private Collection , for both of these Lauders I think the sensation is more like a drill bit in full torque up the nose , knitting needles would be a joy by comparison.
Tom Fords BO , or was that supposed to be crotch , whatever it is , it just smells like a syrupy mess and will NOT GO AWAY , ever.

Hi-
I'm always entertained and enlightened by these types of lists. I enjoy reading the most loved scents AND the most hated ones - because really, as we know, love and hate are just different sides of the same passionate emotion. We care about fragrances. That's why all of us are here, so the lists may be pointless in some folk's opinion, but this is not, and never will be a definitive science -- but it sure is fun!

Maybe I'm just too easily pleased - I can name many fragrances I love, many fragrances I like, and a few fragrances I choose not to wear because they just don't suit my preferences. However, I don't think I can name a perfume I hate. I admit I have never sniffed Secretions Magnifique by Etat Libre d'Orange - but from the reactions and descriptions from people who have smelled it, it might be a contender for a perfume I might actually intensely dislike.

I must be EASY -- but remember, I certainly am not CHEAP.

Ok, I'll play:

1. Estée Lauder Beyond Paradise. One sniff was like being hit square between the eyes with a crowbar. Instant perfume headache.
2. Lonestar Memories. Like tree-shaped air freshener and leather chaps at the truckstop on I-84.
3. YSL Paris. Insane, pink rose that would not die.
4. Creed Cuir de Russie. Like plastic lawn furniture after a fire destroyed the whole house.
5. Parfumerie Generale Ether de Lilas. Evil cyborg lilac.

The worst fragrance in America is Jovan White Musk.
The worst innovation in American perfumery was the Celebrity Scent.
The worst men's fragrance is Brut.
The worst thing to happen to French perfumery were American and Italian designers.
The second worst thing was the sale of Guerlain to LVMH--utter rubbish ever since, oh excuse me, at those prices it's called compost.

This is not news:
1. Angel
2. Angel
3. Angel
4. Angel
5. Angel

YSL Paris
Amarige
Ysatis
White Diamonds
Aromatics Elixir

We need to list five, right?

Okay... here we go.



I TRULY can't handle Antaeus. Miserable, miserable stuff!

Miel de Bois x's 5!

Tea Rose because it makes me sneeze and I can't wear it for a minute.

Dune because on me it only smells like tar.

Tiempe Passate, which smells just like the notes in Raid Insect spray on my skin.

Escape ends up pungent and awful on me.

I just recently tried a sample of Burberry Week-end and couldn't get it off fast enough.

This is fun! In no particular order of dislike

1.Songes-tried to like it but something in the dry down stinks

2.Light Blue- smells good at first then becomes headache inducing

3.Lonestar Memories-this plain reeks on me

4.En Passant- Again there's something in the dry down, smells to me like plastic

5.youth dew- too strong and overwhelming

Adding mine:

Charlie (blech)
Drakkar Noir (I can imagine the Gotti boys bathe in it)
Aromatics Elixir (smells fab on some but just plain awful on me)
Angel (Just too much. I've encountered too many people who spray it with abandon)
Light Blue (If one more SA tries to send me home with this I'll go bonkers. I don't care if it's their best seller. It's way to shrill and strident for me.)

-Noelle

Think of any five perfumes that feature predominant musk. Any five at all.

Those are on my list as most hated.

no, it's not pointless -- just fun: to share what we like and dislike.
without, of course, any claims as to last (or lasting) truths or demands anyone else should like or hate what we do.

harper

oh antaeus, how i love thee!
and seeing all those bottles makes me happy :-)

harper

+1!!!!!

I'm slowly working through a 50 ml bottle and am sorely tempted to buy more backup bottles to accompany the 2 x 100 ml bottles, and the big 200 ml bottle that currently reside in a dark drawer.

...

I didn't think I could name five scents I hate, but - lo and behold...I have my list.

Creed Royal English Leather. Why bother - it smells like every other powdery-old-man scent.
Creed Cuir de Russie. Turpentine + Dawn (blue) dishwashing liquid. Srsly. Try it if you don't believe me.
Nasomatto Duro. Ewww. Seriously, EWWW. No point in applying deodorant after you put this on.
Amarige. When Mrs. T wears it I long for a loud civet fart.
Knize Ten. I ran screaming from the closet to the sink after applying this one. Since 1923 - the original, classic scrubber.

Yeesh... I never knew LONESTAR MEMORIES was disliked here as much as it is!

I adore it! Maybe it's because I'm a Texan?


Smedley, I contend that it's the name itself and the lewd little spurting pink glyph on the label that sways people's minds unfairly against SÉCRÉTIONS MAGNIFIQUES. I love it! Metal, milk, linen, coconut. That's it!

Antaeus! I'd forgotten about that. The black bottle, right?

(Edit: Duh. Yes, the black bottle per the photos above. And the white text. I remember it well!)

Rasputin - I don't dislike Lonestar Memories. But I don't get it. To me, it's more like "Um. OK. Nice. But I don't want to smell like that."

N.B. - That opinion is by a man, me, who will wear Bandit Pour Homme Light. On weekends. For specific reasons. So, it's all a matter of taste. Perhaps it is the Texas thing?

LOL!!!!

L'Interdit femme
Angel
Obsession
Giorgio
Beyond Paradise

Light Blue

Angel

Obsession

Lolita L.

Rumba

FRACAS....ITS no good, I have tried to be open minded but NOOOOO! MORE !
YOUTH DEW
PALOMA PICASSO
RED DOOR
AROMATIC ELIXIR (I do not know why really...memory thing I think)
PATCHOULI when used overtly or badly done, including though L'Heure Bleu !!!! sacrilege I know !
there are a few others that I have not smelled but think they might go into this list but
I have to fair and check'em out first.
I believed I would never ever like Lolita Lempicka, and look at me raving on about it lately !!