How do you define signature scent and what’s your current sig scent?

[Andyjreid]

In my younger days i would wear a single fragrance for stretches of time, e.g. YSL Jazz, JPG Le Male, Boss Orange Sport.
Wow, my tastes have changed.

Yep, this sounds familiar, late teens - early twenties I would buy a single bottle and use it up before buying something else. Hugo, Hugo Dark Blue, Hugo Energise, CK Be, CK Crave, Gucci Rush PH (RIP), Emporio Armani He and the rather missed He White were all fragrances I owned and finished multiple bottles of.

Then one day I discovered Basenotes, ordered some niche samples, over the phone nonetheless, from Les Senteurs in London. They sent me a bag of about 30, I guess the guy on the phone picked up that I was just trying to discover new things. From there I bought second hand bottles of Lorenzo Villoresi Uomo and Creed MI from here and well.... I guess that started it all off 😂😂

 

[AndyL]

I wore the very definition of signature scent from 1994 until 2020 and that scent was Green Irish Tweed. I wore this exclusively for 26 years.

I could see GIT being a signature scent, absolutely!

Guess every fragrance is my signature... While wearing any fragrance in my wardrobe, I've probably thought, "This could be my signature scent."

 

[enframing]

I think if right now I had to choose a signature scent it might be Guess 1981 for men.

 

[PaTomas]

I understand a signature scent to be one that feels so much like you that it seems to express who you are in a constant nonverbal way, like a signal; a process of identification takes place organically, rather than through a deliberate search (a signature scent find you; you gravitate toward it). I've never had one or wanted one, as I love matching moods to perfumes - I have favorite fragrances, but none that I wear often enough to trigger a recognition that I'd recently been in the room.

This is beautifully put and so true. I vary fragrances day to day, but I really identify with D&G Light Blue pour Homme. My secretary told me, you smell beautiful and it fits precisely who you are. I had not yet joined Basenotes and could not have told you back then what a signature fragrance is.
These days Eight and Bob Egypt is up there, again, people telling me I live like I smell 😊

 

[purecaramel]

I understand a signature scent to be one that feels so much like you that it seems to express who you are in a constant nonverbal way, like a signal; a process of identification takes place organically, rather than through a deliberate search (a signature scent find you; you gravitate toward it). I've never had one or wanted one, as I love matching moods to perfumes - I have favorite fragrances, but none that I wear often enough to trigger a recognition that I'd recently been in the room.

Poetry, this.
A pure, perfect, purr of a Signature.

 

[Hugh V.]

I'd like to think of my signature scent as being John Varvatos Artisan Acqua. It's probably the closest as I'll ever get to that "holy grail" fragrance that checks all the right boxes for me. That said...it's not something that versatile on account that it's a modern-retro scent, and might be distracting in places like the office.

The only "signature" scent that I probably ever had was Curve, as I wore it throughout college and my early 20s. I never wore any other scent with any regularity to have it be a signature.

 

[MacSuibhne]

Royall Rugby was my signature scent for a couple years and will likely become so again. Its the only scent people have complimented me on. Several people have expressed disappointment when they realize i'm not wearing it because they associated me with it.

It is has low performance which sent me on a search for more. But im starting to think it was always the scent I was destined for lol.

Ive discovered a few others since then that I think are signature worthy... Azzaro PH, Patrick, Burberry Touch (haters converge). But people genuinely seem to have warm associations of me with Rugby.

 

[UESNYC]

I wear Floris Jermyn Street the most. I suppose because I get compliments without really standing out and for such a conservative polished fragrance it works with shorts, jeans and a t shirt. I think it is one of the most versatile and under appreciated men’s cologne. If you are person that wants to keep it simple Floris IMO is the ticket with this plus Honey Oud and maybe No 89 and you are set for any occasion or season.

 

[DoctorM81]

I kind of wish I had one, in as much as I tend to look back fondly on my earliest days of wearing fragrance when I had a very small collection, but would form an intimate bond with certain scents. That aspect is lacking, or at best highly diluted when dealing the variety that most BNer's entertain.

 

[WarmJewel]

I wear Floris Jermyn Street the most. I suppose because I get compliments without really standing out and for such a conservative polished fragrance it works with shorts, jeans and a t shirt. I think it is one of the most versatile and under appreciated men’s cologne.

I agree! I think Floris is generally very under rated probably because it's perceived as a 'stuffy old English' fragrance house. In reality, the opposite is true, Floris make some very good fragrances for both genders. It's about the only fragrance house that I buy current formulation fragrances from as I simply do not like the majority of high street mainstream designer fragrances.

Here's a few of my modern Floris's -

 

[UESNYC]

I agree! I think Floris is generally very under rated probably because it's perceived as a 'stuffy old English' fragrance house. In reality, the opposite is true, Floris make some very good fragrances for both genders. It's about the only fragrance house that I buy current formulation fragrances from as I simply do not like the majority of high street mainstream designer fragrances.

Here's a few of my modern Floris's -

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I agree! I think Floris is generally very under rated probably because it's perceived as a 'stuffy old English' fragrance house. In reality, the opposite is true, Floris make some very good fragrances for both genders. It's about the only fragrance house that I buy current formulation fragrances from as I simply do not like the majority of high street mainstream designer fragrances.

Here's a few of my modern Floris's -

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Stuff for guys, no Woke gender bending nonsense.

 

[PaTomas]

I wear Floris Jermyn Street the most. I suppose because I get compliments without really standing out and for such a conservative polished fragrance it works with shorts, jeans and a t shirt. I think it is one of the most versatile and under appreciated men’s cologne. If you are person that wants to keep it simple Floris IMO is the ticket with this plus Honey Oud and maybe No 89 and you are set for any occasion or season.

Just recently acquired this JS along with Floris Santal, which BTW the singer Placido Domingo wore for his concerts.
If I had the cash, I would by 3 Floris fragrances...per month. Classy awesome house. (Despite the discontinue demon they share with other houses.)

 

[WarmJewel]

Just recently acquired this JS along with Floris Santal, which BTW the singer Placido Domingo wore for his concerts.

Floris Santal for me is a dead ringer for Gucci Envy. Yes there are differences between them, the Gucci being a little more floral and dare I say it more 'La Dolce Vita' more Italian flamboyance with Floris Santal being a little more laid back and 'British'. But when you consider you can buy Santal off the shelf in many online discount fragrance stores (at least in the UK) for a lot less than the Floris RRP and that Gucci Envy being discontinued still commands eye watering prices in the second hand market, Santal is a much cheaper and almost identical replacement.

If pushed, I'd admit that Envy is the better of the two (just) but given you can achieve an almost identical experience with Santal at a fraction of the price it's a no brainer.

 

[UESNYC]

Floris Santal for me is a dead ringer for Gucci Envy. Yes there are differences between them, the Gucci being a little more floral and dare I say it more 'La Dolce Vita' more Italian flamboyance with Floris Santal being a little more laid back and 'British'. But when you consider you can buy Santal off the shelf in many online discount fragrance stores (at least in the UK) for a lot less than the Floris RRP and that Gucci Envy being discontinued still commands eye watering prices in the second hand market, Santal is a much cheaper and almost identical replacement.

If pushed, I'd admit that Envy is the better of the two (just) but given you can achieve an almost identical experience with Santal at a fraction of the price it's a no brainer.

With Floris the 10ml bottles is pretty fantastic and I wish everyone did that.

 

[WarmJewel]

With Floris the 10ml bottles is pretty fantastic and I wish everyone did that.

Yes, smaller quantity bottles are a very good way of trying out a fragrance without investing too much money.

I 'went the whole hog' and bought Floris samples - The Private Collection, Jermyn Street Collection, Classic Collection and Floral Collection so that was 20 2ml samples of almost all of their most popular men's and some of the women's collection. So that enabled me to narrow down which ones I liked enough to buy a full bottle of.

 

[PaTomas]

Yes, smaller quantity bottles are a very good way of trying out a fragrance without investing too much money.

I 'went the whole hog' and bought Floris samples - The Private Collection, Jermyn Street Collection, Classic Collection and Floral Collection so that was 20 2ml samples of almost all of their most popular men's and some of the women's collection. So that enabled me to narrow down which ones I liked enough to buy a full bottle of.

Never realized they offered all that, I have been using poor man's discounters for so long.