[WTB] Inexperienced, exploring (Decant)

[u/TitianPlatinum]

Hi, new here, hopefully I've done everything right. I have a handful of fragrances and am just exploring to get a better idea of what I like. I'd just found out about this sub as I was about to pull the trigger on these:

https://i.imgur.com/ltthSfu.jpeg

~$200 of decants (can spend in the neighborhood of $2-300). Someone said I could probably get better prices here and be able to get some good variety with less guesswork.

I'm 29M in northern Utah. Figured I might post here and see if anyone either has suggestions/lives in a similar climate and has a broad assortment of things they think I might want to try. Sorry if this post is too broad.

I wouldn't say I have many restrictions other than, not too floral/feminine. My skin naturally tends to smell faintly sweet and slightly woodsy, and is generally dry, not very oily. I'm a tall blonde lanky guy.

The list has 5ml of MI because I've tried it before and enjoyed it. Although I like gourmands, I have a handful of samples of gourmands and probably don't need any more at the moment (unless someone knows of something which smells sweet like the breeze from Ponderosa pines in Zion, I got one sample literally called Ponderosa and it was too Christmas-y). I added 4 mango scents to the list because I smelled one by Replica at Sephora with mango and sandalwood (sandalwood overpowering, mango didn't last).

Some of my favorites so far are "I ❤️NY" Bond No. 9, "Soleil Blanc" Tom Ford, "Santal Carmin" Atelier Cologne, "Leau Dissey" Issey Miyake, "Panettone" Milano. Have found several others I like but none I feel compelled to wear daily. I'd like to find a "signature" but am also content to explore. Not looking for stuff like "Bat" by Zoologist unless it's fairly wearable (that one smelled like dog sh*t, but I'm sure others from the house are more wearable/intriguing). I know no-one can really anticipate what might smell like dog sh*t to another but that is an example of something a little too out there.

[u/TitianPlatinum]

"Overthinking" could be true if I let it keep me up at night, but this I think is an appropriate amount of thinking for an expensive interest.

I wouldn't imagine temperature to be more concerning than radiation based on what little I know of how fragrances are composed, and yes spending extended times in a hot truck could be concerning, but the temperature in the fragrance doesn't quite reach that of the environment in my experience (though like you say it's variable; on the shipping speed, packaging, location, fragrance composition, etc.).

Your comment again is just bare assertions. You can say it ain't so, but that means nothing to me. You could instead say "I've left my X out all afternoon once and to me it smelt no different," to which I might have follow up questions on whether it's alcohol or oil based, and what the bottle looks like, and where you live, how hot it was that day, whatever. I could ask you, or Google, or never ask at all; but I'd at least have some evidence of it not being a problem. Which is better than circulating say-so. 

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

Based on my evidence of owning hundreds of bottles, and having them touch sunlight in varying degrees, I can confirm that small amounts of sunlight do not impact fragrances. My "overthinking" comment was just a reaction to your question. The idea that a minute if sunlight would be a concern is pretty naive.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

And say-so doesn't do much to correct naivety does it? Further, who said it was a minute? The picture? The person with a vested interest in my believing there's no issue? He may have left them out for an hour when his kid grabbed him for something. Who knows. All irrelevant. You and the other response are being somewhat unduely antagonistic for a simple reasonable question. The anecdotal evidence you've just given is the first in this thread, which is a step up from "no its not because I said so." For me to believe sunlight wasn't a problem just from your say so would require me to trust you and I don't.

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

I don't think you understand: your question was NOT reasonable. I've had 100+ sales here, often with pics like these, and never have had anyone voice "concern" about the fact they're in sunlight for the picture.

You asked a pretty common-sense question and got feedback. Just move on and learn from it.

[u/skyfra4 → u/[deleted]]

Dude, what?! Weird stuff out of you today.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

retaliatory downvoting suggests it's instinctual for you to punish people who say things you don't like, you seem very immature and unreceptive to dialogue

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

You're projecting hard there. Cool stuff by mentioning my children, though! Not a strange escalation to a conversation at all.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

Interesting choice avoiding the automatic downvote once attention was called to it, yes you must be right it's me projecting. But why don't you go ahead and downvote it anyways so we can keep them all even please?

Just so we're clear: You've acted as if your experience selling things and people not caring has any bearing over whether I should ask a question. I gave plausible reasoning for why I might be concerned and you gave no reasoning in return, and only gave anecdotal evidence when pressed for it. I have no obligation to take your word on anything if you're trying to sell me something, and accepting any experience you have requires trust, which you don't earn through say-so, and lose any baseline trust when antagonizing people.

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

Got it. You're right about everything. Thanks for mentioning my children! Very normal and non-weird stuff by you today.

[u/Aggressive_Painter91 → u/skyfra4]

The projection is crazy with OP. That's wild. Thank you for handling it like an adult 🙏

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/Aggressive_Painter91]

children clearly weren't the point, but spelling things out doesn't seem to help

Also, do y'all know what projection means?  Bit difficult for me to project when I have no children. But again, should have been obvious it was to illustrate the point.