Honestly, maybe this is a hot take, but if $100 to the $120 range isn’t affordable, then fragrance collecting isn’t what you should be doing currently. Especially with inflation. I’d say cheapie is $50 and below maybe $60, $60 to $120 is affordable, $120 to $200 is honestly just straight up designer, than anything above $200 is when it starts to get expensive.
I'm used to measuring my designer fragrance prices in Canadian dollars. But here, at retail, basically every one of the better known designer houses will charge at least $100CAD for even a 50ml bottle. I know that's less when converted to USD, but it really isn't a cheap hobby unless you stick to clones. Which, I would like to be clear, that's perfectly fine despite what the niche bros like to say
Whats really sad is FW is starting to get so high its almost better to buy the original...such as the clone of Victory Elixir, the clone is close to $50 at sellers for a 3.4oz....well you can get the original for $110 at discounters and its a 6.8oz, so DOUBLE the size....its basically the same price per OZ
Yeah, I paid equivalent of about £40 here in Thailand (unused tester with a top). I wasn't a fan at all, decent, certainly not gross but nothing special. I ended up giving it away with about 75ml left to a guy who paid retail at a high end department store, he paid the same as I did for only 30ml 😂
I think my top 3 would be million lucky, green stravaganza, and carbon. I know a lot of fragrance people aren't into green stravaganza but I absolutely love it
Most Prada frags including the LR line are relatively reasonably priced and worth it if you like the style. With that being said I bought most from discounters.
Bought 2 200ml back-up bottles of Dylan Blue for €56 each, a 200ml One Million Lucky for €77 and (last week) a 200ml Mont Blanc Explorer for €45 (all Notino). 👀
I just picked up light blue eau intense a few weeks ago, idk what all the hype is about but im not going to judge it until i wear in in the high heat summer days but so far it just seems like a better quality nautica voyage type fragrance
I got my 100ml bottle of Dylan Blue for $30 plus shipping totally authentic,i even seen a 200ml with about 5% used sell for $39 a couple of weeks ago with pictures of the batch code on the bottle and box that sold within an hour of being listed.All of these fragrances that have been out longer than a year i can find in the $30-$50 range sometimes its an unused tester but i can find them. The prices here are full retail for people who dont have the time to search online or just dont realize they're available that cheap especially when buying from individuals.
Been considering buying The Most Wanted edp Intense for retail/slight 20% off but ended up getting the 3x10ml travel collection instead of the edp edp intense and parfum. I may pick up one full bottle when cold weather comes around again.
Idk if I got a bottle that wasn't blended well but Toy boy smells like someone just sprinkled a bunch of pepper over a rose. They're literally the only two notes that you smell, so much so that I couldn't stop sneezing and had to scrub it off lol. Also note that that's the most wanted intense so you don't just get the most wanted cuz they're different.
@@inFamous_BigT if you're shopping only and you just look for the most wanted you're gonna get either, possibly including tmost wanted parfum (clear bottom bottle). If you search for most wanted intense you're gonna get most wanted EDP intense (black bottom bottle). Even in places like Sephora where I got one of my bottles it says EPS Intense.
Think im done with colognes for now. The prices keep rising. 2 years ago they were expensive. Now its like $150-180 a bottle after taxes here in Canada
Guys do not play in into « oh it’s less than 100$ so it’s cheap » A designer fragrance costs one or two dollars MAX to make So seeing the costs increased by 25-40% without reason in the fragrance industry is concerning Do not play into their game
@@Slycoop02Jeremy Fragrance admitted his to produce cost about $10-$15 , now yes, he sold direct so didn't have retailers taking a cut but designer companies buy en masse whereas he wouldn't have been able to. I bet even a bottle of Creed doesn't cost more than $20 to make and ship
This is why the middle eastern fragrance houses are killing it right now, and will continue to do so. I'm about to give up on designers all together, given the competition from these newer ME Houses. If they can do it at their prices, no reason designers cant as well, and designers are gonna have to get more realistic and less price gougy, or they will get run over by the ME over time, as they should.
in the UK most new mens releases are now £100 plus utterly crazy boss bottled elixir 100ml was £100 when it came out but you can pick it up for around £60 boss scent elixir is RRP £124 seen it for £100 I usually picked boss frags 200 ml bottles for around £40 to £60 boss pricing is joke now I have really cut back on frags now my most expensive purchase this year is Burberry hero edp 150 ml for £60 a bargin
Ash, do you own a bottle of Gucci Guilty Eau?? Nobody has a bottle of this stuff..Its discontinued and hard to find..Im debating on getting a bottle but nody on youtube has it. Nobody talks about this stuff but Ive heard its the best in the line and a great fragrance..Come on Ash ...
Hey Ash just wanted to say i love your content, even tho i'm very new here, i love you try to upload a lot and how it doesn't look rushed, just wanted to ask if you could do a new sports/gym fragrances, as for i'm looking for one and idk what to get, you did do one a while back but with a lot of new fragrances, and how fragrances are trying to be more modern it might have changed. Thank you
The last thing I paid retail for was Myslf and I didn’t regret it. It got me hella compliments but never mind what other people think I love it in all its generic glory… it performs too but I would NEVER pay $100 or anything close for some of these like coach I’ve grabbed bottles of coach versace D&G from marshals for anywhere from $30-$70 if I paid $100+ for any of those and went in there and seen those prices I’d be disappointed in MYSLF 😂 on a side note I thought I might want y L’elixir but for the price they can keep it
The average person only happens by what’s at Macy’s. They have no idea about discounters or any other perfumes. Used to work at Macys and none of the fragrance vendors knew what discounters were. I don’t see this trend going anywhere unfortunately.
@@Alritealritealrite Yeah? So why make a video about stuff that’s “inexpensive” at retail price when the more logical thing would be to let people know they can be found for significantly cheaper prices? $100 for Varvatos Vintage when you can easily find it for around $30? Again, it’s strange.
How much does a a fragrance cost to produce? Surely these mass produced frags made in bulk can't cost more than 10€ right?! I can't see many people in their right mind 'thanking' these brands for 'only' charging 100€/$ or more as if they are doing us a favour 😅
Personally, I prefer to save up & get the higher quality frags. I feel much more satisfied that way. You get fewer bottles, much better scents. Although the ones Ash has mentioned are nice, I find that one bottle at $300 or above, that you have tried/sampled & loved, gives much more of a fulfilling pleasure than a hundred cheaper ones. Ask yourself if you want to smell okay everyday or smell out of this world everyday!
the definition of "affordable" needs to stay under $100 - so nearly none of these qualify. I think the responses/ posts below are in line with this. NOW that said - I appreciate the video and using the term "LEAST EXPENSIVE" is appropriate here. But not affordable.
Sorry Ash but i gotta be honest. 1 million lucky is pure dog shiiiiiiyite. Like i had it & basically threw the bottle out the scent is horrid. 1 million parfum & elixir though, have to be in your list. I got a bottle of it 100 ml for £45 last week of perfum & about £55 for elixir. Now might of been ebay but, only its about 60-70 quid over here.
Designer fragrances nowadays are like completely worthless. You can get better smelling and performing arabian fragrances for like 20 bucks. And of course performance of designers are like pathetic
These frags are still a total rip-off, personally I'd no longer spend more than 50 euros on a 100ml and even that is pushing it. If people stopped paying OTT prices they'd soon come down 😉
Make no mistake, these recent price spikes by designers have nothing to do with "inflation", or supply chains, etc and 95% due to price gouging and profit taking. The Middle Eastern houses are proving this to be the case more and more every day.
This of course isn't actually inflation...its price gouging and profiteering. 💯The middle eastern houses are proving that it's not inflation....just corporate greed.🤷
$100 - $120 is the standard price for any designer that isn't high on it's own farts like Chanel. There is nothing on this list that is any kind of inexpensive. You also picked several fragrances that are objectively more expensive than other fragrances from the same house or even from the same line. Bad video.
A lot of these are cheapies you guys , please remember the longer a fragrance has been out and the more mainstream it is , highly likely you can obtain it on sale or through a discounter. It’s 2024, it’s annoying to hear certain things be undervalued , especially when prices have barely changed in 10+ years . A lot of people need to get paid along the way to create a fragrance from raw materials and bring it to market.
Hate to break it to you, but $100+ is NOT affordable/cheap. If it's not under $40-$50, it's not affordable or cheap for the vast majority of consumers. Coach for Men and JV frags for $102 retail, when both are widely available for under $35, is laughably insane, and not one on this list is remotely worth their retail price! It's no wonder why Lattafa, Fragrance World, Paris Corner, Alharamain, etc are killing it these days. Designers better wake TF up and learn, or those ME Houses will continue to grow and dominate the fragrance community.
Anything over a $100 is not cheap/affordable. $120 for The Most Wanted is a crime.
Yeah title is rather confusing. Would have thought something like 60 bucks would be a 'least expensive' and affordable bracket.
Especially when you can buy it a lot cheaper at Wal Mart.
Personally, I don’t care for it.
That’s retail price. But even at discounters it’s not that cheap because there’s still so much hype behind it.
Honestly, maybe this is a hot take, but if $100 to the $120 range isn’t affordable, then fragrance collecting isn’t what you should be doing currently. Especially with inflation. I’d say cheapie is $50 and below maybe $60, $60 to $120 is affordable, $120 to $200 is honestly just straight up designer, than anything above $200 is when it starts to get expensive.
I'm used to measuring my designer fragrance prices in Canadian dollars. But here, at retail, basically every one of the better known designer houses will charge at least $100CAD for even a 50ml bottle. I know that's less when converted to USD, but it really isn't a cheap hobby unless you stick to clones. Which, I would like to be clear, that's perfectly fine despite what the niche bros like to say
100+ an affordable designer? This why clones like Fragrance World are killing it right now
Exactly. I wouldn't pay more than $40-$50 for ANY of these in this list. These prices are as laughable as they are ridiculous.
Whats really sad is FW is starting to get so high its almost better to buy the original...such as the clone of Victory Elixir, the clone is close to $50 at sellers for a 3.4oz....well you can get the original for $110 at discounters and its a 6.8oz, so DOUBLE the size....its basically the same price per OZ
$105 for Dylan blue 100ml?! I returned mine which cost £35 as I really didn't think much of it all all.
I got a 200ml for 62$ always use discounters
Yeah it's nothing special in my opinion. Kind of a starter fragrance.
totally agree with the dylan blue, not a fan of it.
Yeah, I paid equivalent of about £40 here in Thailand (unused tester with a top). I wasn't a fan at all, decent, certainly not gross but nothing special. I ended up giving it away with about 75ml left to a guy who paid retail at a high end department store, he paid the same as I did for only 30ml 😂
It's definitely not a fraghead's fragrance. That said, it's one of my most complimented. Most people aren't in the hobby and most people like it
No offense but these are just bare bones normal pricing for designer frags. I can go to my local macys/sephora and almost everything there is ~$100.
I wouldn't pay retail for any of those
Since when designer fragrances costing 100+ $ are considered affordable? The whole situation keeps getting ridiculous with those prices.
Paid shill trying to make us think $120 for Coach or John Varvados is cheap. I wonder if they bought his integrity for $120.
People don't listen to the actual video. I guess.
I think my top 3 would be million lucky, green stravaganza, and carbon. I know a lot of fragrance people aren't into green stravaganza but I absolutely love it
Most Prada frags including the LR line are relatively reasonably priced and worth it if you like the style. With that being said I bought most from discounters.
Bought 2 200ml back-up bottles of Dylan Blue for €56 each, a 200ml One Million Lucky for €77 and (last week) a 200ml Mont Blanc Explorer for €45 (all Notino). 👀
Where you buy these ?
@@ALONSO.7.7 Netherlands. 🤷
Found a 4 oz tester of
John Varvatos Vintage for
just $32 👍👌
I'll take Eros EDP over Dylan Blue. No need to pay retail. I picked up Eros EDP 200ml for $90 from Maxaroma.
I would've picked those 3 as well for my favorites out of this list , I'm proud of you ash!!
I just picked up light blue eau intense a few weeks ago, idk what all the hype is about but im not going to judge it until i wear in in the high heat summer days but so far it just seems like a better quality nautica voyage type fragrance
My girlfriend wears my Toy Boy. It smells amazing on her. So much that she has made it hers.
I got my 100ml bottle of Dylan Blue for $30 plus shipping totally authentic,i even seen a 200ml with about 5% used sell for $39 a couple of weeks ago with pictures of the batch code on the bottle and box that sold within an hour of being listed.All of these fragrances that have been out longer than a year i can find in the $30-$50 range sometimes its an unused tester but i can find them. The prices here are full retail for people who dont have the time to search online or just dont realize they're available that cheap especially when buying from individuals.
Tested that Green Stravaganza the other day at Dillards and it's just phenomenal.
Been considering buying The Most Wanted edp Intense for retail/slight 20% off but ended up getting the 3x10ml travel collection instead of the edp edp intense and parfum.
I may pick up one full bottle when cold weather comes around again.
Can’t go wrong with EDP Intense or Parfum, both are fantastic!
After all these years, Coach for men EDT is still a cheap banger, on par with Artisan Pure
Agreed!
Idk if I got a bottle that wasn't blended well but Toy boy smells like someone just sprinkled a bunch of pepper over a rose. They're literally the only two notes that you smell, so much so that I couldn't stop sneezing and had to scrub it off lol. Also note that that's the most wanted intense so you don't just get the most wanted cuz they're different.
The Most Wanted EDP Intense is just called The Most Wanted in retail. The other one is The Most Wanted Parfum.
@@inFamous_BigT if you're shopping only and you just look for the most wanted you're gonna get either, possibly including tmost wanted parfum (clear bottom bottle). If you search for most wanted intense you're gonna get most wanted EDP intense (black bottom bottle). Even in places like Sephora where I got one of my bottles it says EPS Intense.
Think im done with colognes for now. The prices keep rising. 2 years ago they were expensive. Now its like $150-180 a bottle after taxes here in Canada
Yep, I have enough in my stash to last for a few years lol. I'll buy from Dua if I want a new flavor
Run back to the 80’s pick up Quorum for fall, to the 60’s for Aramis and back to the 90’s for Cool wave. Probably each below 50$ for 3.4 oz.
Ash thanks for the new release✊😎🔥. An excellent selection, you can also add from yourself :Kenzo, Calvin Klein, Burberry ☝️💯
Please talk more about Bentley Infinity Rush
£20 and it is so classy and a fantastic peppery chypre is a similar vein to TDH
Guys do not play in into « oh it’s less than 100$ so it’s cheap »
A designer fragrance costs one or two dollars MAX to make
So seeing the costs increased by 25-40% without reason in the fragrance industry is concerning
Do not play into their game
Advertising and employee and overhead costs are a thing and we do live in capitalist society and everyone needs to eat
Go ahead and make one yourself, see how cheap it can really be.
@@Slycoop02Jeremy Fragrance admitted his to produce cost about $10-$15 , now yes, he sold direct so didn't have retailers taking a cut but designer companies buy en masse whereas he wouldn't have been able to. I bet even a bottle of Creed doesn't cost more than $20 to make and ship
This is why the middle eastern fragrance houses are killing it right now, and will continue to do so. I'm about to give up on designers all together, given the competition from these newer ME Houses. If they can do it at their prices, no reason designers cant as well, and designers are gonna have to get more realistic and less price gougy, or they will get run over by the ME over time, as they should.
coach for man is kind of headache-inducing to me, not sure why, but coach blue is not, and it's fresher but could be generic to some.
I would get One Million Lucky too, hard to find on discount sites
I know some killer brands that are like $100-$160 but you can get them for $15-$20 on discount my favourite brand regardless of price tbh
Shock from calvin should have been on the list. What you get for less is insane imo
Factzz!! 👌
I got both the Coach for Men, and John Varvatos OG for $75 at a discounters in my country
I currently can find JV and Coach For Men for $30-$35 at discounters.🤷
in the UK most new mens releases are now £100 plus
utterly crazy
boss bottled elixir 100ml was £100 when it came out but you can pick it up for around £60
boss scent elixir is RRP £124 seen it for £100
I usually picked boss frags 200 ml bottles for around £40 to £60
boss pricing is joke now
I have really cut back on frags now
my most expensive purchase this year is Burberry hero edp 150 ml for £60 a bargin
I tried Green stravaganza they coffee was hella strong in the opening
Great video Ash! Sheesh, I am so thankful for discounters. 🤘
Picked up the Valentino for 60 bucks the first week it came out.
Ash, do you own a bottle of Gucci Guilty Eau?? Nobody has a bottle of this stuff..Its discontinued and hard to find..Im debating on getting a bottle but nody on youtube has it. Nobody talks about this stuff but Ive heard its the best in the line and a great fragrance..Come on Ash ...
Hey Ash just wanted to say i love your content, even tho i'm very new here, i love you try to upload a lot and how it doesn't look rushed, just wanted to ask if you could do a new sports/gym fragrances, as for i'm looking for one and idk what to get, you did do one a while back but with a lot of new fragrances, and how fragrances are trying to be more modern it might have changed. Thank you
make hot weather/summer fragrances video
Don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of those very soon.
This video should have been 10 seconds long... are they worth it at retail? No, thank you friends be safe out there... 😅
Most of these can be found in the gray market for half the price. You guys need to do a little looking up before commenting
Is JPG le male on board worth it for 60$?
None of these are worth $100 or retail. Most of them are barely worth asking prices at discounters. Suss video imo. Y'all believe this rn?
I went to sephora yesterday with my wife to smell fragrances and man i do not understand the hype around a lot of fragrances.
Just got 200ml of Eros Flame on Amazon for $75
The last thing I paid retail for was Myslf and I didn’t regret it. It got me hella compliments but never mind what other people think I love it in all its generic glory… it performs too but I would NEVER pay $100 or anything close for some of these like coach I’ve grabbed bottles of coach versace D&G from marshals for anywhere from $30-$70 if I paid $100+ for any of those and went in there and seen those prices I’d be disappointed in MYSLF 😂 on a side note I thought I might want y L’elixir but for the price they can keep it
Designers are going to price themselves to where to the common folk will stop buying them. $150+ for basic stuff ???
The average person only happens by what’s at Macy’s. They have no idea about discounters or any other perfumes. Used to work at Macys and none of the fragrance vendors knew what discounters were. I don’t see this trend going anywhere unfortunately.
Perry Ellis “Bold Red” outstanding at $25
Toy boy is so underrated.... Love it
In the Netherlands The most wanted 100 ml is less than 80 bucks (€73).
The skull $600? More like $250..
Is 1 million lucky getting discontinued?
Great video with some great choices in there and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
These things are not affordable. If it's over $60 it's not cheap at all.
C'mon Ash...
Yeah, nobody watching this video is going to buy stuff like John Varvatos, Coach, and Jimmy Choo at retail. What a strange video.
New people watch videos every day.
@@Alritealritealrite Yeah? So why make a video about stuff that’s “inexpensive” at retail price when the more logical thing would be to let people know they can be found for significantly cheaper prices? $100 for Varvatos Vintage when you can easily find it for around $30? Again, it’s strange.
Right? I am confused about what is happening here.
I think it would be different if he gave retail prices and then discounter prices.
Not everyone lives in the states nor has access to discounters
@@flightgravity7483 Just continue to sit back and complain about free content
If you're in the UK, Boots have 20% off 100ml Scandal absolu 😁 still not cheap though 😂
Toy boy and toy boy pearl is £45 for 30ml at TPS and £65/£85 for 50/100ml
How much does a a fragrance cost to produce? Surely these mass produced frags made in bulk can't cost more than 10€ right?! I can't see many people in their right mind 'thanking' these brands for 'only' charging 100€/$ or more as if they are doing us a favour 😅
What is discounters?
Websites thay sell cologne for cheaper
Review Lattafa Asad Zanzibar and Al Haramain Detour Intense Noir
It’s weird! Although I really like carbon, Prada & Sauvage edt they smell nothing alike to my nose.
Personally, I prefer to save up & get the higher quality frags. I feel much more satisfied that way. You get fewer bottles, much better scents. Although the ones Ash has mentioned are nice, I find that one bottle at $300 or above, that you have tried/sampled & loved, gives much more of a fulfilling pleasure than a hundred cheaper ones. Ask yourself if you want to smell okay everyday or smell out of this world everyday!
What is everyone's best heat heat weather cologne???
Intense Cedrat Boise
Tom ford Beau de jour and afternoon swim Louis Vuitton
@@Getstr8cash Is it better EDT or EDP
the definition of "affordable" needs to stay under $100 - so nearly none of these qualify.
I think the responses/ posts below are in line with this.
NOW that said - I appreciate the video and using the term "LEAST EXPENSIVE" is appropriate here.
But not affordable.
Sorry Ash but i gotta be honest. 1 million lucky is pure dog shiiiiiiyite. Like i had it & basically threw the bottle out the scent is horrid. 1 million parfum & elixir though, have to be in your list. I got a bottle of it 100 ml for £45 last week of perfum & about £55 for elixir. Now might of been ebay but, only its about 60-70 quid over here.
literally got DB for 75 for a 200ml
8:11. Phillip Klein will gouge out your eyeballs and skull ream you. 😅😅😅
Other than joop homme. Toy boy is one of the worst fragrances I've ever smelt. Sorry to those who like it😭
I'm out
Terre Hermès , better than all those and at cheap price
Designer fragrances nowadays are like completely worthless. You can get better smelling and performing arabian fragrances for like 20 bucks. And of course performance of designers are like pathetic
Fan of your work. But the title makes ZERO sense
These frags are still a total rip-off, personally I'd no longer spend more than 50 euros on a 100ml and even that is pushing it. If people stopped paying OTT prices they'd soon come down 😉
But bruh, nobody who watches your videos buys full retail... why do this?
Make no mistake, these recent price spikes by designers have nothing to do with "inflation", or supply chains, etc and 95% due to price gouging and profit taking. The Middle Eastern houses are proving this to be the case more and more every day.
Everyone calls everything “price gouging” 💀
@@kylemazur1447 it's always important to call things what they are and to be accurate with them.💯🤷
just buy clones instead
Jimmy for 106 no sir
Are you fckn kidding me?! Now you pushing sales?! I didn't came here for ads!
Ya I get it, but he's only on RUclips to make money tho, not make us happy
Inflation is "transient" they said
This of course isn't actually inflation...its price gouging and profiteering. 💯The middle eastern houses are proving that it's not inflation....just corporate greed.🤷
This is a really weird video... realllly reaching with this one.
What is up with this video? No one would ever pay retail for any of these colognes…… cmon ash.
$100 - $120 is the standard price for any designer that isn't high on it's own farts like Chanel. There is nothing on this list that is any kind of inexpensive. You also picked several fragrances that are objectively more expensive than other fragrances from the same house or even from the same line. Bad video.
You guys are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for content?
Yeah, Coach for $100 dollars dude? In what alternate universe?
What Ashton of 50k subs would say about this list
A lot of these are cheapies you guys , please remember the longer a fragrance has been out and the more mainstream it is , highly likely you can obtain it on sale or through a discounter. It’s 2024, it’s annoying to hear certain things be undervalued , especially when prices have barely changed in 10+ years . A lot of people need to get paid along the way to create a fragrance from raw materials and bring it to market.
Hmmm
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Unless these colognes are guaranteed to cloak you as a visiting gynecologist, no buy for these prices!
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🤜🏾💥🤛🏼💯
bgst stock foto dompetnya pake rupiah 😂
Hate to break it to you, but $100+ is NOT affordable/cheap. If it's not under $40-$50, it's not affordable or cheap for the vast majority of consumers. Coach for Men and JV frags for $102 retail, when both are widely available for under $35, is laughably insane, and not one on this list is remotely worth their retail price! It's no wonder why Lattafa, Fragrance World, Paris Corner, Alharamain, etc are killing it these days. Designers better wake TF up and learn, or those ME Houses will continue to grow and dominate the fragrance community.
Cheap as Chip’s. 🍟🤦🏻♂️$$$
You’re pumping out videos and the quality has severely been affected. Had to leave a dislike for this. No thought behind it at all
Please stop with these cornball intros man 😂
Get over it or don’t watch.
Boring video 😓
What's up Ash!!