I love this idea of tracking fragrances! I may really need to consider doing this this year I love it and loved that you shared this, such a amazing collection you have ❤
Happy New Year! Thanks for going through your fragrances over the year. Very helpful in knowing how these bottles perform. I'm a sucker for blind-buys too! ❤
I had fewer blind buys in 2024 than previous years, but seeing your totals at the end now makes me wonder just how MANY if I added them up. 😳 I might be Kevin Hart-ing myself if I added them up! 😮 This was truly a fun concept and quite interesting to watch. P.S. You are VERY BOLD to crown an overall winner for the year! And great choice!
This year i was on a low buy and seriously trying to reduce blind buying. I only bought 7 full bottles - 3 were replacing used bottles, 2 blind buys and 2 previously tested. 3 of them are NOT loves but I won’t declutter them yet. I should never blind buy but sometime those sales are just so tempting! I got 16 travel or large decants. And 88 samples I’m still going through. All in all I still spent more money than I needed to, but I’ve had a fun year. I’ve also started decluttering and have dozens more I’m planning to list in 2025. I can’t wait to have a more curated collection of loves.
@ it must be very difficult when you go through so many new ones each year. I think for me some of it is just the luck. whichever ones I discover first are my favorites. The more I sample the more I realize there’s so many similar perfumes that I don’t need a lot of the ones I actually really love.
Hi Jackie! Happy New Year! 🎉 Love your videos. I’m not a content creator but I have a nice sized collection. I also track my fragrances. For 2024 I purchased 25 full bottles (emptied 2 and decluttered 2), 43 travel (emptied 29 and decluttered 6) and 26 decants (emptied 10 and decluttered 1). I try before I buy so my blind buys are mostly travel and decants. 😊
Great video‼️ I enjoyed watching you discover them all over again. Ur too funny saying you didn’t have time to sniff and you couldn’t help yourself…😄🥰. Very helpful. God Bless us all in the new year🙏. Thank you for sharing ❤
I love that you tracked all of these. I was so incredibly excited to see a longer video. Thank you so much for sharing ❤❤. You ALWAYS have time to stop and smell the fragrance, hon. No need to rush for me. It shows me how much you love these. I bought way too many perfumes this year and most if not all were blind buys. I live way out of the way and nowhere to go try out. This year I am hoping to be better about getting samples, decants and travel sprays and need to really slow down on buying and really focus on using what I have.
That's a lot of fragrances! I do this kind of thing, I've been tracking my purchasing for year. I also record my spending as I've noticed it edge up year on year. I guess stuff's got more expensive and sadly also had my taste. Had two weeks off over Christmas, really enjoyed a break from YT. Happy new year 🎊
I love a longer video! I liked the stats, the monthly standouts and your favorite for the year. I got some really special perfumes in 2024. My favorites are Orchidee Vanille, Vanilla Éclat, Juicy Couture Majestic Woods, Heal The Way and Angels Share were my favorite buys of the year. I always love your content Jackie - HNY to you and your family 🎉
Great video!!! I truly enjoyed this and added a few to my wishlist. I’m also guilty of blind buying and I try to make myself feel better by researching first…😂
Oooh, 2024 was fun for me, fragrance-wise! I know there are more, but some special pickups for me were Cafe Chantant & Whispers in the Library. There are fragrances I like, fragrances I love, and then there are fragrances that I feel connection to the moment I smell them, as if they are "Me" in a bottle. Lovelovelove Oh, and I can't forget Duchessa!! Sexy Cherry done right!
I need to keep track like you did for the next year. When you mentioned it month by month I was thinking “hu that not even so many”, but when you tallied it up and arrived at 100 (and a bit) that did seem like many 😂 I think I needed this wake up call!
49:21 YES thank you!!!!! I always say maturation. Maceration is not the same thing. Every time people say macerate they mean age/mature/oxidize. I wish more people were made aware of this. 🥲
Hi Jackie. Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family! ❤ I haven't been on for a while due to a nasty flu that went through my household. Because of the flu, I stopped using fragrances because they nauseated me. It almost felt like I had pregnancy symptoms-ugh! But I’m getting better now, and I miss my fragrances and your videos. Alright, I’ll stop talking and enjoy your video. Thank you, Jackie!
you can add one double-declutter to the list😅 I bought Rasasi from your Mercari and I have it back up for sale. wasn’t for me but I’m glad to have tried it and know that type of common DNA just isn’t for me
My son does not like the way Valaya smells. I love it, and wear it when he’s not around me. I found a dupe, Mystique Bouquet by Afnan, and my son thinks that smells great. I LOVE it (almost more than Valaya), so it may be a good one for others to try. Love this video! Happy New Year!
i love this video idea so much!! for me some big fails this ywar have been from the ME area - Sehr by Lattafa and Noble blush by Lattafa, the first one smells too much like gasoline for me and the second one has a lipsticky note that i really really dislike
Happy New Year, Jackie! 🎉 Pretty funny, we both got Rolling In Love, Remember Me, and Via Cavour in 2024. One of my best buys was probably Musc Ravageur.😍 It's beautiful... Wore Café Chantant on December 31st to finish the year smelling fabulous. My mother always compliments that one. 🙂
I knew I was forgetting some - Coffee Addict and Caramel Oud by TK. I layer them and smell like a sexy mocha caramel dream! Creme Brulee is on my list for 2025, for sure.
If you had to choose a favorite between rania j or musk therapy which one would you pick? I know you said they are different but both are really expensive and if I could only get one I’d like to know which one you’d choose.
French Defense does have “booze” in it-specifically cognac 😊 The perfumer Christelle LaPrade talks about it. Love that fragrance 👍🏻👍🏻 Only blind buy was Chris’ fragrance and I have no regrets. I have lots of decants I’m still working through though 😮
I don’t like erba pura and I - like you - absolutely 1000% love dolce melodia. One of my favorite purchases of 2024. Halfway through my bottle (and I have 200+ so that means something 😂)
Lighter fluid 😂 it truly is difficult when your husband doesn't like a scent that you love! Love this overview with stats! I'm getting into perfumes more and bought a Google Sheets template to organize my different scents and to figure out different notes that I like do not like. 🤓
what a nice over view. i started to track everything but fell off towards the end. you make me want to get back to my tracker i just got into perfume last year so i got really into it starting with middle easterns and probably bought like 50ish middle eastern scents. with a few zara or other brands sprinkled in after. I suspect i wont buy as much this year because when i started i hated all the perfumes i had (narcisso rodriguez poudree and burberry her and some others). I learned with middle eastern perfumes i enjoy gourmonds, vanilla, woody scents over overly girly and flowery scents. (ex. december vanilla, nebras, ajayeb dubai portrait etc) i just placed a massive sample order. honestly i'm cringing at how much i spent on samples. i kind like getting bottles but i'm sampling niche / more expensive scents. i live in canada and today i had to pay $20 for customs on top of my expensive order so they better blow my socks off. either way i feel like i'll slow down on purchasing this year unless i get super excited over something because now that i found so many loves i want to enjoy what i have
Lighter fluid 😂😂oh no! Might be a challenge to wear Valaya when your husband is not around. You would have to change clothes and shower before gets home. Valaya lasts all day on my skin, it lives and dies on my clothes.
I love this idea of tracking fragrances! I may really need to consider doing this this year I love it and loved that you shared this, such a amazing collection you have ❤
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy tracking your own collection! 🥰
FWIW I keep a live spreadsheet, it doesn't take much effort at all and it's kinda fun.
What a great video!! I liked how you broke everything down by month. I need to do this for myself.
I'm glad you liked it! It's super helpful to see it all laid out. 😊
Afnan’s Mystique Bouquet is a great substitute for Valaya sans aldehydes.
Yes! I like it more because sometimes aldehydes give me headaches.
Thanks Jackie! That was awesome to see. 21 Purchased (7 were blind buys - only 2 blind buys were over $100). No declutters.
No declutters! That’s awesome. Sounds like you had a successful year.
I’m love the idea of taking inventory! Great video!
Yes! Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Thanks for going through your fragrances over the year. Very helpful in knowing how these bottles perform.
I'm a sucker for blind-buys too! ❤
Happy New Year 🎆
I had fewer blind buys in 2024 than previous years, but seeing your totals at the end now makes me wonder just how MANY if I added them up. 😳 I might be Kevin Hart-ing myself if I added them up! 😮 This was truly a fun concept and quite interesting to watch.
P.S. You are VERY BOLD to crown an overall winner for the year! And great choice!
It was definitely difficult to pick an overall winner. So many good ones this year!
Outstanding overview!! Thanks for the recap!
You are very welcome! 🥰
Thank you for all this work! Fun video!
You are very welcome! 🥰
Wow, Jackie, what a year. More wins for you🎉
Such a cool concept! Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you too! 🎉
Enjoyed the video. ❤
Thank you so much!
Hey friend!🙋🏻♀️🥰🥰🥰 I love long videos🤗 I’m gonna polish my nails while I watch 🤓💅🏼
Happy to have you here!💅
This year i was on a low buy and seriously trying to reduce blind buying. I only bought 7 full bottles - 3 were replacing used bottles, 2 blind buys and 2 previously tested. 3 of them are NOT loves but I won’t declutter them yet. I should never blind buy but sometime those sales are just so tempting!
I got 16 travel or large decants. And 88 samples I’m still going through.
All in all I still spent more money than I needed to, but I’ve had a fun year. I’ve also started decluttering and have dozens more I’m planning to list in 2025. I can’t wait to have a more curated collection of loves.
Yes, I just want loves too. ❤️
@ it must be very difficult when you go through so many new ones each year. I think for me some of it is just the luck. whichever ones I discover first are my favorites.
The more I sample the more I realize there’s so many similar perfumes that I don’t need a lot of the ones I actually really love.
Hi Jackie! Happy New Year! 🎉 Love your videos. I’m not a content creator but I have a nice sized collection. I also track my fragrances. For 2024 I purchased 25 full bottles (emptied 2 and decluttered 2), 43 travel (emptied 29 and decluttered 6) and 26 decants (emptied 10 and decluttered 1). I try before I buy so my blind buys are mostly travel and decants. 😊
I should probably start doing more decants this year!
Thank you so much, Jax 🙏❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
You are so welcome! 😊
Great video‼️ I enjoyed watching you discover them all over again. Ur too funny saying you didn’t have time to sniff and you couldn’t help yourself…😄🥰. Very helpful. God Bless us all in the new year🙏. Thank you for sharing ❤
Happy New Year 🎆
I love that you tracked all of these. I was so incredibly excited to see a longer video. Thank you so much for sharing ❤❤. You ALWAYS have time to stop and smell the fragrance, hon. No need to rush for me. It shows me how much you love these. I bought way too many perfumes this year and most if not all were blind buys. I live way out of the way and nowhere to go try out. This year I am hoping to be better about getting samples, decants and travel sprays and need to really slow down on buying and really focus on using what I have.
I say I’m going to try to be better…. We will see 😉
Hi Jackie! ❤ Here watching ☺️ I love how you have the breakdown month by month included in the description box- awesome 😊
I hope it helps! 😄
That's a lot of fragrances! I do this kind of thing, I've been tracking my purchasing for year. I also record my spending as I've noticed it edge up year on year. I guess stuff's got more expensive and sadly also had my taste.
Had two weeks off over Christmas, really enjoyed a break from YT. Happy new year 🎊
My taste has definitely become more expensive 😆 happy new year 🎊
I'm really enjoying seeing the numbers breakdowns for each month! Yay for Zenobia! A standout for sure 😍❤
Zenobia is truly a special one!
54:44 The Kevin Hart face took me out!!! 😂😂😂
Thanks for the video! 🫶🏾
😆 thanks for watching!
I love a longer video! I liked the stats, the monthly standouts and your favorite for the year.
I got some really special perfumes in 2024. My favorites are Orchidee Vanille, Vanilla Éclat, Juicy Couture Majestic Woods, Heal The Way and Angels Share were my favorite buys of the year.
I always love your content Jackie - HNY to you and your family 🎉
Also, Vanille Banane by Sud Pacifique. This was an unexpected treat! I’ll definitely get a full bottle of this in 2025. Highly recommend
Thanks for watching! Happy New Year! 🎉
What a fantastic idea for a post! Brilliant monthly breakdown ❤Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the roundup. It’s got to be a lot of work but I definitely appreciate all the useful information on all these scents. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I appreciate you watching. It was indeed a lot of work 😆
Thankfully, my husband loves Valaya on me. It may be one of his favorites. I love it too. Hopefully you find more occasion to wear it.
Great video!!! I truly enjoyed this and added a few to my wishlist. I’m also guilty of blind buying and I try to make myself feel better by researching first…😂
The research is part of the fun 🤩
Oooh, 2024 was fun for me, fragrance-wise! I know there are more, but some special pickups for me were Cafe Chantant & Whispers in the Library. There are fragrances I like, fragrances I love, and then there are fragrances that I feel connection to the moment I smell them, as if they are "Me" in a bottle. Lovelovelove Oh, and I can't forget Duchessa!! Sexy Cherry done right!
I need to keep track like you did for the next year. When you mentioned it month by month I was thinking “hu that not even so many”, but when you tallied it up and arrived at 100 (and a bit) that did seem like many 😂 I think I needed this wake up call!
49:21 YES thank you!!!!! I always say maturation. Maceration is not the same thing. Every time people say macerate they mean age/mature/oxidize. I wish more people were made aware of this. 🥲
💯
Hi Jackie. Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family! ❤ I haven't been on for a while due to a nasty flu that went through my household. Because of the flu, I stopped using fragrances because they nauseated me. It almost felt like I had pregnancy symptoms-ugh! But I’m getting better now, and I miss my fragrances and your videos.
Alright, I’ll stop talking and enjoy your video. Thank you, Jackie!
Happy New Year to you and your family! I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you explaining the differences btwn maturation, oxidation, and marceration. Everyone should understand that concept
Yes it can get confusing if people don’t understand the difference.
you can add one double-declutter to the list😅 I bought Rasasi from your Mercari and I have it back up for sale. wasn’t for me but I’m glad to have tried it and know that type of common DNA just isn’t for me
Great video Jackie!
Thanks for watching!
I love Sugar Kisses! Love me Latte, I thought would be a happier scent.. I was disappointed but hopeful it might change and maybe I'll like it more.
My son does not like the way Valaya smells. I love it, and wear it when he’s not around me. I found a dupe, Mystique Bouquet by Afnan, and my son thinks that smells great. I LOVE it (almost more than Valaya), so it may be a good one for others to try.
Love this video! Happy New Year!
i love this video idea so much!! for me some big fails this ywar have been from the ME area - Sehr by Lattafa and Noble blush by Lattafa, the first one smells too much like gasoline for me and the second one has a lipsticky note that i really really dislike
Happy New Year, Jackie! 🎉 Pretty funny, we both got Rolling In Love, Remember Me, and Via Cavour in 2024. One of my best buys was probably Musc Ravageur.😍 It's beautiful... Wore Café Chantant on December 31st to finish the year smelling fabulous. My mother always compliments that one. 🙂
Cafe Chantant is a beauty!
I knew I was forgetting some - Coffee Addict and Caramel Oud by TK. I layer them and smell like a sexy mocha caramel dream! Creme Brulee is on my list for 2025, for sure.
Love your video ❤❤❤
Thank you!!
If you had to choose a favorite between rania j or musk therapy which one would you pick? I know you said they are different but both are really expensive and if I could only get one I’d like to know which one you’d choose.
Personally, I prefer Musk Therapy. It’s in my top 10 for life perfumes.
I just blind bought Tomavicci both perfumes you talked about now 😄
French Defense does have “booze” in it-specifically cognac 😊 The perfumer Christelle LaPrade talks about it. Love that fragrance 👍🏻👍🏻
Only blind buy was Chris’ fragrance and I have no regrets. I have lots of decants I’m still working through though 😮
Ha! I knew I smelled a boozy note! Go me and my nose! 😉
@ 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Your earrings!! 😍
❤️
I don’t like erba pura and I - like you - absolutely 1000% love dolce melodia. One of my favorite purchases of 2024. Halfway through my bottle (and I have 200+ so that means something 😂)
Dolce Melodia is gorgeous!
There is an Arabic dupe for the chierosa 71. I can't remember the name, but it sounds really good. The bottle is interesting as well
Lighter fluid 😂 it truly is difficult when your husband doesn't like a scent that you love! Love this overview with stats! I'm getting into perfumes more and bought a Google Sheets template to organize my different scents and to figure out different notes that I like do not like. 🤓
It is definitely tough when the husband doesn’t like something you love! 😂
This is a great idea!
@@loribreitbarth2215 thanks! It’s on Etsy!
what a nice over view. i started to track everything but fell off towards the end. you make me want to get back to my tracker
i just got into perfume last year so i got really into it starting with middle easterns and probably bought like 50ish middle eastern scents. with a few zara or other brands sprinkled in after. I suspect i wont buy as much this year because when i started i hated all the perfumes i had (narcisso rodriguez poudree and burberry her and some others). I learned with middle eastern perfumes i enjoy gourmonds, vanilla, woody scents over overly girly and flowery scents. (ex. december vanilla, nebras, ajayeb dubai portrait etc)
i just placed a massive sample order. honestly i'm cringing at how much i spent on samples. i kind like getting bottles but i'm sampling niche / more expensive scents. i live in canada and today i had to pay $20 for customs on top of my expensive order so they better blow my socks off. either way i feel like i'll slow down on purchasing this year unless i get super excited over something because now that i found so many loves i want to enjoy what i have
It’s definitely a good idea to enjoy what you have. If I didn’t have a channel, I would buy way less!
My husband feels the same about Valaya! He doesn’t like Aldehydes. He says it smells like a cleaning agent😂
No! Not Valaya 😮
Agree, it’s very screetchy to my nose to. Not pleasant at all😂
Same here. I found that Afnan’s Mystique Bouquet is so much better than Valaya.
@@sidselalbertsen898it’s very screechy and gives me a headache 😅
Oh my gosh, that’s so funny! 😂
😊 Months sorted into chapters would have been really user friendly. 😊
I thought I was the only one who tracks my fragrances 😂
Lighter fluid 😂😂oh no! Might be a challenge to wear Valaya when your husband is not around. You would have to change clothes and shower before gets home. Valaya lasts all day on my skin, it lives and dies on my clothes.
It definitely is a strong perfume! 😂
Sometimes blind buying is the only option
😍
❤
If you smell like lighter fluid, does that mean you’re fire 🔥 lol
I’m going to go with yes 😆
All my purchases are blind buys!😂😂😂
😆