Something else... when you buy a fragrance after seeing a good review on someone’s channel that you trust and two months later she declutters the same fragrance because it’s not good! What?! Excellent video!
That upsets me too... they’ll do amazing reviews and then all those fragrances are being sold online by them on mercari or being de cluttered almost right away!
These things don’t annoy me but I do take notice: -Bashing a fragrance because it’s too popular ie La Vie a Belle -Mispronouncing the fragrance name and using the excuse “I don’t speak French” -Wasting perfume by spraying the bottle a million times like it’s an air freshener Love your channel❤️
Omggggg I hate when reviewers all get on the bandwagon & drag “crowd-pleasing” scents & bash a designer that makes a generic scent. Little do they know, designers do not make fragrances for THEM, they make it for the masses. It’s so BASIC to bash a basic scent.
Most of those things don’t bother me, but the ones that do are: never giving a bad review, not printing the name of the perfume on the screen, long tedious intros, and mispronunciation of the fragrances name. That last one really gets me.
I think you captured all of the things that bother me, but the mispronunciation of the names is king. It's a small respectful thing, like properly pronouncing someone's name.
What annoys me the most is describing fragrances like this: “omg this is so good..this scent is amazing, I absolutely love it... so sexy, biggest compliment getter.. Mmm oh my god it’s absolutely divine, heavenly, I definitely need a bigger bottle... it’s my absolute favorite” Damn it woman!!! I still have no clue what it smells like and you describe all other fragrances in the same way!
I hate when reviewer do not list the fragrances below because sometime you don't understand what they are saying and they put the fragrance in front of the camera and they moving their hand. At least spell the name on the screen. Those reviewer I do not bother to watch.
I kinda have multiple issues with this video. I respect your opinion 100%. I just don’t know how I feel about a fellow fragrance reviewer gently throwing shade at an entire community of fragrance reviewers. I am deffo guilty of a few of these things. I review samples but most of the time I’m familiar with the fragrance and have worn it many times leading up to the review. I worked in a perfume shop so, that solves that. The unboxing thing? I’ve never done it on my channel but some people really like to see the entire product before they buy, some people display their boxes in their home and some boxes are actually so beautiful (amouage I’m looking at you). Top tens! I have multiple comments of subscribers that tell me that top tens are their favourite videos of mine. Yeah repeating is kinda annoying but if they are your too 10 and things you own? They’re gonna come up over and over, it’s your taste right? Selling perfume? I don’t ever think that I’m trying to “sell” perfume in my videos. I’m merely sharing knowledge and my opinion on how somethjng smells. I don’t see my RUclips channel as a job. Mis pronouncing things. Girl, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You said eXPecislly , rowja dove and jaguire? (In your video recently) It’s ESpecially, jaguar and (roja, like the name roger but he glammed it up) no hate here just... putting something out there like this is obviously gonna cause people react. You’re glam. You’re beautiful but everyone is different during their fragrance journey. I pronounced “geurlain” wrong for so many years... not everyone has the “perfume speak” right off the bat! My biggest issue is commenting on people’s appearance, sometimes I just wanna flood out my thoughts on a great perfume I’ve found (kinda the idea of my channel) ya don’t always wanna get dressed up to the nines every.... single.... time! What I’m saying should be so much more important than what I’m wearing. If it was a fashion channel? I get it but not for perfume. You are perpetuating the idea that perfume is for the riches: I will wear my effing vintage bal a Versailles to go to the shops. There’s such a Stigma ya know? Someone commented once on the top I was wearing in a video rather than what I said and it’s just so irritating. Do you wanna Wanna know how it smells? Or do you want my nose to be wearing a tiara? My nose is the same no matter WHAT I’m wearing! Anyway.... rant over. This video is judgy, gently judgy and cloaked in honesty but really, everyone is different. Final note. You hate top tens right? So why did you do a video about ten things that drive you crazy? Lmao. Come on now. 🤣🤣
I have to agree with ouch110. I love you Ouch110, by the way. Eva should have used this video to give advice on how to be better perfume reviewer and be more positive in her approach. I like Eva because she speaks about grown ass woman stuff, but I am disappointed. I even took a break from watching Eva after seeing just the tittle of this video. By the way, I have a channel where I talk about my fragrances and art collection. I am not trying to be competitive. I have another job full time. I just feel that as a Black woman, Eva needs to just uplift others. Not throw shade at others, many of whom, it is clear are Black women that she has even collaborated with. I am a native French Creole woman and speaks French fluently, but sometimes I pronounce the perfume names with an English accent just so that People who speak English can relate to the names a little bit better. So even the French pronunciation thing ain’t need to be that serious a problem. I have also noticed that some of the reviewers who do sample it is because it is clear they don’t have money to purchase those fragrances. I happen to make a lot of money and can afford my fragrances, but it seems insensitive to talk about others who cannot afford to buy unnecessary things like perfumes , given their budget, just to make a video about them. Next is appearance. I have not seen any reviewer who look as bad as she described them. On another note in a different video, I was surprised when Eva said she watches no other perfume video , except maybe the Bow Tie Guy. And she said that the only person she like was Demi Rowling. I was surprised she did not not mention other young Black reviewers, especially those she had collaborated with as a way to boost their viewership, like Demi did for her.
You are one of my favorite reviewers. You aren’t who she is talking about. I have seen another smaller youtubers steal your “Good good!” comment, but she uses it very differently. It will be her sole description of the product. As to pronunciation, everyone struggles with unique names the first time (Roja Dove), but there are people that can’t read and can’t say things like “Ciao” Or “”Femme.” It’s embarrassing. Relax, you aren’t the target here. You’re a pro! 😘
I may be guilty of a couple of little things... 🤣 I do love an unboxing myself, and I’ll review samples but with full disclosure that I’ve only worn it once maybe twice and you can’t judge performance from a sample for sure! Love that you tell it like it is, looking utterly fabulous as usual.
I don't mind watching a review based on a sample. Sometimes people can't afford or don't want to own a full bottle of the fragrance. No biggie if they give it a full wearing and then explain what it smells like.
I’m a very small channel that has only just started out and I only own perfumes that I love or at least like, so therefore I wouldn’t honestly be able to produce a negative review of something that often. I also feel that 2ml is a fair amount of perfume to work with, and I’ve never had an issue watching reviews which use samples at all. Buying samples also means that the reviewer is more likely to come across a scent they don’t quite like as much, and could then do a more critical review on it. As for unboxings, I’ve always really enjoyed watching them. 🤷🏻♀️ 💕
I dont really got too bothered by anything in frag vids, except if there is straight up disrespect. I also do most of these and will continue to do so lol. But because we are both grown women (who have our own preferences) in what we watch I do understand that we have different pet peeves but that doesn’t mean we should passively hate on one another. Loved the honesty but damn my lil 500 sub channel will not be tamed with rules 😂👌🏼
You are absolutely right to keep doing your videos the way you want to do them. Most people in these comments who have their own channels do these things and still agreed with her. I feel like she was being very disrespectful to her fellow fragrance reviewers. Great job at staying true to yourself and being straightforward enough to tel her that you are still going to stay true to yourself. I’m heading over to your channel now to sub. 💕
It's not disrespectful to give an opinion. If she goes to someone's channel as a fellow creator and calls them out, then it's disrespectful. To just simply say what bothering her like you both just did, is just fine. Otherwise hypocrisy is in the air.
@@rainerwells1573 no kidding! If you have an opinion you're a hater, bully, bitch. If you keep it to yourself you're a coward, deceitful, sneaky or an enabler!
First of all...that peach shade you’re wearing is everything!! Secondly, I was a fragrance consultant at Sephora and YES we do recognize the posers and it’s 100% ANNOYING! We can tell who really bout the fragrance life and who is posing. And YES I have learned and taken suggestions from customers who were very knowledgeable about fragrances.
I’ve got to disagree with a point. I don’t think you need to spend hundreds on fragrances to share in this hobby. Reviewers aren’t always trying to sell ultra-expensive fragrances. I don’t equate fragrance with luxury, even though it’s not a necessity. I don’t mind reviews on samples as long as they are honest about having a sample and limited experience with it. Most people will do “first impressions.” Fine. I don’t need reviewers to buy bottles of everything they want to share. I love hearing about scents even if I won’t buy a bottle. And I don’t require my friends to always look 💯 or drive fancy cars, so why would I require someone reviewing fragrances to get dressed up? Just be yourself. Fragrance is not a front; it’s not (always) about perception. It’s about enjoying scent, right? Talking about scent? Not pretending to be rich or looking like you’re interviewing. Of course, that’s just my opinion, and you are just sharing yours, but thought I might provide a perspective from someone that doesn’t spend thousands in fragrances but still spends hours watching and reading reviews. ✌🏼
Yes very well put, I just want to share my love of fragrances, often I film with no makeup on, or even with no clothes on... in the bath 🛀 which is almost certainly not to everyone’s taste!
What bothers me about the no samples rule is that it can become about how many bottles you own, or how much money you’ve spent on really expensive scents. When we say that a reviewer should only talk about full bottles she has purchased, we are basically saying if you aren’t able/willing to spend an arm and a leg on this hobby then get a new hobby. I look at reviewing fragrances as a fun hobby, but I also have three kids to send to college one day, so...I’m going to review an occasional sample.
Agreed. You can fully assess a 1.2 ml or 2 ml sample as long as you spray enough of it. Most people don't even spray a full 1 ml from the bottle unless they over spray.
I don't equate fragrance reviewing to sales people selling 250,000 dollar vehicles. I also don't believe one must be well groomed at all times to justify his or her choice to buy $400 bottles of perfume. These are personal choices which should be non issues to the rest of us doing our own thing. I've actually never seen someone looking like they just rolled out of a dumpster doing fragrance reviews on RUclips, personally. Some things can be like nails on a chalk board, like how someone speaks, but I can usually reconcile my annoyances within a few minutes if they have any redeeming qualities about them.
Well said. Love that salmon pink on your skin tone. I get annoyed when a reviewer bashes Patchouli or another note and goes and list fragrances in their top favorites that all have dominant patchouli. 😂
I love this video so much! After my elderly mother and I watched another fragrance reviewer that just drove us crazy, and we kept giving each other big eyes, I decided to play this for her. We laughed so hard and said a lot of “uh huh!” “Yes!” Thank you! 😘 you did miss #11, never saying what the fragrance smells like. Literally reading what the website says (which we can do on our own) and saying “It’s Good Good!” 🙄
Girl you just made a 10 point video list while also saying that reviewers that do top 10 lists drive you crazy. The hypocrisy is SO real! You’re gorgeous and I love your energy but damn! Haha
I’m here queen 👑 💖 my pet peeve is when they keep showing the same bottles over and over, say things like “panty droppers” and stare at themselves the whole time and not look into the camera 😫😫😫
She didn’t say you had to buy an entire bottle. Purchase a 5mL decant & put it in an atomizer if it’s a dabber, dabbing doesn’t provide the same performance as a sprayer does.
I swear I hollered at every one of these but especially that damn cellophane! Omg, just tear that mess off BEFORE you start filming! Oooh chile, this gave me total new life. Oh gosh, and the mispronunciation KILLS me! I can't! Lawd jesus!
I am a fragrance reviewer too and really enjoyed your video. LOL I subbed! If I do not like a perfume, I let viewers know in a professional way. I will never bash a company or fragrance, but will mention what it is that doesn't work for ME.
Hey Eva, I started watching you because you have been about being a grown ass and classy woman. This video is however not grown ass and classy. You would get views because people like to watch negativity. But is it worth coming across as less than one is?
You are a beautiful lady, my guess is that you don't need foundation. But if you do, the one you are wearing clashes with your natural skin, and looks too orangy.
You almost had me falling out of my chair with laughter already at number 1!😂Excellent!!👏😂And I sooo agree with you...all these reviewers that roll their eyes and scream "oh, this just smells sooo good!" Not one word about how it smells. I'm here because I wanna know WHAT it smells like, not that juvenile "smells sooo good!"-crap, that is not a review! You go Eva,-you have my wholehearted support and love!😄🙋🇳🇴
Bahahahaaa!! Love it. I happen to love the sound of cellophane opening!! 🤣🤣🤣. This reminded me of the Hackie Aina trend to leave behind videos that’s she’s done! Super fun.
This is EXACTLY why I subscribed to your channel!!! Giving it to us (and them) straight. THANK. YOU. My biggest annoyance is mispronunciation. Not just mispronounce but BUTCHER the name of not one but many fragrances. If you cant do some research and give a little respect then dont do the review. Its embarrassing to have such knowledge of a fragrance but you dont even know the damn name. Smh Like going on a date with Stacey and calling her Sally....how rude. 🤦♀️
R E N É E T D K M Agree💯!! I find mispronunciations of fragrance names inexcusable. Especially when reviewers use the excuse that they don’t speak French. I think it shows respect for your craft and to the fragrance itself when you know how to pronounce the name correctly.
Eva, I agree!!! the mispronunciation of French perfumes/ Cologne names drives me crazy. Especially for those of us who speak French. The minute a reviewer mispronounces a cologne they lose credibility in my book. Eva When you’re unsure about a French pronunciation hit me up.
I got so much love and respect for you! I’ll try and do better on my channel!! 🤚🏽😂I just started my fragrance channel and I have a lot to learn but it’s more as an outlet for me. It’s fun to just talk about what I love. This is not my job, so I’m just enjoying the ride😔😂😂 If they don’t like me or how I describe fragrances, it doesn’t hurt my feelings. Just mosey on along to the channel that suits you! But anyway, Great video as always. 😘😘
You do alot of decant reviews so the sample thing does not apply to you. U can def get to know a fragrance by a decant but a sample no way. Love your content!!
Eva, every point was on point, especially saying the name incorrectly all the time, not knowing the notes (like a teacher coming to class and not knowing the syllabus), and unboxings/first impressions. There are 2 other things I don't like: 1) I've been seeing this lately, where the reviewer literally tells you (in the title) that he's about to do an honest review (which makes me think you're about to lie [or, at least] exaggerate) 2) When a reviewer reviews another reviewer's fragrance line (if you're friends with that reviewer, are you actually going to bash his fragrance?) You should just tell the truth, that you're doing a commercial for your friend. That's it, that's all.
It bothers me when they judge a perfume and smell it from a cardboard! just use it on your skin and give me a more real opinion ... and at least wait a few minutes
Flatlining!!!😂🤣 Here is another...tell us the name of the fragrance before and after you rambled about it for 10+ minutes. I forgot what you were talking about! Thanks, Queen for getting this right! Also you get in and get out! Long drawn out reviews. 45 mins for one frag. You give us a boatload of information thoroughly and quickly. Thanks again for good content.
I don't mind any of these things except the last one. I do appreciate honest reviews and it does look funny when a RUclipsr only loves every fragrance. But to be fair, a lot of the fragrance youtubers are new to making vids and doing fragrance reviews. Everybody has to start somewhere. Kudos to them for putting themselves out there, and providing us with content. Appreciate the vid.
Im a new fragrance reviewer 50 subs to be exact, at first few minutes I thought of this as offensive and kinda unrespectful but if you look it the other way I realized you are just being honest and critical and as a newbie there are some things to IMPROVE not change because if we change entirely that is being not who we are anymore. It doesn’t hurt to listen honesty than fake appraisal. For this I truly appreciate your content. All the best.
I love your sense of humor and how honest you are, it is so refreshing these days. I have a new fragrance channel and still have a lot to learn, but I couldn't agree with you more about many of the things that you mentioned 👍😍😀
Yep! Your last one is my biggest pet peeve! Reviewers who LOVE EVERYTHING! I have unsubscribed to a few because I didn’t feel that I could trust their opinion. I have even seen them rave about a perfume then it shows up a month later on a ‘cleaning house’ video.
Omg the NY slander 😂😂😂😂😂 I legit clicked off someone’s video when they pulled out the sample. I was very confused 😂😂 the 1 fragrance in every top 10 list! YES!!! Alien is one that I’ve seen in a reviewer’s 3rd or 4th top 10 and before even clicking I’m like “let me guess Alien 😑😑😑”
Number 10 is huge!! If reviewers don't want to trash a perfume, then they should just say, "This might not be for everyone, so this might not be the best perfume to blind buy." A perfect example of this is everyone pushing Libre when it came out. I bought it blind because of all of the reviews. Thankfully, I love the bottle and it looks beautiful on the tray. However, that perfume does not smell good. All they had to do was balance the lavender a little more and it could have been a keeper. As it stands, it is a nose burner straight out of the bottle, and all of you reviewers know this. One thing I hate to see on a perfume review is the reviewer constantly messing with their hair and worrying about their makeup. I agree that the reviewer needs to be well put together, but some of my favorite reviewers are men who are sitting in a bare bones room with a plaid shirt on. They know their stuff, and they give it to you straight, no chaser. Yes!! Of course, you are a class act, Eva, and I do search out your videos. Just the variety and diversity of fragrances that are on display lets me know you are the real deal.
I don't mind people doing a review on a small sample. Not all small samples are received from Nordstroms, etc. I have a ton of small samples from places like Luckyscent who give samples when you order a fragrance, and I have purchased small samples also as I don't like to blind buy expensive fragrances. I do think the reviewer needs to put a decent amount of the sample on to get a good gist of the fragrance. Instead of dabbing on a small sample, I hold it against my wrist and pour a bit on which is more similar to the amount I would spray, but otherwise, I don't have an issue with reviews based on small samples. I mostly dislike when fragrance reviewers have a new favorite fragrance every week. 'OMG, this is the best fragrance EVER!.' The next week, 'OMG, this is the best fragrance EVER!' and so forth. I also hate too many top 10 lists. Top 10 fragrances for your mom, top 10 fragrances for your grandma, etc, and they usually hash the same stuff over and over again in these lists. Give us something NEW! Too many lists just gets BORING. I don't mind top 10 where they are discussing a particular note...top 10 amber, top 10 animalic, top 10 vanilla. Those I am okay especially if it is a category of fragrance that I like, but the other top 10 lists just get on my nerves and I don't tend to watch them. And I have both Bat and Jungle Jezebel🤣
Eh, that Bat, Jungle Jezebel, "scent yo(ur) city" rant was a misinterpretation of reviewers pointing out what fragrances are repeatedly worn in their city. They're not referring to the actual scent of the streets , alleys, etc. Just what is commonly worn by the locals.
The one thing that really bothers me is being rude and obnoxious to a subscriber just because he/she may feel a bit differently about a certain perfume. I just feel like way too many times I’ve witnessed perfume reviewers legit cursing subscribers out. Maybe because I work in HR, but dangggg LOL your whole channel now is just going to rub me off the wrong way. Talking about some “ girl bye gtfoh nobody asked you” LOL like you do know a platform is only as good as your fan base, but that’s just me.
I so agree with you on not dressing nice/appropriate when reviewing a fragrance. The other day I watched a woman reviewing fragrances with her boyfriend. He was wearing a black vest with a cap(wasn't looking good) and when he gave Elie Saab le Parfum 5/10 and Hypnotic Poison 6/10 I exited right then and there LOL excuse me who are you?
Eva Monroe I recently found you in my feed. I am so glad I did. I must say that you exude class, yet humbleness. I love your humor, really everything about you. You should be on someone’s T.V. Keep up the good work.❤️ You got me digging in the bottom of my purse for coins to try buy some of your suggestions.😂
My biggest pet peeve with reviews is when someone’s says “ my massive perfume collection review” like I would prefer to see ALL of them on display instead of picking them up one by one and providing their opinions. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I have comeback to rewatch this video a few times, it has really given me a good laugh . The thing is, these are your personal pet peeves , I don't know why people are upset . I have to agree that the little sample vial reviews , they just are not satisfying , I don't know why I feel that way . I still watch them if I am curious about a particular fragrance , but will otherwise pass it by .
Whew! I was shaking my head in agreement the whole way through! I watch a lot of fragrance videos and even thought of starting a channel but I don't think I'm skilled enough in explaining scents. I HATE unboxing videos, constant collabs, and long drawn out talking about nothing. Some of my favs have started to do some of these things and I'm about to be out!
OMG!!!! You are saying EXACTLY what I have been thinking ever since I got into fragrances and been watching these reviews. You are sooooooo right! Love that you got most of them haha. You were very entertaining, cheered me right up with chuckles. Thank you as always. God bless xx
THANK YOU! I love lucky Scent but thos 2 ml dabbers are not what I like to judge a fragrance, I need a spray sample and at least 5ml if not 10. I SMDH when ever I see a review of a full size bottle and it really just a 2ml dabber.
This fragrance reminds me of running thru the meadows, while I’m sipping on champagne, in a flowing dress as I’m on my way to find a beautiful bouquet of the most delicious roses that have been dipped in chocolate that comes from the finest Swiss candy boutique and on and on and on with the visualization! Just stop! One reminder will do! 😂🤣😅
OMG! You are so right! How the hell do I know how blonde woman in long silky red dress smells? It tells me nothing about perfume! When I see that kind of reviewer I unsubscribe immediately
Where’s the love 💕 button when you need it!! I absolutely thought it was me who hated top 10 and tag videos!! I’ve done one of each and it’s draining 😩!!One was enough for me!! And I definitely thought I had missed the boat when people presented fragrances and didn’t research the notes! I also had to make sure I wasn’t in violation of any of these pet peeves....whew, I’m good 😜!! Thank you for the deliverance service (I’m churchy 🙌🏾), thank you!!
Eva Monroe .I need to tell you this I purchased Arabian Oud Kalemet Black 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽❤❤❤ you are so on point with these fragrance I love it. The presentation beautiful the smell love. I'm on a Oud Journey now thank you so much.
Wow! Some of your fellow reviewers are straight up attacking you in these comments. Good thing you said it was just your opinion, and all in fun! Smh. Keep doing you!
I don't like unboxing, I prefer when you've worn it and have a solid review. I also don't like the repetitive list and themes turn different ways. Starts out fun but gets annoying.
What drive me crazy is, the reviewers who at just one sniff they determine some note is not in a fragrance.Then I say to myself,what if that note is at the middle?.
I absolutely love you! You totally came out strong starting with the 2ml reviews! I, myself, can’t tell from a 2ml sample if I like the fragrance or not so I just started buying decants (5, 9, or 10ml) or just blind buying the damn full bottle perfume. 😂🤣😂
It annoys me that most of these reviewers don't put links in their description box, very annoying. Then to be on RUclips creating content and don't have their channel monetized, get your coins and leave nothing on the table. I am driven crazy by fragrance reviewers who speak only on designer and celebrity fragrances, mix it up and do niche too. Then there are those who look down on fragrance oils and can't even afford to review a niche fragrance.
Eva, can you give a fragrance tutorial? Terms like an essay, notes, niche fragrances versus designer fragrances, decants, etc. I’ve tried to look things up as I hear you say them but would LOVE a 101 from you as I get more into fragrances in my mature years. 😌
😂😂😂😂 number one drives me bananas too. Yes, they put full bottle pictures then end up reviewing little samples 🙄🙄🙄🙄 You definitely nailed this one. +++
OMG This is my 3rd time commenting.🙄 I love this topic! I also really dislike when reviewers who only buy niche or review primarily niche perfumes put down designer and celebrity fragrances like they are so terrible. While it is true that there are designer and celebrity fragrances that smell cheap or have poor performance, the same is also true of niche/expensive perfumes. I would venture to say that if blind sniff tests were done, there are plenty of designer and/or celebrity scents that niche snobs would love. A perfect example would be Tom Ford. His scents are designer scents. They are unique and they are performance beasts. One squirt of Black Orchid could out-perform all of the Jo Malone or MFK scents combined.
I agree with everything you said. I also absolutely hate when the reviewer is shaking the perfume bottle while explaining the scent as if it was a bought milkshake in a bottle 😤
One thing that annoys me is when someone says how amazing and nice a fragrance is and then they go on to declutter it from their collection very soon after...it can't have been that good! 🤨😐😂
I've watched alot of frag vids and all the ladies Ive watched have beautiful appearances...makeup and hair done. I'm not sure which ones you watch that dont keep up with their appearance. Ijs
Honestly, I totally agree with you🤣 especially with the grooming part! I have seen people looking like they just woke up... I’m like ewww groom yourself before you speak about such a beautiful thing as fragrance 😂
Giiiiiiirl if you didn’t have me hollering on this one. I subscribed immediately after😂. I’m just a lover of fragrance but I totally agree with all of these. I thought I was the only one who just didn’t think you can give a “true” review with those tiny samples. When they pull out that sample, I immediately turn it off.
I love tag and top 10 lists. That’s me. 😄 I do like them to have a theme tho. Even “Top 10 Work” fragrances is pretty subjective because everyone’s work environment isn’t the same. Some people work at a zoo and others in a law firm, so...? I like ones focused on profiles, accords, or notes the best. Also, I am one of those people that can get a week’s wear from a small vial. (Mind you- I don’t want anyone smelling me across the office.) I have a small channel and I don’t have full negative reviews. I just don’t see the point in making a video talking about something I don’t care about because, I don’t like it. I sample and move right along. (The exceptions are videos with multiple scents and discovery set impressions.) I’m with you on unboxing vids. Hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. TBH, I don’t even like to watch people spend time talking about the bottle. I’m thinking, “This is a video. I can *see* it. So, why...?” Also- remember when everyone was talking about that damn bird?! Ugh! I see it in a title and skip right past it. Spend 7 minutes talking about a subscription service, 3 minutes about the actual fragrances. Stalking assed bird. LOL (Cuba’s was funny tho.) Another irksome thing...when reviewers do talk about ALL the notes but it’s clear (from the way they talk about the fragrance) that they aren’t smelling them. Just weaving a piece of prose. I’d rather they not mention any of them and just describe honestly what *they* smell. Also, “Ermmygod...this smells so sexy. So good...” Meanwhile they never describe what it smells like to them in any real way. “Sexy” is subjective. It may be caramel and whip cream to you- but it’s leather to me. In my mind “sexy” has a little stank on it. If it doesn’t, stop playing child.
By far the top annoying thing for me is women who huff the sprayer, practically sticking the nozzle up the nose, one reviewer even sticks the thing up one nostril then the other and it's soooo gross!! 😱
Also groups of reviewers that all talk about the same fragrances over and over again. Dior Homme I'm looking at you! And agree about the unkempt reviews. There's one that looks like she just rolled out of bed reviewing a $500 bottle. It's hard to take them seriously. Great video!
There was a fragrance review channel who once took viewer comments and the two reviewers were reading select comments on their video and making fun of them. These were comments with genuinely good suggestions like test the fragrance on skin and wear it for a while before reviewing instead of just on sticky notes, like research the fragrance a little first, for example what the notes are.
😂😂😂 That first bit killed me. Why do they do that. That's clickbait. I always exit a video when I see that nonsense. Showing me the tiny 2ml bottle. What do you take me for!!! 😂
I think the 2 ml sample should just be called a First Impression 😂 Side note that top looks fabulous on you! @CherayesLifestyle is one of my other favs that always looks as elegant and her fragrance bottles.
I agree with at least 97% of this video! You really got me with the 2ml sample and THE NOT EVEN TRYING TO PRONOUNCE THINGS CORRECTLY (lol) part! Omfg! That drives me insane! How lazy and disrespectful to the makers, and cultures of the perfumers! Ack!
We're all guilty of these 😁 Funny bc I was tagged in that Scent Yo' State/City video and a few other challenges lately. I tend to sit on em or make it clear that I'm not too sure what direction it's suppose to go or what's asked of me; top 5's and 10's list I feel like you run out of content and frags which makes it repetitive ASF.(but it brings subs) I do them bc its like Q&A for my channel. As reviewers, and unlike other niches they have fun, interactive, detailed Q&A's and challenges. The Fragrance community happens to be lists. . Redundant and repetitive ones at times. I love a good unboxing tho. For me, it brings the viewer on the journey of my Fragrance BUT I get the point of watching an unboxing in an entire haul. Good take, Sis ✊🏽
It seems as if I’m not as easily driven “crazy.” I think you may have offended some perfume reviewers even if that was not your intention. I would like to think that most are doing their personal best (just as you do) and I’d like to leave it at that. I do have one beef though and it’s the term used mostly by men....”panty dropper.” Ugh.
I so agree with you! I think most of the perfume reviewers do a good job and if you don’t care for how they review fragrances there is a button to push to stop the video. I do have a pet peeve and that’s when a reviewer is being a “ snob”. As far as “panty dropper” goes...that is so wrong on so many levels and as a woman I feel disrespected by that locker room term😠🤔☹️
I love collab videos. Mispronunciation in foreign languages does not bother me at all. What bothers me is when they do not print their names on the description box below and unboxing videos, I personally think it's a waste of time.
Ugh, you are so right about the mispronunciations! French is my first language and I cringe so many times! As you mentioned, it’s quite easy to know the correct pronunciation! 😂
Lot of folks weighed in on this one, and here’s my one cent opinion to follow...agree, don’t look shabby when doing a review. If in T-shirt & jeans, that’s cool too, just don’t be sloppy in appearance. My biggest pet peeve, is when reviewers or even posts in fragcom, where the background or backdrop is jacked up, sloppy. If doing a review in your closet, fix the clothes on the hanger, and stuff on the racks. How hard is that? Try actually hanging the stuff up on the hanger, Or the bed is unmade or unwashed dishes on the counter, there’s stuff all over the floor in your pictures. It’s tacky and quite honestly reveals how you really live. Sorry, maybe it’s me, but everything works together for me. Don’t front. Clean up or do your videos and pictures somewhere else. Also, when doing reviews, would be nice to not only wear what looks good but what’s comfortable and sits and stays where you want it. If it’s riding up and you have to keep pulling and adjusting, 🤷🏻♀️ that may not be the outfit for the day. Wear what’s comfortable to do the review. One last cent, if anyone has ever seen the movie Hitch, close to the end when Will Smith gets to the yacht, that’s actually NYC. So, truth be told, not all of NY smells like 42nd Street, Times Square of the 70’s & 80’s. When people hear NYC, what usually comes to mind is Manhattan. There are so many other places that make up the NYC. When I lived in the south, one person said, what stuck out to him when he went to NY was there were no trees. If you’re in Manhattan, it’s a city, it’s downtown with buildings. Many “cities” don’t have an influx of trees. But once you go into the suburban areas of NY, nothing but pollen. So, just matters what part of the city like anywhere else. Again, I’m just humbly saying. As always, thank you Miss Eva!
#9 is certainly me since I've done many of these community collabs just trying to bring everyone together as a whole 🤣🤣🤣 Large reviewer collabs are not for everyone and I can see your point of view. Even I have a hard time sitting through watching them to make sure the final video is fully edited.
I can't agree MORE on your first point about people doing a full blown review based on a 2ml sample. I've had many experiences in the past where I've gotten very poor performance in terms of projection, sillage, and longevity from a 2ml sample, but after I re-tested the same fragrance from a full tester bottle in the store the performance was much better and even the scent became much more robust. A 2ml sample gives you only first impressions at best and are not reliable for getting a true experience. A legitimate fragrance review should be based on at least a 10ml decant in order to be fair and realistic.
Something else... when you buy a fragrance after seeing a good review on someone’s channel that you trust and two months later she declutters the same fragrance because it’s not good! What?! Excellent video!
Omg yes!!!!!!
Lol yes!
This is sooooooo true!!!
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That upsets me too... they’ll do amazing reviews and then all those fragrances are being sold online by them on mercari or being de cluttered almost right away!
These things don’t annoy me but I do take notice:
-Bashing a fragrance because it’s too popular ie La Vie a Belle
-Mispronouncing the fragrance name and using the excuse “I don’t speak French”
-Wasting perfume by spraying the bottle a million times like it’s an air freshener
Love your channel❤️
Omggggg I hate when reviewers all get on the bandwagon & drag “crowd-pleasing” scents & bash a designer that makes a generic scent. Little do they know, designers do not make fragrances for THEM, they make it for the masses. It’s so BASIC to bash a basic scent.
Most of those things don’t bother me, but the ones that do are: never giving a bad review, not printing the name of the perfume on the screen, long tedious intros, and mispronunciation of the fragrances name. That last one really gets me.
Yessssss💣
Not putting the name on screen bothers me deeply.
I think you captured all of the things that bother me, but the mispronunciation of the names is king. It's a small respectful thing, like properly pronouncing someone's name.
I hear ya on the long tedious intros, I often click right off
Spice Rack73 especially when they can’t pronounce it (or even try)
What annoys me the most is describing fragrances like this: “omg this is so good..this scent is amazing, I absolutely love it... so sexy, biggest compliment getter.. Mmm oh my god it’s absolutely divine, heavenly, I definitely need a bigger bottle... it’s my absolute favorite” Damn it woman!!! I still have no clue what it smells like and you describe all other fragrances in the same way!
Demi Rawling
aaaaahhhhhhh...lol!
muminka for real!
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lol that was spot on, I hate that
I hate when reviewer do not list the fragrances below because sometime you don't understand what they are saying and they put the fragrance in front of the camera and they moving their hand. At least spell the name on the screen. Those reviewer I do not bother to watch.
Agreed.
Agree
I can't stand when reviewers are super judgemental about who should wear what at that age! If a 60 year old wants to wear Pink Sugar that's ok.
That's me! 😹😹😹😹 I'm 55 and love my PS, yum.
I kinda have multiple issues with this video. I respect your opinion 100%. I just don’t know how I feel about a fellow fragrance reviewer gently throwing shade at an entire community of fragrance reviewers. I am deffo guilty of a few of these things. I review samples but most of the time I’m familiar with the fragrance and have worn it many times leading up to the review. I worked in a perfume shop so, that solves that. The unboxing thing? I’ve never done it on my channel but some people really like to see the entire product before they buy, some people display their boxes in their home and some boxes are actually so beautiful (amouage I’m looking at you). Top tens! I have multiple comments of subscribers that tell me that top tens are their favourite videos of mine. Yeah repeating is kinda annoying but if they are your too 10 and things you own? They’re gonna come up over and over, it’s your taste right? Selling perfume? I don’t ever think that I’m trying to “sell” perfume in my videos. I’m merely sharing knowledge and my opinion on how somethjng smells. I don’t see my RUclips channel as a job. Mis pronouncing things. Girl, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You said eXPecislly , rowja dove and jaguire? (In your video recently) It’s ESpecially, jaguar and (roja, like the name roger but he glammed it up) no hate here just... putting something out there like this is obviously gonna cause people react. You’re glam. You’re beautiful but everyone is different during their fragrance journey. I pronounced “geurlain” wrong for so many years... not everyone has the “perfume speak” right off the bat! My biggest issue is commenting on people’s appearance, sometimes I just wanna flood out my thoughts on a great perfume I’ve found (kinda the idea of my channel) ya don’t always wanna get dressed up to the nines every.... single.... time! What I’m saying should be so much more important than what I’m wearing. If it was a fashion channel? I get it but not for perfume. You are perpetuating the idea that perfume is for the riches: I will wear my effing vintage bal a Versailles to go to the shops. There’s such a Stigma ya know? Someone commented once on the top I was wearing in a video rather than what I said and it’s just so irritating. Do you wanna Wanna know how it smells? Or do you want my nose to be wearing a tiara? My nose is the same no matter WHAT I’m wearing! Anyway.... rant over. This video is judgy, gently judgy and cloaked in honesty but really, everyone is different. Final note. You hate top tens right? So why did you do a video about ten things that drive you crazy? Lmao. Come on now. 🤣🤣
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Amen
I have to agree with ouch110. I love you Ouch110, by the way. Eva should have used this video to give advice on how to be better perfume reviewer and be more positive in her approach. I like Eva because she speaks about grown ass woman stuff, but I am disappointed. I even took a break from watching Eva after seeing just the tittle of this video. By the way, I have a channel where I talk about my fragrances and art collection. I am not trying to be competitive. I have another job full time. I just feel that as a Black woman, Eva needs to just uplift others. Not throw shade at others, many of whom, it is clear are Black women that she has even collaborated with. I am a native French Creole woman and speaks French fluently, but sometimes I pronounce the perfume names with an English accent just so that People who speak English can relate to the names a little bit better. So even the French pronunciation thing ain’t need to be that serious a problem. I have also noticed that some of the reviewers who do sample it is because it is clear they don’t have money to purchase those fragrances. I happen to make a lot of money and can afford my fragrances, but it seems insensitive to talk about others who cannot afford to buy unnecessary things like perfumes , given their budget, just to make a video about them. Next is appearance. I have not seen any reviewer who look as bad as she described them. On another note in a different video, I was surprised when Eva said she watches no other perfume video , except maybe the Bow Tie Guy. And she said that the only person she like was Demi Rowling. I was surprised she did not not mention other young Black reviewers, especially those she had collaborated with as a way to boost their viewership, like Demi did for her.
Ditto!
You are one of my favorite reviewers. You aren’t who she is talking about. I have seen another smaller youtubers steal your “Good good!” comment, but she uses it very differently. It will be her sole description of the product.
As to pronunciation, everyone struggles with unique names the first time (Roja Dove), but there are people that can’t read and can’t say things like “Ciao” Or “”Femme.” It’s embarrassing. Relax, you aren’t the target here. You’re a pro! 😘
I may be guilty of a couple of little things... 🤣 I do love an unboxing myself, and I’ll review samples but with full disclosure that I’ve only worn it once maybe twice and you can’t judge performance from a sample for sure! Love that you tell it like it is, looking utterly fabulous as usual.
Love u smurfygurly😊🙏
Hate unboxing!!!!
Love your reviews Smurfy- whether full bottle or sample. You keep it real & know your stuff. 💕
Love your channel Smurf! 💙
Love your channel Smurfygurly! So sincere! 🥰
I don't mind watching a review based on a sample. Sometimes people can't afford or don't want to own a full bottle of the fragrance. No biggie if they give it a full wearing and then explain what it smells like.
I’m a very small channel that has only just started out and I only own perfumes that I love or at least like, so therefore I wouldn’t honestly be able to produce a negative review of something that often. I also feel that 2ml is a fair amount of perfume to work with, and I’ve never had an issue watching reviews which use samples at all. Buying samples also means that the reviewer is more likely to come across a scent they don’t quite like as much, and could then do a more critical review on it. As for unboxings, I’ve always really enjoyed watching them. 🤷🏻♀️ 💕
Love your channel
I dont really got too bothered by anything in frag vids, except if there is straight up disrespect. I also do most of these and will continue to do so lol. But because we are both grown women (who have our own preferences) in what we watch I do understand that we have different pet peeves but that doesn’t mean we should passively hate on one another. Loved the honesty but damn my lil 500 sub channel will not be tamed with rules 😂👌🏼
You are absolutely right to keep doing your videos the way you want to do them. Most people in these comments who have their own channels do these things and still agreed with her. I feel like she was being very disrespectful to her fellow fragrance reviewers. Great job at staying true to yourself and being straightforward enough to tel her that you are still going to stay true to yourself. I’m heading over to your channel now to sub. 💕
It's not disrespectful to give an opinion. If she goes to someone's channel as a fellow creator and calls them out, then it's disrespectful. To just simply say what bothering her like you both just did, is just fine. Otherwise hypocrisy is in the air.
april bagwell April this needs to be a pinned comment! A lot of people in the comments were very triggered.
@@rainerwells1573 no kidding! If you have an opinion you're a hater, bully, bitch. If you keep it to yourself you're a coward, deceitful, sneaky or an enabler!
First of all...that peach shade you’re wearing is everything!! Secondly, I was a fragrance consultant at Sephora and YES we do recognize the posers and it’s 100% ANNOYING! We can tell who really bout the fragrance life and who is posing. And YES I have learned and taken suggestions from customers who were very knowledgeable about fragrances.
I’m screaming 😂😂😂😂😂 I hate reviewers who have a favorite sent every time they get a new sponsor 🥴🙄
I’ve got to disagree with a point. I don’t think you need to spend hundreds on fragrances to share in this hobby. Reviewers aren’t always trying to sell ultra-expensive fragrances. I don’t equate fragrance with luxury, even though it’s not a necessity. I don’t mind reviews on samples as long as they are honest about having a sample and limited experience with it. Most people will do “first impressions.” Fine. I don’t need reviewers to buy bottles of everything they want to share. I love hearing about scents even if I won’t buy a bottle. And I don’t require my friends to always look 💯 or drive fancy cars, so why would I require someone reviewing fragrances to get dressed up? Just be yourself. Fragrance is not a front; it’s not (always) about perception. It’s about enjoying scent, right? Talking about scent? Not pretending to be rich or looking like you’re interviewing. Of course, that’s just my opinion, and you are just sharing yours, but thought I might provide a perspective from someone that doesn’t spend thousands in fragrances but still spends hours watching and reading reviews. ✌🏼
I totally agree with you girl. Thank you for saying this. 🥰
Agree With you 😊
I agree
I agree!
Yes very well put, I just want to share my love of fragrances, often I film with no makeup on, or even with no clothes on... in the bath 🛀 which is almost certainly not to everyone’s taste!
What bothers me about the no samples rule is that it can become about how many bottles you own, or how much money you’ve spent on really expensive scents. When we say that a reviewer should only talk about full bottles she has purchased, we are basically saying if you aren’t able/willing to spend an arm and a leg on this hobby then get a new hobby. I look at reviewing fragrances as a fun hobby, but I also have three kids to send to college one day, so...I’m going to review an occasional sample.
Agreed. You can fully assess a 1.2 ml or 2 ml sample as long as you spray enough of it. Most people don't even spray a full 1 ml from the bottle unless they over spray.
Exactly!
I don't equate fragrance reviewing to sales people selling 250,000 dollar vehicles. I also don't believe one must be well groomed at all times to justify his or her choice to buy $400 bottles of perfume. These are personal choices which should be non issues to the rest of us doing our own thing. I've actually never seen someone looking like they just rolled out of a dumpster doing fragrance reviews on RUclips, personally. Some things can be like nails on a chalk board, like how someone speaks, but I can usually reconcile my annoyances within a few minutes if they have any redeeming qualities about them.
Well said. Love that salmon pink on your skin tone. I get annoyed when a reviewer bashes Patchouli or another note and goes and list fragrances in their top favorites that all have dominant patchouli. 😂
Throw the word masterpiece around like they are playing catch with their father 😒
This comment is a masterpiece
Robert Quinlan I’m going to avoid the word “masterpiece” in all future descriptions from now on. 😊
Robert Quinlan ☠️☠️☠️
I love this!! 🤣🤣
Lol!
Miss Eva came for all the “bougee, classy, & ratchet” fragrance reviewers of course in her classy but “love” manner. 😏🤣😉😘😍
I love this video so much! After my elderly mother and I watched another fragrance reviewer that just drove us crazy, and we kept giving each other big eyes, I decided to play this for her. We laughed so hard and said a lot of “uh huh!” “Yes!” Thank you! 😘 you did miss #11, never saying what the fragrance smells like. Literally reading what the website says (which we can do on our own) and saying “It’s Good Good!” 🙄
Girl you just made a 10 point video list while also saying that reviewers that do top 10 lists drive you crazy. The hypocrisy is SO real! You’re gorgeous and I love your energy but damn! Haha
Tee hee
The worst is those men talking about 'panty droppers'. So demeaning and cheap.
One of my first RUclips videos was about the panty dropper myth,lol.
@@evamonroe lol
But women do this too! And women reviewers do this about themselfes
I’m here queen 👑 💖 my pet peeve is when they keep showing the same bottles over and over, say things like “panty droppers” and stare at themselves the whole time and not look into the camera 😫😫😫
Omg I hate the ‘panty dropper’ line too. Can we please get rid of that??? 😩
100%! Hit the nail on the head.
Exactly!🌷
Now this I hate!!!
She said, "that is so Jive , I can't take it!" LMAO
Eva, you're so naturally beautiful. Why would you mismatch your foundation color? You're on target with your complaints. A lot of fun and agreement!
She didn’t say you had to buy an entire bottle. Purchase a 5mL decant & put it in an atomizer if it’s a dabber, dabbing doesn’t provide the same performance as a sprayer does.
So many missed that part! Thank You❤
I swear I hollered at every one of these but especially that damn cellophane! Omg, just tear that mess off BEFORE you start filming! Oooh chile, this gave me total new life. Oh gosh, and the mispronunciation KILLS me! I can't! Lawd jesus!
Yes why not prepare the boxes to open without all of the annoying sounds and cutting?
+1 getting horny over ASMR is plain weird
I am a fragrance reviewer too and really enjoyed your video. LOL I subbed! If I do not like a perfume, I let viewers know in a professional way. I will never bash a company or fragrance, but will mention what it is that doesn't work for ME.
Hey Eva, I started watching you because you have been about being a grown ass and classy woman. This video is however not grown ass and classy. You would get views because people like to watch negativity. But is it worth coming across as less than one is?
You are a beautiful lady, my guess is that you don't need foundation. But if you do, the one you are wearing clashes with your natural skin, and looks too orangy.
You almost had me falling out of my chair with laughter already at number 1!😂Excellent!!👏😂And I sooo agree with you...all these reviewers that roll their eyes and scream "oh, this just smells sooo good!" Not one word about how it smells. I'm here because I wanna know WHAT it smells like, not that juvenile "smells sooo good!"-crap, that is not a review! You go Eva,-you have my wholehearted support and love!😄🙋🇳🇴
Bahahahaaa!! Love it. I happen to love the sound of cellophane opening!! 🤣🤣🤣. This reminded me of the Hackie Aina trend to leave behind videos that’s she’s done! Super fun.
Lmao I love the sound of cellophane too
Perfume Realm it gives me my asmr fix 😜
This is EXACTLY why I subscribed to your channel!!! Giving it to us (and them) straight. THANK. YOU.
My biggest annoyance is mispronunciation. Not just mispronounce but BUTCHER the name of not one but many fragrances. If you cant do some research and give a little respect then dont do the review. Its embarrassing to have such knowledge of a fragrance but you dont even know the damn name. Smh
Like going on a date with Stacey and calling her Sally....how rude. 🤦♀️
R E N É E T D K M Agree💯!! I find mispronunciations of fragrance names inexcusable. Especially when reviewers use the excuse that they don’t speak French. I think it shows respect for your craft and to the fragrance itself when you know how to pronounce the name correctly.
@@jbell6852 #highfive 🖐💥
Agreed 💯 hate that mispronouncing 🤦🏼♀️ put a damn effort at least to pronounce shit correctly 🤷🏼♀️
@@beatrissem4354 😁👍🏻
Eva, I agree!!! the mispronunciation of French perfumes/ Cologne names drives me crazy. Especially for those of us who speak French. The minute a reviewer mispronounces a cologne they lose credibility in my book. Eva When you’re unsure about a French pronunciation hit me up.
I got so much love and respect for you! I’ll try and do better on my channel!! 🤚🏽😂I just started my fragrance channel and I have a lot to learn but it’s more as an outlet for me. It’s fun to just talk about what I love. This is not my job, so I’m just enjoying the ride😔😂😂 If they don’t like me or how I describe fragrances, it doesn’t hurt my feelings. Just mosey on along to the channel that suits you! But anyway, Great video as always. 😘😘
You do alot of decant reviews so the sample thing does not apply to you. U can def get to know a fragrance by a decant but a sample no way. Love your content!!
Ritzianna H Thank you beautiful! I appreciate the love and support!❤️😘
you good as is, boo. I'm new to your vids and I love them. Just keep being you and doing what you do!
Antonette White Thank you so much! That means a lot to me❤️😘
Perfume Lover80 I am subscribing to your channel. Check mine out and let me know what you think.
Eva, every point was on point, especially saying the name incorrectly all the time, not knowing the notes (like a teacher coming to class and not knowing the syllabus), and unboxings/first impressions. There are 2 other things I don't like:
1) I've been seeing this lately, where the reviewer literally tells you (in the title) that he's about to do an honest review (which makes me think you're about to lie [or, at least] exaggerate)
2) When a reviewer reviews another reviewer's fragrance line (if you're friends with that reviewer, are you actually going to bash his fragrance?) You should just tell the truth, that you're doing a commercial for your friend. That's it, that's all.
From a search engine perspective - lists come up the most often. That's why people make lists.
It bothers me when they judge a perfume and smell it from a cardboard! just use it on your skin and give me a more real opinion ... and at least wait a few minutes
Flatlining!!!😂🤣 Here is another...tell us the name of the fragrance before and after you rambled about it for 10+ minutes. I forgot what you were talking about! Thanks, Queen for getting this right! Also you get in and get out! Long drawn out reviews. 45 mins for one frag. You give us a boatload of information thoroughly and quickly. Thanks again for good content.
Agreed💯
Agree!!!!!
ITS sooo difficult to keep on track 😅
Agree 100%. I need to be told the name before and after.
I agree. Long reviews for one fragrance is ANNOYING. I usually click off of the video.
I don't mind any of these things except the last one. I do appreciate honest reviews and it does look funny when a RUclipsr only loves every fragrance. But to be fair, a lot of the fragrance youtubers are new to making vids and doing fragrance reviews. Everybody has to start somewhere. Kudos to them for putting themselves out there, and providing us with content. Appreciate the vid.
Im a new fragrance reviewer 50 subs to be exact, at first few minutes I thought of this as offensive and kinda unrespectful but if you look it the other way I realized you are just being honest and critical and as a newbie there are some things to IMPROVE not change because if we change entirely that is being not who we are anymore. It doesn’t hurt to listen honesty than fake appraisal. For this I truly appreciate your content. All the best.
I love your sense of humor and how honest you are, it is so refreshing these days. I have a new fragrance channel and still have a lot to learn, but I couldn't agree with you more about many of the things that you mentioned 👍😍😀
EmysWorldofFragrance very true. I appreciate the honest and constructive feedback.
Yep! Your last one is my biggest pet peeve! Reviewers who LOVE EVERYTHING! I have unsubscribed to a few because I didn’t feel that I could trust their opinion. I have even seen them rave about a perfume then it shows up a month later on a ‘cleaning house’ video.
Omg the NY slander 😂😂😂😂😂 I legit clicked off someone’s video when they pulled out the sample. I was very confused 😂😂 the 1 fragrance in every top 10 list! YES!!! Alien is one that I’ve seen in a reviewer’s 3rd or 4th top 10 and before even clicking I’m like “let me guess Alien 😑😑😑”
Number 10 is huge!! If reviewers don't want to trash a perfume, then they should just say, "This might not be for everyone, so this might not be the best perfume to blind buy." A perfect example of this is everyone pushing Libre when it came out. I bought it blind because of all of the reviews. Thankfully, I love the bottle and it looks beautiful on the tray. However, that perfume does not smell good. All they had to do was balance the lavender a little more and it could have been a keeper. As it stands, it is a nose burner straight out of the bottle, and all of you reviewers know this. One thing I hate to see on a perfume review is the reviewer constantly messing with their hair and worrying about their makeup. I agree that the reviewer needs to be well put together, but some of my favorite reviewers are men who are sitting in a bare bones room with a plaid shirt on. They know their stuff, and they give it to you straight, no chaser. Yes!! Of course, you are a class act, Eva, and I do search out your videos. Just the variety and diversity of fragrances that are on display lets me know you are the real deal.
I don't mind people doing a review on a small sample. Not all small samples are received from Nordstroms, etc. I have a ton of small samples from places like Luckyscent who give samples when you order a fragrance, and I have purchased small samples also as I don't like to blind buy expensive fragrances. I do think the reviewer needs to put a decent amount of the sample on to get a good gist of the fragrance. Instead of dabbing on a small sample, I hold it against my wrist and pour a bit on which is more similar to the amount I would spray, but otherwise, I don't have an issue with reviews based on small samples.
I mostly dislike when fragrance reviewers have a new favorite fragrance every week. 'OMG, this is the best fragrance EVER!.' The next week, 'OMG, this is the best fragrance EVER!' and so forth. I also hate too many top 10 lists. Top 10 fragrances for your mom, top 10 fragrances for your grandma, etc, and they usually hash the same stuff over and over again in these lists. Give us something NEW! Too many lists just gets BORING. I don't mind top 10 where they are discussing a particular note...top 10 amber, top 10 animalic, top 10 vanilla. Those I am okay especially if it is a category of fragrance that I like, but the other top 10 lists just get on my nerves and I don't tend to watch them.
And I have both Bat and Jungle Jezebel🤣
Eh, that Bat, Jungle Jezebel, "scent yo(ur) city" rant was a misinterpretation of reviewers pointing out what fragrances are repeatedly worn in their city. They're not referring to the actual scent of the streets , alleys, etc. Just what is commonly worn by the locals.
The one thing that really bothers me is being rude and obnoxious to a subscriber just because he/she may feel a bit differently about a certain perfume. I just feel like way too many times I’ve witnessed perfume reviewers legit cursing subscribers out. Maybe because I work in HR, but dangggg LOL your whole channel now is just going to rub me off the wrong way. Talking about some “ girl bye gtfoh nobody asked you” LOL like you do know a platform is only as good as your fan base, but that’s just me.
I so agree with you on not dressing nice/appropriate when reviewing a fragrance. The other day I watched a woman reviewing fragrances with her boyfriend. He was wearing a black vest with a cap(wasn't looking good) and when he gave Elie Saab le Parfum 5/10 and Hypnotic Poison 6/10 I exited right then and there LOL excuse me who are you?
The “who are you” is sending me 😂😂😂😂
I know exactly what video you’re referring to 😹😹
Well, and who are you exactly?
Eva Monroe I recently found you in my feed. I am so glad I did. I must say that you exude class, yet humbleness. I love your humor, really everything about you. You should be on someone’s T.V. Keep up the good work.❤️ You got me digging in the bottom of my purse for coins to try buy some of your suggestions.😂
EVA! We have some of the same pet peeves! Lol! Thanks for the shout out! 👌🏾
I agree with a fair few of them, but as soon as you start (and end, but especially start) with it's all with love, it creates doubt.
I can’t!!! Trying not to fall out my chair 😂. That’s drives me nuts too! Thanks Queen.
My biggest pet peeve with reviews is when someone’s says “ my massive perfume collection review” like I would prefer to see ALL of them on display instead of picking them up one by one and providing their opinions. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Omg I thought I was the only one 🤭
I have comeback to rewatch this video a few times, it has really given me a good laugh . The thing is, these are your personal pet peeves , I don't know why people are upset . I have to agree that the little sample vial reviews , they just are not satisfying , I don't know why I feel that way . I still watch them if I am curious about a particular fragrance , but will otherwise pass it by .
Whew! I was shaking my head in agreement the whole way through! I watch a lot of fragrance videos and even thought of starting a channel but I don't think I'm skilled enough in explaining scents. I HATE unboxing videos, constant collabs, and long drawn out talking about nothing. Some of my favs have started to do some of these things and I'm about to be out!
OMG!!!! You are saying EXACTLY what I have been thinking ever since I got into fragrances and been watching these reviews. You are sooooooo right! Love that you got most of them haha. You were very entertaining, cheered me right up with chuckles. Thank you as always. God bless xx
This was so entertaining. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic! I laughed out loud at a lot of these.
THANK YOU! I love lucky Scent but thos 2 ml dabbers are not what I like to judge a fragrance, I need a spray sample and at least 5ml if not 10. I SMDH when ever I see a review of a full size bottle and it really just a 2ml dabber.
This fragrance reminds me of running thru the meadows, while I’m sipping on champagne, in a flowing dress as I’m on my way to find a beautiful bouquet of the most delicious roses that have been dipped in chocolate that comes from the finest Swiss candy boutique and on and on and on with the visualization! Just stop! One reminder will do! 😂🤣😅
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This made me laugh so hard.
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OMG! You are so right! How the hell do I know how blonde woman in long silky red dress smells? It tells me nothing about perfume! When I see that kind of reviewer I unsubscribe immediately
Where can I buy this scent? 😂
Where’s the love 💕 button when you need it!! I absolutely thought it was me who hated top 10 and tag videos!! I’ve done one of each and it’s draining 😩!!One was enough for me!! And I definitely thought I had missed the boat when people presented fragrances and didn’t research the notes! I also had to make sure I wasn’t in violation of any of these pet peeves....whew, I’m good 😜!! Thank you for the deliverance service (I’m churchy 🙌🏾), thank you!!
Eva Monroe .I need to tell you this I purchased Arabian Oud Kalemet Black 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽❤❤❤ you are so on point with these fragrance I love it. The presentation beautiful the smell love. I'm on a Oud Journey now thank you so much.
Wow! Some of your fellow reviewers are straight up attacking you in these comments. Good thing you said it was just your opinion, and all in fun! Smh. Keep doing you!
Lmaooooo. I'm naming people in my head on each one. Lmao. I can't stand these things either.
I don't like unboxing, I prefer when you've worn it and have a solid review. I also don't like the repetitive list and themes turn different ways. Starts out fun but gets annoying.
What drive me crazy is, the reviewers who at just one sniff they determine some note is not in a fragrance.Then I say to myself,what if that note is at the middle?.
I absolutely love you! You totally came out strong starting with the 2ml reviews! I, myself, can’t tell from a 2ml sample if I like the fragrance or not so I just started buying decants (5, 9, or 10ml) or just blind buying the damn full bottle perfume. 😂🤣😂
It annoys me that most of these reviewers don't put links in their description box, very annoying. Then to be on RUclips creating content and don't have their channel monetized, get your coins and leave nothing on the table. I am driven crazy by fragrance reviewers who speak only on designer and celebrity fragrances, mix it up and do niche too. Then there are those who look down on fragrance oils and can't even afford to review a niche fragrance.
I hate it when they keep saying: This is a beautiful patchouli fragrance and then there’s actually none in it.
Eva, can you give a fragrance tutorial? Terms like an essay, notes, niche fragrances versus designer fragrances, decants, etc. I’ve tried to look things up as I hear you say them but would LOVE a 101 from you as I get more into fragrances in my mature years. 😌
😂😂😂😂 number one drives me bananas too. Yes, they put full bottle pictures then end up reviewing little samples 🙄🙄🙄🙄
You definitely nailed this one. +++
OMG This is my 3rd time commenting.🙄 I love this topic! I also really dislike when reviewers who only buy niche or review primarily niche perfumes put down designer and celebrity fragrances like they are so terrible. While it is true that there are designer and celebrity fragrances that smell cheap or have poor performance, the same is also true of niche/expensive perfumes. I would venture to say that if blind sniff tests were done, there are plenty of designer and/or celebrity scents that niche snobs would love. A perfect example would be Tom Ford. His scents are designer scents. They are unique and they are performance beasts. One squirt of Black Orchid could out-perform all of the Jo Malone or MFK scents combined.
I agree with everything you said. I also absolutely hate when the reviewer is shaking the perfume bottle while explaining the scent as if it was a bought milkshake in a bottle 😤
One thing that annoys me is when someone says how amazing and nice a fragrance is and then they go on to declutter it from their collection very soon after...it can't have been that good! 🤨😐😂
I've watched alot of frag vids and all the ladies Ive watched have beautiful appearances...makeup and hair done. I'm not sure which ones you watch that dont keep up with their appearance. Ijs
Honestly, I totally agree with you🤣 especially with the grooming part! I have seen people looking like they just woke up... I’m like ewww groom yourself before you speak about such a beautiful thing as fragrance 😂
I hate the repeated fragrances like you said on different titles. I have deleted lots of people for that reason alone.
Giiiiiiirl if you didn’t have me hollering on this one. I subscribed immediately after😂. I’m just a lover of fragrance but I totally agree with all of these. I thought I was the only one who just didn’t think you can give a “true” review with those tiny samples. When they pull out that sample, I immediately turn it off.
I love tag and top 10 lists. That’s me. 😄 I do like them to have a theme tho. Even “Top 10 Work” fragrances is pretty subjective because everyone’s work environment isn’t the same. Some people work at a zoo and others in a law firm, so...? I like ones focused on profiles, accords, or notes the best.
Also, I am one of those people that can get a week’s wear from a small vial. (Mind you- I don’t want anyone smelling me across the office.)
I have a small channel and I don’t have full negative reviews. I just don’t see the point in making a video talking about something I don’t care about because, I don’t like it. I sample and move right along. (The exceptions are videos with multiple scents and discovery set impressions.)
I’m with you on unboxing vids. Hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. TBH, I don’t even like to watch people spend time talking about the bottle. I’m thinking, “This is a video. I can *see* it. So, why...?”
Also- remember when everyone was talking about that damn bird?! Ugh! I see it in a title and skip right past it. Spend 7 minutes talking about a subscription service, 3 minutes about the actual fragrances. Stalking assed bird. LOL (Cuba’s was funny tho.)
Another irksome thing...when reviewers do talk about ALL the notes but it’s clear (from the way they talk about the fragrance) that they aren’t smelling them. Just weaving a piece of prose. I’d rather they not mention any of them and just describe honestly what *they* smell.
Also, “Ermmygod...this smells so sexy. So good...” Meanwhile they never describe what it smells like to them in any real way. “Sexy” is subjective. It may be caramel and whip cream to you- but it’s leather to me. In my mind “sexy” has a little stank on it. If it doesn’t, stop playing child.
Ooooohhhh the bird, I do remember😂😂
Very true 🥰l love your channel ❤️
Hilarious!
By far the top annoying thing for me is women who huff the sprayer, practically sticking the nozzle up the nose, one reviewer even sticks the thing up one nostril then the other and it's soooo gross!! 😱
U MUST NAMEDROP IM DEADDDD
I know who you talking about and Yes it’s soooo gross All up in the nose 🤢
Michelle Young who?
Ritzianna H Sarah Mayes
Michelle Young thanks 😂😂 the curiosity was killing me.
Also groups of reviewers that all talk about the same fragrances over and over again. Dior Homme I'm looking at you! And agree about the unkempt reviews. There's one that looks like she just rolled out of bed reviewing a $500 bottle. It's hard to take them seriously. Great video!
Diva you are so funny! Top ten list rants on your top ten list! 😂😂 and then you came for my city? New York smells pissing beautiful!
There was a fragrance review channel who once took viewer comments and the two reviewers were reading select comments on their video and making fun of them. These were comments with genuinely good suggestions like test the fragrance on skin and wear it for a while before reviewing instead of just on sticky notes, like research the fragrance a little first, for example what the notes are.
😂😂😂 Everything to you said...so true! I can't stand most of that shit either!
😂😂😂 That first bit killed me. Why do they do that. That's clickbait. I always exit a video when I see that nonsense. Showing me the tiny 2ml bottle. What do you take me for!!! 😂
I can't stand when reviewers rub their wrist together while the perfume is on the wrist. You never rub perfume.
I think the 2 ml sample should just be called a First Impression 😂 Side note that top looks fabulous on you! @CherayesLifestyle is one of my other favs that always looks as elegant and her fragrance bottles.
That brutal honesty 😂 Absolutely loved it
It bugs me when a fragrance reviewer do 1 (One) bottle of fragrance and took a whole 30 minutes- 😫😫😫 make it fast, concise but cover everything.
I agree with at least 97% of this video! You really got me with the 2ml sample and THE NOT EVEN TRYING TO PRONOUNCE THINGS CORRECTLY (lol) part! Omfg! That drives me insane! How lazy and disrespectful to the makers, and cultures of the perfumers! Ack!
We're all guilty of these 😁 Funny bc I was tagged in that Scent Yo' State/City video and a few other challenges lately. I tend to sit on em or make it clear that I'm not too sure what direction it's suppose to go or what's asked of me; top 5's and 10's list I feel like you run out of content and frags which makes it repetitive ASF.(but it brings subs) I do them bc its like Q&A for my channel. As reviewers, and unlike other niches they have fun, interactive, detailed Q&A's and challenges. The Fragrance community happens to be lists. . Redundant and repetitive ones at times. I love a good unboxing tho. For me, it brings the viewer on the journey of my Fragrance BUT I get the point of watching an unboxing in an entire haul. Good take, Sis ✊🏽
I love your videos!
It seems as if I’m not as easily driven “crazy.” I think you may have offended some perfume reviewers even if that was not your intention. I would like to think that most are doing their personal best (just as you do) and I’d like to leave it at that. I do have one beef though and it’s the term used mostly by men....”panty dropper.” Ugh.
Well said 🥰
I so agree with you! I think most of the perfume reviewers do a good job and if you don’t care for how they review fragrances there is a button to push to stop the video. I do have a pet peeve and that’s when a reviewer is being a “ snob”. As far as “panty dropper” goes...that is so wrong on so many levels and as a woman I feel disrespected by that locker room term😠🤔☹️
EVA!!!! You came for some ppl. But this is everything! Lol. Thoroughly enjoyed. Gorgeous as usual too.
I love collab videos. Mispronunciation in foreign languages does not bother me at all. What bothers me is when they do not print their names on the description box below and unboxing videos, I personally think it's a waste of time.
Ugh, you are so right about the mispronunciations! French is my first language and I cringe so many times! As you mentioned, it’s quite easy to know the correct pronunciation! 😂
Lot of folks weighed in on this one, and here’s my one cent opinion to follow...agree, don’t look shabby when doing a review. If in T-shirt & jeans, that’s cool too, just don’t be sloppy in appearance.
My biggest pet peeve, is when reviewers or even posts in fragcom, where the background or backdrop is jacked up, sloppy. If doing a review in your closet, fix the clothes on the hanger, and stuff on the racks. How hard is that? Try actually hanging the stuff up on the hanger, Or the bed is unmade or unwashed dishes on the counter, there’s stuff all over the floor in your pictures. It’s tacky and quite honestly reveals how you really live. Sorry, maybe it’s me, but everything works together for me. Don’t front. Clean up or do your videos and pictures somewhere else.
Also, when doing reviews, would be nice to not only wear what looks good but what’s comfortable and sits and stays where you want it. If it’s riding up and you have to keep pulling and adjusting, 🤷🏻♀️ that may not be the outfit for the day. Wear what’s comfortable to do the review.
One last cent, if anyone has ever seen the movie Hitch, close to the end when Will Smith gets to the yacht, that’s actually NYC. So, truth be told, not all of NY smells like 42nd Street, Times Square of the 70’s & 80’s. When people hear NYC, what usually comes to mind is Manhattan. There are so many other places that make up the NYC. When I lived in the south, one person said, what stuck out to him when he went to NY was there were no trees. If you’re in Manhattan, it’s a city, it’s downtown with buildings. Many “cities” don’t have an influx of trees. But once you go into the suburban areas of NY, nothing but pollen. So, just matters what part of the city like anywhere else. Again, I’m just humbly saying.
As always, thank you Miss Eva!
#9 is certainly me since I've done many of these community collabs just trying to bring everyone together as a whole 🤣🤣🤣 Large reviewer collabs are not for everyone and I can see your point of view. Even I have a hard time sitting through watching them to make sure the final video is fully edited.
What bothers me are niche snobs that discredit fragrance mist and affordable perfumes.
I can't agree MORE on your first point about people doing a full blown review based on a 2ml sample. I've had many experiences in the past where I've gotten very poor performance in terms of projection, sillage, and longevity from a 2ml sample, but after I re-tested the same fragrance from a full tester bottle in the store the performance was much better and even the scent became much more robust. A 2ml sample gives you only first impressions at best and are not reliable for getting a true experience. A legitimate fragrance review should be based on at least a 10ml decant in order to be fair and realistic.
Always fresth..thats what i appreciate bout you...and your blunt honesty...
Some tag videos and top ten lists are silly but some are actually helpful and fun.