Had a salesperson pronouncing it “savage”. I didn’t correct her directly but I did use the correct pronunciation twice while we were talking. She still didn’t get it. Makes me chuckle.
Salespeople always make me feel uncomfortable. I’d rather be left alone when sampling fragrances and find their advice super annoying especially when they won’t go away.
The guy should have pretended like he had never heard of discounters until she told him. He could have taken out his phone and said "wow the prices are so much better online thank you for telling me" *leaves*
Not gonna lie, I would love to work at a store that sells fragrances and stick to that section specifically. Talking about fragrances all day would be a sweet job
Asked a sales associate at the perfume shop for a recommendation for something similar to le male le parfum and he recommended Montblanc explorer.... enough said
Recently I was at Sephora, looking at whole replica line and guerlain line, just sniffing bottles by myself, when sales associate suddenly came and took me to gentleman line by givency. Just sprayed society and gave it to me, I was yeah yeah nice one. Then he proceeded to tell me that it is an exclusive fragrance made especially for Qatar World Cup and I will not find it anywhere else… Every time I go to the store, it always something like this. They never care what you actually looking for, just trying to push you one fragrance that probably earns them the biggest commission.
Here is my story: A woman in Sephora decided to argue with me over iris note in Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir Parfum. She tried to convince me that there is no iris in that fragrance (there is iris). She literally screamed at me that all what i could smell is citrus notes mixed with woody notes and leather but no iris. 2nd one in Douglas: I got laughed at because i said that i smell sothing like chocolate/cacao in Givenchy Gentleman Reserve Prive(i know there is no chocolete in this fragrance). Later i heard from 2 different youtubers that they also smell something like chocolate in this fragrance.
I don’t mind fragrance sales people giving me suggestions. But I personally like it better taking my time smelling each fragrance and figuring out which fragrances that I like/don’t like.
Hard to do that when the sales person lingering right behind you, trying to get you to sell something right away and hurrying u to not try everything there
They need to take major notes from me. Was at Sephora checking out the cologne like I always do. Saw some dude go straight to the Dior like all peasants. Then I recommended him Prada Sport and Prada Black. He then ended up buying black without even smelling it yet. Dude thought I worked there and I told him I didn’t and that I was just putting him on. I basically unintentionally sold him a cologne without even working there. 🤣🤣💯
The worse advice i was given was by an Amouage sales rep and it was "the stuff i have ain't niche and Amouage is the only niche and i should have it if i want a perfume from the only niche brand" 🤷♂
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about this issue because she was looking to go fragrance shopping. I've had so many encounters with people just doing their job, but not really being knowledgeable about fragrances and either making suggestions based on the few scents they knew, or trying to sell you something really expensive. I get it, it's sales and not everybody has an unconditional love for the product they're selling. What bothers me most is when they start making up facts or stuff about scents just because they think it makes them come across as competent.
I hate when the woman asks what do you wear now. I generally say nothing. Then I’ll say I’m looking for something classic fougere and they just say have you tried one million. It’s very Annoying. There is only one kiosk in the malls by me. A private seller who actually knows notes frag styles and can talk about niche frags confidently and IT’s because he owns his own store.
Yayy, I'm in a video! To add a bit more context to my little story: When I said "the Dior SPOKESPERSON kept insisting the 2017 version was the latest one" I meant that this spokesperson lady had already received the new 2021 version in stock, and I had to literally instruct her to look through her own cabinets to take it out, because she just could not believe what I was telling her, and kept arguing with me 😮💨 On a separate occasion, and this time with a sales rep from the actual store, I was told Versace Pour Homme had "NOTHING" in common with neither Missoni Wave nor Chanel Allure Homme Sport 😂 Needless to say, their business isn't doing so well nowadays 😅
"1t's thE GoLdEn RoLEx!"... even though A. It's a major designer release and B. It's been neck and neck with Sauvage EDP in terms of sales per Macy's. The "golden Rolex" of fragrances, imo, is probably something like Roja Elysium Parfum
I really can't give an answer to this question because I've never asked a sales rep about any advice because I already knew that I actually knew more than they did lol most of the question that I usually ask is if it's available 🤣
What’s crazy is you said 99% of the time you want to buy the clone brands online. Like a week ago I was in NYC for the day and I stopped in a side shop that I saw a bunch of fragrances in the window and one of them was “lataffa Safeer” which I’d never seen in person before but had it in my shopping cart. So I naturally went in and talked to the 2 guys who owned it for a while and they were amazing and I actually ended up pretending liked I worked there and sold a fragrance to a guy 😂😂😂. I asked the price of safeer and lataffa rose petals to which he responded “$25 for safeer and $15 for rose petals” and I looked at the bottom of the packaging to check the codes and stamps as far as my knowledge goes it’s %100 authentic. So my point being I found that 1% and that makes the experience that much better!!!
13:47 There's a guy who sells firewood in the north country of New Hampshire (Warren / Wentworth). His signs say "100% natural, organic, free-range firewood". I am told sells a TON of firewood to campers & other ignorant people... much more so than everyone else. A tongue-in-cheek joke turned into a money monster. 14:30 TJMaxx/Marshalls/Burlington have Joop on their shelves continually. I did that scent 20yrs ago on a suggestion. Yeah, no.
The most frequent bad advice I get from salespeople is suggesting the wrong scent for the season and them trying to show me the wrong fragrance from a house, when I ask about a new release, because they are totally clueless.
So i remember the exact opposite of this. In Boots (Liverpool, England) 2007 a beautiful sales woman came up to me and asked if i needed help after smelling some testers, i said yes but dont know what im looking for, she instantly recommended Prada Amber pour homme, i smelt it and it was nothing to me just soapy. I said politely no thank you and settled for givenchy pi and l'eau d issey for men, as i loved both fragrances. Fast forward years later and i wish I'd of taken her advice. Prada Amber pour homme is an absolutely excellent fragrance, one i always have in my rotation.
Why did the Guerlain fragrances in general go up so much in price? I remember some years back you'd find Guerlain Vetiver, Habit Rouge, L'Instant, Ideal, etc for under $50, sometimes cheaper
Idk about that house specifically but two things likely are happening if you are referring to their discounted prices. Firstly, the house could have increased the price at retail which automatically makes them more expensive on discount. They also could have started controlling their suppliers a little tighter preventing them from ending up in countries where they wouldn’t have a valuable exchange rate allowing the grey market to purchase and sell them for cheap. They also may have begun to sue or threaten the discounters. Also, inflation, big time inflation. When America has a suffering economy it damages the whole world’s economy, and it even dips into luxury goods. Post pandemic the price on Sauvage Elixir went from 155, to 165, and now it’s about 180 something, and that all from the house itself. Also, hella worth it btw but still no fun.
@@masterhand20 Prices for Guerlain fragrances have doubled, sometimes almost tripled at discounters. Availability is really low as well. I think you are probably right about them regulating suppliers. It makes the most sense. Really a shame because I always considered them one of the best bang for your buck houses given the affordable pricing and stellar mature, classier fragrances. I got Lattafa Asad instead of Sauvage Elixir and consider it an excellent compromise. I just can't justify the price on Elixir when Asad is worlds cheaper and smells close enough in the air. I could nearly get 5-8 quality Arabic clones or original fragrances for one bottle of Elixir. I completely understand why people get the authentic OG product though. I suppose in the end it depends on your disposable income, and thanks to inflation, mine is extremely limited. My last "big" purchase was The One Luminous Night, which was well worth the $100 I paid.
They changed their bottles at least 2 times and lowered their production I believe. They also ,in my opinion, think they are a high quality niche house fit for royalty recently especially after introducing their private line.
@@squidikka Understandable. I’m a massive fan of Francois Demachy, the last in house perfumer for Dior, and think his work with the house was genius and Sauvage Elixir was his magnum opus in the men’s line. So for me my big purchases as of late have been trying to find Dior Homme Original, Intentse, and Parfum, when they pop up here in the US.
Could you go into more detail about the difference between natural and synthetic ingredients? I thought natural would always be more expensive and smell better
typically, natural does not project as well: Aventus does not project nearly as well as CDNIM but IMO Aventus is the better fragrance anyway. Now, you have Royal Oud which is also natural but projects better than Aventus and some synthetic ones like Le Parfait, so it all depends.
Whoever edited this video needs to know the difference between “lost” and “loss” Also “losing” not “loosing” And the dollar sign comes before the number, not after ($110 not 110$)
Had a saleslady at a Sephora going on and on to me about John Varvatos X Nick Jonas (the first one) like it was the fragrance of the year and I took her up on the recommendation but to me it was just okay (fortunately only got a sample and didn't blind buy it). It was something I'd buy as a $20-30 cheapie but not full retail but she raved about it like a fraghead discovering Aventus for the first time. Also, that salesperson in the first email sounded like she was having a really rough day lol
I was told at a shoppers drug mart that Dior homme 2020 was just a weaker version of DHI and that I should just get that instead. I went in to sample it because it is missing the classic iris accord that i so dearly love. had to give her a quick lesson. some of these sales reps need to smell stuff before they assume the "intense" is just stronger.
One of the sales guys told me, he does not recommend certain fragrances. Why not? Because he likes them himself, and does not want others to wear them and to smell like him!!
Dillard's has the worst fragrance sales people of anywhere I go. They absolutely hound you to no end, trying to spray you with whatever they are trying to sell at that time. I never go to Dillard's anymore solely due to the frag counter sales people.
I was in Paris n was looking for dior homme parfum and was told that dior homme intense and parfum were the same thing n the parfum one was just an old style of bottle
I asked for Dior Homme at a Dillards last weekend, and the salesperson first handed me Sauvage. I was like, “no…I’m sorry. I’m wanting Dior HOMME.” And then they grabbed Dior Homme Cologne and said “ah this one’s very fresh.” I was like “yeah, but that’s not the one I want…” It was like playing the crane game but with a dumb human “no…left…left…back one more…that one!” I think I was getting punked.
Some of these associates probably get commission for sales on fragrances. I can kind of understand why they want to push sales as long as there’s some kind of honesty.
"Those online discounters are putting me out of a job"... No... You refusing to educate yourself on the products you get paid to sell is what's putting you out of a job.
You should do belcam reviews I know that they may be cheap but I promise you,you smell any of em of em you fall in love but they do smell just a lil synthetic and they last awhile
😂😂man I wish you were in South Africa...but thanks for the content it really helps a lot, just that some of the colognes aren't available in my country...
I buy from my local Dillards and from macys and Sephora online but I do go in to Dillards to smell scents so I can buy them from discounters. Dillards is notorious for following you around because those guys do get commission. I think when they see me now they know I’m probably not buying😂
I work at Dillards. We don’t make commission. We are payed hourly. Some companies will give us a little bonus $ on top for selling their stuff but that’s rare and few and far between.
We do know the people who buy and come to sniff so I just say hey to the people who only come to sniff and focus on the customers who are looking to buy. Part of the “following you around” thing is we have managers and a job to do to provide customer service. We don’t do that, we get fired.
@@GNellyMusic I was at Dillards yesterday and I had a lady that was so nice and helpful I ended up buying VSL Y from her. I had a lady last week that everywhere I turned she was right there. I told her ‘I’m just looking around” but she just kept on saying ’’ hey have you tried this, and this and this’’ My aunt use to work at Dillards and I just remember her telling me she had to sell so much to get I guess what you called that bonus. Nothing against Dillards I have a Dillards card and I buy clothes from there all the time :)
😂 I remember one time this guy was trying to sell me some cologne (don't remember what brand) for a certain price, just for me to do a quick Google and was waaaaaay cheaper online. I just walked out.
I started collecting fragrances because i got terrible advice from a sales rep … I had no idea what to buy and i did not start watching reviewers on youtube yet.. i was told to buy D&G K edt i bought it didnt like it but couldn't return it..From then i did my homework 78 bottles later im addicted the end lol
Same . I blind bought a 100ml D&G the one edp retail because everyone on yt was praising it and I was just getting into fragrances and I ended not liking and I couldn't return it 😂😢
The one thing I hear them ALL say in store when a customer asks for recommendations is "what do you normally wear?". They really should be asking "what type of thing are you looking for?"
If the sales people know what you normaly wear, they know what kind of scent they can recommend to you. If someone likes to wear sauvage, they might like bleu de chanel, but not like jean paul gaultier le male le parfum. Most normal people have no idea what they are looking for or want. Only the people heavily into perfumes know that.
For me its not even advice, its the fact that a lot of them self fragrances but cant tell you anything about the fragrance outside the note card that list the notes.
they're a hit and miss: the first one I got was real but the second was clearly a fake, so yeah, you're better off buying at the mall unless it's one of those kiosks. Rack stores in general aren't the best place to buy anything let alone fragrances.
Dude now that I’ve gotten so into fragrances, I just don’t bat an eye at what those reps say. I go in, ask to try what I’m looking for politely, then buy it and leave. No need to converse with lower standards. I do meet some knowledgeable reps, but that’s a small faction. Maybe 1 out of 50?
I ain't really had any bad advice from sales people on fragrances they are usually fairly predictable I'll ask if they have something specific and i can see it on the shelf and they will tell me about a totally different fragrance that's nice and get it out totally ignoring me and the one i asked for, obviously they are getting some commission for selling the specific ones that week or something 🤣 so i just repeat myself until they get the one out i asked for, other than that i know they are clueless i know better than them
Most of them don't really know the real notes of the fragrances they sell and simply describe according to their own interpretation. Not a big deal since we can try out but then there are some that don't have testers to try, probably they ran out of it.
joop homme is the only cologne my dad owns and everytime he walks by i want to cut my nose off. i preferred when the only cologne he owned was CK Obsession
EdC, EdT and Parfum used to be just different concentrations so it's no wonder people still belive this is still the case. Them being different scents is a new trend and the earliest example I can think was Chanel with their Bleu. Sauvage took the trend to a whole new level
"pretty bourgeoise" No, bourgeoise is middle-class. Sak's is def above that pay grade. Noone who is middle class has 800$ to spend on a white t-shirt with a small, barely noticeable logo.
I had the lady at Macy's tell me Bentley for men intense is unisex and she often hears faces say they share it with their husband ,It.was my first time smelling it and I've heard reviews so I knew she was wrong ,after I sprayed it on my hand itbwas a quick scrub off and noway females ware Bentley intense
Im not gonna call it worst advice but more obnoxiously annoying. If you make commission on colognes i understand you trying to reccomend the cologne you make commission on, but please stop arguing with me and almost trying to force me to buy mercedez benz black or any of their other ones. Legit would not give me the tom ford grey vetiver i asked for and kept insisting mb is better and thats the one i want. I walked out of the store empty handed because she adamantly refused to give me anything other then mercedez benz cologne. ALL the stores near me are like that, so now i get everything online, even samples. Especially since every time i ask to sample a cologne, no matter what it is, no matter how many times i ask in a row they just instead keep giving me samples of mb cologne until you smell one you like then try to quickly cash you out for a bottle before you even say yes or no. Its almost obnoxious to me so i stopped sampling or buying anything from them and only shop online now.
I REALLY dont get the hate for Joop Homme. It is by far my most complimented fragrances and chicks have been LOVING it on me for years. Summer, Winter, doesnt matter.
Fragrance sellers especially at dept stores responsibilities need to change. They need to be supporters instead of thinking their advisors. Lol just support me when i ask a question. But your ill advised advice is unnecessary. I have yet to meet a sales person that has been more knowledgeable than me in the fragrance realm. They are salesman and will make a regular joe feel that they're expert's and thats their job to SALE you! 🥴
I love watching your videos but with this new editing with all those subtitles and skipping moments all the time to make it more tik tok brain friendly is just too much. I found myself trying to avoid your videos lately. Before I used to jump straight to your new video, now I just know that I have to go through all these RUclips shorts sort of editing and is not pleasant.
Had a salesperson pronouncing it “savage”. I didn’t correct her directly but I did use the correct pronunciation twice while we were talking. She still didn’t get it. Makes me chuckle.
She probably saw the $13 dollar knock off on Amazon 😂
Prada L'homme is the best fragrance for sleeping. I get tons of compliments. . . In my dreams.
Salespeople always make me feel uncomfortable. I’d rather be left alone when sampling fragrances and find their advice super annoying especially when they won’t go away.
Been into fragrances now for 10 yrs. Not ONCE have I been given useful information from a sales associate
So after ten years what's your favourite assuming you're a man?
It is not a man, look at its name! Its a Piano!
@@Roy-eu1gq Let's not go down that road haha
The guy should have pretended like he had never heard of discounters until she told him. He could have taken out his phone and said "wow the prices are so much better online thank you for telling me" *leaves*
That's probably what I would have done. lol
Not gonna lie, I would love to work at a store that sells fragrances and stick to that section specifically. Talking about fragrances all day would be a sweet job
Asked a sales associate at the perfume shop for a recommendation for something similar to le male le parfum and he recommended Montblanc explorer.... enough said
Recently I was at Sephora, looking at whole replica line and guerlain line, just sniffing bottles by myself, when sales associate suddenly came and took me to gentleman line by givency. Just sprayed society and gave it to me, I was yeah yeah nice one. Then he proceeded to tell me that it is an exclusive fragrance made especially for Qatar World Cup and I will not find it anywhere else… Every time I go to the store, it always something like this. They never care what you actually looking for, just trying to push you one fragrance that probably earns them the biggest commission.
"This is called sauvage. Wear it to really stand out"
How backwards that was... live and learn though!
It's popular but I've literally smelled it once in public since it came out. It might be region specific.
Here is my story: A woman in Sephora decided to argue with me over iris note in Narciso Rodriguez Bleu Noir Parfum. She tried to convince me that there is no iris in that fragrance (there is iris). She literally screamed at me that all what i could smell is citrus notes mixed with woody notes and leather but no iris.
2nd one in Douglas: I got laughed at because i said that i smell sothing like chocolate/cacao in Givenchy Gentleman Reserve Prive(i know there is no chocolete in this fragrance). Later i heard from 2 different youtubers that they also smell something like chocolate in this fragrance.
I don’t mind fragrance sales people giving me suggestions. But I personally like it better taking my time smelling each fragrance and figuring out which fragrances that I like/don’t like.
Hard to do that when the sales person lingering right behind you, trying to get you to sell something right away and hurrying u to not try everything there
Or better yet telling you to spray only one or two and then telling you to stop if you try more.
I can’t stand it when they push you towards one fragrance just to get a sale off instead of letting you try the ones you want
They need to take major notes from me. Was at Sephora checking out the cologne like I always do. Saw some dude go straight to the Dior like all peasants. Then I recommended him Prada Sport and Prada Black. He then ended up buying black without even smelling it yet. Dude thought I worked there and I told him I didn’t and that I was just putting him on. I basically unintentionally sold him a cologne without even working there. 🤣🤣💯
There are a lot of NPCs out there.
The worse advice i was given was by an Amouage sales rep and it was "the stuff i have ain't niche and Amouage is the only niche and i should have it if i want a perfume from the only niche brand" 🤷♂
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about this issue because she was looking to go fragrance shopping. I've had so many encounters with people just doing their job, but not really being knowledgeable about fragrances and either making suggestions based on the few scents they knew, or trying to sell you something really expensive. I get it, it's sales and not everybody has an unconditional love for the product they're selling. What bothers me most is when they start making up facts or stuff about scents just because they think it makes them come across as competent.
I hate when the woman asks what do you wear now. I generally say nothing. Then I’ll say I’m looking for something classic fougere and they just say have you tried one million. It’s very Annoying. There is only one kiosk in the malls by me. A private seller who actually knows notes frag styles and can talk about niche frags confidently and IT’s because he owns his own store.
Yayy, I'm in a video!
To add a bit more context to my little story:
When I said
"the Dior SPOKESPERSON kept insisting the 2017 version was the latest one"
I meant that this spokesperson lady had already received the new 2021 version in stock, and I had to literally instruct her to look through her own cabinets to take it out, because she just could not believe what I was telling her, and kept arguing with me 😮💨
On a separate occasion, and this time with a sales rep from the actual store, I was told Versace Pour Homme had "NOTHING" in common with neither Missoni Wave nor Chanel Allure Homme Sport 😂
Needless to say, their business isn't doing so well nowadays 😅
The worst advice you can get from RUclips content creators lol not yourself obviously ash 😂 😉
Oooo I like this idea. One told me their fragrance was beast mode and two hours later cricket cricket
"1t's thE GoLdEn RoLEx!"... even though A. It's a major designer release and B. It's been neck and neck with Sauvage EDP in terms of sales per Macy's. The "golden Rolex" of fragrances, imo, is probably something like Roja Elysium Parfum
One RUclipsr I watch put Oud Wood way above Sauvage in a "biggest compliments puller" tier list... swear these people don't live in the real world.
I travel a lot.. swing in a duty free, try the stuff out and when I like it, I take a picture and order online when I'm back home
I really can't give an answer to this question because I've never asked a sales rep about any advice because I already knew that I actually knew more than they did lol most of the question that I usually ask is if it's available 🤣
I heard the King Louis favorite fragrance was Jet Black Enigma. 🤷🏻♂️
What’s crazy is you said 99% of the time you want to buy the clone brands online. Like a week ago I was in NYC for the day and I stopped in a side shop that I saw a bunch of fragrances in the window and one of them was “lataffa Safeer” which I’d never seen in person before but had it in my shopping cart. So I naturally went in and talked to the 2 guys who owned it for a while and they were amazing and I actually ended up pretending liked I worked there and sold a fragrance to a guy 😂😂😂. I asked the price of safeer and lataffa rose petals to which he responded “$25 for safeer and $15 for rose petals” and I looked at the bottom of the packaging to check the codes and stamps as far as my knowledge goes it’s %100 authentic. So my point being I found that 1% and that makes the experience that much better!!!
13:47 There's a guy who sells firewood in the north country of New Hampshire (Warren / Wentworth). His signs say "100% natural, organic, free-range firewood". I am told sells a TON of firewood to campers & other ignorant people... much more so than everyone else. A tongue-in-cheek joke turned into a money monster.
14:30 TJMaxx/Marshalls/Burlington have Joop on their shelves continually. I did that scent 20yrs ago on a suggestion. Yeah, no.
The most frequent bad advice I get from salespeople is suggesting the wrong scent for the season and them trying to show me the wrong fragrance from a house, when I ask about a new release, because they are totally clueless.
So i remember the exact opposite of this. In Boots (Liverpool, England) 2007 a beautiful sales woman came up to me and asked if i needed help after smelling some testers, i said yes but dont know what im looking for, she instantly recommended Prada Amber pour homme, i smelt it and it was nothing to me just soapy. I said politely no thank you and settled for givenchy pi and l'eau d issey for men, as i loved both fragrances. Fast forward years later and i wish I'd of taken her advice. Prada Amber pour homme is an absolutely excellent fragrance, one i always have in my rotation.
She was ahead of her time
I have learned to avoid them. Let me be and see what I like and don't like. This is my personal experience. "Thank you but no thank you".
Why did the Guerlain fragrances in general go up so much in price? I remember some years back you'd find Guerlain Vetiver, Habit Rouge, L'Instant, Ideal, etc for under $50, sometimes cheaper
Idk about that house specifically but two things likely are happening if you are referring to their discounted prices. Firstly, the house could have increased the price at retail which automatically makes them more expensive on discount. They also could have started controlling their suppliers a little tighter preventing them from ending up in countries where they wouldn’t have a valuable exchange rate allowing the grey market to purchase and sell them for cheap. They also may have begun to sue or threaten the discounters. Also, inflation, big time inflation. When America has a suffering economy it damages the whole world’s economy, and it even dips into luxury goods. Post pandemic the price on Sauvage Elixir went from 155, to 165, and now it’s about 180 something, and that all from the house itself. Also, hella worth it btw but still no fun.
@@masterhand20 Prices for Guerlain fragrances have doubled, sometimes almost tripled at discounters. Availability is really low as well. I think you are probably right about them regulating suppliers. It makes the most sense. Really a shame because I always considered them one of the best bang for your buck houses given the affordable pricing and stellar mature, classier fragrances.
I got Lattafa Asad instead of Sauvage Elixir and consider it an excellent compromise. I just can't justify the price on Elixir when Asad is worlds cheaper and smells close enough in the air. I could nearly get 5-8 quality Arabic clones or original fragrances for one bottle of Elixir. I completely understand why people get the authentic OG product though. I suppose in the end it depends on your disposable income, and thanks to inflation, mine is extremely limited. My last "big" purchase was The One Luminous Night, which was well worth the $100 I paid.
They changed their bottles at least 2 times and lowered their production I believe. They also ,in my opinion, think they are a high quality niche house fit for royalty recently especially after introducing their private line.
@@squidikka Understandable. I’m a massive fan of Francois Demachy, the last in house perfumer for Dior, and think his work with the house was genius and Sauvage Elixir was his magnum opus in the men’s line. So for me my big purchases as of late have been trying to find Dior Homme Original, Intentse, and Parfum, when they pop up here in the US.
“You’re affecting my Job! Now I’m affecting your life!” 😂😂😆
He sounded like that one episode of South Park 😂
Could you go into more detail about the difference between natural and synthetic ingredients? I thought natural would always be more expensive and smell better
typically, natural does not project as well: Aventus does not project nearly as well as CDNIM but IMO Aventus is the better fragrance anyway. Now, you have Royal Oud which is also natural but projects better than Aventus and some synthetic ones like Le Parfait, so it all depends.
Whoever edited this video needs to know the difference between “lost” and “loss”
Also “losing” not “loosing”
And the dollar sign comes before the number, not after ($110 not 110$)
"Get the big bottle" was the first thing that came to my mind. Lol
Had a saleslady at a Sephora going on and on to me about John Varvatos X Nick Jonas (the first one) like it was the fragrance of the year and I took her up on the recommendation but to me it was just okay (fortunately only got a sample and didn't blind buy it). It was something I'd buy as a $20-30 cheapie but not full retail but she raved about it like a fraghead discovering Aventus for the first time.
Also, that salesperson in the first email sounded like she was having a really rough day lol
I was once being told by a sales person that Tom Ford's Noir Extreme (pure) parfum contains no alcohol !!!
😂 that joop story brought back my PTS from my youth. Went to high school with people that must have took that advice. 🤮
The online discounters are "TAKING YOUR JERBS!!!" 😂
I was told at a shoppers drug mart that Dior homme 2020 was just a weaker version of DHI and that I should just get that instead. I went in to sample it because it is missing the classic iris accord that i so dearly love. had to give her a quick lesson. some of these sales reps need to smell stuff before they assume the "intense" is just stronger.
They're the worst 😂😂😂
Did you ever hear back from Notino about discounts for UK subscribers? Thanks
The SA at Bergdorf goodman and Neiman marcus tend to be pretty knowledgeable
“Let me spray this Megamar on you …”
One of the sales guys told me, he does not recommend certain fragrances. Why not? Because he likes them himself, and does not want others to wear them and to smell like him!!
They always said a fragrance that you wanna buy a versatile fragrance. 😴😴😴
Dillard's has the worst fragrance sales people of anywhere I go. They absolutely hound you to no end, trying to spray you with whatever they are trying to sell at that time. I never go to Dillard's anymore solely due to the frag counter sales people.
I was once told by sale associate that CDNIM was favorite fragrance of Osama bin ladin.
Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
I was in Paris n was looking for dior homme parfum and was told that dior homme intense and parfum were the same thing n the parfum one was just an old style of bottle
I asked for Dior Homme at a Dillards last weekend, and the salesperson first handed me Sauvage. I was like, “no…I’m sorry. I’m wanting Dior HOMME.” And then they grabbed Dior Homme Cologne and said “ah this one’s very fresh.” I was like “yeah, but that’s not the one I want…”
It was like playing the crane game but with a dumb human “no…left…left…back one more…that one!”
I think I was getting punked.
Some of these associates probably get commission for sales on fragrances. I can kind of understand why they want to push sales as long as there’s some kind of honesty.
I was told chopard was a niche fragrance, then I checked online, it's not and then I found the price at discounters only 1/5 from their retail price.
"Those online discounters are putting me out of a job"...
No... You refusing to educate yourself on the products you get paid to sell is what's putting you out of a job.
You should do belcam reviews I know that they may be cheap but I promise you,you smell any of em of em you fall in love but they do smell just a lil synthetic and they last awhile
I’ve wore great cologne but only received like 10 compliments in the last 2 years lol 😂
😂😂man I wish you were in South Africa...but thanks for the content it really helps a lot, just that some of the colognes aren't available in my country...
I buy from my local Dillards and from macys and Sephora online but I do go in to Dillards to smell scents so I can buy them from discounters. Dillards is notorious for following you around because those guys do get commission. I think when they see me now they know I’m probably not buying😂
I work at Dillards. We don’t make commission. We are payed hourly. Some companies will give us a little bonus $ on top for selling their stuff but that’s rare and few and far between.
We do know the people who buy and come to sniff so I just say hey to the people who only come to sniff and focus on the customers who are looking to buy. Part of the “following you around” thing is we have managers and a job to do to provide customer service. We don’t do that, we get fired.
@@GNellyMusic I was at Dillards yesterday and I had a lady that was so nice and helpful I ended up buying VSL Y from her. I had a lady last week that everywhere I turned she was right there. I told her ‘I’m just looking around” but she just kept on saying ’’ hey have you tried this, and this and this’’ My aunt use to work at Dillards and I just remember her telling me she had to sell so much to get I guess what you called that bonus. Nothing against Dillards I have a Dillards card and I buy clothes from there all the time :)
A salesperson in Boots recommended Fahrenheit la parfum as "the same scent but stronger". I was happy with the purchase but it's not the same scent.
Godolphin must be what led King Louis to the guillotine lol.
😂 I remember one time this guy was trying to sell me some cologne (don't remember what brand) for a certain price, just for me to do a quick Google and was waaaaaay cheaper online. I just walked out.
Great video Ash! 🤘
That BS price tag technique Al Haramain does is exactly what Invicta does with their watches
Me a South African, just found out about Tumi fragrances
Please do a top issey miyake fragrances video!!
I started collecting fragrances because i got terrible advice from a sales rep … I had no idea what to buy and i did not start watching reviewers on youtube yet.. i was told to buy D&G K edt i bought it didnt like it but couldn't return it..From then i did my homework 78 bottles later im addicted the end lol
Same . I blind bought a 100ml D&G the one edp retail because everyone on yt was praising it and I was just getting into fragrances and I ended not liking and I couldn't return it 😂😢
The one thing I hear them ALL say in store when a customer asks for recommendations is "what do you normally wear?". They really should be asking "what type of thing are you looking for?"
If the sales people know what you normaly wear, they know what kind of scent they can recommend to you. If someone likes to wear sauvage, they might like bleu de chanel, but not like jean paul gaultier le male le parfum.
Most normal people have no idea what they are looking for or want. Only the people heavily into perfumes know that.
Hello I was wondering if you ever tried phoenix shaving company soaps and shaving soap and cologne it is on point it's the best soap you can get.
how about the classic... these are more expensive bc their oil bases. Talking about edp or parfums vs EDT. Like what? edt are water based? lol
For me, I feel like YSL Y edp lasts longer and projects more than the Le Parfum version.
One sales person recommended me Joop. I went to a different store.
For me its not even advice, its the fact that a lot of them self fragrances but cant tell you anything about the fragrance outside the note card that list the notes.
Wait!! Sauvage isn’t natural???? 😮😳🤣🤣🤣
I remember a woman at my mall telling me the tj maxx fragrances were all fakes
they're a hit and miss: the first one I got was real but the second was clearly a fake, so yeah, you're better off buying at the mall unless it's one of those kiosks. Rack stores in general aren't the best place to buy anything let alone fragrances.
The 10% discount isn't working.. it says invalid
Dude now that I’ve gotten so into fragrances, I just don’t bat an eye at what those reps say. I go in, ask to try what I’m looking for politely, then buy it and leave. No need to converse with lower standards. I do meet some knowledgeable reps, but that’s a small faction. Maybe 1 out of 50?
I ain't really had any bad advice from sales people on fragrances they are usually fairly predictable I'll ask if they have something specific and i can see it on the shelf and they will tell me about a totally different fragrance that's nice and get it out totally ignoring me and the one i asked for, obviously they are getting some commission for selling the specific ones that week or something 🤣 so i just repeat myself until they get the one out i asked for, other than that i know they are clueless i know better than them
Most of them don't really know the real notes of the fragrances they sell and simply describe according to their own interpretation. Not a big deal since we can try out but then there are some that don't have testers to try, probably they ran out of it.
joop homme is the only cologne my dad owns and everytime he walks by i want to cut my nose off.
i preferred when the only cologne he owned was CK Obsession
No to joop ? Lol is that a real played out fragrance ? 😅😅😅 somebody tell me . I have flank of this
EdC, EdT and Parfum used to be just different concentrations so it's no wonder people still belive this is still the case. Them being different scents is a new trend and the earliest example I can think was Chanel with their Bleu. Sauvage took the trend to a whole new level
I'm a 90's guy.... i don't need advice from young fragrance salesperson😂
"pretty bourgeoise"
No, bourgeoise is middle-class. Sak's is def above that pay grade. Noone who is middle class has 800$ to spend on a white t-shirt with a small, barely noticeable logo.
I had the lady at Macy's tell me Bentley for men intense is unisex and she often hears faces say they share it with their husband ,It.was my first time smelling it and I've heard reviews so I knew she was wrong ,after I sprayed it on my hand itbwas a quick scrub off and noway females ware Bentley intense
Female's not faces ,won't allow me to edit
If a female wears bentley intense, she might be the manly kind of woman.
Who shops at stores anymore?
Sauvage the most natural ambroxan 🤣🤣🤣
Im not gonna call it worst advice but more obnoxiously annoying. If you make commission on colognes i understand you trying to reccomend the cologne you make commission on, but please stop arguing with me and almost trying to force me to buy mercedez benz black or any of their other ones. Legit would not give me the tom ford grey vetiver i asked for and kept insisting mb is better and thats the one i want. I walked out of the store empty handed because she adamantly refused to give me anything other then mercedez benz cologne. ALL the stores near me are like that, so now i get everything online, even samples. Especially since every time i ask to sample a cologne, no matter what it is, no matter how many times i ask in a row they just instead keep giving me samples of mb cologne until you smell one you like then try to quickly cash you out for a bottle before you even say yes or no. Its almost obnoxious to me so i stopped sampling or buying anything from them and only shop online now.
I REALLY dont get the hate for Joop Homme. It is by far my most complimented fragrances and chicks have been LOVING it on me for years. Summer, Winter, doesnt matter.
I use ADG Absolu for that very reason.
I see Joop, I click like
"Wierd"
Please do a review of DUA fragrances. They make TONS of clones! Worth a try if you never had em. They even have discontinued fragrances.
time to let the hair go brotha
Fragrance sellers especially at dept stores responsibilities need to change. They need to be supporters instead of thinking their advisors. Lol just support me when i ask a question. But your ill advised advice is unnecessary. I have yet to meet a sales person that has been more knowledgeable than me in the fragrance realm. They are salesman and will make a regular joe feel that they're expert's and thats their job to SALE you! 🥴
You spelled WEIRD WRONG!!! 😤
“Yeah, Blue Ridge & Terra Nova are well worth buying!”
If they made your face look like that I will stay far away from them!
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Worst advice ever, it smells like chicken.
The clone shilling is getting outrageous at this point. Every fkn content creator is pushing clones like crazy
I love watching your videos but with this new editing with all those subtitles and skipping moments all the time to make it more tik tok brain friendly is just too much.
I found myself trying to avoid your videos lately. Before I used to jump straight to your new video, now I just know that I have to go through all these RUclips shorts sort of editing and is not pleasant.
"Edp is a higher concentration so it lasts longer."