I can't stress this enough, NEVER ever buy fragrance based off famous youtubers like Jeremy Fragrance.

Why do people buy based on these youtuber top 10 list?

These people are from western country whereby their climate is cold, even during summer it is below 28c degrees for European countries and they are not humid like Malaysia.

I've seen many people buying YSL la'nuit del homme, dior sauvage, Blu De Channel etc. which are highly recommended by these youtubers but they din't realise these are winter fragrances. Imagine a fragrance design to withstand the cold climate being used in a hot humid country. Diu nia seng when that person start to sweat it smells worse than people with body odor because the sweat combines with the fragrance projection strength and sillage can freaking murder people being close to them.

Even some of their summer list fragrance doesn't seem to work in Malaysia because of the humidity.

I believe the best way to wear a fragrance in Malaysia especially during the day is to buy fragrance that are

1) Not sweet in anyway
2) Fresh fragrance (Citrus/floral/aquatic)
3) Little to no warm spicy notes, balsamic, heavy woody notes and other sweet or pungent notes.

If you doesn't sweat much and doesn't have body odor and work mostly indoors under air conditioning then maybe you can try their summer list but never ever buy sweet fragrances.

Another better way on buying fragrance is to actually go to the store, spray it on your hand and then judge it at after 12 hours.

Some people tend to buy based on the smell from the first spray (base notes). Base notes dies very quickly, what you are looking for is middle and end notes which will be the scent you will be smelling most of the time hence try to spray it on your hand, walk around or go home then only decide to buy the next day.

This post has been edited by JasonLeeX: Dec 16 2018, 11:00 AM

Also I just want to point out that the persona of "successful businessman with a masters degree in international business" that Jeremy portrays isn't actually real.

Jeremy fragrance is actually a single/dancer from a failed group called "Part Six".

It doesn't affect you but it affects others.

You have no idea how these sweet fragrance smells like in hot and humid condition.

Some of my colleague wore those fragrance in the office and the smell is so sweet and pungent that it smells really unpleasant, even other female colleagues said so despite my office is really cold.

My theory is because when they put on the fragrance at home whilst travelling to the office, the sweat and heat actually destroyed the smell.

During lunch time when we need to go out and when it is blazing hot, those who wore fragrances design for winter or sweet and pungent fragrance, it instantly hit everyone nearby like a brick wall. Some of them who sweats more than others with body odor to top it off even worst, smell like sweet smelly pungent body odor. Throughout the afternoon in office, it stinks up the workplace.

Everywhere I go during lunch hour, I can smell those office workers thick and pungent fragrance smell, really makes me want to vomit.

So far, I only notice some guy that doesn't sweat easily can pull those fragrance off but it still smells overly pungent when that fella is not in an air conditioned place.

If you think it is ok because no one told you off doesn't mean it is actually ok. No one will ever tell you that you stink because it is common courtesy not to offend people about their smell. Should just pandai pandai sikit when wearing fragrance la.

I would know if they reapply. Top notes normally doesn't stink that much since most fragrance open with fresh citrus notes. Only when it hits middle notes or the end notes it fuses with sweat will come off really smelly.

It is weak only if you buy it from non official store. Bear in mind if you buy from shoppee or any place that claim that they are "authentic" apart from parkson/aeon/sogo/official boutique/official site, chances are you are getting AAA grade or worse. Pasar malam one confirm straight up low grade replica.

I've smell so many fragrance in my lifetime that I can tell apart knockoffs and authentic fragrance (Knockoffs below AAA grade). AAA grade is hard to distinguish because it smells just like the real thing but I guess the difference is the dilution which makes the performance very weak. Below AAA grade you can smell that they've added some other chemicals that smells like faint thinner. Pasar Malam knockoff is the easiest to differentiate because they smell different in terms of notes altogether (basically similar smell but completely different scent and notes) and they tend to have the generic dry down (basically mid and end notes smells like fragrant alcohol with little trace left of what it is supposed to smell like)

Perhaps my nose is sensitive but for those who sweat + sweet fragrance confirm smelly. Try spraying a winter frag on a tissue and leave it out on the sun for a good 10min, it will give you a pungent smell if you have a sensitive nose.

This post has been edited by JasonLeeX: Dec 17 2018, 03:23 PM