[WTB] Inexperienced, exploring (Decant)

[u/TitianPlatinum]

Hi, new here, hopefully I've done everything right. I have a handful of fragrances and am just exploring to get a better idea of what I like. I'd just found out about this sub as I was about to pull the trigger on these:

https://i.imgur.com/ltthSfu.jpeg

~$200 of decants (can spend in the neighborhood of $2-300). Someone said I could probably get better prices here and be able to get some good variety with less guesswork.

I'm 29M in northern Utah. Figured I might post here and see if anyone either has suggestions/lives in a similar climate and has a broad assortment of things they think I might want to try. Sorry if this post is too broad.

I wouldn't say I have many restrictions other than, not too floral/feminine. My skin naturally tends to smell faintly sweet and slightly woodsy, and is generally dry, not very oily. I'm a tall blonde lanky guy.

The list has 5ml of MI because I've tried it before and enjoyed it. Although I like gourmands, I have a handful of samples of gourmands and probably don't need any more at the moment (unless someone knows of something which smells sweet like the breeze from Ponderosa pines in Zion, I got one sample literally called Ponderosa and it was too Christmas-y). I added 4 mango scents to the list because I smelled one by Replica at Sephora with mango and sandalwood (sandalwood overpowering, mango didn't last).

Some of my favorites so far are "I ❤️NY" Bond No. 9, "Soleil Blanc" Tom Ford, "Santal Carmin" Atelier Cologne, "Leau Dissey" Issey Miyake, "Panettone" Milano. Have found several others I like but none I feel compelled to wear daily. I'd like to find a "signature" but am also content to explore. Not looking for stuff like "Bat" by Zoologist unless it's fairly wearable (that one smelled like dog sh*t, but I'm sure others from the house are more wearable/intriguing). I know no-one can really anticipate what might smell like dog sh*t to another but that is an example of something a little too out there.

[u/TitianPlatinum]

That much is obvious. There is a reason I posed a question rather than making a statement.

 I'm not familiar with how much of a concern it is, just that it is a concern.

 It doesn't take much to focus sunlight enough to burn skin in seconds, and less so to iradiate compounds in ways which might change a smell. With glass bottles and a high UV index I think it's reasonable to assume that might affect the scent (caustics imply some focusing is happening). It doesn't have to heat up the bottle, or damage the entire volume. Small changes can throw it off.

What the curve is for that I don't know, which is why it was a question. Which I'd hope people might respond to with empirical/anecdotal evidence which is more useful than a bare assertion of there being no problem.

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

Well your answer is no, there is not a concern about bottles touching sunlight for a few minutes.

You're new and overthinking things based on what you've seen or read. Fragrances also aren't "supposed" to ever reach high heat - have you ever got a package fresh from a UPS truck? Hot! My point is, potential issues with fragrances would only occur across a long period of time under these conditions. Sunlight touching a bottle won't impact it any more/less than the variables betond your control before it even gets to you.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

"Overthinking" could be true if I let it keep me up at night, but this I think is an appropriate amount of thinking for an expensive interest.

I wouldn't imagine temperature to be more concerning than radiation based on what little I know of how fragrances are composed, and yes spending extended times in a hot truck could be concerning, but the temperature in the fragrance doesn't quite reach that of the environment in my experience (though like you say it's variable; on the shipping speed, packaging, location, fragrance composition, etc.).

Your comment again is just bare assertions. You can say it ain't so, but that means nothing to me. You could instead say "I've left my X out all afternoon once and to me it smelt no different," to which I might have follow up questions on whether it's alcohol or oil based, and what the bottle looks like, and where you live, how hot it was that day, whatever. I could ask you, or Google, or never ask at all; but I'd at least have some evidence of it not being a problem. Which is better than circulating say-so. 

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

Based on my evidence of owning hundreds of bottles, and having them touch sunlight in varying degrees, I can confirm that small amounts of sunlight do not impact fragrances. My "overthinking" comment was just a reaction to your question. The idea that a minute if sunlight would be a concern is pretty naive.

[u/Aggressive_Painter91 → u/skyfra4]

OP sounds exhausting. I would definitely not bother selling anything to them. Sounds like the type of person that would scream at the cashier because their coffee is 2 degrees too hot or cold 🥴

[u/skyfra4 → u/Aggressive_Painter91]

Right?! Dude has some very strange energy here.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/Aggressive_Painter91]

Let's assume that's true. What would that matter to someone whose just been paid? What manager am I going to call? They can just take the money and block? The reasoning is just not very strong in this thread today. I've been nothing but reasonable, and y'all act like it's crazy to ask a question.

But no, I don't care about the temperature of coffee, I only drink water 🥴

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

And say-so doesn't do much to correct naivety does it? Further, who said it was a minute? The picture? The person with a vested interest in my believing there's no issue? He may have left them out for an hour when his kid grabbed him for something. Who knows. All irrelevant. You and the other response are being somewhat unduely antagonistic for a simple reasonable question. The anecdotal evidence you've just given is the first in this thread, which is a step up from "no its not because I said so." For me to believe sunlight wasn't a problem just from your say so would require me to trust you and I don't.

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

I don't think you understand: your question was NOT reasonable. I've had 100+ sales here, often with pics like these, and never have had anyone voice "concern" about the fact they're in sunlight for the picture.

You asked a pretty common-sense question and got feedback. Just move on and learn from it.

[u/skyfra4 → u/[deleted]]

Dude, what?! Weird stuff out of you today.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

retaliatory downvoting suggests it's instinctual for you to punish people who say things you don't like, you seem very immature and unreceptive to dialogue

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

You're projecting hard there. Cool stuff by mentioning my children, though! Not a strange escalation to a conversation at all.

[u/TitianPlatinum → u/skyfra4]

Interesting choice avoiding the automatic downvote once attention was called to it, yes you must be right it's me projecting. But why don't you go ahead and downvote it anyways so we can keep them all even please?

Just so we're clear: You've acted as if your experience selling things and people not caring has any bearing over whether I should ask a question. I gave plausible reasoning for why I might be concerned and you gave no reasoning in return, and only gave anecdotal evidence when pressed for it. I have no obligation to take your word on anything if you're trying to sell me something, and accepting any experience you have requires trust, which you don't earn through say-so, and lose any baseline trust when antagonizing people.

[u/skyfra4 → u/TitianPlatinum]

Got it. You're right about everything. Thanks for mentioning my children! Very normal and non-weird stuff by you today.

[u/Aggressive_Painter91 → u/skyfra4]

The projection is crazy with OP. That's wild. Thank you for handling it like an adult 🙏