Fragrantica Reviews 78

I can’t use the website cause it’s just full of ads and it wouldn’t let me skip them, so annoying!!!!

Although I find that Fragrantica is very good and useful reviewing perfumes;!
After I decided to join to add my comments aswell at the one-off payment of £3-through 'Playoyd 24/7, I can't understand why they kept trying to take £40 from the credit card I used!? This is daylight robbery, since I never agreed to this, but my Bank got suspicious and had to keep stopping it,and now reissuing a new Card!! I 'm not paying £40 subscription to write reviews! this doesn't make sense? Why are Fragrantica trying to do this? I need some explanation of why this is going on?

I got a bad case of the fragnaticatism, this site has literally every perfume ever and it's so detailed with their descriptions. It gives you links on good deals for the perfume too. 10/10, you 1 star folk are snobs

Three complaints:

1. I didn't believe it until I saw it, but this entire website is just an excuse for the mods to spread political propaganda. I am open to free speech, but this is a website about perfumes, and for perfume reviews. Shouldn't be anything other than that.

2. The mods are terrible at adding fragrances to their encyclopedia. I have about a dozen perfumes that the mods will not add that I can't put on my profile. They seem to focus on Trump more than running their own website.

3. The rating/liking system on reviews is hot garbage. Instead of upvotes and downvotes it's... balloons??? There's no explanation given or anything to be found when trying to search it, which is confusing to newer members. There's no way of telling how many likes or dislikes you've gotten, it's all just a bunch of balloons.

Trash website. Moderators suck. The people who live on it suck. The people who own it suck. You can’t post any bad reviews anywhere or else you’re personally attacked as if you’ve posted a review about their own mother. It’s cologne for God’s sake. Scented liquid inside a glass container that means nothing at the end of the day. The freaks that peruse the website like buzzards think this stuff has some kind of magical powers. It’s liquid in a bottle that smells. That’s it! It ain’t that serious! Buncha’ bizarre weirdos on there that really should go and do something with their lives rather than living on a website ran by communists. And by the way, they’re communists. They’re all from Russia. Russians are communists. Communists do not believe in your freedom and think that they own you. I can prove this because Fragrantica monitors your sent and received messages. So illegal and a violation of privacy. I hope this website burns in the deepest pits of hell where it belongs.

great, top, nice

As a long-time user of Fragrantica, I have witnessed firsthand the community's evolution. Unfortunately, I've become increasingly concerned about the platform's direction and moderation policies.
Fragrantica, a site dedicated to fragrance enthusiasts, has a significant influence on the community. However, it appears that the site is fostering an environment that is unwelcoming to those with differing viewpoints or minority statuses. The moderation on the site often allows extreme right-wing and religiously biased comments to flourish, creating a hostile atmosphere for those who don't share these views.
Elena, the owner and editor-in-chief, plays a pivotal role in shaping the site's culture. Her endorsement and tolerance of these divisive attitudes are troubling. It seems that users who align with these extreme viewpoints are given free rein to express themselves, often at the expense of respectful dialogue and diversity of thought. This lack of balanced moderation is disappointing and counterproductive to fostering a healthy, inclusive community.
It's crucial for platforms like Fragrantica to maintain a welcoming environment for all users, regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs. The current trajectory of the site, under Elena's leadership, raises significant concerns about its inclusivity and fairness encouraging and endorsing fascist/ nazi sympathizer behavior.

If you want crazed religious fanatics ranting about the Lord, Trump, anti-vaccine propaganda, then by all means, go to Fragrantica. And that is just their Founder and Editor-in-Chief, a self-dubbed "journalist." If you want to learn about perfumes, then do go to Parfumo. I have experienced both sites and the latter is far superior in every way, from the lack of weird ads, to the functions and features, to the great community of people active on there. I would give Fragrantica a 0 if I could. It's like the Jerry Springer show on there, from the weird pro-Putin admins to the equally weird subscribers.

Website run by pro-Russian, LGBTQI-hating, COVID-denying anti-vaxxers (Free to Choose!). The design looks like it was made in Geocities and there are a lot of fake fragrance reviews. Fragrance notes are mostly incorrect and admins behave like dictators, mass deleting reviews that are not in line with the general opinion. Giving likes to reviews is done by a balloon system. What this has to do with fragrance I have no idea. It takes ages for certain fragrances to be added to the site, and when you open too many pages the site kicks you out with a 'too many requests'-error. Awful experience. The only thing Fragrantica has going for it is the comprehensive database and that you can find some honest reviews between all the fake ones.

Two stars because the database is comprehensive.
But the moderators and site owner intentionally post inflammatory, off-topic content, and encourage disparaging and insulting comments in the threads of many posts.
Had they stuck to the core topic of perfumery, I'd still have my account. However, I cancelled and deleted it a few weeks back.
It's a shame to see a great resource ruined by off-topic posts and partisan behavior where it doesn't belong.

Mean intelligence level of the forums is low. Crawling with ignorant bullies who troll the more intelligent members freely, while administrators do nothing. If you stand up to the admin's beloved bullies, who rule the roost, you'll be banned without warning. Stay away!!!

Some of the members and administrators are rude and spread hateful rhetoric. It's spoiled my enjoyment of the site. In fact, I removed all my content and only consult the database, which is the largest I know. Really sad to see political discussions invade the fragrance world and used to bash minorities. Oh, and also conspiracies :(

Only site in 2024 that won't remember your login. You need login for aditional info of fragrance and fragrantica will always waste your time as it will ask you for login every time and additionally redirect you back to the homepage instead of the site you were on before the login. All that because their trashbag developer can't even make a login - something that 15-year old high school developer could make

I absolutely adore Fragrantica. I go there to do some deep dives into perfumes that I'm considering blind buying. I can always get a general impression of whether or not I would like a frag. I wouldn't have gotten so into perfume without this website, and I love that it's dated, and laid out like everything used to be before the internet became a horrible place. You will find some really creative reviewers with unbiased opinions here. And you can do a deep dive on their profiles too! Anyone who might have something in common with you frag-wise. I don't know what's up with all these anti-Russian reviews 🙄 can we please leave the god d**n politics out of it. Anyway, this website is a gem, and I hope its around forever, just as it is.

This site has been well-known by fragrance enthusiasts, but it doesn't hold up to any contemporary standard. No reporting of abuse, and by implication, no moderation. Your may get the most insulting reactions to your contributions and nobody cares. If your review is not in line with the majority opinion, you get a donkey sticker, i.e. you are tagged as stupid — pure Balcanic mentality there. The shady Russian and Serbian persons running the site felt it opportune to post a pro-Julian Assange banner, in mockery of the pro-Navalny and pro-democracy outpouring of sympathy, THE VERY DAY AFTER THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER WAS MURDERED IN PRISON. Clearly, these people have their sympathies with Putin, the Hitler of our times. But leaving this site behind in protest is not easy, because — surprise, surprise — there is no deleting the account. It is like Russia and the whole Communist experience in miniature. AVOID THEM AND BOYCOTT THEM!

Like any other website, you should not take fragrantica.com seriously, unless you've done your research. It's basically a badly designed and managed site, with biased censorship against anyone who can potentially hurt their agenda, which is collecting revenue from shameless advertising. You don't like them? Do not register, use it at your own risk, do not comment, like, dislike, etc. Do not take them too seriously, they are a mediocre organization.

Pushing trump's perfumes was probably the most juvenile act of the owners.

It's an election year in the US and the editor & owner has chosen to promote articles intended to promote hatred of trans individuals, lgbtq+ individuals, and anyone who doesn't support Trump or Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Forum or article comments that point out their lies or hate speech are deleted.

Free site that works consistently well with easy to access techy staff who are helpful with a new user. Very comprehensive Fragrance database for review purposes. Interesting articles by knowledgeable writers.

Fragrantica is really good beacuse you can find information about fragrences you want to buy. You can read rewies, look what it smells like, the good and bad thing about it and see rating. And much more