Fragrantica Reviews 78

fake reviews all the people on it are a little bit sick in the head if you ask me. the notes never match the fragrance itself

It's useful platform to get information and there's a nice community of fragrance lovers sharing photos. But the platform's owners and rulers are terrible, they NEVER respond if you write to them, either do the editors, correspondents, writers... Very very rude management! Also, I think most of perfume reviews are fake.

Terrible website to use - comes up with a server error if you search for too many fragrances.

Don't register unless you want to be harassed, bullied, and have your sensitive personal information stolen. That website is a fraud. They are crooks. I'm here to warn people. Please, don't use your regular email, your name, etc. Or don't register at all.

I've had the worst interactions with the members (people who use that website) as well. Bullying, threats, and harassment. The admins and moderators participate in it, and encourage such dangerous & illegal behavior. Moderators edit your comments without your consent or knowledge, and read your private direct messages. They prey on the members.

I am shocked and appalled that these things are happening. They think they can get away with it and ruin people's lives and harass people.

Please, stay safe.

edited: wanting to take off a notch because of the levels of misinformation. They were recommending me Afnan Tobacco Rush as a clone of Mancera Red Tobacco, after I forked out 50$ dollar for this found out it didn't anything like it. Still it is in the "reminding of" section + users blabbing that it is, but it isn't. Turns out that PARIS CORNER EMIR WILD & TOBACCO is a 1:1 copy that has been out since 2021 or before that is over three years ago, still it isn't on their website? So this website isn't even up to date? why is no one mentioning this? So I wasted a good 50 bucks on a false recommendation and a scent that smells more like a black furnace. Bottom line: just go to your local sephora and have a trial session, order decants but forget about this site. After all it is full of airheads believing they are some professional influencer with a PhD at chemistry at something, who spout -beast mode- and -flanker- around as some method to gain quick balloon "likes".

on 2nd thought, I appreciate unisex fragrances are still strongly described as -for men and women- here and not, "gender-neutral" and whatever they've invented to make anything I do say or think s illegal, what's wrong with society??? why is everyone around you walking on egg shells

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like this informative site a lot, but it feels like some sort of discogs where you can rate and discuss the audio in crazy detail.. but NOT the presentation. There is none of that, none anywhere. Bottle design and given titles are just as important, that can be a key for purchasing a specific fragrance or a brand or an edition, that can make a difference if it looks great on your shelf. Some of these bottles look like amazing art to purchase even faster. Yet there is none of that on the site like bottle design doesn't matter. Cannot be done on the personal profile unless maybe you add your own shelf which then you can label best looking bottles.. but you can rate any other idiotic nonsense like winter fragrance, night fragrance (?) Feels like a missed opportunity.

An absolute mess of a company. A fragrance company getting on its political high horse and telling people how to think. I had read how politically bull this company was but had no Idea it was this true. I'll never use it again. I went in to find out about scents before buying . Not to get my mind politicised.

This website used to be really good at one time well before 2010. Over the years though up until now in 2023, it has failed miserably in more than one way and has become a hostile website if you attempt to speak up about not liking the way a fragrance smells. In a sense it has become, evil. The moderators are completely biased in holding up an image of positive feelings always. Everyone wins, all of the time. Everyone receives an award but if you misbehave, shame! No negativity here. No no no! The website is a joke. Navigating it is even worse and may I add, hideous to look at. The database is decent, that’s about it. Here’s some great pointers.

1) Biased moderators who do not believe in the Constitution of the United States of America.

2) Overly sensitive snowflakes everywhere who think they own the website. They’ll have you banned, just give it time.

3) God forbid you post a negative review about somebody’s special perfume, or even your own special perfume. Deleted to begin, and then eventually banned if you keep posting about how much you still dislike the scent.

4) Apparently in the perfume world, the word ‘old lady’ is as bad as dropping the N bomb in front of a black person. In fact, if you privately message another Fragrantica user and type the word old lady anywhere in your message, in the sent message on the receiver’s side, it will be censored and read as ‘Bank of London’.

5) The website is chocked with territorial loony people who will have you banned at the drop of a hat if their views do not coincide with yours by posting a negative review.

6) Absolutely useless reviews and note voting system that tells you nothing.

7) Way too many ads.

8) Zero freedom of speech.

9) A really strange thumbs up/thumbs down voting system that eventually leads to your honest, unbiased and straight forward review being deleted.

10) Trolls and sock puppets who have multiple accounts to manipulate note voting and reviews, including cyber bullying.

11) If anything related to China is posted anywhere (positive, neutral or the most hateful speech ever) including the forum, you’re instantly banned for life via IP address.

12) Posting anything anywhere concerning suspicions of the validity of Fragrantica and how they handle confrontational posts equates to an instant ban. They gotta keep up that image remember?

13) Voting for notes is incredibly inaccurate. DO NOT believe anything you see or read. Just don’t even use this website.

14) Rainbows and unicorns. Fragrantica loves to keep their squeaky clean image… or else!

15) It’s the ‘feel good’ website. No negative anything allowed, ever! Everything must be happy happy happy all of the time or else… BANNED!

16) Ran by Russian Communists.

As the reviewer has stated below which I will agree with whole heartedly, Fragrantica as a whole, including their staff are 100% far left, anti-Americans who DO NOT believe in the freedom of speech. The website is heavily censored and biased.

Avoid Fragrantica. If you fancy honest reviews and a legitimate website with professional individuals, use Basenotes. At least over there your negative and honest review will stay forever. Nobody can ever vote it down, and things you post will not be deleted. They believe in the freedom of speech. Basenotes is located in the United Kingdom. Avoid Parfumo, they’re the German version of Fragrantica. You cannot post anything negative, ever, including the word old lady or else… BANNED by Karen!

This crooked, overly priced, American hating, horrible customer service offering company is a joke!!! The prices of the perfumes are insane!!! Perfumes from the 80's and 90's that cost less than $30 in a store, they're wanting over $100.00!! If you're an American, they're extremely rude, hang up in your face, refuse to cancel your membership. This crooked company needs to be banned from America!!!!

Excellent I like this site
It provides details about perfumes, stability, fragrant smell, and perfumes similar to a particular perfume based on the opinions of users, so I find this good.

Way too much fake alts/reviews.

Its just a sales computer programm of perfumes like most forum's are, nothing more nothing less.
Way too much fake (paid) alts/reviews, most reviews doesnt even make sense, its just crap.

I initially loved Fragrantica until I started to become actively involved with the site. After leaving a couple of reviews I realised that they were being deleted. Annoying when you've taken the time to write them and give an honest opinion.

Reading through the forums, I found a post saying that reviews were deleted if down-voted by people, ie, they've hit the thumbs down button on the review. My reviews were stating that I didn't like the particular fragrances and why. Useful information to anyone considering purchasing a fragrance, and the whole point of reviews.

It's an absolutely ridiculous policy and steers bias towards only positive reviews of a fragrance. Not a very honest perspective to give people. So I contacted the company several times about this, only to be ignored. I then noticed that all my forum posts had been deleted and the whole topic on deleted reviews in the forum was removed.

Fragrantica is unfortunately run by completely rude and unscrupulous individuals. I sent them a final email to let them know just how unimpressed I was with them and their website, although it’s obvious that they don’t care. Such a shame as it has great potential but it’s not what it appears to be on the surface. Underneath the glossy exterior is something far less attractive and sinister.

No easy way to delete an account! Absolutely ridiculous.
Zero stars would be a more accurate reflection of my opinion of this site.

This is the best website to go to to find information about perfumes. The only problem is that it is slow

I must admit that I used to visit and write there almost on daily basis, but I had to stop for various reasons.

1. The reviews are biased. The number of bad reviews is sluggish compared to good ones, mostly due to "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" functions on the website. If a review is thumbed down by many people, it will be removed. From my experience over 10 years, if the reviews are not glorifying the holy grail of perfumes therin, they are likely to be thumbed down and removed.

2. Fragrantica is making money out of ads on their website and through merchant links, including eBay, Amazon, etc.. This is a breech of privacy through selling peoples "most searched" perfumes to merchants. Other decent perfume blogs don't do that for a reason.

3. This one is only a spiculation, but through the thumbs-down and removal of "bad reviews" function, I can see fragrantica advertising for the "best perfume ever to be created" by keeping only positive reviews. Now comes the catch, the "best perfume ever" can be easily bought through the links that fragrantica supply of 3rd party merchants.

4. There is minimal supervision and moderation on foul or harassment language, and they claim they cant oversee all reviews.

5. There is no support or help available when they make a mistake or people are harassed on their website. They never replied to any of my emails in the past.

6. There are some reports of Fragrantica staff pushing their own perfumes into the market and sending it to youtubers, only to personally bash them if the youtuber is less than head over heels for that magic potion.

My partner introduced me to the site and I have to say, I love finding out why I love certain perfumes so that I can use the information to help find new ones that I’ll like! It’s also great to see if any will layer nicely to creat a custom scent!

Very rude disrespectful staff. No freedom to tell an honest opinion.

I've been a member of Fragrantica for seven years off and on.
As far as reviews you will have younger kids affecting the rating of particular pefurmes in annoying way.
Really, finding reviewers that you respect is helpful. In the end you have to smell and resmell a fragrance to make decision backed by known long time members' reviews.
The forum is fun and informative. People are always there to help.
The owners of this site are wonderful people who take your any concern seriously.
I enjoy Fragrantica.

the very best site with all the info on fragrances. Do not waste your time on other ones, this site is a true knowledge treasure, and there is a forum too! 5 stars all the way.

Fragrantica is my guide, my bedtime story and my bible all rolled into one.
Brilliant reviews ranging from stark honesty to ridiculous poetry and everything in between.
Love, hate, indifference, it's all in a day's work for Fragranticans.
You can learn about fragrance composition, house, perfumer and more.
This site has taught me so much.
Epic!