• mkultrawide [any]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Nah, there’s no pyramid schemes or anything like that. Jeremy Fragrance is just an extremely eccentric Polish-German fragrance reviewer/social media influencer. He has his own fragrance line, but he’s known for his posting, clearly being yakked out in many if his videos, and definitely suppressing/hiding whatever homosexual urges he has.

      In terms of the online fragrance community, I would say go check out r/fragrance and fragrantica.com reviews for an idea of what the community is like. The closest analogy I could make is that it’s like watch collecting but primarily for women and gay men (although there are a bunch of straight men, too). On the subreddit, you will see people shit talk very popular mainstream fragrances, calling them plain and linear, and instead encourage people buy fragrances that they say are “challenging” and cost like $200+ for a small 50ml/1.5floz bottle. Most normal people will tell you those “challenging” fragrances smell like ass. A lot of them have huge collections that they spent hundreds to thousands of dollars on, often without actually smelling the fragrances before buying.

      They will talk down on what are relatively popular but still pretty niche fragrances like Baccarat Rouge 540, which costs $300+ for a 70 ml/2.4floz bottle, claiming they smell it everywhere nowadays. A bunch of them tend to be in major cosmopolitan centers like New York or LA. Creed Aventus is another extremely popular one with men, but almost literally only with men, and it costs an arm and leg. The joke is basically that it’s for attracting gay men at the club.