Guide Perfume Guide

[machineovercooked]

[GUIDE] The Looksmaxxing Perfume Guide ​

Everyone talks about makeup, bone structure, hair layering — but they completely ignore one of the most powerful looksmaxxing tools women have: scent. With none of that weird invisible pheromene shit
Scent works before you open your mouth. It lingers when you walk away. It builds memory. So let us smell unforgettable — without choking people out with drugstore sprays or smelling like a Sephora teen. Commence.

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1. Scent = Passive Looksmaxxing​

Smelling good = being perceived as put-together, clean, soft, expensive. No one tells you this, but people will tolerate mid-tier looks if you smell high-tier.
Scent codes-

• Fresh = youth
• Warm = sensuality
• Cold = money
• Green = clarity
• Musk = intimacy

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2. Drop the Trend Fragrances​

Everyone's wearing Ariana Grande Cloud. Everyone smells like sugar, detergent, and vanilla body spray. Drop that ASAP

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3. Build Your Scent Identity​

Your scent should match your energy, not your outfit. You’re reinforcing your presence.
Example:
My current signature is Philosykos by Diptyque — green fig, with wood undertones. I got it after a sales associate offered it to me for free (the shop was closing down)
Soft Skin Musks (you just smell hot)

• Glossier You
• Narciso Rodriguez for Her
• Juliette Has a Gun – Not a Perfume

Warm Gourmands (sweet but adult)

• By the Fireplace by Maison Margiela
• YSL Black Opium

Cold Florals / French Aesthetic

• Diptyque Eau Rose
• Chanel No. 5 L’Eau
• Le Labo Neroli 36

Unisex Woods + Skin

• Le Labo Santal 33
• Escentric Molecules 01
• DS & Durga I Don’t Know What

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4. How to Apply Like You Know What You’re Doing​

Do not:

• Spray wrists and smash them together
• Drench your collarbone in body mist

Do:

• Back of neck (for trail)
• Behind ears (for whispers)
• Hairbrush (brush through hair)
• Back of knees (heat rises = trail)
• Mist clothes (inside jacket, hem of scarf)

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5. Layering = High-Level Looksmaxxing​

This is how you are more unique, as everybody can just buy a bottle
Rules:

• Match base notes (wood + wood, musk + musk)
• Layer oil → then perfume → then mist (optional)
• Apply body lotion first for grip

Try this layering stack:
Wood based perfume(on skin) + a drop of vanilla oil (wrists only) + clean cotton hair mist
= bright, creamy, warm-skinned

---

6. Smell Rich on a Budget​

You do not need Baccarat Rouge to be hot.
Tips:

• Buy decants (ScentSplit, eBay, Reddit)
• Use Vaseline as a perfume primer
• Zara dupes
• Hair perfume lasts longer than skin
• You only need ONE good scent. Not five mid ones.

---

Spoiler: Seasonal scent

7. Seasonal Scent Swaps (Optional)​

Your perfume should shift like your wardrobe.

Season	Notes
Spring	Green tea, fig, neroli
Summer	Coconut, salt, bergamot
Fall	Amber, smoke, cardamom
Winter	Leather, oud, incense

Heavy perfumes in heat = headache. Use seasonally or risk smelling like melted gum.

​

Reminder: Scent Doesn’t Replace Style​

Perfume amplifies what’s already there. But if you want to be perceived as “put together” without saying anything? This is your cheat code.
You could wear sweatpants, hair up, but if you smell unforgettable and carry yourself right, people will think positively about you

---

TL;DR​

• Smell is invisible beauty
• No trendy sprays. Get something intentional
• Spray where it matters, not just your neck
• Layer if you know what you’re doing
• Your scent = your signature
• Obviously wash yourself and shi, but get a neutral deodorant as u don't want ur dove to drown out ur curated scent
• Test them out! I might like one scent, u might find it repulsive! Free samples at most department stores

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[RRM]

investing in ts

 

[galaxygirl]

fire hope u get contributor

 

[pompompurino]

glossier you is so good

 

[machineovercooked]

glossier you is so good

Righttt it smells so so good and is basic/not overpowering

 

[Dean]

[GUIDE] The Looksmaxxing Perfume Guide ​

Everyone talks about makeup, bone structure, hair layering — but they completely ignore one of the most powerful looksmaxxing tools women have: scent. With none of that weird invisible pheromene shit
Scent works before you open your mouth. It lingers when you walk away. It builds memory. So let us smell unforgettable — without choking people out with drugstore sprays or smelling like a Sephora teen. Commence.

---

1. Scent = Passive Looksmaxxing​

Smelling good = being perceived as put-together, clean, soft, expensive. No one tells you this, but people will tolerate mid-tier looks if you smell high-tier.
Scent codes-

• Fresh = youth
• Warm = sensuality
• Cold = money
• Green = clarity
• Musk = intimacy

---

2. Drop the Trend Fragrances​

Everyone's wearing Ariana Grande Cloud. Everyone smells like sugar, detergent, and vanilla body spray. Drop that ASAP

---

3. Build Your Scent Identity​

Your scent should match your energy, not your outfit. You’re reinforcing your presence.
Example:
My current signature is Philosykos by Diptyque — green fig, with wood undertones. I got it after a sales associate offered it to me for free (the shop was closing down)
Soft Skin Musks (you just smell hot)

• Glossier You
• Narciso Rodriguez for Her
• Juliette Has a Gun – Not a Perfume

Warm Gourmands (sweet but adult)

• By the Fireplace by Maison Margiela
• YSL Black Opium

Cold Florals / French Aesthetic

• Diptyque Eau Rose
• Chanel No. 5 L’Eau
• Le Labo Neroli 36

Unisex Woods + Skin

• Le Labo Santal 33
• Escentric Molecules 01
• DS & Durga I Don’t Know What

---

4. How to Apply Like You Know What You’re Doing​

Do not:

• Spray wrists and smash them together
• Drench your collarbone in body mist

Do:

• Back of neck (for trail)
• Behind ears (for whispers)
• Hairbrush (brush through hair)
• Back of knees (heat rises = trail)
• Mist clothes (inside jacket, hem of scarf)

---

5. Layering = High-Level Looksmaxxing​

This is how you are more unique, as everybody can just buy a bottle
Rules:

• Match base notes (wood + wood, musk + musk)
• Layer oil → then perfume → then mist (optional)
• Apply body lotion first for grip

Try this layering stack:
Wood based perfume(on skin) + a drop of vanilla oil (wrists only) + clean cotton hair mist
= bright, creamy, warm-skinned

---

6. Smell Rich on a Budget​

You do not need Baccarat Rouge to be hot.
Tips:

• Buy decants (ScentSplit, eBay, Reddit)
• Use Vaseline as a perfume primer
• Zara dupes
• Hair perfume lasts longer than skin
• You only need ONE good scent. Not five mid ones.

---

Spoiler: Seasonal scent

7. Seasonal Scent Swaps (Optional)​

Your perfume should shift like your wardrobe.

Season	Notes
Spring	Green tea, fig, neroli
Summer	Coconut, salt, bergamot
Fall	Amber, smoke, cardamom
Winter	Leather, oud, incense

Heavy perfumes in heat = headache. Use seasonally or risk smelling like melted gum.

​

Reminder: Scent Doesn’t Replace Style​

Perfume amplifies what’s already there. But if you want to be perceived as “put together” without saying anything? This is your cheat code.
You could wear sweatpants, hair up, but if you smell unforgettable and carry yourself right, people will think positively about you

---

TL;DR​

• Smell is invisible beauty
• No trendy sprays. Get something intentional
• Spray where it matters, not just your neck
• Layer if you know what you’re doing
• Your scent = your signature
• Obviously wash yourself and shi, but get a neutral deodorant as u don't want ur dove to drown out ur curated scent
• Test them out! I might like one scent, u might find it repulsive! Free samples at most department stores

---

great thread @machineovercooked

i'm sure others will find this very helpful

 

[machineovercooked]

great thread @machineovercooked

i'm sure others will find this very helpful

Hooray!
Noticed x2

 

[perpetualjoker]

Really good thread! I loved it

 

[dearestmin]

[GUIDE] The Looksmaxxing Perfume Guide ​

Everyone talks about makeup, bone structure, hair layering — but they completely ignore one of the most powerful looksmaxxing tools women have: scent. With none of that weird invisible pheromene shit
Scent works before you open your mouth. It lingers when you walk away. It builds memory. So let us smell unforgettable — without choking people out with drugstore sprays or smelling like a Sephora teen. Commence.

---

1. Scent = Passive Looksmaxxing​

Smelling good = being perceived as put-together, clean, soft, expensive. No one tells you this, but people will tolerate mid-tier looks if you smell high-tier.
Scent codes-

• Fresh = youth
• Warm = sensuality
• Cold = money
• Green = clarity
• Musk = intimacy

---

2. Drop the Trend Fragrances​

Everyone's wearing Ariana Grande Cloud. Everyone smells like sugar, detergent, and vanilla body spray. Drop that ASAP

---

3. Build Your Scent Identity​

Your scent should match your energy, not your outfit. You’re reinforcing your presence.
Example:
My current signature is Philosykos by Diptyque — green fig, with wood undertones. I got it after a sales associate offered it to me for free (the shop was closing down)
Soft Skin Musks (you just smell hot)

• Glossier You
• Narciso Rodriguez for Her
• Juliette Has a Gun – Not a Perfume

Warm Gourmands (sweet but adult)

• By the Fireplace by Maison Margiela
• YSL Black Opium

Cold Florals / French Aesthetic

• Diptyque Eau Rose
• Chanel No. 5 L’Eau
• Le Labo Neroli 36

Unisex Woods + Skin

• Le Labo Santal 33
• Escentric Molecules 01
• DS & Durga I Don’t Know What

---

4. How to Apply Like You Know What You’re Doing​

Do not:

• Spray wrists and smash them together
• Drench your collarbone in body mist

Do:

• Back of neck (for trail)
• Behind ears (for whispers)
• Hairbrush (brush through hair)
• Back of knees (heat rises = trail)
• Mist clothes (inside jacket, hem of scarf)

---

5. Layering = High-Level Looksmaxxing​

This is how you are more unique, as everybody can just buy a bottle
Rules:

• Match base notes (wood + wood, musk + musk)
• Layer oil → then perfume → then mist (optional)
• Apply body lotion first for grip

Try this layering stack:
Wood based perfume(on skin) + a drop of vanilla oil (wrists only) + clean cotton hair mist
= bright, creamy, warm-skinned

---

6. Smell Rich on a Budget​

You do not need Baccarat Rouge to be hot.
Tips:

• Buy decants (ScentSplit, eBay, Reddit)
• Use Vaseline as a perfume primer
• Zara dupes
• Hair perfume lasts longer than skin
• You only need ONE good scent. Not five mid ones.

---

Spoiler: Seasonal scent

7. Seasonal Scent Swaps (Optional)​

Your perfume should shift like your wardrobe.

Season	Notes
Spring	Green tea, fig, neroli
Summer	Coconut, salt, bergamot
Fall	Amber, smoke, cardamom
Winter	Leather, oud, incense

Heavy perfumes in heat = headache. Use seasonally or risk smelling like melted gum.

​

Reminder: Scent Doesn’t Replace Style​

Perfume amplifies what’s already there. But if you want to be perceived as “put together” without saying anything? This is your cheat code.
You could wear sweatpants, hair up, but if you smell unforgettable and carry yourself right, people will think positively about you

---

TL;DR​

• Smell is invisible beauty
• No trendy sprays. Get something intentional
• Spray where it matters, not just your neck
• Layer if you know what you’re doing
• Your scent = your signature
• Obviously wash yourself and shi, but get a neutral deodorant as u don't want ur dove to drown out ur curated scent
• Test them out! I might like one scent, u might find it repulsive! Free samples at most department stores

---

Underrated scent make-or-break is making sure all your products are on theme for sure. All my products have floral notes.

Study on different fragrance notes and their perceived correlation to a variety of personality traits was a very interesting read (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8233629/).

Highly recommend Jo Malone to anyone who's starting out. Some of the absolute best scents all-around, pretty unisex, and not super long lasting (so you can experiment more with them without consequences). My signature scent is Velvet Rose & Oud.

Good post.