I am just beginning to get interested in fragrances, and have a lot of samples I'm working through. My question is, once you decided what you liked, how many colognes ended up in your cabinet?
How many colognes?
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Too many. 
20-25 seems to work well, a few of them decants that either graduate to full size or peter out and get replaced with new flavors.
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Fortunately I´m quite picky with colognes (more money for soaps!). So I only have few (under five). I´ve tried a lot of samples.
For example.
I just tried six different Floris fragrances. Few were kind of nice but didn´t have enough staying power for my taste. So no keepers!
From Trumper´s sampler I got one, Eucris. Wild Fern was nice but it didn´t last very long on me.
Next week I´m sampling Czech & Speake. Let´s see how that goes.
For example.
I just tried six different Floris fragrances. Few were kind of nice but didn´t have enough staying power for my taste. So no keepers!
From Trumper´s sampler I got one, Eucris. Wild Fern was nice but it didn´t last very long on me.
Next week I´m sampling Czech & Speake. Let´s see how that goes.
I only have three: T&H Trafalgar, 1805 and Armani Black Code. I like the 1805 because I find a lot of women my age (I'm 26, so most of the women I see are around 22 or 23) like oceanic scents, but I don't want to wear Cool Water or something equally as abundant here (in Canada). The Trafalgar adds a nice floral into the mix, and I like the Black Code for evening use.
I have a bottle of Floris 89 on the way without having smelled it before. I am really suspecting I might find it dated and perhaps not masculine or sporty enough on me, but for some reason I had to buy it...
I have a bottle of Floris 89 on the way without having smelled it before. I am really suspecting I might find it dated and perhaps not masculine or sporty enough on me, but for some reason I had to buy it...
This can be a fool's errand, if you're not careful. Just like with shaving brushes, I kept thinking that there must be something I liked better than what I had, even though I liked what I had pretty well. I didn't limit this to just getting a few more sample vials. If I liked what I smelled, I usually bought a bottle, and like others here ended up with way too many. For me it's doubly silly, because these days I rarely wear cologne, and when I do, I pick from usually just two or three out of the larger stash I have. If you can really keep focused on finding what you like, and limiting your purchases, you'll be fine. But that intention run amok can lead to a full-blown AD.
BTW, to answer your question more specifically, my current stash is 29 fragrances, not including aftershaves.
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I am rotating through each one and taking notes, then wearing them all a second time to test my first impressions. So far, many are nice, but only a few are possible keepers. I really do not have the budget for lots of full size bottles so I need some way to narrow it down. Thank goodness for samples and decants.
I'm probably getting near 30 or so, with a few more on the way. I stopped counting 
Sometimes too many, sometimes not enough.
ive about 6. theres a couple more to add though
i currently have 9. No need for much more.
I've got a whole whack of samples; since I don't wear cologne very often I find I get by with just the samples. However, I do plan on buying one or two bottles of my favourites. I find I keep coming back to 3 or 4 specific scents.
i want to try some creeds and some C&S, but i currently have 10 different colognes, and thats too much,
My collection has been hovering around 50 bottles for quite a while, not including backups, decants, and samples.
Quality matters more than quantity!
Quality matters more than quantity!
Tried No 88 and Cuba so far and we have a keeper. Cuba! Very nice and extraordinary scent.
Well it is easy to answer how many bottles I have:36.
It is not so easy to determine the "once you decided what you liked". The thing is, my tastes keep changing even after 2 years of collecting. So, if you know you are prone to ADs, I would recommend you to
1. Get samples first.
2. NO BLIND BUYING! Even if it is 10 dollars.
3. Do not throw away your samples. Your tastes migh change.
4. Buy the smallest bottles. Chances are that you are going to use a scent only once every month or two. In two years I have not emptied a bottle with more than 5 ml.
Had I followed my own advise when I started, I might have saved myself a few hundred dollars.
Excellent advice, Isaias! I always felt having more than one (or perhaps 2-3) was a waste. Then, I developed an interest in wet-shaving and joined this forum. Now I have 15-20. What have I done?
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