Top Selling Frags - Around Online but then B&B

[Denver Mike]

From some of my other posts you can see I'm new but really getting into the wide variety of fragrances out there. Thanks for all the help so far. I don't often dip a toe in the water - I dive in quickly even if there is just a puddle!

Many of the scents discussed on B&B are things I can neither pronounce or have ever seen in a local store. In my research phase I keep trying to learn more about these "houses" and the difference in top, middle, base notes, etc.

Tonight I wanted to try and find some sort of list. There is a list for the Top 10 grossing movies of all time - I was curious if there was a end-all-be-all list for men's fragrances and how well they've sold.

There isn't one (that I could find) but there are many "Best of" lists that have some of the same players showing up again and again.

So here's a little quiz for the fragrance experts that I hope to be at some point.

Without looking it up online list first, off the top of your great smelling head, list 5 men's fragrances you think are top selling or highly rating with the masses out there.

Second - list the top 5 favorites you think the members of the B&B Fragrance Forum would select here (overlap is possible).

Start your noses!

[StylinLA]

Guesses at top selling men's frags right now

Acqua de Gio
Bleu de Channel
YSL Pour Homme/La Nuit
Le Male
A*Men (and flankers)

Guesses at top B&B scents

Knize Ten
Guerlain Vetiver
Variants of Pinaud products (though technically AS, many here wear as fragrance)
bleckkkk-heim Bouquet
English Fern

Guys here are into a lot of stuff really. Hard to actually pick five.
The five listed are a lot of wet shaver faves.

[Denver Mike]

No points deducted for going over 5 but I figured that was a simple number to reach.

[mdevine]

I suspect the top selling and favorites here wouldn't overlap very much. There seems to be a strong sense of individualism here. The very nature of DE shaving itself implies a type of contrarianism. This leads many here to avoid, somewhat, scents that many others are also wearing. That said, a well made scent stands on its own, and I don't avoid things because someone else I might run in to could be wearing it.

I'm not sure if I can pick a top five, but I suspect the top two are Cool Water and Acqua di Gio. Of the niche fragrances, Green Irish Tweed seems to get mentioned a lot. I don't know where to place Dior Homme, but it is very popular on fragrance boards. In the end, sample a lot and wear what you enjoy.

Mike

[brucered]

i'm new to this too, so am looking forward to some of the feedback and thoughts by others.

I really enjoy my Burberry London, and it was my first blind purchase and a good one.

on the basis of a few recommendations by others, a few posts and threads, i dove in and bought these blind last month to give me a variety of scents to choose from and ones that seemed liked by a broad number of people and weren't too mainstream or overused by people. i have been enjoying the Yardley very much over the past couple weeks. I'm easing my way into the others, but they all smell great based on a couple test sprays and wrist sprays.

He Wood Rocky Mountain Wood by Dsquared2 Eau De Toilette Spray
Acqua Classica by Borsari Di Parma Eau De Cologne Spray
Caron Pour Homme by Caron Eau De Toilette Spray
Citrus & Wood by Yardley London Eau De Toilette Spray
Vetiver Guerlain by Guerlain Eau De Toilette Spray

[haiti222]

Popular- 1 Million by Paco Rabanne, Angel Men, Le Male, Dirty English, Polo 1-4

Distinctive- Knize Sec, Knize Forest, Knize Two, Hanae Mori, Lolita Lempicka au Masculine (Good luck on the first three, the last two are each under thirty dollars on amazon.com).

[Timmy Dee]

I think top 5 selling mens frags (of recent times, anyway) might include:

Le Male & AdG (as Stylin said), 1 Million, Armani Code & Hugo by Hugo Boss.

I'd guess that the B&B top 5 would be:

Rive Gauche, Blenheim, AdP Colonia, Terre d'Hermes & maybe Knize or Fahrenheit (the Knize is loved by many that have tried it, but it's still not super-popular here).

[duckdown]

Never understood the rage on Fahrenheit...

[Timmy Dee]

Never understood the rage on Fahrenheit...

Oh me neither - the oily accord really turns me off it (I only barely tolerate it in Black Musk by Montale).
Now Fahrenheit Absolute on the other hand...that stuff is gold!

[brucered]

a lot of the B&B favorites, or at least the more popular ones were recently discussed here: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthr...dger-amp-Blade

[mistercitizen]

Judging by my local department store:

- Bleu de Chanel
- Armani Code
- YSL La Nuit de L'Homme
- Dolce & Gabbana The One
- Acqua di Gio

Top five among B&B'ers:

- Guerlain Vetiver
- Creed Green Irish Tweed
- YSL Rive Gauche PH
- Azzaro PH
- Chanel Egoiste

No particular order on those.

Ben

[BingeAndPurge]

http://blog.surrendertochance.com/be...agrances-2012/

[tehtimmeh]

I would expect little to no correlation between B&B preferences and best sellers. Your average consumer is not extremely discerning; nor are they into "classic" scents that have been around forever.

Recent best sellers:

Acqua di Dio
Le Male
Spicebomb
Bleu
Angel and various flankers

B&B Favs:

Old Spice
Guerlain Vetiver
Knize 10 (this one not as much lately, but with the veteran B&B crowd it was a big hit)
Blenheim
Terre d'Hermes/Yardley Citrus & Wood/Harris Windsor (all three similar)

[joshmpdx]

http://blog.surrendertochance.com/be...agrances-2012/

what an embarrassing list

[Obsessed]

what an embarrassing list

At least A*Men isn't on it.

[mdevine]

At least A*Men isn't on it.

I bought this one blind quite a few years back. I tried it quite a few times, but wasn't a fan. It was one of the rare fragrances that my wife really despised. I eventually gave it away.

[The Knize]

what an embarrassing list

Aramis was in the top 20 in 2010/11?! Who would have known? I am skeptical of that list. There must be other similar lists around.

[tehtimmeh]

what an embarrassing list

Don't even try. We all know that this list pretty closely mirrors your personal top 10 list...

[BingeAndPurge]

There's a squidoo lens that tracks amazon trends. That one usually pops up in bestseller "x" searches. The problem is the sales change daily.