Coming Friday. Anyone doing an order? I’d be interested in hearing from you 😃

Is anyone else following the World Cup? I won’t spoil the results of today’s matches for those who are, but it got me thinking: If we had a World Cup of fragrances? Who would you put in the Grouo matches to represent your country / team? For me: USA: Polo Blue England: Penhaligons Endymion or Sartorial Brazil: City Rhythm 2654 Argentina: Le Labo Santal 33 Spain: Carner Barcelona Costa East Mexico: Xerjoff Naxos France: Guerlain Habit Rouge Italy: Acqua Di Parma Colonia Croatia: Hermes Un Jardin en la Mediteranee Netherlands: Bois 1920 Imperiale Iraq: Amouage Reflection Man Germany: Mercedes Benz Club Black EDP Belgium: Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Canada: Mancera Cedrat Boise Japan: Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia I’m missing a bunch. Would love to hear talks takes and fills

Got some real bangers for my birthday! Left to right 1) Xerjoff Renaissance 2) Xerjoff Alexandria II 3) Mancera Aoud Lemon Mint 4) Nishane Hacivat All are great!!! Have a wonderful day!!

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I was about to make this a SOTD post, butt changed my mind as this question popped into my head. I know we all have and are still building collections. We all start out and are in different places in this journey. But I noticed how my FBW criteria has changed since I started and was curious about the other brothers. When I first started, I would hear about a scent, if I smelled it and liked it in the store it was an immediate bottle purchase not wear testing, not sample grabbing just straight to the bottle. Over time I have become a bit more discerning, now don't get me wrong I have still bought a couple of bottles by falling victim to the shopping excitement, but I have been lucky enough to still be happy with those. Now I am at the point that I will wear my samples a few times before I make a decision to add it to the FBW list. Because of the relationships at the stores I have made I have a crazy amount of samples to go through and I am doing that lately and just doing my samples that were either given to me by the salespeople or by my family at Christmas. and making some decisions. I'm wearing BTV - Hasu today. Now I know that Boadicea is a polarizing house. You either love it or hate it and most of the hate I have read online comes from pricing. I had worn this one a few months back and thought hmmm 🤔. this is nice, I'll have to revisit it. I chose it for today and both of my harshest critics gave me compliments. My wife and my book keeper both of whom never hold back (even when I think they should 😜). So this one will be added to the FB conversion list. So let me know. 1) What is your criteria to convert to a full bottle? 2) do compliments play a roll in your decision? Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!!