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Update your collection photos!

is in the middle of moving his shelves and organizing his massive collection. I thought it might be a great time for everyone to update their collection photos. Plus I'd love to see what everyone has and how y'all are organizing, too.

I loosely organize by House, then by function, then by bottle shape.

Pic 1 is my Imaginary Authors / Aaron Terence Hughes / Dua shelf along with my 10mL travel / decants. Most of the travelers are City Rhythms and Dua. The decants are Initio, and some miscellaneous other.

Pic 2 is my Lattafa / Rectangle bottle shelf. The discovery kit is Ellis Brooklyn that I picked up like two years ago and never got around to, so now I'm actively going through it.

Pic 3 is my odd shapes shelf along with a bunch of samples from Andrea Maack. It's a little dark, but those round bottles are Commodity Vetiver and Paper+.

Pic 4 is my discovery set shelves. The little white ones are from Pearla Nera, the TPG Scent Club kits, and the big black box is the TPG Mystery Box samples that I'm still going through.

Pic 5 is my Hermes / MMR / Cylinder bottle shelf. These and Pic 1 tend to be my most used and favorite fragrances out of my whole collection.

Pics 6-9 are my closet shelves. It's what I call my "archives". A lot of the date night / winter night fragrances are hanging out here, but most of the others are fragrances that I don't wear very often. I will sometimes rotate them with the main shelves in pics 1-5, but a lot of them are destined for culling. The JPGs, Ralph Lauren Earth, Jon Varvatos (to some extent), and Mugler stuff are exceptions. I just don't have room for them on the main shelves

Pic 10 is my actively wearing shelf in my bathroom. Nothing stays here for more than a week except the samples. I'm prioritizing the samples, because I have so many (a litte over 250), and I really want to use up as many of them as I can. I set a goal of using up 100 before the end of the year, and I'm sitting at around 45 that I've used up so far this year. I burned through about a dozen in July alone and have retired 6 so far in August.

Not pictured are my Tom Ford, Andrea Maack, and Banana Republic bottles, along with some miscellaneous ones.

I also have probably another 50 or so in boxes that are destined for Mercari / Rescented / Facebook Group / Gifts / Trash.

Totals:

Samples (official samples from the house / designer): 303

Decants (from places like ScentSplit, Scents Angel, etc.): 93

Miniatures (up to 15mL sized mini bottles from the house / designer, not decants): 47

Travelers (5 to 10mL in non standard presentations from the house / designer; more robust than a minature and designed to be tossed in a dop kit or purse): 31

Full Bottles (actual presentation sizes typically >20mL): 434

Miscellaeous (Rollerballs, splashers, solid perfumes, attar oils): 30

Total: 943

What I actually enjoy and wear on a regular basis is only about 25 fragrances. I'm working on a countdown of my favorites, and will post that separately.

Okay. I showed you my bottles. Please respond. :)

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