For those of you with not only a decent collection of bottles, but also a lot of samples or travel sprays, which do you prioritize when choosing what to wear each day? I don't have many mini-samples, but I have close to 60 travel sprays now, and I can't decide whether to try to work through them and reduce that number, or focus more on the full bottles.

Gentleman, this Saturday I will be seeing the hilarious stand up comedian Jimmy Carr. I pick up my date at 330pm, drive for 1.5 hrs. We have pre-show dinner and drinks, then stand up comedy, finally post show dessert and drinks. We should spend about 8 hrs together. Various locations. Walking outdoors and taking in indoor venues. I intend to wear a suit. Temperatures that day range between 9 - 25C (48 - 77F). ...and i want to wear one of my new frags. Looking at my options im thinking either PDM's Godolphin or Givenchy's Gentleman Réserve Privée... but Terre d'Hermès EDT could be a good choice too What would you choose?

Just started loading more of my 2 ml samples and discovery kits into the storage space I use for them, and I still have three more of these filled up. For me, samples are much more than something I spray once and throw in a drawer. I actually keep a fragrance library. I use these to test fragrances on skin, on cotton rounds, and sometimes go back to them weeks or even months later. I also keep a journal with my thoughts—what I smelled, how it developed, performance, projection, season, whether something reminded me of another fragrance, and most importantly whether my opinion changed after spending more time with it. That last part is important. I don’t believe every fragrance can be judged properly off one spray in a store or the first 10 minutes on a test strip. Some fragrances completely change on skin. Others need a couple of wearings before you really understand what the perfumer was trying to do. There have been fragrances I wasn’t impressed with initially that I appreciated much more later, and others that smelled fantastic at first but didn’t hold my interest after a full wearing. Keeping the samples also gives me a reference point when I’m doing reviews. If somebody mentions a fragrance six months from now, chances are I can go back into the library, pull the sample, smell it again and refresh my memory instead of relying on what I think I remember. It also helps tremendously with comparisons. When someone says, “This smells like this,” or asks me how two fragrances compare, I would much rather have both of them sitting in front of me than start guessing from memory. That’s why I almost never leave a fragrance store without asking for samples, and when I order online I always request whatever samples are available. Discovery kits are even better because they give you a chance to understand an entire house instead of judging the brand from one bottle. And with the amount of fragrances being released today, sampling saves money too. Not everything needs to become a full bottle. Sometimes 2 ml is enough to tell me I don’t need it. Other times that little sample ends up costing me $300 because now I have to have the bottle. 😂

If you know you will be cuddling a baby, how does that effect your regular perfume wear? Do you wear something soft? Apply early so it's well dried down? Or do you go without a fragrance that day? If you do wear a fragrance when cuddling babies, what do you wear?

I only own one Xerjoff, Erba Pura which I really enjoy. What other ones should I check out? The brothers never steer me wrong.