What is vegan and what is non-vegan? To perfumers, these are totally meaningless terms. It just makes the industry giggle a bit when we see brands like Le Labo trying to appeal to the consumer sentiment and marketing trends by saying that they are "vegan".
And there is nothing wrong with that, synthetics are not bad for you, they are engineered to be safe on the skin and are heavily regulated by IFRA. Le Labo could be considered vegan I guess because they use pretty much only synthetics in their formulas. (Yes, Phlur, I'm looking at you.)ĮDIT: Sorry if this all sounded really harsh, but when you work inside the industry, this kind of gross behaviour really starts to get to you.
It also makes you look pretty amateurish and silly to the rest of the industry - people who can understand the technicalities of fragrance formulation will forever think that you are full of crap. It harms the industry as a whole by convincing consumers that synthetic aroma molecules are "harmful". I wish people in the industry (and small brands in particular) would just cut the bullcrap and stop using "naturalness" as a marketing gimmick. Don't mean to sound arrogant or burst anyone's bubble, but I work as a trainee perfumer/lab assistant at one of the fragrance houses, I know for a fact (even showed his stuff to one of our senior perfumers and once put a couple of his samples through a GC-MS machine out of curiosity) that this brand contains around the same proportion of synthetic vs. Here's my real problem with this guy: he has the audacity to claim that he is all-natural. I know the line, tried it on a few occasions, but wouldn't really consider them to be perfumes - they smell like early drafts of a perfume formula. R/Beauty r/wicked_edge r/MaleFashionAdvice r/malefragranceadvice r/FemaleFashionAdvice r/MakeupAddicts r/Wetshaving R/fragranceclones /r/fragrancedeals r/NicheFragrance r/DIYfragrance r/fragrancecirclejerk r/fragsplits r/SplitFrags r/fragranceswap r/FragDecants r/PerfumeExchange Many of us have been there and welcome these discussions. If you think your fragrance passion or obsession is out of control or becoming a compulsion, you can share this as a topic or in weekly General Discussion. If you experience any of this, you're in the right place. Other symptoms the need to smell everything, emptying wallets, growing bottle collections, boxes full of samples, fragrance withdrawal, 24-hour wear, seeing colors, hearing music, visions. R/fragrance may cause a preoccupation with fragrance, smell fixations, and compulsive huffing. Looking for r/fragrance reviews? Use this Google link, use the subreddit search on the Sidebar, or search by flair ReviewĮxplaining the grey market FRAGHEAD ADVISORY Starting out? The answers to many of your questions are in FAQs and our extensive WIKI database
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