 Regurgitates the same video that I've heard a million times repeats the same stuff. We've seen online a million times Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here today. I want to share a couple reasons why I'm not as invested into frag.com as I was before I'm a little disclaimer. I absolutely love fragrances. I'm probably gonna continue to buy fragrances I'm going to wear fragrances every day and anybody who's ever written me like a DM or a comment about a fragrance I enjoy talking to you. I always want you to keep messaging me Has nothing to do with that. I actually love the community of people I talk to and I love wearing fragrances But there's just a couple aspects to the whole fragrance situation on YouTube that it just kind of has me Unsure about exactly how I feel about it or where I want to go next. I love talking about fragrances I'm probably going to keep reviewing fragrances. I'm going to keep buying them and I keep you know all this stuff But these are just a few of the things that kind of hold me back from being more invested into frag.com Number one is the overall lack of interest in fragrance now fragrance has a decent amount It's this steady amount of viewers who like fragrance and it's a small amount But it's not really something you would use to grow now If you look at the people who like blow up like curly fragrance or like Jeremy fragrance a lot of the stuff that they do Has nothing to do with fragrance. They're really in shape They get a lot of girls to review their stuff They use a lot of things to make their videos entertaining and although they are centered around fragrance what brings people in Isn't really as much about the fragrance. So it's like the actual idea of fragrance isn't really mass appealing So if you want to blow up on YouTube, you know picking something with just a low level of interest or a sustained level of interest It's like you kind of want something that can boom in my opinion number two is the price barrier It just seems like 30 40 dollars for like an average cologne Especially with how often they aren't the best or how often, you know, you just don't really want to keep it or recommend it It's just an okay fragrance to spend 30 or 40 dollars It's just quite a bit to make a video on something that's really average the fragrances that are worth going after are usually niche fragrances But then it's like then the the price barrier separated even more, you know, you got people who only buy niche You got people who only buy cheapies and so like, you know people are just gonna buy a bunch of cheapies And they'll never try any of the good stuff So you have this good fragrance to recommend but nobody's gonna try it and then you, you know Buy the newest cheap thing and it smells similar to this other fragrance and it's just like okay So you end up with like all these bottles I don't know maybe you guys can like let me know down below the cheapest way to ship fragrances because I would Like to start selling some of the ones that I don't use and that would actually help out my channel quite a bit because Then I can make some money off the fragrances that I don't use and use that money to buy more fragrances versus right now I have to spend straight money on them and then on top of that if you're not a top influencer You don't get almost any fragrances sent for free like yeah I get um oil house kind of fragrances or like non popular brands sent to me and I love reviewing them They're fantastic 100 but at the same time it's not like a Versace Or like a Chanel and those is what people want to see those kind of bring in the views So it's just kind of like I'm trying to make it all work And it just seems like there's just too much congestion, you know and then on top of that I'm not hating on anybody here, you know more power to you But you have these random accounts just come out of nowhere never heard of them And they spend thousands of dollars on fragrance and like what it seems like is You just wanted to buy fragrances and you wanted to just copy the next guy And then all of a sudden this guy has like $10,000 worth of fragrances And like because I can't afford to spend $10,000 it's like there's an aspect to his channel That's much better than mine and it's like bro this guy This guy literally just spent a bunch of money on fragrance And then literally comes on here and like regurgitates the same video that I've heard a million times repeats the same stuff We've seen online a million times and it's like I can't even touch this guy because I can't afford to spend All this money on cologne all the new releases to this and niche fragrances It's just like it's so freaking expensive And like maybe like I said if you guys could help me out with some shipping advice things like that If I was able to ship and even make half the money that I spent on cologne back It would be a lot easier to continue to do it and make top 10s things like that There's actually a lack of really unique dna is out there once you try a lot of fragrances It's like very very very few fragrances is going to wow you it's going to be unique You are going to uncover some fragrances that are really unique, but guess what they're in the niche category So it's like there's already so few people who buy fragrances and then the amount of people who buy niche fragrances Is probably like five percent of people there the niche fragrances are so so good But to spend so much and have so little people watching it, you know And then on top of that guess what if you hype anything everyone's just going to buy it because everyone has all this money to buy Cologne I don't mind forking out a lot for a good bottle, but these guys are insane, you know The fragrance were formulations. This thing is just so annoying You should have to rename the fragrance if you take out a certain amount of ingredients I shouldn't be able to buy a fragrance and you take out 90 of the ingredients replace it and you call it the same fragrance There's got to be some way around that there has to be a certain amount of the original ingredients to call it that fragrance Because it's like it just sucks so bad Like I have a bunch of old fragrances that I want to re-review they're from 2016 and 2017 But guess what I'm gonna have to put it as an old batch because I don't know the new batch So then basically like my review is kind of worthless because if you want to check out that fragrance You want to see how the new batch is but I have the old batch fragrances get reformulated in two or three years So it's like I buy this fragrance I don't use it and now I want to do a review on it But I can't even do a good review because I don't know what the current formulation is just exhausting You spend all this money you have this stuff. Oh, that's the old formulation go buy another bottle jack I don't know if you guys been watching my channel, but I haven't done a top 10 fragrance in a while And it's not because I don't want to it's because I want to do a freaking good list I know how like I don't want to throw people under the bus But certain people use the same fragrances and their top 10s over and over and over and over and I just I want to have a unique list But again, there's not enough unique fragrances at a unique price point So I'm literally going to be regurgitating top 10s just for views and I just can't do it I like to have a unique kind of constant I like to have a unique something to say that I notice about something that other people don't notice You know, I don't like to see what other people say and then repeat it I want to try it on my own and see what like my personal views are Without seeing what everyone else kind of thought, you know, how separated everybody is You know, like with the price of fragrances and then you know people Shun people who buy like copies of fragrances But it's like I see what you mean because now we have like a millions of copies of one fragrance And it just becomes a little blurred and confused but at the same time, you know, the copy of the fragrance is $50 The real fragrance is $400 So it's like it's just hard to to get all in one camp and then on top of that You got lots of cheapy guys who like will never buy a niche fragrance ever again And it's like, well, what's the point of being into fragrances if you can't try niche because that's actually where it's good It's actually where fragrances are amazing, you know, so anyways guys, this has been kind of my little rant I love fragrances and I love all the people who write me and talk to me about fragrances And I'm somebody to where if I have something bad to say, I'd rather not say it That's why I didn't really want to make this video, but I just kind of wanted to update it So we're on the same page. I don't want a bad mouth anybody. I don't want to talk badly on anybody I love fragrances. I will continue to love fragrances and I still love talking to everybody. This has just been my two cents But anyways guys, let me know what you think of this video. I do have some fragrances Set up to review next. I'm going to re-review as Zara wants it. I'm going to re-review fierce supernova I've been trying both these out, but I actually didn't write a full review up for it Look for those coming up pretty soon But I've been trying them both and I have enough in my head to do another review right now But anyways guys, we're on the road of 50 000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys Hope you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hope we're having a great day at home See you all in the next video. Peace