UPDATE (MARCH 2026) • ScentAdvice

March 10, 2026

MILESTONES
• @ScentAdvice Instagram crossed 32.000 followers.

• The first 1000 people have signed up for the Newsletter.

NEWSLETTER
In January I finally started sending out newsletters. I’m trying to do them every weekend, but will ocassionally skip a week during busy weekends. Over 1200+ people have signed up already and you can join them by subscribing here. Subscribers will receive at most 1 newsletter per week. As a bonus, subscribers automatically have 10 entries to all ScentAdvice giveaways.

BRANDS ADDED
Since the last update: AllSaints, DKNY & Donna Karan (completed), Korres (completed), Sundae, Free Yourself, Maison Jaxob, L:A Bruket, Daniel Rene, The Alloy Studio, Egoscentrique, Velixir, Fitz-James Stuart, Pureology, DVF/Diane Von Furstenberg, Fine Scents, Ourte.

NOTABLE REVIEWS
Since the last update: YSL Iced Cologne, Valentino Donna Purple Melancholia & Uomo Purple Melancholia, Armani Stronger With You Powerfully, Lancome Idole Peach ‘N Roses, Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal Pour Homme Elixir, Stephane Humbert Lucas The Queen And The Viper, Amouage Remain, Sequence & Line 618, Clive Christian Strange Heavens Out Of The Blue, Armani My Way Sunny Vanilla, Kilian Her Majesty, Narciso Rodriguez For Her Musc Pure Blanc, Dolce&Gabbana The One For Women EDP Intense, Carolina Herrera Good Girl Jasmine Abolute.

UPCOMING REVIEWS
I have samples/reviews on their way for: Creed Wild Vetiver, Frederic Malle Contre Jour, Initio Lift Me Up, Goldfield & Banks Rose Magnitude. Others that I’ll be expecting soon: Roja London Isola Snow, Le Labo Violette 30, Diptyque Orpheon EDT, Memo Cap Camarat, Atelier Materi Tonka Kumaru & more.

LAYOUT CHANGES
• The homepage on desktop is wider than before, but still relatively narrow; I don’t like the cramped feeling when the content takes up the whole page.

• To make better use of the real estate on the homepage, I’m more often combining fragrances under 1 post. For example, the 3 new Guerlain Perle fragrances are combined in 1 post, which then redirects you to the individual posts. This way I can showcase all 3, without using up 3 slots in the HIGHLIGHTS. Bigger releases like those, will still be listed individually in the ALL NEW RELEASES page, but for less popular brands, I will do the same there.

• The highlights more often include redirects to external stores (this is the best way to generate revenue through commissions). I used to temporary link away from ScentAdvice, and then revert those posts back to normal after they had left the homepage. Recently, I’ve started making duplicate posts for releases that may lead to potential earnings, so that I don’t have to come back to change them. Meaning that there’s a regular post with all the info in the database, via the search bar & sometimes in the all new releases list, while there’s a different post redirecting to place to purchase it directly in the HIGHLIGHTS. These redirects are geo-targetted, meaning that a fragrance launched at Ulta, may redirect there directly for visitors from the United States, while other visitors see the regular post.

• NEW RELEASES is now titled ALL NEW RELEASES in the menu and on the homepage, to make the distinction a bit clearer. This is the page where you get the complete overview of all the new releases in (mostly) chronological order.

• Giveaways have their own page in the menu now. You can view previous giveaways and the most recent (usually still active) giveaway is listed first.

• Images in the fragrance posts are now always squared and the same size, where before they sometimes had different ratios to match the source images.

UPGRADES & MAINTENANCE
• I’ve been working with my hosting provider to tackle CPU usage. In recent months, the website sometimes became slow during peak times, because towards the end of the day, I’d used up my allocated CPU minutes. Part of this is due to growing visitor numbers, but a big part of this has to do with spam/bot/crawlers constantly trying to access the site. For now, the implemented fixes seem to have lowered the load enough, but I’ll upgrade my current hosting plan when needed. The ‘real’ upgrade is $600 a month, which is a lot for how little benefits I get from it. So in the meantime I’m looking into moving ScentAdvice to private/dedicated servers and learn how to manage those myself (or hire someone to do it). I plan to be completely self-hosted in 2027.

• In part to prevent the bot ‘attacks’, more anti-spam measures have been taken. If you experience issues with browsing the site or leaving comments, please let me know via admin@scentadvice.com or @ScentAdvice on Instagram; regular users should never have to deal with CATPCHA’s or other forms of limitations while using ScentAdvice.

• The newsletter plugin and add-ons for that have been added.

• The image gallery plugin was upgraded.

• @ScentAdvice on Instagram has a Verified subscription, mainly so that duplicate/scam accounts that keep appearing when doing giveaways can be removed quicker (Verified gives access to priority support).

TOP 60
I did my yearly collection ranking. These are the Top 60 fragrances that I own. The ‘winners’ this time are: 1. Roja Taif Aoud, 2. PureDistance Papilio & 3. Xerjoff Irisss. You can read the previous rankings here: April 2025, April 2024, July 2023.

SHOPPING
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Retailers: Sephora, Harrods, Ulta, Selfridges, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Macy’s, Kohl’s, JCPenney, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Twisted Lily, Dillard’s.