Exact opposite of my tastes, lol.
For me, Cheap is department store prices, most of which you can find online for less.
Expensive - 200+
AND, ALWAYS BUY THE DAMN DECANT,
NEVER BLIND A BUY A BOTTLE.
This is a long list, but my personal recs based on my tastes
- Floral
- Dior Homme Intense
- Givenchy Gentleman- basically anything in the series
- D&G The One - Mysterious Night
- Cheap Fruit
- Terre d'Hermes
- Tobacco Blaze
- Expensive Fruit
- Cheap? Fresh/Clean
- Bleu de Chanel Parfum (not really cheap)
- Versace Pour Homme (pretty cheap)
- Expensive Fresh and Clean - Pacific Rock Moss
Floral - Objectively(?), I'd say Portrait of a Lady and Neroli Portofino
- Cheap Iris - Dior - Dior Homme Intense. Givenchy - Gentleman
- Expensive Iris - Amouage - Interlude Man Black Iris
- Cheap Red Rose - Paco Rabanne - Toy Boy
- Expensive Red Rose - Frederick Malle - Portrait of a Lady
- Cheap Middle Eastern Style Rose - Dolce and Gabbana - The One - Mysterious Night
- Expensive Mid East Rose - Maison Francis Kurkdjian - Oud Satin Mood (The oud is strong, but so is the rose)
- Floral and Expensive - Tom Ford - Neroli Portofino
- Cheap Lavender - Lavender is a pretty popular flower with men's colognes, but I don't particularly look for it
- Valentino - Born in Roma Intense;
- JPG - Le Male; (most of them have lavender, but they also have other things that dominate/stick out more, to me)
- Prada - Luna Ross Carbon
- Gucci Guilty, Gucci Guilty Black
- Cheap Lotus - Nautica Voyage - (according to the notes it has Lotus, but to me this is the definition of aquatic/marine, even more than Acqua Di Gio)
- Expensive Orchid - Tom Ford Black Orchid
- Expensive Tobacco Flower - Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille - I know this is cheating, cause this ain't the floral you're looking for, lol.
Fruit - Hard to say what's most popular on this list because it smells like fruit, but I'd go Terre D Hermes and Lost Cherry.
- Cheap Red Apple - Valentino - Born in Roma Coral Fantasy; YSL - Y EDP; Versace Eros
- Expensive Apple - Parfums De Marly - Layton
- Cheap Pear - JPG - Ultra Male
- Cheap Apricot - Rasasi Tobacco Blaze (I think it smells like raspberry shisha, but it's probably Apricot, given that it's middle eastern)
- Expensive Green Apple - By Kilian - Apple Brandy on the Rocks; Parfums de Marley - Greenley
- Expensive Mango - Vilhelm - Mango Skin; Gisada - Ambassador
- Cheap Orange - Terre d'Hermes
- Cheap Mandarin Orange - Versace Eros Flame (it smells like blood orange to me)
- Cheap? Tangerine - Phlur - Tangerine Boy
- Expensive Lime - Creed Virgin Island Water
- Expensive Peach - Bitter Peach
- Cheap Cherry - Guerlain L'Homme Ideal EDP, Banana Republic - Dark Cherry and Amber
- Expensive Cherry - Tom Ford - Lost Cherry, Tom Ford - Cherry Smoke
- Expensive Black Currant - Byredo Mixed Emotions - good lord this is fruity, I can't think of a good opportunity to wear it.
- Cheap Coconut - JPG - Le Beau
- Expensive Coconut - Creed - Virgin Island Water; Nishane - Fan your Flames
- Raspberry - Expensive - Tom Ford - Tuscan leather, and the cheap clone by Rasasi - La Yuqawam
- Expensive Pineapple - Creed - Aventus
- Cheap Pineapple - Valentino - Born in Roma Yellow Dream
- Cheap Plum - Paco Rabanne - One Million Lucky; By Kilian - Single Malt
- Expensive Plum - Tom Ford - Plum Japonais
- Red Fruits Cheap - Viktor and Rolf - Spicebomb Infrared (it's more like a red hot candy, i.e hot cinnamon with some red berries thrown in)
- Sapodilla/Naseberry for my Yardies - Byredo - Mojave Ghost
Fresh and Clean - sort of vague here - most "clean scents" are light florals and citrus. so I'm cutting and pasting from the fruit section. Objectively - BDC/Sauvage win the cheap section, I can't really call it for the expensive stuff.
- Banana Republic - Linen Vetiver
- Prada - L'Homme
- Missoni Wave - ? sort of a blue fragrance, aquatic, but also sort soapy.
- Cheap Yuzu - Issey Miyake - L'eau de Issey
- Cheap? Bergamot - Bleu De Chanel EDP, Mont Blanc - Explorer, Dior - Sauvage, D&G Lt Blue summer vibes; Versace - Pour Homme; Man Eau Fraiche, Dylan Blue
- Expensive Bergamot - Louis Vuitton - Afternoon Swim
- Cheap? Lemon - Bleu De Chanel Parfum, Also Versace Pour Homme, Eau Fraiche
- Expensive Lemon - Goldfield and Banks - Pacific Rock Moss
- Cheap Grapefruit - D&G Light Blue Forever, Eau Intense, Italian Love, Bleu de Chanel EDT
- Mint - Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extreme, Versace Eros (which I have above)